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I've not been able to understand exactly the reason behind Blowfish being faster than AES. Is it dependent on the block size? Or is it processor dependent? (if Yes, then lets assume that AES accelerators are not used) I'd like to know the exact reason behind it. Thanks.
Blowfish has strong points regarding speed because bulk encryption (and decryption) reduce to an alternation of: a 8->32-bit table lookup, and one or two 32-bit operations (addition or XOR). That structure is very well suited to 32-bit CPUs with a short pipeline and a fast cache of at least 4 kByte; and is well suited for a straight C implementation, which generates code that often is very near optimum.
For each byte enciphered, and unless I miscount:
Table lookups are much more expensive than straight 32-bit operations (most of these come almost for free in practice), and dominate the cost. Thus yes, Blowfish can be a little faster than AES implemented in software; especially if the AES implementation is not optimized to the max, or is AES-256.
Other than that, Blowfish and AES are not playing in the same league, and AES often wins without battle:
That makes Blowfish a terrible algorithm when 64-bit block is an issue (e.g. CBC mode with gigabytes of data); or when key agility matters (on occasions the relative slowness of Blowfish's key setup is an asset, see bcrypt); or for hardware implementation; or when 4 kByte is a lot of RAM (e.g. some embedded systems, or a server handling many simultaneous connections).


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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - Riley County Police said Thursday afternoon that they've arrested a Manhattan High School student for the death of a classmate.
14-year old Cole Drake is being held at the Geary County Juvenile Detention Facility on a charge of first degree murder for the death of 14-year old Tyler Dowling. Authorities say the two were acquaintances.
Dowling's body was found in a field behind a Manhattan apartment complex Wednesday.
In an exclusive interview with 13 News, Tyler's mother, Angie, said the family is still shocked.
"I still don't believe it's true. I don't know who would do this to such an amazing man," said Angie Dowling, crying over the loss of her son.
"I just want to hug him. He always put a smile on everyone's face. I'm going to miss him," said Tyler's father, Tracie Burnett.
Riley County Police were called to the area near 500 Walters at 5:11 p.m. The 911 caller said there was a male laying in the field and they believed he was injured. A second call came soon after, reporting that the male appeared to not be breathing. Dowling was pronounced dead at the scene.
Riley County police ruled the incident a homicide Thursday morning. Authorities would not comment Thursday on how Dowling was killed.
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Anyone with information that could help police, should contact the Investigations Division at (785) 537-2112 ext. 2470; or the Crime Stoppers line at (785) 539-7777 or 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
A memorial fund in Tyler's name has been set up at Kansas State Bank, located at 1010 Westloop Pl. Manhattan, KS.
Friends set up a Facebook page to remember Dowling, "R.I.P. Tyler."
Wednesday night's report, before police were releasing any details

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Just received my NN3MKII. I have an Olympus e-510 with 12-60mm lens on it. I was able to do the set up effectively with my Manfrotto 323 Quick release plates attached directly to the lower and upper rails. I'm now able to snap the rails onto my tripod and the camera onto the rails with quick releases.
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According to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuDesktop "Python 2.6 is no longer available for install".
I need to support legacy software that runs only on Python 2.6. How can I install Python 2.6 on Ubuntu 12.04?
According to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuDesktop "Python 2.6 is no longer available for install".
I need to support legacy software that runs only on Python 2.6. How can I install Python 2.6 on Ubuntu 12.04?
I'm using a PPA: https://launchpad.net/~fkrull/+archive/deadsnakes
Install the PPA:
Run Update:
Install your flavor:
Check out pythonbrew. It does a great job of managing multiple python versions and enviroments. It builds each version of python from source, but does so in a user friendly way. After you install it just run:
Then you can use it with virtualenv to create a virtual enviroment with whatever frameworks and libraries you need without having to worry about conflicts.
I looked for a PPA, didn't find any, then installed Python 2.6 packages from 11.10 by hand:
(Also, most people don't need the
Python isn't too hard to build. Try
for plone development on linux, we use this buildout script: https://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/buildout/bda-naked-python/
there are buildout configuration files for python versions 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7 and 3.2.
the README tells how to use it.
If you are upgrading to 12.04 and already have Python 2.6 installed, it will remain installed after your upgrade.
The packages installed will be considered "local", and obviously cannot be updated with the Upgrade Manager. Source-only security fixes (if any are needed) are available from python.org.
Only those 2.6 packages that are installed will remain, any that were not installed will not be accessible. If you need them, you can get them from the Ubuntu archives following Marius' instructions.
Try using the debs here (check the description dependencies as you may have a lot to download--but its all point/click debs).
Or if you got a usb with 10.04 install with software centre and make an aptoncd iso. You can open these and simply click the debs backed up within without doing a full auto install. I'm making a few to back-up the 10.04 debs as i fear they will be gone one day and 10.04 the best version in ubuntu history to date.
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The 5 Most Depraved Sex Scenes Implied by 'Harry Potter'
The Harry Potter series has sold billions of dollars worth of books, movie tickets and DVDs because it's one of those rare series that children can enjoy but won't make adults want to gouge out their eyes.
Author J.K. Rowling had a way of throwing a bone to the grown-ups here and there by slipping in sly little adult references along the way. It's usually done in subtext (like the elderly wizard Dumbledore's homosexual relationship with the male wizard Grindelwald), but sometimes it's right there in the open for anyone perceptive enough to get it.
And sometimes, that shit gets nasty.
#5. Dolores Umbridge Gets Gang Raped by Centaurs
Dolores Umbridge is perhaps the one person in the whole Harry Potter universe who is virtually impossible to like, no matter what angle you choose to piss on her from.
Via Hp-lexicon.org
She's like Mussolini and your nosy old neighbor, all rolled into one.
The short-lived headmistress of Hogwarts gets off on torturing children, has an unflinching holier-than-thou attitude and, unless David Yates has something stashed for an extended edition of the films, *SPOILER* she gets away with it. *END SPOILER*
Well, unless you count the part where she is abducted and gang raped by centaurs in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. And if you think we're just filling in the rape stuff with our filthy imaginations, hang on.
Near the climax of the book/film, Umbridge is hauled screaming into the Forbidden Forest by a group of centaurs. No one sees what happens next.
What you have to realize is that there's a reason Rowling made sure it was centaurs who snatched Umbridge, rather than any of the countless other dangerous creatures in the forest (like the giant spiders). If you're familiar with the mythology of centaurs, seeing a screaming woman get hauled away by a bunch of them gives you the same feeling you get in Deliverance when Ned Beatty falls into the hands of the hillbillies, or when Bruce Willis and Ving Rhames wind up imprisoned by the same in Pulp Fiction. Centaurs rape human women -- that's what they do, that's a central part of their mythology.
In one legend, centaurs were invited to a wedding feast and attempted to rape the bride. In another, the famous centaur Nessus was killed while trying to rape a woman. That's the point of centaurs as characters -- they have the heads of men and the animal urges of horses.
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And unfortunately, the ... um ... "equipment" to go with it.
People on the Internet familiar with the mythology were quick to notice this, as were feminist blogs. After all, showing Umbridge getting dragged away by centaurs would be like having Draco Malfoy getting his comeuppance by having him get hauled into the back of a windowless van by a creepy guy with a wispy mustache. We don't need to see what happens next if we know the context.
The thousand-yard stare of a woman who knows her centaurs.
Now, if that had been the last time we saw Umbridge in the series, then you could say, OK, maybe these centaurs are different, maybe they just trampled her to death or stabbed her or tied her to a tree and strapped a bag full of oats to her face. But Umbridge comes back, and comes back suffering from some kind of major trauma that didn't involve any damage to the visible parts of her body. Here's Rowling's depiction of her in the aftermath:
Professor Umbridge was lying in a bed opposite them, gazing up at the ceiling .... Since she had returned to the castle she had not, as far as any of them knew, uttered a single word. Nobody really knew what was wrong with her, either. Her usually neat mousy hair was very untidy and there were still bits of twigs and leaves in it, but otherwise she seemed to be quite unscathed.
'Madam Pomfrey says she's just in shock,' whispered Hermione.
'Sulking, more like,' said Ginny.
'Yeah, she shows signs of life if you do this,' said Ron, and with his tongue he made soft clip-clopping noises. Umbridge sat bolt upright, looking around wildly.
'Anything wrong, Professor?' called Madam Pomfrey, poking her head around her office door.
'No ... no ...' said Umbridge, sinking back into her pillows. 'No, I must have been dreaming ...'Hermione and Ginny muffled their laughter in the bedclothes.
To Make It Even Weirder ...
Two characters watch Umbridge getting dragged away -- Harry Potter and Hermione Granger. At least one of those two knows that centaurs are rape machines. (Hint: It's Hermione, the character whose main purpose in the plot is to know absolutely everything.)
Via Scamp.ie
"So this is why you spend so much time in that library."
Neither of them make an effort to save Umbridge. Potter gets in a witty, James Bond-esque quip as she's being dragged away, and Hermione seems satisfied that mass horse rape is a fitting punishment. We like to think that on the way back to school, Harry asked "So what do you suppose those centaurs are going to do to the professor?" and that Hermione casually described to him how Umbridge would almost certainly be brutally violated by equinely endowed inter-species rapists. And that was the day Harry learned that you do not mess with Hermione Granger.
"No, you go ahead back. I'm going to just enjoy this for a bit."
#4. Magical Date-Rape Drugs Are Legal and Sold in the Open
When you have repeated murders, werewolf sightings and evidence of students getting tortured being wholly ignored by the grown-ups in the wizarding community, it only makes sense that something as profound as a date-rape crisis plaguing students at Hogwarts would be placed in the same "do not care" file.
And we mean that the magical drugs that make it possible aren't even illegal -- they're sold in the open, at the magical joke shop run by Ron's brothers Fred and George Weasley.
There's nothing magic about roofies, kids.
The love potions in the Weasleys' WonderWitch line alone include such adorable names as Beguiling Bubbles, Heartbreak Teardrops, Kissing Concoction, Twilight Moonbeams and, no joke, Cupid Crystals. Seriously, crystals, and each one of the products can be disguised "as perfumes and cough potions" to hoodwink Hogwarts' already AWOL authorities.
Oh, and do they work? According to the Weasley twins themselves, "for up to twenty-four hours at a time depending on the weight of the boy in question--"
"-- and the attractiveness of the girl."
Even drug dealers are adorable when they finish each other's sentences.
In case you think this is just a scam by the jokers to hoodwink horny teenage wizards out of their money, we actually see a love potion in action later. At one point a female wizard named Romilda Vane (who according to Hermione "looked like she meant business") gives Harry a box of chocolates spiked with love potion. Harry doesn't eat them, but his friend Ron does, at which point he becomes a slack-jawed lust-obsessed zombie who has to be cured by a teacher just so he can function again.
He's just a love machine, and he won't work for nobody but literally anyone.
To Make It Even Weirder ...
In case you think this is just another movie treating female-on-male sexual assault as lighthearted fun, Rowling goes out of her way to portray the negative consequences. How far out of her way? The villain of the wizard world, Lord Voldemort, was the result of a female wizard using magic to turn a rich guy into a mindless sex slave. It went on long enough for them to birth a child.
"Don't you give me that look. You go brush your teeth and get in bed."
According to Albus Dumbledore, Voldemort's mother Merope Gaunt grew up in a dump that was the wizard equivalent of impoverished West Virginia. She finally found a man by using either an Imperius Curse (a mind control spell) or a love potion to make a wealthy man named Tom Riddle Sr. her lover, husband and private slave-stud for at least a year.
The result of this yearlong sex slavery at the hands of this circus-like freak was Tom Marvolo Riddle, Lord Voldemort, who understandably was a bit of a dick from the get-go.
"Would you like to talk about your deadbeat family, your pikey grandfather or your rapist mother?"
#3. Polyjuice Potion and Temporary Gender Reassignment
Polyjuice Potion, a nefarious cocktail that is requested more frequently throughout the Harry Potter series than water, is one of many brews from the wizarding world that is probably illegal everywhere outside of Amsterdam -- more on that later.
The 'juice enables anyone to take the physical form of any person. It's the perfect disguise, and it's not just their face -- you assume their entire physical body. Genitalia included.
"Let's not discuss how I know, but you should probably see a doctor."
With that firmly in mind, let's examine some famous uses of the potion in the books. First, dark wizard Barty Crouch Jr. avoided jail by using the potion to take on the body of his own mother. Yeah, that's Norman Bates shit right there.
And then you have the scene in The Deathly Hallows when Harry's best friend Ron, Hermione, Ron's brothers, Fleur Delacour and others all found out the hard way what it's like to have Harry Potter's junk in their trousers when they took the potion during a ploy to create a bunch of Potter decoys to foil an assassination attempt.
"I have the sudden urge to drive an unreasonably large truck."
To Make It Even Weirder ...
Imagine a universe where this stuff actually existed. To assume the physical form of someone else, all you need is one of their hairs. So imagine the black market in the wizarding world that exists for the hairs of, say, famous starlets, with dudes giving themselves several hours' access to famous genitals.
Now imagine what pedophiles would do with it.
Oh, and did we mention that getting a mix of human and animal hair in the potion turns you into a living, breathing furry?
Don't blame us. We're just reporting on the fan fiction that already exists.


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Environment: Ubuntu Server 12.04, tried installing from bootable flash drive.
Got the following error:
No root file system is defined. Please correct this from the partitioning menu.
I'm trying to set up a personal file server with software RAID 5. I just got three hard drives for this, but haven't found any solid documentation. I'm unsure what the basic way to partition my hard drives is. Can someone upload a screenshot of their "partition disks" screen so that I can compare with mine (attached)?
I tired to upload an image, but it said that I need reputation 10+ to post an image...
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New Contraception Proposal
The Obama administration has published a
proposed new contraception rule coverage proposal for public comment. Here's a link to the proposal. I haven't yet had a chance to read through it, but it seems to address both religious nonprofits not covered by the original rule and self-insured plans by requiring third parties to provide contraceptive coverage to employees of all nonprofits who object to contraception coverage on religious grounds. It will be interesting to see how the Catholic bureaucracy reacts. I will be posting more detailed thoughts once I have a chance to digest the proposal.UPDATE: Here's a link to reaction to the proposal from Rick Garnett and Tom Berg, both at MOJ. Their posts also collect some other reactions, mostly negative. [FURTHER UPDATE: Via the invaluable David Gibson in the comments, here is the surprisingly positive reaction by theCatholic League.]My reaction is more favorable than either of Tom's or Rick's. While I suppose I agree with Tom that the rule doesn't change all that much regarding the exemption for churches, it does get rid of the four-part definition that lots of people were complaining about and that, frankly, did not make a lot of sense. Anyway, that was never the main event. The real game is the "accommodation" for non-churches with religious objections to contraception. The accommodation would require the insurer to provide free contraceptive coverage to the employees of nonprofit employers with religious objections to providing coverage for contraception without charging the employer or requiring the employer to take any affirmative steps to facilitate the employee's enjoyment of the contraceptive coverage. The idea here is that the contraceptive coverage pays for itself because (as an actuarial matter) access to free contraception reduces the health care costs for which the insurer would otherwise be on the hook. In the case of self-insured employers who hire an outside administrator (usually a health insurance company), it would assign this obligation to the administrator, who, again, could not pass the costs on to the employer. Here, the actuarial, self-funding argument does not work for the third party administrator, because the savings from contraceptive use go to the self-insuring employer, not the administrator. The government would therefore have to compensate the administrator, and it proposes to do this by reducing the fees the administrator must pay to participate in the insurance exchanges. There is no plan for self-insured employers who do not hire an outside administrator, but the proposal says this is likely to represent a very small number of plans. And, of course, the only burden this would place on them would be to hire a third party administrator.Tom is right that some people have objected to this accommodation from the beginning, but I have yet to see a good explanation for how the accommodation infringes on employers' religious freedom that does not involve heroic efforts at locating the burden in some kind of but-for causation that somehow applies to insurance benefits but not pay. As a doctrinal and predictive matter, I think it is highly unlikely that any of the Catholic entities that challenged the original rule will get very far challenging this accommodation on either First Amendment or RFRA grounds. And, normatively, I think that is the right result. What a religious objector would be asserting in challenging the accommodation is a right, not only to opt out of contracting for coverage for contraception as part of an employer health plan, but also a right to prohibit the insurer with whom the employer contracts from separately contracting to provide contraceptive coverage to the employer's employees.All that said, in reading through the proposal, I am struck by how simple it would be to accommodate for-profit employes who object to the contraception mandate on religious grounds. Now, to be clear, I am not at all convinced that even the original proposal violates the religious freedom of such employers. But, in light of the mechanisms the government has chosen to put in place to accommodate nonprofit employers, it seems to me to be a trivial administrative burden to expand the accommodation to all employers who object.The government answers this in its proposal by pointing out that the accommodation under Title VII for religious employers to engage in religious discrimination distinguishes between for-profit and non-profit entities, restricting conscientious exemptions to the latter. I am not convinced by the analogy to religious discrimination. In the case of discrimination, it is the act of discrimination that we think is harmful to the person who is discriminated against, and expanding exemptions beyond the narrowest possible domain we think might be required by our obligation to protect religious or associational freedom expands the domain where people can be harmed by discrimination. That is, the zero sum quality of the antidiscrimination context exerts a kind of hydraulic pressure to craft exemptions as narrowly as necessary. But that is not the case here. We don't much care how employees get their access to contraception. We just want them to get it if they want it. In creating this accommodation, the administration has crafted a workable mechanism to allow employees to get their contraceptive coverage at no cost, without significant (in my opinion) involvement by employers. I don't see the rationale for not expanding that mechanism as far as possible, even including for-profit employers with religious objections. I mean, why not?
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@ Mark: http://healthland.time.com/2012/10/05/study-free-birth-control-significa.... As to the Taco Bell exemption, I continue to think this is a matter of moral imagination. When we hear the question, do we imagine ourselves in the role of employers or employees? The first might think, "When the gov't sets up a system of health care coverage based on medical criteria, why should my employees have access to aspects of it that I (the employer) find objectionable? They only get that coverage at all because of me, after all." Alternatively, the employee might think, "Why should my employer get to decide that I can't have certain kinds of insurance coverage because of his/her religion? Doesn't MY religious freedom (not to mention my medical decision-making,) count for anything? Or did I lose my freedom of religion when I took a job at Taco Bell?" I see myself with the employees on this one. Of course, in theory, Catholics make decisions regarding civil law on the basis of the common good, not on the basis of religious doctrine. Given the demonstrable public health benefits of access to contraception, (including lower abortion rates when women have access to free reliable contraception, ) Catholics should be tripping over themselves to support contraceptive coverage as a matter of civil law, given reasonable accommodations as the admin. has offered. The point of commonality between the birth control pill and Viagra is this: either one might be used in keeping with current Catholic sexual teaching or not. The pill for non-contraceptive purposes is perfectly in keeping with Catholic doctrine. Using Viagra for procreative and unitive ends in sex is fine, but if used for other sexual purposes is not. If we expect women to get a note from their doc. certifying their moral intention to get the birth control pill, we should expect the same for men asking for VIagra. Or is it only women who have to justify their sexual health care to the magisterium's satisfaction?
I look forward to some knowledgeable analyses. My first skim-through suggests:* HHS proposes to drop three of the prongs from the previous four-prong test to determine which institutions qualify for a religious exemption* Religious universities, health care providers and charitable endeavors are able to self-certify that they qualify as a not-for-profit institution with a religious mission* For the latter institutions that self-insure, the third party benefits administrator will need to contract with an insurance provider to provide a separate policy that covers contraception for the client's employees; the third party administrator is to be charged a reasonable fee; and the fee may not be passed along to the client.
Basically it seems to say that women who work for places that object can purchase their own coverage without cost. I do not see how anyone can object to this. As far as the Catholic church and contraception go it is an irony that what has been arguably the greatest health benefit of the modern era is opposed by an institution whose leaders are not arguably models of virtue. Any objective historian knows that the reason Paul VI was persuaded to go against the recommendation of his birth control commission was the apparent threat to infallibility of the church. The irony is that very few hold to infallibility in the church anymore. No wonder so many women are angry at a leadership who militates against their well being. These false religious liberty bishops have impinged on the basic liberty of women.
Guess what: The new contraception rule will still not please the USCCB and the colleges/universities that have law suits. Will they drop their lawsuits? How much do you want to bet that their lawyers will find a loop hole?
Hi Jim -- with respect to the religious-employer exemption, here's what my MOJ-colleague, Tom Berg, had to say:"Pretty much the same proposals as the administration had brought up before, with tweaks. The proposed rule would eliminate the offensive language explicitly excluding employers from the definition of "religious employer" if they serve or employ people outside the faith. But it doesn't change the reality much, because it retains the criterion that the employer fall within IRS rules as a church, integrated auxiliary of a church, part of an association of churches, or religious order. So soup kitchens run by churches are now within the exemption, but not independent faith-based soup kitchens, or Catholic Charities or Catholic hospitals. They are covered by the "accommodation" the administration is proposing, to have the insurer pay for contraception without, according to the administration, shifting any cost to the employer and without requiring employer referral or including contraception in the employer insurance contract. That proposal, of course, has satisfied some people concerned about nonprofits' religious liberty but has failed to satisfy others. And the proposed rule reaffirms that for-profit entities are not accommodated at all." http://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2013/02/latest-round-pr...
At first blush, it's a huge improvement. What it still doesn't address is the for-profit, Catholic (or other) employer who has moral objections to providing contraception, the woman who owns the Taco Bell, for example.
"They are covered by the accommodation the administration is proposing, to have the insurer pay for contraception without, according to the administration, shifting any cost to the employer""According to the administration" suggests some skepticism by the author. I think he basic point for both insured and self-insured plans is that employees will get free contraception from a third-party insuror without cost to the employer. The proposed regulations provide that, in the case of self-insured plans, the third-party insuror will be paid by the insurance exchanges by forgiving some of the fees they would otherwise collect from the insuror on other business. For insured plans, the assumption is that insurance company will save money by providing free contraception - so does not need to be paid additionally. If insurance companies demonstrate during the comment period that that is not so, the same system of reimbursement by the insurance exchanges could be applied to them. Despite the author's skepticism, it seems feasible to structure this so that the employer does not pay for the contraception.
"Wild Bill" Donohue -- yes, him -- welcomes the proposals, and I think gets at what the proposals have improved:
http://www.catholicleague.org/new-hhs-rules-welcomed/The rules proposed today by HHS appear to go a long way toward rectifying the most problematic provisions of the mandate. Essentially, the rules provide insularity for Catholic institutions: they will not be directly involved in providing health insurance coverage for contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs.Perhaps the most welcome aspect of the new strictures is the elimination of the criteria that define what constitutes a religious institution. Gone altogether is the highly objectionable definition that excludes an exemption for those religious entities that hire and serve mostly people of other religions. As has been pointed out many times, this definition punishes Catholic institutions for not discriminating against Jews, Protestants, Muslims, Mormons, agnostics, and atheists.
So the new rules address the issues that the USCCB and other religious leaders and groups were focused on. As Kathy said, the focus now shifts to the issue of private, for profit employers. That has never been the church's issue, and I think prospects for those argument are a lot less tenable in the court of law and the court of public opinion.
Ken'''the woman who owns the Taco Bell,'' she has to first squeeze 50 employees behind the counter, and then call up a health provider and then even offer to partially pay for health care.... none now.
Do we now think that these Holy Objectors will go after IVF and vasectomies ... both of which seem to be covered by either employer-sponsored health plans or associated employee benefits programs?I suspect that more than one good Catholic who objects vociferously to contraception but can't become pregnant the old-fashioned way will secretly take advantage of IVF. And how many Catholic husbands secretly sneak off and have a bit of a snip, unbeknownst to the "little woman"?
Jim McCrea:Don't forget prescription coverage that includes Viagra. Oh, I guess that would be considering as enhancing the natural law.
Oh, yes, let's let all Taco Bell owners determine what their employees do with their lives. The last time I looked, an agreement to adhere to the employer's religious biases wasn't required to work at these places ... but maybe it will be coming.Theocracy, anyone?
David Gibson:But wait! I think I am in shock.Catholic League headline: NEW HHS RULES WELCOMEDBill Donohue comments: While many aspects of the new proposal need to be examined before a final conclusion can be rendered, the decision to expand religious exemptions, and to adopt the IRS definition of a religious institution, is a sign of goodwill by the Obama administration toward the Catholic community.
Helen - that's very funny :-)Eduardo, I pretty much agree with your analysis.Thanks to Rick Garnett for pointing us to Tom Berg's MOJ analysis.
Some people are claiming that the Fortnight for Freedom and Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty were successful in pushing the latest accommodation to the HHS contraception mandate.I might agree if the two groups had not included such strident people (bishops and laity) and obvious Republican Party partisans. (I attended one of the Fortnight for Freedom rallies in Philadelphia.) I think more moderate voices within the administration influenced this decision, e.g., Obama's closest and most trusted advisers, who happen to be Catholic - Joe Biden, and now chief of staff, Denis McDonough, have on him.
It would have been so much simpler, as a matter of public policy, to put the onus on insurance providers to begin with: to have made this a mandate for them, not for employers. No group policy would have had to cover contraceptives, butsince covering contraceptives turns out to be cheaper than not covering themthe provider has to offer all its policyholders coverage for contraceptives if their employer-based policy doesn't already include it. (Some arrangement like the one that has been proposed could be worked out for self-insured businesses and institutions.) It wouldn't matter who the employer was, or why the employer might have opted for a plan that didn't include such coverage.On the other hand, I wonder how many of those who insist that business owners are entitled to the same exemptions the HHS has offered religious institutions would say that an employer who believed, for religious reasons, that antibiotics are sinful ought to be allowed to offer his employees health insurance that doesn't cover antibiotics. Very few, I suspect. This is not, then, just a controversy about religious liberty; it's also, inescapably, a controversy about contraception and its relationship to public health.
Eduardo:"I am struck by how simple it would be to accommodate for-profit employes who object to the contraception mandate on religious grounds. "In a word: NO.It has nothing to do with how simple it would be or any possible tactical/political advantage it might serve. For-profit corporate entities exist solely as creatures of the state. If the state wants them to exist on certain conditions, then it's within the state's domain to impose those conditions.If the corporation wants to reject the tax advantages of providing insurance, fine. If it wants to reject the advantages of limited liability altogether and operate as human individuals, also fine.Otherwise, to repeat: NO. For-profit corporations exist for one and only one purpose: For profit.
Some of the people who go berserk when they hear that tax cuts for the rich will pay for themselves are remarkably trusting when they hear that providing free birth control will be cost neutral or even money-saving for insurers. It would be interesting to see the detailed actuarial studies that give that conclusion. From what Ive read they dont seem to be very rigorous. And if the claim is that the mandate will save money for insurance cos. it seems more than a little dubious that greedy profiteers like insurance companies would pass up a pot of gold that is so clearly available in the view of the Feds. For hints that the evidence is more murky than the government allows:http://www.factcheck.org/2012/02/cloudy-contraception-costs/http://disea...
Hi Eduardo -- I suspect we agree that Bill Donohue's endorsement doesn't tell us much about the merits of the new proposal! Seriously, though, while I realize that some dotComm readers will assume that folks like me have a mixed reaction to the proposal merely for partisan reasons, or because Obama can do nothing right, etc., I assume you know that is not the case. As I suggested, at MOJ, it is a mistake to jump to the enthusiastic reaction of, say, E.J. Dionne because the category of religious employers who are exempt from the mandate remains too narrow. Yes -- and this is a good thing -- the criteria have been simplified, and the bad ones ("serve primarily co-religionists", etc.) have been removed, but the document itself makes it clear that, in the administration's view, the category of exempt religious employers is not getting bigger (or, at least, not much). And, in my view, it *should* be bigger. I do think that the RFRA claims of the for-profit and non-exempt religious employers remain quite strong, but we'll have to see. The "cooperation with evil" questions about the accommodation are tricky ones, we agree, but -- for what it's worth -- my concern has not been so much that the mandate compels culpable cooperation with evil (maybe, in the proposed form, it would not), but with (what I take to be) the mandate's premises regarding the extent to which religious organizations, as a condition of being engaged with and in the world, should be required to be like, and should be treated like, any other organization.Also, I'm not an expert on ERISA and related matters, but I think we should wait to hear more, with respect to the various proposals for dealing with self-insured entities, about how feasible some of the floated solutions are. Best, R
Rick,Whatever you think about the wisdom of distinguishing between non-profit religious organizations and for-profit businesses for the purposes of the accommodation, you can't say the HHS rules treat the "accommodated" religious institutions like "any other organization." The HHS scheme creates three categories of employer, two of which are exempt from the ordinary mandate, each in its own way.Is it your position that there should be only two categoriesreligious institutions (all exempt in the same straightforward way) and all other employers, which would be subject to the mandate whatever their religious beliefs? Or do you think Catholic business owners should also be exempt, in which case what you called your main concern in the second paragraph of your comment would seem to be beside the point? (It was my understanding that you wanted the contraception mandate to be struck down entirely as a violation of RFRA.)
Rick Garnett wrote: "Also, Im not an expert on ERISA and related matters, but I think we should wait to hear more, with respect to the various proposals for dealing with self-insured entities, about how feasible some of the floated solutions are"Is that an issue that the bishops need to be concerned about?The proposal seems to be1. Religious Employers do not have to include contraception coverage in their employee health insurance. 2. Non-Profit Religious Organizations do not have to include contraception coverage in their employee health insurance.3. The government will arrange for employees of (2) but not (1) to receive free contraceptives, if they want them. This will not require any action or payment by the employers other than notifying their insurors or administrators not to include the coverage in their policies or plans.If the government never finds a workable way to do (3), should the bishops really care? - as long as the government doesn't adopt a scheme that does require action or payment by employers?
"Seriously, though, while I realize that some dotComm readers will assume that folks like me have a mixed reaction to the proposal merely for partisan reasons, or because Obama can do nothing right, etc.,"Rick,Is it possible that those dotCom readers may well have some grounds for such assumptions. First, it may be telling that your first entry was in the negative. Second, you are an advisor to the bishops correct? In that capacity would you not agree that too often the lawyers do a disservice to thebishops as you may be doing now notwithstanding your belated acknowledgment of the positive aspects of this decision. Many feel if the lawyers had a broader view of the law the bishops may have settled the pedophilia matter long ago. While one understands a lawyer must defend one's client there is always the greater good especially for a Christian lawyer. Moreover, as we understand that a lawyer's life may be in almost perpetual litigation is there a responsibility for the Christian lawyer to minimize polarization in favor of the beatitudes. Consequently, how much responsibility should Catholic lawyers take for the polarization in the church on these two high profile matters of our time?
Rick -- I'm sure you're right that the cases will continue. But if any of the nonprofits win a RFRA claim after this new rule, I will tip my hat to your lawyering skills. I can't even understand the claim at this point. (I can at least grasp the nature of the for-profit claimants' argument, though I don't agree with it.)
I belong to Cosmic League of the Vegetative Universe (a IRS recognized religious entity) that believes in an absolutely vegan diet and that any illnesses or diseases that are related to eating meat products are signs of a cosmic violation (sinfulness, in some vocabularies) and that any suffering from them as a result is divine justice and to treat them is to endorse their immorality. I also own the Gazillion Company which produces Essential Defense Whoozywasits, employs 10,000 people who know my beliefs, and for whom my company health insurance will not cover any of the illnesses that can be attributed to having any ingested meat. HHS regulations should protect me or else I shut down the whole company, sell the product to China, and retire to the Riviera. And my friend at Taco Bell (though he is an apostate) requests the same.
Other than the principle that the government cannot command people to go against their beliefs, the effort against contraception is a monumental act of hypocrisy by the leaders of the Catholic church. Even conservatives practice contraception. The church continues to politic at the UN to prevent contraceptives to destitute peoples while its alliance with the privileged continues unabated. Not only do we help impoverish those Jesus came for, we take their clergy who need them more than we do. These issues have to be addressed in or out of context with this phony religious liberty issue.
"women who work for places that object can purchase their own coverage without cost"Why do I suspect that our homosocial and misogynist bishops will intensely dislike this?
"Even conservatives practice contraception. " Cardinal Wuerl says that they practice it with a bad conscience, and if they are Catholics they are ready to leap to the defense of the Church's teaching even if they do not practice it.
If the US bishops are as "pro-life" as they claim to be, I think that pragmatism would dictate a more benign treatment of contraception in order to decrease the incidence of abortions.To claim that both are not to be tolerated is to be about as impractical ... and concomittantly cruel ... as one can be.
Jim--Has the number of abortions decreased since the pill? What is the empirical evidence for your point?
The Taco Bell comment from Picarello is from last year. The USCCB seems to be succeeding in keeping anyone there (or the CHA) from commenting on this while they are sorting out what position to take. "The rule proposed Friday broadened the definition of a religious nonprofit and outlined a way of walling off their money so they arent paying for the benefit, which women will still get for free under an employer health plan.But it didnt exempt businesses owned by religious people who object on moral grounds to being forced to pay for contraception, or to emergency contraceptives that they believe cause early abortions.This concept could be called the Taco Bell exemption, named for a comment made last year by Anthony Picarello, general counsel for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.He called for removing the provision from the health care law not only for Catholic employers but also for good Catholic business people who cant in good conscience cooperate with this.If I quit this job and opened a Taco Bell, Id be covered by the mandate, Picarello told USA Today.That argument is behind some of the more than three dozen lawsuits making their way through the court, and the accommodation is radically inadequate to deal with the religious liberty violations of the mandate, Duncan said.Polls find that the public was quite sympathetic to religious entities that did not want to violate their teachings but a lot less sympathetic to individual business owners who wanted their beliefs to trump public policies about health plan benefits.Reese also doesnt expect it to hold much weight in court, even amid expectations that the religious freedom issue being raised by private employers could make its way to the Supreme Court.If that is opened up, then any employer can reject to any regulation from the government based on religious beliefs, he said. I doubt the courts will accept that.Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/obama-reopens-rift-with-religious-..., the USCCB theologian has announced he is leaving.
Lisa--Thanks, but that link does not address the question: Has the number of abortions decreased since the pill?
Has the number of abortions decreased since the pill?Mark Proska,The pill became available in 1960. Abortion wasn't legal nationwide until 1973. Did legalization result in more abortion? Quite obviously. But what role the pill played in abortion would be very difficult to determine or calculate. The problem with contraception is that it doesn't work for people who don't use it. I think it can be said with certainty that the lower abortion rate for more affluent, more educated women is because they are able to use contraception more consistently and correctly.
"Did legalization result in more abortion? Quite obviously."Can you point me to a source for that?
Interesting that the Prefect of the CDF will attend the conference for bishops. I wonder if ths will turn into a dscussion of the new contraception proposal. "Given the CDF's competence on issues of bioethics in church teaching, Mller will ostensibly remain in Texas to attend this week's seminar for bishops hosted each February in Dallas by the Philadelphia-basedNational Catholic Bioethics Centerbeforeheading to Notre Dame for a lecture Wednesday night."http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-popes-project-in-us-... Bioethics center says it analyzes proposed legislation:http://ncbcenter.org/page.aspx?pid=1198
Lets unpack the safe, legal and rare fig leaf that Catholic Democrats have used to cover themselves. Safe? I think 50 million lost souls would disagree.And now its acknowledged, as if it were ever in doubt, that legal and rare are self-contradictory.The fig leaf is shriveling, and what lies behind is not pretty.
Here's the Bioethics Center's January Report on current legislation and litigation. http://ncbcenter.org/document.doc?id=488
Speaking of the Prefect of the CDF: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/bishop-slammed-for-comparing...
Hi Eduardo -- w/r/t your comment on 2/01 -- just to be clear, I'm not doing any lawyering on these claims. (I'm happy to admit that my skills are considerable, whether these non-profits win or lose, but I don't have any clients!) I think the claim, though, is pretty straightforward: The mandate imposes a "substantial burden" on the claimants religious exercise, and that burden is unnecessary and therefore unjustified. I realize that there are smart people who say that the "cooperation" involved is "remote," etc., but (speaking just for me) I've not been thinking of the burden in terms of "cooperation with evil." For me, the religiously motivated aspiration of an institution -- a community -- to act with integrity, and in accord with a professed religious mission and character, "counts" as religious exercise. And, at least in some cases, the mandate burdens that exercise.I suppose I won't be able to satisfy Bill Mazzella (2/01), who seems to think my thoughts about the proposed rules are connected to lawyers' and others' mishandling of the sex-abuse scandal, and so I guess I won't bother. John (2/01), the bishops should care, it seems to me, if the various possible options floated in the proposal as a "fix" for self-insured entities all turn out, on investigation, to be not-workable, because they might well wonder what will eventually happen to self-insured entities (like Notre Dame) once these options are off the table.Matt (2/01), fair enough. I should have been more precise. The proposal does distinguish, as you say, between (1) the treatment of non-exempt non-profit religious organizations with objections to contraception and (2) (for example) Hobby Lobby. I think the RFRA arguments are strong for (say) Hobby Lobby (or a small, family-owned business), but also see that the balancing that is inevitable in the accommodation-of-religion business will sometimes result in different treatment of for-profit businesses than of religious institutions. What I meant, in the paragraph you refer to, was to regret (what I take to be) a premise of the Administration's approach to this issue all along (a premise that was also on display in its handling of the Hosanna-Tabor litigation), and not to assert that the new proposal didn't make the distinction you highlight. Best, R


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In general, as explained in Shulchan Aruch Horav Siman 114:8 if one changes the start and end of any Beracha from the way the Anshei Keneses Hagdolah established, then the Beracha is invalid hence the person did not fulfill his/her obligation. Now, the first 3 Berochos are considered one unit and the last 3 Berochos are considered one unit, therefore, if one made a mistake in one of them (meaning: 1 of the 3 first or 1 of the 3 last Berochos) then all 3 are invalid. However, the other 13 Berochos are separate units. In short, when one makes a mistake, and did not yet finish Shmone Esrei, s/he goes back to the beginning of that unit, i.e. if one forgets Tal Umatar they go back to the Borech Aleinu unit; if one forgets Hamelech Hakodosh they go back to the first 3 Berochos unit. But once s/he finished SA there is no way to go back to a unit without starting over from the beginning.
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One of the most important clues to infant well-being is the frequency and quality of feedings. Parents, especially mothers, quickly become attuned to their baby's usual feeding pattern and readily notice any changes in feeding frequency, duration, or vigor. Young infants have few ways to communicate illness. Poor feeding is one of the strongest indicators of a medical problem, and it must not be ignored. Sleeping through feeding times, showing less interest in feedings, suckling for a shorter period of time, or nursing with less stamina all could indicate some type of medical problem, such as an infection or a heart condition. You should promptly report any change in your baby's feeding pattern to your infant's doctor.
What Does Infant Jaundice Have to Do with Breastfeeding?
Many newborn babies develop a yellowish color to the whites of their eyes and their skin, a condition known as jaundice. Parents often wonder about the significance of newborn jaundice. In adults, jaundice rarely occurs and represents an important sign of illness, such as hepatitis. Jaundice in adults must never be ignored; its cause always must be investigated. Unlike adults, some degree of jaundice is evident in nearly half of all newborns, usually by the third day of life. Most cases of newborn jaundice are mild and require no treatment. The yellow color results from a substance known as bilirubin, a breakdown product of hemoglobin, which is present in red blood cells. Normally, the liver metabolizes bilirubin and excretes it in a modified form into the intestines where it gets passed from the body in bowel movements.
Many factors contribute to higher bilirubin levels in newborns during the first week of life. First, babies are born with more red blood cells than adults and these cells have a shorter life span than that of adult blood cells. In addition, many babies experience bruising during the birth process, and the red blood cells trapped in a bruise quickly add to the bilirubin load. Thus, newborns must handle proportionately more bilirubin than normal adults. Ironically, the immature newborn liver is less effective in metabolizing bilirubin. Furthermore, even when the liver does its job and excretes bilirubin into the gut, bilirubin can be reabsorbed from the infant's intestines into the bloodstream, especially if the baby stools infrequently. Since breastfed babies often obtain less milk compared to formula-fed babies during the first few days of life, breastfed babies may stool less often and develop higher levels of bilirubin. In fact, many studies have confirmed that breastfed babies, on average, have higher bilirubin levels than bottle-fed babies.
Now you can appreciate why so many healthy newborns develop some visible jaundice. Numerous medical disorders can further exaggerate the bilirubin level, such as blood type mismatches between mother and baby that cause the baby's red blood cells to break down faster than normal; liver disease that impairs the metabolism of bilirubin; infection; heart disease; or a low level of thyroid hormone. Thus, whenever jaundice is present, it is important not only to monitor the level of bilirubin but to identify the cause of its elevation as well. Normal, or physiologic, jaundice must be distinguished from serious underlying causes of jaundice that require treatment.
Another reason we worry about jaundice is that high levels (usually over 25 milligrams percent) are toxic to the newborn brain and can cause brain damage and/or hearing loss. Permanent damage can be prevented by monitoring bilirubin levels carefully with blood tests, searching for and treating any identified causes, and using phototherapy (in the form of bilirubin lights or phototherapy blankets) to bring the level down. (Rarely, the bilirubin level rises so high that an exchange transfusion becomes necessary to lower the level rapidly.) Proper treatment of jaundice involves more than just "making the yellow go away." It should include finding and treating any underlying medical conditions contributing to the problem. Inadequate breastfeeding is a common cause of newborn jaundice that needs to be recognized and treated.
If you observe any yellowish color to your baby's skin or the whites of her eyes, notify your baby's doctor, who will decide whether to order a bilirubin level. Ask to have your infant weighed. Many doctors don't appreciate that inadequate breastfeeding can contribute to jaundice in a breastfed infant. When breastfeeding is going poorly for any reason, the result can be insufficient caloric intake by the infant, excessive weight loss from birth, inadequate weight gain, infrequent stooling, and an elevated bilirubin level. If your baby has jaundice, your doctor can help you determine whether the level is high enough to pose any danger and whether inadequate breastfeeding might be contributing to the problem.
Review the expected normal patterns for breastfed infants described earlier. Is your baby latching on correctly and feeding on an appropriate schedule? Is she wetting and stooling normally? Has your milk come in? Is she emptying your breasts well? Has she lost excessive weight or started to gain consistently?
Bilirubin levels usually peak around three to five days of age, just when your milk is coming in abundantly and your breasts are maximally engorged. At the point when your breasts need to be drained well, your sleepy, jaundiced baby may not be the most effective candidate for the job. I usually recommend a hospital-grade rental electric breast pump for mothers whose jaundiced infants are not nursing vigorously. By pumping after nursing, you can stimulate a generous supply, improve milk flow, and obtain expressed milk to be used to supplement your baby if necessary.
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The hormone oxytocin that plays a role in breastfeeding is the same hormone that causes your uterus to contract during labor. In the first days after delivery, oxytocin released during breastfeeding causes the still-enlarged uterus to contract. The resulting cramps, known as afterpains, help the uterus shrink to its prepregnant size. The discomfort usually is worse for women who have given birth previously than for first-time mothers. While afterpains can be quite uncomfortable, they are short-lived, usually lasting only seven to ten days. These uterine cramps not only help you recover from childbirth, but they are a good sign that your milk ejection reflex is working well.
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Officials are evacuating more than two dozen homes near a train derailment that occurred two weeks ago in southwestern Jefferson County.
People are being ordered out to allow workers to remove hazardous chemicals from some of the tanker cars.
Part of Dixie Highway is closed and nearby Ohio River traffic is being stopped while the chemicals are removed.
31 homes within a half-mile of the derailment are being evacuated.
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7 Mar 2011 2:21 PM #1
Pretty new to ExtJS 4 (not very good with 3.3 for that matter). I have a small app that is using a PropertyGrid. I'm trying to convert to 4, but noticed the PropertyGrid is no longer included. I assume there is a new way to make the grid do what I want it to do, but I can't seem to find the appropriate settings or mixins to make it work. Any thoughts?
3 Apr 2011 12:12 PM #2
Does anyone have any thoughts on how to do PropertyGrid with ExtJS 4 beta 1?
4 Apr 2011 8:47 AM #3
Also wondering
I am also wondering about PropertyGrid in Ext JS 4. Anything to avoid the jitters during the transition helps.
4 Apr 2011 9:25 AM #4
PropertyGrid is not included in Ext4. Don't know the reason, but i guess it's because it extends EditorGridPanel which is also not included. As grid was heavy refactored, i think it should be easy to use Editor on gridcell base.
Let's see what the team says what the plans are.vg Steffen
Release Manager of TYPO3 4.5
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The Beach Boys, Megan Hilty, Julia Udine and Ben Jacoby from the new production of "Phantom of the Opera" and the Boston Children's Chorus will join Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra for the Boston Pops' Fourth-of-July concert at the Hatch Shell at 8 p.m. Friday.
The 41st annual concert and fireworks will carried live for the first time online at BostonPopsJuly4th.org and www.cbsboston.com. It will also be televised from to 11 p.m. on CBS Boston's WBZ-TV.
The concert was rescheduled from Friday because of the storm predicted for southern New England.
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Stop and Frisk Held to be Racial Profiling
This is a big deal, though certainly not the last word the courts will have on the issue:
U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin said the city police adopted a policy of "indirect racial profiling" by targeting racially defined groups for stops. The practice resulted in disproportionate, discriminatory stopping of blacks and Hispanics that the city's highest officials "turned a blind eye" toward. "No one should live in fear of being stopped whenever he leaves his home to go about the activities of daily life," Scheindlin wrote in her opinion.
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One must notice the history of Federal Judge Shira Scheindlin's decisions regarding life in Brooklyn. She will probably become a target of the wild so-called conservative wing of the Supreme Court and Congress. Probably, she will serve as a warning to the appointment of any federal judges who even vaguely resemble her in her concern for basic American rights contra a police state.
She obviously has to be related to Judge Judith Sheindlin (TV's "Judge Judy"). If she is, opponents are well advised not to mess with her.
Thanks for this post. From a distance, it seems long overdue.
I understand why NYC cops might think it is just handier to "stop and frisk" young black and latino guys, however the ends do not justify the means. Unless they have a real suspician that something is going on, they should not randomly stop and frisk. Maybe they should read the Forth Amendment i.e., that Americans have the right to be secure in our persons and papers.
Ooh - that darned Constitution - gets in the way of do-gooders sometimes!
Judge Shira Scheindlin is not related in any way biologically or judicially to a TV hack judge. She's a great jurist with a distinguished career. She has served the Southern District of NY well and hopefully will continue for many years in her Senior status.
This Daily Show segment with Jessica Williams, Samantha Bee, a white panel and an African-American panel is must-watch for anyone who can't understand the basis for this ruling (Mayor Bloomberg, if you're reading, click on this link!).
(nb - this link works for me in IE, but not in Chrome for some reason)


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After asking "What affordable beachfront hotels in or near San Diego should I consider?", it occurred to me I may want to consider other areas of the South Coast or even Central Coast of California. Where else (other than San Diego) would I find affordable beachfront hotels, with easy access to surfing for beginners?
What parts of the Central or South Coast of California should I consider when looking for a surfing beach with beachfront hotels?
South Coast cities famous for surfing and great beaches:
to check these out, have a look at the various webcams for these beaches.
Highlights on the Central Coast:
Big Sur - a small town where tourists can get away from it all (albeit with other tourists) - perched on a cliff over the ocean. To be fair, the surfing here would be a bit rubbish but it's a highlight on the way down the coast.
Monterey (in Monterey Bay) - with five public beaches, there's tons to do here. As much as I dislike promoting HI Hostels, there's one here called Hostelling International Monterey which seems like the best budget accommodation.
Santa Barbara - There are numerous beaches in the area fit for surfing and several companies that rent surfboards. Although the surf tends to be much smaller in the summer, it is perfect for beginners. There are also several nice long board breaks that are suitable year round. Impressively there's a hostel 2 blocks from the beach as well!
Santa Cruz - a variety of beaches, some of which are a surfer's paradise. The Surf Museum is here too. Easy waves for novices in summer, big breaks in winter especially in front of the lighthouse. Worth noting that it's illegal to sleep in your car here, so you'll need a hotel - best I can find is the Adobe on Green Street Bed and Breakfast - the Dream Inn is too touristy and some view it as overpriced.
Of course there are lots of beaches all along the coast, and as you drive down you may spot a beach that looks amazing. If you find a gem, feel free to add it to this page!


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HDE Heavy-Duty 30L Outdoor Sport Military Tactical Backpack for $34.94
Materials: 600D Nylon
Durable nylon backpack suitable for anything from an intense hiking session to a leisurely camping trip
Features a spacious main compartment with zip-up closure, interior zip-up and mesh pockets, and front storage zip-up compartments
Secures to your back with an adjustable chest belt and hip belt clasp | Breathable mesh backing provides a comfortable feel in hotter weather
Padded and adjustable shoulder straps relieve pressure on shoulders while carrying heavy loads | Can hold laptops up to 14 in (35.6 cm)
Package Contents: 1 x Hiking Backpack
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Looks like the price has actually dropped on this one. Wish I hadn't bought the Yukon Outfitters pack now. I like the way this one is made much better.
Count me in for another woot-off buyer's remorse on the Yukon pack.
Doubt its the same maker, these HDE people have no other similar stuff with no reviews and its not from Amazon at all, its a private seller.
I have the 5.11 pack that the Yukon is a clone of. I bought one of the Yukons, and it is not quite as well made or as heavy as the 5.11, but for the price it is an excellent pack. I regularly carry 50# of range gear in my 5.11 and would not attempt that with the Yukon. The Yukon is a back pack, not a laptop pack, so you will need a sleeve if you plan on carrying a laptop. Still happy with purchase.
@charlieshaw: Thanks for the info, looking forward to getting it in the mail a bit more now.
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How do you deal with difficult tasks, which take long to complete? My problem, for example, are emails which require a lot of writing or research. They are not the main core of my work, and usually are not urgent, but sometimes they are important and I have to write them (so I can't skip this task). If I decide to make them first thing in the morning...well, I will do nothing half of the morning because they paralyze me. If I do them last thing in the afternoon, sometimes I just postpone them the next day . Sometimes, after long time, I reply just with one line, renouncing to my elaborations.
I think I will just live with it, and go directly to one-line replies. Sometimes I have this situations with different tasks, so I wonder if there is any theory on how to deal with this kind of problem? I remember the big stones in "seven habits..", but I can't apply it to this case.