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Vice-Presidential Nominee Must Navigate Tough Budget Negotiations With an Eye to His Higher National Profile
Paul Ryan, the Republican congressman thrust to national prominence as Mitt Romney's running mate, spoke briefly Wednesday with one of his many admirers in Congress, House Speaker John Boehner.
The speaker "told him that he and the conference want him back in the fold and will welcome him as soon as he is ready," said Boehner spokesman Kevin Smith.
The question now is how involved the 42-year-old Wisconsin Republican wants to be, as he emerges from Mr. Romney's failed White House bid with a much higher profile than he had before—and amid speculation he will make a run for the presidency himself in 2016, backed by conservative GOP admirers.
The next two years, though, will test Mr. Ryan's well-crafted image as a politician more interested in substance than ambition. He will have to decide whether to wade into what could be tense negotiations between Congress and the White House over tax and entitlements, where making compromises could risk a conservative backlash.
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Over the past two years, Mr. Ryan twice turned his back on bipartisan attempts to reduce the deficit. He was a member of the deficit panel appointed by President Barack Obama, but he voted against the package of tax increases and spending cuts crafted by its co-chairmen, Republican Alan Simpson and Democrat Erskine Bowles, which drew votes of some other Republicans. And Mr. Ryan asked not to participate in what became known as the "supercommittee" last year, a 12-member bipartisan ad hoc panel that tried but failed to reach a deficit-reduction compromise.
If congressional Republicans ultimately reach an agreement with Mr. Obama to reduce the deficit, it is almost certain to include tax increases that draw "no" votes from some House Republicans. Mr. Ryan, eventually, will have to decide whether to join them or to vote for the bipartisan deal, if there is one.
The White House race amplified Mr. Ryan's voice in the Republican Party, putting him on the main stage with Mr. Boehner and such rising stars as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Republicans have taken cues from Mr. Ryan on budget and spending issues for years, and he will return to Washington with more sway inside the party.
"He was a leader before, but now he has national star power," said Rep. Devin Nunes (R., Calif.), a Ryan ally.
Mr. Ryan emerges from the presidential race with his image largely intact, despite Democratic challenges to his assertions about the closure of a General Motors GM 1.77 % plant in Wisconsin and taunting about his understating his marathon time by more than an hour. In the waning weeks of the campaign, slightly more voters viewed him positively than negatively, 39%-37%, a Wall Street Journal/NBC News October poll found.
The Wisconsin Republican joined the ticket as a polarizing figure, given his sharp disagreements with Mr. Obama and his plan to transform Medicare from an open-ended promise to a program more akin to subsidized private insurance. Those issues quickly moved to the back burner on the Romney campaign, particularly after an early blitz by Democrats on the Medicare overhaul.
If the Obama-Romney race was a referendum on two visions of government—as Mr. Ryan frequently said it was on the campaign trail—the results were hardly a sweeping endorsement of Mr. Romney's view.
But the campaign gave Mr. Ryan national campaign experience that few sitting House members ever get. After an initial burst of media attention following his selection as Mr. Romney's running mate, Mr. Ryan spent much of the campaign crisscrossing swing states, particularly those in the Midwest, and he largely stayed out of the headlines. He did 37 events in Ohio, 22 in Virginia, 18 in Florida and 15 in his native Wisconsin, according to a tally maintained by the Romney campaign.
Some of the travel would serve him well, if he throws his hat into the White House race for 2016. He made a dozen campaign stops in Iowa, home to the first-in-the-nation caucuses; five in New Hampshire, which has an early primary; and 18 stops in the big state of Florida. He attended more than 60 fundraising events, rubbing shoulders with some of Mr. Romney's wealthiest donors.
Mr. Ryan joined Mr. Romney on the last day of campaigning, and he flew with him to Boston to watch the returns. On Wednesday, Mr. Ryan and his family flew back to his hometown of Janesville, Wis.
In a statement, he said he looks forward to "continuing my responsibilities as chairman of the House Budget Committee." Mr. Ryan is facing the end of his six-year term as the top Republican on the Budget panel; a Boehner aide said the speaker would grant him a waiver to keep the post.
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Recent and archived news articles by Jane Gross of The New York Times.
Looking Beyond Controversy as Readers in Manhattan Welcome Harper Lee's 'Watchman'
A rapt crowd at the 92nd Street Y displayed no interest in the controversies that have swirled around "Go Set a Watchman," and many said it was a welcome addition to the current pitched dialogue about race in America.
July 15, 2015, Wednesday
Growing Older, Not Happier
'Essays After Eighty' is a frank collection from Donald Hall about the tarnish of the golden years amid a 'ceremony of losses.'
January 20, 2015, Tuesday
The Future, Revisited
Circumstances had changed, and all these documents needed to change, too.
December 29, 2014, Monday
Part D for Drug Coverage — and Drudgery
Like doing our taxes, signing up for Medicare Part D, the insurance program for drug coverage, takes days out of our lives and leaves us sitting in a heap of papers with a splitting headache.
December 1, 2014, Monday
Seeing the 'Invisible Patient'
Physicians too often fail to address the needs of caregivers, a clinical review finds.
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Survivors of the Holocaust pose special challenges for caregivers at the end of life.
October 23, 2014, Thursday
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Meryl Comer has written a heartbreaking account of caring for both her husband, who has been debilitated by early-onset Alzheimer's disease, and her mother, who has the late-onset variety.
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Dizzying Times
I was unsympathetic when my mother complained of strange dizzy spells. Who's sorry now?
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The Magic of Swimming on Martha's Vineyard
A celebration of the island's aquatic riches.
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A member of the "aging industrial complex" starts a campaign against ageism.
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how do you catch sql errors when using ext-air wrappers?
I have some data that I am inserting into my local SQLite database via the proxy (proxy.insert(data[])) bypassing the store. Obviously every thing works fine as long as the data is as the corresponding table expects it (eg. text for TEXT, integers for INTEGER, etc..) but when the data is wrong for the expected data type the AIR application throws an SQLErrorEvent as follows:
SQLError: 'Error #3132: Data type mismatch.', details:'could not convert text value to numeric value.', operation:'execute', detailID:'2300' at flash.data::SQLStatement/internalExecute() at flash.data::SQLStatement/execute()
airConn.addEventListener(air.SQLErrorEvent.ERROR, sqlErrorHandler); function sqlErrorHandler(e){ //error handling stuff here. }
TypeError: Value undefined does not allow function calls. at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction() at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent() at flash.net::URLLoader/onComplete()
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Okay. Taking some hours away from the problem and the solution slapped me in the face. Due to how my code is I was not adding the event listener to the connection properly, it was just another "duh" moment.


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iPhone, iPod, iPad, iCal, iLife, etc. Does the "i" mean anything? And is it a trademark for Apple?
When Steve Jobs first introduced the iMac in 1998, he proclaimed that the i stood for Internet. Jobs went on to say, "i also means some other things to us" and displayed a presentation slide with the keywords:
You can even view video of this event.
The "i" was first used on the iBook and iMac. These were produced as Steve Jobs wanted a pro and consumer model of a desktop and portable computer. This later rolled out with more products, iSight, iPod, iPhone, iPad.
Yes the products are trademarked, but using an "i" itself before a product is not trademarked and it cannot be. Here is Apple's trademark list
According to Wikipedia (for the iMac at least):
I asked a rep at the Apple store. They said that it stood for Internet, on the first iMac.(As others have answered.) Now it is just a brand.
The whole idea of the first iMac was that you take it out of the box, plug in the power, and then plug in the modem with a phone line. Internet access made easy. The "i" stood for internet.
It's the I as in me. It means that these things somehow empower you.
Berkun, S. (2010). The Myths of Innovation (First ed., pp. 1-82). Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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The Mercer County Golden Eagles boys basketball team topped Erie Monday night on the opening night of the Orion Tip-Off Classic.
The Golden Eagles, just two days off the team's playoff football loss, won their first game of the season.
Mercer County outscored Erie 9-4 in the first quarter and led 22-12 at the half.
Erie bounced back in the third period cutting the Golden Eagle lead to 26-22 heading into the final period. Mercer County outscored Erie 11-5 in the final period to preserve the victory.
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My Christmas lights keep tripping my GFI in the rain.
I've got one of those Light Show boxes with 6 different sections of lights plugged into it. When I have all 6 sections plugged in, the GFI trips immediately. However, if I try them one at a time, the GFI doesn't trip.
If there was a ground fault in any of the sections, wouldn't it always trip the GFI? What am I missing? How do I debug this problem?
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NEW YORK (December 8, 2012) -- No freshman had ever won the Heisman Trophy. Then again, Johnny Manziel has done a lot of things that no freshman had done before.
The Texas A&M quarterback won the 2012 Heisman Trophy Saturday, beating out Notre Dame linebacker Manti T'eo and Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein.
Manziel, better known as "Johnny Football" in College Station, becomes the first-ever freshman to win college football's most coveted award. Only five times had a freshman previously finished in the top three of the Heisman voting.
Manziel picked up 424 first-place votes and finished with 2,029 overall. T'eo gathered 321 first-place votes and 1,706 overall.
Manziel set a Southeastern Conference record with 4,600 yards of total offense this season, breaking the mark set by 2010 Heisman winner Cam Newton. Manziel also scored 43 touchdowns this season.
He jumped into the Heisman picture after throwing for 253 yards and two touchdowns in a 29-24 upset win over then No. 1 Alabama on November 10.
Manziel is Texas A&M's second-ever Heisman trophy winner, joining 1957 winner John David Crow. He also won the Dave O'Brien Award for the nation's best quarterback at Thursday's Home Depot awards ceremony.


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The Halacha is that we cover the Challa / Cake while we make Kiddush in order not to embarass it (Talmud Yerushalmi as quoted by the Tur, Orach Chaim 271) as we are not making Hamotzi / Mezonos first. Is a clear covering adequate (plastic / cellophane) or does it have to be non see through?
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I remember at an "in Shabbos" at Yeshivah Gedolah Ateres Mordechai in Detroit there being Hallah on the tables Friday night in just their see-through bags. Some boys took napkins and started covering them. Rav Leib Bakst ZT"L, the Rosh HaYeshivah, did not say anything until they reached his table. When they reached his table he said "What?! You're worried about "embarrasing" the Challos?! Don't worry! They are not embarrased in plastic bags!"
He held that even lechatehilah they are good enough.
(I muttered to the guys who were covering them "They can't be 'embarrased' anymore because they suffocated in those plastic bags!)
In the back of the Minchat Shabbat (Shiyurei ha-Minchah 77:8), a commentary on the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, (mentioned in this answer) it says that an additional reason we cover the Challot is because we don't want to embarrass them by skipping over making a blessing on them in order to bless the wine first.
Based on this, he says that one should make sure that the cover being used does not have holes that would enable one to see the bread.
He sources this to "Achronim".
If so, the same logic should apply to see-through bags.


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I just received my new NN3+MKII. It is a nice piece of gear!
I have two cameras: Canon EOS Rebel 300D with 18-55 Canon lens and Nikon Coolpix 8800.
I tried the NN3 with the Canon first. I used the suggested settings on the NN site. The results were ok, but there was still a slight parallax when I did a 360. I also dont like having to tkae two rows to get a wide enough view (looks like I need the Sigma 8mm...)
I would like to try the Coolpix, as it has a wider wide angle, but here's the problem. There are no settings anywhere for this camera and the entrance pupil dbase listed on nodalninja.com is missing the L1 (tripod mount length) numbers.
Do I HAVE to have the T Bracket in order to make the coolpix 8800 work? If so I will order it, but then I will still need some settings - does anyone have any setting for the Coolpix 8800 - with or without the T Bracket?


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What are the most essential items for a kitchen?
I've been living with my fiancee for the past six months, and despite no longer living on-campus, she's still fairly set in her college ways. Our apartment for a while looked basically like a big dorm room. I've been trying to get things more transitioned to a more adult setting, which has worked to some extent with recent purchases of furniture that isn't made out of plastic. So I'm starting to look more at our kitchen, which has a very limited selection of tools and generally not a whole lot of ingredients/spices/etc.
So, what I'd like to know is, what do you think is essential to have in a kitchen? It could be tools, seasonings/spices, other general recipe components...anything that you think no kitchen should be without.
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If you want an actual list I would just look at someone's wedding registry. Typically anyone with a registry has had some wife who took a lot of time thinking about it. I'm younger but am married and own a house, trust me we didn't buy everything in one trip. For the past couple years we just started out small and worked our way up. Anytime you go shopping just look around and think "hey, this would be nice to have" and if you can afford it, buy it and add to your collection.
As far a spices go, whenever you're making a meal that requires some sort of herbs or spices, just buy what you need, and it'll last you quite a while. Next meal do the same. Eventually you'll have a nice spice cabinet made up.
Hope this helps! Don't be discouraged that your place doesn't feel "adult-like" give it some time to start building up and when you're ready to move you'll wonder where everything came from!
PS* Since you mentioned you're engaged (congrats) maybe you should hold out til the wedding!
Tools - a usual set of pots and pans, spatulas, spoons, ladle, and at least a 7 " chef knife.
Seasoning - I use three the most; Italian seasoning, black pepper, and garlic powder. You may want to include salt for your cupboard, but I seldom use it.
The usual arsenal of plates and bowls, forks and spoons.
A drying rack if there's no dishwasher.
Food storage containers for leftovers.
That's all I can think of right now...
A few basic pots and pans, measuring cups, spatulas, strainer, basic serving utensils, and the normal plates, silverware, cups.
Definitely have 2 cutting boards. I always find myself cutting both veggies and meat close to the same time.
Agreed about the spices - buy what you need for each meal, and maybe 1 or 2 extra if it looks interesting and you like to experiment.
Voting up the 2 cutting boards suggestion, as well as a 2 or 3 high quality cutting knives, along with a cast iron skillet. A dutch oven is worth the investment too . In the long run, it is better to take time to outfit your kitchen with quality items that will last for years, rather than going on the cheap with items that will quickly break.
That being said, your local Dollar Stores are great for getting plastic colanders, spatulas, or cheap pizza wheels, etc., that you really don't use all the time, but are handy to have until it's time to make an investment.
The only essential tools are the ones that you need to do the cooking you plan to do [frequently].
I'd think that if you don't know what you need, you're probably good with what you've got. When you find yourself preparing/cooking something often that gets a little tedious then there's probably a tool that can save some time.
If you want to start cooking more, start simple and cheap with the tools. Don't waste money on stuff you won't need if you decide cooking isn't your thing.
One really good Chef's knife, a decent sized cutting board, a good non-stick skillet, and a crockpot.
Don't put the crockpot on the unnecessary side. It makes so many quick and easy meals, and when you find out how little time you have, you'll be thankful.
For everything you buy - think one rule: Multi-task.I would put down as bare essentials the following:
1 - 2 quart pot
1 - 5-6 quart pot
1 - 12 inch skillet with lid
Those three right there can easily cover 80-90%+ of the meals you'll be making. Get these at a local restaurant supply store. They are open to the public and you'll get good quality stuff for less than the cheap big-box crap.
1 - 13x9 pan
1 - 1/4 sheet pan (Optional)
I use a 13x9 pan in the oven for pretty much everything. Braising meats, baking vegetables, making deserts. Everything. The 1/4 sheet pan is nice as well and fairly useful but you can do without it if money is an issue.
For utensils:
1 - Silicone Spoonula (That half spoon half spatula type thing)
1 - Silicone Spatula/Flipper
1 - Silicone Tongs
Those 3 will cover pretty much everything you need. You can add in things like a strainer/colander. They are very useful but you CAN get by without them if you really need to.
Good luck.
Good grief, I could write a novel here (and probably have).
-One small, one medium, one large saucepan/pot. Also, a small and a large (12"ish) skillet
-Cookie/baking sheet and a couple of baking dishes – suggest starting with an 8x8 and a 9x13
-Two 8" or 9" round pans if you're planning on any baking
-Crockpot – don't waste time with a tiny one – get a decent-sized one, and double a recipe if you have to; you'll be much happier withleftovers than not having enough room
-At least two decent-sized cutting boards: 1 for veggies/fruits, 1 for raw meat. NEVER mix them up (label if you must), unless you want to have adventures in food poisoning! (Suggest plastic for the meats, and please please please never ever cut on glass – it's horrible for your knives.)
-Hand mixer and stand mixer – for a starting kitchen, get a good-quality hand mixer. Save up for a stand mixer for a while down the road, especially if you end up doing lots of mixing. Food processor is another thing to save up for.
-Paring knife, chef's knife, pizza cutter (you'd be surprised how much use I get out of one of those), and at least one veggie peeler (with a comfortable grip)
-A few spatulas (silicone is wonderfully convenient), a ladle, a spoon, and a slotted spoon for use in those pots
-Set of mixing bowls in a few sizes, a set of measuring cups for dry ingredients, a measuring cup for wet ingredients, and a set of measuring spoons
-Colander, corkscrew, bottle opener, at least one whisk, and a few wire cooling racks
-Flatware for 4+ settings (bump that to 8 if you ever plan on having company) – go with a trusted company, and even if you spend a little more money, it will last a lot longer than the cheapy kind
-Dishes (obviously) – stuff like the Corelle sets you can find at Wallyworld are pretty cheap and will last you a while if you don't want to spring for higher quality stuff right away
-Containers for leftovers, and at least one roll of each of these: plastic wrap, aluminum foil, wax paper, and parchment paper
-As for the "software," I always keep a number of staples on hand: AP flour, sugar, butter/margarine, milk, a basic oil, eggs, baking powder and baking soda, etc. You will use them in a bunch of recipes.
-Also, keep some uncooked pasta/rice around – basic makings for a quick side dish or meal when you don't want to think too hard.
-As for herbs, spices, and the like, I generally don't keep stuff around that I don't use very often because almost all of them lose their flavor if they aren't used within something like 6 months. Salt, black pepper, vanilla extract, and maybe garlic powder are pretty safe to keep around constantly, but other than that, buy only what you like. Don't buy those spice racks with 50 spices unless you plan to do some experimenting, as they'll all likely go bad before you can use them up.
You need the previously mentioned measuring cups, and measuring spoons as well. I'd watch for the next time housewaresdeals.com has a Kitchenaid set of kitchen tools, since they tend to have a bunch of the very items you lack (including spatulas). I've bought them in the past, and then sold the ones I didn't want at a garage sale for $2 apiece (I ended up $2 ahead). Here's an example of what I mean:
I see a bakeware set's coming up on the 15th.
Consider the things you like to cook most often, and the things you'd like to cook. Don't buy a lot of fancy spices until you're sure you'll use them. Cinnamon is good to have, as is Chili Powder. You need salt, and baking soda. Don't bother with baking powder unless you're planning on using it.
You really ought to have an "egg beater" (http://www.amazon.com/Stainless-Steel-Vintage-Style-Beater/dp/B000BU5K9K).
The nice thing about an egg beater is that you can make most of the things you'd make with a mixer, and the price is considerably less.
Avoid buying cheap tools. They won't work right, and you'll regret it.
I love a well-appointed kitchen. I'll probably have more to add, later in the day.
Wow! @bingo969 covered everything I was going to suggest; the only difference is that i don't much like silicon except for spatulas.
Colanders are useful for many things besides the obvious; you can get perfectly adequate ones for a couple of dollars at your local supermarket, Target, or dollar store.
When we vacation we rent cabins out in the boonies, and over the years I've learned to pack my favorite large knife and paring knife, my favorite spatula and big spoon/ladle, a flexible plastic cutting board, and a decent 12" frying pan. Anything else that we need and the cabin doesn't have I can hit a local Walmart or Target for a cheapie version, which we generally leave behind anyway. So for me, as a suggestion, the things I take with us when we travel are the necessities and worth spending good money on ; everything else you can start with inexpensive basics, if necessary, and trade up as your budget allows.
Being an engaged person myself, and having just bought a house, but more importantly getting married soon, we registered for all kinds of good gifts!
Bed Bath and Beyond is great, and has an excellent checklist of items for the entire home (including the kitchen!).
Here's a link to their checklist: (http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/regchecklist.asp?)
Hope that helps! I know it did for us.
Note: I'm still using some of my crap from college though, waiting a few months still for the wedding to get the main (more expensive) stuff.
Note: Be sure to include the ? in the weblink (at the end) -- it cut it off for me...
Good cooking utensils (spatula, etc). I got those mutli-colored ones from woot a while back and they are great.
A nice metal colander, screw those plastic ones.
A few good knives if you can afford them.
I find my hot pot infinitely useful for making pitchers of iced tea.
An A-B-C fire extinguisher. Seriously. It's like insurance...you may never need it, but it comes in handy when you do.
In addition to some of the excellent suggestions above, I'd recommend a good potholder/hot mitt. The other kitchen implement that made me feel safer doing normal-kitchen-things was a good knife; many people recommend an 8" chief's knife, but I'm a small person and almost always use a 6" utility knife instead. (Growing up, we used a cloth towel to take stuff out of the oven and "knives" were of poor quality/hadn't been sharpened during my lifetime.)
In terms of convenience/ease of using my kitchen, having a container with various cooking implements (I use a vase that I already had) next to the stove is much easier than digging through a drawer looking for the right spatula/spoon while food is burning, which is how we did it in my house growing up. I also have a clear plastic "shoebox" next to the sink in which I store the bottle-brush, scrubby thing, etc. Keeps water off the counter, easy to wash occasionally, good for controlling my natural inclination towards entropy.
The phone - to call for delivery.
Bed Bath and Beyond has a "Your First Apartment Section" of their website: http://bit.ly/KXn91E which includes a good more then basic checklist (http://bit.ly/f99H9r)
Bed Bath and Beyond has three big prep sections of their website. College, "first apartment" and getting married. They're ridiculously extensive and go way past what they sell.
So they have a whole section of their website for people moving out on their own for the first time. A basic apartment checklist which I linked to. A checklist for basic dry goods and spices you need in your kitchen. A list of tools you need in your toolbox. Guides on how to find an apartment, and credit and living with someone and renter's insurance--EVERYTHING. I'd start by spending a little time reading their guides and lists, and amending them to what you think your needs are.
From my experience I wouldn't be surprised if when you switched to the engagement section you found that they could just about plan your wedding for you.
A nice 12" cast iron skillet. You can make everything from bacon to pineapple upside down cake in it. I didn't even have one until about 10 years ago and now I have 6 in varying sizes and keep looking for more. I got 3 of them from my neighbor's mom when she went into elderly housing. They are probably 90 years old and still good as new.
@flyinggirl: these are also necessary implements for hitting intruders over the head.
But they are heavy as hell and very hard to just swing around willy-nilly like a tennis racket. I got my first cast iron skillet (as a defensive weapon against intruders of course) and was shocked at how bad a weapon it actually was in a fight. I then began to suspect that Hollywood had been lying to me for decades and they were using lightweight props!
I found a nice long flashlight with some serious heft is much more practical. You can use it as your super-powerful flashlight when you need to and if there is an intruder, you have both light as a weapon and something fairly have that you can swing the hell out of. It's also much easier to keep by your bed.
@sgrman05: Heh...I linked to Bed Bath and Beyond's first apartment portal. Which has lots of articles to help people and tons of lists to set you up, including, I think my favourite: a perishable and non-perishables list. Seriously...they tell people that you need to buy things for the bathroom like toilet paper and band aids and then they go through all the things you need in the kitchen food wise. I don't know, that's in a tie with the list of what items you actually need in a toolbox (the toolbox is included on the list).
Basically people, the rule of life is this. If you've been kicked out of the home at a tender age and don't really know anything about dorm living, or living in your first apartment (even if you're sharing it with 5 people) or you're preparing to live on your own the first time or to get married...if you're going through any big life changes and are lost--go to BB&B, they'll provide crazy amounts of help including where to find the rest of the help you need.
@anoted: BB&B is AWESOME! I didn't know they had it broken down into that much detail! Crazy...
@anoted: I find the 8" better for the backswing. Really good workout too.
@sgrman05: Just wait...check your PM....monogrammed frosted beer mugs!


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In introductory physics books, when they introduce 弱い相互作用 "weak interaction" and 強い相互作用 "strong interaction", I almost always see a notification that these terms are supposed to be the name of the specific forces and should not be taken to mean just an adjective modifying a noun in an ordinary way. Are these terms really unnatural as the name of specific things much as to require such notes, and why is it? What natural (unexisting) alternatives would be possible? Is the unnaturalness any stronger than the unnaturalness of the corresponding English terms in English?
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I think this is more about formalizing the use of technical vocabulary and eliminating ambiguity than any concern about unnaturalness.
For example, if they didn't include that note, then a beginning student might misunderstand the discussion of 弱い相互作用 to cover any sort of sufficiently weak interaction (like gravity from a distance, say), rather than only that specific type of interaction that has been given the name "Weak Interaction".


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25 Nov 2013 4:04 PM #1
Could we maybe not play hide and seek with the xtypes?
tbspacer, tbtext
These are valid xtypes, and you can't find them in architect. You have to know to remove any search criteria an scroll down to the toolbar section (which is not one of the groups on the left side btw) to find them.
The whole point of architect was to make it easier right? Hiding things so you can't find them by xtype doesn't help.
26 Nov 2013 7:08 AM #2
The toolbox does not search based off of the xtype.
Searching for spacer or text will pull these up. We are currently in the midst of updating the toolbox to be easier to search and discover. We'll take this feedback into consideration.
Thanks!Aaron Conran
26 Nov 2013 7:19 AM #3
But only if you know to search for that. The docs list the xtype as tbspacer, and searching for that gets you nothing. Previous forum posts mention tbspacer, NOT spacer. Since xtypes are a common thing, you would think you cloud type the xtype (which should be unique) and get the component. It doesn't have to be the ONLY way to find it, but it should be A way to find it.One of my biggest gripes about sencha is you are expected to read the developers mind to do things.
- The docs say do X.
- Oh but that X isn't the way to do it anymore, it's really Y.
- Well why don't the docs say Y?
- We haven't updated them yet, you just need to know that.
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Source: MGM Studios
Ever since I got a DVR… wait, scratch that… ever since my girlfriend's roommate got a DVR (which first introduced me to the joy of pre-recorded television), I completely stopped watching live TV.
One exception: sports games, though there are a few I've recorded and saved for later, or at least tried to. I'm a Redskins fan, which means I'm a Cowboys anti-fan. So when Washington plays Dallas, it's always a big deal to me and to most of my friends back on the East Coast. But nobody cares about the Skins where I live now, so I watch these games by myself these days. Now, I don't know about you, but I infinitely prefer watching any sports games in a social setting. It's the only way to ignore the endless loop of five or six truck, phone, and beer commercials that I'll have to see all season. So when I'm watching by myself, I tend to absentmindedly fill the commercial breaks by playing around on my phone or iPad. Sooner or later, that means I'll stupidly check Facebook without thinking. That's when I see comments that look something like this:
"ANOTHER interception?!"
"Geez Skins. What happened during halftime? Did you all get drunk?"
"Holding out hope. If we can just score three touchdowns and a field goal in the next 4 minutes… (sobs)"
"Well, there's always next team owner."
I've only made it through one quarter and I already know that I have nothing to look forward to but an embarrassing loss. Sometimes I'll continue anyway, but usually I don't feel that it's worth it.
This is an ever-increasing problem for me in the digital age. I'm a person who generally likes to stay up-to-date and I'm also a person who likes to stay connected to my interests. But I'm also a person who wants to watch movies, TV shows, and sports games whenever I feel like it, which very rarely means live. That's a tough combination.
The internet's catch-all protection for people like me are the words "spoiler alert." That pair of words is thrown around in articles to immediately justify sharing any information. The idea is that if you ever read past the magic words, you are responsible for whatever secrets are ruined.
Problem is, most people don't read content online that way. Unless we're very engaged in a specific article, our eyes dart around the page and grab little bits of information in a scattershot pattern. It's very easy to read below the magic words before we've even reached "spoiler alert." Worse still, but very frequent, is immediately following the warning words with the spoiler, as in: SPOILER ALERT! ________ dies in the next episode. (A death of a major character on The Wire was spoiled for me this way.)
Now, I'm not complaining too much. To some degree, spoilers eventually become a natural part of the culture. I knew how Citizen Kane and Spartacus ended by the time I was ten because it was impossible to avoid pop-culture's fleeting references to "Rosebud" and "I'm Spartacus!" I remember my older brother telling me, when I was too young to see it, the grim plot twist at the very end of Night of the Living Dead. I never felt like that was a "spoiler," just a way of letting me know that it was a legitimately good film, not just some cheap scares. It didn't diminish my enjoyment when, years later, I finally saw it.
A psychological study not too long ago concluded that knowing the ending of a book in advance actually enhances enjoyment. The researchers involved posited that this might be because a spoiled story is "easier" to read, that the burden of the reader is no longer on following plot but in enjoying language. Take Shakespeare for example. Even in his day, the plot lines of his stories were explicitly laid out. Comedies ended in weddings. Tragedies ended in death. People aren't shocked by Juliet stabbing herself, but they can be shocked by a good performance that wrings anguish and pain out of her suicide.
There are a lot of films, mostly ones with some kind of twist, that I appreciated more on second viewing. But even if I liked Fight Club better on round two, the confusion of my first time is still a singular experience. Hearing a story the first time will never be like hearing it a second time, or third, or fourth, etc.
So even if science has officially decided that spoilers are helpful, I still hate knowing too much. It robs me of a potentially unique experience, even if it leads to a supposedly more enjoyable one.
So my one request to the blogging and commenting world is to be a tiny bit more cognizant of people like me. I understand that you all want to discuss what shocking thing just happened on Breaking Bad, but I feel like I have a right to not quarantine myself from the internet until I'm all caught up on all my interests.


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5 Tiny Computer Glitches That Caused Huge Disasters
We've all done stupid things with computers at work. For most of us, this means facing the wrath of the passive-aggressive IT guy. But there are certain jobs where making the same mistakes can cost companies billions of dollars, and sometimes costs people their lives. For instance ...
#5. Google Accidentally Blocks the Internet
The Tiny Mistake:
Typos are a fact of life for anyone who spends time at a keyboard. Overlooking typos is part of what it means to exist on the Internet -- the millions of words being published at any given moment are just too hard to police. Of course, people who didn't discover boobs or drugs before senior English class will always spot them and point them out, but the rest of us will be fine to just catch the author's drift.
"Teh? TEH?! You might as well just rape the queen herself."
The Fallout:
Google is the only reason the Internet can be as big and fast as it is and still useable. You rely on Google to find the typo-ridden pages that you were looking for when you entered your typo-ridden search term. They're also trusted to avoid pages that will melt your hard drive to your motherboard with viruses. Being the bouncer at the door of the Internet requires Google to update their list of potentially malicious sites constantly and in real time. Getting added to that list is the closest the Internet has to a death sentence. Flagged sites either won't appear in search results or will appear with a warning message. Even if you ignore that message, you will be taken to a page that tells you to go back to from whence you came.
The Register
"My God, the dicks must have reached critical mass!"
Of course keeping up with the reams and reams of content pouring online at any given moment is no small order. Certain parts of Google's company can be automated, but there's always going to be some hacker trying to get malware online without Google noticing. And noticing requires humans, and humans make typos. That's how a misplaced backslash made the world wobble on its axis one Saturday morning back in 2009.
One of Google's programmers was adding websites to the malware registry when he accidentally entered "/" instead of a full URL.
Look waaaaay up at the top of your browser screen, above all those toolbars, and you'll notice an Internet address. We're willing to bet dollars to doughnuts that, whether you're reading this on Cracked or one of the many Indian blogs that steals our content, the URL contains a backslash. That's because most URLs begin "HTTP://www," and backslashes separate different segments of the address. The backslash is to URLs what spaces are to written sentences.
Or what the f-word is to longshoremen.
That means that for a brief period of time after old butterfingers' backslash key mash gaff (suck it, New York Post), Google began telling the world that every website in existence was unsafe for your computer and shouldn't be visited. The vast, dumb hordes of algorithmic slaves that handle the search engine's dirty work set out to dutifully warn Internet users of the new danger.
For close to an hour on January 31, every single website was flagged as possibly harmful, and Google blocked all users from visiting those suspicious sites. Which were all the sites everywhere, including Google's own pages. Google quickly fixed and fessed up to their goof, which helped to distract us all from the terrifying knowledge that the whole Internet is one keystroke away from disappearing behind a wall of warning messages.
"Sure, we occasionally crash the world's primary communication apparatus. At least we aren't Bing."
Google never came out with a clear culprit, but we'd guess it has something to do with that beer they're brewing with Dogfish Head.
#4. Sometimes the Error Messages Are There for a Reason
The Tiny Mistake:
You boot up your laptop only to find a cryptic error message, saying something about a DLL file or asking you to stop running scripts. You click "Cancel" or "Agree" or whatever it takes to make your computer play nice and cough up some Internet.
Error messages might as well be in a foreign language to many of the people who rely on computers to handle important tasks at work or in their personal lives. The fact remains that computers are hard and we have important shit to deal with.
Rewatching Family Guy important.
Most of us can afford to remain blissfully ignorant of the computers that rule our lives without causing much more than the occasional hard drive meltdown and a few family vacations worth of lost photographs. Unfortunately for everyone, "most of us" does not include medical professionals.
The Fallout:
There was a machine named the Therac-25. It fought cancer by shooting people with radiation. Since radiation is hard on your body at the best of times, the Therac-25 was programmed to avoid shooting people with too much radiation. It even had a nifty little program installed to warn the user if something went wrong and the radiation-limiting dealie-majig stopped working.
Virginia Tech
Sadly, it came from an era when "user-friendly" meant "not written in binary."
Since this was the mid-'80s, hardware was pretty primitive and that radiation-limiting dealie did break. Thanks to good design, it warned its operators. Malfunction messages, numbered one to 64, would interrupt the Therac-25 constantly as the machine got worse and worse. But the manual contained no explanations as to what those errors might be. Thanks to bafflingly shitty manual-writing, almost every one of those error messages went ignored.
Eventually, the medical professionals who operated these radiation guns stopped caring what the damn things had to say. This worked well until a few people got shot with 100 times the maximum recommended dose of radiation. Three of them died, a monument to mankind's inerrant ability to ignore any problem that doesn't immediately solve itself.
"Don't worry, sir. I'm sure those alarms are purely cosmetic."
#3. The Navy Tries to Divide by Zero
The Tiny Mistake:
If you've worked in an office or at a school, you know the pain of using an operating system chosen by a committee of people who don't understand your job. Left to your own devices, you'd use the software best suited to your actual work, but your supervisors have other concerns in mind. While the design department might be better off on a Mac, accounting knows perfectly well that the latest version of Windows is going to be cheaper and is perfectly serviceable for the numbers they need to crunch. It's a cost-benefit analysis, and almost always someone gets screwed in the transaction.
"I'm sorry, guys, but I've done the math and MS Paint makes more sense for graphic design from a financial standpoint."
It sucks, but that's just part of life in a big office. At least your boss doesn't have the power to control what you use at home.
The Fallout:
Of course, when you work on a super-advanced Navy smart boat, your home itself runs off of an operating system. In 1996, the Navy decided to retrofit the billion dollar USS Yorktown with a bank of 27 computers, each with a dual 200 MHz processor (roughly one-fifth as powerful as a current iPhone). The upgrades were intended to automate much of the Yorktown's processes, shaving off $2.8 million in operation costs.
Much like a vibrator, it put thousands of hard-working seamen out of work.
Turns out the Navy is a PC. They elected to run the most advanced boat in the world on Windows NT, which was basically the Vista of its time. That worked about as well as you'd expect, which is to say it screwed up constantly. Techs on the boat scrambled to fix software bugs that popped up like mushrooms on Microsoft's latest steaming pile of cow dung.
"If it can handle Red Alert, it can handle a real war."
Things came to a head on September 21, 1997, when the USS Yorktown attempted to divide by zero. This caused what is called a buffer overflow error, which crashed the entire boat and left the most badass cruiser in the history of war floating crippled and dumb in the middle of the ocean. Eventually, the Navy was forced to tow the Yorktown's broken ass back to port.
Hey, let's try something real quick. Pull out a cheap calculator and try to divide a number by zero. It won't work, but you may notice your calculator doesn't immediately break. The Yorktown was slightly less resilient. As one shipboard systems expert put it, "The computers on the Yorktown were not designed to handle such a simple failure."
"Shit. Can we get a rain check on that 'war' thing? The whole boat just blue-screened."


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