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Jason Segel is such a charming, funny and genuinely nice guy that it's easy to like him, as a person and as an actor. The fact that he has the talent to back all that up makes it impossible not to be a fan. In the new raunchy comedy Bad Teacher, starring Cameron Diaz as the inappropriately foul-mouthed and ruthless middle school teacher Elizabeth Halsey, Segel plays happy-go-lucky gym teacher Russell Gettis. Unfazed by rejection, he keeps flirting with and pursuing Elizabeth, even though she has told him that it's never going to happen because he's just not rich enough for her.
At the film's press day, Jason Segel spoke to Collider for this exclusive interview, in which he talked about working non-stop while juggling films with his television series How I Met Your Mother, his relationship with Rush since shooting I Love You, Man, how much fun he had working opposite Cameron Diaz for Bad Teacher, and the tremendous respect he has for Justin Timberlake. He also talked about what attracted him to Jeff Who Lives at Home (he's seen the film and says it's fantastic), The Muppets being a dream project, how great the Freaks & Geeks / Undeclared reunion was at PaleyFest earlier this year, how much he's been enjoying shooting The Five-Year Engagement with Nic Stoller, and that he'd really like to eat a Reuben, once he's done playing a leading man for that film. Check out what he had to say after the jump:
Question: You've been working almost non-stop on The Muppets and your TV show, How I Met Your Mother. When you wrapped on both, what was the first thing you did?
JASON SEGEL: Unfortunately, I still haven't had a break. I did Bad Teacher while I was doing the TV show. Bad Teacher was only a nine-day shoot for me, so that was nice. But then, I went straight from that into a movie in New Orleans that I shot (Jeff Who Lives At Home), and then back to the TV show. And then, I did Muppets while I was doing the TV show, which was seven-day weeks. And then, the day we wrapped the TV show, I flew out to Michigan to start the movie I'm doing now – The Five-Year Engagement. So, I haven't had time to do anything fun. I'd like to take a vacation and see my friends. Also, I'm on this leading man diet right now because I have to be the sexy guy in this movie. I'd really like to eat a Reuben. I think the day we wrap, I'm going to have a serious Reuben.
After I Love You, Man, are you now on the VIP list for all Rush concerts?
SEGEL: Well, we also did a tour video for Rush that they showed during the tour, so they're very nice to us. It's a great relationship.
Were you surprised how many Rush fans are out there, and have they all wanted to talk to you?
SEGEL: There are a lot of Rush fans, and Rush will be the first to admit that they're almost exclusively middle-aged men. It's guys in their 40's, who go to the concerts together. It's really funny to see. They're just an amazing band. When you hear them play now, it's still as good as the album you had when you were a kid. It's amazing.
Having directed the short Jason Segel & Paul Rudd Meet Rush, do you have any other plans to direct?
SEGEL: I didn't direct the short. (I Love You, Man director) John Hamburg directed the short. While I feel capable of directing, when I play a part, when I'm acting, there's a part of me – true or not – that believes nobody could play this part better than me. And, when I'm writing something – true or not – there's a part of me that thinks nobody could write it better than I could. When I think about directing something, that part of me doesn't click in. I think I'd be capable of doing it, but I know three or four people, who are my friends, who could do it better. I could do it just for an ego boost, to say I've directed, but I'd rather the product be awesome and use one of my friends who knows what they're doing. Jake Kasdan is born to direct. Nicholas Stoller is a director. It's what he does, and who he is inside. I don't have that feeling of, "This is what I do." I feel like I could, but I don't have that burning passion for it.
How much fun was it to work opposite Cameron Diaz, who is not only beautiful, but who also seems to be pretty fearless when it comes to this kind of comedy? Does that make it easier to try things without worrying about offending someone?
SEGEL: Absolutely! First of all, she's so nice and gracious and kind, which I knew going in. I've never heard a bad word said about Cameron. Everyone just exalts on how nice and down-to-earth and humble she is, which is all true. She's certainly beautiful, but she can do anything, which is really amazing. To be a woman in this business in not easy, and to have stayed on top and have been one of Hollywood's leading ladies for this amount of time, is really, really impressive. I don't know when The Mask was, but it's been a good long time, and since that movie, she's been on top. That's pretty impressive.
How did you guys craft your amazing chemistry?
SEGEL: For me, when you're involved in a cast like this, there's a mutual admiration society element to it, especially when you're off camera, sitting back in awe, watching great comedians do their thing. That's always when I feel the luckiest and when I feel that I've tricked everyone. You're sitting around watching people that are actually amazing at what you profess to do. It's a very humbling experience.
Amongst all this mayhem that is going on in the story, was it a nice appeal to you to be the voice of reason?
SEGEL: It was really fun. To some extent, I'm the straight man. In a small way, I'm the eyes of the audiences. I'm the one who pops in and calls Elizabeth on her B.S., which is what the audience wants to do, at points. I'm the character who gets to voice that opinion. That was really fun. I got to come in and observe, and try to get a couple of zingers in there. It was very easy to act against Cameron.
Was it difficult to find a balance between making this guy unfazed by rejection, but not having him come across as a doormat?
SEGEL: Oh yeah, he's the opposite of a doormat. I hate to admit it, because I don't like to repeat myself, but I did a similar thing in Knocked Up. To me, what's funny about it is that he's a guy who's walking around with all the confidence in the world, and it's completely unjustified. He's a guy with just unflappable confidence, for no reason. That just makes me laugh. It's his response to rejection that makes him not a doormat. If a girl said to the doormat, "Why would I be with you? You're fat," the doormat would be like, "Oh, you're right. Sorry." My guy would be like, "I know what my body looks like. I think I look good. Call it what you want." I like that guy. He's the oddly confident guy.
What was it like to work with Justin Timberlake? What do you think of him as a comedian, especially after all of his work on Saturday Night Live?
SEGEL: Boy, I just couldn't have more respect for him. That guy can really do anything, which is a quality I really admire in people and I strive for myself. I could say a million things about how amazing he is in the movie and all that, but the thing I'm most excited about is that I think I might have a new friend on my hands. We're about the same age, we both like the same kind of things, and we got along famously, so I'm really excited about the prospect of having a buddy.
Did you have a teacher that resonated with you, whether good or bad?
SEGEL: I would like to give a shout out to a teacher named Ted Welch, who was my high school drama coach, at Harvey Westlake in the Valley. He really changed my life. I got to be in a high school play, and then I started working with Jake [Kasdan] and did Freaks and Geeks, 13 or 14 years ago now. That's crazy! Right before I left, he said, "Don't forget the best actor in the world is stuck doing dinner theater somewhere, so don't ever get arrogant thinking you're entitled to this." It stayed with me.
What made you want to get involved with Jeff Who Lives At Home? Was there something specific that struck you about it?
SEGEL: Well, I just loved the script so much, and I loved the character, and I had really fallen in love with the Duplass brothers' style. I don't think they like the name of the movement, the Mumblecore Movement, but out of all those type of movies, Hump Day is just unbelievable. It's one of my favorite movies, so I really fell in love with the idea of trying that style because I choose movies based on if they scare me or not. I don't like to know I can do something. That just doesn't excite me. To feel a little scared is what I'm chasing these days. I was nervous to play that part because it really required some hardcore honesty, which I have gotten close to, but it's always been with a layer of funny attached. That naked break-up scene is really, really honest, but I had the safety net of knowing that, any time I needed a laugh, you could cut to the wide shot. There was a built-in safety net. You could just cut wide and the audience was going to laugh because I was naked. It's tough when all you've got is your acting. That was a scary idea to me, but I really, really like it. I can't wait for it to come out.
Have you gotten to see any footage of the film yet?
SEGEL: I've seen the movie. It's fantastic!
You're currently filming The Five-Year Engagement with Nic Stoller, who you also worked with on Forgetting Sarah Marshall. How has the experience been this time?
SEGEL: It's been great! Nic and I have been working together pretty non-stop since Sarah Marshall. We started writing Muppets together, right after Sarah Marshall, which we produced together, and then were writing The Five-Year Engagement at the same time. We've become a real partnership. It's really nice.
What do you enjoy about collaborating with him? Is there something that makes your styles really click?
SEGEL: Yeah, well, first of all, it's really helpful to have a writing partner, just really simply for the time element. He and I are both very busy, so to have somebody who can pick up the slack when you're too busy, and vice versa, is amazing. But furthermore, we share a sensibility. We are the two least masculine men in Hollywood. We love to write about men having emotions and women's point of view, and all that. It's nice that we see eye-to-eye tonally.
Was getting to do The Muppets a dream project for you?
SEGEL: Well, it was very difficult to make. I didn't quite know what I was getting into, logistically and technically. It's tricky. You have to build elevated sets and there was all sorts of stuff that I didn't foresee. But, it was truly a dream come true. I can't say enough about those puppeteers as well. Part of their job is to be invisible. You're not supposed to think about the puppeteers when, in reality, these guys are actors, musicians, comedians and contortionists, a lot of the time. I was just in awe. I cried when they brought out Kermit, for the first time and he started saying stuff I wrote. It was crazy! It's been four years in the making, but will be coming up at Thanksgiving time. I think we'll all be very happy.
The PaleyFest event for Freaks & Geeks and Undeclared was amazing, and it really felt like a real reunion. How was that experience for you? Was that your first time you had gotten to see some of the cast since you wrapped?
SEGEL: We stay in touch. It was great! To be honest, while I know that we were all contributors to that experience, and some more than others, as Paul Feig wrote the pilot – he's a creator of that show – what really got me was seeing what Judd [Apatow] has done for all the people that he mentored. You could look up on that stage and everyone is doing well, to varying degrees, and there's no getting around the fact that it's because of Judd. For as much as I felt like it was honoring and exalting the shows and all of us, I was more taken aback by what an amazing mensch Judd is. It was really cool! I felt very lucky.
How do you feel about this coming season of How I Met Your Mother? Are you proud of the fact that the show has managed to tackle some serious subject matter while still being extremely funny?
SEGEL: I'm very excited about the next couple of years. Unfortunately, it's hard to answer How I Met Your Mother questions because we don't know, in advance, what's going to happen, even episode to episode. But, they did such an amazing job writing for all of us this season, and started exploring some more emotional arcs. I think that, if we stick with more of the same, we're going to be in good shape. We're very lucky.


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Patrick Fitzgerald takes on Socrates in mock trial
Patrick Fitzgerald has prosecuted mobsters, terrorists, a White House aide and two Illinois governors.
On Thursday, the former top prosecutor got a crack at Socrates. Yes, that Socrates, the Greek philosopher.
Fitzgerald, one of the nation's highest profile federal prosecutors until he recently entered private practice, represented Athens in a do-over of the 399 B.C. trial of Socrates on charges of corrupting the ancient city's youth and disrespecting its gods.
Socrates' legal counsel at the mock trial in Chicago - part of fundraising event for the National Hellenic Museum - was no slouch himself.
It was Dan Webb, a high-priced lawyer who defended former Gov. George Ryan in a corruption case brought by Fitzgerald. Ryan eventually lost at a trial prosecuted by assistant attorneys working for Fitzgerald.
The result Thursday night? The jury - an audience of more than 1,000 people - found Socrates guilty, but spared him death by hemlock and fined him instead.
As U.S. Attorney in Chicago, Fitzgerald gained a reputation for getting defendants to plead out before trial. But he told The Associated Press by phone hours before Thursday's event that a last-minute plea deal with Socrates appeared to be out of reach.
"Socrates," he explained, "does not seem to be much of a compromiser."
In the 24 centuries since Socrates' trial and execution by poison hemlock, the prevailing sentiment has been that Athens railroaded the 70-year-old gadfly, who was fond of questioning bedrock Athenian assumptions about the world.
Fitzgerald, though, complained that the only extensive account of the trial is from Plato, a student and booster of Socrates.
"I don't think Athenians ever got a fair shake. Plato only gave one side of the story," he said.
Impiety was seen as an egregious crime in ancient Greece, he explained, because it was thought that an individual's disrespect of the gods could invite their wrath in the form of plagues and other calamities.
"If you criticized the gods, then bad things happen to everyone," he said.
Among the judges presiding over the retrial was Richard Posner, who sits on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Among the jurors were several state luminaries, including the president of the Illinois Senate, John Cullerton.
The retrial wasn't meant to be a reenactment. It was meant to be a modern take on the famous case, meaning participating attorneys and judges won't don like togas or other period garb, Fitzgerald said gratefully.
"There are crimes against nature, too," he laughed. "That would be a crime against nature if we showed up in a togas."
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This grandma feels like she got run over by a reindeer. I realize that isn't possible because they're all at the North Pole, or grazing in Lapland, but that's what it feels like and I think I saw a hoof print on my forehead late last night. It might be payback for eating reindeer meat when we were in Finland about ten years ago. I did swallow, but I didn't like it. Doesn't that count? I do hope Santa forgives me and all those Finns and Laps who eat it all the time. I'm pretty sure it wasn't Rudolph or anyone we know.
It's a funny thing about the holidays how they run all over us, like reindeer run amok, whether we enjoy them or not so why not try to get into the spirit of the season? This year is a difficult one for my family because of a family member who is direly ill but we're all trying. We say it's for the little ones, but it's also for the ill one, and yes, for all of us. For those of us who are into that time of life when some of our friends are leaving this world, we feel a special need to savor, enjoy, and appreciate. It's such a bittersweet time for everyone as we each remember family members and days long gone. It's so completely natural to have our internal televisions on playback as we remember our own childhoods and those of our children or favorite nieces or nephews. Our memories are completely tangled with loved ones, church services, Christmas carols and the Christmas story, without which we would live in a dark world indeed.
My son is and always has been devoted to the movie A Christmas Story. He's now the father of four, two of whom are in college but recently, when my son was on a business trip in Ohio, he drove out of his way to visit the museum they've established using the original house from the movie in Cincinnati. Apparently he's not alone in his obsession because we're now seeing the leg lamp from the movie sold in the local drugstores. Several years ago I bought his family several items reminiscent of the film but had to go online to do it; including a piece of shingle from the original house. For many of us the Christmas season wouldn't be complete without watching Meet Me in St. Louis, It's a Wonderful Life, or The Bishop's Wife. My husband's particular favorite is Going My Way. I'm certain it will remind him of his sweet mom who we lost this year. It's pretty difficult to celebrate the holidays without hearing Bing Crosby croon a tune. Guess I'll have to dig out my old copy of White Christmas.
It's coming back to me. As I write the words and experience the memories, I can feel the infusion of the Christmas spirit. The underlying question is whether or not my body can also become infused. I'm deeply fatigued, I've had a persistent virus to add to the mix of my usual complaints yet the faint sound of jingle bells keeps me going.
As a mother, grandmother, and wife I don't want anyone to feel disappointment during the holiday season. I will spend more money than I should and so will my husband who will do his shopping the day before Christmas. That, too, is a holiday tradition in our family. We will talk to loved ones far away and wish them joy. We will face whatever the end of this year brings to each of us and look forward to a New Year arriving. We will do more than persevere. We will search for the heart and spirit of the Christ child as we love each other and perhaps, we'll hold each other just a little closer than usual with a deeper sense of appreciation. May all your Christmas preparations be merry and bright.
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In my life time there have been 3 Steeler Eras, The Noll Era, The Cowher Era, and The Tomlin Era.
Each era has had their peaks and valleys, many more peaks than long valleys.
Each era has had a different starting point on the timeline, each starting point had different challenges, each coach met those challenges with great success.
Each era on the timeline had teams that were built and rebuilt. Each era on the timeline (Noll,Cowher,Tomlin) had good drafts
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Questions a High School Journalism Student Would Ask
Q) Coach Mike Tomlin said that the radio broadcast that they heard was the Patriots Coach to Coach broadcast, Is this correct?
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Q) The NFL has said that after Coach Tomlin informed the officials of this strange anomaly early on in the 1st Q (as reported by NBC) that the NFL shut down
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Trump should apologize
He should make a point about apologizing.
Just as soon as John McCain apologizes to the good people he insulted for getting involved in the political process, attending a campaign rally, and exercising their constitutional rights. For that McCain calls them Krazies, Neanderthals, and Troglodytes.
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Some segments of the auction scene have collapsed in the past decade, but sales of fine jewellery are thriving.
Sotheby's Australia held four stand-alone auctions of what they called important jewels in 2012, with a combined sale total of $4,707,852. (All figures include buyer's premium.)
The best single result for the year was for a diamond ring sold for $222,000 in September.
At the most recent sale, in Sydney on December 4, Sotheby's achieved results of $1,454,460. This was three-quarters of the volume and value sought. A highlight was a pair of diamond earrings, sold for $168,000.
"We continue to see strong demand for quality gemstones and designer jewels," says the chairman of Sotheby's Australia, Geoffrey Smith, who introduced specialist sales of jewellery a few years ago. Previously this market existed mainly as a subsection of decorative arts.
While Smith thinks there could be an investment factor driving the boom, he says emotions are the main reason.
"Jewels are so personal," he says, noting that most of the items sold are destined to be worn, not stored in a safe.
"If people see an opportunity to purchase a quality piece, they will – but you must always add the emotional component."
Sotheby's plans to stage three specialist auctions this year, plus a private sale and exhibition next month (details are below).
Demand is now greater than the supply of high-quality product.
"Jewels are an international currency," Smith says. "When we consign – especially diamonds – we have interest from trade and collectors around the world. These days, it's a global market, especially for the known brands."
Traditional brands – such as Harry Winston, Bulgari, Cartier, Tiffany & Co, Van Cleef & Arpels – are making a comeback on the secondary market because of the quality of the materials.
But there are some new players. In December, a significant collection of contemporary pearl jewellery by Australian company Paspaley performed well through Sotheby's, with all items sold after some competitive bidding.
A highlight was the South Sea pearl, opal and diamond necklace that sold for $42,000, well above estimates of $10,000 to $15,000.
While classic jewellery from the 1950s and '60s always does well, so does 1980s Bulgari. Anything featuring pink and yellow diamonds is desirable.
Leonard Joel also holds stand-alone jewellery auctions, with an emphasis on affordable or entry-level items, priced from $1000 to $5000. These sales have attracted a new generation of buyers in their 30s looking for something funky and exotic – such as black diamonds.
Leonard Joel specialist John D'Agata had a range of these for sale at his June 2012 auction in Melbourne. He says the popularity of this colour of diamond is based on the television and film series Sex and the City, in which the lead character, Carrie Bradshaw (played by Sarah Jessica Parker), is given a black diamond engagement ring by "Mr Big", making them a cult fashion statement.
Smith has also noticed a younger demographic turning up at his auctions, including grandchildren brought in by their grandparents to look around on viewing days, or young couples choosing auctions to pick up a distinctive engagement ring.
Sotheby's encourages clients to try on jewellery before they make bids. This is all part of the important emotional response.
Men are also involved in the jewellery scene. Watches and cuff links are usually included at these auctions.
To start the year, Sotheby's Australia is staging the Age of Elegance exhibition and private sale from Thursday, February 14 to Sunday, February 17 (Melbourne) and Thursday, February 21 to Sunday, February 24 (Sydney).
This is the first private sale of jewels – not an auction – staged by the company. As well as items for sale, there will be a display of historic pieces from a private collection, including Madonna's wedding tiara and Clark Gable's cigarette lighter.
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I disagree! I disagree a lot! Knowing your precedence is a part of knowing the language. Sometimes, but just sometimes, adding parenthesis can add to clarity. Otherwise, I think they're just cluttering the code. You shouldn't put unnecessary "precedence parentheses" in Perl just as you don't do x + (y * z) when doing math. The desire to add parenthesis rather than to "rely on precedence" is usually a sign of uncertainty of the programmer who consequently does it "for safety". If you're not certain of the precedence for what you want to write, don't do yourself the disfavour of adding "safety parentheses", instead look in perlop. You'll soon learn the precedence well enough to not have to look there so often.
I found the node to be unnecessary hard to read. It would benefit from some editorial updates. It would be great to have paragraph titles. For the code that is on its own line it would be good to have it either indented or surrounded by blank lines, or preferably both. Adding code tags consistantly for all code parts in the text, including && and variable names, would also make it easier to read.
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Galaxy S5 I cannot figure out why when listening to a podcast I my car it will suddenly stop at a random location anywhere from a few minutes to more than an hour in the episode will stop, drop off the playlist, and move to "episode s" marked as "read" Then, while driving, I have to change screens, toggle played, play, and then try to find where I got left off. I purchased the unlock key hoping it would help, it did not. Without a solution I'll have uninstall write a no stars review, and try another app.
This is as frustrating as any issue I've had. Oh and it did happen on my droid Razr Maxx also before my upgrade. Email responses much appreciated!


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With Congress failing to strike a deal over the weekend, the next round in the debt battle belongs to the Senate as Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell try to reach an agreement.
President Barack Obama was scheduled to meet at 3 p.m. with Reid, D-Nev.; Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.; House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio; and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. That meeting was canceled at the last minute to allow more time to work on a deal.
A White House official told MarketWatch that the president scheduled the meeting in order to "make clear the need for Congress to act to pay our bills, and reopen the government."
"We have had an opportunity over the last couple of days to have some very constructive exchanges of views about how to move forward," McConnell said Monday on the Senate floor. "Those discussions continue, and I share [the] optimism that we're going to get a result that will be acceptable to both sides."
Indeed, Joe Lieber of Washington Analysis noted in his Monday morning commentary that despite setbacks over the weekend, he believes the debt ceiling will be increased "in some fashion" by Thursday, partially influenced by the fact that Reid and McConnell, "who was instrumental in getting a deal in 2011, are talking and trying to work out an agreement."
Said Lieber: "While there is no love lost between these two, we had worried that because of the difficult primary McConnell is facing he would be mostly absent from the negotiations, but that clearly isn't the case. McConnell's participation in the negotiations is nothing but positive."
A few of the "major disagreements" to likely emerge from the Reid-McConnell negotiations, Lieber said, are "over discretionary funding levels and the duration of the debt limit and continuing resolution" to reopen the government.
Lieber went on to note that the two Senate leaders "understand that if they can't reach an agreement by today [Monday]", Boehner "will be forced to produce his own debt limit legislation."
As it stands now, Boehner is "indicating a six-week debt limit extension that could include provisions eliminating the health care subsidies for members of Congress, their staff and the White House," Lieber said. "In addition, his bill would include income verification for those applying for healthcare under the [Affordable Care Act]. Absent a Senate bill, the House could vote as early as Tuesday on such a package."
While political strategists like Greg Valliere believe a debt default can be averted, a deal will still simply "simply kick the can down the road, setting up still another shutdown crisis later this fall, then another during the winter, then another in the spring," noted Valliere, of Potomac Research, in his Monday morning commentary. This, Valliere said, "will do real damage to the economy — business and consumer psychology will slump even further amid this persistent and corrosive uncertainty."
The Dow Jones industrial average slumped Monday morning on news that the weekend didn't produce a deal, but swung higher in the afternoon. Investors appear to not be overreacting to the daily political ebbs and flows.
On Monday, Charles Schwab released its client sentiment survey, which showed that despite the political wrangling in Washington investors continue to be focused on the long term. "The government shutdown has certainly led to some frustration for clients, but fortunately, most recognize how important it is to not overreact to daily headlines," said Rodney Prezeau, senior VP of client experience at Charles Schwab & Co., in a statement. "That's not to say clients aren't carefully adjusting their strategies — we're working with them in a variety of ways to fine-tune their portfolios and keep them on track."
Schwab's Q3 Investor Sentiment Survey, which polled more than 1,000 retail clients between Sept. 6 and Sept, 18, found that only 15% shifted their investing philosophy from the prior quarter. The survey found that more than three in five investors believe a market correction will occur in the next nine months, but nearly half (49%) think now is a good time to invest in equities, and 70% say they are engaged in managing their money.
"Many of our clients prefer to keep one hand on the wheel when it comes to their finances, so we're having more conversations with clients and that appears to be boosting their confidence levels," said Prezeau. "In fact, our survey showed that 70% feel most confident when they have ongoing or periodic advice from an advisor, rather than flying solo or completely delegating their financial decisions."


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Avoiding Spending to Appease Others
I used to focus entirely too much on what other people thought of me.
Throughout my teen years and adult life, I bought many, many things with an eye almost exclusively on what others thought of me. My clothes. My education and career choices. My gadgets. My housing. My automobile. My golf clubs. My meals.
I believed that somehow I could create a more positive image of me through others by buying things or doing things that they approved of. If I lived in the right home, I thought others might think of me as successful or as a family-oriented person. If I owned the right gadgets, people might see me as tech savvy and affluent. If I spend money in front of people from my home town, they might see me as some sort of great success.
What I've Learned
All of it was a gigantic waste of money.
The only people that put any stock in such frivolous things are the people that know you only in the most tenuous of fashions because that's all they know about you. If you're going to build any sort of relationship with someone, it's going to be based on who you are, not what kind of stuff you own. If there are people out there who genuinely believe things like, "I won't be friends with someone who doesn't have a $3,000 golf club or a $750,000 home," then their values are so warped and misplaced that you will never be able to please them. Don't bother.
That's not to say it isn't worthwhile to think about others, but most people make up their mind about you based on other things. Are you kind to others? Do you engage them politely? Do you listen to what they say? Are you clean and not offensive to others? If you want to build a strong social network, those are the things to focus on, and those things don't require an outlay of money.
This isn't a call to ultra-frugality, either. Spend money on what you value, not what other people value. I buy automobiles based on reliability and gas mileage and safety, not how they look in our driveway or whether the neighbor will be impressed. If I want to build an actual relationship with my neighbor, I'll go over there and say hello, not buy a car to impress. If I don't want to build a relationship with my neighbor, why would I possibly care at all what he or she thinks of my car? Now, if I really got a lot of very personal value out of a luxury car purchase, I might choose to purchase one, but that's not where my values lie. Neither side of that decision has anything to do with my neighbor.
"But what about your reputation?" Most of the things that can be said about you that can really hurt you or build a positive reputation about you are based on the actions you take, not on the stuff you own. You can own all of the nice cars and homes and boats you want, but if you hit your spouse, people won't like you. You can live in a shack, but if you spend countless hours building a great community softball league (and keep yourself clean and somewhat presentable), people will love you. You can own a BMW and wear a $3,000 suit, but if you're rude to your neighbors, they'll help you build a bad reputation. You can drive a used Toyota and wear $2 Goodwill pants, but if you're willing to lend a hand to help your neighbor re-shingle their roof, they'll speak positively about you in the community.
What Can You Do to Avoid this Trap?
To put it simply, don't waste a single, solitary dime on a purchase meant to impress others. Such purchases don't pay off because they don't improve who you are. Focus instead on building you into a great, friendly, happy person – and most of the methods of doing that don't cost a dime.
Instead, spend your energies actually building real relationships with people. Instead of spending two hours picking the "perfect" handbag to drive the other women crazy with envy or spending three hours at the golf store trying to pick out the driver that will let you dominate the boys, spend that time helping out a neighbor, connecting deeply with someone important to you, or working on some project that will make your life less stressful or improve your life quality (which will make further interactions much easier and much more positive).
Stuff doesn't make a person.


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Brazen car thieves have stolen the R34 Nissan Skyline GT-R driven by Paul Walker in the latest Fast and Furious flick. The real crime? The sickos scratched a mint condition Studebaker Silverhawk. Video details below.
In a ten minute time span, the thieves broke into builder Chris Milano's warehouse, where the car was being stored, and while in the process of stealing it, bumped a BMW and scratched up a Porsche Boxster and a Studebaker Silverhawk. Milano said the $75,000 car was not insured as it was mostly just used for movie promotion, though he is offering up a reward for any information leading to the car's recovery. Stealing a famous R34 is a pretty stupid move, as it won't take long for FNF geeks to spot the car, but scratching a Silverhawk is just reprehensible. [CBS2]


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LaValle opened her clothes store earlier this year in Grady's Collective Market, located at 923 Fulton Street, a space where up-and-coming entrepreneurs hawk their wares.
LaValle's store, where she sells clothing, footwear and dishes styling advice, is only 100 square feet. That's a far cry the floor space she commandeered in earlier years, but LaValle isn't worried. One day, she plans to open a full-size store of her own.
"I'd like to go forward with my own space hopefully by next year," LaValle said.
She was born in Flatbush but grew up on Long Island. After high school, she landed a fashion internship that required traveling back and forth to Paris.
"It was a pretty amazing experience," LaValle said.
That led to work as a stylist for Hollywood celebrities; her list of former clients includes Mark Wahlberg, Kirsten Dunst, Rosario Dawns and Wesley Snipes.
After more than a decade of styling, LaValle changed gears, going to work as a buyer for the clothing store Institute in SoHo. She was there until October of 2007, when the store closed over a rent dispute.
"I had to decide on what direction I want to go in at that time," LaValle said.
After much thought, she began a series of fashionista odd jobs, including selling jewelry at Union Square. The brisk trade she did there convinced LaValle a small business would work.
"My whole thing in picking clothing is to offer something that people don't really know about, but that's really innovative," she said. "I'm more about really interesting things without a brand name behind them."
The subtle but sophisticated items in her store go hand-in-hand with the Clinton Hill neighborhood where she lives and works.
"I like the quaintness and the prices of a nice community shopping area," Lavalle said. "I don't want to be in the mishmash of the Atlantic Terminal Mall."


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Washed out
It would not have been fun to even attempt getting this game off the ground tonight. Temps in the low to mid 30's by first pitch along with the wind and rain made it an easy call for the Chiefs front office Monday.
The game against Syracuse on Monday night at Alliance Bank Stadium has been postponed due to rain. A make-up date will be announced at a later time. Glancing at the schedule, the likely date will be June 15 for a double-dip to start our two-day stay later this summer.
The Bisons will now travel to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre for a two-game series against the Yankees from PNC Field. Game starters will be determined by Tuesday morning.
The Bisons return home on Friday, April 24 for a four-game series against the Syracuse Chiefs.
We'll report from the ballyard tomorrow… Enjoy your night off!


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I suspect that even for many hardcore emacs users it is something other than
The $EDITOR environment variable determines which editor is run to change the contents of files by various unix commands1. Until a few weeks ago, my $EDITOR and $P4EDITOR variables were both set to vi. Why?
Starting my emacs takes a few seconds on a local server and up to a minute on a remote server (because of X). I could use
emacsclient which connects to an already running emacs. I would also have to change my work habits and access remote servers using tramp. Doing that would be inconvenient and a better solution for me is to start a stripped-down emacs-in-a-terminal.
The first thing to do is to set up a simple file which loads your basic configuration. I call this one basic-emacs.el.
(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/emacs-files")) (require 'my-defaults) (require 'my-utils)
Then set your EDITOR variables in
.bashrc for example.
EDITOR='emacs -nw -q --load ~/emacs-files/basic-emacs.el' P4EDITOR=$EDITOR export EDITOR P4EDITOR
- The q flag prevents emacs from loading your .emacs
- The nw flag runs emacs in a terminal
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Ssh! Everybody Look Professional!
People "in the know" understand that Linux is
perfectly appropriate for the enterprise. However,
there are many circles that still think of
Linux as a hobbyist project. Consultants such
as myself face an up-hill battle when pushing
Linux-based solutions. I believe our job is made
more difficult when one of the few Linux-focused
periodicals actually to make it to the local magazine
racks prominently displays the powerful operating
system's ability to act as a Web-based cat feeder.
I appreciated the article, but did it have to go on
the cover?
Jeremy Cherny
Are you trying to get us in trouble with the "where's the fun" guy? Fun technology attracts the new developers and projects, and non-fun technology dries up and blows away. —Ed.
Happy Birthday, Patrick
As a subscriber of Linux Journal since 1994, I have been following all the great pictures of newborns, who get their first introduction to Linux on the pages of your great publication. When my son Patrick arrived on October 23, 2004, I knew I had to start him off with penguins as soon as possible. So, on his first-month birthday, my wife snapped this picture to show that a new Linux hacker is on his way to help in the Open Source community.
Piotr Trzeciak
64-Bit Porting, Please
As I am currently hacking my way through this
myself...I would really like to see an article on
building software (compiling) for the AMD64. There
are certain pointer symantics and sizing issues that
need to be dealt with, and I have yet to find a good
source on "porting" to 64 bits.
There's a bunch of 64-bit wisdom scattered around the Net and in project source code. We'll look for someone to write the article for you. —Ed.
Laptop Comparisons, Please
In the January 2005 issue, you have a nice review of the HP laptop. I do not mean to be too critical, but it seems to me that you have given us half a loaf. We do not buy such things in a vacuum. There are other Linux boxes out there, such as from Emperor or even Lindows, Wal-Mart, sub300 (ugh), etc.
It would help me a great deal if a review would
describe not only the object under discussion, but also
include some comments about whether it is "better
than", in almost any way you choose to evaluate it,
some other machine. Is is a better buy than the
equivalent box from Emperor? Where does it fit in,
in the long scale of very cheap to very expensive,
versus quality. I think the reader would be better
served with such information, even if it is only your
best guess. Because (I hope) you have a lot better
data base to go on than I do.
Many thanks for a good magazine.
Get Your Pre-Ban HDTV Cards
Thanks for the heads up on the DRM fiasco for HDTV. I
believe pcHDTV is now shipping version 3000 and
will continue to do so until the 30th of June, 2005,
without the DRM flag. Can you confirm this or do you
already have confirmation of this?
Kevin R. Battersby
Watch for an update item on this next issue. —Ed.
31337 m1773nz!
My son Graeme is quite a Linux fanatic. One of his good friends made him these mittens for Christmas this year. I thought you might want to see this upcoming fashion trend for what every "cold" Linux user should be wearing.
Enough Kids—Puppy Break!
After hinting for the last four and a half years of our marriage my wife finally conceded, and Charlie is the result. Immediately upon agreeing we would take the pup, my wife went to work using some fabric endowed with a Tux look-alike and made a few goodies for our new puppy. Hopefully this finds you the editor in good health, as well as the rest of the LJ staff. Here is to what may become of Linux in 2005, cheers!
Unicode Question
Thanks for your article in the December 2004 issue of Linux Journal about aggregating feeds, I really enjoyed it. It's probably months since you wrote the article, but I've only just got around to reading it over the Xmas break! I don't know Python, but managed to tinker with your code and get my own feeds page going (snowfrog.net/myfeeds.html).
I'm getting an error when I syndicate some sites, such as safari.oreilly.com/rss, and I don't know how to fix it. Any pointers? Obviously, it involves stripping out non-ASCII chars, or changing the codec to Unicode, but I don't know how to do that (yet):
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xae' in position 66: ordinal not in range(128)
This occurs when (for example) I do a
Thanks for any help you can give.
Sonia Hamilton
Reuven Lerner replies: I'm glad that you enjoyed the article! And yes, I normally write columns about 3–4 months before they are printed—but I do remember writing about feedparser and aggregating feeds.
Hmm, I'm a bit surprised that something is choking on Unicode characters. That shouldn't happen, should it? And for feedparser to be choking is even weirder, because I was sure that it could handle Unicode just fine. But the problem isn't the Unicode string. Rather, it has to do with the fact that the Unicode string isn't being translated into a non-ASCII codec, which is what you guessed. For example, consider the following:
>>> print u'\xae' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xae' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) >>> print u'\xae'.encode('utf-8') ®
So you (or the feedparser source; it's not clear if the problem is in code that you wrote or in the feedparser code) probably should include a call to encode, indicating the resulting codec.
I haven't read it very carefully, but the feedparser documentation includes a description of encoding systems. It might well be that you're being bitten by something there (www.feedparser.org/docs/character-encoding.html). I hope that this helps! Please let me know if you have any further questions.
GPG Fingerprints
I read you rolled out GPG for everybody at SSC.
How about adding the key fingerprints in the journal
itself as an example to give validity to the keys.
You list all the collaborators on page 4 with the
e-mail addresses, this would be a nice spot to add
the fingerprints.
The only drawback would be the space it takes.
Better: create a master key, sign all the keys with
the master, and print the fingerprint of the master.
Keep up the good work with the magazine, I am now the owner of 50cm
of magazines. And my best wishes for 2005 to you and the whole team.
Erik Ruwalder
Great idea. We'll ask our IS department to create a company master key and sign all our keys with it. —Ed.
Hey, Puffins Don't Count!
I have been using Linux since 1998 and Red Hat 5.2. My son has liked penguins since 1996. He has quite a collection of stuffed penguins including a few Tuxes. Please excuse the occasional puffin. Here he is pictured with our ThinkPad running Fedora 3.
Stuart Boreen
Dependency Hunting, S'il Vous Plaît
I appreciate Marcel Gagné and his monthly column, particularly because it is the only one in LJ that I can consistently understand. But, why does he feel it necessary (or useful) to repeat the same five-step build process for every piece of software? It's only useful if it compiles with no problems—and we all know that never happens. Anyone capable of hunting down dependencies certainly knows the build process.
I have a proposal for Marcel and Francois: how about a column devoted
specifically to the compile process? I am particularly interested in
knowing about common dependency issues, common paths to specify, and why
and how to install dependencies in a different directory so they can
coexist with other, default versions of the same software. I am
running Xandros 2.0, which uses an older version of KDE (and many other
things). I would love to be able to install software that requires KDE
3.3, but upgrading to that would certainly wreck my OS. There must be a
way to install dependencies in parallel, with the more advanced versions
to be used only by the programs that I specifically point to them, but I
have no idea how to go about this.
Derek Croxton
Letters to the Mainstream Media
I was looking in the local rag, the New York Daily News and saw this in the editorial column:
Microsoft Windows is a terrible product. If Windows were a commercial aircraft, the FAA would ground it. If it were a prescription drug, the FDA would ban it. If it were a horse, you'd shoot it. Every new Windows release is miles worse than the one before it. Every fresh patch and tweak crashes your system more and more desperately. Microsoft Windows wants to kill you.
But yet we're all stuck with it. We all depend on it, completely and absolutely and utterly.
So, I wrote a reply to the editor:
What to do about "broken" Windows?
Plenty. There is a whole family of free operating systems such as GNU/Linux and BSD available to all on the Internet or from your local computer users group.
Try Knoppix on CD. It comes with everything you need including word processing and e-mail software, real games, self-installing network software and you don't even have to install it on your computer.
Microsoft does not want you to know about that.
Wonder why? It is simply better. Try it (www.knoppix.net).
Adam Vazquez
Kernel IPSec History
The article "Linux VPN Technologies" [February 2005]
discusses IPSec and its availability in the 2.6 series
kernel. It states that FreeS/WAN is available in the
kernel, when in fact the 2.6 kernel uses a port of
the KAME IPSec stack (www.kame.net). The KAME
stack was originally developed for the BSD variants
and is very mature. The utilities for interacting
with this stack, called ipsec-tools, can be found at
ipsec-tools.sourceforge.net. I'm successfully
using the 2.6 IPSec stack for a custom wireless access
point using hostap. Thanks for the excellent work.
Peter Johanson
FreeS/WAN and OpenS/WAN were never official parts of the kernel; some distributions did include them. —Ed.
More Innovative Apps, Please
I have been a Linux advocate for many years and continue to marvel at the progress it has made. Several leaps have brought Linux much more into the mainstream of business and even home users in recent years.
It seems that many applications are not innovative, but just copies of other ideas from other platforms. While it is important that critical areas be filled with appropriate applications in order to make Linux viable for users, it is also important to innovate. That being said, will users move to Linux for the same applications that they can get on other systems? Probably, because of cost savings. But, more users would move faster to Linux if there are applications that are innovative.
I remember in the mid-1980s when a small company was able to capture nearly 25% of the PC market despite having more expensive products. A simple change to the user interface that used graphics in place of menus made all the difference.
So, as I flip thought the last several issues of
Linux Journal, I have yet to see many innovative
applications. As more people become interested in
Linux for its reliable and highly customizable
features, will there be an incentive to switch
other than cost? Without innovative applications,
it could relegate Linux to remain in the back office
in the hands of the techies.
John Irey
NLD as Seen by a Novell User
Just before reading the latest issue [February 2005], I was thinking to myself that LJ really hasn't yet acknowledged that Novell is now one of the major players in the Linux world. And then there was your review of Novell Linux Desktop (which as I'm sure others have told you by now is NLD not NDS). As a longtime Novell user and a longtime Linux user I was happy that Novell took the steps it did. Like everyone else I was keeping my fingers crossed that they wouldn't screw up like they did when the acquired WordPerfect and sold UNIX to SCO. So far they haven't made any major blunders.
Initially, the emphasis was on a good server kernel to replace NetWare, which although still quite capable, isn't as good as Linux in many areas. Of course Novell just couldn't resist competing with Microsoft by pushing Linux on the desktop. NLD isn't bad, but it offers little advantage over any of the other distributions. Novell is positioning NLD as a business desktop.
In their rush to get NLD out the door, they didn't get all the pieces in place to integrate NLD into an existing Novell network, so most established NetWare shops aren't finding it very useful either. I don't even think ncpfs (needed to mount NetWare volumes) came installed by default. I know GroupWise didn't, even though they have a pretty good Linux version. Evolution 2 is the default mail program but none of the GroupWise hooks are working yet. Those are waiting on the next version of GroupWise due out mid-year. The reset of the integration part is waiting on Novell Open Enterprise Server (OES), now in beta. Supposedly, it will have a true NetWare client akin to the the Win32 client. Time will tell.
Novell is a major player in the Linux world now,
and we should accept that fact and work with
them. They are very open-minded right now and will
benefit from interaction with people that have been
around Linux a lot longer then they have. I'd encourage
you to attend Brainshare this year. Linus was there
last year. As always, LJ is great and continues to
get better. Thanks for the good work.
Cruelty-Free Advertising, Please
I used to be a subscriber to Linux Magazine until the Microsoft ads started appearing a few years ago. I was sickened and stunned. I stopped dead still in my tracks with feelings of anger and realizations of betrayal. I really used to look forward to the monthly delivery of LM, but I was left staggered and emotionally confused at the sight of Microsoft's ugly and sudden appearance. There was a sinister happiness about the ad, and it felt very much as if the magazine I was holding contained a plague that began infecting my hands. I could feel the hate and cruelty making its black way up both my arms...going for my soul...trying to turn me into its Golem. Even as the magazine slammed against the wall across the room, I still felt sick, and angry, and sad, and betrayed. It was a really tough day for me.
Linux Journal is the only Linux magazine I subscribe
to now. If something should happen to you guys...where else could I go?
Tony Freeman
Security Blanket?
My home office is in the basement of my Wisconsin home. It gets rather chilly here in the middle of the winter, so my wife surprised me with a blanket she made to help keep me warm as I use my Linux workstation.
A mid-winter kite flying event called "Kites on Ice" was held in Madison, Wisconsin on Lake Monona. My son captured this view of some penguin kites flying high above the snow and ice-covered lake.
I have been enjoying Linux Journal since Issue 36 (April 1997) and will continue for a long time to come (my subscription runs until February 2012. (I bought into the 100 issues for $100 offer a while back.) Keep up the good work. Linux forever!
root Password Management
May I interject a thought regarding the comments made
in the January 2005 LJ [Best of Technical Support,
"Distributing /etc/shadow", p. 68]?
While possibly more than was originally requested, one
of the other options available instead of constantly
changing the root password would be to use the SecurID
system (and ACE Server) that is sold by RSA Security.
It gives you a variation on "one-time passwords"
and in a lot of cases can satisfy the MIL-Spec that
requires rotating the root passwords.
However, in practice, locking out the root password
and using sudo for everything (which can also use
SecurID) is a much smarter idea. It provides auditing
as a side benefit.
Michael C. Tiernan
Open Access to Archives, Please
Please put my vote in the "liked open access better" category. I subscribe to make Linux Journal possible and to have a hard copy in my hand every month. It doesn't bother me that someone else may be getting it free off the Web. I think that requiring a subscription to get full content is passing up the opportunity to provide a service. Let me give you an example.
I've been asked to do a piece for IEEE Software. So while researching past issues to find the appropriate tone for the audience, I found that there's a lot of good stuff there that I (and others like me) don't have access to because we don't get the subscription. As a result, we're less informed than we might be. Publications that do that may be protecting their copyrights and business model at the cost of their community being less informed. Even as a subscriber I'd be happier if the average Linux user was better informed.
The last time I checked, the European Linux magazines offered free access to content that was over a year old. If allowing access to older content (for some small value of "older") will satisfy the original objectors, I can live with that.
I will keep my subscription whether you choose to
change the subscriber-only policy or keep it. In either
case, I get what I want and what I paid for. I think
that open Web access to content is a valuable extra
to me and the community.
George Koharchik
Speaking only for myself
Photo of the Month: Penguin Visit
My wife and I returned from Antarctica in December 2004. You'll be happy to know that the penguin population is thriving and (at least while we were there) gentoos were the most populous distribution!
William E. Shotts
Photo of the month gets you a one-year subscription or a one-year extension. Photos to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Trip to Thailand
I took this picture of my wife, Ja (center), and her two twin sisters, Apple (left) and Cherry (right), on Christmas Day 2004, in Rayong Thailand. The T-shirts were from the Picn*x 13 Linux picnic in Sunnyvale, California last August (donated by Google).
We were on nearby Koh Samed (Samed Island) the next day when the tsunami hit. Luckily, both Rayong and Koh Samed are in the Gulf of Thailand, not on the Bay of Bengal. We noticed nothing more than a 3–4 foot surf, slightly larger than normal.
Drew Bertola
What Was the Bug?
I am very curious about the "Horrible Bug"
referenced in the diff -u section of the February
2005 Linux Journal. I have just purchased SuSE
Linux Professional, Release 9.2, which contains the
2.6.8 kernel. A description of the bug would help
to determine if my specific system would in any way
be impacted.
Richard Hathaway
Zack Brown replies: The bug was with NFS. Entering a mounted NFS directory would result in an OOPS under the 2.6.8 Linux kernel. Only folks using NFS would experience a problem.
Regarding SuSE Pro 9.2, you can put your mind at ease, the fix is included. All Linux distributions, SuSE, Debian, Red Hat and the rest, apply various patches to their kernels before release. In fact, in recent days the kernel developers have come to rely on vendor patches more explicitly, as a crucial element of the stabilization process. The 2.6.8 kernel included in the SuSE Pro 9.2 release is not a "true" 2.6.8 kernel, it is more like a 2.6.9-rc2 kernel with further additions. One of these additions clears up the NFS oops problem found in the official 2.6.8 kernel.
Question on Serial Ports
I particularly enjoyed Chris McAvoy's article in the January 2005 issue entitled "How I Feed My Cats with Linux". I do have one question though. He makes the point that the BASIC Stamp uses a nonstandard serial port and specifically points out that Parallax's method makes two-way communication difficult. This seems a valid reason for replacement, except that I can't find any instances in the sample code where two-way communication is actually used. Did I miss something? For the purpose of the given example, wouldn't the onboard serial suffice? I do appreciate that this is but one example of the possibilities of this kit and can see where two-way communication would be useful, just not in this case.
I would like to commend this article and ask for more like it, as I am interested in data acquisition and digital I/O controls for some future projects that I am planning, and currently LJ is my only link to the computer world until 2008. Which brings me to a final question for the subscription department. I am a longtime subscriber, but the last couple of years, I have been receiving my LJ while incarcerated in a California State prison, and I wonder, are there any other inmate subscribers? I've run into very few computer geeks like myself in prison, and not a single Linux enthusiast, so my curiosity is piqued.
Thanks to the entire LJ staff for their hard work in
putting out a fine publication.
Jason Shelton
Chris McAvoy replies: thanks for writing. You're right about not necessarily needing the MAX232 for one-way serial communication to the STAMP. Given the way we're using the STAMP, we could have just used the built-in serial port. That said, it was nice during testing to be able to run the DEBUG command in my PBASIC code, and see the output live on the console. If we used the built-in port, it would be more difficult to debug. Plus, the MAX232 kit is really slick, and relatively inexpensive.
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That our Meeting uses these products for administrative purposes and that we hope to soon use them to help others. This is our thank-you note.
That those who are doing this work might better realize their own Light. We see Godliness in their actions and by drawing their attention to that Godliness may we let them feel it more strongly.
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The society at large, and especially those who regulate, legislate, or adjudicate, may note the public good done by such sharing of intellectual property. Society should look kindly on this sharing, a sharing which its laws seem ill suited to promote.
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This post is by a very talented writer and brave survivor, Courtney Queeney. We were moved by Courtney's article in the New York Times "The View From the Victim Room" which detailed her experience of renewing an emergency protective order. Today, she shares with us how she saw domestic violence red flags in her past relationship.
After my ex-boyfriend punched, choked and kicked me one night, I spent a few days in shock. I couldn't figure out how I had gotten into such a relationship in the first place.
When I reflected on the span of our relationship, the red flags were glaring.
Red Flag: He pursued me for months before I eventually said yes, because after all, I'd met him through a mutual acquaintance and he was a certified yoga instructor. With those credentials he must have been safe, although I was uncomfortable as early as our second date, when he professed his love.
Red Flag: He isolated me from my friends, family, and favorite activities. At first, he was sad to see me go home; then I was staying away from him too long, depriving him of my company so I could write, look for jobs and feed my cat. If I went out with friends, he'd text during the night to tell me how much he missed me. He didn't want me to have a job, because that would have subtracted from his time, and allowed me greater financial freedom.
Red Flag: He sulked when I didn't want to sleep with him, like a child who had just been sent to bed without his dessert. Post-breakup, his objectification of women as sexual objects became even more disturbing in both his art and his writing. He'd written about a fantasy he had of flaying an ex so I shouldn't have been surprised when the death threats he sent me involved him raping me, then attacking the body parts specifically identifying me as female; he didn't, for example, want to kick me in the shins.)
Red Flag: The messages he sent after I broke up with him were even more transparently disturbing: I was clearly responsible for his behavior. Why did you provoke me? he wrote. (For the record, I had knocked on a bathroom door, worried he was going to pass out.) He wrote I'm sorry for the way things went down that night. He used the passive tense; he didn't write: I hit you. Or: I was on drugs. Or: I choked you. Or: I kicked you. In the same message, he wrote: Can you somehow get beyond it? Please find a way to forgive me. Somehow, as a woman, it was my job to make the situation better for him.
Red Flag: He was irrationally jealous of my male friends. When I went to visit two of them for a week, he refused to get out of bed, texting me pitiful messages about how he couldn't wait until I came home. He set his computer up so I had my own desktop, though I repeatedly told him not to bother. I later learned that monitoring someone's computer and phone are classic red flags.
Red Flag: After he'd hurt me so badly my ER doctor kept looking at the scans of my face and repeating I can't believe nothing is broken, I was still responsible for his weight loss, his family asking about my abrupt disappearance, his loneliness, his insomnia and panic attacks.
Red Flag: He repeatedly wrote that he couldn't live without me. One night, he cut himself badly with a knife and couldn't staunch the bleeding. When his incessant attempts to contact me suddenly stopped, I knew he'd acted on these threats, probably on my birthday. If he'd succeeded in his suicide attempt, it would have been the ultimate punishment: I would have to carry that guilt for the rest of my life. I don't think he meant to succeed; it was a play for my sympathy.
I was lucky. I glossed over red flag after red flag, but when it was my relationship or my life, I chose life. I just wish I'd done it sooner.
About Our Contributor:
Courtney Queeney is the author of Filibuster to Delay a Kiss (Random House). She lives in Chicago.


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- —Gemma Farley.[src]
Medieval tapestries are hung on the rough stone walls of Slytherin Dungeon. They depict the adventures of famous Medieval Slytherins.[1] One such episode depicted on the tapestries is the slaying of a unicorn and the collection of its blood.[2]
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NYT's guest columnist Stanley Fish engages in Orwellian doublethink to justify BDS speakers at Brooklyn College *UPDATED*
[UPDATE: I should clarify here that, while Fish regularly writes opinion pieces for the Times, and while his beliefs and the Times' beliefs harmonize more often than not, Fish is not a salaried employee of the Times. I've changed the title of this post to add the phrase "guest columnist" in order to reflect that fact.]
Over the past couple of weeks, there has been an appropriate uproar about the fact that Brooklyn College's Political Science Department, along with the usual Leftist suspects in American academia, were sponsoring a much-publicized forum advocating in favor of BDS. For those who do not closely follow Leftist political attacks on Israel, BDS stands for "Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions."
BDS is a political movement aimed at isolating, demonizing, and bankrupting Israel. Please take the five or so minutes to watch this video, which explains what BDS is — and mentions its goal, which is to "wipe out Israel":
In other words, then, the BDS crowd seeks Israel's destruction. I am hard put to find a context in which it is appropriate to use a publicly funded college to serve as a forum for the destruction of a democratic nation that, at least for now, is an American ally? (There's no saying what Commander-in-Chief Obama will decree in the coming years.)
In respect to Mayor Bloomberg's formulaic "I hate what you say, but I'll fight to the death to let you say it" stance, Jonathan Tobin explains why it is so heinous to support BDS conclaves:
But contrary to the mayor's typically highhanded formulation, this is not a free speech issue. Using a public university to promote hate speech in which the one Jewish state in the world is hypocritically singled out for isolation and destruction is not a matter of tolerating a diversity of views. What is so frustrating about the debate about BDS is the willingness of even those who do not support it to treat as a merely one among many defensible views about the Middle East or, as the New York Times referred to it in an editorial on the subject yesterday, a question of academic freedom whose advocates do not deserve to be spoken of harshly. As I wrote last week about a related controversy at Harvard, the BDS movement is not motivated by disagreement with specific Israeli policies or the issue of West Bank settlements. It is an economic war waged to destroy the Jewish state and is morally indistinguishable from more traditional forms of anti-Semitism that do not disguise themselves in the fancy dress of academic discourse.
As Yair Rosenberg noted today in Tablet, the BDS movement has as its declared goal Israel's destruction via implementation of the Palestinian "right of return." This is consistent with their overall rejection of Israel's right to exist as a separate Jewish state and their opposition to any means of self-defense against Palestinian terrorism.
It needs to be understood that those who take such a position are, in effect, denying the Jewish people the same right of self-determination that they support for every other nation on the planet. That is a textbook definition of bias and such bias when used against Jews is called anti-Semitism. That is why the various members of the City Council and New York State legislature who have spoken out on this issue are right to try to exert pressure on Brooklyn College to cancel the event and the Times and Bloomberg are wrong to defend the decision to uphold it.
I couldn't have said it better myself (which is why I quoted Tobin at such length).
Despite these protests, the forum went ahead and Stanley Fish, at the New York Times is thrilled. To him, using American taxpayer dollars to fund a convention aimed at destroying the world's sole Jewish nation (which also happens to be the sole democracy in the otherwise Muslim, totalitarian Middle East) is the essence of free speech (emphasis mine):
Among the cultural institutions a boycott might target are those Israeli universities that are judged to be either actively in league with the government's policies toward the Palestinians, or complicit with those policies by virtue of remaining silent while they are being implemented. To the charge that a boycott of academic institutions is a violation of academic freedom, B.D.S. supporters reply that because the state of Israel abrogates the academic freedom of Palestinian professors and students (by denying them funding, access and mobility), it is an affirmation, not a derogation, of academic freedom to refrain from engaging in intellectual commerce with Israeli universities. You can't invoke academic freedom, they say, when you're denying it to others. So the lines of battle are set with both sides claiming to be academic freedom's champion, and it is easy to see why a college might be thought to be an appropriate venue for a discussion of the matter.
Doesn't Fish's formulation remind you of such famous phrases as "War is Peace," "Freedom is Slavery," "Ignorance is Strength," or even "Arbeit macht frei"?
Fish is either a fool or a fellow traveler. BDS has nothing to do with academic freedom and everything to do with nation killing. Do I need to mention here that, while Palestine is Judenrein, Israeli universities (see video, above), its government, its military, and even its sports associations have Arab and Palestinian members who, provided that they avoid advocating or agitating for Israel's imminent destruction, have the same rights as Israel's Jewish, Christian, atheist, and whatever else residents?
Only a perverse Orwellian doublespeak would pretend that BDS — which aims, as I said, to achieve Israel's isolation, economic collapse, and her ultimate destruction — is simply a tit-for-tat about academic freedom. If academic freedom was the real issue, this would be a cat fight about speaking gigs at various universities. One doesn't challenge economic malfeasance by targeting the only Jewish nation in the world for complete destruction.
I won't deconstruct the rest of Fish's endlessly long article. Suffice to say that it is as rotten as the foundation on which it's built.
The New York Times is an increasingly foul publication. I don't use that word — "foul" — lightly. Even during the Duranty years, it aimed for some semblance of objectivity. Those days are gone. Its slobbering fervor for Barack Obama and the Democrats; its unrelenting hostility to Israel, George Bush, Republicans, conservatives, and libertarians; and its amoral and immoral attacks on all religions but for Islam, which PC dictates be shielded behind a Teflon coating despite its institutional misogyny, homophobia, and antisemitism, all make the Times too foul for fowls. Birds, being smart, deserve something a little classier to line their cages.


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Tom Hill Receives Community Recognition
11/10/06 by WK Real Estate
Tom Hill has been a commercial real estate broker for over 30 years. He was recently honored by Thistle Community Housing for his extensive work with affordable housing. Thistle Community Housing is a private non-profit organization dedicated to the acquisition, development and management of rental and homeownership opportunities for those who have difficulty affording housing in Boulder County and the surrounding areas. Thistle Community Housing considers Tom "a true friend" and states that "Tom Hill has made the impossible possible in Boulder County". He was instrumental in Thistle's acquisition of several properties, including The Fairways and Laguna apartments, their office on Folsom Street and a new property under contract in Longmont. Personable, hardworking, and effective, he demonstrates how brokers can make a difference in their community. Our congratulations to you, Tom, for your valuable contributions. About Wright Kingdom: http://www.wkre.com