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A good many years ago there lived in Italy a little boy whose name was An-to´ni-o Ca-no´va. He lived with his grand-fa-ther, for his own father was dead. His grand-fa-ther was a stone-cut-ter, and he was very poor.
An-to-ni-o was a puny lad, and not strong enough to work. He did not care to play with the other boys of the town. But he liked to go with his grandfather to the stone-yard. While the old man was busy, cutting and trimming the great blocks of stone, the lad would play among the chips. Sometimes he would make a little statue of soft clay; sometimes he would take hammer and chisel, and try to cut a statue from a piece of rock. He showed so much skill that his grandfather was de-light-ed.
"The boy will be a sculp-tor some day," he said.
Then when they went home in the evening, the grand-moth-er would say, "What have you been doing to-day, my little sculp-tor?"
And she would take him upon her lap and sing to him, or tell him stories that filled his mind with pictures of wonderful and beautiful things. And the next day, when he went back to the stone-yard, he would try to make some of those pictures in stone or clay.
There lived in the same town a rich man who was called the Count. Sometimes the Count would have a grand dinner, and his rich friends from other towns would come to visit him. Then Antonio's grandfather would go up to the Count's house to help with the work in the kitchen; for he was a fine cook as well as a good stone-cut-ter.
It happened one day that Antonio went with his grandfather to the Count's great house. Some people from the city were coming, and there was to be a grand feast. The boy could not cook, and he was not old enough to wait on the table; but he could wash the pans and kettles, and as he was smart and quick, he could help in many other ways.
All went well until it was time to spread the table for dinner. Then there was a crash in the dining room, and a man rushed into the kitchen with some pieces of marble in his hands. He was pale, and trembling with fright.
"What shall I do? What shall I do?" he cried. "I have broken the statue that was to stand at the center of the table. I cannot make the table look pretty without the statue. What will the Count say?"
And now all the other servants were in trouble. Was the dinner to be a failure after all? For everything de-pend-ed on having the table nicely arranged. The Count would be very angry.
"Ah, what shall we do?" they all asked.
Then little Antonio Ca-no-va left his pans and kettles, and went up to the man who had caused the trouble.
"If you had another statue, could you arrange the table?" he asked.
"Cer-tain-ly," said the man; "that is, if the statue were of the right length and height."
"Will you let me try to make one?" asked Anto-nio "Perhaps I can make something that will do."
The man laughed.
"Non-sense!" he cried. "Who are you, that you talk of making statues on an hour's notice?"
"I am Antonio Canova," said the lad.
"Let the boy try what he can do," said the servants, who knew him.
And so, since nothing else could be done, the man allowed him to try.
On the kitchen table there was a large square lump of yellow butter. Two hundred pounds the lump weighed, and it had just come in, fresh and clean, from the dairy on the mountain. With a kitchen knife in his hand, Antonio began to cut and carve this butter. In a few minutes he had molded it into the shape of a crouching lion; and all the servants crowded around to see it.
"How beautiful!" they cried. "It is a great deal pret-ti-er than the statue that was broken."
When it was finished, the man carried it to its place.
"The table will be hand-som-er by half than I ever hoped to make it," he said.
When the Count and his friends came in to dinner, the first thing they saw was the yellow lion.
"What a beautiful work of art!" they cried. "None but a very great artist could ever carve such a figure; and how odd that he should choose to make it of butter!" And then they asked the Count to tell them the name of the artist.
"Truly, my friends," he said, "this is as much of a surprise to me as to you." And then he called to his head servant, and asked him where he had found so wonderful a statue.
"It was carved only an hour ago by a little boy in the kitchen," said the servant.
This made the Count's friends wonder still more; and the Count bade the servant call the boy into the room.
"My lad," he said, "you have done a piece of work of which the greatest artists would be proud. What is your name, and who is your teacher?"
"My name is Antonio Canova," said the boy, "and I have had no teacher but my grandfather the stonecutter."
By this time all the guests had crowded around Antonio. There were famous artists among them, and they knew that the lad was a genius. They could not say enough in praise of his work; and when at last they sat down at the table, nothing would please them but that Antonio should have a seat with them; and the dinner was made a feast in his honor.
The very next day the Count sent for Antonio to come and live with him. The best artists in the land were em-ployed to teach him the art in which he had shown so much skill; but now, instead of carving butter, he chis-eled marble. In a few years, Antonio Canova became known as one of the greatest sculptors in the world.
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"I'm guessing users click on "Products" less often than they do on the top-rightmost menu items." Well, I've never clicked it on purpose, so... — John Montgomery 1 min ago
And for the record, popularity doesn't make a question good. Quite the opposite, usually. Counter-example: this question about memory handling in C++. Nobody unfamiliar with C++ understands it, but everyone understands what happens when you leave a book in a drawer in a hotel room and steal the room key. — Robert Harvey 5 secs ago
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I would also like to see burnination and tag clean up requests featured every so often. It seems like many of them don't happen just because they don't get views. (I may be biased, having just made a request.) That may be more feasible once there are more moderators or current moderators are less busy. — BSMP 1 min ago
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What is the value of having a runnable snippet that cannot run? Nothing. Remove them. I also tend to remove JS runnable snippets into non-runnable blocks if all they just throw an error and it's not OP's reported problem (incomplete snippet). — VLAZ 14 secs ago
I've noticed some users actively edit non-runnable code into stack snippets. It would be awesome to have a policy for this. — Scratte 22 secs ago
"Since we cannot control which question can be popular, I am wondering if there is a way to early identify that a question will become popular." This reads to me like: X is impossible, so let's try X, which would be rather futile. Where exactly is the difference between controlling and predicting? — Trilarion 1 min ago
OK thanks, I just thought the title should be concise and not too long, but the duplicates also suggest being more elaborate in the title. I'll try that in the future. — Tobias Feil 1 min ago
Good to know I could have just added 5 question marks and it would have been accepted. — Tobias Feil 16 secs ago
@CodyGray Including some territory with one or another country is not a simplification though. Leaving Crimea out completely would have been a simplification. It might just be a mistake but in the end SO is responsible for the maps they draw, I think. — Trilarion 6 secs ago
Is there any statistics available how many of the new questions are link to offsite code only? — Trilarion 14 secs ago
@RobertHarvey popularity doesn't make a question good this is exactly what I am trying to fix here. If I have a metric to let me know that a question is becoming popular then I can improve my answer there to make it good enough since a lot of people will see it. By the way, HNQ doen't do this. HNQ consider the number of answer and the number of votes and having many answers means that the question is either trivial or a clear duplicate. It's rarely a good one (related: meta.stackoverflow.com/q/392597/8620333) — Temani Afif 23 secs ago
@Trilarion By controling I mean editing the question to make it more SEO friendly. It's like you have a website and you try hard to make it rank first. You have a question about a particular issue and you try to get the first one when we search about that issue (so it's popular). You cannot control this because many questions will cover the same issue and few of them will rank high. Knowing which one is on its way to become popular will help me focus on it rather than trying to edit other questions that will never become popular. — Temani Afif 52 secs ago
@ggorlen upvotes isn't really an issue because we can easily get them with basic answers to very popular questions. What I want is that all the answers I gave to popular questions are canonical or with enough detail to fix and explain the issue. I would like to do this as soon as possible and not wait until the question is at 30K views — Temani Afif 1 min ago
@CodyGray the other question isn't getting much attention and this is still an issue. I'm sick of seeing the blue banner at the top of the screen every time I refresh or click a link. — Lankymart 55 secs ago
If we would subscribe to the theory that almost all important programming questions about existing technology have already been asked on SO then one may be able to limit the possibility of popular questions yet to be asked on SO to those areas where new technology arrives. Basically disregard all questions that are not about really new things. — Trilarion 1 min ago
@Trilarion based on my experience it's not always the case. Surprisingly some questions about old stuff get a high popularity in a short time of period while question about new things don't get popular (or maybe will be in the future). If I have all the analytic tools for SO I can do such study since it's about stats analysis. I simply need to follow the number of views and see how its increasing. By the way, we already have an example of tool that gives us some stats stackoverflow.com/tools?tab=stats&daterange=today but it's not really what I am looking for. — Temani Afif 1 min ago
@Scratte We do. There is a long-standing policy to reject harmful or superfluous edits. — Cody Gray ♦ 1 min ago
There is a use for having non-JS/HTML/CSS in a snippet. Snippets allow you to have the code in the snippet shown hidden by default. The OP may have wanted to use the capability to have large blocks of code as click-to-view in order to make the post flow a bit easier, but give readers the opportunity to see more extensive examples, if the reader chooses. Other than that potential use, I agree that it doesn't make much sense to have non-JS/HTML/CSS languages in a snippet. I'd note that it's much more likely the OP using a snippet is a mistake/misunderstanding, rather than intentional. — Makyen just now
Does this answer your question? Where can I ask questions that don't fit or are off-topic for Stack Overflow? — Erik A 1 min ago
Does this answer your question? What kind of questions belong on Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow? — gnat 1 min ago
Overall:you need to RESEARCH your questions 'how do I get started with java?' isn't a question for us. It's a question for Google. Then you find a tutorial and you work on it a bit. If you get stuck, then you come here, asking 'hey, I found this online that said X should result in Y. It gives me Z. I played and tweaked to no avail. I even tried W. What's needed to get Y?'. — Patrice 1 min ago
Good god. Some of these responses read like they're written by butt hurt parents who are angered by their child's behavior after getting little to no sleep the night before. Seriously, you can answer this new contributors question without the use of capital letters or passive-aggressive tone. — Mcmahoon89 1 min ago
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Argee on the renaming - recently started to notice the
tag on questions that are about google apps script issues (I frequent the tag). @CodyGray - although the renaming part seems to me a proper way to deal with the problem, I am unsure whether it will pay off to give askers a way to shoot themselves in the foot by linking (in my experience a quie a few of google-apps-script
questions are asked by people who don't look twice at tags they add) — Oleg Valter 1 min ago12:47 PM
I would go for the synonym if there is no question mis-tagged in those 21 questions. — rene 41 secs ago
@rene - I don't see any mistagged, so I totally argee that a synonymizing may be enough. Just need to point out that this tag is inconsistent with how "[service name]App" are treated (there are none for others) — Oleg Valter 1 min ago
@user000001 when you say "quickly deleting disruptive content" - do you mean just from HMP, or actually honestly delete the posts from Meta? As written, I'm assuming the latter, with which I vehemently disagree. — The DIMM Reaper 47 secs ago
@rene: Yes, I had 3rd party cookies blocked. Seems to go now, at least on Chrome. — Trunk 51 secs ago
@rene: Thanks for process description - I watched it on Network. My account seems like it's coordinated now, must've been the 3rd party cookies. — Trunk 22 secs ago
@djsmiley2kStaysInside Depending on how involved I want to get, I sometimes point out that they are literally breaking the law. — Michael - Where's Clay Shirky 1 min ago
If [gan] is made a synonym of [generative-adversarial-network], then it's still possible to type [gan] into tags field. I vote for the longer, more descriptive tag. — Cris Luengo 2 mins ago
You can edit your contributions at any point. However, there is a specific limitation to the review queue process, only the first edit caused your contribution to be reviewed. So if the question is closed, and you make an incomplete edit to your contribution, the question will likely remain closed since the reasons the question was originally closed were not addressed. You can flag or vote to reopen your own question at any point. — Security Hound 7 secs ago
Very strange. I wasn't able to reproduce the issue at all. Was this your exact Markdown content —
Did you already try putting a backslash after the `username` ( `C:\Users\%USERNAME%` )?
? — user4642212 1 min agoThis happened because you put a backslash before the closing backtick (see the Markdown by entering your comment link here). In these cases, enclose the code in two backticks.
— double-beep 14 secs agoDid you already try putting a backslash after the username (
)? — Dominique 59 secs ago@Dominique You wrote
, right? Then you need to type ⟨backtick⟩⟨backtick⟩C:\Users\%USERNAME%⟨backslash⟩⟨backtick⟩⟨backtick⟩
. — user4642212 12 secs ago@user4642212: I understand what I should do in such a case, but what I don't understand is that, when I copy/paste the comment here, the problem seems not to occur. — Dominique 28 secs ago
Well, if you type
, you get `C:\Users\%USERNAME%`. The backslash at the end is key. — user4642212 1 min agoAh. Now I understand it. Sorry. (I had tried to edit the original comment in order to see the original one, but it didn't work (after a while you can't edit (or view original) comments anymore)). — Dominique 20 secs ago
This can likely be closed as a duplicate of Backslash inside backquotes in a comment anyway. — user4642212 44 secs ago
Does this answer your question? Why did I gain/lose reputation? Can I audit my reputation history? — yivi 1 min ago
That question is not yours, at least not linked to the account you asked this meta question with. — rene 21 secs ago
original question/answer stackoverflow.com/questions/61001865/…. I am on chrome. No errors related to checkmark seen in console when clicking checkmark. — elderlyman 1 min ago
@TheMaker Well we could counter with: Why should you get rewarded for doing something that hasn't helped anyone? — Robert Longson 36 secs ago
rene - what is the username you see for the account that asked the original question in Stack Overflow? What is the account you see now on Meta Stack Overflow? Currently on my view I see username as elderlyman in all locations. — elderlyman 47 secs ago
thanks rene - toggled the checkmark a couple times here to be sure! now to kill this account... — elderlyman 1 min ago
@SecurityHound You need 250 reputation for that, actually (there is no reopen flag). — John Montgomery 37 secs ago
You'll want to avoid suggesting edits to questions that need to be closed. If you look at the timeline for this question you edited your edit was approved after the question was closed, which pushed it into the re-open queue where it of course was voted to Remain Closed. At 1-, there's a very good chance this question will end up deleted. — BSMP 1 min ago
Pro tips: (1) Directing the community as to what answers you will personally find acceptable and what you will not is frowned-upon, and often makes the question itself off-topic if what you're looking for isn't what we provide. (2) If you think this question will also be closed, posting it anyway and stating that you think it would be closed shows clear disregard for the community of volunteers from which you are asking help. (3) Threatening to spam the community is not an effective way to ask for help with something. — David 1 min ago
You seem very angry. I suspect it's not working for you. I think you will find Stack Overflow to be much better for you if you read the pages in the help center before you post. You can find the help center almost where the "log out" is :) — Scratte 45 secs ago
Please give me a clear answer to the question then.... why my question was closed. and if it is valid then provide me proper answer — Govind Pandit 52 secs ago
Please read the help center article about editing for more information about why it is considered okay for people to edit your posts. — Heretic Monkey 2 mins ago
There is no way to give a moderator a "negative rating". The question was closed because it lacks details and/or clarity about what is being asked. How do I know this? Because that's what it says in the message at the top of the question. So edit your question and add more detail and be more clear about what exactly your question is. Above all, please don't take everything so personally. "I don't know who is this guy." That's fine; you don't need to know that guy. You just need to know that there was something lacking in your question, so you should edit it to make it more clear. — Heretic Monkey 1 min ago
Which question? The programming one? OR this question? Which is not understandable? — Govind Pandit 18 secs ago
@GovindPandit: We can appreciate that you're looking for help with a programming problem. What's happening right now is that the focus on that problem has been lost and has entirely shifted into what is essentially an argument about Stack Overflow itself. Pursuing such an argument is ultimately unproductive. I recommend you remain focused on the programming problem. You are encouraged to delete both this question and the original, and take some time to formulate a new question. Something as simple as "Why does the toast notification within onNothingSelected not display?"... — David just now
@GovindPandit: ... And include in that question any debugging you've done, such as how you've confirmed that onNothingSelected is invoking in the first place, and any errors you encounter. One thing you should not do when asking that question is demand the format of an answer. Do not declare that you want us to build your application for you, or that you will only accept complete code that can be copied/pasted as-is. We do not provide that. What we do provide is help and guidance on understanding the problem. — David 36 secs ago
Does this answer your question? Removing phrases like "I looked everywhere on the internet and I did not find anything" — gnat 1 min ago
Does this answer your question? How should one ask for clarification on a question if they can't yet comment? — gnat 1 min ago
In particular, it's not clear to me if the question is "Why isn't
ever being called?" (are you sure it's not?) or "I'm sure onNothingSelected()
is being called, but trying to display toast (or something) doesn't work." — Paul Roub 42 secs agoDear @David and all respected active members :). I updated my answer. Thank you for precious valuable time. Please check the post now and suggest me if you have any more rules... — Govind Pandit 1 min ago
@BSMP Yes, I should stop doing edits for posts that are going to be closed. Usually I do it when I find a post of that type. — TheMaker 54 secs ago
@GovindPandit Great start -- but the question is still unclear to me. Please see Rene's answer (and my comment) below. — Paul Roub 1 min ago
My Question is Why isn't onNothingSelected() ever being called? I tried spinner with and without adapter also. But it is not executing onNothingSelected method. — Govind Pandit 1 min ago
Another rule is not using multiple "sockpuppet" accounts to do things like propose edits on your own questions. — jonrsharpe 50 secs ago
Is my question is clear to you now? Are anyone going to answer to my stack overflow question? or any more edit is required? — Govind Pandit 1 min ago
Ohh. Sorry By mistake i updated it using different account.. But is my question is clear now? — Govind Pandit 1 min ago
No, because your edit had to be rejected as it came from a sockpuppet. Use the account you used to ask the question to edit it. — Robert Longson 2 mins ago
@Braiam (Possibly I will remember better 1500 rep later.) I was unsatisfied with the unwelcomeness of the site. It hit me, and also others. I was unsatisfied with many unexplained, irrational hostilities of the network (like closing off-topic questions even if they would be migratable). I came here, and I've seen that the community "common opinion" is nearly the exact opposite of what I would call good-willig or rational. — peterh - Reinstate Monica 44 secs ago
You used a sockpuppet account to attempt to edit the question. As that's against the rules you'll have to resubmit the edit using your main account. The advantage with that is that it won't need to be reviewed. — Robert Longson 1 min ago
There are Questions that asks how-to, which will give code examples. Also, why the "Hi User! Welcome to SO"? 1. Your comment may be there for a long time 2. It seems sort of snarky when the rest is a list of stuff they didn't do right. When it's a canned comment, why abbreviate Stack Overflow? There's a lot a new user needs to learn, why add more when it's not important? — Scratte 1 min ago
@GovindPandit no, you didn't include what you searched for and which posts you found in that search were applied by you to reach that code you have now. The link I provided is clickable,. Did you notice that? Also the debugging / diagnosing which part of that code runs is still missing. I doubt it is answerable in its current state. You need to hurry with your edits now because if that question pops up in the re-open queue in 15 minutes you want reviewers to be convinced it can be answered. At the moment I wouldn't have high hopes the question will be re-opened. — rene 1 min ago
It's useful to have this in some cases :) Constructive criticism and places they can find stuff to improve can help them in the future going forward on SO :) — Neko Musume 1 min ago
Your comment looks like a catch-all kind of thing. If I had asked a Question here, I would find it confusing, not helpful. What exactly do I need to do to make my Question on-topic? Not a bunch of stuff that may or may not apply. And first.. I'd even have to find out what "SO" means. — Scratte just now
Not suggesting a conclusion in either direction, but the statement "TL;DR - a high percentage ... at least occasionally visit MSO or MSE" appears to be very poor support for the statement "meta users represent engaged users". I would be curious to see the percentage of moderation coming from people who visit worldbuilding occasionally, or any other frequently-sidebarred location. — Cireo 1 min ago
Then this is simply a wrong wording, as the meaning of a duplicate - to me and to everyone else you might ask - is to be the same, not just very similar. This is in the generally known meaning of the word. If that is the only confusion here, why not changing the name duplicate to something more intuitive, like 'very similar' for example? — Lorenz 1 min ago
Yes, I am familiar with the rules, but I this is only a try of a researcher who simply can not wait to achieve the designated reputation level :) — László Tóth 58 secs ago
Specifically for your question, the new answer from 2017 has 55 upvotes. The +15 for the accept is minimal compared to the +550 rep from the upvotes so don't change just to "reward" someone = they've been rewarded plenty. Your answer should be the best answer that helped you most. As rene said - bounties are a more substantial way to reward answers with rep if you feel the need — psubsee2003 1 min ago
I think the recommendation I've seen for this is to downvote the posts. Otherwise, you could leave a comment and/or edit the post (although editing should be a last resort). — TheWanderer just now
Google "site:meta.stackoverflow.com a year in moderation" to find the Shog9 posts back. — Hans Passant 1 min ago
@PaulRoub That one is closely related. And I am also talking about Questions here. — Ani Menon 24 secs ago
You did post this question: stackoverflow.com/q/62182406/578411 did you manage to resolve the issue? — rene 36 secs ago
Take a look at the downvote tooltip, specifically the part about it not being useful. I'd say that fits your requirement pretty well. As for editing, I don't mean change the answer, but rather add a notice. — TheWanderer 47 secs ago
@Braiam So: 1) I gave up the hope that once I will use my SO profile to tune my online identity 2) I went into anonymity, and 3) I started to break the taboos. | I think I did it well, I had to most impact for that what a "simple mortal" could have. — peterh - Reinstate Monica 1 min ago
@rene A question might be something like
how can I add column names with tables in xyz framework
this might be very relevant for the version of that framework today but few months from now this question might entirely be irrelevant if the framework can just infer schema and you don't need to do add column name
explicitly anymore. — Ani Menon 1 min ago"Vehement, hostile" meta users represent the opinion that the objective value of the site is in many ways inversely proportional to how welcoming it is, and that these things are fundamentally irreconcilable. It's just a matter of time before someone makes their own SO with blackjack and hookers and it shoots to the top of the Google page rankings. — StackOverthrow 1 min ago
@StackOverthrow Yes, so is their agenda. Fact is (for me), that they did it badly. So badly, that the site stagnated 5 years long, while the Internet doubled around it. So badly, that finally a new CEO was needed to fix the things (obviously CEOs are replaced mostly because bad economical stats). Yes, shooting to the top of the Google is at least an understable goal, with a close relation to the general user experience of the visitors. Working on to make yet more hostilities to the newbies, for a little chance on the next election, is a directly contradicting goal. — peterh - Reinstate Monica 15 secs ago
If you have question about specific post it is better to ask just that... If not - coming up with something better that generally off-topic "bash" tag as an example would be better. It is hard to see how regular "write code/script that I can use in bash to do XXXX" is not answered by valid piece of python code... — Alexei Levenkov 5 secs ago
@StackOverthrow I am really sorry, but if I had seen here in the past 5 years a group of idealists wanting to improve the content, wanting to create a "cathedral of the knowledge", I would be in the first line among you. But not this is what I felt. I see a hird of nepotists, completely ignoring anything what I could call idealism, desperatively carving for the diamond on the next election. — peterh - Reinstate Monica 13 secs ago
@AniMenon But what if someone is still using the old version of the framework? The answer would still be useful for them. Perhaps in that case you should just edit it/leave a comment to clarify which version of the framework it's meant for. — John Montgomery 1 min ago
wonder if you aware of recent research performed by SE engineering. "TL;DR - a high percentage (50+%) of curation/moderation actions on Stack Overflow come from users who at least occasionally visit MSO or MSE. This is true for the entire range of time we looked at..." — gnat 1 min ago
@gnat The result is not about main site post activity, it is about the main site "curation" activity. About the main site post activity: in the summed score of the positively scored answers, about a fourth of the ups is generated by users posted anything (not deleted) to the MSO (ref). From the second, it is far harder to create a SEDE stat if it is possible, but I still can not see the contradiction (for example, an estimation could be made, based on the edits/closures of the not deleted posts). — peterh - Reinstate Monica 1 min ago
I think gold-badge duplicate always wins... So if someone confirms that it is indeed how such votes are treated it may be the answer - get gold-badge. — Alexei Levenkov 1 min ago
@Catija you guys need to send Zera a Mug and a Hoodie for his work in maintaining the index :) — bad_coder 13 secs ago
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WASHINGTON – Lawmakers pressed Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano about border security and deportation policies in two House hearings that lasted much of the day Wednesday.
Napolitano's appearance before a House Appropriations subcommittee in the morning and the House Homeland Security Committee in the afternoon was supposed to be about her department's proposed $39.5 billion budget for fiscal 2013, a half-percent reduction from its current budget.
Another $5.5 billion would be available for disaster relief under the 2013 budget plan.
"Over the past several years, DHS has deployed unprecedented levels of personnel, technology and resources to the Southwest border," Napolitano said in remarks prepared for both hearings. "DHS is also focused on smart and effective enforcement of U.S. immigration laws while streamlining and facilitating the legal immigration process."
But while Napolitano outlined five budget priorities for next year, two department missions – border security and immigration-law enforcement – commanded much of the morning hearing.
Republicans accused Napolitano of using "prosecutorial discretion" in deciding which detained immigrants to deport, in effect supporting amnesty and DREAM Act policies that Congress has refused to pass.
"Some people say you've given those people amnesty," said Rep. Harold Rogers, R-Ky., of the backlog of non-criminal immigrants in detention. "That they no longer need to worry about being here illegally."
Napolitano shot back, saying the term amnesty "is way too overused with respect to immigration." She cited fiscal 2011 numbers that show her department deported about 400,000 illegal immigrants that year, a substantial increase over previous years.
About 55 percent of those deportees had criminal convictions, Napolitano said, and most others were "high-priority" suspects, including fugitives from warrants, recent border crossers or repeat violators.
"One of the things we must do in DHS is prioritize the mission," Napolitano said. "We're going to focus on those (illegal immigrants) who have committed serious crimes."
When pushed by Rogers on whether any immigrants were deported for "just simply being here illegally," Napolitano said the remaining 10 percent who were not high-priority cases could have been deported for "any number of reasons."
But Republicans remained skeptical that Napolitano – and the Obama administration – are committed to combating illegal immigration from top to bottom.
"What this results in, I think, is an issue of prosecutorial discretion," said Rep. John Carter, R-Texas. "This slowdown in dealing with these people … that seems to be making a choice between what laws you're going to enforce and what you're not."
Some Democrats were quick to defend Napolitano's handling of border security.
"Anybody who wants to object to your priorities, I think, has a certain burden of proof to name their priorities as opposed to implying you deport 11 million people indiscriminately," Rep. David Price, D-N.C., told Napolitano.
At times, both Republicans and Democrats commended Napolitano for successes the department has had in capturing border crossers and slowing the overall flow of illegal immigrants into the country, citing efforts in Arizona specifically. But they stressed that border security needs to continue as a high priority for the agency.
"Things are going really well in Arizona, but as you know it's kind of like that Whac-A-Mole or whatever," said Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla. "You hit one in Arizona and then it pops up down in the Texas border."
Napolitano said funding from Congress has helped her department curb illegal immigration.
"We need to sustain the record number of border patrol agents that we have," she said. "That allows us to secure the border. It gives us some flexibility to move people around without sacrificing yet another sector of the border."
The afternoon hearing included a wider range of questions and included Napolitano saying she is concerned about threats from Hezbollah and Iran.
It also included attempts by several lawmakers to ask about Operation Fast and Furious, the botched gun-trafficking investigation based in Phoenix, but Napolitano brushed them aside.
"I didn't know this was a Fast and Furious hearing," she said twice in response to questions from Rep. Patrick Meehan, R-Pa.


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Fantasy Notes: Akron Aeros Pitching Report
Aaron Laffey has adjusted to Double-A fairly well. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Today, we take a look at some of the arms the Indians currently have at Double-A.
- The Indians, blessed with an excellent collection of young arms in their system, have another one on their hands in 21-year-old lefty Aaron Laffey. Despite being just a 16th round pick out of high school in 2003, Laffey has moved through the Cleveland system fairly quickly. He began the season at High-A Kinston, going 4-1 through 10 games (four starts), with one save. Laffey did not allow a single home run and walked just six through 41 1/3 IP, a nice combination. Promoted to Double-A Akron, Laffey has been used exclusively as a starter with the Aeros, going 3-2, 4.04, through nine starts and 55 2/3 IP, with 14 walks against 30 strikeouts. His adjustment to Double-A has been fairly smooth until a start last weekend when Laffey was shellacked for eight runs (seven earned) and a dozen hits in just 5 1/3 IP.
- Another Indian hurler in Double-A, Jim Ed Warden, has proved to be effectively wild this season. Cleveland's sixth round pick in 2001, the 6'7″ righty was shifted to relief full time in 2004. This year, in a closer by committee approach at Akron, Warden has saved five games, going 1-1 with just 20 hits allowed and 35 Ks in 38 IP. But he's walked 24, and that's going to ultimately stall the progress of the now 27-year-old.
- He may not be a top prospect, but what a name. Edward "Bubbie" Buzhachero is excelling in his second season at the Double-A level. Thanks mostly to a severely reduced home run rate (just one long ball in 51 IP), Buzhachero is showing he'll soon be ready to move up the ladder. The 25-year-old righty is 6-3, 2.45 through 30 games with four saves and just 19 walks allowed. Buzhachero was originally selected by the Jays, 686th overall, in the 2002 draft, and in January he was dealt to Cleveland in the trade that sent Brian Tallet to Toronto.
- As far as the offense at Akron goes, the team received some bad news recently as it looks like first baseman Michael Aubrey is done for the year. Since Aubrey was taken by the Indians with the 11th overall pick in 2003, it's been one injury after the other. He's still just 24, so there's hope yet for the former Tulane star, but to date Aubrey has been a huge bust thanks to seemingly unrelenting health issues. What's knocked him out this time is a right knee injury sustained in May when he slid into second base. The injury is just not improving and he still can't put any weight on it. Diagnosed now as a surface fracture of his knee joint, Aubrey's ailment will keep him on the shelf a minimum of 12 weeks. Let's hope he's healthy enough to play in the Arizona Fall League as it would be a shame if Aubrey, one of the purest hitters from the 2003 draft, fails to deliver on his potential.
- With the parent club, righty reliever Fausto Carmona is moving up the depth chart. He's now tossed eight straight appearances without surrendering an earned run and since May 20, has trimmed almost a full run off his ERA, down to 3.89. The recent hot streak has earned him more responsibility as a set-up man. Remember, this kid was a top starter in the minors, so there are still questions about where he'll ultimately wind up. But one thing is for certain: Carmona has opened a lot of eyes in the Cleveland organization this year and has begun to garner Fantasy attention. He's being scooped up in most AL-only leagues and is even starting to get picked up in deeper mixed leagues. If the Indians make a move at the deadline, or deal one of their starters this offseason, Carmona will move back into the rotation. But another option that's being floated is that he could ultimately become a closer. Manager Eric Wedge said that he could see that as a possibility and even suggested that should Bob Wickman be unavailable, he hopes to get Carmona a chance to try his hand at closing.
- In other news, Detroit second baseman Placido Polanco drove in three runs tonight to help the Tigers maintain their dominance of the Royals. (Not to take anything away from Detroit winning 11 straight over the Royals, but my slo-pitch team recently beat the Royals in a sparsely attended game that received very little media attention.) Polanco hasn't exactly been batting at his near-league-leading performance like last season, but with 35 RBI, he's on pace to pass the 65-RBI mark for the first time in his career.


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The third-most powerful hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland in recorded history left a wide path of destruction across Florida and Georgia, destroying homes and shopping centres and felling trees that killed at least two people. And it's not done yet.
Hurricane Michael finally weakened to a tropical storm on Thursday, no longer a Category 4 monster packing 155 mph (250 kph) winds. But it was still menacing the Southeast with heavy rains, blustery winds and possible spinoff tornadoes, soaking areas swamped by epic flooding last month from Hurricane Florence.
By 5 a.m., Michael's eye was about 45 miles (72 kilometres) west of Augusta, Georgia, packing top winds of 50 mph (80 kph) and moving at 21 mph (33 kph) into South Carolina, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
Thousands of law enforcement officers and search and rescue teams rolled out in its wake to find survivors amid the wreckage of homes where people defied evacuation orders. Michael washed away white sand beaches, hammered military bases and destroyed coastal communities, stripping trees to stalks, shredding roofs, toppling trucks and pushing boats into buildings.
It will take some time for residents of north Florida to take stock of the enormity of the disaster. Reaching the worst-hit areas wasn't easy. The Florida Highway Patrol closed 80 miles of Interstate 10, the main east-west route along Florida's Panhandle, to clear debris.
READ MORE: Supercharged hurricane threatens Florida with 150 mph winds
Many homes were ripped apart or washed away altogether in Mexico Beach, a town of 1,000 where the hurricane made landfall and the storm surge pushed lead-grey water up to the rooftops. Authorities said falling trees killed a man outside Tallahassee, Florida, and an 11-year-old girl in southwest Georgia.
An Associated Press team drove for miles and encountered extensive destruction around Panama City, just west of where the centre of Michael's eye hit the shore. Although most homes were still standing, no property was left undamaged. Downed power lines lay nearly everywhere. Roofs were peeled away and sent airborne. Aluminum siding was shredded to ribbons. Homes were split open by fallen trees. Hundreds of cars had broken windows, many turned askew by the wind. Twisted street signs lay on the ground. Pine trees were stripped into stalks and snapped off about 20 feet high.
More than 780,000 homes and businesses were without power Thursday in the wake of the storm.
Families tentatively emerged from darkened shelters and hotels to this unfamiliar and perilous landscape, under a perfectly clear blue sky, to the sounds of a Coast Guard helicopter hovering over damaged neighbourhoods, beeping security alarms and the occasional sirens of police and fire department vehicles.
Vance Beu, 29, was staying with his mother at her home, Spring Gate Apartments, a complex of single-story wood frame buildings where they piled up mattresses around themselves for protection. A pine tree punched a hole in their roof and his ears even popped when the barometric pressure went lower. The roar of the winds, he said, sounded like a jet engine.
READ MORE: Hurricane Michael roars towards Florida coast
"It was terrifying, honestly. There was a lot of noise. We thought the windows were going to break at any time," Beu said.
Sally Crown rode out Michael on the Florida Panhandle thinking at first that the worst damage was the many trees downed in her yard. But after the storm passed, she emerged to check on the cafe she manages and discovered a scene of breathtaking destruction.
"It's absolutely horrendous. Catastrophic," Crown said. "There's flooding. Boats on the highway. A house on the highway. Houses that have been there forever are just shattered."
A Panhandle man was killed by a tree that toppled on a home, Gadsden County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Anglie Hightower said. But she added emergency crews trying to reach the home were hampered by downed trees and debris blocking roadways. The debris was a problem in many coastal communities and still hundreds of thousands of people were also left without power.
Gov. Rick Scott said search and rescue efforts would be "aggressive."
"Hurricane Michael cannot break Florida," Scott vowed.
Michael sprang quickly from a weekend tropical depression, going from a Category 2 on Tuesday to a Category 4 by the time it came ashore. More than 375,000 people up and down the Gulf Coast were ordered or urged to evacuate, but it moved so fast that people didn't have much time to prepare, and emergency authorities lamented that many ignored the warnings , thinking they could ride it out.
In Panama City, plywood and metal flew off the front of a Holiday Inn Express. Part of the awning fell and shattered the glass front door of the hotel, and the rest of the awning wound up on vehicles parked below it.
"Oh my God, what are we seeing?" said evacuee Rachel Franklin, her mouth hanging open.
Based on its internal barometric pressure, Michael was the third most powerful hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland, behind the unnamed Labor Day storm of 1935 and Camille in 1969. Based on wind speed, it was the fourth-strongest, behind the Labor Day storm (184 mph, or 296 kph), Camille and Andrew in 1992.
The storm is likely to fire up the debate over global warming. Scientists say global warming is responsible for more intense and more frequent extreme weather, such as storms, droughts, floods and fires, and Michael was fueled by abnormal water temperatures in the Gulf — 4-to-5 degrees above the historic norm for this time of year. But without extensive study, they cannot directly link a single weather event to the changing climate.
After Michael left the Panhandle late Wednesday, Kaylee O'Brien was crying as she sorted through the remains of the apartment she shared with three roommates at Whispering Pines apartments, where the smell of broken pine trees was thick in the air. Four pine trees had crashed through the roof of her apartment, nearly hitting two people.
Her biggest worry: finding her missing 1-year-old Siamese cat, Molly.
"We haven't seen her since the tree hit the den. She's my baby," a distraught O'Brien said, her face wet with tears.
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In the Middle of the Night
Aileen Fisher ~ Adrienne Adams ~ Thomas Crowell, 1965
Every blue moon, my friend Gillian (my vintage book muse and author of the awesome estate sale diary, Thingummery) and I get to spend a weekend away from our kids thrifting, drinking wine and generally having much needed adult conversation. Plus, she lets me loot her kids' book collection which still holds a ton of treasures I don't have. Like this one.
A fabulous father/daughter story of what happens in the night.
Similiar somewhat to The Moon Jumpers or Switch on the Night, a girl wonders what goes on while she's fast asleep.
I always wondered
how it would be
in the middle of the night
away from the light
of the town
where only stars winked down.
I wished I could dally
along the brook
where it made a crook
through the valley,
and sniff,
and look,
and listen to the quiet
of night, standing by it.
She ends up taking a birthday walk with her father and a flashlight and experiences the world in a way that is completely new to her.
She spies butterflies and bugs and meets a skunk, an owl and a bat. She watches the moon shine on the surface of a brook and gets acquainted with the stars. A sleepy story full of wonder and love, all beautifully illustrated by the incomparable Mrs. Adams.
When I was linking to bios of Adams and Fisher, I saw that not only did they create a number of books together, but curiously, they died exactly one day apart of each other, back in 2002.
Also by:
The Day We Saw the Sun Come Up
Mr. Biddle and the Birds
A Woggle of Witches
The Wounded Duck
The Easter Egg Artists
Butterfly Time
Ponies of Mykillengi
Read along on Pinterest, Instagram, Facebook, tumblr, Twitter and Etsy.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
5 comments:
- vigilceo said...
I absolutely must have this one! ...... and Gillian .... I miss her blog terribly!
- February 22, 2012 at 3:00 PM
- Ariel S. Winter said...
Man, I was going to ask to do this as a guest post. You beat me to it. Great book.
- February 22, 2012 at 7:27 PM
- Chandra said...
I love love love Adrienne Adams! Why aren't more of her books available????
- February 22, 2012 at 8:38 PM
- ahoi! said...
those flashlight illustrations are killing me. thanks!
- February 23, 2012 at 3:28 PM
- Ratspé said...
Magnifique, ça c'est très beau
- February 11, 2013 at 3:32 PM
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This post was authored by Lynda Stadmueller, Vice President, Cloud Services, Frost & Sullivan
As a software provider, are you confident you are keeping pace with your customers' digital transformation initiatives? Frost & Sullivan recently joined a Microsoft-sponsored webinar to discuss the results of their 2017 survey of IT decision makers. They shared their thoughts on meeting customers' evolving needs, beginning with choosing the right platform.
As you consider cloud options, view the cloud as more than a place for hosting your software. Position your business for success by selecting a platform that maximizes flexibility, intelligence, security, and cost-efficiency in software development and delivery,
Here's a review of five ways customer buying behavior is changing, and how the right cloud partner can help you continue to succeed:
1. Your customers have more options
In addition to cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS), your customers may evaluate on-premises software, infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), or even managed services. To capture the greatest market opportunity, you need to choose a cloud platform that offers flexible deployment options.
2. Your customers expect technology purchases to support their business goals
Businesses are choosing cloud services that support strategic business goals, such as business agility, market responsiveness, and innovation. Make sure your cloud platform meets the challenge by enabling you to incorporate the latest technologies into your software, including analytics and artificial intelligence.
3. Your customers want their applications to easily integrate with one another
Time-constrained businesses expect their applications to work seamlessly with other common solutions. Choose a cloud partner with a broad ecosystem of leading technology providers and a platform that supports APIs.
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IT organizations look to the cloud to lighten the infrastructure management burden while retaining visibility and control over application usage. Choose a cloud platform that makes it easy for your business customers to manage user access, via single sign-on controls and comprehensive reporting.
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Customers need to track usage and costs in a way that makes sense for their business — e.g., by department, project, or individual user. Choose a cloud platform that supports leading IT and cloud management solutions — thus facilitating your ability to manage your business and your customers' ability to manage theirs.
Your future success depends on continually evolving your software to meet customer expectations — faster, better, and more reliably than your competitors. To do so requires a cloud partner that helps you optimize not only your software, but your business. Watch the webinar to see how the software market has evolved, and what Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) like you need from cloud providers to remain competitive — including a flexible, next-generation cloud platform and support to run your business.


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To accompany the new show from the Smithsonian's Traveling Exhibition Service, "Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey," an interactive iPad app has been created to allow users to remix Bearden's Odyssey collages. The app also allows users to incorporate music in their collage. From the app description:
In 1977, Romare Bearden created a series of collages inspired by the ancient poet Homer and his epic story "The Odyssey." Bearden believed that "all of us from the time we begin to think are on an odyssey." The Romare Bearden collage app, developed by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in conjunction with the national traveling exhibition "Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey," was created with Bearden's quote in mind.
With this lively, colorful, and highly engaging app, you can remix works from Bearden's original series to create your own unique works of art, and express your personal journey. Choose from a variety of Bearden's backdrops and layer in shapes and forms from other collages. Or cut your own shapes, add personal photos, change the colors of various elements and resize them. You can also add your words and your descriptions.
Music played a big role in Bearden's life and his art, so the app also incorporates sound. While you build your collages, you can mash up audio such as ocean waves, jazz riffs, warriors fighting, or even your own voice. An option to record the user's voice is also included and can be played back in a loop as the artwork is being created.
Save your visual collages and post them to a public gallery–where they can be tagged and revisited by other users–and share with friends on Facebook, Twitter, or email. You can also learn more about the traveling exhibition, Bearden's life, and the companion exhibition audio tour app.
The app was created by GuideOne for the Smithsonian Institute. For more information, visit the iTunes App Store or stop by the VRC to play!
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Zurich, Aug 16, 2013: The international friendly between Afghanistan and Pakistan scheduled for Tuesday, 20 August 2013, in Kabul's AFF stadium, and the start of the second edition of the Afghan Premier League (APL) two days later, are set to become two major milestones in the recent history of Afghan football.
The international match between the Asian neighbours will be the first such fixture in Afghanistan since 2003, when the host side played Turkmenistan in the Ghazi stadium.
"The fact that we are hosting our first international game in ten years, and the first against Pakistan in Kabul since 1977, represents a major highlight for football in our country," Secretary General of the Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF), Sayed Aghazada, told FIFA.com. "It shows that after a very difficult period we are returning to normality. Afghan football has improved in terms of organisation and infrastructure, and we now believe that football can play an even bigger role in our country. Of course we expect a sold-out crowd."
The fact that we are hosting our first international game in ten years, and the first against Pakistan in Kabul since 1977, represents a major highlight for football in our country.
Secretary General of the Afghanistan Football Federation, Sayed Aghazada
"This is a very symbolic game for the whole football community in south Asia which confirms that our sport can contribute to promote a positive relationship between neighbour countries," stated the Secretary General of the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF), Lt. Colonel Ahmad Yar Khan Lodhi.
This historic Afghanistan and Pakistan friendly will be played at the AFF stadium on the FIFA Goal project funded artificial pitch. Two days later, the same venue will host the opening of the second edition of the Afghan Premier League (APL).
League action returns
Eight teams from all over the country, including De Maiwand Atalan from south-west Afghanistan with players from the violence-prone provinces of Helmand and Kandahar, plus defending champions Toofan-Harirood, are set to go head-to-head for the coveted APL trophy. A scouting process implemented by AFF since April was used to select all players. APL matches will be shown live on Afghanistan's Tolo TV.
The league plays a critical role in our attempts to further develop football in Afghanistan, increase its popularity and discover new talents," Ali Askar Lali, a former Afghan international and APL match commissioner said. "Football is among those activities that so far have not become direct targets of violence. However, we will now have improved security, accreditation and ticketing measures since we are expecting to have a capacity crowd of 6,000 spectators for all games."
"In the first APL season, we witnessed spectators from different backgrounds and provinces sharing their passion for football in the stadium, which proves that football can promote the unity of Afghan people from all tribes and places," concluded Aghazada.
During the past ten years FIFA has invested USD $1.5million towards two Goal projects in Kabul: the installation of a football turf pitch at the AFF stadium in Kabul and the construction of the association's headquarters. —- FIFA/Photo © FIFA.com


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On February 2, 2013, Moody Gardens will be hosting our 16th Annual Educator Open House. At the open house, you can learn what Moody Gardens and other Galveston-area attractions have to offer educators and their students.
All educators and school support staff are invited and encouraged to participate in the fun and informational event. You can join us just for the excitement and knowledge, but also have the option to earn up to 4 State Board of Educator Certification (SBEC) hours.
This year, you must pre-register for the event, which you can easily do here.
By registering and participating in the 16th Annual Educator Open House, you will:
- Receive free admission into all Moody Gardens attractions with your school ID
- Be entered into a drawing for the chance to win a variety of door prizes, field trips, and workshops
- Receive a tote bag and a free box lunch if you are one of the first 1,000 participants
- Learn more about the volunteer programs and opportunities at Moody Gardens
- Gather free educational materials while they last
- Receive activity ideas to use in your own classroom
- Learn about other educational programs available from other Galveston-area attractions
If your family members want to join in on they fun, they can purchase a day pass for only $21.00 a person.
Be sure to sign up for our Pyramid Educator Newsletter to receive information and updates on new programs and special educator events. Simply email email@example.com to sign up.
When registering, be sure to provide school employment identification. For any more questions, call 409-683-4231 or email at email@example.com. We look forward to hearing from you soon and seeing you at the 16th Annual Educator Open House.
Be sure to check out the Aquarium Pyramid and Rainforest Pyramid during your visit. If you need a place to stay, check out the Moody Gardens Hotel, one of the best places to stay in Galveston.


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Ten Years ago at our first ATV Rodeo, it was mainly our Team FIN drivers who were tested. Riding the machines for hours at a time could be grueling — not only because of the mud and mosquitoes on the trails — but because the ATVs were often small, noisy bone-rattlers.
This year our Team FIN testers became easy riders. The brand-new amenities on all the machines kept the drivers relaxed and comfortable — and smiling all day long.
"The field of ATVs is greatly improved," said Shirley Hodgen, a farmer from Roachdale, IN. "They are a joy to drive. The power steering and new seats are wonderful. The four-wheeler companies are adopting the same things that tractor manufacturers have done with their cabs to make us less stressed and fatigued. We can ride these all day and not feel beat up."
Clearly, the bar keeps getting raised for ATVs, and manufacturers are packaging as many features as possible into their new models.
The sagging economy has cut ATV sales in the recreation and hunting markets, but the farm/utility sector is the one bright spot in the business. As a result, ATV companies were eager to participate in our test of ATVs for the ag market. They also had plenty of new models to show off.
Seven ATVs were delivered to the testing site for seven farmers to drive. The lineup of vehicles broke into two power groups: 500 to 550cc and 650 to 750cc models. Drivers were asked to compare the vehicles only to each other in each of these power ranges.
The testing was again held at the Caribou Gun Club near LeSueur, MN, with fields, woods and streams available to test the mettle of the workhorse vehicles. The tests included pulling logs, weaving through barrels, going up and down hills with and without a load, driving over landscape timbers, and four-wheelin' on trails in the woods with a water crossing.
"Overall, the spread from top to bottom is incredibly narrow again this year," reported Jeff Ryan, Cresco, IA. "It gets tougher and tougher to pick any vehicle that stands out above the others by a wide margin.
"One good thing to see is that no vehicle here was even close to a failure," he continued. "And you have to be picky to even come up with very many downsides to most of these. I think I could be comfortable with any of these machines."
Ryan's sentiments were reflected in the scoring. Less than a point separated the vehicles in both the large and small categories. The drivers rated each vehicle (from 1 to 5 points) in five different categories: maintenance/service, loaded hauling/pulling, low-speed handling, four-wheelin' and overall comfort/styling. All the individual scores were then averaged for final scores.
Because farmers use ATVs in many different ways, the tests were designed to show how a vehicle performs various farm tasks. While one farmer may want an agile vehicle to chase down calves, another may want one to drag irrigation pipe. No single vehicle is designed for all farmers, and we designed our tests to address those differences.
The testing for the Polaris Sportsman XP was cut short after an accident. Because the accident was not caused by vehicle failure, we have included its incomplete scores.
Here's a closer look at each ATV, its scoring and comments from the test drivers.
Honda Fourtrax Foreman
Price $6,849, Engine 475cc, Team FIN rating 3.11
View the Honda Fourtrax Foreman Video
Although the Honda scored the lowest in the test drive, it was never far behind in any category. In fact, one regular test driver said this Honda with...
Polaris Sportsman 500 X2
Price $8,299, Engine 498cc, Team FIN rating 3.48
View the Polaris Sportsman 500 X2 video
Polaris wanted the farmers to test-drive the two-person Sportsman 500 X2 and for good reason. Most of the drivers liked the vehicle with its longer wheelbase...
Polaris Sportsman 550 XP
Price $7,499, Engine 549cc, Team Fin rating 3.50 (partial scoring)
View the Polaris Sportsman 550 XP video
Polaris recently introduced its redesigned Sportsman 550 XP. Unfortunately, an accident sidelined this vehicle before all the drivers could finish testing...
Suzuki KingQuad 750
Price $7,599, Engine 722cc, Team FIN Rating 3.39
View the Suzuki KingQuad 750 video
Although the Suzuki KingQuad was third in the scoring among the large ATVs, the drivers considered it to be a solid vehicle and a strong contender in...
Yamaha Grizzly 550 FI
Price $7,799, Engine 558cc, Team FIN rating 3.96
View the Yamaha Grizzly 550 FI video
Just like its big brother, the Grizzly 550 landed on top in the 500 to 550cc group by pulling the highest score in each category. The features of the...
Kawasaki Brute Force 650
Price $7,399, Engine 633cc, Team FIN rating 3.66
View the Kawasaki Brute Force 650 video
Among the three large vehicles, the Kawasaki Brute Force was the middle contender in all the events. Although the ATV's score put it in second place,...
Yamaha Grizzly 700 FI
Price $8,599, Engine 686cc, Team FIN rating 4.09
View the Yamaha Grizzly 700 FI video
The Yamaha Grizzly 700 was the clear winner among the three large ATVs included...
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I have a design in mind for my custom jersey, how long will it take to turn it into artwork?
Initial designs will typically be presented to you within 3-5 business days. Once we have your approval on each design, we will begin creating your custom sportswear.
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To stay up-to-date on our newest products and promotions, you can subscribe to our newsletter at the bottom of the page. Just enter your email and click the arrow to submit.
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How do I wash, dry & care for my custom items?
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- fasten any buttons or zippers & turn garments inside out
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These washing steps will help to keep the fabric long lasting, and your designs won't fade as they are baked right into the fabric itself.
Can I request product samples?
Yes! Contact us and we can arrange a viewing of our samples. You can also pick up from our location in Hamilton.
Please note, that we only pay the costs of the outbound shipment. The return shipment is at your expense. We cannot offer return shipments free of charge.
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The sublimation process is superior to traditional printing, vinyl or flock for several reasons.
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Can you colour match?
Absolutely. If you have colour codes, just let our team know ahead of time and we'll use those for your designs.
Note that the colours may appear differently on your screen than on fabric, as cellphone screens and monitors are all calibrated differently. Read more about colour matching in our blog post here.
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Spain has been on our radar for quite some time now and a lot of exhibitors have been asking for a Spanish version of ARCHITECT@WORK over these last couple of years. This, combined with the fact that the economy is headed in the right direction again is, is more than proof the market is ready for the very first Spanish edition of our exclusive exhibition concept.
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This "Compass" comes to you hot off the trail of several weeks of travel. Early in the month I attended the Florida Society of Cosmetic Chemists' (SCC) Sunscreen Symposium. Then, it was time to head north to New York for the Health and Beauty America (HBA) event that touched on everything from marketing and packaging, to fragrance, raw materials and regulatory.
Closing out the month, my travels ended in Amsterdam for the International Federation of the Societies of Cosmetic Chemists (IFSCC) conference, themed "Building on Water." Now that the cabin pressure has returned to normal, this editor can extract highlights from these three events to predict what direction the industry may take.
Consumers still seek natural products because the word natural gives them a sense of safety. As most chemists know, natural does not mean safer; however, that message has not yet reached consumers and their belief continues to drive the demand. Will a flourishing category ever chance revealing this truth behind naturals to consumers? Perhaps so, as the naturals market becomes more saturated and key manufacturers seek ways to drive consumer interest into new areas.
In the meantime, the need for naturals persists and formulating with natural ingredients can be a complex task. In this issue, the "Bench & Beyond" department offers insider tips to formulating with naturals. In addition, Schmaus et al. discuss nature-inspired avenanthramides for anti-itch and anti-irritant properties.
Beyond naturals, sun is still a major focus as the industry is still determining the best method to measure sunburn protection factor (SPF), as it was recently renamed. Additional uncertainties revolve around whether to focus on UVA protection specifically, or to consider the full spectrum—infrared included, as an IFSCC paper discussed.
Moving from topical treatments to cellular activity within skin, the industry is discovering new paths to increase efficacy. Innovative products are being designed to protect against moisture loss through aquaporins in skin, to speed the repair of DNA by use of enzymes, and to solidify the structure of collagen via application of a new decorin biomimetic—among many other inventions.
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One of the big decisions of your new home is whether you are going to use a gas or electric stove and oven. Here are a few pros and cons to having either of these in your house and then the decision is up to you.
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Well done, you have selected your new oven, it needs to be installed in your kitchen. If it is a straight swap out for an old oven, installation will be considerably less complex. If you are installing a new kitchen or renovating your existing kitchen then you are likely to have to consider a number of factors. These include the presence of a power point or a gas point (for gas ovens).
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Maintaining and installing domestic kitchen freezers is essential for their optimal performance and longevity.
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When you are wanting to do your weekly or half weekly washing it can be a hassle hoping that the weather will suit your needs. This is why clothes dryers machines and indoor hangers have been designed for the most efficient and quick dry possible.
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Microwaves are one of the most common kitchen appliances and can be found in most homes. Despite this, many homeowners are not always aware of safety precautions they should take when using their microwave, especially when these appliances are accessible to children. Here are some safety tips for family microwave use that you yourself can apply, and instruct family members to follow:
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