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Weaker U.S. cattle prices and softer Alberta packer bids weighed on western Canadian feeder cattle values last week. Feedlot buying interest has been tempered as margins continue to float in various levels of red ink. Barley prices remain firm and lower live cattle futures suggest that this environment will be ongoing into the summer months. Demand for grass cattle has also subsided, with larger numbers expected on the market over the next few weeks.
Feeder cattle prices were steady to $2 lower on average, despite the Canadian dollar making six-month lows. A mixed group of steers with no special features averaging 571 pounds sold for $155 in east-central Alberta. Simmental-cross steers with medium flesh weighing 662 lbs. sold for $139 per hundredweight (cwt) in the Edmonton area. Black Angus-cross heifers weighing 761 lbs. sold for $120 at the same sale. Red British-cross steers weighing just over 800 lbs. sold for $130/cwt in the Calgary area. We are seeing backgrounded cattle move straight from the farm to finishing feedlot, thereby reducing available cattle in auction yards. This has caused the market to be quite volatile, with price discovery harder to come by.
The feeder market is feeling the effects of softer beef demand. Consumer confidence appears to have eased in January and the six-month projection is not as strong as earlier anticipated. Consumers are realizing less take-home pay in Canada and the U.S. At the same time, quick-food and full-service restaurants are starting to raise prices, which has slowed consumptive demand. It is difficult for major chains to lock in longer-term contracts for beef supplies, given the uncertainty in beef production.
Barley prices have been fluctuating in the range of $280 to $285 delivered Feedlot Alley of Alberta. Recent feed barley sales to Saudi Arabia will further tighten the fundamental structure for the 2012-13 crop year, keeping domestic barley prices firm.
I'm projecting the feeder market to stay relatively flat over the next couple months. Until we see a major change in the fed cattle market, it will be difficult to justify higher feeder prices.
-- Jerry Klassen is a commodity market analyst in Winnipeg and maintains an interest in the family feedlot in southern Alberta. He writes an in-depth biweekly commentary, Canadian Feedlot and Cattle Market Analysis, for feedlot operators in Canada. He can be reached by email at firstname.lastname@example.com for questions or comments.


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Hi All,
All of the examples I have seen online show Spring advising objects which have been created through the Spring XML. Example:
Here we are advising specifically the "personTarget" class only.Code:<bean id="personTarget" class="com.mycompany.PersonImpl"> <property name="name"><value>Tony</value></property> <property name="age"><value>51</value></property> </bean> <bean id="person" class="org.springframework.aop.framework.ProxyFactoryBean"> <property name="proxyInterfaces"><value>com.mycompany.Person</value></property> <property name="target"><ref local="personTarget"/></property> <property name="interceptorNames"> <list> <value>myAdvisor</value> <value>debugInterceptor</value> </list> </property> </bean>
My question - can you easily advise objects which have been instantiated through Java, not Spring. Eg:
... and then a Spring definition which advises this code? I may not be making myself clear, but we have a large codebase and only a tiny fraction uses Spring IoC, but we want to advise on all of it.Code:public class PersonTarget { public void someMethod(){...} } ... PersonTarget person = new PersonTarget(); person.someMethod();

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On-The-Go Granola Bars With Protein Win All-Star Reviews
Moms will score big points with their little all-stars by helping fuel their sports and activity-filled days with new Quaker Chewy Granola Bars with Protein from Chicago based Quaker, a unit of PepsiCo Inc.
Made with a combination of 5g of protein per serving and whole grains, these new snack bars are sure to be a team favorite and can help moms earn the title of MVP -- Most Valuable Parent! Available in kid-pleasing flavors including Nutty Peanut Butter and Peanut Butter & Chocolate, they deliver taste and protein on-the-go.
Quaker Chewy Granola Bars with Protein are great-tasting and nutritious -- they're one of the only snack bars with protein that have the whole family's tastes in mind. In fact, these new snack bars provide the same amount of protein as a snack-size container (4 oz.) of flavored yogurt. They also provide 1g of fiber, have 0g of trans fat, and are cholesterol-free.
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A mother remembered
My mother would have been 100 on April 1. No one ever forgot her birthday — the only benefit of being born on April Fools' Day.
She was no fool though. At least I never thought so. Her own mother did at times. As a young girl she would ride her pony, which she kept in a garage behind her West Broad Street hilltop home in Columbus, over to the 5th Avenue quarry, hitch him to a tree and swim all day in that deep, dark pit that horrified my grandmother. Sometimes she even took her pony in with her!
She also rode Bill down Broad Street to the viaduct where the draft horses that pulled for Murray City Coal and Ice were hosed down, just next door to the original Spaghetti Warehouse.
Because her stepfather was a hunter, she agreed to peddle his kill — squirrel, pheasant, rabbit and quail. In the winter, off her pony-pulled sled she sold firewood.
To my grandmother that kind of behavior — quarry diving, mixing it up with drovers and huckstering was foolish and unlady-like.
Oh, my mother was a lady, just a very adventurous one. Upon graduating from Officers Training School, she landed a secretarial job with John Hancock Life Insurance beating out 100 applicants. Then in the middle of the Depression, she quit her job and with a friend boarded a Greyhound bus for California. During an early morning swim off Catalina Island, she met a poet who later dedicated a book of poetry to her.
She and her friend went to a dance that evening where a young man asked her to dance. He was handsome and they both could foxtrot. He walked them back to their boarding house where he asked my mother if she would join him for the weekend at some mountain retreat. She said no; he wrote his name on a slip of paper, "This won't mean anything to you now, but it will some day." She threw it away. He was John Glenn, the actor.
On her return to Columbus, she got her job back, met my father who could not dance but rode horses, and helped him build a successful business, accompanying him on long and arduous trips in a camper on the Al-Can Highway before it was surfaced. She arranged flower-winning displays at the Ohio State Fair, played the guitar and rode her bike to the swimming pool — a display in those days no other mother did! In her purse she kept the address of a job opening at a dude ranch somewhere in Wyoming for a cook in case of a real set back.
My mother had all the talent in the family and she used it well, leaving in her 96 years to my brother and me great tastes for adventure and a fearless trust that life is very good.
Sylvia Zimmerman is the owner of Fulton Creek Jersey Cheese in Richwood. She holds two graduate degrees and, when not working on her farm or pursuing her interest in sustainable agriculture, writes her own blog.


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New Red Cross Apps Help during Emergency Situations
By: Sabrina Santucci
Updated: July 3, 2012
The new First-Aid
your phone is charged so you don't need electricity, if your electricity has
gone out you can just click on your phone and find a safe place to take care of
yourself and be safe" said Executive Director of the American Red Cross, Rock
River Chapter Lisa Ramsby explained.
It's a feature from
the new shelter and cooling sites app from the Red Cross.
"If you click
on where you're at it gives you GPS directions to a shelter so it's quick, easy
and you don't have to worry about getting lost," said Ramsby.
There's also a
first-aid app available. Now information from hundreds of brochures and
pamphlets on what to do in emergency situations is at your finger tips.
"It will walk
you through there's also a button so if you go through the steps on how to deal
with the emergency you can click the 911 button and it will take you to
emergency services," explained Rambsy.
The app tells you
what to do if someone suffers from heat stroke. Doctors say not to forget the
obvious while celebrating the Fourth of July.
Dr. John Rudzinski Director
of Medical Education at Rockford Health System advises "alcohol is a diuretic
so it helps us lose water. Not a good choice in this environment."
Animations and
videos make it easy to find out what to do when prescription medication causes
side effects. Important factors when temperatures rise.
"Lots of
medications including high blood pressure medication, anti-depressants and antihistamines
may interfere with how the body regulates temperature," said Dr. Rudzinski.
The first-aid app
can be downloaded on Androids and i-Phones. It's an easy, free way to stay safe
if you find yourself in an emergency situation.
The Red Cross is now working on disaster apps to prepare people for hurricanes, earthquakes and tornados.


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Corned Beef, Pastrami, Pickles…Oh Rye!
On Tuesday, February 8th, JDate launched www.JPicks.com, and thrust itself into the world of online wheeling and dealing. The site of "The Chosen Deals™," JPicks deems itself the "big macher of daily deal sites," promising huge discounts of 50-90% at all your favorite LA shops, entertainment venues and eateries. However, unlike JDate, members don't necessarily have to be single or even Jewish, to join…they just have to love a great deal.
With Brent's Delicatessen & Restaurant as a launch partner, JPicks' very first deal, offering $50 worth of deli-licious sandwiches, soups and salads for only $25, good for redemption at either of the deli's two locations (Northridge or Westlake Village), sold out completely before lunch.
Brent's has become a staple in the world of delicatessens since its founding in 1967. Quickly growing from a small, family owned sandwich shop into a Los Angeles household name, to anyone in the greater LA area, especially the Valley, the Brent's brand is now synonymous with outrageously delicious homemade food. In addition to being named "the #1 Restaurant and Delicatessen" 16 straight years in a row by Zagat® survey, as well as the 2007 AOL City's Best survey pick for "Best Jewish Deli," it's the loyal customers who really give Brent's its shining reputation.
"You guys are so good it's almost criminal," one patron said in a recent customer review.
"We LOVE You All! Food is Wonderful…WHAT A GREAT PLACE to come and eat!" said another.
Following a visit one evening for dinner, one customer even asked, "How do you get that staff so motivated?"
With a menu that spans the gamut of scrumptious eats, from Good Old Fashioned Waffles and Silver Dollar Pancakes to Hot Corned Beef Reubens and a 16 oz. Bone-In Ribeye Steak, so said the JPick: "there's a little bit or, in this case, a lot for everyone."
However, what Brent'Äôs really prides itself on is a dedication to the very best catering. ¬ÝIn fact, in a recent note to one of Brent'Äôs catering representatives, a client wrote, 'ÄúI wanted to thank you for providing us with excellent service again this year.¬Ý The food was delicious and the driver was very courteous.¬Ý The employees enjoyed their luncheon very much.'Äù
Offering out-of-this world, top-of-the-line meat trays, sandwich platters and hot continental buffet options, as well as salads, fruits and desserts, Brent'Äôs is the go-to destination for all party planning, office luncheon, family reunion (and any other type of get-together)¬Ý catering needs. Think Passover. Serving as far north as Santa Barbara and as far south as San Diego, so says the website, 'ÄúWe didn'Äôt invent catering, we just made it easier.'Äù
Today, Brent's manager Marc Hernandez holds true to the Brent's mission statement of being "the best family owned and operated delicatessen and restaurant in the nation… by providing excellent service and the highest quality food available." In fact, Brent's affiliation with JPicks is the first promotional partnership the restaurant has taken on since its founding. So says Hernandez, we're typically "no promotions, just good food." So why did Brent's choose to partner with JPicks? The deal was like the food; way too good to pass up.
Join JPicks now for FREE to make sure you don't miss out on all future great deals like this one.
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Revolutionizing Wound Healing With Individualized Approach
Plastic surgeon Dr. Henry C. Hsia believes he may have a way to address the urgent need for better methods for healing large wounds, such as those experienced by people who undergo extensive cancer surgery.
"With what we know today, closure of these wounds can only be accomplished after much pain, scarring and disfigurement," said Dr. Hsia, assistant professor of surgery at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. "The creation of an optimal substitute for human skin remains an unfulfilled objective."
Wound healing can vary significantly, yet there is little information on individual differences in cellular responses that account for this variation.
A $60,000 grant from the Feldstein Medical Foundation will enable Dr. Hsia to conduct a pilot study that may take us one step closer to addressing this question.
"Our foundation supports junior researchers with promising ideas who are not yet at the point where they can apply for NIH funding," said Daniel Feldstein, treasurer of the Feldstein Medical Foundation. "We felt Dr. Hsia's project met this standard and may lead to something significant."
In preliminary studies, Dr. Hsia identified fibronectin as a protein that alters cells found in human wounds. With tissue taken from wound patients themselves, he will use a 3D culturing technique to test how these cells respond differently to this protein. He will then correlate this cellular response with wound healing in different individuals.
Dr. Hsia hopes his findings bring us closer to the day when patients can be treated with personalized wound healing regimens, which address cellular differences in healing capabilities. This ideal wound treatment would promote regenerative healing by stimulating the patient's own tissue to heal with minimal scar tissue and full functioning of hair follicles, sweat glands and pigment cells.
"It is my hope that the information we get from these studies will help us develop fully replicative skin substitutes that revolutionize the care of patients suffering from difficult wounds," he said.


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The sweetest dog that ever walked the face of the earth. Unless you have a dog, in which case YOUR dog is the sweetest dog that ever walked the face of the earth. I know how it goes.
View items...Oh man. I know that a lot of us have had never-ending winters this year (Minnesota peeps, I feel your pain!). A couple of weeks ago, even though snow piles were still evident pretty much everywhere, we were graced with temps in the 60s and low 70s. And, after many, many, many Sundays cooped up in the house doing in-the-house stuff, Steve, Coco, and I were ready for an adventure outdoors.
Everybody knows that an adventure begins with lunch, right? We decided to head for one of our favorite sandwich shops in Leelanau County, Sisson's Main Street Foods in Leland, where I proceeded to order my first Greeky Turkey sandwich of the season. It won't be my last, trust me. I also love the Village Cheese Shanty, but that's for another day.
We packed up our food and headed to one our favorite secret beaches in Leelanau County. If you're familiar with the area, you can probably figure out where it is. We ate our lunch on the porch of the farmhouse in the picture above. Couldn't resist a photo of the view from the porch -- what a lovely place to rest and relax!
There is a secret path down to the beach. I can never really find it because it is hidden in the foliage, but Coco ALWAYS makes a beeline for it. The steps are rickety and the path twists and turns down to the beach.
And, when you're finally down there, THIS is your reward. Which always reminds me why I choose to live here.


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Award winners shine at Park Ridge's Night of Stars dinner
Rosemont, 1/19/13--Lifetime Achievement Award winner Dave Donovan, (left) chats with Gilby Lifton during the Park Ridge Chamber of Commerce's Annual Community Star Dinner & Dance. | Vincent D. Johnson~for Sun-Times Media grid= cover
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PARK RIDGE — Out of all the volunteering he's done in life, playing Santa Claus in Park Ridge remains among Dave Donovan's most enjoyable roles.
"You love to see the expressions on the little people's faces and I knew a lot of them because I was involved in the Jaycees," Donovan explained. "I could call them by name as I got off the fire truck. They were always amazed that Santa knew them."
Donovan, a 41-year resident of Park Ridge, was one of 11 people recognized Saturday during the Park Ridge Chamber of Commerce's "Night of Stars" dinner and dance in Rosemont. Ten citizens earned the title of 2012 Community Star, while Donovan was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award for his years of volunteer service with Boy Scout Troop 50, the Friends of the Park Ridge Public Library, the Noon Kiwanis Club of Park Ridge, Meals on Wheels, the Park Ridge Citizens Patrol (which he co-founded), and the annual Farmer's Market, among other endeavors.
Donovan was raised to be a volunteer, watching his parents host spaghetti dinners and pancake breakfasts as school fundraisers.
"I think those who lead by example are the most inspirational people to follow," he shared.
So, too, are this year's Community Star Award recipients, each chosen for going beyond the requirements of their career or setting aside extra time for an important purpose.
"They are always the unsung heroes," said Gail Haller, executive director of the Chamber of Commerce, of the yearly Community Star nominees. "This is just one way for them to be acknowledged."
Community Stars are nominated by citizens and winners are chosen by past presidents of the Chamber. They include the following:
John Bennett
John Bennett was recognized for his involvement with Park Ridge's Community Emergency Response Team and his role as team leader of the volunteer program.
"It's an opportunity for me to contribute to the community and support our first responders using some of the talents I have developed over the course of my career," Bennett said.
He also serves on the city's Planning and Zoning Commission, is a member of Park Ridge's Morning Kiwanis Club and greets guests at weekly Sunday Suppers offered at St. Paul of the Cross Church for those in need.
Barry Masek
Since 2008 Barry Masek has dedicated his knowledge and time to Clearbrook, a non-profit organization providing services, programs and supports for children and adults with developmental disabilities. Masek has served on Clearbrook's volunteer Board of Directors, bringing his financial background to the position, and, with members of his family, has participated in Clearbrook events in support of the organization.
Masek was recognized as "a voice for the organization's mission to be a leader in creative innovative services, support and opportunities for people with disabilities."
"It's an opportunity to give back," he said of his work.
John Vanden Brink
Helping developing countries secure much-needed X-ray equipment has been John Vanden Brink's mission with the Park Ridge Rotary for over a decade. Vanden Brink has helped raise funding for the machinery and even visited a hospital in Zimbabwe to determine the feasibility of installing such equipment.
"It meets a need," Vanden Brink said of his involvement with Rotary. "The World Health Organization claims that two-thirds of the world doesn't have access to basic X-ray services. That's an incredible need."
Jeff Sorensen
As deputy chief of the Park Ridge Fire Department Jeff Sorensen was nominated for a Community Star award for being a "giver, citizenship role model and visionary."
"He is a force for good and is well-respected and well-liked in this community," his nomination stated.
Sorensen is also a member of the Morning Kiwanis Club of Park Ridge, serving as president for the last two years.
Dennis Van Mieghem
Using his accounting and tax knowledge, Dennis Van Mieghem stepped up to successfully secure a real estate tax exemption for Iannelli Studios Heritage Center, the former home and studio of artist Alfonso Iannelli which was purchased by Park Ridge's Kalo Foundation in 2011. The effort earned the city a Governor's Home Town Award.
"I believe in the history of Park Ridge and what (Kalo) is trying to do: to make people appreciate what went on here for the last 100 years," Van Mieghem said.
Van Mieghem is the third member of the Kalo Foundation to receive a Community Star Award.
Mel Thillens
Mel Thillens was recognized for his efforts supporting a referendum that will allow the Park Ridge Recreation and Park District to purchase the former Park Ridge Youth Campus property, as well as his service on the Taste of Park Ridge Committee.
"It's a great event," Thillens said of why he's remained a part of the annual Taste. "It's great for the whole city to come together to showcase the businesses in town and it's great fun."
He added: "Some people say volunteering is a thankless job, but it's not. People say thanks all the time and I really appreciate it."
Barbara Skadow
A long-time resident of Park Ridge, Barbara Skadow has spent the last three decades actively volunteering at the Center of Concern. Much of her work is dedicated to addressing ongoing computer needs, telephone support and special projects.
In 1994 Skadow received the Dee Heinrich Award, the highest award given by the Center of Concern.
Skadow also volunteers at St. Paul of the Cross Church, assisting with Sunday Night Suppers and projects for the Apostolate of Women.
Laura Morask
A trustee on the Maine Township Town Board since 2001, Laura Morask is known for her community forums educating citizens about gangs and gang prevention. She also served as an assistant Cook County State's Attorney and prosecutor for over 20 years and currently operates a private legal practice in Park Ridge.
Morask serves on Maine Township's National Night Out Against Crime Committee and helps organize food drives for the township's food pantry.
Scott Richter
The white lights that illuminate trees in Park Ridge's Uptown and South Park business districts during the Christmas holiday have been made possible through the leadership of Park Ridge Indian Scouts — and Scott Richter. Richter is federation chief of the Indian Scouts and this year assembled a team of volunteers representing several city organizations to plan and string lights.
"It's brought a large segment of the community together to pitch in and help out as city finances are low," Richter said. "I'm very pleased with the community participation."
Dave Loomos
Co-owner of the Pickwick Theatre, Dave Loomos isn't just running new films for the masses; he's getting the masses running. Loomos organizes the annual Park Ridge Charity Classic and the annual Harry O'Brien Community Fun Run, both fundraisers supporting various organizations.
"I've always been involved in sports," Loomos said, explaining that he did a lot of running in college. "This way I am able to give back to the community doing what I love."


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How Smart Is a Dolphin?
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Part One: The Smartest of Us All?
"So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish!"
The famous message they left us in the sci-fi movie.
How Smart Are Dolphins?
What one scientist learned about them. It's amazing.
Dolphins or Humans: Who's Smarter?
Here are some of the facts. You decide.
Dolphin Society and Culture
How they live, learn, play and use their amazing echolocation.
They're Super-Brainy, Too
Neuroscientist shows us a dolphin brain.
More Fascinating Stuff
The Great Researcher
Prof. Lou Herman taught us most of what we know. (Check out the videos.)
A Society that Works
Dolphin society is more successful than ours.
Are Dolphins "Persons"
Author Tom White explains what a "person" is.
Life and Culture
Their lives, games and gatherings.
How Smart is a Dolphin?
The processing power of their brains is huge.
Experimenting on Dolphins
Should we still be doing it? "Please don't ask me," says scientist who does it.
My Visit to the Dolphins
"A beautiful creature with liquid eyes was gazing up at me as we motored along."
Other Links & Videos
Mirror Self-Recognition Test
How we know that dolphins are self-aware.
David Attenborough on Surfing
Spinner Dolphins with Humans
A Dolphin "Stampede"
And Another One!
And Riding the Bow Wave
Playing with Bubble Rings
Dancing in Tahiti
The Herman Investigation
The results that ended his research.
The Minds of Whales
A scientific paper about the brains of cetaceans.
Next: Part 2: The Business of Dolphins
Posted May 5, 2010, by MichaelMountain
Fascinating interview, all of it. Wanted to comment on the last bit in particular, about appropriate ways to expose children to dolphins. I agree with Dr. Marino completely! When I was six or seven, I was obsessed with dolphins and other marine mammals, much the way a lot of kids that age are fascinated by dinosaurs, actually. I wanted so badly to see and "meet" one. We visited Sea World, but to be honest, I barely remember it. I do remember being able to touch dolphins in a shallow tank, but I felt badly for them because I'd read they didn't like shallow water, and disappointed in the experience because touching them didn't lead to any sort of connection with them. It wasn't "meeting" them, it was just touching their bodies while they were forced to allow it. The animals seemed more like display objects than the sentient beings I felt they were, and I remember going home disappointed. What I remember much more clearly is when we visited Cape Cod and went on a whale-watching tour. That whole experience is etched in my mind, from the exciting question, "Will we really be lucky enough to see a whale in all that ocean?" to actually seeing a mother and baby Humpback swim right up beside the boat, almost as if to say "hi." As if they had, in fact, singled us out and wanted to meet us! Plus, being that age, I was completely fascinated when the baby whale peed in the water! Well, anyway, for me, at least, as a young child, whale-watching was a much more meaningful and educational experience than visiting a marine park. Through the years as I've thought over those twin experiences, and later ones at zoos, with pets and out in the woods, I've come to believe that an appreciation for nature can only be encouraged IN NATURE. Animals taken out of nature and placed in captivity for display are, by necessity, objectified, and by definition, unnatural. Seeing them that way only encourages children to think of them that way.
[...] Lori is the author of the famous Mirror Self-Recognition Study, that showed, ten years ago, how dolphins are one of the few species with a sense of self – i.e. they know who they are and can think about themselves objectively. It was as a result of doing this study that she concluded that keeping dolphins in captivity is completely wrong, and she has been speaking out against it ever since. You can read about the study here, and check out an interview with her here. [...]
[...] Interview with Dr. Lori Marino that has some great info on dolphin intelligence [...]


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I always delete random illiterate religious spam from Philosophy in Action's Facebook Page … but not until I've made proper fun of it.
Back in January, the internet was agog over the report that a pastor objected to the 18% gratuity added to her bill for being part of a large party by writing on the receipt, "I give God 10% why do you get 18?"
The proper answer, of course, is provided by Grumpy Cat:
Your waitress offers you a genuine service, in exchange for your tip… God, not so much.
However, what I find particularly interesting about the story from an ethical perspective lie in the details of what happened at the restaurant and afterwards.
[Chelsea Welch's co-worker [at an Applebee's in the St. Louis area] had waited on a large party hosted by Pastor Alois Bell of the World Deliverance Ministries Church in Granite City, Ill. As is common at many restaurants, an 18 percent tip was automatically added to the bill.
Pastor Bell crossed out the automatic tip and wrote "0″ on the receipt, along with this message: "I give God 10% why do you get 18?"
Welch, who did not wait on Pastor Bell's table took a photo of the bill and uploaded it to Reddit where it soon went viral. "I thought the note was insulting, but it was also comical," Welch told TheConsumerist. "I posted it to Reddit because I thought other users would find it entertaining."
Bell, who did not see the humor in this, complained to the restaurant's manager. Bell told The Smoking Gun she did not expect her signature to be all over the Internet.
Applebee's confirms that Welch was fired. In a statement, the company says:
"Our Guests' personal information – including their meal check – is private, and neither Applebee's nor its franchisees have a right to share this information publicly. We value our Guests' trust above all else. Our franchisee has apologized to the Guest and has taken disciplinary action with the Team Member for violating their Guest's right to privacy. This individual is no longer employed by the franchisee."
Pastor Bell told The Smoking Gun she is sorry for what happened and points out that she left a $6.29 cash tip on the table.
"My heart is really broken," she told them. "I've brought embarrassment to my church and my ministry."
As this story makes clear, the waitress didn't intend for anyone to be able to identify the pastor in question, and she took measures to prevent that identification. Alas, the power of the internet was too great. Also, the waitress reports that the pastor "contacted her Applebee's location, demanding that everyone be fired, from the servers involved to the managers." (That's a quote from the article, not from the waitress.)
On the one hand, I understand why Applebee's fired the server who posted the receipt. The restaurant wants its customers to feel secure in their privacy while on premises, particularly in their dealings with their employees, particularly in their financial transactions.
Nonetheless, in this age of social media, people's expectations of privacy must change… or they will get burned. If you're in public, your antics might be broadcast far and wide across the internet for other people's amusement. Then, if you act petulant and bossy about that, as this pastor seemed to do, you'll be lambasted even more.
Ultimately, a person needs to be responsible for his own privacy. That requires thinking in advance about what he wishes to keep private or not. That requires attention to what he says and does in view or earshot of other people. That requires being selective about what he emails or posts online. That requires providing appropriate context for public actions if he wants to avoid being misjudged.
A rational person does not broadcast his private activities to the world, then blame others for taking notice.
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Oh Tim Minchin, how I do love thee!
I saw Tim in concert in Boulder a few years ago… and he was awesome! If he comes to your area, don't miss him!
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I just ran across this passage in an otherwise merely annoying sports column on athletes and steroid use:
This past Christmas Eve, my son and daughter made Santa cookies, wrote him a letter, even left four carrots for his reindeer. As we were putting them to bed, I remember thinking, Man, I wish they could always stay like this. And by "this," I really meant, I wish they could always just blindly believe in things being true despite mounting evidence against them.
Oy vey! The "blind belief" of faith is not a virtue — neither in adults not in children. It's the rejection of reason's requirements of empirical evidence and logical argument. To the extent that a person lives by faith rather than reason is the extent to which he imperils his life and his happiness. (For more on what's wrong with faith — including why faith and reason cannot be reconciled — I strongly recommend George H. Smith's Atheism: The Case Against God.)
Interestingly, the sports writer indulges in fairly arbitrary doubts about athletes and steroid use in the rest of the column. Given that kind of irrationality, it's hardly surprising that he longs to enjoy the comforts of the opposite kind of error.
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In his recent article, Why I'm Canceling my SI Subscription, Andrew Klavan is up in arms about the supposedly hostile leftism of culture — Sports Illustrated in particular. It begins:
I am going to let my subscription to Sports Illustrated lapse when it runs out this year. I hope lots of other people will do the same. Like too many other publications, the magazine has become dishonest, dishonorable and even occasionally despicable in its conformist, lockstep left-wing bias. Republican politicians and conservative positions are routinely insulted in articles having nothing to do with either. Yawn-inducing left wing predictability is brought to the discussion of every issue. No SI writer is allowed to disagree with leftism ever. Despite its great photographs and occasionally good athlete profiles, the magazine has remade itself into crap in the name of political conformity.
For me, the Super Bowl issue with its smarmy and poorly reported article on religion in football was the last straw. The article was not an offense to God, it was an offense to journalism. Mark Oppenheimer, a left wing anti-religion writer for the left wing New York Times, among other left wing venues, does the left wing hit job on football players of faith. …
Despite all that overblown rhetoric, he cites just one one example from the article. Here is the offending quote:
It's clear that for a substantial number of athletes and coaches, there is no tension between being a Christian and being an aggressive athlete. On the contrary, many of them argue that football builds character and thereby makes a man more of a Christian — a commingling of faith and football now accepted by fans.
But is that a mistake? Just 50 years ago such coziness between public Christianity and football would have seemed absurd. Athletes were nobody's idea of good ambassadors for religion; they were more likely to be seen as dissolute drinkers and womanizers — more the roguish Joe Namath than the devout Roger Staubach.The aggressive, violent play preached by coaches of an earlier generation was accepted as natural precisely because sport was pagan, not Christian. Christianity was peaceful, charitable and pious. Sport was bloody, ruthless, impious.
In the 1950s and 60s that antagonism began to soften…"
That's it. Not only does that example not support Klavan's hyperventiliating about left-wing bias, but it also equates public expressions of Christianity by private individuals with conservativism, such that any skepticism about that is nothing but left-wing bias. In fact, (1) most political leftists are Christians, and (2) many devout Christians are uncomfortable with the loud expressions of faith often heard from football players.
Are conservative Christians unaware of just how silly this makes them look to anyone outside their echo chamber?
Alas, I think not. Lord have mercy on us!
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These strange emails just keep rolling into my inbox:
From: Akaki Date: Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 11:13 AM Subject: Nice article but wrong there ia a flaw in your argument. To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Hi Diana I read your article "Why Be An Atheist?" with great interest.
Its a great article, and it had opened my eyes. But there is a serious mistake in your argument which you may not have noticed.
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Really, that's all that he said! The article in question is actually the text of a talk that I gave to a small group of Objectivists waaaay back in 1999. It's here: Why Be An Atheist?
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Might the government of a free society ever be justified in banning the veil? I'm on the fence on the issue. In some cases, I'd say — very tentatively — that such a ban might be justified as a means of protecting rights. How so?
First, I don't think that the veil could be banned on the grounds that it represents some kind of threat, implicit or otherwise. The veil signals the subjugation of women, not jihad. In contrast, the mere wearing of KKK garb is clearly an unspoken threat in certain circumstances, such as when a parade of clansmen march up and down the street of a new black family in the neighborhood. Such would be cause for vigorous investiation, if not arrests.
The case of the veil is far more similar to the following scenario:
Imagine that people from a certain far-away country keep chattel slaves. This slavery is not merely permitted by law, but encouraged by most of the culture as just and proper. Those slaves are marked not by their skin color, but rather by certain kinds of jewelry — loose manacles that limited movement and a mouthguard that prevents most speech. If seen without the manacles and mouthguard in public, a slave would be severely beaten, if not killed.
Some people from the slave country immigrate to a free nation. In free nation, chattel slavery is absolutely forbidden and regarded with abhorrence. Nonetheless, some of those immigrants bring their slaves with them — and keep them as slaves, out of the sight of the law. These slaves are so ignorant of their proper freedoms that they don't know that they have rights, nor how to seek assistance from the law. Also, some slaves think that slavery is their proper condition in life, due to being raised with that ideology beaten into them, literally and figuratively. Of those who want to live free, they fear that any attempt at escape would mean death: they know that their owners, aided by other immigrants from the slave country, would seek them and likely kill them.
Law enforcement in the free nation works diligently to identify and free any chattel slaves imported into the country, as well as prosecute the slaveowners. However, because the immigrant community from the slave country is so insular, that government is unable to do so effectively. Slaves — in their manacles and mouthguards — can be seen walking the streets. If these slaves are questioned about their condition by law enforcement or others, they'll deny that they're slaves. They'll say that they're wearing the jewelry of their own free choice. Some will have a look of fear in their eyes. Others will warmly defend the jewelry as a positive good because they don't want to move or speak much.
At its wits end and unwilling to tolerate slavery within its borders, the government of the free country bans the manacles and mouthguards as tools and symbols of slavery. They hope that the slaves — freed from the restrictions of their jewelry — will be able to interact with other people in society in normal ways and thereby escape their bondage. Of course, howls of protest are heard from the immigrant community, including from some slaves, about this violation of their rights to wear what jewelry they please.
However, the government argues that to wear the jewelry is to be a slave — symbolically and in fact. The clear symbolic meaning of the jewelry — as well as its isolating effect on a person — cannot be ignored. The manacles and mouthguard are not just some wacky jewelry: they're part and parcel of a massive violation of rights. In addition, the government cannot know that those who claim to want to wear the jewelry actually want to do so of their own free choice, precisely because the jewelry marks a slave. The word of a person wearing the jewelry might actually be coerced by his or her master. Hence, the government bans the wearing of that particular kind of jewelry.
Is that just and proper? Perhaps so.
A proper government must doggedly protect the rights of all people within its jurisdiction. Apart from murder, slavery is the worst possible violation of those rights. Slavery cannot be tolerated, nor can slavery be voluntary. To speak of the derivative rights of the slave — like the right to wear certain jewelry — is sheer nonsense. Given the violation of his fundamental rights, that can only mean the "right" of his master to force him to wear the jewelry, if the master pleases. Only once the slaves are free people — free from the domination of and violence by another — can the question of their right to wear jewelry be sensibly discussed, because only then can they do so or not of their own choice, rather than by force or permission.
Hence, I doubt that to ban the jewelry would be a violation of rights — or perhaps, it's a minor and temporary violation of a trivial right for the sake of securing the fundamental liberty. A person must be free of slavery — free of forcible domination by the will of another — before he can be free to choose anything else, including what to wear.
Similarly, millions of women living in Muslim countries and enclaves elsewhere exist in virtual slavery to their fathers, brothers, and husbands at present. Some women embrace that subjugation, yet it's still indefensible. The veil is part of parcel of that slavery: the veil is a symbol of subjugation, as well as a means of isolating women from the broader culture in which they live. Many women are forced to veil themselves, under threat of violence.
So to speak of the "right to veil" ignores the fact that these women are not yet free to refuse to veil. They must be freed from their subjugation before they can exercise a free choice to veil or not. That might require banning the veil for a time, to allow them to become full-fledged members of the society.
Notably, I don't think that banning the veil could be justified in the United States at present: most Muslim women are free to veil or not, as they see fit. I'm more sympathetic to bans on the veil in Europe, as the subjugation of Muslim women within Muslim enclaves is a serious problem. Even there, however, other measures might be far more effective — better policing, shelters from women fleeing their homes, posters informing women of their rights, and so on. I'm more inclined to support banning the veil in Muslim countries seeking to westernize — and hence, liberate their women from bondage. It's a minor measure, and instantly liberating for many women. Alas, such might force women from devout families into complete seclusion, which would be worse. Hence, even in such circumstances, different measures might be more effective.
As I said, I'm up in the air. What do you think?
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Georgia Rep. Paul Broun said in videotaped remarks that evolution, embryology and the Big Bang theory are "lies straight from the pit of hell" meant to convince people that they do not need a savior.
The Republican lawmaker made those comments during a speech Sept. 27 at a sportsman's banquet at Liberty Baptist Church in Hartwell.
Broun, a medical doctor, is running for re-election in November unopposed by Democrats. He sits on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
"God's word is true," Broun said, according to a video posted on the church's website. "I've come to understand that. All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell. And it's lies to try to keep me and all the folks who are taught that from understanding that they need a savior."
Broun also said that he believes the Earth is about 9,000 years old and that it was made in six days. Those beliefs are held by fundamentalist Christians who believe the creation accounts in the Bible to be literally true.
It's not surprising that this [unprintable term] is a politician, but it's scary that he's a doctor.
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Mr. Deity isn't so thrilled with the new ideas that his son is peddling in the New Testament, but he's going to enlist Ayn Rand to help him.
(The second half of the video on the election isn't worth watching.)


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'I cannot be bulldozed or railroaded into submitting my resignation'
A defiant BCCI President N Srinivasan today rejected demands for his resignation in the wake of arrest of his son-in-law and CSK team owner Gurunath Meiyappan on charges of betting.Chennai is expected to witness a maximum temperature of 42 degrees Celsius and a minimum of 29 degrees Celsius," read the Met Office forecast for the weekend.
The campus, whose roads were ideal to test one's spine, is now a fine stretch of asphalt. But, it does not have a single speed-breaker, making it dangerously prone to accidents.
The chief minister asked the officials to pass instructions to all district educational officers to take stern action against erring private schools.
About 140 varieties of delicious mangoes are on display in 50 stalls at the Mango Fest 2013 opened at Jawaharlal Nehru stadium on Friday.
City residents belonging to low-income groups living in several colonies are in dread over the approaching monsoon as they anticipate several civic problems that accompany the rain.
The Union Ministry of Rural Development allocated Rs 1,701.77 crore for implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Tamil Nadu during the year 2013-14.
"I'll not wait for long.I have many things to speak out on my eight years in office as KPCC president," Ramesh Chennithala said, hinting that he will be forced to spill the beans if a solution to the stalemate is not forthcoming soon.
The election from Periyapatna Assembly constituency, is likely to witness a contest between Congress and Janata Dal(Secular) with both parties looking to continue their dominance in Old Mysore.
In the capital city, temperatures hovered around 42 degree Celsius and the maximum recorded was 42.2 degree celsius which has claimed many lives across state.
The irregularities in MNREGA pertain to diversion of funds, implementation of impermissible works and deficiencies in maintenance of records.
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- 'I learnt magic tricks from mother'
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- Shivanna, or no one else
- 'My father, my inspiration'
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The growing scale of the IPL spot-fixing scam notwithstanding, tomorrow's final of the event would go ahead as per schedule and the embattled Chennai Super Kings would also continue to be a part of the league despite the arrest of its top official on allegations of betting.
Jitendra had a meeting with Law Minister Kapil Sibal to discuss the proposed legislation.
On a three-day visit to Himachal Pradesh, President Pranab Mukherjee expressed his concern over repeated disruption of the functioning of Parliament and state legislatures.
The major highway bridge linking Seattle with Canada and the rest of the Pacific Northwest region collapsed Thursday evening, dumping at least a handful of vehicles and people into a river.
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- Somayagam returns after 48 years
- The Woolwich 'beheading' is straight out of al-Qaeda's terror manual
- Not a drop of Cauvery for people on its banks
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- Marine turtles giving Kerala a miss
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- Now, Delhi police go after eight Kings XI Punjab players
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Wonderland: The Mystery of the Orchid is the first chapter in a two-part exhibition exploring stories of the worlds most popular flowers. The second chapter, Wonderland: The Magic of the Rose, opens in October 2009.
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This curriculum gives a clear outline on what and how to teach the child aged 3 to 10 with autism, using principles of applied behavior analysis. The book is divided into three sections: Assessment, Curriculum and Mastered, each with built-in data collection. It covers 10 pivotal areas of a child's development, broken down into manageable tasks. more »
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