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Lee Harvey Oswald (center) Jack Ruby (right)
There's no hard evidence that he did, but numerous people say they saw Oswald at Ruby's club, The Carousel, weeks before the JFK assassination.
by Don Fulsom
Jack Ruby (born Jacob Rubenstein) was a vulgar, violent, lowlife. But a proud one. He had risen from the Mob-dominated slums of Chicago—where, growing up, he'd run errands for Al Capone. Now, in 1963, Ruby ran his own striptease club in Dallas—seedy to some, but to Jack "a f----ing classy joint."
The Carousel was a run-down walkup on Commerce Street where Jack (or "Sparky," as the easily ignitable owner was known) oversaw a master of ceremonies, four strippers and a five-piece bump-and-grind band. On Commerce, flashing neon signs and scores of eight-by-ten glossy stock photos of near-nude gals beckoned horny guys to ascend the stairs and enjoy "Dallas's only nonstop burlesque."
Soon after Ruby murdered JFK assassination suspect Lee Harvey Oswald, Carousel emcee Bill Demar (Bill Crowe in real life) publicly identified Oswald as a recent patron. The magician-ventriloquist said he distinctly recalled Oswald because, as an audience member, Oswald had actually taken part in Demar's "memory act."
"I have 20 customers call out various objects in rapid order," Demar told the Associated Press. "Then I tell them at random what they called out. I am positive Oswald was one of the men that called out an object about nine days ago."1
Carousel patron Harvey Wade supported the entertainer's story, according to Facts on File.
Comedian Wally Weston—who preceded Demar as an emcee earlier in November 1963—claimed Oswald was at the Carousel "at least twice" before the assassination. Weston made the revelation in exclusive July 19, 1976 interview with the New York Daily News.
The same article reported that "Dallas lawyer Carroll Jarnigan told FBI agents he saw Oswald and Ruby together in the Carousel on the night of October 4, 1963, and overheard them discussing plans for Oswald to assassinate Texas Governor John Connally, who was wounded in the fusillade that killed Kennedy."
These people weren't the only Carousel employees or customers to have linked President Kennedy's reputed assassin with Jack Ruby.
At 20, "Little Lynn" (in private life, Karen Carlin) was Jack's youngest stripper. With long locks of artificially colored gray hair, Lynn had the body of swimsuit contestant—but, on stage, wore little other than a big smile, pink heels and a matching G-string. 2
On November 24, 1963, Little Lynn told U.S. Secret Service agent Roger Warner that she, in his words, "was under the impression that Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby, and other individuals unknown to her, were involved in a plot to assassinate President Kennedy and that she would be killed if she gave any information to authorities." Lynn reportedly died of a gunshot wound in Houston in 1964, according to the Encyclopedia of the JFK Assassination.3
By some accounts, even before her boss murdered Oswald, Jack's featured stripper, 27-year-old "Jada" (real name, Janet Conforto) told reporters that Ruby and Oswald were acquainted. Described by Ruby biographer Seth Kantor as "supercharged with animalism," the orange-haired Jada had been recruited by Ruby from a club in New Orleans. According to the Encyclopedia of the JFK Assassination, that joint was partly owned by the underworld's biggest bigwig in Louisiana and Texas, prime JFK assassination suspect Carlos Marcello. 4
In Dallas, even offstage, Jada acted the part of a star … and of a wild exhibitionist. Usually wearing only a mink coat and high-heeled shoes, she spun around town in a new gold Cadillac convertible with "JADA" embossed on the door. After one notable visit to Mexico, the brazen stripper returned with 200 pounds of marijuana in the Caddy's trunk, according to Dallas sports reporter Gary Cartwright. 5 She got through customs by diverting the attention of border agents. Jada pretended to fall out of her car, and then fell out of her coat—purposely exposing herself to border officers.
Beverly Oliver sang at the Colony Club, a parking lot away from the Carousel. Years later, Oliver said that about two weeks before the assassination, when visiting the Carousel, she spotted Jada at a table with Ruby and another man. "Ruby introduced me: 'Beverly, this is my friend, Lee.'" That man, she later realized, was President Kennedy's accused murderer.
But Beverly kept mum on her Ruby-Oswald sighting at first, she said, because she feared for her life. Oliver did not want to end up like Jada, who she implied had died a mysterious death. 6
In 2007, sports reporter Gary Cartwright confirmed key elements of the accounts of both Jada and Beverly: "After the assassination, Jada told us Ruby once introduced her to Lee Oswald at the Carousel. While they were having drinks, Beverly Oliver, a singer from the Colony Club next door, stopped by and was also introduced … Jada is dead now, but I phoned Beverly not long ago and asked if she remembered. "Sure do," she said. Ruby introduced him as 'my friend Lee from the CIA.'"7
Jada, however, did not die mysteriously. She was killed, at 44, in a 1980 highway accident in New Mexico when a school bus ran over her motorcycle, according to researcher Mark Colgan. Jada is buried under the name "JADA" in a cemetery in New Orleans.8
And how about Beverly Oliver's tale? Highly suspicious say many assassination experts. Renowned researcher John McAdams concludes, "No account of (Jada) saying she saw Ruby and Oswald together appeared in any newspapers, nor anywhere else. And (Jada) explicitly told the FBI that she had never seen them together."9
Curator Gary Mack of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas also thinks Beverly Oliver's claim is dubious. As for a Ruby-Oswald connection, Mack told this writer in an email dated Jan. 10, 2009, "…there's no hard evidence they were acquainted and it's hard to imagine either man linked to the other. Oswald didn't drink, he was never out at clubs, he wasn't cheating on his wife, and Oswald certainly offered nothing of significance for Ruby to advance either himself or his club."10
Mack is correct: There is no hard evidence—like a photograph or a letter—linking these two disturbed loners history has forever joined at the hips.
In the end, however, it doesn't really matter whether Ruby knew Oswald.
What if there were a plot to murder President Kennedy that included two men who did not know each other? Ruby and Oswald could well have been part of this conspiracy; and Ruby could have been activated to kill Oswald after Oswald's arrest. This could be what Oswald was indicating when he insisted, "I'm a patsy." And it could have been what Ruby was referring to when he declared, "I have been used for a purpose."
There is a high stack of circumstantial evidence that both Ruby and Oswald were connected to New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos Marcello. And many JFK assassination experts believe Marcello played some role in the President's murder.
In a new book, Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination, Lamar Waldron argues that the New Orleans godfather actually engineered the JFK slaying. He cites startling newly released 1985 FBI prison files in which Marcello admitted, "Yeah, I had the son of a bitch killed. I'm glad I did. I'm sorry I couldn't have done it myself!"
In the FBI files—based on bugs secretly placed in Marcello's cell—the mobster confessed that he used an associate, Jack Ruby, to kill Oswald. Marcello also admitted that he had set up Ruby "in the bar business in Dallas."
Marcello, according to the New York Post, said he'd brought Oswald into the JFK assassination plot via David Ferrie, a Marcello operative who had known Oswald in New Orleans. 11
The godfather had a major beef against the Kennedy brothers because Bobby Kennedy—organized crime's biggest enemy in the government—once had him forcibly deported to Guatemala.
The disclosure about Marcello in the newly released FBI files supports the conclusions of the most qualified expert on the JFK assassination—G. Robert Blakey, who was chief counsel and staff director to the mid-1970's House Select Committee on Assassinations. In The Plot to Kill the President in 1981, Blakey found that Marcello and two other godfathers—Santos Trafficante of Florida and Chicago Outfit boss Sam "Mooney" Giancana—were complicit in planning Kennedy's slaying in Dallas.
Oswald had Mob ties in New Orleans through his uncle, Charles "Dutz" Murret, who was a bookie for Sam Saia, a gambling kingpin and Marcello sidekick. In 1963, when Oswald was living in New Orleans, he worked for Saia as a runner at Felix Oyster House—one of Saia's French Quarter bookmaking parlors—according to Blakey. In a Nov. 7, 1993 Washington Post article, Blakey also pointed out that John H. Davis interviewed Joseph Hauser, a witness in a federal criminal investigation of Marcello, for his Marcello biography, Mafia Kingfish. Hauser reconstructed for Davis a statement Marcello made to him:
Oswald? I used to know his [expletive] family. His uncle he work for me. The kid work for me to. He worked for Sam outta his place downtown ... The feds came ... askin' about him, but my people didn't tell 'em nothing.' Like we never heard of the guy...
As for Jack Ruby's ties to the boss of America's oldest crime family, back in the '70s Blakey's panel established links between the nightclub owner "and several individuals affiliated with the underworld activities of Carlos Marcello. Ruby was a personal acquaintance of Joseph Civello, the Marcello associate who allegedly headed organized crime activities in Dallas … (and) a New Orleans nightclub figure, Harold Tannenbaum, with whom Ruby was considering going into partnership in the fall of 1963."
Shortly after the assassination, Jack Ruby's headliner, Jada—rightly, it turns out—threw cold water on Ruby's initial excuse for killing Oswald. Ruby claimed he was a super-patriot who loved President Kennedy, and that his action was politically motivated. Not so fast, said the orange-haired stripper during an interview with ABC's Paul Good on YouTube: "I believe he disliked Bobby Kennedy … I didn't think he loved (President) Kennedy that much" to kill Oswald. 12
A pre-assassination indication that Ruby might be part of a conspiracy to kill the President came at around noon on November 21, 1963.
A number of Dallas police officers were meeting in the office of Assistant District Attorney Ben Ellis when Ruby entered and passed out business cards advertising Jada's gig at the Carousel. According to Lt. W. F. Dyson, Ruby introduced himself to Ellis and added: "You probably don't know me now, but you will." 13
Before Ruby pulled the trigger on his 38-caliber Colt Cobra in the basement of the Dallas Police Department, did he get cold feet or have second thoughts? Or did he want to get caught before he actually carried out his mission?
Billy Grammer, a Dallas Police dispatcher, says he received a telephone threat against Oswald's life the night before Oswald's murder. He said the tipster did not identify himself, but did greet the officer by name. The caller advised police to change their plans for Oswald's transfer to another jail the next day. The voice on the other end was urgent—asserting, "We are going to kill him!"
Only after Jack Ruby murdered Oswald did Grammer realize he had been talking to a local striptease club operator he knew well. "It had to be Ruby," he later disclosed. Grammer says that phone call convinced him the Oswald slaying was "not spontaneous," but rather a "planned event." 14
While Ruby's stunning crime was witnessed by baffled millions on live TV, Reuters's Ralph Harris was one of the first reporters in the basement to grab a phone and dictate a bulletin to his wire service's editors: "The fatal shot, fired by Jack Ruby into Oswald's abdomen at point-blank range, in the presence of armed police and reporters, had such a stunning impact that the scene froze into a moment of paralyzed amazement, then pandemonium as Oswald dropped to the concrete floor."15
Shortly before his death from cancer in 1967, Ruby secretly slipped a note to Dallas Deputy Sheriff Al Maddox. In a July, 1996 TV interview, Maddox revealed that, in that note, Ruby confessed there "was a conspiracy" to murder JFK, and that Ruby's motive in killing the alleged presidential assassin was not patriotism, but rather to "silence Oswald."16
As soon as he saw the slaying of Oswald on TV, Attorney General Robert Kennedy drew that very same conclusion. Ruby, he felt, had Mob written all over him—so he immediately dispatched his top Justice Department investigator, Walt Sheridan to Dallas to look into Ruby's background. Within only hours, Sheridan "turned up evidence that Ruby had been paid off in Chicago" by a close associate of Mobbed-up Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa, a mortal enemy of the Kennedy brothers. Sheridan said Ruby "picked up a bundle of money from Allen M. Dorfman," a chief Hoffa henchman.
When the attorney general examined Jack Ruby's many pre-assassination phone calls to key Mafia figures, the organized crime expert declared, "The list was almost a duplicate of the people I called before the (Senate) Rackets Committee," he told David Talbot, author of Brothers.17
Perhaps partly out of fear for his own life, Bobby Kennedy kept his investigation into his beloved brother's murder to himself. And he refused to cooperate with the Warren Commission's probe. In his book Brothers, David Talbot says Bobby intended to reopen the investigation if he became president. Talbot speculates that, in Los Angeles, in 1968, White House hopeful Robert Kennedy may have been gunned down by the same conspirators who killed his brother Jack in Dallas.
1 Los Angeles Times, November 26, 1963.
2 New York Times, November 30,1963
3 Encyclopedia of the JFK Assassination, 122.
5 Texas Monthly, November, 1975
6 "The Men Who Killed Kennedy," The History Channel.
7 Coverthistory.blog.spot.com, September 19, 2007.
8 http://www.jfklancer.com/pdf/Jada_mark.pdf
9 http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/oliver.htm
10 E-mail correspondence, Mack with author, 1-10-09
11 New York Post, January 10, 2009, as well as various book reviews.
12 Jada interview with ABC's Paul Good on YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa32CTHA8xw
13 November 25, 1963 letter to Police Chief J. H. Curry from Lt. Dyson. http://whokilledjfk.net/JackRuby.htm
14 "The Men Who Killed Kennedy."
15 Liverpool Daily Post, obituary of Harris, Jan. 21, 2009


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Hello girls! So nice of you to drop by. Quickly come on in out of the cold. I've made steaming cups of chai. Let's get comfy on the sofa - I have some hot news to share.
Guess with whom I spent my evening on Thursday night? Yes - him again. I can't help it he makes me weak! An evening with him and it's just so full of action. From Italy to London to Austria all in one evening!
When he looks down at me with those piercing steel blue eyes I get goose bumps all over, when he talks in that refined accent my knees begin to wobble. Did you know he works for the British government? Of course! He even has a fancy employee ID number - 007. But I prefer James - James Bond. :-)
Do you want more chai? Talking about chai - did you know that chai has a fascinating legend?
One of the legends of chai takes us to China more than 5000 years ago. It was said that the ruler Shen Nung was a sharp and sophisticated regent, an adept scientist and a skilled artist. Furthermore, he was provident and he placed high values that the water was boiled prior to consumption for sanitary reasons.
One day as Shen Nung and his royal court were traveling to a distant province they made a halt under some bushes and trees. As Nung's cook boiled water, a few dry leaves fell into the water and colored the water a deep rust color. Shen Nung however insisted on drinking the water. He found that it was not only refreshing but also invigorating and so, legend has it, the first tea was born.
This wonderful drink became very popular very quickly and many people appreciated the wonderful flavors and aromas. The tea leaves were given as gifts to dignified guests from all over the world. These guests brought the tea leaves back home so that their kings, monarchs and rulers too could experience the refreshing drink.
At the time in India the maharajas' preferred drink was a delicate mixture made out of warm milk, sugar, ginger, cardamom and other spices. One clever cook decided to surprise his maharaja with a special drink. He added a few of the tea leaves into the boiling milk and spice mixture creating an exquisite harmonic composition. The tea leaves had a cooling effect balancing the warming character the spices presented.
Today we enjoy this combination of a handful of black or green tea leaves with a touch of Indian spices as Chai.
Two different pronunciations have made their way into several other languages today. While the old Chinese character for tea was 茶, it was pronounced differently in various Chinese dialects.The word chai is derived from the the Mandarin spoken word chá (tscha). During the Zhou-Dynasty around 700 B.C the pronunciation for tea came from the old Chinese character 荼 tú (te), which became the derivative of our English word tea.
Tea (English), Tee (German), thé (French), teh (Indonesian) are all used in our modern day languages and mainly describes the drink using tea leaves and water as created by Nung's cook in our story. On the other hand the words chai (Hindi), Chya (Nepalese), cha (Japanese) and tschai (Russian) are still used to describe the spiced milk and tea mixture created by the Indian maharajas.
Fascinating isn't it? Oh I am sorry girls - you are all out of chai. Well I have a little surprise for you. All that story telling has got me craving for something sweet and spicy. So, how about a velvety chai latte cream? You'll need a spoon for the thick, rich and luscious chai latte cream, flavored with cardamom, cinnamon, black pepper, ginger and black tea leaves. The chai latte cream is spicy yet soothing and an invigorating dessert after a heavy dinner.
Oh look the boys are here. Good thing I have enough chai latte cream for everyone!
Recipe: Spiced Chai Latte Cream
Printable version of recipe here.1/2l + 1/8l whole milk
30g corn starch
100g heavy cream
5-7 tablespoons good quality black tea leaves
2 cinnamon sticks
4 cardamom pods, slightly crushed
10 black peppercorns, slightly crushed
3-4 cloves
1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds
2 tablespoons brown sugar
Cocoa powderElectric milk whisk
In a saucepan bring the 1/2l milk to a boil, then reduce heat and add the tea leaves, sugar, cinnamon, cardamom, peppercorns, cloves and fennel seeds. Simmer for approx. 1 minute.
Allow to steep for 30 minutes, then strain the milk discarding the tea leaves and spices. Pour the spiced chai milk back into the sauce pan and bring back to a gentle boil.
Meanwhile, mix about 3-4 tablespoons water with the corn starch in a cup and whisk to a thick, smooth mixture. Pour the corn starch mixture into the chai mixture and whisk until it thickens. Keep whisking for approx. 1-2 minutes until you get a pudding like consistency, smooth and creamy free from lumps.
Remove from heat and allow to cool, stirring occasionally.
Beat the cream until stiff, then gently fold into the spiced chai mixture. Divide into four tall glasses and place in the refrigerator to cool for 1-2 hours.
Before serving heat the 1/8l milk and with an electric milk whisk beat the milk until nice and frothy. Spoon the milk froth over the chai cream and sprinkle with some cocoa powder.
Serve the chai latte cream with almond cookies for a perfect dessert.
Helpful reads:
- How to make a basic masala chai
- Enspiceopedia - Spices of India
What would you like first? The verdict for the chai latte cream or for the evening with Bond!
Well I'll start with the chai latte cream - it's spicy and it's so different to any other pudding, cream, mousse type of dessert. The fact that there are only 2 tablespoons of sugar makes the chai latte cream not the typical sweet dessert but one that is filled with the spicy aromas of cinnamon, cardamom and co. Yes it's different - but it's bold, full bodied and simply delectable.
As for Quantum of Solace - while Daniel Craig was hotter, tougher and sexier the film lacked a strong story. In the end my heart belongs to someone else. I am not a sexy Bond girl but a spicy Wolff girl. Even though an evening with Bond is like a roller-coaster ride, I prefer getting comfy on the sofa with my Wolff and his pristine blue-green eyes, sending flutters up my spine and wrapped up in this safe strong arms, spooning spicy chai latte cream and talking into the wee hours of the morning.
This is my entry to the current session of the Monthly Mingle where the theme is Coffee and Tea. If you all would like to join in you still have till Monday, November 10 to send your submissions by then. There have been several great looking creations and this is going to be an exciting roundup!
You might like these creamy desserts from WFLH:
Chocolate Chile Pots De Crème | Persimmon Honey Nut Yogurt Verrines | Sweet Potato Flan |
From around the blogs:
Chocolate Chai Spice Cupcake - Cupcake Bakeshop
Chai Spiced Oatmeal - 80 Breakfasts
Creamy Chai Cheesecake - Zoe Bakes
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The new storm system follows a winter blast that moved through Kansas Wednesday through Friday dumping 10-14 inches of snow over much of the state.
State officials urge Kansans to prepare now for this new storm by restocking home and vehicle emergency kits with food, water, medicine, flashlights, blankets and other essentials.
"Keep an eye on this storm system which has the potential to be more difficult than the last one because of strong winds, ice, and heavy snow accumulation," said Governor Sam Brownback. "Be ready to change your travel plans if needed. Staying off the roads not only keeps you safe, but it also helps road crews do their jobs and allows emergency responders to get to their destination safer. But if you must travel take essentials with you to stay safe and inform others of where you are going and when you expect to arrive."
The State Emergency Operations Center will be activated Sunday afternoon and continue on a 24-hour basis until further notice.
KDEM will work closely with county emergency managers and other state agencies to determine what resources and assistance might be needed as the storm moves across the state.
"With the prediction of strong winds of 30 to 40 mph and gusting up to 50 to 60 mph, this storm has the potential to cause power outages and white out conditions," Maj. Gen. Lee Tafanelli, adjutant general and director of Kansas Division of Emergency Management. "Take the preparations you need for yourself and your family to be safe if you are without power for a few days."
Information on emergency preparedness for home and travel may be found at www.ksready.gov.
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Check belts, hoses, and brake systems for excessive wear. Have the exhaust system checked; small leaks can allow carbon monoxide to enter the passenger compartment. Check tire treads for adequate traction, and replace windshield wiper blades if they are ineffective.
Keep an emergency kit that includes at least the following:
- An ice scraper and shovel
- Jumper cables
- Flashlights
- Sand or kitty litter for traction
- Extra blankets or clothing
- Non-perishable food
- A first aid kit
- Matches and candles or flares
- Tow rope or chain
- Allow extra time for delays and slower traffic speeds.
- Buckle up and properly secure children in safety seats.
- Increase the distance between your vehicle and the vehicle ahead of you. Ice and snow significantly increase your stopping distance.
- Accelerate and brake gently. A light foot on the gas is less likely to make wheels spin on ice and snow. Braking is best accomplished by pumping the pedal. If your vehicle has an anti-lock braking system (ABS), it is very important that you understand how to use it. Read the owner's manual or check with a dealership for more information, and practice using it correctly.
- Make turns slowly and gradually, especially in heavily traveled areas (e.g. intersections that may be icy from snow that melted and refroze).
- Visibility is very important. You must be able to see out, and other drivers must be able to see your vehicle. Clean frost and snow off all windows, mirrors, and lights. Use headlights as necessary.
- If your car loses traction and begins to slide, steer into the swerve, or in the direction you want to go. Anticipate a second skid in the opposite direction as the car straightens out.
- If you plan to drive, do not drink. Designate a driver or call a cab. Report impaired drivers to a law enforcement agency.
- Watch for deer, especially near dusk and dawn.
If you are stranded in a winter storm, do not panic. Stay in the vehicle, keep fresh air circulating through a downwind window, run the motor sparingly, turn on the dome light, and stimulate circulation and stay awake by moving arms and legs. If you leave the car, work slowly in the snow to avoid over-exertion and the risk of a heart attack. If you have a cellular phone, call a Kansas Highway Patrol dispatcher by dialing *HP (47), or *KTA (582) while on the Kansas Turnpike.
Additional information on winter driving tips is available on the Kansas Highway Patrol website at http://www.kansashighwaypatrol.org/press/news_info/winter_drive.html


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Publicist Gene Willis of Universal Uclick says Phillips died Wednesday after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.
By the time her family revealed she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2002, her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, who had helped her mother with the Dear Abby column for years, was its sole author.
Phillips' column competed for decades with the advice column of Ann Landers, written by her twin sister, Esther Friedman Lederer. Their relationship was stormy in their early adult years, but later they regained the close relationship they had growing up in Sioux City, Iowa.
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I feel that a lot of my geneablogging friends are too hard on themselves; several have reported on their successes this year but quite a number have lamented that they haven't achieved as much as they set out to do or that they haven't blogged with the frequency they envisaged.
You are a bunch of highly motivated people who have made great strides in the genealogy sphere. Let's share the good news.
Accentuate the Positive 2013 Geneameme
On a whim this morning I decided to throw together a Geneameme in which you can share the positive results of your Genea Activities in 2012.
I invite you to take part in this activity by responding to the following statements/questions in a blog post. Write as much or as little as you want. Once you have done so please share your post's link in a comment on this post or to me via social media. I will, in due course post a list of links to your contributions on this blog.
Remember to accentuate the positive - please delete the statements that are not relevant to your situation.
1. An elusive ancestor I found was
2. A precious family photo I found was
3. An ancestor's grave I found was
4. An important vital record I found was
5. A newly found family member who shared
6. A geneasurprise I received was
7. My 2013 blog post that I was particularly proud of was
8. My 2013 blog post that received a large number of hits or comments was
9. A new piece of software I mastered was
10. A social media tool I enjoyed using for genealogy was
11. A genealogy conference/seminar/webinar from which I learnt something new was
12. I am proud of the presentation I gave at/to
13. A journal/magazine article I had published was
14. I taught a friend how to
15. A genealogy book that taught me something new was
16. A great repository/archive/library I visited was
17. A new genealogy/history book I enjoyed was
18. It was exciting to finally meet
19. A geneadventure I enjoyed was
20. Another positive I would like to share is


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Want to know what the Bible says about Salt? Here are 93 Bible verses about Salt from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.
Use the up or down arrow next to each verses to vote for this topic. Your input is important for us to improve it.
Note: Always check the context of a verse; Click the "Read Full Chapter" button next to each verse to read more. The context of a verse might put a very different slant on what the verse seems to say.


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TC's GRAW
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It's here - the roundup for Mango Mania! I simply knew that everyone would be joining in on this session of the mingle. Mangoes are so popular and rarely do I come across a person who does not like this sensational fruit. So I know you are here because you love mangoes are you ready for the Mango Mania?
We had 70 entries from around the world. Sweet, savory, heavenly, and delicious mangoes in every possible way. If you love your mango then bookmark this for future reference.
I've sorted the entries out in various categories and hope that this will be easier when looking for something specific. You'll be able to find this roundup and a list of all our previous mingles on the Monthly Mingle page. Pictures of all the entries can be found in the Mango Mania picture gallery.
Salads, Soups & Sides
- Curry Bazaar: Manga Perukku
- My Culina Sanctuarium: Vietnamese Mango Salad
- Culinary Adventures of a New Wife: Mango Crab Salad Wonton Cups
- MyGourmetConnection - Recipes: Mango-Kaffir Gazpacho
- Live to Cook: Mango Salsa
- Beyond The Usual: Mangai vathal Kuzhambu
- Just Get Floury: Ginny's Mango-Avocado Salsa
- Recipe Center: Instant Mango Pickle
- Heart and Hearth: Steamed Kang Kong (Water Spinach) with Mango
- FotoCuisine: Sriracha Glazed Scallops with Bacon Mango Risotto
- Dhanggit's Kitchen: Rolled Turkey Escalopes in Walnut Pesto and Mango Orange Sauce
- Spice Club: Grilled Mango Shrimp
- Mike's Table: Crab Quesadillas with Mango Avocado Salsa
- Tasty treats: Stir fried Chicken with Mango
- Samaithu Paarkalaam: Mango Chicken
Gravies & Curries
- For the Cook in Me: Raw Mangoes & Coconut Gravy
- Jugalbandi: Moru Kachiyathu (Spiced Buttermilk) with Green Plantain and Mango
- Wandering Chopsticks: Malaysian Mango Chicken Curry
- Mane Adige: Raw Mango Curry
- Archy's Recipe Book: Charmuri/ Masal Mandakki
- Feeding Maybelle: Croque Shrimati (Fancy Grilled Cheese and Mango Sandwich)
Breads & Loafs
- Ammalu's Kitchen: Mango Bread
- Indian vegetarian kitchen: Eggless Mango Bread
- What's For Lunch, Honey?: Ginger Mango Bread
Sweet Tooth
- Food-n-More: Mango Strawberry Trifle
- Closet Cooking: Mango and Rhubarb Crumble
- Joelen's Culinary Adventures: Mango Lychee Ice Cream
- Aroma!: Mango Cream Jello
- Naina's Recipes: Mango Panna Cotta
- Vadani Kaval Gheta: Vegan Mango Mousse
- Singing Chef: Mango Kulfi
- Payt Pooja: Mango Trifle
- Ramya Bala: Mango Muffins
- Fusion: Misty Mango Delight
- [eatingclub] vancouver: Mango Crêpes with Creamy Avocado Filling and Lime-Caramelized Mangoes
- Asan Khana: Mango Shrikhand
- vanille & chocolat: Coconut tapioca soup with mango sorbet, passion fruit, cilantro syrup and coconut tuiles
- Fresh from The Oven: Summer Mango Tart
- Me and My Kitchen: Mango Fruit Custard
- My Kitchen Stories: Mango Almond Muffins
- La Gourmet Chef: Mango Delight Ice-Cream
- Make Life Sweeter!: Mango Mousse Mirror Cake
- Rina's Recipes: Mango Pudding with Lime Jello Topping
- Addicted Sweet Tooth: Coconut Mango Tartelettes
- Few Minute Wonders: Mango Fruit Salad
- Apple Pie, Patis, and Pâté: Mangoes and Cream
- Cooking from A to Z: Mango Yogurt Ice with Agave Nectar
- Live to Eat: Mango Coconut Panna Cotta
- Spice and Curry: Almond Mango Kulfi
- Enjoy Indian Food: Aamras
- Cookingetcetera: Mango Peach Sorbet
- My Food Blog: Mango Jam with Cumin
- KonkanWorld: Mango Ricotta Burfi
- Lilandra: Mango Sorbet
- Isha's Kitchen: Fat Free Frozen Mango Yogurt
- Morsels & Musings: Mango Frozen Yoghurt
- Ahaar: No Bake Mango Pie
- Plantain Leaf (Andhra Recipes): Mango Payasam
- Tongueticklers: Mango banana frangipane tart
Drinks & Coolers
- Charche Chauke Ke: Yellow Ice Cream Shake
- For Spicy Lovers: Mango Lassi
- Paajaka Recipes: Mango Lassi
- Spicy Khazana: Mango Fruit Punch
- Curry In Kadai: Mango, Peach & Strawberry Milkshake
- Illatharasi: Mango Milkshake
- Siri's Corner: Mango Lassi
- Madam Chow's Kitchen: Mango Passionfruit Lassi
- Passionate About baking...& beyond: Green Mango Cooler
- Easy Cooking: Mango Smoothie
- Vegetable Platter: Mango Lassi
If I've missed your entry please leave me a comment here on the post and I'll update it as soon as possible.
Keep track of the Monthly Minlge as it wanders across the World using the MM Calendar. If you'd like to guest host the MM drop me an email. We've still got room in September 2009 and November 2009! The calendar for 2009 will be going up shortly
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Here's an example of a stump wedding cake, and also what bride Zsofia asked her baker to make for her wedding:
As you can see, it is remarkably stumpy. Now, again, you may be questioning the reasoning behind celebrating a new life of love together with a murdered tree. To this I say: It's not like it's a real tree, so let it go already. Besides, that's not the point.
So what IS the point?
The point, my dear Wreckies, is that Zsofia got THIS for her wedding cake:
See? Betcha don't give a poo-streaked muck pile why people order stump cakes now. Now you just want a better view of this poo-streaked muck pile.
Happy to oblige, my friends, happy to oblige:
Now don't get me wrong: the green shredded coconut adds a festive touch to those 15 cent cardboard rounds, and the fake bird is totally workin' it. Still, the bride suspects (and from this photo, I think with good reason) that the cake may have fallen over a few times en route, since in addition to looking - well, like this - it was an hour late to the reception.
Happily, though, Zsofia reports that by the time the cake arrived most of the guests were too drunk to care what the cake looked like, anyway.
[sniffle] Aw, I just love happy endings, don't you?
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You know how I said awhile ago that it would be a great idea to get calling cards for your blog? Because that way, when you meet someone who seems like a marvelous potential reader, instead of trying to spell out your domain name or find an old receipt to jot it down on with that pen in your purse that never works, you could whip out a nicely crafted card.
Well, I convinced myself, and I bought these beauties:
Thanks to everyone who helped me decide what to order from Amy Adele. In the end, I went with not one but, as you can see, three! The more the merrier, right? I keep a selection in my wallet so I have them available to hand out when the situation arises.
The cards I chose are all located in AmyAdele.com's Distinct Designs section within the Calling Cards.
Here's the non-surprise giveaway:
You can get your own calling cards by clicking over to my Amy Adele giveaway. Ready for this? It's for $50! Yes, $50 of whatever you want at Amy Adele!
So it could be calling cards like mine, notecards or flat cards like we got for Mikko's thank-you cards, address labels or waterproof labels, or even personalized onesies and t-shirts (maybe a matching new baby onesie and big sibling shirt?). So hop on over and enter now by simply leaving a comment with what (one thing or more) you would like to order if you win!
Originally I set an entry deadline of August 12, but I was so remiss in getting this post up that I'm extending the deadline to next week, August 19, so you have time to enter. And, you get an extra entry just by saying you've read this post. Just comment with something like, "Read calling cards post."
And here's where it gets even more interesting:
BUT, the real reason I'm writing this post is to let you know of a super-secret additional giveaway, right here on Hobo Mama. I'm taking this idea from Rachel of Common Places, who suggested it in the comments on my original calling card post:
"I need calling cards for your blog. It would be so much prettier than scribbling down your URL on a piece of scrap paper when I find myself in conversations saying, 'you should check out my friend Lauren's blog. She has some really helpful things to say about [natural birth, bilingual parenting, whatever other topic is under conversation at the moment].'"Because, oh, my gosh, would people actually help me by handing out my calling cards if I could get them into your delightful little hands?
To that end, I am declaring a special giveaway here. Enter a comment, about whatever you want, and you will receive, free of charge (of course), a selection of Hobo Mama calling cards sent to your door. (Rescue Hero and robot not included, because Mikko would cry.)
Here's the surprise part. Once I determine that the giveaway is over (through a scientific process of hemming and hawing and going with my gut), I will not only collect everybody's charming mailing addresses (for the purpose of sending the cards, not for a surprise visit — don't worry, my showing up unannounced is not the prize!) — but! — and here's where it gets exciting!
I will also randomly select at least three of you to receive a super-special surprise gift!
If anyone leaves a particularly delightful comment on this post (say, a funny story or a household tip or egregious flattery, which as you can see, will get you anywhere), I might even award some non-random prizes in addition.
So, what I'm saying is, it's completely open-ended and mysterious. Which just makes it all the more fun.
I promise the prizes will be spectaculous (a word I just made up) and not just stuff I had lying around. You knew I was tempted, right? But, no, I will spend actual money on you, my fabulous readers who are going to hand out my calling cards.
All right, got it? Let's go over the progression:
- Leave a comment on this post. It can be of whatever substance you want, or of no substance at all. Maybe you could just say which calling card is your favorite, or what you hope the prizes will be, if you want a prompt. Make sure you leave an email address or have it somewhere on your profile or blog so I can contact you.
- After some length of comment soliciting, I will gather everyone's mailing addresses who commented to send off a small stash of Hobo Mama cards that you can hand out to people you know, leave on community bulletin boards, slyly tuck into parenting books at the bookstore, or stock your dentist's office with. (Hey, once you get them, they're your calling cards. You're free to use them as you see fit.)
- Once I have everyone's addresses, I will also draw at least three winners of some Super Secret Surprise. Oh, the suspense! And there might be even further winners, if you all so inspire me.
There you have it. Oh, also? I will mail anywhere in the world, though I draw the line at outer space.
In addition to this goofy giveaway, remember to enter the one worth 50 smackaroos, which closes August 19. That one's open to U.S. residents only.
And if you want to buy your own calling cards, whether for work or play, there's free shipping at Amy Adele right now till August 11 for orders of $15 or more with code AUGSHIP. Amy Adele is also running a promotion of 15% off the 50 top sellers, which includes several labels, notecards and flat cards, the tulips calling card, and a selection of children's personalized t-shirts and onesies.
I bought the calling cards with my own hard-earned dough.
Prizes for the surprise giveaway will be purchased by me, as well,
unless I can collect some sort of hobo patron before then.
See my full disclosure policy here.


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Estate Planning & Trusts: Items Included in Your Estate for Estate Tax
A CONTRACT is defined from the Latin word contractus. An agreement between two or more parties, especially one that is written and enforceable by "law." To enter into by contract; establish or settle by formal agreement. An agreement between two or more parties which creates obligations to do or not do the specific things that are the subject of that agreement.
OWNERSHIP from the word possessore, is defined as someone who has the legal right to possession with the legal right to transfer possession to others.
Interested parties have a way of finding the true owner for the right price. The Internet is running on high steroids. Anything you do is public knowledge.
ESTATE, (inheritance) patrimonio (possession) a term used in common "law" used to denote the sum total of all possessions by a person at the time of his/hers death.
A TRUST is a CONTRACT. A legal arrangement between two or more persons defining the ownership and distribution of his/hers possessions, under the "law."
ESTATE PLANNING AND TRUSTS therefore is the written legal agreement (contract) outlining a contractual obligation between the parties.
An ESTATE TAX is a tax on your possessions on the date of your death, up to 55%. Take inventory of what you own: Cash, Savings and checking accounts, CDs, Stocks, Mutual Funds, Bonds, Treasuries, Exempts, Jewelry, Cars, Stamps, Boats, Paintings, and other collectibles, Real Estate…homes for sale, personal residence, vacation spot, investment realty, your Business, Interests in other businesses, Limited Partnerships, Partnerships, Mortgages and notes receivable you hold, Retirement plan benefits, IRAs, Amounts that you expect to inherit from others.
Your federal death (estate) tax, up to 55%, is based on the "fair cash value" of your property on the date of your death, not what you originally paid. State probate and death taxes are based on the "location" of your property. Thus, if you own property in different states, each state has to be probated and each will want their fair share.
The only real alternative to a will arrangement is to set up a trust structure during lifetime which, with careful planning, can operate to eradicate these delays, administration costs and taxes as well as giving a large number of additional benefits. For these reasons the use of TRUSTS is increasing dramatically.
The problem is: Many Americans have no plan. They incorrectly assume joint ownership takes care of things, or they believe that their property is not worth enough to be concerned.
Such practices can be shortsighted, cost money, and raise unnecessary and unexpected problems, long time delays, and high administration costs.
For one thing, most people have a larger estate than they may realize. For another, joint ownership will not necessarily beat probate hungry lawyers or the estate tax man and will often mean that considerable sums become payable in inheritance tax or estate duty.
A will is not a substitute for a trust. A will does not avoid probate. Many individuals seek to put order to their affairs by making a comprehensive will. Under this arrangement the Executors named in the will would apply for a grant of probate, take possession of the assets of the deceased and then distribute those assets according to the terms of the will.
Items included in your taxable estate: For example, many people believe the higher exemption amounts that can pass tax free eliminate any need for estate planning. This type of thinking is fundamentally flawed, for example:
- Certain types of property have special rules for estate taxes. Property that spouses jointly own, half the value is included in the estate of the first spouse to die, no matter whose funds bought it or that survivor automatically inherits it. And the full value is counted in survivor's estate could result in a bigger estate tax at that time.
Example: H + W own a private home, fair market value at time of H death is $750,000. 1/2 of $750,000 is included in H's estate; therefore W now owns 100%. On the death of W the full $750,000 would be in her taxable estate. Thus, a larger estate tax on the death of W.
- What your insurance person won't tell you: Life insurance is taxed in your estate "if" you had any incidental ownership at death. This occurs if you can name new beneficiaries or borrow against policies or take out the cash value. Even insurance you give away, can come back to taxable in your estate if the donor dies and leaves it to you. Group insurance may be included too.
- Pensions and IRAs are taxable, except for pensions fixed before 1985.
Then there are several items the law also adds to your estate: Large gifts, non-charitable gifts that exceed $12,000 beginning in 2006 and property partly given away, where you retain the right to use it.
- Example: A house that you give to your children but still use rent-free. (Incidentally giving your house to your children creates a problem for them, and for you, if they get sued, or they die before you.)
- And stock you give away, but keep voting rights, if in a company that you control. Or the property of others over which you have certain rights such as the power under another's will to name who will get part of that estate. If you could name yourself, your estate or creditors, it's taxable in your estate. Including assets you give a child and keep the right to control.
Finally, estate tax laws can change. Thirteen times in 25 years, overhauls, tightenings for some, headaches for all. Congress is always tinkering with the idea that they know better than you, where your money should go.
Planning your estate is not an easy task. It takes time and effort. The place to begin is with yourself, your own goals and consideration of your heirs, their ages, abilities, needs and so on at a time when there's no pressure to implement.


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Review of London, United Kingdom
Page reviewed 2015-10-27
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Like other Pages and interact with them.
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Page Information
Pagename: London, United Kingdom [Visit]
Category: City [Visit]
Username: Not registered
Register a username and get a short page address for your Facebook page. With an short page address more visitors will find you and it is more easy for you to promote your Page.
Website: Https://london.gov.uk/
You have given your website in your information. This allows your visitors to easily navigate to your website for more information.
About: Information specified.
You have provided a presentation for your organization. This gives the visitor information about you and what to expect if they choose to follow you on Facebook.
Milestones: 0
Milestones are a great way of telling your company's story. You should add more milestones to highlight moments that you are proud of or want to emphasize.
Pages liked: 0
Are you even interested in other companies? You ought to be. By liking other Pages and integrate with them, you increase the visibility and interest for your own Page.
Page Performance
Likes: 7,083,390
Wow, there are a lot of amazing things you can do with 7,083,390 likes.
Likes Growth: 0%
In the last month you have received 0% new fans.
You have a lot of engaged followers. That's great!
Engagement Rate: 10.36%
The Engagement Rate is calculated by taking the total PTAT (people talking about this) and divide by the total number of likes. Your Engagement Rate is 10.36 % which is really good!
Checkins: 27224141
Posts by Pages
Posts per Day: 0.00
You have not yet made any posts. Whats up with that?
Posts per type:
By having a good variety in your posts, your fans never get bored and they can always expect something new and exciting.
The variety in your posts is ok but we recommend that you post more photos.
The variety in your posts is ok but we recommend that you post more photos.
Length of posts: No posts
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Curiosity: You should ask more questions.
There are two major advantages to pose questions to your fans. It activates your fans leading to greater visibility for your Page and at the same time providing you with answers to questions that may be crucial for your company's sales and marketing.
Hashtags: Not using.
Create or be a part of big discussions on Facebook by using hashtags in your posts. This will expose your brand to relevant users that might find you interesting.
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Posts by fans:
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Facebook is an amazing network for dialogue with your clients and customers. You should encourage your fans to ask more questions.
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First of all, this comic clearly annoyed enough web developers to get them to write this long explanation about this comic.
HTML is a markup language used in the development of websites, and is the subject of this comic. Most distinct elements of a webpage – like this paragraph of text, the title of this section, or the logo in the top-left of this page – are enclosed in HTML tags which describe the type of object they are. The comic employs multiple poor HTML practices while asking the rhetorical question of how best to annoy web developers, effectively answering the question that it poses.
In HTML, all elements (except self-closing elements like
) should consist of an open and close tag of the same type
Like this

HTML (except in its formulation as an XML language—XHTML) has never been case-sensitive, but the practice of using uppercase tags for readability is long outmoded, and the mixing of cases in this example would definitely annoy a developer.
Another basic idea of HTML is that all elements should be properly nested. That is, any element whose open tag occurs inside a div must be closed before the div is closed.
NB: In practice, web browsers will error-correct nearly all these problems.
Correct | Incorrect |

Correctly nested

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Incorrectly nested

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The rules of proper nesting also put restrictions on which tags can be placed where — "block" elements, such as

cannot be placed inside "inline" elements, such as
, and inline elements must be placed inside a block element of some kind. Thus,

is forbidden, even if the tags are closed in the proper order.
Further, web developers make a distinction between semantic and structural elements. Semantic elements contain a clue in their name as to what kind of an element they are — for example, an

tag contains an article, such as a blog post or news article, while an

tag contains an ordered list. (It's wise to note that this is not an absolute rule; it's possible to put non-article content in an

, it's just not recommended.) Semantic tags do not, however, indicate how their contents are to be displayed; your browser might display an

in the default font, layout, and placement, while mine, a screen reader, might ignore everything on the page except

Structural tags, on the other hand, give no clues as to what they contain; they just indicate how a web page is to be laid out.
and

are structural tags; they can contain anything. Their definitions in HTML simply indicate that

is a block tag (it can affect both what the text looks like and where it is on the page; by default, it is displayed in a separate block from the rest of the text in the page, and has at least one line break before and after its display) and
is an inline tag: it affects what its text looks like, but not where it is on the page. Without additional attributes, it's impossible for a browser to tell what's supposed to be inside a

or a
, which means that my screen reader can't just pluck out the blog posts and read those.
The title text makes reference to
, which is the HTML escape code for non-breaking space which is a type of space that will keep two words together, and will not allow word wrapping to separate them. If the words come at the end of a displayed line, how this is handled depends on the browser and on the element's styling; some browsers and styles will force the connected words onto a new line, while others will "overflow" the edge of the container to accommodate the linked words. This is useful, for example, for keeping units with a number so it is easy to spot 100 km instead of needing to hunt for 100
km. Using a non-breaking space at the end of a line, without another word on its trailing end, is only useful in extremely rare and limited circumstances, and does not generally have a purpose.
The title text also uses an
tag, seemingly to indicate an answer. In fact,
is an anchor tag, which creates hyperlinks. It is not an answer tag. This tag is generally used with either the href=
(which creates a link to another URL) or name=
(which creates a named anchor on the page that can be linked to with href=#
) attribute (but not generally both at once). In addition, the placement of
and
(the capitalization here is also irritating to a web developer who values consistency) indicates that ": Like " should be a link or named anchor, but "this." should not. Whether or not to include punctuation in an anchor is a matter of some debate among developers, but including excessive whitespace is generally frowned upon, and the anchor should include all of the relevant text.
- [The two tags are colored in grey.]

Q: How do you annoy a web developer?
I literally grimaced when I saw the comic, and then I read the title text and my stomach churned, and then I saw the non-breaking space and I wanted to crawl up in a ball and die. lcarsos_a (talk) 06:01, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
- Most people curl up into a ball to die. Well not most people... 18.104.22.168 17:50, 8 May 2013 (UTC)skrame
I'm a web developer and I didn't find this annoying, although I did roll my eyes. Then I came here to see if there was anything I missed that SHOULD annoy me. No, to annoy a web developer you have to use table tags, blink tags(not supported on most browsers for good reason, annoys anybody when it works), and have a stray !-- inside a tag where it doesn't belong. Also, use any html inside your css file. And have it where it only works in IE. Ferretwilliams (talk) 06:11, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
- That's okay, it's easy to implement blink with javascript and changing the display value from hidden to inline every half second. And lots of news sites these days re-implement the marquee tag with a bit of javascript too. What Randall really missed here was an opportunity for the center and font tags. lcarsos_a (talk) 06:18, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
- I'm sure Randall didn't want us to die, that's why he didn't go further. :-p Ctxppc (talk) 18:16, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
Argh. Almost as bad as unclosed left parentheses.(Y'know, like this. DreamingDaemon (talk) 10:21, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
- You mean like comic 859?
- That's exactly what I meant... People do that to me in emails because they know it presses my buttons! DreamingDaemon (talk) 16:56, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
- I understand your pain.) 126.96.36.199 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- That's exactly what I meant... People do that to me in emails because they know it presses my buttons! DreamingDaemon (talk) 16:56, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
It's been a long while since I coded html (I quit about the time style sheets appeared) but I think the annoying part of
is the fact that it appears as the 6 characters instead of a space, not just that it's at the end and could push the text to another line. Doesn't this typically mean that someone copied some code but didn't look carefully at the results when they pasted it into an editor? --DanB (talk) 14:27, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
- Either the title text has been parsed - in which case it's actually
: Like this
(and, yes, probably copy/pasted) - or it hasn't (which seems more likely to me), in which case the
will show up as a non-breaking space when it is parsed. Noëlle (talk) 00:40, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
- The title text is copy/pasted from xkcd, where he escapes the ampersand so that the non-breaking space escape will show up in the title text. He might just be toying with those of us who know about the non-breaking space, as most people (the kind of people that would mis-match div and span and change the case of their tags) don't even know what a non-breaking space would be used for. lcarsos_a (talk) 03:37, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
- I know. :) I was answering Dan's question. Assuming the title text is going into a webpage, either the whole thing is already parsed, in which case the tags will also appear as they currently do, or it's not parsed yet and the
will appear properly in the rendered page. :) Noëlle (talk) 01:53, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
- I know. :) I was answering Dan's question. Assuming the title text is going into a webpage, either the whole thing is already parsed, in which case the tags will also appear as they currently do, or it's not parsed yet and the
I wonder if the "answer" in the title text is yet another joke? It goes : Like this — but A used in this way means Anchor, not Answer. Such a line would appear in the browser as "Like this" (with the word Like blue and underlined), making it a clickable "Like" link. -- 220.127.116.11 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- I think there is another joke hidden there: It goes »: Like this« instead of »: Like this« which turns not only »Like« but also the surrounding whitespace and punctuation into a link/anchor. That points to WYSIWYG HTML editors, as it's easy there to select a little bit more than the intended word when creating a link/marking text as bold, etc. 184.108.40.206 01:03, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
Similarly, it would be nice to address whether you can close a

with a
. Obviously you're not supposed to, but would it work? – Philosopher Let us reason together. 20:57, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
- Opening but not closing a div tag, depends on how a browser's quirks mode interprets that; I'd expect the browser to have everything fall into that div until it encounters a close tag of an element outside (that the div is nested inside). I'd also expect that encountering a close span without having first pushed an open span tag onto the DOM would simply not be recognized as markup and treated as improperly escaped page content. But, I don't write code for any of the major browsers so this is wild speculation. lcarsos_a (talk) 21:24, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
- You can't close a DIV with a SPAN; they're syntactically different and browsers treat them as such. If you try the code above, the major browsers do exactly as Lcarsos suggests with the open DIV (continue until they find a matching /DIV or until /BODY) and completely ignore the /SPAN (Chrome goes so far as to expunge it from the DOM entirely). The DIV behavior exposes a subtler aspect to the comic, actually - because DIV isn't a semantic element, if a /DIV is missing, it can get very, very difficult to track down where the appropriate /DIV is supposed to go, especially when multiple coders are working on a single long (and, in the worst-case scenario, improperly-nested, multi-file) page. Noëlle (talk) 00:39, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
- Note that "multi-file" is common when it's application output and not static page. Even if the files are supposed to be correctly nested, it may be hard to find which of them isn't, especially taking into account "if"s of template engine. The template engine may not really help you, similarly to some interprets or compilers of programming language which tells you they are missing some closing symbol near the end of file even when the place they are actually missing from is somewhere in the middle, because they paired them incorrectly. -- Hkmaly (talk) 11:48, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
There needs to be a little more explanation of what
 and  tags are. I come here to have the jokes I don't get explained, and after a sentence like "Usage of  and
 tags should be kept low, for they have no intrinsic semantic value," I need a site called "explainexplainxkcd.com." 220.127.116.11 01:17, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
- Yes, thanks. I'm afraid I still don't have much idea what
 and  are, but it looks like that's because it would to hard to absolutely fully explain. Thanks! 22.214.171.124 04:07, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
- It would, but I'll give it a shot! First, let's establish that DIV and SPAN are HTML elements that surround text or other elements on the page. You generally don't see
by itself; you see
Some stuff

. The forward slash in the second tag tells the browser to close the DIV element. (That's the difference between a tag and an element;

are both tags, but we refer to
contents

as a page element.)
- It would, but I'll give it a shot! First, let's establish that DIV and SPAN are HTML elements that surround text or other elements on the page. You generally don't see
- Now, to extend the metaphor into the real world, you can think of
as meaning "container" and
as meaning "effect". "Container" doesn't mean very much by itself; it's just "a thing into which you can put other things". Likewise, "effect" just means "a way in which you can change how other things look". ("Effect" isn't necessarily the best term here, but I can't think of a better one.) "Container" provides no clues as to what kind of container it is or what you might find inside; "effect" doesn't really tell you what kind of visual change you're getting.
- Now, to extend the metaphor into the real world, you can think of
- Imagine, then, a Christmas tree. You can put the Christmas tree in a tree stand (

Christmas tree

) or inside a big box (
Christmas tree

), or both at once if you're feeling saucy (

Christmas tree

). Note that the closing tag will backtrack through the code and close the first DIV it finds, so that you could put other things inside the big box too:

Christmas tree
Christmas cookies

. Likewise, you can attach ornaments and tinsel to the tree. Since they're effects that you're adding to the tree, rather than containers into which you're putting the tree, you'd use SPAN:Christmas tree
and/orChristmas tree
- Imagine, then, a Christmas tree. You can put the Christmas tree in a tree stand (
- You can even have a Christmas tree with ornaments on the left and tinsel on the right, in a tree stand, inside a big box, with some cookies in the box with it:

Christmas tree
Christmas cookies
- (I decided to frost half of the cookies while I was putting them in the box.)
- There's an important distinction to make here, by the way: the ornaments and tinsel can't help you move or position the Christmas tree, and they don't tell you anything about where the tree is, which is why we're using SPAN for them. The big box and tree stand, on the other hand, can be used to move or position the tree, which is why we're using DIV.
- Meanwhile, HTML5 wants us to use
for the containers, and<ornaments>
, and<frosting>
for the effects.
- Meanwhile, HTML5 wants us to use
While I'm thinking about it - DIV and SPAN remain very important tags in web development, because even though they're structural and not semantic, the fact remains that there isn't going to be a pre-defined semantic tag for everything you want to do, and not every browser supports making up your own tags (even though they're supposed to). Until HTML5 is finalized (which is currently projected to happen in 2016, if I'm remembering correctly) and everybody starts supporting arbitrary tag definitions (which may be "never"), DIV and SPAN will remain useful as generic "container"/"effect" tags. Noëlle (talk) 12:14, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
As an intelligent human, it irks me when other humans are lazy, sloppy, or otherwise stupid. As a developer, I sometimes deal with all three. My annoyance factor is amplified by the fact that developers are (supposedly) educated and should be held to a higher standard. So the question is not "what can you get away with in most browsers", but "what is the established standard." As Mike Holmes would say, "Do it right the first time." - Ixalmida --184.108.40.206 18:10, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
- My personal feelings aside, this isn't an appropriate forum to debate the worthiness of contemporary use of HTML5. Noëlle (talk) 22:12, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
How to really annoy a web developer. (Including the joke, along with another mangling of !) Noëlle (talk) 03:19, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
It seems to me that this explanation is missing part of the joke in the title text. The Anchor tags are excluding the word "this", while it is VERY common to make a link ONLY the word "this", such as "It should look like this". I wouldn't be surprised if I saw something declare that the word "this" is the most hyperlinked word in the English language, LOL! I cannot believe that excluding the word was accidental. - NiceGuy1 22.214.171.124 09:02, 23 January 2016 (UTC) I finally signed up! This comment is mine. NiceGuy1 (talk) 06:03, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
I used to develop web pages. Now I'm a plain surfer. This comic has the wrong text. It should be "How do you annoy a web surfer?" I cannot count how many sites are ruined by sloppy coding Just Like Randall Illustrated. And people expect all browsers to cover up their slovenly laziness. 126.96.36.199 05:23, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
"Using a non-breaking space at the end of a line, without another word on its trailing end, is only useful in extremely rare and limited circumstances, and does not generally have a purpose." A dating site I use allows you to use linebreaks on your profile, but any updates get pushed to the "news feed" without linebreaks, resulting in sentences or lists running together. Excess spaces are removed, so a non-breaking space (while invisible on the profile) will render the text readable in the feed. 18.104.22.168 20:17, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
"Before HTML 4.01, all tags were uppercase (technically elements were uppercase and attributes were lowercase "to improve readability" [1]) to make it easier on the browser to parse what was markup and what was content on the page." This is simply wrong. HTML tags have never been case-sensitive (XHTML was). The linked page in no way bears out this assertion. My source is having worked on HTML before HTML 4. I will edit this in 24 hours unless someone objects. That will give me time to find better sources. AmbroseChapel (talk) 01:46, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
Sources for HTML not ever being case sensitive, either before or after version 4:
- https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Wilbur/
- http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/wilbur/quickref.html
- https://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/HTML3.2/3.6.html
- http://werbach.com/barebones/intro.html
- http://www.daneverard.co.uk/dan/HTML_Book_1.pdf
Those first three are linked from the official W3C spec. I really think someone made a huge mess of trying to understand HTML's relationship with XHTML? Anyway, as that stuff about case and HTML is simply wrong, I will now edit it out. AmbroseChapel (talk) 23:36, 4 September 2017 (UTC)


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Poet Donald Hall spends much of his time in his blue armchair, looking at the landscape out his window. The 83-year-old former poet laureate has lived for years on the same New Hampshire farm that his grandparents used to own, and still writes in the room he slept in as a child.
In his recent New Yorker essay "Out the Window," Hall reflects on the view out his window that has both changed — and remained the same — throughout his life. He also contemplates how things have changed for him as he's grown older.
"However alert we are, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy," he writes. "It is alien, and old people are a separate form of life. ... They can be pleasant, they can be annoying, ... but most important they are permanently other. When we turn eighty, we understand that we are extraterrestrial. ... People's response to our separateness can be callous, can be good-hearted, and is always condescending."
Hall tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that he was recently in Washington, D.C., to receive the National Medal of Arts. Before the ceremony, Hall and his companion, Linda, decided to visit the National Portrait Gallery. They stopped in front of a sculpture created by Henry Moore, the subject of a 1965 New Yorker profile written by Hall.
"I can't stand for long, so my friend Linda was pushing me in a wheelchair, and at one point the guard came over and told us that this sculpture was a Henry Moore," he recalls. "My friend Linda thought of mentioning to him that I knew Moore pretty well, but we didn't ... and we went onto other things."
After lunch, they ran into the same guard, who asked Linda if she had a nice lunch and then leaned in closer to Hall's wheelchair.
"And he had an idiot grin and pointed a finger at me and said, 'Did we have a nice din-din?' " recalls Hall. "It was amazing. ... He talked baby talk at me. ... I was taken aback, totally taken aback and amused that he should make such a mistake. I wouldn't talk baby talk like that to a baby. Here he was, talking baby talk to an 82-year-old."
On Writing
Hall says he no longer drives and laments his diminishing physical abilities, but still writes and remains cheerful.
"For 4 1/2 years now, I've hardly had a sad thought, except to curse a bit at my own clumsiness," he says. "... I am physically handicapped, but I can sit at my chair and work at my writing, and I want to do it every day. I enjoy it. I have to do draft after draft. ... It takes me a long time, but I love doing it, and I have to do it every day or I feel slack."
But Hall says he's now writing prose instead of poetry. That, too, is a function of growing older.
"I felt poetry slipping away," he says. "I'm not sure why. It was palpable. I've always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was. ... I say that you read poems not with your eyes and not with your ears, but with your mouth. You taste it. This part of poetry, which is essential to me, seems to have diminished gradually until finally I really don't have it."
Hall says he also has trouble thinking of new subject matter.
"It used to be that phrases and lines would come into my head, often many of them in a period of five days or a week, and maybe I didn't know what I was talking about, but the words had a kind of heaviness or deliciousness to them," he says. "That's decreased. It's become less frequent until finally over the last few years, there's been none of that."
Interview Highlights
On the most unanticipated part of growing older
"I don't mean to sound superior, but when I was a young man, like 60, I looked at 83-year-olds as if they came from another galaxy. And now I find myself being seen that way. ... In general, sometimes I don't exist. People don't see me. I know I would have been like that [when I was younger], but it is weird to be in that position."
On fulfillment
"As long as I can do my work and continue to enjoy myself working on words, as in this essay ["Out the Window"], I feel fulfilled. My body causes me trouble when I cross the room, but when I am sitting down writing, I am in my heaven — my old heaven. I began writing when I was 12, I don't think very well. But I've been doing it my whole life. It's been the center of my life, with loves and children, but writing is something I have that not everyone has that I adore."
On living in his grandparents' house
"It's an enormous comfort, which is only interrupted by sad thoughts. I don't mean I'm cheerful every minute about what happens to the house after I die. I live with more bookcases and with crazy pictures on the walls in the same rooms where I spent this delectable childhood, and it is wonderful. I really always wanted to live here. I didn't think I could ever afford to live here. I came to visit my grandmother as she got to be very old, but it seemed out of reach with what I do for a living. Then I married [the late poet] Jane Kenyon and we came here to visit; and she was born and grew up in Michigan, and fell in love with the house, the landscape, what she could see of the social mores of the country. She wanted to live here."
On getting comfort from the idea of his books outliving him
"I can't say it does. I have hope, but I do not have anything like conviction or knowledge that they will. I have been alive too long among too many writers ... who have died, and they are not thinking of afterwards. Having some success in your life doesn't mean that your work will endure. In an almanac, look at the list of winners of the Pulitzer Prize over the last 60-70 years and see how many names you remember. It's chilling. I can hope, I can daydream, but certainly think that the chances of me being read 50 years from now or 100 years from now are probably not good. That cannot be your only end. You can not write to be immortal because you will never know. It's impossible. Just write as well as you can and don't speculate about whether you will be Chaucer or Shakespeare."
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