text:
South Dakotans, Others Taking to Twitter to Kvetch about Shutdown
(NPN) – The halls of Congress and the nation's airwaves are not the only places where partisans and citizens argue about the federal government shutdown. The "Twitterverse," and in particular, the South Dakota subset, is also alive with debate, strong statements, complaints—and some instances, just plain silliness.
South Dakota's three members of Congress (or at least their staffs) haven't been shy about blasting 140 character shots at their opponents' party.
Tuesday, Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) (@SenJohnsonSD) twittered, "The House chose ideology over responsible governing last night by refusing to vote on the Senate-passed clean CR to fund the government."
Meanwhile, his Senate colleague, Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) (@SenJohnThune) took to the Twitterverse Thursday to bemoan the defeat of one of his initiatives dealing with at least part of the shutdown.
"Senate Dems chose to block my common-sense request to fund Nat'l Guard & Reserves. My statement: http://1.usa.gov/19kl62M #shutdown," Sen. Thune twittered.
Over in the House, Rep. Kristi Noem (R-S.D.) (@KristiNoem), one of her tweets Thursday got personal.
"Seriously, Mr. President? Why is denying memorial access to veterans a sudden priority? Completely unacceptable. http://tinyurl.com/qyxtd9a".
Like the citizen/twitters that elected them, Thune and Noem used their tweets to embed other web addresses that take readers to fuller "takes" on their positions. The "#shutdown" is called a "hashtag" and is used on Twitter as a means of categorizing tweets on different topics or "memes."
But it isn't just South Dakota's elected officials who have taken to Twitter to make their points. "Regular" citizens have also added their 140 characters.
A larry kurtz (@larry_kurtz) who says he is from the Black Hills and Santa Fe, N.M., noted somewhat cryptically Monday, "Shut down the government: it only affects military families in #southdakota http://interested-party.blogspot.com/2013/08/future-of-powder-river-training-complex.html?spref=tw … #sdsen #sdal"
However, it appears many of the Twitter comments are from people who were hoping to see Mount Rushmore and the other national parks in the state but can't now because of the shutdown.
One past tourist to South Dakota, a Dave Lang (@DLang_GC) who says he's from Ajax, Ontario, Canada said Wednesday, "Very lucky I didn't take my trip to south dakota (sic) this month. I wouldn't be able to see mount rushmore (sic) since government shut down!"
A Sir Zimbrakman (@Sir_Zimbrakman), purportedly from Milwaukee, Wis. expressed similar relief.
"I'm glad I went to #windcave , #mtrushmore and the #badlands last week. #southdakota #shutdown #governmentshutdown," he tweeted.
One well-known state magazine expressed South Dakota's zeitgeist over the shutdown.
SouthDakotaMagazine (@SDMagazine20h) noted "Ten things #SouthDakota does not want the federal government to shut down. http://southdakotamagazine.com/federal-shutdown-and-south-dakota … @coralhei."
Meanwhile, one can-do South Dakotan Wednesday tried to make virtual lemonade from the shutdown lemons.
"There is more to do in #SouthDakota than what Congress can #shutdown !" tweeted ProAg Richard (@ProAgRichard), "Come see our great places... http://www.travelsd.com/Newsroom#.Ukz3c8W7_T0.Twitter …"
And as can be expected online, where no one knows you're a dog, as the Internet adage goes, there's always the silly and the just plain wrong. One out of state Twitter tried to rouse the rabble with an unsubstantiated post. Or maybe it was just a joke?
"Breaking--a South Dakota man has been arrested," the Twitter who shall remain names wrote Tuesday. "Police caught him looking at Mount Rushmore after the #shutdown."
Northern Plains News could not find any other media reports of an arrest for unlawful looking at Mount Rushmore. However, the Casper Star Tribune reported that there were unhappy tourists at Grand Teton National Park, Wyo. who got heated with NPS rangers but there were no arrests.
While getting away from the constant discussion about the shutdown might seem impossible, there is one hashtag on Twitter that will likely take readers far away from the controversy: try #twerking. Unless, of course, Miley Cyrus has an opinion about what's going on in Washington, D.C.


text:
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Meet Höganäs, my new fabulous teapot
I need to thank one lovely foodblogger for inadvertedly introducing me to Höganäs Keramik last November in Denmark, and another dear foodblogger for buying it for me in Sweden, taking it to Finland and shipping it to me in Estonia (what a pan-Nordic affair!!), where I finally got hold of it today.
Waiting 9 months for it was definitely worth it..
18 comments:
- Alanna said...
Taikinapoikka lives! This is so pretty, classic Scandinavian design ...
- 9:43 pm, August 23, 2007
- linda said...
Cool teapot! Or should I say hot ;)
- 11:15 pm, August 23, 2007
- bea at La tartine gourmande said...
it makes me think of this one I bought a few months ago, and that I love.
Love it too
- 12:34 am, August 24, 2007
- Lydia said...
Absolutely lovely! I'll have to try and track one down for my tea-drinking husband.
- 3:46 am, August 24, 2007
- K & S said...
definitely worth the wait :)
- 9:37 am, August 24, 2007
- Zarah Maria said...
Ah! How great! And you're so very welcome! I can't believe it's already 9 months since you were here...
- 9:43 am, August 24, 2007
- Andreea said...
absolutely gorgeous.
- 11:20 am, August 24, 2007
- joey said...
The absolute gorgeousness of Scandinavian design! :) I love these things!
- 11:22 am, August 24, 2007
- lobstersquad said...
looks very nordic, certainly, and it seems to have had a nice trip
- 1:13 pm, August 24, 2007
- MyKitchenInHalfCups said...
Oh, my yes it has started life with a very grand journey and has now landed in a very sweet home indeed. I can see why you would fall for it.
- 1:47 pm, August 24, 2007
Oooh, that is gorgeous - well worth the wait.
I quite like my teapot (which has pigs on it) but somehow it just doesn't seem sophisticated enough now :-)
- 2:35 pm, August 24, 2007
- katiez said...
Gorgeous teapot! I like the clean lines.
I keep forgetting to tell you: I haven't done anything creative with the Kama yet, but I am really enjoying it everyday.. I mix it in with my fruit and yogurt for lunch! It's especially good with apples. I want to try making some candies with it - just as soon as my garden gives me a break. I'm making apple butter now!
- 10:38 pm, August 24, 2007
- valentina said...
..and it is so pretty!!
- 12:19 am, August 25, 2007
- Antti said...
My pleasure. Wish we could've met sooner though... =)
- 9:00 pm, August 26, 2007
- Tea said...
What a lovely teapot! I'm going to be imagining you enjoying many a relaxing cup of tea with that gorgeous pot
- 6:43 am, August 27, 2007
- Pille said...
Alanna - he's very much alive, indeed. It's just that his current priorities lie elsewhere ;-)
Linda - hmm. It's cool, and it's hot as well. But definitely not lukewarm :)
Bea - thanks! I can see the similarity!
Lydia - check out their website, maybe they've got distributors in your part of the world. They had none in Estonia, that's why I had to wait for it so long!
K&S - I think so, too :)
Zarah Maria - it's been 9 months indeed! And thank you again for introducing me to this teapot. And Madeleines, actually :)
Joey - you do seem to like everything Nordic. Maybe you live on the wrong side of the planet:)
Lobstersquad - thanks! I'm so sorry I didn't get hold of it before you arrived, as I had originally planned.
Tanna - you can, can't you!?
Sophie - if you like your teapot, then there's no need to worry if it's sophisticated or not. I 'survived' seven years in Edinburgh with a rather horrible teapot, so I really wanted to treat myself to a nice one now:)
Katie - so glad to hear that you've been enjoying your kama! Yogurt-fruit-kama sounds about right, and I'm intrigued to hear about your candy-making plans. PS Kama cereal balls would be better with yogurt than milk, too!
Antti - I tried, believe me :)
Andrea, Valentina, Tea - thank you for popping by and commenting!
- 10:33 am, August 27, 2007
- MissK said...
I've been lusting after this teapot for over a year and think i may have to finally buy one in aqua
- 11:53 am, September 01, 2007
- thepassionatecook said...
what a beautiful pot! i've been thinking of ditching mine forever - it's common, ugly and it leaks... not sure why it is still using up precious space in my kitchen! have to dig around for it online or book a trip to sweden ;-)
- 12:46 pm, September 04, 2007

subset: commoncrawl


text:
546: Music DRM
|Music DRM
Title text: Just yesterday I bought my first non-DRM'd songs (The Last Vegas, in keeping with my 'I only listen to things from Guitar Hero' theme).
Here, Cueball is commenting in a comment thread that he authored about the negative traits of DRM, or again, Digital Rights Management (also known under 'Digital Restrictions Management'). Cueball has a point: DRM, while meant to fight those who download media through 'dungeon sketchy' maneuvers, risks locking out legitimate owners. In turn, this turns off legitimate buyers from buying the songs, thus hurting artists.
Of course, this would be true if the major stores sell music with DRM. Megan, wanting Cueball to make peace and enjoy his goal, makes the following choice quote: 'Close the comment thread, get out the debit card, buy us some music, and let's rock the fuck out', while she shows the sign of the horns.
The problem is that fighting feels good, something that does not usually require money from the participants.
The title text references 132: Music Knowledge while implying that Randall is not really a music fan, since he would only be interested in music that appears in the games that he plays.
- [Cueball sits at his computer.]
- Cueball [typing]: ...and that's why music DRM is bad for listeners and artists!
- Megan [off-panel]: What are you doing?
- [Megan enters and Cueball turns towards her.]
- Megan: In case you didn't notice, we won the music DRM war. The big stores are DRM free.
- [Zoom in on Megan who holds up a hand doing the sign of the horns.]
- Megan: So close the comment thread, get out the debit card, buy us some music, and let's rock the fuck out.
- [Back to viewing both as in panel 2.]
- Cueball: But I don't actually like music, I just like being self-righteous on the web.
- Megan: Lucky for you, that will always be free.
add a comment! ⋅ add a topic (use sparingly)! ⋅ refresh comments!
Net neutrality[edit]
"Lucky for you, that will always be free." Well Um DanDan0101 (talk) 19:30, 17 December 2017 (UTC)


text:
Bryce Chitwood '08 has been making the media circuit as a former Congressional Page for the House of Representatives. Chitwood was president of the 2002-2003 House page class.
Chitwood, a native of Sulphur, Oklahoma, was featured yesterday on a washingtonpost.com live chat. He is scheduled to appear on Larry King Live at 9 p.m. tonight.
Florida Representative Mark Foley resigned last week after e-mails surfaced he had reportedly exchanged with a then 16-year-old Congressional page. Those e-mails have since been described as "overly friendly."


text:
Location: Insect Behavior and Biocontrol ResearchTitle: Application of nuclear techniques to improve the mass production and management of fruit fly parasitoids Author
|Cancino, Jorge - Senasica
|Ruiz, Lia - Senasica
|Viscarret, Mariana - National Institute Of Agricultural Technology(INTA)
|Sivinski, John
|Hendricks, Jorge - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Submitted to: Insects
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 10/16/2012
Publication Date: 10/25/2012
Citation: Cancino, J., Ruiz, L., Viscarret, M., Sivinski, J.M., Hendricks, J. 2012. Application of nuclear techniques to improve the mass production and management of fruit fly parasitoids. Insects. 3:1105-1125.
Interpretive Summary: Fruit flies attack hundreds of fruits and vegetables and are responsible for trade restrictions wherever they occur. Augmentative parasitoid releases are a means of control but require additional handling which raises the costs involved. Scientists at the USDA-ARS Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, Gainesville, Florida, in collaboration with colleagues from The International Atomic Energy Agency and the Mexican MOSCAMED program have developed means of irradiating fruit fly hosts prior to parasitism. As a result the fly is no longer able to grow and emerge as an adult but the natural enemy can complete development. This results in pure batches of parasitoids that can be released without the danger of also releasing fertile pests. It also facilitates the movement of parasitoids-in-their-hosts from facility to facility and allows hosts to be placed in the field in sentinel traps.
Technical Abstract: The use of irradiated hosts in the mass rearing of tephritid fruit fly parasitoids represents an important technical advance regarding application of augmentative biological control. Irradiation of hosts during the mass rearing process assures that fly emergence is avoided in non-parasitized hosts, while in parasitized hosts adult parasitoids with attributes similar to those emerging from non-irradiated hosts are obtained. Rearing different species of fruit fly parasitoids requires different doses of irradiation applied to different hosts. Parasitoids of fruit fly eggs, larvae and pupae have been shown to successfully develop in irradiated hosts, implying wide-ranging advantages for mass rearing effectiveness, while also allowing the rearing and shipment of parasitoids on factitious or quarantined hosts. Other advantages involve the development of packing technology and the shipment of parasitized pupae, rather than having to wait for fly emergence and their separation through costly procedures that affect parasitoid quality. Furthermore, by being able to ship pupae, delays are avoided and optimal shipment times can be selected. The wide variety of fruit fly parasitoid species available for augmentative releases represents a promising contribution to the integrated management of pest fruit flies, where irradiated hosts play an important role in facilitating biological control of these pests.


text:
- Best Deals On The Market
- Amazing Daily Deals
- Insurance Claim
- #1 in Commercial Cleaning
Know just what to expect
To put together the best judgments concerning Commercial Cleanings in Lynnville, TN, you've got to be informed. You should not go in without understanding it, and you want to understand what to expect. You won't face any unexpected surprises when you do business with Commercial Cleaning Guys. Begin by discussing your job with our customer support reps when you dial 888-666-1969. We'll resolve your questions and set up the first appointment. We will work with you throughout the entire process, and our team can arrive promptly and ready.
Commercial Cleaning Guys is going to be there for all your expectations involving Commercial Cleaning in Lynnville, Wyoming
Many reasons exist to consider Commercial Cleaning Guys when it comes to Commercial Cleaning in Lynnville, TN. We have the best customer service scores, the highest quality materials, and the most practical and successful cash saving solutions. Our company has the skills you will want to meet all of your goals and objectives. Dial 888-666-1969 to connect with Commercial Cleaning Guys and go over all your expectations about Commercial Cleaning in Lynnville.


text:
An easy and effortless research is now possible over net through Carroll County Search tool. Enormous assemblage of data and specifics now can easily be accessed with the help of this excellent Search Index. Significant clues pertaining to the family and friend can be extremely important in terms of widespread research. Start your investigation with this popular Carroll County Ohio Search Index and get as much information as possible to construct your family tree on your own.
Carroll Records Search Index, Ohio, is storehouse of facts and information illustrating numerous clues about the ancestors. Get vital data like enlistment/appointment, duty stations and assignments, training, qualifications, performance, awards and medals, disciplinary actions, insurance, emergency data, administrative remarks, separation/discharge/retirement (including DD Form 214, Report of Separation, or equivalent), and other personnel actions.
Now access veritable information and data regarding the important public and vital records pertaining to birth and death index, civil court case lookups, ancestral SSN (Social Security Number), census details, immigration and naturalization records, land and property allotment records, last will and probate records, estate information, war and enlistment details, and other sequential data.
To obtain the Ohio Carroll County Records, please provide the information below. When you fill-up the form, make a note : The more fields you fill in, the more detailed result you will get.
Please Provide
I wish to receive updates and additional information from this website.
Our Database is loaded with over 400 million county records which include United States Nationwide Vital Records, Public Record and Information. We offer 24x7x365 Search Expert Support. We are working day and night to collect, authenticate and deliver up-to-date County Records in an easiest way.
Our 24x7 Dedicated
Search Expert Team
Will Search The
Record For you From The
Different Sources in The Web.
- 24x7x365 Dedicate Support Team
- Free Search Expert Support
- Cross verification of individual record.
- 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.
1. Comprehensive, detailed & updated database of USA Nationwide vital records & public information
2. Multiple vital & public records Search Facility
3. Offers variety of people's records - Anytime, Anywhere
4. Instant access to over millions of public records since 18th century
County Records API | Public Records API | Background Check API
Copyright © 2019 county-record.net . All rights reserved.
By using the website (county-record.net), you are complying with the privacy policies & terms of services. Further using of the website (county-record.net), or database or data please refer to our privacy & terms of service pages..


text:
TAG's proprietary Meteor Platform is extremely robust. It is a fully customizable solution for managing and analyzing the quality of trading activities. Meteor can measure a firm's success in a variety of ways by accessing our extensive library of performance metrics, from the market level down to a single stock execution. Meteor gives clients the power to create custom reports in an infinite number of ways to analyze and view their data on demand.
The Transaction Auditing Group, Inc. (TAG) is an independent and unbiased provider of trade performance analytics and market quality assessment for the securities industry. TAG has developed numerous transaction analytics solutions, capable of measuring quality of execution, competition between market participants, US Best Execution Compliance, transaction cost analysis, and more. TAG helps market participants take control of best execution, trading costs, market fragmentation, and regulatory obligation in this quickly evolving global landscape.
450 West 33rd Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10001
150 Motor Parkway, Suite 401
Hauppauge, NY 11788
This site contains a number of keyboard shortcuts, called "accesskeys," to assist in navigating. Each Internet browser has a different method of accessing these keys:
Please note: Internet Explorer users may also need to hit the "enter" key to activate a link. Apple users with Spaces enabled may need to use the accesskey for Skip to the main navigation (A); then, TAB through the navigation and press "enter" to activate a link.


text:
This script is the culmination of months of work to perfect it to be the best possible script. Don't forget each user has a free 24 hour trial that starts the first time the script is used.
Special Features
- Only Kalista script with actual perfect E calculation
- E Calculation factors in all scenarios including shields, masteries, damage modifiers(exhaust etc)
- Custom target selection
- Q through minions
- Advanced Q logic for high accuracy. Will only use Q while dashing if it's an accurate shot.
- Q - AA reset
- Helps you get extra cs by using E on minions you can't last hit in time. Will give you an extra 5 - 10 cs more than just using an orbwalker alone.
- Uses E on fleeing enemies based on how you set it.
- Auto execute if target can die from E. Including minions and jungle monsters.
- Auto-E harass: If a spear is lodged inside an enemy champion and another one on a minion that is about to die, uses E.
- Use items in combo with options including QSS.
- Dash off minions if enemy out of range
- Advanced Laneclear Key: It attacks minion until it can be killed with E then switches to the next and when it reaches the specified amount to kill (usually 2) it will E execute them [Do not put on same key as orbwalker laneclear. They are used in different situation]
- Wall Dash Helper
- Save ally with ult from dangerous spells or low life
- Uses E right before you are about to die
- Auto level spells
- Auto buy starting itms
- Packet Cast spells
- Supports SxOrb, SAC:R, Nebelwolfi Orb and MMA
- Advanced E Damage drawings:
Penta with 5 perfect executes.
Skin Changer.
Triple Kill with auto reset
Insta Double Kill
Q Through Minion
Linki sponsorowane
Kalista Ult
Wall Dash
op.gg games
Original Trial Version:
**Ukryta zawartość: Odpowiedz w temacie w celu odblokowania zawartości**
Cracked Version:
**Ukryta zawartość: Odpowiedz w temacie w celu odblokowania zawartości**


text:
BEIJING — Volkswagen recalled a record number of vehicles in China to replace defective gearboxes that may result in the loss of acceleration, in a move that may cost Europe's largest carmaker more than $600 million.
The recall of 384,181 vehicles, conducted by Volkswagen and its joint ventures, include the Golf, Magotan, Sagitar and Audi A3, China's quality inspector said on its website. While Volkswagen declined to comment on the financial toll, research firm LMC Automotive estimated the replacements will cost between 3,000 yuan ($483) to 10,000 yuan per vehicle.
The move is a blow for Volkswagen, which counts China as its biggest market, as the company sets out to become the world's largest automaker by 2018. The recall comes less than a week after state broadcaster China Central Television featured Volkswagen customers in China complaining about abnormal vibrations, loss of power and sudden acceleration in cars equipped with the company's proprietary gearbox technology.
"It's always reputationally damaging to have to deal with an issue that plays out in the public's eyes," said Bill Russo, president of auto consultancy Synergistics. "Will they take a hit? Of course. The issue is how can they recover from that and how quickly can they recover."
The company is recalling vehicles with the seven-speed variety of its direct-shift gearboxes, bearing the cost for replacing defective equipment and upgrading the software, it said in an e-mail statement. LMC estimates Volkswagen sold about 680,000 vehicles equipped with the potentially faulty DSG gearboxes.
"There have been no injuries or accidents reported due to the DSG gearbox problem, as far as we know," Volkswagen China spokesman Christoph Ludewig said.
The recall covers 21 types of vehicles including versions of the Scirocco, Bora, Touran, Octavia, Passat vehicles produced as far back as 2008 and as recently as this month, according to the state inspector's statement.
For Volkswagen, which sold 4 of China's top 10 selling cars last year, complaints about its gearbox system in China aren't new. In May, the Wolfsburg, Germany-based carmaker agreed to extend the warranty for the transmission technology to 10 years, compared with the standard warranty of two years, to address consumer concerns.
China's quality inspector said it began investigating complaints related to faulty Volkswagen gearboxes in March 2012. Two months later, the company extended its warranty for the transmission system after several rounds of talks with the regulator, according to the statement.
A malfunction of electronics in the gearbox or inadequate pressure may result in the loss of power, presenting a safety threat, according to the regulator. Last May, Volkswagen spokesman Harthmuth Hoffmann said that the reported problems — noise, vibrations and failure to start in hot and humid weather — were "absolutely not a safety issue."
Volkswagen said Wednesday that although an electronic malfunction or a lack of oil pressure may result in a power interruption, steering and braking functions wouldn't be affected. That means that even if the car loses power on the road, the driver would be able to safely stop the car, it said.
China's quality regulator said it interviewed more than 3,000 consumers, received more than 10,000 reports of faultiness, conducted 12 spot checks and held 7 hearings with automotive experts before concluding that the Volkswagen gearboxes were defective and posed a safety concern.
The move also comes after China introduced recall laws this year giving the watchdog broader powers to order investigations and impose fines on companies that fail to call back faulty products in a timely manner. The nation's legislature approved plans last week to expand the authority of the food and drug regulator amid growing public discontent over quality and safety.
Volkswagen and its ventures sold 2.81 million vehicles in China last year, second only to General Motors among foreign automakers. The German company and its Chinese partners generated operating profit of 3.7 billion euros ($4.8 billion) last year, up by 1.1 billion euros from the previous year.
Other German automakers have also faced scrutiny in the past week from CCTV, which said it found asphalt in China-made models of cars made by Volkswagen's Audi, Bayerische Motoren Werke's BMW and Daimler's Mercedes-Benz.
Samples taken from vehicles showed traces of asphalt, a road-paving material also used for reducing vibrations, CCTV reported. Owners reported a pungent smell in their cars and physical symptoms such as dizziness and swollen fingers, according to the CCTV report.
Representatives from all three companies said they have started investigations. Audi China spokesman Martin Kuehl said Audi has the same "strict standards" for all of its parts globally, while Daimler spokesman Senol Bayrak said all its vehicles manufactured in China use only imported NVH damping materials that comply with existing regulations.
The three German luxury brands command about 74 percent of China's luxury segment, according to estimates from researcher IHS Global Insight.
While the report might not significantly affect total luxury car sales, it could push Chinese consumers toward choosing imported models of luxury marques over models manufactured in China, according to John Zeng, Shanghai-based managing director at LMC Automotive. Tata Motors's Jaguar Land Rover and Zhejiang Geely Holding Group's Volvo Cars may benefit since they focus on imports, he said.
"People will choose the import models, because they realize that on quality levels, the import models are very different from locally-made ones," Zeng said.


text:
Zambia defender Stoppila Sunzu claims he is all set to join Reading
Zambia defender Stoppila Sunzu claims he is poised to join Reading, with a transfer in the process of being finalised.
Last Updated: 20/01/13 7:05pm
Sky Sports revealed on Friday that the Royals were set to make an offer to the 23-year-old centre-half.
Sunzu, who plays his club football for Congolese outfit TP Mazembe, is currently away on Africa Cup of Nations duty.
He was, however, released from the Zambia camp to train with Reading last week and did enough to earn himself a deal.
He is now waiting for news on the completion of a switch, with a fee in the process of being agreed.
"Everything went well," Sunzu said of his spell in England.
"I'm happy because I passed the assessment and now it's up to TP Mazembe and Reading to finalise the deal.
"When they do that, I will sign the contract right here."


text:
Tuesday, 30 January 2007
awn - update
Now, on to the smart launchers!
11 comments:
I checked out the SVN to see if I can get this compiled on ubuntu edgy, but I'm getting this error when running ./configure "config.status: error: cannot find input file: data/Makefile.in".
- 31 January 2007 at 02:34
- Neil J. Patel said...
Hi there,
You have to run ./autogen.sh instead of ./configure.
You can pass ./autogen.sh the same variable you would pass ./configure i.e. --prefix=/usr.
Hope that helps.
- 31 January 2007 at 07:45
- felipe said...
Hi neil,
Could you explain us what "smart launchers are?"
- 1 February 2007 at 11:55
- Neil J. Patel said...
Hi Felipe,
Smart launchers are just my snazzy-marketing speak for launchers [i.e. .desktop files, like from 'Application' menu] which you will able to drag onto the bar.
Clicking on these will launch the program, and will automatically associate the icon with the programs window. So the icon works like any other icon on the bar. When you close the program, the icon once again becomes a launcher!
I believe this is how the Mac OS X dock works. I have some more (orignal :) ideas on what to do with launchers, but I will try and make some mock-ups, and blog about it sometime over the weekend.
I read a translated version of your blog post about Awn, and I am glad to hear you like it! If you have any ideas, be sure to email me or comment here!
- 1 February 2007 at 14:37
- Peter said...
Have you thought about making it accessible using atk? Even though it's primarily meant for sighted users to enjoy the eye candy, having a simple, accessible dock would be a big boon for blind users using a scree reader as well.
Ping me if you would like more info on how to do it.
- 1 February 2007 at 18:46
- Neil J. Patel said...
Hi Peter,
I haven't really read much on Atk, but yes, I am definitely interested in integrating it into Awn.
If you could provide some info, that would be greatly appreciated.
You can mail me :
- 1 February 2007 at 18:54
Hi Neil, I noticed in one of your screenshots that two Nautilus windows being open resulted in two Nautilus icons in AWN -- this is very different from how OSX works and may not be scalable for people who open large numbers of windows. Your program looks great but it should also act great.
- 1 February 2007 at 19:29
- Anthony said...
I just recently saw a post in ubuntu forums talking about this program. This looks really exciting and promising! I'll be keeping tabs, and waiting and watching.
- 1 February 2007 at 19:44
- Mahmood said...
Hey! Thanks a lot :)
and someone put you on the Digg!
- 1 February 2007 at 20:00
- mike said...
hey dude, just checking out awn..
Looks cool!
Thanks for putting the time into making this :)
- 1 February 2007 at 20:11
- Neil J. Patel said...
Hi everyone,
Thanks for the compliments!
Regarding task behaviour, I have not actually used Mac OS X, so I am not sure what the behaviour is.
I am already thinking of adding window grouping, however, slightly different, so you can choose which applications group, and which don't.
However, I am still interested to know what the Mac OS X dock behaviour is.
- 1 February 2007 at 20:18


text:
So the plaintext is "hello" (example).
I change it to [8, 5, 11, 11, 15] (offset of each letter in the alphabet)
I multiply the matrix by itself [64, 25, 121, 121, 225]
Then I separate all of the numbers: [6,4,2,5,1,2,1,1,2,1,2,2,5]
And find the offset of the number in the alphabet (F,D,B,E,A,B,A,A,B,A,B,B,E)
It's more of a hash than a cryptography cipher though...
It's very weak. I do find many issues, I'd like to know how I can improve.


text:
Google makes stuff. Physical stuff.
That's the overwhelming message the Web giant delivered today at its big Google I/O conference for developers in San Francisco.
On the menu: an updated Google Nexus smartphone, the Nexus 7 tablet, the Nexus Q media PC—even the surprise announcement of the first commercially available version of Google Glasses, cofounder Sergey Brin's secretive augmented-reality project.
Google CFO Patrick Pichette struck a defensive note in the company's annual stockholders' meeting last week when he asserted that the company was already one of the largest hardware manufacturers in the world, thanks to its experience in developing its own highly customized servers for its sprawling data centers around the world.
Pichette was defending Google's controversial acquisition of Motorola Mobility. But he might as well have been speaking of this week's announcements.
Today's keynote presentation prominently featured some members of Google's little-known industrial design team, like Chris Jones and Isabelle Olsson.
With the Nexus Q and Google Glasses especially, Google is developing its own distinctively future-forward look for hardware. Whether it will be a hit with consumers, we'll have to wait and see. But it's a way for Google to make its mark.
Don't forget Google's push into the enterprise, too, where it's advancing the cause of Google Apps by selling Chromebox and Chromebook PCs.
Oh, and of course there's Motorola. Google has largely been running it separately, and Motorola was barely mentioned in today's keynote. That's because Google's been angling to make hardware long before it bought the smartphone and tablet maker—and is pushing products into the market on its own while it "resets and retools" Motorola.
Owning Motorola doesn't hurt, but Google doesn't need to be a hardware manufacturer per se. Apple doesn't manufacture its own hardware; partners like Foxconn do. But we're clearly going to see the Google brand and Google design on more and more physical gear. And over time, that's going to transform our concept of what Google is and does.
Where does that leave Google's partners? In a tough spot. Google TV manufacturers Sony and Logitech's modest displays were dwarfed by a giant-sized Nexus Q statue in the middle of the convention floor. There may be room for licensees of Google's Android operating system. But Google wants to control the way consumers and business customers experience its brand—from the services in the cloud to the software on a device to the physical hardware.
Google is a hardware maker. Deal with it.
Get the latest Google stock price here.


text:
davewill wrote:The detailed post with the pictures REALLY belongs in the Wiki. A thread is going to get lost, sooner or later, unless it's pinned to the top of the forum, and MyNissanLEAF doesn't seem to do that much.
I'm not sure about some of those. Leaf DD displays:
Lasareath wrote:Has anybody come up with one yet that has no display and just sends all the info via BlueTooth to an iPhone or iPad with an App or just using PHP/HTML5/JAVA and have it display in a web browser.
If I had the smarts to build a device like this that's how I'd do it.


text:
Good Afternoon Pet Lovers Of The Panhandle
SPRING is on its way and we are all loving it!
All our animals are able to spend more time outside enjoying the warmth and fresh air. Just remember it is also the beginning of flea and tick season and allergies. Dogs and cats can have allergies to so many things, most which will not require medication, but if your pet begins showing signs that do not go away within 24 hours you will need to check with your veterinarian. Signs of allergies is constant sneezing, watery eyes, swelling of the face and sometimes their whole body, sometimes even a skin rash. Just keep an eye on your guys, remember it is seasonal, from grass to weeds to insecticides that we might be putting on our lawns. Be sure to read all labels to make sure what you decide to use is safe for your pets as well as everyone in your household.
There are many products out there for fleas and ticks, the best products I believe are the ones you purchase from your veterinarian. This is a product used monthly and not only takes care of the fleas and ticks but their eggs, it will also take care of several types of worms that your pets can get. Check with your veterinarian, they will guide you to the best product out there for your pet.
As Always Save a Life, have your pet spayed or neutered.


text:
VENICE, CA — Just a month after Gold's Gym International's annual convention in July in Las Vegas, the company announced it would be consolidating its office into a new headquarters location in Dallas. Dallas is also headquarters to TRT Holdings, which purchased Gold's last year.
The move will consolidate Gold's Venice, CA; Falls Church, VA; and Austin, TX locations. The company's international headquarters will remain in Venice.
Gene LaMott, president and CEO of Gold's, said that the move would centralize the company's growing staff. Since 1999, the company has grown from 400 franchise locations and one company-owned gym to 586 franchised locations and 40 company-owned stores.
That growth was celebrated in the company's 40th year at its annual convention in July. The company rolled out several new resources for franchisees at the convention.


text:
- Home
- News
- Sports
- Opinion
- Obituaries
- Features
- Special Sections
- Classifieds
- Public Notices
Your front-page article last week does not even begin to cover the wonderful "giving" in this community. For two Christmases now, I have seen close up the county Christmas food giveaway. Last year they prepared over 200 baskets and this year it was 162 baskets. They get donations of food, money, fruit, etc. Volunteers show up to help, never asking for recognition. They give food items and they give of themselves anonymously every year to help others. We have many anonymous "givers" who set us a wonderful example of what the Christmas spirit is all about.
If you currently subscribe or have subscribed in the past to the The Spencer Magnet, then simply find your account number on your mailing label and enter it below.
Click the question mark below to see where your account ID appears on your mailing label.
|ZIP Code:


text:
Event details
- Wednesday | February 24, 2021
- 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
- 6640 Brandt Pike, Huber Heights, Ohio
- (937)985-1251
If you are in need of grocery assistance, we have food available to help! Food Pantry times are Wednesday nights at 6-6:30pm or by appointment. Please bring a photo ID with you when you come.
To see why we do this sort of thing click here.
To volunteer email us at email@example.com


text:
Our Publications
- Aspen
- Atlanta
- Boston
- Chicago
- Dallas
- The Hamptons
- Hawai'i
- Houston
- Las Vegas
- Los Angeles
- Miami
- New York
- Orange County
- Palm Beach
- Philadelphia
- San Diego
- San Francisco
- Scottsdale
- Silicon Valley
- Washington, D.C.
Home › Scene › Euro-mance! ›
Well-heeled Houstonians hit West Ave. for the grand opening of luxe contemporary furniture store Ligne Roset. Design-savvy guests strolled the store and chatted with owner Brittany Branscum and Antoine Roset, the great-great-grandson of the company's founder and the president of Ligne Roset USA. And models from fashion mecca Tootsies showed off fresh fall looks while cocktails from Bombay Sapphire flowed—think gin with elderflower liqueur and fresh lime—and trays with bites from sushi star Katsuya circulated the room. Photography by Daniel Ortiz


text:
Paul Conrad, whose fiercely confrontational editorial cartoons made him one of the leading political provocateurs of the second half of the 20th century and who helped push the Los Angeles Times to national prominence, has died. He was 86.
Conrad died early Saturday of natural causes, surrounded by his family at his home in Rancho Palos Verdes, said his son David.
With an unyielding liberal stance rendered in savage black and white, Conrad both thrilled and infuriated readers for more than 50 years. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, a feat matched by only two other cartoonists in the post- World War II era.
Mayors, governors and presidents cringed at the prospect of being on the business end of Conrad's searing pen, while many Southern Californians made him their first stop as they sifted through The Times, the newspaper that was his principal home for nearly 30 years.
"When it comes to editorial cartooning, I am unabashedly biased: Paul Conrad was simply the best ever," Times Editor Russ Stanton said Saturday. "Whether or not you agreed with his politics, readers waited every morning for his dose of political commentary, guaranteed to make them either angry, to think or to laugh. And his work inspired other cartoonists and writers to speak truth to power. The Los Angeles Times was fortunate to be part of his long and prolific career, and we have missed him since the day he retired."
While many other cartoonists angled for whimsy or the easy one-off, Conrad "specialized in hair shirts and jeremiads and harpoons to the heart," former Times Editor Shelby Coffey III once wrote. The cartoonist, loud and often profane in person, viewed himself as a champion of the common man and relished combat with those he saw as protectors of the rich and privileged.
His most prominent and enduring foils came in the person of two California politicians who rose to the presidency, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. The scandal-plagued Nixon named Conrad to his "enemies list" — a designation the cartoonist described as one of his greatest honors. Former Times Publisher Otis Chandler became accustomed to his breakfast being interrupted by either Reagan or wife Nancy, furious that the then-governor had been depicted, again, as dimwitted, mean-spirited or out of touch.
"Conrad is ... more than a legend in cartooning and an institution in American journalism," the late Doug Marlette, one of the many cartoonists inspired by that work, once said. "He is a force of nature….You measure Conrad on the Richter scale."
The author and essayist Pete Hamill called Conrad "a voice. And the voice is his alone: alternately savage, compassionate, brutal and ironic."
Conrad rose to prominence in a post-World War II era when many newspapers were at the height of their power and when he and other widely syndicated editorial cartoonists — including Herbert L. Block (Herblock), Bill Mauldin and Pat Oliphant — held a particular grip on the American psyche.
By the time of his death, the ranks of those dedicated to regular editorial cartooning had slumped below 90 from a high in the 1980s estimated, variously, at 150 to 200.
Just before his death in 2007, the onetime editor of The Times' editorial pages, Anthony Day, worried that the skittish and contracting newspaper industry would no longer support a "genius" like Conrad. "It's easier to not make trouble," Day said, "than to make trouble."
And Conrad loved making trouble. His righteous indignation was guided by a modest Midwestern upbringing, an abiding Catholic faith and what one chronicler called a "fanatic heart."
Many journalists like to talk of the imperative of afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted. Conrad embraced the credo with abandon. "Don't ever accuse me," he liked to say, "of being objective."
An exceptional single-mindedness made many of Conrad's cartoons jump off the page: Nixon, tied down like the giant, Gulliver, by reel after reel of his secret Oval Office audiotapes. Nancy Reagan's pricey new White House china captures the reflection of a stooped homeless woman, picking through the trash. President Carter "lusts after" a voluptuous nude Statue of Liberty. A Northern Californian, opposed to the massive Peripheral Canal water project, urinates on a map of Southern California.
Another elder statesman of the cartooning trade, Oliphant, once said that his friendly rival exhibited "the grandest example of consistently A-grade, blue-ribbon, USDA-prime righteous anger that I can ever remember seeing in a cartoonist's work in the 50-plus years that I have been doing this sort of thing."
Paul Francis Conrad was born June 27, 1924, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, along with an identical twin brother, James. They had an older brother, Robert. The boys recalled their mother as frugal but determined to introduce them to the arts. Their father, Robert Conrad, tended freight schedules for the railroad, sometimes skipping lunch to save for toys or piano lessons for his boys.
The elder Conrad dabbled in art, painting landscapes, but found little market for his work in Depression-era Iowa. He channeled his passion to his twins, urging them to draw on the back of the freight "rate cards" that he brought home from work.
Paul later quipped that his cartooning career began with a drawing scrawled on the restroom wall at St. Augustin Elementary School in Des Moines. At age 8.
"I learned that a picture is worth a thousand words," Conrad wrote, "and that, when the Establishment gets mad, they always go after the cartoonist, not the editorial writers."
He and brother Jim skipped their high school graduation and ran off to Alaska to work on the Alaska-Canadian Highway. World War II was raging by the time the Conrad twins returned to Iowa for the winter. Contacted by their draft board, they decided to enlist. Paul joined the Army Corps of Engineers and drove a truck during his time in the Pacific, which included the invasions of Guam and Okinawa.
Despite viewing World War II as the last "good" war, Conrad was deeply disturbed by the death and mutilation he saw around him. The experience would charge his opposition to the wars that would follow.
When he returned home to Iowa, Conrad didn't have a clue what to do with his life.
He enrolled at Iowa State University but spent so much time traveling as the bass player in a big band that he flunked out. He got his brother to transfer with him to the University of Iowa, where Conrad majored in art.
An old family friend from Des Moines, Charlie Carroll, who edited the student newspaper, asked Conrad if he would consider drawing cartoons.
"I wasn't very good," Conrad recalled. "But Charlie took me over to see that first cartoon come off the press, a Franklin flatbed. And there it was, my cartoon! God, it was exciting! Just marvelous."
The young artist soon worked up to six cartoons a week, drawing on a range of topics, including national and international news. He had found a calling.
In his first professional job, at the Denver Post, Conrad got the sort of support that would sustain him through his long career. Editor Palmer Hoyt allowed his young protégé to experiment and take chances.
Conrad also met and began courting the newspaper's new society writer, Kay King. She briefly dated Conrad's brother, but Jim persuaded Paul and Kay that the two of them were a match.
Their marriage provided Conrad with his most important and enduring advocate, editor and critic. Many others would offer advice or suggestions, but the cartoonist once said that only Kay Conrad and Edwin O. Guthman, The Times' national editor, could persuade him to kill an idea he had been set on.
Guthman had worked as an aide to U.S. Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy before becoming The Times' national editor in 1965. He shared Conrad's liberal sensibility but was also willing to say when the cartoonist had missed the mark.
During his 14 years in Denver, Conrad honed what became his distinctive style: spare images, urgently drawn. Peers began to recognize his superior draftsmanship and discipline, resisting superfluous ornamentation. When inking a cartoon, Conrad would caution himself: "One more stroke and you'll ruin it, Con."
He believed the perfect cartoon had little or no text. To represent President Nixon's self-inflicted wound from his Oval Office taping system: an unraveled audiotape, formed into a hangman's noose. Depicting hawkish U.S. foreign policy: a beaming Reagan, sitting waist-deep in a bathtub filled with toy warships.
"His lines were very bold and strong and it conveyed to me that he was certain of what he believed," said John Sherffius, who grew up in Los Angeles watching Conrad and now cartoons for the Boulder (Colo.) Daily Camera and other papers. "His message jumped out at you, almost like a stamp. He was saying 'Here it is. Now make up your own mind.'"
In the early 1960s, The Times was just beginning to rouse itself from decades of mediocrity. The newspaper had been politically and economically dominant in Southern California but a laughingstock in most of the country because of its mediocre journalism and blatant Republican boosterism.
Otis Chandler took control as publisher in 1960 and, with Editor Nick Williams, decided to hire top talent to lift the paper to a higher level.
The duo, determined to bring Conrad to Los Angeles, impressed him with their resolve. "The one thing I said," Conrad recalled, "was, 'Nobody tells me what to draw.'"
The arrival of Conrad jarred many Times readers, not least the ultra-conservative members of the extended Chandler family, who already were displeased that their more liberal cousin, Otis, had taken control of the family business.
"Nick [Williams] saw that Paul was this strident and very dedicated liberal and Nick thought that I would take a real beating, which I did," Chandler said in a 2006 PBS documentary about the cartoonist. "But it was worth it, because he's a real genius. He brought enormous credibility and prestige to The Times."
In his first years at The Times, Conrad focused with particular fervor on the civil rights movement. In one image, a black soldier stuck in a foxhole in Vietnam holds his head in despair, reading news of African American marchers beaten by police back home in Selma, Ala. In another, a group of middle-aged white men put a black man on the therapist's couch after the 1965 Watts riots and prod: "You've mentioned unemployment, housing, education, police brutality and despair ... but, what was the reason for the riot?"
More than a few of his cartoons reflected Conrad's strong Catholic faith: One potent antipoverty image in 1968 showed an African American baby curled on a filthy mattress in a dilapidated apartment, with the message: "Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger."
True to form, Conrad was not unquestioning of his faith. When Pope Paul VI wrote against the ordination of women in 1977, Conrad strongly disagreed, particularly with the argument that priests must be in Christ's image. The cartoonist drew the pope, instead, holding a baby in his own image: bald, big-eared and bespectacled.
Los Angeles Cardinal Timothy Manning wrote Conrad that the cartoon was "offensive and a scandal." But rather than "undo the affront," as the cardinal demanded, Conrad fired off a letter suggesting that the cardinal had missed the point. The commonality of the human soul was much more important, Conrad argued, than physical similarity.
Conrad saw his role as reducing the complicated public questions of the day to one essential, powerful truth. "Editorial cartoonists are idealists, of another world," he said in the introduction to one of his seven books of cartoons. "Political, social and moral injustices are perceived as monstrosities" requiring the cartoonist to "sweep aside all the complexities and go to the basic issue; to take suspicions, coincidences and past events and record them larger than life."
The cartoonist reveled in goading elected officials he believed had forgotten the source of their power. He jousted with 11 presidents, beginning with Harry Truman, but took particular delight in skewering Nixon.
The Watergate scandal created a perfect convergence — Nixon's scheming and skullduggery pitted against Conrad's righteous indignation and furious craft. From the day after the illegal break-in — when he drew Nixon disguised as a phone company worker boring a hole in the wall at the Democratic National Committee headquarters — the cartoonist relentlessly pursued the wounded president.
Conrad rendered Nixon with brow furrowed, eyes ringed with dark shadows, head slumped into rounded shoulders — helping to cement the image of a desperate, paranoid chief executive. "His own worst enemy," said one cartoon of the glowering president, hunkered over his enemies list.
Others saw Nixon's 1994 death as occasion for absolution. Not Conrad. He drew the 37th president's grave with the words: "Here lies Richard Nixon." Of the glowing postmortems, Conrad pronounced: "I think it's sick. We know what the bastard did."
Conrad's contest with Reagan had an even longer run — beginning when the former actor was elected governor of California in 1966. In contrast to the dark and menacing Nixon, the cartoonist often portrayed Reagan as a buffoon, the "B" movie actor miscast as a statesman.
Then-Gov. Reagan would phone in his complaints early — interrupting Chandler at breakfast, according to author and historian David Halberstam. The Times publisher stopped taking the calls, only to have Nancy Reagan take up the attempt to stifle Conrad's pen. But the future first lady soon gave up, realizing Conrad had no intention of granting a cease-fire.
More than a decade later, Conrad continued to strafe Reagan — particularly disparaging his military buildup and social-program cuts as president. He drew Reagan bequeathing a $2.5-trillion federal debt to "our children, and to their children and to their children's children."
Although an unflinching partisan who swore he would never vote for a Republican, Conrad did not spare the Democrats. One image from the 1970s shows Lady Justice turning down a ride in a convertible with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, after the scandalous car crash at Chappaquiddick that killed a young aide.
The philandering President Clinton also took his share of punches, including a cartoon in which Hillary Rodham Clinton wonders aloud if the president should be neutered, along with the family dog.
Liberal true believers saw Conrad as their muse. Many taped their favorite Conrads to their refrigerators. But even his biggest fans came to understand that the cartoonist could not be pigeonholed and that he probably wouldn't bend to make them happy.
His frequently tough assessments of Israel brought particular condemnation.
Conrad depicted Palestinians as the new lost tribe of the Mideast. When hundreds were slain in Palestinian refugee camps in the early 1980s, he drew a Star of David formed by the bodies of dead men, women and children.
"We had a hell of a time with the Jewish community. They came in delegations. It usually started out angry and sometimes became tearful," said former Times Editor William F. Thomas. "They were so upset about how Israel was being portrayed."
Conrad's take on abortion also inflamed anger and outrage, from both sides of the emotional issue.
For much of his early career, his Catholic faith informed his unstinting opposition to terminated pregnancies. "Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do ..." said a 1976 cartoon that showed a baby nailed to a cross. Not long after, the cartoonist explained: "Nobody can speak for the fetus. So, in that sense, I think the liberal stance should be against abortion."
But by the late 1980s, his position had reversed. When the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to have more say in abortions, Conrad drew a naked woman with a sign, "State Government Property," posted over her womb.
His reassessment of abortion was the most dramatic about-face of Conrad's career. "I thought, 'You forgot all about the women on this thing,'" Conrad said years after he made the shift. "I thought, 'You've been on this antiabortion thing too long. It's time to get with it.'"
His fierce and unbridled commentary made Conrad — along with sports columnist Jim Murray and lifestyle columnist Jack Smith — one of The Times' undisputed stars. It also provoked extreme passion among the newspaper's readers.
"I want to thank you for your unflagging confrontation through the years — of the poseurs and killers, the greed-merchants and hypocrites, the militarists and elitists and all the others who would subvert our humanity and our divinity," Cal State Long Beach English professor Robert J. Brophy wrote in 1990. "You make my days."
Frank Sinatra had quite a different take when a cartoon poked fun at Reagan's poor hearing. The singer wrote a letter to say he'd had more than enough of Conrad's "viciousness and hatred."
"He is a disgrace to responsible journalism," Sinatra wrote. "And you all ought to be ashamed of yourselves for hiding behind the 1st Amendment, which was never intended for people like Conrad anyway."
Other Conrad opponents took him to court.
Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty sued for libel in 1968. The cartoon in question chided Yorty for his ambition to be named Nixon's secretary of Defense. In the image, Yorty tells a phone caller, "I've got to go now ... I've been appointed Secretary of Defense and the Secret Service men are here!" The men drawn waiting for the mayor are, instead, wearing white suits and carrying a straitjacket.
Yorty claimed that by raising doubts about his mental stability, Conrad had defamed him. But a Superior Court judge dismissed the case before trial and the mayor's appeals failed.
It took considerably longer for The Times to fight off a suit, brought in 1974, by Union Oil Co. President Fred L. Hartley. Conrad had drawn a denuded Christmas tree with a single Union 76 bauble, along with the tag: "Merry Christmas from Fred Heartless."
Hartley argued that he could not be held responsible for the government-ordered diversion of 500,000 barrels of oil from Southern California to Guam during the height of the oil crisis. The oil chief had previously had an amiable acquaintance with Conrad, even donating $200 to a Little League team the cartoonist coached. Hartley called the cartoon a "dastardly deed" that had damaged his health and held his family up to ridicule.
But a judge ruled Hartley was a public figure, meaning the executive could prove libel only if he showed that Conrad knowingly published a falsehood, with reckless disregard for the truth. By 11 to 1, a jury found that the oil executive did not meet that standard.
The courtroom victory only enhanced the image within The Times of Conrad as a towering, practically invulnerable figure. Even his physical presence seemed to confirm that view. Conrad stood 6 feet 2, his large head framed by thick, black-rimmed glasses and his arrival announced in a booming voice.
He would start each day at home reading the New York Times voraciously, then turn to the Los Angeles Times before punching on news radio on the way to The Times' downtown offices.
He would spend the morning sketching out ideas on 8-by-11 newsprint "roughs," puffing his ever-present pipe (even years after smoking was banned at the newspaper) and perhaps bellowing a barb at one of the editorial writers ensconced near his windowed office, a floor below the Times newsroom.
Conrad enjoyed give and take over his drafts, his co-workers said, but he could become ornery if a finished cartoon came under fire.
"He would think I was a stupid tool of the enemy, whoever the enemy was, and this feeling would just all sort of erupt," said Day, the editorial page editor. "His middle name was 'Difficult.' But his middle name was also 'Talented.' Enormously talented."
In the 30 years between his hiring and his 1993 retirement, his bosses killed only a handful of Conrad's cartoons. After Nixon declared Charles Manson guilty of murder before a verdict had been rendered, Conrad drew a grinning Manson sporting a "Nixon's the One" button. Day said it was in bad taste and axed it.
The Times killed two other cartoons that featured the naked rear ends of world leaders. One was of the presidents of the industrialized democracies and the other of Iraq's Saddam Hussein, mooning the West before the Persian Gulf War. Conrad said: "I thought that last one was pretty funny, but ... . "
"Otis and I would sometimes kind of talk, kid around, about how much trouble Conrad was," said former editor Thomas, who headed the paper's editorial operations from 1971 to 1989. "We all caught hell for things, but you couldn't help but appreciate the artistry that he had, the intellect behind it and the punch that it packed."
It was at his home in Rancho Palos Verdes that Conrad escaped the pressure cooker of daily deadlines and political intrigues. He enjoyed a prosaic suburban existence, playing golf, coaching his two boys and two girls in baseball, softball and soccer.
"The funny thing was, there was Conrad, this acid, tough guy," recalled friend and former Times City Editor Bill Boyarsky, "and then there was the Palos Verdes Conrad, very settled and into all this community stuff."
Many of Conrad's stalwarts — including Otis Chandler and his successor as publisher, Tom Johnson — had left The Times by the early 1990s. The cartoonist would say later that he felt the culture at the newspaper shifting. He felt a loss of support.
No one ever said that Conrad's December 1992 drunk-driving arrest in Palos Verdes Estates clouded his employment at the paper. (Conrad, in fact, made the incident the stuff of another cartoon, showing himself behind bars and arguing in the caption: "What's good enough for me for drunk driving ought to be good enough for [former Defense Secretary] Caspar Weinberger for lying to Congress" about the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages swap.)
When The Times offered a buyout to the entire staff in January 1993, Conrad decided to take it.
He continued cartooning in syndication for a number of years and pursued other avocations, such as painting and his bronze sculptures of political figures. The voluntary nature of the departure did not appease Conrad fans.
"Where once the pit bull Conrad's cartoon got your heart started pumping in the morning," opined television commentator Jess Marlow, "now atop the op-ed page the pit bull has been replaced by a succession of pussycats."
Conrad is survived by his wife, Kay; his sons Jamie of Menlo Park and David of Lake Arrowhead; daughters Carol of Menlo Park and Libby of Falls Church, Va.; and a granddaughter.