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Certain Big Labor groups suddenly not so partial to ObamaCare
posted at 11:31 am on January 31, 2013 by Erika Johnsen
Once upon a time, labor unions were all about supporting President Obama's health-care overhaul efforts. They stood alongside him while he touted all of the phantasmogorical benefits, savings, and efficiencies that would ostensibly, effortlessly occur when ObamaCare was finally implemented, and then many of these same groups enthusiastically backed his reelection bid — helping to ensure that ObamaCare would be safe from repeal.
But now that ObamaCare is utterly failing to stop the rise of health-care costs, premium prices are still rising, and the whole thing is turning into and expensive, bureaucratic-regulatory nightmare? Not so much.
The WSJ reports that various Big Labor groups are balking at rising health-care and insurance costs, and they're pressuring the Obama administration to stretch the federal subsidy program meant to apply to low-income workers without employer coverage in order to help them comply with the individual mandate and purchase health insurance (emphasis mine):
Union leaders say many of the law's requirements will drive up the costs for their health-care plans and make unionized workers less competitive. Among other things, the law eliminates the caps on medical benefits and prescription drugs used as cost-containment measures in many health-care plans. It also allows children to stay on their parents' plans until they turn 26.
To offset that, the nation's largest labor groups want their lower-paid members to be able to get federal insurance subsidies while remaining on their plans. In the law, these subsidies were designed only for low-income workers without employer coverage as a way to help them buy private insurance.
In early talks, the Obama administration dismissed the idea of applying the subsidies to people in union-sponsored plans, according to officials from the trade group, the National Coordinating Committee for Multiemployer Plans, that represents these insurance plans. Contacted for this article, Obama administration officials said the issue is subject to regulations still being written. …
Who wants to put money on the Obama administration finding a way to make the unions happy here? Administration officials are currently declining to comment on whether union-employer plans might be able to qualify for the subsidies, which means that they probably haven't quite decided themselves yet — but with unions bringing the pressure, I'm sure they're heartily considering it. Mighty convenient, these regulations "still be written" and all. And who will bear the cost? The taxpayer, that's who — giving in to the unions' demands will raise the ACA's price tag as well as provide a perk-seeking opening to nonunions employers in the same situation.
If the Obama administration doesn't give in, labor leaders are cautioning that unionized employers may just decide to drop coverage. Unions are thinking that it might make cost-effective sense to ditch employer coverage in favor of just letting their members seek private coverage subsidized by the government — but the 'great health care' is kind of one of the big selling points of joining a union.
The Sheet Metal Workers International Association helped push for passage of the health law. Mr. Beall said he still believes everyone should have health insurance, but worries the law is undermining the union's ability to offer coverage.
"If we're not offering our members insurance and pension, why would you want to be union?" he asked.
Nutshell version: Big Labor worked tirelessly to help President Obama get his ACA passed, and then helped him get reelected, and they're finally figuring out that they're stuck with his notoriously ill-thought-out plan. The heart bleeds.
Exit quotation: "If you like your plan, you can keep it."
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1995 Ford Mustang Cobra: 347 Windsor Oil PressureWritten by Marlan Davis on February 8, 2013 Contributors: Norm Brandes, Joe Lewandowski The 347 Windsor In Pat Ryan's 1995 Cobra Has No Oil Pressure. We're Gonna Fix It.
The Combo
Trevor, Wisconsin's Pat Ryan owns a '95 Ford Mustang Cobra. Two years ago, Ryan replaced its stock 5.0L EFI engine with a 347ci stroker built by a Texas shop recommended by a friend. The new engine came equipped with Pro Comp aluminum heads, an Edelbrock Victor 5.0 intake manifold, exhaust headers, and an off-brand hydraulic roller cam with associated valvetrain parts sourced from a variety of "Brand-X" vendors. The engine is shifted by a Tremec TKO five-speed manual trans that transfers the torque back to a 3.73:1-geared, 8.8-inch, Ford rearend.
The Problem
Ryan hadn't put 1,000 miles on the new engine before a pushrod cracked; "1,000 more miles or so, and another one went," Ryan says. "One of those times I may have missed a shift." At this point, the original pushrods were replaced with high-quality, thick-wall ones. For a while, everything seemed OK. Then, one morning, Ryan fired up the car and had no oil pressure. "I thought my pump had lost prime for some reason," Ryan says. "I drove the car down the block at low speed to try to get the oil pressure back up, but it stayed flat. I didn't hear any weird noises." It was time to get an expert opinion, so Ryan trailered the car over to our favorite metro-Chicago general-purpose auto repair shop, Westech Automotive in Silver Lake, Wisconsin. It initially appeared to be a slam-dunk fix: just a simple oil-pump replacement.
The Initial Diagnosis
Westech verified the zero-oil-pressure condition with its own known, reliable mechanical pressure gauge. Some lifter clatter was heard, but, as Brandes relates, "If there was an oil-pump failure, the lifters would clatter anyway. We popped the distributor cap, cranked the engine, and saw the rotor wasn't turning. We pulled the distributor out of the engine, and found the oil-pump driveshaft twisted off, with the top half still stuck in the distributor. We proceeded to drop the oil pan. Upon inspection, we found the other half of the driveshaft lying in the bottom of the pan. This confirmed the oil-pump failure."
The Fix: Oil Pump and Driveshaft
The oil pump was pulled and disassembled for inspection. Westech found a wire was jammed between the gears. That had seized up the pump, in turn shearing the driveshaft. Westech next inspected the main and rod Bearings for possible oil-starvation damage. They hadn't yet spun, but as a precaution, Westech replaced them with new Speed-Pro/Federal Mogul Bearings: a ¾-groove Super Duty-alloy small-block Ford Set for the mains, and because the 347 stroker crank is machined for Chevy-sized rod journals, a '79–'84 Chevy 200–229ci V6-90 Set on the rods. The V6 Bearings have a 2.100-inch small-block Chevy diameter but are narrower than their Chevy V8 counterparts, which helps them clear the stroker crank's large, tapered journals.
Westech installed a new ARP driveshaft with a new Melling high-volume oil pump. The pan was bolted back on, the distributor installed, and the engine fired. Uh oh! On the cold engine there was only 20 psi of oil pressure at 1,500 rpm. "There should have been 40 psi or more on a cold motor," Brandes says. "It was also missing and clattering."
The Final Diagnosis
Was the new oil pump acting up? Was an engine oil passage plugged? Or was it some other mechanical failure? Westech pulled the distributor and used an electric drill motor to drive just the pump through the distributor hole without rotating the engine itself. At about a 4,000-rpm equivalent engine speed, this generated 50-psi gauge pressure at a pressure port above the oil filter.
Obviously, there was a problem somewhere else. Brandes' crew immediately pulled the valve covers. Brandes explains, "We found the rockers weren't moving on the front cylinder on the passenger-side" (the No. 1 cylinder as Ford reckons it). A broken No. 1 pushrod was clearly visible. "We knew the customer had broken OE-quality pushrods before, but this piece was a stout chrome-moly, 0.080-inch-wall part." Clearly, just like "something else" caused the oil pump to break, "something else" was most likely causing the broken pushrods.
The pushrod's other half was somewhere in the lifter valley, so the intake was pulled. Whoops! Not only was the pushrod broken, but so was its corresponding lifter (that's where the wire in the pump came from). The failed lifter also opened up a leak path in the lifter bore, resulting in low oil pressure when the engine was operating.
By now this daisy chain of failures had Brandes questioning the entire valvetrain. "We examined the roller rockers. Some had brinelling on the Bearing and shaft. However, a mocked-up valvetrain showed reasonable valvetrain geometry throughout the lifting and closing cycle."
Evidence was piling up: Something was binding, there was a quality-control issue, and/or there was bad valvetrain harmonics. For years, major cam companies have told us the entire valvetrain—from camshaft through pushrods, plus everything in between—should be single sourced to avoid "bad vibes" at discrete critical rpm points. A lot of people consider this just hype to sell more parts, but engineers will tell you that the individual parts comprising an assembly vibrate at different frequencies and can work at cross purposes if not tested and qualified as a team, eventually leading to fatigue and failure. In the outside world, this has caused engines and wings to fall off of airplanes; in the hot rod world, it can cause random (yet catastrophic) valvetrain failures.
The Fix: Cam and Valvetrain
Comp Cams maintains an extensive in-house research, design, and testing capability. It is the real deal. While none of the disparate cam or valvetrain parts were made by Comp Cams, the good folks there were more than willing to help us out, rising to the challenge to come up with a bulletproof valvetrain combo that would also add power.
Brandes sent the valvetrain parts to Comp for analysis. Comp determined the Brand-X cam had GM LS-style lobes ground on a Ford cam billet. But Ford has a different lifter-to-lobe intersection angle than the LS; that changes the lifter acceleration rate, in this case resulting in overly aggressive ramp rates. Rather than "crutch someone else's poor choice of valvetrain components," as Comp's Billy Godbold puts it, "We recommended the entire valvetrain—from timing chain to the rocker arms and springs—be replaced with a coordinated valvetrain. That way there won't be any unforeseen problems a few thousand miles down the road."
Adds Brandes, "An overly aggressive cam lobe was the base engine problem, aggravated because the rest of the valvetrain parts didn't match. The harmonics and loads at the critical rpm range were not in coordination."
In the last few years, hydraulic roller cams have come into their own. Properly designed, top-end valve crash should no longer be a problem. Comp sent us a custom hydraulic roller profile that revs higher on top while still yielding a reasonably smooth, fuel-injection-friendly idle and good throttle response. The new cam's EHI-series intake and EHX-series exhaust lobe profiles are designed to run as high as 8,000 rpm with up to 1.8:1-ratio rockers, so they were sure to stay stable with the normal small-block Windsor Ford's 1.6:1 ratio. Increasing the lobe-separation angle (LSA) from 108 to 112 degrees maintains EFI-friendly idle quality while avoiding piston-to-valve clearance issues, even at 0.600-inch lift.
Linkbar-style paired lifters were used because they were available for immediate shipment at the time. Since then, lighter, short-travel lifters that fit the stock late-model block's spiders have become available and should perform even better in a combo with a late-model block like this one.
Since the heads were off anyway, Brandes went ahead and decked them to raise the static compression from 10:1 to just over 10.7:1. Brandes reports that the EFI system's Mass Airflow Meter was able to compensate for the cam and compression changes with no additional fine-tuning or calibration required.
The car was run on the same Dynojet chassis dyno at Dean's Performance where the original engine was first tested. The combo of higher compression and the new Comp Cams bumpstick installed with complimentary beehive springs, stiffer pushrods, dedicated single-piece guideplates to ensure proper pushrod alignment, and rigid, quality Pro Magnum full roller rocker arms resulted in a 9hp gain (from 363.1 to 372.6 SAE-corrected rear-wheel horsepower). The new peak occurred 200 rpm higher than the previous combo, yet overall average torque and power numbers were virtually unchanged. The new cam's smoother curve (see graph on page 119) indicates superior top-end valvetrain stability.
One thousand miles later, the car still runs strong. Ryan (and family) couldn't be happier. "It's making at least as much power as it did before, but the new cam makes it come on much smoother," Ryan reports.
Lessons Learned
Don't drive your car when it has no oil pressure; Ryan was lucky he didn't spin a Bearing and lunch a crank journal. If there is an oil-pump failure, figure out why it failed. Pay attention to little details at assembly; if the oil-pump screen had been positioned slightly higher above the pan floor, the wire may not have been sucked through the screen. A magnetic oil-pan drain plug is also good insurance. Don't cheap out on the cam and valvetrain; you get what you pay for. Rather than using generic valvetrain parts and an econo no-name cam, consider a matched Set from a quality vendor.
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Ryan and family are happy to be rescued. Clockwise, from top-right: Daddy Pat, wife Jen, daughter Avery (age 2), and son Brady (age 3).Ryan purchased his then-stock '95 Cobra used back in '08. "I bought it during a snowstorm, so I got a pretty good price," he says."Houston, we have a problem": Namely, zero oil pressure at any rpm in the car's built 347ci Windsor stroker. Don't try this at home.After tracking down a major internal-engine problem, Westech Automotive (of Wisconsin) tech Jim Daley buttons it back up.Debris from a broken lifter caused by an unstable off-brand cam and valvetrain had caused the oil pump to fail. Comp Cams to the rescue!All fixed, Ryan's Cobra puts the big bite on the pavement. Little Brady Ryan now continually nags, "Daddy, let's go drive your fast car!"The main and rod Bearings showed signs of wear and scuffing but were not yet seriously distressed. "The bottom end, crank, and rods looked OK," Brandes says. "I thought Ryan had gotten lucky and dodged a bullet." Still, new Federal Mogul Bearings were installed as a precaution.
Measurement showed both the old and new Sealed Power oil pump screen to be just �-inch off the oil-pan floor.Bending the tube's rear-mounting tab (arrow) that mounts on an extended main-Bearing stud above the windage tray increased the clearance to a slightly safer 3⁄8 inch—not too close, not too far.The bottom end was reassembled, and the engine test-fired. There was audible clatter and the oil pressure was less than 20 psi at idle—yet pressure was normal when the pump shaft was driven by an electric drill. Brandes says, "We now knew the pump was putting out pressure, and that the oil galleries weren't plugged…so it was time to look for some other mechanical cause."Would you believe, lying in the lifter valley? Gulp, catastrophic lifter failure. As Brandes put it, "At least we now know where that piece of wire that caused the original oil pump failure came from!" The lifter plunger's retaining clip passed through the oil pump's gears like meat squeezed through a sausage machine.This isn't good: Pulling the passenger-side rocker cover revealed a rocker arm flopping around. Where'd that pushrod run off to?The original upper cam sprocket's thrust surface and thrust plate (right) were worn, too. "We don't know why for sure," Brandes says tactfully. "Maybe it was driving around with no oil pressure?" It was replaced by a Comp Cams Hi-Tech timing Set, copper thrust plate, and high-load Torrington Bearing (left). Fortunately, the front of the block wasn't too messed up.Comp Cams replaced the mismatched cam and valvetrain with its own known-good components. Comp ground a custom hydraulic roller using its latest lobe profiles, supporting it with retrofit-style link-bar lifters, beefy high-fatigue dual valvesprings with complementary retainers and locks, Ultra Pro Magnum full-roller rocker arms, one-piece close-tolerance pushrod guideplates, and chrome-moly pushrods.


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March 18, 2013
Cape Town's stars win top honours at 2013 Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards
It's official … Cape Town, the inspirational Mother City, is home to the most talented thespians!
Homegrown stars walked away with top honours at the Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards at the Artscape Theatre on Sunday 17 March, 2013.
The glamorous, red-carpet awards ceremony was co-hosted by top South African comedian Alan Committee (who, it would seem, is quiet adept at playing the triangle along with the Cape Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, which provided the entertainment for the evening) and Cape Talk presenter Africa Melane, with great humour and flair.
The Mother City's legendary theatres and stars garnered several of the coveted awards, including Yael Farber for Best Director for Mies Julie, a poignant drama first performed at the Baxter Theatre in Rondebosch, and now receiving rave reviews in London. Mies Julie was the runaway hit of the evening, wining a total of four awards.
The Fleur du Cap Awards, sponsored by the Distell Foundation, rewards excellence in theatre. This year's winners were selected by a panel of judges (made up of local critics, journalists, writers and drama educators) based on the almost 100 productions they reviewed in 2012.
Awards were given in 20 different categories. The winners, each receiving a silver medallion and a R15 000 cash prize, are as follows:
1. Best Director
Yael Farber for Mies Julie (performed at the Baxter Theatre)
2. Best New South African Script
Champ, by Louis Viljoen
3. Best Performance by a Lead Actress in a Play
Quanita Adams for Boesman & Lena, as Lena (written by theatre legend Athol Fugard and performed at the Baxter Theatre)
4. Best Performance by a Lead Actor in a Play
Elton Landrew for Boesman & Lena, as Boesman
5. Best Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Play
Thoko Ntshinga for Mies Julie, as Christine
6. Best Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Play
Mbulelo Grootboom for Just Business, as Mabuso (performed at the Artscape Theatre)
7. Best Performance by a Lead Actress in a Musical or Music Theatre Show
Samantha Peo for Cabaret, as Sally Bowles (performed at the Theatre on the Bay in Camps Bay)
8. Best Performance by a Lead Actor in a Musical or Music Theatre Show
Dean Balie for Kat and the Kings, as Young Kat Diamond (directed by David Kramer, performed at the Fugard Theatre in District Six)
9. Best Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Musical or Music Theatre Show
Charon Williams-Ros for Cabaret, as Fräulein Schneider
10. Best Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Musical or Music Theatre Show
Peter Court for Cabaret, as Herr Schultz
11. Best Performance in a Revue, Cabaret or One-Person Show
James Cuningham for Sunday Morning, as Mat (performed at Kalk Bay Theatre)
12. Rosalie van der Gucht Prize for Best New Director
Kim Kerfoot, for Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act
13. Best Sound Design, Original Music Composition or Original Score
Daniel Pencer and Matthew Pencer for Mies Julie (Original Music Composition)
14. Best Costume Design
Angela Nemov for The Comedy of Errors (performed at the Maynardville Open Air Theatre)
15. Best Set Design
Fred Abrahamse for Kingdom of Earth
16. Best Lighting Design
Paul Abrams for Mies Julie
17. Award for Most Promising Student
Roelof Storm (University of Cape Town)
18. Lifetime Achievement Award
Richard Kearns (the Baxter Theatre's senior stage manager)
19. Award for Innovation in Theatre
Mandla Mbothwe
20. People's Choice Award
I Am Hamlet
Nominees and the who's who of the theatrical world were wined and dined in style at the Artscape Theatre, feasting on delectable canapés and desserts by Dish Food & Social (the bistro at the Theatre on the Bay), and sipping premium sparkling and other wines from Distell.
These are few of the images of the magical night:
For more information about the Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards, visit www.fdcawards.co.za or join the Facebook page.


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For example, testing in app purchase, game centre, icloud or notification.
Anyone have tested and verified if it work?
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I had tried to call server data from the app in Jail Broken device. I am not able to call webservices from it. It always display error. On other had application is working fine in factory unlock device.
It works for the most part. Some things don't work perfectly. Sometimes Game Center won't automatch in Sandbox mode for example. But mostly it works.
I unjailbroken mine yesterday because it got stuck when I run the app. It said something like Locktalking so I restored it to iOS6 beta 3. The most of the 'cool' thinks of jailbreaking have a price (of course, they deserve it, but I don't need them so much) so it wasn't an advantage at all.


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by Melissa Brunner
With high school seniors counting down the days to graduation, an article on Yahoo! today might help them out in determining future plans. It ran down a list of five currently hot careers - fields that are hiring right now. Medical assistant, paralegal, accountant and computer software developer all are on the list. The fifth career listed I'm not so sure is exactly hot in this area right now - public relations specialist. I know some folks who've had a tough time finding openings in that field around here. However, the article does specify that those savvy in social media might have an advantage.
If you're interested in the rationale behind the list, you can check out the complete article, complete with resources for getting started, here: http://education.yahoo.net/articles/hot_careers_hiring_now.htm?kid=1LE88
If you're looking for inspiration, Yahoo! delivered that today, too! They posted what they considered three of the best celebrity commencement speeches ever. You can hear the wisdom of Ellen DeGeneres, Conan O'Brien and Steve Jobs here: http://tv.yahoo.com/news/best-graduation-speeches--ellen-degeneres--conan-o-brien--steve-jobs.html
Congrats, grads! As my high school chemistry and physics teacher (who didn't believe in luck) would say, "I wish you all a high probability of success."


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69 Awesome Brain Hacks That Give You Mind-Blowing Powers
We don't know much about computer hacking here at Cracked, because that stuff involves numbers, but we've come across a whole bunch of different crazy brain and body hacks over the years. The following pages will help you change reality for yourself and others, stop pain by coughing, and even make yourself more attractive to the opposite sex. Years of gathered wisdom are at your disposal. Read on:
#69. If You Avoid Thinking About the Future, You Get Better at Everything
Consider the tenses past, present, and future. The difference between the sentences "Bob is at the store buying nachos" and "Bob will go to the store to buy nachos" has explicit implications about how far we are from eating nachos. That is need-to-know information. But it may be surprising that some languages don't have a future tense, or it's not obligatory. In Mandarin, for example, it's fine to say something like "Bob store buy nachos," and nobody will make fun of your caveman speech or slap you in the mouth because you didn't immediately specify the time frame of nacho delivery.
In Mandarin, they always keep spare nachos.
One might think that speakers of such languages would just be wandering around confused, utterly unmoored from time as we know it, hurtling obliviously through chronology with no anchors to tether them, screaming into the void as history whips pas-
No? They're totally fine?
Huh. It turns out that speakers of these tenseless languages actually make far better decisions than tense-language speakers, about virtually everything.
Because they're less tense.
For example, a study by Keith Chen of Yale Business School analyzed data from 76 countries, focusing on things like saving money, smoking and exercise habits, and general health. The surprising result was that cultures in which most people speak languages without a future tense make better health and financial decisions overall. In fact, it found that speaking a tensed language, like English, made people 30 percent less likely to save money. It is thought that speakers of such languages, whom we shall call Untensers, see their lives as less of a timeline and more of a whole. Therefore they are automatically more mindful of how their decisions will affect their futures than we savage, primitive Tensers. Strangely, it seems that thinking of "the future" as being some far-off place, removed from the realities of our daily lives, makes us more likely to buy that second Xbox just because the first looked lonely.
Untensers consistently accumulate more wealth, hold onto it for longer periods of time, are healthier, and live longer than Tensers, for whom the past is something we've left behind, and the future is like a distant planet where consequences live that we don't fully intend to visit.
#68. Music Changes Your Ability to Perceive Time
Hold music -- the stuff you hear on the line when you call everyone from the bank to your local bail bond agency -- didn't fall into America's phone lines by accident. It's designed specifically to reduce the amount of time you think you're waiting, so that you're less likely to hang up in anger. Other places that involve waiting, such as doctors' offices, use a similar trick. Time shrinkage is also the aim of most retail stores, which is why you'll rarely enter a mall, supermarket or clothing store without hearing some sort of music in the background.
Our coke dealer always has Iggy Pop on at his apartment.
How Does It Work?
To understand why exactly music makes it seem like less time has passed, think of the human brain as a mountain lion that is eating a bag of money. It doesn't matter what the zookeepers distract it with -- food, shiny objects or just shouting and yelling. All that matters is that they give another zookeeper the chance to sneak up and retrieve the money while the lion is busy deciding which one of them to eat.
Similarly, when your brain is steadily distracted, you'll be less likely to notice things around you in detail, and this includes the passage of time. Our brains have limited input capacity, and when something else is using up that capacity, we're less likely to think things like, "I've been standing in line to get Richard Moll's autograph for three goddamn hours" or "Do I really need this Garfield alarm clock?"
"Will Katy Perry really sleep with me if I keep buying her music?"
But it works the opposite way, too. In some situations, listening to music can actually expand perceived time. For example, listening to music while performing tasks that require concentration will usually cause us to overestimate the amount of time that has passed. The theory is that as your mind switches back and forth between perception of the music and concentration on the challenging tasks, it forms separate "events," or distinct memories. When your brain thinks about what you've been doing for the past hour, you'll remember more of these events and recall that the hour was quite long.
Experiments have found that time also expands when we're listening to familiar music that we dislike.
When we hear the opening chords of a song, our brain remembers the whole thing and immediately skips ahead and plays it mentally. This fake mind-music is extremely vivid, working on exactly the same parts of the brain as actual music does. So the effect is that you take a few moments to vividly imagine that you're sitting through five minutes of that damn New Radicals song before you come back to reality only to realize that you still actually have to sit through it.
#67. Change the Reality of a Situation by Changing How It's Phrased
You're probably already aware that minor changes to the wording of a survey can alter people's opinions. During the health care debate in 2010, for example, four separate organizations conducted polls to see what percentage of Americans supported a so-called "public option." Their results ranged from a measly 44 percent to 66 percent support, due in large part to differences in wording. Calling it a "government administered health insurance plan -- something like the Medicare coverage that people 65 and older get" garnered 66 percent support. And calling it "a government-run health insurance plan" plummeted support to 44 percent. Calling it "Just what Mussolini would have wanted" reduced the number to 2 percent.
"Ha-HAAAAAAAH! NOW I'VE GOT YOU!"
You might think that it's just a matter of people not actually understanding how the system works ("I said I wanted Medicare, not GOVERNMENT!"), but it really is all about how the brain can be manipulated with very subtle differences in wording, regardless of your knowledge level.
What? How?
In this study, social psychologists sent out surveys to several hundred registered voters before an election. Half the recipients were asked if it was "important to vote." The other half were asked if it was "important to be a voter." With this one difference, the people who read the word "voter" were nearly 14 percent more likely to actually vote on Election Day. The researchers suspected that using the word "voter" caused people to identify themselves with the word. Since these people considered themselves to be voters, they were more likely to get out and vote.
"I was called a motherfucker, too, but that's on everyone's manifesto."
On the other hand, using the word "vote" implied that the survey was asking the people to perform a task. Even if they answered "yes" to the question, they felt no association with the word (i.e., they weren't voters, they were just being told to vote), so they were less likely to follow through. One was about a simple action, the other was about being a type of person.
You've been manipulated this way all your life, and now it's time to start manipulating back. Don't ask your friend with the truck if he can help move your mattress; ask if he'll participate in a community-supported housing initiative. Don't ask the cop to let you off for speeding; ask if Officer Gives-a-Shit doesn't want to stimulate the local economy via a highly targeted middle-class tax break. Getting your way is easy when you let your words do the weaseling for you.
#66. Music Makes You Stronger
It's no secret that many people prefer to listen to music when they work out. But music doesn't just make physical activity more pleasant -- it actually makes our physical performance measurably better. When listening to music, people are able to hold heavy weights for longer than when they're standing in silence. They can also complete sprints in smaller amounts of time and are even able to reduce their oxygen intake.
This is why Rocky does all of his training in musical montages.
How Does It Work?
Similar to the time-perception effect we referenced above, one element is just plain old distraction. Obviously, if your mind is listening to music, it's not thinking about how much your legs hurt or how much longer you've got to run before the treadmill makes that final beeping noise. But there's much more to it than that.
First, there's synchronicity. When you match your movements to a steady musical tempo, you spend less time and effort on the inefficient slowing down and speeding up that happens when you're going by your own rhythm. Music also increases the incidence of "flow" states -- states of meditation-like calm in which everything works right for an athlete and that is strongly linked to enhanced performance.
It's all in the music.
Music can even make you feel less pain. Patients listening to music after surgery need less sedatives, report less pain and have lower blood pressure. As if that's not impressive enough, doctors have found that specially selected melodic music dramatically reduces stress in patients during unsedated brain surgery. In some cases, music caused patients to relax so much that many of them fell into a deep sleep, while people sliced into their exposed brains with fucking scalpels.
And even if you're lucky enough to be asleep during surgery, there's a good chance the doctors working on you are listening to music, since most surgeons believe it improves their performance, too. So the next time you're about to go under a general anesthetic, consider the fact that the guy with the scalpel might soon be timing his incisions to Whitesnake.
"Here I go again on my own, sawing through the whitest bones I've ever knooown ..."
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#64. Thinking You Smell Good Makes You More Attractive
Entire multibillion-dollar industries are built upon the idea that smelling good gets you dates (smell can also influence who you're attracted to). But when we say that your sense of smell can make a man more attractive to the ladies, we're not just pointing out that a quick sniff test of one's clothing before heading out is a reliable start on the path of not dying alone. And we're not talking about those pheromone sprays that promise to make women ignore the crumbs caught in your neckbeard.
No, this is weirder.
Because horse souls smell like fucking.
In a recent study conducted by the University of Liverpool, they had some guys spray themselves with Lynx (the English version of Axe Body Spray). Then they had women rate the men's attractiveness ... via videotape. As in, they were out of smelling range. The men who sprayed themselves down were still rated as more attractive, even though the women couldn't smell them.
But How?
According to the scientists running the experiment, the power was inside the men the whole time. The guys given the scented spray figured they smelled good, so their body language displayed more confidence, and the women who watched them responded to that.
"You don't have to tell me. Johnny Beardface already knows, baby."
So does this mean these dudes were just brainwashed by Lynx's marketing campaign? They actually believed the ads that claim spraying this stuff will have women diving for their junk?
Nope -- the can of spray used in the experiment was unmarked, so the men had no idea what kind of deodorant they were covering themselves with. It seems like pretty much anything that doesn't actually smell like mustard gas will do the trick. It turns out the amazing mind-control powers of smell aren't about making the girl at the bar swoon -- it's about tricking yourself into having a little confidence for once.
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makes it sound like Euler got it in the 1730s.
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I was intending to go to a conference at ExCeL in London Docklands, leaving via London City airport. It seems a very walkable distance between the two, but from Google Maps I can't see if it is practical. Many airports disallow or strongly discourage walking. Will I have to get a taxi, or fiddle around with two DLRs (Docklands Light Rail) (if it's running)? And if I can walk, what route should I take?
Be careful about trusting the Google Maps walking route, as it wants to send you over Connaught Bridge, which doesn't have pedestrian footpaths! If you use streetview, you can see the lack of footpaths, but also a handy bridge that Google neglects to show...
Instead I'd suggest using OpenRouteService to plan the route, which uses OpenStreetMap data which does include the bridge. That suggests a sub-2km, 20 minute walk,along the dock side, and over the pedestrian bridge:
The two DLRs are typically very quick and easy - I have walked it, but in the winter, or at night you wouldn't want to.
Just get on a DLR to Canning Town, and the next one out to the airport shouldn't be more than 10 or 15 minutes later
The postcode for the ExCeL center is, funnily enough, E16 1XL (perhaps where it gets its name).
Plugging that into the Journey Planner, gives you a 32 min walk.
Google Maps suggests a slightly different route, taking 47 minutes.
So yes, it's walkable :) I'd take the longer Google Maps one, personally, as you get to see more of the Docklands.
I also was intending to go to the dev days, and bought the plane ticket and two nights at Premier Inn as a consequence.
Fortunately, CodeKen2011 filled that hole, and I wondered the same as you - looking at the map it wasn't completely clear whether I could walk it, and Google maps disclaimer didn't reassure me.
As Gagravarr points out in a comment on Joel's answer, there is a foot bridge which goes underneath the road bridge. It is actually quite pretty down there.
I do remember walking from a nearby overland train station to City Airport several years ago. But East London is rapidly changing these days, so I can not say whether it is still possible today.


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RideTech AirBar Install - Air Supply, Part IIWritten by on June 1, 2011 Bringin' down the rear
Back in the March issue, I ran through what it took to install the front half of RideTech's StrongArm setup on my '55 Chevy. Here it is June and I promised y'all that I'd follow up in April with the second part. So, here it is, albeit a few months late.
Naturally, once the front suspension was upgraded and lying low, I wanted to do the same to the back end of the '55. I got the guys at RideTech on the horn and they recommended their AirBar kit, which consists of a pair of IS ShockWaves and a four-bar setup with a diagonal bar. The kit bolts directly to the chassis with the only welding being necessary on the rearend. For that end, I called up Currie Enterprise to see what they'd recommend for the project. Being that we're dealing with a full-size car, Currie recommended a 9-inch Ford rear utilizing their Hot Rod housing, 31-spline axles, and a Truetrac third member. Since it'll be going behind a Hurst Driveline Conversions' Tremec five-speed trans, a 3.50:1 gear ratio was chosen to yield a nice highway cruising speed.
In addition to the AirBar kit, this month we'll be installing the brains behind the RideTech setup, their AirPod system. The AirPod is a self-contained unit that features all the components that were previously mounted separately, making installation much quicker and easier, in addition to being pre-wired for their RidePro system. Pre-assembled and tested at the RideTech factory, each AirPod is designed as a simple plug-and-play unit. Coupled with the Internal Ride Height Sensor (IS) ShockWaves and the RidePro E2 electronic control unit (ECU) and controller, the entire system can be programmed with three height setting presets that will remain consistent regardless of load. So whether you're rolling solo or if you've got your three fat cousins riding along, the ECU will adjust the air pressure in each shock to maintain the same ride height, making manual adjustments a thing of the past.
One thing we haven't discussed much of however is how the performance side of things is affected by the RideTech system. Anyone who has any knowledge of performance suspension design can easily deduce from the oversized, tubular control arms and sway bay that we installed last month and the four-bar rear setup this month that the RideTech setup must have some advantages over the stock, spindly components. And indeed it does! Tubular control arms, sway bars, and four-link rear setups have been a staple in road racing and muscle car circles, but are something that is a fairly recent addition to the hot rodder's vocabulary. Couple those components with the ability to fine-tune the valving of each ShockWave and you've got yourself a pretty solid recipe to turn that wallowing wreck into a canyon carver and one that looks good sitting still to boot!
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Here's the RideTech AirBar kit we'll be installing under the '55. The kit is a true bolt-in unit, with the exception of the four-link tabs that need to be welded to the rearend, and consists of a four-link setup with a diagonal link for lateral control, a pair of ShockWave air shocks, and all the bracketry and hardware required to bolt it all up.The first step to installing the AirBar kit is to bolt in the rear crossmember. A couple of things may cause a problem at this point, namely the parking brake and rear brake line brackets. These must be removed before the crossmember can be mocked into position against the body mounts.The provided 3/8x1-inch self-tapping bolts are then carefully installed one by one to avoid over tightening, which could result in the fasteners become stripped.Here, the fasteners are all installed and the crossmember in place. Note the remains of the brake tab in the upper right of the photo.At this point, the four-bar bracket is tacked to the rearend housing before being removed. Instead of welding the brackets on ourselves and possibly warping the brand-new housing, we opted to let Currie weld the brackets up in their jig to ensure that the housing stays true. First, the axle is centered to the chassis before the pinion angle can be set by raising the rear into the chassis with about 4-1/2 inches of clearance between it and the frame kickup. This is a simulated ride-height setting, which allowed us to set the pinion angle at 6 degrees nose up, parallel to the engine/trans, which is 6 degrees tail down. With the four-bar links even at 18-1/2 inches center to center, the rearend is simply rotated on the brackets until the correct pinion angle is achieved. The simplest way to do this is to place an angle finder or dial level on the face of the rearend or transmission yoke. Road testing will tell you if you have it right; a vibration during acceleration and the yoke is too high while a vibration duThe next step is to locate and mount the upper ShockWave brackets. Using a hole in the frame for reference, the brackets are clamped into place at 14-1/2 inches edge to edge.
There is a driver and passenger side bracket and they are stamped accordingly. The ShockWaves will be perpendicular to the ground when properly installed.Our Currie 9-inch Ford rearend showed up just in time to keep the install moving along smoothly. Their Hot Rod housing was packed with a pair of 31-spline axles, Truetrac third member, 3.50:1 gears, and drum brakes before being powdercoated in black. In spite of the Ford nature of the rear, Currie is able to offer a myriad of options when it comes to bolt patterns. We chose to stick to the standard Chevy 5x4-3/4 inch. Note that the passenger side four-bar bracket has the diagonal link bracket welded to it.With the four-link arms mounted to the crossmember, it's just a matter of sliding the rear up into place and bolting the arms to it to mate the rearend to the chassis. With the pinion angle built into the brackets, it's a simple manner of ensuring that the four-bar links are at the 18-1/2-inch setting before everything is snugged up.The aluminum lower ShockWave mount attaches to the axle bracket using provided 5/8x3/4-inch Allen bolts. Be sure to use antiseize. There is a driver and passenger side bracket; the correct bracket will offset the ShockWave toward the wheel.The ShockWave mounts off the stud installed in the shock mount. Note the relation of the washers and Nyloc nut. It's also a good idea to orient the shocks with the adjusting knob easily accessible.The diagonal link attaches to the crossmember and rear bracket using a 5/8-inch and Nyloc nut. A pair of spacers flanks the Heim joint. When installed, the diagonal link should measure 30-1/4-inch center to center.With the suspension components all in place, the axle can be set at ride height and the fasteners tightened.
One thing worth mentioning that we found out the hard way: RideTech's AirBar system uses a specific rear crossmember when using a Ford 9-inch rearend. Be sure to specify which rearend you'll be using when ordering your kit so you can avoid doing everything twice like we did!Once the correct crossmember was installed, we were able to snug up the custom driveshaft provided by Inland Empire Driveline Service. IEDS recommends 14-17 lb-ft of torque for the U-bolts. If you can't get a torque wrench into place, tightening the nut until the lock washer is flat, then adding an eighth of a turn will get you in the ballpark.With the suspension components installed, it's time to turn our attention to the brains of the operation, RideTech's AirPod system equipped with the RidePro E2 ECU that adjusts the height of the vehicle based on chassis movement as well as air spring pressure readings.The AirPod system simplifies the installation of any RideTech kit by packaging the compressor(s), relays, valves, ECU, and tank together in a compact unit.When it comes to connecting the AirPod to the rest of the vehicle, it's pretty straightforward. The control panel connects to the plug on the left, while the pigtails from the internal ride height sensors on each shock attach to the four center plugs, (right front, left front, right rear, and left rear respectively). The red (12 V), yellow (switched 12 V), and black (ground) connectors are the only three wires that need to be connected and run separately.RideTech utilizes simple push-fit connectors in conjunction with DOT-approved airline to mate the shocks to the valves.We mounted the AirPod setup in the trunk and ran the wiring and airlines through the trunk floor, utilizing grommets at the intersection.A before and after shot shows the difference in height between the lowered car on stock suspension and the RideTech-equipped '55.


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Didn't you see the announcement? Woot is offering "Pay What You Want" on some items.
Looks like the extra penny gets you the flashlight with the case, strap, and carabiner while the other deal is the light only.
Nothing that strange there. Plus deals are usually even dollar amounts. The main deals are not.
@rustybender: Look again. Both deals include case, strap, and carabiner.
Seems Woot! needs to have an Amazon style "Tell us about a lower price" button.
It's cross-merchandising.
@jsimsace: You call it cross-merchandising, I call it embarrassing. I penny, $5 or whatever. Sure wish there was a useable search function on woot.


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I'm learning about proof by contrapositive and by mathematical induction in a computer science class. I'm banging my head trying to solve this problem and would like some help:
Prove that the sum of the first $n$ even numbers is $n^2 + n$
(a) indirectly by assuming that the sum of the first $n$ odd numbers is $n^2$
(b) directly by mathematical induction.
I have no problem doing (b). But I can't figure out how to do (a) using indirect proof. I can only come up with this:
Sum of first $n$ numbers is $n^2 + n \implies $ numbers are even
Contrapositive: numbers are odd $\implies $ sum of first n numbers is not $n^2 + n$.
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"The Christmas Shoe Tree" will be presented by the school 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. There is no admission cost, but the school is asking for those attending to consider the donation of a pair of shoes to benefit the less fortunate around the world.
"'The Christmas Shoe Tree' was written specifically to go with the Soles 4 Souls shoe drive," teacher Meredith Allen said.
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SHOE DRIVE — Fifth and sixth-grade students at St. Paul Catholic School in Weirton are preparing for a production of "The Christmas Shoe Tree," to take place Tuesday As part of the play, the school is asking for donations of shoes, which will be sent to those in need around the world as part of the Soles 4 Souls shoe drive. -- Craig Howell
Soles 4 Souls collects new and used shoes and ships them around the world to areas where they are in need, such as small, impoverished villages in South America, Asia and Africa.
Allen explained they will accept any type of shoe, new or used, as long as it is part of a matching pair.
"Most of them go to orphanages," she said.
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St. Paul Catholic School will put on a production of "The Christmas Shoe Tree," 6:30 p.m. Dec. 18. Admission is free; however, the school is asking for donations of shoes as part of the Soles 4 Souls program. More information on the program can be found online at www.giveshoes.org.
According to the organization's website, found online at www.giveshoes.org, any new shoes collected - or used shoes in good condition - are given for free to those in need, including people who cannot otherwise afford shoes of their own, or those who have suffered through natural disasters.
Used shoes, especially those not appropriate for crisis relief, are collected in an effort to establish and support micro-enterprise movements to help provide a source of revenue for people in underprivileged areas of the world.
To date, the school has collected approximately 500 pairs of shoes for the program.
"They're still coming in," Allen said.
Allen said the students are excited for the production, saying the play itself has a great message.
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I found that Sencha Touch 2 doesn't work well on BlackBerry OS7 or OS7.1 (I had tried it on 9860 simulators), the UI is not so good even running Sencha Touch official demo applications, on the contrary, it is good on BlackBerry simulator which is based on OS6, any ideas?
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It seems as though RIM is changing their support for some webkit features in their browsers. Particularly webkit masks. We are looking to use a different method of handling masking in a future release.
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Wardt (known for his productions under Wardt and Re-Wardt) teamed up with his studio buddy Willem van Hanegem two deliver these two great peaktime trancers. Looking for tracks for your next big gig? Mustang is a huge Anthem that will succeed in bombing a dance floor!
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Philosophy Major
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Philosophy has played a central role in Jesuit education since its inception, a tradition that is reflected by the place of philosophy in the Gonzaga University core curriculum. Philosophy courses required as part of the University core curriculum for all undergraduate programs aid students in developing skills of thought and logical analysis (PHIL 101), introduce students to sustained reflection on basic questions of human nature and personhood (PHIL 201), and examine the practical and theoretical considerations relevant to human morality and value (PHIL 301). The 400-level elective requirement vitally contributes to a liberal arts education by giving the student critical distance, through philosophical reflection, from immediate involvement in career, professional, academic, and human concerns.
The Philosophy Department also offers courses leading to the Bachelor of Arts degree with a major or minor in philosophy. Beyond courses required by the university core, students must complete an additional nine credits of upper-division course work for a philosophy minor, and twenty-six additional upper-division hours for the philosophy major. Two special features of the philosophy major curriculum are the Philosophy Major Proseminar, which orients new philosophy majors to the main issues and problems in philosophy and offers practice in philosophical writing, and the Senior Seminar. Philosophy majors should register for the Proseminar as soon as possible after declaring a philosophy major, normally in the spring of their sophomore year; the Senior Seminar is a capstone course in the spring of the senior year.
An undergraduate major in philosophy is useful preparation for a variety of careers. The focus on logic, argumentation, and moral theory is valuable to students with career plans in law. Students with interests in business, public policy, or government service can benefit from the many courses which provide reflective analysis on the ways in which political, moral, and social values are embedded in social institutions. A degree in philosophy can be valuable when applying to a variety of professional schools which actively look for liberal arts majors, and employers who do the same.
Because the sustained study of philosophy is at the very heart of any education that is Catholic, Jesuit and humanistic, all Gonzaga University students complete this four-course philosophy sequence.
Critical Thinking. The philosophical component of the Gonzaga Freshman Studies Block, this course is an introduction to the basic tools and skills of thinking and reasoning.
Philosophy of Human Nature. This course initiates students into the study of the human condition, the meaning and value of human life, and the human relationship to ultimate reality.
Ethics. An upper-division course that studies the goals of human life and the norms of moral behavior. It also seeks to apply those goals and norms to specific moral problems.
Advanced Study in Philosophy. All Gonzaga students must complete at least one course of their choosing at the 400-level. Examples of advanced courses include Business Ethics, Existentialism, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of C.S. Lewis, and Chinese Philosophy.
B.A. Major in Philosophy
Upon completing the first three courses of the Core sequence (Critical Thinking, Philosophy of Human Nature, and Ethics), students may enroll in the Philosophy Major program, which has three distinctive features.
Collegial Bookend Seminars. Majors take the proseminar as they begin their work on the Major and a capstone, senior seminar as they finish it. The proseminar introduces majors to the principal topics in philosophy and emphasizes practice in philosophical writing. The senior seminar focuses on topics in metaphysics and epistemology; it also emphasizes philosophical writing.
History of Philosophy Sequence. Majors complete a four course sequence on the history of philosophy, including ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary philosophy.
Flexible Elective Courses. Majors also complete four advanced (400-level) courses in areas of their choosing. This enables advanced students the opportunity to customize their Philosophy major.
Major Requirements
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|PHIL 101 Critical Thinking*
|2 credits
|Fall & Spring
|PHIL 201 Philosophy of Human Nature*
|3 credits
|Fall & Spring
|PHIL 301 Ethics*
|3 credits
|Fall & Spring
|PHIL 400 Philosophy Major Proseminar
|3 credits
|PHIL 401 History of Ancient Philosophy
|3 credits
|PHIL 405 History of Medieval Philosophy
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|PHIL 410 History of Modern Philosophy
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|PHIL 420 Contemporary Philosophy
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|PHIL 4xx - Electives**
(cannot include PHIL 402 or PHIL 412)
|12 credits
|PHIL 499 Senior Seminar
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* With the permission of the Honors Program Director, philosophy majors may take PHIL 102H, 201H, and 301H instead of PHIL 101, 201, and 301. These special classes are ordinarily reserved for Honors students. No substitution authorization is required.
** Majors in philosophy should choose their electives carefully in consultation with their advisors and in the light of their philosophical interests and academic objectives. PHIL 402 and 412 will not count for elective credit for philosophy majors.
Transfer Students
Transfer students who have taken philosophy courses at other institutions may have some or all of the core courses substituted if, in the judgment of the Department, they are equivalent to those courses required at Gonzaga and if a grade of "C" or better was earned.
Minor in Philosophy
The Philosophy Minor program offers students the opportunity to deepen their philosophical interests after completing the Core program. The Minor program features flexibility, since students are permitted to choose any three advanced (400-level) courses. The total number of credits needed for the Philosophy Minor is 20, of which 11 are satisfied through the completion of the Core program.
The Philosophy department offers a large number of advanced (400-level) courses from which students may choose. These include courses on philosophical issues that arise within a particular profession, as well as courses devoted to various philosophical problems or historical movements.Minor in Philosophy: 20 Credits
PHIL 101 Critical Thinking
2 credits
PHIL 201 Philosophy of Human Nature
3 credits
PHIL 301 Ethics
3 credits
PHIL 4xx Electives
12 credits
Kossel Track
The Kossel Track is named after Clifford Kossel, S.J., who taught Thomistic philosophy at Gonzaga for many years. It is designed for all students who seek a Philosophy Major program that emphasizes Catholic thought. Bishop White seminarians in particular pursue this major in preparation for theological studies. In addition to the Collegial Bookend Seminars and the History of Philosophy Sequence of the Philosophy Major program, the Kossel Track program includes the following.
Area Courses. Kossel students take three courses in traditional areas of Catholic philosophy: Christian Metaphysics, Theory of Knowledge, and either Faith and Reason or Philosophy of God.
Supporting Elective Course. Kossel students complete an additional advanced elective course of their choosing.
Additional Religion Study. Kossel students complete at least one course on Catholicism beyond the three courses of the religious studies core program.
Latin Study. Kossel students complete at least one full year of Latin language.
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I would like to understand how the Cookies Law, will affect the web analytic reporting? Is there another way of tracking?
I'm assuming you are referring to the EU cookie law, which requires that all users visiting your site must explicitly opt-in to all non-essential cookies.
As far as I can tell, by the letter of the law cookies from Google Analytics do not fall under "essential" and so you would need users' explicit consent to use Google Analytics. It may be feasible to claim that GA is essential to your site - without it you wouldn't be able to understand what your users need and cannot run a business.
However, I don't think the cookie law is really enforceable and almost no sites have complied with less than 60 days remaining. The ICO cannot police billions of web pages, and will likely only go after the big sites like Facebook or Google if they do. (Heck, huge sites like those may even pay the fines if they make more than the fine from being able to track users and serve targeted advertising.)
If you wanted to track users in another way there is absolutely nothing stopping you using server logs to do mostly the same things GA does (Which is exactly why the law is silly and misguided IMO.)
If the ICO law is ever fully enforced it will cause havoc for UK businesses that are already suffering from several years of atrocious economic conditions. If you want to use web analytics on your site now you'll need to ask people to opt-in first, which very few people will bother to do. You can see the ludicrous opt-in box that the ICO expects UK business owners to place on their site here.
In reality the way Google Analytics performs anonymous aggregate data collection should be the model that others are following, but instead this ignorant law has somehow got through the net without consideration for it's ability to protect users privacy or the impact it will have on any business that utilises the web.
Log file analysis isn't the solution to the problem because the most important metric to analyse is conversions, so you can make changes that increase their frequency; without a persistent tagging mechanism you'll only get a vanity metric reporting the number of conversions you've achieved, but none of the referral or click-stream data required to take any action. In fact, log file analysis is also more problematic from a data protection perspective because many log files contain IP's--which are considered PII--and many small websites aren't actually following the standard UK rules regarding the protection of PII.
I think that it's unlikely that this law will come into full force in its current form; however, it's worrying to note that it's even got this far and potentially could be enforced. If things like this continue it could help factions who want to see the death of the web, where people don't use a browser to access sites, they use an "app" with its own TOS where your consent to tracking is buried within a host of other conditions you never bother to read before installation.


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Both the fire poker and the railroad spike knife classes will be offered on SUNDAY April 14th at Pumping Station:One.
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Please sign up for your preferred class and time using the booking link HERE!
- $40 for members ($50 for non-members) for the two and a half hour long instruction & materials needed for the *fire poker class*
- $25 for members ($30 for non-members) for the *rail road spike* class.
Both classes will also certify members to use the forge!
What you need to know:
1. If you have a nice pair of safety glasses, bring them – we have some available, but they may not be comfortable.
2. Wear ONLY cotton clothing and closed toe shoes (preferably leather with rubber soles) Any other fabric may catch fire and will melt onto your skin and continue burning you which is never fun. A lightweight, long-sleeved shirt is preferable to protect from flying slag.
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Yamen Hostel
Yamen (Former County Government) Hotel is within the famous ancient city walls...
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- Cable TV
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Through the City Tower in the middle of the walled city heading south, walk for 300 yards and at the arch turn right. Walk towards the next tower and it's just before it on the right.


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5 Amazing Things You Didn't Know Babies Could Do
#2. Babies Can Read Your Lips
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One of the first milestones in every mother's life is that moment when her newborn figures out how to make direct eye contact with her. It actually takes about six weeks for babies to do it -- a loooong six weeks of nursing, diapers, and sleeplessness without so much as a knowing wink from the one they're taking care of. Until that moment when eye contact happens, the baby's eyes are unfocused and confused, staring at your forehead one moment, the ceiling fan another -- it's all the same to them. Once your child starts actually looking at you, a whole new exciting world of interaction opens up. So you can't blame parents for not noticing a subtle shift that happens about five months later.
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"Excuse me, my eyes are up here. God, you do take after your father."
Starting at about 6 months old, babies stop looking into their caregivers' eyes and start looking at their lips to figure out how to make sounds correctly. So one day your baby is bonding through eye gazes and gentle coos, the next day the baby says "Fuck this, I'm going to learn how to talk." And his gaze drops and starts watching the speakers' mouths.
Researchers figured the phenomenon out by studying babies at ages 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 months old. At 4 months old, babies stared at the speakers' eyeballs. At 6 months, they split their time between the eyes and mouth. The 8- and 10-month-olds focused exclusively on the mouths. By 12 months, the kids spontaneously switched backed to eye contact -- unless the scientists used Spanish speakers on babies who came from English homes. In those cases, the older babies kept their eyes trained on the mouths, because they still had some learning to do.
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"Your conjugations are atrocious, tonto."
In other words, we have a natural instinct to quit bonding through eye contact and start communicating with words, and we make the transition without help from flash cards or Rosetta Stone or worried grandmothers who secretly think we're developmentally delayed. And every sound you've ever learned how to make was acquired during a six-month window before your first birthday. It kind of makes everything you've done since then look pretty lame, huh?
#1. Babies Are Amazing Bullshit Detectors
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Among the many advantages of adulthood is the loss of complete gullibility. You don't need a mirror to know that your dad didn't take your nose, you've outgrown that shit. Except you actually outgrew that shit when you were still sitting around in your pee-pants unable to articulate complete thoughts. Not only are babies adept at determining when someone is lying to them, but they totally judge them for it.
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"I'll remember you tried to pass this off as Fisher Price when it comes time to stuff you two idiots into a nursing home."
The best part about this fact is how researchers figured it out -- by deliberately lying to kids in the most dickish way possible. Sixty babies between 13 and 16 months were put into two groups. The children in the first group had the privilege of watching a grownup fake excitement over opening a box, only to find out the box was totally empty. In the second group, the grownups got orgasmically excited over a box that actually had a toy in it, presumably one that was appropriate for babies.
In part two of the experiment, the same grownups with the boxes demonstrated how to turn on a light -- with their foreheads. Sixty-one percent of the babies in the group with the non-lying adult actually trusted their adult enough to copy them by trying to turn on light switches with their hilariously oversized heads. In contrast, only 34 percent of the babies placed with the liars trusted them enough to use their foreheads to do anything, much less turn on a light switch.
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In conclusion, tell the truth to your kids so they will smash their faces into things.
So remember that the next time you try to trick your child into eating pea puree because it tastes like "ice cream." You might just cast yourself as an unreliable adult, unworthy of imitation. Then again, they're going to probably figure that out eventually anyway.
Zion Lights also writes about things that have nothing to do with babies at www.zionlights.co.uk. You can find her on Twitter @ziontree, where she tweets loudly, like everybody else.
For more reasons to fear all things cute, check out 6 Shockingly Evil Things Babies Are Capable Of and The 5 Most Horrible Things Nobody Tells You About Babies.
Related Reading: Did you know a crazy man once designed a hypodermic needle that looked like a bunny to trick infants into getting their vaccines? Read about that, and other terrifying baby products by clicking that link. More interested in all the insane ways our body tricks us into loving babies? Read this article and learn how infants are basically just tiny bald drug dealers. And did you know babies also had mild telepathy and superhearing? That's just the tip of the tiny super powers iceberg, and you can read all about it here.


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I've been cruising around on Ravelry again, and I've found some beautiful new patterns to share. It's exciting to see what independent designers are doing with our yarns!
First up is Hannah Fettig's Autumnal Cardigan, knitted in Ultra Alpaca Light. The long silhouette and generously sized ribbed collar make it a perfect option for staying cozy this winter.
Next, we have Jackie Moon's Bird Nest Cowl, crocheted in Peruvia. It's a versatile winter accessory, sized perfectly to be worn as either a cowl or a hood. In addition to being stylish, it's an easy project and works up quickly, making this cowl a great pattern for beginning crocheters.
Shelly DeJong's Heddal hat, worked in Ultra Alpaca Light, is a gorgeous example of stranded colorwork. Knit in three colors, the hat was inspired by traditional Norwegian knitting techniques and includes instructions for two styles: a longer toque that can be worn slouched and a short cap. Check out her Glowing Embers hat and cowl set for more colorwork with Ultra Alpaca Light!
Alegria DaSilva's elegant Rosazura cloche is knitted in Lustra. Garter stitch bands and a cable detail at the side give the hat a distinctive art deco look. The yarn's subtle shine and smooth texture make it perfect for showing off the stitching.
Thanks to all the designers for using Berroco yarns in their patterns! I can't wait to see what they'll come up with next…
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