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President Barack Obama delivered an election-year broadside to Republicans: Game on.
The GOP, from Congress to the campaign trail, signaled it's ready for the fight.
In his third State of the Union address, Obama issued a populist call for income equality that echoed the Occupy Wall Street movement. He challenged GOP lawmakers to work with him or move aside so he could use the power of the presidency to produce results for an electorate uncertain whether he deserves another term.
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Facing a deeply divided Congress, Obama appealed for lawmakers to send him legislation on immigration, clean energy and housing, knowing full well the election-year prospects are bleak but aware that polls show that the independent voters who lifted him to the presidency crave bipartisanship.
"I intend to fight obstruction with action," Obama told a packed chamber and tens of millions of Americans watching in prime time. House Republicans greeted his words with stony silence.
The Democratic president's vision of an activist government broke sharply with Republican demands for less government intervention to allow free enterprise. The stark differences will be evident in the White House's dealings with Congress and in the presidential campaign over the next 10 months.
In the Republican response to the president's address, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, who once considered a White House bid, railed against the "extremism" of an administration that stifles economic growth.
"No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant effort to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others," Daniels said, speaking from Indianapolis. "As in previous moments of national danger, we Americans are all in the same boat."
Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday the protracted policy fight with Republicans is "not about bad guys and good guys," but centers on how best to keep the middle class growing in America.
The administration has worked hard to strike deals with congressional Republicans on a wide array of issues, he said, including steps to rein in the mounting federal deficit. But Biden added that time after time in talks he held with congressional figures in both parties, he was told little could be accomplished because of the wall of opposition from 86 conservative House Republicans.
"It's like the tail is wagging the dog," the vice president said.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., called the differences between the parties "stark" and said he thought little could be accomplished on the federal debt until the two sides come to grips with the skyrocketing costs of health care and the Medicare program.
"I don't think anyone wants to pay higher taxes," Cantor said. And he said Washington needs to "get out of the mindset" that the country's problems can be solved with new programs and accept that small business "is the backbone" of the economy.
In his speech, Obama said getting a fair shot for all Americans is "the defining issue of our time." He described an economy on the rebound from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, with more than 3 million jobs created in the last 22 months and U.S. manufacturers hiring. Although unemployment is high at 8.5 percent, home sales and corporate earnings have increased, among other positive economic signs.
Republicans say the president's policies have undermined the economy.
Obama "had the opportunity and the responsibility to level with the American people, admit that the policies of the past three years have delivered an underwhelming record of economic growth and job creation, and show an interest in changing direction and uniting, not dividing the nation," said Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., head of the Republican Policy Committee. "The president failed to meet that responsibility."
There were brief moments of bipartisanship. Republicans and Democrats sat together, continuing a practice begun last year. The arrival of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who survived an assassination attempt, elicited sustained applause and cheering, with chants of "Gabby, Gabby." Republican Rep. Jeff Flake escorted her into the chamber and Obama greeted her with a hug.
The president received loud applause from both sides when he said: "I'm a Democrat. But I believe what Republican Abraham Lincoln believed: That government should do for people only what they cannot do better by themselves, and no more."
But all that belied a fierce divide.
Obama ticked off items on a hefty agenda that he wants from Congress — a path to citizenship for children who come to the United States with their undocumented parents if they complete college, tax credits for clean energy, elimination of red tape for Americans refinancing their mortgages, a measure that bans insider trading by lawmakers and a payroll tax cut.
Political reality suggests it was largely wishful thinking on Obama's part. The payroll tax cut and must-do spending bill are the most likely legislative items to survive the election year.
But Obama's far-reaching list and the hour-plus speech offered a unique opportunity to contrast his record with congressional Republicans and his top presidential rivals, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich.
"Anyone who tells you America is in decline or that our influence has waned, doesn't know what they're talking about," Obama said — a clear response to the White House hopefuls who have pummeled him for months.
In an attack on the nation's growing income gap, Obama called for a new minimum tax rate of at least 30 percent on anyone making more than $1 million. Many millionaires — including Romney — pay a rate less than that because they get most of their income from investments, which are taxed at a lower rate.


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How do we respond to people who follow Dr Dawkins' advice to mock and ridicule us with contempt and in public?
One reaction is to try to reason with the mockers and ridiculers.
Another would be to mock and ridicule back.
A third might be to invite them to, as we say here in Oklahoma, "take it outside."
The problem with all these responses is that people who deliberately and with malice of forethought single out a group of people for public mockery and ridicule have, by their actions, placed themselves beyond the pale of civil society. Their behavior is reprehensible. So long as they continue to engage in it, they do not deserve the courtesy of either replies or engagement of any sort.
I posted Dawkins: Mock Them. Ridicule Them. In Public. With Contempt with the expectation that I would get a flurry of idiotic comments from atheist provocateurs, trying to engage the readers of this blog in verbal mud wrestling. I was not disappointed. I deleted all but two of these which I let through because they were the least offensive. I wanted to make them available as an educational exercise for the Christians who read Public Catholic.
I think we need to become aware of this asinine behavior and decide how to handle it.
Two of Public Catholic's regular readers tried to answer these comments. One reader went the way of giving the commenter the benefit of the doubt and trying to answer it intelligently. The other reader replied with anger.
Neither response was wrong.
But it is interesting that one of the atheist provocateurs immediately pounced on the angry response with an ad hominem attack on Catholics. It was actually a comic pose for this individual to take, considering the spate of claptrap — all insulting — he had tried to post on this blog. It is also interesting that he did not want to answer the more measured reply. He went instead for the response he had been trying to provoke, which was anger.
Now, I'm sure he'll re-tell this tale of his daring assault on the Catholics — with himself as the hero — to his fellow atheist provocateurs.
Do I hear the word "childish?" How about the phrase "grade school?"
They both fit.
And that is the point.
It doesn't make any difference what you say to people like this. Anger is as good as reason. They aren't trying to engage in legitimate discussion. They are trying to provoke, so they can count coup when they get back to their den.
This is what their leader, Dr Dawkins, has taught them to do.
The entire edifice of their tawdry behavior is based on a pretense they pretend that they are intellectually superior. This pose is something that Dr Dawkins and many of the other "new atheists" have used to peddle their worn-out arguments to impressionable and desperately insecure people who want above all things to be different, special and superior. They tell these people that all they have to do to prove their intelligence is take a pose of unbelief and behave like a pack of hounds on the verbal attack.
Of course, anyone who buys this pandering sell-job is unlikely to be all that canny. But that's another issue for another post.
The reason they come over here and behave like trolls is that this behavior gives them something to brag about later.
Not all atheists behave like this. But there are enough of them who do to make life miserable for everybody else.
Unfortunately, not every obnoxious atheist you will meet in your life is going to fall into the braggadocio category. Some of them are genuinely hate-filled jerks who get a kick out of hurting other people. Our society has decided that race baiting and gay baiting are no longer acceptable sports. It has replaced it with Christian-baiting. Especially in our institutions of higher learning and in certain parts of the country, it is socially acceptable to publicly mock, ridicule and treat Christians with contempt. It is certainly acceptable to do so in our movies and on made for cable television.
So what's a Christian to do?
Let's focus today on the online atheist trolls who come onto blogs and take over the discussion. These fall into two types. The first just argues in an endless circle. They can go all day and never say one original thing, and they are unashamed to repeat themselves over and over. They never stop making their argumentative comments. These people seem to have a goal of taking over other people's conversations and focusing them on themselves and their agendas.
You'll notice that I made a statement in the blog rules here that I don't allow people to take over this blog with their agendas. That statement is there for people like this.
This isn't discussion. It's bullying.
I've seen it at public meetings when a group comes in and begins yelling and taking over the mike. They can effectively end all discourse and shut down the meeting. This is not free speech. It is something quite the opposite of free speech, since it has the effect of keeping others from joining into discussion. It also serves the purpose of ending public meetings. I've seen many groups just decide to end public discussion because they could not handle the disruptive bullies who show up.
In an online forum like this one, their behavior is easy to stop, if the person who's running the blog has the will. All I have to do to shut them down and allow others to speak is delete their blasts of 20 hateful comments, or, as I often do, allow the most thoughtful of their blast of twenty comments through and delete the rest. If I didn't, the nice people who enjoy this blog would end up leaving and all I would have left would be the trashy trolls and their hate-filled, bullying agenda.
Another tactic I've seen is to make comments like the two that I let through on the Dawkins post. These aren't anything even vaguely resembling an attempt at discussion. They are nonsensical little barbs designed to provoke. I would guess that what they are hoping to provoke is something they can use to brag about later.
I think these kinds of comments come from the lower end of the atheist spectrum; the mentally — if not chronologically — adolescent members of the atheist group who are total and absolute followers of their leadership. These is a certain swagger to their behavior, but certainly nothing that is recognizable as intellectual gravitas.
I almost never let these kinds of things through to the Public Catholic board. When I do, it's always for illustrative purposes.
There is a lot of this tripe out there in the blogosphere, so what's a Christian to do when he or she encounters it?
My feeling is that if a blog is run for the entertainment of this type of person and they tend to dominate the discussion, your peace of mind requires that you shun that blog. Why go through trying to talk to people who have such aggressively closed minds? They need prayer more than they need argument.
It's all right to practice on the few of these that I let through on Public Catholic. That's usually why I let them through. So you can have a go at them and learn from the experience.
One thing I have observed: Nothing makes atheist trolls more upset than being ignored. When I delete them, they respond with snotty comments directed at me personally. These can get quite ugly, but they don't bother me. Rather, they confirm my original decision to delete their earlier comments. I didn't create this blog to provide a forum for atheists. That's not its purpose. I also didn't create it to attract as much traffic of any sort that I could get.
Public Catholic is here to help Christians stand for Jesus in a post-Christian world. I range all over the map with the topics I cover, but all of them are in some way connected (at least in my mind) with that one goal. One of the most important facets of standing for Jesus in a post Christian world is learning the mental trick of standing a bit apart from that world and thinking things through for yourself. You cannot follow Christ and be swept up by the gods of this world, or their many memes.
Every so often I put up a post dealing with the new atheism and its vitriol. I never do this to annoy the new atheists. I always do it to help you learn how to deal with them.
We'll talk later about the much more serious attacks that come against Christians in our real lives. For now, let's try to discern how to handle the internet atheist trolls.
If you have a blog of your own, how do you handle them there?
Do any of them manage to shake your faith?
Do they make you want to hide your faith when you go online to avoid attack?
Do they overwhelm you?
Can you answer them, or do you just want to leave the premises when they start their stuff?
These are all questions we need to explore. They are part of what it means to be a Christian today.


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MIAMI – Police in Gainesville are asking for help as they continue searching for a missing University of Florida student.
Christian Aguilar was last seen on September 20. Pedro Bravo, a friend from high school, is charged in connection with his disappearance.
According to investigators, Aguilar and Bravo got into a fight that day. Bravo told police he beat Aguilar up and left him by a field on the UF campus, but has not said much since, according to detectives in Gainesville.
Investigators have been unable to account for Bravo's whereabouts on September 20 from about 3 p.m., when he was seen with Aguilar at an area Best Buy on surveillance video, to about 8 a.m. Friday.
"We had figured out some sort of a timeline for Christian on the last day he was seen," said Gainesville Police Officer Ben Tobias. "Now, we're kind of switching gears to Pedro's timeline to figure out exactly where he was and see if we can kind of plug in some holes there."
Investigators are asking business owners and residents to check surveillance footage for Bravo and his SUV, a 2004 Chevrolet Blazer.
The Blazer has a different front right wheel and tire. Bravo reportedly told police he wrecked the Blazer a week before Aguilar's disappearance, causing him to replace the rim, but investigated haven't confirmed that story.
Anyone with tips for police in Gainesville can call 352-393-7670.
Search continues for Aguilar
On Friday, volunteers were searching southwest Gainesville for Aguilar. Several law enforcement agencies are helping with the search.
"The more days that pass, the odds get less and less. I wont say we are looking for a body at this point. I will not say that but I will say that we are continuing this search looking for Christian to give the family closure," said Tobias.
Bravo remains in jail on a $100,000 bond. He is charged with Depriving a Victim of Medical Care, a third-degree felony.
Carlos Aguilar, Christian's father, plans on going to the jail Friday to try to talk with Bravo.
"I don't think it's fair that a person is missing and the only person with information to find him is protected by the Fifth Amendment," said Carlos Aguilar. "That's ridiculous. We need to be able to have the authorities talk to people like that."
Bravo denied a visitation by Christian's brother and girlfriend on Thursday. Bravo and Aguilar's girlfriend dated while the three were in high school at Doral Academy.
Aguilar's brother still hopes they'll find Christian.
"I want to find him but at times I don't. Not in the sense that, you know, cause I don't want to find him in these woods," said Alexander Aguilar.
On Wednesday, investigators said Bravo purchased a shovel and duct tape a few days before Aguilar went missing.
Carlos Aguilar asks anyone who knows what happened to his son to come forward. Tips about what happened to Christian should be made by calling 352-393-7670.
A donation station for Aguilar's family will be set up in Sweetwater on Saturday. The family needs water, snacks, machetes, and rubber boots.
Donations can be made out to Doral Academy c/o Christian Aguilar or can be made at Sweetwater City Hall from 1 to 4 p.m.


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Cuba is renowned as one of the most colourful and compelling holiday destinations in the Caribbean. The island nation boasts a wealth of stunning colonial architecture, a fascinating history, roads filled with brightly restored vintage vehicles, sizzling music and unforgettable beaches.
If you decide to experience one of Cuba's best beaches, Varadero may well be your destination. This 20-kilometre stretch of sand is the number-one tourist destination in Cuba.
Many travellers have dubbed Varadero the world's most beautiful beach. One stroll along the flour-soft sand demonstrates why.
The water sparkles in shades of blue and turquoise. Tropical breezes keep the temperature sitting at a comfortable average of 24 to 26 C year-round. Palm trees provide ambience and shade. And walking barefoot along the white sand is infinitely more appealing than trudging through wintry streets in snow boots.
The extensive development in Varadero is quite a change from its early days in the 1500s, when the centre was little more than a dry dock for shipping out product from its salt mines to the Spanish.
In 1887, however, Varadero gained status as a city. Ten families were given permission to build vacation homes on the site.
When the earliest tourists came to Varadero in the 1870s, it was seen as a playground for the elite. A swishy club and an annual rowing regatta were created. American millionaires began popping by for visits and by the early 1930s, some were building mansions on this paradise of a peninsula. Gangster Al Capone was among the visitors.
The Cuban Revolution changed much of that beginning in 1959. The government took many estate homes away from the wealthy and encouraged Cubans from all socio-economic classes to visit Varadero. They even created free changing areas and bathing suit rentals for families of modest means.
But there was another major change to come. Economic upheaval around the world, including the break-up of the Soviet Union and plummeting sugar prices, began creating financial hardship in the country. Cuba had long relied on sugar production and friendly Soviet markets and supporters for survival.
The government began looking for a solution to its revenue woes and found one in tourism.
Dozens of new hotels and resorts went up up in Varadero in the 1990s, and Cuba began wooing Canadian and European tourists.
With a general travel ban to Cuba still in effect for Americans, Canadians eventually came to comprise almost half of the country's two million or so visitors each year. (Europeans and Latin Americans largely account for the rest.)
There is much in Cuba that makes a Canadian feel welcome. Canadian flags flutter in the breeze at many hotels. Alberta beef is featured on the menus of finer restaurants. The country even hosts a Terry Fox Run to aid cancer research.
More than half a million visitors arrive annually in Varadero alone these days, and hotel rooms number more than 17,000.
Not surprisingly, many of visitors' favourite activities revolve around the ocean: scuba diving, snorkelling, deep-sea fishing and yachting are all popular.
If you do want to tear yourself away from the beach, there's no shortage of activities. Try a Jet Ski, horseback or Jeep tour. Or visit a restored fortress, a military museum, a vibrant wetlands area or underground cavern system.
One of coolest caving experiences is at the Santa Catalina Cave, where you can explore more than eight kilometres of passageways. Evidence of ancient societies have been uncovered here. At Ambrosio Cave more than 70 pictographs have been preserved.
Visitors looking for even more history can enjoy the historical and cultural attractions in nearby Cardenas and Matanzas.
And there's always Havana. A day trip to the capital quickly reveals the unique appeal of an unforgettable centre.
Streetscapes featuring the grand architecture from centuries past is punctuated by the bright reds, greens and blues of residents' laundry on clothes lines. A stroll through the famous Hotel Nacional is a must, as is stopping for one of Cuba's best-known drinks – the mojito – in the lobby bar.
You can walk in the footsteps of the great American writer Ernest Hemingway, who was a long-time fan and resident of Cuba. Pop into La Bodeguita Del Medio, where the author was rumoured to hoist the occasional mojito or daiquiri, and sip a cool cocktail.
The streets of Havana are filled with an amazing array of Chevys, Pontiacs and Buicks from the 1950s. Until the American trade embargo, Cuba was a large importer of these vehicles. When the country was told residents could no longer buy American cars, Cubans decided they were going to make the ones they already had last and last.
The fact these vehicles are still running 50 years later is a testament to the wizardry of Cuban mechanics.
"It's magic that they still run," one cab driver laughed, during a recent visit.
Magic doesn't only apply to the vintage vehicles. It seems to infuse the island, from the people and politics to the shorelines and scenery. It's something that makes a visit to Varadero unforgettable.
Cuba by the Numbers
0: The number of native plants and animals in Cuba that can kill humans.
17: Cuba is the 17th largest island in the world.
4,000: The number of tiny islands that are part of the country.
1961: The year the United States imposed a trade embargo on Cuba.
151: The level of high-proof rum used to mix the high-octane cocktail known as the Cuban Missile Crisis.
4: The ideal number of mint leaves to add to a mojito.
160 to 220: The ideal tempo (beats per minute) of Cuban salsa.
9,000: The number of books once belonging to Ernest Hemingway now housed in the Finca Vigia museum.
22: The percentage of Cuba's land mass classified as a protected natural area.
9.98: The number of births per thousand; one of the Western world's lowest rates.
11.4 million: Cuba's population.
90: The number of minutes it takes to reach Cuba from Florida, by boat.
97: The percentage of Cubans who can read and write; education is free and mandatory until at least age 16. University education is common.


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Multiple BPEL Processes using a single WSDL
When working with the Sun BPEL SE in Netbeans, sometimes you might have the requirement of defining a WSDL Port Type with two operations and then reference that WSDL in two different BPEL Processes.
It turns out this currently is not supported and if you try to attempt it you will receive the following exception from the BPEL SE:
java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not find a business process providing service for the endpoint specified in the message exchange.
Here is the bug related to this issue and the conversation over the mailing list discussing this issue with the OpenESB dev mailing list.
The solution that worked for us was using the BPEL Pick activity the single BPEL Process to support the second operation. Alternatively we could have created a second WSDL, which doesn't scale very well. Also as Murali points out here, you could also make the targetNamespace the same in both BPEL Processes.


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With most of Europe in Adolf Hitlers hands, Britain was in a grim predicament in 1941 but that year Collins, the publisher now known as HarperCollins, launched a remarkable series of social history books called Britain in Pictures.
The books were designed to boost morale but perhaps also record the British way of life in case the Germans completed their European campaign by successfully crossing the English Channel. The books were slim volumes with distinctive elegant covers, but it was the star-studded array of authors that made the series really special.
George Orwell wrote about the British people, Cecil Beaton wrote about English photography, the great poet and printer Francis Meynell wrote about English books, John Betjeman (who penned the immortal line Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough in 1937) wrote about cities and towns, Graham Greene wrote about dramatists, the doyen of sports journalists Neville Cardus wrote about cricket and Edith Sitwell wrote about women. Some of the authors have faded in obscurity but they were all experts in their field during those dark days of World War II.
A wide variety of subjects were covered from battlefields to boxing, clocks to mountaineering, butterflies to farm animals, and from waterways and canals to maps and map-makers. In all, there were were 132 titles. The books also covered the Commonwealth John Buchans wife, Lady Tweedsmuir wrote about Canada while Ngaio Marsh and R M Burdon wrote about New Zealand.
For many collectors, obtaining the entire series of Britain in Pictures books is an obsession. Collins published the books in large quantities and priced them cheaply. Today they can be picked up for anything from a few dollars to $200 depending on condition. Its also possible to find incomplete collections on AbeBooks.
Anyone wishing to collect the series should reference Britain in Pictures: A History & Bibliography by Michael Carney. No-one knows more about this series than Carney and his 1995 is essential. The books were so successful that Collins continued to publish them until 1949. Yes, they were a wonderful morale booster but they also offer an insight into sections of British life that disappeared rapidly after World War II.


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O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree
1 December 2016,
Yes, you have guessed it, it's time to roll out our annual #MuseumAdvent Calendar at National Museum Cardiff.
Each year throughout December we like to highlight our fantastic collections and spread some Christmassy cheer.
So why not find out what is behind each door of our advent calendar by following the @CardiffCurator Twitter account and see what wonderful suprises we have in store for you behind each one. We have delved deep into our collections to find some great Christmas objects. This year the theme of our advent calendar is lines from Christmas songs and poems. See if you can work out which song or poem each line comes from.
We have started off the calendar with:
Diwrnod 1 #AdfentAmgueddfa: 'Aur, thus a myrr a gafodd ef, gan ddoethion ddaeth o bell'. Aur Cymru o gasgliadau @Museum_Cardiff
Day 1 of #MuseumAdvent - 'Five gold rings!', 5 nuggets of Welsh Gold from @Museum_Cardiff collections
Well, now that the festive period is over and the decorations are coming down. We thought that we would put all of our Christmassy tweets together in this Storify for you to read.


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Check out our Patent
It's on the web!
The US Publication of our first patent is fully open for public scrutiny as of March 19, 2009. The international version of the same can also be found here. We are being brave now by filing internationally in all Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) countries, but sometime in year 2010 we would have to enter the National Phase in specific countries based on the market size. See if you can figure out how Figures 8, 9A and 9B work.


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Wednesday 13th 2013
Discussion and debate with Joe Duffy
Callers who recieved their property tax letters today talked to Joe about how they intend to deal with the valuations of their homes for the property tax.
Ron has been trying to return to education, following a serious eye condition which meant he could no longer work as a crane driver. He spoke about the delays in deciding his disability allowance application which have held up his chances of a third level course.
The penalty points controversy involving deputy Luke Flanagan was commented on by several callers . Barbara compared the situation here to the UK where political resignations seem much more common.
Home-owners and estate agents react as the first of the property tax letters arrive from Revenue
Ron is trying to get off benefits and back into the workforce; Rita and Frank explain why rent allowance is an issue when you live in a bedsit
Reaction to the revelation that Luke Ming Flanagan TD had penalty points wiped from his licence
Have you got a story to tell? An issue you want to air publicly? If you'd like to talk to Joe on-air about an issue that concerns you then we want to hear from you.
You can email the programme at any time to firstname.lastname@example.com, call the office at 01 208 3263 / 2984 / 2980 or 3438 (or out of office hours and leave a message) or on 1850 715 815, Monday to Friday from 12.30pm – 3.15pm.
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What do you all think of lleyton hewitt?
personally I think he's nothing but a show off, his game is good but I dont think he's an AMAZING player.
I think people will give him alot of credit for beating roddick, which is a big mistake, hewitts game is perfect to counter roddicks this is the only reason he won.
Rodicks tactic is to overwhelm the opponent with his big serve then finsh them with his forehand. Unfortunately when he played hewitt this didnt work because of hewitts consistensy.
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Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 1:33 am
Post subject: Differences in cookie sheets
When I make the regular Toll House cookie dough and bake it on standard cookie sheets, it spreads a LOT, and makes a very thin, crispy (crumbly!) cookie. However, if I bake the same dough balls in a cake pan with high(er) sides, the cookies barely spread! They stay thick and round, which I prefer.
Anyone know an explanation for this phenomena??
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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 2:45 pm
Post subject: Chocolate chip cookies
I live in a city located 2,000 meters above the sea level. Whrn I make the cookies they get vey thin and the borders get burned, maybe you know what ca I do about it.
Thank you very much
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 5:34 am
Post subject: Flat cookies still
I live in the bay area. My grandmother lived here too. I have made 100s of dozens of chocolate chip cookies with her, and have never had a problem...until the 90s.
I have changed the fleishmans margarine back to butter. I have tried crisco, which she also used sometimes.
I have added more flour.
I have used only 1 egg.
I am even using the same flour brand.
Same baking soda/powder too.
I want the harder on the outside, softer in the center, drier rather than chewy, crisper rather than cakelike cookie from the 70s.
They stored well in a metal tin or cookie jar.
You could dunk them in milk and they held their shape.
They could last for weeks in the tin with no flavor or texture change.
Now they taste salty, and are chewy, and crumbly at the same time.
Could it be both the flour AND the margarine/crisco/butter has changed since the 70-80s? Or maybe the baking soda/powder?
I even tried extra walnuts.
Any other suggestions? I read the whole set of posts here. Only a couple are actually looking for the same thing. Thanks.
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 9:39 am
Post subject: Re: Flat cookies still
Danelle wrote:
I live in the bay area. My grandmother lived here too. I have made 100s of dozens of chocolate chip cookies with her, and have never had a problem...until the 90s.
Oven temperature maybe? Did you guys get a new oven during the 90's? Oven temperatures at the same setting vary widely from oven to oven (even same model) from my experience.
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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 11:49 am
Post subject: flour measuring
Thank you, M. Chu for your experiments with sifting/not sifting flour for Tollhouse cookies! As a child, I always packed my flour to measure it for cookies, just like I packed my brown sugar. I never knew if it was the right way to do it but my cookies came out great. When I made the cookies as an adult, years later, I packed the flour again and got a different result (flat, greasy cookies). Not sure yet what caused the difference, but nice to know that I was "doing it right" all those years, by not sifting the flour. As a fellow scientist of a sort (surgeon), I appreciate the idea of testing various measurements of flour. I just never had the patience to do it myself.
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Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 4:07 am
Post subject: Re: flour measuring
SUZL wrote:
Thank you, M. Chu for your experiments with sifting/not sifting flour for Tollhouse cookies! As a child, I always packed my flour to measure it for cookies, just like I packed my brown sugar. I never knew if it was the right way to do it but my cookies came out great. When I made the cookies as an adult, years later, I packed the flour again and got a different result (flat, greasy cookies). Not sure yet what caused the difference, but nice to know that I was "doing it right" all those years, by not sifting the flour. As a fellow scientist of a sort (surgeon), I appreciate the idea of testing various measurements of flour. I just never had the patience to do it myself.
I don't remember advocating packing the flour to measure. I think you should use a scale whenever possible.
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Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 12:01 pm
Post subject: Don't have baking soda
Due to an extraordinarily limited ingredients pool, I've only got baking powder available, not baking soda. Do you have any recommendations or explanations on how I can substitute this in? Possibly alternative recipes?
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 12:09 am
Post subject: cakey cookies
I used the amount of flour called for in the thin and chewy recipe. I slightly underbaked them. Still they came out very "cakish". Not the nice thin, chewy ones from my youth. What am I doing wrong??? BTW, I used one cup of chocolate chips, 1 cup of Ande's mint pieces. I doubt this is the issue as my friend has made the same cookies and hers were thin and chewy. HELP!
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Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 7:03 pm
Post subject: I just want the type cookies I remember as a child
I baked many a cookie growing up. Got married and my husband thought my chocolate chips cookies were the best...Over 38 years later, not matter what, my cookies come out to 'cakey'. He always make the comment, what ever happened to the flat ooey gooey cookies you used to make. From what I'm reading, it's gotta be the flour. Next batch, I'll be sure to sift and may use 1/4 less. I'll let you know. Thanks for all the post, been interesting to read.
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Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 5:01 pm
Post subject: Nestle Recipe
I think they must have changed the recipe printed on the Nestle package. I baked cookies a lot when I was a teenager. But it has been literally years, since I baked cookies last. I'm on my 4th package of morsels, and they are flat. Not AT ALL like the ones I made years ago. They must have changed their recipe, in some way. I will try adding more flour, so they are thicker. Thanks for the tips
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Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 9:19 pm
Post subject: HELP
i did the thin and chewy recipe i did exactly how the recipe stated and they still turn out hard and not thin they are delicious but Ive been searching for the perfect soft and thin chocolate chip cookies. Did anyone else have a problem like this? Can anyone help out on how to get the exact same cookies as in the pictures? if you could give me tips on how to make these cookies that would be great. thanks!
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 7:16 am
Post subject: Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie
The way to make them using butter, real butter, is this: Make sure to use unsweetened butter. Make sure the eggs and butter are at room temperature. Don't sift the flour. Cream the butter, vanilla, sugars by hand and stop at that precise moment comes when they are all incorporated. Add in eggs one by one. I don't use a mixer for any of this. I don't use cookie sheets, I bake them in a 13 x 9 inch glass pan for 20 minutes. (I spray the pan with Pam and wipe it before the dough goes in.) When they come out of the oven, I then put the pan on a rack in the freezer to cool for another twenty. Then I usually sample an edge. The cookies live in the pan less than 48 hours because they are all rapidly consumed, usually only stored covered with plastic wrap on top. The neighbors son commented on how the edges were not hard or burnt. I took some to work to a meeting and the first three people that arrived at the meeting tried them and wanted to hide the remainder from the rest of the folks who would be coming to the meeting. We used to buy the break off kind in the package, but I remember making these with my mother. She used Crisco, but I started using butter when I moved out and it was just better. I had stopped baking when I got married, but recently started again. My current partner, takes a huge square almost immediately. You have to use semi-sweet chips, once I tried the ones from Trader Joe and they were still great. However I tried them with milk chocolate chips and they were a little too cloying for my taste.
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Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 9:10 pm
Post subject: Stupid FLAT WIDE Tollhouse Cookies!!!!!!
Ok, I've read all the comments here, and there seem to be a few folks having the same issue as I do with this confounded recipe. I'm an experienced baker and I've had this same problem with the Nestle recipe ever since I was a kid and tried making this recipe for the very first time, no matter where I lived, and I've lived all over the dang place, so I don't think it's an issue of climate for me. In fact, just the other day at a friend's house, being a proper hostess, she offered up some home baked goods. After sampling her chocolate chip cookies (ok, ok, gorging to my embarrassment) I asked her for the recipe, and was surprised when she snickered and said I could get the same recipe on the back of any Nestle's choc chip bag. I harumphed and said she must be altering the recipe, because mine never came out this good, and she claimed that no, she followed the recipe to the letter. I do the same, each ingredient carefully measured and added and mixed at the appropriate time. However, my cookies come out tasting like baking soda cookies and are so flat you have to scrape them off the pan. Gross. Same results every time at every phase in my life where I decided to try this recipe again, and never any luck!!! What the heck am I doing wrong? How can I come up with these poor excuses for cookies, while others follow the same recipe with such great results??? I want that Tollhouse flavor!! Thanks!
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Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 9:43 pm
Post subject:
try refrigerating the dough for min. four hours before baking.
if the dough has warmed up, it spreads too fast and goes flat before it 'sets up'
you can also try baking on parchment vs something slippery - a bit more 'resistance' to the spreading....
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 2:52 pm
Post subject: Original Toll House Cookies
I would like to make a comment about the recipe on the package. It is not the same recipe that my mother made for me 60 years ago. I cannot figure out what was changed, but the cookies are not the same. Years ago the cookies were delicious and we could not stop eating them. I have been baking for years and I know how to follow a recipe. I have tried the recipe a couple of times. My sister has tried it and other people in my family, but with no success. To the Nestle folks, please bring back the real Original recipe.
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In mid-October, a Gallup poll of likely voters nationwide showed former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leading President Barack Obama by a 7 percent margin. That same week, a poll by the University of Connecticut and the Hartford Courant, covering virtually the same time period, showed Obama ahead of Romney by 3 points. That's a 10-percentage-point disparity.
The Gallup poll reported a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percent, while the UConn/Hartford Courant poll reported a 3 percent margin of error — so even if you add the maximum claimed errors, that still leaves a 5-point disparity between the results. As some candidates have observed on the campaign trail, the math just doesn't seem to add up.
But such disparities, in this election season of rapidly shifting tides, have not been all that unusual. So what explains them?
There may be several factors at work. For starters, the concept of "margin of error" is a bit more complex than the numbers usually quoted in media coverage.
What pollsters usually mean by margin of error is something more specific, called the margin of sampling error. That's a statistical measure of how much a result based on interviews with a limited number of voters — the typical sample size is about 1,000 to 2,000 people — differs from the result that you would get if you were able to interview all the likely voters in the country.
"A sample of 1,000 or 1,500 people gives a reasonable estimate," says Adam Berinsky, a professor of political science at MIT and editor of "New Directions in Public Opinion" (Routledge, 2011), a book about research on public opinion.
Most of the time, studies have shown, talking to 1,000 people gives a result very close to what you would get by polling the whole country. Extrapolating to a nation of 132 million voters — roughly the number of citizens who voted in the 2008 presidential election — gives a 1,000-person poll a margin of sampling error of 3.1 percent. Double the sample size, to 2,000 people, and the margin of sampling error falls to about 2.2 percent. But the improvement diminishes rapidly: A poll of 5,000 people gives about a 1.4 percent margin, and it takes a whopping 10,000-person sample to get the margin down to 1 percent.
One out of 20
What does that margin of error figure actually mean? The definition is that 95 percent of the time, the sampled result should fall within that margin of the result you'd get by sampling everybody. But that also means that one time out of 20, the results would fall outside of that range — even if sampling error were the only source of discrepancies.
But it's more complicated than that, because sampling error is not the only thing that can throw off poll results.
Another potential source of error, and one that's hard to quantify, is the nonresponse error. Pollsters begin by attempting to reach a certain randomly selected set of people that is representative of the overall population — for example, by generating a list of random phone numbers. But there are two problems: Sometimes nobody answers the phone, and even when someone does answer, they often — and increasingly — refuse to respond.
The Pew Center for People and the Press, for example, says that its response rate has plummeted in the last 15 years: Their total response rate to polls, which was 36 percent in 1997, is down to just 9 percent this year. "This is very worrisome to pollsters," Berinsky says.
Most nonresponders are people who answer the phone, but refuse to take the poll. This year, Pew says, 62 percent of people called by their pollsters answered the phone, but only 14 percent of those would answer questions.
Who doesn't answer?
A big question is whether the people who don't answer are different in any meaningful way from those who do: Are the nonresponders more liberal, or more conservative, than those who do respond? If so, that could skew a poll's results.
Pew has made a serious effort to assess the possible impact of nonresponse error on its poll results: For one sample, the organization made a concerted effort to follow up with as many nonresponders as possible, asking questions designed to see if they differed from those who had answered the first time. While Pew found few significant differences between poll responders and nonresponders, there were some: Those who answered, it turns out, were much more likely to volunteer for charitable organizations, attend a church, and contact their elected officials.
A common mistake in the reporting of poll results is the application of the margin of sampling error for the entire poll to various subsets of the population: women, men, Democrats, Republicans, independents. But each of these subgroups is smaller than the total group, so the margin of error is actually much greater. "A lot of journalists don't understand that," Berinsky says.
Another potential problem is measurement error, which occurs when a poll's questions are poorly worded, or prefaced by information that biases the responses. The major polling organizations take great care to avoid measurement error, but polls commissioned by partisan organizations sometimes suffer from such errors.
Overall, Berinsky counsels, the best strategy is not to focus on any particular poll, but to look at a rigorous aggregation of poll results, such as those conducted by Pollster.com or Real Clear Politics. Such averages smooth out the variations and errors that may exist in any given poll or sample. In the 2008 election, he says, "a simple average pretty much gave you the [actual] result."
"If you average it all together," Berinsky adds, "it all works out."


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Awesome Dancing Filipino Traffic Cop Works it Like Michael Jackson [VIDEO]
We've seen dancing traffic cops before, but this Filipino officer works it like no other while directing traffic on the streets of Manilla.
Is this cop's fancy footwork necessary while controlling the flow of traffic? Probably not, but it is mighty entertaining. It's anybody's guess whether all his "moonwalks" and butt-wiggling have caused accidents rather than preventing them.
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Listed below are the preliminary Mobile Performance sessions and workshops confirmed to date. Additional sessions will be added as they are confirmed. Schedule subject to change.
For information on exhibition and sponsorship opportunities at the conference, contact Gloria Lombardo at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Philips presents highly integrated System Solution for mobile handset mass markets
Royal Philips Electronics announced the introduction of a highly integrated System Solution for low- to mid-end GSM/GPRS mobile handsets.
With Nexperiaδ Cellular System Solution 5120, manufacturers benefit from a highly compact, complete hardware/software design, optimized for multimedia performance. It provides the ability to shorten development cycles and take increasingly advanced, but cost-effective handsets quickly to market.
As recently as five years ago, a manufacturer would introduce between five and ten new handsets per year. Today, major suppliers launch up to 40 devices annually, with each model targeted at a very specific market.* Consumers expect even low- to mid-end phones to have technical features such as color screens, polyphonic ring tones, speech recognition, Bluetooth and FM radio.
"Handset shelf-life has been dramatically reduced to less than six months. Therefore, handset makers need to continuously deliver up-to-date models to retain and grow their customer base. Philips Nexperia Cellular System Solution 5120 provides plug-and-play integration, which eases the design-in process and facilitates multimedia features integration," said Gert-Jan Kaat, senior vice president of Mobile Communications, Philips Semiconductors. "The solution frees up design resources to focus on product differentiation."
Nexperia Cellular System Solution 5120 provides a new level of integration compared to the previous generation, Sy.Sol 5110. Reducing the overall component count by 25-30 percent, to a total of 75 components, means more available board space for advanced features. The component reduction has been achieved by integrating the new RF SiP (UAA3587), already available in Sy.Sol 6120-based handsets. The solution also features a new BGY502 front-end module that integrates the antenna switch, further simplifying the production environment. With the inclusion of these components a major integration step is achieved: the full radio solution measures less than 300sq mm, comprising two active components and less than 35 external passive components.
Featuring 2 out of 4 bands (850/1900 or 900/1800), MMS 2.0, WAP, JAVA, the GSM/GPRS solution has achieved full Interoperability Test (IOT) validation. In a fast-moving environment, this testing ensures reliability as well as compliance with networks, certified with PCS Type Certification Review Board (PTCRB) release 3.0.1 and GSM Conformance Forum (GCF) 3.15 release. Optional software features include speech recognition, SyncML, Instant Messaging and Presence Services (IMPS) and LifeVibes audio enhancements. Hardware extensions include Bluetooth, Video MPEG 4 and FM radio.
Philips' new silicon-based RF SiP technology allows for the integration of high-quality passive components using relatively low-cost silicon processing. Active components such as the transistors can be fabricated for optimal performance in other process technologies, such as Philips' QUBiC BiCMOS or GaAs process.
The Nexperia Cellular System Solution 5120 is made of a Nexperia Cellular Baseband (OM6357-7), the UAA3587 RF transceiver, the BGY502 front-end module, the PCF50603 power management unit and of course software. The Bill of Materials (BOM) is highly competitive due to component integration.
The Nexperia Cellular System Solution also comes with a developers kit, enabling customers to get immediate access to the platform to develop their own applications, but also with a self-guided training pack and a complete set of documentation that provides extensive reference material. Furthermore, Philips offers training sessions, for hands-on learning. Customer support is also provided to help customers get to market quickly with the right product.
Philips pioneered the system solution approach in 1999. As a worldwide leader in cellular communications, Philips offers a global network of expertise to help customers succeed.


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Thursday Night Football – Vikings Take On Tampa Bay Bucs Tonight
The Vikings put their 5-2 record on the line when they host Tampa Bay at 7:20 tonight, pregame on WJON at 6:00. The Buccaneers are 2-4 and are coming off a loss at home against New Orleans. Minnesota won at home against Arizona 21-14 on Sunday. Minnesota is relatively healthy for tonight's game with just 2 players not expected to play because of injury.
Tight end John Carlson (concussion) and safety Mistral Raymond (ankle) are both expected to miss tonight's game and are listed as "out". The Vikings list 12 other players as "probable" on the injury report including running back Adrian Peterson (ankle) and Jared Allen (groin). The players listed as probable are expected to play.
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Matthew delivers an emotional testimony at his court hearing.
Todd accuses Blair of going after Tea out of jealousy.
Kim helps Stacy consider possible candidates for her baby daddy.
Elijah rattles Tea.
Jessica (Bree Williamson, pictured) turns to an unlikely source for answers.
A scheming David embraces his Buchanan roots.
Jared and Natalie wonder who has a grudge against them.
Delphina has a warning for Jessica.
Cristian is more confused about Fish than ever.
A twist of fate throws Marty and Todd together.
Elijah threatens Tea.
Stacy and Kim set their sights on Schuyler.
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The BGS National Landslide Database (NLD) is the most extensive source of information on landslides in Great Britain. Selected information from the database is now available as a free online resource as part of our online GIS — the GeoIndex, where you will need to select the Hazards theme.
The database currently holds over 17 000 records which are continually being updated. New records are added as landslide information is made available.
These data come from a variety of sources including published BGS geological maps and active surveys. Other sources include commissioned and research studies, information from the public and a number of regional databases inherited or compiled by BGS since the 1970s, including the Department of the Environment (DoE) National Landslide Database constructed in the 1990s.
Each landslide is documented as fully as possible with information on location, name, size and dimensions, landslide type, trigger, damage caused, movement date, age and with a full bibliographic reference. The database is linked to a GIS which displays the landslides as point data.


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Partyswank.com is a boutique company representing emerging talent in every milieu of event planning. We are dedicated to keeping "it" fresh and are passionate about introducing New York City's diverse and eclectic artists to our clients.
Our foundation is built on our belief that parties are an expression of PLAY — creating an environment that invites interaction, conversation, and laughter — Our selective resource editing, our keen eye (and ear) for cutting edge style, and our commitment to our client's vision will help you create an event that shows off your own personal edge of SWANK.
Partyswank.com is managed by Entertainment Professionals, Marla Mase and Loretta Lester, and delivers concepts and solutions for all kind of festivities. Whether you plan a wedding, a corporate event or a fashion show to entertain and convince business partners, Partyswank.com will deliver results on your behalf. Read some of the testimonials:
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New York Social Diary – partySWANK booked all the entertainment for Fabiola Beracasa's annual Labor Day party in the Hamptons; this year's theme – Old-Fashioned Circus….
Branding in a Box – Loretta Lester talks about what makes a memorable gift bag…
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Partyswank.com planned our launch party and wow, it exceeded our expectations and resulted in TV and editorial placement. -Gillian Leigh, Leigh & Luca, New York.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell says major Virginia transportation projects are moving forward.
McDonnell's office says that the Commonwealth Transportation Board advanced more than $150 million in transportation improvement projects this week.
The projects are being funded as a result of the governor's 2011 transportation funding and reform package.
Officials say the projects will help to better manage congestion, save drivers time and better connect drivers with some of Virginia's most vital employment centers.
The projects include a new Interstate 395 ramp in Alexandria, the replacement of four bridge structures on Route 360 in Hanover and Henrico counties, and improvements to Route 17 in Stafford County.
The board also authorized transportation officials to move forward with plans to improve access to Naval Station Norfolk and Norfolk International Terminals.
Virginia Advances $150M in Transportation Projects; New I-395 Ramp Planned in Alexandria
Gov. Bob McDonnell says major Virginia transportation projects are moving forward.


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Traditionally, security has been one of the most complex parts of app development. In most applications, developers must build and run a server that handles authentication (who a user is) and authorization (what a user can do). Authentication and authorization are hard to set up, harder to get right, and critical to the success of your product.
Similar to how Firebase Authentication makes it easy for you to authenticate your users, Firebase Security Rules for Cloud Storage makes it easy for you to authorize users and validate requests. Storage Security Rules manage the complexity for you by allowing you to specify path based permissions. In just a few lines of code, you can write authorization rules that restrict Cloud Storage requests to a certain user or limit the size of an upload.
The Firebase Realtime Database has a similar feature, called Firebase Realtime Database Rules
Knowing who your users are is an important part of building an application, and
Firebase Authentication provides an easy to use, secure, client side only solution
to authentication. Firebase Security Rules for Cloud Storage ties in to Firebase Authentication
for user based security. When a user is authenticated with Firebase Authentication,
request.auth variable in Storage Security Rules becomes an object that
contains the user's unique ID (
request.auth.uid) and all other user
information in the token (
request.auth.token). When the user is not
request.auth is
null. This allows you to securely control
data access on a per-user basis. You can learn more in the
User Security section.
Identifying your user is only part of security. Once you know who they are, you need a way to control their access to files in Cloud Storage.
Cloud Storage lets you specify per file and per path authorization
rules that live on our servers and determine access to the files in your app.
For example, the default Storage Security Rules require Firebase Authentication in
order to perform any
read or
write operations on all files:
service firebase.storage { match /b/{bucket}/o { match /{allPaths=**} { allow read, write: if request.auth != null; } } }
You can edit these rules by selecting a Firebase app in Firebase console
and viewing the
Rules tab of the Storage section.
Data Validation
Firebase Security Rules for Cloud Storage can also be used for data validation, including
validating file name and path as well as file metadata properties such as
contentType and
service firebase.storage { match /b/{bucket}/o { match /images/{imageId} { // Only allow uploads of any image file that's less than 5MB allow write: if request.resource.size < 5 * 1024 * 1024 && request.resource.contentType.matches('image/.*'); } } }
Now that you've learned the basics of what Storage Security Rules can do, Get Started!


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To the extent provided by applicable law, no person shall be excluded from participation in, denied benefits of, or be subject to discrimination under any program or activity sponsored or conducted by the university on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, veteran status, sexual orientation, age or disability.
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Instagram Tells Madonna To Stop Breaking The Rules
Sunday, 24 February 2013
The mononymous pop celebrity posted a warning addressed to her that accused her of violating Instagram's community guidelines.
Instagram's rules ban nudity and the posting of images that don't belong to the user posting them, among other restrictions.
Madonna has more than 150,000 followers on Instagram. Many of them leapt to the assumption that Madonna was being punished for photos that displayed cleavage or ample portions of the star's buttocks. It's possible, however, that Instagram took action for other reasons.
For example, Madonna posted at least two photos of Frida Kahlo, the Mexican artist whom she has long cited as an inspiration.
Of course, it's difficult to know if those were actual copyright violations. Madonna may in fact own the photos in question; she's a known collector of Kahlo's works and other Kahlo-related material.
She misspelled Kahlo's name in one posting, though that's not a violation of Instagram rules.
Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The company typically does not comment on individual users' use of its services.
Instagram drew criticism late last year for revising its terms of service in a way that suggested it might sell users' photos. CEO Kevin Systrom apologized and the service retracted some of the more controversial terms.
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To haul a load.
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To remove a pattern from a foundry flask.
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This idea came to my mind when I, alongwith Ajoy Singha and Vipul Kocher, were discussing on the agenda of first NCR Testers Monthly Meet (NCRTMM) that we started in December 2010.The main motivation behind developing this idea was to provide an informal space during NCRTMM where testers can discuss the problems that they face and get the resolution from other testers present in the room.
We have already implemented this in the two NCRTMM and attendees have found it beneficial. The testers have utilized this space to resolve the problems that they face in their live projects.
This post of mine will provide the complete details about "Problem on the table".
What is "Problem on the table"
"Problem on the table" defines a space that allows group of testers to interact in a simple and organized way to enable valuable dialogs that addresses the day to day issues that they get stuck with and want some expert help to get them resolved. This space encourages people to discuss and resolve the issues and be more productive within their organizations.
Fundamental Rules
- No one will control your discussions
- Whoever wants to provide help is the right person
- Allow owner of the problem to steer his or her topic in the right direction
- Always thank individuals whose suggestions have actually helped you
How "Problem on the table" works?
- Come up with some interesting problem area that you would like to discuss during any NCR Testers meet to ITB NCR Chapter with as much detail as possible.
- After receiving an email from your side, there will be a space allocated during the meet to discuss about your "Problem".
- Anyone attending the meet is free to walk to the designated area for your listed "problem" and provide their frank suggestions.
- It is upto the owner how they would like to steer the discussion.
- At the end of the session, the owner of the "problem" needs to present their "problem area" alongwith the best solution, that fits in their context using a defined template.
Benefits of owning "Problem on the table" session?
- You manage and define your own agenda
- As most of the test experts from the industry are joining the NCR Testers Meet, there is a high probability that you will be able to find the answer to trivial issues that remain unanswered elsewhere.


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A former Hurlburt Field airman has asked the Air Force Special Operations Command to stop using live animals for medical training.
A former Hurlburt Field airman has asked the Air Force Special Operations Command to stop using live animals for medical training.
Ben Rogers is a retired special operations master sergeant medic who lives in Fort Walton Beach. He said that after he heard about training conducted on live pigs at Hurlburt last fall, he wanted to ask the command staff to find alternatives.
On Wednesday, with the help of an advocacy group that filed a complaint about the pig training last year, Rogers implored Lt. Gen. Eric Fiel, commander of the Air Force Special Operations Command at Hurlburt, to review the practice.
Rogers� request comes from experience, he said.
He recalled that during his six years at Hurlburt in the mid-1980s he was sent to practice medical procedures on live dogs at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss.
�They had what they called a dog lab over there,� he said. �I really didn�t want to go and participate in that, being a dog lover, but being in the military you really don�t have a choice sometimes when you are told to do things, so I went anyway.�
He didn�t think it was right to use the dogs and did not want to participate, but believed there would be consequences if he refused.
The experience has always disturbed him.
The dog was supposed to have been unconscious, but it woke up in the middle of the procedure and started whimpering, he said.
They used the dogs to practice cutting veins and inserting chest tubes and catheters � procedures he said he never performed in the field.
He said he had thought about the ordeal occasionally when spending time with his four dogs, but mostly tried to forget until he heard about Hurlburt using pigs last fall.
Over two days in early November, the Special Operations Command used about 10 pigs to train nearly 40 special tactics medics and pararescuers at Hurlburt, according to the base�s public affairs office.
The airmen tried to keep the pigs alive after they were subjected to critical combat-type wounds. The pigs were then euthanized.
After the training, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine sent a petition asking the Department of Defense to stop using live animals for medical training and to use simulators instead.
The Air Force defends the practice, stating it provides critical medical training that can save lives in the field.
The pigs have physiological reactions that airmen must respond to, said Capt. Belena Marquez, chief of public affairs operations for AFSOC.
Airmen can study blood movement and anatomy, and the pigs provide immediate feedback on the success of their procedures, Marquez said.
The simulation technology is not mature enough to teach certain skills learned during the pig training, she said.
Rogers and the physicians� group disagree. They point to cut suits that are specifically designed for combat trauma training and replicate treatment on human anatomy instead of that of a pig.
�They have a cut suit that is supposed to be even more realistic than using pigs,� Rogers said. �I�m not sure why they are not using that because it simulates injuries on a human being.�
Marquez said most of Special Operations� medical training is done using simulators, but for certain procedures they fall short.
�At Hurlburt Field we have one of the best simulation laboratories in the Air Force,� she said. �We only conduct live tissue training when the simulation does not meet the training requirements.�
When asked if participation in the training is mandatory, she said it is expected and is given before airmen are deployed.
�Most will tell you the training is invaluable,� she said.
The 1st Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt paid $35,600 to Deployment Medicine International of Gig Harbor, Wash., to supply the pigs for the training, according to contract documents.
The Department of Defense kills more than 7,500 goats and pigs each year, but that could be changing, said Dania DePas, a spokeswoman for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
The National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 signed into law earlier this year states that the Secretary of Defense must give Congress a report outlining a strategy and detailed timeline to transition to away from using animal-based training methods to combat trauma injuries.
DePas said the physician�s group has requested that the Defense Department halt future orders of live animals for training until the report to Congress is complete.
They have yet to receive a response from the Defense Department regarding their complaint about the training at Hurlburt or to two similar complaints filed earlier last year, she said.
Contact Daily News Staff Writer Lauren Sage Reinlie at 850-315-4440 or email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @LaurenRnwfdn.


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USA Wins Mens 4 X 4 At The 2008 Olympics!
USA Wins Mens 4 X 4 At The 2008 Olympics. Surprised Jamaica aint take this one
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