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Partially Friends-Only
Here we are then, the sticky post I so dreaded making, because my html skillz fail at life.
This is really fairly purposeless, I'm just going to actually get around to introducing myself and saying that all the personal stuff on this journal is f-locked, but all the fic will stay open to the general public. Obviously, I'd still be happy if you friend me :D
So, hi, my name is liadan, but feel free to call me anything you like. Real name Helen, but I've suffered enough Helen of Troy, Mount St. Helens, and helicopter jokes to be very, very fine with anything else. I'm almost definitely younger than you, although I suppose it's silly to put that in a sticky post because I will get older, but anyway.
My hobbies include reading, writing, watching too much TV, singing show tunes and 80's hits badly in the shower, pina coladas and getting caught--
No, wait.
That stopped being funny when they used it in Shrek.
Never mind, then. So, that's me, overly talkative, multi-fandom fic writer who finally has a sticky post announcing half friends-only. Excitement, I know...
Author: liadan14
Claim: The Princess Diaries, for this_impulse
Genre: High School AU, Romance
Pairing(s): Dean/Castiel, minor Sam/Jess, Gabriel/Crowley
Word Count: ~9,600
Warnings: /
Notes: Art and fanmix by the amazingly lovely nox_wicked here
( Yes, the title is from Anastasia, making this one of the most princessy things ever written without involving actual princessesCollapse )
Total Tracks: 1288 songs
Total Length of Music: 3 days, 8 hours, 47 minutes and 23 seconds.
Sort by song title:
- First Song: A-Punk by Vampire Weekend
- Last Song: 9 Crimes by Damien Rice
Sort by time:
- Shortest Song: Bad Horse's Letter, from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (0:50 minutes)
- Longest Song: Back To Hogwarts, from A Very Potter Musical (9:55 minutes)
Sort by artist:
- First Song: Take On Me by A-Ha
- Last Song: Sound of the Underground (cover) by the 4 Of Us
Top 10 Most Played Songs:
1. Bodies and Minds by the Great Lake Swimmers
2. The Quiz by Hello Saferide
3. Downfall by Matchbox 20
4. It Had to Be You by Motion City Soundtrack
5. If I Had a Million Dollars by the Barenaked Ladies
6. 3 Rounds and a Sound by Blind Pilot
7. What Have You Learned? by Carbon Leaf
8. You're Not There by Eddplant
9. Gandhi/Buddha by Cheryl Wheeler
10. Seven Day Mile by the Frames
First five songs that come up on shuffle:
1. One - Glee Cast
2. Wonderful World - Sam Cooke
3. You Can Leave Your Hat On - Tom Jones
4. True Colors - Glee Cast
5. How To Save A Life - the Fray
How many songs come up when you search for:
- sex: 4
- love: 103
- you: 204
- death: 1
- hate: 7
- wish: 3
- monkey: 0
...do you ever think your iTunes has a mind of its own and really crap taste in music because it keeps playing the same songs?
Also, is anyone else thing alt!universe J2 are bitter exes?
Nother question: did it reset afterwards? given that Sam&Dean appeared in their proper world just a second after they left? Did J2 spend time in SPN world? Did it fix them?
I can't wait for the fic on this ep.
[FIC] Let Nothing Ye Dismay for KyoKohitsuji
Author: liadan14
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: /
Spoilers: Up to about 6x08, then goes a bit AU
Wordcount: 1,777
Summary: Dean's not too sure about Christmas, but he's learning to be sure about Cas.
Author notes: Some unexpected things happened that majorly blocked the writing process for this, hope it's readable anyway. Was for the deancas_xmas exchange
"What do you want?" Cas asks.
[FIC] White Blank Page
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~2800
Notes/Prompt(s): For Secret Angels IV. Chuck's getting some visions of Dean and Castiel that he's not entirely comfortable with, but he has no choice but to write it all down. Can be cracky humor or serious.
Summary: In which Chuck dithers, Cas exceeds expectations, Dean's not talking about it and Sam is just trying not to think about it.
Here a few things Chuck knows that his readers don't:
Title: Don't Come Easy
Author: liadan14
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Not mine
Fandom/Pairing: Glee, Sam/Quinn
Summary: Sam, Quinn and the Supremes
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Apparently, I'm on a random scribble in weird formats kick. huh.
Read it.
No, seriously. If you're into fantasy and/or fairy tales, if you like character-oriented books, if you know what it's like to have your parents at odds with each other or what it's like to have someone else's presence coming between you and someone you love - read it.
And if you aren't, if you don't and if you haven't, read it anyway, because you'll learn something.
It's been decided. On October 20th, 2010, we will wear purple in honor of the 6 gay boys who committed suicide in recent weeks/months due to homophobic abuse in their homes at at their schools. Purple represents Spirit on the LGBTQ flag and that's exactly what we'd like all of you to have with you: spirit. Please know that times will get better and that you will meet people who will love you and respect you for who you are, no matter your sexuality. Please wear purple on October 20th. Tell your friends, family, co-workers, neighbors and schools.
RIP Tyler Clementi, Seth Walsh (top)
RIP Justin Aaberg, Raymond Chase (middle)
RIP Asher Brown and Billy Lucas. (bottom)
REBLOG to spread a message of love, unity and peace.
Don't usually do this sort of thing, but this is a fucking good cause and I will support it as loudly and in-your-face-ly as I can (in a polite, nice, hey-there-us-lgbtqa-people-are-really-aw
I mean, gay people can make out in public all the time and when they are confronted with homophobia once in a blue moon, everyone cares and it gets resolved. AIDS tests take a day. Dirk Bach can be your pastor when you get married. You only ever have two kinds of medical conditions: the cute cold that your boyfriend/girlfriend will nurse you back to health from, and the SERIOUS PROBLEM that will put you in hospital but ultimately be resolved unless you don't get good ratings. People can easily bounce between being bi and gay; roommates come and go like the seasons; if you had a nurturing family your siblings will suck and if you have crap parents you'll have a cool aunt; that twin sister you always dreamed of when you were eight is real and working in a restaurant is AWESOME!
Seriously, Verbotene Liebe. Düsseldorf, a, is not actually like this, b, the No Limits would not have this many visitors if the boss is constantly making out with his boyfriend and their friends are having enormous arguments in there all the time.
But somehow, Christian and Olli are adorable. I'm putting this down to the actors. Hands shaking, stuttering over vows, putting a tiny bit of realism into the cheesiest vows in existence.
Really, though, this is something I've noticed. Christian and Olli and their white wedding, sort of, okay. Ted on How I Met Your Mother? Tom from 500 Days of Summer? Is the rugged Dean Winchester type out and the Train-slash-Ted-Moseby type in? Why, God, why?
Okay. I will now stop talking about obscure German soap operas.
Even if they do have one of the cutest gay couples I have ever seen on television.
Title: Aschenflügel
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: Not mine
Pairings: Dean/Castiel
Warnings: AU, fairy tale retelling, fairly dark, off-screen rape of a minor character, physical and psychic abuse, sensitive subject material.
Word Count: 28,982
Artist: the lovely & talented lilchibibunny
Art Masterpost: lilchibibunny.livejournal.com/202444.htm
ETA: The amazing bigkittychan also drew this
Summary: Loosely based on Grimm's Cinderella. Once upon a time, a merchant's wife gave birth to a little boy named Castiel, who was perfect in all ways, right down to the beautiful black wings sprouting out of his back. However, in a country still fighting the phobia of human-to-animal shapeshifters, not everyone agrees, and when his mother dies, Castiel is left at the hands of his stepfather Zachariah, who doesn't condone non-human traits despite being part-bird himself. And then there's Dean, the only friend Castiel has in the world, who thinks Castiel's wings are awesome, but is hiding a few problems of his own.
Notes: Lots of thanks to zoemathemata and ellanorelle for amazing beta work!
Part I: Liebes Kind \\ Part II: Alles Ersinnliche Herzeleid \\ Part III: Ihr Zahmen Täubchen \\ Part IV: Als der Winter Kam \\ Part V: Auf des Königs Schloss \\ Part VI: Rüttel Dich und Schüttel Dich \\ Author's Notes


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Discussion in 'Sell - Trade' started by fxo550, May 24, 2012.
shipped $250
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still for sale,new price june 24
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Will they fit my 1933 elgin blackhawk?
Not sure...but will these fit my 1933/34 elgin blackhawk?
If so, I am happy to purchase.
Any help would be great. I was thinking I needed 26" rims??
Thanks again,
410 817 6534
Yes, you need 26" metal clad wheels for the Blackhawk, these will not fit your frame...
Actually the early Blackhawk and Falcon frame and fork will take the 28x1.5 wood clad wheels but you do have to change the fenders. I will try to find the catalog page but these were offered in both 28" and 26" for the first year.
thanks bud
Thanks bud for the information and clarification.
Looks like I missed some 26" rims last week....someone had posted and sold in 2 days.
I will find them sooner or later.....would love to get this thing rolling soon.
Thanks again - thanks for the old advertisement as well!
Thanks also RustySpoke
Hi Again,
Thanks to you also RustySpokes.
Just noticed you yellow outlined the ad - showing the 28" option. It looks like my back rim can only be 26" and the front could take a 28". This is what has confused me until this point. I am not willing to change the fender - will only make more work for me! I like the thicker 2.125 inch better anyway. Will hang in there for 26" wood clad elgin rims!!
Thank you again,
Kinda wish I had the $29.00 in cash - so I could just buy the whole bike!
Kinda wish I had the $29.00 in cash - so I could just buy the whole bike!
GEEZ, if I could only get credit, that would be even easier...
I was thinking the same thing when I posted it.

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The clergy abuse scandal is not a distraction; it's part of the mission
There is a wonderful insight from St Vincent de Paul, in the Office of Readings on his feast day. It's an insight that probably every saint has received and shared — not to mention countless disciples who aren't canonised. But St Vincent has most famously formulated it:
Do not become upset or feel guilty because you interrupted your prayer to serve the poor. God is not neglected if you leave him for such service. One of God's works is merely interrupted so that another can be carried out. So when you leave prayer to serve some poor person, remember that this very service is performed for God.
Godly "distractions" aren't limited to serving the poor. For example, when you're trying to meditate, focusing your thoughts on God, but other thoughts invade — that conversation you had yesterday, or that friend you haven't called for a while — that may not be a "distraction." That may be an indication, from God, to pray for that person, for his or her intentions; or to get in touch.
In the same way, although it is understandable to consider the clergy abuse scandal as a devastating distraction from the Church's mission, maybe even a diabolical means of destroying the Church's moral authority, I suspect the opposite. The never-ending Royal Commission, the hostile media coverage, the horrendous stories and shameful statistics — maybe none of this is a distraction. Maybe this is where God wants the Church to focus its attention. Maybe this is central to the mission of the Church in Australia.
It's becoming more and more evident, I think, that the sexual abuse of children is not 'a Catholic problem,' and nor is it an historical problem. Studies suggest a substantial proportion of Australian children are abused, and that the rate of abuse is growing. This is a universal problem, and a current one. The world is in trouble. And the Church exists for the world, not for itself.
The Catholic Church has sustained a humiliating exposé which has done a lot of harm. But it's not in vain. In fact, I think the benefits of this shameful exposé outweigh the costs. Catholic schools and parishes are now the safest places for children in Australia, and Catholic schools and parishes are the most dangerous places for paedophiles. The staff in my parish schools, and all the people on my parish councils, and I, have signed and abide by codes of conduct which eliminate opportunities for adults to prey on children. We all know what to do if we believe someone violates the code — how to respond, who to speak to, which legal authorities to call. That's significant. Paedophiles cultivate and groom adults, not just children. They depend on the naiveté and inaction of good people. A culture which eliminates that possibility saves children.
That's the future, but the present is maybe even more important. A lot of pastoral care is owed to a lot of people who have suffered from clerical child abuse. And a lot can be learned from them too. Their suffering is not in vain either; their experiences and their insights can enrich the Church and assist its mission. These victims and survivors are not apart from the Church. They are the Church. Christ identifies with them, and so should we all. I hope Church leaders are listening to them. We have so much more to learn.
To paraphrase St Vincent:
Do not become upset or feel guilty because the evangelising mission of the Church is interrupted by the fallout and response to the clergy abuse scandal. God is not neglected if you leave him for such service. One of God's works is merely interrupted so that another can be carried out. Remember that this very service is performed for God.
None of this is a distraction. This is where we need to focus our energy. Our prayer. Our apostolic zeal. God knows what he is about.
Is the Trump train derailed?
One thing's for sure: the 2016 US Presidential election has ruined my interest in future campaigns. Other election cycles will never be as interesting as this one.
In the meantime, though, I can enjoy reading and thinking about what's left of this campaign. Scott Adam's prophecy of a landslide victory to Donald Trump may not come to pass. If the lewd hot mic video in the present media cycle isn't enough to kill Trump's candidacy, the release of similar tapes may finish it.
Or maybe this is a storm in a teacup, which won't impact voters who have already made up their minds. All will be revealed soon — on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, when Americans vote.
Here are my thoughts.
1. The video should surprise nobody
What Trump says in that video is gross and indefensible, but none of it is surprising. Everyone knew already that Trump is a womaniser and an adulterer. His sexual immorality is notorious, and so is his crass language. As soon as I watched the video, I recalled an article published ten months ago, wherein Trump is quoted saying something similar:
About 15 years ago, I said something nasty on CNN about Donald Trump's hair. I can't now remember the context, assuming there was one. In any case, Trump saw it and left a message the next day.
The quoted message, like the hot mic video, is lewd. Follow the link at your discretion.
Many people are offended by Trump's personal values and sexual behaviour. I'm one of them. But his values and behaviour isn't news. Trump has been a playboy since, forever. The hot mic video doesn't bring anything new to the table. I doubt this will sway Christian voters who were already holding their nose to vote for him anyway.
That ten-month-old column makes the point well:
You read surveys that indicate the majority of Christian conservatives support Trump, and then you see the video: Trump on stage with pastors, looking pained as they pray over him, misidentifying key books in the New Testament, and in general doing a ludicrous imitation of a faithful Christian, the least holy roller ever. You wonder as you watch this: How could they be that dumb? He's so obviously faking it.
They know that already. I doubt there are many Christian voters who think Trump could recite the Nicene Creed, or even identify it. Evangelicals have given up trying to elect one of their own. What they're looking for is a bodyguard, someone to shield them from mounting (and real) threats to their freedom of speech and worship. Trump fits that role nicely, better in fact than many church-going Republicans. For eight years, there was a born-again in the White House. How'd that work out for Christians, here and in Iraq?
2. Much of the criticism is transparently opportunistic
I like Senator John McCain. I've followed his career since his presidential run in 1999, when he almost vanquished George W. Bush. I think he would have made a good president. But I think his recent conduct towards Trump is cynical and opportunistic.
The same goes for all those critics on the right, who initially endorsed Trump, only to rescind after the hot mic video was broadcast. If what Trump says on that video disqualifies his from office, then so does his myriad of public affairs and serial divorces. If Trump's character is a problem to them, McCain and the others had no business endorsing Trump in the first place. They were either insincere in the first instance, or insincere in the second. Or, most likely, they were insincere both times.
Trump's critics on the left, meanwhile, are hypocritical. The progressives who insist Trump's private vices have disqualified him from public office, have previously insisted that Bill Clinton's private vices had no bearing on his public office. But even more galling is the progressives' pretence at offence, when most of them are moral relativists. Here's a well-reasoned article which calls out the double standards:
For years, Christians in particular have been attacked and silenced as they've tried to challenge the immorality that is pervasive in today's society. When they tell people casual sex is wrong, they get the inevitable, "You have no right to tell me what I can or can't do." If they oppose sexual immorality in any form, including adultery, they're maligned as sanctimonious puritans by lovers of libertinism.
Those who are complaining about Trump today have no basis for their moral outrage. That's because their secular amoral worldview rejects any basis for that moral judgment. Any argument they make against the "immorality" of Trump is stolen, or at least borrowed for expediency, from a religious worldview they have soundly rejected.
The faux outrage of the unapologetic architects of our cultural decline is almost enough, in itself, to compel a vote for Trump. If I could vote. Nonetheless:
3. #NeverTrumpers deserve an honourable mention
A month ago, another priest and I debated the merits of Trump's candidacy. I think, if I was American, I would probably vote for Trump. My friend could not countenance voting for him, because Trump's character flaws are disqualifying.
I see his point. It's one shared by Aristotle and St Thomas Aquinas, who insisted that only the most virtuous should lead the polis. Many #NeverTrumper conservatives have invoked this rationale for their position.
Joshua Mitchell put it well (again, last month, well before the hot mic video), in an excellent survey of the intellectual currents informing this year's election campaigns. He called it 'The Aristotle Problem':
One can say that Trump has revealed what can be called The Aristotle Problem in the Republican Party. Almost every cultural conservative with whom I have spoken recently loves Aristotle and hates Trump. That is because on Aristotelian grounds, Trump lacks character, moderation, propriety and magnanimity. He is, as they put it, "unfit to serve." The sublime paradox is that Republican heirs of Aristotle refuse to vote for Trump, but will vote for Clinton and her politically left-ish ideas that, while very much adopted to the American political landscape, trace their roots to Marx and to Nietzsche. Amazingly, cultural conservatives who have long blamed Marx and Nietzsche (and German philosophy as a whole) for the decay of the modern world would now rather not vote for an American who expressly opposes Marx and Nietzsche's ideas! In the battle between Athens, Berlin and, well, the borough of Queens, they prefer Athens first, Berlin second and Queens not at all. The Aristotle Problem shows why these two groups—the #NeverTrumpers and the current Republicans who will vote for Trump—will never be reconciled.
Kudos to the #NeverTrumpers, whose criticism of Trump is consistent, and depending on the election results, may well be vindicated.
The last word goes to Scott Adams, just because his blog posts and tweets have so enhanced my enjoyment of this very long election campaign. He's good at one-liners:
Trump's bid for Sainthood officially ended today. I think he's still available for Kennedy-type jobs. #Trump
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) October 7, 2016
The coming Trumpslide
A full year has passed (hard to believe) since I blogged about Donald Trump: clown or genius?
Back then, the first primary elections were still four months away, but already Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert cartoon, was predicting that Donald Trump would win in a landslide. Trump certainly did win the Republican nomination — setting a new record for the most GOP primary votes. But the primary election polls always presented Trump as the Republican front runner. The general election polls have him lagging behind Hillary Clinton, where he's been for many weeks now.
So does that mean that Trump will lose the general election after all? Scott Adams doesn't think so, and neither do I. First, here's a 3 minute clip presenting Scott Adams' case. Donald Trump, he says, is a master persuader who has manipulated people's emotional responses and will achieve "one of the biggest margins of victory in history:"
But what about all those polls predicting Hillary Clinton's victory? There are reasons to doubt them. (This is my own analysis now, not Scott Adams.) The polls presume more Democrats will vote than Republicans. In 2012, Democrats who voted outnumbered Republicans who voted. But this year, all the energy is on the Republican side:
- The last open primary was in 2008. Compared to that contest, this year the Democrats attracted 8 million fewer voters while the Republicans attracted 10 million more.
- In August, both candidates held large rallies to energise supporters. That was the plan, anyway. Trump held 29 events, attracting 168 thousand people. Clinton held 11 events, attracting 10 thousand people.
Given these contrasts, I'm not convinced pollsters are wise to apply 2012 figures to voter turnout.
Then there are the "October surprises," which can reshape the race. As Scott Adams argues, Trump has forward engineered his campaign to exploit a number of possible developments. If terrorists attack, or the economy tanks, or a political scandal breaks, it fits into Trump's narrative and he benefits. The only October surprise that benefits Clinton is something directly implicating her opponent.
So I maintain that Trump is still on the way to a landslide victory in November. Of course I could be wrong. This is just for fun. Aussies don't get to vote!
It's not "radical" if it's mainstream
Here's an interesting video. It exposes the myth of 'radical Islam' which populates the Western imagination. The subjugation of women and execution of gays is actually mainstream religious belief in the Islamic world.
The larger point is that the present conflict between the West and Islam is the consequence of a clash of ideas, not economic inequality.
As a religious believer myself, I have no problem recognising that sacred texts and spiritual leaders can shape hearts and minds and direct a person's entire life. Perhaps people who do not attend to the spiritual life, people who are more or less materialist, are blind to this.
I mean that respectfully. It's the only way I can account for the strange zeitgeist of denialism which informs public debate.
The heinous sins of clergy and an anti-Catholic media frenzy
Sometimes, when I read or hear about the sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy, I am filled with righteous anger. Anger at the priests and religious who did this, and maybe even more so, anger at the bishops and others who covered up and enabled heinous evil. It's hypocritical, and it's disgusting.
But at other times, I am filled with anger at the media and critics of the Church. There are times — and this past week, with its malicious attack on Cardinal Pell is a good example — when public figures and commentators indulge in vicious anti-Catholic bigotry. The noble goals of truth, justice and healing are sacrificed, even if momentarily. But worse than that: the terrible trauma of victims and survivors is exploited. It's hypocritical, and it's disgusting.
But here's the thing: while I periodically navigate between these extremes, I can find myself irrationally reacting against a media article I'm reading, or a person I'm engaging in conversation. Let me give you a few examples:
- In private conversation, a Catholic from an older generation decries the media obsession, and the slavish position of the Truth, Justice and Healing Council. I feel anger boiling up within me, and a dismay that the Church doesn't whole-heartedly and without qualification accuse herself and engage in radical penance.
- I read a newspaper article which unjustly pillories individuals within the Church, and reduces the scourge of clergy abuse to something marginal, like celibacy for the Kingdom. I feel anger boiling up within me, and a stubborn defensiveness of the Church.
These are just two examples from a spectrum that covers every position and every reaction. But there's a common denominator: I respond with self-righteous anger, which is quite different from righteous anger. Maybe you experience something like this yourself.
Because of this, I now studiously avoid second- and third-hand accounts of the Royal Commission and the cases of abuse. I still open myself up to first-hand accounts. The direct testimony of Royal Commission witnesses for example, and confidential conversations with victims and survivors of sexual abuse. In those instances I am moved by compassion, not self-righteous anger.
But I avoid TV and newspaper coverage, facile musical parodies, and even artful treatments (by all accounts) like Spotlight. These second- and third-hand accounts too easily stoke my passions in negative and destructive ways. Which tells me something I knew already: in the midst of this terrible sin and scandal, which teems with human vice and worldliness, the devil also prowls. There is something truly diabolical about all this, which we must attend to.
I repeatedly remind my parishioners, at the beginning of the media's periodic coverage of the Church's sins, to consciously foster a supernatural outlook:
- To match every minute consuming media treatment of this evil, with another minute prayerfully reading the life of Christ in the Gospels.
- To debrief with the Lord each evening, examining one's emotional responses to the latest news or commentary, and placing it all in God's hands.
- To choose one's words carefully, and listen with real compassion when others speak about these matters.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, I counsel visits to the Blessed Sacrament. To go out of one's way and kneel before a tabernacle, even if only for a minute, to remind oneself that Christ is the head of the Church; he is the reason we are Catholic; and he is always present to us in the Eucharist, regardless of the virtue or vice of his ministers. When we do these things, I think, we are better able to respond to this terrible evil just as our Lord responds. Not with self-righteousness, but with real compassion, sorrow, and righteous anger.
One more thing: suffering is not in vain. Suffering can be redemptive. As St Paul so beautifully puts it,
"the Sinless One became sin, so that in him we might become the goodness of God."
What is true of Christ is also true of the Church, and it's true of us individually too, Christ's members. We can assume sin, and carry its consequences within us, for the good and healing of others. So we should meet this current affliction with sincere hope in healing and redemption. For the Passion leads to the glory of the Resurrection.
Donald Trump: clown or genius?
American presidential elections provide me with hours of entertainment. I love this stuff – especially the "process stories" and "horse race coverage."
This time round it's even more entertaining, because Donald Trump is running. But boy, has the media got him wrong! For several months now, Donald Trump has been presented as a clown and amateur, who stumbles from one gaffe to another. And this is the result:
Scott Adams, the author of that comic, is best known for his Dilbert cartoon. He's also an amateur hypnotist, and author of several books on negotiation and persuasion. He seems pretty good at it. Consider this anecdote from his Wikipedia entry:
In 1997, at the invitation of Logitech CEO Pierluigi Zappacosta, Adams, wearing a wig and false mustache, successfully impersonated a management consultant and tricked Logitech managers into adopting a mission statement that Adams described as "so impossibly complicated that it has no real content whatsoever."
I think Adams sees a kindred spirit in Donald Trump – who, after all, literally wrote the book on The Art of the Deal. And unlike every other commentator I've read, Adams gives a compelling explanation for Trump's success: the Donald is systematically playing the media, exploiting the visceral reactions of voters, and slaying his opponents. Nothing in his campaign is accidental.
Here is one example:
When CNN anchor Chris Cuomo asked Trump to react to the Pope's criticism of capitalism, Trump correctly saw it as a trap. If he engaged with the question he would be quoted on this topic and smeared with the association of Trump-capitalism-corruption. Tomorrow the headlines would be some form of "Trump blah, blah, corruption."
Trump couldn't bluntly refuse to engage in the question because that would look weak. So how does Trump wiggle out of such a well-crafted media trap?
Trump responds that he would tell the Pope that ISIS is coming to get him, and that they have plans to take the Vatican, which I assume is true, or true enough.
Do you even remember the question anymore?
Now compare the wattage coming from these two thoughts:
1. A boring discussion about corruption in capitalism. (Cuomo's question.)
2. A mental picture of ISIS taking over the Vatican.
No comparison. Corruption and capitalism are mere concepts that have no visual appeal. The ideas are important yet inert. But an ISIS overthrow of the Vatican is so visual you wonder why it isn't already a movie. And that visual is all anyone will remember of that interview in a week.
Do you still think Trump's clown act is random?
Four weeks ago, Adams said that "Hillary Clinton has a 95% chance of being our next president unless we get some surprises. But the other 5% is all Trump."
Now he says that Trump has a 98% chance of winning the election. He's the only one saying it, but then he's also the only one who has been right about Trump so far. It is fascinating commentary. Read it all at blog.dilbert.com.


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Getting ready for Christmas! I love this holiday, it gives much such a wonderful feeling knowing the Jesus entered the world for us! How wonderful is that?
Merry Christmas
Me, too. I am focusing on giving of myself this Christmas, in an effort to extend the love of Christ to everyone I meet. It's exhausting but very rewarding in ways I never imagined.
Amen beans, it really is a great feeling.


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Kate Hudson is apparently a big "Game of Thrones" fan. She and fiancé Matthew Bellamy dressed up their entire family as characters from the HBO fantasy series for a Halloween bash at her Pacific Palisades home.
According to Us Weekly, Hudson wore a "furry crop top with matching fur boots" (maybe as Ygritte?) while Bellamy dressed as Jon Snow. The "Game of Thrones" theme continued with an ice world setting and Patron ice bar, likely inspired by the Wall.
The Halloween party was loaded with celebrities, including Hudson's mother Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, Bradley Cooper and girlfriend Suki Waterhouse, Fergie and Josh Duhamel, and Lea Michele, Jessica Alba, Chelsea Handler and Russell Simmons, among others. Their costumes ranged from German-themed (Hawn, Russell and Michele) to a gorilla (Cooper), and everything in between.


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Sunday, March 23, 2014
Sunday Smiles
There may not be flowers outside due to the still present snow, but there are flowers in beer steins, and that makes me smile! What made me smile even more was the birthday dinner we had yesterday for my dad, whose birthday is today!
I thought it'd be fun to have a little bit of a beer theme. So my mom and I unpacked some of Dad's beer stein collection. It was so fun going through them!
A fox for a handle?! Too cool. A lot of these steins are from my Aunt and Uncle when they lived in Germany.
I also had a lot of fun dissecting a few grocery store bouquets and rearranging them into some of the steins.
For place cards I used coasters and wrote names on washi tape. (Pretty genius super last minute idea if I do say so myself.)
I love these beer glasses too and loved the excuse to pull them out and use them!
But most of all, I love my family and love any excuse to get together with as many of them as possible! Happy birthday Dad!!!
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Well you certainly had fun preparing a very happy birthday celebration for your dad! I especially love the beer glasses with their colourful designs and dancing couples! Very joyful! Have a wonderful Sunday!ReplyDelete
happy theme for a senior party!!!!!! Such a good idea Kate!!!ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday to your dad!!!!
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Happy Birthday to your Dad! :)ReplyDeleteReplies
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What a lovely post!!. Happy Birthday daddy Kate xxReplyDeleteReplies
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Where's the hand mug?ReplyDelete
You have a wonderful, beautiful family and your Dad's birthday is a fine time to celebrate them all.ReplyDeleteReplies
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Five-Star Wonders in Mystical India
From gold-leaf dome ceilings to relaxing spa treatments, no detail has been spared at The Leela Palace Bangalore. This five-star Bangalore hotel offers modern-day comforts infused with the elegance of India's rich past. Delicious dining and luxury accommodations are just the beginning of the many wonders that await at The Leela Palace Bangalore.
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Madison native to direct 'Spider-Man 2'
Madison native Marc Webb has agreed to direct the sequel to his reboot this past summer of "The Amazing Spider-Man," according to Variety.
And according to the Hollywood Reporter, Andrew Garfield will return to play the character.
Despite earning less than any of the previous three films about the webslinging superhero, the U.S. and global box office for Webb's film was just over $1 billion. The film's budget was over $200 million.
When I spoke to Webb this summer before the film's release, he was hesitant to discuss signing on for a second film because the first one was "such a huge commitment."
He also said that the filming was not without its conflicts because there were "a lot of smart people involved with a lot of opinions," but that "everyone wanted to make a great movie."
He said it was "a bit of shock" when Sony Pictures asked him to direct the first reboot, since his only major credit was the romantic comedy "(500) Days of Summer."
In my review, I wrote that the character driven film's appeal was emotional and down to earth.
"The Amazing Spider-Man 2" is scheduled for release in 2014.
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Storm-proofing oneself may not sound like the height of fashion, but if they're doing it in New York, it's time to take note. Everything of theirs ends up over here, after all; I feel like I can hardly move for hipsters and hot dogs.
Style and practicality are uneasy bedfellows even when the outlook is fair, but when it's tipping it down and you're caught in a Frankenstorm, looking good is likely to be the least of your worries. How thoughtful, then, that designers this season should have concentrated so considerately on outerwear. Once again, fashion proves a more reliable barometer than the Met Office.
When the rain comes, there's Swedish label Acne's oxblood leather (below) and PVU coat, worn stiff and starchy, and cinched high on the waist. For the snow, pick a Puffa – reworked as tailoring at Peter Pilotto and in crimson silk moire by Christopher Kane. Banish all thoughts of the "Int milk brilliant?" man from The Fast Show; instead the look is Bond Girl holidaying at Klosters, perhaps, but equally at home in the East End.
The trench is a perennial favourite, too, and one that has made Burberry the powerhouse it is – designer Christopher Bailey this season presented variations on the classic shape embellished with peplum frills, ideal for when the precipitation is dripping off you in rivulets. And at McQ Alexander McQueen, Black Watch tartan was manly and military, bagged out on the hips and deep in the sleeve to summon a hard-edged sort of cyber Land Girl.
Ultimately though, what you really need in a post-tropical-storm scenario is some sort of duvet-coat-cum-living-system (there's an enormous one in H&M's forthcoming collaboration with Maison Martin Margiela). It's a concept that designer Issey Miyake often looked to as well, with his superbly functional, hi-tech offerings, from garments with inbuilt climate control to ones which can be rolled, cut and worn according to each individual's needs.
But until the storm hits here – the Franken- one, not the fashion one – you'll find me clad in a slanket. On the sofa. Watching the leaves blowing on the six o'clock news.
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Bacon-ribbon cable?
While the colors are bright, and the components do separate, this was awful to work with-- the sticky surface texture left you feeling like you'd just been handling salted, fluorescent bacon. Yuck. They didn't even get the colors of the rainbow in the right order. On the other hand, if you leave it intact, it might make a good looking ribbon cable.
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Its 12 o'clock in the morning.
When I woke up I started yawning.
I went to my serene place.
though it's a place I cant escape.
My bed is made of earth and grass.
The pettals are laying over me.
They immerse my body.
Silky smooth and soft as a babys bottom.
They cover me from neck to feet.
The smell of the rain is all around me.
As it kisses my toes and face and drips down my nek.
While I stand there the 5 elements call me.
Earth entances me.
Fire lifts me.
Air calms me.
Water sooths me.
Spirit gives me breath and life.
Though with all that I stood there and prayed.
That you my love, would come back to me some day.
With that I say....
I will love you forever and always.
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Genre: Romance
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Cells contain networks of signal transduction proteins that mediate their responses to diverse environmental cues. A major challenge is to understand how information is properly routed through these networks such that a given stimuli yields the proper output response, while avoiding cross talk to interlinked components. Misactivation of signaling responses is associated with diverse diseases, including cancer, autoimmunity and diabetes. An emerging paradigm is that scaffold proteins can play an important role in specifically "wiring" signaling pathways. Scaffold proteins interact with multiple proteins in a pathway, physically organizing them into a complex that may promote their proper communication and insulate them from communication with improper competing partners. Despite the importance of scaffolds, relatively little is understood about the biophysical mechanisms by which they control cellular information flow. Our overall goal is to understand the general molecular mechanisms by which scaffold proteins control signaling efficiency and specificity. We are focusing primarily on Ste5 -- a canonical scaffold protein which coordinates the yeast mating response MAP kinase pathway, and which can be studied using a battery of powerful structural, biochemical, and genetic methods. We are also extending our studies to the analogous MAPK scaffold from humans, KSR. In prior studies, we have mapped individual interaction domains in the Ste5 scaffold protein, determined structures of these domains, and elucidated how a key scaffold domain is a required co-activator for phosphorylation of the mating MAP kinase Fus3. In the current proposal we will focus on the dynamic changes in the scaffold proteins - we have preliminary evidence indicating that the Ste5 scaffold undergoes regulatory conformational and organizational changes during signaling. Thus Ste5 may not simply function as a static tether, but may act as a "smart" scaffold that normally exists in a basal, inactive state, but upon receiving proper upstream signals, can shift to an active state that promotes flux through the pathway. This model suggests a paradigm by which scaffold proteins may not just passively determine the connectivity of kinase networks, but can also act as gatekeepers that control when and if information flows through the pathway. This mechanism may explain tight control in this pathway -- why related inputs that activate upstream kinases shared by the mating pathway, do not lead to the mating response. We also propose that this type of general conformation gating mechanism may be shared by the mammalian MAPK scaffold, KSR, in order to tightly control the activation of proliferative programs.
Our specific aims are to:
Aim 1. Elucidate biochemical and structural mechanism of Ste5 scaffold protein autoinhibition Aim 2. Test role of Ste5 autoinhibition in controlling in vivo signaling specificity and elucidate mechanism of Ste5 activation.
Aim 3. Test whether similar autoinhibitory mechanism regulates function of the mammalian MAPK scaffold protein KSR Aim 4. Map the supramolecular organization of Ste5 during mating by super-resolution microscopy
A wide range of human diseases, including cancer, inflammation, and diabetes, are associated with malfunctions in signaling pathways. This proposed research will help us understand how signaling pathways function, and how they can fail in disease. In particular our focus on scaffold proteins that wire together specific signaling pathways, may provide novel strategies for therapy involving drugs that disrupt wiring interactions, rather than individual catalytic signaling domains.
|Park, Jason S; Rhau, Benjamin; Hermann, Aynur et al. (2014) Synthetic control of mammalian-cell motility by engineering chemotaxis to an orthogonal bioinert chemical signal. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 111:5896-901
|Youk, Hyun; Lim, Wendell A (2014) Secreting and sensing the same molecule allows cells to achieve versatile social behaviors. Science 343:1242782
|Coyle, Scott M; Flores, Jonathan; Lim, Wendell A (2013) Exploitation of latent allostery enables the evolution of new modes of MAP kinase regulation. Cell 154:875-87
|Puchner, Elias M; Walter, Jessica M; Kasper, Robert et al. (2013) Counting molecules in single organelles with superresolution microscopy allows tracking of the endosome maturation trajectory. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 110:16015-20
|Toettcher, Jared E; Voigt, Christopher A; Weiner, Orion D et al. (2011) The promise of optogenetics in cell biology: interrogating molecular circuits in space and time. Nat Methods 8:35-8
|Good, Matthew C; Zalatan, Jesse G; Lim, Wendell A (2011) Scaffold proteins: hubs for controlling the flow of cellular information. Science 332:680-6
|Toettcher, Jared E; Gong, Delquin; Lim, Wendell A et al. (2011) Light-based feedback for controlling intracellular signaling dynamics. Nat Methods 8:837-9
|Won, Angela P; Garbarino, Joan E; Lim, Wendell A (2011) Recruitment interactions can override catalytic interactions in determining the functional identity of a protein kinase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:9809-14
|Bashor, Caleb J; Horwitz, Andrew A; Peisajovich, Sergio G et al. (2010) Rewiring cells: synthetic biology as a tool to interrogate the organizational principles of living systems. Annu Rev Biophys 39:515-37
|Mok, Janine; Kim, Philip M; Lam, Hugo Y K et al. (2010) Deciphering protein kinase specificity through large-scale analysis of yeast phosphorylation site motifs. Sci Signal 3:ra12
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The Supermoon of August 10, 2014 is seen here.
A "Supermoon" is defined as a full moon near perigee, the Moon's closest point in its orbit around the Earth. "Supermoon" is not a scientific definition or concept, it is a popular term.
This particular Supermoon was the most super of the three supermoons this year. It was taken as the Moon rose on the east coast of the United States about 6.5 hours after the moment of full moon when the moon was at a perigee distance of 221,765 miles (356,896 kilometers) from the Earth.
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Discussion panel with Jim Morgan (NYU), Yolande Daniels (studioSUMO), and Giovanni Piovene (Salottobuono), hosted by DJ /rupture and Mitch McEwen (SUPERFRONT).
Choose to participate in 1 of 2 thirty minute teach-ins after the panel: 1) Peace and justice walking tour of the SUPERFRONT neighborhood with Jim Morgan or 2) critical play of the board game "Ghetto" with Yolande Daniels.
See more info and bios here. This event is part of the Cypher on Urban Affairs, a public program at SUPERFRONT partly funded by the Brooklyn Arts Council.
Tags: Architecture as Activism, DJ Rupture, Giovanni Piovene (Salottobuono), Jim Morgan (NYU), Mitch McEwen, Yolande Daniels (studioSUMO)


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Dr. Darius A. Paduch, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor of Urology and Reproductive Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, NY, USA. He is an internationally recognized expert in genetics and reproductive endocrinology of male infertility, sexual medicine, virology, and hypogonadism. Dr. Paduch received his medical degree from the Medical Academy of Lodz, Poland, and his PhD in molecular microbiology from the Polish Academy of Sciences. He finished his residency in urology at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship in andrology and male infertility at the Center for Male Reproductive Medicine, at Weill Cornell Medical College and the Population Council on the campus of Rockefeller University, in New York City. He subsequently joined the faculty as a clinician-scientist at Weill Cornell Medical College, where he has been an academic faculty member since 2003. Dr. Paduch is Associate Research Director of the Fellowship Program in Male Infertility and Andrology, and is a certified Laboratory Director in Endocrinology, Andrology, Bacteriology, and Genetic Testing. His clinical and translational research interests focus on the preservation of fertility in adolescents with Klinefelter Syndrome, genetics of male infertility and testicular failure, and the role of antivirals on spermatogenesis and sperm chromatin damage. He has made significant contributions to advance our understanding of neurobiology of ejaculatory and orgasmic dysfunction in men and has developed new methods to measure arousal using ultrasonography. His research has led to the development of clinical trials to measure the effects of testosterone replacement on ejaculatory dysfunction. Dr. Paduch has published over 80 peer reviewed journal articles, 8 book chapters, and has given numerous invited lectures in the United States, Europe, and New Zealand. He specializes in treating male children, adolescents and adults with varicocele, infertility, Klinefelter Syndrome, low testosterone, and sexual dysfunction. A retired captain in the US Army, Dr. Paduch is an avid boater, fisherman and crossbow hunter in his spare time.Read more
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A Perfect Baked Potato
Alton Brown
I'm Just Here for the Food: Version 2.0
Published by Stewart, Tabori & Chang
This application provides a crisp crust and a tender interior. If you feel the need for speed, you can start the potato in the microwave. Let it cook on high for 9 to 12 minutes, but then finish it in the oven.
Makes1 perfect baked potato
Cooking MethodBaking
Total Timeunder 1 hour
Kid FriendlyYes
OccasionCasual Dinner Party, Family Get-together
Recipe CourseSide Dish
Dietary ConsiderationEgg-free, Gluten-free, Halal, Kosher, Lactose-free, Peanut Free, Soy Free, Tree Nut Free, Vegan, Vegetarian
Five Ingredients or LessYes
Taste and TextureCrisp, Salty
Type of DishVegetable
- 1 medium-size high-starch potato (russet or Idaho)
- Canola oil
- Kosher salt
- Vegetable brush
- Paper towels
- Fork
- Small bowl
- Fireproof gloves
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Wash the potato with a vegetable brush and dry with paper towels. With the fork, poke holes all over the potato surface. This will allow steam inside the potato to release as it heats, which will result in a great fluffy texture. Pour a small amount of canola oil into a bowl, add the potato and turn until the entire surface is lightly coated with the oil. This not only makes for a slightly crunchy skin, because the oil can get so much hotter than the water inside the potato, it will regulate the moisture. Sprinkle the potato skin with the kosher salt.
Place the potato directly on the rack in the center of the oven. A medium-size russet should be fully cooked in about 1 hour. To check for doneness, give the potato a squeeze (wearing fireproof gloves). If the skin feels kind of crunchy but the meat inside is soft, it's time to eat.
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Conventional wisdom and economic theory suggest that the reward for fiscal squeeze is monetary ease and a fall in both short- and long-term interest rates. In the first instance, the monetary ease provides some support for economic activity to help offset the debilitating effects of the fiscal tightening. Later, the monetary ease provides a stimulus as the impact of the fiscal squeeze on activity fades and the economy feels the benefit of a lower structure of interest rates.
While the experience of the last few years confirms that there are up- front costs associated with fiscal consolidation, there is little evidence so far to support the view either that there is a monetary offset or an eventual boost to growth. While some G7 interest rates have fallen, the weighted average is little changed from its average in 1993.
In order to explore further the impact of a fiscal squeeze on the economic outlook we have analysed the monetary impact of a number of periods of successful fiscal consolidations over the last 20 years identified by Alesina and Perrotti in a recent study, 'Fiscal Expansions And Adjustments in OECD Countries' (Economic Policy 21, October 1995). The authors define a successful fiscal consolidation as a very tight fiscal stance in one year such that the gross debt/GDP ratio three years later is at least 5 percentage points of GDP lower than in the first year.
They identify 14 successful episodes spread across the OECD area between 1968 and 1990. Although the examples of successful fiscal consolidation are geographically diverse and spread throughout the period, they should provide a decent test of whether monetary ease follows fiscal squeeze.
Perhaps the most surprising finding is the rise in short-term interest rates following the period of fiscal consolidation. On average, three years after the initial tightening, short-term rates were 1.1 per cent higher, rather than the drop predicted by theory. Only four episodes saw a fall in short-term rates over three years: France in 1969, Denmark and Sweden in 1984 and the UK in 1969. Bond yields show a tendency to fall in the first year as the fiscal consolidation has its initial impact but this effect fades thereafter.
A number of important conclusions follow from this case study, which have direct implications for the economic outlook over the next couple of years:
o Virtually all successful fiscal consolidations to date have taken place in a period of robust economic growth when the economy is either well established in an expansionary phase or is close to the top of the cycle;
o Almost all consolidations have been followed by a slowing of economic activity rather than an acceleration;
o Historical precedent as opposed to economic theory gives little support to the view that the negative impact on economic activity from a successful fiscal consolidation is offset by the resulting impact on monetary policy. Perhaps the most extreme example is the UK in the late 1980s when interest rates moved in the opposite direction to some massive swings in the Budget deficit;
o The only clear-cut evidence of monetary impact comes at the long end. An economy would therefore have to be particularly sensitive to long rates, especially in real terms, and insensitive to the exchange rate to benefit from any sense of monetary stimulus.
The clear-cut inference of our study is that if the world continues with its current programme of fiscal consolidation, this will continue to constrain the pace of economic activity. Both the OECD and IMF estimate a discretionary fiscal tightening of around 0.5 per cent of GDP over the next couple of years, as Europe chases the Maastricht criteria and the US attempts to balance its budget. While the risk of recession is very slight, as the imbalances required to create the conditions for a contraction in spending are simply not in place, a monetary-led acceleration in activity looks distinctly unlikely. Recent cuts in rates are a policy response to slow growth rather than the rewards for successful fiscal consolidation.
If this recovery does proceed at a slower pace than the last two recoveries it will also help to keep inflation in check. Indeed, the slower pace of economic expansion may well help to explain why inflation has remained so low and why real wages have been so subdued. This latter factor may well provide a silver lining in an otherwise dull and cloudy outlook, which sees the world economy growing at close to trend for some considerable time. If real wages do remain subdued this will continue to facilitate a rise in the profit share of GDP, which over the very long run will help lift the investment rate and minimise the inflation damage from sustained economic expansion. This upswing is likely to be very long but it may be some time before it becomes very strong.
There are also some interesting conclusions for specific countries. In the US, for example, while the current economic background augurs well for fiscal consolidation and a balanced budget package, medium-term success depends on expansion continuing, while short-run implementation suggests a slowdown. This conundrum suggests that the ability of the US to deliver a balanced budget should be treated with some scepticism.
The message from our study is boldest for France, where the fiscal consolidation package seems doomed to failure on all grounds. The economy is not well established in the upswing and is very insensitive to shifts in interest rates. If the monetary response is not there, then growth will suffer unless, as we suspect, the French abandon franc fort in 1996 and allow the exchange rate to depreciate.
Keith Skeoch is chief economist at James Capel & Co.
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One of my New Tab thumbnails (which happens to be http://mail.google.com) is labeled "Problem loading page" (Firefox's "server not found" error page).
The New Tab should not show "Problem loading page" thumbnails. It could substitute the thumbnail's hostname or just omit the thumbnail entirely until a real page title is found.
*** Bug 736054 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 606209 [details] [diff] [review]
patch v1 (WIP)
Needs a testcase.
Created attachment 606226 [details] [diff] [review]
patch v2
Patch with a test. I accessed gBrowserThumbnails._shouldCapture() directly because it's really hard to tell whether a thumbnails has *not* been captured.
Can you instead check channel instanceof nsIHttpChannel && channel.requestSucceeded ?
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patch v2
Review of attachment 606226 [details] [diff] [review]:
what gavin said. is a more explicit test that way.
So (channel.requestSucceeded == true) and (request.status == 0) because that refers to the internal load of "about:neterror". Should we stick with the old approach or is there any other solution?
Comment on attachment 606226 [details] [diff] [review]
patch v2
Review of attachment 606226 [details] [diff] [review]:
old approach is fine for now. i can't think of any other redirect-to-about scenarios, so let's roll with this and update as needed if bugs start flowing in.
Comment on attachment 606226 [details] [diff] [review]
patch v2
[Approval Request Comment]
Regression caused by (bug #):
User impact if declined: error pages can overwrite thumbnails in cases of network outage
Testing completed (on m-c, etc.):
Risk to taking this patch (and alternatives if risky): low risk, very small patch with a test
String changes made by this patch: none
This makes it impossible to have thumbnails for pages like about:config (manually pinned). Is that acceptable?
We've never taken screenshots of about: pages (this bug is only about error pages). But that doesn't mean we couldn't.
I thought they were missing because of this patch. I was wrong.
The problem happens in Aurora also, which I believe doesn't contain this patch. Please create a followup bug to show thumbnails for about:config and similar pages.
Comment on attachment 606226 [details] [diff] [review]
patch v2
[Triage Comment]
Low risk patch in support of correctness in a new feature. Approved for Aurora 13.
Page Thumbnails don't capture error pages.
Verified fixed on FF 13b3:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0
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In 1969, the General Assembly enacted Unigov, which expanded the city limits of Indianapolis to include all of Marion County. At that time, the city limits were essentially the same as the current Indianapolis Public Schools district, and large areas of Marion County remained undeveloped farmland. The surrounding "doughnut" counties were largely rural areas and small towns.
Today, most of Marion County has been urbanized and major portions of the contiguous counties are devoted to vast suburban residential and commercial developments. As a result of this growth, Marion County relates to the surrounding seven counties much as the old city of Indianapolis related to Marion County a half century ago.
Unigov is surely one of the reasons Indianapolis has grown and prospered over the past several decades while many other Midwestern metropolitan areas have stagnated or declined. It is time for Unigov to embrace the surrounding counties.
Unification and simplification of governance of the metropolitan area gives residents of the entire area a stake in the selection of leadership and a voice in public policy, and facilitates approaches to important issues that mobilize the resources and energy of the entire region.
It seems there is a broad consensus that our long-term success requires adequate systems of public education and transportation, to name two areas that affect all of greater Indianapolis.
There are several reasons for our lack of attention to these problems, but one is readily identified: Our governmental structure has not kept pace with our economic and cultural growth. This is something we can fix.
Even the areas where we have shown great progress would benefit from an expanded city. A successful metropolitan area requires the amenities that attract and retain a work force that can meet the demands of the 21st century economy. Indianapolis has responded well to this reality. We have created outstanding museums, public gathering spaces, and facilities for the performing arts and amateur and professional sports.
Most of these are in the core of our city, and almost all are in Marion County. And they should be where they are. They serve the broader community, and best serve all of us, if they are centrally located.
We need to maintain and nurture this smorgasbord of cultural and entertainment options to sustain this community as a place employers want to locate and employees want to live. Maintenance and growth of existing amenities benefits everyone in the metropolitan area, whether or not they attend an Indianapolis Colts game or a performance of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.
Government support, usually in the form of infrastructure, is often necessary to achieve that goal. It is therefore both fair and desirable that our local government structure be designed to support the needs of the entire community, and not rely solely on Marion County politics and resources.
There is an understandable reluctance on the part of various interests to support an expansion of Unigov. Those in the suburbs may perceive it as an unnecessary invasion of their ability to direct their local affairs. And some who reside within the existing city boundaries will resist what they see as a dilution of their power.
But we are all in this together. Neither the city core and its neighborhoods nor the surrounding suburbs can thrive if the economy of the region stalls because we cannot keep pace with our competition.
It will take some courage and leadership to get this done. It may also require the alignment of some stars similar to the events of 1969.
Unigov is rightly credited as a creative approach to local government, and one envied by most metropolitan areas. This springboard for progress was to a large extent the product of a perceived practical political advantage that served to secure the Mayor's Office for three decades. Sometimes we do the right thing for the wrong reasons. Expansion of Unigov should be on the public agenda.•
Boehm is a retired Indiana Supreme Court justice who previously held senior corporate legal positions and helped launch amateur sports initiatives in Indianapolis. Send comments on this column to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Random Tuesday. Or Wednesday. Whatever.
It's random Tuesday. Well, it's actually Wednesday, but at least I'm trying.
Why does it seem like when the shit starts flowing your direction, it doesn't stop? Just how much does one person have to try to deal with at once?
We had thunderstorms last night. It is February. Did the weather forget what time of year it is? I thought that was a spring time event. Not a winter event.
I am pleased it was thunderstorms last night instead of all the awful snow and ice that like half the nation got.
My sister lost her power yesterday. She had to go to my mom's house to keep her and the kids warm.
I'm tired. I've been tired all day. I went to the grocery store yesterday and cleaned house, and today I've done laundry. I am wiped out and I don't know why. Unless it's all the aforementioned shit that is weighing on my mind and wiping me out.
That's all for today. Go check out Keely for more random.
Posted by Just call me Yankee at 7:35 PM
Labels: life's a bitch and then you die
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I MISS thunderstorms! We never have them in Los Angeles, it's a weird weather phenomenon. I miss one of those great storms I used to see in Texas as a kid!ReplyDelete
A thunderstorm...that means no snow, right? Excuse me while I try to stiffle my insane jealousy of you! :)ReplyDelete
Gretchen, I understand that. I like them too.ReplyDelete
Sandra, If you were jealous last week, you'd be even more jealous of our weather this week. Sorry. :P
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172 hours a year. That's 10,348 minutes, according to my calculations -- which for all intents and purposes are probably completely wrong considering I got an E in Maths and failed spectacularly -- but you get the picture, it's a long time.
172 hours. That's a bit longer than the amount of time that James Franco or Aron Ralston spent wedged down a cave before sawing off his own arm with a blunt penknife and staggering around a desert and somehow not dying. It's over a week spent on holiday, or at work, or in a coma. It's a long time. That's the average amount of time that women -- in the UK at least, according to a Harley St company -- spend over the course of a year putting on make up.
Over the course of a woman's lifetime this same "average woman" will spend a year and three months in total preening and primping and applying beauty products, according to the study. Now, this got me thinking. Am I this average woman they speak of? Broken down, that equates to an average of 28 minutes per day, so yes, I suppose I am.
My daily routine is as follows:
- Get on the train. Whip out make up bag (Cath Kidston).
- Apply foundation. At the moment, this is Bourjois Healthy Mix Serum. Apply over face, eradicating all signs of ill health and eyebags in one fell swoop! God, I love foundation.
- Apply blusher. NARS Orgasm. Instant flush.
- Apply primer to my eyelids -- Benefit Stay Don't Stray.
- With my fingers, apply eyeshadow up to the crease.
- Go through the tunnel, put a new playlist on Spotify or something so that I don't keep putting make-up on in the dark and end up looking like a freak.
- Exit tunnel, pull into first station. When the train stops, quickly paint some flicks on using my trusty Rimmel Exaggerate.
- Use Benefit Brow Zings to give my brows some shape and definition.
- Choose a lipstick from the myriad of tubes littering the bottom of my handbag. Today, I chose NARS Niagara, which is a coral, pinky nudey colour that makes me look quite fresh and alive. I like.
- Mascara. two coats, please.
- Pull into destination station, final check over of all the slap and I'm ready to disembark and trudge up the hill to the office, looking a whole lot better than I did at the beginning of my journey.
The first article that ever bought me to xoJane was one about make-up habits, and whether you should apply make-up on public transport. I do this every day, so I obviously have no problem with it, but I am courteous in that I never take up more than my own space, and I am careful not to spill anything. As an aside, do you have a problem with people applying make-up in transit? Genuinely interested.
The simple pleasure of watching your face transform and become a little piece of art is something that I have written about before, when talking about the importance of make-up psychologically when you're feeling ill, or down. The 20 minutes or so a day can make a real difference.
My weekday face takes around 20 minutes, but I definitely spend longer at the weekend when time is on my side. At the weekend, I like to luxuriate, and get out all of my make up that I store on my dresser, sit on my bed and spread it all out and pick and choose carefully which shadow, which lipstick, which blush, which highlighter I want to use. It's a glorious ritual that I enjoy immensely.
I love the joy of seeing all the products in one place, comparing and contrasting shades, reminding myself which colours I have, which colours are missing from my collection -- any excuse to buy some more.
The point of the study was to advertise the company's semi-permanent make-up services, with the comment 'Women lead such busy and full lives nowadays so anything that saves time is a bonus -- especially when you consider that most women lose a whole week every year to putting on make-up.'
This suggests that the time spent applying make-up is a waste of time. One that should be culled in order to spend more time doing other, more worthwhile activities, like, I don't know, fellating your partner more regularly or learning how to make soda bread (two things I need to work on). I disagree. Those precious 20 minutes or so are not a waste, they are a luxury!
Do you agree? Would you happily cut out the time it takes to beautify yourself if you could? Would semi-permanent makeup be your bag? How long is your daily routine? Am I wasting my time?
I spend more than 172 hours a year on Twitter: @Natalie_KateM