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Do you hear that sound? That's the collective footsteps of the sports media as they slowly climb down off the New York Jets bandwagon and back on to the New England Patriots'. With last night's MNF doubleheader the first week of the NFL season wound to a close and for the first real time fans got a legitimate glance at what the football landscape really looks like. Lets take a couple of minutes and look at the first week for the AFC East while we rank the division. I'll be doing this every Tuesday for the rest of the season.
1.) New England Patriots- If you go by what teams did last season then the Patriots had the toughest challenge in week one. The Bengals swept the "vaunted" AFC North last season, beating the Ravens, Steelers and Browns twice along the way. The Bengals looked like anything but the defending AFC North champions after they ran into the Patriots though. There are no style points in the NFL but in the era of the 24-7 news cycle first impressions do still count. And the Patriots had this game neatly put away by halftime.
Wes Welker contributed two touchdowns just months after shredding the ligaments in his knee and the Patriots special teams and secondary also looked solid. Coming into this season the Patriots biggest questions were about their defensive unit. Don't let Cincy's late game passing numbers fool you either, New England certainly feels a lot more confident in their defense after watching them shut down a very talented Bengals offense in the first half of their game Sunday.
Before the season there were questions, was this the Jets division to lose and had the Patriots dynasty finally wound down. After one week the Patriots have announced they're not going quietly and reminded fans who won the division last year. This one still runs through Foxboro.
2a.) Miami Dolphins- Miami played in a game that could be considered a bit misleading. Despite only winning by five points, the Bills never truly threatened to win the game. Miami's defense played lights out, with the exception of a blown coverage on one play, and helped the team overcome some offensive miscues and a very blustery day. The win was anything but sexy, but considering the Dolphins haven't opened the season with a win since 2003, most Dolfans will take it.
Coming into this season Miami faced questions throughout their defensive unit. How would Randy Starks play at the nose, who could play free safety and is there going to be enough of a pass rush to replace Joey Porter and Jason Taylor. All of those questions seemed to be answered favorably in the first week. CJ Spiller managed just 14 all-purpose yards on the day, Karlos Dansby, Cameron Wake and Koa Misi all added sacks and Chris Clemons played like a baby Yeremiah Bell, flying all over the field and demonstrating great physicality. Even Jason Allen looked good, locking up Lee Evans and nearly creating a pick-six to seal the game. Granted, it was a Buffalo offense with no quarterback and lousy tackles. But you have to start somewhere and considering Buffalo beat the Dolphins at the end of last year, revenge doesn't feel bad either.
Offensively the Dolphins struggled, Chad Henne never truly looked comfortable and needs more practice throwing into the wind. He had one pass to a wide open Brandon Marshall get batted down by the wind (leading to an under-throw and a drop) and another pass to an open Marshall got caught in the wind and sail. The rushing attack looked fine though, with Ronnie Brown and Ricky Williams combining for over 100 yards and a score. The Dolphins offense is still a work in progress, but the better indicator of where they truly are will come inside the Metrodome this weekend.
2b) New York Jets- The Baltimore Ravens are an excellent team, the Dolphins will find out how excellent in the middle of this season. But the Jets were given an extremely interesting lesson yesterday night as they opened their new stadium. The blueprint may not work. The Jets plans for success was to win with defense, a running game and have Mark Sanchez manage the offense and not turn the ball over. Mark Sanchez didn't turn the ball over last night as he played an extremely conservative game from an offensive standpoint and… well the Jets lost.
Now, that's not to diminish what the Jets did. There defense was on the field for nearly two-thirds of the game and held a very talented Baltimore Ravens offense to just one touchdown, 10 points total. This comes in spite of racking up 100 yards of penalties in just the first half on the way to 14 for 125 yards total. That means the Jets D gave up 125 yards, were on the field twice as long as the Ravens defense and still just gave up 10 points with a chance to win the game themselves on an Antonio Cromartie interception return that ended with him being tripped up around the 30. I'm not trying to fellate the Jets, I'm just saying don't lose sight of the caliber of defense being played up there just because of a loss.
The reason for the loss though was the Jets offense. And anyone who felt a little bit upset about how the Dolphins opened the season can take one look at the ineffectual performance of Mark Sanchez and feel a bit better. Somehow New York averaged 5.5 yards per carry against the vaunted Baltimore defense, but with Sanchez throwing just 10-21 for a whopping 74 yards and no touchdowns, the Jets never really threatened offensively. How bad was the Jets offense? Sanchez completed just his sixth pass to finish the third quarter (that's a whopping clip of two completions per quarter), the Jets converted just 1 of their 11 third down opportunities (the one conversion coming inside of two minutes in the 4th). And the always complimentary Jon Gruden was even becoming incensed by Sanchez's unwillingness to throw down field and his propensity for dumping the ball off in the flats. The line of the game came as the Jets called their final timeout after converting their first 3rd down of the game, at their own 31 with 57 seconds left on the clock when Gruden muttered,
They just moved the ball ten yards and I'm exhausted.
The Jets are still a contender, but not with that offense. The question was posed on our forums yesterday if Miami could possibly beat a team like the Jets with an offensive output of 13 points… yeah, actually. That's possible.
4.) Buffalo Bills- Steve Tasker said last season as the Bills finished off an upset over Miami, that in Buffalo there was no greater feeling than beating the Dolphins. I had no idea the Bills viewed the Fins like that, it's almost flattering in a way because I'd put the Bills behind several teams that aren't even in the AFC East on my most hated list. I guess when you beat a team every time you face them, twice a year, for an entire decade (the 70's) it may stick with them for a little while though. On Sunday the Bills had a chance to start the season by beating the hated Dolphins, a chance to ring in the Chan Gailey era on a high note–that didn't happen.
And really, despite the final score, the game was never really close. From the opening three-and-out to the final hapless attempt to mount a game-winning drive the Buffalo offense rarely looked in sync. Trent Edwards, despite being a Stanford man, has never looked like an NFL quarterback and that theme continued into Sunday when Edwards routinely looked flustered by the Dolphins pass rush and the Bills offense rarely threatened.
Defensively the Bills have a good core of players but their shift to a 3-4 will take another year when the team can finally upgrade their linebackers. Chances are it's going to be another long season in Buffalo until the team can find a quarterback, improve its tackles and get an infusion of talent in their front seven.
Next Week:
Buffalo at Green Bay- This one shouldn't be close… (Prediction: Packers 31-Bills 13)
New England at New York Jets- Patriots travel to the Giants new stadium to play the Jets (prediction Patriots 21-Jets 17)
Miami at Minnesota- A difficult road game for the Dolphins in Minneapolis (Prediction… coming Thursday)


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Build a Shaker-Inspired Wall Shelf
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My wife, Colleen, occasionally asks me to build a piece of furniture for our home. I would love nothing more than to honor these requests, but there never seems to be time. But a hanging shelf is one project that I figured I could finish quickly.
I got the inspiration from a drawing of a peg-hung Shaker shelf in Ejner Handberg's book, Shop Drawings of Shaker Furniture and Woodenware, Vol II (Berkshire Traveller Press, 1975). The shelf sides in Handberg's drawing are curved on top, but the bottom is straight. I added another curve at the bottom, experimenting with different curves until one satisfied my eye. Handberg's Shaker shelves also hung from a wall-mounted peg rail. I don't have a peg rail at home, so the first time I made this piece, I used brass keyhole hangers. In later versions, I used simpler brass hangers mortised into the second shelf from the top. These are less expensive, easier to install, and make hanging the shelf a snap. We use one hanging shelf as a spice rack. The varying heights and sizes of our spice jars helped establish the shelf spacing and overall width.
Consistency is the key to this piece. If you start with flat stock of uniform thickness and length, the joinery follows smoothly. To ensure consistency, do all your milling at once (all the stock is 1/2 in. thick), and use a plywood pattern and flush-trimming router bit for making identical curved and tapered sides.
The trickiest parts of this piece are the sliding dovetails. Routing the grooves is easy, but the long tails on the ends of each shelf take some patience and finesse. I use a router setup in which the router is mounted horizontally; it seems to make it easier to get a straight, even cut (see the drawing).
By holding the pieces flat on the router table, I have more control as I slide the piece past the bit. I make test pieces out of scrap, which I milled at the same time as the final pieces.
The Shakers housed the shelves in dadoes, rather than sliding dovetails, and you can do the same. It won't be as strong, but if you're worried about the shelves, you can toenail them from the bottom with finish nails or brads.
This project originally appeared in the March/April 1998 issue of Fine Woodworking (FWW #129).
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Rout dovetail grooves in the sides: After milling all the material to a thickness of 1/2 in., cut the sides to length, but leave them at least 1/4 in. wider than the widest dimension (4-3/8 in.). Then mark the centerlines for each shelf on both pieces. Using a slotted piece of plywood to guide a 1/2-in. router template insert, cut the dovetail slots. First rough the slots with a 1/4-in. straight bit, and finish them off with a 3/8-in. dovetail bit.
Trace the pattern and cut out the sides: With the grooves routed, cut the curved and tapered sides. Make a plywood pattern matching the shape of the sides of the shelf, trace the pattern onto the back of each side, and bandsaw the shape close to the line.
Flush-trimming bit makes both sides identical: After roughing out the sides on the bandsaw or jigsaw, clamp each side into the plywood pattern using hold-down clamps fastened to the plywood. Then rout the edge with a 1/2-in. flush-trimming bit, either using a router table or a handheld router setup. This step will remove any tearout created when you routed the dovetail grooves, and it makes each side identical.
Routing the dovetails on the shelves: To cut the dovetails, mount your router horizontally on the router table. This makes it easier to adjust the height of the cut. It also lets you hold the workpiece flat on the table rather than against a fence. Adjust the depth and height of the router bit to match the depth of the slots. I cut the tails to fit by trial and error, testing on scrap stock milled at the same time as the shelf parts.
Cut shelves to width and assemble: Don't cut the shelves to width until after you cut the dovetails on the ends, so you can remove any tearout caused by the router. The front edge of the top three shelves is angled to match the tapered sides, which you can do by transferring the angle to the jointer fence. After sanding all the pieces, slide each shelf into the sides, starting at the bottom and clamping each shelf as you go.
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Yes, some women will be turned off by your right hand, and that sucks. But some won't care. And while there might be one or two women out there who'll find you more attractive as a result of your accident—I've never received a letter from a woman with a fetish for missing fingers, but I'll doubtless hear from at least one after your letter runs—I can tell you this for sure: No one is attracted to a person who is paralyzed by self-pity. Each and every one of us moves through life covered with scars, DIMI, some more visible than others. Life has a way of carving chunks out of all of us—literal chunks in some cases. All we can do is make the best of what we have or what we have left.
So get the fuck over yourself, get the fuck out of the house, and go meet women. If you're worried that your right hand is the first thing a woman notices, get a prosthesis made or wear a glove. And while you may be tempted to blame your right hand for your lack of romantic success, DIMI, remember that very few people your age—people with 10 intact fingers—have met with much romantic success.
I'm sorry about your accident, DIMI, I really am. Good luck.
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Why Do We Need to Have Answers for Everything?
- Tuesday, April 23, 2013
I'm reminded of the Israelites who were promised "manna from heaven," but told not to store it up, only to gather what was necessary and leave the rest. Many thought a better plan would be to save it up; however, when they did, they found it had become rotten (Exodus 16:20).
What I have discovered over the years (through some difficult lessons) is sometimes I don't need to have all of the answers. In fact it's refreshing and freeing to say once in a while "I don't know" or "I don't have the solution."
Some of us have an innate "need" to find and enter into situations (welcome or not) to "fix," make right or change (for what we feel is best). Even worse, oftentimes that "situation" is a person and we "move into" a relationship in order to "solve" what we may see is a need when we should just trust God to do it through them.
With all of the efforts many have made over the last couple of decades to take God out of everything "public," the last bastion is on our currency. Ironically, the one thing many of us try to save, accumulate and put our trust in is the lone place in society where we find the words inscribed, "In God We Trust."
Maybe as we use our currency each day, it can be a reminder to each of us to notably trust God with ALL facets of our life and not live in a way where we feel we have to have all of the answers, where we need to figure everything out on our own and where we feel we need to fix every situation.
Let's not allow our faith become stale by not trusting Him in EVERYTHING.
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I'm kinda sad based on what I saw coming out of SDCC yesterday. Why? Let me show you:
Catwoman with her bra showing. And why not? According to the writer, "This is a dirty, dirty book, and you're going to enjoy it." Why? Because Catwoman is "a chick in a catsuit who steals things" "If anything goes wrong, she'll scratch someone's eyes out."
Great. She's not just sexy. She's dirty.
Roy gawking at Kory. Let's be thankful there is not spit on his chin. By the way this Roy never had a daughter named Lian. (It was also implied that Catwoman's daughter has been jettisoned).
And now the most depressing.
On Tuesday DC broke the news via TMZ that "Lois and Superman were "dunzo" essentially making the retcon of the marriage into another celebrity break-up. Think about the choice they made. They went to a gossip site. A gossip site that covers break-ups and divorces and affairs. And they gave them the news that Lois and Superman would be no longer married. To the average person who doesn't understand retconning and read the fine print, they are going to walk with a break-up not "it never happened".
And now that that message is out, the deliver the second soundbit and image. Again think about the choice of outlet. Not a comic news site. Not an entertainment news site. A tabloid "the New York Daily News" - a paragon of subtly.
Look they want to reboot the marriage do it with respect. You want to know what I mean? Go read the Superman 2000 pitch that Morrison did. You'll see. It ends the marriage but it will break your heart.
I don't know if we'll see the marriage end but we really don't need to know it's a Brand New Day in Metropolis:
Lois Lane, ace reporter. Lois Lane, celebrating a big story by getting laid. Lois Lane, a character who was a protagonist in the Action Comics #1 and the post-crisis reboot, The Man of Steel, reduced to someone designed to make you feel bad for Clark.
Of course, they could have chosen to have these panels be of her and new boyfriend heading out to dinner but then Lois wouldn't be seemingly cheating on Clark. Because really, this isn't about Lois. This is all about Clark:
Jim Lee:
"Many of us know what it's like to be the odd man out and we think readers will have a soft spot for Clark when they see his reaction to Lois' new boyfriend."
But wait maybe, just maybe this will be a good story for Lois? Today we heard this:
"We're really excited for fans to see this take on Lois in September. This character has always been a successful modern woman and her new role at the DAILY PLANET opens up dramatic new story possibilities."
What kind of stories? Well here's the headline from the Source "Lois Lane rides high with new love." Because her love life defines her?
Lois Lane is dating a hunky new co-worker and the sky's the limit for her career as the new boss of the Daily Planet's TV and New media department.
And there was other stuff that bothered me:
Wonder Woman is back in heels. It's dumb. Why? Change that. Please.
There was also a confirmation that Barbara Gordon is, as I suspected, deaged.
This Barbara Gordon is just out of college. Or maybe in college. There were conflicting statements.
Barbara Gordon a woman who who a librarian and had a law degree and who had been Batgirl and then Oracle in the old DCnU, is now the same age as Stephanie Brown.
This closeness in age should be interesting if the hints that Stephanie will be showing up are indeed true.
Of course, just who Stephanie will be is interesting. It was declared loud and clear yesterday that there are "four Robins" in the DCnU. Four.
My guess is that DC has now solved its issue of Stephanie being a Robin. Poof. She was never Robin. Makes those panel questions so much easier.
But there were two good things:
Batwoman, is reported on track with issues by Williams and Reeder finished up.
And someone called DC on their woeful amount of female creators when Didio asked the crowd what they had to do to win "you over"
Someone yelled out "Hire more women. You went from 12% women to 1% women." Reports say there was applause.
Didio instead of saying, "working on it" or "right!" or "Wait to you see what Amanda Conner has coming" gave this response.
"Who should we have hired?"
Of course I could be completely misreading all of this and everything this will be hunky dory come September.
make it stoooop ;______;
Wonder Woman Stainless Steel Flask 6oz (via Etsy)
Because drinking from a flask isn't badass enough.
Here's the flask, who has the New 52 Drinking game?
Take a shot when they deage a character
Take a shot when the erase a marriage
Take a shot when they give someone a crappy new outfit
Take a shot when they say Four Robins
Take a shot when Liefeld doesn't draw feet on Hawk and Dove
And the reverse drinking game:
Take a shot every time you see a book drawn by a female artist!
You'll probably stay sober!
OK, I had to do it.
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not that I expected anything, but still. fuck.
Someone asked the writers present if Cassandra would be in the DCnU, and Morrison (who will still be writing a revamped Batman Inc) stepped in and said she would.
Nothing about Batgirl though.
thank you, morrison
Bleeding Cool has posted a report from Friday's visit to NYC of, as I am now going to call it, "Dr. Lee and Dr. Johns' Traveling DCnU Road Show band". And it has a few items of interest to those interested in characters of the Batgirl persuasion.
It was hinted that Stephanie Brown may turn up in Batman, Inc. Dan Didio apparently said she worked better as Spoiler.UPDATE: Two other retailers in attendance has said that Stephanie Brown was NEVER mentioned
Actually that makes more sense when you think about it, given DC's current disinterest in the character (Perhaps someone may have brought up the "4 Robins and one Batgirl" issue I brought up a few weeks ago?).
- I guess I am confused because at one point I thought that Batgirl with Barbara Gordon was going to be set BEFORE The Killing Joke. Nope. The notes from the show say, "Barbara Gordon is back as Batgirl. The events of Killing Joke and her tenure as Oracle have occurred and this title addresses her return to the role." Hmmm. Wires. Moving on …
- Barbara Gordon will still be part of the Birds of Prey book. Well, that's interesting news isn't it?
I know what you're asking. Where is Cass Cain? Good question. I guess we Cass fans didn't show enough interest in her appearance in Batman, Inc.* because the other Batman, Inc. character who appeared in the same book had such a reception he got his own book based on fan interest.
Based on fan interest in this character [Batwing] from Batman Incorporated, DC wanted to give the character an ongoing title.
* Note that I was rolling my eyes as I wrote that. Also I am VERY happy Batwing got a book, but I am failing to see the lack of "fan interest" in Cass. But who knows, maybe they are working on Cass Cain book and will surprise us.
Bleeding Cool has posted reports from yesterday's road show in Texas. And here you go:
You won't be seeing Donna Troy yet in the new DCU, nor the Stephanie and Cassandra Batgirls. They haven't been killed off though, just benched.
And the new readers they are targeting?
The target audience are men age 18 to 34 though they do realize that they have readers in other demographics.
I'm going to take a few moments.
they do realize that they have readers in other demographics
they do realize that they have readers in other demographics
they do realize that they have readers in other demographics
thanks a lot, DC! thanks a whole fucking lot
sorry guys, i've tried to hold off being pissed off but you know, people have limits
and now it's just worse because this just tells me they're aware of their 'other demographics' but they just don't care
fucking upsetting
cue unfollows, i guess
Again, DC's efforts at introducing diversity — as well as its focus on "young, fresh" heroes — raises questions as to why there's no sign of former Batgirl Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown.
Asian-American Cassandra Cain was once among DC's most prominent minority characters. And despite DC's reader-inciting effort to "turn" her bad a couple years ago, the character has recently shown up again as a hero in titles like Red Robin and Batman: Gates of Gotham.
Young college student Stephanie Brown was primed by DC to be a leading hero as well, having launched a new Batgirl series with her fresh, young face and attitude.
Now that Barbara Gordon is Batgirl, there's no mention of either Cass or Steph in September's titles. Apparently, there's enough room for three former, and a fourth current Robin, but only room for one female Batgirl?
Grant Morrison talks about the DCnU relaunch, specifically Action Comics #1.
My favorite part is when he makes it through almost the whole video without saying one bad thing about the relaunch, then calls it a "ridiculous journey," catches himself, and laughs.
Does it remind anyone else of a hostage video?
So clearly this is rehearsed
That more or less seems to be the universal reaction. Despite all her hyping of the new Batgirl and Firestorm books and talking about how great the DCnU is, even Gail Simone said the Birds of Prey situation was "baffling" and was really poory handled by the editorial staff.
Maybe if the writers & artists keep telling themselves that it's a good thing and stuff….they'll start to believe it?
CA: Obviously a lot is going to be changing in September, but what storylines from the history of the current DC Universe are going to carry forward into the relaunch?
Eddie Berganza: It's all built on characters. It's the stories that mean a lot to a particular hero or villain — you have Death in the Family counting, Blackest Night, Brightest Day, The Killing Joke, Identity Crisis. These are important storylines that affected our characters' lives, and that will be part and parcel of moving forward.
Cue stream of excited gifs.
This is important news!
Bob Harras, the editor-in-chief of DC Comics, and Eddie Berganza, Executive Editor, sat down with Newsarama today and said some interesting things about the old DC history and the new DCnU. The big news? Much of history is still there including "A Death in the Family" "Identity Crisis",…
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US soldier among several killed in Afghanistan
The trooper was killed in action while on a "combat reconnaissance patrol See: patrol. " in the southeastern province of Farah, a region which sees regular insurgent INSURGENT. One who is concerned in an insurrection. He differs from a rebel in this, that rebel is always understood in a bad sense, or one who unjustly opposes the constituted authorities; insurgent may be one who justly opposes the tyranny of constituted authorities. attacks, the US military said in a statement.
His death took to 13 the number of international soldiers killed since Monday, highlighting the growing threat faced by troops in Afghanistan where they are fighting Taliban rebels.
In a separate statement, the force said Afghan and US-led international forces raided militant compounds in central Afghanistan overnight, killing several insurgents Insurgents, in U.S. history, the Republican Senators and Representatives who in 1909–10 rose against the Republican standpatters controlling Congress, to oppose the Payne-Aldrich tariff and the dictatorial power of House speaker Joseph G. Cannon. and one civilian woman.
The woman was killed by a bullet which ricocheted as troops fought rebels in the province of Ghazni, south of Kabul, the statement said.
"The combined force A military force composed of elements of two or more allied nations. See also force(s). assaulted three compounds... during the operation the force engaged and killed several armed enemy combatants," the statement said without giving the number of militants killed.
"During this engagement, a ricocheting round killed a civilian female," it added.
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"Our people in the area have said that they (the victims) were civilians but we have to investigate that," the police official said.
Villagers in Giru district contacted AFP to say eight civilians were killed, but this could not be independently verified due to the remoteness of the area. Authorities refused to give official comment.
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You're being manipulated. A well-respected, highly influential news source has cast aside all journalistic integrity to shill for the liberal, GOP-establishment candidate in this presidential race.
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Regrettably, the latest media outlet to assume a decidedly yellow hue during this heated primary cycle is the Drudge Report. It pains me to even write this. Drudge has always been both my first and last Internet news stops of the day.
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In past years, Matt Drudge has done a fair job of playing it down the middle during presidential primaries. Not this time. In the game of "Washington insider hold 'em," the Drudge Report is "all in" for Willard Mitt Romney. It's not even subtle.
As the Politico reports: "Newt Gingrich better hope voters who lapped up his delicious hits on the 'elite media' and liberals don't read the Drudge Report this morning … If they do, Gingrich comes off looking like a dangerous, anti-Reagan, Clintonian fraud."
This, of course, is utter pablum. Gingrich is the last Reagan conservative standing in this race; or, as the venerable Nancy Reagan said of "the distinguished speaker, Newt Gingrich" in 1995: "The dramatic [conservative] movement of 1995 is an outgrowth of a much earlier crusade that goes back half a century. Barry Goldwater handed the torch to Ronnie, and in turn Ronnie turned that torch over to Newt and the Republican members of Congress to keep that dream alive."
To this day, Newt Gingrich is keeping that conservative dream alive and that Reagan torch aflame. America is beginning to get this, and it has the "Republican in Name Only" (RINO) establishment tied in knots.
Politico summarizes Drudge's hit job on Gingrich: "The overnight Drudge Report banner: 'Insider: Gingrich repeatedly insulted Reagan.' The headline linked to a devastating takedown by Elliott Abrams in the National Review, who wrote, among other things, that Gingrich had a long record of criticizing and undermining Reagan's most transformative policies."
Baloney. Sorry, Matt Drudge, but Mrs. Reagan's vote of confidence carries considerably more weight than your shameless smear on behalf of the Massachusetts moderate.
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4. Has DeSean Jackson turned a corner or do you expect his attitude to continue being a problem?
BW: Great question. Jackson was a complete pain in the ass in 2012. His contract situation and financial woes each played a part in his lack of focus which led to a decline in production. I think Jackson can be elite and he's said all the right things in the wake of his new contract. This is an absolutely crucial year for Michael Vick and Andy Reid, and if Jackson truly loves the two like he claims, he has to come through. My hunch is he'll rebound, but would I be shocked if he doesn't? No, not at all.
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Official: OOXML approved as international standard
The ISO/IEC confirmed this morning that Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) has been approved as an international standard, leaving the Open Document Format (ODF) lobby raging about alleged voting irregularities. The International Standardisation Organisation (ISO) finally posted a press release today officially confirming what …
I hope they all get cancer
Anyone know where to sign up for those Virgle one-way tickets? I want to get off this shithole.
The ISO have put "Subject to there being no formal appeals from ISO/IEC national bodies in the next two months, the International Standard will accordingly proceed to publication." right in the middle of their press release though... an invitation? Perhaps there's still hope for our species.
Another April Fools' Day story!
Oh wait, it's the second of April already.
Right ...
Right, 3/4s of them change their mind overnight (or, as overnight is measured in such situations)... I smell a rat.
Screw 'em
Why join them if you can beat them?
March on, I say, and let the market decide over a period of time. More and more people are getting switched on to Open Office, and at the end of the day numbers will decide, not an outfit which is more bent than the Olympic committee.
OK, it's an uphill struggle, but not skating on ice by any means.
A "standard" with only one implementation possible is a waste of space
Call us back when it's actually possible for a third-party to have an independent implementation.
Until then, this is just business as usual. New versions of office have yet another file format that is guaranteed to be impossible to import and export. Just calling OOXML a "standard" won't change this.
Surely one of the national bodies has some integrity left? Or is this just confirmation that standardisation has become like every other walk of business life - hard cash talks - any thought of honorable behaviour (you know - like having a standard that , I don't know, was actually implementable by someone else) can just get stuffed.
Bad day for the ISO
This decision is the end of public confidence in the ISO impartality and honesty, in fact a fateful day for this organization (the fact that Microsoft was an unfair company was already well-known).
April Fool's was YESTERDAY!
See title.
Tom Robertson...
...how's your appetite? Can't be good, anything you touch with that tongue will turn to dust and acid. As for the ISO, I have some tooling to specify for a milling machine at the mo. I was trying to stick to ISO standards even though they are not the most common, sod that now, they aren't worth shite. Shame MS can't be brought to justice for miss-use of the word 'open' but that would mean 'truth' and 'facts' would have to be judged too.
Can someone post a clear and simple howto to get the formal complaint procedure rolling without having to leave the keyboard?
It's broken...
The 7th seal that is.
Coat, hat, pub.
Market decisions...
"...More and more people are getting switched on to Open Office..."
Frankly, these numbers are utterly insignificant. And it'll take more than a bit of wild accusation-slinging to beat Micro$haft's "marketing and promotion" (aka bribery and corruption) budget in an open market.
Zune gets ISO certification
In a surprise move, ISO certifies the Zune as the world standard MP3 player, shortly after certifying Microsoft Bob, Internet Information Server and Vista.
Money can't buy you love....
But most things have a price
widely adopted standard?
So a standard that has 1 implementation is a "widely adopted standard"? This is a meaning for the phrase "widely adopted" I wasn't aware of.
SOS - Different Day.
Well done to Groklaw for following the details.
Just to clarify...
Microsoft win the vote by 2/3rds. See Revelations 13:18.
Coat, Hat, Home...Before the pub owner knows I'm on his WiFi.
How much...
...did this cost MS? It just seems strange that so many would suddenly swing in favour when the "standard" still has apparent problems.
Delayed to avoid April Fools?
People probably would have thought it was the most obvious April Fool they'd come across (even more than the flying penguins!) had they not delayed the release by a day.
It only needs 3 objections
I don't know the finer details but it seems that if they need 2/3 approval, and they have 24/32 then by removing 3 approvals you get 21/32 - ie less than 2/3.
Germany and Norway might be 2, and if the irregularities alone don't cast huge doubt on the others like Philippines then it might come down to one other NB to object and the ISO is lost.
Now, if the BSI would be so kind as to show off how well they operate and have any confidence in their decision to approve, maybe that'll tip the balance.
It also appears that many votes are void simply because they weren't allowed to vote on MSXML, but only on whether their previous objections had been solved. Thus if the technical committee declared them unsolved or could not verify they were solved (none of them could?), they *should* have kept the previous disapproval. Instead they seem to have had a vote on whether to accept MSXML (with all the irregularities that went with it).
It does seem as though the ISO cannot accept the 'vote', but whilst they dither they are likely to spend an awful lot of time defending a process they know has gone horribly wrong.
(I know people refer to it as OOXML but really it's time to clarify this - its MSXML and cannot be anything else).
Standards and business as usual
Where have you been? The reason for standards is to enable big business to stifle competition.
If the standards organisations get the wrong answer and don't favour big business, big business simply ignores them and uses their market clout to force their own systems.
Stop whining, that's the way it is and will be.
Phantom implementation counts as 'widely accepted'?
Except even Microsoft isn't implementing OOXML as defined in the ISO submission... so I'm at a loss; who's got that 1 implementation?
what a load of cobblers
current office 2007 users are also gonna be up shit creak or made pay out for "upgrades" as the OOXML standard submitted is supposedly just a tad different from what is currently implemented in Off07.
I conccur, ISO no longer worth a shite
Open Office can import and export Office 2007 docs, that was the whole reason I even tried the thing in the first place...
ISO - The farce is strong in you!
Stitch up complete then....
You expected anything else? I will continue installing Open Office on friends machines and save them a fortune on billys bloatware, any company that sends me stuff in "unreadable" format clearly doesnt want my business.
This is beyond farce - and the ISO mark is severley devalued and tarnished by this.
ISO Standards
This is from the ISO standards pages on Standards Provide to everyone:
ISO standards provide technological, economic and societal benefits.
For businesses, the widespread adoption of International Standards means that suppliers can develop and offer products and services meeting specifications that have wide international acceptance in their sectors. Therefore, businesses using International Standards can compete on many more markets around the world.
For innovators of new technologies, International Standards on aspects like terminology, compatibility and safety speed up the dissemination of innovations and their development into manufacturable and marketable products.
For customers, the worldwide compatibility of technology which is achieved when products and services are based on International Standards gives them a broad choice of offers. They also benefit from the effects of competition among suppliers.
For trade officials, International Standards create "a level playing field" for all competitors on those markets. The existence of divergent national or regional standards can create technical barriers to trade. International Standards are the technical means by which political trade agreements can be put into practice.
For developing countries, International Standards that represent an international consensus on the state of the art are an important source of technological know-how. By defining the characteristics that products and services will be expected to meet on export markets, International Standards give developing countries a basis for making the right decisions when investing their scarce resources and thus avoid squandering them.
I do not see how MS OOXML works in any of these statements
standards of standardisation are dropping
BSI are no longer recognised as a standards organisation in my view and I no longer recognise ISO as an intenational standard format.
Now one standard is clearly tainted none can be trusted, good work MS & BSI, hope your pay off was worth it and i hope that the lifetime free copies of windows cause you endless virus and security problems.
Re: Wwidely adopted standard?
Apple fully supports OOXML. Google search also support OOXML BTW.
The lessons of history
Quote (from lelong, above): "... the end of public confidence in the ISO impartality and honesty."
Eh? *What* public confidence? The ISO may be many things but 'impartial' and 'honest' are not among them. It is a bloated, patriarchal, self-interested cartel run by patronising bureaucrats with a 'we know best' attitude who are in the pocket of big business.
ISO was the body, remember, that tried to sink TCP/IP in favour of it's own cumbersome inter-networking system, the OSI Reference Model.
The OSI system was designed by committee and as a result instead of a racehorse they'd come up with a mishapen camel. TCP/IP, on the other hand, had been developed by inspired and talented individuals and was lean and mean.
Most significantly, TCP/IP was up and running on real networks and was being tweaked and refined all the time. ISO's system was just a collection of abstractions, never tried in the real world.
Despite initial kowtowing to the ISO by business, many arms of the US government, and most European governments, TCP/IP eventually won the day.
It won partly because it was evangelised by the fathers of today's internet (most notably by Vint Cerf); partly because the UNIX community adopted it and it was built into early Sun machines; partly because it was the de facto standard in academic and research institutions; but mostly because it was far better than anything the ISO could come up with.
Which brings us round to today....
So where were the objections?
To quote from Alex Brown's blog:
"Recently my standards colleague Inigo Surguy wrote a blog entry advising readers how to submit comments on the DIS. Guess how many good technical comments we received. I'll give you a clue: it was a good round number. In fact, guess how many truly meaningful technical objections were emailed to BSI over the whole course of the project. I can remember two. By contrast of course, there were a gabillion emails which were either form letters of MS origin, or copy-and-paste jobs from noooxml.org."
I would have assumed, given the huge rumpus these proceedings have generated, that the BSI would have been inundated with solid technical reasons why OOXML shouldn't become a standard. Evidently this didn't happen - I can only conclude that most of the anti-OOXML zealots are all mouth and no trousers.
Which is a shame, since as a die-hard Linux / OpenOffice user I'd have liked to have seen MS beaten on this one.
Not even one implementation
There are currently exactly zero implementations of this standard - Office doesn't comply with the modified parts, and I think Microsoft have publicly stated that it never will.
At least this is confirmation that we need to mistrust Microsoft
At least this is confirmation that we need to mistrust Microsoft.
When they start talking about interoperability remember this shameful ISO shambles, remember their continuing backing of SCO and lets be clear about the following point.
Microsoft are a monoploy out of control which is prepared to break all kinds of laws and rules to force people to use their poor quality products.
They do not believe in competition as a force for good. The fact that a so-called democracy called the United States is prepared to allow a company to act in this way brings shame on that country as well.
Look at this another way
If Microsoft change their implementation of OOXML in MSWord, they'll no longer be allowed to call it OOXML.
Heise.de says:
"36 countries and standardization organizations appended comprehensive technical comments to their votes in the final round, and Microsoft will have to take them into account. The vendor will be forced to thoroughly revamp its current Office standard storage format for the upcoming initial implementation of the "new" OOXML."
Once MS has complied with the implementation changes, we'll have something that everybody can work with. Now all we need is an OOXML implementation for OpenOffice, and this will STRENGTHEN OpenOffice.org's position in the market.
Now let's see how MICROSOFT implements it
Little cute sting in the tale - if a procurement selction is made on the basis of this standard MS will have to prove a valid, functional implementation.
If it does so, it has documented deficiencies in, for instance, Excel that will bar it from anything but simple additions..
Having said that, it *may* explain how Brown can claim any improvements in the UK economy since he got his hands on it. Aha - found out at last.
And the Paris Hilton angle....
Is Paris Hilton the only person Microsoft is yet to corrupt?
level playing field???
If you put this 6000 page monstrosity out on the playing field, you'd have a distinct depression... this thing is so huge, it can warp space and time around it... witness so many people coming out in favour of a standard that not even Microsoft can implement themselves as it has so may completely contradictory sections...
It's a pointless sham
There are no implementations of the standard available, even MS's Office07 isn't compliant. The standard is flawed and in places opaque so it's impossible to fully implement by anyone other than MS.
Now we have:
* one office standard with several independent implementations.
* one standard that is incompatible with the first and has no independent implementations
* One non-standard de facto standard...
Bill Gates must be really please with him self now, he has managed to buy some of the worlds richest and poorest nations all in one go!
MS broke standards
What a sad day for interoperability. I'll be writing to my MP, MEP, and to the EC. I suggest you all do likewise.
The fact that many (11 by my count) national bodies changed their votes from Approve to Disaprove or Abstain afaik has never been seen before. Changing from Approve to Disaprove is almost unheard of.
I have been following this closely, and I had never heard of Inigo before Alex mentioned him on his blog. If that was common, itsn't not surprising most missed it.
"Apple fully supports OOXML. Google search also support OOXML BTW."
Apple: No they don't. Google: How hard is it to search a XML document? I wouldn't call that support. Google's public statements have explicitly slated OOXML.
Re: WWwidely adopted standard
"Apple fully supports OOXML. Google search also support OOXML BTW."
Apple currently has very limited support, you'd hardly call it a full implementation. Unless you are talking about "we're behind you" support. Which if you were would be irrelevant to discussion on whether it is a "widely adopted standard" as mentioned in your title.
Google search has limited indexing and rendering support, just as it does for the old office file formats, which has about as much relevance to the discussion as the flying spagetti monster. Google hate OOXML, and have rightfully pointed out that as a standard it is (to use the technical term) bollocks.
Not sure why we're adding extra W's to our post titles, but I didn't want to break the widely adopted standard. Even if it's completely unnecessary, probably a mistake and only previously adopted by one person.
For the non-technical
aka - those who come here to read the BOFH stories.
What does a Standard require to become standard? Although reading the story and the comments, I'm not sure the ISO actually knows any more.
Wouldn't it be more fun if formats and Standards, were made to battle it out like the Betamax vs VHS and more recently the Blu-ray vs HD DVD (won surprisingly it seems by Blu-ray, I have a suspicion that the developers and makers were only interested in charging far far more for the hardware and then software than they would have got for the DVD equivalent).
So the crux of this message is. What is a standard. Could anyone create a standard no matter how theoretical, and erm, does copyright/licensing laws still apply to a file format that obtains the ISO "Standard" mark?
The icon, because now I truly know how little I know about software and hardware. Occasionally I value my ignorance, but on this matter I believe answers will help a great deal.
The question is...
What is the going price of an ISO standard approval, and are you better off buying a Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval.
MS OOXML - The best standard money can buy....
Is there anything else really to add?
RE: So where were the objections?
>>> To quote from Alex Brown's blog:
"Recently my standards colleague Inigo Surguy wrote a blog entry advising readers how to submit comments on the DIS. Guess how many good technical comments we received. I'll give you a clue: it was a good round number. In fact, guess how many truly meaningful technical objections were emailed to BSI over the whole course of the project. I can remember two. By contrast of course, there were a gabillion emails which were either form letters of MS origin, or copy-and-paste jobs from noooxml.org."
>>> I would have assumed, given the huge rumpus these proceedings have generated, that the BSI would have been inundated with solid technical reasons why OOXML shouldn't become a standard. Evidently this didn't happen - I can only conclude that most of the anti-OOXML zealots are all mouth and no trousers.
Well I did email my objections, but guess what, you can expect most of the objections to look similar when they are objecting to the same points ! So I can only conclude from the comments quoted that anything objecting to one of these common dung-piles must be "... copy-and-paste jobs from noooxml.org".
So THAT's how the situation turned around ! Label all objections as meaningless copy-n-paste jobs and dismiss them, about the only plausible alternative explanation for the BSI changing tack so unexpectedly (the primary explanation being that they were bought).
Why did they vote for it?
Krusty: Lets just say it moved me. To a bigger house! Oh crap, I said the loud part quiet and the quiet part loud.
@AC and others, re "April Fool"
It *is* an April Fool story - and ISO are the fools.
@Aidan Thornton
> There are currently exactly zero implementations of this standard
There are hundreds of thousands of compliant consumers already and it's easy to implement a compliant producer. The Unix cp/DOS copy programs are actually both. Why?
If I may quote Rob Weir (http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/01/standard-trolls.html):
"... in plain English, in order to be able to claim conformance with OOXML, an application must not crash when presented with a valid OOXML document, or must be [cap]able of producing at least a single valid OOXML document. This is not exactly a high threshold."
This might well mean that Microsoft can already claim OOXML conformance for Office 2007 and so could probably others for their products. In practice most people will be using MS-Office to generate their OOXML-"compliant" documents and will expect competing software to read and write these.
In how far correctly interpreting/generating Office 2007 documents then has anything to do with the otherwise *optional* features described on a further 6000 pages of the OOXML standard is anyone's guess.
Cunning, no?
leavign aside the age of aquarious
that is supposed to be happing with everyone gamboling about on openoffice/ubuntu etc, in the real world we need a file format for use with the suite they use and that is still Microsoft office.
The is about zero chance of the sort of large instutions I've worked for moving off excel for many years so I'm pretty unconcerned by the whole fuss here.
If it doesn't implement the standard, gov can't use M$ Office anyway ?
If, as I am constantly seeing, OOXML isn't currently implemented by anybody and is also unimplementable, then M$ office still isn't in the running for Gov procurement because it still doesn't use the OOXML standard.
The only true working standard then, is still ODF. If govs mandate standards document file types only and do purchace M$ Office, they are breaking their own rules and can be pushed to move to software that uses a real implemented standard.
I would still like to see somebody put in an objection to ISO in the next month or two as stopping this in the first place will be better than having to attempt damage limitation later.
Only problem i can see is...
the fact that things like the .docx (OOXML based) file format contains a .bin file and as at this moment the network I work on will not allow these files to be emailed around. Great standard!!!
Still lost as to why we need two standards...
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Metro Louisville is taking these matters very seriously. Under the revised Illegal Dumping Ordinance, Metro Louisville will hold the vehicle from six months up to a year. This vehicle will be held for a minimum of six months and will not be released until there is proof that all fines for illegal dumping, cleanup costs and tow lot fees have been paid. Fines can range from $250 to $5000 and clean up fees are a minimum of $250.
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Reboot: Magic Within me / Contest!If anyone who really has been a watcher on my da would know of a comic I did before I started to draw Ponies.Magic Within me was about a girl named Lilac who gained a lamp and the genie fell in love with her.That was the original plot which I came up with because at that moment It was about Disney Genie and how he really didn't have anyone else to love besides his girlfriend Eden who only appeared in two episodes and really wasn't a girlfriend at all, so I took this idea and gave him an oc to love.Now I change this idea Magic within me is now set in an ruined world the year is 2010. The world were attacked by creatres called AngkinAngkin used to fight along side the god's and be their beast forms but when years past by they turned against the gods and attacked the world. Angkin can take on he forms of humans which they learned from the gods.Lilac used to be a modern girl who enjoys art.Now Lilac is quite, sneaky, creative, loyal and calm.Genie is still in this s
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CONTEST IS OPEN"IN THE EMBRACE OF WINTER"Each season brings a different experiences and emotions, different atmosphere, a different colour pallette.Winter is a time for reflection and rest, a cycle of life-death-rebirth, the inward journey, embracing darkness and silence.Winter days are short, with long nights. The cold weather can make us sad and lethargic.The season offers a sense of calmness and makes us feel peaceful.The most romantic time of the year?A snowy, frosty, cold world or rain and endless grey skies can be beautifulbut some people find that they become seasonally depressed as they receive less light in winter.People feel tired and sluggish during winter. Too cold, gloomy, depressing?Do you feel the winter blues or you enjoy the season?Go back to your memories and keep your focus on your experience and emotions.Show us your feelings about winter.Show us your winter mood...now, in your past or childhood. :snowfl
Halloween Hoo Doo Contest!NEW DEADLINENew Contest DeadlineThe vote for the most popular drawing will be from:14 November - 17 NovemberHowever:If you don't make the cutoff for the vote you can still enter the contest for the main prizes until17 NOVEMBERYou just won't be part of the voters choice section.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________:iconvioletheartplz::iconorangeheart-plz: NOW PRESENTING::iconorangeheart-plz: :iconvioletheartplz:HALLOWEEN HOO DOO TWOCONTEST:iconlovepurpleplz::iconlovegoldplz:Celebrating all that is Halloween.:iconlovegoldplz::iconlovepurpleplz:THIS IS A TRADITIONAL ART DRAWING CONTEST.Grab your wand of choice and conjure up anything you can think of that represents this fabulous holiday. From black cats, the full moon, bats, pumpkins, scarecrows, creepy creatures to witches and warlocks. :iconheartpurple
New Beginnings Contest! - EXTENDED DEADLINE!It's that time of year again. We're all in the festive spirit (or, if you're anything like me, needing a distraction from any thought of festivity) so what better time than to participate in a contest? You like stuff? Look at our fantabulous prizes? You like art? Show it off. Show us ya skillz, we know you have them! Couldn't be simpler. See contest. Join contest.So let's get down and dirty with it:THEME we gotta have one. It's like the law. This time round guys is NEW BEGINNINGS. That's it. You can do anything with this theme in mind, in any visual medium. This contest is running over the new year, new year new start and all, so hey, NEW BEGINNINGS! (Yes, yes I know. Providing the world doesn't end soon. though even that would be a kinda new beginning, it's the beginning of an afterlife or of nothingness or reincarnation, whichever belief you hold to.) So long as your work is titled and inspired by the idea of beginning, starting something new, something unknown
Our First Contest! *Updated*Greetings Everyone! I have some very exciting news to share with you all, we are going to hold our first contest for the month of October! We have partnered with dAhub for this contest. The theme will be "Halloween" I know, a few other groups are doing Halloween themed contests, and since we would like as much support and participation as we can get for our first contest, we are going to allow (for this contest only!) deviations already created, and ones you're working on for other groups. While this is not ideal for us, we don't want to lose any participation due to other on going contests. We have come up with, what I believe are some simple but important rules for this contest, and encourage you to follow them, or disqualification from the contest will occur, and we do not want to have to disqualify anyone.Our Rules are:+ One entry per member!+ All art media accepted.+ No mature content, please.+ Your entry, must have a link in the descr
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I've made this beverage mix many times as Christmas gifts for neighbors and our three sons' teachers. The mint flavor makes the warm drink so refreshing, you'll want to make extra to keep around your house, too.
53 Servings
Prep/Total Time: 5 min.
7-1/2 cups instant chocolate drink mix
1 package (25.6 ounces) nonfat dry milk powder
2-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
1 cup powdered nondairy creamer
25 peppermint candies, crushed
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When brothers Dale and Glenn Robinson decided to take up the gauntlet and enter the 2008 Engine Masters Challenge, they knew they needed every advantage they could get. They had to know all of the rules inside and out, and create a combination that could wow the crowd and still stay within budget. Their approach to building this little 307-based Olds mirrored their team name, Robinson Analytical.
Dale has been bracket racing with Olds power for a number of years, and is comfortable enough with the architecture of the engine that he knew its weaknesses and strengths. Talking with Dale, it is clear that he's a levelheaded player, and his philosophy was to break down the engine building process into two distinct focus groups: weaknesses and strengths. This, he figured rightly, would be the best way to approach the build.
The Robinsons started their analysis with a $50 core engine from an '84 Toronado. A little digging tells us that the 307 engines were popular throughout the whole GM family. All of the BOP and Chevy passenger cars received versions of the 307 for their mid- and fullsize cars from 1980 to 1990. Most Olds engines have the cubic inches cast into the side of the block, though the 307 has a casting of a 5.0 liter on the block. If you are looking for one in the junkyard and you spot a two-barrel carbureted V-8, keep on looking, as all 307s used a four-barrel Quadrajet. In fact, the 307 was the last passenger car offered with a carburetor in the United States (except some Crown Vic Police Interceptors, as we're sure someone will scream out).
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My friend Robin searched for nearly a year to find the earrings she wore at her wedding. She did not turn into an obsessive Bridezilla by any means, but she definitely wanted a specific look. And she will be the first to attest that she "tried on every pair of antique earrings in Manhattan" to achieve it. The problem was that she wanted authentic antique diamonds, but with a limited budget, it was clear that diamonds were not this girl's best friend. In fact, with the price tags she came across, they were no friend at all.