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GM Tilt Column Repair - Steering Column FixWritten by Jeff Smith on July 14, 2009 Is Your GM Tilt Column Looser Than A Fully Cooked Piece Of Linguini? If So, We Have The Steering Column Fix.
If there is one trait that performance enthusiasts covet, it has to be interchangeability. One of the reasons GM cars are so popular with car crafters is that many of the same parts are used throughout numerous product lines that often extend over a decade. As one example, in the '80s and early '90s, GM used the same style steering column in many of its rear-wheel-drive vehicles, including trucks. While this is a good thing, the column also has as habit of becoming wobbly where the base of the tilt attaches to the rest of the column. The fix is merely tightening the bolts and adding a little thread-locking compound. While that sounds simple, getting to those bolts requires disassembling the entire top half of the column, and there is a basketful of little parts and linkages that must be maneuvered around.
Our budget '85 Monte Carlo suffers from this common malady, so we asked our resident repair expert, Tim Moore, to run through the process for us. This is definitely not recommended for first-timers, and you'd better have a factory service manual with you that has the exploded view of the column to help you return all the little parts to their rightful places. Plus, you're going to need two special tools designed to only work on these columns. The tools are not that expensive, but if you don't want to make the investment, it would be best to have a competent shop do the work for you. Because there are so many steps to this process, do not consider this story a step-by-step how-to. It will show you the major procedure. If you're feeling brave, Moore's suggestion is to work slowly and keep track of the parts in order of removal to make the job easier. The good news is that with an hour of so of effort, you can bring back that new-steering-column feel.
|Tool List
|Steering wheel puller
|{{{Summit}}} Racing
|OTC steering lock plate remover
|Summit Racing
|OTC steering pivot pin remover
|Summit Racing
|Lock plate tool
|Speedway Motors
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We won't detail removing the steering wheel because if you don't know, you would be best served not to attack the rest of the column. With the wheel off, use the OTC tool (PN 7031A) that compresses the coil spring enough to allow removal of the C-clip that retains the lock plate. Removing the C-clip usually requires two sharp probes.After removing the emergency flasher button from the column, pull the top screw that holds the small lever that connects to the turn signal lever.Unscrew the three black screws that retain the turn signal cancel mechanism and pull on the assembly to allow it to clear the column.There is a small, black clip that retains the key buzzer linkage, this white plastic holder with two small brass arms (arrow). Note how the black clip is positioned, or you can refer to the exploded view in the chassis manual.Next, remove the small black screw that holds the ignition lock in place and remove the cylinder. If the key fits loosely or the lock cylinder is damaged, now would be a great time to replace it.Remove the three silver T30 Torx screws that hold the large outer shell in place and carefully remove the top bearing inner race (arrow).You may have to loosen the wire harness at the base of the steering column to create enough slack to pull the turn signal cancelling mechanism and the outer cover over the steering shaft.
Reinstall the tilt lever and pull it forward-this will release the teeth in the tilt mechanism to allow you to pull the whole tilt system out around the teeth in the column that position it. The steering shaft ball bearings are inside this cage, so be careful not to dump the bearings or all those little balls will fall out and find mean little hiding places inside the interior. A dollop of bearing grease will retain the little ball bearings.The next step involves the other OTC specialty tool (PN 7889) required to remove the steering column pivot pin that is pressed into the column. There are two pins, one on each side, that must be pulled.The pick points to one of the four reverse Torx bolts that you will need an E8 socket to remove. Tightening these solves the problem.The best procedure is to remove one bolt at a time and lightly coat each one with thread-locking compound such as red Loctite to ensure that the bolts never loosen again.Moore prefers to place the removed parts on a towel on the passenger seat. To help remember the sequence of assembly, you could put the parts in the order they were removed. To reassemble the column, just reverse the removal procedure.One of the more challenging parts of the assembly is making sure all those little parts find their way back in the correct order with no parts left over. This is the proper orientation of the small, black clip for the key buzzer mechanism. This is also why a good exploded view of the steering column is such a good thing to have.Torque the steering column nut and it's all back together. The first time we watched this effort, it appeared way too difficult. Now that we've seen it done a second time, this bit of cockpit surgery can be mastered, especially with the help of a GM shop manual. You'll end up with a nice, tight steering column, and you didn't have to buy any parts.


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I need to get photos of an FB user sorted by likes. I ran this FQL query via Facebook JavaScript SDK to get them:
SELECT object_id, src_big, src_big_width, src_big_height, link, like_info, caption, created
FROM photo
WHERE owner = MANY_PICS_USER_ID ORDER BY like_info DESC LIMIT 10
The query fails for users with more than 3000 photos. Turns out there are a lot of those users. Related Facebook bug is here http://developers.facebook.com/bugs/438568326189781
As a note: removing "ORDER BY like_info" makes query work, but there is no easy way for me to get those pictures, sorted by likes
To reproduce:
Pick a FB friend with at least 3000 photos, get their user Id, and run the above query (replacing MANY_PICS_USER_ID) in API GRAPH EXPLORER.
What is the best workaround? Or, can you suggest the easiest light-weight Open Graph solution?

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A recurring tip I've seen in autobiographies or books on succeeding in business is "wake up earlier." I don't particularly remember which millionaires suggested that advice, but I'm sure it's more than one of them.
Clearly, sleep takes hours out of one's day – hours that could be used to be more productive. So on the surface, "wake up earlier" seems like good advice for those interested in productivity.
- How much sleep is enough? How much is too much?
- When is it too little sleep? What is the point of diminishing returns?
- What about the flip-side; "go to bed later"?
Looking to find that optimal point where both restfulness and productivity are well-balanced.
Good answers will provide pointers to definitive reference material, studies, or data.


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How can I permanently delete friends from my Facebook account?
To remove a friend:
If you want to block someone, so they can't contact you at all:
To Remove Friends - or more specifically "Relationships"
*Note that you will be removing the connection between you and the friend, and not the actual friend. In other words, you are deleting the "friendship", not the "friend" (read: You can't delete other peoples facebook profiles).
To block friends from ever seeing you again:
More Resources
There are a number of other things you can do to manage relationships w/ people. For instance I like to leave people as friends, however add them to specific "lists". That way only people on specific lists can see my posts, pictures, etc. I can also chose which list to share with when I post, or chose to share with all.
All this is outlined in the facebook help center under the "friends" topic: http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=441
A much simpler way is to go to that friend's profile page, and then at the bottom of the left column (below their picture), the last thing in that column there is an option:
If You Want To Remove Somebody from your friends on facebook.com Example:i want to delete sarah jake,i go to her proifle you'll find something that says (friends) ,that means you have her on contacts,click on settings and click unfriend


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The following it from Atiyah-Macdonald's Introduction to Commutative Algebra, exercise 1.22.
Apparently this should be very easy, my apologies for asking.
I have been stuck for almost 1 day and I cannot figure out what is wrong with my arguments.
Let $A=\prod_{i=1}^n A_i$ be the direct product of rings $A_i$. Show that Spec$(A)$ is the disjoint union of open (and closed) subspaces $X_i$, where $X_i$ is canonically homeomorphic with Spec$(A_i)$.
What I tried so far:
I know that $A=\prod_{i=1}^nA_i$, so I tried to find all the prime ideals in the product.
One of the lemma I showed was that for each prime ideal $\mathfrak{p}\subseteq\prod_{i=1}^nA_i$, it must be of the form:
$A_1\times\dotsb\times\mathfrak{p}_i\times\dotsb\times A_n$,
where $\mathfrak{p}_i$ is a prime ideal in $A_i$.
Hence I concluded that Spec$(A)=\coprod_{i=1}^nX_i$, where $X_i=A_1\times\dotsb\times$ Spec$(A_i)\times\dotsb\times A_n$.
If my lemma is right this should cover all cases of prime ideals in $\prod_{i=1}^nA_i$,
but I have trouble when I am checking its properties.
Namely: $X_i\cap X_j$ should be $\emptyset$ for $i\neq j$, since I am looking for disjoint union.
But looking at $X_1\cap X_2$ there seems to be a non-empty intersection at
$($Spec$(A_1),\dots)\cap (A_1,\dots)=($ Spec$(A_1),\dots)$.
(Or should Spec$(A_1)\cap A_1=\emptyset$?)
Intuitively it seems like I may be able to define the following:
Spec$(A)\cong$ Spec$(A_1)\times\dotsb\times$ Spec$(A_n)$
Then letting $X_i=(0,\dots,$Spec$(A_i),\dots,0)$ seems to resolve the disjoint union problem.
Also, clearly each $X_i$ is a collection of prime ideals.
However, this looks like I will be missing cases like $A_1\times\dotsb\times$ Spec$(A_i)\times\dotsb\times A_n$.
Where did I go wrong?
Or am I misinterpreted anything wrongly?
Thanks for reading!


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460 Ford Crate Motor - 1970 Boss MustangWritten by Marlan Davis on October 15, 2012 Contributors: Cole Quinnell We Fix the 460 in this ' Mustang
The Combo
Engineer Marcus Simmons has been involved with hot rods, the Detroit automotive industry, and racing his entire adult life. He's owned his '70 Mustang Boss 302 almost as long, ordering it brand-new from the dealer back in 1970. Since then, the car has gone from a street cruiser (having done a cross-country jaunt to California back in 1972 and several 140-mph-plus Banzai runs down the freeway), to a full-on, pure drag racer, to its present incarnation as a Pro Street car and occasional weekend dragstrip warrior. Currently, the car runs a 560hp 460 Ford big-block crate motor, C6 automatic trans, and 4.57:1-geared 9-inch Ford rearend with a Detroit Locker diff and 31-spline axles.
The Problem
Even under the best of conditions, transforming a gutted race car back into a streetable vehicle is a lot of work. In Marcus' case, it was made even tougher, as he is now legally blind. The diagnostics and troubleshooting Marcus was once able to perform himself at his fabrication shop, Boss Creations, must now occasionally be farmed out to third parties. When he contacted HOT ROD, Marcus' main complaint was "the vehicle will not turn over when hot. I am using 00-gauge battery cables from the 800-CCA Motorcraft battery and a dedicated 0-gauge negative return cable back to the battery. When that didn't help, I added a layer of starter wrap to the starter. No change, even after adding yet another layer."
Further conversation revealed that "running hot" meant as high as 240 degrees F in traffic--this despite a big aluminum crossflow radiator; a shroud-mounted 3,300-cfm Flex-a-lite electric fan; a Meziere electric water pump; and Evans waterless coolant. When a car gets that hot, all sorts of things can go wrong, and not just with the starter. If the coolant temperature was 240 degrees F, the oil temperature could be approaching 300 degrees F, putting the engine in serious danger of meltdown.
On the electrical side, Marcus seemingly should have had it covered with the big battery, the fat cables, and a typically highly efficient, 100-amp GM 12SI alternator. Still, when things get that hot, you could be looking at a case of excessive voltage drop compounded by heat soak.
So was the problem caused by the cooling system, the electrical system, or both? To find out, we sent the car to Diversified Creations, a high-end Detroit-area shop that does everything from dyno-tuning to complete, ground-up car fabrication. Regular readers may recall Diversified as the builders of the HOT ROD E-Rod Z28 Camaro.
The Fix: Cooling
Reasoning that it was impossible to diagnose the starting problem until the overheating issues were addressed, Diversified first checked each cooling-system component. The big 460 had been dropped in the former drag-race car using a front engine plate in lieu of normal side mounts. This led to clearance issues with stock-style accessory drives. Simmons had to mount the large aluminum radiator at about a 15-degree back rake for engine-plate, water-pump, electric-fan, and alternator clearance (the radiator bottom bolts in front of the core support and the top is behind the core support). The odd radiator installation; the engine bay–spanning, bulky engine plate; the old Mustang chassis' intrusive high-mount shock towers; and tight-fitting, heat-radiating, big-tube exhaust headers collectively made for poor engine-compartment air circulation. As Diversified's head honcho, Mike Copeland, put it, "There's just no place for heat to go, so it heat-soaks everything." Diversified found that at least the thermostat was opening, the electric fan was getting juice and moving air, and significant radiator inlet and outlet temperature differentials indicated the radiator was in fact cooling.
On the downside, the radiator cap wouldn't maintain system pressure. Diversified replaced the bad cap with a new 16-psi one, which should have improved the cooling system's efficiency. But at this point, the now-higher system pressure resulted in leakage out of the thermostat-housing gasket as well as from the silicone beads sealing the water pump to the front-engine mounting plate and the mounting plate to the engine. Replacing the leaking thermo-housing gasket was a cinch; fixing the leaks in the engine plate took some effort. Diversified TIG-welded shut the plate's ragged and misaligned coolant-transfer holes, then accurately drilled new, properly aligned holes. Stock 460 Ford water-pump gaskets were then installed on the plates' water-pump side, and custom gaskets fabricated from universal sheet-gasket material were made for the engine side.
As received, the car had a drag racing--style Meziere electric pump that flowed just 35 gpm (gallons/minute)--not enough for street use. This was replaced by a gonzo 55-gpm Meziere electric pump. It has no internal bypass, so to prevent cavitation, Diversified replaced the stock thermostat with a Moroso restrictor plate. The pump needed larger inlet fittings, plus a new, larger, 1-1/2-inch-od radiator hose. Lead Tech Scott Rouston isn't exactly sure what stock application the new molded hose he used is from, other than it's a Gates product; he went down to the local auto parts store and pulled one that "looked right" off its ceiling hanger. It required only slight trimming for proper fitment.
Sheetmetal closeout plates were also fabbed up to direct grille airflow through the radiator core (rather than letting it escape around its periphery). The cooling fixes brought overall engine gauge temps down to a satisfactory 180 degrees F, solving the engine overheating problem. Still, even with the hood off, engine-bay temps remained higher than optimal: 105 degrees F in front of the core support, 130 degrees at the front of the motor plate--but 210 degrees at the firewall. Short of re-engineering the entire engine installation, this was as good as it was gonna get.
116-PSI Radiator Cap 2 Flex-a-Chill Additive 3 Meziere 55-GPM Electric Water Pump A Fix Coolant Leaks 4 Moroso Restrictor Plate 5,6 Closeout Plates 7 Diagnos Electric Charging problem 8 Rewire Alternator 9 Trunk-Mounted Optima Battery
The Fix: Electrical
With engine temps now stable, Diversified turned to the electrical system. Voltage checks revealed both battery and alternator problems. Proper charging wasn't an issue when the car was still a full-on race car; it was normal for the team to put the car on a charger at the shop and then spend the day at the racetrack. But now, cruising on the street, the car had cranking problems after it got hot under sustained operation, and there was no handy access to the external charger.
At first, it seemed the battery was just ancient and worn out, but the warranty tag showed it to be relatively new. It had prematurely aged both functionally and appearance-wise because the charging system wasn't up to snuff. Under operating conditions, the battery was constantly discharging. As a first step, Diversified replaced the tired battery with an Optima RedTop Absorbed Glass-Mat dry-cell battery, then ran more voltage tests.
It turned out the exciter wire that normally runs from an ignition terminal to the GM 12SI alternator's No. 1 terminal wasn't properly installed. Without a functional exciter wire, the alternator wouldn't charge until engine speed climbed past 2,000 rpm. At that point the alternator finally self-excited, yet when rpm dropped back to idle it still put out just 12.6 volts. This was insufficient with all the car's electrical accessories, which was why the battery was losing charge under normal low-speed street-driving conditions. Diversified correctly rerouted the exciter wire and added an inline resistor to mimic a stock GM dash-mounted idiot light bulb. The alternator needs resistance in the exciter-wire circuit to ensure proper turn-on and turn-off functionality.
There was also some concern about the alternator's underdrive pulley (another race-car trick that really has no place on a street-driven car). Diversified looked at replacing the pulley, but clearance issues would require re-engineering the entire front drive and mounting system. In any case, in this instance, the exciter-wire fix proved sufficient to allow the 100-amp alternator to maintain proper low-speed charging capability.
After resolving the overheating and charging issues, the starter now cranks fine under all conditions. The engine temp stays at 180 degrees F, the alternator maintains 14.7 volts, and the starter receives no less than 12.8 volts. Now Simmons, riding shotgun, can once again partake in Detroit's hot summer cruise nights with no problems.
Lessons Learned
Any doctor will tell you: Don't treat the symptoms--diagnose the cause to find the cure. Cough medicine may suppress the cough, but why are you coughing? Likewise, the cranking problem was only a manifestation of too-high engine temps, plus a charging problem. Voltage and temperature tests will show where the real problems lie.
|Voltage Test Results
|Before Fix
|After Fix
|Check Point and Condition
|Battery, engine off
|Alternator, engine off
|Starter primary cable, engine crank
|Alternator, engine on, sustained idling
|Alternator, engine on, over 2,000 rpm
|Battery, engine on, sustained idling
|Battery, engine on, over 2,000 rpm
|Note: All values are in volts.
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Southfield, Michigan's Marcus Simmons has owned his '70 Boss 302 Mustang since he bought it new. Although now visually impaired, he still rides shotgun in the car on cruise nights.In its long career, the car has been a street- driven muscle car, a pure race car, and has now been returned to the street in Pro Street guise.Simmons complained the car's current 460 big-block wouldn't crank when hot. Was it the starter, the electrical supply system, the cooling system, or some combination of those factors?Diversified Creations' lead tech Scott Rouston (shown) and assistant Justin Oleski diagnosed and fixed the car's problems. Here, a heat gun is used to map engine-bay temperatures.It turned out the starter cranked fine--once the weak electrical and cooling systems were dialed in. Bolting-in this higher-capacity Meziere electric water pump helped cure the car's cooling ills.Ready to rumble: The car now runs all day at 180 degrees F, the alternator properly charges the new battery, and the starter is "cranky" no more.01 The radiator cap had been modded, so it couldn't hold pressure. Apparently,this was another shop's "fix" for persistent coolant leaks. Always run the highest pressure the cooling system can tolerate; the higher the pressure, the more effective its cooling ability, as higher pressures raise the coolant medium's boiling point. The bad cap was replaced by this new, 16-psi cap.02 The cooling system runs just water because the car still sees some track time (leakage of ethylene glycol–based coolants makes the track surface slippery). Pure water is also a superior coolant in its own right. However, to prevent corrosion and enhance cooling efficiency even more, Diversified poured in two bottles of Flex-a-lite's Flex-a-Chill additive, a track-safe solution that's said to reduce engine temps by 20 degrees F.03 While OK for drag racing, the 35-gpm Meziere electric pump (right) didn't flow enough volume to meet a street-driven car's cooling needs. It was replaced with Meziere's blue 55-gpm Hi-Flow big-block pump (PN WP308B, left). Although the pump's larger motor extends the pump envelope, it still cleared the radiator by about 4 inches.
04 The new pump has no coolant bypass; when the thermostat is closed on a cold engine, the resulting cavitation can shorten pump life. The workaround: Replace the thermostat with a restrictor plate. Moroso's kit (PN 63440) fits most Chevy and Ford V8s. Three different-hole-size restrictors are supplied: a yellow 5/8 -inch, a blue 3/4-inch, and a red 1 -inch. The 460 preferred the 1-incher.05 At speed, much of the air sucked in through the grille took the path of least resistance, bypassing around the radiator sides and top instead of going through the core.06 Blocking off these open areas by fabricating closeout panels from 18-gauge mild-steel sheetmetal and 1/8-inch pop rivets greatly improved cooling efficiency.07 Diversified performed electrical voltage checks (see table) and realized two things about the electrical system: The battery wasn't holding a charge and the alternator wasn't putting out enough juice under 2,000 rpm. You could tell this because the cold-engine voltage, after charging the battery all night, was normal, but after sustained running, the voltage dropped when checked hot.08 The 100-amp GM 12SI alternator didn't charge properly at low rpm because its brown exciter wire wasn't hooked up correctly. Diversified ran it to one of the Summit Racing CD ignition control box's ignition terminals, then added an inline 50-ohm/10-watt resistor. This let the car properly charge every time the engine was running.09 Prematurely aged from too many charge/discharge cycles, the old battery was replaced by an Optima Spiralcell RedTop Group 34/78 dual-terminal battery with a beefy 800-CCA (cold cranking amps) rating. Optima nonspillable, maintenance-free,vibration-resistant batteries carry a 36-month free-replacement warranty.


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text: QSpace Community: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/137 2016-07-26T15:58:20Z Disciplining Madness, Disciplining Yoga http://hdl.handle.net/1974/8294 Title: Disciplining Madness, Disciplining Yoga Authors: Eaton, Mark Abstract: This paper will examine contemporary North American yoga, specifically the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center in Toronto, using theoretical frameworks taken from the work of Michel Foucault. Drawing on his work in Discipline and Punish, it will look at yoga as a modern "carceral" institution. Using Foucault's analysis in Madness and Civilizaition, this paper will explore how yoga intersects, is some ways, with madness. The underlying argument is that yoga and madness, as discourses, are both based upon institutional disciplining of pre-discursive experiences. This paper contends that the pre-discursive "sources" of experience should not be seen as unified points of origin, but as an underlying "difference", or capacity to be otherwise. This "difference" points to multiple, undifferentiated, mutual sources of yoga and madness. 2013-09-19T04:00:00Z Words Made Manifest: Canadian Print Media as Architects of Religion in the "Secular" Public Sphere http://hdl.handle.net/1974/7627 Title: Words Made Manifest: Canadian Print Media as Architects of Religion in the "Secular" Public Sphere Authors: Nieman, Sarah Abstract: Early to mid-twentieth century scholarship on religion and the "secular" public sphere largely perpetuated the Enlightenment categorization of religion as an element of the private sphere, not to be influential in public matters. Recently, however, a paradigm shift has emerged that has forced the re-evaluation of religion's place in society. Spatial methodologies from scholars such as Henri Lefebvre and Kim Knott have allowed for religion to be considered as one of a number of constructs that influence the lives and spatial experiences of people. Applying the spatial methodologies of Lefebvre and Knott, I demonstrate how Canadian print media can be considered to be a gauge of the active presence of religion in the public sphere by revealing the ways in which the media construct the space they inhabit. This is done by considering two recent events in Canada that highlight the presence of the "religious other": the 2002 kirpan debate in Quebec and the 2003 sharia law debate in Ontario. Through these cases, I explore how the conception, perception, and lived reality of the "religious other" as a spatial quality are solidified through the perceived sense of what Ulrich Beck considers to be risk and catastrophe. I ultimately conclude that, through this perceived sense of risk, Canadian print media's portrayals of the "religious other" allow religion to remain manifest in the Canadian public sphere. 2012-11-02T04:00:00Z Being and Becoming: Analyzing the Negotiation of Spiritual, Religious, and Sexual Identities in Nonheterosexual British and American Young People through the Lens of Queer Theory http://hdl.handle.net/1974/7422 Title: Being and Becoming: Analyzing the Negotiation of Spiritual, Religious, and Sexual Identities in Nonheterosexual British and American Young People through the Lens of Queer Theory Authors: Gallini, Thomas James Abstract: Despite the large amount of research on religious young people, and research on the formation of young people's sexual identity, there is little research addressing the bearing that religion plays on identity construction in young people. Helping to fill this gap in the research, this paper investigates how young people simultaneously negotiate religious, spiritual, and sexual identities. Utilizing first-hand accounts from religious and spiritual young people from projects in the United Kingdom and the United States, this paper explores nonheterosexual youth as a site of liminality through the lens of queer theory. Participants in the studies demonstrated different approaches to the negotiation of multiple identities, including tension and conflict, compartmentalization, and integration, as well as differing levels of awareness of relevant concepts such as performativity and heteronormativity. 2012-09-05T04:00:00Z Cavanaugh's Myth-Appropriation of Ideology: A Critical Review of The Myth of Religious Violence http://hdl.handle.net/1974/7421 Title: Cavanaugh's Myth-Appropriation of Ideology: A Critical Review of The Myth of Religious Violence Authors: Anthony, Charlotte Rae Abstract: In The Myth of Religious Violence, William Cavanaugh deconstructs the category of "religion" in an attempt to undermine the distinction between "religious" violence and "secular" violence, and to examine the way in which this construction manifests itself in the conceptual apparatus of contemporary Western society. This paper focuses on how Cavanaugh uses the categories "myth" and "ideology." 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NEW YORK -- Early data show June natural gas production in the
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feet/day. That figure would top the November 2012 revised
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Initial estimates of gas output usually are revised in
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Christopher Gray has been writing the Streetscapes column since 1987.
People always ask me what my favorite building is, and they never like my answer: whatever one I'm working on, wherever I am discovering things. A while ago I was working on Stanford White's house on Gramercy Park, long ago demolished. The thing I've discovered - from finally reading Paul Baker's 1989 book "Stanny - The Gilded Life of Stanford White" - is that despite his high society high jinks, immense talent, generous nature, and super-charged sex drive, White was as miserably beset with difficulties as Janis Joplin or any other tragic artist. Plagued by health problems, his finances absolutely out of control, continually plunging into stock market speculation, buying antiques hand over fist, constantly dunned by creditors - for the last decade of his life the man just could not get a handle on things. After being shot in 1906, an autopsy indicated he wouldn't have lived another year. Now every time I look at his sublime creations, I am haunted by the thought of what his talents could have achieved if only he could have mastered his own tendency towards self-destruction. His house, filled with beautiful things he couldn't afford, was a torture box.
The physical city is a network of architecture, real estate and public improvements. When you study a specific building type across the board, you see all sorts of patterns. For instance, the developer Harry Schiff built some very unusual apartment buildings - the Tudor-y Umbria, at 82nd Street, and the arts and crafts style Cleburne, at 105th, both in the 1910-1913 period, when the 10-15 story apartment house was still new. But, after a few efforts, Mr. Schiff (and most other developers) got wise: his later buildings, like 740 West End, are watery, standard. His conclusion? Above a certain minimum, money spent on the exterior of the building is wasted - tenants are interested in the size of the closets, not the scale of the modillions. And George & Edward Blum's spectacular 838 West End Avenue - out of the 42 families recorded in the 1920 census, 37 had live-in cooks. That bespeaks a social or economic unity that surely does not exist now.
Last year, a story on West Broadway, in Soho examined the west half, "protected" as a historic district for four decades, and the east half, which has not been - and yet the two sides are nearly indistinguishable. This suggests that the consequences of unregulated development may not be so dire as the preservation community insists.
Likewise, we think of white brick apartment houses as throwaway architecture. So why did the 1959 coop apartment house at 900 Fifth Avenue, where the shareholders wanted to replace the deteriorating white brick with a handsome gray, get the third degree from the Landmarks Commission? (Yes, you guessed it: the white brick had to go back - man bites white brick dog.)
When I am roughing out a story I really am looking for three things. First, and most fun, is a good, sharp historic photograph - I could never portray the city of the past as clearly as a picture that shows the lack of automobiles, the changes in signage, the types of curtains, how people stand on the street - really the warp and woof of New York. Then, I am always looking for people - the buildings I write about are not artifacts of architectural style. Rather, each is a maelstrom of humanity: developers, architects, regulators, lenders, tenants, servants, shop keepers, and each of them has a piece of the action. And, finally, I am generally looking for some way to make the subject relevant to the present - how is this structure a lens through which to see our own time? For instance, following the attacks of Sept. 11th, I wondered what it was like in New York after Dec. 7, 1941.
The patterns and networks of architecture and real estate in this city are so wide and deep that they seem endless. It's been about a thousand columns since Mike Sterne took a leap of faith and hired me 21 years ago. There are thousands more to write.
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Simple Definition of tradition
: a way of thinking, behaving, or doing something that has been used by the people in a particular group, family, society, etc., for a long time
: the stories, beliefs, etc., that have been part of the culture of a group of people for a long time
—used to say that someone has qualities which are like the qualities of another well-known person or group of people from the past
Full Definition of tradition
1a : an inherited, established, or customary pattern of thought, action, or behavior (as a religious practice or a social custom)b : a belief or story or a body of beliefs or stories relating to the past that are commonly accepted as historical though not verifiable
2 : the handing down of information, beliefs, and customs by word of mouth or by example from one generation to another without written instruction
3 : cultural continuity in social attitudes, customs, and institutions
4 : characteristic manner, method, or style <in the best liberal tradition>
traditionalplay \-ˈdish-nəl, -ˈdi-shə-nəl\ adjective
traditionlessplay \-ˈdi-shən-ləs\ adjective
Examples of tradition in a sentence
One of our town's time-honored traditions is to have an Easter egg hunt the week before Easter.
It is their tradition to give thanks before they start eating.
There's an office tradition of wearing casual clothes on Fridays.
They no longer follow the traditions of their ancestors.
We broke with tradition and had goose for Thanksgiving instead of turkey.
By tradition, the celebration begins at midnight.
They no longer follow tradition.
According to tradition, the goddess lies sleeping beneath the mountain.
Origin and Etymology of tradition
Middle English tradicioun, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French tradicion, from Latin tradition-, traditio action of handing over, tradition — more at treason
First Known Use: 14th century
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1 : the handing down of information, beliefs, or customs from one generation to another
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: transfer or acquisition of property especially by delivery with intent of both parties to transfer the title <delivery of the act of transfer or use of the right by the owner of the dominant estate constitutes tradition — Louisiana Civil Code>
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ABOUT THE CENTERGreen Lake Small Craft Center is located at the southwest "corner" of Green Lake in North Seattle --a popular lake totally surrounded by park land. While rowing, canoeing, kayaking, and sailing classes are taught only during daylight hours the popular running/ skating/ bicycling/ walking path which surrounds the lake itself is enjoyed 24 hours per day by the citizens of Seattle.
Annually, the Rowing Advisory Council (RAC) hosts three major rowing regattas on Green Lake.
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Green Lake Small Craft Center does not rent boats.The Greenlake Boathouse, a independent company on the northeast side of Green Lake, offers hourly boat rentals to the general public including canoes, kayaks, pedal boats, row boats, sailboats, and stand up paddle boards. The Boathouse Cafe is open seven days week (weather permitting), offering grab and go snacks, beverages, fishing tackle, and beach supplies. They can be contacted at:
The youth rowing program was organized by a group of community leaders and neighborhood supporters in 1947, with the first crew beginning rowing in the summer of 1948. The original Conroy boathouse was located along the Eastern shoreline of Green Lake near Evans Pool. This remained the site of the Green Lake Crew program until the "new" Massart Shellhouse was built by the Aqua Theater contractor without cost to the City when that structure was being constructed in 1950. Guided by the Seattle Junior Crew Rowing Commission, the crew received equipment, and travel and operational support. By the mid-1950s, Seattle Parks and Recreation involvement had increased and the program was able to grow and develop continuity between seasons. In the Seattle earthquake of 1965, the shellhouse received extensive damage. Rather than just conduct repairs, the Department expanded the boathouse to accommodate additional shell storage and improve the launching areas.
Canoeing and sailing came to the lake in the late 1960s with the introduction of two public clubs, the Seattle Canoe Club and the Seattle Sailing Association. Both of these groups allowed for the expansion of small craft program opportunities without impacting the Department budget . . . a strong group of volunteers worked closely with Department staff, forming a successful partnership for nearly 20 years.
The 1968 Forward Thrust Bond Issue allowed for the construction of a new small craft center to accommodate rowing, sailing, and canoeing on Green Lake. This facility was completed in 1980 and included the remodeling of the Massart Shellhouse, the partial demolition of the Aqua Theater, and the addition of a building to house sailing and canoeing. The Green Lake Small Craft Center was dedicated on September 27, 1980.
Adult rowing was first offered to the public in the fall of 1984 and has since grown to be a large and stable portion of the program.
Two separate advisory councils support the programs at the Green Lake Small Craft Center: the largest is the Rowing Advisory Council, responsible for the rowing and sailing portion of the program; and a public club sponsored by the Department which is the Seattle Canoe and Kayak Club.
The Seattle Canoe and Kayak Club is a public canoe and kayak club offering paddling opportunities for the general public on Green Lake. This volunteer club, working with the Department, offers classes and special events.
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Working aged men in the United States, ages 25-54, are at much higher risk of suicide then the rest of the population but they have been a difficult group to engage in mental health services. A collaboration of groups in Colorado has developed an innovative, creative and surprisingly humorous website to engage men and those who care about them. It's called Mantherapy, www.mantherapy.org, and it has solid information about depression, mental health concerns and suicide. It also has fictional therapist, Dr. Rich Mahogany, who is the host and guide of the website. Dr. Mahogany, inhabits a dark, wood-paneled office with a moose head mounted on the wall behind his desk. He talks straight, bluntly and often tongue-in-cheek to website visitors, but his message and the resources provided are serious, solid and substantial. Included in the website are videos of men who have confronted their depression and found ways to live and live better and information about depression and suicide. The website is designed both for men and those who are concerned about a man in their lives. Because it is so unique, it is difficult to compare this website to typical mental health or suicide prevention websites. Give it a visit and explore around Dr. Mahogany's office
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BALTIMORE - Jacoby Ellsbury, David Ortiz and Kevin Youkilis all hit homers to lead the Red Sox past the Orioles in Baltimore, 6-5, on Friday. Ellsbury added a pair of singles, a stolen base and a huge catch to rob Luke Scott of a homer. Youkilis' homer, however, was the game-winner. With the Sox trailing, 5-4, in the seventh, the first baseman jumped on a hanging slider from Orioles starter Jeremy Guthrie and deposited a two-run homer into the seats in left-center.
John Smoltz (2-4) claimed his second win of the year despite allowing five runs in his six innings. The starter said that he remains extremely frustrated with his performances, though he did suggest that he can take solace in his team's win. The Sox bullpen combined for three shutout innings to preserve the lead.
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Giardi and Price break down how the teams in the AFC East altered their futures after the NFL Draft weekend.
Sam Packard is joined by Celtics 2nd Round draft pick Abdel Nader to discuss his path to the the NBA and how he plans to improve his game. Sam then talks to Player Development Coach Nick Friedman from Elite Skills Training, the pre-Draft camp Nader attended. Friedman also gives his opinion on the Celtics performance at summer league and the development of Jaylen Brown.
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Danny Ainge joins Glenn and Christian to explain the Celtics draft process; and he also discusses the trade rumors that permeated the night.
Joe and Tim talk with Red Sox pitcher Rick Porcello after he throws his first complete game as a member of the Red Sox as the Sox beat the Angels 6-2
Former Red Sox infielder and current ESPN analyst Alex Cora joined the guys to talk MLB trade rumors and spend just a little time goofing on Rob Bradford.
Tim Neverett talks with Red Sox manager John Farrell before game 3 of their series with the Tigers. John talks about the struggles Steven Wright has had in inclement weather or days with high heat and humidity and how that might factor in to giving Wright the start on a particular day.
Joey Mac joins Ken Laird on his Saturday show to discuss the David Backes addition and Loui Eriksson departure in NHL free agency
DJ and Pete continue to assess the season that was for the Bruins and look toward the future for the franchise and how they can improve.
DJ and Pete are together for the final Sunday Skate of the season. They get into their overall thoughts on the season, the Bruins keeping Claude Julien on as head coach and the end-of-season press conferences last week. They discuss the rebuild process, what the Bruins need and how they can obtain it. Plenty of callers have their own theories and opinions on all of these topics as well.
Dino, Buck and Butch end the program discussing two prominent AL pitchers that were in action Thursday night and how their future looks. Also, Patriots and Dolphins QBs since Tom Brady was drafted.
At Friday morning's media session, Patriots coach Bill Belichick is pressed about what might happen in Week 5 with Jimmy Garoppolo if he plays well. After three queries, Bill has had enough. Dino, Buck and Butch react.
CSN Patriots reporter Tom E. Curran joins Dino, Buck and Butch to talk the state of the Patriots as training camp opens.
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No Ordway today, as Lou and Christian discuss Pats camp and the Red Sox losing streak
Lou and Christian talk about Hanley's throwing error that cost the Red Sox the game last night against the Angels
We discuss all things from Patriots training camp day 2. The return of Jamie Collins, a frosty Bill Belichick, and Martellus Bennett is soon to be a fan favorite.
Inspired by a shark taking a bite out of Warren Sapp, we look at four of the dumbest off-the-field injuries in sports history. Suntans and pizza injuries? Yeah, we got that.
We close out the week with the best soundbites of the day and LAROY!
Mut fills in for Kirk Minihane on this episode of Enough About Me and sits down with Bob Neumeier. Mut and Bob talk about his time at WBZ feuding with 5 & 7. Bob talks about his job at WEEI, why he didn't talk to the other hosts and his exit from the station. Bob talks in depth about his stroke and recovery.
Kirk Minihane is joined by Boston comedy legend Lenny Clarke. If you are a fan of stand up comedy this is the podcast for you. Kirk and Lenny talk about Carlin, Pryor, Williams, Murphy and many more.
Kirk Minihane is joined by former ESPN ombudsman and New York Times writer Robert Lipsyte. Kirk and Robert discuss the current state of ESPN and how Robert feels he did in his role as ombudsman. They both criticize ESPN for the lack of journalism at ESPN and look at some of the curious decisions the world wide leader has made in the past few years.
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It's almost August and Pete Davidson is hard at work on the Annual Rotobahn.com "500." Rankings of the Top 500 for Fantasy Football. Today, the 1st edition is live featuring the Top 100. In today's show, Jim Hackett and Pete Davidson dive into the Top Rated Runningbacks, providing analysis on the Top 13. The conversation features a deep dive on the Top Runningbacks like Ezekiel Elliot, Todd Gurley, David Johnson, Adrian Peterson, Lamar Miller and others. Get the scoop on these backs, right here at the Fantasy Football Podcast, July 29th edition. Enjoy!
Mut fills in for Kirk Minihane on this episode of Enough About Me and sits down with Bob Neumeier. Mut and Bob talk about his time at WBZ feuding with 5 & 7. Bob talks about his job at WEEI, why he didn't talk to the other hosts and his exit from the station. Bob talks in depth about his stroke and recovery.
Mut fills in for Kirk Minihane on this episode of Enough About Me and sits down with Bob Neumeier. Mut and Bob talk about his time at WBZ feuding with 5 & 7. Bob talks about his job at WEEI, why he didn't talk to the other hosts and his exit from the station. Bob talks in depth about his stroke and recovery.More from this show
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John Dennis and Gerry Callahan bring Gary Tanguay in the podcenter to discuss Tango's bargaining position for Dino's job when it opens next year. The guys also discuss Kirk Minihane's latest podcast with Lenny Clarke.More from this show
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Let $k$ be a field, and let $E$ and $F$ be fields extending $k$, both contained in some single extension of $k$. If $E$ and $F$ are finitely generated (as fields) over $k$, must $E\cap F$ also be finitely generated? If not, is there a simple counterexample?
As Brian Conrad remarked above, subextensions of finitely generated extensions are also finitely generated. Here is a prove. I wish there would be a simpler one!
Proof: Since $tr.deg_K(L) = tr.deg_{L'}(L) + tr.deg_K(L')$ is finite, the same is true for $tr.deg_K(L')$. Choose a transcendence basis $B'$ of $L'/K$. Replacing $K$ by $K(B')$, we may asume that $L'/K$ is algebraic.
Now let $B$ be a transcendence basis of $L/K$. Then $L/K(B)$ is algebraic and a finitely generated field extension, thus finite. Let $C \subseteq L'$ be linearly independent over $K$. If we knew that $B$ is also algebraically independent over $L'$, we could conclude that $C$ is linearly independant over $K[B]$ and thus over $K(B)$. This implies $|L':K| \leq |L : K(B)| < \infty$. Thus it remains to prove:
Proof: Since algebraically independence is of finite character, we may assume that $B$ is finite. Since $L'(B) / K(B)$ is algebraic, we have
$tr.deg_{L'}(L'(B)) = tr.deg_K(K(B)) + tr.deg_{K(B)}(L'(B)) = |B|$
Since $B$ generated $L'(B)/L'$, some subset of $B$ is a transcendence basis of $L'(B)/L'$, but this has cardinality $|B|$. Thus $B$ is itsself this basis.


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"American Idol" executive producer Nigel Lythgoe has confirmed he has been fired from the show, but told fans not to worry, because "Fox still loves me."
"Just had 10 days in the Bahamas, rain everyday. I get back to the States and get fired. Sad!," Lythgoe tweeted.
However, Lythgoe said he retained his job on Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance."
"Yes, don't worry. I'm on #SYTYCD. Fox still loves me," Lythgoe said. "It's not a personal thing they just feel IDOL needs new leadership after 12 Seasons."
While some people have blamed Lythgoe for poor choices of theme nights on "American Idol," former "Idol" competitor Jacob Lusk showed support for the show's former executive producer.
"You are one the best things that's ever happened to TV," Lusk tweeted.
Fox confirmed Lythgoe's firing, and that of fellow executive producer Ken Warwick, in a statement.
"The passion and dedication that Nigel Lythgoe and Ken Warwick brought to American Idol guided the show to become a true cultural phenomenon," the statement said. "While we are saddened they will no longer be executive producers on the show, we are grateful for their tremendous contributions and look forward to continuing to work with them on additional projects."
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On Thursday, April 12, 2012, Rutgers School of Law–Newark will celebrate the 44th anniversary of its Minority Student Program (MSP) at a banquet at Nanina's in the Park, Belleville. The banquet will honor keynote speaker Hon. Esther Salas '94, Judge of the U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, and pay tribute to all the members of the bench who have participated in the MSP.
The reception will begin at 6:30 pm and the dinner at 7:30 pm. Register for the banquet and submit payment online by Monday, April 2, at http://law.newark.rutgers.edu/MSPbanquet.
Judge Salas received her B.A. in 1991 from Rutgers College, where she was a political science major with a double minor in philosophy and Puerto Rican and Caribbean Studies. After receiving her J.D., she served as a law clerk to the Hon. Eugene J. Codey, Jr. of Essex County Superior Court. From 1995 to 1997, Judge Salas was an associate at Garces & Grabler, P.C., where she focused her practice primarily on criminal matters and handled appellate work. She served as an Assistant Federal Public Defender from 1997 until 2006 when she was selected from among 99 applicants as U.S. Magistrate Judge for the District of New Jersey, becoming the first Latina in that position. She was confirmed as a Judge of the U.S. District Court on June 14, 2011, becoming the first Latina on the District Court of New Jersey.
The Minority Student Program is a nationally recognized model for educating and preparing students of color and disadvantaged students of all races for a legal career. In recognizing the value of different backgrounds in the classroom and different perspectives in the workplace, the MSP was a pioneer in promoting representation of all segments of society in law school and the legal and business worlds. Almost 3,000 MSP students have graduated from the law school since the program's inception, changing the face of the legal profession. MSP alumni can be found on the bench, in the U.S. Congress, in private practice, major corporations, government agencies, legislative bodies, public interest organizations, and academic institutions across the country.


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I've written a few quests now and documented them fairly thoroughly. Are there any places online where I can share them so that others would be able to review and use them if they needed to? It would be great if there was a place where people could share their quests so they could grab one quickly if they needed to and allow others to do the same with those they've written. Do any sites like this exist for sharing of quests?
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RPG.net has a wiki that includes two areas that you might post such adventures.
In general, it seems that there are quite a few places that host new games and settings created by fans, but not so much in the way of adventures.
Stuffer Shack is set up specifically for posting Adventure Ideas, Encounter Ideas, Character Ideas, and so on. Here is a link for some examples of Adventure Ideas. Once you begin posting your adventures, you can set up a profile page (if you want), and even get some free items from our Store as a thank you!
RPG now could be a good place. Release the work under CC and you can charge nothing for it -- or call it charity ware or whatever.
Obsidian Portal
Obsidian is a platform where you can share your work with others. In the first place it is meant to keep track of CAMPAIGN stuff, for GM and partymembers, but it can be made public. On your Campaign pages there is room for a Wiki, Adventure Log, Character related material, Items descriptions, Maps, etc… and also Comments.
They also have a FORUM (with a 'review my campaign' sticky) and BLOG.
So most of the essentials to organize peer-review and sharing of campaigns is at hand. You can see how popular a certain campaign is by the number of 'fans' it has, but there is no real rating, which is a downside if you want to use it as resource to pull material from. If there exist sites which concentrate purely on the 'post a campaign, review it and rate it' that may be more what you are looking for.


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The 6 Least Hip Internet References in Song Lyric History
Referencing popular technology in music is nothing new -- the Dire Straits hit "Money for Nothing" was all about MTV and the advent of music videos, and David Bowie's "Space Oddity" wove a narrative around the space race. Unsurprisingly, countless artists began inserting the Internet into their songs after it exploded into the mainstream in the '90s. But there's a fine line between "artful inclusion" and "unskilled name-dropping," and the following songs dove headfirst into the latter, awkwardly revealing that on the whole, pop stars simply do not use computers.
How else could they explain ...
#6. Black Eyed Peas: "Now Generation"
Fergie and her three rapper chaperones (rapperones?) should already be quite familiar to readers of Cracked. In an attempt to stay relevant, they released the song "Now Generation," an ode to the life that young people are living right now, a phrase which here means "several dozen techno-buzzwords that will.i.am looked up on his iPhone on the way to the studio":
Fast Internet
Stay connected in a jet
Wi-Fi, podcast
Blasting out an SMS
Text me and I text you back
Check me on the iChat
I'm all about that h-t-t-p
You're a PC, I'm a Mac.
"Wait, stay like that for a sec. I need to pull some lyrics out of there."
Myspace in your space
Facebook is a new place
Dip divin', socializin'
I'll be out in cyberspace
Google is my professor
Wikipedia checker
Checkin' my account
Loggin' in and loggin' out.
"Doing great. Now add something about 'surfing the Web.' Kids still say that, right?"
As you see, we're treated to a Tourette-like stream of everything related to the Internet, including some words that he clearly doesn't understand (will.i.am's humbling knowledge of podcasts consists of listing it alongside Wi-Fi and moving on to the next verse). He also says "blasting out an SMS" before solemnly promising "text me and I text you back," which seems to indicate that he is not aware that SMS and text messaging are the same thing.
Then, the Peas toss out a blazingly topical reference to those PC and Mac commercials with Justin Long and John Hodgman, which you may recognize as already being three years old by the time the song was released. This leads triumphantly into the lyric "Myspace in your space, Facebook is a new place," which was inexplicably written in the year 2009. Facebook was not "new" by any means -- Mark Zuckerberg had already teamed up with Justin Timberlake and taken over the social networking universe, and Myspace was that place you went to listen to Jason Mraz remixes posted by some lunatic in Connecticut and get made fun of for not being on Facebook yet.
Here he is, ironically, singing "Fuck Your Pussy Myspace Page."
The Peas were clearly attempting to write a big, epic anthem for the digital generation, but they just came across sounding like middle-aged parents trying to relate to their teenagers. Can you picture your mom bragging that she's "all about that h-t-t-p"? Of course you can't, because not even she is that lame.
#5. Trey Songz, Gucci Mane, and Soulja Boy: "LOL :-)"
Yes, "LOL :-)" is the actual title, which is reinforced by no less than 35 utterances throughout the song (keep in mind that it took three lyrical geniuses to come up with this masterpiece). This is not to say that this boner-texting sonnet begins and ends with LOL -- we are absolutely bludgeoned to death with Twitter references and obnoxious narration of the use of bizarrely outdated technology:
Then she sent a text that read, "Baby, I'm at home"
Then she sent another one that said she's all alone
So I texted her a smiley face and said, "Let's do the grown"
She said, "LOL boy you crazy, come on"
Then she said, "Actually, you ain't gotta ask me"
Sent that little face with the tongue 'cause I'm nasty.
Sorry, but we have to censor that smiley. It's way too nasty.
Baby girl sent a picture to my BlackBerry
She fine and she thick just like Halle Berry
Kiss me through the phone, LOL smiley face
We can go and kick it babe, later on at my place
She message me on Myspace, told me she love me.
Soulja Boy may be the worst offender of them all, which is unsurprising considering everything he's ever been a part of. In a song released in 2009, he's telling us all about getting "picture messages" on his BlackBerry and trolling Myspace for girls. You may recognize these as activities people engaged in when Dane Cook was still relevant. It sounds like a 70-year-old man with a child's vocabulary getting excited over finally discovering how email works.
"It's that easy to post my sex tapes? And here I was dropping them in mailboxes like a fool."
Sadly, this trio of bards is not done impressing you. They brag about "pics on my iPhone/Gucci on her iPod," rhyme the word "berry" with itself, and unleash "do the grown" as a euphemism for sex as if it's a storied old favorite, even though no one outside of these barely literate millionaires has ever encountered it in the history of the English language.
The lyrics in that first passage seem to be a cautionary tale on stalker assistance via the careless use of social networking, as the girl in question offers up both her location and the fact that she is completely alone to a man who's begging her for sex. He also confuses the "tongue smiley" emoticon as a binding sexual contract, despite the fact that it is typically used by teenage girls to let you know when they are being adorably irreverent.
"No, don't do the tongue smiley! He'll think you want to lick his asshole!"
#4. Grafh: "Myspace Jumpoff"
Grafh, best known for being endorsed by Shia LaBeouf on Last Call With Carson Daly (and truly, there are no two people closer to the pulse of hip-hop culture), released this 2006 ballad about meeting a woman online and clumsily trying to berate her into having sex with him in real life:
So you sent me a text and I replied yes I may (amen)
Now I read that text
It said somethin' somethin' somethin' somethin' sex
That's the only words that I remembered in the text.
"No, seriously, I'm extraordinarily fucking stupid."
But now I'm looking for some friends to add
Text me baby send me a ?
But if you wanna hop on you can log on to my balls like my drawers got a dot com.
The song goes back and forth between presenting Grafh as a trend-savvy dude well-versed in the latest technology and as a temporally displaced caveman who doesn't understand how something as small as a cellphone can hold the witches that are obviously powering it.
"Why it show letters at my face-eyes?"
He is apparently so enchanted by the idea of text messaging that he believes it to be proof of some higher power, and offers a solemn prayer to the heavens after receiving one from the future missing persons report he's currently pursuing. At the same time, he is so bored with texting that he nonchalantly brags about not even reading the message in its entirety, saying that he just skimmed it until he saw the word "sex." Beyond the fact that this is one of the most bracing contradictions ever delivered in such rapid succession, it's also kind of like telling a girl that you don't follow the news, you just speed-read USA Today for the words "nipple" and "smother."
Grafh then goes on to mention Myspace way too often to convince us that he's ever actually used the damn thing, and constantly confuses social networking with text messaging. He seems unclear about whether putting someone's number in your phone qualifies as "adding a friend" and if getting a message on Myspace is called "texting."
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"Can you text my name in there? I forgot my online passcode."
But of course, all of this is just leading up to "log on to my balls like my drawers got a dot com," which is a sentence that reads exactly like an Internet-themed Mad Libs puzzle and makes the exact same amount of sense. We get that his point is "I want to have sex with you," but it's shoehorned into one of the most awkward punchlines in history. Innuendo is rarely clever, but it seems like Grafh just picked two random phrases from a mid-'90s article about AOL and made them about his nutsack. He might as well have said, "I'm going to double-click your vagina and download in my pants."


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The Margin Tax Debunked: Dispelling Three Common Myths about Texas' Restructured Business Tax
In 2006, the Texas Legislature—under pressure from a Texas Supreme Court ruling declaring the state's school finance system unconstitutional—sought changes to the Tax Code that would broaden the base of taxpayers paying into the system and generate additional revenue for the state that could be used to reduce Texas' local property tax burden. Ultimately, the Tax Code changes that lawmakers settled on that session, borrowed heavily from the Texas Tax Reform Commission,† brought to life the Texas margin tax, a cross between a modified gross receipts tax and a corporate income tax.
Under the restructuring, the state's old corporate franchise tax—which was based on the greater of a 4.5 percent tax on earned surplus (net income) or a 0.25 percent tax on taxable capital (net worth)—was replaced with a broad-based, low rate tax on a business' "taxable margin," a concept similar to taxable income.
Initially, expectations were high among businesses and lawmakers that the margin tax was going to be a marginal improvement over the old system; however, in the few short yearssince its inception, the tax has been plagued by a number of problems. Chief among these are: 1) the tax's inability to meet revenue projections; and 2) taxpayer- and tax collection-related challenges stemming from compliance, complexity, and cost issues.
In fiscal 2008—its first full year of collections—the margin tax generated $1.4 billion less-than-expected. In fiscal 2009, the revenue shortfall totaled $1.6 billion. And in fiscal years 2010 and 2011, collections fell short by $500 million.
In addition, taxpayers in Texas have complained that the margin tax is a logistical nightmare, both from a tax-preparing and tax-paying standpoint. In a May 2008 survey conducted by the National Federation of Independent Business, 75 percent of survey respondents said they were dissatisfied with the new tax structure and "would choose the old franchise tax over the new margin tax."
As a result of these shortcomings, some have begun calling for the legislature to "fix" the tax in the next legislative session, presumably by raising the rate, adjusting how the tax is calculated, or some combination of both. And it is expected that when the 83rd Legislature convenes in January 2013, lawmakers will seek to modify the tax regardless of whether or not the Texas Supreme Court rules it unconstitutional in the coming months.
However, before lawmakers consider "fixing" the margin tax, it is important that they have the complete picture, void of any misconceptions. Below we discuss three common myths about the margin tax—and present the facts about each one.


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The good and the bad of social media
Now, what the heck does that mean?
It's not that I don't see the value of social media. I do, and I'll give you a great example in a moment.
What I'm against is the waste of time and productivity.
Play a little game with me for a moment. Imagine that a mad scientist working in a secret laboratory came up with a 3 pronged approach to suck people's time and productivity out them. While you are imagining that, also imagine that this same conspiracy came up with a way to make normally productive people of any age stare at screens (small, medium and large) for hours at a time.
And best of all, while wasting hours of time every day, these evil mad scientists set it up so that all this time and productivity wasting made them feel like they were accomplishing something.
Sounds like the plot of a bad Halloween movie, doesn't it?
And yet, isn't that what is happening with Facebook, Twitter and YouTube? According to a 2012 study by web data company Alexa, Facebook is the No. 2 ranked website in the world in terms of traffic and visitors, behind only search engine Google. YouTube is No. 3 and Twitter is No. 8. That represents a lot of people spending a lot of time on those sites.
Wasting time is certainly nothing new. For instance, people have wasted time for a long time watching another screen called TV. But you can't really argue or believe you are accomplishing anything while watching TV.
The insidious thing about Social Media is that you actually feel like you are accomplishing something while you are wasting time.
Several columns ago, I shared with you in this space that a good friend of ours had gone through a nasty bout with pneumonia, requiring hospitalization. Through Facebook those of us in her large online support system were able to encourage her and be kept in the loop about her progress.
Turns out it was a good thing she had pneumonia. X-rays showed a spot on her lung. Turned out to be a very small tumor in her lungs. They caught it early and the prognosis is good. Yet she still has lung cancer, never smoked and had no other risk factors.
As I write this column, surgeons are operating and removing the parts of her right lung that hold the tumor. Thanks to a separate Facebook page, a closed group called "Felicia's Journey to Health," where people all over the world are supporting and praying for her, also are staying informed about her progress.
Pay her a visit on that page. Tell her I sent you and you'll get a good seat. And that, my friends, is a great use of social media.
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Political campaign t-shirts are an efficient way to market yourself because they combine many advantages into one great product. They are large and noticeable, providing great visibility for your message, and are highly mobile, so your fans will wear them around town and show their support. With a simple cotton design, they are also very affordable, helping you maximize the effect of your marketing budget with ease. With a pleasing and unique look, people will be happy to wear your political campaign t-shirts ensuring your name is always visible around town.