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A little bit of everything and a lot of nothing: images and stories to take us on an eclectic journey. . . . . . CLICK ON THE HEADING FOR THE "SOURCE" OF THE ARTICLE AND CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW FOR PHOTOGRAPHER. CLICK ON IMAGES FOR A LARGER VERSION.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
"Weimar Republic-era songs and French chansons"
Ute Lemper brings her reinventions of cabaret for the new century to UCLA's Royce Hall. The German singer-actress skillfully melds the songs of modern writers with an old-fashioned theatricality, and her shows are a blend of pop concert and music-hall performance. She and her backing band offer contemporary takes on some of the Weimar Republic-era songs and French chansons for which she is best known, recasting classics in jazzy arrangements without trivializing them. Royce Hall, UCLA. 8 p.m. Thu. $20. uclalive.org.
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Start of scenario:
You're playing Temple Run on your iPad on a public place, say, in MRT (we know you wouldn't dare, but just play along). You're having a good run; intense, yet somehow you make it through all the time. You're getting all the coins, jumping and turning and sliding with impeccable timing. You're good at this, you thought, and you're making the crazy monkeys eat your dust.
But then you're about to cross this gap on the road. "You got this", you told yourself. But something went wrong. You felt it, and your jump was half a heartbeat too late. You gasped right before you fell in the bottomless pit. Game's over. Bummer, yet that didn't bother you that much, because you realize something else was amiss--- others gasped at the same time you did.
You lift your gaze and find that people around you were watching the whole time. They're smiling, though not necessarily at your failure, but because of an experience you did not mean to share, and you don't like that one bit.
Then you remember that CD-r King has one of those 200-peso iPad Mirror Screen Protectors designed to limit your gadget's viewing angle range. You bought it, had it installed, and went home giddy thinking you've bought privacy at a bargain.
Then the nightmare begins.
You notice there is no hole for the front camera. You take pictures with it and notice that its shots were darker than usual.
And on your iPad's screen, you see colors. Lots of it. Ripples of blue, pink and yellow. All of which shouldn't be there. You realize you have just forfeited your iPad's retina display feature and the crisp and vivid images it used to have.
|Compared with an iPod touch without the mirror screen protector, rainbow discoloration appears in most of the iPad's viewing angles. So much for privacy.
|Very reflective indeed.
|Both have retina display and same brightness levels. But the iPad with CD-r King's Mirror Screen Protector seem to be darker. Also, notice the discoloration on the iPad even at my usual viewing angle.
End of scenario.
P.S. Don't get us wrong. We love and respect CD-r King for offering cheaper alternatives of otherwise overpriced accessories and gadgets. But not this one.
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It was a wonderful surprise, and I am still super excited today.
Both are two tiered boxes with bands to keep the tiers together in transit.
Aren't they the cutest?!
Side View, of the cute details.
I love the adorable piggy face
- Two Tiered bento box
- Elastic strap to keep it together
- Top tier has a tight fitting lid to keep liquids in place
- Dishwasher and Microwave safe without the lids (but I'm not going to chance it.)
- Great detail
PinPin Bento Box features a family of pigs having a party
- Two Tiered Bento box
- Inner lid has a pair of Chopsticks
- Top tier has a divider inside
- Bottom tier has tight lid, but does not seem liquid proof
- Elastic band to hold everything together
- Great detail
- Silly 'Lost in Translation' phrases like "Shannon Good" and "PinPin's Swuzzy Dinner" and "Good to Eat" and "Happy Animal". Well, not all of them are lost in translation, but I figured I'd put them all up.
Side Details of the two boxes. I love that the decorations seem to be all over the box and not just on top.
I can't wait to use them. I only have to make bento for myself today because my fiance's mother, and my fiance are taking her niece out to see the movie 'Hop' and go out to lunch. So I'll make myself something easy and tasty. Now I just have to pick which bento box to use first.


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The Kiwanis Club of Moose Lake, MN is a service organization comprised of caring men and women from all walks of life. Our objective is to bring aid to children in need. The majority of our efforts benefit children in this community. A portion of the funds we raise go to help meet Kiwanis International objectives which focus on the special needs of young children from prenatal development to age five. We serve by sponsoring fund raising activities, which provide monetary support for children's programs and through personal involvement in the giving of our time and skills. Anyone interested in serving others will feel very welcome here.The Kiwanis Club of Moose Lake was chartered in 1960, and during the ensuing years the Club has donated in excess of $100,000 to charitable organizations in the Moose Lake area.


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Monday, October 21, 2013
Videos of Filming Transformers 4 in Hong Kong
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- Anonymous10/21/2013 4:01 PM
So many civilians running away from the Cons! This final battle will be crazy! Also, where OP?! Grey truck as Megatron anyone?ReplyDeleteReplies
Maybe dead?:(Delete
- Anonymous10/21/2013 8:11 PM
Is that how Bay tries to top the twins, introducing the triplets? : DReplyDelete
A few people have asked if the "body bag" are the cybertronian keys...Jack Reynor is carrying one on his back as the bag is being carried in the 2nd video...Also...the Argosy...who is that? I am praying its Ultra Magnus and not MegatronReplyDelete
- Anonymous10/21/2013 10:24 PM
If those 3 cars are cons this is going to be stupid. How lazy can you be to give three transformers the same vehicle mode just different colors. I like Bay but my goodness man be more creative..ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous10/21/2013 10:31 PM
Suvs, possibly reflector?Delete
But it's a complete and utter disappointment to not have two different colored Lamborghini Countachs as Autobots, I'm sure.Delete
So the Argosy is being followed by 3 small Equinox-esque suv's? I really hope those are Government vehicles and not another round of non-canon triplets (which the Arcee's were a perfect example of). At this point, I just want to get past the Bay T4 and onto the non-Bay T5 and 6.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Martinus Prime10/22/2013 10:33 AM
I also think they are government vehicles, well, let's hope so. Bc that is one sickening Chevy marketing !!! Just the worse Chevy advertising. 3 ugly ass mini-suv's, they are the new Trax model. Why the f@cking Chevy advertising for these ugly ass suv's?Delete
Yes, how dare they turn a 30-minute-long children's toy commercial into a 2-hour-long adult's toy commercial! Shame on them!Delete
- Anonymous10/22/2013 8:32 AM
New TF4 Optimus Prime design: http://www.movieweb.com/news/first-look-at-the-new-optimus-prime-in-transformers-age-of-extinction-poster?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_102261ReplyDeleteReplies
I have a feeling that all of the "new designed" Optimus haters are going to be quiet once they see him...he looks awesome with or without the windshield in his chest. People get too crazy over the toy designs...wait until you see him in CGI...Bay is not going to mess up the design of an iconic Bot like Prime. Question though...is this the authentic poster?Delete
- Anonymous10/22/2013 10:24 AM
No, that is already debunked. It was made by TFW2005 member Tunakaan.Delete
But it does look good.
- Anonymous10/22/2013 12:45 PM
You are right; it does seem to be fan-made. I should have researched it before posting it...but I agree with you, he did a really good job.Delete
- Anonymous10/22/2013 2:55 PM
Facebook page of AOE has posted the picture, but do we know if the page is official?Delete
- Anonymous10/22/2013 10:27 AM
I Love TransformersReplyDelete
- Anonymous10/22/2013 11:14 AM
Six PipezReplyDelete
Bee makes that turn like a BOSS!!!
- Anonymous10/22/2013 12:12 PM
There's one thing I don't get. Why fans are so much those weapons we've seen on the set same as weapons made known to us from Aligned continuity?ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous10/22/2013 12:56 PM
I don't understand your question...Delete
- Anonymous10/22/2013 2:53 PM
Well some think some of those sword are Blades of Time (Vector Prime's weapons in TF:Exodus novel) and Star Saber (Prima's weapon in TF:Exodus and TF:Prime and one of the Mini-Con weapons from TF:Armada).Delete
- Anonymous10/23/2013 7:44 AM
Oh that's what you mean, you meant why fans think that. I didn't get that from the strangly typed question.Delete
Fans think that, bc that would make sence and make a very cool story!
- Anonymous10/22/2013 2:59 PM
http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/transformers-movie-just-movie-31/transformers-4-age-of-extinction-actress-li-bingbings-character-details-revealed-178640/ Rumors about this "Su Yueming" played by Li Bingbing. Rumors also contain something like artificial Transformers.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous10/23/2013 3:47 AM
Man I hope that's fake because that would be stupid. Humans making Transformers? O lawd!!!! I'm deadDelete
- Anonymous10/23/2013 1:25 PM
MECH created Nemesis Prime in TF:Prime.Delete
- Martinus Prime10/23/2013 2:03 PM
And Sparkplug created Autobot X in G1.Delete
- Anonymous10/23/2013 8:46 PM
Spike made Fortress Maximus in one day.Delete
- Anonymous10/23/2013 5:16 AM
Hey this is very different review... I love the way of your review a lot.. Great job If you wanna know about Kollywood update try this site.. You will get updated news about tamil moviesReplyDelete
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Great work from the staff and I love the place where it was shoot. I enjoy reading about how to pick the best location for filming especially in LA.ReplyDelete
Hong kong is really good place for movie shoot.After watching the most recent Transformers movie, I found there are a lot of iconic spots in Hong Kong I'm not familiar with.. watch some really good moviesReplyDelete


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Saturday, February 13, 2010
Photo of the Day
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She always looks so happy! I just love her expressions. She's beautiful! :)ReplyDelete
Have a great weekend!
- AnonymousFebruary 13, 2010 at 8:18 AM
Amazing. What a perfect picture.ReplyDelete
So perfect!ReplyDelete
This is adorable and perfect all at the same time! What's a nifty fifty lens? Do you edit your pictures or are you just that good at photography?? Happy Valentines Day weekend, hope the three of you have a great weekend!ReplyDelete
Love this picture. She does love to rock out! Adorable.ReplyDelete
She does look so happy! I love this pic- it looks a little vintage. So cute.ReplyDelete
I agree awesome pic!!! It looks like she's singing along and having a great time.ReplyDelete
What a FANTASTIC photo of the day. SO Stinking cute!ReplyDelete
That's our little girl rockin out. I love it. Just wait until she gets her hair brush, stands in front of the mirror and goes to town. She is so sweet. Love her!ReplyDelete
I've been oogling that pic in your siggy. It makes me smile every time!! She is just too cute.ReplyDelete
Just perfect! What an angel baby!ReplyDelete
She is so, so, so, cute!! :)ReplyDelete
Let me just say again how I love this picture!ReplyDelete
She so cute, this is one the best pictures ever!ReplyDelete
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I showed this picture to Tony over the weekend, we both awww'd. :)ReplyDelete
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An excerpt from Major Ian Thomas' sermon "A Grain of Wheat".
What must a grain of wheat do? According to Jesus, it must die, that it might produce fruit. So must we.
"Lord, teach us to pray." Yes, we feel the need now of being taught to pray. At first there is no work that appears so simple; later on, none that is more difficult. And the confession is forced from us: We do not know how to pray as we should. It is true we have God's Word with its clear and sure promises, but sin has so darkened our mind that we don't always know how to apply the Word. In spiritual matters we do not always seek the most important things. In temporal matters we are still less able to use the wonderful liberty our Father has given us to ask for what we need.
Even when we know what to ask for, so much is still needed to make prayer acceptable. It must be to the glory of God, in full surrender to His will, in full assurance of faith, in the Name of Jesus, and with a perseverance that, if need be, refuses to be denied. All this must be learned. It can only be learned in the school of much prayer, for practice makes perfect.
Amid the painful consciousness of ignorance and unworthiness, in the struggle between believing and doubting, the heavenly art of effective prayer is learned. There is One--the Beginner and Finisher of faith and prayer--Who watches over our praying and sees to it that in all who trust Him for it, education in the school of prayer is carried on to perfection. Let the deep undertone of all our prayer be the teachableness that comes from faith in Him as a perfect Teacher, and we can be sure that we will be taught. We will learn to pray in power. Yes, we can depend on His teaching us to pray.
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." (John 14:6, NKJV)
Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. (Acts 4:12, NKJV)
For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. (1 Corinthians 2:2, NKJV)
Ye are My friends, if ye do the things which I command you. - John 15:14
... This truth, of the imperative necessity of obedience, doing all that Christ commands us, has not the place in our Christian teaching and living that Christ meant it to have. We have given far higher place to privilege than to duty. We have not considered implicit obedience as a condition of true discipleship. The secret thought that it is impossible to do the things He commands us, and that therefore it cannot be expected of us, and a subtle and unconscious feeling that sinning is a necessity have frequently robbed both precepts and promises of their power. The whole relation to Christ has become clouded and lowered, the waiting on His teaching, the power to hear and obey His voice, and through obedience to enjoy His love and friendship, have been enfeebled by the terrible mistake. Do let us try to return to the true position, take Christ's words as most literally true, and make nothing less the law of our life: "Ye are my friends, if ye do the things that I command you." Surely our Lord asks nothing less than that we heartily and truthfully say: "Yea, Lord, what Thou dost command, that will I do." ...
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. (James 4:8a, NKJV)With whom is the responsibility to draw near? With us. We are to draw near to God. Then He will draw near to us. Not the other way around. It lies with us to make the first move. We have to repent and seek God. (Of course, no one can come unless the Father first draws him, but that's a lesson for another time. ref John 6:44)


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This is an open level hot yoga class, designed to calm the mind and body, build strength and flexibility, and enhance present moment awareness while we sweat it out. We will connect breath with conscious movement, finding fluidity and grace. We will flow through warm ups, sun salutations, fun flows, a peak pose and a nice savasana. The instructor will demonstrate modifications so students of varying abilities can be both challenged and comfortable. Come to move, breathe sweat, challenge and nourish yourself.
|Wednesday 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (URU Yoga – Downtown)


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Letter: F
Memory Passage: Ephesians 6:10-17
Bible Story: Loaves and fishes. We will tell the story and put fish and loaves in a basket (paper). Here is the template I used.
Sensory Bin: I am going to try doing sensory bins again, however I think I'm going to make them outdoor bins. We'll see how it goes.
This week the base of the sensory bin will be flour. I will add other things that start with F like a fork and a funnel. We'll see what else ends up in there.
Monday – "Pick" fruit on an orchard hunt.
Tuesday – Grow a flower. Plant a seed and begin watering it daily. (Samuel will get to use his spray bottle to water it. He LOVES spraying things!)
Wednesday – Make/play with the F sensory bin.
Thursday – Find Frogs. We will go on a hunt to look for frogs. We may even try to catch and grow a tadpole. 🙂
Friday – Felt button snake
Sunday – Paint pictures of fruit with scented Fruity Finger paint while listening to this Fruit of the Spirit song.
Monday – Bathtub fishing for alphabet fish. I wanted to do this last week when we studied A (alphabet), but we didn't get around to it. This week I want to do alphabet fishing in the bathtub.
Tuesday – Hike in the forest. That's right, we might even go . . . off the trials! O_0
Wednesday – Play with items in the water to see if they sink or float.
Thursday – Go to a local nursery and look at flowers.
Friday – Look at a book with pictures of Family.
Sunday – Spray Painting. Ok, so this has NOTHING to do with the letter F, but I found this idea, and Samuel would just love it, so I couldn't resist.


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1. Have the mindset that you ARE going. This mindset is what I adopted even though when I learned it would be in NYC - I didn't know "how" financially I would pull it off yet. But you start with setting down the framework of a plan and not the "see what happens" mentality. Start this plan by buying the "early bird" ticket. You know the message of The Secret. Now put it into action.
2. Budget time for enjoying the city you are visiting. I had a day and a half to see some of NYC and it was mostly due to the fact I booked my flight later and there were no Wed/Thursday flights so I HAD to leave on Tuesday - turned out to be great otherwise I would not have fit in any sightseeing because there's so much going on during the conference.
3. Set your agenda. Are you there to learn? Are you there to network? Are you there to party? Maybe a little bit of each - but thinking about this helps you determine which activities you participate in and outlines your commitments.
4. Reach out to sponsors early. Figure out what you can possibly offer in return to help cover the costs. Since I had my airfare covered with my miles I needed to just seek out a couple of small sponsorships to cover my hotel stay. What I offered in return was ad space and taking note of bloggers I met that could be a good fit to guest post for them. This was a great win-win because they didn't have to afford the time or money to attend and even getting just a couple of blogger introductions would help.
5. Have some good ice breaker questions ready. This will make your conversation less robotic and switch things up from "what do you blog about? Where are you from? How long have you been blogging?"
Good ice breaker questions: (and feel free to steal them)
What do you do for fun?
What are you hoping to accomplish here at BlogHer?
Who inspired you to start your blog?
Any of these will help you make an impression with the person you're talking to.
6. Prepare a media kit for brands, get business cards to swap with bloggers, walk the walk, don't just talk the talk.
7. Follow the BlogHer hashtag for the current year to find some people who are attending that you want to meet IRL - in real life.
8. Search for a Facebook group of bloggers who are attending to share ideas, find people to befriend, look for roommates, share cabs to/from airport.
9. Schedule one on one meetings with either people you know or should get to know. Sometimes we think the best and believe we will cross paths, but based on my experience too often it is hard to try to meetup for one or both of you unless you schedule it in. Two of my three face to face networking hopeful meetings happened because we scheduled it.
10. Outline your budget for ALL the costs of attending - then focus on each item individually as you work to raise the money for conference pass, airline ticket, hotel stay, cab fare, eating (dinner, snacks, or tourist days), shopping and sightseeing. It all adds up and you want to know your expenses before so you know what to work towards. It also helps to have this itemized expense list for when you go to set your agenda - remember item #3 from above. When you see the investment you (or your sponsors) are making in this experience you may also value each activity you choose to participate in more wisely.


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Joshua Lim at Reformed Blogging has provided an interesting quotation from Dabney about Hodge (link). It's worth noting that the idiom Dabney employs is a bit outdated and might seem confusing to modern readers. "Man of the closet" means someone who studies a lot, which we might today refer to as a person who lives in an ivory tower.
UPDATE: It turns out that it is not Hodge, but J.A. Alexander that was being discussed. Joshua has removed the post, so I'll just post the relevant description, below:
"I was much struck with the fact that one who was so mach a man of the closet as he should have so much practical knowledge of society and human nature. During the day I remarked that there seemed to be a great difficulty in combining practical knowledge of men and affairs with thorough scholarship in our young men because the study which secured the latter necessarily shut them out of the publicity chich taught the former. He very quietly replied that there was a way by which the recluse in his study might acquire a correct knowledge of nature; by the study of his Bible and his own heart. I have no doubt that this remark gave the key to his own character as concerned this trait of it. There was a remarkable absence of egotism and dogmatism for one who must have been conscious of powers and acquirements and who had been so much complimented and applanded. This unhappily for me, happily for him, was my last interview for the good man was taken away from the evil to come." The Life of Joseph Addison Alexander By Henry Carrington Alexander, pp. 798-99.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Dabney on J.A. Alexander
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[[....There was a remarkable absence of egotism and dogmatism, for one who must have been conscious of powers and acquirements,....]]
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Rensselaer's Hartford Campus continues its Energy, Environment, and Economics Discussion Series on April 3, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Special guest, Francesco Bedeschi, will give a presentation entitled, "Sustainable Roman Architecture -- the First 2500 Years." Bedeschi is a faculty member at the University of Arkansas Rome Center, Rome, Italy, where he has been teaching Architectural Design and Historic Preservation over the past ten years. He has a thorough knowledge in the field of green design and is a member of the executive board of the Green Building Council Italia. He is currently working at Rensselaer's Center for Architecture Science and Ecology (CASE) located in New York City.
Rensselaer at Hartford hosts this series in order to provide
a forum for experts, corporate leaders, community participants, faculty, and
students to engage in intellectual dialogues pertaining to today's global
energy and environmental challenges. This event will be the fifth session of
the Discussion Series and the second session of the Spring 2014 term.
The Discussion Series is free and open to all. Bring a
colleague and friend! Food and beverages are provided at each session, starting
with a reception at 5 p.m. and a light meal at 6:30 p.m. Sudhangshu Bose,
Ph.D., Professor of Practice, Department of Engineering and Science, Rensselaer
at Hartford, will give insights and perspectives during the introduction at the
event. Summaries of previous sessions of the Discussion Series and related
materials are available on the web at: http://www.ewp.rpi.edu/news_and_events/events/eeed_series/index.html.
Register for this interactive forum on energy
solutions at: http://apply.ewp.rpi.edu/register/?id=5dfba4eb-9464-47d4-bf33-06dfc84cc3d9.
For more information, please contact Clarence Byers,
Senior Program Manager, at 860-548-2479; 800-306-7778, ext. 2479; or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Bill No.: HB0295 Drafter: JHR
LSO No.: 09LSO-0522 Effective Date:
Enrolled Act No.: HEA0099
Chapter No.: 149
Prime Sponsor: Representative Simpson
Catch Title: Western states energy and environment symposium.
Subject: Authorizes a Western State Energy and Environment Symposium as specified.
Summary/Major Elements:
· This bill:
o Authorizes a Western State Energy and Environment Symposium;
o Establishes a Symposium Steering Committee comprised of legislators and representatives of the various private sector interested groups to develop plans for the Symposium which shall be held no later than November 1, 2010;
o Authorizes the University of Wyoming School of Energy Resources (UW) to conduct the Symposium at the direction of the Steering Committee and to solicit public and private funding and participation for the Symposium;
o Specifies the goals of the Symposium to develop a high level cost/benefit analysis assessing the challenges of energy development, production, marketing, use and environmental impact within the western states;
o Requires a report no later than 45 days after the symposium to legislatures, governors and congressional delegation of participating states and to participants;
o Specifies the Symposium may be held in Wyoming or any other participating state;
o Appropriates funding for the Symposium to UW and LSO to facilitate participation by the various states in the Symposium
· Popular name: Western State Energy and Environment Symposium
· Report Required: No later than 45 days after the Symposium concludes to participating states' legislatures, governors and congressional delegations and to Symposium participants.


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Check this out.
We build a palace in Baghdad for our ambassador and his guests.
It is the biggest embassy in the world.
The Pentagon is trying to keep embassy plans quiet.
Here is a link to the original website, now shut down.
It's $592 million and the size of the Vatican.
Meanwhile, 1 murder out of 162 in New Orleans last year has resulted in conviction.
Heckuva Job
Sunday, June 3, 2007
We're Building Ourselves a Palace
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Jacques Derrida
Biography and Timeline
Derrida was born on 15 July 1930, in El Biar (Algiers), then French Algeria, into a Sephardic Jewish family that became French in 1870 when Crémieux Decree granted full French citizenship (Pied-Noir) to the indigenous Jews of French colonial Algeria.On the first day of the school year in 1942, Derrida was expelled from his lycée by French administrators implementing anti-Semitic quotas set by the Vichy government. He secretly skipped school for a year rather than attend the Jewish lycée formed by displaced teachers and students. At this time, Derrida read works of philosophers and writers such as Rousseau, Camus, Nietzsche, and Gide. His name has become virtually synonymous in some circles with the word 'deconstruction'. Derrida's publications have become an enormous, though not uncontested influence on literary study and other academic disciplines in the latter half of the 20th century, particularly since the 1970s. Derrida first came to the attention in the English speaking academic world in 1966, following a paper presented in a colloquium Johns Hopkins University. In the following year 1967, Derrida published three books subsequently Of Grammatology in 1976, Speech and Phenomena in 1973 and Writing and Difference in 1978. These were followed in 1972 by three more in French, translated as Dissemination, Margins of Philosophy and Positions, securing Derrida's influence. This influence has subsequently spread beyond the study of literature and literary theory, to produce effects in film and cultural studies, legal theory, in the study and theory of architecture and more generally throughout the humanities and social sciences. AS professor of philosophy, Derrida's writing, ironically, though perhaps not surprisingly met with the greatest resistance sometimes, more simply, a lack of comprehension- in philosophy departments throughout British and North American Universities, and French and intellectual and political circles
1930 Derrida is born in El Biar, Algeria.
1950 Derrida begins his studies in France.
1957 Derrida becomes interested in how philosophy both denigrates and depends upon writing.
1962 Derrida's first major publication, a translation of Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry.
1966 Derrida attends a conference on Levi-Strauss at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He delivers a paper called "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences," which marks his introduction of deconstruction into the US. This paper may be the most famous conference paper of all time.
1967 Derrida publishes Of Grammatology and a collection of essays, Writing and Difference.
1972 Derrida, Positions, a volume of interviews, and Dissemination. At this time, Derrida takes visiting appointments at prestigious US university, including Yale and Johns Hopkins.
1974 Derrida, Glas
1976 Derrida's Of Grammatology is translated into English.
1979 Derrida, Spurs and "Living On" in Deconstruction and Criticism, an anthology of essays edited by Harold Bloom.
1982 Derrida's Dissemination, the volume containing "Plato's Phramacy," is translated into English.
Gorgias and Socrates
To really understand Jacques Derrida one must trace the origin of Western Philosophy and the birth of the logo-centric way of thinking. Before the era of the great Greek trio there emerged a movement in Athens called "Sophism", the proponents of this movement were known as Sophists. They worked on rhetoric and spoke on justice, truth, politics etc. The youth of Athens were introduced to "Sophistry" as a part of their education, prior to this they had the hereditary form of leaning. One such Sophist was a person who is called Gorgias and he emerged in the time of Socrates. His three main propositions were 1. Truth does not exist 2. Even if it exists it cannot be understood 3. Even if it can be understood it cannot be communicated. Socrates challenges this view and claims that truth can be understood and there is a "true" nature to the world around us. Socrates was favored over Gorgias in the history of Western Philosophy and this led to a formulation of the concept of "The Logos" which is the underlying principle behind everything that exists. The "Logo" centric way of thinking was opposed to the play of language that the Sophists participated in and Philosophy became a quest. With Derrida there is a resurfacing of the Gorgias of old. Derrida shifts this way of thinking and promotes the free play of language over the quest for the center. Derrida claims that the quest for a center only leads one into an "aporia" or waylessness by stating that every "center" has within itself a "deconstructive" element that contradicts its own pattern of expression. He reads the History of Western Philosophy as a search for meaning through "logo-centrism". He does not invent the concept of "deconstruction" but merely "exposes" what already exists.
Derrida as a Post Structuralist
"Must not structure have a genesis and must not the genesis of the structure already be structured in order for it to be the genesis of something."
Derrida was a post-structuralist. Post-structuralism offers a study of how knowledge is produced and a critique of structuralist premises. It argues that because history and culture condition the study of underlying structures it is subject to biases and misinterpretations. To understand an object (e.g. one of the many meanings of a text), a post-structuralist approach argues, it is necessary to study both the object itself and the systems of knowledge that produced the object.
Derrida also critiques the structuralist view on history as an already structured experience. Thus historical events have structures within themselves and these structures function in different combinations. Thus History has the tendency to repeat itself and there is also a statistical possibility of an incident that happened in the past to repeat itself exactly with the same combination in the future. As a critique of this Derrida emphasizes that an event is completely unforeseen, for an event to actually be an event it should be completely unpredictable and it should "affect" reality. In his conference in Toronto called "Other Testaments" Derrida talks about "Revelation" and "Revealibility", Derrida talks about revelation as an event that takes place in History and affects all existence and completely changes the course of History. He even argues that this event should even be unforeseen by God and should also affect his existence.
Another critic of Structuralism and Claude Levi Strauss is that he uses the "language" of Myth to study myth and claims that his study is scientific. This method of study is criticized by Derrida as another form of a myth.
His Influences
Martin Heidegger
Heidegger questions the "privileged" form of philosophy. He critiques "phenomenology" by rejecting the difference between the subject and the object. He rejects the concept of the "Cartesian" dualism between mind and body and the "scientific" analysis of the world around us. He instead coins the word "dasein" which means "each of us". He stated that the "dasein" is "engaged" in this world and thus is not a subject that can study an object. Dasein cannot exist without that which qualifies it to exist ie the world. Heidegger uses the word "destruktion" to explain his project on the destruction of widely accepted "ontological" concepts. His basic enquiry is "ontological" in nature ie he studies the being that "questions". He also distinguishes between the "self" that society constructs and the "authentic" self. He says that the "authentic" self emerges when the "dasein" in engaged in its activity.
Fredrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche's relativism has had a powerful influence on Derrida.
" The goal of life should be to find yourself. True maturity means discovering or creating an identity for yourself." "The highest virtue is to be yourself." – Nietzsche
These notions seem to be the centre of Derrida's work, as they constantly refer to the 'authenticity of being' and the affirmation of being true to oneself. They also move him towards acceptance of the simplicity in reality which is the basis of Deconstruction (merely a play with words in the strict sense of their meaning.)
Sigmund Fred
Though the expression of Sigmund Freud ends up being extremely controversial, it seemingly has true reasons. Articulation of the highest order coupled with exploration of the inner self, gives the work of Freud. Such an approach apparently has caught the mind of Derrida and has influenced him to carry on with the same in his works.
His Works
Derrida is best known for developing deconstruction, a form of philosophical and literary analysis. Derrida argues that "deconstruction" is not a methodology nor is it neo-logism. This approach involves, in part, closely examining the language and logic of a written work, revealing its underlying assumptions, and showing how contradictions within the text itself undermine those assumptions. Derrida challenged the basic oppositions in texts of Western philosophy between pairs of concepts-such as mind and body or nature and culture-in which one is taken to be fundamental and the other secondary. In many of his essays and books, for example, he critically examined texts in which speech was assumed to be a more authentic form of language than writing. He argued that this opposition of speech and writing is neither natural nor necessary.
Probably the most important strategy at work in deconstruction is the tracking down of hierarchical structured oppositions. According to Derrida, it has been a characteristic of the western philosophical and scientific tradition since the classical times to think in binary oppositions. Presence opposes absence, speech opposes writing, philosophy opposes literature, the literal opposes the metaphorical, the central opposes the marginal, life opposes death, the real opposes the imaginary, the normal opposes the pathological, etc. Derrida shows how one of the oppositional terms is always privileged, controlling and dominating the other (dominating 'the other'). 'In a classical philosophical opposition we are not dealing with the peaceful coexistence of a vis-à-vis, but rather with a violent hierarchy. One of the two terms governs the other (axiologically, logically, etc.), or has the upper hand'
An example of a "deconstructive" work would be Derrida's take on "Being". He claims to inherit the concept from Heidegger who questions the question. Thus the question of "Being" is radically opposed to the affirmation. Thus the question is an answer when one analyzes what comes before and after the question which Derrida claims is more radical that the question itself and it is an affirmation. The Binary of presence and absence is also deconstructed when he says that for a question to be valid there should be the other. Thus "presence" is an interaction of the past trace with the "future".
D iferrAnce:
"DifferAnce" is a term that Derrida coined. Derrida also is responsible for the popularity of the word "deconstruction' in our postmodern vocabulary. "Deconstruction", however, is a term he harvested from a little known use of the word "deconstruction" in Heidegger.
Trace can be seen as an always contingent term for a "mark of the absence of a presence, an always-already absent present", of the 'originary lack' that seems to be "the condition of thought and experience". Trace is a contingent unit of the critique of language always-already present: "language bears within itself the necessity of its own critique" Deconstruction, unlike analysis or interpretation, tries to lay the inner contradictions of a text bare, and, in turn, build a different meaning from that: it is at once a process of destruction and construction. Derrida claims that these contradictions are neither accidental nor exceptions; they are the exposure of certain "metaphysics of pure presence", an exposure of the "transcendental signified" always-already hidden inside language. This "always-already hidden" contradiction is trace.
Derrida's Style of writing:
When a few universities in the west decided to give Derrida a honorary doctorate for his contribution, about twenty renown scholars from across the west wrote saying that he did not deserve the honors due to his lack of clarity (as per the standards of such reputed universities) or deliberate obscurity
Derrida redundantly uses his rhetoric style of writing. Such redundancy and obscurity was not appreciated by the modern scholars.
Archi Writing:
Archi-writing is a term used by Derrida in his attempt to re-orientate the relationship between speech and writing. As far back as Plato, speech had been always given priority over writing. In the West, phonetic writing was instead considered as a secondary imitation of speech, a poor copy of the immediate living act of speech.
Derrida's central contention is that language is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, the risk of unmeaning, a risk which is starkly embodied in all writing. The distinction between philosophy and literature therefore becomes of secondary importance. Philosophy vainly attempts to control the irrecoverable dissemination of its own meaning; it strives—against the grain of language—to offer a sober revelation of truth. Literature—on the other hand—flaunts its own meretriciousness, abandons itself to the Dionysiac play of language. In Dissemination—more than any previous work—Derrida joins in the revelry, weaving a complex pattern of puns, verbal echoes and allusions, intended to 'deconstruct' both the pretension of criticism to tell the truth about literature, and the pretension of philosophy to the literature of truth."
Critical Reception
Because Derrida is saying that all truth bears falsity along with it, some have declared Derrida absurdist for supposedly claiming that truth is falsehood, but this view is ill considered. The thrust of Derrida's thought points up the contingency and constructedness of truth, not that there is no such thing as truth. Satisfied to demonstrate the contingency of truth under any and all conditions, Derrida is silent on the nature of truth's contingency. A more considered critique of Derrida's view might see his thought as a form of transcendental skepticism, not dissimilar to Kant's. In any case, via rigorous philosophical demonstration, Derrida explicates the limitations of the logical conceptual thinking one routinely employs to live the requirements and ordinary situations of everyday life.
Derrida's works have tended to incite passionately divergent reactions from critics. Philosophers oriented toward the analytical and logical positivist schools, such as John Searle, refute Derrida by arguing that his championing of "indeterminacy" and linguistic freeplay leads to extreme forms of skepticism and nihilism. However, critic Christopher Norris defends Derrida by pointing out that deconstruction is actually an exceedingly rigorous form of analysis, and that Derrida's understanding of philosophy as a rhetorically structured form of writing indistinguishable in its essence from literature has been espoused by numerous other philosophers, notably Nietzsche. Derrida's reception among literary critics has been no less contentious. Part of the controversy may be attributed to the casual linkage of Derrida's name to the literary deconstructionists. As Rodolphe Gasché has pointed out, Derrida's philosophy does not concern itself directly with literary texts, and literary deconstruction is actually an independent movement which has for the most part only loosely applied Derrida's theories. Given that ideological and intellectual differences of opinion have made Derrida an extremely controversial figure, there can be no critical consensus as to the value of his work. However, his prominence in the history of philosophy seems assured. Philosopher Richard Rorty argues that the lasting value of Derrida's work is in its critical analysis of traditional Western philosophy. Rorty concludes: "Having done to Heidegger what Heidegger did to Nietzsche is the negative achievement which, after all the chatter about 'deconstruction' is over, will give Derrida a place in the history of philosophy."
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After reading this article you will learn about Public Relation Policies:- 1. Public Relations Policies & Management—An Evaluation 2. Questionnaire Designed for Public Relation Policies.
Public Relations Policies & Management—An Evaluation:
Good public 'relations' results from good performance publicly acknowledged and appreciated. An effective public relations (P.R.) function of a company encompasses fundamentally three areas of performance.
First—the level of satisfaction with the products and services of the organisation and effectiveness with which it meets the real needs of the potential customer.
Second—the policies set by the management aiming at the above.
Third—the traditional communicative processes concerning the above two areas including initiation of change when change is desirable.
Thus, the evaluation and audit of this function should include:
(i) The external environment,
(ii) Public attitudes and their causes,
(iii) Effectiveness of public relations management, and
(iv) The developmental effects each part and whole of the organisation is having for public relations.
Questionnaire Designed for Public Relation Policies:
1. Environment, Public Attitudes and their Causes:
The single purpose of the P.R. function is to help the organisation develop and maintain a social climate or environment in which it can prosper best. It is concerned with helping to ensure that the organisation's performance and behaviour are good, both as to what it does and what it says and that what the organisation does is in the public interest.
(a) Are more and more people being better educated through—improved communication? Exposure of inter-relationships with other associated key matters?
(b) Do the factors of 'impersonality' (i.e. remoteness of customers may lead to many abuses like lack of service, insufficient supply, etc.) and 'bigness' (i.e. giant size of the organisation may delay decisions and cause disregard of people as individuals, etc.) contribute to a lack of public confidence and to unfavorable attitudes? Any intensive and extensive studies undertaken? Results?
(c) Is 'the growing voice of the consumer' (that is, consumerism) on matters like— breach of contract, misleading and false advertisement, misrepresentation, overcharging, poor or unsafe or harmful products, poor labelling, failure to stand behind warranties and guarantees, etc. properly felt and dispassionately judged? Is a comprehensive policy on these details evolved and meticulously practiced? Are the provisions in MRTP Act and similar laws in this regard made widely known to the staff members of the organisation?
(d) Do the policies set and the practices followed by the management incorporate the above factors so as to reflect the following as a part of corporate development process:
The organisation as a social entity (community relations)?
The organisation as an institution (products and customer-oriented services)?
The organisation as an economically viable unit (balancing between the profit and the public interest)?
2. Effectiveness of P. R. Management:
The key function of P. R. management is to evaluate and anticipate:
(i) The effect of every proposed objective, policy, plan, and important action of the organisation on each of its publics;
(ii) The effect of each of its publics on the organisation. In this respect, the P. R. manager has to influence the management decisions by considering the proposals that should be carried a public relations viewpoint.
(a) Have the P. R. objectives, policies, and plans been developed keeping in view the country's legislations and general social awareness and agreement among the top management obtained?
(b) Does the P. R. management take the initiative of counselling in the situations like— community welfare and development work, proposed changes in service arrangements, product distribution network, strike or lockout, etc. from the standpoint of the public interest?
(c) Are the public attitudes and opinions (under classified publics) surveyed, determined, analysed and interpreted? If so, what are the techniques adopted? Opinion research? Media research? Mail questionnaires? Interviews?
(d) Are sound principles and practices in regard to planning, organising, coordinating and integrating the P. R. activities followed so as to be compatible with the organisation's objectives?
(e) What is the present status of the P. R. management and P. R. manager in the organisation structure? Reporting to whom? Is it considered as a sub-system? Any P. R. budget and cost management?
3. P.R. Development Effects:
(a) What is the present level of external public relations with respect to the following:
(i) Contacts with the Chamber of Commerce, Industrial Associations/Organisations/Agencies, Educational Institutions, P. R. Bodies, etc.?
(ii) Liaison with Government departments, Press, Embassies, etc.?
(iii) Communications with Public (press releases), Advertising, Shareholders, Clients, Customers, Govt. Bodies etc.?
(b) What is the level of contribution by P. R. development function assist marketing efforts Trade Fairs? Industrial Exhibitions? Documentary Films?


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Fantastical Histories
I love historical fiction and reading about people from and events of the past. What I enjoy even more, though, are books set in the past but with fantastical flourishes – maybe something slightly magical, perhaps with ghosts haunting the scene, or of time traveling contemporaries who end up in a distant era. Are books like this really historical fiction? Are they fantasies or science fiction? Are they something else entirely?
What do you recommend?


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Luckily I found this copycat Olive Garden Minestrone soup recipe and Ty got really excited about it. So I made it!
3 Tbl olive oil
1 cup chopped onion
4 tsp minced garlic
2 stalks celery, chopped
1 medium zucchini, quartered and chopped
4 cups vegetable broth
2 14 oz cans red kidney beans, drained and rinsed
1 19 oz can navy beans
1/2 cup carrot, shredded
1 14 oz can diced tomatoes, drained
2 tbl frech minced parsley
1 1/2 tsp dried oregano
1/2 teaspoon dried basil
1/4 tsp ground thyme
salt & pepper
2 cups hot water
1 cup red wine
4 cups fresh baby spinach
1 cup shell pasta
Phew. Ok, you got all that? So chop up your onion, mince garlic, chop zucchini and celery, and get your kettle going for broth. Then heat the 3 tablespoons of olive oil in a large pot and toss in the onion, garlic, zucchini and celery and sauté for about 5 minutes.
While thats cooking, drain your beans, shred your carrot, and drain your tomatoes as best you can. I did poorly. Ok when the veggies are good, add the broth, beans, carrots and tomatoes to the veggies in the pot. Then add in your spices, the hot water, and the wine. I think adding the wine is a really important part of the flavour of this soup!
Bring the soup to a boil and then reduce the temperature and simmer for 20 minutes!
Then add in the 4 cups of baby spinach and the pasta and continue to cook for another 15-20 minutes! Then you're ready to chow down!
It's not quite right. I used a strong red wine, which is over powering the flavour just a bit. And a little extra salt and pepper is a good addition. Ty didn't love it and we both agreed it really wasn't close to the Olive Garden version. He said I should just make my regular minestrone from now on :)


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Quality Control Tools
Production environments that utilize modern quality control methods are dependant upon statistical literacy. The tools used therein are called the seven quality control tools. These include:
Checksheet Pareto Chart
Flow Chart Cause and Effect Diagram
Histogram Scatter Diagram
Control Chart
[Note: Examples have been included in this synopsis that correspond to a sample case study that can be accessed from the Quality Control Tools Home Page. Additional background information may be obtained by downloading the full case study text (67k).]
The function of a checksheet is to present information in an efficient, graphical format. This may be accomplished with a simple listing of items. However, the utility of the checksheet may be significantly enhanced, in some instances, by incorporating a depiction of the system under analysis into the form.
Pareto Chart
Pareto charts are extremely useful because they can be used to identify those factors that have the greatest cumulative effect on the system, and thus screen out the less significant factors in an analysis. Ideally, this allows the user to focus attention on a few important factors in a process.
They are created by plotting the cumulative frequencies of the relative frequency data (event count data), in decending order. When this is done, the most essential factors for the analysis are graphically apparent, and in an orderly format.
Flowcharts are pictorial representations of a process. By breaking the process down into its constituent steps, flowcharts can be useful in identifying where errors are likely to be found in the system.
Cause and Effect Diagram
This diagram, also called an Ishikawa diagram (or fish bone diagram), is used to associate multiple possible causes with a single effect. Thus, given a particular effect, the diagram is constructed to identify and organize possible causes for it.
The primary branch represents the effect (the quality characteristic that is intended to be improved and controlled) and is typically labelled on the right side of the diagram. Each major branch of the diagram corresponds to a major cause (or class of causes) that directly relates to the effect. Minor branches correspond to more detailed causal factors. This type of diagram is useful in any analysis, as it illustrates the relationship between cause and effect in a rational manner.
Histograms provide a simple, graphical view of accumulated data, including its dispersion and central tendancy. In addition to the ease with which they can be constructed, histograms provide the easiest way to evaluate the distribution of data.
Scatter Diagram
Scatter diagrams are graphical tools that attempt to depict the influence that one variable has on another. A common diagram of this type usually displays points representing the observed value of one variable corresponding to the value of another variable.
Control Chart
The control chart is the fundamental tool of statistical process control, as it indicates the range of variability that is built into a system (known as common cause variation). Thus, it helps determine whether or not a process is operating consistently or if a special cause has occurred to change the process mean or variance.
The bounds of the control chart are marked by upper and lower control limits that are calculated by applying statistical formulas to data from the process. Data points that fall outside these bounds represent variations due to special causes, which can typically be found and eliminated. On the other hand, improvements in common cause variation require fundamental changes in the process.
The tools listed above are ideally utilized in a particular methodology, which typically involves either reducing the process variability or identifying specific problems in the process. However, other methodologies may need to be developed to allow for sufficient customization to a certain specific process. In any case, the tools should be utilized to ensure that all attempts at process improvement include:
- Discovery
- Analysis
- Improvement
- Monitoring
- Implementation
- Verification
Furthermore, it is important to note that the mere use of the quality control tools does not necessarily constitute a quality program. Thus, to achieve lasting improvements in quality, it is essential to establish a system that will continuously promote quality in all aspects of its operation.
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like doctor, like patient
dylan's first baby day out was to his pediatrician at makati medical center.
what's up, doc?
meet dylan's pediatrician, dr. aye nuguid.
i thought i'd dress up dylan appropriately since it was his first day out! lol
height, weight, check.
motor skills, check.
if dylan could talk or sing, he would probably say...
(to the tune of bon jovi's 'you give love a bad name') "shot through the butt and you're to blame!" hahaha!


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Chantilly, Virginia-based EmeSec has formed an advisory board that consists of information technology, business development and government professionals in the cybersecurity industry.
The cloud computing, security and engineering services company said Wednesday its new advisory board will work to provide perspective on market and business development opportunities, macro-economic trends as well as EmeSec's customer service and go-to-market strategies.
"As cloud cybersecurity services and compliance needs continue to grow exponentially, we are confident that our advisory board will help us successfully accelerate new customer acquisition," said EmeSec CEO Maria Horton.
She added the company aims to expand its commercial market share and international presence through the assistance of the advisory board.
Inaugural members of the board include:
- Michael Katz – EmeSec advisory board chair and MAK Development president and strategic management consultant
- Lurita Doan – former administrator of the General Services Administration
- Lindy Martin – executive director of Outer Banks Consulting International
- Justin Rerko – director of business development and government relations at MBDA
- Dean Xenos – director at Leros Technologies and board member at Tysons Regional Chamber of Commerce
EmeSec provides services in the evaluation of and compliance with Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation requirements in handling controlled, unclassified information.


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Congratulations to Vince Young, who handily won the Offensive Rookie of the Year, with 23 out of the 50 votes cast. JAX RB Maurice Jones-Drew and NO WR Marques Colston tied for first runner-up with 9 tallies each.
I'm glad to see VY's success recognized. VY went 8-5 as a starter, and the Titans went 7-2 in games decided by 7 or fewer points. And in 6 of those 7 wins, VY can truly be said to have made the difference (notable exception: 2nd JAX game). At the same time, though, I think the award should probably have gone to SD LT Marcus McNeill, who played at All-Pro level, something no clear-eyed observer could claim VY did. McNeill did at least finish 4th in the voting. I'm not sure if I'd rank him over VY or not, but IND RB Joseph Addai was snubbed badly when he didn't receive any votes after finished with over 1000 yards and a gaudy 4.75 ypc average. Using Football Outsiders' advanced stats for RBs, Addai was the fifth most valuable running back in the league both rushing and receiving, and badly outplayed Dominic Rhodes.
And now the real reason you get this post: Merrill Hoge. Hoge's latest brilliant career move, one that has earned him the love and affection of many Titans fans, has been to decry any possibility that Vince Young will ever become a good NFL QB. The latest idiocy is this: in an interview with The Tennesseean, Hoge listed his top 4 ORoY candidates thusly:
1. Reggie Bush, RB, NO
2. Devin Hester, DB, CHI
3. Marques Colston, WR, NO
Reggie Bush is an interesting argument. In NO's early MNF game against the Falcons, he wasn't very productive. But, when you did the breakdown, ATL did a lot of scheming designed to stop him. Bush eventually improved his on-field performance as the year went on, but was he enough of a pure threat, scheme-wise, to merit such a lofty ranking? I don't really think so, particularly given Deuce McAllister came back from injury a better player. Marques Colston as a very good WR, another big exception to rookie WRs not being very good. But, if you watched the Saints, Joe Horn was the WR who made the passing game go. Note none of Addai, McNeill, or JAX RB Maurice Jones-Drew (10th most valuable RB rusher, 7th most valuable RB receiver) makes Hoge's Top 4. Instead, the #2 man is none other than Chicago Bear Devin Hester, a defensive back. And, as many Bears fans will tell you, a defensive back who isn't very good. Ah, but Hester's main value isn't as a DB, you say? Yes, he was a returner. And a sterling one: he averaged 26.4 yards per kickoff return and 12.8 yards per punt return, with 3 PR TDs and 2 KOR TDs, despite returning kicks only half the year. And in just one year he had almost as many fumbles as Pacman Jones has had in two seasons! But, when you're Merrill Hoge, picky details like an inability to hold onto the ball and playing on the wrong side of the ball on plays from scrimmage aren't a real deterrent.
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I think it's pretty evident to everyone I know that I am in fact addicted to stationery & notecards of all kinds. I absolutely love these monkey cards! And who wouldn't want this canine cardset. I want this address book, as well as this puppy card set!
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Related Articles
Yesterday, we reported that popular instant messaging application, WhatsApp has sacked their support for older OS versions of all the three platforms - Android, iOS, and Windows Phone 7. Following the footsteps of WhatsApp, another popular messaging app, Telegram, today in a press note, said that they are going to end the support for older versions of Android.
Telegram now requires Android version of Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) and above. Users below Android 3.0 are not eligible to use the services of Telegram anymore. A good number of 19.6 million users of Android are still using Android 3.0 and below, but the company wants to provide new features for everyone.
Developers don't want to affect the features of the application as some of these versions of Android require latest API's to get the features working. And, as a result, they are ending the support.


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One of my favorite things about Valentine's Day is the excuse for me to drench the apartment, the office, and my baked goods in pink. To start the holiday right, I'm sharing a recipe for strawberry mini-baked donuts that will capture any girly girl (or boy's) heart.
For the Mini Strawberry Baked Donuts (Makes about 30 mini donuts)
1/2 cup potato starch
1/2 cup sorghum flour
3/4 cup sweet white rice flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup strawberry milk powder (I used Nesquik)
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla extract
¼ cup canola oil1 egg
*If you would like a bright pink color to your donuts, feel free to add a couple of drops of pink food coloring to your batter
Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees and spray donut pan with non-stick cooking spray. Combine all dry ingredients in a large bowl. Add egg, buttermilk, canola oil, and vanilla extract. Whisk by hand or mixer. Scoop batter into large pastry bag fitted with a medium round tip or into a freezer bag with the corner cut. Pipe batter into donut cavity until about 1/2 way full. Bake donuts for 7-9 minutes, until they spring back to the touch.
Allow donuts to cool in pan for 5 minutes and then remove and place on parchment paper or cooling rack. Re-fill pan and bake next batch.
For the Glaze
1 cup powdered sugar
1-2 drops pink food coloring
2 tsp strawberry extract
1 1/2 tbsp milk
Line counters with parchment paper. Place powdered sugar in a bowl. Add strawberry extract, milk, and food coloring. Stir vigorously until sugar is fully dissolved.
Dip each donut in glaze, allowing excess to drip off before setting down on parchment paper. Decorate as desired.


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Interesting Astrophysics: 26 Oct to 30 Oct
Labels: astrophysics, galaxies, hydrodynamics, interesting papers, stars
Galaxies and Starbursts
A New Empirical Method to Infer the Starburst History of the Universe from Local Galaxy Properties
Philip F. Hopkins, Lars Hernquist, arXiv:0910.4582 [ps, pdf, other]
Comments: 21 pages, 8 figures, accepted to MNRAS
Constraining the initial mass function of stars in the Galactic Centre
Ulf Loeckmann, Holger Baumgardt, Pavel Kroupa, arXiv:0910.4960 [ps, pdf, other]
Comments: MNRAS, accepted, 8 pages, 4 figures
HI Selected Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey I: Optical Data
Andrew A. West, Diego A. Garcia-Appadoo, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Mike J. Disney, Constance M. Rockosi, Zeljko Ivezic, Misty C. Bentz, J. Brinkmann, arXiv:0910.4965 [ps, pdf, other]
Comments: 14 pages, 8 Figures, accepted for publication in AJ. Complete tables will be available in the AJ electronic version and on the Vizier site
HI Selected Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II: The Colors of Gas-Rich Galaxies
Andrew A. West, Diego A. Garcia-Appadoo, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Mike J. Disney, Constance R. Rockosi, Zeljko Ivezic, arXiv:0910.4966 [ps, pdf, other]
Comments: 12 pages, 16 figures, published in AJ (138, 796); replaced Figure 16 with higher resolution version
Journal-ref: West et al. 2009, AJ, 138, 796
Numerical Astrophysics
Adaptive Mesh Fluid Simulations on GPU
Peng Wang, Tom Abel, Ralf Kaehler, arXiv:0910.5547 [ps, pdf, other]
Comments: Submitted to New Astronomy
CUDA & MPI, with what sounds like the ZEUS MHD scheme. Hardly surprising, but nice to see some effort going into exploring the use of GPU computing with hydro codes.
Stars, Supernovae and Planets
Evolution of supermassive stars as a pathway to black hole formation
Mitchell C. Begelman, arXiv:0910.4398 [ps, pdf, other]
Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
X-ray observations of classical novae. Theoretical implications
M. Hernanz, G. Sala, arXiv:0910.4607 [ps, pdf, other]
Comments: 6 pages, review paper accepted for publication in Astronomische Nachrichten
The Nature and Nurture of Star Clusters
Bruce G. Elmegreen, arXiv:0910.4638 [ps, pdf, other]
Comments: to be published in IAUS266: Star Clusters Basic Galactic Building Blocks Throughout Time And Space, eds. Richard de Grijs and Jacques Lepine, Cambridge University Press, 11 pages
Nuclear Star Clusters
Torsten Boeker, arXiv:0910.4863 [ps, pdf, other]
Comments: invited talk at IAU Symp. 266 "Star Clusters: Galactic Building Blocks through Space and Time"


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13 December, 2011
Canada, shame on you
I am Canadian. I haven't lived in Canada for nearly 30 years, so I admit it may be inappropriate for me to speak as a "true Canadian".
Still, this news make me sad as a Canadian living overseas. I have lived in a European country that believed and worked towards compliance towards a betterment of ecological and economical consciousness. The Kyoto Agreement was the first demonstrative effort to build collective momentum on the issue of climate change. Not perfect. Not even monumental in its goals. Yet, it was a very good first step.
Is this just one more step Canada has taken in admitting their unwillingness to stand up to the larger forces that be (the USA)? Or, is it just a sign of a ineffectual government that is incapable of showing any backbone in the global political market?
What a shame...
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I agree! It's an embarrassment to those of us Canadians who feel climate change is happening and will soon be beyond our control if we don't change.ReplyDelete
Thanks, Marja-Leena, just had a long discussion with my daughter. Even tough she is disappointed, she doesn't feel that Canada retreating from a lost cause is necessarily a bad thing. It doesn't mean Canada won't be constructive in its policies in the future. I guess I see things more black and white.ReplyDelete
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BlogNor09 : A day out in Great Yarmouth
Our son Patrick is on holiday from school, so we decided to take a day off from work and visit Great Yarmouth. I have always been a bit negative about Great Yarmouth, my memories being mainly made up of the depressing building which formerly housed the Great Yarmouth County Court (now closed), and the seaside Pleasure Beach and amusement complex, which is not really my thing.
However I had heard that there was another side to Great Yarmouth so we decided to hunt it out. Following guidance given from helpful leaflets on the railway station we made our way to the historic South Quay where we found the charming Elizabethan House Museum, owned by the National Trust. It is apparently famous as the place where the execution of King Charles 1 was plotted, but leaving that aside, it is the most delightful place and despite being a museum has a very homely feel to it. In fact it is the sort of house I would love to live in, and over lunch (in a very nice local bistro) we worked out what we would do in the various rooms, were it ours.
After lunch we strolled further down and found two delightful houses maintained by English Heritage called the Row Houses. They are where those working in the herring industry used to stay, for example the 'girls' who came down from Scotland to clean the fish before processing. The houses were nice if a bit empty of furniture. Looking out of the window it was good to see a gang of kids playing in the street, probably exactly the same as the kids who lived in the museum houses.
The last place we went to was the truly extraordinary Great Yarmouth Pottery. This building, built largely of old scraps from ships, and with a fresh water well in the main room, was once a herring smokehouse and after about 70 years you can still smell the fish. However the building is now a museum and working pottery, filled with the genius of Ernie Childs the potter and artist. You see not only the place where he works together with work in progress (and get a lesson on how they create their mugs) but also an amazing collection of artifacts of marine and fishing life, plus you can watch a short film on the history of the herring industry, while sitting on benches made from the herring girls trunks. Upstairs there is a small cafe (with toilets wallpapered with out of date nautical charts) and large shop where there is a wonderful selection of mugs, ornaments, china clocks, pottery crab dishes, and all sorts of other items, all made by Ernie in his kiln. We bought three mugs to remember it by.
So back to the grindstone tomorrow, but it has been good taking a day out, and I will think differently of Great Yarmouth in future.


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From the Editor's Desk
June 12, 2007
Hello to Everyone. I'm back from my glorious trip to the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia. What a wonderful and beautiful part of the world it is! This region along with the upper midwest will be pivitol to the survival of mankind as the world continues to progress into climate change and a shifting of the poles. Mass migration will follow along these routes as millions will eventually be forced to leave the sun belt and the Southwest due to drastic storms, drought and sea level rise in the years ahead.
I know you have been missing your daily updates as there is so much to report on these days and so little time.
I'm glad to be back to providing your daily dose of earth news.
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In the days following the election I roamed the city looking for scenes that would express the post election state of DC. There is a feeling in the air, a vibe, an excitement. It's hard to put your finger on or photograph.
That's what I was thinking about on Wednesday when I came upon a huge, electric, line of people along 15th street. People were taking pictures of the line and the media was there to record the scene as well. What was it?
They were outside the Washington Post building waiting for the commemorative colies of the post election paper to go on sale. The release had been pushed back all day and police were arriving to make sure that everyone remained calm and peaceful.
A few blocks from my office in the opposite direction you'll see a buzz of activity. Right outside the White House preparations for the inauguration are underway. I believe that they're building the grandstand on that spot.


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1933 R333 DeLong Gum "Die-Cut" Complete Set (24)
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Presented is what is unquestionably the most unusual complete set of all 24 players from the 1933 R333 DeLong Gum series in existence! We've never before seen even a single "die-cut" DeLong like the cards in this set. Every card in the offered set has long ago had the background very neatly cut away around the player's image, similar to a die-cut stand-up card. The backgrounds are each cut out with such extraordinary care and at a glance they look like manufactured die-cut cards. They are not die-cut cards, of course, but they do look great! DeLongs have always held a special place in the hearts of collectors. The small size of the set, their relative rarity compared to most others card sets of the era, their unique dimensions and design, and their status as a "one-year issue" all combine to give DeLongs a mystique among serious collectors. More than half the set features Hall of Famers: Gehrig, Foxx, Grove, Cuyler, Klein, Goslin, Terry, Simmons, Traynor, Gehringer, Cochrane, Gomez, Lindstrom, Maranville, and Hafey. DeLongs are one of the rarest issues of the 1930s and have always been an expensive issue to collect, especially due to the inclusion of Lou Gehrig and all the other Hall of Famers in the set. This is certainly a very unique form to find this set. Cards come in all conditions, and that is most definitely the case here. Without reference to the "die-cut" design, the cards in this set grade Gd-Vg overall. This is an exciting opportunity for a collector to acquire a complete R333 DeLong set in a unique low-grade form at a very affordable level. These cards are from the Charlie Conlon Collection. That in itself is interesting because Charlie was one of most advanced longtime collectors in the world and he had sets of just about every rare 1930s issue. He didn't need these cards; they were duplicates. He had a high-grade set of DeLongs. But even he thought they were neat enough to put in his extraordinary collection. Sure, they've got a very unusual condition problem. But we are sure that someone is going to enjoy these as much as Charlie did. Total 24 cards. Reserve $100. Estimate (open). SOLD FOR $940
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Iced tea (gotta love Teavana!) and my Live Simply background. I finally got the letters stitched down. I'm hoping the rest goes quicker.
My neighbor Deb has got me out walking every day.....I've put on over 10,000 steps all week. I think I can feel a difference. I hope we continue even once she starts back to work.
Daughter2 moved back home yesterday......with her dog Gordon. *sigh*. Our dogs are adjusting....he's so full of energy!!!! Thank goodness it's the summer time.
Well, I'm off to my hair appointment with Miss Morgan. Cannot wait for my scalp massage!!!!!!!!!! THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!


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Though he admires and desires the classic creation, he is better off without(owing) it…
For he currently lacks the capacity to handle it, nor does he has the ability to maintain it.
His legs, too short to reach the pedals
His ams too weak to turn the wheels and while he wishes he is at the driver's seat…that's daddy's position for now.
Someday, when he is all grown up, matured and adequately trained he did be able to take a trip in it all by himself (provided he has money for gas). Wink*
Regardless of his father's love, little baby is denied the keys to daddy's Ferrari as long as he remains a little child.
Friends, God's blessing are always intended to make us rich(and satisfied) without any cause for regrets and whilst His words declare that the expectation of the righteous shall not be cut short, the Father's love restrains Him from releasing (since He has already given us all things to enjoy) stuffs into our lives we haven't built capacity to handle well…that delay in marriage or promotion might just be God giving you more time to prepare so you don't mismanage His blessing nor turn it into a curse because of your lack of capacity(or immaturity).
Hence, when you are done asking(in prayer) get up and go build some capacity honey!
The best would come only when are ready and prepared for it…not before. Smiles*
Hey, one more thing buddy whilst you are in the preparatory stage always remember that Dad's got the wheel…you have nothing to worry about, your safe arrival is guaranteed.
Happy new week!


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After a quick Ray Bans ad, you can see the first trailer for My Blueberry Nights online now. I wasn't expecting Jude Law's accent, I can tell you that.
A very beautifully photgraphed film and no mistake. It premieres tonight, when I'll finally find out (second hand, of course) if the various women in the billing do turn out to be playing variations on the same character, somehow.
Funny casting otherwise.
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The Dream, pt. I
I had a dream the other night, in the dream I was on a very crowded beach -- full of frat spring break types -- the beach was supposed to be in Columbus, Ohio.
Anyway, I walk around this large rock formation that's protruding out into the ocean, and when I get to the other side there is this big cove, with a small island in the middle of it and this narrow rock walkway leading out to it.
I know that for some reason I have to go to the small island, but then a bunch of the spring breakers run out on the walk way and it crumbles in to the ocean. They all scramble back to the beach while we're all standing on the shore looking out at the island, when some naked fat lady comes up to me and says, "What? It's just water!"
She then jumps in the water and starts swimming. So I jump in and swim out towards the Island, I get pretty close to it when all of a sudden I bump into the dead body of a white guy in mechanics clothes floating just below the surface. The dead guy looks up at me and grabs my arm, pulling me under the water. He mouths something to me, I cant hear what he's saying but the words flash in my brain, in faded black letters ( in the Iron Maiden font) on red background it says, "One day you will be asked to serve your rap community."
Then I wake up.
Weird, huh?
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Pp. 13-28
1. What is the format of the poems in this collection?
(a) Free verse.
(b) Sonnet.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Haiku.
2. Which of the following is a theme not reflected by these poems?
(a) Regret.
(b) Joy.
(c) Acceptance.
(d) Solitude.
3. Where does Chinaski live?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) New York.
(d) Dallas.
4. In "Red Mercedes," what does the passenger hand the driver of the car from the glove box?
(a) A phone.
(b) A gun.
(c) A knife.
(d) A folder of documents.
5. Who is the subject of the poem "Retired"?
(a) Chinaski's brother.
(b) Chinaski's father.
(c) A homeless man.
(d) Chinaski's mother.
6. In "Working It Out," who is Gregory Peck portraying on television?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe.
(b) Charles Dickens.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Mark Twain.
7. When Chinaski writes, who or what accompanies him?
(a) His dogs.
(b) His brother.
(c) His cats.
(d) His radio.
8. Who is most fond of motivational cliches?
(a) Chinaski.
(b) Chinaski's mentor.
(c) Chinaski's mother.
(d) Chinaski's father.
9. With whom does Chinaski seem to feel the strongest kinship?
(a) A German composer.
(b) An English poet.
(c) An actor.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Holy moly, steady yourselves. M&S have gone and combined 2 of possibly the greatest foods that life has to offer.. Saucy macaroni pasta meet all buttery pastry, with a sprinkle of the porky stuff as it would be rude not to, it's only Mac 'n' Cheese & Bacon Pie!
Oh how the excitement was overwhelming when I stumbled across the 200g Limited Edition, sunny boxed delight, at the start of the month! - Shame about the £3 price tag when bought individually but what can you do.. It is M&S after all! Fit to serve 1, (With nutritional values that may make you anything but!) the Pie is to be heated at 180ºC Fan for 30 minutes until possessing the heat of molten lava..
Cooked macaroni pasta in a cheese sauce topped with smoked bacon crumble, in an all butter pastry case.
So I did just that and it came out beautifully - Golden on top, crisp around the edges and smelling very scrumptious. Then came the challenge of getting the thing out of the foil*.. A quick game of "Hot Potato" and miraculously it was on a plate in one piece! Hallelujah!
Cutting the Pie in half, I did expect there to be more of the oozing sauce suggested on the packaging image.. But no such luck despite being piping hot. Thankfully, this minor blip didn't reflect in the taste, as cheesy it certainly was! ..But starting with the buttery pastry, the upper crust was extremely short and crisp, transitioning into something much softer, although not soggy, and having far more of a flake. This contrasted nicely against the full size, soft macaroni pieces, packing a good amount of the aforementioned Cheddar and Regato flavours combined with an undeniable indulgent creaminess. The crumble added a second crunchy aspect a long with a lot of seasoning, albeit perhaps personally too much for me, and bacon tones of both the pleasant smoked "farmyard" variety and something a tad more artificial which as expected, wasn't quite so appealing.. But generally went well with the cheesy pasta/pastry combo!
Overall, this NEW LE Mac 'n' Cheese & Bacon Pie delivers all that it promises and makes for one solid little snack. The only thing I am torn over is the fact it is exactly that.. A snack. Not one to usually be overly fixated on the fat content of foodstuffs, it is very much hard to ignore when a red symbol is slapped straight in front of your peepers and you know full well, you will be having a potato product as an accompaniment.. And maybe a can of baked beans.. Or is one meant to just have salad to make it a meal? Salad offends me. Either way, it still packs a serious punch for something so dinky.. Not to mention, to consume in one sitting since we're still only talking about one lonesome meal here! What about all the other "bad" things, one eats in a day? I am genuinely surprised that M&S are down with selling such "unhealthy"** options in such tiny packages***.. But I enjoyed it nevertheless****! It's a 4 out of 5 from me*****.
*Turns out, you are meant to remove said foil and place on a preheated baking tray which poses the question.. Why use the foil to begin with, hmm!?
**The rest of the NEW LE Pies, e.g Chicken & Bacon, are no "better".
***Everything in moderation.
****To be enjoyed as part of a healthy active lifestyle.
*****Please don't make me eat salad.


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There are some of life's simple pleasures that I really enjoy on a cold day.
Hot soup.
Fresh bread.
I love pulling out my slow cooker from it's Summer hiding hole and dusting it off for a soup like this.
I follow a recipe from one of my favourite cookbooks, Fresh From The Vegetarian Slow Cooker.
It is delicious, really delicious.
I love being organized in my day (not that it happens very often!), and the slow smell of hearty soup cooking on my bench top comforts me.
It makes me look forward to slipping on the wool ugg boots and oversized dressing gown when the chill hits at the end of the day.
So I thought I would share with you the recipe.
It is simple, yet fabulously flavoursome.
Minestrone Soup
Serves 6
1 tbspn olive oil
1 medium sized brown onion, minced
1 celery stalk, chopped
1 large carrot, chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
4 ounces green beans, ends trimmed and cut into 1-inch pieces
1 can of chickpeas, drained and rinsed
1 can diced tomatoes
1 medium sized zucchini
6 cups vegetable stock
salt & pepper
1/2 cup raw small pasta
1/4 cup basil pesto
Pour the oil into the bottom of your slow cooker. Add the onion, celery, carrot and garlic, cover, and cook on high while you gather remaining ingredients.
After they are prepped, add the gren beans, chickpeas, tomatoes, zucchini, and stock to the slow cooker and season with salt and pepper. Cover and cook on low for 7-8 hours.
An hour before it is ready to serve, add the raw pasta to the slow cooker and cover.
Just before serving, stir in the pesto.


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Yesterday was pretty exciting for July, with winds gusting to 20-40 mph and some power outages (including my house in north Seattle). For example, here are the winds at West Point (admittedly a well exposed site). Gusts to 33 knots (38 mph). Admittedly, not as strong as the East Coast derecho a few days ago (where winds gusted to 70-80 mph), but very strong for this season.
And yesterday's precipitation totals were highly variable and in places quite respectable, particularly in the Puget Sound convergence zone area. A few locations over the eastern foothills of the Cascades got an inch or more, while south of the convergence line (Seattle south) and over the Sound it was dry.
Now that the worst is past, it is safe to tell you how bad it was:
(1) The -25.7 C 500 hPa (roughly 18,000 ft) temperature at Quillayute WA yesterday morning, was the coldest in North America. AND the coldest July 500 hPa temperature at Quillayute since -26.1 deg C was reported on 2 July 2000.
(2) A number of Washington locations experienced daily record precipitation records (record for that day) and several (particularly over northeastern WA) had MONTHLY record totals (e.g, Republic,
Colville, Boundary Dam, and Newport). Several locations had top 10 monthly totals. Here is a summary from the Office of the WA State Climatologist (OWSC):
Here is the % of normal precipitation for the past 30 days. Much of eastern Washington, northern Idaho, and the northern Willamette Valley had more than 200% of normal rainfall, and the rest of the region was at 100-200%. Amazingly, parts of the Southwest U.S. and the intermountain west has received less than 5% of normal rainfall--extraordinary contrasts in such close proximity.
An important issue with the precipitation and temperature pattern we have had the past few months is the impact it has had on soil moisture. Take a look at the last soil moisture anomaly map (difference from climatology).
Much wetter than normal over the NW (surprise!), but huge negative (dry) anomalies over the southwest and the central U.S. Such dry anomalies have many bad implications:
(1) enhanced change of wildfires over the southwest
(2) damage to crop productivity in the U.S. grain belt
(3) more severe heat waves in the dry areas.
Why do dry soils make the temperatures warm? It turns out that a lot of the heat of the sun goes into evaporating water (going into latent heating) rather than warming the surface (sensible heating). Thus, over a moist surface the surface temperatures don't warm as much, since a lot of the sun's energy is going into evaporating water. Also moist surfaces and moisture evaporating from them promote clouds, which reflect solar radiation to space. Thus, we can get into a positive feedback loop where heat produces dry conditions, which promotes more heat, etc.
But no such worries in the moist Pacific Northwest where our forlorn tomatoes finally will get the weather they deserve.


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text: Obama Calls for New Afghan Chapter Karzai congratulated, told to clean up his government By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff Posted Nov 3, 2009 2:50 AM CST 5 comments Comments Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, today. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) View 1 more image (Newser) – President Obama congratulated Hamid Karzai on his "messy" election victory yesterday while warning him that it was time to clean up corruption in his government. "I emphasized that this has to be a point in time in which we begin to write a new chapter," said Obama, describing a phone call with the Afghan president. The White House stressed that Karzai now has legal legitimacy but still needs to earn credibility, reports AP. Obama said he told Karzai—declared the winner of the presidential election after challenger Abdullah Abdullah withdrew from a run-off vote—that he expected to see greater progress in training Afghan forces to take charge of the nation's security. "The proof is not going to be in words," Obama told Karzai. "It's going to be in deeds." View 1 more image