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I am writing in response to a letter published by reader Ingrid Krause ("Pregnancy centers should not hide agenda," July 29). Ms. Krause's letter illustrates the disturbing nature of the crisis pregnancy center sign legislation — the assumption that all pregnancy centers that do not offer abortion services must have the nefarious purpose of derailing an individual's choice to seek an abortion. Indeed, this assumption is so deep that it is not enough for a woman who enters a clinic to be verbally informed that she will not receive an abortion there. A sign akin to a target must be posted on the door.
Has the city proposed companion legislation requiring abortion clinics to post signs indicating that they do not offer adoption services? What about signs on hospital doors indicating their respective stances on abortion? The city's philosophy of "truth in advertising" may be a noble one (assuming that women are not sophisticated enough to be aware of their own choices), but its decision to single out one particular group shows a deep prejudice against those who do not believe in abortion.
If Roe v. Wade and the pro-choice movement really are about choice, then the choice not to have an abortion, or not to offer an abortion, must be given the same amount of respect by our own government.
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Gustaf Josefsson Tadaa
Gustaf is one of Sweden's most frequently hired speakers on the topics of digital transformation, and the human and societal impacts of rapid technological evolution. He's nominated for Swedish Speaker of the Year 2017, in the breakthrough category.
He has an academic background in cognitive science, rhetoric, chemistry, law, biomedical engineering and business. His business ventures ranges from a nation wide entrepreneurship competition to digital tool for political data analysis. He started Makerspark, Sweden's first 3D Print Shop, a makerspace with a startup incubator and technology education platform. He's built art displayed at Nationalmuseum, and is on the board for the government grant committee Kulturbryggan. He co-founded and acts as corporate philosopher of the toy company Strawbees, and is on the advisory board for Sweden's largest Bitcoin company, BTCX.
As a speaker, Gustaf leads the audience through complex subjects by using a creative mix of science, storytelling and humor. He has a way of connecting new trinkets and trends with deep underlying themes of humanity and its destiny.
Former clients include Nordic Choice Hotels, PwC, SEB, Saab, the Ministry of Enterprise, Kaospilot and the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship. He's worked with internationally with executive education in collaboration with the digital media school Hyper Island.
"Gustaf Josefsson is what I call a 'voice of a generation'.
He does not only speak about, but live and breathe the future"
– Alexander Bard, author and philosopher
Gustaf is one of Sweden's most frequently hired speakers on the topics of future trends and change management. He uses storytelling to help us make sense of the world and the rapid transformation it is going through.
Every talk is tailored to the specific audience, but here are some example topics that Gustaf often talk about.
We've never known as little as we do today
Keywords: Technology, Change Management, Leadership, Inspiration.
Entertaining and insightful stories about the history and nature of change. Why are we experiencing such rapid change now, and how can we as a society, as an organization or an individual handle all this uncertainty?
- Make learning a habit.
- Stop planning and start experimenting.
- Create opportunities for others to create.
- Learning by doing.
Rise of the Digital Nervous System
Keywords: Digital Transformation, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Futurology.
Humanity have always been intricately entangled with our technology. Now the border between the physical and the digital is beginning to dissolve completely. Are the machines taking over, or did they already do that centuries ago? What does this mean for our corporations, our governments, and our beliefs about the world?
- We are technology.
- Digital changes not only how we work, but why we work.
- The AI is not about to take over – it already did.
The future is Co-created
Keywords: Participatory Culture, Value Based Leadership, Sharing Economy, Co-creation, Community Building.
Technology is giving us the opportunity to create projects and organization of unprecedented complexity. But in the peer-to-peer world, when individuals can freely communicate and share resources and knowledge, old hierarchies start falling apart.
The age of the internet, makerspaces, live role playing games, youTube, Burning Man, and Bernie Sanders put every individual behind their own wheel. This is the age of participatory culture.
- Leadership in leaderless organizations.
- Value based leadership and organizational purpose.
- How sharing both increases and disrupt inequality.
- How to co-create the future.
Advising and Coaching
Gustaf has 10 years of experience helping entrepreneurs, small business owners and corporate executives. He provides personal coaching, and collaborates with a network of brilliant minds to provide longer trainings for both individuals and groups. This includes facilitating workshops and team or board development sessions, as well as longer individual coaching programs with a combination of face-to-face and Skype meetings.
Please feel free to shoot us an email at email@example.com to book a meeting.
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Chaz Bundick has been spreading good vibes since 2009. As Toro Y Moi, he makes music befitting the gauzy radiance of a summer's day. His tunes inhabit a kind of parallel universe where no one ever has bad hair days, or migraines, and the cocktails keep flowing till the early hours.
Having flirted with many genres over his brief but productive career, Bundick's fourth LP sees him go for pop gold by trying to make an album his 'girlfriend would dance to' (his girlfriend likes Justin Bieber... but keep reading!). Despite his other half's questionable taste, Bundick's own judgement is never anything less than impeccable. The man has covered everyone from Beach House to Michael Jackson in the past, and always comes out on top. His production skills are glossy, and he posseses a voice most electronic producers would slay for.
Lead single, 'So Many Details' sets out the album's modus operandi well. To say the production is glossy is like calling a Maserati 'a bit flash'. Shimmering synths undulate sleazily over heavy hip hop beats, whilst Bundick does his best wounded lothario impression. It's an r&b-inflected triumph and shows how Bundick can do more than just create moods: he can, like, write memorable songs, too. Yet it is very pop, which while not a bad thing per se, may be a shock to some more ardent chillwavers, if such people exist.
The second half of the album consists of more heavily r&b-infused tracks which one could conceivably imagine an Usher or a Justin Timberlake singing. Other than the saccharine, 'Day One', this poppier section holds up reasonably well. It shows Bundick is capable of creating memorable hooks and choruses too, not just sultry ambiance. The sunny, 'Cake,' for instance, seems destined for a radio playlist with its preposterously uplifting chorus affirmation - 'she got my back and I know it'- and bleepy synth arpeggios.
However, Bundick's strongest suit is his production/ arrangement skills, and it's the effortlessly chill songs with lengthy instumental sections which are most effective. So it's a shame he didn't pen an album of songs like 'Rose Quartz'. The opening two minutes of this stunning House edged number are Anything In Return's best. They witness a spliced vocal sample mesh with blissful synth washes to slowly form a groove which defies all resistance against head nodding.
Anything In Return is best when it settles for what it is: classy mood-setting music. Its most successful moments (and I mean this in the best possible way) are a bit 'lava lamp'. The bombastic pop statements, though well handled, are just not as effortlessly great as the rest, and the endless play of boy girl lyrical scenarios does get a bit tiresome after a while. Especially when it's not necessary. I mean, why use words when you can say so much through sound alone?
If this album doesn't 'break' Toro Y Moi to a wider audience (as well it might) then Bundick's next step will be interesting - he can't really go any more pop. Whatever happens, this is a strong album from a chameleon like talent capable of donning any genre cloak he favours. I'm just holding out for a deep house record...
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- (old) Mik to create initial "architectural walkthrough" material for Mylyn -- 1 wiki page not too large, send link to the mailing list
- (old) Tools and Tech PMC's to encourage incubating grandfathered projects find a mentor
- (old) Cedric, Tom talk to their PMCs about making AC representation official (can be 2 backup reps)
- (old) Martin to add Eclipsecon meeting notes onto the wiki
- (old) Dave C work with Wayne on a "handbook" for project criteria for becoming a committer (referencing committer guidelines)
- bug 283745 Maven
- Dave C come up with a document how to save build resources
- Dave C to try bugzilla UNCONFIRMED state
- Still open items moved to #Action Items
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- Welcome Brian Payton (IBM), for DTP
- Pruning inactive members (dormant status)
We need to reduce our bug backlog, by actually coming to a common resolution on some. Here are the most recent ones:
- DaveC would like to discuss New Committer Guidelines; Scrum / Agile techniques
- Wayne: Project plans are important but in a bad state!
- Mentors please encourage projects to keep their project plans up to date! (Wayne going to blog about)
- bug 283734 Crowdsourcing Docs / WikiText
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- bug 283745 - Maven - current status, next steps
- bug 285074 - Dave Carver - Hudsonbuilder and write access to the cvs / svn repo
- bug 288393 - Denis - Bugzilla Best Practices
- bug 288721 - Sonar / Eclemma - Cedric Brun, Dave Carver
- The art of project release naming - no bug yet ?!?
- AC Bugzilla backlog
- Follow-up on Architecture Council/Bugzilla Best Practices - how to move on?
- Dave C AC should look at other Agile Principles can be employed (in addition to the Bugzilla practices)
- See also Architecture Council/Open Issues for overflow items that were not discussed
- News from the EMO and Councils ?
Action Items
- (old) Martin to follow up on Architecture Diagrams idea
- (old) Michael to flesh out the Patterns idea and remind the EAC -- started Architecture Council/Top Ten Recommendations#Design Patterns, backed by EclipseCon tutorial proposals
- While these show how well-known GoF patterns are applied in Eclipse, Michael's idea was more to find and describe new patterns which are specific to Eclipse
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Ubuntu Linux 12.04: Microsoft's Worst Nightmare?
May 3, 2012 5:00 AM PT
Well there's a new kid in town here in the Linux blogosphere, and it's already caused quite a stir.
It's one of the Ubuntu clan, as its nickname makes clear, but that's as far as the foolin' goes. With five years of support and a scaly, tough hide, this one's here to stay. With time on its side and its eye on the prize, it may just blaze a new trail.
Can freedom take hold in a world that's been dominated for so long? That's the new hope among the Pangolin-watching throngs.
'Canonical Has Succeeded'
"Literally every review of Precise I've read has been positive, and that's in spite of the fact that it's still got Unity in it," began Google + blogger Linux Rants down at the Linux blogosphere's seedy Broken Windows Lounge.
"I've always been kind of a one-off in that I've always kind of liked Unity, but it sounds like Precise has brought a lot of people around to that way of thinking," Linux Rants added. "In fact, the reviews have been significantly more positive for Precise than they've been for Windows 8.
"Having tried them both, Windows 8 feels like a Frankenstein's monster of an OS compared to the fluid beauty of Precise," he opined. "It's obvious that Microsoft's intent is to make Windows applicable across form factors, but Canonical has succeeded with Precise in a way Microsoft only dreamed about with Windows 8."
'What's the Logic?'
Similarly, "having tried the latest Windows 8 consumer preview, I'm confident that any version of Ubuntu released in the last five years will have absolutely no problem beating it," agreed Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site.
Of course, "after the success of Windows 7, this is Microsoft snatching defeat from the jaws of victory," Hudson added. "What's the logic? Did Steve Ballmer secretly invest a fortune in Apple stock or something? Off his meds? Run out of chairs?"
In any case, "one thing is for sure: Windows 8 will cause more disunity in the Windows camp than Unity ever did in the Ubuntu camp -- and we know how Windows users have a lot lower pain threshold when it comes to change," she said. "If Ubuntu can capitalize on Microsoft's latest and greatest mistake, more power to them."
'A Weird GUI'
In fact, "I doubt '8' is a challenge for most GNU/Linux operating systems," blogger Robert Pogson suggested.
"An operating system is supposed to be software that allows a person to use his PC," Pogson explained. "Too often that other OS is used to prevent a person using his/her PC without spending a lot of extra money and effort."
Not only that, but "on top of the baggage that M$ carries, '8' has issues with a weird GUI," he pointed out. "I doubt any user of that other OS familiar with windowed processes would be uncomfortable using GNU/Linux."
'I Recommend Debian'
Both Windows 8 and Ubuntu actually have GUI issues, Pogson opined.
"I recommend Debian GNU/Linux -- it's the right way to do IT," he concluded.
Indeed, "Windows 8's new touch interface leaves a lot of room for competition to step in, but why waste this opportunity with Unity?" wondered consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack.
'Amused and Glad'
"I'm glad to see a new release of Ubuntu," Hyperlogos blogger Martin Espinoza offered.
At the same time, "I'm both amused and glad to see a configuration utility for the Unity dock, when Shuttleworth swore up and down it didn't need one, as it didn't exist in previous releases," Espinoza said.
"This seems to me to closely follow the Apple model of telling you that only idiots would buy a certain class of hardware right up until they begin producing it themselves, at which point they tell you that you must be some kind of genius because you want to buy what they're selling," he added.
'Their Crown Was Taken by Mint'
Slashdot blogger hairyfeet questioned Ubuntu's relevance.
"Seriously, after Unity and their fumbles and arrogance I just don't see Ubuntu being relevant anymore," hairyfeet opined. "Their crown was taken by Mint."
After testing out the new Ubuntu, meanwhile, "I see nothing that I care for that I couldn't get in a dozen other distros," he concluded. "While it might work nice on a touchscreen like Win 8, I'll give it a pass."
'A Good Release'
Not everyone saw it that way, however.
"All-in-all, a good release, but it really is not a game changer," offered Roberto Lim, a lawyer and blogger on Mobile Raptor.
"I do not see the Windows crowd flocking to Ubuntu because of Windows 8," Lim added. "Those who don't like Windows 8 will simply stick with Windows 7.
"If Windows 8 is unpopular, Microsoft will probably simply offer a free downgrade to Windows 7," he suggested. "I do not see other Linux users flocking to Ubuntu because of HUD."
'Too Much Freedom'
Still, "a better Linux operating system is not needed to challenge Windows -- Linux has been good enough for many years now," Lim opined. "It's really about the app ecosystem and driver support."
Linux is "terribly fragmented," he said.
"It does not look like there is going to be one dominant Linux consumer platform at this point in time," Lim concluded. "Third parties are not going to support a minority operating system with more versions than you can count.
"Different developers agreeing to a single package management system for all Linux distributions would be a step in the right direction," he added. "Sometimes too much freedom is not a good thing."


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Huskies double-team White House
WASHINGTON -- What if they had a party at the White House for the men's and women's NCAA basketball champions, and only one school showed up?
Well, that would have to be UConn.
Monday, the nation's Hoopster in Chief honored the Husky women's and men's teams for their amazing achievement -- bringing both national championship trophies home to Connecticut in 2014.
"One of my goals has been to eliminate waste and cut out duplicative programs to make things more efficient, but this might be carrying things a little too far," President Barack Obama cracked.
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It's only the second time any school has won both crowns the same year. The other? UConn, in 2004.
For the women's team, it is the school's ninth national championship, the most for any school, and it's the second in a row and the fourth in the last six years for the Huskies.
The UConn men won their fourth title in the past 16 years, which is twice as many as any other team in the same span.
But almost as an afterthought, near the end of his remarks, Obama hit on perhaps the most startling accomplishment of all when he said, "Coach Ollie is doing one other important thing: He's making sure his team hits the books as hard as they hit the boards. And this season, both the men and the women ranked among the nation's best academically."
That is startling for the men's team because it contrasts so greatly with the team's dreadful academic showing a few years ago, which culminated in the team losing the right to participate in the NCAA tournament in the 2012-2013 season.
Later, Ollie was asked if the team's success this year was all the sweeter because of living through the NCAA penalty year.
"Hey, it's sweet to be at the White House, honored for being national champions, under any circumstances," he said. "But I know what my team endured, what the university endured. The players could have turned around and thrown in the towel, but they didn't. ... They were patient, they jumped out of their egos, and we won a national championship."
Obama said Auriemma has "cemented his place as not only a legend in women's basketball, but one of the best coaches we've ever seen at any level and any sport."
He called out Breanna Stewart, named outstanding player at the Women's Final Four two years in a row; Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis; and Stefanie Dolson -- who at one point Monday stumbled on the stage behind the president -- and Bria Hartley, both of whom are now with the WNBA Washington Mystics.
And he remembered that at last year's ceremony, Dolson challenged him to a dance-off.
"It is going to happen. It is going to happen. Don't think you're going to beat me on that," Obama said. But "I have daughters in junior high and high school, and for their sake, I will not be dancing too much while the cameras are around."
Obama pointed out that the women's team went 40-0, winning their games by an average of 34 points. He said he has "bragging rights" for picking them in his NCAA bracket. "Me and 95 percent of the country," he said.
"Now, I have to confess, I did not pick the men to win in my bracket. Of course, neither did anybody else, unless you went to UConn," Obama said.
"We weren't counting on Shabazz Napier leading the way as the tournament's most outstanding player, and hitting big shot after big shot and locking down the perimeter defensively," the president added. He also praised Ryan Boatright, Deandre Daniels and Niels Giffey.
The president also took a moment to salute both teams for their "tremendous work in the community."
"They've raised awareness for cancer and autism," he said. "They've volunteered at senior centers, spent time with underprivileged youth ... and last year, after the tragedy in Newtown, the men put on a clinic for kids at a local rec center."
Obama praised the women's team members, "because I could not be more proud of the example that they present for my daughters. They're showing that ... girls can be tough, athletic, beautiful, successful, competitive and make fun of me, which my daughters do all the time."
Later, Auriemma was asked if he cared to make any estimates of how many more times he and his teams would be invited to the White House for national championship tributes.
"No estimates," he said, eyes twinkling. "But one more would be nice, next year."
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[This post has been updated to respond to comments left on the blog. Please see update at the bottom.]
On Thanksgiving Day, NBC broadcast the network premiere of "The Incredibles," allowing me to watch the film in HD - a pretty great experience since there's currently no other way to do so. I love the film, but every time I watch it, its overriding themes always bother me. Coincidentally, I also recently played and beat the wonderful "Bioshock," by Irrational Games, which is what led me to write this post.
Intentional or not , both of them derive strong inspirations from Ayn Rand's work. But where "Bioshock" illustrates the downfall of objectivism, "The Incredibles" spends most of its running time advocating it, to an extent that's fairly shocking for a mainstream film. This article will explore the similarities between the two works, but I will spend the bulk of the time interpreting their take on Rand's philosophies.
First, a quick tour of objectivism: Rand's philosophy, made evident in books like The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged essentially boils down to the notion that humans are self-interested and should be allowed to pursue their own happiness. In her own words,
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.Those that are smarter, more talented, or just plain better should be allowed to pursue their own interests without interference from government, religion, or anyone/anything else. The societal consequences of this are, of course, unfettered laissez-faire capitalism. This, coincidentally, is the exact same principle that Andrew Ryan (whose name is a play on Rand's name), one of the main characters from Bioshock, lives by. The following clip from the game should give you a pretty good summary of it, while also demonstrating how awesome the game is:
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In Bioshock, Ryan perfects the notion of objectivism in his underwater city but when scientists came up with plasmids and the devious Fontaine - more word play on Rand's The Fountainhead - cornered the market on them, things went horribly awry. Although we know that Ryan continued to have faith in free market capitalism ("Just design a better product!"), ultimately human nature took over. The power of plasmids was too hard to resist. And some, like Ryan and Fontaine, just became addicted to power:
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While Bioshock shows us the promise of objectivism, with its beautiful underwater city loaded with brilliant scientists and artists, it also shows us its downfall. What Ken Levine, the game's writer, seems to be saying is that human nature is incompatible with Rand's vision of the heroic person and that objectivism, noble and promising as it may be, is doomed to failure. Ugly, dystopian, freaky, frightening failure.
On the other hand, consider "The Incredibles."
In the opening scene of "The Incredibles," Mr. Incredible saves a suicidal building jumper, who in turns sues the daylights out of him. The "Supers" are then all forced into hiding by the government and the old-school film depicting the incident shows how they have now become everyday people:
Consider this piece of narration from the above section:
The supers will be granted amnesty from responsibility for past actions, in exchange for the promise to never again resume hero work. Where are they now? They are living among us. Average citizens, average heroes. Quietly and anonymously continuing to make the world a better place.The world in the film is one that clearly glorifies normality and same-ness. And that fact is intended to frustrate the audience, especially given the acrobatics we've just witnessed in the opening scene. We want to see these super heroes doing what they love to do, what they were born to do. And we hate that it's been taken away from them.
Speaking of which, there is a clear delineation between the supers and "normals." The character Incrediboy/Syndrome/Buddy, played deliciously by Jason Lee, is one of the latter, and his affections for hero work are repeatedly rebuffed by Mr. Incredible. In the opening scene, Incredible heartlessly ejects him from his car after Incrediboy tries to tag along:
Mr. Incredible doesn't mind working with cohorts like Frozone and Elastigirl, but Incrediboy seems to be out of the running simply because he wasn't born with superpowers. Forget the fact that he has worked immensely hard and has single-handedly engineered incredible technology; in the opening scene, he is depicted as annoying, foolish, and almost responsible for destroying a train full of innocent bystanders:
The primary problem with Incrediboy is that he's not one of the "chosen" ones, he's not "incredible." And therefore, he shouldn't hinder the efforts of those that are "incredible." Of course, i can't continue without mentioning the (in)famous scene in which Mr. Incredible laments mediocrity:
Bob: It's not a graduation. He's moving from the fourth grade to
the fifth grade. It's psychotic! They keep creating new ways to celebrate
mediocrity but if someone is genuinely exceptional...
Helen: This is not about you, Bob. This is about Dash.
Bob: You want to do something for Dash? Then let him actually
compete. Let him go out for sports!
Helen: You know why we can't do that...
Bob: Because he'd be great!
Mediocrity should not be celebrated, Bob seems to be saying. Greatness should be. And greatness, in the realm of the movie, means having superpowers. Weren't born with them? Too bad, even if you have an intelligence that can only be described as monstrously large (e.g. Syndrome).
By the end of the film, Syndrome has transformed into an evil menace and the Incredibles are cheered for thwarting his plan, and eventually, for killing him. The message of the film seems clear: Those that hinder greatness will be destroyed. In the end, greatness reveals itself and triumphs over mediocrity. Pretty heady stuff, and actually a pretty horrifying message for a children's film.
Except for one last thing.
In the final scene, Dash is seen actually taking up sports, while his family cheers him on from the bleachers. But they don't tell him to use his gifts to their fullest extent. Instead, they scream at him to do just well enough to come in second place:
It's actually a poignant scene and funny scene. But what are we to take from all this? This last scene seems to confuse "the message" of the movie and it's not entirely clear what Brad Bird is trying to communicate here. Perhaps he is saying that everyone can co-exist peacefully, that being "incredible" isn't all that important, and that it's not necessarily exclusive of normality. If this is true, then I think it's a positive message, but certainly a contrast from the 1 hour and 45 minutes that have come before.
Although Bird has often stated that he didn't intend any of the Rand-ian parallels, they are often sometimes embedded even within the visuals of the film, such as during the climax when Mr. Incredible takes a pose that looks a heck of a lot like Atlas Shrugged:
Whether or not they were intentional, the parallels and messages are fairly clear.
My law professor once called "The Incredibles" a "Republican movie." There are those that are incredible, there are those that aren't incredible, and that's just the way life is. You have to just have "it" in you (i.e. in the "Republican" analogy, "it" would be wealth, power, or an overriding desire for those things) and if you don't, you're looked down upon. When I first heard him, I didn't really know what the hell he was talking about. But now, I think I've come to terms with it.
"Bioshock" and "The Incredibles" show two visions of objectivism. "Bioshock" glorifies this vision before burning it to the ground, and quite rapidly at that. "The Incredibles," on the other hand," simply glorifies it. Yet regardless of what these works have to say, they remain some of my favorites of all time, and I hope they will be for you too.
So what do you think?
Next Friday: The Objectivist Implications of Ratatouille
Update (11:00pm, 12/10/07): There's been lots of great discussion going on in the comment section, so I thought I should take some time to respond. I think that responding to Brock's points will help answer some challenges that you guys have posed to my theories.
Brock said:
As others have mentioned, Incrediboy was out of the running because he was a child without the training or skills to survive Hero work. Mr. Incredible said the exact same thing about his own children.I don't recall when Mr. Incredible said this about his own children, but in any event, Incrediboy was not Bob's child, and therefore, he wouldnt' have felt as protective over him. I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility that Incrediboy could have been trained over time, in a Batman-and-Robin situation. Certainly that would have been preferable to rejecting a potential apprentice outright.
Brock said:
In the scene where Incrediboy's help is rejected, he hasn't done any of the times you've mentioned. If you're going to discuss movies, you NEED to keep your timelines straight.Sorry, Brock. YOU need to get your timelines straight. In the opening scene, Incrediboy has already developed rocket shoes that allow him to fly...technology that we don't yet have today (in the real world). He definitely showed promise and when he shows up years later with zero-point energy, it's not a complete surprise because we've already seen his brilliance demonstrated at such a young age.
Brock said (I'm cutting and pasting his responses into one whole one):
I would have thought that 'the problem' with Incrediboy/Syndrome was that he was a psychotic murder. The message I got was: "Those who build giant killer-robots, murder people, and try to destroy whole cities, will be opposed by good people who have the power to do so." The other lesson I got was: "Just because someone was mean to you as a kid is no excuse for building giant killer-robots, murdering people, or trying to destroy whole cities."What you don't fully take into account here is that the REASON Syndrome became a psychotic murderer was partially a result of his rejection by Mr. Incredible at the beginning. I don't disagree with you that he was a psychotic murderer (and should have been held to account for his actions) but if Incredible had said "Hey kid, you clearly are brilliant and have a lot of potential, despite your lack of super powers. I would like to train you as my successor," we can imagine the movie having a much different ending. It also would have been a much less exciting movie.
My problem is with Mr. Incredible's reason for not accepting Incrediboy, and I think it was primarily a result of his not having superpowers (and secondarily as a result of other reasons, e.g. he was annoying, he was young, he was inexperienced, etc.)
One last thing to consider before moving on from Syndrome. Consider this passage of dialogue from the film:
Oh, I'm real. Real enough to defeat you! And I did itThis last line is delivered ominously, and with scary music in the background to boot. The director is indicating to the audience that they should fear Syndrome's vision of the future, a future in which there is nothing remarkable about anyone, a future in which everyone can be super. And ultimately, for a children's movie, I think that's a shame. Despite his hyper-intelligence, at this point in the film Syndrome still represents mediocrity, sameness, and the status quo, which (as I've tried to point out) is what the film rails against.
without your precious gifts, your oh-so-special powers. I'll give them heroics.
I'll give them the most spectacular heroics anyone's ever seen! And when I'm old and I've had my fun, I'll sell my inventions so that everyone can be superheroes. Everyone can be super. And when everyone's super...no one will be.
Shifting gears to Bioshock: As for the notion that Andrew Ryan didn't truly exemplify Rand-ian ideals, I think user Edgeman says it best, when he's quoting user Brackhar:
"There's a large hole in your analysis regarding Bioshock though. In the end Rapture didn't collapse under the weight of its Randian ideals, but instead because Andrew Ryan betrayed those principles."For those that have read and taken my thoughts seriously, thank you. I have tried to do the same for yours. Even if you didn't agree, I hope you at least found the post thought-provoking. If more comments come in, I'll do another update (or if you feel your comment didn't get a fair shake, feel free to e-mail me and I'll try to write up a response).
I was thinking, isn't this EXACTLY why Randian ideals always fail, and wasn't this the point the writer made about it. In my personal opinion, if you really think it through, pretty much ANY form of government would work perfectly fine if human beings weren't so...human. Randian philosophy fails exactly for this reason. It fails to see reality beyond the naive ideals, and fails to see that human beings are greedy and selfish.
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GENEVA – Seventy-four years ago, the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps issued a request to 134 American manufacturers to create a design for a four-seat, quarter-ton 4×4 with a 40-hp inline-four, a two-speed transfer case, and a 1270-pound maximum weight. The Jeeps that Willys and Ford began delivering to the Army in 1941 (for $748.74 each) were overweight by at least 890 pounds, but the 2.2-liter L-head I-4 bested the Army's horsepower minimum by 50 percent. Years after the Jeep first invaded Europe, Enzo Ferrari declared it "America's only true sports car."
Now with a full line of capable off-roaders, Fiat-Chrysler's Jeep brand has landed on the continent with the Renegade, a new B-segment crossover designed to appeal to Europeans. The Renegade also capitalizes on Americans' growing interest in the subcompact sport/utility segment as it positions the brand to meet stringent 2016 and '25 Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards. The 2015 Jeep Renegade will be built in Melfi, Italy, on the "all-new" Fiat-based platform that Jeep calls the "small-wide 4×4" architecture.
The Renegade is cute, and yet it looks off-roadable enough to possibly avoid the "female car" epithet. (Just as you can sell an old man a young man's car but not the other way around, you can sell a woman a man's car but not vice-versa). As you'd expect, Jeep designers and engineers have baked in as much Jeep-ness as possible in order to appease Rubicon Trail-level off-roaders. Moab corollary: You can't sell an off-roader a city slicker's Jeep, but you can sell a city slicker an off-roader's Jeep.
Engineers devised two new full-time 4×4 systems for the Renegade: Active Drive and Active Drive Low, the latter a full-time 4×4 system with a 20:1 crawl ratio. Both are designed to provide 100 percent of available engine torque to any one wheel.
The Renegade 4×4 systems feature the new disconnecting rear axle and power takeoff unit first announced for all-wheel-drive versions of the 2015 Chrysler 200 V-6. Four-wheel drive automatically engages when traction is needed. The Active Drive and Active Drive Low systems come with Selec-Terrain, a traction control system with Sand, Snow, Mud, and Automatic settings and, on Trailhawk versions of the Renegade, an added "Rock" mode.
Trailhawk is Jeep-speak for "most off-road capable" trim level, and in the Renegade it includes the Active Drive Low system and Rock mode plus 0.8-inch higher ride height; skid plates with red front and rear tow hooks; unique fascias providing approach, breakover, and departure angles of 30.5, 25.7 and 34.3 degrees; 17-inch all-terrain tires; up to 8.1 inches of wheel articulation; hill-descent control; and up to 19 inches of water fording.
With the optional 2.4-liter Tigershark I-4 and tow package, the Renegade has a 2000-pound towing capacity. Markets outside of North America are offered a Multi-Jet II turbodiesel that can tow up to 3300 pounds.
Jeep says the Renegade was designed and engineered in the United States to offer a combination of best-in-class fuel efficiency and off-road capability. It will be offered with sixteen engines and four transmissions worldwide, though only two engines — neither of them diesels — and two transmissions will be offered in North America.
The base engine will be a 1.4-liter MultiAir turbocharged SOHC four making 160 hp and 170 lb-ft of torque. The optional engine will be the now-familiar 2.4-liter DOHC Tigershark four, with 184 hp and 177 lb-ft. The MultiAir can be had with a six-speed manual or the nine-speed automatic; the Tigershark is only available with the nine-speed.
Unlike the 1941 Jeep MB, the 2015 Jeep Renegade is not an open/convertible sport utility, though it there is a choice of two optional open-air sunroofs, called My Air. Jeep claims the segment's largest full-color instrument cluster, at seven inches. Chrysler's Uconnect Access and touchscreen radios will also be available. The Uconnect access, available only in U.S.-spec Renegades, includes one-touch 911 emergency service access, cloud-based voice-texting and Yelp services, and on-demand Wi-Fi hotspot connectivity.
The Renegade will also be available with front-wheel drive. In this modern world, the belief that real SUVs have longitudinally mounted engines and body-on-frame construction is a quaint notion of the past – see Range Rover Evoque to illustrate that is no longer true. For purists, there's still the very popular, highly profitable Wrangler/Wrangler Unlimited and Grand Cherokee. The Fiat-based Renegade — which at 166.6 inches long, 71 inches wide, and 66.5 inches tall is 36.7 inches longer, one foot wider, and 0.8 inch lower than the original WWII Jeep — is the model the brand needs to make it one of two Fiat-Chrysler divisions, with Alfa Romeo, slated to go global.
Our impressions live from the Geneva show floor
Cumberford: The Jeep Renegade is over styled. It doesn't look like a Jeep — more a Korean Jeep.
— Todd Lassa (@AM_Lassa) March 4, 2014
#Renegade works far better as a Jeep cute ute than Compass/Patriot ever did. #GenevaMotorShowpic.twitter.com/qvzZvrQwYR
— Todd Lassa (@AM_Lassa) March 4, 2014


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In the Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Inheritance& Wills in Quran
In Islamic society, as in most other societies, inheritance represents the most important method of transferring wealth from one generation to the next.
Islamic society derives its inheritance laws from the interpretation of the various schools of jurisprudence of the verses that relate to inheritence in the Quran, not from the Quran itself.
Even a cursory examination of the laws governing inheritance in most Islamic countries discloses a set of complicated rules that are difficult to understand and, consequently, apply. The courts are kept busy trying to untangle the morass, and their rulings hardly satisfy the litigants, usually siblings, who invariably feel that they were unfairly treated by the deceased father or mother.
Needless to say, the rules set out in the Quran are not applied correctly if at all. In fact what is applied is the hadeeth and Sunnah which are invariably the sources of the interpretations of the schools of jurisprudence.
The Quran lays down rules that are essentially simple if correctly applied and, above all, It enjoins people to write a will for the equitable disposition of their assets after their death.
The inheritance laws in the Quran are to be found mainly in chapter 2, Al-Baqarah and chapter 4, An-Nissaa'; a total of fourteen verses. There are several other verses that relate indirectly to inheritance such as verses 106 through 108 in chapter 5, Al-Maai'dah, which dictate that the will be witnessed by two witnesses and sets out the qualifications of those witnesses. Other verses deal with the administration of the property of infants.
Wills are not encouraged in most Islamic societies and are, in some jurisdictions, indeed prohibited in spite of the existence of ahadeeth condemning intestacy. In any case the testator is restricted to willing a maximum of one third of his estate and usually only to other than his legal heirs.
The rules that are applied in most Islamic jurisdictions are derived, as mentioned earlier, from the madhahib or Sunni schools of Islamic jurisprudence, Abu-Hanifa, Ash-Shafe'i, Ibn-Hambal and Maalik. These are the four major schools; there are several minor ones including the Zaydiya, the Ja'fariya and the Wahaabiya which is applied in Saudi Arabia. Most Sunni Islamic jurisdictions apply one or the other of the four major schools. Egypt applies Abu-Hanifa while Turkey has abandoned Islamic law in favour of Swiss family relations statutes; it co-opted the entire Swiss law. Iran and other Shi'a jurisdictions follow their own schools' understanding of the ahadeeth their jurists deem applicable.
The restrictions on the proportion of the will is based, by the jurists, on their incorrect construction of a famous hadeeth wherein the Prophet, peace be upon him, in response to a question from Sa'd Ibn Abi-Waqqaass - who was sick and believed that he was about to die - if he should bequeath his entire estate to charity, to the exclusion of his only daughter, refused; Sa'd then suggested one half of the estate and again the Prophet refused, upon which he proposed that he will only one third. The Prophet reluctantly approved suggesting that even that was too much. He also advised the dying man that it was better to leave his child rich rather than poor. There are several versions of this hadeeth in Al-Bukhari.
The Prophet, peace be upon him, was thinking logically and had the testator's and his child's best interests at heart. In suggesting that even one third of the legacy was too much to bequeath to charity, he was taking the particulars of that individual case into consideration and was giving his personal opinion thereon; he was not setting limits on the use of wills and certainly not laying down precedant. Nothing in the tone of that hadeeth would indicate that the Prophet intended that the maximum amount to be willed was one third of the lagacy.
The Islamic scholars, as usual, ignored the Quran, misconstrued the Prophet's words and misinterpreted his intent thereby rob-bing the inheritance laws of their flexibility and, not least, of their equability.
The Quran commands us to use the instrument of the will to transfer our property after our death. The first reference to inheritance in the Quran occurs at chapter 2, Al-Baqarah verses 180 through 182 which enjoin "(180)It is decreed for you that when death approaches one of you, if he leaves property, he shall write a will in favour of the parents and relatives equitably. This is a duty upon the righteous (181)If anyone changes a will after he has heard it, the sin of altering the will shall befall those responsible for altering it. God is Hearer, Knower. (182)If one sees gross injustice or bias on the part of the testator and takes it upon himself to effect a reconciliation between them to restore justice to the will, he commits no sin. God is Forgiver, Most Merciful."
The very first mention of inheritance in the Quran commands us to transfer our property to our heirs by means of a will. Moreover, our Lord makes it a duty upon the righteous.
The bulk of the inheritance laws in the Quran come in a block of eight verses at chapter 4, An-Nissaa', verses 7 through 14.
These verses speak to the inheritance rights of women and spouses among other things and lay down the rule in case of intestacy. Thus at verse 11 of the same chapter, we are informed, in part, "God decrees a will for the benefit of your children; the male gets twice the share of the female. If the heirs are women, more than two, they receive two thirds of the estate. If only one daughter is left, she gets one half. The parents of the deceased are each entitled to one sixth if he has left offspring. If he left no children and his parents are the only heirs, his mother gets one third. If he has siblings then his mother gets one sixth AFTER THE FULFILLMENT OF ANY WILL the deceased has left and after the payment of all debts...."
The wording of this verse makes clear the will of God. This distribution decreed by our Lord covers any part of the estate over and above a will and after paying off any debts incurred by the deceased or the estate. Thus God tells us that in cases where we leave no will, He provides one for us. This is clearly the exception, in view of the decree and duty at 2:180, not the rule.
The evidence for the foregoing is to be found in the same chapter at verse 7 which reads "The men shall get a share of what the parents and the relatives leave behind and the women shall get a share of what the parents and the relatives leave behind, be it small or large, a definite share."
Since no share is specified, it is fair to assume that though the right to inherit is established, the value of the share, depending on the circumstances, is discretionary.
It is noteworthy that in verse 12, which addresses the inheritance of spouses, the phrase 'after the fulfillment of a will and after the payment of any debt' is repeated three times.
Our worthy scholars ignored all of this, misinterpreted their ahadeeth and made the default will, provided by God to cover intestacy, the rule, thereby freezing the proportions and obviating the need for us to make wills and, in the process, created a fertile field for quarrels and disputes among the heirs with the concomitant bad blood and family rifts.
The reasoning in favour of a will is simple and obvious:
To demonstrate, let us examine a few common cases. A man has two children, a boy and a girl; the girl had a bad marriage which broke up and left her with young children in restrained financial circumstances, while the boy is doing well and earning a good living. Common sense and equability would dictate that the man should give her whatever she needs to maintain herself and her children at a decent standard of living equivalent to her brother's, or at least as would be expected in her social circle, regardless of the proportion of the estate that that might represent.
In actual practice, if the father gifted the difference to the daughter before his own death, there would be no repercussions; if, however, he willed her the difference by way of bequest, such a will would be invalid on the grounds that a legal heir cannot be the beneficiary of a will.
It is to be noted that the only difference between the gift and the will is one of timing; the former realizes the father's legitimate intent while the latter frustrates it.
Similarly, if that man had two sons, one god fearing, obedient and kind and considerate to his parents while the other is a rebellious, uncaring, insensitive profligate. Would it be equitable to give the latter a share equal to that of his good brother? The obvious answer is no. In fact giving him anything might simply speed his decline. His father may deem it necessary, for the good of the wayward son's children, if he had any, to disinherit him and will his share to them by way of a trust if they are minor, or directly if they are grown up.
A third case that comes to mind is that of a man with several children who have children of their own. One of the man's children predeceases him. In the Hanafi jurisdiction the children of the deceased son receive no part of their grand- father's estate. However, the jurists - realizing the gross injustice that that rule represents to the deceased son's children - prescribe, of all things, a will to be made by the grandfather in favor of the grandchildren bequeathing to them their father's share of the legacy. This is referred to as "wassiyah wajibah" - literally, "a will that should be made". However, the value of the will cannot exceed one third of the estate even though the dead son's share may be more than one third. The difference above the third will be unjustly lost to the children who are the true beneficiaries and given to someone who is not entitled to it. This is, at least, an injustice and if the children are young and fall under the definition of 'orphans' it becomes a mortal sin that violates chapter 4, An-Nissaa', verse 10 of which more later. God does not condone injustice and He is aware of all we do.
The "wassiyah wajibah", in itself, is a tacit admission that the Quranic commandment - the very word of God - is best; the jurists are forced to go back to the will to correct a glaring injustice wrought by the system they devised. God's system is the only one that will bring about justice and harmony in any society. Our scholars seem bent on deviating from it. Do they not know that God gets it right first time, every time?
Other jurisdictions, however, may pass the deceased son's share of his father's estate on to his children as a matter of course.
God, in His infinite wisdom and mercy, by mandating a will made His law flexible and equitable to fit all circumstance, but our scholars robbed it of both these vital qualities.
The other famous hadeeth, also in Al-Bukhari states 'There shall be no will in favour of a legal heir!'; it has become an axiom. It is this hadeeth which prohibits the making of a will in favor of legal heirs; it is not traced back to the Prophet, may peace be upon him. The scholar's argument in support of this axiom is that the legal heir shall get the share set out at 4:11. That argument flies in the face of the commandment at 2:180 which imposes a will in favor of the parents who are legal heirs whose shares are set out at 4:11. It also ignores the injunction at 4:7 which states that the men and the women shall inherit their parents and their relatives without, however, specifying the value of the share. The jurists failed to appreciate the implications of the default will and intestacy. It is only if 4:11 is put into its correct perspective, as a default will provided by God for intestates, that 2:180 makes any sense at all.
We hasten here to point out that there are no contradictions or inconsistencies in the Quran. The interpretations of the traditional schools of jurisprudence present us with a clear inconsistency between 2:180 and 4:11.
In spite of the inherent weaknesses of the inheritance laws in the West, there tend to be fewer disputes, in those jurisdictions, over inheritance because wills are strongly encouraged and because people tend to accept the testator's absolute right to dispose of his property in any manner he sees fit. Glaring injustices are, of course, referred to the courts, but generally it is accepted that there is precious little difference between bequeathing property and gifting it to its intended recipient on the morning of the testator's death. Both courses of action convey the testator's intent and the courts have been cautious in changing the intent of the testator unless there are compelling reasons for doing so.
In Islamic jurisdictions too, if the testator, on his deathbed, gifted property to one of his heirs thereby changing the proportions laid down by the inheritance laws, no-one would challenge the legality of such action. If, however, he were to bequeath that self same property similarly changing the proportions, such action would be, for some illogical reason, invalid.
Chapter 4, An-Nissaa', verse 10 is very interesting in that it is one of those verses that have been almost universally ignored by Islamic governments; it reads "Those who consume the orphans' wealth unjustly eat fire in their bellies and will suffer in Hell".
Islamic governments tax the property inherited by orphans; some of them impose a double tax, once on the estate before it passes to the heirs (death duties) and again when the heirs receive their shares of the estate (inheritance taxes). God does not exempt governments from the consumption of orphans' wealth.
The verse cited above is the corollary of chapter 6, Al-An'aam, verse 152 which commands, in part, "You shall not touch the orphans' wealth except in the most righteous manner, until they reach maturity...." Our Lord's commandments are clear and unequivocal; He makes no exceptions, and it is doubtful that taxing or double taxing the orphans' wealth is touching it 'in the most righteous manner'. Female orphans are especially hurt by such taxes as it is not uncommon for the government to get more of the estate than they do.
Is it any wonder then that Islamic societies are in such a poor state?
The fixing of the distribution and the restrictions on the will have also had the effect of violating chapter 4, An-Nissaa', verse 8 which commands "If during the distribution of the legacy there are relatives, orphans and needy people present, you shall give them therefrom, and treat them with kindness." The commandment embodied in that verse is universally disregarded because it was widely thought to have been 'abrogated' in spite of a hadeeth denying its abrogation.
It has been argued that applying the proportions laid down at 4:11 is the best option as these proportions are those dictated by God Himself. This argument fails to take into consideration the fact that God dictated these proportions as those to be applied if the deceased has left no will; in other words God, here, gives us the best second choice. God has also given us the best option by imposing upon us the duty to make a will. God upholds the testator's right to dispose of his property - which is entrusted to him during his lifetime by its real owner, God - in any way he sees fit with the proviso that he maintain righteousness and observe God.
The interpretations of the jurists have unfortunately not wrought the equitable distribution of wealth and have caused havoc in family and social relations by concentrating wealth in fewer hands in violation of God's clear commandments.
If we obey God's commandments instead of second guessing Him, He will most assuredly bless our societies and grant us the goodly life on earth He has promised His righteous servants.


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This site will present you an episode of American history which is not often
talked about. In the last decades of the 19th century a battle raged in the United States
around a problem so arcane in nature that very few understood it at all, but so important
in scope that everybody in the country has been affected during years from it. The simple
change of monetary standard gave rise to a
national debate that dominated the last two presidential elections of the century, and in
which everybody in the country, from the humble toilers to the great East Coast magnates
participated. Hundreds of popular tracts, scholarly books were published about the virtues
and vices of the Bimetallic versus the Gold Standard, lectures were given and political
parties were founded on this sole topic.
To understand what follows you need first to read my site
on bimetallism.
The purpose of the following pages is to give you an
entertaining overview of a matter sometimes left in the academic dryness of figures,
formulas and austere graphs. I offer you many colorful slides, pictures and cartoons to
make this chapter of American history alive.
Use the navigation bar on the left or go directly to the next slide.
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With a doubleheader sweep on the road at Southern Miss on Tuesday, the Ole Miss softball team improved to 6-6 on the season as it comes home to play its first home games of the season at the annual Red and Blue Classic from Friday-Sunday.
"It's tough because we lost a lot of one-run ball games, and if we cleaned up some mistakes in some of those games, or scored some of the runners that we left on base, we would have won some more games," head coach Windy Thees said.
"Overall, if you look at our offense, we're doing really well. We just need to make sure we're scoring the runners when we get on base. Pitching-wise, we're keeping our team in ball games. We need to get the big out with a runner on instead of putting pressure on our defense. Defensively, we have had some great games, but we need to come up with the big play in the infield and outfield. We have made more mistakes this year than I'm used to, but part of that is because we have more drop-ball pitchers and we don't have as my pop-ups or fly balls."
The Rebels are hitting .317 and averaging 4.1 runs per game, led by senior outfielder RT Cantillo and junior third baseman Allison Brown. Cantillo leads the Southeastern Conference with 23 hits on the season, and her team-high batting average of .575 ranks second in the league. Brown is tied for second in the SEC with 16 hits, while her .381 batting average is third on the team.
Through 12 games, Ole Miss has left 88 runners on base, an average of 7.3 per game. Thees said she wants her team to embrace the opportunity and make the great play in situations such as hitting with runners on base.
"Sometimes we're getting some great hits, but we're getting unlucky," Thees said. "A lot of times the kids are putting too much pressure on themselves and not being patient and selective enough to get their pitch early in the count.
"We're working on that. It's early-season excitement, getting in the box, wanting to come through and seeing the game too big, instead of really small, looking for something up and out so I can drive it opposite field to score the runner."
In the circle, Ole Miss has posted a 2.48 ERA with 39 runs scored -- 28 earned -- on 66 hits with 34 walks and 69 strikeouts. Four pitchers have started games for the Rebels.
The most consistent option has been senior right-hander Shelby Jo Fenter, who holds a team-best 1.24 ERA in 22.2 innings of work, including a team-high 28 strikeouts. Another right-hander, redshirt freshman Emily Gaitan, is second on the team with a 1.43 ERA in 14.2 innings of work and also leads the team with a .156 opponents' batting average.
"It's nice to have so many options, and they're all four very different pitchers," Thees said. "Part of it is tough because they all need to get more time on the mound, and they're not getting as much as they're used to.
"I like that we can mix pitchers, so I definitely plan on using my whole staff throughout the season. We don't have that staff where we are going to ride one pitcher like some teams do for the whole season."
Ole Miss opens the three-day, five-game tournament Friday against Bowling Green at 6:00 p.m. On Saturday, the Rebels play back-to-back games at 1:30 p.m. and 3:45 p.m. against Buffalo and Northern Colorado, respectively. Ole Miss will close the tournament Sunday with games against Saint Louis (1:30 p.m.) and UT Martin (3:45 p.m.)
"It's always exciting for our players and for us as a staff to play in front of our friends, our family, Ole Miss and the community we have here," Thees said. "Our girls are very excited to be at home and play on the field that we practice on and that we know so well. Hopefully we can make everyone proud."


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via Google Operating System door Alex Chitu op 8-2-10
Firefox has an option that lets you temporarily disable themes and extensions, so you can still use your browser even if one of your add-ons is buggy. It's called safe mode and it's "a special Firefox execution mode that can be used to troubleshoot issues in Firefox. In Safe Mode, you can reset some settings or disable add-ons that might be the source of the issue. By comparing Firefox behavior in normal mode to its behavior in Safe Mode with various items disabled, you may be able to diagnose issues."
Google Chrome doesn't have this feature, but you can open an incognito window to temporarily disable extensions.
If you want to create a shortcut that opens Chrome in incognito mode, duplicate an existing Chrome shortcut, right-click on the shortcut, select "Properties" and append this flag to the target value: --incognito (don't forget to add a space to separate the flag).


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The Best Electrical Inspectors in Massachusetts
When it comes to electrical inspections, Massachusetts has a lot of electricians to choose from. However, we feel like our electrical inspectors are some of the very best in all of Massachusetts. Our electrical inspectors will do a thorough, complete inspection of all of your electrical outlets, switches, panels, wiring, and everything else, and provide you with a complete inspection report with their findings. So whether you need an electric inspection to get your power turned on or if you just need to get things checked out we are here to help. Our electrical inspectors are licensed and certified. They know what they are doing and have the knowledge and experience to do a reliable inspection every time. All you need to do is fill out our simple contact form, tell us about your electrical inspection needs, and we will get back to you right away with a free quote.


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Essential Recipe: Balsamic Vinaigrette
Knowing how to make a basic vinaigrette for salads is one of the best skills a home cook can have. And happily, this is as easy as combining olive oil and vinegar in a jar with some salt and fresh-cracked black pepper, and then giving that jar a shake. You barely even need a recipe.
The standard ratio for vinaigrettes is three parts oil to one part vinegar. But it's a flexible ratio, so use more vinegar if you like a tart dressing or more oil if you like it richer. This is also not something for which you need to take out the measuring cups — eye-balling the proportions right in the salad bowl or jam jar is perfectly acceptable behavior.
Balsamic vinaigrette will take you far in life. This is made just with olive oil and balsamic vinegar, and the balsamic adds just the right touch of sweetness when tossed with salad greens. If you're feeling fancy, you can add other ingredients the mix, like a dollop of grainy mustard, some minced shallots, or a tablespoon of fresh chopped herbs. If you'd like a little more sweetness, whisk in some brown sugar or honey.
And since we're talking variations, definitely use this basic recipe as a template for all your vinaigrette desires. Swap out the balsamic for a good red wine vinegar or even freshly squeezed lemon juice. Infuse your olive oil with garlic or other spices for another layer of flavor. The sky is the limit here.
I usually make about a cup of dressing at a time and keep it in a jam jar on my counter (no need to refrigerate unless you add fresh ingredients!). This will last me through about a week's worth of salads. The vinegar and oil will separate after a few minutes, but shaking the jar to re-combine the vinaigrette is just as easy as pulling a store-bought bottle out of the fridge.
Do you make your own balsamic vinaigrette? What's your favorite variation?
How To Make Balsamic Vinaigrette
Makes about 1 cup
What You Need
3/4 cup
extra-virgin olive oil
1/4 cup
balsamic vinegar
Fresh-ground pepper
- Optional extras
Spoonful of mustard, minced shallots, minced garlic, minced fresh herbs, teaspoon dried herbs, spoonful of honey or brown sugar
Combine the olive oil and balsamic in a jam jar or other container with a good-sealing lid. Add a big pinch of salt and a few grinds of black pepper. Screw on the lid and shake vigorously. Dip a piece of lettuce into the vinaigrette and taste. Adjust the salt, pepper, or the proportion of oil and vinegar to taste.
This vinaigrette will keep on the counter for several weeks (refrigerate if you added any fresh ingredients). The oil and vinegar will separate a few minutes after shaking — shake to recombine before dressing your salad.
Recipe Notes
Making more or less vinaigrette: Stick to a rough ratio of 3 parts oil to 1 part vinegar, and scale up or down accordingly. Smaller amounts are easily whisked together in a small bowl and poured immediately over the salad.
A version of this post was originally published 2/11/11. The recipe and text have been updated.
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San Diego Chosen as Third ITEC Location
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UCSD has been selected by Internet2 as a national Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center (ITEC). The mission of the center will be to test and evaluate leading-edge technologies for high-performance Internet2 networks—working with developers to test and refine network hardware and software for optimal end-to-end network performance up to 10 gigabits per second. Internet2 is a consortium led by more than 200 U.S. universities, working with industry and government to develop and deploy advanced Internet applications and technologies.


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A 36-year-old man from Independence Township apparently shot and killed himself by accident while trying to demonstrate gun safety to his girlfriend after he had been drinking, authorities said.
Oakland County Sheriff�s deputies arrived at about 9 p.m. Sunday to a home on the 4400 block of Pinedale, near Sashabaw and Maybee roads, where the man�s girlfriend was performing CPR.
The girlfriend told authorities that the man had been drinking all day and was explaining to her that his three handguns are safe when they aren�t loaded, according to Oakland County Undersheriff Michael McCabe. He demonstrated by placing the guns against his head and pulling the trigger.
When he pulled the trigger on the third handgun, it discharged. The man was pronounced dead at the scene.
Three children, ages 7, 10, and 12, were home at the time but didn�t witness the shooting, McCabe said. They weren�t hurt. Authorities said they weren�t the man�s biological children.
Alcohol appears to have been a factor in the shooting, according to the sheriff�s office. The man�s name wasn�t immediately released.
Authorities continue to investigate.
The incident comes on the heels of another accidental shooting that made headlines. On Dec. 30, UAW Vice President General Holiefield was cleaning loaded guns in his Harrison Township home when he shot his wife, who survived the injury.
The labor leader pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of reckless use of a firearm.