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Have you ever had a delivery driver ask you for this? Is this the new norm?
So tonight my boyfriend bought a pizza from Domino's for me, so that I would get it right after I got home from work. (Sweet, right?) Well when the driver arrived with the pizza he asked me for the credit card used for the purchase so he could "physically document the cc#". My bf's credit card had already been charged, and this was the delivery address he gave online, so what was the reason for the physical copy? When I explained that my bf ordered the pizza so I didn't have a copy of the card the driver called his manager and apparently "made an exception for me just this one time" and had me give him my driver's license number instead. Is this normal? To me it seems odd and suspicious. Has this ever happened to you?
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It's normal. Not sure when it started but I was also surprised when I first witnessed it. Not every place does it but I've seen it several times in the last few years. Very inconvenient.
Nope, never had that happen. I'm not sure I would show it to the driver.
Yes, completely normal. Dominos and Pizza Hut I know for sure do it. They don't do it every time, but they do have the option.
We don't have delivery in our area. :(
Yes, I know it to be fairly commonplace, but to me it is just silly. I mean if I am stealing a credit card I am going to buy more than a freaking pizza... And I am REALLY not going to bring someone to the house to witness me making fraudulent purchases (i.e. the delivery guy).
@jsimsace: I have delivery, but I'm too paranoid to let anyone deliver. I always pick up.
@the18thtee84: That was my train of thought on the matter as well. I asked him if they had been having a problem with stolen credit cards and he just kinda mumbled "no" and then something about how when he was at Pizza Hut they required an ID when they delivered the pizza, which honestly I can understand it, as it would lower the number of problems they get for wrongful deliveries. But to make a physical copy of my credit card, especially when you have my name, address, and phone number already listed on the receipt? That just sounds like a recipe for disaster. I'm not saying the delivery person or even anyone at Domino's would take advantage of that, but what if they don't destroy the document correctly?
@lumpthar: I live 2 blocks away from Pizza hut. Pick up is not a problem. :)
I've now lived for 7+ years outside the delivery zone of any major pizza chain. I wonder what else will be new when I move back into a more populated area? You don't realize how great the convenience of pizza delivery is until you don't have the option for any price.
This is done in stores too. I've placed lots of orders on Sears' website. When I go to pick up what I bought, I always have to show my credit card at the pick-up area.
@kd1357: I don't think they are making a copy of the card; they just want to see the actual card that was used to make the purchase.
I pick up pizza rather than having it delivered but they also usually want to see the cc I used to pay for it when I ordered it.
It's normal. Some places will have you sign the receipt and then check the signature on the card to make sure it looks similar. Most of the time, they don't ask for the card, but I think it's their policy to ask to see it. Check the fine-print when you order online and I bet it has something about "you'll be expected to provide proof of the card" or some such verbiage.
Never, and have no reason to. If the card's approved(not over limit or reported lost or stolen), the store is off the hook for the charges. They lose nothing. If however, in their haste, they fail to get card approval, it's a problem- but it's not mine.
@stanleys: I thought so too but he pulled out a pen and started writing "cc#" on the receipt right after he handed me the pizza box.
I always pay by check when I order pizza and they make you write down your driver's license or ID number on it.
@kc6201: I never understood checks... I mean, they have the routing #, account #, AND the account holder's name and address on there... What else does a crook need? A lot a places accept "electronic checks", so that delivery driver could copy your check info then go home and use it.
Our delivery guys routinely will rub the card to imprint on their copy of the receipt. After a few deliveries, I noticed they tend to stop.
Very normal though not every place does it. I order delivery a lot. Before I discovered Eat24, I would just call the restaurant and sometimes the delivery driver doesn't even need a signature, sometimes just a signature, and other times they ask for the credit card and make an imprint of it, either with a machine or with a pen rubbing (think pencil or chalk rubbings). Newer places actually have a smartphone app to swipe your card at your door. I've never had any problems.
Since I discovered http://www.eat24hours.com, everything is done online and they don't even need anything when they arrive. You can even pay by PayPal!
@thewronggrape: I feel a lot better about it, now that I know it's a somewhat normal act. That's a pretty nifty little site too. Bookmarked it for future use. Thanks!
I've never had this happen. Half the reason I order food online sometimes is because I don't necessarily have a physical card available (the other half making sure the order is correct). Then again, I've also never been asked for ID or had a cashier check my card signature.
They used to do this locally. One time, I handed the guy the card and he said "Oh no, we cannot touch them. We can only look at them to verify the name is correct. We are not allowed to handle that information personally anymore". I asked what changed, he said he was unsure if it was a store policy or something else, he simply knew they were no longer allowed to rub the imprint of the last 4 digits, or even physically handle the card beyond simple verification..
@thewronggrape: Thank you for the site!
I think this is about money, not security. Businesses often pay the card processor a different rate on a credit card transaction depending on how they get the card details, to offset the different risks of fraud. The lowest rate is for when the card is swiped at the point of sale. Next lowest is a "card in hand" transaction, meaning that the vendor has verified that the purchaser has the physical card, and the way they verify that fact is to get the CCV number that is printed on the card. The highest risk, and therefore the highest rate, is when the purchaser provides only the CC number, name and expiry date (either by phone or internet), since those could be coming from a cloned card or hacked database.
It may seem like a small difference to the person paying, but add it up across lots of transactions and it can make a real difference to the margins of a business.
Yep. I've had people ask to see the actual card before. But, I think its only happened when I just start using a new place and they don't "know" us yet.
Dominos normally asks to see the card purchased or an ID for me. They dont do anything with the card other than verify the last four digits and match the signature.
@havocsback: Often retailers will pay a higher discount fee when they don't get as much proof that the transaction won't be challenged. That is why some retailers want to see your drivers license when paying with credit card (so they can document the person using the card is the person whose name is on the card). And, carbon copies of the imprint of the card offer more proof and could get them a lower discount rate (the amount of each sale that the credit card company keeps)
That's never happened to me, but it sounds reasonable that they'd check the card. The whole license/ one time exception thing's a bit iffy, but I totally see why they'd want to verify the person ordering from an online order.
@benyust2: Won't argue that, but here's the deal: to get 1% more profit, I'm supposed to get inconvenienced? On the carbon or ANY copy, that's not secure and just plain bad business.
Bad management, and none of these are chain-wide, it's the manager's poor choice.
I've never paid for a food delivery with a charge card. And now, I may never do that!
Seeing the card? That's fine. Writing the CVV off the back? Fine. Writing the credit card number down? NO WAY!!!
I don't even think the card processors allow any unnecessary copies of card numbers to be stored anywhere, according to PCI standards.
Sounds like a sensible precaution to me. Better than getting ripped off when someone claims their card was stolen. Especially if it's in a man's name and a woman answer the door, or vice versa. In this day and age, better safe than sorry. Use a credit card at Walmart- 99 times out of 100 they don't even look at it. Of course if it's stolen, you are on video from 10 different angles, so there's that.
It's the owners decision. I worked at Domino's and we did the same thing, but it was a college town, so i guess fraud was higher than normal.
I'm in the "no-one delivers out here club", ...have to ask my friend who delivered for papa's the last couple years around OSU..
now on the Suprised by weird creditcard stuff @ checkout stuff category, few weeks back mom gives me her AMEX to go buy my Sister a printer. end up buying it @ wallyworld, and the card reader wanted me to type in the CCV code after i swiped. I'm a cashier (at a diffrent company mind you) and i've never heard of that happening in person. over the phone? online? sure. but in the frikkin store?
Dominos delivered a pizza tonight then I heard him asking my son to see his credit card ! My son came back upstairs to retrieve a card! I went to stairs and told him not to give no delivery man his credit card! My son had credit card theft before locally in our town someone went grocery shopping got gas! All they need is the number and can create a card ! Dominoes should rethink they policy or delivery service! The driver then said oh I just need him to read off last four digits! ! Duh yeah ok go retrieve a card so he can tell you last four digits ! So I could have went upstairs came downstairs with any card read last four digits I called in on my order! Yeah right! Trying to flip the script! I know the last four digits of my creditcard by heart. I can physically stand with a piece of plastic in my hand and quote a number ! How is he verifying my number! I'm just holding plastic and quoting a number! No he had his pen ready to write my son number down !! No I'm pissed


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The Geography of Intellect, including files on psychology
"Aggression and Self Defense. The legality of US action in South Vietnam"
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Waking the Giant
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Die Kriegsschuldfrage (Research Cards)
Strategie des Friedens
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Notes on equality 1974
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Paper on intelligence, 12 February 1976
Thailand's Kra Canal project (with General Edward Black)
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"The Polygraph and Resurrection"
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"Regionalization of the USSR"
"Energy Requirements for Target Selection" TRW 12 July 1981
"Disinformation on the Defense" AAAS meeting, 3-8 Jan 1981
"The Spirit and the Ghost" Includes correspondence with the Naval Institute
Draft for Hoover Institution's Yearbook on International Communist Affairs
Papers for the International Strategic Studies Association "Strategy Banquet Conferences,
"Military Space" Conference on European Problems, 8 April 1981
Defense and Foreign Affairs Daily articles, 1979-1982, 1984
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Testimony before the International Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse, 18 July 1972
Correspondence with Hoover Institution's publications committee, 1972-1973
Correspondence, including with publishers, contains some writings, 1962-1976
Memorandum by S.T.P. to Bishop McNicholas (draft statement on Marxism) 3 May 1979
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Proceedings, "National Security: The Demands of Strategy and Economics" Center for Strategic Studies, Georgetown University, 23-25 January 1963
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The Russian Revolution: Research Material by Stefan Possony (4 volumes) Sent to Life Magazine and used for Allen Moorhead's four part article "50 years of Revolution" November 1957
"Freedom in the Wake of Hegel and Marx" 1980
"Defense in a N-Dimensional World" published in Will There be War?
"Health in Space" 1981
"The Myth of Marx" Buenos Aires conference, 26-29 May 1981
"CPSU Propaganda" 1984
"The Suslov Dynasty" 1984
"Technological Surprise or Technological Progress?" 1984
"Soviet Russian Antisemitism, Part I" Published in Plural Societies 28 June 1974
"Tsarist Antisemitism, Part II" 8 Oct 1974
"From Gulag to Guitk" published in Ukrainian Quarterly
"The US Heroin Market" partial manuscript
"Maoist China and Heroin"
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Writings, including some correspondence and articles for Defense and Foreign Affairs Daily 1961-1983
Papers on facts about various countries sent to Leigh Johnson (bank of Montreal researcher) articles sent to Rheinischer Merkur, Ethno-Autistic Thinking and published in Plural Societiesalong with other articles 1974-1981
Statement on lie detectors 28 June 1974
Press clippings on S.T.P
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Proceedings, "National Security: The Demands of Strategy and Economics" Center for Strategic Studies, Georgetown University, 23-25 Jan 1963
Printed matter containing S.T.P's articles
Manuscript and research material (including index cards) on the assassination of John F. Kennedy by Lee H. Oswald
Research material (including index cards) on genocide for the International Court of Justice
Proceedings of the CPSU 25th congress
National Governors' Conference, 1964
Alexander Sachs
Joseph Kornfeder
Manuscript by William M. McGovern (former intelligence officer, then professor)
Correspondence of Kernbach with Schramm, Wellems, Pabst, includes memoirs of Arnold Rechberg on the origins of World War II
Writings for, and correspondence with Die Welt
White House, includes letters from Kissinger, Nixon and Rockefeller
American Association for the Advancement of Science abstracts, includes paper for San Francisco meeting, "Space and the Longevity of Man" January 1980
Various research materials and writings on space, intelligence, terrorism, and other subjects, including some correspondence
Orbis reprints of S. Possony's articles
A Strategy for Peace through Strength includes correspondence with John M. Fisher, with whom S. Possony collaborated on the book 1984
"The Big Hole in Psychological Operation" (proposal_ 11 July 1982
"The Space Program" 1982-1983
"Italy: Has the Old Man Been Discovered?" 1981
"Apartheid in India" 1976
"Lenin: The Psychology of Destruction" (not published), 1980?
"Wizardry of War Prevention" (probably published) 1980?
"The Rediscovery of Baraka" (probably published) December 1979
Part II of the basic material sent to Life Magazine, 1957
"Successes and Prospects" written for Military Science and Technology 1980?
Memo on genocide in the ancient world, includes correspondence with Cyrus H. Gordon, 1980
"The Structure of National Problems"
"Soviet Strategy in the Middle East" 1984-1985
"Antisemitism in the Russian Area" Plural Societies Winter 1984
"Trojan Horses on the Rhine"
Waking the Giant reviews
Senator Denton, includes S. Possony's testimony, "Historical Antecedents of Soviet Terrorism" 12 June 1981
First Sino-American Conference, Taipei, December 1970
Memo to be sent to Minister of Defense
Acceptance speech at Military Academy when accepting honorary degree
Writings, published in Die Welt, Rheinischer Merkur, etc.
Defense and Foreign Affairs Daily articles
Long memo to General George J. Keegan (not published) and correspondence, as well as papers on military questions 1976
"Regionalization of the USSR" (not published) 1984-1985
"Regionalization of the USSR" Part IV/3 "Irrationality of Nomenklatura"
"Regionalization of the USSR" Part IV-Appendix A "Soviet Irrationality - Decline of Soviet Agriculture"
"Regionalization of the USSR" three other appendices
Unpublished manuscripts 1958-1976
"Unvolkung Deutchlands"
"Slavisierung des deutschen Volkes"
Manuscript on ideological issue (freedom vs. coercion)
Manuscript written in Taipei, 1970
Statement, Congressional Record 8 Dec 1971
Foreign Policy Research Institute, 5 papers
Outlines for projects, 1950s?
Writings sent to Bayern Kurier 1968-1970
Lenin project research material used for Life Magazine four-part article and for Lenin: The Compulsive Revolutionary. Includes correspondence, with Julius Epstein (collaborator for the project) index and photostats of German Foreign Ministry Archives documents, 1867-1920, microfilmed at Whaddon Hall for General Library, University of California at Berkeley, 1957 (regarding, among other things, German support of communists through embassies in Bern, Stockholm, etc)
Writings by others
Unsorted Material
Russian/Soviet book photocopies
Vienna State Archives materials relating to the Russian Revolution Project
Russian Revolution Project
Photographs used for Lenin the Compulsory Revolutionary
Materials relating to Lenin the Compulsory Revolutionary
Photostats of The Brain of the Army and manuscript for Lenin book
South African Trial in the Hague
WW II Radio Broadcasts and clippings
Correspondence 1941-1951
Correspondence L-Z, 1957
Correspondence A-M, 1957
Manuscripts of works including Atomtechnik
Photocopies and manuscripts of Russian/Lenin Project and excerpts
Original typed manuscript of Geography of the Intellect, co-authored by Nathainel Weyl
WW II Raido Broadcasts of Stefan Possony, WW II clippings, and WW II writings by Stefan Possony
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I am in the middle of a problem and having trouble integrating the following integral:
$$\int_{-1}^1\frac1{(1+x^2)^2}\mathrm dx$$
I tried doing partial fractions and got:
I have no clue how to solve this since it is obvious there is no way to cancel out either $A$ or $B$ to get the other variable. Please guide me.
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If orders are filled pro rata, is there still incentive to engage in HFT? Because pro rata nullifies the time precedence rule, my intuition is no, but I figure there could be other aspects to it I'm unaware of.
The Eurodollar market is partially pro-rata. And there is a lot of HFT on it. Getting out of the book when conditions are not right is very much HFT.
Market markers still have to consume market data. The techniques required to scale a live order book in real-time will be the same regardless of the intended use case. So while the strategies will be different from what we know as HFT (and even the participants different), the systems in use will be very similar.
Yes. You're right that queue position is less important in a pure pro-rata market. But in a market that is very deep, such as Eurodollars, the cost of getting adversely selected ("catching a falling dagger") is huge (very large bid/ask spread). So it is critical to cancel any open orders quickly when the price is about to move.
My guess is you are right in that it will be unprofitable to be a liquidity provider because of the lack of time priority.
However, liquidity taking strategy (taking out an order that is mis-priced) is still a speed game.


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Harold Nichols was a long-term college maintenance employee who died unexpectedly four years ago. To honor and remember Nichols, the college established the Harold E. Nichols Plant and Facilities Employee of the Year award, which is given to the employee who best demonstrates the work ethic, team-player attitude and good humor of Harold Nichols. All candidates were nominated by fellow Columbia College employees and recognized during the luncheon before the winners were announced.
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Do I need any special kind of software to view the responses I get after requesting something? Like with Klout for example, I can get all the code returned as I need it, I just don't know where to put it. Is it because I'm missing a soiftware program or something?
Most of the Stack Exchange API can be accessed via simple HTTP GET requests. For example, to view the most recent questions on Stack Overflow, one would fetch the following URL:
The response is returned as JSON data which looks something like this:
Virtually every modern programming language in existence either has native classes / constructs for parsing JSON or an open-source library / module exists that provides JSON parsing capabilities.
In Python 2.x, for example, you can retrieve the JSON from the URL above and parse the JSON with the following code:
Of course, there are much easier ways to use the API - you will find many client libraries listed here that take most of the hard work out of integrating access to the API into your application.
For example, Stack.PY, a Python module I wrote, would make the example above much simpler:
All of the hassle of retrieving the data, decompressing the GZip'd response, and decoding the JSON is transparently handled by the module.
Edit: I must be tired - I missed the title of your question where you mentioned "JavaScript". Sorry for that oversight.
Not only does JavaScript support working with JSON data, but any valid JSON data is also a valid JavaScript value. You would likely use JSONP (JSON with Padding) to retrieve data from the API. The callback you specify as a parameter in the request will be invoked with the JSON response.
I started a JavaScript library for the API a while back that should hopefully demonstrate what I've described here.


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Maybe this is slightly off topic but my blood pressure goes up when I hear:
university students being described as stakeholders
I like that better than students being described as consumers.
This thread has a therapeutic quality!
Yes, it does! I didn't follow from the beginning, which is why I've got a little cluster of replies here.
I don't mind regional variations, like the difference between standing in line in Seattle and standing on line in New York City. My particular grump is the redundant phrase "The reason is because ..." How about either "The reason is ..." or "It works this way because ..."
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Thanksgiving in Las Vegas was unusual but enjoyable. We had the pleasure of following our granddaughter there for a basketball tournament. The games were Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the South Point Casino which was a ways from the strip and downtown.
The place is huge, the courts were set up in the arena, which is also used for national rodeos and other functions. The convention center, hotel, and casino also sports 64 lanes of bowling, and nine movie theaters. We never found all the restaurants, cafes, buffets and bakery's in the building. The University of Northern Iowa team played against Arizona, Florida and North Carolina with varied results. My gambling also had varied results. From Wednesday thru Monday I gambled a total of eight to ten hours. We did see the movie Lincoln which was pretty good. It's been a few years since we have been to Vegas and there are a lot of changes.
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7 Scientific Reasons You'll Turn Out Just Like Your Parents
Old people are cranky, slow and boring. Kids are noisy, restless and irritating. For most of us, life is about making sure we stay as awesome as we are right now -- we'll always love our video games, and music, and eating burritos at two in the morning after the bars closed. Isn't that what all the commercials tell us, that you're only as old as you feel?
Well, science has some bad news for you. The behaviors of the elderly that you write off as old-person lameness, and your behavior that the elderly credit to dickish rebellion, are all based in biology. And no, you can't stop it.
As you age ...
#7. Your Brain Will Stop Getting Pleasure from New Music
When you're a kid, the absolute worst music in the world is whatever your parents are listening to. Your dad is out in the garage listening to goddamned Foghat, and you wonder why he doesn't want to cram that power drill right into his ear.
Get your uncool hands off our inheritance, you selfish old man.
Then when you grow up, the absolute worst music in the world is whatever the teenagers are listening to. You're still listening to real rock or rap, the hardcore stuff from back when music was genuine, while they're listening to some derivative manufactured Justin Bieber bullshit. Dammit, why won't they listen when you try to show then what real music sounds like?
"It was the greatest rivalry of all time, son."
If you're reading this and are somewhere in between the "kid" and "grownup" stages, you're probably thinking that you'd never just let your musical tastes freeze in time. You'll keep finding new bands as they emerge, staying on the cutting edge until the day you die.
But Over Time ...
As you get older, your brain becomes more and more unable to handle dopamine, which, as we've pointed out before, is a big factor in making us feel "the chills" when a new exciting piece of music comes on.
"Na na na getting jiggy wit it ... yeah, this is my sonnng!"
Because nothing you hear will have that same effect on you as the fresh exciting sounds of your youth, it will become harder and harder to get fired up about new music. Your musical taste will therefore stagnate, regardless of how on top of the trends you were at 17. If you want to know what new music will sound like when you're 50, go spend an hour watching TV shows intended for toddlers. See how long you can tolerate it.
So, you'll get older and settle down and, inevitably, the ubiquitous Rumours album by Fleetwood Mac will mysteriously appear in your collection, like a Gideon Bible in a hotel. Just accept it.
And get off our lawn.
#6. The Physical Urge to Rebel Will Fade Away
You teenagers out there should be ashamed of yourselves. Flip on the news and check out the chilling stories of teen school shootings and teen pregnancy and teen cyberbullying and teen vandalism and all of your other teen crimes. Any senior citizen can tell you: Society is on the verge of collapse, and if you want proof, you only need to look at the state of the world's out-of-control teenagers.
The bloody battle for a midnight bedtime rages on.
It's obvious why: Clearly, our godless immoral society has ruined our young people, filling their heads with the violent video games and the Jersey Shores and the dubstep. Just imagine what's going to happen when these little monsters grow up.
But Over Time ...
Don't worry, dad -- these little monsters will turn into the same boring insurance salesman you did. It's all in how the brain develops.
So give up on the dream of your son being a respected artist now, champ.
From the moment you tumble out of the womb until you turn 13 or so, you have a pretty solid contract with these tall people whose house you're living in. Your parents are the embodiment of structure and order -- you sleep when they tell you to sleep, eat what they tell you to eat and shit where they tell you to shit. Then, when your hormones start kicking in, suddenly you start rebelling against their tyrannical rule, staying out until 3 a.m., dedicating your homework time to video games and shitting in potted plants around the house.
Old people have one simple theory to explain this: Teenagers are assholes. But if they are, it's not necessarily their fault -- studies suggest that although the brain develops pretty rapidly through childhood, the parts that enable you to feel empathy and guilt take longer to kick in. During those teenage years, what you get is someone who is capable of driving a motor vehicle but incapable of fully empathizing with fellow human beings. So, really, not a great combination there.
"So I'm not old enough to vote, but I am old enough to pilot a 3,000-pound metal bullet through crowded neighborhoods?"
Somebody could object that this isn't true, because their kid was sweet and kind at age 10, but a jerkass at age 15. Well, that's because it looks like puberty actually messes with your brain's ability to read emotions, so for a while, you're actually less empathetic than a 6-year-old. The combination of an underdeveloped sense of remorse and an inability to tell when you're upsetting someone means that you're much more likely to scream "I hate you, Mom!" when she tells you to pick the layer of underpants up off the floor.
Eventually, though, the hormonal assault does wear off, and you begin to feel bad for all those times you called your mother a whore. It's about the same time that you start to whine about teenagers being assholes.
"Police? Yes, I've just turned 20 and all these 19-year-olds have turned up for the 'partay.' Please hurry."
#5. Your Brain Will Start Getting Pleasure from Boring Shit
Aside from occasional exceptions, it's rare to see senior citizens ramping things on a dirt bike. They, for the most part, don't drive fast cars, or play pranks, or play violent video games, or do, well, anything exciting. This is one of the greatest dreads that teenagers have about growing older -- life as a grownup seems so incredibly boring and lame. Each of us, at some point, has promised that this will never happen to us.
No taxes, free meals and 50 percent fewer beatings: prison, better than Mom's basement.
But Over Time ...
The good news is, it's not that bad. It turns out that this gradual switch over to preferring to redecorate the garage over electronic slaughter via Xbox actually has its roots in developing brain chemistry. In adolescence, the brain is less active in the motivation and planning areas, but highly active in the reward-based areas, and so you are drawn to activities with high-satisfaction payoffs but minimal effort expended to achieve them. In other words, you want big thrills, and you want them right now.
I'm planting motherfucking azaleas!
Something like being pushed screaming down a busy street in a shopping cart requires no forethought (beyond how many YouTube views you hope to achieve), but your friends yelling "Dude!" and praising your "bravery" makes your brain pump out sweet sweet reward chemicals like dopamine. Fast-paced video games play to the same instant-reward, zero-investment part of the brain.
But later in life, the thrill-seeking part of your brain starts to settle down and you start getting more satisfaction from modest highs, like having a nice flower garden, and you're more willing to put in the effort to achieve these goals in the long term. Spending a whole day in front of a video game starts to feel like a wasted day.
Modern Florafare: The Gardening.
But that's not the only guilty pleasure you'll lose your taste for. You'll also find that ...
#4. It Will Become Physically Impossible to Sleep In
When you are young, you think nothing of sleeping until midday, and your parents chide you for being a lazy, shiftless layabout. Your parents also may chide (if they dare) your grandparents for being seemingly unable to stop themselves from leaping out of bed at the ungodly hour of 5 a.m. and tidying the house.
"I sleep two hours a night so that Death will pay less attention to me."
The oversleeping teenager and crack-of-dawn-awakening retiree are two images that seem indelibly inked into the canvas of life. In both cases, we tie a moral judgment to it -- teens are too lazy, old people are too nervous and fussy.
But Over Time ...
Sleep is dictated by a chemical in your brain called melatonin. Scientists have tested how melatonin is produced by teenagers over the course of a day, and found that teenagers' bodies work on a kind of "permanent state of jet lag," wherein they are most alert in the afternoon and evening, but it takes much longer to rouse them in the morning. Yep, Mom, it's not because the boys are shiftless and lazy and rebellious -- their own body clocks are working against them.
It's 2 a.m. -- do you know what your teenager is eating?
We expect things to be haywire as a teenager, but the brain chemistry keeps changing well into adulthood, meaning the older you get, the harder it actually is to stay in bed, even if you try. So, one day, you too will feel an overwhelming urge to vacuum at sunrise on a Saturday and be in bed by 8. It's not because you suddenly learned responsibility -- it's because your body set the clock back.
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5 Famous People Who Succeeded Long After They Should've Quit
#2. An Unemployed Nurse Became an Emmy Award Winning Actress at 56
In 1995, Kathryn Joosten moved in with a family member in Los Angeles because she wanted to make it in Hollywood. Like most girls following the same hopeless dream, she had no agent, no contacts and close to nothing on her resume. Seems like a pretty typical story.
The Rock Bottom Moment:
Unlike most girls, however, Joosten was 56. The family member was her son.
"I expect you to do your share of chores and be in bed by 11 ... um, Mom."
In the '60s and '70s, Joosten had a promising career as a nurse in Chicago, but she gave it up after getting married. Her husband was a psychiatrist and did pretty well -- he was also, however, a deadbeat alcoholic. Ten years later, they divorced. Joosten found herself a 40-something single mother with two kids and three jobs, struggling to make ends meet. So, she did the sensible thing and decided to drop everything to become an actress.
Now, here's where our story gets inspirational, right? Hell, no! Joosten started auditioning for parts and ... nothing happened. And then, more nothing. For several years. In the meantime, she supported her family by hanging wallpaper and painting houses, among other gigs. In 1992, she was finally cast by Disney in her first important role: "Streetmosphere" performer in the Orlando theme park.
Where dreams go to be processed and sold for twice the price.
She stayed in that city for three years -- the job lasted for one. By 1995, she had decided to try her luck in L.A., even if it meant moving in with her son.
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And then Urkel changed everything. A spot in Family Matters saying two lines with Jaleel White landed Joosten an agent who evidently marketed the shit out of her sassy older woman image. Soon she got herself guest parts in pretty much every sitcom made in the following decade, from Seinfeld to Frasier to Will & Grace to Scrubs. If you watch TV at all, you've probably seen her face at least a couple dozen times. She was the president's secretary in The West Wing:
And the little old lady in Desperate Housewives:
Aka the one we'd be most scared of asking for our ball back.
Kathryn Joosten has won two Emmys for that Desperate Housewives role, and it's all because of her uncanny perseverance. And Urkel.
Mostly Urkel.
#1. Colonel Sanders Was 65 When He Launched Kentucky Fried Chicken
Harland Sanders had one of the most ridiculous resumes in human history. It starts with him dropping out of school in the sixth grade, not because he was lazy, but because he had to take care of his younger brothers. Life dealt him a shitty card, and it would just keep piling those up over the next 50 years and a dozen failed careers.
According to his autobiography, Sanders' many jobs included farmhand, army mule-tender and motel operator ... plus other shadier-sounding ones like aspiring lawyer, failed political candidate and, um, "amateur obstetrician."
"And you say this small person is inside of you, yes? Mighty peculiar."
By age 40, Sanders was running a crappy service station and decided to make a little extra cash by serving full meals to busy people -- the place was so small that they had to eat in the same room where he lived.
But eventually, people started coming in purely because of his food, getting to the point where he could no longer cram them inside his bedroom. Eventually Sanders moved to a bigger place across the street. His restaurant was a hit, and everything was perfectly fine from then on!
End of article! Nice work. Fried chicken and chest pains for everyone.
The Rock Bottom Moment:
That is, until a new highway was built, directing all of the traffic miles away from his restaurant. Business dried up, and the now-elderly Harlan Sanders was profoundly screwed.
So, at age 65, the restaurant was bankrupt and things weren't looking so bright for Sanders. Now retired from his jobs, he cashed his first ever Social Security check ...
The Success:
... and used it to open a franchise. And then another, and then another. Hell, there might one down your street, with Sanders' face plastered all over it.
Ivan Walsh
China knows Colonel Sanders as "Comrade General Demon Hair."
Harland Sanders (named honorary Kentucky Colonel in 1935 solely on account of his fine cooking) was so confident in his ability to fry chicken that he used the last money he had in the world and invested it in his restaurant. Less than 10 years later, Sanders had more than 600 Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises in the U.S. and Canada. In 1964, he sold his interest in the company for $2 million to a group of investors. He was in his mid-70's.
Today, more than 12 million people eat at KFC each day in 109 countries. There are more than 5,200 restaurants in the United States and more than 15,000 locations worldwide. His face continues adorning buckets of chicken, and his ghost continues haunting Japanese baseball teams.
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At the infotainment biz.
His Fox News babes are always hot
(And health care is a Commie plot!).
But we digress; let's start anew
To look upon these happy few
With locks so blonde and legs so long,
We're tempted to break out in song.
You must admit they're kind of fun
With all their phasers set on "stun."
Those gleaming smiles belie the task
And take the edge off if they ask:
"Why, Mr. O, why do you hate
Puppies and kittens and all that's great?"
Their hair, it's clear, would hardly budge,
Nor would their makeup even smudge
If they were set upon a luge—
They'd laugh and cry: "We're going rouge!"
Sure, Rachel Maddow has the smarts
But can she work her giggly parts?
The obvious, let it be said:
Their favorite power suits are red.
Of course we know that it's not fair
To generalize, with nose in air.
There's no intention to deride:
We report and you decide.


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High Hedges
Shortcut to this page www.birmingham.gov.uk/highhedges
The High Hedges legislation requires everyone with a high hedge to consider the effect such hedges have on their neighbours.
You do not usually need permission to plant a hedge in your garden, but you now have a responsibility for looking after the height of the hedge so it doesn't block light to your neighbour's property.
- Types of Hedge Effected
The legislation covers hedges:
- consisting of a line of 2 or more trees or shrubs
- where the hedge is made up mostly of evergreen or semi-evergreen trees or shrubs
- where the hedge is more than 2 metres high and
- where the hedge is blocking light or access to a residential property
- An example of a hedge covered by the legislation would be a row of six conifers, 4 metres high blocking light to the lounge window of a neighbouring house.
- An example of a hedge not covered by the legislation would be a row of 5 metre high beech trees, that lose their leaves in the winter.
- What responsibilities do I have if I have a fast growing hedge?
Since 1st June 2005, the High Hedges legislation came into force under Article 8 of the Anti Social Behaviour Act 2003. If you have a hedge above 2 metres high you are required to ensure it does not block light, or cause a nuisance or loss of amenity to your neighbours.
- Who should I go to if my neighbour has a hedge that is obscuring my view or light to my property?
You should initially approach your neighbour. You may also like to consider contacting a mediation service to try to resolve the matter between yourselves.
You can contact us as a last resort after all other avenues have been investigated. If you submit a formal complaint to us you will need to provide evidence of all the steps you have taken to try to resolve the matter. If you don't we will not be able to pursue your complaint.
- How do I make a complaint?
You can make a complaint by using the formal complaint form. You will need to provide evidence of all the steps you have taken to try to resolve the matter so far. If you don't we will not be able to pursue your complaint.
- Do I have to pay a fee? And what is it?
Yes. A fee of £350 is required when you submit your complaint.
- How long will it take?
There is no set time limit for us to decide on a complaint, as we must get a statement from your neighbour and visit the site. As a general guide however, a decision should take about 12 weeks.
- Can't find what you're looking for?
If you haven't been able to find the information that you need then the link below will take you to a form that you can use to ask us further questions.Service Specific Enquiry


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Low-Added-Sugars Dessert Recipes (Slide 13)
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I recently purchased the Canon Powershot G9.
I would like to get into the realm of taking full spherical panoramic images.
What hardware would I need for this?
I know I need a fisheye converter, which one would you recommend? Would the VR head it be compatible with this camera?
What other hardware would I need to attach the camera to the VR head?
Would the NN3 work with this camera+fisheye converter ? or would I need the NN5?
What special features would I need in the tripod?
Thank you for your help.


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Stranded on the Coldest Day of the Year | A Cold Day for a Swim
They were stranded on a pile of rocks 200 yards from shore. The wind chill was 53 degrees below zero. There was no help in sight. And the tide was rising.
The folks who live around Jonesport and Beals Island, two Maine coast communities that face each other across a narrow sound, would remember January 25, 1991, as the coldest day of the year. The temperature never rose above zero, and the 45-mile-per-hour wind produced a windchill of 53 degrees below. Most of the lobstermen and draggers stayed home. But periwinkles were bringing a good price — 55 cents a pound. So Roger Chandler had borrowed a boat from his mother and told his friend Phil Rossi that he knew of some ledges that hadn't been overworked. The two men spend most of the year digging worms. But the bloodworm and sandworm markets close each November, sending them out to look for winter work. Both needed money enough to ignore the stinging wind.
The two of them drove an hour up the Maine coast from Ellsworth to Beals Island and into the driveway of a large, empty summer cottage on the water. Roger knew the caretaker wouldn't mind their using the driveway, and he figured the trees surrounding the cottage would offer some shelter from the wind. They dragged Chandler's ten-foot skiff down a steep incline into the 29 degree water (salt water has a lower freezing point than fresh water). Phil's face bloomed into a deep red from the cold, and he had to shout to be heard over the roar of the wind. "Garneys!" Phil bellowed. "We're a couple of garneys to be workin' a day like this." Roger didn't smile. He'd been called a moneygrubber before.
They set out at low tide, when the ledges, now only 50 yards from shore, were exposed. It was approaching noon. Almost two hours later, having scoured two ledges, they pulled up on a third and agreed it would be the last stop. They had already collected nearly 100 pounds of periwinkles, and the cold had settled in their aching backs and knees. Also, the tide was coming in, and soon the ledges would be underwater.
After climbing onto the ledge, Phil immediately bent to scoop loose shells into his bucket. Roger pulled the boat well out of the water, but didn't stop to tie it up. Roger grabbed his bucket and went to work. In a few minutes, both men had worked their way out of sight of the boat.
The wind was ferocious. Even in the lee of the tree line, gusts would suddenly howl down on them. Phil was glad when his bucket was filled, and he turned to empty it into the skiff. But the skiff was nowhere to be seen.
"Hey, Roger," Phil shouted. "What'd you do with the boat?"
Roger stood up, startled. They both saw it at the same moment, about 40 feet away, the wind pushing it out to sea faster than either of them could swim.
Roger's first thought, absurdly, was that it was his father's boat. Then the terrible danger of their situation hit him. They were stranded on a small pile of rocks in a frigid wind with a rapidly rising tide. In three hours, the rocks would be submerged. They hadn't seen another boat all day. He turned to Phil. "We're dead."
At 32, Phil was a year older than Roger and felt protective of him. He wasn't ready to give in to despair. "No," Phil said. "We've got to swim."
Roger was already shaking his head. He had never learned to move very fast in water or very far. He looked at the shore. As the tide rose, covering the shore, safety was moving farther away every minute. He turned and looked out to sea. The little boat was barely visible in the vapor produced by the collision of the cold water and the much colder air.
In a few minutes it would be out of sight. Staring out to sea, he said again and again, "We're dead."
"Forget the boat, Roger. It's gone."
"I have to see where it goes."


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Columbia Law School Professor Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw was recently awarded two fellowships, both of which she will use to explore racial equity in American society.
Crenshaw was honored in December with the prestigious Fletcher Fellowship. With the support of that award, she hopes to challenge popular attitudes about race through a project titled "Shattering the Colorblind Ruse: Recapturing the Legacy of Brown." Crenshaw was also awarded a fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University. The CASBS fellowship, awarded to approximately 45 scholars each year, will allow Crenshaw to work with colleagues from various disciplines to build common sense understandings about the role race continues to play in the United States.


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Coolest Homes for Artists & Art Collectors
We at Dwell are always on the lookout for unique homes that express the personality of their occupants—and it's no wonder some of the most unique and memorable residences we've featured in recent years belong to artists and art collectors, who embrace the quirky and the unconventional. Join us at Dwell on Design Sunday, June 24th, where we're inviting architect Tom Marble, collector Jeff Wardell, and architect Linda Taalman onstage to chat about ways architecture can best highlight and showcase art. To whet your appetite, flip through our slideshow for a look at some of our favorite homes designed around the display and making-of art, from a famous conceptual artist's industrial-inspired rowhouse in New York City to a street art collector's shipping crate-filled loft in San Francisco.
June 12, 2012
Coolest Homes for Artists & Art Collectors
We at Dwell are always on the lookout for unique homes that express the personality of their occupants—and it's no wonder some of the most unique and memorable residences we've featured in recent years belong to artists and art collectors, who embrace the quirky and the unconventional. Here's a peek at some of our favorite homes designed around the display and making-of art, from a famous conceptual artist's industrial-inspired rowhouse in New York City to a street art collector's shipping crate-filled loft in San Francisco.
March 7, 2012
Art from Architecture
Highlight Gallery's new project, 3020 Laguna Street In Exitum, is open to the public for just one more day–tomorrow, Saturday, February 25, from 2:00 to 7:00 PM. So if you're in San Francisco and interested in architecture and art, don't miss this last chance to see it in person. The concept is compelling: nine artists were invited to take over a 19th-century house in Cow Hollow that was slated for demolition due to structural issues. As co-founders Amir Mortazavi and David Kasprzak put it, "the artists were invited to enter the space, to set entropy in motion with perhaps a more sensitive hand and a 'tool belt conceptualism.'" There was just one stipulation: to create their art, they had to use only materials found on the premises. For a glimpse at the results, click through the slideshow. To learn more about the artists and the project, see here.
February 24, 2012
Recycled Paper Lights
I recently came across the work of Pia Wüstenberg, a German-born designer whose recent obsession is transforming piles of waste paper (posters, magazines) into striking pendant lights and tables. First she rolls them around a tube, laminating each sheet on top of the other with a glue-based mixture. Then she uses a woodworking lathe and carving tools to shape the piece, much as a woodworker creates a turned bowl. For further insight into her working process, check out this video: Processed Paper from pia wustenberg on Vimeo.
October 20, 2011
At the Printers
Brooklyn's Flavor Paper is hauling dowdy old wallpaper into the splashy 21st century, and you get to watch.
October 5, 2011
Alex Garcia Exhibit
I met the artist Alex Garcia nearly a year ago (we were introduced by the architect Alejandro Sticotti, who like Garcia is a native Porteño), and since then I've stumbled onto his work in a variety of surprising spots. He makes wall assemblages out of wood—recycled, scrap, veneer, new—and thin strips of metal, creating striking graphic compositions. His work was on view at the San Francisco shop Propeller several months ago; now it's on view at Sticks & Stones Gallery in downtown Oakland through August 31. The other night I ate for the first time at Baby Blues BBQ, a local restaurant, and the lacquered scrap wood tables looked vaguely like Garcia's artwork... turns out he actually made those tables two years ago, as a special project for the restaurant owner. This guy is everywhere! Or maybe it just coincidentally feels that way...
August 19, 2011
New From Petit Collage
Based in San Francisco, Petit Collage is "an incubator of new ideas, art and illustration for everything modern and children related," says designer and children's book illustrator Lorena Siminovich, who founded the company five years ago. Siminovich's home decor and accessories for contemporary families can be found in boutiques, museum stores and catalogs worldwide—as well as in the pages of the upcoming November issue of Dwell, where we'll feature her cozy and stylish 1,500-square-foot house. Stay tuned! In the meantime, here's a sneak preview of a few sweet items from her Fall 2011 catalog, along with Siminovich's explanation of the inspiration behind each new design.
August 18, 2011
WasteLandscape Made of CDs
Scrolling through Dezeen recently—always an inspiring source for cool new projects and ideas—I came upon this eye-catching installation in the "Halle d'Aubervilliers" at the Centquatre art space, housed in a former public morgue in Paris. Architect Clémence Eliard and artist Elise Morin created a glittering landscape out of 65,000 discarded CDs. They call the project WasteLandscape.
August 16, 2011
Building the Maxon House: Week 23
In our latest Backstory series, Seattleite Lou Maxon recounts the thrills and trials of ditching the suburbs, buying property, and designing and building a modern house with Tom Kundig of Olson Kundig Architects. Week 23: A Maxon House Commission Last week I talked about some of the challenges, obstacles and unexpected headaches of our project. On a brighter note, I ended with the sentiment "shouldn't this be fun?" So, welcome to week 23. One of the joys of the journey is stepping away from the minutia of the day-to-day tasks and remembering that there is a fun side to the project. Easily one of my favorite parts of my design career and being a creative is collaborating and commissioning world-class artists, from photographers to illustrators, to help tell stories for brands and bring ideas and raw concepts to life. Just as an architect has his go-to craftsman or material palette, I too have my stable of favorites that I've collaborated with over the years. One opportunity with our project was to think about ways to bring art and craftsmanship into our future home by collaborating with artists and craftsmen. One of my favorite artists has always been Gary Taxali, a Toronto, Canada-based artist (blurry photo below!). As part of our project we decided to commission Taxali to do a print that could eventually hang in the entrance to our house—something that would embody the creativity, art and craft of the project.
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Let $X$ be a (smooth, non-compact) complex space. By a compactification of $X$ we mean a compact complex space $\overline X$ which contains a dense open subset biholomorphic to $X$ (we shall identify this subset with $X$) and such that $\overline X\setminus X$ is a proper analytic subset (with no conditions on its codimension).
In particular, given two (different) compactifications of $X$, they always contain biholomorphic dense open subsets.
My question is: given two compactifications of $X$, are they necessarily bimeromorphic?
More precisely, does the biholomorphism between the two dense open subsets always extend to a global bimeromorphic map?
I guess the answer is no, but after a moment of reflection I cannot find any counterexample. Perhaps, it would suffice to look at compactifications of $\mathbb C^2$...


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I'm often faced with the tedious task of generating a PowerPoint from a collection of pictures. Each picture is to be placed with in its own slide, centered and enlarged so that it fills the screen. Is there way to do this with OpenOffice, Python or some other tool in the repository?
You can give this extension for Openoffice.org Impress a try, it is very easy to install and use, just follow these instructions. It takes a whole folder of pictures and automatically creates a slide show out of them, Works nicely for me. The pictures on each slide are centred as you wish but most photos vary in their aspect ratios so tall photos are fit by height and wide ones fit by width.
You can then save as Powerpoint, here is a little tip; before saving your slide as Powerpoint, break the links to the photos in OpenOffice.org Impress by clicking the edit menu item then click links, select all the links and then press the break link button, save the slideshow and then save as Microsoft PowerPoint 97/2000/XP (.ppt) this will have the photos embedded in the Powerpoint slide, even though the file size will be large depending on the amount and size of your photos the slide show will be more portable.
While this does not automatically create the Powerpoint slide show, it could be a time saver as it does automatically create the OpenOffice.org Impress slide show which is easy to save as Powerpoint.
You can do this easily with latex/beamer. Something along these lines:
and then include bla.tex in your main Beamer template file, which you can simply copy each time you need this.


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Vegan Grocery list for Toorcamp 2009. Reminder: RV only has stove top and microwave. And yes, there is a small fridge. Campfires presumably will also exist though?
We have roped some nice girl into cooking for us. Presumably we will do some vague meal planning (or I will at least because I am hungrymonster eatsalot - K) so if you have easy vegan recipes that can be made in quantity, please speak up.
Things to get
Get veggies in Portland/SEA?
- more kale (at least another bunch)
- soy sauce
- zucchini (like, 6 of them) (or some other good dinner vegetable like broccoli, in reasonable bulk)
- chips, snack food for people to eat between meals
- salsa
- vegan bacon?
- salt & pepper (Camo?)
- dark chocolate
- plantains (KB will cover this on her way out of the mission on the 2nd)
- tofu (Leif might be getting this)
- bread (Leif might be getting this)
- avocado (KB will cover this on her way out of the mission on the 2nd)
- nori
- Vegan marshmallows!
- more oil? (olive, etc)
Kelly & Jake bought (rough estimates on some items)
- 6 kilos Yerba Mate
- 2 eggplant
- 4 small cans tomato paste
- 6 bags Newman O's
- 2 green cabbage
- 2 red cabbage
- 3 boxes bouillon
- 1 case raspberry licorice
- 1 case black licorice
- 3 lbs cocoa powder
- 3 lb dry polenta
- 2 large tubs Earth Balance
- 2 large tubs peanut butter
- 1 tub hazelnut almond spread
- 2 cases plain soy milk
- 2 bunches of kale
- 6 head garlic
- 6 red onions
- 8 yellow onions
- 5 lb carrots
- 6 lb potatoes
- 6 lb yams
- 2 cans black olives
- 2 cans green olives
- 4 cans black beans
- 4 cans red beans
- 2 cans garbanzo beans
- 2 bottles lemonade
- 2 bottles mango lemonade
- 2 bottles strawberry lemonade
- 4 lb quinoa
- 4 lbs vegan rotelli pasta (the yellow kind)
- 4 lbs vegan spinach rotelli
- 2 lb corn elbo pasta (reserved for vegan yeast mac n "cheese"!)
- 4 lb pumpkin flax granola
- 1.5 lb hot cereal mix
Also bringing nutritional yeast, some olive oil, tea, baking soda, agave.
Things Camo can bring for you
(Please say thank you to my grandma. She gave me grocery money! :D <3 )
- 4 containers of Viso
- 1 box Koala Crisp cerial
- Oat bran
- Hemp powder
- Spices
- Wheat gluten and nutritional yeast for making seitan :)
- some Odwalla bars
- misc noodles (soba, potato noodles, rice noodles)
- vegan Nutella
- peanut butter for curry
- mirin
- cuddles
Seattle. City of Grocerytunity:
- Brought lots of donut and bagel making yeast & flour. Donuts and bagel night!
- supplies for vegan curry or tagine curry and tagine (Note: I have curry powder, chana masala, and coconut milk for curried things - Camo)
- Many pounds of Oats.
- remember I have f-bomb tons of NYF for you flakeheads
- Lots of spices and toppings.
- Sugar, lemons mate and black tea
- 'Mushroom Mutton' I mean, have you shopped at New Mei Wah? Mushroom Mutton!?! Wow. It will be delish.
Stuff Miloh brought
This stuff all disappeared, but I think it's useful to have inventory as we trek up so that we can fill the gaps. I'll check the page history later but right now I need to dump our inventory list... --Hurtstotouchfire 20:24, 30 June 2009 (PDT)
Miloh got a lb of Rainbow VeganStock (is it vegan or vegetarian, can someone check this?) Also a lb of NYF


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During the Patristic Period in the Middle Ages practiced an exegetical tactic known as the fourfold sense of Scripture. What are these four senses and do these ideas about the nature of Scripture still serve as the underpinning for modern Biblical Hermeneutics?
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This hermeneutic was developed in the early church, and primarily related to understanding the Hebrew Scriptures. Each passage in Scripture is understood to have four meanings:
Always remember that to effectively use the Quadriga, you must start with the literal (i.e. grammatical-historical methodology) first. If one cannot apply a literal method then you are automatically forced to use a spiritual (allegorical) methodology. The allegorical method is then further divided into topological and anagogical where a text not only gives a spiritual meaning but has a moral and eschatological message as well.
Example: The Crossing of the Re(e)d Sea.
Hope it helps.
The method referenced above is called the "Quadriga". You may find that the Quadriga is a faint memory of sensus plenior where God speaks in four voices: Prophet, Priest, King, Judge.
The voice of King speaks literally and historically. The voice of Judge speaks God's moral view upon the literal-historical. The voice of Prophet speaks of Jesus's literal life. And the voice of Priest speaks of the esoteric Son of God as second person of the Trinity.
When Moses jumped back from the rod which had been turned to snake: The King speaks literally of Moses and the rod. The Judge says that Moses was guilty of murder in wielding his authority in Egypt, but that he was forgiven and was given God's authority again. The prophet speaks of Jesus facing Gethsemane and being made to be sin on the cross. He prayed "remove this cup" then "thy will be done". The priest speaks of the moment in eternity when the second person of the Trinity decided to become incarnate and endure the cross. At first the idea of being made to be sin was so abhorrent that he refused, then submitted to the will of the Father. This is also reflected in the parable of the two sons, one said he wouldn't but did.
You can see that sensus plenior is parallel to Quadriga but not exactly the same.


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We know that walking can burn calories, ward off obesity and reduce the risk of heart disease, but did you know that your afternoon stroll could be a stress-buster and decrease the need for medications related to stress, depression, sleeplessness, etc.?!
5 ways walking helps to decrease stress:
1. Puts your brain in meditative state.
2. Improves attention span: According to studies walking 20 minutes several times a week through a greener landscape helps improve attention span and memory.
3. Boosts stress-busting endorphin levels.
4. Walking in groups decreases the levels of stress hormone cortisol, lowers blood pressure, improves stress resilience and alleviates depression.
5. According to a 2008 study, individuals with sedentary lifestyles experienced a significant boost in energy (20 percent) and a 65 percent reduction in fatigue after following exercise programs centered around walking.


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Early morning clock on the hardwood wall
taken into relentless slavery.
Abjectly crucified at twelve feet small,
Do you not know you will never be free.
Half past then and onto pastel morning,
when you shriek cries of a wounded creature. When you scream the cries of wounded creatures
Your most unapologetic feature Tear into me with a ruthless scorning
tears into my core with ruthless scorning with your unapologetic features.
bringing me up to share the metronome.
A soft crimson glow burns into my eyes
like star rising into ebony dome
burns gently into the dawns lonely skies.
I offer these painful words, but true
Remember that I will always hate you
I hate writing sonnets
I really really hate writing sonnets
All the work to get down the rhyming
Match it up with perfect metric timing
Fourteen lines capped with rhyming couplets
Heaven forbid you insert some hidden
Imagery. The countless tricksidle chores,
Like abstract similes and metaphors.
Surely tasks like these should be forbidden
It is far too difficult to write one,
though I still appreciate the masters;
it takes all the skill of bronze-age casters,
But I would rather write something more fun.
Youll have to forgive this sounding like shit,
I just couldnt put my heart into it.
The lines to the side are alternate lines for that spot depending on how I want the style to work. Enjoy. I'll post some CC on other pplz' later.