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To say that I am shocked would be putting it mildly! I can't believe it! I am so happy! At night I haven't been able to fall asleep easily since I am so excited! And when I wake up in the morning I smile instantly as I remember!
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To say that I am shocked would be putting it mildly! I can't believe it! I am so happy! At night I haven't been able to fall asleep easily since I am so excited! And when I wake up in the morning I smile instantly as I remember!
48 comments:
- Mary Dawn said...
oh anita! i'm so happy for you, congratulations! it feels great, doesn't it?
- 09 April, 2012 11:07
- Small T said...
Wow, congratulations on your amazing win! Can't wait to see the winning card!
Love your tulip card!
I also stamp while watching Celebrity Apprentice, haha! :-) xx - 09 April, 2012 11:14
- Jocelyn Olson said...
Woot, woot! Congrats, Anita! I'm so thrilled for you!!! Your tulip card is gorgeous!
- 09 April, 2012 11:16
- ~amy~ said...
wahoooooooooo!!!!!! congrats...love the card!
- 09 April, 2012 11:26
- Laurel said...
Beautiful card, congrats to you!
- 09 April, 2012 11:31
- Virginia L. said...
Congrats on your Stamping Royalty, Anita! You deserve the honor!!!!!So happy for you!I adore your thank-you card!! Stunning!
- 09 April, 2012 11:31
- Emily Leiphart said...
Your card is beautiful, Anita, and I'm SO proud of you! I can totally feel your excitement. It's so nice when a friend wins! Congratulations!!
- 09 April, 2012 11:39
- Karen B. said...
Congratulations!! So excited for you and so happy to see your name up there on the PC blog! Congratulations again!!!
- 09 April, 2012 12:13
- Barb said...
YAY!!! I could not be more happy for you, Anita! I wish I was there to jump up and down with you and give you a big hug! This is so exciting! Can't wait to see your card! Love that tulip card - such pretty colors!
- 09 April, 2012 12:21
- CinnamonSally said...
Congratulations Anita, love this beautiful card!!
- 09 April, 2012 12:35
- Sarah said...
Big congratulations, Anita! Enjoy your paper crafting crown.
- 09 April, 2012 13:23
- Mariana Grigsby said...
Big Congrats Anita!!! Well deserved!
Hugs! - 09 April, 2012 13:32
- Melissa Shea said...
Happy dance! Happy dance! Happy dance!
- 09 April, 2012 13:46
- Vera Yates (Ling) said...
Yay!! So excited we can finally share the news. LOL, I still laugh whenever I think how we kind of speak in riddle trying to figure out if we both made it. :D CONGRATS Anita and I couldn't be more thrilled than sharing this honor with you.
- 09 April, 2012 13:51
- Marilyn said...
Congrats, Anita! Enjoy your honor and have fun with it! Lovely "Thank You" card you made! :))
- 09 April, 2012 13:53
- Rebecca Deeprose said...
So HAPPy, hAppY, haPPy for you Anita!!! This is such a wonderful group of women to share this honor with!! I'm delighted that you're in it!
- 09 April, 2012 13:53
- Deirdre said...
So absolutely thrilled for you Anita - HUGE congrats. Doing the happy dance for you!
- 09 April, 2012 14:16
- Lisa's Creative Niche said...
congrats! can't wait to see it!!!
- 09 April, 2012 14:19
- Lin said...
So HAPPY for you, Anita - doing the happy dance right along with you!!! Love your card today!
- 09 April, 2012 14:38
- Angela Fehr said...
Congratulations! I was in your shoes last year, winning in the same category and I know what a thrill and honour it is! Way to go!
- 09 April, 2012 14:38
- Unknown said...
Congrats!! So happy for you!
- 09 April, 2012 15:18
- Robin K. said...
When I checked the Paper Crafts blog and saw your smiling face as one of the Stamping Royalty winners I couldn't have been more thrilled for you Anita!!!! I feel so honored that I have actually met "royalty" in person - hee! Can't wait to see your winning card! Enjoy every minute my friend!!! Hugs, Robin :) P.S. Your tulip thank you card is gorgeous!
- 09 April, 2012 15:44
- Paper Crafts & Scrapbooking Editor said...
Congratulations, Anita!
Your card today is gorgeous! :) - 09 April, 2012 16:02
- Chark said...
Congrats to one talented lady!
- 09 April, 2012 16:03
- Kelly said...
congratulations! WOW, this thank you card is AMAZING and one of my new favorites of yours. The colors are stunning and the embosing is just perfect! GORGEOUS!!!!!
- 09 April, 2012 16:04
- Cindy C. said...
Big congrats Anita! This is wonderful news. And your thank you card is gorgeous! Can't wait to see your entry in the magazine!!
- 09 April, 2012 16:04
- Trinh said...
Yay, Anita!! You should have seen my smile when I saw your pretty picture on the PC blog today. I'm so happy for you! Congrats, my friend!!!
- 09 April, 2012 16:12
- Jinny Newlin said...
Woohoo! Congratulations, Anita! You're so deserving! Can't wait to see the winning creation! And today's is absolutely gorgeous!
- 09 April, 2012 16:20
- Kimberly said...
Huge Congrats, Anita! I was kinda wondering if you had won when I saw your comments on every single other winner's blog. Great job! Can't wait to see the winning card!
- 09 April, 2012 17:14
- Lynn said...
Anita, What a wonderful honor...and it is so well deserved as you are amazingly talented! Woohoo! Very happy for you!
- 09 April, 2012 18:10
- Susan R. Opel said...
I just love today's card. And I love LOVE love LOVEEEEEEEEEEEE your winning card. A lot.
xoxo - 09 April, 2012 18:32
- Brenda said...
I am so happy for you Anita! Congratulations! You have every right to feel very special! And your card today just shows how special you are!
- 09 April, 2012 20:44
- Amy Kolling said...
OMG!! This is fabulous news Anita!!! Congrats to you!!!
- 09 April, 2012 20:55
- i'm with the band said...
Congrats to you too!!!!!
- 09 April, 2012 21:50
- Geri Lynn said...
Congratulations!!!! Well deserved as your cards are so inspiring just like today's card. I just picked up that tulip stamp. It is perfect for spring. I can't wait to see your winning card.
- 09 April, 2012 22:25
- Heather said...
Congrats! So excited for you and can't wait to see your card!
- 09 April, 2012 23:18
- Maureen Morton said...
I couldn't be more happy for you, dear girl! Your work is lovely and a real inspiration - you are seriously royal! Can't wait to see your card and how cute you'll look in your crown.
- 10 April, 2012 08:33
- jennfontaine said...
I love so many things about this post! I love how excited you are! I love how you won! I love that you get a tiara! I love that it was the last card you made and that Chad came home and got you what you needed! I love that you are putting yourself out there and doing something you love! (what a great example to others and your kids!) and I love your card you showed up! So very soft and pretty! Love the lace peaking out from behind the ribbon! (great ribbon color too!!)
- 10 April, 2012 09:55
- Kathy (krolski) said...
Yay!! Such awesome news! So excited for you Anita! You deserve it!! Love your card too!
- 10 April, 2012 10:14
- judkajudi said...
Congratulations, Anita!! Your work is always awesome and I am so happy it has been officially recognized! I am most jealous of your having a tiara!!
- 10 April, 2012 17:58
- Linda W. (ScrappinBari) said...
Yay, Anita - so happy for you!! And I love your card - what yummy colors! I love how you did the tulips!! Enjoy your time in the spotlight!
- 10 April, 2012 18:24
- Greta said...
Just incredible, Anita--can only imagine your excitement & am so happy for you! Dreams do come true!
- 10 April, 2012 22:19
- Carol McCready said...
Congratulations! I saw the post over at the paper crafts connection blog. Lovely thank you card.
- 10 April, 2012 22:29
- Jennifer said...
Congratulations on your accomplishment! Such a huge thing! :) LOVE, LOVE LOVE this card! So beautiful from the colors to the stamping, to the 3-D details! (And I totally get what you mean about the Celebrity Apprentice -- every week I complain that it is just TOO long!!! Haha!) Congrats again!
- 10 April, 2012 23:09
- Lindsey said...
Wow, congratulations on this honour! (And now what I wrote you in an email this morning is truer than ever!) Today's card is beautiful -- that tulip stamp is very high up on my wish list!
- 11 April, 2012 10:00
- Brandi said...
Hey Anita! I am so glad you stopped by my blog the other day. I am so excited for you with making stamping royalty! How fun! Your card is absolutely beautiful!
- 11 April, 2012 19:12
- Leigh Penner said...
Congratulations on your win, Anita! Very well deserved!
- 14 April, 2012 21:09
- Char Dobson said...
Congratulations Anita! That is awesome!!!
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The new South Korean president, Park Geun-hye, steps into office at a particularly challenging time, with archnemesis North Korea's own recently installed leader rattling missiles and nuclear weapons in an apparent attempt to solidify his hold on power.
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Tong doomwatched: "This is the last resort; there's no way out of this one. Our people will have to move as the tides have reached our homes and villages."
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Coal supply may be vastly overestimated
The world's coal supply suggests reserves may be vastly overestimated and we could be facing an unprecedented global energy crisis, according to a US expert.
On the flip side, a dwindling supply of coal could also throw the brakes on global warming, some argue.
Common knowledge about coal is that major producing nations like China, the United States and Australia, have enough to last hundreds of years, far beyond the reach of oil, which may already be in its twilight years.
But worldwide coal production could plateau as early as 2025, according to one new estimate, and a growing group of scientists are concerned that fossil fuel supplies may begin dwindling by mid-century.
Last year, David Rutledge of the California Institute of Technology analysed the coal production patterns of five regions around the world - eastern Pennsylvania, France, Germany's Ruhr Valley, the United Kingdom and Japan - each of which was producing at less than a tenth of its peak levels.
He found that each of the depleted regions followed a rough bell curve of production; initial production was followed by a steep ramp-up, a plateau near peak levels, and then a consistent decline.
When he applied the same formula to coal data from around the world, the results were startling.
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's maximum estimate for extractable coal is about 3000 billion tonnes. Rutledge's calculations suggest just 600 billion tonnes.
The problem with the IPCC estimate is that it lumps coal reserves, which are easy to mine, with coal resources, which may be impossible to mine.
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Rutledge's study also shows that, historically, national governments in the five regions have overestimated their reserves by a factor of four on average.
"These appraisals are large-scale issues," he says. "But they're done by governments. What's the incentive for governments not to give a number that is too high?"
James Murray of the University of Washington agrees.
In a talk being presented later this month at the American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly, he plans to call for a re-evaluation of IPCC emissions scenarios, all 40 of which overstate humanity's ability to emit the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, according to Rutledge's numbers.
The committee's projections predict CO2 levels in the atmosphere to approach 500 parts per million by 2050, if emissions continue on their current trend.
But Rutledge's work suggest that even if humans burn all the coal and oil we can get our hands on, we won't be able to push CO2 past 450 ppm. Oil sands and other unconventional fossil fuels probably won't add much to that total.
Murray and Rutledge diverge on the question of climate effects, though.
Using IPCC models, Rutlgedge argues that global temperatures won't get higher than 2°C above pre-industrial levels, at the lower end of what scientists think might spark 'dangerous' climate change.
"We're still going to have global warming, and it's a serious threat," says Murray. "I have no doubt the IPCC dramatically underestimates climate sensitivity."
Regardless of climate impacts, the concern over looming energy scarcity may be more acute than ever.
"I think we'll see peak coal somewhere between 2025 and 2035," says Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute in California. "This has huge economic implications. Without growth in our energy supplies, it's very difficult to see how we're going to grow the economy."


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A Question I Never Tire of Answering
by John C. Wright
Filed under Conversion
A reader recently wrote me and asked:
Let me get this straight: you, a presumably rational individual who writes science fiction stories for a living, sincerely believes that the creator of our 13.7 billion year-old universe of 70 sextillion stars magically impregnated a human female about 2000 years ago—a woman who then gave birth to a son named Jesus who performed miracles, rose from the dead, and served as the creator's messenger to humanity?
This might make for a mildly interesting, if outlandish, science fiction story, but the source of your belief system? If you're going to base your life philosophy on absurd myths, why not choose something a bit more interesting? Why not master the Dark Side of the Force or the Golden Path, becoming a Sith Lord or a God-Emperor and strive to rule a Galaxy? Why choose something as ridiculous and wretched as Christianity? I must admit I am rather perplexed.
I get these sorts of emails fairly often, and here's what I said in reply:
I am more than a presumably rational individual. I was a champion of atheism who gave arguments in favor of atheism so convincing that three of my friends gave up their religious belief due to my persuasive reasoning powers, and my father stopped going to church.
Upon concluding through a torturous and decades-long and remorseless process of logic that all my fellow atheists were horribly, comically wrong about every basic point of philosophy, ethics, and logic, and my hated enemies the Christians were right, I wondered how this could be. The data did not match the model.
Being a philosopher and not a poseur, I put the matter to an empirical test. For the first time in my life, I prayed, and said:
"Dear God. There is no logical way you could possibly exist, and even if you appeared before me in the flesh, I would call it an hallucination. So I can think of no possible way, no matter what the evidence and no matter how clear it was, that you could prove your existence to me. But the Christians claim you are benevolent, and that my failure to believe in you inevitably will damn me. If, as they claim, you care whether or not I am damned, and if, as they claim, you are all wise and all powerful, you can prove to me that you exist even though I am confident such a thing is logically impossible. Thanking you in advance for your cooperation in this matter, John C. Wright."
And then my mind was at rest. I had done all I needed to do honestly to maintain my stature as someone not who claimed to be logical, objective, and openminded, but who was logical, objective, and openminded.
Three days later, with no warning, I had a heart attack, and was lying on the floor, screaming and dying.
Then I was saved from certain death by faith-healing, after which–
1) I felt the Holy Spirit enter my body, after which–
2) I became immediately aware of my soul, a part of myself which, until that time, I reasoned and thought did not exist-
3) I was visited by the Virgin Mary, her son, and His Father-
4) Not to mention various other spirits and ghosts over a period of several days–
5) Including periods of divine ecstasy, and an awareness of the mystical oneness of the universe, and-
6) A week or so after that I had a religious experience where I entered the mind of God and saw the indescribable simplicity and complexity, love, humor, and majesty of His thought, and I understood the joy beyond understanding and comprehended the underlying unity of all things, and the paradox of determinism and free will was made clear to me, as was the symphonic nature of prophecy. I was shown the structure of time and space.
7) And then Christ in a vision told me that He would be my judge, and that God judges no man. I mentioned this event to my wife. Then about a month later, when I was reading the Bible for the first time beyond the unavoidable minimum assigned in school, I came across the passage in the book of John, a passage I had never seen before, and to which no Christian in my hearing had ever made reference, which said the same thing in the same words:
"For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so also does the Son give life to whomever he wishes. Nor does the Father judge anyone, but he has given all judgment to his Son, so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father." — John 5:21-22
8) And then I have had perhaps a couple dozen prayers miraculously answered, so much so that I now regard it as a normal routine rather than some extraordinary act of faith.
So I would say that my snide little prayer was answered with much more than I had asked, and I was given not just evidence, and not just overwhelming evidence, but joy unspeakable and life eternal.
(I also regard this overwhelming deluge of evidence to be shameful before my fellow Christian, since the saying told to Doubting Thomas—"Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed"—is a blessing denied me. In hindsight, if only I had not been so arrogant, I could have glanced around at the earth and sky, and seen the intricacy, wonder, and beauty of nature, regarded the unanswerable authority of the conscience within me, and known that I was a created being inside a created cosmos, not a random sandheap blown for a season into a meaningless shape by blind winds. Any child can see it, and all children do.)
To me, the universe was death row, and I was a condemned prisoner who believed everything outside death row was delusion and wishful nonsense. But then I got a call from the governor of the universe, commuting my sentence. I will live forever, as will we all. This was my repayment for a life spent in blasphemy and hatred and slander against God. Instead of smiting me as I damned well deserved, He spared me, and exulted me, and showered me with grace.
I was converted.
I was prepared to say adieu to logic and reason and just take things on faith, when I then found out that the only people who think you have to say adieu to logic and reason in order to take things on faith are crackpots both Christian and atheistic.
Every non-crackpot thinks faith is that on which you rely when unreasonable fears tempt you to disbelieve that to which your reason has consented. If your father says you can dive off the high dive with no risk of death, and he has never lied in the past, and your reason tells you to trust him, it is rational to take his word on faith and jump, and it is irrational to let your eyes overestimate the danger poised by the height.
I then discovered that the Christian world view makes sense of much that the atheistic or agnostic worldview cannot make sense of. I found that even on its own philosophical terms, Christianity is a more robust explanation of the cosmos and man's place in it, answering many questions successfully that atheists both claim cannot be answered, and then, without admitting it, act in their lives as if the question were answered, such as how to account for the rational faculties of man, the universality of moral principles, the order of the cosmos, how best to live, etc.
Turning to my atheist friends, I then discovered none of them, not one, could give me even so reasonable an argument as I was expert in giving in favor of atheism.
They reasoned as follows: "God cannot possibly exist. Therefore any evidence that you encountered that God exists must be hallucination, mis-perception, faulty memory, self-deception, coincidence, or anything else no matter how farfetched and absurd. Since any evidence that you encountered that God exists must be hallucination, mis-perception, faulty memory, self-deception, coincidence, or anything else no matter how farfetched and absurd, therefore none of your evidence proves God exists."
No matter what they saw, no matter what they heard, no matter how the world was against them, they would go to the lions rather than look at the evidence, lest their faith in their faithlessness be shaken.
When I pointed out that this was circular reasoning, they called me bad names.
One skeptic, in a bit of a lapse of his vaunted presumably rational character, told me solemnly that I could not possibly have had Jesus tell me something from a book in the Bible I had never read before. He said that I had read it afterward, and developed the previously undiscovered ability to edit and rewrite my memories, which I then used on myself, so that I only thought I remembered Jesus telling me about the nonjudgmentalism of God. The memory was created after I read the passage, and then back-dated. Then I used this power again to make myself forget that I had the power to make myself forget things.
I asked him if I also had the power to rewrite my wife's memory, since she remembers me telling her about the passage before I read it. He then tried to cut the conversation off, while accusing me of being irrational.
Another atheist told me I induced a heart attack in myself with my previously undiscovered heart-attack inducing power. And then cured the heart pain with my previously undiscovered heart-attack-curing power. I did both things in order to convince myself falsely of a doctrine I did not believe and had no interest in believing, but, unbeknownst to myself, my secret desire to believe was so great that it overwhelmed my sanity and seized control of my subconscious biological and cardiovascular processes. When I questioned him about such things as whether he was familiar with my medical record, or when I asked to see the evidence supporting this theory, he called me names.
I did not get the opportunity to ask him by what means he discovered the hidden workings of my secret unspoken desires, since he had never spoken to me, and he was not within normal mind-reading range. I did not get a chance to ask him whether this strange ability to harm and heal myself at will was something all people had, or whether he thought I had a superpower due to being bitten by a radioactive spider or something of the sort.
Another atheist told me that that heart failure was a coincidence, not a direct result of my prayer tempting God Almighty, and if that had not happened, something else like a car accident would have happened. Since I am irrational, he said, I would have drawn an improperpost hoc ergo propter hoc conclusion no matter what happened, on the grounds that God cannot exist no matter what the evidence says, nor how obvious it is, and so anyone who draws the obvious conclusions from the evidence MUST be irrational.
He, at least, did not call me names, aside from claiminh that I would have made an irrational lapse in judgment no matter what had happened after praying my one experimental prayer to a God in which I had no particle of belief, in order to sustain and support my (nonexistent, at that time) belief.
He continues to suffer the false-to-facts belief that he can read my mind back through time and see the internal workings of my psychology during events where he was not present.
I tried gently to point out the logical error in trying to use reason to persuade me that he, a stranger to me, knew that I suffered from a mental illness that prevented me from reasoning, whereas I, who have access to things like my past history and my medical records and the contents of my thinking, have more authority to speak to the issue than he does, until and unless I am impeached as a witness.
In general, the argument that I am impeached as a witness on the grounds that my testimony did not confirm the prejudices and assumptions of a third party is not one likely to prevail in a court of law, or as a debate among sober philosophers, scientists, nor anyone trained in rigorous reasoning.
I used to be one of you, my dear atheists, and I was good at my job. But enough about me!
My question for you is this: if science discovered tomorrow that the universe was half its apparent age, and estimated the stars as half their current number, would the belief in God somehow be twice as credible in your eyes?
If so, why so?
If not, then, logically, the age of the universe and the number of stars has no bearing on the credibility of belief in God or in the Incarnation.
Again, if you are attempting to persuade me that I should not believe in unusual events, or unheard-of or hard-to-believe events, on the grounds that no unusual nor unheard-of nor hard-to-believe events ever happen, simple logic shows that this cannot be the case:
Logically, every ordinary event is unheard-of before we hear of it. Even the first example of repeated events is unusual until the second example occurs; and events are hard-to-believe when and only when our expectations and our experience does not match: therefore every novelty is as incredible as the platypus when first encountered. Therefore not only do incredible events happen, they must happen, for if they did not, the concept of credibility could not exist.
If, on the other hand, you are arguing that I ought not believe reports of miracles on that grounds that miracles do not exist, and that we know miracles do not exist on the grounds that no believable reports of them are heard, you are arguing in a circle.
You are also implying that the human race, almost all of whom believe in gods, ghosts, magic and miracles of one sort or another, except for that tiny minority of persons who are consistent atheists, just so happened to have all made the same lapse of judgment in the matter of paramount and foundational importance in their lives. And that they continue to do so, some of whom would go to the lions rather than re-examine the aforesaid lapse of judgment. While it is possible that everyone during the parade is out of step except the fond mother's son in the old joke, this would seem to be as unusual, unheard-of and hard-to-believe as a Virgin birth, if not more so.
The argument that miracles are unbelievable because they are unbelievable, even if it were not circular, is less persuasive than may at first appear, when proffered to a juror who is himself a skeptical eyewitness to several miracles, answered prayers, visions, religious experiences, knowledge of events before they happened, et cetera.
Obviously, I who have seen miracles ex postiori, cannot adopt the a priori assumption that miracles cannot exist and retain my integrity as a philosopher, or my honor as a man. There is simply no going back.
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Apple announced the new features coming to iOS 5 today at their yearly developer conference, and it's bringing lots of awesome new features to the popular mobile platform. The catch: It won't be available until Fall. If you don't want to wait, here's how to enjoy the best features it offers right now.
Some of these solutions require jailbreaking. If you're up for going the jailbreak route, be sure to check out our always up-to-date guide to jailbreaking your iDevice for instructions. If you're new to jailbreaking, you may also want to read about the disadvantages before you dive right in.
A Better Notification System
Apple built a new and hugely improved notification system for iOS 5, but from the looks for things, it's based on previously mentioned MobileNotifier, an app already available for jailbroken iDevices. In fact, Apple hired the developer of MobileNotifier (Peter Hajas), so it's no surprise to see a better notification system find its way into the lastest major upgrade to Apple's mobile operating system. If you can't wait for this Fall, MobileNotifier is a great way to fill the void on your jailbroken iDevice right now.
Wireless Sync
Um, finally? iTunes has long been plagued with tethered syncing, and it's about time Apple's gotten on board with cutting the cable—even if they didn't do it 100%. The wonderful Wi-Fi Sync has been around for awhile, however, providing you with a means to wirelessly sync your iDevice with iTunes. While Wi-Fi Sync isn't as silent and simple as Apple's iCloud offering, it can wirelessly sync over your local network or remotely, and it works very well. Wi-Fi Sync isn't perfect, but it's far better than you'd expect for something that's hacking around two very closed off Apple products. If you want wireless sync right this very second, you can get it for a jailbreak and $10.
Safari Reader
Do we really even need Safari Reader when we have the beloved read-it-later app Instapaper. You get the benefit of easily-readable articles, and you don't have to use the Safari web browser on your desktop to integrate your iOS device and your computer. It's pretty much the best way to easily read web content, so regardless of Safari Reader's addition to iOS 5 you should really be using Instapaper now anyway.
Tabbed Browsing
We're not sure why Apple didn't decide to put tabbed browsing in Safari until the FIFTH version of iOS, but it's been around in third-party browsers for quite awhile. One of our favorites is Atomic Web. Not only does it feature excellent tabbed browsing, but it also includes plenty of other features you'd want from a desktop browser.
A Better Camera
iOS 5 is bringing a faster, feature-filled camera to iOS 5, but you can get that right now with Camera+. Camera+ is the full-featured photo app that originally introduced the use of the volume button to snap photos (and was removed from the App Store as a result). Camera+ is back in the App Store with that volume-shutter removed (you can re-enable it with jailbreak hack SnapTap), and it's the perfect camera app to turn to, at least until iOS 5 comes out.
It makes sense that Apple would add a to-do list app to iOS because it's clearly popular in the iTunes App Store. There are so many third-party options that you can probably find one that's tailored exactly to your needs, but here are a few suggestions: Wunderlist is simple, attractive, and syncs wireless to its desktop and web components; SmallTask is about as simple as it gets for reminders and syncs with Dropbox; And, of course, Remember the Milk is a frequent favorite for task management and reminders.
iMessages is basically Blackberry Messenger for iOS, which is pretty exciting if you commonly communicate with non-iPhone users but love SMS. While nothing is going to work exactly like the iMessage service, you can pick up an app like TextFree so you can send text messages (for free) directly from your iDevice, even if it's not an iPhone. There are plenty of other apps that do this, and you can use instant messaging as well, so you're not bereft of options for communicating with your non-iPhone friends.
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Provides a "lightbox" experience. Upon user interaction, a UI component expands to fill the viewport until it is closed by the user.
Required Scripts
<script async custom-element="amp-lightbox-gallery" src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0/amp-lightbox-gallery-1.0.js"></script>
<script async custom-element="amp-lightbox-gallery" src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0/amp-lightbox-gallery-1.0.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0/amp-lightbox-gallery-1.0.css">
The amp-lightbox-gallery
component provides a "lightbox" experience for AMP
components (e.g., amp-img
, amp-carousel
). When the user interacts with the
AMP element, a UI component expands to fill the viewport until it is closed by
the user. Currently, only images are supported.
To use amp-lightbox-gallery
, ensure the required script is included in your
section, then add the lightbox
attribute on an <amp-img>
For showing individual images in a lightbox, there's also the
component. To display other types of elements in a lightbox, use
Display a lightbox with <amp-img>
Tapping on any <amp-img>
opens the image in a lightbox gallery. The lightbox
gallery does image-handling (e.g., zoom and pan), enables swiping to navigate
between images, and offers a thumbnail gallery view for browsing all picture
thumbnails in a grid.
<amp-img src="cat.jpg" width="100" height="100" lightbox></amp-img> <amp-img src="dog.jpg" width="100" height="100" lightbox></amp-img> <amp-img src="bird.jpg" width="100" height="100" lightbox></amp-img>
Display a lightbox with <amp-carousel>
You can add the lightbox
attribute on an <amp-carousel>
to lightbox all of
its children. Currently, the <amp-lightbox-gallery>
component only supports
carousels containing <amp-img>
as children. As you navigate through the
carousel items in the lightbox, the original carousel slides are synchronized so
that when the lightbox is closed, the user ends up on the same slide as they
were originally on. Currently, only the type='slides'
carousel is supported.
<amp-carousel lightbox width="1600" height="900" layout="responsive" type="slides" > <amp-img src="image1" width="200" height="100"></amp-img> <amp-img src="image1" width="200" height="100"></amp-img> <amp-img src="image1" width="200" height="100"></amp-img> </amp-carousel>
Add captions
Optionally, you can specify a caption for each element in the lightbox. These
fields are automatically read and displayed by the <amp-lightbox-gallery>
the following order of priority:
(if the lightboxed element is the child of a figure)aria-describedby
In the following example, <amp-lightbox-gallery>
displays the figcaption
value as its description, showing "Toront's CN tower was ....".
<figure> <amp-img id="hero-img" lightbox="toronto" src="https://picsum.photos/1600/900?image=1075" layout="responsive" width="1600" height="900" alt="Picture of CN tower." > </amp-img> <figcaption class="image"> Toronto's CN tower was built in 1976 and was the tallest free-standing structure until 2007. </figcaption> </figure>
In the following example, <amp-lightbox-gallery>
displays the alt
value as
its description, showing "Picture of CN tower".
<amp-img id="hero-img" lightbox="toronto" src="https://picsum.photos/1600/900?image=1075" layout="responsive" width="1600" height="900" alt="Picture of CN tower" > </amp-img>
Implement thumbnail previews
Lightboxed items have a thumbnail gallery view. You can optionally specify a
thumbnail item for your lightboxed element via the attribute
that references the id
of an <amp-img>
element with
<amp-youtube width="480" height="270" layout="responsive" data-videoid="lBTCB7yLs8Y" lightbox-thumbnail-id="my-thumbnail-img" > </amp-youtube> <amp-img id="my-thumbnail-img" width="200" height="200" layout="nodisplay" src="https://picsum.photos/200/200?image=1074" > </amp-img>
If no thumbnail is specified, <amp-img>
elements will be cropped per
object-fit: cover
, <amp-video>
will use the image src
specified in its
attribute, and placeholder images will be used for lightboxed elements
that have one.
You can style the caption of a amp-lightbox-gallery
by targeting the amp-lightbox-gallery-caption
class with standard CSS.
Some of the properties that can be styled are font-size
and color
Opens the lightbox gallery. Can be triggered by tapping another element, if you
specify the image id
: on="tap:amp-lightbox-gallery.open(id='image-id')"
To track usage of amp-lightbox-gallery
, please use one of the following
analytics events:
This event tracks when the lightbox is opened when the user clicks on a
lightboxed <amp-img>
You can track this event using the following code snippet:
<amp-analytics> <script type="application/json"> { "requests": { "open": "https://foo.com/open" }, "triggers": { "trackLightboxOpened": { "on": "lightboxOpened", "request": "open" } } } </script> </amp-analytics>
This event tracks when the thumbnails view is triggered by clicking on the trigger when the user is in the lightbox view.
You can track this event using the following code snippet:
<amp-analytics> <script type="application/json"> { "requests": { "thumb": "https://foo.com/thumb" }, "triggers": { "trackThumbnailsViewToggled": { "on": "thumbnailsViewToggled", "request": "thumb" } } } </script> </amp-analytics>
This event tracks when the user toggles the description by clicking on the description to expand/collapse it, tracking engagement with the description for the lightboxed image.
You can track this event using the following code snippet:
<amp-analytics> <script type="application/json"> { "requests": { "descOverflow": "https://foo.com/descOverflow" }, "triggers": { "trackDescriptionOverflowed": { "on": "descriptionOverflowToggled", "request": "descOverflow" } } } </script> </amp-analytics>
Standalone use outside valid AMP documents
Bento allows you to use AMP components in non-AMP pages without needing to commit to fully valid AMP. You can take these components and place them in implementations with frameworks and CMSs that don't support AMP. Read more in our guide Use AMP components in non-AMP pages.
To find the standalone version of amp-lightbox-gallery
, see bento-lightbox-gallery
See amp-image-lightbox-gallery
in the AMP validator specification.
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Making bread is somewhat easier than one might think, and it can be very tasty. In addition, once the basic recipe is known it is interesting to experiment with flavored breads. Ingredients flour 0000 (no leavening of any kind) 500 g yeast if it is dry (10 g); If salt 8 g (tablespoon) is the natural 30 g sugar 8 g (tablespoon) water butter or oil preparation tip the flour into a bowl (not necessary to sift it) and form a hollow in the Center. In it, dump part of water, oil and all the yeast. Mix with the flour and gradually incorporate liquids as necessary. Add the sugar dissolved in a small amount of warm water. It is important to note that yeast is a living organism (similar to a fungus) and that if it comes into direct contact with the salt will die, making the preparation does not rise (i.e. not inflate).
For this reason, it is vital to incorporate the salt dissolved in water and once the yeast is already fully mixed. Knead by gradually incorporating water and, to a lesser extent, oil or butter. ES important much kneading develops gluten and dough have elasticity. Once the bun is in shape and solidity, let it stand, covered with a napkin or towel in a warm place. If the kitchen is a very cold environment, you can leave on the oven on. Additional information at Isaac Dabah supports this article.
The important thing is to be in an environment with a slightly warm temperature. Let stand for at least two hours to make it rise and gain size. Proofing once you can perform you shallow cuts that help even cooking and give good visual appearance. Then lead to average around 25 oven? minutes. To find out if you are ready must be entered a knife by the thickest part of the bread. If it comes out dry, bread is already cooked. Source: Homemade bread Recipes and techniques recipes and techniques original author and source of the article.


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Editorial note: The following is a transcript of a conversation between two artist-poets on their recent publications. Jai Arun Ravine, director of the short film Tom/Trans/Thai and author of The Romance of Siam: a Pocket Guide as well as แล้ว and then entwine: lesson plans, poems, knots, specializes in genres of blended identity, gender, and race. Currently based in Philadelphia, they take the time to sit down and discuss the themes of orientalism, colonialism, and tourism prevalent in their work.
j/j hastain begins "crepuscular," from the relational elations of ORPHANED ALGEBRA, (with Eileen Tabios, and hereinafter referred to at treooa) with this simple problem: "The dilemma of belonging. What of that has to do with things exterior to us and what of it has to do with our own regard of exteriors and interiors?" (27). hastain responds to Tabios's sequence of prose poems about orphanhood, in particular those orphans who are older, considered too old to be adopted. The orphan who becomes part of Tabios's family (provenance Colombia, destination California) is doing word problems in algebra. But these problems are more complicated than the math would indicate. Arriving at a reference to walls that "slant at 65-degree angles" the child thinks of "the man you longed to call 'Dad.'" He is not father, but "potential father." What appears outside the "glass-less window" is "a lucid mountain." The man has scarred the boy. Their relation is not lucid. Hence, the "answer" to the equation is "'indifference > hatred'?" Equations do not generally end with question marks; this one offers a "resolution" only in ambiguities. Most of us consider indifference to be a thing better than hatred. But an orphan, who needs feeling, an emotional relation, longs for it to be strong, not absent or ambiguous. His regard meets the world's disregard in an equation whose answer is no answer. As hastain writes in "LUCIDITY DISCERNING": "The desire for a father is not a father" (30).
But Tabios and hastain are most engaged in what happens when relation between persons occurs, or between genders within persons, namely in the TRANS of their "relational elations." They are fascinated by displacements, yes, but also in "active placements," whether those are relationships within adoptive families or within individuals whose gender-identities are not normative.


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A Brooklyn building owner has hired security guards and installed a metal gate to protect a work by the elusive British graffiti artist Banksy.
The New York Post reports that the rolling gate went up Friday over the wall in Williamsburg where Banksy spray-painted two geishas and a bonsai tree.
Cara Tabachnick, whose family owns the building, said the goal is to preserve the artwork "so it can be viewed and enjoyed."
Banksy announced on his website that he would undertake a "residency" on the streets of New York this month.
Most of the Banksy works that have gone up have been tagged over by others, and some have been completely erased.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said last week that graffiti ruins property and is "a sign of decay."
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District school board operation and control of public K-12 education within the school district.
District school board operation and control of public K-12 education within the school district.
1003.02 District school board operation and control of public K-12 education within the school district.—As provided in part II of chapter 1001, district school boards are constitutionally and statutorily charged with the operation and control of public K-12 education within their school district. The district school boards must establish, organize, and operate their public K-12 schools and educational programs, employees, and facilities. Their responsibilities include staff development, public K-12 school student education including education for exceptional students and students in juvenile justice programs, special programs, adult education programs, and career education programs. Additionally, district school boards must:
(1) Provide for the proper accounting for all students of school age, for the attendance and control of students at school, and for proper attention to health, safety, and other matters relating to the welfare of students in the following fields:
(a) Admission, classification, promotion, and graduation of students.—Adopt rules for admitting, classifying, promoting, and graduating students to or from the various schools of the district.
(b) Enforcement of attendance laws.—Provide for the enforcement of all laws and rules relating to the attendance of students at school. District school boards are authorized to establish policies that allow accumulated unexcused tardies, regardless of when they occur during the school day, and early departures from school to be recorded as unexcused absences. District school boards are also authorized to establish policies that require referral to a school's child study team for students who have fewer absences than the number required by s. 1003.26(1)(b).
(c) Control of students.—
1. Adopt rules for the control, attendance, discipline, in-school suspension, suspension, and expulsion of students and decide all cases recommended for expulsion.
2. Maintain a code of student conduct as provided in chapter 1006.
(d) Courses of study and instructional materials.—
1. Provide adequate instructional materials for all students as follows and in accordance with the requirements of chapter 1006, in the core courses of mathematics, language arts, social studies, science, reading, and literature, except for instruction for which the school advisory council approves the use of a program that does not include a textbook as a major tool of instruction.
2. Adopt courses of study for use in the schools of the district.
3. Provide for proper requisitioning, distribution, accounting, storage, care, and use of all instructional materials as may be needed, and ensure that instructional materials used in the district are consistent with the district goals and objectives and the curriculum frameworks approved by the State Board of Education, as well as with the state and school district performance standards required by law and state board rule.
(e) Transportation.—Make provision for the transportation of students to the public schools or school activities they are required or expected to attend, efficiently and economically, in accordance with the requirements of chapter 1006, which function may be accomplished, in whole or part, by means of an interlocal agreement under s. 163.01.
(f) Facilities and school plant.—
1. Approve and adopt a districtwide school facilities program, in accordance with the requirements of chapter 1013.
2. Approve plans for locating, planning, constructing, sanitating, insuring, maintaining, protecting, and condemning school property as prescribed in chapter 1013.
3. Approve and adopt a districtwide school building program.
4. Select and purchase school sites, playgrounds, and recreational areas located at centers at which schools are to be constructed, of adequate size to meet the needs of projected students to be accommodated.
5. Approve the proposed purchase of any site, playground, or recreational area for which school district funds are to be used.
6. Expand existing sites.
7. Rent buildings when necessary, which function may be accomplished, in whole or part, by means of an interlocal agreement under s. 163.01.
8. Enter into leases or lease-purchase arrangements, in accordance with the requirements and conditions provided in s. 1013.15(2).
9. Provide for the proper supervision of construction.
10. Make or contract for additions, alterations, and repairs on buildings and other school properties.
11. Ensure that all plans and specifications for buildings provide adequately for the safety and well-being of students, as well as for economy of construction.
12. Provide adequately for the proper maintenance and upkeep of school plants, which function may be accomplished, in whole or part, by means of an interlocal agreement under s. 163.01.
13. Carry insurance on every school building in all school plants including contents, boilers, and machinery, except buildings of three classrooms or less which are of frame construction and located in a tenth class public protection zone as defined by the Florida Inspection and Rating Bureau, and on all school buses and other property under the control of the district school board or title to which is vested in the district school board, except as exceptions may be authorized under rules of the State Board of Education.
14. Condemn and prohibit the use for public school purposes of any building under the control of the district school board.
(g) School operation.—
1. Provide for the operation of all public schools as free schools for a term of 180 days or the equivalent on an hourly basis as specified by rules of the State Board of Education; determine district school funds necessary in addition to state funds to operate all schools for the minimum term; and arrange for the levying of district school taxes necessary to provide the amount needed from district sources.
2. Prepare, adopt, and timely submit to the Department of Education, as required by law and by rules of the State Board of Education, the annual school budget, so as to promote the improvement of the district school system.
(h) Records and reports.—
1. Keep all necessary records and make all needed and required reports, as required by law or by rules of the State Board of Education.
2. At regular intervals require reports to be made by principals or teachers in all public schools to the parents of the students enrolled and in attendance at their schools, apprising them of the academic and other progress being made by the student and giving other useful information.
(i) Parental notification of acceleration options.—At the beginning of each school year, notify parents of students in or entering high school of the opportunity and benefits of advanced placement, International Baccalaureate, Advanced International Certificate of Education, dual enrollment, and Florida Virtual School courses and options for early graduation under s. 1003.4281.
(2) Require that all laws, all rules of the State Board of Education, and all rules of the district school board are properly enforced.
(3) Maintain a system of school improvement and education accountability as required by law and State Board of Education rule, including but not limited to the requirements of chapter 1008.
(4) In order to reduce the anonymity of students in large schools, adopt policies that encourage subdivision of the school into schools-within-a-school, which shall operate within existing resources. A "school-within-a-school" means an operational program that uses flexible scheduling, team planning, and curricular and instructional innovation to organize groups of students with groups of teachers as smaller units, so as to functionally operate as a smaller school. Examples of this include, but are not limited to:
(a) An organizational arrangement assigning both students and teachers to smaller units in which the students take some or all of their coursework with their fellow grouped students and from the teachers assigned to the smaller unit. A unit may be grouped together for 1 year or on a vertical, multiyear basis.
(b) An organizational arrangement similar to that described in paragraph (a) with additional variations in instruction and curriculum. The smaller unit usually seeks to maintain a program different from that of the larger school, or of other smaller units. It may be vertically organized, but is dependent upon the school principal for its existence, budget, and staff.
(c) A separate and autonomous smaller unit formally authorized by the district school board or district school superintendent. The smaller unit plans and runs its own program, has its own staff and students, and receives its own separate budget. The smaller unit must negotiate the use of common space with the larger school and defer to the building principal on matters of safety and building operation.
History.—s. 112, ch. 2002-387; s. 10, ch. 2003-391; s. 82, ch. 2004-357; s. 3, ch. 2006-301; s. 2, ch. 2008-43; s. 13, ch. 2009-59; s. 6, ch. 2012-191; s. 9, ch. 2013-27.