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Mozillačanski profil
Laith Masadeh
Krótki profil
A 24 Year old Computer Information Systems Student at Jordan University of Science & Technology, currently a undergraduate graduating summer 2016. The current leader for the Mozilla Webmaker Jordan.
Kmanosće.c++, .java, .javascript, .project management .marketing fundamentals .logis, application design, arabic to english translation, business modeling and simulation, coding : html, coding css, computer hardware, computer software, data mining, database everything, decision support systems, electronic commerce, english grammar, english speaking skill, english subtitle typing, event manager, hardware and networking, human computer interaction, information systems, interface design, leading skills., logic modeling, management information systems, multimedia, network technology, operation research, operation systems, oracle database administration, software documentation, speaks:english, system analysis, wireless sensors
RěčeArabšćina, Jendźelšćina
Mohammed Migdadi
Laith Masadeh one of the most active members at Mozilla Jordan community, hes so involved with the connected devises program and got alot of amazing ideas to be added to the community related to that topic, a great Mozillian
Mahmood Abdul-Hameed Al-Qudah
He joined mozilla in june 2014 and he has been with us with most events,on Tuesday 10/3/2015 he was a member and a speaker of a JUST Mozilla Firefox Day in the university he studies in. He is also taking lead in the Webmaker_Jordan.


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Publication Archive
This archive contains all documents published by cep over the last few years:
cepAdhoc: Incisive comment on current EU policy issues.
cepPolicyBrief: Concise 4-page reviews of EU proposals (Regulations, Directives, Green Papers, White Papers, Communications) – including a brief summary and economic and legal assessments.
cepInput: Impulse to current discussions of EU policies.
cepStudy: Comprehensive examination of EU policy proposals affecting the economy.
The Commission presents a strategy for encouraging the development and uptake of green road vehicles. In particular, it wishes to promote "clean and energy efficient" vehicles based on conventional combustion engines and "ultra-low-carbon vehicles" through the deployment of new technologies such as alternative fuels, electric motors and fuel cells.
The Commission is reviewing the European standardisation procedures in terms of their efficiency and transparency. The aim is to develop a reform proposal ("standardisation package") facilitating a more efficient and transparent European standardisation. Moreover, the Commission wishes to simplify the access to standards for SME and to increase the capacity for innovation of European enterprises.
The action plan is intended to implement the objectives laid down in the Stockholm Programme. It cites 354 measures and a precise timetable for this purpose.
The Commission criticises the fact that the agreement among 29 Heads of State and Government on the Copenhagen Accord "falls well short" of the EU's objective to reach a "robust and effective legally binding" follow-up agreement to the Kyoto Protocol. The Commission gives its view on financing of climate actions and adaptation measures, on the shortcoming of the Kyoto Protocol ant on international emissions trading. In order to keep up the momentum of global efforts to tackle climate change, the Commission outlines the main features of its further strategy.
Following the failure of its last Amendment Proposal, the Commission is again planning a review of the Working Time Directive. Based on a questionnaire, the Commission intends to undertake a full-scale consultation of the social partners (workers and employers associations) at European level, in order to clarify whether the social partners also consider a review of the Working Time Directive to be necessary and, if so, what such a review could look like.
The key issues are the rules on the maximum working time, dealing with on-call time, determining rest periods and calculating the average weekly working time.
"Implementing acts" serve the purpose of implementing legislative EU acts. The implementation of legally binding EU acts subject to national law is principally a task of the Member States. If an implementation is required throughout the EU, the basic act provides for a conferment of powers upon the Commission. The Regulation Proposal is laying down the rules for control by Member States of the Commission's exercise of implementing powers.
In 2010, the Commission will publish a White Paper on the European transport policy for the period of 2010-2020. The present Draft Report of the transport committee presents the European Parliament's prospective of the challenges and key issues of a future European transport policy. Moreover, it defines concrete "measurable" targets for the transport sector to be accomplished by 2020. For instance, CO2 emissions from the road transport are to be reduced by 20% compared to those in 2010. Finally, the Report takes opposition to an inter-modal competition and instead chooses "effective comodality" as the preferred policy approach in the matter.
Road traffic generates costs that can be split into those directly borne by road users and those imposed on others and the public (so-called external costs, e.g. air pollution, noise pollution, loss of time due to congestion). According to a Commission's Proposal Member States are to be authorised to include the external costs of road freight transport into road tolls levied on HGV (so-called internalisation). The European Parliament and the Council have not yet reached any agreement on said Proposal. To this end, the Council asked the Commission to have an analysis drawn up exploring the impacts of a possible internalisation.

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MacAulay subdivision is located just north of Charlotte about 15 miles on I-77 in the town of Huntersville, NC. Just off Stumptown Road MacAulay has easy access to Birkdale Village and North Lake Mall for all our your shopping and restaurant needs.
Home sizes range from 1500 to 5000 square feet with lots up to 1 acre. MacAulay neighborhood has everything a home owner would want. Amenities include Pool, Playground and full clubhouse. MacAulay's tree lined streets with sidewalks provide a great place for an evening walk or jog.
Map and Points of Interest


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A full analysis of the Tevatron data collected over ten years – a mind boggling 500 trillion proton-antiproton collision events – yields a narrower range for the Higgs mass. A new statistical fluctuation, seen with a confidence level of 2.2 sigma, narrows the range of the particle causing the fluctuation to between 115 GeV to 135 GeV. A GeV is a Giga electron Volts or a billion electron volts. These are pretty strong bounds on the mass. Furthermore, the entire regions between 147 to 179 GeV can be safely eliminated. This analysis confirms what the LHC data says – the Higgs is a low mass Higgs with a mass of about 125-126 GeV and the mass range above 141 GeV is eliminated with 95% confidence.
Excluded ranges and the range to look out for
The data, collected from CDF and DZero detectors of the now-deceased Tevatron, combines well with the LHC data, specifically with that supplied by the ATLAS detector, to restrict the Higgs mass between 115 GeV and 129 GeV. This also provides more confidence to the 3.6 sigma peak announced during the 13th December 2011 CERN broadcast. Kindly check the link here for very specific details of the seminar: http://techie-buzz.com/science/higgs-boson-cern-seminar-results.html
However, this result shows that the LHC and the Tevatron results match and that's great, but it doesn't get us any closer to actually finding the Higgs. Of course, if the Tevatron had disagreed, then we would've been in serious trouble.
Bottom line
Two things come out of this confirmation: The Higgs is most probably a low mass Higgs, having a mass of about 125-126 GeV. This is pretty interesting in itself, since this is not just the boring Standard Model Higgs, but gives an inkling of the success of supersymmetric theories. Secondly, the "look elsewhere" effect may not be as significant as was previously thought, now that the bounds are tighter. The "look elsewhere effect" takes into account the probability of finding the Higgs at every point within a certain range and not just at a very small interval. This considerably reduces the significance of the observed bump in general. Since the "look elsewhere effect" may decrease its contribution, concentrating on local significances may be quite the right thing to do!
Of course, the game will only be decided by the LHC. We expect to have enough data to pinpoint the Higgs by the end of this year, before the LHC goes into hibernation for 15 months. The game is heating up and getting interesting. Stay tuned…


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The VideoLAN Project released version 2 of their popular media player, VLC, couple of days ago. And for most operating systems, the updated version is already available. The Ubuntu Store, however, is yet to feature the updated package. If you can't wait for VLC to be updated, you can get the latest version easily by following the below steps.
First, open the terminal by summoning Unity dash. You can do that by clicking on the Ubuntu icon on the top-left corner of your screen. For the keyboard inclined, pressing Super(aka the Windows key) should summon Unity dash.
Now, type in Terminal and click on the Terminal to launch it
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/stable-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc
The first command creates an apt repo pointing to VLC's stable builds. The second commands instructs apt-get to fetch the latest set of packages. The last command will install VLC. If all goes well, you should be seeing VLC under Media Apps in Unity.
Do drop a comment if you need some help in installing VLC in Ubuntu.


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Good Morning! Long time no speak! Got some new stuff I've been working on but in the meantime I think this track is going to do really well! Have a listen…
Author Archives: ehmmusic
Late Night…
up late last night editing. Really getting a solid workflow down. I think everyone has their own but mine is really working for me right now. don't have any decent pictures to share regarding this so here's a picture of ehm dog! That's not his real name, it's Ludo but I kinda prefer ehm dog!
Camel Audio Alchemy Player
Just found this beautiful little synth that I will be playing around with for my next track. Continue reading
Photocopiers Revenge
I've spent a fair amount of time on this track and I'm fairly happy with it. First one I've seen all the way through for a while so it was fun to get into the mastering side again. Snuck a little sample in from one of my favourite anime series. Kudos to anyone who can tell me what it's from???
Have a listen let me know what you think.
New Track Coming Soon
I'm just putting the finishing touches to my latest track I've nick named photocopiers' Revenge. Continue reading
Oxblood & Co Hand Lettered Apparel
Oxblood & Co Hand Lettered Apparel. oxblood and co is looking great! really excited to see these t-shirts when they land!
Oxblood & Co. Kickstarter
This is just a quick blog to ask you all to check out my friend's Kickstarter, Oxblood & Co. At the moment they are asking for £1,200 to release their first range of t-shirts which will feature three hand drawn phrases inspired by the ocean, mixed with a little vintage lettering. The video is worth a watch and the music is amazing! (wink wink) Continue reading
My Song Got Played On Pandora 1 Million Times and All I Got Was $16.89, Less Than What I Make From a Single T-Shirt Sale!
As a songwriter Pandora paid me $16.89* for 1,159,000 play of "Low" last quarter. Less than I make from a single T-shirt sale. Okay that's a slight exaggeration. That's only the premium multi-color long sleeve shirts and that's only at venues that don't take commission. But still.
Soon you will be hearing from Pandora how they need Congress to change the way royalties are calculated so that they can pay much much less to songwriters and performers. For you civilians webcasting rates are "compulsory" rates. They are set by the government (crazy, right?). Further since they are compulsory royalties, artists can not "opt out" of a service like Pandora even if they think Pandora doesn't pay them enough. The majority of songwriters have their rates set by the government, too, in the form of the ASCAP and BMI rate courts–a single judge gets to decide the fate of songwriters (technically not…
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Tomorrow's Harvest. Boards Of Canada's Long Awaited Return
2013 is shaping up to be a landmark year for electronic music.
Views On Audio Compression: Quality Speed & Space
I Found this great little Video of Carl Beatty, a Professor of Composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston MA, discussing in brief the pros and cons of audio compression and it got me thinking about it again. Everyone, and I do mean everyone, has an opinion on this subject even if that opinion is of mild indifference. As relentless consumers of media we all have in our minds set parameters that a media source must meet in order for us to consider it acceptable. Anything falling outside these parameters is quickly discarded, trashed or left behind as we move onto the next source. This process repeats over and over as we go through our digital lives. It is important then for any media produced for user consumption to cover as many of these parameters as possible.
In the world of audio it is no secret that a .WAV file recorded at 96kHz 24bit will undoubtably sound better than the same file compressed to .MP3 format. Regardless of how much time and effort goes into the compression process there is an unavoidable loss of information which cannot be compensated for or reintroduced after the fact. Encoding standards such as MP3 are designed to compensate for this. I can only imagine the hundreds of man hours, beta tests and iterations that go into the production of formats such as MP3, and for what they are designed to do they often perform extremely well. However, despite using complex algorithms and anti aliasing filters in the production of MP3, there remains a reduction in quality which can be heard when directly compared to the original.
In an ideal world data storage would be unlimited, all devices would communicate in a singular language and inter-device communication would be instantaneous. In this technological nirvana there would simply be no need for file formats or compression. Why limit what is limitless? We, however, have not reached this stage….yet. So in the mean time we have a need to find ways of moving and distributing data in a timely and efficient manner with as little "perceived" loss as possible. And therein lies the problem. Do we sacrifice quality for speed and space OR sacrifice space and speed for quality?
As an engineer and musician myself, my opinion on the matter is biased and I am fully aware of this. Equally I feel that anyone who is skilled or knowledgable in the subject will also have a tendency towards quality. I have no problem with this and share the same tendencies myself.
Whilst quality is always preferable to industry professionals, the same may not always be said for consumers. Often the 'preferred' format is not the highest quality but the more affordable and commercially viable. Take Minidiscs and CompactDiscs in the mid to late 90's. Sony's Minidisc was a far superior format in almost every way. A 1GB miniature rewrite-able disc that was more reliable and, using the ATRAC encoding format, supposedly superior to .WAV. Audio Industry professionals instantly saw the potential of this new format and leapt at the opportunity to ditch their old field recorders and jump on the minidisc bandwagon. But in the consumer world it was a massive let down. Ultimately consumers found the format too expensive. CD's were much easier to get hold of and CD-R was just beginning to take off. The final straw was the emergence of the Apple iPod and of P2P websites such as Napster allowing users to share MP3s between one another (albeit illegally). So despite Sony's best efforts and investments ultimately the consumer chose the format and said 'no thanks' to the Minidisc.
In my own opinion I feel that, rather than risk alienating ourselves from the consumer, it is far more important to inform them of the differences so they can make make their own decisions. As Sony learnt with the Minidisc, trying to second guess or divert the course of the industry is expensive and ultimately pointless. We should be reacting to and embracing the course of the industry whilst endorsing (yet not imposing) our own views.
The end user always has the final word and so long as we work to towards the ultimate goal of 'better sound quality for all,' eventually we will get there.
Those are my opinions but I would love to hear yours. I'm really open to comments and discussion so feel free to contribute either by commenting below or sending me a tweet @ehm_music.
Related articles
- Audio compression formats compared (hemprasad.wordpress.com)
- Lossy audio file formats explained (data compressed formats) (musicthinktank.com)


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A few weeks ago, I read an article discussing how Nissan North America just can't wait for Microsoft Hyper-V Live Migration. I was incredulous. Several times I double-checked the date to make sure that parts of this piece weren't somehow transported from 2004. The quotes from the admins and descriptions of the infrastructure made it seem that they were all bound up due to the lack of Live Migration among other features, even though very mature examples of these features have been around for a long, long time. Then I got to the second section, specifically this quote:
"We're a Microsoft shop, and they were the first ones that we looked at …. We have a good relationship with Microsoft that we leverage and utilize," D'Antonio said.
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Ah -- reading between the lines might make it seem that Microsoft sweetened the deal substantially. I have no direct knowledge of this particular situation, but it's not far-fetched to believe that Microsoft probably gave Nissan oodles of free licenses and support in order to get the company to run Hyper-V in production. It's a good thing, too, since it simply wasn't an enterprise-grade hypervisor then and isn't now. I can only imagine the hoops those admins have to jump through to maintain that infrastructure.
The other thing that caught my attention was "We're a Microsoft shop." Many places are Microsoft-centric, but exactly zero are 100 percent Microsoft. They may run Microsoft products on the servers and desktop, but there's absolutely no way that they are using solely Microsoft applications and products in every part of the infrastructure, from the switches to the firewalls. Thus, the idea that moving outside the Microsoft fold for critical infrastructure components is somehow problematic is basically a nonstarter -- VMware's management tools run on Windows, as does vCenter.
I don't mean to pick on Nissan by any means -- it isn't the only one that has done this -- but I am quite curious to know exactly what it takes to make an IT organization (or more explicitly, IT management) choose a blatantly inferior product over far more capable competing products for use in such a critical environment no matter how sweet the deal may seem. It's like a delivery company making a deal to get all its delivery trucks for free, except the trucks don't have reverse and can't make right-hand turns. It might "save money" by not requiring a cash outlay for the trucks, but it slows everything else down and jeopardizes the core functionality of the infrastructure -- the core business is at risk. That's a gamble that no IT manager should take. A pilot program? Sure. Maybe a few sideline servers and applications? Possibly. More than 75 percent of the infrastructure? No way. That's too many eggs in a shaky basket.
And then there's this quote:
For one company, it was a decision handed down by the CIO, and they came to us saying, "The decision has already been made. Now that we have it, tell us what pitfalls to avoid."
I can pretty much guarantee that there was much consternation among the admins worth their salt, with the cart so far in front of the horse that it was in the next county. Very rarely do unilateral decisions by CIOs make for solid IT infrastructures, and they are generally at odds with what the admins on the ground are communicating. If you want to alienate your IT staff, that's a very good way to go about it. Top-flight admins are highly logical by nature and if continuously faced with the specter of having to implement and support clearly inferior products due to baffling, uneducated management decisions, they'll simply head elsewhere. Costly consultants will implement a ham sandwich if you want them to, but their fees will significantly reduce any possible ROI, especially if you're dependent on them for routine maintenance.
Back to the article, we find another attempt at rationalization:
In heavily entrenched Microsoft shops, there's a also desire to stick with a familiar interface. "There's a lot to be said for product familiarity. A lot of IT shops would rather live with a product's shortcomings than use unfamiliar technology," Wolf added.
Let's be clear: If you've never implemented virtualization, all the concepts, management tools, and interfaces will be unfamiliar. Whether it's Hyper-V or VMware, they're all wildly different from nonvirtualized computing. Hyper-V's management console is no more or less "familiar" to Windows administrators than VMware's Virtual Infrastructure Client. If you're willing to sacrifice crucial features of a new technology because you aren't familiar with the GUI, you might want to reconsider your ultimate goals.
Microsoft is desperately trying to make a solid play in the virtualization space, and it's releasing Hyper-V for free in order to get there. The company wants case studies and living, breathing customers running Hyper-V to showcase, but what it really needs is a truly competitive product. Even with the release of Live Migration, it's not even close to Xen or VMware. Trying to dress up Hyper-V as enterprise-ready does nobody any favors right now.
For the record, I hope that Microsoft does deliver the goods with Hyper-V and does it soon. I hope that somehow it can pull a rabbit out of the hat and release a free or low-cost hypervisor with management features similar to VMware's DRS, HA, memory sharing, Consolidated Backup, complete scripting APIs, and so on. This would force VMware to lower prices and really create competition in this market, which has been wholly dominated by VMware since day one.
But make no mistake, you get what you pay for. Taking the cheap way out may not matter so much for the edges of the infrastructure, but sacrificing significant quality and features for lower cost at the core is a recipe for headaches of epic proportions.


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Saturday, February 27
Highs in the 50's ...... springtime!
Today was the first day it has felt like Spring (and I have been able to be out in it)! The whole Deitering clan (girls included) got out and started clearing off a fence-line that was overrun with very large weeds and small trees.....It was a muddy, muddy, muddy mess, but we got the weeds and trees down. There is a whole bunch more manual labor involved before our yard is not the mud pit that it currently is, but.....we put a REALLY big dent in it today. We are all feeling it too, I'm pretty sure the girls are gonna hit the hay quite early tonight.
ANYWAY back to springtime! Sooooo, pretty much the only reason I LOVE springtime is because of all the new babies (animals) that appear. Baby bunnies, goats ..... I know babies are had in the other seasons of the year, but they are cuter if they are born in the Spring.
(all pics are from Flickr - search baby bunnies & goats)
SEE!!!!! SO cute! Anywho, thought I would share the cuteness with ya! Have a great night everyone, hope you had a great day!
Oh and I am super happy that Hawaii was spared from the BIG waves, and am very saddened at the loss in Chile. The earth is groaning.....
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Thursday, February 25
Laundry....piles and piles of it!
A little secret of mine ..... I like doing the laundry! I like gathering up about 3 baskets of clean clothes, sitting on the floor with them around me, putting on a good movie, and then go to town. Piles of nice, clean, organized laundry. Now putting away the clothes........well I don't count that as doing "laundry", because I don't like putting them away. hehehehee.
I know clothes lines aren't practical, but this pic makes me want a clothes line real bad.....just to take these kind of pics. I know, I know....I'm weird like that. :)
Nope, this isn't my laundry room, but it is super pretty, so I thought I would post. I had a bunch more pics, but they were saved to the wrong place and didn't make it to the post.....so sorry.
What is going on over in Mandy Land..... I have been matching up fabrics and getting ready to start sewing like a mad woman on our "critters" for Hello Ladies, AND some new dolls in our "Something" line. (they all have S first names and Something is their last name....Sammy, Sally, Suzie....etc.) It's gonna be fun. Matching up fabric is so much fun AND such a pain, I love it.
Sammy is currently on vacation in Texas with my parents, visiting family and friends, dropping off his girlfriend Sally..... I'll have pics when they get back Monday or Tuesday, this will be a whole segment! Sammy was my first "Something" and he may end up traveling the world and getting pics made with people.
This is for you Krystle, but I saw this over on VioletBella's blog and I thought of your "space" issues!
OH and Janel is doing a super neat giveaway over at her blog in honor of having 400 followers! So check it out and enter yourself!
Gotta get back to sewing, but I thought I would stop for a moment and let you peak into my world. ;)
Have a great night everyone!
PS and BTW - HelloLadies made their first ETSY sale!!!!!! WooHoo. Ironic as it sounds, but our first etsy sale item was actually the first onesie we ever made......(twilight zone music) ..... creepy. :)
Posted by Mandy Deitering at 7:55 PM 2 comments
So Cute Giveaway!
You should totally head over to Kellie's Blog and enter her first ever GIVEAWAY!
There is some amazingly cute stuff up for grabs......
Have a great day everyone!
Posted by Mandy Deitering at 10:04 AM 1 comments
Tuesday, February 23
Friendship Month!!!! My BFF Jess
National Friendship Month is in full swing, but I have yet to join in, so I am going to start with my very BFF Jessica.
We've been friends since I moved from Colorado, back in 98, but we didn't become really good friends until we both started to plan our weddings at the same time for the same year. Our hubbies were room-mates so we ended up spending a lot of time together. Once married we lived within a couple of miles of each other and we dealt with the fun of 'newlymarried' life together.
She calls me her brain, and she helps me not be a hermit and breaks me out of my comfort zone quite regularly. Always bursting my protective 5 inch bubble of 'do not touch me' space.
:-) She is very much the sister I never had!
Another shared passion is crafting/art - me the crafting and her the art. We've had the most amzing nights crafting and talking about the future, or stupid movies, or random weirdness....they've been good times.
OH and we share a love of twizzlers!
She is an amazing woman, and my life would be dull and boring without her in it! Such a woman of God and an inspiration to me on an everyday basis.
We also have a passion for Jessica coloring my hair.... as you can see throughout the pics and the years.....hehehheee!
I love you Jess! You are totally my BFF!
(and we both love Twilight....heheheee)
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Be on the Lookout!
Okay so I found this pic a LONG time ago on Flickr and TOTALLY forgot to put a link with it, so now I am on the hunt for the original pic. IF you happen to come across it....please let me know, I need to get in contact with it's owner! thanks!
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ahhh - the weekend
so sorry about not posting this weekend.....it was a weekend of highs and lows. Friday I spent most of the day working on Hello Ladies business, and getting things together for the inventory photoshoot on Saturday. On Saturday we rocked out an AMAZING photoshoot with our models Jess VonD and Jordan B (you girls were absolutely perfect). I will get those pics uploaded VERY soon.
Saturday afternoon, me, Sarah, Krystle and Jessica headed to HotSprings and ate at Rod's Pizza Cellar......the best pizza, and then did a little shopping at TJMaxx and a few resale stores, got some great finds! Had a Ladies Craft night at church and then got home ..... and was sick .... all .... night....long. I think realized that I ate a pizza completely covered in pork products (which I am suppose to have NO pork according to my blood type diet) ..... yeah.... it was not a good night. I woke up at 4 am still sick, but around 7 - I started to feel better and got dressed and headed to church. I did okay at church, but couldn't stay too long after, because I started to feel icky again. By 9pm that night (after a 4 hour nap) I was feeling much better! AND this morning I am at about 93% ..... so YAY!
I finished a super secret project for my aunt.....which I can't so pics of, because she will totally snoop and find out what it is, I think she will get the present Thursday and I will be able to show you some pics. She is gonna LOVE it!
SOOO many project to work on this week, it's a great thing I am feeling better! Wishing you all a happy work week!
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Friday, February 19
caution: busy weekend ahead....
As promised here is the collection of fabric I bought last weekend at an estate sale......I am so excited about diving in. :)
I forgot to tell you that Brand surprised me with roses on V-Day, they were in my office at work/church when we got there Sunday morning....super sneaky, sneaky.
I finished another baby quilt top! Woohoo, though I will say, the pink corduroy in this quilt was the devil! I would have had it finished sooner, but UGH, that stupid stuff was hard to sew straight....oh well, it turned out cute. (pst - it also has houndstooth, so it is extra cute)
The other day I posted places I would like to "get away" to over on the Hello Ladies blog, and I just wanted to feature the Low Impact Woodland House over here on Just Mandyness. Brand has always talked about wanting to building a house in the side of a hill or something like that, and I've always blown him off, but if we could make it look like this.....where is my shovel? :)
I am not "green" by any stretch of the imagination, but this house is AMAZING!
I have a super easy project I am working on, and I will show you as soon as I have time to take pics, I saw it over at Violet Bella's Blog and I had to go get one.
Gotta run! Alot to do before the HelloLadies PhotoShoot tomorrow.
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Tuesday, February 16
good times
Soooo - I promised pics of the Star Wars Diaper Cake that I made for a friends Baby Shower a few weekends ago ...... and they are finally here! It was super fun to make and create.
I also finished another one of my Style School Projects - a Buttoned Dog Collar! It was SOOOO fun to make and I even got creative and embroidered her name! She hasn't been around the house for me to put it on her, but I know she will LOVE it!
I am currently working on the new baby quilt I showed pics of in one of the last posts....yay me! OH and on Saturday I went to an estate sale and bought a literal ton of fabric! I was super excited and even more excited when I got it all organized tonight......organization is my friend.....sigh. I have a pic of all the fabric I bought, but it didn't make it home with me....sorry.
Did you know it is National Friendship Month??? Well in the next week or so I will be sending out some love to my friends so be sure and check back. There will be a lovely post about each and every one of my business partners and best friends.....the ladies.
Have an amazing night everyone!
Posted by Mandy Deitering at 7:52 PM 1 comments
Monday, February 15
Neat-O Giveaway over at VioletBella's Blog
LOVE her blog and Etsy Shop
You should totally head over there and check out her giveaway and show her Etsy Shop some love!
Posted by Mandy Deitering at 2:39 PM 0 comments
Sunday, February 14
My Guy: Brand :)
"He may not be a movie star, but when it comes to being happy, we are"
He is the biggest Goob you will ever meet, drives too fast, reads Popular Science, watches Holmes on Homes, and sometimes you can't understand him because he is a mumbler, but is he ever ... the love of my life.
Our Song describes us perfectly
"I love you More Today than Yesterday" by Spiral Starecase
I don't remember what day it was
I didn't notice what time it was
All I know is that I fell in love with you
We have the BEST times together, he truly is my very best friend, we can talk about anything, laugh about everything, tease each other without getting our feelings hurt ... :-)
He is generous, loving, faithful, honest, can fix pretty much anything, helpful, loves God, loves the kiddos, handsome, cute ..... :-)
He tolerates mushy movies, doesn't like to watch sports (thank you Jesus), he can bake, clean house, move the yard, fix the pool, listens to Tone Loc and watches the Twilight Zone....
I love him....more today than yesterday...but not as much as tomorrow....
Happy Valentines Day Sweetie!
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Friday, February 12
Yay for Finished Projects!
Today I finally finished my first baby quilt!!! WOOHOO! Well, technically my second, but I'm not counting the first one.... It has some uneven lines, and some odd puckers, but I think it is pretty good for the first!
I'm ready to start on the second one, which has some pretty amazing fabric!!!
The 'Sweat Shop' is overflowing with Critter parts, ready to be put together as soon as I have the inspiration to make their faces. Which I hope to have this weekend sometime.
I have been eyeballing these cute Bandana Dresses for a couple of months now, and after completing the quilt......I think I am ready to start on something a little more ambitious. They tell me this is a 15 minute dress......we shall see.....This bandana is what I want to use, and here are a few examples of what I want it to look like...
And then one day........I think this is very neat! -link-
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I am also pretty excited about taking this online class, it is going to be such an awesome experience!
Valentines Day is Sunday....also Krystle's birthday.....gonna have a super special post on that on....Sunday.
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Friday, March 16, 2007
The incredible hypocrisy of the west
Since the violence, the BBC has opened most of its news with Zimbabwe, its top correspondent Orla Guerin reporting from South Africa. Other European media outlets have also extensively covered the story in hostile ways to Mugabe.
The man has to go. He is a classic African dictator who has no regard for the wishes of the citizenry he is supposed to serve. He is corrupt and brutal. Yet the same scrutiny which is afforded to this liberation hero is not given to another dictator a few thousand miles north of Zimbabwe. Meles has killed more people in recent years. His soldiers and policemen have tortured more opposition activists. He has imprisoned more opponents. While in Zimbabwe, the opposition MDC has its offices all over the country, the main opposition in Ethiopia is unofficially outlawed. Mugabe's three months ban on demonstrations was received with abhorrence by the west. In Ethiopia, demonstrations have been prohibited since May 2005.
Two striking issues differentiate Ethiopia from Zimbabwe. While Mugabe told the west to "go hang" long time ago, Meles has chosen to be the pawn in their hands, their SOB. Mugabe's defiance was met by sanctions from the furious west. Meles, an equally fierce dictator, is being showered with financial gifts from the World Bank and the west.
More importantly, there is "the white factor" which has made Europeans and Americans to act differently in Zimbabwe and Ethiopia. Meles killed his own people, unemployed youth(as Donald Levin shamelessly put it). Mugabe's dictatorship started to become unacceptable when he confiscated white-owned farms. When Mugabe murdered 20 thousand people in Ndebele in 1980s, the opposition from the west was largely muted.
let me save the racism jibe for the moment. The very least I could say about the reaction to Mugabe is hypocrisy.
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- Unknown said...
My feeling exactly.
- Unknown said...
Thank U EZ !!!
I was feeling the same thing when we were bombarded with Zimbabwe news yesterday. The Westeren hypocracy is beyond imagination. Recently the Tplf regime committed more crime than anybody in Africa but the US administration is bombarding them money and political support because he is "OUR BOY". The Same thing applies in Sudan's Darfur. The West that kept quite when millions of people perished in Rewanda (there is no OIL) is bomdarding us with Darfur (the is OIL).
- Unknown said...
Dear Alula,
Please Write your trash idea on The Ethiopian Herald or on AddisZemen or on eftin or on Amare's Reporter... This blog is a site for Truthful, commited and non-opportunist Ethiopians. Don't post the Shabianism banner on our beloved Ethiopian Brothers, Sisters and Friends of Ethiopia. We don't have enemies like Meles and his gangsters. They will be sentenced to death with out any avenge both on Ethiopian History and on The trust-worthy court during The Government of The Mass(Ethiopians')
- Unknown said...
Dear EZ,
I find myself in the most uncomfortable position to read comments that mean harm to my beloved country Ethiopia and her elected leaders who are incarcerated in prison while the evil rider midget horse is in power representing nothing but the interest of the West at the expense of all Real-Ethiopians.
How dare you allow people like Alula to insult my leaders as "power-hungry beasts" when they are properly elected representative of the Real-Ethiopian dream. How dare a Lifatcham agame mosqito who has yet to clean up his nose call my leaders "power-hungry beasts?" I am angry as hell by having such degenerate TPLF cadres equall given the chance to their opinion let alone having to insult my leaders in my face.
EZ, please do us a favor and remove this degenrate Lifatcham tegrea of this site and send him to hell where he belongs, the Aigaforum, walta, and othar TPLF dis-infomation sites.
- Unknown said...
"They abandoned it the moment it organized homeless kids to create chaos in Addis Ababa. Addis Ababans asked themselves, DID WE ELECT KINIJIT SO THEY MAY BURN THE BUSES WE USE FOR TRANSPORTATION, THE KEBELE OFFICES WE GO TO BUY FOOD OR THE SCHOOLS WE SEND OUR KIDS TO LEARN? Since then Addis Ababans have collectively said, the hell with kinijit.
To make such statment, after losing the election 100% is some thing. Your above statement makes it clear what kind of "human being" you are. Not even the strongest x-ray machine can show your inside clearer than that.
- Unknown said...
ferenji are not worried about dictators, they are worried about themselves....mugabe wanted to stay on power so he went after the white land owners..... These white land owners have been there since independence....he was cool with it! now twenty some years later mugex did what he should have done back then, simply to remain on power...Both mugabe and meles are bad for their people....one manages to kiss ferenji ass better than the other....While accurate,this report hurts me a little because it shows that somehow, we still expect ferenjis to come help us out....let s just forget about them and remenber who they are!!!! Meles' employers....so let s not wish for meles to be picked on by ferenjis...it s not happening, meles=graziani=toselli=mussolini
- Unknown said...
Mugabe Versus Meles is a very good coparison of US and British racial marks. That's the reason that I do not expect something positive from missionary Yamamotooo
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No sooner had The Georgia Straight story on John Furlong proverbially hit the streets than a good old-fashioned lynching was underway on the Internet.
Searing material that sneered at defamation laws and trampled simple decency in the rush to criticize and condemn the former Winter Olympics boss appeared almost immediately. The story alleges Furlong physically abused first nations students at a Burns Lake school where he taught in 1969.
In spite of his adamant denials that "it just did not happen," Furlong was drawn and quartered by a lot of people with a computer, a web connection and a firmly held opinion about his character and his past.
Media sites closed or heavily vetted comment sections over legal concerns about some posts.
Once upon a time, the Straight was a provincial weekly paper with a reach not far beyond Boundary Road: Today, thanks to technology, it's global, and the Furlong expose went viral.
His troubles were as available for chatter in his Irish homeland as they were fodder for talk-show hosts across this country.
That's not how it's supposed to work: When someone's reputation is savaged, the law is supposed to prevent others from amplifying or aggravating any defamation and provide a process for determining the truth and redress.
But the defamation statutes were flouted by people posting harsh judgments and scathing comments about this unfolding scandal — some out of ignorance, some with obvious malice.
There is little chance Furlong could ever erase or sanitize what is out there, which should give us all pause.
Our anti-defamation protections look rather frail in the face of the web, its omnipresence and its ability to vaporize a reputation.
Admittedly, the 61-year-old Furlong didn't help himself by calling a news conference.
It prodded mainstream media outlets into covering the accusations from several natives that 40 years ago they were abused at a northern B.C. Roman Catholic school. It was like handing the Straight a megaphone.
Furlong also conceded he first arrived in Canada five years earlier and under different circumstances than he recalls in his $20,000-a-pop speeches and memoir, Patriot Hearts — "a fall day in 1974 when my wife and I bundled up our son and daughter and boarded a plane to Canada … Soon I was in Prince George starting a new life."
In reality, he was in Burns Lake as early as 1969 as a teacher but returned to Ireland before coming back to Canada with his family.
Still, blarney is not the issue.
In my opinion, Furlong should have kept mum, filed suit and hunkered down until the courts did their job.
Furlong trades on his integrity and his reputation: Those have been broadsided by an investigative journalist and the damage has been exacerbated by another order of magnitude by the Internet.
Unlike the day when you could talk about a newspaper's circulation and distribution numbers and the effects of a story on its pages — how do you assess the damage done across the web in situations like this?
Given the culture of delay in the legal system, if Furlong follows through with his threats to sue, we'll have to wait a couple of years to get to the bottom of this.
Which will serve no one — except the gossipmongers and scofflaws.
Still, how could you hold all those people in so many different jurisdictions accountable? How can you stop it happening?
Regardless of who is right — Furlong or his critics, what happened to him highlights how vulnerable we are in the electronic universe to attacks on our reputation, and how impotent our defamation laws appear.


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Digital roll-to-roll web processing is enabling mass production of printed electronic devices by offering high regulated web tension control. One example is Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) TVs, which use thin, flexible sheets of material that emit their own light and are produced using a technique similar to inkjet or sheet-fed printing. The key to the technology is that by enabling web applications to be separated into separate tension control zones, tensions can be adjusted in one zone without destabilizing the entire web.
Bosch-Rexroth has published a technical report that provides an overview of this technology, which has its roots in digital printing applications. But unlike sheet-fed printing that uses electronic registration control to achieve product quality, the added complexity is that the substrate in a roll-to-roll press is fed from an infeed reel through the printing section and onto the outfeed reel as a continuous web process. In terms of the servo sophistication required, adjusting tension on each of the sections in real-time, especially since the web itself can be fragile material, is a major challenge.
Added to that is the speed and productivity goals that these applications impose. The report states that digital printers using Rexroth controls can operate at speeds up to 800 ft (240m) per minute. But in roll-to-roll applications, electroluminescent materials or other microcrystalline layers are deposited on substrate at slower speeds, on the order of 10 ft to 100 ft (3m to 30m) per minute.
Precision registration accuracy is achieved in these applications by providing superior web tension control and ultra-precise control of transport velocity. One of the reasons why these applications have been so challenging, especially in the past, is the added complexity of dealing with oscillations caused by mechanical misalignments, wide swings of inertial loading during accelerations, and other mechanical slippages. But by decoupling the control of each tension zone and allowing each controller to operate independently, tension can be applied in one zone without affecting other areas of the process.
In the diagram above, the press uses two successive controllers, but the step change signaled by the green section controller doesn't cascade to the upstream process. Along with decoupling to prevent feedback, Rexroth claims that the controller initiates a response to step reduction in tension control in one-fourth the time compared to typical controllers.
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The thought of leaving the Beechcrest Mobile Home Park in North Laurel after 15 years is bittersweet for Janice Brown.
She would stay in her trailer until the roof caves in, she said, but moving does respresent a fresh start.
"Whether I like or welcome the change, it's coming," Brown said.
The Howard County Housing Commission purchased the 5.5-acre mobile home park in September and plans to build between 33 and 50 one-room apartments for the chronically homeless. The park is scheduled to close Nov. 15.
While she is not upset that the park is closing, Brown is concerned because she has "been told practically nothing" about how the county will help her find a new home.
"They're putting my life on hold," said Brown, 51. "If I'm not satisfied with the compensation they're giving me, then yes, I will fight them."
The proposed site is behind the Econo Lodge on Route 1, and sits between the Country Meadows apartment complex to the east and single-family homes to the west.
Tom Carbo, executive director of the Housing Commission, said the county is in the process of making the proper assesments to determine each resident's relocation assistance package. Assessments include an appraisal of the mobile home, determing if the home can be relocated and getting a sense of each resident's wants and needs.
Carbo said the assessments for the 38 units will take time.
"It's not a simple process," he said. "We can't tell them right now exactly what they would be getting."
According to state law, the county is required to provide the equivalent of 10 months rent as relocation assistance, but Carbo said the county will follow federal guidelines that require a greater amount of assistance.
"The minimum amount they will be getting is equivalent to 10 months," he said.
A legal battle?
While Brown said hiring an attorney is a possibility if the county does not provide adequate assistance, resident Gary Molina said he will seek legal advice.
Molina wants to ensure the county refunds him for "at least half" the money he has put into renovating his trailer.
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Molina has no idea where he'll move, but is prepared to fight for what he said he deserves.
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"The toppling of Egypt's modern-day pharaoh through peaceful mass protests, aided by Facebook and Twitter, marks a watershed for Egypt and the entire Arab world," wrote Larry Diamond, in a noteworthy February 14 op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle. "Contrary to widespread anxieties in the U.S. foreign policy establishment," the prominent advocate of American taxpayer-funded "democracy promotion" maintained, "it will also serve the long-term interests of the United States—and Israel."
Diamond, a founding co-editor of the National Endowment for Democracy's Journal of Democracy, was pleased with initial developments in post-Mubarak Egypt. "Think of what could have happened," he pointed out. "Many observers (including myself) worried that the growing alienation of young Egyptians might flow in anti-American, anti-Israeli and radical Islamist directions…. So far, none of these have happened."
Having once co-edited a book on the threat to Israel's democracy with an Israeli counter-terrorism specialist, Diamond was not surprisingly "reassured" by the dearth of anti-Israeli sentiment in Tahrir Square. "Few protesters are calling for abrogation of Egypt's peace with Israel," he noted. "Most protesters … know their aspirations for human dignity and economic opportunity can only be met with far-reaching internal reforms, and that the worn-out theme of anti-Zionism is a divergence from that. Israel and its friends should thus welcome democratic change in Egypt."
The director of Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, which includes a program on Arab Reform and Democracy, scarcely expected it would turn out otherwise, though. After all, he had long been advocating such an Israel-friendly democracy for the region. Speaking at the Commonwealth Club of California on May 7, 2008, he criticized the Bush administration for having "walked away" from its post-9/11 "forward strategy for freedom" in the Middle East after Islamist parties such as Hamas, Hezbollah and Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood saw varying degrees of electoral success. Instead, he called for a new policy of gradual democratization which would allow time for a "moderate" party to emerge as "a third alternative" to the region's "bifurcated playing field" of autocrats versus Islamists. According to Diamond, the democrats he had met in Cairo the previous month told him: "We are only asking for a gradual opening to democracy. We're not even asking for democracy tomorrow. We don't even want democracy tomorrow. Because we need time." Presumably, three years has given NED sufficient time to quietly nurture an acceptable Egyptian democracy.
The well-organized protests hardly came as a surprise either. At the State Department-sponsored Alliance of Youth Movement's inaugural 2008 summit in New York, which brought together experts in social media with digital activists from around the world, Diamond moderated a panel discussion entitled "How to Begin: Taking it to the Streets." Just over two years later, when Egyptians did take to the streets, they were organized and directed by the April 6 Youth Movement, which had been well represented at the New York summit.
In a reminder of what a small world democracy promotion is, Diamond was introduced by AYM co-founder Jared Cohen, the then State Department official charged with counter-radicalization in the Middle East, who described his Stanford mentor as "one of the people that's had the most profound impact on my life." Interestingly, Diamond is not the only prominent NED figure to have influenced the precocious Cohen, who travelled extensively throughout the Middle East to meet with pro-democracy activists prior to the "Arab Spring," making sure they had access to "connection technologies." Referring to one-time NED director Frank Carlucci, Cohen told the New Yorker: "Secretary Carlucci has been a wonderful mentor to me." Like the former deputy director of the CIA, who had an uncanny knack for popping up in countries where coups were taking place, Cohen just happened to be in Egypt during the street protests that toppled Mubarak.
But if peaceful protests fail to achieve the desired regime change, Diamond is not averse to the use of force—or hyperbole—to bring democracy to the Arab world. In a March 15 op-ed in the staunchly pro-Israel New Republic (which unreservedly endorses the Arab revolution), he invoked the Holocaust in an attempt to shame Obama into aiding Libya's "freedom fighters."
The tireless advocate of Arab democracy somehow also finds time for the Iranians. He's on the advisory council of the Iran Strategy Task Force—a joint initiative of Freedom House and the Progressive Policy Institute, a hawkish pro-Israel "think tank"—which is aimed at shifting America's Iran policy toward "a more aggressive focus on democracy." And he also coordinates the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution, whose goal is "to map out possible trajectories for transitions to democracy and free markets in the Middle East, beginning with Iran."
While many find it hard to believe that the United States could be induced to facilitate regime change in a country ruled by a supposedly pliant dictator like Mubarak, there may be far greater surprises in store. In his October 2, 2010 New York Times column entitled "Third Party Rising," Thomas Friedman favourably cited Diamond's suspect, albeit justified, repudiation of both Democrats and Republicans: "We basically have two bankrupt parties bankrupting the country."
With Americans increasingly frustrated with their own country's "democratic gap," could Uncle NED be about to bring home its regime change formula in order to co-opt the revolutionary spirit there too?


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Reconstruction, 1865–77, in U.S. history, the period of readjustment following the Civil War. At the end of the Civil War, the defeated South was a ruined land. The physical destruction wrought by the invading Union forces was enormous, and the old social and economic order founded on slavery had collapsed completely, with nothing to replace it. The 11 Confederate states somehow had to be restored to their positions in the Union and provided with loyal governments, and the role of the emancipated slaves in Southern society had to be defined.
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Vienna. 16 July 2012 - The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has launched a new global awareness-raising campaign emphasizing the size and cost of transnational organized crime. Profiling this multibillion dollar a year threat to peace, human security and prosperity, the campaign illustrates the key financial and social costs of this international problem through a new public service announcement video and dedicated fact sheets for journalists.
With a turnover estimated to be around US$ 870 billion a year, organized criminal networks profit from the sale of illegal goods wherever there is a demand. These immense illicit funds are worth more than 6 times the amount of official development assistance, and are comparable to 1.5 per cent of global GDP, or 7 per cent of the world's exports of merchandise.
Available at www.unodc.org/toc, the campaign is being rolled-out through online channels and international broadcasters and aims to raise awareness of the economic costs and human impact of this threat. By dealing with issues such as human trafficking, the smuggling of migrants, counterfeiting, illicit drugs, environmental crime and illegal arms, it offer an insight into today's core criminal areas.
With an estimated value of US$ 320 billion a year, drug trafficking is the most lucrative form of business for criminals. Human trafficking brings in about US$ 32 billion annually, while some estimates place the global value of smuggling of migrants at US$ 7 billion per year. The environment is also exploited: trafficking in timber generates revenues of US$ 3.5 billion a year in South-East Asia alone, while elephant ivory, rhino horn and tiger parts from Africa and Asia produces US$ 75 million annually in criminal turnover. At US$ 250 billion a year, counterfeiting is also a very high earner for organized crime groups.
Besides these monetary figures, the human cost associated with transnational organized crime is also a major concern, with countless lives being lost each year. Drug-related health problems and violence, firearm deaths, and the unscrupulous methods and motives of human traffickers and migrant smugglers are all part of this. Millions of victims are affected each year as a result of the activities of organized crime groups with human trafficking victims alone numbering 2.4 million at any one time.
The UNODC-led campaign also illustrates that despite being a global threat, the effects of transnational organized crime are felt locally. Crime groups can destabilize countries and entire regions, undermining development assistance in those areas and increasing domestic corruption, extortion, racketeering and violence.
"Transnational organized crime reaches into every region, and every country across the world. Stopping this transnational threat represents one of the international community's greatest global challenges", said UNODC Executive Director, Yury Fedotov. "Crucial to our success is our ability to raise public awareness and generate understanding among key decision and policy makers. I hope that the media will use UNODC's campaign to highlight exactly how criminals undermine societies and cause suffering and pain to individuals and communities," he added.
The campaign drives the message that someone ultimately suffers and there is always a victim. Money for instance is laundered through banking systems, undermining legitimate international commerce. People become victims of identity theft with 1.5 million people each year being caught out. Criminal groups traffic women for sexual exploitation and children for purposes of forced begging, burglary and pick pocketing. Fraudulent medicines and food products enter the licit market and not only defraud the public but can put their lives and health at risk.
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After another Super Bowl loss to the Giants, the natives in Boston are getting restless.
Everywhere you look, there are people in New England expressing their disgust at the Patriots and, in particular, Tom Brady. The quarterback who could do no wrong for so long is now getting a reaction usually reserved for the Bill Buckners and Grady Littles of the world, a turn of events that, isn't surprising in the kneejerk world of sports.
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That's not to say that Brady was perfect on Sunday night. The intentional grounding for a safety on the first offensive play was a tremendous blunder, albeit one Brady probably thought he could get away with given the inconsistent application of that rule, and he wasn't as accurate as usual over the course of the night. You could add his interception if you like, although the potential rewards of that play (long gain, pass interference, touchdown) outweighed the risk of giving up the ball deep in Giants territory.
While we're mostly sticking to actual football here, we will concede that the reaction to Brady's night is not helped in the least by the fact that his wife's comments have been interjected into the discussion. The Gisele issue is tied into the reaction, but her lack of tact has nothing to do with what actually happened on the field.
Above all else, Brady is catching hell because he missed on his biggest pass of the night. That would be the one that Wes Welker couldn't reel in while wide open on second down with under five minutes to play. Welker still should have made the catch, he said as much himself, but Brady didn't nail a pass that he has nailed hundreds of times in his career.
Eli Manning did nail his pass to Mario Manningham on the next drive and the rest is history. And, apparently, that is enough to convince some people that Brady is ready for the glue factory.
Believing that takes an incredibly short memory and narrow viewpoint of the game.
The Giants didn't just win because of that pass to Manningham. They won because the Patriots defense couldn't make a play after that catch. They won because two fumbles bounced back into their possession. They won because a Patriots recovery of a third fumble was wiped out because the defense couldn't see their way clear to playing with less than 12 players. They won because Deion Branch dropped a pass on the first play of the final drive with room to run and because Aaron Hernandez dropped a pass on the next play.
In short, it was a slim margin of defeat and any number of players could have turned things in the Patriots' favor. Brady was one of them and he could have played better, but he wasn't the only one guilty of coming up short. The same is true of 2008, a game that's now being tied to this one to diminish Brady's accomplishments. In that game, Asante Samuel's dropped interception and more good luck on fumbles helped the Giants block the Patriots' undefeated season.
The Patriots fell agonizingly short, but it shouldn't be forgotten that they wouldn't have been that close if not for Brady hitting 16 straight passes, a Super Bowl record, on two sizzling touchdown drives. And they wouldn't have sniffed the Super Bowl without Brady having one of his finest seasons and leading them to Indianapolis despite playing without a sturdy defense, a capable deep threat or much of a running game.
Yet the Patriots not only made it to the Super Bowl, they made it far enough to lose the Super Bowl in the final minute. That's two Super Bowl losses in the final minute in a sport where the line between winning and losing is often thinner than one of Mrs. Brady's modeling pals. Measure that against a decade of dizzying success, including three Super Bowl rings, and it is hard to understand the overwhelming negativity coming from Boston.
No one should weep too much for Brady. He almost certainly got too much credit for the Super Bowl wins so it is natural that he is going to get too much blame when the team loses. Such is life for quarterbacks in the NFL, and nothing will counteract that.
Results of games are black and white. The reasons for those results are usually gray. Super Bowl XLVI was full of gray, and that perspective shouldn't be lost in the rush to assign blame.


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Regardless, it's World Environment Day and people across the globe are coming together to make a positive change for nature and the protection of Earth. This year's theme is: Raise your voice, not the sea level!
They're contributing in small ways. These school children at the Canadian International School (CIS) in Bangalore, India kept up their tradition of celebrating on campus (and made some pretty cool Earth masks, might I add).
Others celebrated in bigger ways—think Guinness Book of World Records bigger. Imagine more than 2,000 Nepalese people simultaneously hugging trees to bring awareness to the importance of saving the forests.
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There is some recent discussion of Marysville and Orland at Eli Rabett and Tamino. The gist of their arguments is that the failure of NOAA to implement their promised quality control doesn't "matter" since the problems get adjusted out in the adjustment software so that trends at Orland end up being similar to trends at Marysville. Tamino says:
Not only are the graphs strikingly similar, the trend rates are nearly identical.
One thing that you have to watch (as I've mentioned before) – GISS adjustments are not used in GHCN (and thus not used in CRU or NOAA NH calculations.) The relevant series for CRU is probably the GHCN adjusted series (which is usually similar to GISS raw), but since CRU won't disclose their data, this is just a guess. Eli observes that GISS results come out in the wash about the same as CRU; why they do so is presently an unexplained Caramilk secret although the accounting would be trivial if the methods were properly disclosed.
While I looked at adjustments for these stations at the time, I'm a bit more familiar with the adjustment sequences now and thought that it would be interesting to re-visit and compare the Marysville and Orland adjustments in a similar format to the Arizona adjustments.
First here are plots of two Marysville and Orland versions – USHCN TOBS on the left and GISS adjusted on the right. In the TOBS version, we see an almost characteristic difference between two classes of site – the Orland site has a rather high 1930s, comparable in some way to Grand Canyon, while the Marysville site has higher recent values than the 1930s, similar to Tucson though not quite so dramatic. In the GISS adjusted version, the two versions are much more similar – a point observed by both Tamino and Eli. However neither investigated the adjustment sequence.
The figures below illustrate the adjustment sequences for Marysville (left) and Orland (right). Again, the patterns are somewhat similar to the adjustment sequences for Tucson relative to Grand Canyon, but with some interesting differences. GISS made a substantial UHI adjustment for Marysville, the result of which past values were increased relative to recent values. But look at Orland: here GISS has made a negative adjustment (something that I observed on a previous occasion). The Orland station seems to have been in the same location since at least 1909 – why should there be a negative UHI adjustment to Orland? This is goofy. The trends will come out similarly, but Hansen's wrecked what seems to be good Orland data to get there.
In both cases, GISS raw versions match USHCN adjusted moderately well – so the Hansen Y2K problem observed in the Grand Canyon and some others series doesn't come into play here.
In the bottom panel, there are USHCN adjustments to the TOBS data, which have the effect of lowering values in the 1930s relative to modern values by about half a degree C. (There is no material change in elevation of the Marysville station).
The station history for Orland does not show any moves since 1909 (with an identical elevation since 1883). Aside from looking sensible now, it has an excellent history and should be somewhat of a gold standard. So the question for me is: shouldn't this be the sort of station that is used to benchmark nearby stations with flawed histories, rather than trying to do a whole lot of adjustments to all the stations. Here's the Orland TOBS version (showing pre-1902 values in dotted lines since it looks like there may well be some sort of unreported discontinuity there).
Interestingly, Orland, despite its seemingly adequate rural appearance is not itself a lights=0 GISS site. California USHCN sites with GISS lights=0 are: BRAWLEY 2SW, CEDARVILLE, CUYAMACA, DEATH VALLEY, ELECTRA PH, FAIRMONT, FORT BRAGG 5N, HAPPY CAMP RS, INDEPENDENCE, LAKE SPAULDING, LEMON COVE, NEEDLES FAA AP, ORLEANS, SUSANVILLE AP, TEJON RANCHO, WILLOWS 6W and YOSEMITE PARK HEADQUARTERS. Some of these sites have been discussed previously and many are now surveyed at surfacestations.org. Lake Spaulding for example has many inappropriate aspects to its history. Why anyone would intentionally use Lake Spaulding to "fix" Orland is not at all clear to me? To the extent that this is what the GISS clergy are doing, then this sort of behavior should definitely be discouraged.