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I've been doing a lot of travelling lately, giving my standard inspirational talk to newbies (if you've seen my tattoos, you know the talk I mean) and a topic that keeps coming up is the importance of peers to today's writer.
Peers are both the most and least important people in your career. It all depends on what you use them for.
Here's a quickie rundown of everything peery.
Herding Instinct. If you're a newbie writer who lives a Unibomberish existence off the grid, you aren't reading this. For the rest of us, seeking out like-minded folks is part of our genetic code.
Since writing is a solitary profession, meeting other writers--both online and in real life--is a way to reassure ourselves that we're normal after all. Most writers have the same concerns, problems, and fears. Depending on your experience, there's always more to learn and tales to share.
This is good. Networking offers opportunities to question, evaluate, test, and explore the reasons we work the way we work. We all can learn a great deal from each other, and Internet forums, blogs, bulletin boards, groups, and discussions, along with writing conventions and conferences, book fairs, and literary festivals, are the perfect way to do this.
You obviously read this blog, but do you contribute to it? Do you ask questions, offer advice, and communicate? Communication is a two way street, and you learn more from give and take than you do simply lurking and watching.
Critiquing. While trading insider secrets is a great reason to hang out with other writers, the best way to use your peers is as readers. If you haven't ever joined a writer's group, you should consider it. If you're already published, offer to trade manuscripts with your peers before your agent or editor has a look. I do this with many different authors, and I always learn a lot.
While it's always nice to be praised, it's much better to seek problems with your work, so those can be fixed before the book reaches the street and the hate email starts pouring in.
Critiquing goes both ways, and you can also learn from reading a peer's manuscript and articulating what can be made stronger, and possibly how.
Approval. While I endorse forging some ties with a few close writing friends, for the most part you don't need to worry about the acceptance of your peers. While a certain percentage of them--especially if you do a lot of appearances--will buy your books if they like what you have to say, the fact is that your peers aren't your main audience.
Worrying about who is saying what about whom, feeling snubbed because you never got that nomination or award, and wondering why those cliques of popular authors never seem to include you--that's all wasted effort on your part.
You don't need to be accepted by the writing community, the genre community, the awards committee, your local writing organization, or any other group of individual in order to be happy or successful.
The opinion of your peers, as a group, simply doesn't matter.
High school was a long time ago. If you like yourself, and have at least one person in the world who also likes you, that's all you'll ever need.
Blurbing. Try to blurb everyone you can. When asking for blurbs, don't be aggressive, or disappointed if it doesn't work out. That's all that needs to be said on the subject.
For an alternate viewpoint of this, check out Barry Eisler's blog post over at MJ Rose's Buzz, Balls, and Hype:
Commiseration. Hanging out with writers, talking the talk, is always helpful. But sometimes you need something deeper. Things happen in the career, both good and bad, and often we don't know how to react to them. Sometimes we need a peer to offer their perspective. Sometimes we just need someone to bitch to.
This is where the line between peer and friend begins to blur. Try to keep them separate.
A peer is a fellow writer.
A friend is a favored companion.
All peers are not friends, and all friends are not peers.
If you can land one who is both, cherish that relationship, because you can benefit greatly from it. Just remember to put back in what you take out.
And remember to never air dirty laundry, yours or anyone else's.
Advice. As you move up in the writing world, more and more people will ask you for your advice because they want to get where you're at.
Offer that advice, but always make sure they know that your way isn't the only way, and that just because you're a so-called expert doesn't mean you know everything.
And make sure, when you hear expert advice, you remember that as well.
There are few universal truths in writing. Learn what you can, test things for yourself, and discard what doesn't work.
Support. We need to help each other, not hurt each other.
That involves two basic principles.
1. Not thinking or acting like you're better than anyone else, and never publicly criticizing other authors.
2. Being friendly, accessible, and professional.
Treat other writers like you want to be treated, no matter their experience level, or how incredibly obnoxious, small-minded, or oblivious they are.
Being right is not an excuse for being mean. Being successful is not an excuse for being self-important. Being honest is not an invitation to getting attacked.
Help others and keep the negativity private.
That said, I've officially declared tomorrow, May 3 ,to be "Hug Another Author Day."
Tag, you're it. Spread the word. Virtual hugs are okay too.
And, as always, thanks for reading. Hugs to all you folks. :)
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Some time in the 90s we were in California visiting family and friends and were dining at an upscale Mexican restaurant called Tortilla Flats.
Several orders of crispy calamari with a chipotle tarter sauce came to the table and our young son was invited to eat it by his elderly great aunt. Anthony would do anything his beloved Aunt Kate asked of him so he dove into the deliciousness.
He asked her what "calamari" meant and she quickly said it meant "tastes great" in Italian. He agreed and coming from a kid who rejected macaroni and cheese because it was not his "color" that was high praise, indeed.
Since then (even when he learned calamari was squid) it became a favorite and much like my husband judges any Italian restaurant by their sausage and peppers, we judge restaurants by the quality of their calamari.
Our theory is that you really cannot ruin calamari. Many places buy it already cleaned and breaded and good oil in a hot deep fried is all you need to make the tasty morsels.
This is not exactly true as we learned at Shooters Restaurant in Fort Lauderdale.
I know I am not a restaurant reviewer and usually do not say anything negative (like mom says, if you don't have anything nice to say do not say anything at all) but I do not think I have ever had worse calamari than I had a few weeks back.
If they deep fried elastic bands I would have enjoyed it more. Yuck. Bad.
Remember the line from "The Lion King" when Pumbaa slurps a worm and says "slimy yet satisfying?" Yeah, that, only not satisfying! Other than the exception above we believe what distinguishes calamari are the add ins and the dips.
At JB's on the Beach (http://www.jbsonthebeach.com/) in Deerfield Beach, Fla., they include strips of sweet and hot peppers mixed in with the calamari. They give two sauces, a sweet red sauce and a tarter sauce, both delicious.
Next door is Oceans 234, where they actually bread and deep fry lemon wedges and hot peppers with the calamari. If you have never had a deep fried lemon wedge try it before you curl your nose. They serve the bits with a roasted red pepper relish and a honey balsamic glaze. This is a particular favorite.
At Uncle Julio's (where we met our new best friend bartender Alicia) we had crispy calamari with a creamy tomato sauce which reminded me of vodka sauce. We also dipped into the fresh grilled vegetable salsa and enjoyed the combo very much.
Here at home, most restaurants serve calamari with their own tomato sauce. It is a good sneak peek into your entree at many Italian restaurants.
I personally prefer a mayo-based sauce with capers and pickles (at Pop's seafood store in Deerfield they make their sauce with fresh cucumbers and a touch of mustard mixed into mayo … dreamy).
However you make it (rubber bands excluded) enjoy the dipping sauce and remember,in some circles, calamari means "tastes good!"
Have a yummy week!
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CULLOWHEE, N.C. (AP) Georgia Southern totaled 614 yards on the ground as they beat Western Carolina in a Southern Conference showdown 45-13 Saturday.
The Eagles (4-1, 3-1) scored on their first two possessions. Darreion Robinson broke free for a 48-yard touchdown run and Dominique Swope ran it in from 5 yards to give Georgia Southern an early 14-0 lead. Robinson finished with 124 yards on 11 carries, and Swope rushed 20 times for 117 yards.
Western Carolina (1-5, 0-4) scored its first points of the game on Troy Mitchell's 11-yard run, cutting the lead to 14-6 at the end of the first.
Georgia Southern's defense dominated, and its running game continued to impress as the Eagles outscored Western Carolina 31-7 the rest of the way. William Banks and James Dean added 101 and 95 yards rushing, respectively, and two scores.
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There's been a bit of a languagexplosion in this household lately. Since my last monthly update post, Daniel has learned close to 50 new words! We had some fun this weekend trying to record him saying a few of them, and this is the result (mostly interesting to his grandparents, I reckon):
What new thing(s) have you or someone in your family learned lately?
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wow, Amy, your sweet boy is growing and learning so much! I miss you!ReplyDelete
I love this video, Tabor is in the same stage, it is easily my favorite so far! And then they exponentially develop when they learn they can communicate with us. So fun!ReplyDelete
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VIDEO: The Daily Zap for games played Feb. 13
Celtics' unclear outlook on roster | Nash opens up on career, more | Bulls 'unlikely' to make a trade soon | Report: Spurs eyeing Udrih? | Clips' Crawford still improving
No. 1: Celtics have unclear outlook for trade deadline — The Boston Celtics have some role players (like Brandon Bass, Kris Humphries and Gerald Wallace) and a superstar (Rajon Rondo) who might interest other teams come trade-deadline day on Feb. 20. But they also have a stockpile of future first-round picks and a general manager in Danny Ainge who is going to be shrewd about any deal he may (or may not) pull. All together, that means the situation for the Celtics' roster as it approaches the hubbub of trade talks is anything but clear, writes Mark Murphy of the Boston Herald:
But as much as the Celtics long to apply what went right during the last two weeks to their hopes when the season resumes next Wednesday in Phoenix, something here is blurry.
The trade deadline arrives on Feb. 20, a day after the Phoenix game and a day before the Celtics make their annual visit to the Lakers. Danny Ainge is more open to a deal than most general managers in the NBA right now, though his paramount goal is to stay under the luxury-tax threshold.
For that reason, don't expect a major name to don green anytime soon, though a few names may indeed leave.
According to a rival general manager, Ainge's perceived mission is to hold onto his nuclear stockpile of first-round draft picks — nine, possibly 10, in the next five years — and take back as little salary as possible.
"I don't watch TV. It's been like that my last eight years as a Celtic. There's only two guys who have been in rumors," Rajon Rondo said in apparent reference to Bass and Jeff Green. "It's just part of the game. We have a pretty young team, but we don't talk about the trades."
Indeed, some players predictably backed away from the discussion as if it was radioactive."Wrong person. I'm not the GM," said Gerald Wallace. "Wrong person. That's the pastor or the priest you want."
Long considered easily moved thanks to his expiring contract and value to a playoff team, Humphries said, "I don't know. You just enjoy the break and if you get that call, you get that call. Otherwise, it's see you Wednesday in Phoenix."
Celtics coach Brad Stevens admittedly has never prepared a team under the cloud cover of a trade deadline. But per usual, Stevens is all about that next game.
"Well, I want them to get rest," he said. "If they're dinged up I want them to get healthy, I want them to feel good when Monday rolls around or Tuesday rolls around, but at the same time I want them to continue to think about what makes us good and what makes it when we're not as good."
VIDEO: David Aldridge discusses which teams may or may not be looking to make deals
No. 2: Nash discusses nearing the end of his career — Two-time MVP Steve Nash has seen better days — especially since he became a Los Angeles Laker. Injuries have marred his stay in Hollywood and even when he has played, an inconsistent lineup this season (particularly the loss of Kobe Bryant to injury) combined with an overall rebuilding team has made the twilight of Nash's NBA days hard. Grantland.com's Bill Simmons has an interesting look at Nash, particularly as someone who is friends with the All-Star off the court, and has a great video in which Nash talks frankly about his career nearing its end:
Steve Nash wears no. 10 for the Lakers, but it's really 9.3. Next season, that turns into 9.7. Those are the numbers Lakers fans see. They see a walking cap figure.
Those numbers are part of following hoops in 2014, no different from knowing someone's stats, nicknames or shoe brands. You want to know what your team spends and how much it might be able to spend. Many times, that transforms players from human beings into salary pawns. I look at Gerald Wallace and think, $30.3 million through 2016. Knicks fans look at Amar'e Stoudemire and think, Off the cap summer after next. Phoenix fans see Emeka Okafor and think, $14.5 million, expiring, what can we get for him? Pistons fans look at Josh Smith and think, I have 54 million more reasons to handcuff Joe Dumars to a radiator in my basement.And Lakers fans look at Steve Nash and think, 9.3 this year, 9.7 next year.
Now, imagine you're me. You're sitting home on some random night watching hoops when the phone rings. It's one of the five or six best point guards who ever lived, a two-time MVP, one of the most entertaining players of the past 40 years. He's talking candidly, telling you about his myriad problems, vowing that he isn't done yet. And then he says he's been documenting this latest comeback with his production partner, Ezra Holland, and that 30 for 30's talented-and-then-some visionary Jon Hock had gotten involved,and that maybe Grantland could get involved, too. At that point, I was waiting for him to say "Baba Booey" and hang up. Nope.
No. 3: GM Paxson: Bulls 'unlikely' to make deadline moves — The name Carmelo Anthony has been batted about by some hopeful Chicago Bulls fans as a star player they hope their team will acquire. That conversation — and any others regarding the Bulls and trades — is likely to remain just that, hopeful, as Bulls general manager John Paxson said yesterday that Chicago isn't expected to be too busy in the coming days as trade deadline nears. Nick Friedell of ESPNChicago.com has more:
Bulls executive vice president John Paxson said Wednesday that it's "unlikely" the Bulls will make a move before the Feb. 20 trade deadline.
"We've got the trade deadline a week from now," Paxson said. "You have to put yourself in the other team's position — people don't just give up great players. So we obviously talk and keep our eyes and ears open, but to anticipate something's going to happen, I don't think that's likely, to be honest with you."
There has been plenty of speculation about a potential trade for the New York Knicks' Carmelo Anthony, but neither Paxson nor general manager Gar Forman made it seem as if a deal for Anthony, or any other star player, is in the offing over the next week.
"I think it's still early," Forman said. "But this time of year we're in contact with all 29 teams. You're trying to get a feel of what's going on in the landscape, what's going on around the league, and see if there are opportunities with other teams where it could be a win-win situation for both teams.
"Obviously at this point nothing's presented itself, but we'll continue to look at things for the next week till the deadline comes."
"With that said, we do think we're well-positioned going into the summer," Forman said. "We've got the possibility of a couple first-round picks. We've got the possibility of some flexibility. Like I've said all along, the core of guys that we have we like, so we think we're well situated going into the summer and into the future."
Forman said he is taking — and making — lots of calls this time of year.
"I think it's both," Forman said, when asked he was taking more calls or making them. "And I'm not trying to be evasive, but we'll make some calls to get a feel on some things that might be of interest to us and then we also receive a lot of calls on our players."
No. 4: Report: Spurs may try to re-acquire Udrih — Back in the 2004 Draft, the San Antonio was a year removed from its last championship run of '03 and were looking to add some point guard depth. With the 28th pick in that Draft, the Spurs took Slovenian guard Beno Udrih to serve as a backup for budding star Tony Parker. Udrih lasted three seasons in San Antonio before the team dealt his rights to the Minnesota Timberwolves and then, days later, signed a free-agent deal with the Sacramento Kings. Since then, Udrih has bounced about the league, making stops in Orlando, Milwaukee and now, New York. Marc Berman of the New York Post reports that the Spurs might try to get Udrih back in the fold before next week's trade deadline:
The defending Western Conference champion Spurs offered point guard Beno Udrih a chance to return to San Antonio this summer, but he declined, signing a free-agent deal instead with the Knicks.
Now that Mike Woodson has banished Udrih and he has asked for a trade, the Spurs might be a candidate for the Slovenian point guard who has two rings from his time in San Antonio.
Former Knicks general manager Scott Layden, now in the front office of San Antonio, was at Wednesday's game scouting the Knicks.
Woodson sat Udrih again, despite the fact J.R. Smith declined to play because of an ill-fitting mask and Iman Shumpert didn't play the second half because of a hip flexor problem.
Udrih did not play in his ninth straight game and for the 11th times in 12 games. His agent, Marc Cornstein, met with Udrih before Wednesday's game. The Wizards also have interest in Udrih.
No. 5: Clips veteran Crawford says his game is still maturing — After 14 seasons in the NBA, you'd think that Clippers shooting guard/crossover maven Jamal Crawford wouldn't be able to do much to improve his game. Most players that deep into their careers kind of are what they are, good, bad or indifferent. But in a great interview with BasketballInsider.com's Alex Kennedy, Crawford talks about how he's improving as his career continues, his Sixth Man of the Year Award hopes and his dreams of a championship:
"It's weird, but I feel like I'm still getting better," Crawford told Basketball Insiders with a laugh. "Now that I'm 14 years in, some people have been like, 'Why are you still playing?' A lot of guys start to plateau at that point or start to [decline], but I feel like I'm still getting better. I love the game of basketball. I'm entrenched in it every single day whether I'm playing it or watching it or talking basketball. For me, it's still fun. It's fun to work and see yourself get better. For me, I feel like I can do this for a very long time; God willing, no major injuries."
This season, Crawford is putting up numbers on par with the best seasons of his career. He's averaging 18.6 points, 3.3 assists and one steal, as well as the second-highest efficiency rating of his career (17.8). His 29.2 points per 48 minutes rank 12th in the NBA and second among shooting guards (behind only Houston's James Harden). Crawford is also one of the top clutch players in the league, averaging the third-most points per fourth quarter (6.7 points).
Crawford is the favorite to win this season's Sixth Man of the Year award, which would be his second Sixth Man trophy after winning it in 2010 as a member of the Atlanta. However, he's focused on a bigger goal: winning a championship.
"It would be a wonderful honor," Crawford said of winning the Sixth Man of the Year award. "Whenever you can get an award, I think it means that your team is successful and you're having a pretty good season with that. I'm not against it by any means at all, but I'm not playing for it. I'm just playing to win. I'm having fun playing basketball and learning more about the game from my coaches and teammates. It's still fun for me, especially to see improvement and to see how I can get better. I'm playing to win, and that's the only thing that really matters to me. Everything else that comes with it, I'll take it in stride. It would be a total team accomplishment. No matter what awards you win in the season, all that matters is winning the championship."
Crawford has been extremely impressed with Coach Doc Rivers and his staff, and he credits them for his success this year.
"He's been unbelievable," Crawford said of Rivers. "Watching him all of those years in Boston and even back in Orlando, I knew he was good, but you don't know how good he is until you're around him every single day. That's what we're experiencing with him now and he's unbelievable. … I worked really hard over the summer to improve, but I think a lot of it is that Doc has put me and my teammates in positions to be successful. I think I'm a much better player thanks to him and his staff, and a more well-rounded player as far as rebounding, defending, making plays and scoring; I think I'm the best player that I've ever been and there's a direct correlation between that and the arrival of Doc and his staff."
SOME RANDOM HEADLINES: Former Orlando Magic coach Stan Van Gundy likes Jazz swingman Gordan Hayward, but doesn't think he's a max-contract player … Great look at the 20 things we've learned so far in the season's first half … Kyrie Irving is ready to put on a show at All-Star weekend … In case anyone thought otherwise, ex-NBA swingman Raja Bell confirms he's officially retired … After a slow start to the season, Tim Duncan is warming up and hitting his stride …
ICYMI of The Night: If this dunk vs. the Lakers last night is any indication, Kevin Durant is all warmed up for showtime at the All-Star Game …
VIDEO: Kevin Durant gets loose on the break for a power jam


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by Paul Hyland
Copyright law has existed in this country for over two centuries, but changes that have occurred in just the past few years threaten to alter the entire balance between the creators and the consumers of content. Further proposals that are on the drawing board could make things even worse.
Existing law
Two important laws were passed by Congress and signed into law in 1998: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was intended to update copyright law to account for the new reality of digital technology, and to align U.S. law with recently ratified treaty of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), A United Nations agency. It is CPSR's opinion that the DMCA goes beyond what is required by the WIPO treaty. It makes illegal the creation, possession, or distribution of technology that could be used to circumvent access and copy protection technologies. It also contains language authorizing the collection of new royalties for digital music transmissions over the Internet, which threatens to eliminate most community and educational Internet radio stations. CPSR has commented on this law and on rulemaking since it was enacted, and has signed several amicus briefs in legal cases that threaten computer science research and technology innovation. Karen Coyle's piece, What the Copyright Office Got Wrong," discusses one such initiative.
The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) was named after the recently deceased champion of the legislation. This is the seventh time in 45 years that copyright terms have been extended, in a regular ritual some call Mickey Mouse copyright term extension acts (as they often appear when Disney's Mickey Mouse character is about to enter the public domain). CPSR contributed to a brief in the Eldred case, currently before the Supreme Court, that challenges this law. In general, copyrights are intended to be for limited terms; in the case of computer software, a 95-year term is particularly absurd.
Recent Proposals
The past several years have seen numerous proposals and initiatives in this area; below are a few of the more notable from 2002.
The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA), introduced earlier in 2002 by Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-SC), attempts to give the entertainment industry control over all digital media technology. Any device that can read or transmit digital media content is supposed to incorporate digital content management technology approved by a business consortium heavily dominated by Hollywood. While this seems to have little chance of passage, some opponents of entertainment industry excess have publicly stated that they might support a limited version targeting specific technologies agreed upon by industry. This appears to be the legislative proposal circulated by Rep. Billy Tauzin (D-LA) that I discuss below.
Rep. Howard Berman (D-Hollywood) recently introduced the P2P Piracy Prevention Act (H.R. 5211). This law essentially gives any copyright-holder the right to break any existing law while engaging in technological measures (such as hacking) in the course of protecting their content. They must give prior notice to the government, but there is no approval is required, and the government must keep secret any notice it receives. Large copyright holders sought this immunity in the counter-terrorism bills that greatly increased penalties for hacking, but the absurdity of equating file sharing to terrorism forced them to withdraw their bid that time. The chances of success are hopefully slim, but it's hard to tell.
Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) introduced the Internet Radio Freedom Act (H.R. 5285) which would fix some of the excesses in the DMCA as applied to community and educational radio -- defined in the legislation as small business radio stations with less than $6 million in revenues. This bill comes in response to onerous royalty and reporting requirements that were proposed by the Copyright Office's Copyright Arbitration and Royalty Panel, and approved in slightly amended form by the Librarian of Congress, under the authority of the DMCA. The Copyright Office's requirements far exceed the burden placed on traditional radio broadcasters, and threaten to kill much vital and creative streaming media programming that had proliferated in recent years.
At the other end of Pennsylvania Ave., the FCC has expressed interest in helping Hollywood ensure the protection of its intellectual property, in order to promote the release of more broadband entertainment content and thus the faster adoption of broadband Internet. The Department of Commerce held a roundtable meeting recently at which proponents of free software succeeded in being heard in spite of being left off of the agenda. And Congress encouraged the administration to more aggressively pursue violations of copyright law; the Justice Department responded favorably to the request, but there has been no sign of increased prosecutions yet.
Within the last few weeks, three bills have been circulated or introduced that seek to change policy regarding copyright or content protection. These bills have little chance of passage in this session of congress, but they give a good indication of where the debate will begin when the new session starts next year. In the article "Hollywood's Legislative Agenda: MPAA Wants to Plug the 'Analog Hole,'" Cory Doctorow describes efforts underway in Hollywood to implement a broadcast flag or other digital rights management identifier to control digital copying/use, and to "plug the analog hole" to prevent the recording of analog signals. After a series of closed-door roundtables, Rep. Tauzin circulated a draft bill to essentially implement the proposals of this process, which would require adding approved DRM to all analog-to-digital converters and would disallow analog inputs to digital recording devices after a certain date. This bill is similar to, but slightly more focused, than the Hollings bill, but almost as dangerous a limitation on technology and people's freedom to use it.
On October 3, two bills were introduced to undo some of the damage wrought by the DMCA. Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA) introduced the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act (H.R. 5544), which would require labeling of copy-protected digital content that might prevent fair use (or even any use in many devices), would enable reverse engineering and research on copyright-related technology, and would allow circumvention of copy and access protection technology for legal uses. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) introduced the Digital Choice and Freedom Act (H.R. 5522), which would restore fair use and first sale rights that have been limited recently for digital technologies, and clarify that circumvention of copy protection and access control technologies is legal unless done for illegal purposes (such as piracy). Both of these bills are consistent with CPSR's beliefs, and we may endorse them or otherwise work to support their passage.
CPSR is working with the Digital Future Coalition (http://www.dfc.org/) on supporting these two bills, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation has initiated action alerts encouraging people to mail their congresspersons in support of these bills as well (see http://action.eff.org/action/). The CPSR Intellectual Property page (http://www.cpsr.org/program/ip/) contains up-to-date information regarding news, organizations and resources covering this important issue.
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My question to you is, how do you manage your activities? Give me some advice. Throw me a lifeline, please...
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- Carol said...
Family first, hobbies next, laundry and clean dishes and food in the house next, dust bunnies - LAST!
Oh, no, make that enjoy life, FIRST. Practice NO GUILT. Hard for many of us ladies to do, that no guilt thingy!
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- Cynthia Shenette said...
Smart woman!
- October 15, 2010 at 10:34 AM
- Barbara Poole said...
I probably can't offer a good solution, because I am in the same boat, but minus a child. When we all started out doing our genealogy, there was no social media, our research was sometimes slower and we didn't share. Now, we all want to share, via fb, the blog and for a lot it is twitter. It is the social thing that takes the time. Why not cut back to writing a blog a week, and read blogs and make comments twice a week. Good luck with whatever you decide.
- October 15, 2010 at 10:40 AM
- Carol said...
Thought of another
Blog shorter pieces, maybe a photo and just a few words, will make you feel like you are still participating, but, not nearly as time consuming as some of our bio type posts which tend to take a lot of time to research and write.
No Twitter for this gal, I know I would become obsessed, and that is one thing I (for the time being) have sworn to not do. Might be missing a lot, but, I am not going to try to find the time for that as well. That is one way I have managed my time, NO MORE ADDICTIONS!
Now, if you believe that, I have some swamp land in Florida for sale, I really do! LOL
I have new phone, well over a week, have not had time to figure out stuff, no time to read the book, it is a Smart phone, and believe me, smarter than I am. Maybe next week I'll find some time??
- October 15, 2010 at 12:31 PM
- Brenda said...
I wrote on this same thing a little while ago. I do find my blog helps me organize my research, so I have found 3 posts a week manageable, but I am an empty nester! Of course, my fallback post is always Wordless Wednesday. I believe in family first, always. My son always told me 'don't sweat the small stuff' when I would get frazzled.
- October 15, 2010 at 12:33 PM
- Nolichucky Roots said...
Know that if you don't get it done this week, or even this year, there's time to come. There's a reason so many of us are empty nesters. Frankly, I'm in awe you manage a post a month.
One other thought. Since you can't increase the hours in the day, stretch out your to-dos. If the goal is one research project - give it 2 months instead of 1. You can try feeding your family every other day, but not sure how successful that will be.
And beds really don't need to be made.
- October 15, 2010 at 1:21 PM
- Greta Koehl said...
I have one child in college, one child still at home. Young children still need the most time, but older ones, even away from home, still need time, too. So they and husband come first as far as giving attention is concerned. I work full-time, so evenings and weekends have to serve for all other activities. No Twitter here, Facebook rather limited, but I do try to keep up with e-mail, especially since a lot of it is genealogy related. Just enough housework and other chores to get by. Pets, gardening, feeding birds in yard. And the rest is split up between genealogy and blogging. The blog works well as "cousin bait" and reading other blogs and interacting with other bloggers is fun and educational, so genea-blogging is definitely worthwhile, but it can be time-consuming (especially those best of/picks/follow posts), so I have to be able to let it go when other things (including genealogy!) get intense. (I also wrote on this subject about a year ago - we all seem to end up in that crazy time squeeze.) (Also, NR is right about beds - why make the bed when you're just going to mess it up again?)
- October 15, 2010 at 10:06 PM
- Jasia said...
Embrace and get comfortable with the challenge of it all... raising children, having a happy if not clean home, and enough hobbies to make life entertaining.
The older I've gotten the more I need to focus on one thing to make progress rather than multi-task. I used to resent that but now I've come to a comfortable acceptance. It makes advanced planning of my time all the more necessary though.
On the social media thing... any new thing you add to your day will take time away from what you're already doing. Try Twitter so that you know what it's about and then pick one to stick with, FB or Twitter. Honestly, most of the genealogy bloggers repost on both platforms and if you're like me all that redundancy will drive you nuts. I tried both and though I still have my Twitter account active I only check it once a month or so. I only post and read FB on a more frequent basis. That works for me!
Don't stop blogging! But find a sustainable pace for yourself so you don't become burned out like I did. It's hard to get back into the blogging habit once you've let yourself get lazy ;-)
- October 16, 2010 at 6:01 AM
- Cynthia Shenette said...
Thank you all for your advice!
Much food for thought here as to scheduling/organizing my genealogy activities. I'm a relative newbie, so I'm still trying to figure out how to prioritize and pace myself. It's all a learning process.
One thread that seems common to almost everyone is not to worry about housework. I definately think I'll consider that one. Though given that I have a messy little boy, a somewhat messy husband, and four animals I wonder how long I'll stick with it. Actually, the more I think about it, the happier I am to let that one go... ;)
- October 18, 2010 at 10:10 AM
- Claudia's Genealogy Blog said...
I have to agree, first comes the home and family, then my job. With the time left over I will blog, and sometime I am just to tired to post. Or perhaps I did not find any new information.
Research usually happens on weekends, if I go to the library. Or online it occurs in the evenings or my days off.
- October 22, 2010 at 4:05 PM
- Life Goes On said...
As for me, family first , keeping enough food in the house so I don't strave me or hubby. I do like a made bed and clean sink but to heck with the dust. Where else would I write my notes. My genealogy and blogs and internet business all share my time. I need to get more organized on these three though. Now to find some time to read the pile of books by my bed.
- October 27, 2010 at 6:14 PM


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Baked Egg with Roasted Cherry Tomatoes, 3 Cheeses & Pesto-Bread
Sort of a crustless mini-quiche, this baked egg dish combined cubed day-old ciabatta mixed with pesto, roasted cherry tomatoes and zucchini, three different cheeses (I just couldn't decide), and a beaten farm fresh egg with a little half & half. It was the perfect rustic summer dinner! It was so delicious, I may have to make it again this evening!
Here's the super easy recipe for one:
1 slice day old ciabatta bread, cut into cubes
1 tsp pesto
1/2 cup organic cherry tomatoes
1/2 zucchini, sliced on the bias and cut in half
olive oil
balsamic vinegar
sea salt
black pepper
1 TBS grated Emmentaler
1 tsp feta
1 TBS fresh mozzarella, cut into tiny cubes
1 farm fresh egg
1 tsp half & half
Combine the cubed bread with the pesto and set aside. Heat the oven to 400 and roast the tomatoes and zucchini with a tiny amount of olive oil and a drip of balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper. Cook until the tomatoes are splitting (15-20 minutes).
Combine the pesto bread cubes and tomatoes and zucchini and cheeses in a cute oven proof dish. Whisk the egg and half & half, add salt and pepper and pour over the other ingredients, pressing them down so they are almost covered with the egg mixture.
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"We cut down on these guy's space for awhile. They spread hay all over and pee on the floor. Yuk. Maybe less floor space and more litter area will help.' - RG the Desperate.
Sunday, January 27, 2013
"We cut down on these guy's space for awhile. They spread hay all over and pee on the floor. Yuk. Maybe less floor space and more litter area will help.' - RG the Desperate.
23 comments:
- brandi said...
It won't help. I have tried more space, less space, more litter, less litter, assortment of litters...They still pee on the floor, which is why I put them in the breakfast nook area of the kitchen on the ceramic tile instead of in the dining room on the hardwood floor. My little lionhead and her honey bunny the Jersey Woolly have great potty habits, but Minnie the lop must have some French lop in her because she is noisy, a little neurotic and..just..nuts! She pees anywhere she damned well pleases, thank you very little.
Something I tried to help keep them from tossing their hay all over the universe is to give them smaller amounts throughout the day. I use a little ceramic planter to stuff full of hay and WILL NOT give them more until they have eaten all of it up, even the stuff they spread around the floor. And they DO finish it all, then get more hay. They LOVE getting a new pile of hay in their container. This has also made them better hay eaters. They never finished it before I had to clean up if I gave them unlimited hay for the day. Now they eat and eat hay and I can really monitor their eating and pooping. Three different sized rabbits, three sizes of poops!
Whooo, sorry this was so long! The subject of hay is fascinating...my life is so dull...I should rob a bank or something!
- January 27, 2013 at 9:21 PM
- brandi said...
Oh, and peeing on the ceramic floor has its good side...you can monitor for urine sludge and pretty much tell how much calcium they are getting in their diet...so...there IS that! And here is a shameless plug here for Sherwood Forest Natural Rabbit Food, which I buy for my babies, but since they have been on it, there is NO ammonia smell from their urine, which kinda smells like green tea now. So, their urine doesn't bother me too much. Even if I don't clean it well, there is no stinkiness.
okokok I am done now...
- January 27, 2013 at 9:27 PM
- Auntie Jane (It is official!) said...
Do the individuals in a bonded pair sometimes just want to mark out some individual territory sometimes? Is one or the other or both just being a little more defensive for a time? Could there be health issues? Is this new behavior? Let's figure this out, Bunny People. And, don't anyone say KB is hopping over and framing them. Could the each want their own litter box? RG, what you are doing sounds like a sensible adjustment. Maybe you can expand their space again later.
- January 27, 2013 at 10:26 PM
- SixBunnies said...
I have four bunns... two married couples. I call them the big bunns (Luna and Jamal) and the fuzzballs (Cooper and Ding). Cooper and Ding have wonderful litter box habits ... so good in fact that when Ding digs everything out of the litter box, Cooper will still hop up in the box to pee and then gets soaked with pee pee all over his fuzzy self (he's a very fine haired Holland Lop ... white of course ... which is now stained yellow on the bottom ... ugh!) Ding just started this horrible habit... So, I have no idea how to stop litter box digging ... any ideas?
Jamal and Luna have no litter box habits. They pee and poo wherever they want, too ... Jamal is a Fancy French Harlequin and Luna is a large white Himalayan.
What I did notice is that when Cooper and Ding are housed across the house from Luna and Jamal and Luna and Jamal have the entire sunroom, they don't pee and poo outside the box so much ... no territory marking.
When the two pairs are in the sunroom with fence down the middle... that middle fence is in bad shape ... it's peed and pood to pieces ... and there is pulled out hair everywhere ...
So, I'm not any help with the actual problem because I have more problems ... but at least you know you aren't alone!
- January 28, 2013 at 6:42 AM
- SixBunnies said...
By the way, Zoey and Chico are certainly not cramped up by any stretch... they look quite happy! And, cute!
- January 28, 2013 at 6:44 AM
- brandi said...
6B, you can get a litter box screen. I think BinkyBunnyStore has them.
- January 28, 2013 at 7:12 AM
- speedyrabbit said...
I would give them another litter box and put it where they pee the most that should sort it out as they are not liking teh current litter box spot as for digging well thats what bunnies do
- January 28, 2013 at 9:04 AM
- Christina said...
No input here whatsoever. 9 buns=I clean constantly.
- January 28, 2013 at 9:15 AM
- Rabbits' Guy said...
Well - so far I see that if we finds something that works I should write a book and become rich and famous!
Glad we are all in this together.
- January 28, 2013 at 9:17 AM
- SixBunnies said...
I have followed Jamal and Luna around with litter boxes and it doesn't matter ... they pee everywhere... They do favor certain places. I honestly thought of just getting a huge plastic child pool and filling it up with those wood pellets at the bottom and a bout a bale of hay and just hauling it out and dumping it once per week ... but it won't fit in and out of the door ... and they would find some way to pee over the edge or get in behind it and pee in the corner. I used to have two of those huge under the bed plastic boxes about 30 x 36 used for litter boxes ... they slept in them and peed on the floor. I would move them from wall to wall and corner to corner ... no luck. Crazy bunnies...
I did, however, just Friday of last week, buy a whole bunch of quality puppy training pads and lined their area with them. I fully anticipated a freakish fit of anger with bunnies ripping and tearing the pads to shreds ... but happily, they have moved a couple but for the the most part, they have chosen one or two and poo and pee on those and leave the others pretty much alone ... I am waiting to call a success because I haven 't been in the bunny room since Friday ( I hired Daughter to come home from college and stay with bunns this weekend )and do not have an eye witness report. Daughter said they pretty much left them alone ... but I want to see it with my own eyes!
I am going to our local farm supply and getting three of those 4x6 foot rubber mats for horse stalls and cutting them to fit the sunroom, this weekend. As, the concrete flooring is too cold and not bunny foot friendly. I have been putting blankets and towels over every inch to protect feetsies.... but my washing machine is complaining! So rubber mats it is! With puppy pads on top to absorb mistakes. I will report how this works. The rubber mats are about an inch thick and softy... so the bunns should approve... hahahahha... that last part about the approval was a joke ...
- January 28, 2013 at 10:14 AM
- brandi said...
Be careful with puppy pads, if they start chewing, TAKE THEM OUT. Talk about a big blob of tummeh blockage! I have given up on using towels, linens, blankies...My washing machine was complaining, too. And Minnie can shred a rag to ribbons lickety split. So...I am using only boxes. IF they get cold, they have their boxes to snuggle inside.
I just refilled their water crock and I dipped my fingers into the pitcher and made it sprinkle for them. They love when it sprinkles!
- January 28, 2013 at 11:59 AM
- SixBunnies said...
Yeah... that's what worried me about the puppy pads. I think with the inch thick rubber mats, I won't need the pads... If a pee pee happens ... and it WILL happen, I can wipe it up... I hope with no residual odors ...
I am also considering trying the food you said made the pee smell less like a cat box ... Mine eat quite a lot of veg, too, though, and I'm afraid that might also cause the odor... but anything is worth a try.
- January 28, 2013 at 12:16 PM
- SixBunnies said...
I just need to find somebody strong enough to maneuver those heavy pads. My son is coming home tomorrow night... I'll put him to work cutting and fitting!
- January 28, 2013 at 12:17 PM
- Crafty Green Poet said...
Oh dear, the golden couple causing trouble, hope you can sort it all out,
- January 28, 2013 at 1:15 PM
- brandi said...
I don't think the veg has anything to do with the ammonia smell. My bunns eat greens, veg, fruit and oats, too. Something in the pellets makes the urine stinky.
- January 28, 2013 at 1:51 PM
- SixBunnies said...
I looked on the website for those pellets and there are an awful lot of breeders selling bunnies on that site ... doggone it!
- January 28, 2013 at 1:53 PM
- brandi said...
Yeah, breeders suck bunny balls for sure. Or they should be made to, anyway. But I feel that way about ANY kind of breeder, birds, bunnies, dogs, cats, hamsters...All the homeless creatures and we allow people to just keep making more. Dumbassery abounds in America! But you can't count on folks to breed themselves responsibly, so what can we expect from people who let animals breed like, well, animals?
- January 28, 2013 at 4:02 PM
- Auntie Jane (It is official!) said...
Thanks for taking care of bunnies. I know you all will eventually come up with something fantastic and that you will share with no expectation of remuneration. You all are too smart not to come up with something for the servants.
- January 28, 2013 at 6:31 PM
- RoadBunner said...
Good luck with that!! I used to wipe up the urine and then throw the paper towel into the litter box so the rabbit would get the idea.
- January 28, 2013 at 7:42 PM
We trained our buck to use the litterbox in 8 days with a clicker and treats. We used a plastic box with a folded soft towel in it. This is because our other bunn, an English Angora like Zoey, was older and her litterbox is the same, keeps her comfy and tidy. There were no other bunns, though, in the house. Both bunns are neutered. I washed the towels every other day after shaking out the poops, but refolded them daily. For the hay box, I lined it with a a puppy pad (they never chewed it) and a layer of paper towels over the pad, then hay. They used both the towel box and hay box for both poop and pee, exclusively. Hope this helps!
- January 29, 2013 at 10:42 AM
- Auntie Jane (It is official!) said...
Folded towel sound s great. Folks, keep your ideas coming.
- January 29, 2013 at 12:06 PM
- Michelle May said...
No input here. The "H's" are really good about going to the potty. Harrington will get a wild hare and dig out all the litter sometimes, but only when he's bored with the toy selection.
Good luck.
- January 30, 2013 at 7:02 AM
- Michelle said...
Mine have a HUGE cage on a tile floor. That way, it doesn't bother me if they pee as a little hot water with some vinegar in it (works like bleach but very safe for rabbits and the smell evaporates in 2 minutes( and it's cleaned up.
Personally, I give them as much space as I can as I think it's cruel to have rabbits in tiny spaces.
I have two rabbits and their cage is around 12 feet by 6 feet. It has 4 plastic chairs in it, which they LOVE to sit on, 2 big plastic boxes, an open cage with 2 storeys and a little box. It's in my bedroom so HAS to be cleaned daily but never smells if I do that.
They also are allowed free-rein of my apartment during the day, although they usually run around for a few minutes and then lie under the sofa for the rest of the day. Again though, I have tile floors throughout so cleaning takes a few minutes and I do it every day.
- February 17, 2013 at 10:14 PM


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Tonight's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun finds me in front of a fire in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, contemplating the question ...
1) If you won the grand prize in the Ancestry.com Ultimate Family History Journey Sweepstakes of $20,000 for genealogy travel to places of your choice, where would you go, and what would you do?
2) Tell us of your dream genealogy trip using the prize money in a blog post of your own, in a comment to this post, or in a comment on Facebook.
Okay.. I can't justify some serious bling in the name of genealogy so I begin my second favorite internet activity ... shopping for bargin air fare to the U.K. Wait! I have twenty thousand smack-olas so why am I looking at flying coach? I'm not sure I can totally justify the cost of upgrade to Business Class but having the extra leg room on my flight from Chicago to London is much appreciated.
After enjoying a traditional first night in London meal at Cafe Uno near Carnaby Street, I head off to East Anglia and research on my Clarke family line. While I am there, I will enjoy time spent at Bury St Edmonds, the site of RAF Rattlesden Airfield. Originally designated as a satellite for RAF Bury St. Edmunds during WWII, the airfield was assigned to the 3rd Bomb Wing which controlled most of the USAAF assigned airfields in Suffolk. In June 1943 it was decided that the airfield was suited for B-26 and finally the 447th Bombardment Group (Heavy) of the Eighth Air Force. The crew that included my uncle Lee Bergeron was among the first of 447th B-17 Flying Fortresses that arrived at Rattlesden from America.
From East Anglia, I will head up to Lancashire and spent time researching my Hornby and Howard family lines. Then up to Rochdale for Jones family research before my U.K. research quest continues north looking for the elusive Armstrong family lines.
Back on American soil my traveling companion (Mom) and I make a road trip to Pennsylvania for research in Clarion and Luzerne counties. As long as we are in the neighborhood, we will certainly spend an afternoon at Space Farm and Zoo; founded by a descendant of Peter Space, the brother of the progenitor of my Space line, John.
This is truly a dream come true ... wait. What?? You mean this isn't really my moment in the sun and only a dream?
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(Boston, Mass. – June 18, 2010) – Unhealthy air quality is predicted for northwestern Connecticut and western Massachusetts due to ground-level ozone on Saturday June 19, 2010. Air quality is forecast to improve on Sunday.
"We are expecting that on Saturday, some parts of New England will experience unhealthy air quality," said Curt Spalding, regional administrator of EPA's New England office. "When we have elevated levels of smog, EPA and the medical community suggest that people limit strenuous outdoor activity."
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Because of the way the Affordable Care Act (often referred to as Obamacare) has come forward, Utah faces two serious problems that the governor and the Legislature can solve together in a spirit of principled pragmatism.
The first problem raises a question of fairness, the second a question of finances. Both can be addressed by authorizing Utah's governor to negotiate a sensible expansion of Medicaid in order to help our neediest neighbors while recouping Utah taxpayer dollars now flowing to Washington.
A hole in the safety net
The Deseret News has long expressed grave concern for how the unrestrained growth of entitlement programs threatens our nation's finances. We have consistently opposed the monstrous overreach and complexity of the Affordable Care Act.
But we have also acknowledged the need for a meaningful social safety net to catch those whose basic needs exceed what family and charity care can practically provide.
In the same 2012 decision that affirmed the constitutionality of the ACA, the Supreme Court invalidated a requirement that every state expand its Medicaid to cover everyone whose income falls below 133 percent of the poverty line. Utah, like many states, has exercised its right to pause and evaluate the costs and benefits associated with what was originally mandated Medicaid expansion.
In the meantime other aspects of the ACA have moved forward, including the extension of subsidies to those whose income is between 100 and 400 percent of the poverty line.
The resulting cruel irony is that more than 50,000 of Utah's poorest adults — specifically those below the poverty line who don't otherwise qualify for traditional Medicaid — are without any health care support while better-off workers now enjoy substantial health care subsidies. Moreover, prior programs to help hospitals recoup the costs of uncompensated care extended to these poor have been abandoned under the ACA.
Some of the best analysts in the state have wrestled with how to mend this gaping hole in our health care safety net, exploring, among other things, partial expansion of Medicaid and a more organized system of charitable care. As we have scrutinized the many different proposals and considered their feasibility, we have reluctantly come to the conclusion that the surest, soundest and fairest way to fill this hole is to expand Medicaid to, at the very least, all those below the federal poverty line.
Utah taxpayers are already paying
Many advocates of such expansion have emphasized the attractive cost-sharing — 90 percent federal, 10 percent state — that is freely available to the state if it expands Medicaid to those making 133 percent of the federal poverty line. We, however, find that the cost-sharing arrangement fails to provide the most compelling financial argument for expanding Medicaid. Frankly, we remain skeptical about the long-term viability of any of the ACA's commitments.
Nonetheless, there is one simple financial reason to expand Medicaid. It stems from what remains all-too-certain about the ACA, and that is how dearly the act already costs Utah's taxpayers.
In 2012, the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation found that between 2013 and 2022, U.S. taxpayers will pay more than $1 trillion in new health care taxes. Extrapolating proportionally by population from that national report would suggest that Utahns could send more than $9.5 billion in new ACA taxes to Washington through 2022, or nearly $1 billion per year.
The governor and the Legislature should do everything possible to keep as many of Utah's ACA tax dollars here in Utah. Expanding Medicaid to Utah's neediest adults is the most straightforward way to accomplish this. Expanded Medicaid coverage will not only satisfy what seems to us a vital humanitarian obligation, but analyses we trust suggest the potential for Medicaid expansion to act as an investment in improved health outcomes. Properly administered, Medicaid expansion should increase access to preventive and primary care, thereby driving down uncompensated costs for costly emergency room visits and crisis intervention.
Mending the safety net in a timely and sensible way will require giving the governor some flexibility. In a recent meeting with our editorial board, the governor has publicly committed to pressing for a variety of sensible modifications such as work requirements, allowing subsidization of private plans and so-called "circuit breaker" provisions that would allow the state to opt-out if federal commitments changed.
Given the fiscal irresponsibility of Washington, we sympathize with those who have a principled opposition to any expansion of federal powers, especially under the banner of Obamacare. But the patchwork of health care programs for the poor that is called Medicaid has been an integral part of Utah's social safety net for more than four decades. A modest expansion of this state-administered program with negotiated improvements to meet the unmet needs of the poor would be a far cry from the excesses and ineptitudes of the novel elements in the new health care law.
Utahns pay both state and federal taxes, and they benefit from federal cost-sharing in myriad ways as they grow transportation infrastructure, improve public safety and expand schools and universities. There are instances when the restrictions attached to federal funds may outweigh their benefit and the state should deny them. However, as long as Utahns are required to shoulder hundreds of millions of dollars of new Obamacare taxes, rejecting a cost-sharing plan that address the unmet health needs of the poor does not make sense. Given these concerns, the Legislature should empower the governor to negotiate a reasonable expansion of the state's Medicaid program.


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Visual Studio is no longer simply an IDE, no longer a place you go just to write and debug C/C++ code. It has long since become something of a development mashup. It's where you go to tackle any task in the development process, regardless of the target.
It's where you head to do your LightSwitch development, your SQL Server development, your Web application development, your Windows Azure development, and your ASP.Net or Windows Forms development in C#, F#, VB.Net, and - oh, yes - good old Visual C++. Naturally, it's where you build applications for Azure and Windows RT.
That's not all. With the new Visual Studio 2012, you have to start wondering what you don't do in Visual Studio 2012. It's not the Master Control Program by a long shot ... but it's trying.
As with earlier releases of Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2012 is available in several editions. The Express editions are, of course, free. Whereas some of the non-free editions target QA and Team Managers, the Express editions are intended specifically for developers:
Express 2012 for Web. Aimed at Web developers, this version provides tools for HTML5 and JavaScript, with particular attention paid to jQuery. It also includes a CSS editor that understands CSS3. For server-side code, you can develop ASP.Net or MVC framework applications in any of the .Net languages.
Express for Windows Desktop. This version of Express caters to the more traditional developer, one employing the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Forms, or the tried-and-true Win32 libraries. This edition also supports the creation of Windows 8 Store applications.
Express for Windows 8. Provides a trimmed-down IDE specifically for creating Window Store applications using either HTML5 and JavaScript or XAML plus C#, VB.Net, or C++. This Express edition also includes the Blend tool for UI construction.
The top of the Visual Studio 2012 line is the Ultimate edition, which is the version I tested. Ultimate installs enough gigabytes (about 10GB on my system) of development tools and libraries and documentation to occupy a person for a lifetime. You can target any of the platforms mentioned in the above list of Express editions, and you'll find support for all the .Net languages. Plus, Ultimate edition includes modeling, lifecycle management, testing, and development team management tools.
Next, there's the Premium Edition, meant primarily for agile development teams. It includes tools for task planning and development workflow. The Professional edition is meant for small development teams, and it includes tools for building applications on the Windows desktop, the Web, in the Azure cloud, and even Windows-supported mobile devices.
The Test Professional edition is obviously intended for QA team members. It incorporates tools for managing tests and test plans, executing tests, and analyzing test results.
It is not possible to cover all of the features of Visual Studio 2012. This article will concentrate on those new features developers are likely to be interested in. Even then, it will be a challenge to do the IDE justice. Details for all the editions - their intended users, as well as a comparison of features provided as well as omitted - can be found at Microsoft's Visual Studio website.
Building Windows Store apps
In such a broad panorama of editions, target platforms, and target applications, it is difficult to identify a sole, outstanding, key new component of Visual Studio 2012. However, it is safe to assert that -- given the proximity of the release of Visual Studio 2012 with the release of Windows 8 -- the new IDE's support of the new operating system is at the top of the list.
Windows 8 presents a new kind of application: the Windows Store application (sometimes just called a Windows 8 app). Originally referred to as a Metro Style application, a Windows Store app or Windows 8 app is a "whole screen" application that runs on Windows 8 or Windows RT. It is not composed of multiple, overlapping windows (which is a bit weird given that it's running on an OS called Windows). The user interface of a Windows 8 app is clearly optimized for finger or stylus input, but can employ mouse or keyboard. The display surface is partitioned into a grid of tessellated rectangular regions, and the fundamental onscreen object is a tile, rather than an icon. On the startup screen of Windows 8, of course, the applications themselves appear as tiles.
You construct a Windows Store app using several language combinations, typically a language pair. A pair of languages is needed because the application code consists of both front-end and back-end components. The front-end (display) component is defined using a declarative language like XAML or HTML5; the back end (execution logic) executes in a procedural (or object-oriented) language such as C# or C++.
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Say hello to the World's tiniest camera. At at just 1mm-wide, 1mm long, and 1.5mm tall, it's smaller than a typical match head, and it lives on a single silicon chip.
Portuguese image sensor developer Awaiba created the tiny camera, named the NanEye 2B, for use in the medical industry. NanEye 2B draws only 1.8 volts of electric current, and can take "clear and sharp" 250 by 250-pixel pictures. As you may have guessed, this lilliputian digital camera won't be hitting stores anytime soon; instead, it will be put to use delving into human bodies in the name of science.
Awaiba sees the NanEye 2B being used for a variety of medical purposes, including dental imaging and medical endoscopy, and it could even be used to give surgical robots a boost.
IEEE Spectrum has posted an interview with Awaiba CEO Martin Wäny, which provides more information on the company and this camera. If you prefer the full geeky rundown of the NanEye 2B, head on over to the full specs sheet (PDF) on the Awaiba site.
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The supplemental visitation adjustment of the Kansas Child Support Guidelines provides no authority to increase a noncustodial parent's child support obligation based solely upon the noncustodial parent's failure to exercise visitation or spend quality time with a minor child.
Appeal from Johnson District Court; JANICE D. RUSSELL, judge. Opinion filed May 17, 2002. Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded with directions.
Paul D. Barnett, appellant pro se.
No appearance by the appellee.
Before KNUDSON, P.J., BEIER and JOHNSON, JJ.
KNUDSON, J.: Paul D. Barnett appeals the district court's modification of child support. On appeal, Barnett contends the court erred in calculating monthly child support and limiting retroactive application of the modification.
Previously, Barnett had been ordered to pay child support of $441 to Lynelle Cusimano for two children. In anticipation of the parties' eldest child becoming an adult, Cusimano filed a motion to modify child support. After an evidentiary hearing on April 20, 2000, the hearing officer entered an order of $441 monthly child support for the remaining minor. In the order, the hearing officer found: "Nor has [Barnett] exercised physical visitation with the children in three years which puts an additional financial burden on [Cusimano]." In the hearing officer's completed child support worksheet, a $200 upward supplemental adjustment was entered as a result of Barnett's failure to exercise visitation. Barnett's motion for reconsideration was denied, and he appealed the judgment to Judge Janice D. Russell.
Judge Russell reduced the monthly child support obligation to $288 with the order to be retroactive to March 1, 2001. Judge Russell's order for support was based upon a worksheet that included a $75 upward supplemental adjustment as a result of Barnett's failure to exercise visitation.
Barnett contends the trial court lacked legal authority to increase child support based upon his lack of visitation. This issue requires interpretation of the Kansas Child Support Guidelines (Administrative Order No. 128 [2001 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 97]) (guidelines). Section V.E.2 of the guidelines permits a reduction of the noncustodial parent's support obligation based upon the amount of time a child is with the noncustodial parent. 2001 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 109-10. There is no authority within the guidelines to increase the noncustodial parent's child support obligation through an upward adjustment under the supplemental visitation category based solely upon the noncustodial parent's failure to exercise visitation or spend quality time with a minor child. We conclude the district court erred in providing for a $75 upward visitation adjustment to Barnett's net parental child support obligation.
Barnett next contends the district court abused its discretion in failing to give retroactive application to its order from April 20, 2000. Judicial discretion is abused only when no reasonable person would take the view adopted by the district court.
K.S.A. 2001 Supp. 60-1610(a)(1) provides, in material part, that "[t]he court may make a modification of child support retroactive to a date at least one month after the date that the motion to modify was filed with the court." This quoted language certainly contemplates the district court's exercise of discretion.
Judge Russell was faced with an extended timeline in deciding Barnett's appeal. The hearing officer had heard the case a full year before Judge Russell entered a final order. Most, if not all, of the delay was the fault of Barnett. Under the circumstances shown, we conclude the district court did not abuse its discretion in providing for retroactive application from March 1, 2001.
In summary, Barnett's monthly child support obligation is reduced to $213 retroactive from March 1, 2001. Upon remand, a supplemental journal entry should be prepared and filed consistent with the decision of this court.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. –Following an outstanding display at the Engineer's Cup meet over the weekend, senior Hazel Briner was honored as the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Women's Field Athlete of the Week on Monday. Briner helped the Cardinal and Gray capture its sixth straight victory in the annual competition with RPI and WPI in convincing fashion. The Engineers recorded 217 team points to finish more than 90 points ahead of runner-up RPI (124.5).
Briner displayed her versatility for the Cardinal and Gray, competing in six events, two on the track and four in the field, and accounting for 25 points on her own. Briner won the 400m hurdles with a time of 1:07.82 and took second place in the long jump (16-2.25 feet) and pole vault (11-7.75 feet). Briner's runner-up performance in the pole vault was good enough to provisionally qualify for the NCAA Championship. Briner also scored in the shot put (4th), javelin (6th) 400m hurdles (1st) and 100m hurdles (5th).


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So yeah... I think you have an older version of After Effects? I've been trying to step through this and you lose me at about "changing the color of the mask". >>; What you say should be there (the menu for changing the colors) simply isn't. I'm running After Effects 6.5.1 Pro... is your version different? If so, do you know how to continue on after you've made the mask in 6.5.1 pro?Ashyukun wrote:
Wow. That's quite a write up, E-ko. You should (if you haven't already) write that up as a guide.
When I do rotoscoping of characters into other series and such (WLtFO, Samurai Windu) I tend to do it entirely in After Effects using its internal masking capabilities. This has both its advantages and its disadvantages. Disclaimer: I'm writing this up from memory, I don't have a computer with AE in front of me, so hopefully I won't screw things up too badly. Also note the keys I talk about are the PC shortcut keys... I imagine they're similiar on a Mac, but I don't know for sure ... I'd also advise reading through all of this before trying it...
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Will any of the four finalists board the Hot Tamale Train on the So You Think You Can Dance finale?
"Not everybody can be on that train," judge Mary Murphy, who coined the term, tells TVGuide.com. "It usually happens after really fast numbers, usually something very Latin-y, very spicy, very hot. They have to dance it with a lot of passion and all the sexiness that somebody can bring to the table. Usually it just comes flying out of my mouth. You can't coerce it out of me."
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Of the finalists, only ballet dancers Eliana Girard and Chehon Wespi-Tschopp have scored tickets for the train. Whether or not contemporary-jazz hoofer Tiffany Maher or self-taught "animation" dancer Cyrus Spencer will join them on Tuesday's finale (8/7c, Fox) remains to be seen. But now that, for the first time in nine seasons, So You Think You Can Dance will crown two winners, the more important question is this: Who will America choose as their favorite male and female dancers?
Murphy thinks it's anybody's game. Below, she breaks down the strengths and appeal of the Final 4:
Tiffany: "She hasn't fallen down into the bottom once yet, so she definitely has the likability factor, the girl-next-door looks. She's just a little, teeny ball of fire. Her energy level is extraordinary."
Eliana: "Eliana has one of the best techniques we've seen. This girl has legs for days. For a ballet dancer, she came with quite a bit of passion to the table already ready to go. Usually we kind of have to work on the ballet girls to bring it and to get loose and to get down ... She has it all. She has been strong from the get-go. She's been nothing but at the very top of the game.
Chehon: "Chehon is very strong in technique. We haven't seen a ballet dancer like him in a long time on this show ... He came without strong performance [skills]. This kid's been down in the bottom a few times, but we saved him because we were praying that at some point that he'd be able to tear that wall down and have that performance. And thank goodness he did, and thank goodness people have kept him out of danger, even when we had no say in it anymore. So we were thrilled about that."
Cyrus: "I'm not sure I dreamed that he would be here at the end of the day. He's been certainly inspirational. I think to myself, 'How did this kid do it? How did he cope with the choreography, learning all of these weeks?' But he does it, he gets through it. He is leading people. His partnering skills have been so magnificent. He's been doing insane lifts ... he's got heart, soul and determination. He's not afraid to put himself out there. I think what's so appealing to a lot of people is the fact that he is willing to do that and is conquering a lot of things along the way."
The Season 9 finale of So You Think You Can Dance airs on Tuesday, 8/7c on Fox. Who do you think should win? Vote in the poll below:
Additional reporting by Natalie Abrams


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