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How does one go about saving the planet? Is that even a 'thing'? What I mean is, can someone really say they are saving the planet and actually really mean it? And what about holidays like Arbor Day and Earth Day? Do such national holidays make an impact, can they make a difference?
Earth Day started as a grassroots movement in 1970 and since then it has become a universally celebrated event. Today over a billion people celebrate the event. Although saving the planet seems to be the 'cool' thing to do these days (or at least to tweet/gram/snap etc) it doesn't seem to me like there's really much change going on. According to recent Gallup polls, 42 percent of Americans still believe that the dangers of climate change are exaggerated, and less than half say that protection of the environment should be given priority over energy production (livescience.com).
I feel my own inner struggle in all of this. How do I balance knowing what's right and doing what's right? How do I begin to live authentically. This last Friday I rode my bike to the farm and it was kinda hard. I really missed the convenience and efficiency of my car. For me I have a choice to either drive or ride and every time I go anywhere I choose between the two. Everyday I have the choice to help my environment heal or I have the choice to contribute to the destruction. And its really easy to go unnoticed doing both. It's the little things that lead to big changes either way. I guess this week I am really feeling how authentic and inauthentic I can be. I am feeling the weight of the catastrophic ecological disasters that are already taking place and I am feeling the weight of my addiction to convenience and comfort. I never like to leave things on a sour note, but this week I am feeling a little heavy, for if I can't rise above my own destructive patterns, how could I ever expect anyone else to do the same.
It has been some kind of week. For starters, the farm has been trying to fight off double story condo's that developers want to build in the empty lot nextdoor. This would be disastrous for the farm, because it would decrease and block out sunlight throughout the fields, leading to a drastic decrease in farmable space. On Wednesday night I joined the crew as we huddled together to present (1) why the farm is a great part of the Pomona community and (2) why the development is detrimental to the well-being of the farm. It was the first time I had ever been to something like that and found myself pretty fascinated by some of the protocol.
Personally, I am working through some big decisions in my life and this week(end) I made the decision to pursue a Masters of Science in Regenerative Studies at Cal Poly Pomona. I was debating betweeen that and being an Ayurvedic Practioner. Both paths were compelling but at the end of the day I went with my heart and with what I think will be the best decision in the long run.
And lastly, this week on the farm we 'rotated'. I have been on Nursery team and Field team (my personal favorite) and now I am on chicken duty. At first I felt a lot of apprehension, mostly because I was just getting my groove going in the fields, but also because I haven't spent a lot of time with chickens and I don't really understand them all that well. I am looking forward to spending more time with them, with feeding them and observing them, and I am excited to get back to the farm and the onry birds.
I must admit that I am really naive to a lot of things. I might have a bad case of 'Out of sight out of mind' syndrome, and to make matters worse, Im not alone in my thinking. I've always been a recycler, but never thought much about the process. I was a consumer (and still am) and then after consumption I just put the leftover unwanted parts in its appropriate bin and wait for someone else to come take it away. They could be taking it to the planet Mars as far as I was concerned. Come to find out, they aren't shipping our trash to Mars, but China!
According to a US News article from April 2016, China and Ghana are the two largest destinations of US electronic trash. Imagine a world filled with IPhone 4's, 'un-intelligent' tv's and maybe a pager or two. This world exists, but it's not exactly legal. It's not technically trade between nations but more like trade between businesses, since both China and Ghana signed a treaty (Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal) agreeing to ban hazardous waste imports. According to the news artilcle, "scrap dealers, repairman and second-hand salesman constitite 'informal cottage industries' by showing up at docks to buy the electronic waste and risk exposure to toxic material in the hope of making extra cash by recycling."
Recyling electronics isn't as profitable as it used to be, because many companies are saving costs by using less minerals like gold and copper in their electronics. It's becoming more expensive then for recycling companies to make a profit recycling, and many businesses get around that by shipping recycleables overseas. In 2014 the UN reported that in fact only 16% of all the worlds electronic waste was recycled by government agencies or sanctioned businesses.
The problem is that (1) consumers want the latest and greatest devices, (2) phones seem to just break too easily and (3) the general public just doesn't think about the impact that all of these electronics has on the environment – myself included (until now that is). I grew up with the ideas that as long as you put it in the appropriate bin then its all good…but its not 'all good". According to the EPA, in 2013 the average U.S. household owned 28 consumer electronics and generated 3.14 million tons of electronic waste.
In 2016 China, apparently fed- up from being the worlds dump site, issued a 'Green Fence' policy in which they would reject shipments at ports if the recycles were too contaminated with unrecylcable materials. The problems was that a lot of the reclylables they were receiving (not just electronics) were too dirty to recycle and ended up in the Chinese landfills. The 'Green Fence' has actually helped maintain a higher standard when it comes to recycleable materials, and some US businesses are benefiting because of it.
All of this information is to say: it just doesn't go away. Old, broken phones don't dissapear. Cracked screens become someone else's problem, and I don't think any government has found a way to send our trash into outer space yet. We, as a world, have engineered amazing machines that can process trash and recylcleables, but the sheer quantity alone is alarming. I have come to realize that I can only be responsible for myself, which is both frightening and empowering. The farm has taught me to value and treasure food more than I ever thought I could. I am learning to be less greedy and slowly limiting my consumption, but these are hard habits to break. In a world where convenience is king and efficiency queen, it often feels like an uphill battle.
"Are plants intelligent? Do they have consciousness? Awareness?"
Back in January, when I first began this internship, if you would have asked me any of the previous question I would have looked at you with a sort of cockeyed stare. "Are plants intelligent? Of course not!" In my former way of thinking intelligence goes like this: people are intelligent, animals like dogs and cats have some intelligence depending on the species, and plants and intelligence don't even belong in the same sentence. Sure plants grow and produce fruit and seeds and they definitely have a cycle, but all of that is just a part of their genetic expression. They don't have any say in how that expression manifests. Boy was I wrong.
Plants have feelings!!! No, no, no, I'm not saying they cry or anything (but honestly I'm not saying they don't) Plants sense their surrounding environment they way any living being does. For example on the farm, many of the winter greens have began to bolt in anticipation of the warmer weather to come. Each season they have different expressions, because each season they respond to the volume of rain, the amount of sunlight and the temperatures in the air. They are supremely intelligent, and I would argue much more intelligent than the domesticated animals that live at my house. In my time at the farm I have seen how all life, animals and plants, are both supremely intelligent and aware. My idea of this world is shifting as I start to see intelligence filling everything around me.
This Wednesday we discussed having purpose when designing our garden and/or farm. This makes sense, because you won't know how/when/what to plant if you don't have a plan and some needed intention behind it all.
Rishi said something I thought was amusing. He gave us a little exercise to do in which we were to imagine what would be our intention for our gardens.
"If you have a space, think of what you would want in that space. And I guess if you don't currently have a space for farming or gardening, then you can create a magical garden in your minds"
– I loved that-
Every thing is created from some intention, and who is to say that my (or anyone's) magical garden can't one day be a real thing. So I'm going to imagine pretty hard. (And maybe you should too!)
For starters this garden is filled with fruit trees- avocados, mangos, papaya, apricots and my personal favorite figs. Its a meditative and healing garden with greens growing in spirals rather than rows. It's a garden that is so attractive to birds that some would even call it a bird sanctuary because of all of the tropical birds that perch in the trees. Since water is healing and therapeutic, I would also have a small pond that gets shaded every summer by the tall trees that surround it.
The best thing about this garden is that you are ALL welcome to it…but I might need an investor first!
As the weather is changing, we are starting to introduce new veggies to the beds. Many of our greens are beginning to bolt, a process they go through in order to flower and drop their seed. Now that I am on the 'fields team' I feel a great responsibility for the upkeep of the beds and for a successful integration of the Summer crops.
Part of the process begins with clearing the beds, and this week we cleared the Mibuna and some of the remaining Yukina Savoy. Both had bolted and developed these fibrous stalks that are quite inedible. However, some of the stems of the stalks are soft and can snap off the top quite easily. To my surprise, these stalks can actually be harvested and used in stir fry's! I am continuously amazed by the practical and resourceful ideas I am learning on the farm. Before I began interning at the farm, I thought that the bolting process meant that I had somehow done something wrong (negligence!!) but now I see how bolting is just a part of the plant life-cycle!
More learning to come this week!!
What is a weed?
Back when I was a little girl, a weed was anything that my grandma didn't want growing in her lawn- and I got $5/hr to remove them!
These days, my definition of a weed is, well, shrinking. What were formally, most certainly weeds, I have come to discover are in fact, quite edible. In fact a weed is really just a plant that is undesirable in a certain situation. mint, for example, is super invasive, but if you go to Whole Foods you'll find it selling for $5 a bunch! Weeds aren't the problem, but its what we do with them that makes them a problem or not. When I was in the Seattle area, I noticed there were wild blackberry bushes growing everywhere! I thought, 'how amazing! These people have access to wild blackberries throughout the entire season!' Come to find out that these wild blackberry bushes grow quite quickly and some even find them to be rather invasive. In a way, they are also a type of weed, uninvited and very presumptuous (for a plant).
So as a reminder to myself, and as a favor to anyone who is in fact still reading these words, I have decided to list a few of the California native 'weeds' that are edible. Forget salad bars, lets start foraging!
Here's a pretty illustration of some of the common edible weeds that are found in Southern California.
This is mallow. Mallow is EVERYWHERE right now, including the farm. Mallow can be used as a mild laxative, diuretic, anti-inflammatory that helps clear mucus from the body. You can eat the leaves and the stems. IT has beneficial polysaccharide and antioxidant compounds that include phenols, flavonoids, carotenoids, tocopherols and ALA fatty acids. So if you are suffered get from gut issues or want to help control your inflammation, this might not be a bad (and free) option to try!
Lambsquarter is a mineral rich 'weed'. Even the dust on the leaves is full of mineral salts from the soil. About one cup of its greens contain 73% of your daily Vitamin A and 96% of your daily vitamin C. It contains B vitamins including thiamine, riboflavin and niacin. This plant is best eaten when the leaves are young, and you can thrown them in a salad just like you would spinach.
Ah Stinging nettle…friend or foe I still don't know. However, it is an edible plan and is often used to make medicinal tea. It's an antioxidant, antimicrobial, antiulcer, astringent and analgesic. Today it is mainly used to treat urinary problems, allergies and joint pain. You can make a tea from the leaves, or sautéed them. Some people make tinctures out of them or even create tablets or capsules to sell.
These are only a few here that I have seen the most throughout the farm.
Life is a roller coaster. Not only is it a roller coaster, but its a roller coaster that you have never been on. Its a roller coaster that is seemingly always under construction and whose sealtbelts come unfastened during the upside down loop. Life is messy. As much as life can get in the way of MY life, I have the upmost respect and awe of it, because life has perfected survival. Life has figured out how to continue to exist, how to bend with the constant evolutions that take place on this planet. Life has survived because life continues to evolve, to change and to adjust. It's not stubborn and its not fixed on one thing.
One of the greatest things that working on the farm has taught me is to have an open mind. To take in everything and then to decide for myself what I think to be right or best. This week Rishi challenged the way we look at the Natural world vs the Unnatural world. By the end of the discussion he concluded, and we all agreed, that everything that is in this world is natural, because it comes from the world. Even the craziest chemical concoctions are still chemicals that are found on the planet. Concrete has the same effect as the exploding and cooling magma from a volcano. It was good to begin to see the earth this way, to see that there is no separation between natural/unnatural or between other/us or myself.
So wherever you find yourself on the ride, just remember to tap into the evolutionary part of your DNA that is prompting you to adapt. Its reminding you to bend and not be so rigid. Even our enemies are more like us than we think just like the unnatural is the natural, just misunderstood.
Quite the header, I know. In fact, in this post I'm not going to really talk about politics per se, but rather, I think its through politics that we get a closer look at the complexity of humanity.
We all want to do what is best- no doubt. This is the struggle between right and wrong and left and right. There is no concrete, black and white answer to really anything! If there were, we wouldn't be having these problems and we would all just be able to get along smoothly. The trouble is, however, that we are all seeing the world from so many diverse persepectives. We all carry a history with us and we all have dreams and fears that direct our decision making.
It's funny. I have learned so much about harvesting, aphids (mind the comma, we don't harvest aphids on the farm), building nursery beds and composting, but I always want to write about one thing and one thing only- our weekly 'check-ins'. It's a wonderful time, after harvesting for the CSA's, that we all get to come together and reflect on something that has been going on, whether globally, nationally or personally. They usually all intersect at some point and influence each other as well. This past week our weekly check-in took a serious turn. With so much unrest in the air and on the television screen, one of the farmers noted that even small children seem to have an opinion on the political scope of our nation (thanks mom and dad). As we discussed how to communicate with children, I brought up the fact that I find it difficult to communicate everything I have been learning on the farm with those who are closest to me. I want to help them, and teach them how to live healthier lives, but they tend to flat out resist me!!! (Again the whole "I am right and you are wrong" disposition). What do you do when you know that people are bringing harm to themselves and to the environment? How do you create real change?
No but seriously, how??
Have you ever thought about this? Like, I mean real change, measurable change? There's one thing to hold a sign, and that definitely makes a loud statement, but how do you create change in your own micro-cosm of a universe? This is something I wanna learn.
We bounced around a few ideas, and some had more passionate things to share, and we came to the conclusion that statistics and information rarely change behavior. In fact most statistics can be trumped by equally compelling statistics saying the exact opposite. So then what? What can we do? What can we do about the changing environment, about the misfortune of industrial raised livestock, about the GMO's and the ever increasing landfills? Gosh it feels overwhelming sometimes.
Forgive me for sounding so cliche, but do you remember that quote by Ghandi? You know: "Be the change you want to see in the world"? Well I hate to burst your bubble, but he didn't actually say that (according to the infallible internet). Here's the real quote:
"We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change."
(I think I like the real quote better!)
It MUST start with us. We MUST look within and be honest with ourselves. Are we the active participants of the values we hold? Or are we just pretending?
Honestly for me, I pretend a lot. I mean I didn't know a lot about the environment and farming before I got to the farm, but my ignorance is no excuse. I spend so much time focused on the egregious faults of my family and friends (how could they!!!!!) and yet I am often just as guilty.
I think that if we are to create real change it can't start with us yelling at others, but it has to start with us looking within, and finally taking a real, honest look at who we are. Real authenticity creates real, lasting change.
(the most beautiful compost 'greens' I have ever seen)
I love food. And if you are anything like me you love food too! We can't help it, its in our biology. We need it for survival!
When I was growing up I thought all vegetables came from a can. I didn't know that cans were used to preserve 'fresh' veggies and i didn't even know that they were frozen for preservation as well. In fact I didn't even know what fresh vegetables looked like!! I had never seen one and I definitely had never tasted one. Instead each night my mom got out the can opener, pulled back the lid, and turned on the stove.
Then came college and I started to see how the rest of the world ate. It was like I was tasting so many flavors for the first time. It took time for me to adjust to these new tastes and to start to really appreciate them (and even enjoy them!). But even then I was still missing something, like I wasn't fully receiving everything that these fruits and vegetables were meant to give me.
On the farm I keep hearing how important the quality of the soil is for growing food. If one day I somehow forget everything else from my experience on the farm, I know beyond a shadow of doubt that I will never forget this important fact. Food has the potential to heal our body, mind and souls, but through our nations industrial farming practices, we have lost so much of the healthy soil that creates healthy food. Instead we spend so much time focused on what the product looks like for the consumer (is it shiny, big and shapely?) that we, as a country, end up disposing around %50 of all food that is produced!
I took a picture of this 'tripod' carrot, because I thought it was truly beautiful. I love its rich orange color and its rebellious form. It carries with it vitamins and minerals that, when ingested, will lead to fuller, healthier life for the lucky person who gets to eat it. Perhaps like myself, they too will have a quick laugh at its quirky shape, and maybe in that moment they will be reminded how Nature reveals herself through many forms and that the idea of a 'perfect' form really isn't that important after all.


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Syracuse win streak snapped by Temple
Orange fall to nonleague foe after 52 straight wins
Published 9:45 pm, Saturday, December 22, 2012
NEW YORK — Syracuse had trouble making shots at one line and behind the other.
The combination of poor free-throw shooting and a weak effort on 3-pointers turned into the first loss of the season for the third-ranked Orange.
Temple used the inside-outside combination of Khalif Wyatt and Anthony Lee to beat Syracuse 83-79 on Saturday in the first Chevrolet Gotham Classic at Madison Square Garden.
The Orange (10-1) finished 19-for-34 from the free-throw line and 2-for-12 on 3s.
"They made free throws, we didn't," Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said. "You don't like to say it comes down to that, but when you miss 15 free throws it's tough to win any game."
Point guard Michael Carter-Williams, who was 7-for-15 at the free-throw line, took the heat.
"If I make free throws, we win the game," he said.
Temple won because of free throws. The Owls (9-2) were 29-for-36 at the line with Wyatt going 15-for-15 and Lee 11-for-14.
The Orange led by two at halftime but never took a lead in the second half even though there were four ties, the last at 59 with 10:23 to play.
C.J. Fair had a career-high 25 points for Syracuse, which had its 52-game regular-season nonconference winning streak snapped. Boeheim remained at 900 wins, two behind Bob Knight for second place all-time among Division I men's coaches. Duke's Mike Krzyzewski has 938 wins.


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Obviously you can never have too much of a good thing when it comes to nostalgic TV shows from your childhood, which is why the sickly sweet My Little Pony Care Bears figurines are so amazing.
SammyTVR, a deviantART artist, decided to combine the various characters from the My Little Pony series with the Care Bears and came up with a whole new collection of adorable, pastel characters.
With names such as Birthday Bear which features a Care Bear blowing out a cupcake candle on the back of a yellow pony, Cheer Bear which is pink and covered in rainbows and Bedtime Bear with a Care Bear snoozing on its back, the My Little Pony Care Bears figurines are a perfect mix of both cartoon worlds.
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The My Little Pony Care Bears are a Blend of Cute Characters
- By: Gil HaddiDec 22, 2012
References: sammytvr.deviantart & neatorama
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Sandra Bullock is one proud mama.
The award-winning actress' face radiates the second her adorable son Louis is brought up during an interview with E! News' Giuliana Rancic, and Bullock just couldn't stop gushing over her boy, who she called a "sweet little man," despite always giving cameras the stink eye.
"He's in a situation where he's not liking that someone's there with a camera. He's usually giving stink eye, but he's giving stink eye because he doesn't want anybody messing with his mom. That's what breaks my heart, because he's doing it…he's like, 'Don't get near my mom,'" the star tells E! News.
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"He doesn't know why those people are there but he senses—any time any man gets near me, he's like, 'Dude, don't get near my mom.' So when there's about eight of them, it's the same thing. It's like he doesn't like that energy that's coming," Bullock continued, and added that her 4-year-old is already very mature for his age (well, for the most part).
"But he does that for his friends at school. If someone's getting picked on, he gets in between the person getting picked on and says, 'Don't do that, the police are gonna get you!' And then he says, 'You have to use your words.' But he's all dude. He's just a dude. And I'm learning a lot about being a dude! Apparently when you sleep, your hand needs to be down your pants."
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Motherhood has become a learning experience for the first-time mom, but something that Bullock didn't expect after having a child was becoming so emotional.
"I thought I was the most hardened, jaded individual I knew. And I can be brought to a mess in seconds. It's like you go, 'Oh, I grew a heart.' I get weepy all the time, it's embarrassing…but that's it, you just realize that you are walking love."
So does this mean she's open to the idea of having more little ones around the house? "If all of a sudden my house had eight kids in it—if it was OK with Louis and it felt like a good, safe family—I would be fine with it," she tells E! News. "That's what my home is for. It's up to him, he's kinda the boss.
Watch the clips below to see more from Giuliana's interview with Sandra Bullock!
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When American Heritage-Delray and Gulliver Prep meet in Tuesday's Class 2A boys regional final soccer match, the Stallions will be looking to keep alive an impressive streak.
Gulliver Prep will be after some revenge.
With a victory, Heritage (20-5-4) can book its 10th consecutive trip to the state semifinals, while Gulliver (17-2-3) can erase the sting of last year's 3-2 loss to Heritage on the same stage.
Matias Asorey returned to Gulliver, where he coached from 2005-07, this year, and has guided a young team with just one senior starter to a region title rematch.
"It's a credit to this group, being young, that they were able to make it back to this game," Asorey said. "Hopefully, learning some lessons from last year, we can do things a little bit better. It's a bit of redemption for us if we can pull it off."
Senior midfielder Bryan Ruiz-Unger scored the winning goal in the Raiders' 2-1 region semifinal win against Ransom Everglades. Junior forward Austin Mills scored the only goal Heritage needed in a 1-0 semifinal victory against North Broward.
"If we can play like this next game, hold down the back and get one or two goals, who knows? Maybe another state title," Mills said.
The Stallions, who lost to Berkeley Prep in last year's state championship, won the state crown in 2011, 2009 and 2006 and played for it in 2010, 2007 and 2004. State semifinal appearances have become de rigueur for Heritage coach Alvin James' players, who are used to the pressure of taking every opponent's best shot.
"Our coach expects a lot out of us, and we just try to live up to our reputation that we have as a school," Mills said.


text: On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:33:27 +0100, Tim Rowe <tim at remove_if_not_spam.digitig.co.uk> wrote: >Internal constructs don't bother me -- ultimately it all comes down to >machine code which will be a mass of goto's. That doesn't mean that >my code should be (could be!) a mass of goto's. > >And the last time I needed a goto for anything I was programming in >BASIC; I don't need to use exceptions to emulate it in a language with >decent flow control constructs (Python qualifies, of course!). Ah - a good old goto debate ;-) I have long claimed that goto is useful in rare circumstances, that it can be clearer and more maintainable than structured code in those rare cases, and that while anything can be abused it is still perfectly possible for a good programmer to use it responsibly and to refactor when the code becomes too messy. Structured, OO, and indeed any style of programming can become unreadable and unmaintainable (hence the fuss about refactoring). That said, it was quite a shock when I actually found a case where I needed a goto about six months ago. Quite literally I made several attempts at writing a function in a structured way and got it wrong each time. Each time I came back to it the previous version seemed a horrible mess so I rewrote it. Eventually I figured this was stupid, especially as it didn't seem so hard in my head. I put that mental picture onto paper - and as I did so I realised it simply wasn't a structured job. It was very much a state transition model. But because it completes all its work in one go, and doesn't need to maintain the state between calls, it simply hadn't occurred to me to think of it that way. I remember telling a college lecturer that if state transition models are appropriate for some things then so must gotos be appropriate, and that in a 'short running' state machine a goto would be the logical way to implement the transitions. At the time, I didn't think it would be so long before I found an example ;-) Anyway, this example was in some fairly low level library code I was writing in C++. I don't see any need for goto in Python, trust that it will never be added, and don't like to see exceptions abused that way. Just sharing a rather pointless anecdote. -- Steve Horne steve at ninereeds dot fsnet dot co dot uk


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There is some good news and bad news about employment.
The good news is, that although employers created only an anemic 74,000 jobs in December, nevertheless the unemployment rate fell from 7 percent to 6.7 percent.
The bad news is, the reason unemployment has dropped appears to be because two-thirds of the adult, able-bodied unemployed aren't looking for work at all.
That's the lowest labor force participation since 1978.
There's an expression that's been gaining currency in the last few years, "Going Galt."
The phrase comes from the book "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. Also know as "Atlas Shrugged and Shrugged and Shrugged…" by those who don't fancy three-hour speeches dropped into the middle of the plot.
The theme of the book is that fed-up with an intrusive government destroying the economy the "men of the mind" go on strike. Some run off to a hidden valley in Colorado, while others take jobs that make them just enough to keep body and soul together.
One character goes off and becomes a pirate on the high seas, but we get to see disappointingly little of him.
In the course of the novel the economy grinds to a halt.
The durn thing is long, it's annoyingly didactic and in some spots just downright weird. It's also sold about seven million copies in English alone since its publication in 1957. Not counting foreign editions. I've met Ayn Rand fans from Russia, India, Bulgaria and Iran.
Part of the appeal is the gripping descriptive writing. From the first page you can see the palpable decay of society in the crumbling infrastructure and endless frustrating difficulties of bureaucracy strangling a civilization.
When I uprooted my life and moved to the former Soviet bloc shortly after the fall of communism I felt like everything I saw in the grim, grey, filthy cities was somehow familiar.
For another, Rand gave disaffected youth permission to be themselves, to seek out a destiny of their own choice. That's considered more-or-less normal in these days of "follow your bliss" but back then it was heady stuff with a whiff of brimstone about it.
Ironically in her personal life Rand was a powerful and dominating personality who considered her personal tastes the norm of the universe. A circle of acolytes that gathered around her lived in mortal dread of not fitting in. Some people who knew her say it was best to admire her from a distance.
Rand grew up Jewish in Russia, and survived the revolution, the civil war, and the Great Terror just getting out and coming to America in 1925. Here she found intellectuals hailing the horror she'd escaped from as the first steps towards the utopian future.
Among conservative anti-communists National Review read her out of the movement entirely in a review by Whittaker Chambers.
Chambers called it a "remarkably silly book" and said, "From almost any page of Atlas Shrugged, a voice can be heard, from painful necessity, commanding: 'To the gas chambers — go!'"
Still it continues to sell, with sales doubling and tripling in recent years. A few conservatives have actually recommended it in public, causing great glee among Democrats who charge Republicans with being the party of Ayn Rand.
No such thing of course. Among other things, Rand was an outspoken atheist and not what you'd call a family values sort of person.
What she has given contemporary culture is that notion of "Going Galt."
For me Rand's central premise, that progress is the result of a few lonely geniuses dragging the world into the future kicking and screaming, just doesn't work.
Even a cursory study of the history of industry and technology shows that while there are figures of towering genius, progress is driven by the efforts of a lot of people, mostly obscure.
But what happens when taxes and inflation grow to the point that the effort versus profit curve is so steep it just isn't worth the bother?
What happens when running a business means all your decisions are subject to arbitrary review by bureaucrats who have to justify their salaries by sticking it to somebody every now and again?
What happens when expressing the wrong opinion, or just telling a tasteless joke can mean your job, your career?
What happens when you realize success depends on political connections, or promotion on being the right demographic regardless of merit?
What happens when you realize you could collect benefits equal to twice the entry-level salary in your job?
Could it be that a lot of people are just going to say, "The heck with it, I'm going to chuck it and spend time with my friends/children/books."
And I hate to say it, but it's looking better to me all the time.


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In the Portsmouth area, snowfall caused outpatient appointments at Queen Alexandra Hospital to be cancelled, First bus to stop services, and scores of schools to shut. As reported, it potentially cost businesses a £1m loss.
A survey of more than 2,000 workers nationally by Green Flag Breakdown showed one in five had been too afraid to drive because of the icy and snowy conditions, and a further five per cent tried to take to the road but had to turn back.
One in eight turned to public transport instead of driving to work, the survey revealed.
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21.44 Advantage Arsenal, I suppose? Here's the relevant teams at the top of the table with two games left:
| Chelsea
| 36
| +31
| 69
| Arsenal
| 36
| +34
| 67
| Spurs
| 36
| +18
| 66
Arsenal, with Wigan at home and Newcastle away left to play, know two wins will be enough. Chelsea, who face Villa away and Everton at home (with a Europa League final sandwiched between the two) know one more win will do it. Spurs will need two more points than Arsenal. It's not over, but it's not as thrilling as you might have hoped.
An odd game. Spurs scored two equalisers but played poorly, looking baffled about how to unlock a competent defensive team that had sussed out that Gareth Bale is quite good. Chelsea's chance-taking mojo deserted them in the second half. They look a team with slight mental issues to me, they always seem to look like they think they've won every time they're leading. There's a lack of killer instinct. Bring back Jose, that's what I say (and literally every Chelsea fan says).
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90+3 min Bale beats the wall but it's a dolly for Cech. No trouble at all from the man with the nice padded headwear.
90+2 min Bale wins his side a free kick after cutting in on the right-hand side. Bale will surely shoot from this. Ramires is booked for kicking the ball away, and for falling over earlier. Referees never forget.
90+1 min We'll have four added minutes. Dempsey is fed by Adebayor on the right. Bale's in the middle. Dempsey goes it alone. Saved by Cech.
90 min Blimey,big gaps in the Chelsea defence, Bale crosses, Azpilicueta just about gets it clear.
88 min Adebayor does well to bring the ball forward at speed down the right flank before playing an appropriate pass to Parker on the overlap. His cross is workmanlike and an easy claim for Cech.
87 min Bale is booked for not scoring. Chelsea have a free kick, just beyond the centre circle in Tottenham's half.
85 min Benayoun coming on for Oscar. Chelsea's supporters livid that it's not Frank Lampard. Chelsea supporters need to see Frank Lampard playing an active part on the pitch every time they visit Stamford Bridge. It restores their vital life-juice.
83 min Momentum obviously with Spurs now, but they've got to stay alert at the back. Another worrying Chelsea break ends with Cole crossing well for Torres, but Vertonghen is there first.
80 min GOAL!! Chelsea 2 Spurs 2 (Sigurdsson)
Excellent Tottenham goal. That did not look on the cards. Assou-Ekotto played it inside for Adebayor, whose backheel gave Sigurdsson sight of goal from a tight angle on the left. No mistake, great finish, game on.
79 min Spurs looking fed up now. Vertonghen booked for kicking the ball away. Remember that exciting Chelsea break on 61 minutes? Two amazing things happened during it. The first was Eden Hazard's scorpion flick to put Mata away:
The second was Ramires' head hitting the ground in comedic fashion:
77 min A better spell for Spurs. Huddlestone takes two corners in quick succession. What a man. Chelsea heads on both, though. They look to break, but Adebayor fouls Victor Moses.
76 min Ivanovic wins a header in the box to ease the danger.
75 min Chelsea have dealt with Bale ever-so well tonight. He's been crowded out of relevance, and Spurs look 80% worse for it. That Benítez, he's alright isn't he? Still, Spurs have a corner.
73 min Hazard coming off. He's done well, but is walking a little gingerly. Here comes the Europa League's Victor Moses in his place.
71 min Dempsey coming on for Holtby for Spurs. Don't say I didn't warn you.
69 min Mata with an erratic cross from the left after excellent work from Hazard to draw Walker towards him. Spurs still looking far too pourous at the back.
67 min Nothing doing from the latest in a neverending series of free kicks, but we've got a bit of variety now... It's a Chelsea throw-in! Curb your enthusiasm, it does not lead to a clear goalscoring opportunity.
66 min This festival of free kick continues. Chelsea's now, wide on the left, perhaps 10 yards from the byline. Here's a blast from the past, it's Andre Villas-Boas looking furious and impotent at Stamford Bridge:
64 min Scrappy game this second half. Another free kick, Spurs' this time. Huddlestone spots Holtby arriving unmarked at the far post, but Vertonghen doesn't, and both go for the same ball. Over.
63 min Spurs replace Lennon with Sigurdsson.
61 min Chelsea break terrifyingly from the corner after a poor clearing header by Dawson. Mata's away but Walker uses all of his pace to get back the right side of him, no matter, Mata squares it for the unmarked Ramires to his left. And Ramires... Falls over. And bangs his head on the ground. Embarrassing and painful. That takes some doing.
60 min Huddlestone tries a surprising low effort from the free kick. David Luiz has correctly identified the place to stand for an easy clearance. Soon after, Spurs have a corner.
59 min Tottenham manage to string a few passes together at last, and Walker forces Hazard into a foul not far from the corner flag on the right-hand side.
57 min Hazard put through in the box by Oscar. Spurs' defence just sliced open like an especially rubbish t-shirt. Hazard beats Walker with a neat cutback and sets himself to shoot. Not that well, as it turns out. He's off balance and balloons it. Not working for Tottenham, they need a change.
55 min Spurs cannot get going. They're attempting to position themselves in a more attacking way than in the first half, but can't get through Chelsea's midfield. Another pass through it is intercepted, and Azpilicueta is able to try a curler just shy of the box. Beats Lloris, but beats the crossbar as well. Here's Gareth Bale looking a bit sorry for himself:
53 min Oscar takes the corner but it's a poor one and Tottenham have a goal kick.
52 min Torres loiters in the box after a Mata cross. Assou-Ekotto gets there first and puts it behind for a corner. Spurs looking exposed at the back...
51 min Mata's delivery is headed away by Bale, who makes a heart shape with his fingers™ to celebrate.
50 min It's another Chelsea corner.
47 min An early Chelsea corner. Spurs deal with it significantly better than they have done any set pieces thus far, which would suggest they had AVB's verision of the hairdryer at half time which I imagine is very polite and comes with a custard tart for afters.
46 min Spurs get us re-started with a kick off, rather than a dramatic reconstruction of Alex Ferguson's glory years at St Mirren. Sorry about that. Here's the Ramires goal by way of apology:
20.33 Chelsea deservedly in front. Adebayor's glorious shot about all that Spurs had to show from that half. There have been brief glimpses of promise up front, but it's striking how little Bale has been involved. Chelsea doing well to neutralise him, looking good going forward and have taken their chances. See you in 15.
45+1 min We'll have two minutes of added time. Or else.
45 min Chelsea looking tasty going forward tonight. More fluid, energetic work from them down the flanks. Mata crosses invitingly, but there's no-one appropriately positioned. In the end Azpilicueta is able to have a shot from longish range. Straight at Lloris.
43 min Walker goes close for Spurs! Plays a couple of quick one-twos, first with Holtby from a throw then focal point Adebayor, who lays it off neatly so that Walker can have a go from just outside the area. Only just wide.
39 min GOAL!! Chelsea 2 Spurs 1 (Ramires)
Dreadful defending from Spurs, but a top work from Chelsea. Torres with a fabulous trick on the right-hand side, then a neat pass inside for the advancing Ramires. He shurgs off Parker and stabs it into the far corner with a toe-poke. Extreme cheekiness. Spurs too high up the pitch, then Dawson and Vertonghen were too far apart, giving Ramires a grassy ocean of space to work with.
38 min Ramires blasts over another free kick from reasonable range. Spurs still looking drunk from set pieces. It's not escaped my attention, and it's not escaped Gary Neville's either.
36 min Lots of excellent singing still happening. Little of it publishable. Spurs fans don't like John Terry much, do they? Here's Adebayor's sublime strike:
34 min Mata takes the corner in front of what's seemingly a father-son duo wearing matching Jam t-shirts. Mata's delivery is less Going Underground, more Just Who Is The Five O'Clock Hero?, though, and Spurs soon have a goal kick.
32 min Chelsea rallying, they have another corner. Spurs scored moments after their last one... Here are two Brazilians Oscar and David Luiz doing some world class clapping:
You see, the thing is that in Brazil they spend hours playing backstreet clapping, learning their skills with a very small pair of hands made out of bundled-up rags. Artless English applauders can't hope to compete:
29 min Chelsea looking bereft. They had been the only team in this game. Adebayor, while not dreadful, was displaying his usual Tottenham demeanour of utter laziness. What's that we have on our hands now? Oh, it is a game.
26 min GOAL!! Chelsea 1 Spurs 1 (Adebayor)
Spurs break from the corner and work it to Adeabyor inside their own half. Chelsea back off him, Adebayor unleashes a beautiful quasi-chipped curling effort which leaves Cech rooted and drops impeccably into the top corner. Incredible finish.
25 min Impressive defending from Dawson, who takes a ferocious Eden Hazard shot directly into his face. Then gets up and does some urgent clapping. INGERLAND INGERLAND INGERLAND! Chelsea corner.
23 min Luiz has his silly shot. He must be 40 yards from goal. It hits the wall. Meh.
22 min Chelsea free kick in silly David Luiz-shot range. Here's Oscar's opening goal. Check out the utter confusion of Tottenham's defence to a bit of movement:
20 min Ivanovic gives the ball to Holtby as nice gift-wrapped present. Adebayor chooses not to make a run in front of him, allowing Ramires to get back and make an excellent tackle on Holtby.
17 min Gary Neville is furious. I would be too if my favourite ever Scotsman had abdicated. He's taking particular displeasure at Spurs' organisation from set pieces. More indifferent defending after a quick Chelsea free kick and it gives Mata a chance in the area. Over.
15 min Some acceptable """""banter""""" going on between both sets of fans. "One song," sing Spurs' to Chelsea's after the fourteenth airing of "Champions of Europe, we know what we are," "you've only got one song," Spurs' fans continues. The Chelsea support respond with "One player, you've only got one player".
13 min Spurs doing a reasonable job going foward thus far, Lennon and Bale causing predictable havoc either side, and Adebayor having a reasonable game thus far on his own up front, but there's a slight panic to their play close to the area. Settle down and I can see them picking holes in the unfamiliar Cahill / Ivanovic centre back pairing. Spurs will need to defend better, mind. Poor marking from the corner which led to Chelsea's goals.
11 min GOAL!! Chelsea 1 Spurs 0 (Oscar)
Fantastically-delivered corner, Cahill loses Parker and the centre back gets up fantastically and heads towards the far post. Oscar is unmarked and able to apply a finishing touch with a stooping header.
10 min Spurs concede a corner after Chelsea thump a free kick into the box. Home side looking good, buzzing after their win at the weekend I reckon...
8 min Disappointing shot from Huddlestone after Spurs work it in off the right flank at speed, Adebayor helping it on intelligently towards the midfielder in the "D". Easy for Cech, he could have thrown his padded hat on it.
7 min Spurs' best move of the young game so far. Huddlestone clips a well-weighted pass to Bale, who's occupying the left flank like it's 2009. His cross looks good, but it's headed clear by Cahill. At the other end Mata spins and shoots after a good pass from Torres, but fires over.
5 min Mostly Chelsea so far. Hazard receives the ball on the left-hand side and has brought along his box of tricks. No getting past Kyle Walker, though, and the home side are forced back.
3 min Mata very close to being in behind the Spurs defence from a long Cahill ball from his own half. He's flagged offside. He's not, you know. Wake up Spurs.
1 min It's a kick off, which Chelsea have made happen. Let's all watch some football.
19.40 The teams are in the tunnel. It is as was forseen... by the fixture re-arrangement computer.
19.30 This evening's retro highlights are brought to you by the superb year of 1995:
19.20 Here comes this evening's first pertinent statistical tweet from our friends at Opta:
19.10 Just the 23 years since Spurs won at Stamford Bridge. Ulp. I really fancy them tonight, though. Am I alone in this?
18.58 Here are the teams:
Chelsea: Cech; Azpilicueta, Ivanovic, Cahill, Cole; Luiz, Ramires; Oscar, Mata, Hazard; Torres.
Subs: Turnbull, Lampard, Moses, Terry, Ba, Benayoun, Ake.
Spurs: Lloris; Walker, Dawson, Vertonghen, Assou-Ekotto; Parker, Huddlestone; Lennon, Holtby, Bale; Adebayor.
Subs: Friedel, Dempsey, Naughton, Defoe, Sigurdsson, Caulker, Carroll.
Referee: Mike Dean (Wirral)
18.45 Evening liveblog fans.
Ah, a football match. Blessed relief to those of us (ALL OF US) that have spent the day thinking only of a Scottish man of retirement age retiring.
Is anyone else feeling weirdly wistful? I spent my childhood hating Manchester United, but once you actually process the sheer amount of trophies won, teams built, and boots kicked at David Beckham's eyebrow it's hard not to feel slightly awed, and slightly sad that it's all over.
Of course this matters not a jot to hip Londoners like Chelsea and Spurs who are still involved in a mild tussle for a Champions League spot.
Chelsea's narrow but deserved win against wor Fergie's United on Sunday has robbed this game of some of its significance - a Spurs win merely puts them level on points with Chelsea - but not all of it.
The aforementioned Spurs win would take them into fourth at Arsenal's expense, and leave them one point ahead with two games left to play.
Chelsea meanwhile will effectively clinch a Champions League place if they can do a home win tonight. Spurs would still be able to match their points total, but it's unlikely they're going to make up a 16 goal deficit in their last pair of games.
Plenty of subplots to distract us from events at the David Moyes stadium of Trafford. AVB AVBack at his former club. Frank Lampard failing to equal Bobby Tambling's goal record. David Luiz's hair and smiling mouth.
Should be an entertaining game. I hope so. I love entertainment.
Team news and more off-topic Manchester United coverage to follow, stay tuned.
Here's the traditional pre-game preview:
Chelsea v Tottenham Hotspur
Stamford Bridge
Kick-off: 19.45 BST.
TV: Live Sky Sports 1.
Chelsea (Possible, 4-2-3-1): Cech; Azpilicueta, Ivanovic, Luiz, Cole; Lampard, Ramires; Oscar, Mata, Hazard; Ba.
Out: Romeu (knee).
Test: Hazard (calf), Marin (thigh).
Tottenham (Possible, 4-4-1-1): Lloris; Walker, Dawson, Vertonghen, Assou-ekotto; Lennon, Huddlestone, Dembele, dempey; Bale; Defoe.
Out: Kaboul (thigh), Sandro (knee), Gallas (calf).
Tests: Dembélé (hamstring), Lennon (muscle), Parker (unspecified).
Referee: Mike Dean. Matches: 24, R3 Y93.
Match Notes
With so much at stake, Stamford Bridge will resemble a pressure cooker on Wednesday night.
If Chelsea win they are all but mathemtically guaranteed a place in next season's Champions League and can then turn their attentions to next week's Champions League final against Benfica in Amsterdam.
Tottenham, though, have never won a Premier League match at Stamford Bridge, in 20 visits. No side is currently on a longer run without victory at an opponent's ground than Spurs against Chelsea.
Betting: Home 19-20, Away 3-1, Draw 23-10.
Stat of the game: Juan Mata has scored three times in his last two appearances against Spurs in all competitions. But no player has scored more away goals this season than Gareth Bale, who has 13 away from White Hart Lane.
John Ley's prediction: Chelsea 1 Tottenham Hotspur 0.


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THANK YOU. I have had so much trouble convincing people that there really was such an entity as Growing Up Skipper!
These and lots of other vintage holiday catalog treasures can be found at WishbookWeb.
A cigarette "clears the palate"? Most of the smokers I know are to one degree or another anosmic, although many of them don't realize it. Certainly anybody who smoked this much during one meal wouldn't be able to tell the coffee from chicken soup or a mug of the dishwater the roasting pan soaked in.
These vintage tobacco-related ads and many others can be found at Stanford School of Medicine.
Indeed: actually the idea of eating it in front of the TV was an afterthought. It was called a "TV dinner" because the idea of a whole multi-course meal in an easy-to-heat tray was as new and exciting as TV! The original box even looked like a TV set. (The second menu, after turkey, was banana-flavored chicken. Not intentionally: the boxes were printed with a bright yellow dye that leached a strong and objectionable banana flavor into the food.
1963 ad for Banquet turkey TV dinners. According to the US Census Bureau, TV dinners were invented by Swanson in 1953: Overestimating the need for Thanksgiving turkeys, the firm found itself with over a half-million pounds of unsold turkey. Enter a salesman named Gerry Thomas. He modified a t...


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Is there anything I need to do to care for the cast iron center & wing attachments for this saw? I put it together a few days ago and noticed the protective wrap and goo on the tabletop. I have a Veritas steel router table that requires a lot of care & is a minor rust magnet, so I need to know what to do please!
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I use Johnson's paste wax on my tools. If it's already got rust on it, you can clean it with a scotchbrite pad and WD40 first and then wax it good. 2-3 times a year and you shouldn't have the problem return.Brian
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once any protective compounds (like cosmoline) are cleaned off with mineral spirits, i just keep all my CI surfaces coated with paste wax. most importantly, i keep the tops covered when not in use. almost anything will do. i use 1/8" harboard that i got for $.60 a piece off the cull cart @ the BORG:
there's a solution to every problem.....you just have to be willing to find it.
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Thank you very much. Strange I didn't see that in the user manual... I'll get some paste wax, and will try the other trick on my router table. I'm also happy to see that I'm not the only person losing a garage (although my wife makes me work outside after coating the garage with sawdust in the past).
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Do not use automotive paste waxes that contain silicone. The silicone will get on the wood and produce "fish eyes" in the final finish.
Johnson's paste wax is OK and Boeshield T-9 is also OK. Boeshield is available at the big box stores or on-line, just google it.
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Be careful of exactly what material you use to cover the cast iron top. Some materials seem to be a "magnet" for moisture and/or may "outgas" and possibly stain the cast iron. I think that it more problematic with longer term storage, like not using the saw for weeks at time during the high-humidity periods of your year.
A product that is often recommended for its rust and corrosion protection is "Boeshield T-9", which was developed by the Boeing aircraft company. It is available through places like Rockler and Lee-Valley in a 12-oz spray can. Other sizes may be available, but that is the size that I have here, which I purchased from Lee-Valley. Their are other brand products which are marketed for the same application.
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You'll have Friday, Saturday and Sunday to make it to studios in and around Jasper, Ponca, Marble Falls and Erbie (the Ozark Mountain Tour) and Mountain View, Calico Rock, Pineville and Fox (Off the Beaten Path). That's not a complete list of stops, nor are Scott Baldassari, Cynthia Lynn Dollard, Darwin Fontenot, Phyllis Hurd, Rebecca Holden, William McNamara, Don Nelms, Wendell Norton (Ozark) and Jim Tindall, Lee Cowan, Jan Hickman, Joe Bruhin, David and Becki Dahlstedt (Off the Beaten Path) the only artists and artisans welcoming visitors. To get the full list go here for Ozark Mountain and here for Off the Beaten Track. The sites include maps and information on how to get detailed directions to the studios.
Jasper and Mountain View are two and half hours apart, connected by US 65 (out of Jasper) and State 66 (to Mountain View), so leave yourself plenty of time if you plan to do the whole shebang. I'm not sure that's possible, but you can try. (And leave a comment below if you go and want to report back!)
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Comment #11tsvenson CreditAttribution: tsvenson commented
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Comment #14cangeceiro CreditAttribution: cangeceiro commented
Has there been any progress to this since April 5th? I am going to need this module myself for a project and can provide some assistance finishing up this port. But it would be best to start with the most up to date version.
Comment #15cangeceiro CreditAttribution: cangeceiro commented
Here is a patch that moves things a little farther forward from the patch in #10. It includes everything in that patch, also fixes a few bugs, and adds hook_node_view to actually render the panel when viewing the node. There are still some bugs to work out though. Most notibly in the admin settings. The operations links are not rendering correctly. I'm still working on that but if someone would like to chime in with some ideas im all ears.
Comment #17cangeceiro CreditAttribution: cangeceiro commented
Sounds good, wait until i post an update to the patch. I still working on it and i will have a newer version this afternoon that addresses several bugs.
Comment #18cangeceiro CreditAttribution: cangeceiro commented
Ok here is the latest patch, some of these improvements should also be backported to d6. After working in this module im kinda surprised it is released as beta, personally i would say it was an alpha at best.
here is the list of updates
* Implemented rendering on hook_node_view of the display
* Moved admin menu into admin > configure > content
* Converted admin form to use d7 #states
* Cleaned up poorly written/unnecessary code
* Fixed breadcrumbs when on the admin page
* rewrote the content editor to be more abstract
* Rolled in all of DamienMcKenna work
* remembered to do a recursive diff this time ;P
and i think thats it. I'm sure there may be a few bugs creep up. but you should be able to have a function version of panelizer on d7, technically more functional then the d6 version.
Comment #19cangeceiro CreditAttribution: cangeceiro commented
oops, there was a typo in the last patch. ignore it and use this one instead
Comment #21dww CreditAttribution: dww commented
I don't yet need this myself, but I might very soon. If that's the case, I'll help test this and report my findings here.
Meanwhile, I wonder what the other maintainers think about at least creating a 7.x-1.x branch and getting this initial port into there. Seems easier to manage than a monolithic patch. @merlinofchaos + @awebb: thoughts/objections?
Comment #22dww CreditAttribution: dww commented
|Needs review
|» Needs work
p.s. What's up with panelizer_node_view()? That seems like a brand new feature that should be backported, not just stuffed into this porting patch/issue. Can we please separate that out into a new issue? Thanks!
Comment #23cangeceiro CreditAttribution: cangeceiro commented
The code in panelizer_node_view() absolutly should be back ported. It appears that all of the configuration was in the module, but it does not render the panel when viewing the node. Thats what this code does. So the 6.x version should have this as well other wise the module is pretty much useless.
Comment #24merlinofchaos CreditAttribution: merlinofchaos commented
I'm in favor of creating a branch and getting code people can work with.
Comment #27dww CreditAttribution: dww commented
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FYI: I just backported the code style fixes in here to the 6.x-1.x branch:
@cangeceiro re: hook_node_view() -- uhh, no. The README says you're supposed to use page manager to enable the node template for your panelizer'ed node types. So, although it's a bit confusing (and not super well explained yet in the docs or UI), the D6 version works just fine if you do what you're supposed to do. Anyway, let's discuss that further at #1175890: Implement hook_node_view() to render panelizer panels display without page manager.
Comment #28dww CreditAttribution: dww commented
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I just noticed that the 7.x-1.x branch has a PHP syntax error in panelizer.module. I think we can't really call this "fixed" at least until php -l passes on all the files in the directory. ;)
Also, note that I reverted the hook_node_view() change per #1175890-3: Implement hook_node_view() to render panelizer panels display without page manager.
Comment #30dww CreditAttribution: dww commented
|Needs work
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I already pushed a fix for the syntax error (and related code style bugs):
I still haven't even tried to setup a D7 panelizer test site yet. Let's call this 'needs review' until someone can actually verify that the 7.x-1.x branch works at all. Then we can move this back to 'fixed'. Anything beyond basic porting and getting parity with the D6 branch should happen in a separate issue.
In fact, Earl and I discussed that unfortunately ctools had to maintain its own dependency system in D7 since D7 core's #states system can't handle OR (or something). Therefore, he's not bothering to port anything to #states (just another whole system to learn and use) and panelizer clearly depends on ctools already. So, that really shouldn't have happened in this issue, but should have been proposed as a separate issue so we could have discussed it before anyone spent time implementing it (since now someone's probably going to spend time to revert those changes, too).
Comment #31jmones CreditAttribution: jmones commented
I'm trying to install panelizer git 7.x-1.x branch and, after enabling panelizer on a particular content type, if a click on "panelizer" tab, I get the following error:
Warning: Parameter 1 to panelizer_panelize_node_form() expected to be a reference, value given in drupal_retrieve_form() (line 770 of /path/to/drupal7/installation/includes/form.inc).
Panelize it button doesn't appear.
Comment #32jmones CreditAttribution: jmones commented
Hi all,
I've investigated the cause of the error I reported above and it looks due to function panelizer_panelize_node_form() missing a parameter.
I attach a simple patch that seems to solve this.
Comment #33jmones CreditAttribution: jmones commented
Current version is not working: view only renders node content, not content from panelizer.
Note: Please ignore this comment. I've edited later to remove it.
Comment #34merlinofchaos CreditAttribution: merlinofchaos commented
Views do not render content from panelizer, panelizer only works on the node page via page manager.
dww's patch to add a panelizer style to Views can solve that problem, though.
Comment #35lpalgarvio CreditAttribution: lpalgarvio commented
nice work here :)
Comment #43merlinofchaos CreditAttribution: merlinofchaos commented
|Needs work
|» Closed (fixed)
There's an issue for "stable release blockers". Let's use that rather than this. Since there's a port checked in, let's go with this.


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|The deepest points on lateral and medial aspects, at right angles to the long axis of the pedicles were considered for the measurement of minimum horizontal diameter (d) (Fig. 1A).
|On the upper and lower margins of the pedicle in the vertical plane two points just opposite to each other from the lateral aspect were considered for the measurement of the vertical height (v) (Fig. 1B).
|The anteroposterior length (1) of the pedicle was measured along the long axis of the pedicle from its superior aspect on both the sides of the pedicle separately (Fig. 1C).
In the second part of the present work, plain anteroposterior radiographs of the lumbar spine of 500 individuals (250 males and 250 females) from different age groups (age span of 10 years) ranging from 10-70 years were studied. No individuals were exposed to X-rays; rather radiographs were collected from patient records of different emergency hospitals in Mangalore. Only easily readable x-ray films, certified as normal spine radiographs by a radiology expert were used in the study. Radiographs from male and female individuals were categorized separately into six age groups, each with age span of 10 years. Distribution of samples according to sex and different age groups are shown in Table I.
Two different diameters of the pedicles seen as extremes of their outline in the x-ray films were measured bilaterally in two planes perpendicular to each other (Fig. 2). The maximum dimension of the pedicle in the sagittal plane was recorded as vertical diameter (h) in mm. The maximum diameter of the pedicle in horizontal plane at right angles to the vertical diameter was recorded as (t) in mm. Terminal points of the pedicle were labeled by a fine marker. Radiographs were scanned and then computer was used to measure the diameters of the right and left pedicles of all the lumbar vertebrae and values were recorded in mm.
Statistical Analysis. All the results have been expressed as mean ± SEM. 'Z' test was employed for all the statistical comparisons. Any value of PO.05 or Z (Normal deviate) > 1.96 was regarded as significant.
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Hampshire County Council, Isle of Wight Council, Portsmouth City Council, Southampton City Council and Winchester City Council have developed a secure website that can be used to search for social care records.
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Hampshire County Council said, "NHS hospitals had great difficulty in accessing social care information and equally social services departments could not access NHS websites or systems."
The joint child protection system first went live with the Hampshire Shared Secure Environment when both Hampshire County Council and Portsmouth City Council set up access to their care record indices online. The councils set up a server to isolate their social care systems from the users in the NHS.
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It's 10 on the 10th time again! This last month has been busy in my house– we had family (that lives in Korea) visiting, and the cousins were able to hang out (and in some cases, meet!) for the first time in 4 years (a long time when the oldest "far away cousin" was a toddler last time!) :) We had a week of 4 extra people in the house trying to adjust to a huge time difference, and it was such a blast for all of us– our 4 year old was a little frustrated that their Korean is better than their English at times, but their English skills improved a lot from hanging out with our brood :)
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The whites withdrew from southern Russia in March 1920, leaving only a minor detachment under the command of Wrangel on the Crimea. As the Soviet troops were engaged in battles against Poland, Wrangel made one more attack towards the north in June 1920. At the close of the Polish War, the Bolsheviks drove Wrangel's troops out of the Crimea in November 1920, and later out of Russia. The U.S. troops left Vladivostok in April 1920 and the Japanese finally in October 1922. The Soviet regime remained in Russia.
posted by Icarus Rising: "The Gog Magog thread in the Conspiracy Masters forum got me thinking about this question . . I can find very little as to what happened to the White Russians after the Crimean withdrawal of remnants in November of 1920. Anybody with any knowledge they would like to share on this topic, please do so. Be advised, I am not taking cocktails here, Molotov or otherwise. [Edited by Don W]
The Whites withdrew from southern Russia in March 1920, leaving a minor detachment under the command of Wrangel on the Crimea [peninsula]. At the close of the Polish War, the Bolsheviks drove Wrangel's troops out of the Crimea in November 1920, and later out of Russia. The [20,000] U.S. troops left [Archangel and] Vladivostok in April 1920 and the Japanese withdrew in October 1922. The Soviet regime remained in Russia [until 1989]. Don W's comments in brackets.
merged into the countryside or moved as needed
There's no "hole in the world"
If I can be blunt
Like I said previously I know the granddaughter of General Dmitri, the last to surrender.
The only thing the Romanovs at this late period saw comming was the next banquet
and don't forget numerous indiginous populations who had no love for the Tsar.
Have you've ever been displaced by war and famine? She has - not to mention uncles and cousins sent into exhile to freeze to death in siberia.
Do you realize how backward Tsarist Russia was before the revolution?
There were only a few industrial centers in the whole country, there wasn't a paved road outside Moscow city limits. The only way to get to siberia was by the worlds longest train ride.
Originally posted by Icarus Rising
'm not saying there is. I'm saying there may be what has become a super-terrestrial society that has been hiding itself in the Arctic for 100 years. After the 1905 revolt, they may have seen what was coming and set up a fallback position north of Siberia, then set off the Tunguska Blast in 1908 as a 'don't even try to come up here' message.
Then when things fell apart all the way in 1917 and they were unable to salvage Mother Russia from the Communists (or the Jews if you believe the propaganda spewed by the IHR), they retreated there.
Some of the more recent advances made in magnetics and field manipulation make it more likely they would have eventually been able to 'cloak' themselves and avoid detection.
Again this is pure speculation. I am convinced there is more going on in the world than we are being led to believe and I am determined to pick at the edges of the veil, so to speak, and try to see what's behind it. If it makes me sound crazy, then so be it. I'm not saying is, I'm saying might be.
As I see it, there are two main factions, Zionists and anti-Semites, and they have been going at it throughout recorded history.
The truth, to me, lies somewhere in the middle of all the lies each side tells about the other to make themselves look like the 'good guys'.
As the Arctic Ice melts, more will be revealed. It is promised to us that we will know the truth, and the truth will set us free.
With pure speculation you can convince yourself of just about everything
100 years is not a long time
you could do better focusing your attention on some more mundane questions first
I might have missed some of your earlier posts
The truth is there to find even now and it is just human society avoiding it that makes it so obscure.
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Wrong. With pure speculation you can delude yourself into thinking almost anything is true.
That's why I started this thread with a question, not a statement. This is a quest for knowledge and understanding, not a foregone conclusion. I have my suspicions, and I'm on a fishing expedition.
I disagree. Look at what all the societies we know about have accomplished in the last 100 years.
What is commonplace today was science fiction 100 years ago, and the pace of discovery is accelerating.
Well, could I now? Thank you very much for the admonition. I reject it outright. My attention is focused and honed and acute.
Yes you have. I have been around and about more than you could possibly know, unless you've had a peek at my dossier.
The Zionist/anti-Semite conflict reference is based on my reading of the OT, and the last 60 years of activity as the Jews face off against their adversaries in the Holy Land.
They and their opposition have been going at it throughout recorded history. Why would I need to line up sources?
Agreed. As I said earlier, I'm picking at the veil, fishing for a whale.
And my point being that it seems to be a fishing expedition without water in sight.
A couple billion people pitching in to help yes. Economy of scale being quite important imo.
considering how many areas of knowledge are being almost completely avoided by main stream scientist.
Well i can understand if you feel insulted
Well if this is any reflection on your past performance ( i always assume it's related) then we will disagree on more than a few things.
Do you think that the OT is a historical document that deals with real events in a logical and accurate manner?
Jews are not ZIONIST
I cannot grant the CIA missed the obvious for so long.