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Updated: February 25, 2003
I am the State Disaster Specialist for the American Red Cross. During this month, Indiana schools have been preparing for and practicing tornado safety drills. Some schools have looked to the American Red Cross for guidance. Below are the instructions given to Red Cross chapters in Indiana to relay to schools when requests are received.
Please feel free to pass along this information to your staff and school systems. The brochure, "Tornadoes: Nature's Most Violent Storms" (ARC 5002) can be requested by schools from their local American Red Cross chapter. If you have inquiries or questions that you wish to discuss, please contact me.
Tornado Safety Position
Recently several calls and e-mails have asked for verification of the correct tornado safety position for children to take during drills (and actual tornadoes) in schools.
The correct tornado safety position is like the one illustrated in the "Tornadoes: Nature's Most Violent Storms" brochure (ARC 5002). The child should be sitting/kneeling FACING the wall, with his/her hands over the back of his/her head and neck, tucked into a ball.
There was concern from some people that this leaves the child's back exposed and therefore subject to spinal injury. Over 50 years of statistics collected by the Centers for Disease Control, U.S. Public Health Service, indicate that NO children have been injured by a tornado when they are in this position. Contrarily, data indicate that there have been some injuries to children when they are facing the other way. The injuries those children received were abrasions, cuts, and contusions caused by flying debris; and severe eye injuries (including two children blinded, one in Illinois in 1982)... children can't help but want to try to look up and thus get debris in their eyes. The other major problem with the face-forward position is, once again as kids can't resist trying to "sneak a peek," there are documented cases of severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in children who observe damage while it is happening.
So, please use the brochure for the explanation and illustration of the correct tornado safety position, and use the above information to dispel concerns about potential spinal/back injury.


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Could someone explain the difference in using colored filters for black and white photos? What is the best practice using these filters for portraits, landscapes, macro? For different types of weather: sunny, foggy, morning, evening, and so on?
If you are using a digital camera, there is little need to use colored filters, as you can apply their effects in post processing when you do the black and white conversion.
See Are there reasons to use colour filters with digital cameras?
Also How can using a color filter help to improve a black and white photo?
If you are shooting film, then
The easiest way to remember the effect of a filter is this: A filter lightens its own color and darkens the complementary color. Here is a link to a color wheel that illustrates the concept. Colors 180 degrees opposite are the complements.
So, from the color wheel, we can learn that a green filter will lighten some foliage (foliage does not read completely green, but green-yellow), and darken reds (some complexion contains red -- be careful because this may make skin complexions a bit blotchy for people with ruddy complexions).
The red filter is the "landscape filter" because it tends to produce dramatic skies -- the dark sky against white cloud or snowy peak effect that is so appealing in black & white images. It lends a slightly ghostly effect to green foliage, particularly evergreens.
I've attached some simulated B&W effects on an image that includes sky, foliage, and clouds. This is simulated using NIK Silver Efex, so it's not exactly like using glass, but it's darn close:
Original As Shot in Color
Blue Filter
Green Filter
Orange Filter
Red Filter
Yellow Filter
Different filters will change the threshold of black and white. For example, a yellow filter will make the more yellow colors black. You can use these filters to enhance different parts of a B&W image.

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Some 3D HDTVs actually kinda suck. The 3D effect can break down during fast movement and the active shutter glasses sometimes create a constant flickering effect. If you want decent 3D, check out these great sets recommended by Televisioninfo.com.
Samsung UN55C7000
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Sony XBR-52HX909
The Sony XBR-52HX909's 3D effect is a bit inconsistent, but when it's working it's amazing. The 3D effect for background and mid-range objects is great, and the TV really only has a problem with things in the immediate foreground and the cliché "popping out of the screen" effect. The best part: even without 3D, this is a great TV. The XBR-52HX909 has great picture quality and Sony's incredible line-up of online content.
Panasonic TC-P50VT20
If we had to choose one manufacturer for a 3D HDTV, it'd be Panasonic. The TC-P50VT20 might be a first generation 3D HDTV, but it's still one of the best we've seen so far. The effect holds up well even in areas of high contrast or fast motion, and the active shutter glasses don't create an obnoxious flicker effect.


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To the editor:
On Dec. 8, I was particularly struck by a letter to the editor that was clearly the worst that was ever my misfortune to read ("Many questions about president.") It was fact-free, full of made-up statements and seemed to be nothing more than another example of the ravings of the lunatic conservatives.
And then on Jan. 5, to my shock and surprise, I was treated to yet another, possibly even worse, example of the same inept and bungling attempts at making an argument that I have been unfortunate enough to witness ("More questions about our times.")
It was filled with lies, vitriolic name-calling and unsupported statements and conclusions. If one was to edit this monstrosity down to its base, it would have read, "I hate progressives and the president and anyone who feels differently or disagrees with me in any respect."
Before debunking as many misrepresentations as possible, I would ask the "tealeaf faction," what does it take to embarrass you? Where do you draw the line? How much is too much? When will you rebuke the most offensive of your ranks - and I do mean rank in the rancid context of the word.
I only have about 300 words left with which to work, a daunting task, but here it goes:
Lie No. 1: "He doesn't say Obumacare anymore, he says Affordable Care Act." Debunk: He never said "Obumacare," but last week I heard him say Obamacare.
Lie No. 2: "He knew in 2010 that upward of 90 million people would lose their insurance." Debunk: In a country of 350 million people, 90 million people lose insurance. Ridiculous.
Lie No. 3: "Oprah stated on BBC-TV she wants all elderly white people to die." Debunk: She said nothing of the sort. Check it out.
Lie No. 4: "Notre Dame is suing Obumacare to stop the portion of the bill providing abortion pills. Debunk: Science is these are not abortion pills.
Lie No. 5: "Pro-baby murderer." Debunk: Quit murdering the truth.
Lie No. 6: "These lonely, cowardly non-thinkers can't grasp the concept of the First Amendment. Why don't these bullies attack Islam and defecate on the Koran?" They are not lonely, and I hardly think that to defecate on a Koran or Torah or a Bible constitutes a profile in courage. Disrespect of the beliefs of others does not elevate your own. You do it, I'll pass.
Lie No. 7: "Until I see these intellectuals boycott or desecrate a mosque, they will be cowards to me." Debunk: To boycott something, it's necessary to use it first. Desecration of a mosque is no sign of bravery any more than the desecration of a synagogue or church would be. Those who share that view will never be mistaken for intellectuals.
These criticisms will be continued. Perhaps Obamacare could help conservatives' mental issues in the interim.
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I recently started to learn the D language and was wondering, is it widespread enough that I can (or should) ask my questions on Stack Overflow? So, just how popular is D among the programmers at SO? I ask because I haven't found a single question that involves D.
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Well, you could look at the 13 "D" questions so far here:
(just click on the D tag in your post)
D is a promising language, and is maybe where Ruby or Python was a few years ago. It's not exactly esoteric, but it's not completely mainstream either. Right now, I think the main things getting in the way of it becoming more mainstream are the standard signs of an immature but promising language. Most of the libraries for it are still very much works in progress. Same for development tools like IDEs and debuggers. D 2.0, currently in alpha, adds tons of cool stuff, but breaks backwards compatibility in all kinds of places because it's simply too early in D's lifetime as a language to let backwards compatibility constrain things too much.
Additionally, D has 2 standard libraries. Phobos is the "official" library, and Tango is a community-developed alternative. Tango only works on the D1 branch, though efforts are underway to port it to D2, and is popular among D1 users. Phobos has improved significantly in D2, but the D1 version is very underpowered, which was the original reason for Tango's existence. Therefore, very few D1 people use Phobos. The fact that using D2 and using Tango are currently mutually exclusive has created fragmentation in the D community between D1/Tango users and D2/Phobos users. Furthermore, Tango and Phobos have, at the moment, incompatible runtimes, so they can't both be used in the same project, and some add-on libraries use Tango and others use Phobos. This makes the sparsity of libraries inherent in any young language that much worse in D.
Despite these growing pains, D is an extremely well-thought out language that attempts to take 20+ years of experience in designing languages and create a new performance-oriented/systems language without the cruft and outdated design decisions of previous eras. The Tiobe index shows that it is already at the cusp of mainstream. Efforts are underway as we speak to mend the rift between D1/Tango users and D2/Phobos users by porting Tango to D2 and creating a common runtime so both libs can be used in the same project. I believe that, between Walter and Andrei, D just has too much pure genius behind it to fail, and will become mainstream in the next few years, when the two standard libraries are at least runtime compatible, development tools and libraries mature, and D2 has gone gold.
All computer programming related questions are welcome here at StackOverflow. Ask away!
Stack overflow is supposed to be a website where you can ask questions about programming. That means questions about any programming language from Flex to D to Erlang is not only allowed, but encouraged.
Besides, since D has bindings for OpenGL, it's not exactly an esoteric language.
With 13 or so questions tagged for D so far, it's not lighting the SO world on fire. I'm by no means knowledgeable on D, but I would like to see it become more mainstream. It represents a serious attempt at taking everything that's been learned with C++ and implementing those things without needing to pay any attention to backwards compatibility. The compatibility requirements of C++ are responsible for many of the compromises and complexities that exist in C++. Two of the brightest people in the C++ world (pun intended) are deeply involved in the development of the D language, Walter Bright and Andre Alexandrescu, so I think it has hope to eventually take some ground.
One of the things that look very interesting to me is the meta-programming model D has adopted. Templates and template meta-programming in D look much like normal D programming, because essentially that's what it is.
So anyway, I'd say ask away here - hopefully I'll learn something useful and it'll help D gain some traction.
Well, I've been into D but lack of good IDE and even more a nice and working debugger keeps me away from it... and that means years now. I think/fear it will lose it's momentum, and won't gather enough resources/folks because it's still missing basic tools, and I don't see those coming, and don't see the D commmunity recognizing the importance of it.
I've been programming in D off and on since 2003, and I love it. It's powerful, fast, and a lot more productive than C++.
There aren't so many D questions on SO mostly because the D newsgroups have a long history as the D community's focal point. I would generally ask a D question on the ng before even thinking of asking it on SO. In fact, I'd be surprised if SO came up with an answer that the ng couldn't come up with.
Of course, for the purpose of archiving good answers to specific questions, SO is much better than the ng.
Anyway, I think you'll find that D questions get answers very quickly on SO anyway, due to a number of knowledgeable D users having subscribed to the D tag feed on SO.
... doh, just realized this is a really old question that just appeared in the D RSS feed because it had been moved.


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I have a wordpress theme and in the header.php file it is displaying menus through this line :
wp_nav_menu( 'theme_location=menu_2&menu_id=nav&container=&fallback_cb=menu_2_default');
Now if I hover some menu item, it displays submenus items. I just want to change the layout of the submenu items section or div , but I can't find any html of submenus. I need help in this
Submenu is appearing in the form of dropdown , I want to change this into a different style like this one :


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I am currently running Ubuntu 11.10 with all updates.
I have been using Ubuntu very successfully on my MacBook Pro (5,5) for a few years now. I also have a Apple bluetooth keyboard. On the laptop keyboard and bluetooth keyboard I can use the extra function keys (volume, play, pause etc) as expected. And I get page up/down with Fn+Up and Fn+Down and start/end with Fn+Left and Fn+Right.
The other day I purchased a 2nd Apple bluetooth keyboard for use at work. It appears the same, although perhaps some upgraded components (my 1st one is ~2 years old). However none of the Fn options work nor the play/pause/volume.
This problem seems to be keyboard specific rather than Ubuntu-wide as I can use the Fn keys on my laptop keyboard, while simultaneously being unable to use them on my external bluetooth keyboard.
Any suggestions or ideas about where to start?
I think the bluetooth keyboards are linked to the MacBook Pro range, so perhaps I have the drivers installed for my laptop (MacBook Pro 5,5) and this new keyboard is similar to a newer MacBook Pro for which I don't have adequate drivers.


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Hi,I'm trying to run CMAQ - an air quality model developed by the US EPA - on a Mac (Lion) using OpenMPI (1.5.3) installed with MacPorts.I am able to run CMAQ in parallel, and am able to run small programs that use OpenMPI.I set the OpenMPI environment variables to use pgf90/pgcc (10.9) as my compiler. Using PGI because some of the code I need to build is fortran 77 ( *sigh* ), and for some other reasons.
The error I get is:/opt/local/lib/openmpi/bin/mpirun -v -machinefile /Users/matt/cmaq/darwin11/scripts/cctm/machines8 -np 2 /Users/matt/cmaq/darwin11/scripts/cctm/CCTM_e1a_Darwin11_x86_64pg[pontus:72547] *** Process received signal ***[pontus:72547] Signal: Segmentation fault: 11 (11)[pontus:72547] Signal code: Address not mapped (1)[pontus:72547] Failing at address: 0x0[pontus:72547] [ 0] 2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff91065cfa _sigtramp + 26[pontus:72547] [ 1] 3 ??? 0x00007fff5fbe58ab 0x0 + 140734799698091[pontus:72547] [ 2] 4 CCTM_e1a_Darwin11_x86_64pg 0x000000010003c89b distr_env_ + 971[pontus:72547] [ 3] 5 CCTM_e1a_Darwin11_x86_64pg 0x000000010003cbe5 par_init_ + 565[pontus:72547] [ 4] 6 CCTM_e1a_Darwin11_x86_64pg 0x0000000100032e1b MAIN_ + 219[pontus:72547] [ 5] 7 CCTM_e1a_Darwin11_x86_64pg 0x00000001000016f6 main + 70[pontus:72547] [ 6] 8 CCTM_e1a_Darwin11_x86_64pg 0x000000010000163a _start + 248[pontus:72547] [ 7] 9 CCTM_e1a_Darwin11_x86_64pg 0x0000000100001541 start + 33[pontus:72547] [ 8] 10 ??? 0x0000000000000001 0x0 + 1[pontus:72547] *** End of error message ***--------------------------------------------------------------------------mpirun noticed that process rank 1 with PID 72547 on node pontus.cee.carleton.ca exited on signal 11 (Segmentation fault: 11).--------------------------------------------------------------------------I don't expect anyone to know the solution from this brief error message, however I was wondering if anyone has insight on how I might debug this? I am too new to both OpenMPI and CMAQ to be served that well from this traceback.I'm told by others in my research group that CMAQ with OpenMPI on Linux works fine, and that the error I'm getting is very similar to the error others got when trying this on a Mac (Snow Leopard) with ifort.. before they gave up...OpenMPI was configured with:configure.args --sysconfdir=${prefix}/etc/${name} \--includedir=${prefix}/include/${name} \--bindir=${prefix}/lib/${name}/bin \--mandir=${prefix}/share/man \--with-memory-manager=none# enable build on Lionif {$os.major} >= 11} {configure.compiler gcc-4.2}The --with-memory-manager is there because I saw it fix potentially similar problems in other postings to this Mailing list. It didn't make a difference though.Thanks!
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CAIRO, Egypt (From CNN) -- Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy's efforts to broker an end to the Israel-Gaza conflict highlight the delicate balancing act he faces as his nation's first freely elected leader.
Egypt has been the go-between in many previous Israeli-Palestinian disputes. But while longtime Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak was hostile to the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which rules Gaza, Morsy's Muslim Brotherhood is the group's political cousin. And although Morsy leads a population with deep historical sympathy for the Palestinians, he has pledged to maintain Egypt's peace treaty with Israel.
"Egypt is the most pivotal state in this particular game of diplomacy now," said Fawaz Gerges, a professor of international relations at the London School of Economics.
Under Mubarak, the country's security forces had suppressed its own Islamists in the Muslim Brotherhood, even jailing Morsy at one point. That has given Morsy and his government influence with Hamas that Mubarak, a product of Egypt's military establishment, never had.
"Hamas listens to Mohamed Morsy," Gerges said. "Hamas looks up to Egypt now, at this particular stage, and that is why Egypt has emerged as the most important state vis-a-vis Hamas and Gaza."
Morsy has used his intelligence chief, Mohammed Shehata, to spearhead separate talks between Israel and Hamas. Shehata played a major role in the release of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier held captive by Hamas for more than five years, and has good contacts with Israeli intelligence officials.
Israeli President Shimon Peres praised Morsy's mediation efforts Tuesday in an appearance with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, calling them "constructive" and "a pleasant surprise."
"I hope he will continue this task, which is necessary for all parts of the Middle East," Peres said.
Morsy took office at the end of June, nearly a year and a half after the revolt that toppled Mubarak. The U.S.-educated engineer quickly rattled Western nerves by announcing he would work to free Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, now serving a life sentence in the United States in a conspiracy case related to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; and by attending the August summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, held in Iran, the first visit by an Egyptian leader since the Islamic revolution in 1979.
But he also took a swing at Iran's ally Syria during that conference, calling the embattled government of President Bashar al-Assad "an oppressive regime that has lost its legitimacy" and calling for support for opposition groups trying to overthrow him.
When sniping across the border separating Gaza from Israel erupted into open warfare last week, Morsy put the blame squarely on Israel. Egypt recalled its ambassador to Israel. Morsy also called the Israeli bombardment of the territory "a blatant aggression against humanity" and dispatched his prime minister, Hesham Kandil, to Gaza for talks with Palestinian officials, a step Mubarak would have been unlikely to take.
That put Egypt at odds with the United States, which contributes about $1.3 billion in military and economic aid to Cairo every year. U.S. and several European leaders have put most of the blame for the current crisis on Hamas, saying Israel has a right to protect itself from rockets fired by Palestinian militants.
Egypt needs Western support to help revive its economy, which went into a tailspin when the uprising against Mubarak broke out in January 2011. And its 1979 Camp David accords with Israel remain the cornerstone of what peace has been achieved in the turbulent region.
When the latest Hamas-Israel fighting flared, cabinet chief Mohamed Refa'a al-Tahtawi said Egypt would continue to observe that pact, but he added, "Respecting a peace treaty does not mean to stay idle or indifferent to what is going on along our borders."
Morsy faces pressure from the Egyptian public to take a tougher line against Israel. An April 2011 poll by the Pew Global Research Project found that 54% of Egyptians want to abandon the Egypt-Israel peace treaty, while 36% want to keep it in place.
While Morsy's government remains committed to that pact, Egypt has opened the Rafah border crossing into Gaza, a marked departure from Mubarak, who kept that portal closed during the 2008-2009 conflict between Hamas and Israel. More than 500 Egyptian activists were allowed into Gaza this week in a show of solidarity with the Palestinians, waving Palestinian flags and chanting, "Israel is the enemy."
"We just broke the siege," Rami Shaath, who helped organize the effort, told CNN. "President Morsy is on the right track, but he has still got much more to do. This is proof that times have changed, and the tyranny of Mubarak has been buried forever."
But that border is also a sign of a deteriorating security situation within Egypt, where much of Mubarak's feared apparatus has been dismantled since his ouster. More than 500 top officers of Mubarak's State Security Investigations have retired or been sacked, and militant groups have found space in places like the sparsely populated Sinai Peninsula, where they have received shipments of weapons from Libya and elsewhere.
In one attack on a military outpost in Sinai in July, militant Islamists killed 16 Egyptian soldiers. Morsy's government responded with a campaign aimed at driving them out of the region, accompanied by the firing of the region's governor, military police chief and intelligence director.
Always an undergoverned area with scant respect for the state, Sinai is dominated by Bedouin tribes who are also accomplished smugglers.
Nevertheless, the Egypt now acting to bring an end to the fighting "has a new vision, a new foreign policy," Gerges told CNN.
"Egypt is a new country. It is a different country with a particular different worldview," he said.


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Democrats and the Pro-Life Movement
Ross Douthat has written an honest, charitable post that is the most thoughtful contribution I've so far seen a conservative commentator make to the debate over Bart Stupak's stance on health care reform. Ross takes issue with certain of Stupak's critics from the left and remains skeptical about the compromise he ended up striking, but he goes on to articulate many things that pro-life critics of the reform bill have been unwilling to acknowledge: that there is a reason why there are pro-life liberals; that Stupak's failure to pass his amendment does not mean the end of such a bloc; that many of the pro-life conservatives who cheered Stupak on were secretly hoping that he'd fail in his efforts and drag the bill down with him; and that those very same conservatives have failed miserably in the task of proposing constructive alternatives to solve the very real problems that motivated the reform agenda they so enthusiastically opposed.As a pro-life, pro-Stupak, anti-Obamacare conservative (yes, there is at least one of us here!) I agree with pretty much all of this. Whatever one's opinions about the merits and demerits of the reform bill itself and the complicated moral and legal issues about federal (and non-federal) funding of abortion, there was always something deeply, darkly cynical about the ways that many pro-life conservatives were cheering Stupak along. (Full disclosure: I know this in part because I far too frequently went in for this sort of thing myself.) What the Stupak controversy had the chance to do was to make the pro-life movement into something more than an appendage of a political party, and while I've no doubt that some of Stupak's pro-life supporters would have been genuinely happy if the reform bill had passed with his amendment attached, it's hard to shake the sense that many of the loudest critics of Stupak's eventual compromise originally viewed him as a useful idiot whom they could use to bring down a bill that was just a piece of evil Marxist redistributionism, anyway. In the present political climate, the pro-life movement needs Democrats every bit as much as Democrats need the pro-life movement, and if representatives of that movement insist on narrating Stupak's story as a farce rather than - as Ross views it - a tragedy, it's highly unlikely that Democrats like Stupak will want anything to do with them the next time around.Meanwhile, and this is once again a point that Ross's post helpfully emphasizes, the other strand in this tale of wasted opportunity arises from conservatives' stunning inability to propose a coherent and forward-looking agenda of their own to address this country's very real need for serious health care reform. Claiming the banner of church teaching when it comes to the protection of the unborn while ignoring the demands of that very same church concerning the adequate provision of health care is a gross moral incoherence; and until pro-life conservatives begin devoting more energies to improving the quality of those lives that they - we - are so intent to save, policy compromises like the one that Stupak struck with Obama are pretty much guaranteed to be the best we're going to get.As Ross puts it, these problems are not about to go away.
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JohnA very nice post! One of the things I try to tell people -- people can truly have the same goal in mind, but their way of understanding the situation and how to deal with it can differ. Obviously not all differences would be acceptable, but the problem is that many (with the American-right version of right-to-life groups) is that they confuse prudential reason and decisions as principles, and so if you disagree with a methodology you are seen as disagreeing with the principles. I am sure there is an equivalent from the other side as well (I would be interested in hearing examples, actually). But I think one of the things which needs to be done is to continue to point out the common belief, common ground. As long as that can be held, even if there are major political differences, then the combined front can do some good. But if one side or the other keeps sniping because of prudential issues, it not only fails to attract the people who hold a common belief to work with them but will completely turn off those who disagree and yet might be able to be led to agreement if things were more charitable. It's difficult. We all fail in charity from time to time. I know that. We are human. But, when it is said and done, we must always remember, it is charity, it is love, which alone remains and remains of value.
Thanks, Henry. It seems to me that the best example of an "equivalent from the other side" is when Christian conservatives are told that opposing big-government programs means not caring at all about the plight of the less well-off. As I indicate in my post, I think that this attitude is often understandable given conservatives' frequent unwillingness to propose their own ways to address problems like the inadequate provision of health care, but it's nevertheless a false, and to my mind very unhelpful, thing to have said.
John, if you don't mind my asking, were you opposed to Obamacare because of pro-life concerns? Perhaps in conjunction with other concerns (e.g. the debt factor)?
Well, John, the best way to demonstrate that "its nevertheless a false, and to my mind very unhelpful, thing to have said" is to articulate policies that are not only plausible ways of responding effectively to the desperate plight of "the least of these sisters and brothers of mine" but that are also plausible politically: Is there a realistic chance that the policies can gain the support--not least, from political conservatives in DC--to become law?
Of course I don't mind! I was opposed to Obamacare for non-abortion-related reasons, and - largely thanks to the editors of this magazine - was agnostic on the question of whether it was objectionable on pro-life grounds alone.
"Is there a realistic chance that the policies can gain the supportnot least, from political conservatives in DCto become law?"Perhaps not, but one way to deal with that situation is to work on changing the attitudes of those political conservatives, which is a big part of what people like Douthat are trying to do.
Good post John, especially for its honesty. There are intolerant, nasty people on both sides of the liberal/conservative spectrum. We have to be more than party loyalists and differ when we consider our party to be wrong. While we can be fiercely critical it is the worst of human nature to insult and impugn the integrity of others simply because they disagree with us.
This comment of Ross's is just false:"And not anti-abortion conservatives, who backed him to the hilt not because they wanted him to succeed, but because they assumed that he would fail, and in failing, drag the whole health care package down to defeat."Anti-abortion conservatives took a tremendous amount of incoming fire from economic conservatives precisely becuase we supported Stupak to the hilt and wanted his efforts to block all abortion funding to succeed. We were vigorously encouraged to take a powder on the life issues precisely so the whole thing would fail.
Actually, abortion never was a Democrat v.Republican issue, nor was it a Conservative v.Liberal issue, the issue of abortion is a universal issue. We, who profess to be Catholic, are called to conserve The Truth, The Word of God, and apply The Word, liberally.http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?id=417&CFID=3279... universal truth is a self-evident truth, such as "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that ALL Men are CREATED equal... Let us not pretend that to be created means "to be born".And please, no more shout outs, as I am becoming rather cranky.
John S, I too would like to complement you on your well expressed post. However, when I add to it the comments from others within this group who self-identify as "conservative" I can not get any coherent pattern of policies or positions.I simple do not know if that is because I am not part of the American culture or what. Bill M. you and I have been exchanging opinions for a decade now so if anyone in this group knows me it is you. Is it because there is no coherent pattern that has yet emerged since Obama's victory other than the negative one or is there more at play in a cultural sense, after-all we have the same stresses and strains in Canada as you do.
Nancy, I'll try not to shout so I will say this as quietly as possible.Given the discussion we are having what the heck were you thinking when you included that link?Why did you think we needed to see it?
I'm a liberal, probably pink by most standards, uninsured, and I've ranted against Obama"care" all over this blog. Republicans have talked a lot about getting to the root of the problem, which is high health care costs. Certainly a laudable goal, but how do you do that without imposing restrictions on unnecessary or wasteful care, which is often construed as putting Gubmint bureaucrats between doctors and patients? Among their solutions is capping malpractice awards (capping legal awards is a favorite generic solution among Republicans). Another solution proposed by GOPGuv Rick Perry of Texas is for people to "take responsibility for their own health care." No idea what that might mean other than "suck it up and die proud to be a Texan" [my rough translation]. "This American Life," which is usually an entertainment show, ran a very interesting series of spots on health insurance costs and some of the surprising culprits of high costs (ignore the stuff about pet insurance, or maybe not; it illustrates some interesting things about the insurance biz). http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/392/Someone-Elses..., I'm waiting for somebody, anybody, any party, to start thinking outside the box on health care. Saying "we need to spend more" or "we can't afford it" isn't working too well. Horror story of the week: One of my students damaged her knee such that she has to be on crutches. Her surgeon told her she needs reconstructive surgery. She has no insurance. He told her to sign up for a student policy. The next opt-in period won't start until June. Surgeon refuses to operate until she gets insurance. So she's hobbling around on crutches and painkillers for the next three months.Is this a great country or what!?
"Anyhow, Im waiting for somebody, anybody, any party, to start thinking outside the box on health care."Actually there are lots of people doing just this, but for the record: I favor issuing means-tested vouchers to the entire population, with the federal government also guaranteeing to cover all catastrophic medical expenses beyond a certain percentage of household income.
A quick take:1) a nice thread by our new threadser.2)Another repetitive and simplistic (Truth fronm teh beginning) Nancy.3) My real question is how do these new threaders suddenly appear? Nothing against John.But I've often asked if we could have threaders from priests in real parish life and nuns in regular ministry who can cast perspective from ther eand not just from academe.
Thanks Bob, but actually I'm not new! It's just been quite a while since I've managed to post anything ...
John, regarding your post at 7:43, that sounds like a good idea.
John, thanks. How are vouchers different from the provision in the current bill, which (Medicaid expansion aside), will, in another four years, assist those who are paying more than 2 to 9.5 percent of their income (no one's sure where that line will be drawn) for premiums? Would the vouchers be like food stamps, chits worth a limited amount of money that can be applied only to food stuffs food (no liquor and cigs)? Would they be cash handouts to qualifying individuals and families? Payments directly to private insurance companies for premiums? Would there be any minimum benefits that such a voucher system would provide? The current bill makes vague provisions to help you buy insurance (once you've shucked out 2 to 9.5 percent of your income), but that could be anything from a "Cadillac" policy to the crummy $10,000 deductible per family that Raber and Son currently have.How do you see such vouchers reducing health care costs? Most important, which GOP legislators actually support such a program? As I understand it, during Obama's meeting with the GOP, LaMarr Alexander, who was asked to speak for the Republican contingent, said that the money for a big program (and a voucher program with guaranteed catastrophic illness coverage such as you suggest sounds pretty big), and that we should be moving only in baby steps.Get back to me on this before 9:45 p.m., wouldja? :-)
Tea party people are angry like most people in the country are angry over the economy, unemployment, loss of jobs and depressed housing prices and market. Too many politicians are taking advantage of this anger, exploiting it and not pointing to positive things. That wild, destructive anger propels people to do something like this;http://www.care2.com/causes/health-policy/blog/anti-reform-bullies-mock-...
:One of the things I try to tell people people can truly have the same goal in mind, but their way of understanding the situation and how to deal with it can differ."Mr. Karlson --You speak of differing methods of reaching a goal, an important point. Here is a similar point worth considering: Jacques Maritain pointed out somewhere that one reason a pluralistic society can work is because we can reach the same conclusion from different premises, and thus sometimes we have the same goal with conflicting justifications for the goal. An example was the goal of defeating the Nazis in WW II -- the Communist nations and the Allies had different reasons for doing so, so they shared the goal and accomplished what they probably could not have accomplished without each other.Those who insist on unanimity not only of goals but also of methods and reasons for the goal sometimes end up throwing out the baby with the dishwater. Poor babies. That sort of ideological purity cannot always be afforded.
Ann Olivier (I don't know to call you Miss, Mrs, etc),Yes, people can also get to the same conclusion based upon different thinking processes. That is also important -- not just in this debate, but in theology in general. One of the things which always upsets me is when people try to make everything done to Aquinas. While he was a great genius, he was also a man of his time, and many of his premises were quite poor (not poor for the time, but poor for us now). He still got much good from them, many things which we would still agree -- but we can't be limited to them, and must rethink things because of what we have learned since his time. But I don't know how many times I've been accused of heresy when I try things differently. Not by people who know theology, but by those who think they do. I think the same thing is what happens in politics. The loud voices we hear from people who think they know what is going on -- but what they know is what they have been told and they fight based upon bad premises (this bill will have death panels!). How do we get them to calm down enough to actually look into it? I wish I knew.
When searching for the truth, avoid confusion.
When searching for confusion...avoid Nancy D. [sorry just had to say it :) ]
Henry --Jes' call me Ann. (Ms. is always good because it fits us all.) I wish I knew how to get the loud ones to stop shouting. I keep trying to understand their need to call names. Original Sin is one explanation, but it's too indefinite. I suspect it's because psychologically they can't face the possibility that they're wrong, They seem to think their whole world would fall apart if they ever admitted error, so when they are backed into a corner they have nothing to arm themselves with but noise.
But, Nancy, there are real complexities in this world. To avoid complexity is to turn away from the truth of the things. You don't untie a knot by ignoring the fact that it includes twists and turns that are difficult to straighten out. Ignoring truth is not searching for truth -- it is turning away from it, which is practically the same thing as lying.
When you get mired down in the details, you risk losing perspective. The best way to untie a knot is to get right to the heart of the "tangle."
Einstein may have said, "Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler."He definitely said:
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
You quote Einstein on a Catholic blog?! He might have been deemed a scientific genious, but this is what he thinks of our beliefs:"I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly and "The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish."If we feed into these lies, do we not risk our immortal souls? I'll eat my words (and my hat too) if he happened to convert on his deathbed and noone ever bothered to let the rest of the world know.
Amiga,I am shocked you quoted Einstein's atheistic lies on a Catholic blog! If people here read them and take them seriously, you have endangered their immortal souls. I posted only a quote about the importance of not oversimplifying when you try to simplify. Would you remove e = mc2 from physics textbooks just because it was said by a Godless atheist? Even the truly evil occasionally speak the truth, and it is never wrong to quote them when they do.I hope the moderator of this conference will remove your dangerous quotes. (In case my html coding doesn't work, the 2 in the equation should be a superscript.)
If people here read them and take them seriously, they'll KNOW BETTER than to quote him while attempting to justify issues of morality, because by the very renunciation of our beliefs, his other statements don't hold any water AT ALL.
Considering the source is usually a good rule of thumb. It should be deemed a virtue, in my humble opinion.
Amiga:The quote from Einstein that David Nickols provided is about how to think. You ask us to consider the source; you say considering the source is a good rule of thumb; and so it is (despite its source here), especially for those incapable of thinking for themselves. But do you really suppose there could be a much better source for advice about how to think than EINSTEIN? Perhaps you could offer us a distinctively Catholic critique of Einstein's advice, maybe something about how it sounds suspiciously like Occam's razor -- and how we all know the whole world went to hell as soon as Occam arrived on the scene. Perhaps you could spend some more time actually reading this Catholic blog before you offered several of your humble opinions. If you did, you would see that around here we often take seriously the arguments of atheists, agnostics, and other non-Christians, including their arguments about religious belief. You are welcome to stick around, but if you want people here to take you seriously, you had better reserve your judgments about the intelligence of atheists.
Thanks for the welcome wagon remarks Matthew. But I will have you know that I have read this blog at length, probably far more than what's for my own good, and so keenly aware that you often take to heart the arguments of atheists. Is that a good thing? Should we not take more care and consideration who we're listening to? Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Proverbs 26:4.


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WEIRTON - The Weir High School theater department will prent a production of "Arsenic and Old Lace" this week.
The three-act play, written by Joseph Kesselrig, will begin with a performance at the Milton Weinberg Theater at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Additional performances will take place at 6:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday.
Admission is $5 per person at the door.
The story follows the Brewster sisters who help older gentlemen to a peaceful and comfortable "rest."
The cast includes Emily Little as Abby Brewster, Jakob Hartley as Rev. Dr. Harper and Mr. Gibbs, Dustin Bailey as Teddy Brewster, Abigail Peters as Officer Brophy, Kiara Cimperman as Officer Klein and Mr. Hoskins, Kvanna Diaz as Martha Brewster, Caelen Crowley and Ella Jennings as Elaine Harper, Nicholas Campbell as Mortimer Brewster, Nicholas Vandruff as Jonathan Brewster, Conner McCoy as Dr. Herman Einstein, Lanisha Anderson as Officer O'Hara, Samantha Hayes as Lieutenant Rooney and Mr. Spenalzo, and Abigail Crago as Mr. Witherspoon.
Peters also serves as the productions' stage manager. The set design and play direction is by Ray Seifert, the school's theater director.
The first performance of "Arsenic and Old Lace" was presented by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse at the Fulton Theatre in New York City on Aug. 18, 1941. A movie based on the play also has been produced.


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Eating Rice May Raise Arsenic Levels
Dec. 5, 2011 -- On the heels of new revelations about arsenic in grape and apple juice, a new study shows that rice may be a significant source of arsenic in the diets of pregnant women.
Exposure during pregnancy is a concern, experts say, because arsenic is able to cross the placenta and may harm a developing baby.
For the study, researchers measured arsenic levels in the urine of 229 pregnant women in New Hampshire, a state where 40% of people get their water from wells. Well water sometimes has higher levels of arsenic than water from municipal systems, which must meet federal safety standards.
Researchers checked the women's tap water for arsenic. They also asked the women to write down what food they had eaten in the three days before their urine tests.
Even after accounting for arsenic in drinking water, researchers found that women who had recently eaten rice had slightly higher levels of inorganic arsenic -- the toxic form -- in their urine, compared to women who had not eaten rice.
"Rice, which I think a lot of people would think of as very healthy, may be a real source of exposure to inorganic arsenic, above and beyond drinking-water arsenic," says Michael S. Bloom, PhD, an assistant professor at the University at Albany in New York.
Bloom is studying the health effects of chronic arsenic exposure. He was not involved in the current research.
For the average person, that means "you may be receiving an additional daily dose through rice. It adds to the cumulative burden of inorganic arsenic exposure," Bloom says.
Researchers calculated that women who ate just a half cup of cooked rice each day -- the average amount eaten in the study -- would be getting just as much arsenic as if they drank a liter of tap water at EPA's maximum allowable limit for arsenic.
In a statement, the USA Rice Federation says that comparison is misleading because it fails to recognize that the arsenic in water is all inorganic, the toxic form. Some of the arsenic found in rice is organic, a kind that is believed to be harmless.
Each gram of rice the women ate was associated with a 1% increase in their arsenic levels. A gram of rice is about 48 grains.


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By MARY BARKER email@example.com CHEBOYGAN – In the beginning, The Cheboygan Daily Tribune was known as Northern Tribune from 1875-1885. This historic predecessor of our hometown newspaper is one of about 15 selected statewide to participate in a nationwide program called Chronicling America. Chronicling America, chroniclingamerica.loc.gov, provides access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized pages produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program, (NDNP). The NDNP is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities, (NEH), and the Library of Congress, (LC), which provides a great deal of technical support. The program is a long-term effort to create an Internet database of newspapers nationwide with historically significant information. It builds upon the successful United Sates Newspaper Program, which ran from 1982-2009, according to the Chronicling American Web site. That program organized the inventory, cataloging and selective preservation on microfilm of historic newspapers nationwide from 1690 to present. Under the Chronicle America program, two-year NDPH awards are granted to select and digitize approximately 100,000 newspaper pages representing the state's regional history, geographic coverage, and significant events of a time period between 1836 and 1922. Since 2005, the NEH has awarded grants to state libraries, historical societies and universities. Central Michigan University has a long history of preserving Michigan newspapers through microfilming and received a two-year award to digitize select papers across the state under the NEH grant program. CMU received the initial grant in 2012 and plants to solicit more funding to continue its work. Frank Boles, director of CMU's Clarke Historical Library, said the next logical step after microfilming is digitizing newspapers' pages and putting them online. He said CMU appointed a selection committee to determine which Michigan newspapers would be selected for digitization once the grant was awarded. "We had some criteria to guide us. We wanted a broad section of the state based on geographic areas and significant historical events. There were some technical issues about the microfilming itself that impacted our choices. Cheboygan was selected because it is a port city and then it became a tourism destination," said Boles. Another example was the newspaper in Calumet, Mich., in the Upper Peninsula. Boles said it was selected because of the Great Copper Strike of 1913, which made national headlines a century ago. Boles explained that CMU has just sent its first group of digitized newspaper pages to the Chronicle American Web site and expects the pages to be activated within a week to ten days. The Northern Tribune is among the first group, so those pages should be available for viewing shortly. Visitors to chroniclingamerica.loc.gov will find and easy-to-navigate Web site listing states and newspapers that are available to view. In addition to being able to call up and view the actual digitized page for the time period selected, viewers can search the entire database of all newspapers posted based on subject, alphabet or date range. Subject categories include American Enterprise, Industrialization and Development; Arts and Culture; Crimes and Trials of the Century; Natural Wonders, Disasters and the Environment; Politics, Government and World Leaders; Public Spirit, Exhibitions and Celebrations; Science, Technology and Innovation; Sports and American Pastimes; Struggle for Human Rights and Freedom; and War.
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Facebook the right place to fight crime?
A look at the Polk County Sheriff's Office Facebook page raises some interesting, and in some ways troubling, issues about how public agencies use social media in carrying out their duties.
In the comments section of many posts, statements range from accusations of specific crimes to calls for authorities to hang individuals for non-capital crimes. In the still-evolving world on Internet law, we are concerned not only with the potential liability to which the sheriff's office is exposed to the effect of such virtual lynchings on our system of justice.
Arrest records are published by many publications, websites and organizations on a daily basis, including in this newspaper. We report the resolution of some cases, but not nearly all, subsequent to those arrests. Many of those arrested are cleared of the charges, have them reduced or dismissed or participate in various pre-trial diversion programs, such as teen court or drug court. Of course, many are also convicted, jailed or given probation. Until that point, though, all persons who are arrested are deemed innocent until proven guilty. It's a basic tenet of our justice system that any American would be loath to see disappear.
The sheriff's office regularly posts pictures of the people deputies and detectives arrest and accuse of crimes. They do a great job of that and we are a safer county for their efforts. Sheriff Grady Judd has one of the best clearance rates around and we are glad he and his deputies work so hard to solve crimes and arrest suspects.
We don't know how the cases on the sheriff's Facebook page will turn out. Nobody does. The courts will try the suspects and justice will be served. But the Facebook discussion will go on. As the cyber saying goes, "The Internet is forever." The comments about these suspects will follow them indefinitely, regardless of the result of their cases or how their lives turn out.
Recent comments about a robbery suspect on the sheriff's Facebook page are illustrative: (We have not changed the spelling in any of the posts reprinted here):
- "Looks simular to the fellow that strongarm robbed me in Ovedo years ago. Son? He better not use that in his defense. Catch him and give him worse lawyer on rotation."
- "Scum!"
- "Hang"
And when two young men were arrested in June for allegedly squatting in an unoccupied home the Internet vitriol was particularly bad:
- "Losers"
- "Meth an drug dealers all pay off. To keep the law off there butts. Thats all it is. The house across my street. The faimly all deals in over the counter. Pain pills and coke. Cars come in all hours of day an nights. People walk to the gate all day and at nights. I reported it over an over. Noone wants to hear it. I know of 6 people that live there would go down. But nope. We have to live with it.. Anyone know how we can take matters in are own hands ?"
- "Stupid always has the same idiot look!"
The issue is not any particular incident, but anything posted on the PCSO's Facebook page. We have had similar misgivings in the past about the unmoderated and immoderate tone of the user comments.
The comments are not something a professional police force should be promoting or sponsoring. It gives the world a picture of Polk County that is not flattering or accurate. We should be telling the world that our sheriff is a great crime fighter and that our citizens believe in the criminal justice system — all of the criminal justice system — even the part where suspects are innocent until proven guilty.
Ironically, Internet libel law tends to encourage owners of websites and social networking pages to leave uncivil or libelous content alone, because the more effort an owner makes to edit, remove or censor comments, the more liable he becomes for what is left on a site or page. That said, we wouldn't be surprised if an enterprising lawyer took aim at the agency for the content there. In the end, the agency has made a choice to use a platform for spreading arrest or other information that is notorious for potentially libelous comments.
Facebook has proven a useful platform for public agencies to reach wide audiences, both for law enforcement and other government information and services. The question is whether the benefit of the website outweighs the risks it poses, both to the agency and people who are targeted by users with snarky scorn, unsubstantiated allegations, speculation and flat-out lies. Even if the risk of a libel suit is limited, we wonder if it's just plain wrong.


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Nutrition for Children and Teenagers
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Vending machines can be tempting when you are on the run from class to class. Take a look before you push the buttons. The majority of those tempting treats are full of fat and calories. For instance, a Twix bar contains 14 grams of fat and 280 calories; Peanut M&M's contain 11 grams of fat and 200 calories; a Mr. Goodbar contains 17 grams of fat and 270 calories; cheese peanut-butter crackers contain about 11 grams of fat and 210 calories; and a small bag of potato sticks contains 18 grams of fat and 250 calories. Better choices might include low-fat popcorn, pretzels, animal crackers, fig bars, low-fat granola bars, whole-wheat crackers, or low-fat breakfast bars. If you are trying to satisfy a sweet tooth, choose licorice, Lifesavers, gummy bears, or Rice Krispies bars, and eat them in moderation. They don't contribute to your nutritional intake, but they are at least generally low in fat and calories. Most of the treats found in vending machines will not hold you over for long because of their sugar content.
Essential: To save money and snack on something healthier than what you'll find in vending machines, carry a piece of fresh fruit or a granola bar with you for between-class snacking.
The other popular type of vending machine sells soft drinks. A regular twelve-ounce soft drink has about 150 calories, all coming from sugar. Save your money and carry a bottle of water with you. If water doesn't do it for you, choose a diet soft drink or something made with 100 percent fruit juice.
Fast-food and late-night ordering are very popular among college students. Both are quick and convenient. Remember that if you are short on cash, fast food is not exactly a bargain. Late-night munchies usually consist of ordering those extra large pizzas with everything on them, or sitting down with a bag of Doritos at 2:00 A.M. Your body needs fuel throughout the day to keep your energy levels up and keep you alert. Keep in mind that calories eaten during the day are more likely to be burned off than calories eaten just before bedtime, because you burn more calories when you are active. Try to stick to regular mealtimes; if you snack at night, make them light snacks. Go ahead and order pizza on occasion for a meal, but watch your toppings, which add most of the fat and calories.
Alcohol can be a culprit in those extra pounds gained as a freshman. If you are of legal drinking age, having a few occasional drinks is all right. But keep in mind that alcohol is high in calories and can also lead to late-night munchies. Another reason to drink in moderation is to avoid the effects it has on you the next day, such as headache, fatigue, nausea, and just feeling lousy. This can make it hard to concentrate in classes or to complete class assignments.
Fact: A twelve-ounce beer is 150 calories; a light beer is about 100 calories; a five-ounce serving of wine is about 105 calories; a shot (1.5 ounces) of whiskey is about 100 calories; and a 4.5 ounce Pina Colada is about 250 calories.
Healthy College Eating 101
Just because you are away from home does not mean it is time to forget all the good nutrition habits you learned as a kid. You may just need a bit of a refresher. Try these tips:
- Remember to eat three meals every day, including breakfast. It may seem like you can function on caffeine alone, but if you routinely skip meals, your brain and body will fail you when you need them most.
- Carry a water bottle with you everywhere you go. That way you can save money by not buying soda and other sweetened beverages, avoid unwanted calories, and ensure that you're well hydrated.
- Grab a piece of fruit every time you leave the dining hall, and carry it with you for a quick snack on the go.
- Take a balanced multivitamin every day with breakfast, just to ensure you are getting what you need. Don't let a supplement take the place of healthy foods, just let it round out your daily diet.
- Take a quick trip to the grocery store so you can keep quick nutritious snacks in your room: pretzels, low-fat popcorn, high-fiber crackers, low-fat breakfast bars, and unsweetened breakfast cereal. Buying snacks at the grocery store instead of the vending machine will save you money too!
- Invest in a small dorm room refrigerator to keep other healthy snacks such as fat-free milk, low-fat yogurt, low-fat string cheese, and fruits and vegetables. This way, when you are in a pinch for time, you still have something healthy to eat.
- Avoid keeping high-calorie foods such as candy and cookies in your room. This makes it way too easy to snack on these foods all day long!
- Eat a variety of different foods. There is more than macaroni and cheese, peanut butter and jelly, and ramen noodles out there, so expand your horizons. Spend your dollar wisely, but be sure to include fruit, vegetables, whole grains, lean protein, and low-fat or fat-free dairy products every day.
- Make it your goal to try one new food each week. Experiment with vegetarian meal options such as veggie burgers. Share your meal with a friend so you can both experience something new. Or both of you can get something different and try each other's!
More on: Nutritional Resources for Families
Copyright © 2002 by Kimberly A. Tessmer. Excerpted from The Everything Nutrition Book: Boost Energy, Prevent Illness, and Live Longer with permission of its publisher, Adams Media Corporation.
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As the title says I am looking for some motivational pictures for my phone for use as a background and/or as lock-screen. I currently on a custom rom android phone. I would like a application or tool to ease the process of making pictures with some phrases that remind me to focus.
The process should be something like this:
Provide a text phrase
mix this with a appropriate colors or picture.
The less photoshoping the better.
An alternative would be a source of nice pre-mades


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If you use the "Create chat room with user" feature. Why are there no options to make the chat private, but there are options to add read only users for rooms that are private?
What is meta?
- Any Stack Exchange user can ask a question
- The community provides support, votes on ideas, and reports bugs
- Your voice helps shape the way Stack Exchange operates
There are options to make the room private, but they're only accessible to moderators, and are reserved for moderation purposes (i.e. not for "Hey moderator, I'd like a private room with my buddy here, please make this room secret.)
Almost everything you do on StackExchange is public. This is intentional; as moderator Marc Gravell points out in this post: "Bad things happen in the dark".
Because ideally anything you're chatting about should be site related, and should include helpful information when other people are faced with same problem.
Essentially it is an extension of the Q&A system to handle situations where real-time communication is needed to better clarify communication and not flood the comment areas (which are there to clarify information). If comments are to clarify answers, chat is to clarify comments.
Good uses for chat include: coming to a consensus, clarifying comments, real-time chat needed for clarity, (politely) resolving misunderstandings.
Chat is not technically there for idle chat, but that is not strictly enforced.
Private chat rooms for lay-users would encourage idle chat, and likely hide useful information for future users.


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25 Feb 2010 5:42 PM #1
Chart extension - How to print in all browsers!
Hi All!
If you have used the Chart component You may have noticed that it can not be printed - at least in Safari and Firefox. So, the Flash component does not provide a nice way of printing.
The main idea is, that the browser can print a picture, so the image has to be obtained from the chart somehow.
The first thing is to notice that the flash chart component is the open-flash-chart from : http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart/
After some reading, we can see that the component provide two ways for getting the image:
1. ) the "post_image(...)" function as described at: http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash...load-image.php - this posts the image at the wanted url. As this solution post does not work properly, meaning that we don't get any notification when it is posted (actually there is a solution, however for a bug in flash it does not get fired).
To show the workings, I have changed a bit the "Advanced Chart" exaple (http://www.extjs.com/examples/explor...advancedcharts), and this you can implement in your local workspace.
In the sample please change the "Chart" to "ChartWSave" in class "AdvancedChartExample" so it would look like this:
String url = !Examples.isExplorer() ? "../../" : ""; url += "gxt/chart/open-flash-chart.swf"; final ChartWSave chart = new ChartWSave(url);
package com.extjs.gxt.samples.client.examples.chart; public class ChartWSave extends Chart { public ChartWSave(String url) { super(url); } public String getImgBinary() { return getImgBinary(swfElement); } private native String getImgBinary(Element e) /*-{ return e.get_img_binary(); }-*/; }
Next, in class "AdvancedChartExample", put the following code:
Button printButton = new Button("Print Chart"); printButton.addSelectionListener(new SelectionListener<ButtonEvent>() { @Override public void componentSelected(ButtonEvent ce) { String data = chart.getImgBinary(); // send it to the server... SaveChartPictureServiceAsync service = GWT.create(SaveChartPictureService.class); service.saveChartImage("name.png", data, new AsyncCallback<String>() { public void onFailure(Throwable caught) { System.out.println("Failure"); } public void onSuccess(String result) { System.out.println("Success :" + result ); String url = GWT.getModuleBaseURL() + "/../name.png"; Window.open(url, "_blank", ""); } }); } });
Please, don't forget to add the "printButton" to the LayoutContainer.
bbar.add(reload); bbar.add(printButton, new RowData(-1, -1, new Margins(0,10,0,10))); bbar.add(radForm);
Create the following interfaces on client side
package com.extjs.gxt.samples.client; @RemoteServiceRelativePath("savechartservice") public interface SaveChartPictureService extends RemoteService { String saveChartImage(String pictureName, String pictureData); }Code:
package com.extjs.gxt.samples.client; public interface SaveChartPictureServiceAsync { void saveChartImage(String pictureName, String pictureData, AsyncCallback<String> callback); }
package com.extjs.gxt.samples.server; public class SaveChartPictureServiceImpl extends RemoteServiceServlet implements SaveChartPictureService { public String saveChartImage(String pictureName, String pictureData) { BASE64Decoder decoder = new BASE64Decoder(); try { // decode the picture data ByteBuffer decodedBytes = decoder.decodeBufferToByteBuffer(pictureData); // create the output stream FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(pictureName); FileChannel channel = fos.getChannel(); // save the picture data. while (decodedBytes.hasRemaining()) { channel.write(decodedBytes); } } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); return "could not save the picture"; } String url = getServletContext().getRealPath(pictureName); return "url of the picture saved: " + url; } }
<servlet> <servlet-name>savechartservice</servlet-name> <servlet-class>com.extjs.gxt.samples.server.SaveChartPictureServiceImpl</servlet-class> </servlet>
As this intends to be an example, there will be parts that you want to change to get it work exactly on the way you need it.
However the changed files are attached, with their respective locations too.
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17 Feb 2011 4:11 PM #2
Thanks for this really usefull solution, to print in all browsers.
In one case it is working for me, as I need to print 2 different charts.
In the other case it isn't working in Firefox as there are 24 charts and Firefox seems to not render them, until I scrolled down and watched every chart for half a second. Only then I'm sometimes able (if I waited long enough for each chart to render) to print the charts.
In IE it works perfect.
Is there any solution for this "bug" or "feature" Firefox is rendering the charts? Can I force Firefox to render all charts, without having to scroll down to the end?
17 Feb 2011 4:58 PM #3
Frankly, I don't know the answer to this. I have never encountered this. Sorry.
17 Feb 2011 5:57 PM #4
Solved chart.setWMode(WINDOW) solved my problem. Now I am also able to print in FF, without preview of all charts.
22 Feb 2011 5:43 PM #5
What about no server at all ? :)
Nice solutions guys. I ve used the same approach sometimes ago until i came up with another solution. Now i m able to generate the PDF on the client without server interaction. I ll release to component soon. You can have a look a the preview on my project page http://code.google.com/p/gwt4air/


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