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Have you reviewed any of your very very few comments lately?...Seems like attacking members is your fortay:Bfay wrote:I don't know how familiar everyone is with this Mullholland character but he has been nothing but negative since day one on this forum. I don't know why he is so angry at the world but it is a little concerning to me....I'm talking "postal" concerning.
Bfay wrote:You are truly amazing! You are a classic of example of what is wrong with America. You really come across as a whiny little b***tch. It must be a little embarrassing for you...come on...I will buy you a new board if you promise to piss off and shut the f**ck up. I'll even buy you another one when you start whining again 4 years from now when you break that one. Seriously....I'm not rich by any stretch of the imagination but I would be more than willing to put up the cash to see you go away.
No, I just don't like scumbags, or Democrats...Both are a boil upon the ass of America...Kitty Hawk Kites will get the benefit of the doubt from me, because Jesus teaches us redneck conservatives to forgive.Bfag wrote:Anyways...sounds like a bit of an opportunist.


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In the June 1958 issue of American Artist, author Frederic Whitaker informs us that "over a period of eight years [Ken Riley] has made about 100 paintings [for] the important Captain Hornblower series [in the Saturday Evening Post] - a commission which later may be recognized as an auspicious turning point in his career."
"The range of his commissions today covers the entire field of illustration, and he plans to keep it that way. However, there is no question that outstanding costume illustration assignments will continue to flow into his studio. Already the thoughts of many fellow artists turn instinctively to Riley when "period" illustration is discussed."
Not surprising then, that it was a Captain Hornblower illustration that Riley provided to the author as an example of how he builds a picture.
"I start with the most dramatic figure and pencil it in simply as a shape rather than as a character," says the artist. "It is easy to suggest a standing, reclining, active, or other figure by a shape. From that original flat mass I work outwards, building up a composition that satisfies my sense of rhythm, movement, and direction. To me these qualities are very important. I usually make many thumbnails before I am satisfied."
"Next I make a color sketch, painted simply, but accurate as to layout, values, and the like. This measures probably six by eight inches or less - kept small purposely so that the problems of large surface coverage will curb neither my enthusiasm nor the rapid register of the conception."
"The color sketch approved, I proceed with the final painting, about double printed size, on either illustrators' board or a gesso panel. After roughing out the composition, I then draw the various details accurately. For each figure and other important picture part, I develop one or more careful, finished studies from photos of the model on separate sheets, and then transfer the accepted versions to the main composition by tracing, one by one."
"I make a number of photos for each pose, so my finished studies of the individual figures are actual composites of the best features of the several shots. Accuracy and clarity are extremely important, especially in the costume or period pictures."
"My careful, sharp drawing is made either in pencil or ink. Very often I paint upon a warm-toned ground, working up and down in light and shadow from the basic value. In such a case my drawing is done in ink on the original white surface so it will show through the later-applied tone. Then, with the color sketch before me, I paint in the various parts of the composition, the brushwork always guided by the line. This method may sound mechanical and unimaginative, but I like the feel that the finished results show no trace of the calculation behind every working step."
"I work in various mediums: pencil, ink, egg tempera, casein, oil, casein and oil combined, watercolor, the opaque designers' colors, and even the new plastic paints."
"However, watercolor by itself is employed only in my non-commissioned productions, made for pleasure - never in my commercial work."
My Ken Riley Flickr set.

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We Are Home
Well, we are back. I almost did not go to the cabin. Everything was fine and dandy. Troy and I were just ready to leave and the very last thing I do whenever I leave home for any length of time is to open the bible and say a prayer. I let the bible just fall open and trust in Gods words. When I opened the bible, I saw Lia's picture next to it. And that was it. The thought of leaving home without her just tore me apart. I broke down and cried. Troy just let me cry and held on to me. He was feeling the same thing. It just felt wrong to leave our home without Lia. She had been looking forward to this getaway with all her family for months. That is all she had talked about. After what seemed like forever, I stood up and went to the bible to see and read the scriptures before I left. Another thing I do every time. The bible had fallen open to Matthew 6:13-7:12 Which is part of the Sermon on the Mount. A lot of inspiration to keep my heart open.
I thanked the Lord for sending me his message. I could go on now.
We keep our travel trailer at the cabin. It acts kind of like our own little cabin. After greeting everyone that was all ready there, we went to our trailer to unpack things. As soon as you walk into the trailer the first thing you see is the couch. All of Lia's "critters" are lined up on the back of it and her stack of blankets and quilts are there. Even a pair of her PJ's were by her pillow all ready for when she returned.
I knew this was going to be a difficult moment. I felt myself ready to break down again. But, I stopped myself immediately. I have to tell myself that she is just on a trip, adventure, getaway, vacation…whatever. She is fine and she will return as fast as we can make that happen.
So, the first thing I did was to light a candle in the trailer. I have lit one at home everyday she has been gone. I will continue to do so until she returns. No matter where I am, a candle will be lit. Good thing I have thrifted a lot of candles! LOL
I didn't sleep very good the first night. But, that happens to me when I go anywhere. That first night not in your regular bed. I got up early, made a pot of coffee and sat down with my thoughts. I looked out the window and saw the cabin, with smoke coming from the chimney, wafting into the magnificent wall of huge pine trees. Two huge Blue jays chasing each other in out of the trees. It was so quiet. So peaceful. I could swear I felt my blood pressure lower. Stress just left my body. This is where I needed to be.
Do you have a place like that? A place that fills your heart with love, smiles and peace? That is what the cabin does for me. It is the closest thing to heaven on earth for me. It is where I feel my grandparents the most as well. They have been gone for 20+ years now but, their spirits are at this cabin. They built it in the early 1960's.
As I sat there drinking my coffee and taking in the beauty around me, I felt both of my grandparents hold me, sitting there with me. They comforted me. They knew my heart was hurting and they let me know that things will be okay.
I am so grateful for the relationship I had with my grandparents when they were still on earth. They were perfect grandparents and then became wonderful friends. We had a lot of fun and silly times together. I was the first granddaughter and I think that created a very special bond between us.
I am so glad I went to the cabin for this little getaway. It recharged my body, mind and soul. Being with my family both in body and in spirit was just what I needed. We all hold pain and loss in our hearts and that won't go away until Lia comes home. But, we are a strong family. And an amazingly loving, close and generous family.
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I can't even imagine your pain. You are strong. Prayers continue...ReplyDelete
My heart hurt at the sight of Lia's bed and toys! I can only imagine how hard this is for you. The power of prayer my friend is with you all. Light that candle every day and that sweet child will be home where she belongs! Sending you a big hug!ReplyDelete
So glad your place in the woods gave you some healing time. I used to love to go to my camper in the woods, but now it is sold and that part of my life is just a warm memory. Life is full of changes, but I do think the good Lord provides us with plenty of wisdom to get through it all. Keep your candle burning for all to see!ReplyDelete
I'm glad the amazing power of nature to heal has made you strong for the fight ahead. I've made a modest donation to your 'Bring Lia Home' fund and hope you are getting a good response to your request for help in paying the legal fees!ReplyDelete
I am a Christian,Wife,Mom of four and Grandma of 10 so far.Your post broke My heart.I feel for you so much and can help you pray, but first I need to go back and read and remind myself what has happened.I love the mountains and always find peace and strength from them,of course which comes from the Lord himself,but I do agree with you about the wonderful mountains-Hugs to you-DeniseReplyDelete
Well,I just read the whole story! Boy oh Boy! I posted My comment on The story itself-Have to get off-My chest is tightening!ReplyDelete
Diann, it so much about you and your relationship withGod that can feel blessed at this trying time in your life. I'm so glad you went to the cabin and that your surroundings helped you to feel relaxed and peaceful. I read your previous post, and as someone who works in the legal field, I want to tell you that you did a wonderful job of explaining the legalities of your situation. It is so difficult for a lay person to understand how and why our legal system works the way it does. I am keeping all of you in my prayers, and sending hugs your way. laurieReplyDelete
You are such a strong good person...you and your husband both. I am praying that things work out for God's glory. And I'm sending you some extra hugs. I hope we can all hold you up a little while you go through this trying time. Love, your buddy, DianeReplyDelete
What a heartbreaking and unfair trial you are going through. Be assured many people are holding you up and in their prayers and thoughts surrounding Lia with love. Am praying you keep the peace that passeth understanding so that you can remain strong for the fight ahead.ReplyDelete
Diann, I am so glad that the cabin, forest and the spirit of your grandparents brought peace to you. God always knows what we need. I am still praying for your sweet family and that Lia will be home soon.ReplyDelete
Blessings, Ginger
Diann, I am happy that your getaway gave you some restoration and peace. I am praying for Lia and you and Troy. God is faithful; this we know. Why bad things happen; this we do not know. But He is faithful, and He loves you and Lia. Cling to Him.ReplyDelete
I'm praying 2 Corinthians 1: 3-4 for you. Cherry KayReplyDelete
Keeping you and your family in my prayers.ReplyDelete
I am always praying for you and yours. Now when I light my candles around the house I will think of Lia. She is a beautiful shining light and we are all praying that she will be back with you soon. I am praying Ephesians 6. Put on the full armor of God. It will be my go to prayer for Lia. I will continue to ask God to put His armor on her until she comes home again. Stay strong in the Lord and trust Him will your whole heart. God Bless You and Troy and your wonderful family. You write from the heart. You are such a genuine lady. Hugs AnneReplyDelete
Thank you for taking the time to comment! I love to hear your ideas. If you ask a question, I will answer it here in a comment back to you. Please check back! Thank you for visiting and have a wonderful day! Diann :)


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An Options Play in the Face of Earnings Decay for Patterson
As the cost of health care rises -- and dental insurance is usually an add-on people are ready to forego -- the company's revenues and earnings are in decay.
Patterson is in the dental business; it supplies very basic items, from toothbrushes to chairs to the cotton balls that get shoved in your mouth during a visit to the dentist. The company has been trying to move up the product chain (into products with higher margins) through some billing and data software, but that's still a negligible part of the business.
The challenges facing this company became apparent when it reported very disappointing earnings on November 20 and the stock gapped down some 15% to the $31 level. That was the third quarter in a row that the stock responded to less-than-expected earnings with a big gap down. In the previous quarter it had recovered nicely and went on to new 52-week highs within the following two months. I don't think this third time will be the charm, unless you are bearish, as I am.
No Smiles in Dentistry
Patterson's business is in a declining sales mode and faces further headwinds due to shifts in insurance coverage. Simply put, as the cost of health care rises -- and dental insurance is usually an add-on people are ready to forego -- both revenues and earnings are in decay. The slowdown ranges from the recommended preventive six-month check-up, to nonessential cosmetic treatments that might come out of pocket. Exhibit A would be Align Technology (NASDAQ:ALGN), which, all mumbo jumbo aside, is basically an orthopedic braces maker. When it reported disappointing earnings in mid October, the stock got crushed with a 30% decline. It has since stabilized in the mid $25 range, but is listless. Likewise, I think Patterson, which is actually breaking back down to $34 per share as I type, will be challenged in the coming months.
Ignoring all the research that suggests that teeth can be the canary in the coal mine for predicting and preventing the spread of major organ disease, it is still treated (or not) as a secondary, non-required health issue by both insurance companies and individuals. A slowdown for dental visits (essential or otherwise) puts real pressure on practices, which tend to be small, independent operations of five to 15 people. There is little reason to purchase new chairs, lights, or even cotton balls if the cash isn't flowing.
Even after the recent sell-off the stock trades at 19x forward earnings while analyst estimates call for just 7% earnings growth into 2013. Despite the efforts to move to higher technology services, this stock is in secular decay.
The Options Play
To get bearish on this stock I'm looking at a fairly aggressive strategy, which is referred to as a risk/reversal. In this case it is established through the sale of an out of-the-money call to help finance the purchase of an out-of-the-money put.
Specifically, I would sell the January $34 call for $0.60 and buy the January $33 put for $0.80. This is a $0.20 net debit. There is the danger that if the stock zooms higher losses could be significant due the naked call so I would use a stop loss of $34.50 for exiting the position. My downside target would be $29 per share.
Sink your teeth into this bear and we'll see how we fare.
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A Sandwich a Day: Z'Tuna at Lamazou
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In this great city of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year—so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around New York. Got a sandwich we should check out? Let us know. —The Mgmt.
The C-list cast of characters, i.e. wilted lettuce and pale tomato, make a cameo on the Z'Tuna sandwich ($5.99, half) at Lamazou, but what can easily turn into another tired rendition of tuna salad is avoided here with bright Mediterranean flavors. The fatty combination of tuna and mayo is cut with a spicy, smoky harissa. The North African condiment is a favorite of ours, and its heat and complexity works wonders with lightly seasoned tuna salad.
A thick smear of olive paste brings out more of the Mediterranean. It's a delightfully salty spread, and its soft texture matches that of the harissa and tuna salad. For contrast, chopped cornichons add a refreshing, briny crunch. The bread was a little tough for the delicate filling, but the well thought out combination of ingredients reinstates our love for the classic sandwich filler.
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For an Effective Mobile Content Strategy, First Understand Your Users
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Any good CMS system worth its salt should be able to support proper mobile devices through the platform specific targeting of content and style elements. However, simply making your page layouts and stylesheets mobile friendly may not be enough to satisfy your users.
Different Ways of Providing Mobile Content
There are different ways of supporting your users on the move, including*:
- RSS News feeds
- Mobile friendly web pages – navigation as per your current site structure
- Downloadable eBook/pdf – for Kindle/Tablet users
- Mobile friendly site – both pages and content structure optimised for mobile
- Mobile friendly site in an app – installed like a mobile app, works like a website (normally HTML5)
- Framework based mobile app – e.g. PhoneGap – makes native phone/tablet functionality (e.g. GeoLocation, local storage) available to mobile web app (normally HTML5)
- Native mobile app – implemented in native language for each device – e.g. iOS, Android
* (you can find out more from my previous post Mobile Apps for the Uninitiated)
Broadly speaking, this list gets more expensive as you go down it, but with a potentially much richer and deeper ongoing engagement with your users.
None of these approaches covers all eventualities – there is a cost/benefit for each. For example, RSS feeds provide users with easy access to news items from your web presence, typically with very little extra setup cost. At the other end, native apps provide the smoothest experience, and the possibility of an excellent push content channel. However, you can't push content to users unless they download the app, and they will only download an app if it supports an activity they want or need to do.
Different Users, Different Uses
Users may fill their time with research type activities when commuting to and from work on the train, using their smart phone or tablet. They may wish to get access to material relevant to their job at their desktop, to your contact details on the move, check their user account, or outstanding orders at lunchtime at their desktop…and so on. If you hope to have a clear idea of how to service their requirements, then you need to clearly model the key user journeys you want to support, otherwise you are not making their lives easier. Different kinds of users engage with different kinds of content, on different platforms, for different reasons, in different situations.
There is no one size fits all approach to reusing content on mobile platforms, beyond the basic exercise of providing content. Whilst this basic exercise is better than nothing, this is unlikely to make all, or even any, of your groups of users engage more deeply with your content.
The Right Approach for Your Users
It may be that you have something to offer your users that means they are keen to engage on an ongoing basis – for example, if they order your goods regularly, or if they use real-time information, or if there is a professional or interest based reason for frequent two way communication. In such cases, you will most likely have a strong case for developing a mobile app.
If you find that your users just want your news on an occasional basis – in which case, a mobile friendly news page, or an RSS feed may well suffice. If your users tend to check you out on the move, then your entire site navigation, along with the page content, will need reconsidering in light of issues such as:
- how do and should people access your content
- how should you signpost the most important activities in the limited screen space of a mobile device
- how should you keep the sequence of activities short and easy to manage on a mobile keypad
Reuse of Content
Only when you understand the likely patterns of engagement of your users will you be in a position to judge how you may be able to reuse your content. Although the challenge of how you will push that content out technically is not to be underestimated, that is just a side issue compared to the organisational and human complexity of establishing and appropriate authoring process.
Reuse may require Rewriting
You cannot expect content designed for the written page to be a good fit for mobile devices and vice-versa. You may be able to give much more concise, interactive and context-sensitive content on a mobile device, which can be made aware of its environment to some degree, as compared with a desktop browser. If you are considering reuse, then you need to set up an appropriate workflow that will segment your content into elements that are appropriate for each platform. In your CMS, this may mean that you have separate précis, body and imagery for each distinct platform. You will no doubt wish to flag which content may be permitted for use, or blocked from use for each platform as well. You may want the structure as well as the content to be pushed into the mobile device.
Mobile Apps as a Content Delivery Platform
If you are in the fortunate position of having a compelling reason for deep two-way engagement with your users – perhaps as a membership or professional body, or as a charity – then it may make sense to consider developing a mobile app as a content delivery platform. The advantage of this is that you can give a bespoke engagement with content which can, if implemented correctly, be updated regularly without distributing a new app. Users can then engage with content on the move and then access it subsequently without having an internet application. In effect, you can have a targeted push channel into your user base, as well as an effective platform for two way communication.
Creating an effective mobile content strategy is complex, though it offers great opportunities. Only by understanding the needs and behaviour of your users can you hope to succeed in achieving your organisational aims.


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There are quite a few JavaScript frameworks available out there that offer AJAX and UI-related features. You can find a comparison of them on Wikipedia here. In this article, I briefly go through three of the most popular libraries: Dojo, jQuery, and PrototypeJS.
It should be noted that all libraries work in a cross-browser manner, as this is a key requirement for any such library or toolkit designed to simplify and possibly speed up the development of AJAX front-ends and Web sites.
In Dojo you find prepackaged components for common user interface elements such as menus, tabs, tooltips, date-picker, time-picker, treeview with drag-and-drop, readymade forms, input validation. Dojo also offers sortable tables, 2D vectorial graphics, animated effects like fades and wipes and it also abstracts the popular XMLHttpRequest object to a custom component. This component automatically falls back to using an IFRAME when this is convenient. Dojo also provides local data storage that extends cookies and leverages any browser's capabilities. The abstract model works with Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari.
A lightweight JavaScript library, jQuery comes with all of its features packaged in a single file. It offers DOM and CSS manipulation and navigation, event handling, nice user interface effects, and AJAX capabilities. A specialty of the jQuery house is the $ function that is essentially a factory for the root jQuery object. You typically use the $ function with a CSS selector and grab a few DOM elements in the page. Because the returned object is another jQuery object, you can chain new commands to the object up to building an effective workflow. The jQuery library excels when it comes to animating your HTML. Quite simply, the animate function -- the animation engine -- works by varying numeric style values over time. In this way, you can animate size, position or visibility of an element. For more on jQuery, see Getting Started with jQuery, by Bear Bibeault, Dave Crane,and Jord Sonneveld, with Ted Goddard.
The PrototypeJS library also comes in the form of a single JavaScript file and is distributed either as a standalone product or as part of larger projects, including Ruby on Rails and Script.aculo.us. In addition to providing an abstraction over XMLHttpRequest, the library offers an emulation of classes and thus a flavor of object-orientation. There's no magic or special trick-the JavaScript prototype property is used. It is the same approach that Microsoft has taken in the client JavaScript library that ships with ASP.NET AJAX. The abstraction over XMLHttpRequest is two-folded: You find a function to receive XML data from a remote call and a function to receive a chunk of HTML to be injected as-is in the existing DOM.
Regardless of the tools you use to do AJAX programming, you need a JavaScript library. But how to choose your JavaScript library? The three libraries that we briefly examined have slightly different goals. Dojo is a richer toolkit and not simply a library. The other two are essentially a collection of functions to simplify and speed up development. The Microsoft's client library, instead, is a small framework: not many quick-and-dirty facilities, not many cross-cutting Web-specific features, but a good emulation of class programming and general facilities for developers


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Bill Randall, a Class of 1982 graduate of the Academy is in his second season as the Director of Rowing, with oversight of both the men's and women's rowing programs while he also is the head coach of the men's team.
Randall, who retired as a Commander in the Coast Guard, was in the stroke seat for the Coast Guard Varsity 8 which won the Dad Vail Regatta in 1981 and he was inducted into the Coast Guard Academy Athletic Hall of Fame in 2005.
He was a member of the 1987 U.S. National team that competed in the Rowing World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark and was the Elite Quadruple Scull National Champion in 1986 and the Masters National Champion in the quadruple scull in 2003.
Randall has been the varsity men's coach at Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va. for the past six years. He has also worked the U.S. Junior National Team Junior B Development Camp for the past seven summers and worked with the Resilient Rowing Club (juniors) for the past two Falls allowing high school students to row during the fall season.
This won't be Randall's first time involved with the rowing program as he coached the Coast Guard Varsity lightweights from 1994-1996 and the freshman rowers from 1992-1994 while he was an assistant professor in Electrical Engineering. The Bears freshman lightweight eight took a silver medal at the 1994 National Championship Regatta.


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PLEASANTON — Police are searching for a group of men suspected of working together to rob area pharmacies by demanding narcotics and claiming to be armed, police said.
Four similar attempted robberies were reported within 36 hours at pharmacies across Dublin and Pleasanton, police said. Though the suspect descriptions vary widely, the robberies are similar in nature, which suggests to investigators that the suspects may be working together.
Pleasanton police responded to the Rite-Aid store at 2819 Hopyard Road about 12:38 p.m. Thursday, after a 911 caller told dispatchers that a man had handed the pharmacist a note demanding prescription narcotics that also stated he had a gun, Pleasanton police Lt. Brian Laurence said.
The pharmacist did not give the man any drugs, and the man left the pharmacy without showing a weapon, Laurence said. The man was last seen in front of the Rite-Aid about 12:40 p.m.
The suspect is described as a white male about 30 years old, standing 5 feet, 3 inches tall and weighing 150 pounds. He was wearing a light brown jacket and a brown beanie and is described as having a very red face and a scruffy beard.
In Dublin, a suspect presented a similar note to the pharmacist at the Safeway on 7499 Dublin Blvd. at 12:38 p.m., police Lt. Herb Walters said. No weapons were produced or injuries reported, though the suspect did make off with several bottles of hydrocodone.
The same suspect attempted to rob a CVS pharmacy at 7201 Regional St. in Dublin about 5:50 p.m. Wednesday, Walters said. A note that read "This is a robbery" was presented, though it did not make mention of a gun. The suspect ran from the store after he thought the employee pressed an alarm button.
That suspect is described as a white male, about 5 feet, 7 inches tall and weighing 225 pounds, Walters said. He was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt and gray beanie.
Another attempted robbery occurred in Pleasanton at 6:15 p.m. Wednesday at the Lucky pharmacy at 6155 W. Las Positas Blvd., Laurence said. In that robbery, a man also presented a demand note for opiate-based prescription narcotics and claimed to have a gun.
That suspect also left the store without any drugs, Laurence said. No weapon was seen, and nobody was injured during that incident.
The suspect who attempted to rob the Lucky store was described as an unshaven white or Middle Eastern male, 30 to 40 years old, 5 feet, 8 inches tall and 190 pounds. He was wearing a blue shirt and gray sweatpants.
Anyone with information about these incidents may call the Pleasanton Police Department at 925-931-5100, Dublin police Sgt. Yesenia Sanchez at 925-833-6682 or Dublin Detective Alan Dumatol at 925-833-6684.
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Let's start this conversation about Richard Sherman by saying I mostly really liked the movie The Wolf of Wall Street. Maybe this will eventually make some kind of sense.
It ultimately struck me as unpleasant that the movie went so far as to articulate – to specifically announce to its audience – that neither they nor it cared all that much about the details of the illegal, calamitous, and wildly irresponsible trading and financial activities of its main characters, but instead gleefully showed us in exhilarating detail as much of their debauchery and social depravity as could be fit into a three hour movie. That the movie showed so much drug use and sex and over-the-top unhinged revelry isn't really any problem for me at all, except that the makers of the movie have very clearly stated that I was intended to disapprove of these people and their amoral behavior. But here's the thing – I think many of us are no longer scandalized by heavy drug use and philandering, orgies and multipliers and drunk driving. It turns out, I am only bothered by those things to the extent that they introduce danger into the lives of people not engaged in the behavior themselves, which is to say, if you want to snort handfuls of cocaine and have tons of raunchy sex with just about anyone, fuckin' A, man, go for it. Just don't, like, run over your neighbor. The Wolf of Wall Street, ultimately, seems to think these behaviors are more morally reprehensible than the kinds of fast and loose illegal trading activities that virtually destabilized the world's economy. The Wolf of Wall Street has a strangely prudish, old-fashioned criticism at its core: we and our viewers think these people are bad because they do drugs and sleep with hookers.
Still, where the movie resonated with me was in a depiction of a room full of ambitious white-collar white people dressed in bland functional business attire, bespectacled in shirt-sleeves rolled to their elbows, raising defiant middle fingers and wildly hurling obscenities at the mention of rules and oversight that, to them, represented an outdated puritanical tyranny that was the enemy of their modern freedom. In their world of business, ambition is its own justification, and any behavior sprung from ambition is by its nature virtuous, and it is for the weak and pathetic and self-destructive to both be the collateral damage of their reckless, unchecked ambition and to dare stand against it. It was sort of a terrifying sequence, and I loved it, because I recognize it.
Inside that part of our culture that is celebrated from within, we seem to have isolated a business morality that is separate and different in important ways from our social morality. In interpersonal relationships, practicing any amount of dishonesty is understood as bad, negative, destructive, toxic. In interpersonal relationships, intimidation is vile, domination is sociopathic, disloyalty is shameful. In interpersonal relationships, self-aggrandizement is obnoxious. Double-dealing is unforgivable. Leverage is a device used by manipulators and antisocial dirtbags. The kinds of people who do these things or are this way among other people in the real world are, well, assholes.
Perhaps this scene from The Wolf of Wall Street resonated with me because those people didn't look like Skeletor, they looked like the kinds of people who have husbands and wives and siblings and kids and neighbors and friends, who are generous and caring and funny and polite and vulnerable inside their homes and the homes of their friends, who smile warmly and hold the door open for strangers, share cabs and buy the next round. Good, normal people who will have nice things said about them with sincerity when they die. But they exist in a business world where generosity, restraint, vulnerability, fair-mindedness, and respect of rules are fatal weaknesses, and they achieve success to the degree that they are able to transform themselves from good-natured humans to frothing kill-or-be-killed ass-kickers the moment they walk in the door. Placed against their wild drug abuse and at-times absurd sexual exploits, I found this core ability to lay all social morality at the foot of the altar of ambition to be the darkest, most frightening strike against them. But, then, I'm an abject failure as a businessperson. Ah well.
I can't hope to trace the origin and genesis of the common idea that we must bring a toughness and ruthlessness to the pursuit of our self-interests that would be wildly inappropriate in our interpersonal dealings, but I have to allow that, well, it's probably rooted in reality. A person will have more success in business if they exert their will over the opposition, if they intimidate in negotiation to get as much as possible, if they exploit inefficiencies and disregard the ripple effects of their ambition. It's all true, I suppose, because we have exalted competition as a means to not only success, but fairness. That which is achieved through competition is meritorious by definition and fundamentally pure, cleansed of fault and consequence by the rigors of the process by which it is earned. Because competition is, in our society, both the vehicle and measurement of economic justice, those who are prepared to compete most vigorously are entitled to the most success. In that context, considering the interests of your competition is, in canon and in fact, a vulnerability, a weakness, even idealism. This is the world as we have created it: in the pursuit of success, the best and strongest will use every means available to them to win, and their victory vindicates the nature of their pursuit. They competed more strenuously and more efficiently. Their method of competition was the best.
Football is a strange place to turn those observations into a criticism. Football, after all, is competition in such stark terms that it involves actual physical struggle, actual violence. And Richard Sherman didn't break or bend any rules in his pursuit of victory, or, anyway, no one is complaining about him cheating in any way. The uproar is all about his behavior after the game. By all accounts, he won fairly and spectacularly and then accidentally brought his renowned competitive intensity outside of his ambitious pursuit of success. This has led to hand-wringing of virtually every degree.
A certain part of our society is always laying in wait for a black person to step out of line in any way, and those people will likely never change. Richard Sherman was not going to earn his way into their hearts by being generous and humble in his post-game comments. They would eye him with the same anticipatory skepticism no matter what – they're hoping he says something big or brash or arrogant or insulting, anything to give them a flimsy platform of justification for their racist spew.
I don't know that the exact opposite of that group is all that significant, but somewhere down towards the opposite end, short of whatever percentage of people love Richard Sherman or the Seahawks to such a degree that literally anything he said in that moment would have confirmed his awesomeness, there's another group of people that saw Sherman's outburst as the trickle-over of his robust competitive spirit and thought something along the lines of I love how fiery and competitive that guy is, or, more probably, fuck yeah. They know that Richard Sherman spent the entire game inside that fierce competitive mode – striving physically to a downright dangerous extent, every nerve and sense focused. According to his reputation, Richard Sherman likely spent much of the contest also shouting at his opponents, distracting them, unnerving them, demoralizing them whenever possible, to the benefit and delight of his coaches and teammates and many fans. Gaining that and whatever edge was available to him. Football is exactly the practice of dominance, the exercising of a will over another will, and within that structure of dominance, Richard Sherman was practicing another dominance, his personal dominance over his personal opponent. His method of competition was ultimately superior, as it usually is. That's his job, and that's why he's the best at his job. He is right to know that he is the best in the world at his job.
There's a group nearer the middle that seem fussy and prude for celebrating a guy's competitive tenacity and then condemning him for still being in that mode only moments after achieving victory, but actually, in a world where a relative of mine insists it is a tremendous shortcoming that I am unwilling to use threats as leverage and practice dominance in business negotiations, it makes an awful lot of sense. The problem these people have isn't that Richard Sherman says Michael Crabtree is sorry, nor is it that he seeks to intimidate or demoralize his opponent. Their problem is that he did those things outside of the contest for victory. He brought his business morality into the world of social morality. What is okay in the competitive pursuit of success is not okay outside of that pursuit.
It's interesting how this works in reverse, too, even in real-time. We are all familiar with the idea of an athlete having the killer instinct. Larry Bird was a killer, eager to step on the throat of a staggered foe, happy to demoralize an opponent by predicting their futility, willing to fuel his competitive drive by understanding a certain player being assigned to guard him as a genuine personal insult. He had the killer instinct, that drive that elevates physical gifts and athletic prowess into an undeniable aptitude for competitive success. Somewhere at the other end is someone like, say, Donovan McNabb. McNabb, of course, had every possible physical and psychological gift – big, fast, strong, dexterous, smart, charismatic, and confident, but saddled with a perceived lack of the killer instinct to such a degree that Arlen Specter and Bernard Hopkins publicly called him out on it. Lacking the single-minded will to dominate the contest, no amount of post-game graciousness could ever salvage his reputation among fans as a softy, a loser. We have no appetite for athletes bringing their business morality outside of the competition, and we have a distaste for athletes not checking their gregariousness at the door of business that is at least as strong. Dwight Howard has been hit with this curse. LeBron James was a loser before he developed the will to dominate. Nice guy Kevin Durant is a new man now that he mean mugs and taunts, lashes out and earns technical fouls. He has learned the business morality.
So, I suppose the question becomes, are those people tut-tutting Sherman's post-game behavior wrong? Is it acceptable that Sherman's instinct for domination rear itself outside of the competition? Is it acceptable to humiliate and demoralize an opponent inside the pursuit of success but unacceptable outside of that pursuit? Of course, I suspect everyone's answer to be very personally motivated and tied to things like your stance on economic and social policy and your experiences in business and your experiences in sports.
I remember doing an awful lot of trash-talking when I was a teenager. I remember being red-faced with bulging neck-veins and experiencing something like rage-induced dissociation during beach volleyball games against genuinely stunned and distressed family members. I remember sobbing uncontrollably after losing my very first ever organized sports match, searching desperately for something outside of just simple luck and athletic prowess for an explanation. I remember coming to blows with a kid who yanked on my helmet one too many times in a scrimmage. I remember virtually forcing my brother to stand underneath a basket while I attempted to dunk on him over and over and over again, screaming at him, bullying him, a ruthless and absolute need to use him as a prop for my own desire to dominate. I remember lying my way through arguments with coworkers, inventing relevant experience, actively destabilizing competitors. I vividly remember suddenly being impressed by other men who readily admitted not knowing the answer, who conceded points, who congratulated opponents during competition, and feeling embarrassed by my transparent need to win. I remember sitting in a restaurant and losing my appetite because of a loudmouth in Cowboys gear woofing away at a room of civilized Giants fans, thinking there was something very definitely wrong about this runaway arrogance, this perfectly comfortable pursuit of superiority. I remember being told in an otherwise positive performance review that a desire for fairness and interest in accommodating the comfort of subordinates would be something to reverse and overcome, and knowing, finally knowing that being successful in some fields is about being something not just different but less than what I ultimately wanted to be.
I found Richard Sherman's behavior uncomfortable and ugly, and not simply because it came after the competition, but because it coming after the competition means that it also comes during the competition. Because it means athletic competition, and not just among crazed, clueless teenagers but even among serious professionals, is about more than luck and focus and prowess and teamwork and self-sacrifice. It's also about the will to dominate, about demoralizing a person, belittling them, humiliating them, pissing on their grave. It requires a morality that is separate from our social morality, it requires that its participants be less than what they can be. It's a place where being fun-loving and vulnerable makes Donovan McNabb and Dwight Howard weak, makes them losers. I have never really suspected otherwise, but I'm still hoping. Someone once told me there are places on earth where the local custom is to play the game not until one side wins, but until neither side wins, until after the fullness of the challenge has played itself out, the game is ended after a draw is achieved. It's possible whoever told me that made it up, but I like to think such a place wouldn't offend us, doesn't seem impossible. That in accepting the possibility of such a place we accept the possibility that we can measure our efforts against those of others without needing ever to be superior. And I like further to think that within that contest, there is no room, no expectation, no history, and no memory of any instance where the pursuit of personal success required a will to dominate.
We don't live in that world, of course. In our world, athletes are asked to be our moral champions on both sides. Interestingly, and rather like The Wolf of Wall Street, we are expected to care quite a lot about their sex-lives and drug use and cars and clothes and jewelry, and I think many of us have always found that to be oddly out-of-step and puritanical. Who is really bothered by this stuff? We ask them to superficially be the champions of a flimsy, outdated social morality and condemn them lustily when they fail. We also ask them to be the champions of our business morality, the symbolic embodiment of the struggle for success and victory, and we have over and over again reinforced the idea that aggression and dominance are the ingredients of victory. And so it is hypocritical to ask that Richard Sherman have what it takes to succeed at being superior while also telling him that those same traits are ugly and distasteful in polite society. But I have to admit to wishing we had just one right and wrong for both our interpersonal dealings and our pursuit of success. Otherwise, we will always have people who are unfit for one or the other, and that seems, well, unsportsmanlike.


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Can you not see Copy in the right-click menu?
I can log a bug on the CMD-C not working as expected.
Also, one thing that should work is Command+X (cut) and immediately Command+V.
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Yes, I can see and use Copy from the right click menu - thanks for that tip. 25 years of typing cmd-c is a hard habit to shake
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Will the CMD-C bug ever get fixed? It is supremely annoying to have a common shortcut like CMD-C be remapped to dismiss the window instead.
I thought I had just checked this recently. I will have to check it again and follow up tomorrow.
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Sorry, was thinking of a different thread. The cmd-c and cmd-v work from inside DiffMerge after the files were selected, but you are correct that where you enter the file or folder information for the diff the cmd-c isn't an option. You would have to use the right-click menu. A bug was logged. Cmd-v works.
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Aromatics and chicken wings
So, into a pot went some onions, celery, garlic, mandarin peels and the chicken wings. Covered with water and seasoned with a couple of pinches of sea salt, a piece of konbu, a star anise, 6 peppercorns and 4 whole cloves. These were covered with water and simmered for 2 hours. Then the broth the was strained of the solids, then filtered to clear the broth. I use coffee filters for this. The stock was then reduced from roughly 1.5 cups of stock, a splash of white port and black currant Balsamic vinegar, which was reduced to 1/2 cup. This would be the glaze.
The potatoes were roasted with onions, celery and garlic until tender. The potatoes were cooled and sliced, then tossed into a hot pan to sear. Then the kale was tossed on top to wilt. A little kosher salt and fresh ground pepper, to season. It is important to remove some of the larger stalks of the kale, as they remain a little tough when you are just wilting the kale.
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The pork was left over from earlier, on the weekend. It was smoked at Phat Matts. It originally had bacon in it, but, that was not going to work. So, I removed the bacon, seared the outside in the hot pan with a little oil from the potatoes. Then I sliced it, and seared the slices. From there, everything was tossed onto the plate and the meat was drizzled with the reduction.
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The 19th century Victorian era was a time for change and transformation in Britain. Queen Victoria held the royal office during this time, reigning from June 1837 until her passing in 1901. One of the museums that really captures art, design, and history of this era and many others is the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Museum of Art and Design in London. The museum is named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
With over 2,000 years of art, the Victoria and Albert Museum has the largest art and design collection in the world. The museum features a variety of collections including, architecture, Asia, books, ceramics, contemporary, design styles, fashion, furniture, jewelry, paintings, photography and much more! The featured collections cover many different artistic time periods and styles. Some of the time periods featured at the museum are, Baroque, Gothic, Modernism, Surrealism and more.
If you love the 19th century Victorian time period, than this is the museum for you to check out. During this era, Britain started to become its own, making great strides politically, socially and financially. Population began to grow, The Great Exhibition of 1851 occurred, manufacturing increased, new modes of transportation became available, and much more. At this point, London became one of the largest cities in the world.
The Victoria and Albert Museum features the art and style that was seen during the 19th century. Let's look at what life was really like during this time. Men's fashion changed a great deal during this era. The men typically wore trousers, a coat that was long in the back and short in the front, and a top hat. The women wore bonnets, corsets to show their natural figures, petticoats, and full skirts that had a crinoline cage underneath them.
During the 19th century, theatre became very popular. For leisure and entertainment, many people would go to different forms of performance, such as opera, ballet, circus, and a variety of pantomimes. However, due to the Licensing Act, there were only two theatres in London at the time, Drury Lane and Covent Garden. Since there were only two theatres for people to utilize, this became a problem. People began to form non-patent theatres to increase the entertainment throughout London.
To find out more about the 19th century Victorian era, take a tour of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Museum of Art and Design in London. If you can't make it to the museum, watch the new Showtime series, Penny Dreadful. Penny Dreadful is set during this era, allowing you to take a peak into what life was really like during this time!


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1 1/2 cups dry quinoa
1/2 onion
2-3 cloves garlic
1 large head broccoli (or 3-4 cups broccoli florets)
8 oz. mushrooms
1 1/2 cups shredded sharp cheddar, more for topping
1 tsp. paprika
1-2 flax eggs (optional)
Rinse quinoa well. Cook in 3 cups boiling, salted water for 15-20 minutes, or according to package directions.
Meanwhile, dice onion and mushrooms, mince garlic, and chop broccoli florets.
Preheat oven to 375.
Saute onion and mushrooms with salt over medium-high heat for about 5-7 minutes or until slightly softened. Remove any extra liquid from the mushrooms.
Steam broccoli for 2-3 minutes.
In a large bowl, combine all ingredients with the hot quinoa. Mix well.
Add to a lightly sprayed 9×13 baking dish. Spread out mixture evenly and lightly press down. Sprinkle additional cheese on top.
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The recent concern that laser printers may produce pollutants that can lodge deeply in our lungs reminds us that the air in our work and home environments is potentially harmful. Materials and equipment in office buildings and homes usually contain micro dust particles and a chemical brew of volatile organic compounds (e.g., formaldehyde, benzene and tricholorethylene) that are outgassed from paper, inks, furniture, carpet, paints, wall coverings, cleaning materials, and floor tiles. These gasses stay in the rooms where there is limited air circulation due to sealed buildings or closed windows. Copiers and laser printers add to, and activate, this mix by producing microscopic dust particles and sometimes ozone. Indoor air pollution is often greater than outdoor. Reduce pollution and enhance your health when you CLEAN THE AIR.
How to Clean the Air
After renovation or installation of furniture or carpets, be sure to allow for air circulation by opening windows and doors. Explore some of the following strategies to clean the air:
Place plants in your office and home to help clear the indoor smog and remove the volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The following plants all mop-up VOCs and some gobble up specific chemicals in this brew.*
If you work in a sealed environment, take a walk at lunch or ask coworkers to have a walking meeting so that you can get out in the fresh air.
*Read: How To Grow Fresh Air by Bill Wolverton, Penguin, 1997.


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17 invisible metals' very public lives
Rare earths are the flotsam of a churning, restless planet - 17 oddly behaving metal oxides pushed from deep in the mantle up to the crust over countless eons. They're so old, they date from the formation of the cosmos, and so universal they're found in meteors and moon dust. In a very real sense, there may be falling stars and planetary silt in your pockets - they just look like Droids and iPhones and PlayStation Vitas.
It took a long time for chemists to catch up with rare earths. The last of 17, promethium, was discovered only 65 years ago, a century and a half after the first, yttrium, was named in honor of the Swedish town and the quarry and the mineral in which it was found.
The first rare earths were discovered in 1787 when a Swedish army lieutenant became fascinated with a dark rock he found in a feldspar and quartz quarry near the town of Ytterby, Sweden. But it was eight years before a Finnish chemist managed to isolate the first rare earth oxide from that mineral and named it yttrium.
At first, it was impossible to tell most of the rare earths apart. They all behaved so similarly, and spectroscopic analysis was far in the future. But chemists managed to isolate cerium, then lanthanum, then didymium, the latter of which was extracted in 1841. Didymium was so similar to lanthanum that it was named "twin" in Greek, and lanthanum was so difficult to tell from its rare-earth siblings, especially cerium, that its name means "hidden." It wasn't until 1885 that Austrian chemist Carl Auer von Welsbach discovered that didymium wasn't an element at all, and he separated the stuff into its component parts in the form of salts: praseodymium and neodymium, a couple of more rare-earth twins (a "green twin" because of the color of the resulting salt, and a "new twin," in Greek, which was pink).
Cerium was soon put to use. Because of its inherent ability to glow in heat, it was used to treat mantles on kerosene lanterns (Welsbach's invention) and later in Victorian gas street lamps to make them glow more brightly. Their descendant today is the incandescent mantle in a camping lantern.
When cerium is combined with iron and then struck sharply with steel, it sparks. A perfect fire-starter, this ferrocerium became the lighter flint, invented in Austria in 1903, also by von Welsbach. The flint is still used in modern cigarette lighters and spark lighters for welders.
Rare earths were considered rare because it was hard to find them in usable deposits, but collectively they're about as common in the planet's crust as lead. And even the most scarce rare earths, thulium and lutetium, are still several hundred times more abundant than gold.
The strange thing is that they always seem to occur together in nature. "They're very unusual, and rare earths can be found in almost every rock," said Keith Long, a geologist and mineral resource analyst with the U.S. Geological Survey's Science Center in Tucson.
Rare earths have been behaving that way for an eternity. Like all elements heavier than iron, "they were manufactured in dying stars as they undergo the supernova process - they are ejected into space and form part of the interstellar dust that condenses to form new solar systems," Long said. "They're in all the meteorites, they're on the moon," and because of stony Martian meteorites, we know they're on Mars.
They're the product of multiple forces of nature. During the formation of Earth, when the crust was originally separated from the mantle, the lighter rare earths were incorporated into the crust. Meanwhile, deep in the mantle, the heavy rare earths were dissolved in magma. As the planet stirs its geological gut, the magma rises and begins to crystallize, the rare earths along with it. They're mixed into the crust, particularly through plate tectonics, Long said. "Rare earths have a long history of moving around."
Once on the surface, the usual forces of weather take their toll on the cast-up rock, breaking it up and washing it, along with the rare earths, downhill where they become concentrated. The beach sands of India and Australia are prime examples of this erosion and sedimentation.
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry in Zurich lists 17 elements as rare earths because of their chemical similarities. There are 15 "lanthanides," plus scandium, element No. 21 on the Periodic Table, and yttrium, No. 39. The lanthanides are elements 57 through 71.
According to Popular Science columnist Theodore Gray, "The chemistry of elements depends almost entirely on the outer shell. In rare earths, the outermost shell remains the same: They all have two electrons." Their solubility, reactivity with other elements, or their ability to oxidize are more or less rare-earthlike. It's because of their atomic structure that they stick together communally, but because they work their way to the surface at the whim of geologic forces, large deposits are hard to find.
"What makes rare earths so important are their magnetic properties," Gray said, which result when electrons are added to the inner orbits, giving each a distinct set of peculiarities. For example, holmium can actually amplify a magnetic field, while terbium can change its shape in a magnetic field - and gadolinium isn't magnetic at all unless it's placed in a magnetic field. If dysprosium replaces but 6 percent of the neodymium in the electric motor magnets of a Toyota Prius, that magnet is more stable, more resistant to demagnetization in demanding conditions.
For practical purposes, chemists divide the 17 into light and heavy rare earths. The eight light rare earths include the elements lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium and gadolinium (gadolinium is sometimes classified as a heavy rare earth). They're abundant (in relative terms), cheap and have been very useful nearly since they were discovered. They are the industrial workhorses of our age, playing crucial roles in petroleum refining and lighting, and serving as lightweight, high-power magnets.
The heavy rare earths are terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium and yttrium. In general, they are scarcer and more difficult to refine than light rare earths. They're used in medical equipment, computer and phone screens, and laser crystals.
Scandium is the odd metal out; some don't even consider it a rare earth, let alone a light or heavy one. Yet, like yttrium, it seems always to accompany the lanthanides in rare-earth deposits.
Rare earths are essential to our high-tech cultural infrastructure: They are behind the smartphones, computer screens, drives, cables and satellite links that make social media possible.
They established their necessity within the technological age early on, from the almost antediluvian invention of the heat-resistant samarium-cobalt magnet in 1972 (a very big innovation for the military) to the creation in 1983, almost a full human generation ago, of the neodymium-iron-boron magnet that powers hybrid cars and made the miniaturization of electronic components possible. Today, rare earths seem to be everywhere, from the gasoline in your car (they're necessary in oil refining) to the car itself - its automatic windows, cruise control, door locks and antilock braking system - from the booming woofers of a lowrider (plus the CD drive as well as the CD itself) to the windshield and ultraviolet-protection sunglasses through which the slouching driver peers. His GPS, its screen tinted by a mere dusting of heavy rare earths, is secured to the dash with powerful rare earth magnets.
The military uses samarium magnets in precision guided missiles and smart bombs, as well as aircraft. Rare earths are essential to the Aegis Spy-1 radar and the navigation system for the M1A2 Abrams tank. Neodymium magnets help power-guided destroyers, and other military applications of rare earths include jet fighter engine coatings, underwater mine detection systems, antimissile defense, range finding, space-based satellite power and communication systems.
A simple medical injection of gadolinium will make the blood in your veins show up vividly in medical magnetic resonance imaging (lutetium is used in the MRI image-making process itself, and about 1,500 pounds of neodymium magnets excite the gadolinium into vivid visibility). Gadolinium, once it leaves the body in the waste process, can be monitored in the environment, showing scientifically just how well the municipal wastewater treatment plant is working: Contamination can be monitored in parts per trillion. No contamination? Maybe that wastewater treatment plant is using rare earth textile filters in its final cleaning operation.
Didymium, that twinned version of praseodymium and neodymium that von Welsbach worked so hard to separate, is still used in safety glasses for glassblowers and welders. You can get a pretty cool-looking pair from Amazon for $49.95.
Online: For explanations on how rare earths are made into magnets, and how laser crystals and fiber cables are "doped" with rare earths, go to www.sfgate.com/rare-earth.


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The following article below was published as a Facebook Note and is being republished here with the author's approval:
By Benjamin Dictor
December 8, 2012
Rethinking Hanukkah
The modern retelling of the story of Hanukkah is similar to that of most Jewish holidays. The storyboard adopts the exhausted themes of victim/victor and the relentless and indiscriminate persecution of the Jews. The story is fairly one-dimensional:
"King Antiochus IV sought to obliterate the practice of Judaism in the Kingdom of Judea. After a military invasion, Judea was occupied until the Maccabees rose up and defeated the occupying force, restoring Judaism to the Kingdom."
As materialists we must question this myopic focus on the suppression of religion as the primary point of conflict.
Today, the story is told in an attempt to further the founder's myth in support of a Jewish Theocratic State while the underlying story of the struggle for national self-determination is often glossed over and forgotten.
Hanukkah is not simply about the struggle of the Jews, but rather, it is the story of the struggle for national self-determination of the people of Judea —- as well as their uprising and resistance against occupation and imperialism.
In short, Hanukkah is the celebration of the Intifada of the Maccabees.
Hellenism and the Gusanos of Judea
Like many of the devastating military conflicts presently unfolding in the world, the Maccabean Intifada began as a civil conflict that was ultimately exploited by foreign powers in furtherance of their imperialist objectives. Just as we have seen in recent years, these foreign invaders were welcomed by many gusano Judeans who requested the military support of imperialist powers to help them maintain their opportunist grasp on power in the kingdom.
The roots of the Maccabean Intifada began as a conflict between Jews that had begun to reform their traditions as a result of the Hellenistic influence (cultural imperialism) in the region and those Jews who sought to maintain their national and religious identity.
In approximately 200 BCE, the Kingdom of Judea came under the control of the Hellenist Seleucid Empire (Syria). Judea was still a somewhat independent kingdom and its people were allowed to maintain their customs and religion.
During that period, Hellenism was used much like the West uses its own cultural imperialism today in support of its foreign conquests. The people of Judea were not blind to this and saw that the imposition of Hellenist customs, values and religion were a direct attempt to undermine the political independence of Judea.
Some historians have focused on the wealth disparity between rural peasants in Judea and those Jews who lived in Jerusalem. The rural Jews favored continued independence and self-determination while the bourgeois Jews of the city of Jerusalem were easily Hellenized and adopted the cultural identity of their would-be occupiers. (See, Tcherikover, Victor Hellenistic Civilization and the Jews, New York: Atheneum, 1975). This tension led to periodic uprisings and ongoing hostility between those Jews who sought to maintain independence and those who favored Hellenism.
Prior to Syrian military invasion, Judea enjoyed considerable independence. However, the High Priest of Jerusalem, like most administrators or governors of colonized territories, served at the pleasure of the Seleucid King.
In the years leading up to the Maccabean Intifada, Jews in favor of self-determination made several attempts to oust these hand-picked High Priests and restore partisans to the leadership of Judea. The Seleucid military invasion of Judea was, in fact, precipitated by these ongoing conflicts over the position of High Priest of Jerusalem.
It was the Jewish Hellenistic High Priest Menelaus who ultimately requested that Seleucid King Antiochas IV send troops into Judea to quash the pro-independence resistance. Just as we have seen in Libya and Syria, it was the collaborators in Judea — Jews themselves — that demanded an invasion of their homeland to suppress their countrymen insisting on self-determination.
With the welcome mat laid out by the collaborators in Jerusalem, Antiochus IV sent Apollonius with an occupying army to Judea to put down the resistance and restore the collaborator Menelaus to the position of High Priest.
The Maccabean Intifada
Around 168 BCE, after the occupation of Judea had begun, Antiochus began to slowly strip Judea of its independence — politically and religiously. The occupying Syrian army built fortresses and amassed a military presence in Judea. Antiochus issued edicts restricting religious practices and limiting civil rights of the Judean people. The resistance against the occupation came in the form of an army of Jews known as the Maccabees ("Hammers") — essentially the Hamas of their time. The Maccabees fought the occupying Syrian army for seven years, relying heavily on guerilla tactics to defeat the overwhelming force of the Syrian army.
A series of military defeats and domestics disputes in Syria ultimately led to the victory of the Maccabees, the retreat of the imperialist Syrian occupiers, and the restoration of the independence of the Kingdom of Judea.
A New Hanukkah
This year, I propose that we celebrate Hanukkah as a holiday that commemorates the true story of resistance against occupation and imperialism. Rather than allowing it to be used to promote the ongoing occupation of Palestine, let us tell the story of Hanukkah to remind ourselves of our obligation, as Jews, to fight for all oppressed people of the world.
Our Jewish values implore us to recognize that imperialism must be opposed in all its forms. In that spirit, I submit that, this year, we light the menorah in commemoration of those who struggle against oppression and imperialism:
1st Candle — For The People of Palestine for their continued resistance against occupation.
2nd Candle — For The People of Cuba for over half a century of resistance against imperialism, attempted invasions and an illegal blockade.
3rd Candle – For The People of Syria who have been invaded by a massive foreign military force supported by the imperialist west, but continue to struggle against it.
4th Candle — For The People of Vietnam who, like the Maccabees, successfully fought off a massive military with guerilla tactics.
5th Candle — For The People of Libya, particularly Bani Walid, who continue to resist occupation and invasion.
6th Candle – For The People of Venezuela who have successfully thwarted attempts by imperialists to overthrow their democratically elected government.
7th Candle – For The People of Bahrain who have continued to oppose Saudi and U.S. imperialism.
8th Candle — For all Oppressed People of the World.


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The T3 & T4s congratulate, and the T1's trash the rest.. it's whatever. The funniest yet are the comments trashing people before they've even taken the LSAT or been accepted anywhere...
And lastly, its actually $1100 per credit hour. No idea where you found 900 at.
also a note on quality of applicants...its increasingly more difficult to get admitted to law school than in past years and decades. So, given the competition of the current time wouldn't that suggest that current students are of a higher caliber? Even Cooley raises the LSAT minimum a point every year or two.. so the alumni from a decade ago are examples of the quality that I would severely question- that could be someone that had a 130s score!
Okay im a canadian student who really didn't have really good grades so im going to be applying for law school in the u.s because in Canada the law schools are just too competitive. My gpa is 2.9 and my LSAT is a 156. Can you guys tell me what law schools i might have a chance at? Furthermore people told me that Cooley University is lenient for entrance but it has a bad reputation.


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Welcome to Women in Charge-- a birth blog project of Wisewoman Childbirth Traditions. This blog is here to empower and encourage women to take charge of their bodies, their babies and their births. Women are powerful and women are strong. We are in charge.
What an amazing account of the experience, Tara. Thank you for bringing two new lives into the world with such love.
Thank you for the team that surrounded you to support you.
Much love. Can't wait to meet them!
~ Erika
A wise and brave woman has given birth to uniquely gifted goddesses! Thank you for giving us the opportunity to be virtually "with" you during their birth.
Keep blogging to your loving extended family.
Love to all of you,
What a beautiful story. Thank you for sharing it with the world--we all need it.
Hooray for Ixchel and Kali!
Your beautiful girls have a unique mother. You all are the hope and light of the world. Thank you!
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. That's all I have to say about seeing your goddess beauty queens yesterday!
Tara, you are an inspiration to other twin mamas, giving birth to two beings with light, full power and inner strength. Thank you for sharing your amazing trust in the birth process, your body, and your babies. How wonderful to know what it is possible to create with intention and dedication!
Denise - expecting twin mama
Thank you for sharing your most beautiful story. I am 38 weeks pregnant with fraternal boy/girl twins and have always had in mind a beautiful amazing natural birth with no medical interventions as long as the 3 of us are all ok.
but with suspected pre eclampsia and the docs scaring me about reduced fluid around the babes I went against my instincts last Sunday and started the induction process...after 3 attempts tho my body is proving to all that we are not ready and I released myself yesterday, back home, very happy, babies moving lots and gaining back control over my pregnancy and birth experience.
I know these babies will come to us through our love and when they ready, not with the help of artifical hormones...and the pre eclampsia?? Turns out I am fine...so I'm looking forward to their BIRTH DAY more than ever before. Thank you again as your story was lovely and helpful to read. Love and light to you and your family x


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Three Cover GarageSOURCE Highsnobiety
The much anticipated Garage Magazine will release its first issue for Fall/Winter 2011.
Named after the art space that founder Dasha Zhukova opened in 2008 in Moscow, nobody really knows what to expect from the fashion/art magazine, yet expectations are certainly high. The art director of German 032c magazine is also the new art director of Garage magazine and the three covers for the first issue, only hint at the high profile talent that the magazine managed to bring together for its first issue.
Artist Dinos Chapman worked with photographer Nick Knight, Hedi Slimane photographed a naked model (Shauna Taylor) having a Damien Hirst butterfly tattoo on her crotch, which is covered by a removable Damien Hirst butterfly sticker on the cover. And last but not least Richard Prince also created an artwork for the a third cover. A launch of the magazine is expected during New York Fashion Week 2011, early September.


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WASHINGTON, April 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court Monday refused to review a lower-court ruling that rejected a challenge to New York's handgun licensing requirements.
The state requires applicants for the licenses to show they have "proper cause" to obtain a permit to carry a handgun. The rejection by the Supreme Court in a one-line order with no comment sets no precedent, and doesn't mean the justices might not take up the issue in some other case.
The Supreme Court has twice ruled people have a Second Amendment right to have a pistol for self-defense in the home, but has never extended that right.
Several plaintiffs challenged the state's restrictions on carrying a gun, citing the Second and 14th Amendments and saying the need for self-defense was "proper cause."
But a federal judge ruled summarily for the state without hearing argument.
A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit agreed, saying, "Because the proper cause requirement is substantially related to New York's compelling interests in public safety and crime prevention, we affirm."
The challenge was supported by gun rights advocates.