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Ha ha — I read this one after I read the two great jokes below and found it almost as funny. Hey Alda give your speech to the script writers — not the doctors.
I'm a doc and I have to say that I agree with Alda on this.
Only thing is no one needs to "teach" anybody anything. Docs just need to have the time to be able to sit down, look folks in the eye and communicate in simple English appropriate to the patients understanding.
Everyone knows how to do this; obviously Alda's docs have chosen to confuse him with medical jargon- maybe they thought he was really Hawkeye?
The biggest joke of all is that doctors routinely explain things in plain English if they explain at all. Alda had to shop this drivel around for years until he found a school Stony Brook that would bankroll his last ditch desperate effort at retaining his career. Funny the only example he could give was one that showed there is really no problem.


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IEEE Standards Interpretations for IEEE Std 1003.2™-1992 IEEE Standard for Information Technology--Portable Operating System Interfaces (POSIX®)--Part 2: Shell and Utilities
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Interpretation Request #157
Topic: shell Relevant Clauses: 3.9.1
A) 3.9.1 (Simple Commands) has the text (page 135, lines 725 to 727): When a given simple command is required to be executed (i.e. when any conditional construct such as an AND-OR list or a case statement has not bypassed the simple command) ... Does this present a requirement on the time of execution of such a command in relation to tokenization and parsing, i.e. that it happens as soon as a simple command has been identified and it is known that it is the next simple command to be executed? Specifically, consider a script containing alias foo=bar; foo where foo is not previously defined as a function or alias. Which (if either) of the following behaviours are conforming? (a) The command foo is executed, the alias command not having been executed by the time the token foo was delimited; (b) The command bar is executed, the alias command having been executed by the time the token foo was delimited?
B) 3.2.3 (Double Quotes) (page 118, lines 55 to 59) says, concerning the $( ... ) construct The tokenizing rules in 3.3 shall be applied recursively to find the matching ). Does the reference to the tokenizing rules in 3.3 include alias substitution (3.3.1)? If so, then: (a) Is the expansion of an alias encountered included in the text of the command to be substituted (in place of the original text), despite the provision to the contrary in 3.3(5) (page 120, line 125)? (b) May a ) in the value of the alias terminate the $( ... ) construct? (c) Is alias expansion also applied when and if command substitution is applied? (d) Since alias substitution requires recognition of reserved words in correct grammatical context, its application here requires parsing of the command whose output shall be substituted to occur in the process of finding the matching ). Is the behaviour in the event of a grammatical error defined (since recovery is necessary to continue to determine whether aliases should be substituted)? For example, may errors or diagnostics occur from the following? true || $(if; foo) If not, then: Is the reference to parsing of the command whose output is to be substituted in E.3.2 (page 823, line 2975) in error?
C) 3.3 (Token Recognition) allows the formation of a token that is delimited by the end of input. (a) This allows a token with an opening quote (single or double) but no closing quote. Must the end of input be considered to end the quoted text, or may an implementation consider this a syntax error. Specifically, must sh -c "echo '\$foo" output the four characters $foo (quote removal having been applied to the single ') without error, and may a conforming application use this construct? (b) If the end of input leaves a ${, $(, $(( or ` construct unterminates, is the effect defined?
D) 3.2.3 (page 119, lines 71 to 74) provides that the constructs
"`echo hello"
`echo "foo`
produce undefined results. Are the results undefined if these constructs
are encountered during token recognition, or only if expansions need to be
performed on them?
E) 3.3.1 (Alias substitution) does not clearly state what is to be done
with the value of an alias that is substituted. Is it required that the
resulting text itself be tokenized? If so, is the value of the alias
treated as a separate input source, so that any final token is delimited
by the end of the value of the alias; if not, what are the effects of the
following definitions and uses of aliases?
alias foo="'"
foo bar'
alias bar="echo >"
Interpretation Response
A. The standard clearly states (page 120 line 149-150) that tokenization occurs before any grammatical rules are applied. All compound commands are tokenized in their entirety before they are executed. The grammar rules show that the whole line shall be read before tokenization. Therefore the command shall be "foo" and never "bar". This also means that a function f() { alias foo=bar foo } will execute "foo" and not "bar", since the entire function is tokenized before alias substition takes place.
B. The standard appears to mandate that alias substituion should occur, however, concerns have been raised about this which are being referred to the sponsor. Historically shells have not done this, and the standard would appear to be in error.
C. a. The standard does not speak to this issue of whether the single-quoted (or double-quoted, or back-quoted) string is correctly terminated by this end of token, and therefore it is acceptable for an implementation to treat this as an error. As such no conformance distinction can be made between alternative implementations based on this. b. For ${, $( or $(( the standard clearly states tha the effect is defined as a syntax error -- the tokenization completes, but the resulting grammar is in error. For ', the effect is as above (C subsection a). For `, the effect should also be as above (the back-quoted string is a single token).
D. The standard clearly states that the constructs are undefined in all cases. E. The standard clearly states in 3.3.1 alias substitution along with 5.1, the definition for the alias utility, that the alias provides a string not a set of tokens that are interpreted/parsed when the alias substitution occurs. There is nothing in the standard that states that there is an end of token at the end of an alias.
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Atheism remains least-trusted characteristic in American politics
Odd that they didn't include African-American, Muslim or even Jewish on that list. I'm sure less-common traits like "transgendered" would probably be a pretty big political handicap too.
Also, who the hell are that 2% of Americans who would be more likely to vote for a candidate who cheated on their spouse?
It's the most positive attribute on that list for me.
I don't trust any politician who 'does God'.
Having a bit of a hard time parsing that chart… "doesn't matter" should be in between "more likely" and "less likely" under any reasonable system.
1% are those who cheat and assume everybody does and so at least a candidate who's admitted to doing it is honest about it and it can't be used against him (or her).
The other 1% are those who deliberately answer surveys in the most ridiculous ways to skew results.
I am occasionally in one of those 1% groups.
Meanwhile, a career in American politics is something I'm going to have to avoid.
Largely because I'm Canadian, and have zero public speaking skills. But this doesn't help matters.
Atheists: We Don't Have A Prayer.
I wonder how many of the anti-atheist respondents have a mental picture of atheists as all being loudly confrontational and outspoken Dawkins types, similar to how a lot of people used to* associate feminism with caricatures of man-hating lesbian bra-burners and Andrea Dworkin.
* probably still do, come to think of it.
If they had put Muslim on there, it would surely take the prize.
I don't think so, actually.
Atheists are thought of as evil persons in certain parts of Texas and surrounding areas, including a lot of the South. My atheist Russian professor friends in north Texas tell me that they learned years ago to just nod politely and keep their mouths shut when the subject came up.
Maybe what I've encountered is more widespread than I thought?
I've met people who upon learning I don't go for their jazz & discussing it that many people may mistake being atheist for being someone who does not have or does not acknowledge a higher power. I can dig it I guess, denying someone else's faith is ignorant and arrogant & people often think that faith not shared is faith denied even where it isn't.
Ridiculous right? I've got or acknowledge higher power(s), they just aren't anthropomorphic deity class higher powers.
Odd—it seems like Obama's political enemies could make a much stronger case for the President being a closeted Atheist than a secret Muslim, yet they opted for the latter.
Could be the pol-leaders of Xians are internal atheists themselves from years of playing a role with huge plot holes & thus unconsciously avoid accusing others of what they deny & hide within themselves.
Bill Clinton and Mark Sanford?
I guarantee you that there are lots of atheists in Congress pretending to be Xtian.
To a lot of religious people, I'm sure atheism==amorality. Consciously rejecting god is equivalent to consciously rejecting morality in their eyes. I'm sure there are those who would prefer satan worshippers to atheists: "At least they believe in the battle between good and evil, even if they are on the wrong side..."
I remember there being a few things Obama said in the 2008 election and his early days in office that actually did make me go hmmm. I think there was something about him not actually attending church very often even though he was supposedly a member of one. He also mentioned non-believers in his 2008 inaugural address. Whatever his beliefs, just mentioning the existence of non-believers felt like a huge step forward at the time.
I live in NC, so Southern Baptist reign supreme, and that pretty much sums it up. And it's not even so much that they have some moral high ground to stand on, it's literally the fact they can't process the idea of morality without god. My parents didn't raise me in the church, which they regret and I am grateful for, and I think my morals are pretty damn solid. I found through highschool and college that the more exposed my peers were to religion the more likely they were to be the ones to act out, they sayings about the preacher's daughter usually are true.
Once, while I was volunteering as a tutor for kids who got caught up in the justice system, it got mentioned that I was atheist. That's almost exactly what one of the kids said except he claimed to be siding with satan. No, I don't know satan worship meant to a 10 year old either.
If I suspect that someone might want to make it their personal project to "save" me from atheism, I tell them a half truth: My grandfather was from China and I come from a long line of Buddhists. It doesn't work as well as the "I'm Jewish" gambit, but sometimes I don't feel like justifying my life of godless debauchery and sleeping in on Sunday with strangers.


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Hi Guys,
I'm getting back to playing a bit more and one of the first things I want to get sorted out are my macro's; I feel macro's make my life a little easier and they can really improve my play in certain situations. Please excuse me if there are any errors in the below macros; I am at work and have no means of double-checking them. They will be updated when I get home. Feel free to leave your macros/ideas/requests in this thread.
Below are some examples that I came up with for my current destruction spec (DR, SacPac, GoSac), which I mainly use for PVP.
1) Staalie's Sacrifice Sweetness
Just wrote this one yesterday evening and I'm mighty happy with how this works out. Basically this ensures that you will never use SacPac when you don't have a pet out (essentially halving your healthpool in the process). It will check if you have a pet:
a) If yes cast Sacpac (which can be followed up with GoSac, as the pet has served it's use to me now)
b) If no will resummon the pet with Flames of Xoroth; when pressed again it will go to step a) again.
I know this will sacrifice an ember, but if SacPac is off CD then it's better to invest a shard in a pet then in Ember Tap (more effective health)
Code:/cast [nopet] Flames of Xoroth /castsequence [pet] reset=5 Sacrificial Pact, Grimoire of Sacrifice
2) Heals
Simple macro for combining DR and Healthstone (Glyph). Added a mod, which can be changed to shift/ctrl/alt for the Ember Tap, should all be on cooldown and you're craving some health
Code:/cast [mod:shift] Ember Tap;Dark Regeneration /use Healthstone
3) CC/Havoc enablers
Using focus and mouseovers is crucial in a pvp situation so I'm adding this; I imagine most will already have something similar set up, but for the ones that haven't yet
a) Sets focus on mouseover
b) Casts havoc, (blood) fear at the focus target when you hold down the shift key; if there is no focus target it will cast on your mouseover target; if that also doesn't exist then it will cast on your current target; if that also doesn't exist you shouldn't be spamming this button.Code:/focus [@mouseover,exists]
Below will cast Blood Fear, but with the modifier key down it will cast @ the focus targetCode:/cast [mod:shift,@focus][@mouseover,exists,nodead][] Havoc
4) One button portalCode:/cast [mod:shift,@focus][@mouseover,exists,nodead][] Blood Fear
Will summon the Demonic Circle with the modifier key down, will teleport you if this is pressed without modifier
Code:/cast [mod:shift] Demonic Circle: Summon, Demonic Circle: Teleport
5) AOE Immolate/Incinerate
In situations where you encounter densely packed groups I love this macro; make sure you keep RoF up while spamming this beaut.
Code:/castsequence [mod:shift] Fire and Brimstone, Immolate; Fire and Brimstone, Incinerate
That's all I can come up with for now. Please leave your macros/ideas/suggestions/requests.


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595th Friday Blog Roundup
It's Friday the 13th. I have a compulsive need to say that every Friday the 13th. As you were.
Hey, remember that whole "do yoga, drink water, get sleep, eat well" thing I was doing? It didn't last long. I'm still doing yoga every morning, but after weeks of drinking huge amounts of water, I'm back to forgetting to drink anything until around 3 pm when I suddenly remember that enormous cup in the kitchen. I also haven't layered in a proper bedtime, which should have happened by now.
Forget the whole food thing.
Gizmodo had an interesting article about why we stay up past the point when our body is telling us to go to bed. I do this. I know I'm tired, but I stay up anyway. I definitely don't get 7 hours, though a lot of that has to do with the fact that it takes me a long time to fall asleep, and then I'm not very good at staying asleep.
I would like to learn how to be a better sleeper. I wish there were sleep classes.
Stop procrastinating. Go make your backups. Don't have regrets.
Seriously. Stop what you're doing for a moment. It will take you fifteen minutes, tops. But you will have peace of mind for days and days. It's the gift to yourself that keeps on giving.
As always, add any new thoughts to the Friday Backup post and peruse new comments in order to find out about methods, plug-ins, and devices that help you quickly back up your data and accounts.
And now the blogs…
But first, second helpings of the posts that appeared in the open comment thread last week. In order to read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:
- "That Day" (Stirrup Queens) — thank you, Nonsequiturchica!
- "I Want My Kids to Struggle" (Lavender Luz)
- "Starting Conversations" (Bent Not Broken)
- "Week in Review: Motherhood After Infertility" (Leah Campbell)
- "Microblog Mondays: Unnecessary Competition" (Searching for Our Silver Lining)
- "Taller Than I" (Mrs. Spit… Still Spouting Off)
- "Not Having Children" (NotQuiteOld)
Okay, now my choices this week.
Outlandish Notions has a beautiful, poetic Mother's Day post that made me feel as if I was lying in the hammock, watching the trees as I rock back and forth. You'll need to click over and read it to feel it, too.
River Run Dry has two posts this week on the idea of softening. She points out that soft usually has negative connotations; someone wishy-washy, poorly defined, incapable for standing up for herself. But as we all talked about it, she realized how tension was affecting her. She explains: "I can't believe I never saw this before now. It's so prevalent in my day to day life, but I never saw it before." And that is the beauty of conversation online, which sometimes feels like the backyard fence. Sometimes you just need to hear, "me too."
Infertilityhonesty writes about being wished Happy Mother's Day as a random greeting in May. She wonders, "what I would say if someone addressed me personally ("I'm a survivor of infertility, so for me it isn't") to the greater conundrum of identifying the issue and coming up with a social protocol that includes us all." It's a great post about seeing the holiday through a different lens.
Lastly, Articulation wonders why the really important things in life don't come with an operating manual. Moreover, there seems to be people (though I would guess that it's just an outsider's perception, and the person living their life sees it in a different way) who can riff on life without an instructions, churning out moments without falling flat. It's a great post.
The roundup to the Roundup: It's Friday the 13th. I need sleep lessons. Your weekly backup nudge. And lots of great posts to read. So what did you find this week? Please use a permalink to the blog post (written between May 6th and 13th) and not the blog's main url. Not understanding why I'm asking you what you found this week? Read the original open thread post here.
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- 1 Mali { 05.13.16 at 7:59 am }
I'm sure I read some good posts this week, but I'm up past my bedtime, and I just can't remember them. (The wine at dinner is probably to blame too!) Maybe tomorrow?
- 2 Ana { 05.13.16 at 9:39 am }
KeAnne's post about family-building plans gone awry really resonating https://babywithatwist.wordpress.com/2016/05/11/plans-in-pencil/
- 3 loribeth { 05.13.16 at 10:03 am }
"The Motherhood Challenge" has been making its way through my Facebook feed again lately :p so I loved this post from Still Mothers (although I'm not sure I'm brave enough to post as they suggested…!):
- 4 Apluseffort { 05.13.16 at 10:31 am }
I was going to link to KeAnne's post too – such a good one!
- 5 Deathstar { 05.13.16 at 11:15 am }
I'm naturally a night person. Even when I'm dog tired, I still stay up to squeeze in that one last Google Search, that one last Lexulous game, whatever one last thing I just have to do. But of course I wake up early to get my son ready for school and all that and then I have LIFE STUFF to get done before I pick him up and then it's dinner and more stuff and then it's midnight and I'm cursing myself cause I'm going to be dragging my butt out of bed at 7:30. So apparently I am not committed to going to be at 10:30 and getting 8 hrs of sleep.
- 6 Lori Lavender Luz { 05.13.16 at 1:39 pm }
If you figure out how to be a better sleeper, please let me know.
- 7 Pom { 05.13.16 at 3:19 pm }
Kimberly's new IF journey to decide what to do with her remaining embryos. While I envy her for being in this position, I do recognize how difficult the decision must be. Not an easy solution for sure.
- 8 jjiraffe { 05.13.16 at 10:19 pm }
I concur with KeAnne's post – really powerful.
- 9 Justine { 05.15.16 at 10:13 pm }
I'm doing this right now. The body-telling-me-to-go-to-sleep thing and staying up anyway. A long time ago when I was going to therapy my therapist was hoping I'd work on this. I never did, though, and then I left therapy. #timetogoback?


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Nature Encounters
Ron Smith, Valley Morning Star, August 24, 2002, © 2004
"I have learned to look on Nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but
hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity."
-- William Wordsworth
Remember the first moment when an eagle planed across your field of vision? Or when a big buck stepped out of the shadows into the fading light? Or maybe it was a whale breaching in the Gulf of Maine with the sun highlighting the rivers running down its sides? These are the events we call "encounters with nature.''
There are other such moments just as moving but very, very different. On one Santa Ana morning my wife Sharron and I were birding the trail to Willow Lake under drooping Spanish Moss and sun-scattering Hackberry and Cedar Elm. Great Kiskadees and Plain Chachalacas were racketing a counterpoint in their usual way. It's an easy trail where we volunteer for monthly bird walks. Like most Rio Grande Valley hotspots, anything is possible for birders.
We barely heard the approaching footsteps. Turning, we saw him - an elderly man walking only a bit unsteadily. As he neared, bright butterflies flicked away from him, the malachite-winged and the zebra-striped. It was not his presence that was so unusual; all ages visit the refuge to view the subtropical life: jays clothed in lemon, lime and blue; orioles brushed with flame; rosetted wild cats; and coral blooms lit with hummingbirds' emerald fire.
The thing that made us look was what he carried in his hand...we were used to seeing lens-heavy cameras and binoculars slung about necks or scopes and tripods riding shoulders. Instead, it was a framed portrait of a young woman, done in the older style. He did not clasp it to his chest as others might but held it slightly before him like an offering.
Since a friendly greeting such as "What have you seen?" is customary on the trail, it seemed appropriate to say the least we could. "Hello." There was no response, and he seemed to look beyond us into another time - but with clear eyes and no surface sadness, or any other emotion for that matter. There was only a quietness, even a serenity.
Who was she, sharing this place? A wife, mother, sister, daughter? Had they strolled here together long ago? Was it a regular visit or a one-time vacation outing? What memory was he holding?
There was birdsong, watersound, treesound and the warm air. As we watched him circle back from the water's edge, a quiet flock of large white birds drifted onto Willow Lake.
We stayed there for only a moment. Together. There were other wonders to see.
The mind holds its great reservoir, and much, much later, memories come unbidden to the surface. We recalled what occurred on that trail... finally. It had been a rare and moving experience. There are many ways to think about its meaning... we do know that Wordsworth was right.
And that there are different ways of sharing. It was an encounter in Nature.


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Book about Olympus PEN cameras
k0mit wrote:
I'm considering the E-P3, but notice there haven't been any books written about any of the PEN cameras since the E-P2 over two years ago.
No books, it's all about Googling around and inhabiting this forum to find information and to answer any questions. For instance I have a mess of pages that started about the E-PL1 but has expanded in places to cover others and now of course has a separate mess attached to the E-PL5.
Do any of you know of some good resources for information on setting up and using these great little cameras? I would think someone would have been updating this series since these cameras are so popular.
As above, and also trawl my links page there somewhere where E-M5 setups also really apply to the E-PL5. Better than any books is the immediate response here to any possibly obscure question, OK you do have to do your homework to sift out the idiots from the sensible, but it is possible to learn a lot here, I certainly have.
As for considering the E-P3, it really is last generation camera and the E-PL5 smokes it for image quality, I have an E-P3 but never used much at all since the E-PL5 arrived. Even the ISO 200 noise is smaller and nicer in the E-PL5.
Currently the E-PL5 is the easiest to use of the Pens/OM-D because of the ability to assign MySets to the Mode dial. I keep boring people talking about that but it is a truly great feature.
Regards.... Guy
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Customer Collaboration Center to Open in North America
Sep 19, 2013, 13:00 ET from H.B. Fuller Company
LAS VEGAS, Sept. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- PACK EXPO, Booth C-4938 -- Adhesives represent less than three percent of the total packaging cost, but can have a big impact on a brand's reputation when it comes to consumer experience. The effect can be so substantial that executives at H.B. Fuller Company (NYSE: FUL) have decided to invest in a Packaging Center of Excellence in North America to address customers packaging adhesives needs across a broad range of applications, substrates and environmental conditions. Upon its opening in early 2014, the Packaging Center of Excellence will be H.B. Fuller's fourth center focused specifically on customer collaboration.
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With its wide variety and industry-leading packaging adhesive offerings, H.B. Fuller provides the full breadth and depth of adhesives and engineering services for end-of-line packaging, container labeling, flexible packaging, retail-ready packaging, handle and packaging reinforcement and specialty packaging. Along with the robust offering, the new Packaging Center of Excellence will further enable collaboration efforts to help brands continue to advance their packaging designs.
"Packaging heavily influences consumer buying decisions and with the rise of social media, all it takes is one negative experience to put brands on the defensive," said Peter Petrulo, business director of packaging, North America, at H.B. Fuller. "As experts in packaging adhesives, it's our role to help protect our customer's product and ensure end-users have a positive experience with our customer's brand. That means staying on top of industry trends so we can meet our customers' evolving business needs for safety, sustainability, efficiency and new packaging applications."
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