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5 Groundbreaking Firsts That Your History Books Lied About
There's a reason why nothing gets your name written larger in history books than being first at something. Humanity is all about breaking new ground and reaching new frontiers, so of course we idolize those who were the first up Mount Everest, or to find out what happens when you cram a bunch of Mentos up your ass and sit down in a bathtub full of Diet Coke. But a whole lot of these famous firsts are credited to the wrong people, due to politics, bad luck, or outright lies.
For instance ...
#5. Sally Ride Was Not the First Woman in Space
RIA Novosti archive, image #612748 / Alexander Mokletsov / CC-BY-SA 3.0
When it comes to space travel, most of us have room in our brains to remember the first few explorers and maybe one horrific explosion, but all the other astronauts and missions get jumbled together in a hazy mess. We know, for instance, that the first man to orbit the Earth was John Glenn, the first moon walk was Neil Armstrong, and, of course, the first woman in space -- thus striking a mighty blow for gender equality by disproving the myths that menstruating ladies attract space bears -- was Sally Ride.
Yeah, like that space shuttle in the background isn't the least bit suggestive.
Except That ...
Sally Ride wasn't the first woman in space at all, or even the second. Before we get to who it was, take a minute to think back through all the names you know of famous space explorers ... they're all awfully American-sounding, aren't they? Well, your history books didn't do that by accident.
During the space race, every time the USSR accomplished something noteworthy, the United States made a bunch of sitcom-ish gestures in front of the world news coverage while hoping John Q. Public would never notice. Then, once America accomplished the same feat, we'd shower ourselves in accolades and insist that everyone call us pioneers. That's why you probably didn't know that the first woman in space was actually Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova.
RIA Novoski via Russia Beyond the Headlines
Her name didn't fit nearly as well with the song "Mustang Sally."
In June of 1963, when Ride was just 12 years old, Tereshkova was already taking laps around the Earth aboard the Vostok 6. Her first mission made 48 full orbits during 70.8 hours, which works out to one orbit every one and a half hours. Oh, and she was also the first civilian in space. Before becoming a cosmonaut, her only experience with aircraft was abandoning them in midflight as a professional parachutist.
Yet by the time she finally hung up her spacesuit, Tereshkova had racked up more time in space than all United States astronauts combined. Of course she was silly with awards by then for her extraordinary contributions to space exploration, but the U.S. quietly forced an ether-soaked flag over the mouths of history book writers and jotted down Sally Ride's name instead, despite the fact that she was two decades late.
RIA Novosti / V. Malyshev
On the plus side, Tereshkova got hit on by Khrushchev. So there's that.
But don't assume the USSR got a raw deal in the space race, because ...
#4. The Soviet Union Wasn't the First Country in Space
Because it all happened behind the Iron Curtain, there's still quite a bit we don't know about Russia's space program in the second half of the 20th century. What little we do know is shocking in its complete disregard for life, safety, or anything that might stand between the outer limits of the atmosphere and a dog wrapped in a metal chamber. Russia was like the Rudy of the space race: not very talented or well-suited to the task, but desperately eager and wistful.
"C'mon, coach ... just play us once."
But who can argue with the results? They launched Sputnik into space while the U.S. was still fretting over petty problems like "What happens when it comes crashing back to Earth?" America's whole motivation for going to the moon was that the Russians had beaten it by being the first into space.
Except That ...
They absolutely weren't. While it may be gratifying to know that the reckless, arrogant giant that was the Soviet Union during the middle of the 20th century got beaten at its favorite game, slow your victory lap, because it wasn't the U.S. that beat them. So who was the plucky underdog country who swooped in and stole the win in the space race? Surely it's some country deserving of more renown and celebration for their ... monumental achievement ... oh goddamn it, it was the Nazis.
As early as the 1930s, Nazi scientists were working on developing a long-range ballistic missile for the military. When war broke out, development accelerated, and eventually they formed the V-2 rocket. When Hitler initially saw the slapped-together hunk of explosives, he concluded that it wasn't fit for use -- until late in the war, when he hurriedly approved it as his last-ditch miracle weapon. Fortunately for the rest of the world, the V-2 was absurdly ineffective. The entire program cost more than the Manhattan Project, killed more people in production than it did in actual combat, and was generally so crappy that the Allies decided it was less dangerous to let the rockets hit their targets than to try to blow them out of the sky.
Bundesarchiv, Bild 141-1875A / CC-BY-SA
"Also, we felt kinda sorry for 'em."
But what the V-2 lacked in killability it made up for with revolutionary spaceflight. On October 3, 1942, almost exactly 15 years before the launch of Sputnik, Nazi Germany became the first people on Earth to fire anything into space. They launched a V-2 that went right through the stratosphere, reaching a height of 150,000 feet before it presumably plummeted back to Earth on top of some terrified bystanders.
After the war, the Allies initiated Operation Paperclip, in which the U.S., the U.K., and the Soviet Union traded German scientists like baseball cards and the V-2 became the granddaddy of every modern rocket design around the world. The Soviets would copy the rocket, calling their ripoff the R-1, and several tweaks later, they had the R-7 -- a rocket that could fling an object into orbit. Thanks, Hitler!
National socialism really did us a solid on this one.
#3. Alexander Graham Bell Didn't Invent the Telephone (But Did Defraud the Patent System)
The invention of the telephone is one of those storybook legends everyone learns as a schoolkid. You know how it goes -- Alexander Graham Bell is tinkering with his newfangled magic talking machine and says the legendary first words ever spoken into a phone: "Mr. Watson, come here." Then Watson probably picked up his phone and burned it for witchcraft.
Bell did look a lot like a wizard.
Except That ...
If you read Cracked frequently, you already know that Alexander Graham Bell was an idea thief on Inception-type levels. In fact, even if we were able to give all the credit back to the people from whom he stole his greatest innovations, we would probably still celebrate Bell for all the crazy inventive ways he went about stealing inventions. For instance, he stole the idea for the first telephone from an Italian inventor named Antonio Meucci.
Alias: Santa Claus.
But then you have another victim, named Elisha Gray, and some impressive levels of legal fuckery that Bell used to screw him out of a patent. Gray developed one of the very first methods for a voice-transmission system using a revolutionary liquid transmitter that allowed voice to be clearly and intelligibly heard over the phone, a vast improvement over the tinny gibberish that other inventors (like Bell) were able to produce. And unlike Meucci, Gray had the money and wherewithal to keep his patent from expiring.
And, apparently, to afford a barber.
However, unbeknownst to Gray, Bell and his attorney had been bribing a patent examiner named Zenas Wilber to alert them any time someone was patenting any idea even remotely related to a phone, because they wanted to ensure that no one would end up beating them to the punch with a finished product. When Gray let the patent office know of his impending filing, Wilber quickly alerted Bell. Bell's lawyer then intercepted Gray's papers and saw that the guy had actually figured out how to make a working telephone ahead of Bell. Hurriedly, the lawyer scribbled a few lines on Bell's patent application, stealing Gray's liquid-transmitter design, and submitted them later that same day.
That's not just speculation, either -- Wilber confessed to his crime in detail when Gray launched a patent suit. In a sworn affidavit that was published in The Washington Post, Wilber said that he was a drinker and needed the money Bell was offering to support his habit, which meant that Alexander Graham Bell was basically caught in the act of thievery. So, how come no one has ever heard of Elisha Gray? Well, despite the fact that Gray's application arrived faster than Bell's, and despite the fact that a man confessed to being a drunken bribe taker, Bell still managed to win the battle and Gray slipped into obscurity.
On the left is Gray's original patent application, and on the right is Bell's doodled ripoff.


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Logitech Cordless Desktop Wave Pro: Electronics for $59.99
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This looks like a good deal. Love the feel of the wave keyboard.
i want this... i need this
60 bux for a non bluetooth device is a bit much
How is this for games?
MX 5500 is a better deal
Depends on what you are looking for. I have had both and the Wave is much more comfortable - for me at least. This IS a good deal on this particular product.
Ehhhhh....it's OK, but $60 isn't quite wootable.
That mouse looks super unfriendly to the wrist.... angle looks too steep. Betting its not for gamers who are on it a lot.
Arghhhhh! Bought a different one yesterday. Should have waited. Oh, well . . .
Try out the keyboard somewhere elsebefore buying it. Some people love it; some people hate it.
Like someone said above, you need to try it before buying it. I love it personally.
I've had this keyboard for a bit over a year, using it maybe 15 minutes a day if that. It's very comfortable to me, good key action for typing, etc. The one thing I don't like is the texture on the wrist rest wears out pretty quickly where your wrists sit on it, so you get these ugly shiny spots on the wrist rest that make it look dirty (think greasy) all the time. If you can ignore that, it's a fine keyboard with lots of good features. To me though, it costs too much money to end up looking crappy after such light use.
I have a Logitech Wave keyboard at home now, but this doesn't seem like a great deal even on a great keyboard. They had a wireless one up earlier this week (dented box) that was a better deal. If this were $39.99...
Under $70 without the need for a rebate is a good deal.
Have enjoyed using this same keyboard & mouse for 10 months. The keyboard is going strong with the original batteries; mouse comes with an eneloop rechargeable battery which I've charged via USB (or swapped out for another rechargeable) just 3 times over that period. As mentioned by others, do try out the keyboard in person, it's not for everyone.
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The convoy carried foodstuffs, pesticides, ambulances, tanks, and water and electrical equipment for the states of Al-Jazeerah, Sinnar, Kasala, South Kordofan, River Nile, Red Sea and East Equatoria. Emergency hospitals are expected to be dispatched soon.
In January of this year, Saudi Arabia handed over $20 million to Sudan to ease the suffering caused by floods. The aid also comprised material support, environmental sanitation and foodstuffs.


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Under the 50:50 plan by oil refiner Idemitsu and gas pipeline operator AltaGas, the two may build an LNG export terminal near Kitimat in British Columbia, possibly starting LNG exports mainly to Japan as early as 2017. The venture also plans to develop a liquefied petroleum gas export business.
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TOKYO -- A Japanese energy company on Tuesday said it is
partnering a Canadian firm to export North American natural gas
from Canada's West Coast to Japan and elsewhere in Asia, aiming
to meet part of Japan's sharply rising demand for the
clean-burning fuel to make up for idle nuclear power
Under the 50:50 plan by oil refiner Idemitsu Kosan Co. and
gas pipeline operator AltaGas, the two may build a liquefied
natural gas export terminal near Kitimat in British Columbia,
possibly starting LNG exports mainly to Japan as early as
"Canada is one of the world's most resource-rich countries
and has proven to be a very promising new supplier of gas to
Japan. We believe that a joint venture with AltaGas will
enhance the businesses of both companies while making a
significant contribution to the national interests of both
Canada and Japan," Idemitsu president Kazuhisa Nakano said in a
press statement.
The venture expects to use AltaGas' 500-kilometer natural
gas pipeline linking gas-rich Alberta to Kitimat on the Pacific
"If we can expand the capacity of the pipeline, we would
like to build a terminal with 2 million metric tons of
capacity," an Idemitsu spokesman said.
The joint venture also plans to develop a liquefied
petroleum gas export business, building on the Japanese
company's expertise in the sector. Idemitsu is a shareholder of
Astomos Energy Corp., one of the world's largest LPG
Several Japanese companies are trying to line up supplies of
US and Canadian gas, encouraged by gas there costing less than
a quarter of the price of LNG imported into Japan from
suppliers in the Asian region. Export projects being looked at include
both the shipping of gas from the west coast of Canada and via
the Gulf of Mexico.
The Idemitsu-AltaGas partnership is in a good position to
clear regulatory hurdles, as Canada is more positive about gas
exports than the US, the spokesman said.
Several LNG projects have sought US government
approval for exports. But so far, only Cheniere Energy has
received permission to ship gas abroad, from its terminal in
Louisiana, but only to countries that have free-trade
agreements with the US. Japan doesn't have such a treaty with
the US.
Under the plan, the two companies intend to buy gas in the
open market to feed the terminal, rather than invest in gas
production, the spokesman said.
Japan's LNG imports rose 11% to 87 million tons in 2012,
following 12% growth in 2011, as power utilities switched to
thermal power generation in the aftermath of the nuclear power
accident in Fukushima in March 2011.
Canadian Minister of Natural Resources Joe Oliver has
visited Japan twice since the Fukushima nuclear disaster,
offering Canadian LNG for Japan.
There are several LNG exporting projects on Canada's Pacific Coast
and if all were approved, they would be able to export roughly
66 million tpy of LNG, Mr. Oliver said.
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Will be interesting if that LNG tenimral in Oregon is approved. For exporting to Asia, the Gulf and East Coast make no sense, yet that's where all the current ones seem to be per FERC. Except for one in Alaska, which surely can't ship out LNG from the lower 48. Prior west coast LNG tenimral projects that I heard of were stopped by envionmentalists. But this will be exporting, not importing, which is much more palatable for politicians and the electorate.
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I am trying to convert files from .mov to .webm with Miro on a Mac for publishing to the web with HTML5. The conversions go fine for about 75% of the file but then Miro does not convert the rest of the file. I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this issue and what they did to get around it. Thanks!
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I tried using Miro as well to transcode H.264 MP4 into VP-8 WebM so that Firefox would play using HTML5 rather than a Flash fallback.
FireFogg Worked
My solution was to use FireFogg, which can encode into webm as well http://firefogg.org/
Instructions here, just choose webmsd or webhd instead of ogg: Video - Dive Into HTML5


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You can get stuck in a rut in the kitchen where you end up making the same boring dishes night after night. If you find yourself in this position, Gojee will save your from culinary boredom.
It offers up different recipes for drinks or food based on either what you're craving or what ingredients you have on-hand. The makers of Gojee describe it as Pandora for your kitchen, which is a fitting, albiet awful description.
For all the times I have bemoaned having a kitchen full of random ingredients that don't go together, I could have used Gojee. I have literally wished for something like this to exist for ages. It has a feature that lets you input what items you have laying around, and will suggest recipes based on the contents of your barebones pantry. Or if you're craving a particular food—like pork—it will give you suggestions for recipes pulled from around 200 of the best food blogs.


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I need to copy some fancy formatted code listing from one documentation to another. The person who formatted the code back then used the command
\lorangebox to highlight some parts of it. Now I am in search of the package
\lorangebox belongs too, since I don't want to simple take over the whole header from the old documentation.
Does someone know, which package the command belongs too. Google unfortunately doesn't provide me with much information on this issue.


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The 6 Most Horrific Bosses of All Time
Think about the worst boss you have ever had. At any point did you find yourself describing him or her as the "worst boss ever"?
Because you were wrong. There are bosses in the post-slavery era who took the normal "horrible boss" stereotype and raised it to astonishing, horrifying new heights. So just be glad you didn't work for...
#6. George Pullman
Do you ever dream of making enough money that you can pay (or force) people to act out your video games for you? Well George Pullman basically built a real-life version of The Sims.
Good or bad? You decide.
Why He Was An Asshole Boss:
Whenever you hear a historical figure referred to as an "industrialist," you know he was pretty shitty to work for. That certainly went for George Pullman, an industrialist who made his fortune in the railroads.
But Pullman wanted to be a father to his employees. An abusive, scary, probably drunken father. So he bought a huge chunk of land and built a town on it for his employees to live in.
Well, that kind of makes sense. Save on the commute, build a sense of unity. It's the kind of thing that could almost work, if the guy in charge wasn't completely batshit.
Just like some people can't play The Sims for more than an hour before inventing ways to torture the inhabitants, Pullman's town quickly became his own little kingdom-slash-prison. He forbade any free press, public meetings or bars. He would send guys to barge into employees' homes and make sure they were being kept spotless. Anybody who failed to meet Pullman's cleanliness standards were given 10 days to pack up and get out.
But if the others didn't like it, they could just leave, right? Well, Pullman started paying his employees in what he called Pullman Scrip, which could only be spent in the town and could not be exchanged for actual money.
And while running your own town according to your crazy fuck rules is kind of terrifying just on the face of it, things only got worse when the company started going downhill and everyone's wages were cut. To compliment the imaginary wage cuts, rent and the imaginary prices at the company stores were kept right where they were, squashing employees between a financial hammer and anvil. The situation eventually exploded into a strike that got so out of control that federal troops had to be brought in.
How much did the workers hate Pullman? When he died, they had to bury his body in a steel and concrete vault, which was itself buried under a few tons of concrete. Why? Because--and we're not making this up--they were afraid that employees would dig up and beat the shit out of his corpse, otherwise.
#5. J. Edgar Hoover
J. Edgar Hoover was the first director of the FBI, from 1935 until 1972, and he was crazy for every minute of it. Not coincidentally, Hoover's also the reason FBI directors are limited to 10-year terms of service.
Why He Was An Asshole Boss:
The world may never know exactly how insane J. Edgar Hoover was. That's the thing about holding an unelected position in an organization specializing in undercover work and keeping rooms full of secret files with the demand that they be destroyed upon your death. Stories have been boiling up about the man pretty much from the moment he expired, each more bizarre than the last. Nobody knows which are true, but they all paint a picture of a man about five minutes away from a shooting rampage.
One biography says he kept FBI employees on call 24 hours a day to just do random shit around his house, like repair his lawnmower. When he found a small animal turd on his patio, he demanded that agents take it to the lab to analyze it, completely sure he was being stalked by a wild animal. He then allegedly had them set a trap on the patio, which promptly killed the neighbor's cat.
He also loved to scrawl almost unreadable notes and instructions in the margins of memos. Then when one memo came his way with barely enough room on the edges for him to write in, he scrawled, "WATCH THE BORDERS."
Nobody had any clue what that meant, and they were too terrified of the crazy old bastard to ask him. So, they put out word to the Border Patrol to watch both the Canadian and Mexican borders for anything unusual. They arrested American Communist Party leader Gus Hall during the crackdown. A week later, staff finally figured out that "WATCH THE BORDERS" meant "leave more room in the margins of these memos because I like to write stuff in them."
Also, he apparently had a file of nude photos. Not of porn models; of everyone. He had nude pictures of Eleanor Roosevelt. Why? Just in case.
He is said to have monitored every aspect of agents' lives, telling them where they could and couldn't live, what clubs they could and couldn't join and what to wear. He allegedly fired agents because he thought their heads looked too small.
But life under Hoover wasn't all Michael Scott-esque lovable eccentricity. Melvin Purvis (as in, "the guy Christian Bale plays in Public Enemies") pissed Hoover off by having the nerve to track down three of the most infamous gangsters in American history (Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd and Johnny Depp's John Dillinger) and not give Hoover the credit. Hoover harassed Purvis until he left the FBI, then supposedly went around trying to sabotage all future jobs Purvis tried to get in the years after.
Wait, you're still picturing Eleanor Roosevelt naked, aren't you?
#4. Henry Clay Frick
Henry Clay Frick was the Chairman of Carnegie Steel, and also proud owner of the titles "the most hated man in America" and "Harry Cock-Bag."
Not to be confused with this hairy cock bag.
Here's a fun story about Frick: He started a fishing club for himself and his wealthy friends, buying up a lake in Pennsylvania, just for them. Its dam was constantly leaking, but not wanting to spend the cash to fix it, he let it go until the day it broke and flooded a town, killing 2,000 people.
At which point Frick admitted responsibility and... oh, wait, no. He hid behind his lawyers and spent the money on legal fees instead.
Why He Was An Asshole Boss:
In 1892, the world was just figuring out that everything was more awesome when it was made of steel. Prices were going up and the steel producers of the world (like Andre Carnegie and Mr. Frick) were living in houses made of bling. It just so happened the union's contract was up at a plant Frick was in charge of, and they came to the table asking for a raise.
Frick lit a cigar with a million dollar bill and counter-offered... a 22 percent pay cut.
When the union rejected the deal, Frick's counter-offer involved locking out workers, then installing sniper towers around the plant and cannons that could shoot boiling hot liquids on anyone who approached. He also put up a huge barbed wire fence, though that kind of seems redundant with those first two in place.
Vehicles and maniacal lust for power sold separately.
Thousands of angry employees picketed outside the building, and Frick decided to truck in some nice low-wage workers to replace them. Of course there was the problem of the giant crowd of screaming men outside the plant, so Frick hired 300 Pinkertons--old timey mercenaries with a terrible name--and unleashed them on the crowd.
All hell broke loose. It turned out the striking workers had guns, too, and dynamite, and a cannon. Several people were killed on each side, and dozens more wounded, before once again the military intervened to break things up.
Figuring that this Frick asshole was the real problem, a few weeks later a guy broke into Frick's office and shot him in the neck. Twice. At this point Frick rose up (presumably laughing deeply while his wounds suddenly healed before the assassin's eyes) and fought back. The cops came and arrested the assassin, and Frick was back to work in a week. And by "back to work" we mean he quickly fired 2,500 workers, and halved the pay for the ones who were left.
Frick wouldn't die until 27 years later, when somebody presumably remembered to put a stake through his heart.


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I am looking for a IRC client for the terminal that has colors, user list and just generally looks awesome ;) Any recommendations? There are loads of IRC clients in the repositories and I don't want to download them all to find the best one.
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I would prefer weechat. Apart from having colors and looking awesome it is very customizable.
A very small IRC client is ii, but has no colors out of the box. It is good for using in shell scripts etc.
Always used Epic with the SplitFire script myself.
From their site:
Quassel is a really good client in this way. In addition, it can be split in core and client and hence allow multiple computers all connected with the same user name.
I think one of the best IRC clients (ncurses based) is BitchX. It's included by default in the Fedora distros and it might be, in the future, shipped with Ubuntu.
BitchX had several security vulnerabilities, which were fixed lately. You can check BitchX 1.2 (NEW flavor, very nice) on GitHUB: Bitchx is awesome!
I recommend it for all of you who are nostalgic about good old times, also for those eager to experiment.
Another interesting IRC client is IRCII, you can find it here: ircII is awesome!
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In a form with a
Submit and a
Reset button and the end, what's the best order for the user experience ?
Submit first ?
Reset first ?
I would suggest removing the Reset button entirely. See this excerpt from the Nielsen Norman Group:
Others have mentioned the 'Reset' button isn't a good idea to begin with. However, if you really need more than 1 button, the 'proper' order really depends on what computer your site is being viewed on:
On the Mac, the "default" button is expected to be on the far right, others to the left of it.
On Windows, the order is generally reversed. So whatever order you use, you'll (slightly) confuse some of your users.
This is for multiple-choice buttons, of course. If you're in an Assistant/Wizard-like situation with multiple pages, both platforms generally have "Next" on the right and "Previous" on the left.
(Swap right and left for Right-to-Left script systems like Arabic or Hebrew, of course)
Update: Forgot to mention: Generally, one should also put the dangerous buttons at a physical distance from the "safe" ones. E.g. on MacOS, the "Do you want to save the changes made to this document" dialog has the buttons arranged like:
That means if you jerk the mouse while clicking (something beginners and casual users with less practice using the mouse easily do) you can't slip and end up on "Don't Save". Either you close the dialog (Cancel) or you save the file (your data is preserved) or nothing happens (you clicked in empty space).
First one if Submit is a primary action. Also, I think, that Reset button is unnecessary.
Some guides from Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks by Luke Wroblewski:
Additional info in Primary & Secondary Actions in Web Forms.
Keep it on the left - most current forms do this, cf. Image search for 'forms with reset buttons' so it will be more familiar to the user.
Also, while you have mentioned
If you think you have a good reason for having a Reset button, there are issues much more important than order.
Then consider platform-specific conventions as per uliwitness' answer.
In my experience, the order relative to each other doesn't matter as much as how they are positioned on the form. I find that the order is intuitive so long as the more commonly used option (hopefully submit) is closer to the edge of the form.
The reason for this is that when running it maximized, it's often easier to swing the cursor to the edge of the screen than it is to navigate to the middle of the screen. This generally helps to avoid misclicking on the reset option. Your color scheme also helps with this, assuming your background isn't red.
As Grant commented, enter should send submit, but, I would also suggest eliminating reset from the tab order entirely, so if anyone wanted to use it, they'd have to use their mouse if they were using keyboard shortcuts. And, as an additional protection against accidental resets, could always have a warning to be safe.
Reset first is the best order. Most of the users in the world r right handed. So it would be easy to press submit as hands prefer to move towards right first.
IMO there is a confusion between reset and cancel.
"Reset" is an HTML feature, a button that reverts all the input fields to the values that had when the form was first rendered in the browser.
"Cancel" is a feature of the application, to allow the user to escape without completing the current task. Like, one that is st the checkout of an online store and realized that he doesn't really need that expensive gadget, or that he needs more that one, just before clicking "Submit" that should be labeled something like "Complete purchase".
The "Reset" button, instead, would revert the input fields of the form to their initial values (not clear them).
About the "Submit" button I'd like to say that "Submit" is developer's lingo. The users should see a label telling about the semantic effect of the button, like "Complete purchase", "Send", whatever but "Submit".
A different way of solving this is to demphasize the more destructive action by making it less visually obvious. For example, making it a link instead of a button. This assumes of course that there is a more destructive action that is less preferred.
Since reset seems like a more destructive action to me, I would do make the reset action a link and right align it. In this manner, users will be less likely to accidentally click the Reset form link as it is a distance away from the primary submit action. See below image for what I mean.
And, if the form is not that long, I might even consider placing the Reset form link at the top right corner of the form. This way, accidental clicks are even less likely, but the reset action is still readily available. See below image for this.
when you see a Submit button on a form, what comes to your mind? One could easily reason that clicking the button submits the user's information into the system for processing. A Submit button describes what the system does well, but it doesn't describe what the user does at all.
When users fill out a form, they are engaging in a task. The action button should affirm what that task is, so that users know exactly what happens when they click that button. A button that describes the user's task tells users that the form focuses on carrying out that specific task. The more focused your form is, the more likely you'll get users to complete your form.
A form button that says Submit gives users the impression that the form isn't focused on a specific task. It also gives off the impression that your website is not user-friendly because you're speaking in a technical way that most users aren't familiar with. If this is the impression your users get when they fill out your form, you can bet that you're losing a few users in the process.
But Reset button is done after submit button because it displays default value so it should be in second button.
The question to ask, is what does Submit do? and What does Reset Do?
Should Submit and Reset be used in conjunction?
Usually, 'Submit' and 'Cancel' are used together, in the order shown, Cancel basically means cancel out of this page or interaction and go back to the screen/page before you came to the screen with 'Submit' & 'Cancel' page.
Reset is used when you want to clear or redo the page/screen.
Maybe you might consider something like this: 'Submit', 'Reset', & 'Cancel'
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Over the next two nights, after years of vigorous denials, Lance Armstrong will deliver a televised confession to doping throughout his storied career, in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that was recorded over 2½ hours on Monday in Armstrong's hometown of Austin, Texas.
Instead, Armstrong took to the phones this week, reaching out to several of his longtime critics and adversaries; he also stopped by the Austin office of the Livestrong Foundation on Monday, prior to his interview with Winfrey, to apologize -- not for lying, but for any "stress" he had caused the organization's employees.
Yet to those who were once close to Armstrong but refused to cover his lies, and to those that suffered from exposing his secret, an apology of any sort, televised or personally addressed, is likely to fall on deaf ears.
On Wednesday, Betsy Andreu, wife of Armstrong's longtime teammate and former friend Frankie Andreu, declined to comment on whether or not she had heard from Armstrong this week, in the wake of his reckoning, saying only, "Even something as simple as saying 'I'm sorry' can go a long way. Although if he's reaching out to people now, well, it should have been long before he was doing a TV program."
Irish journalist David Walsh, Armstrong's longest-running naysayer -- whose employer settled an Armstrong defamation lawsuit in 2006 and is now seeking to reclaim that money -- tweeted on Tuesday that he had not heard from the disgraced former world champion.
"[Armstrong] did not contact me," Walsh wrote. "Perhaps there are lengths to which he will not go. Perhaps he's mindful of [The Sunday Times'] lawsuit and aim to recoup money. ... Those who wonder if I'm disappointed [Armstrong] didn't contact me, please don't. It's not something I want and definitely not something I need."
Questions surround Armstrong's decision to confess now -- following his lifetime ban, lost endorsements, stripped results and ruined reputation -- just as questions swirl around the sincerity of any apology for his iron-fisted, tyrannical treatment of detractors, which disrupted lives and ruined careers.
For the moment, this much is certain: What Armstrong will confess on Winfrey's show will validate Walsh's years of brave reporting, as well as claims made under oath by those such as Betsy Andreu and Mike Anderson, Armstrong's former friend and personal bike mechanic. And Armstrong's confessions will directly contradict statements he made under oath about his doping in separate litigation matters that involved both Anderson and Andreu.
In addition to facing the court of public opinion, Armstrong could also be forced to answer in courts of law. His admission will likely see him hemorrhaging much of the personal wealth he amassed over the past 15 years, via both civil lawsuits filed by SCA Promotions and The Sunday Times, as well as the federal whistleblower lawsuit filed by another former friend and teammate, Floyd Landis, which may soon be backed by the U.S. Department of Justice. It's possible Armstrong could face criminal charges, for fraud, over millions of dollars of public sponsorship, and for perjury, after his denials under oath.
However, whether any of that will amount to justice to those who suffered from years of Armstrong's lying, bullying and intimidation, is unlikely.
Anderson: 'I don't trust him, and I never will'
Mike Anderson and Lance Armstrong were once friends and mountain-bike training partners in Austin. After Armstrong became a Tour champion, he hired Anderson as his mechanic, handyman and personal assistant. During his employment, which lasted from November 2002 to November 2004, Armstrong paid Anderson $3,000 a month and provided health benefits and a one-time bonus of $5,000.
According to Anderson's sworn testimony in a countersuit against Armstrong, his tasks were "so helpful and numerous" that Armstrong's wife, Kristin, referred to Anderson as "H2," standing for "Husband Number Two." Part of the employment agreement, Anderson claimed, was that Armstrong had agreed to help Anderson realize his dream of opening a bike shop in Austin.
That relationship slowly deteriorated over the summer of 2003, and went sour in February 2004; while cleaning out the bathroom of Armstrong's apartment in Girona, Spain, Anderson discovered a box of what he believed to be Androstenedione, a banned steroid. Anderson's sworn testimony states that the morning after his discovery it was clear Armstrong was aware of what had transpired, claiming "Armstrong was immediately distant and irritable towards Anderson and his family ... and for the first time in their relationship, instructed Anderson to call and knock before they ever entered the Armstrong apartment. This was completely unlike the arrangement that had existed before."
In December 2004, Armstrong sued Anderson over what he claimed was stolen property -- primarily cycling equipment and two laptop computers -- prompting Anderson to file a countersuit, claiming Armstrong had reneged on his promise to help him build a bike shop at the conclusion of the period of employment.
Following his termination, but prior to Armstrong's lawsuit, Anderson claims he was offered a three-month severance package on the condition that he sign a non-disclosure agreement, which he refused. The suit was settled in November 2005; the terms of the agreement were confidential.
Armstrong representatives subsequently issued a document attacking Anderson's credibility, claiming he was a disgruntled former employee, that Anderson never observed Armstrong commit an illegal act, was never requested to perform an illegal act, and never observed Armstrong ingest any prohibited substance.
Anderson, who holds a degree in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin, moved to New Zealand -- "as far away from Armstrong as possible" -- and opened a bike shop, The Bike Hutt, in Upper Hutt, near Wellington.
In May 2008, Armstrong opened his own bike shop in Austin, Mellow Johnny's, the name a play on the French words for the Tour's yellow jersey -- maillot jaune. Anderson claims that many of the concepts behind Mellow Johnny's originally stemmed from his dream of opening a shop.
Following Armstrong's decision in August 2012 to accept the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's lifetime ban, Anderson wrote a long account for Outside, titled "My Life With Lance Armstrong," which detailed the money he lost defending himself from Armstrong and his team of attorneys, and the emotional scars that battle inflicted.
Now, with Armstrong's long-awaited confession imminent, Anderson said that if Armstrong is looking for forgiveness, he'd best look elsewhere.
"You don't your live life ripping people apart, lying, cheating and causing ruin to people's lives, and then suddenly turn the corner and feel contrite," Anderson told VeloNews. "I don't buy it at all."
Asked what an Armstrong apology would need to look like in order for him to accept it, Anderson said it was almost impossible to imagine.
"I know it's not going to happen, but I would like to hear him tell the public, 'Mike didn't do this -- he wasn't a money-grubber, he didn't make this stuff up, he's not discredited,'" Anderson said. "I'd love to be told that I didn't deserve to be run out of town, I didn't deserve to be professionally ruined, I didn't deserve to feel the need to move 15,000 kilometers away from my friends and family because I felt I couldn't get gainful employment. I'd like him to apologize for making me feel like I needed to hide under a rock and hide my background, having worked for him. I'd like to hear an apology for having Mellow Johnny's flaunted in my face, when most of the ideas of that conceptual shop were mine, when the existence of that shop was due to my concept."
Ultimately, Anderson said he would never be able to forgive Armstrong, no matter what the fallen star had to say.
"I know Lance Armstrong well enough to know that anything he says, I know it would be made up -- false," Anderson said. "I don't trust him, and I never will. [An apology] would be a meaningless gesture, a PR stunt, there is no doubt in my mind."
DeCanio: 'I will never truly respect him'
Former racer Matt DeCanio watched his last pro contract dry up in 2005 after he posted inflammatory comments about Armstrong on his website, Stolen Underground.
A talented young American who once wore the race leader's jersey at the Tour de Beauce, DeCanio made waves throughout the cycling community in the summer of 2004 when he admitted he had used EPO during the 2003 Tour of Connecticut stage race. Though he had never tested positive, DeCanio's guilty conscience overtook him. He sat out the 2004 season and began posting controversial, staunchly anti-doping screeds on his website. Topics varied from his own doping experiences to highly personal admissions of depression, as well as specific accusations directed toward pro riders, including Armstrong.
In November 2004, he signed a contract with the domestic squad Ofoto-Sierra Nevada for the 2005 season; however, he was released from that contract before he ever pinned a number to an Ofoto jersey. According to a team spokesman, team management had a verbal agreement, as an addendum to DeCanio's original contract, that his websites would not "become a forum for debate and accusations" on doping. When DeCanio refused to go along with the team's policies, citing the First Amendment, he was asked to resign. It would prove to be his last chance, an unceremonious end to a promising career.
As he did nearly a decade ago, DeCanio feels Armstrong's influence in the sport led to his dismissal, and he still harbors anger over the way his career ended.
"Lance was obviously doping. David Clinger, who was on the U.S. Postal Service team, told me about the doping on the team," DeCanio said. "I got to the point where I felt I had to do it. I shouldn't have done it. And that shows the power of being a leader, like Lance. When things get hard, it's so easy to follow a leader like that."
DeCanio knew that accusing Armstrong of doping had marginalized him within the pro peloton, but he said his militant position was aimed toward deterring young riders from making the mistakes he'd made.
"So many people doped back then, and Lance was destroying everyone who was speaking out against it, making an example of anyone he could, using his abilities to destroy anyone who stood against him," DeCanio said.
Asked what an Armstrong apology would need to look like in order to be accepted, DeCanio said, "For me to respect Lance, he would have to be completely honest. He would need to say, 'When I was this age, this person told me I had to do this, this person enabled this.' He would have to out every person involved, and expose the secrets of the whole system. There's a lot of stuff that has not come out yet.
"If Lance were to do that, and dedicate the rest of his life to helping find a cure for cancer, and stop caring about his own life, and caring about wanting to race -- if he could be selfless, instead of selfish, if he could prove he is trying to make a change -- I would respect him more. But I will never truly respect him. He was an idol of mine, and his dictatorship over the sport ... I can forgive, but I cannot forget. I want to forgive him, and I want something good to come out of it. But he has so much work to do, and I don't see that he is willing to do it."
Andreu: 'Actions speak louder than words'
Over the past decade, Betsy Andreu has emerged as, if not Armstrong's biggest critic, then rather his bravest critic. Once a close friend and sometimes roommate of Armstrong's -- her husband, Frankie, raced alongside him at Motorola and U.S. Postal, as well as the U.S. national team -- Andreu first fell afoul of Armstrong in December 2003 when she attempted to provide Walsh with the phone number of Armstrong's former girlfriend, Lisa Shiels.
Armstrong sent Frankie Andreu an email, writing, "helping to bring me down is not going to help y'all's situation at all. There is a direct link to all our success here and I suggest you remind (Betsy) of that."
That relationship was permanently severed when a lawsuit between Armstrong and SCA Promotions forced the Andreus in late 2005 to testify under oath that Armstrong had admitted, in front of friends, family and doctors in an Indiana hospital in 1996, to using performance enhancing drugs.
"After that, it was all-out attack, war on my wife and I," Frankie Andreu told CNN. "They ripped us apart. I lost a lot of jobs, lost a lot of money. It's been a very long, long fight."
Upon retiring from racing in 2000, Andreu served as a team director at U.S. Postal Service in 2001 and 2002. However, as his relationship with Armstrong became more strained, Andreu found his marketability in the racing world had diminished. In July 2006, he was fired from his role as director for the domestic team Toyota-United. In his testimony to USADA, Andreu testified that, "Although the team owner, Sean Tucker, denied it was because of my testimony regarding Lance, it coincided with the controversy surrounding my testimony and that of Betsy in the SCA arbitration."
In his role as an on-screen commentator for the Versus TV network, which broadcast the Tour de France, Andreu was prohibited from speaking with Armstrong's teams. Andreu's contract with the network, which in 2012 re-branded as NBC Sports Network, was not renewed in 2011. Over the years, teams that Andreu directed have not received invitations to the biggest races in the U.S., such as the Amgen Tour of California and USA Pro Challenge, even though, on paper, his were stronger than some teams that were invited. Andreu told USADA that he has been told that his public disputes with Armstrong "made it more difficult for others in the cycling industry to work with me, because they fear reprisal from Lance and his associates."
Asked about lost opportunities, Andreu, who now directs the Five-hour Energy-Kenda domestic team, said he preferred to not name specific examples.
"There were jobs where I was let go of, and there were jobs that just didn't come my way," he told VeloNews. "I received responses that I was too controversial. Whether that was the direct influence of Lance Armstrong or not, I don't know. He might not have been calling people and telling them not to hire me, but people knew I was on the opposite side of him, so they didn't reach out to me."
Meanwhile, Betsy saw her character attacked -- Armstrong described her alternatively as bitter, vindictive and jealous. She received harassing phone calls and emails, both from Armstrong's associates, and even scarier, from complete strangers.
Given that neither of the Andreus would comment on whether or not they'd been contacted by Armstrong this week, their comments on what an Armstrong apology would need to look like in order to be accepted were intriguing.
Last week, Betsy Andreu had said she felt Armstrong was incapable of contrition, and had "zero thought about the people whose lives he's messed over," adding, "Let him give money to everyone whose careers he destroyed, let him live in typical American 1,200-square-foot home, driving a Ford Taurus, then we'll know he's contrite."
On Tuesday, Frankie Andreu appeared on ESPN Radio's "The Herd" and gave an impassioned interview during which he called Armstrong "a bad guy" and detailed the difficulties his family faced after testifying against Armstrong.
On Wednesday, however, Betsy Andreu's tone was more lenient.
"Only time will tell if Lance is sincere in his apologies," she said. "If he goes on TV and gives some kind of partial confession, those who know him, and know the truth, will see right through it. Actions speak louder than words. Let's see if there's behavior that would go along with a confession and apology."
Jail or forgiveness?
The list of those Armstrong disparaged, and destroyed, is much longer than these examples, and includes names such as three-time Tour champion Greg LeMond, whose bike brand Armstrong torpedoed, and Emma O'Reilly, the former U.S. Postal soigneur who Armstrong accused of having been fired from the team due to "inappropriate relations" with staff members.
Ultimately, it will forever be impossible to quantify the damage caused by Armstrong's lying, and the sphere of his influence at the height of his reign.
Both Anderson and DeCanio feel that Armstrong should serve time behind bars.
"I'd like to see jail time," Anderson said. "The rich and powerful should not get away with it, and he got away with it because he's rich and powerful. He's like an inside trader; he got away with it due to power, influence and money. He deserves jail. He doesn't deserve a penny he has, because it was all ill-gotten. The rest of us do our jobs as honestly as we can to eek out a living, and he's gotten away with what he's worth now fraudulently, and that shouldn't be allowed in a democratic, civilized nation like the U.S. If he's left with any money at all, that's fundamentally wrong. That's prize money that was won under the rules of sport, which he broke. That's money he took from sponsors while he said he was doing it clean."
Like Anderson, DeCanio also believes Armstrong's actions go beyond simply taking banned substances -- he was, as "The Secret Race" author Dan Coyle has said, a kingpin. ("He was Tony Soprano," Coyle told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Tuesday. "When you crossed him, he cut you dead. You were gone.")
"When you look at something like insider trading, if you're guilty of it, even if you are Martha Stewart, you go to jail," DeCanio said. "How is that different from Lance, or anyone, doping and winning $20,000 in a race, or taking contract money? How is that not a felony or a criminal act? I think Lance is a criminal. Sport is a business. When you have people go to their jobs, if they are able to cheat and steal, that is a crime. I see this the same as stealing. Some people look at Armstrong as a great champion, but I see him as a criminal."
To that end, Armstrong may just be looking to buy his way out of jail. CBS News reported on Tuesday night that government officials had rejected an Armstrong offer to repay $5 million in restitution and cooperate with investigators as a witness.
Asked if she were open to the possibility of forgiving Armstrong, Betsy Andreu took a long pause before answering.
"I'm certainly not open to being friends again. But I am open to ... just letting it go and having ... a peace within," she said. "I'm open to not holding on to ugly feelings inside. It's a process. If I weren't open to it, I wouldn't be mulling it over. But that doesn't mean he shouldn't pay the price for what he's done."
Asked what that price should be, she said, simply, "I don't know."
"Forgiveness is such a nouveau American thing. It's really, really hard. It's a process. It's personal," she said. "Whether or not Lance has called us or not, it's up to me to forgive -- it's not dependent on him. The burden lies on me. As a Christian I am supposed to forgive, but it is the hardest thing you'll ever have to do in your life when you've been so deeply hurt. It's a process. It's not free. And it doesn't mean forgetting, either."


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Don't get me wrong, I had made my mother mad plenty of times during my 17 years on earth.
But, not like this.
And all I could do was sit and take it.
I was kicked out of a high school basketball game earlier than evening in my senior year for giving a referee the one-fingered salute.
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We pray for blessings
We pray for peace
Comfort for family, protection while we sleep
We pray for healing, for prosperity
We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
All the while, You hear each spoken need
Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things
Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You're near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise
We pray for wisdom
Your voice to hear
And we cry in anger when we cannot feel You near
We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love
As if every promise from Your Word is not enough
All the while, You hear each desperate plea
And long that we'd have faith to believe
Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You're near
And what if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise
When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know the pain reminds this heart
That this is not, this is not our home
It's not our home
Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
And what if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You're near
What if my greatest disappointments
Or the aching of this life
Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy
And what if trials of this life
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are Your mercies in disguise
I was kicked out of the gym, for that matter.
The coach just told me to go home and we would talk later.
When I got home my mother blitzed me.
I knew I had it coming and there was nothing I could say.
I kept my mouth shut, for one of the few times, and took the tongue lashing like it was meant.
My mother was mad for what I did.
But, what bothered her was something that was said in the gymnasium as I was leaving the place.
Two men sitting in front of my mom made some sort of comment on how I was raised. They didn't know the lady behind them, who could hear their conversation, was my mother, and the one who did the raising.
"I could handle what you did," she said. "I couldn't handle what they said."
Yep, I still remember the conversation.
I went to school the next day and was told by my counselor I had been kicked out of school until a meeting with my mother, the principal and the coach.
That was two days later.
In the meeting the principal basically said I was off the team for good and had to be a good little boy for the next six weeks in order to be able to run track.
The coach said nothing.
Neither did my mom.
I sure didn't say a word.
When we left the meeting the coach turned to my mom and said, "If there is anything I can do for your son, please let me know."
My mother turned to the 6-foot-8 coach and said, "You had a chance to help my son in there and you kept your mouth shut."
My mother then turned to me and said, "And, you keep your mouth shut if you want to run track."
That was it.
My mother, after taking me behind the woodshed, took the coach to task and then was back at it with me.
Seven years later my mother passed away from cancer.
There's no higher calling than to be a mother.
Your tender spirit, loving ways and intuition is something us men don't have or understand.
My mother was there to give me loving hugs and lay it on the line when I was being an idiot.
My mother was there to hear no excuses and expect the best out of me.
My mother was there to call my bluff, show me the correct path and make sure I called her if I was going to miss curfew.
My mother was there to make sure I was respectful.
My mother never talked to coaches about playing time, or lack thereof.
My mother never talked to coaches about their philosophies.
My mother never talked to coaches about how hard they were working us.
And, if I came home and complained about any of those things, she wanted no part of the conversation.
She told me it was my choice to play and my choice to work hard or not and the more I worked the more I would play.
My mother never talked to teachers about my grades.
They were my grades, not hers.
I miss my mom.
I miss that she missed out on four grandchildren - three great boys and a precious girl.
My wife had no clue the rollercoaster ride she was in for when she said "yes" and "I do."
She is a great wife and mom who has to put up with way more than she ever thought possible.
After all, she has a 17-year-old daughter, a 14-year-old son and me.
That, right there, is a life of mystery and love.
The things my mother taught me in that one lesson is something I try to teach my children and those I am around daily at Jefferson County Christian School.
It's about the heart.
It's about understanding that what you do affects others in ways we will never know.
It's about doing the right thing and not excusing stupidity.
It's about making kids accountable for their actions and not letting them get away with what they shouldn't.
It's about realizing that things don't always have to go perfect to learn a lesson, to teach someone or to help others.
Failure is not a bad thing and success doesn't come easy.
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Tried again on the Labor Day weekend to upgrade my Samsung Q1EX from Windows XP to Windows 7, using the Release Candidate (version 7100) that is publicly available. I was encouraged by reading posts in the Gottabemobile and UMPCPortal forums about the success of upgrading to Windows 7 for various other Q1 models.
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The C.H.A.R.T. Partnership meets the third Wednesday of each month at Fiddlestiks in Hannibal with lunch at 11:30 a.m. followed by a program and the meeting at noon. Healthcare and social services organizations and leaders throughout Northeast Missouri are encouraged to participate.
The presenters for the July 17 C.H.A.R.T. Partnership meeting are from the Community Commons at the University of Missouri in Columbia. Community Commons is a new online learning tool to build healthy, equitable and sustainable communities. Their services include: Discovering "what's working" across the country, making Geographic Information Systems' (GIS) maps to help tell your community story, finding valuable data to inform strategy and track impact, and participating in forums and sharing ideas.
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Undergraduate and MFA faculty member Benjamin Anastas' new memoir, Too Good to Be True—about having and losing it all, both in literature and life— "is smart and honest and searching," raved one New York Times review, "…so plaintive and raw that most writers (and many readers) will finish it with heart palpitations."
Added another Times review: "What lifts this memoir from good to outstanding is that the humor and the darkness are merely a patina. Under the irony there is no irony. Under the panic lies a remorseful heart, a fierce hope, a steady determination to figure it out and become a better person."
Anastas discussed the book in a recent interview with the literary website IdentityTheory.com.


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"Thank you" answers are generally not very useful, especially if they appear in masses. Some questions are attracting especially many of them and should probably be cleaned up by a moderator. A data-dump query shows:
8 Thanks
6 Thanks
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/45534
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43778
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/326196
5 Thanks
4 Thanks
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/141411
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/607562
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5694
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/248956
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/354374
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1456185
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/447289
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Used query
The above lists were produced by this query:
('http://stackoverflow.com/questions/' || to_char(parentid, 'FM9999999'))
from posts
where posttypeid = 2 and length(body) <= 200 and (body ~* 'thank|thx')
group by parentid
order by count(id) desc;
~* is a regex search.)
More thank you posts
If after these lists above someone would still feel the need to clean up even more - or just doesn't know what he should do the next month - a general query for
LIKE %hank% shows many answers that don't add any value. With
length(body) <= 100 basically all returned answers are not useful:
('http://stackoverflow.com/questions/' || to_char(id, 'FM9999999')),
from posts
where posttypeid = 2 and length(body) <= 100 and (body like '%hank%')
order by length(body);
This query returns 2725 records. That's too much (and too boring) to go through by hand, and a simple
delete in the database would be too extreme, so I guess they are here to stay.
Cleaning them up when they start "clustering" like in the above questions is probably the way to go; single thank you posts don't add that much noise that they couldn't be tolerated.
Here is an up to date list: http://odata.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/q/886 - again tons to clean up.
Related query, showing just lots of short answers by 1 rep users: http://odata.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/q/2587
That being said
... and kind of fitting the general topic of this post I want to add:
Thank you to all the moderators of the trilogy for spending their time for the good of us all, and for doing a very good job at it! You are always there when you are needed and make the sites a better place.


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Keith Koeneman: First Son - The Biography of Richard M. Daley
"Mayor Richard M. Daley dropped the bomb at a routine news conference at City Hall on Tuesday. With no prelude or fanfare, Mr. Daley announced that he would not seek re-election when his term expires next year. 'Simply put, it's time,' he said."
-- New York Times, September 7, 2010
With those four words, an era ended. After 22 years, the longest-serving and most powerful mayor in the history of Chicago — and, arguably, America — stepped down, leaving behind a city that was utterly transformed and a complicated legacy we are only beginning to evaluate.
In First Son, Keith Koeneman chronicles the sometimes Shakespearean, sometimes Machiavellian life of an American political legend. Making deft use of unprecedented access to key players in the Daley administration, as well as Chicago's business and cultural leaders, Koeneman draws on more than one hundred interviews to tell an up-close, insider story of political triumph and personal evolution.
With Koeneman as our guide, we follow young Daley from his beginnings as an average Bridgeport kid thought to lack his father's talent and charisma to his unlikely transformation into an iron-fisted leader. Daley not only escaped the giant shadow of his father but also transformed Chicago from a gritty, post-industrial Midwestern capital into a beautiful, sophisticated global city widely recognized as a model for innovative metropolises throughout the world.
But in spite of his many accomplishments, Richard M. Daley's record is far from flawless. First Son sets the dramatic improvement of certain parts of the city against the persistent realities of crime, financial stress failing public housing, and dysfunctional schools. And it reveals that while in many ways Daley broke with the machine politics of his father, he continued to reward loyalty with favors, use the resources of city government to overwhelm opponents, and tolerate political corruption.


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What roles do people take after scrum master/technical lead?
EDIT: My current role is a mix of a technical lead and scrum master role, but that's how we do it in my company :) )
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Technical evangelist? Scrum master is not technical role. Also Scrum master has no impact on architectural decissions => there is no point to promote you from non technical to technical role.
Scrum master is Scrum facilitator. He removes impediments from team and he ensures that Scrum is correctly followed. He does not lead the team and he does not define anything technical.
I always think about Product owner and Scrum master as roles replacing common project manager.
There are two explanations:
So the question is: Do you expect promotion to role related to Scrum or to role not related to Scrum?
Well, the answer is simple. Chief Scrum Master or Senior Scrum Master. That is if you still want to stick to owning the Scrum Framework, and all the scrum related stuff. Sounds like you will be given more responsibility with possibly of handling Scrum right from inception till the end for new projects, that's why I would suggest Chief Scrum Master. You may be involved in Team forming decisions, Virtual product forming discussions, maybe. Maybe even have Sub Scrum Masters working with you and you mentoring them. Irrespective of your promotion, if you have the expertise, there is no reason why you should not be involved in architectural discussions as an SM.
Bottom line to this is, don't worry about the role or title much. What matters more is the value you bring to the organization by making use of your expertise in the various fields you might have. Try to understand the essence of that and portray that in your daily duties and that would be your real role/title. Just my two cents. Congrats by the way!
I think you should stick with Technical Evangelist, that sounds pretty epic to me
A ScrumMaster is a pretty defined role. In terms of herding all the cats and moving into your next role, I would suggest two things:
1. You could be an Uber ScrumMaster, and yes, they do exist. Their job is to keep enterprise impediments from reaching the teams and working with the executives and ScrumMasters of the various teams to keep them running smoothly.
2. You could take on a more coaching role. Do less of the ScrumMastering, and more of the coaching: better practices, leading other ScrumMasters, teaching TDD, holding workshops.
+1 to Ladislav. SM is not a technocal role
The obvious choice would be to continue to expand your ScrumMaster certification.
The suggested path according to The Scrum Alliance is to become a Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) and eventually Certified Scrum Coach (CSC).
A "ScrumMaster of ScrumMasters" of course. You get to take care of the Scrum of Scrums :)
If you feel that you've truly mastered Scrum and would like to be able to do more in that area, you could either take up the CSP and CSC as Martin suggested, or simply train to become an Agile coach.
I'd also suggest having a look at Lean and Kanban. The principles are similar to those in Scrum and other Agile methodologies, with a slightly different focus and different tools and metrics.
Either set of skills can take you down the coaching route, eventually becoming an organisational change agent; or down the project and programme management route if you prefer that.


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New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences has received a $708,468 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to create a Center for Mathematical Talent that will discover and support high-school and middle-school students with exceptional potential in the New York City area.
"There are so many gifted, talented, and promising kids in New York City, but too few have access to programs that can help them realize all they can achieve in science and mathematics," said Daniel L. Goroff, program director, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. "This new center will reach out broadly to students who may otherwise be too underserved, underwhelmed, or under-confident to develop their full potential."
The Center for Mathematical Talent (CMT), which will launch in September 2010, seeks to devise, strengthen, or expand institutions and practices that can identify and nurture mathematical talent, starting in New York City.
For example, CMT will work closely both with the existing New York Mathematical Circle (NYMC), which offers after-school activities for mathematically gifted students and seminars for teachers of mathematics, as well as with the New York City Interscholastic Mathematics League (NYCIML), which organizes mathematics competitions for area schools.
The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU has active relationships with many local schools and, for example, currently houses several "Math Circles" where students gather each week to explore advanced or deep topics with the help of an experienced instructor. In addition, its annual "Courant Splash"—a day-long festival of classes in the mathematical and computer sciences—attracts high-school students from across New York City who want to challenge themselves and gain exposure to new ideas. CMT will serve as an umbrella for these activities and for collaborations with the Department of Teaching and Learning in NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
The establishment of this new Center was in part inspired by an international conference last winter that explored examples from around the world of what works in this field. Statistical studies presented there showed that New York City could be doing much more compared with other major urban areas. Starting here, CMT will aim to develop templates for signature programs that mathematicians and institutions across the country can adapt to nurture mathematical talent in their schools and communities, too.
About the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation:
Established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., then-President and Chief Executive Officer of the General Motors Corporation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic, not-for-profit grantmaking institution that supports original research and broad-based education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and economic performance. For more information, click here.
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New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences is a leading center for research and education. Established under the leadership of Richard Courant in 1935, the Courant Institute has contributed to U.S. and international science and engineering by promoting an integrated view of mathematics and computer science. The Institute is engaged in broad research activities, applying these disciplines to problems in biology, chemistry, physics, economics, and atmosphere-ocean science. The Courant Institute has played a central role in the development of applied mathematics, analysis, and computer science, and is comprised of a faculty which has received numerous national and international awards in recognition of their extraordinary research accomplishments. For more information, click here.
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MINNEAPOLIS - Target announced its plans to donate more than $500 million by the end of 2015 to support education, doubling its support to-date, for a total of more than $1 billion. The financial commitment is part of Target's new reading initiative, Target Read With Me, aimed at helping more U.S. children read proficiently by the end of third grade, the company reported.
"Target's ties to education run deep, but we are compelled to do more to address the education crisis in the United States and put more kids on the path to graduation so they are ready for college, a career and life. The time to act is now, and it starts by reading with a child," said Laysha Ward, president of community relations, Target. "Our reading pledge is the first of many steps Target will take to ensure our kids are globally competitive. We need every parent and caring adult to join us in creating a movement that will chart a new course in education and help our children succeed."
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In addition, Target said it will donate 1 million books to mark the beginning of its Target Read With Me initiative and up to an additional 1 million books once 1 million reading pledges have been received.
Target also announced plans to launch a reading center of excellence that will have a physical and virtual presence. The physical center will be located in Target's headquarters market of Minneapolis-St. Paul, where nearly half of third-grade students do not read at a proficient level, according to the company. The center will serve to support and share innovative solutions and best practices in reading, Target reported. The virtual aspect of Target's reading center will ensure kids, parents and caring adults have access to interactive tools and reading resources, regardless of their location.


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In my present configuration, my
/home lives on a regular spinning hard drive, with the exception of
/home/mac/runtime which is a partition from a SSD.
My problem is that such partition shows up as a "removable device" even if the mount options are such that is not possible for the user to unmount it at all (besides, it is not a removable device, given that it is a partition of an internal hard drive!).
Indeed my goal would be for the partition layout to be totally transparent (my
/boot is on another disk too, but the user wouldn't know, and the
/boot doesn't appear as a removable drive).
The portion of my
/etc/fstab of interest looks like this:
# /home was on /dev/sdb1 during installation
UUID=<my-uuid-here> /home ext4 noatime,nodiratime 0 2
# /home/mac/runtime was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=<my-uuid-here> /home/mac/runtime ext4 noatime,nodiratime 0 2
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One local resident has received a special thank you for his contributions to the community. Greg Dvorak of Wellington, Kan., was selected to receive free fuel from Tanks of Thanks®, a program that rewards people who do good deeds to help make their community just a little bit better.
The Tanks of Thanks program from Cenex®, the CHS energy brand, encourages people to nominate friends, family and neighbors for free fuel as a way to say thank you for doing good in the community. Each month, 100 nominees are randomly selected to receive free fuel from the Tanks of Thanks program. Dvorak is the elementary school custodian who goes out of his way to help the staff, teachers and kids, providing his assistance during school events and in classrooms and, every morning, greeting students at the door. Earlier this month, Dvorak was selected to receive a $50 Tanks of Thanks gift card redeemable at any Cenex location.
"There are people doing good things in every local community, and these acts of kindness do not go unnoticed or unappreciated," explains Akhtar Hussain, CHS refined fuels brand marketing manager. "Congratulations to Greg Dvorak, and thank you for your contribution to the community."
According to Hussain, Tanks of Thanks is a multiyear program, so there is still plenty of time for others to nominate someone they know for free fuel. "Nominating someone for Tanks of Thanks is easy, and anyone can nominate or be nominated for any act of kindness—big or small."
To make a nomination, visit TanksofThanks.com and briefly describe why someone deserves a Tank of Thanks.
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Is there such a thing as a restore point in Ubuntu?
I'm new to linux (Ubuntu 12.04) and I'm finding that as I try to do new things, I end up breaking parts of my installation. It would be very useful if there is an easy way to back things up so that I can revert to a previous working version of my environment. What's the best (and simple) way to do this?
I'm thinking it must be something like a Windows Restore point, but some of my searches have found people specifically saying there's nothing like that (it is not how linux 'works').


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You can create your own frozen treats while keeping them low in calories and fat. These yogurt pops use banana, cocoa, and honey to satisfy any sweet tooth.
Yield: 4 yogurt pops
Preparation time: 10 minutes
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- 1 small, ripe banana
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- In a blender, add the banana, yogurt, milk, and cocoa powder. Puree until smooth (about 20 seconds).
- Add the honey and vanilla. Puree again until the honey is mixed in (about 15 more seconds).
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- When ready to serve, dip the mold in warm water to release the popsicles.
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One problem that I'm having trouble with (as opposed to the other):
The Messenger is a probe that orbits Mercury $700 \rm km$ from the surface. What is the tangential velocity it should be rotating at so that it doesn't precipitate towards the planet, in $\rm m/s$?
Data: Mercury's mass $3,3 \times 10 ^{23} \rm kg$ Diameter: $4870 \rm km $ . Gravitational constant: $G=6,67 \times 10^{-11} \rm m^{3}kg^{-1}s^{-2}$
I assume I need to use the following $$a_{c}=\frac {V^2} r$$
$$F=G\frac{m_1 m_2}{d^2}$$
Solving for $V$ in $$G\frac{{{m_1}{m_2}}}{{{d^2}}} = {m_1}\frac{{{V^2}}}{d}$$ did it.