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Good News About Finding Birth Parents In New Jersey…
Finding Birth Parents In New Jersey May Soon Be Easier
We learned recently that the New Jersey Senate approved giving adoptees access to their original birth certificates. Currently, an adoptee can only possess the amended birth certificate which displays their adoptive parent's names. An original birth certificate will display the names of the birth parents, along with other identifying information.
There's a caveat, of course: Birth parents will be able to contact the state to have their names deleted. If they elect to do this, they would fill out a birth family history form containing medical and social history. The birth parent would also have the option of how they would like to be contacted.
Don't get too excited yet. The New Jersey Birth Parent Open Records Bill (our unofficial name for it) still has to be considered by the New Jersey Assembly. Also, if the bill goes into effect, you will still need to learn how to search for your birth parents once you have their names. It could still be a tough search, since you will only have your birth mother's maiden name (in most instances) and possibly some very old address information. We suspect that a lot of original birth certificates may not list the birth father's name at all.
So, keep visiting our website for New Jersey open records updates, and learn all the search methods on finding your birth parents in New Jersey and elsewhere.
Please post a comment if you have any questions.
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I have the adoption agency who took care of adoption. They have told me that they know who they are, but won't tell me unless I pay $800 and go thru their counseling twice. I have hospital, doctor, time of birth, etc..any hope? im 54
I am 47, was adopted at age 7. My problem is trying to get medical records of my birth parents. I am trying to put it together for my 3 sons as well as myself. It is horrible how adoptees are treated even though we have the proof we need. Can someone give me some suggestions. My Dr.s are doing everything they can with no avail. Sincerely, Christine Marie Fernetti- Macaluso-Donahue Born in Vineland, NJ
The New Jersey Senate passed a bill on Mar. 3 allowing adoptees 18 or older (and adoptive parents of minors) to obtain their original birth certificates (S611). The legislation also would permit birthparents to submit non-disclosure and/or contact preference forms. Both requests would require birthparents to provide family history information. For safe haven surrender cases, the state would deem that the birthparent has requested nondisclosure. The bill also requires agencies and attorneys to release family history information in adoption files upon request, and allows people adopted through the child welfare system to request a summary of circumstances surrounding termination of parents rights. The bill is currently being considered by the Assemblys Human Services Committee. To read the bill and learn its status, go to: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ and search for S611 in the bill number field. To read the Adoption Institutes report on this issue, go to: http://www.adoptioninstitute.org/research/ To read the Institutes report on safe haven infant abandonment, go to: http://www.adoptioninstitute.org/whowe/


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The Singapore Flyer is what the Eiffel Tower is to Paris: the place from where you have the best view of the city. This 165-metre-high Ferris wheel is the highest in the world. From the rainforest near the entrance you are guided to a panoramic view over Marina Bay and the nearby islands. This giant Ferris wheel is much more than a ride; it is a scenic flight over the city.
From the ground, the world's highest Ferris wheel may seem less impressive than the Eiffel Tower or Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Towers. But with its floor-to-ceiling glass gondolas, it offers unobstructed views throughout the entire ride, which lasts about 15 minutes. From the top of the wheel, Singapore's signature blue taxis, the Kallang River and container ships in the harbour are reduced to miniatures. On a clear day you may see as far as Malaysia and the islands of Indonesia. This is the ride of a lifetime!
Learn everything about the history of the Singapore Flyer in the Journey of Dreams, the visitor centre below the Ferris wheel. Through 'augmented reality', the display explains the various technical challenges and solutions for building and stabilizing the wheel. The construction of this enormous Ferris wheel was quite the engineering feat.
An evening ride on the Ferris wheel is a spectacular experience. Admire stunning city views at dusk as the sun sets and your gondola car climbs to 165 metres above the ground. After dark, the metropolis is brightly lit, especially the districts on the east side where the Flyer is located. The Singapore Flyer offers various special evening packages. Look out over the metropolis as you sip a glass of champagne or a delicious Singapore Sling, the city's signature cocktail.
After you exit the Ferris wheel, you will find yourself right next to Seafood Paradise Singapore, one of several restaurants by the sea. The chefs prepare some of Singapore's most beloved dishes. Try the chili crab, a dish that was invented in the 1960s. The dish is not as spicy as it sounds; prepared in tomato sauce, garlic and rice vinegar, the crab dish has a sweet and savoury flavour. Locals prefer to eat the crab dish with 'man tou', deep-fried bread.

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From Conservapedia
Y.M.C.A. (Young Men's Christian Association) is a non-profit community service organization originally founded in London in 1844, as a men (and boys) only facility, the YMCA has changed to admit women (and girls). Activities that take place at the YMCA include swimming, basketball, working out, day care services, and more.[1]
There used to be an equivalent group for women called the YWCA.[1]
In the U.S. the YMCA is a powerful religious activist group promoting "manly" (athletic) Christianity and the Social Gospel.[1]


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Generation Lost
only artist i know that has good beats and has true meaning,
explains so much i can relate so much.
makes me want to be different
If U knew how much I want U 2 B bigger than Jay
Bigger than all
We shall C that day
Maybe B.O.B is gone but Bobby Ray can never fall
Bigger than the rest
Bigger than the one that think theyre the best
I see you reaching pass the limit many trying to touch
Never stutter, never fear, ever gives in... Thats why haters spit and coughs
You left them to dry in the dust
They say they raw, they say their rhyme is strong
But they are weak and yours go beyond
They have no soul, they say they got swagger
When youre on top, still spitting the truth
Just wave and say See you never sucker!
Written by: LalaLove4Love
Hi bobby Ray
I hope you put me in a video of yours some day .
I like the way you put words in to music ..
WOW! I hope every young man gets a chance to hear this song. Man, I am so glad that you are doing your thing the way you want to do it.
Don't change a thing!
Real Rap!


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These sculptures are made from the bones of dead people. The photographic portraits of these sculptures are made by Arne Svenson. What results is Unspeaking Likeness, a strangely captivating series of death portraits, collected here.
For four years, Svenson sojourned from coroner's offices to law enforcement agencies allover the country, snapping photographs of facial reconstruction sculptures which were built by forensic artists and molded from unidentifiable victims' skeletal remains, with the intention of resolving crimes.
The narrative hidden behind each "face" is a mystery, and, as viewers, our own hearts tense with sadness when considering each subject's lurid last moments of life. It's almost too much; so, we reject the idea of reconstruction in relation to rejuvenation. It feels psychological, how we need to detach. The "face" in the context of Svenson's portraits are not representative of an emotional life nor physical body; instead, it's a mask or doll with a troubling echo, seemingly touched by the hands of Frankenstein.


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No German band has had a greater influence on international music than Kraftwerk. The band formed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider, two former architecture students, laid the foundations for the development of electronic pop music and the techno aesthetic.
Herbert Grönemeyer's honest, open and committed style has won the singer many admirers. Since his hit album Mensch (2002), he has had three number one hits in Germany including the 2006 World Cup anthem Zeit, dass sich was dreht.
This band formed by singer/songwriter Campino (real name: Andreas Frege) are one of Germany's most successful punk rock bands. Their social satire sometimes has traits of cabaret (Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder, Kein Alkohol ist auch keine Lösung).
Die Ärzte's provocative punk humour isn't for everyone. For almost 20 years, Debil their 1984 debut album was deemed unsuitable for playing on certain public media, and two other albums are still listed today. But since reforming in 1993, the cocky trio has enjoyed greater success than ever before.
Although band leader and singer Wolfgang Niedecken sings in Cologne dialect, BAP's Kölschrock is understood all over the world. Niedecken modelled himself on Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen – and his band's music is just as direct and honest as theirs.
Identical twins Bill and Tom Kaulitz were not even twelve years old when they formed their band in Magdeburg in 2001. Four years later Tokio Hotel had their first number one hit in Germany – with the song Durch den Monsun.
When 19-year-old student Lena Meyer-Landrut won the European Song Contest with Satellite in Oslo in summer 2010, she captured the whole of Europe's hearts. As well as in Germany, the song shot to number one in the charts in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Switzerland.
Rammstein's brute-force vocals, totalitarian look and provocative texts about power and sex are always sources of controversy. All their albums since 1997 have reached number one in the German charts.
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Re: Mando RPG
Yeah, this rpg died and got way off topic. And, no, I have no intention of making myself a regular again for awhile. I've been dealing with bouts of depression since last November, and a bunch of other things, my mom has cancer, one of my brothers needs me to help take care of him full time. I just don't have the time.
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NAMEMail::Message::Construct::Text - capture a Mail::Message as text
my $text = $msg->string; my $text = "$msg"; # via overload my @text = $msg->lines; my @text = @$lines; # via overload my $fh = $msg->file; my $line = <$fh>; $msg->printStructure;
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The whole message as text
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Is anyone going out on the Hudson River this week to see fireworks for July 4th week? If so where and any pointers?
I plan on seeing the Fireworks on July 2nd at Haverstraw bay. Not sure what to expect or if it will be crazy afterward in terms of mass boat exodus kind of things. Last year we saw fireworks up at Lake George and when it was over the mass exodus of boats leaving at high speeds in the dark was a bit unnerving.


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St Kitts in the
It is known from the 1891 census of Bolehall and Glascote in Staffordshire that Emily, a widow and professional nurse, was living with her two children, then in their 20s, who had been born on St Kitts. She claimed to have lost her husband by as early as 1881 when she was back in
|1881 Tamworth showing Emily Swinfield as a widow
microfilm copies of most of the indexes and actual returns of births, marriages and deaths for St Kitts. Not only were the births of the two known children, Mary Emily in 1867 and Edward Arthur in 1868 confirmed, but Edward and Emily had produced another son, Irvine John, who died aged just 7 months in 1871. Edward was working as the manager of Willetts Estate at
|Registrations of births at St Paul's, St Kitts, in 1870
They are not included in the birth indexes of that date under Swinfield or anything which looks like Higginbotham either. I am told by family members that they were of a very dark complexion and had curly hair!


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Wide-open vistas are frequently used to advertise outdoor clothing, yet the toxins many weather-resistant fabrics contain may actually be detrimental to nature and our personal health, according to a new report from Greenpeace Germany. To determine the scope of the problem, the environmental nonprofit commissioned two independent laboratories to test 14 rain jackets and trousers for a spectrum of hazardous chemicals. Despite representation from a range of popular brands, including Patagonia, The North Face, Jack Wolfskin, and Fjällräven, the results were broadly—and dishearteningly—the same.
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Every piece of apparel tested positive for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a persistent hormone-disruptor used to produce Teflon and other chemicals, with the highest concentrations in products from Patagonia, The North Face, Jack Wolfskin, Kaikkialla and Marmot. Several jackets, notably those from Mammut and Vaude, also contained significant levels of fluorotelomer alcohols, which can break down into PFOA.
Germany is the largest market for outdoor clothing on the continent, with a turnover valued at more than 1 billion euros.
Germany is the largest market for outdoor clothing on the continent, with a turnover valued at more than 1 billion euros.
A child's rain jacket from Seven Summits contained the highest level of nonylphenol ethoxylates, a textile surfactant that's not only extremely toxic to aquatic organisms but also exhibits estrogenic properties. The highest value for phthalates, a group of endocrine-disrupting chemicals used to increase the plasticity of a material, was found in a child's poncho from Northland.
"The outdoor clothing industry advertises its products featuring images of pristine nature. But the reality is that the harmful substances used by this industry are now to be found in the environment and in the blood of humans all over the world," says Manfred Santen, an expert at Greenpeace Germany. The European nation is the largest market for outdoor clothing on the continent, with a turnover valued at more than 1 billion euros.
Greenpeace is calling on the outdoor-apparel industry to ban perfluorinated compounds (including PFOA), NPEs, and phthalates, which can contaminate drinking water, food, and ultimately human blood and breast milk.
Several leading retailers are already headed in that direction, with Marks & Spencer following H&M's lead to phase out PFCs in the short term and eliminate all hazardous chemicals by 2020.
Healthier weatherproof alternatives are widely available, including membranes made from polyester or polyurethane. Such clothing, according to Greenpeace, are uncompromising in their ability to withstand wind, rain, and snow. In fact, products containing PFCs are superior to fluorine-free alternatives only with regard to oil-repellency.
"The industry has gone from being a specialist supplier to a producer of trendy everyday wear," says Santen. "Consumers looking for waterproof clothing have the right to know what their rain gears contains and be able to make a choice. There are already several manufacturers offering fluorine-free alternatives."


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Sautéed Kidneys with Broccoli, Anchovies, and Chili Pepper Recipe
Recipes and stories for everything but the oink.
Read more: The Nasty Bits: Pork Kidneys
- Yield:serves 4
- About 8 ounces of kidneys, cleaned and thinly sliced
- 2 broccoli florets, cut into thin slices
- 3 to 5 garlic cloves, sliced
- 4 tablespoons olive oil or lard
- 7 to10 anchovy fillets, roughly chopped
- 2 tablespoons capers, coarse chopped
- 1 teaspoon chili pepper flakes
- To garnish:
- Chopped parsley
- Wedges of lemon
To remove the interior fat from the kidneys and whatever sinews and tissues you see. Thinly slice on a bias, less than 1/4 inch thick. Set aside.
Heat the garlic in two tablespoons of oil over medium heat. Add the broccoli and let them brown without moving them around too much, 5 to 7 minutes. Add the anchovies and stir around until the anchovies are broken up. Add the capers and let them brown too, for one to two minutes. Add the chili pepper flakes.
Adjust the heat to high and add the slices of kidneys and the remaining oil. Stir around to evenly distribute the kidneys. Let them brown, about 30 seconds, before stirring around anymore. Kidneys are done when one edge or side is browned and the rest is just cooked through. Serve immediately, garnishing with parsley and lemon.
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While 78 percent of mothers in the United States consider influenza a severe and potentially life-threatening disease that can strike anyone, only half say it is likely their families will get vaccinated this season, according to a new survey from the American Lung Association.
"Our survey was done to help underscore that families are largely unaware they are at risk for influenza infection and to reinforce the need for greater awareness about the importance of annual immunization," said Bernadette Toomey, president and CEO of the American Lung Association.
Only 38 percent of moms say they will get vaccinated this influenza season, the survey found, and only 46 percent plan to encourage their spouses and children to get vaccinated against influenza, leaving them at risk for severe symptoms, serious complications and even death. More than 250 million Americans - more than 4 out of 5 individuals - are recommended to get influenza vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Virtually all mothers (95 percent) in the survey say they have the responsibility of organizing appointments for family members to get immunized against influenza.
"We surveyed mothers throughout the United States to assess their awareness about a family's need for influenza immunization, because these women are the family's health-care decision makers - the ones who will make sure their loved ones go get immunized against influenza," said Ms. Toomey.
The Lung Association's national Faces of Influenza public awareness initiative urges Americans to get their annual influenza vaccination. The initiative is designed to help Americans see themselves among the many "faces" of influenza and recognize annual immunization as a safe and effective way to protect themselves and their families against influenza.
Kristi Yamaguchi, a mother and Olympic Gold Medal figure skater, is this year's national spokesperson for the Lung Association's Faces of Influenza initiative. Yamaguchi, also the most recent winner of "Dancing with the Stars," is helping to encourage other parents see themselves and their family members among one or more target groups recommended for annual immunization by the CDC.
"My doctor every year stresses the importance of influenza vaccination to maintain my health as an athlete. But once I became a mom, I learned our two young children, my husband, our parents and even our babysitter should get the flu shot, too," said Yamaguchi. "As a mother, I take my family's health seriously and I encourage other mothers to talk to their health-care providers to learn whether vaccination is right for themselves and their families."
Yamaguchi is joined by other celebrities and many other families with firsthand experiences on the severity of influenza and need for increased immunization rates. This includes parents who have lost family members to this serious respiratory disease and are dedicated to preventing similar tragedies.
Health-care Professionals Not Always Recommending Influenza Vaccine, Mothers Report
The survey showed that fewer than half of mothers say their health-care professional strongly recommended immunization for their family. Forty percent of respondents also said health-care professionals neither recommended, nor discussed, influenza immunization for themselves.
CDC this year expanded its recommendations for annual influenza vaccination to include all children ages 6 months-18 years, however, only one-third of moms report that their child's pediatrician mentioned influenza vaccination for their children.
"Immunization is the best protection we have against influenza, yet many people don't realize they are recommended for vaccination," said Norman Edelman, MD, Chief Medical Officer of the American Lung Association. "We encourage Americans to talk to their health-care professionals about annual immunization or visit http://www.facesofinfluenza.org to find a flu clinic in their area. The influenza season usually peaks in February or March, so vaccination should continue though the fall, winter and spring."
About the Survey
This survey was conducted via telephone within the United States by CARAVAN Opinion Research Corporation, on behalf of the American Lung Association, among 1,000 adult females, 18 years of age and older with children up to 17 years old. No estimates of theoretical sampling error can be calculated; a full methodology is available upon request.
About Influenza
Influenza can strike anyone and can lead to severe complications, such as pneumonia, and even cause death. Vaccination is the best protection against the spread of the influenza virus, yet national vaccination rates remain alarmingly low. Each year, approximately 226,000 people in the U.S. are hospitalized with complications from influenza and an average of 36,000 people die - including about 100 children.
CDC recommends immunization for anyone who wishes to reduce their risk of contracting influenza; children 6 months-18 years of age; adults over 50 years of age; pregnant women; and anyone with chronic health conditions, such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart disease and diabetes. The CDC also recommends annual vaccination for caregivers and household contacts of high-risk groups, such as parents, grandparents, babysitters and health-care professionals.
Vaccination typically begins in October and can continue through March. In most seasons, influenza virus activity peaks in February or March, so vaccination throughout the entire influenza season is beneficial and recommended.
Influenza, along with its complications, is a serious respiratory illness. On average, 36,000 Americans die and about 226,000 people are hospitalized each year. Vaccination is a safe and effective way to prevent influenza and its complications.
About Faces of Influenza
The Lung Association's Faces of Influenza initiative is conducting widespread awareness activities during the influenza season, including national distribution of new television and radio public service announcements featuring Yamaguchi.
Comprehensive local awareness activities also are planned, with nine local Lung Associations across the country planning major media and public education activities to increase awareness about influenza in their communities. Lung Associations participating in this year's initiative are Cleveland , Detroit , Houston , Kansas City, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Philadelphia , Phoenix , Sacramento and Tampa/St. Petersburg .
Celebrities who have joined Yamaguchi for the Faces of Influenza campaign include: actor Dean Cain, who played Superman on ABC 's Lois and Clark; WNBA basketball star Sheryl Swoopes; Dr. Joyce Brothers, well-known psychologist and advice columnist; Joy Behar, comedian and co-host of ABC 's The View; Olympic Gold Medalist Vonetta Flowers; and actor Peter Gallagher.
Visitors to the Web site, http://www.facesofinfluenza.org, can view the photographs and stories of many famous and everyday "faces" of influenza, and learn more about this serious virus and how it can be prevented through vaccination. The site offers reporters, consumers and health-care professionals various educational materials about influenza and the importance of immunization.
American Lung Association Flu Clinic Locator Now Available Online
The American Lung Association continues to offer its online Flu Clinic Locator as a public service. By typing in their 5-digit zip code, site visitors can receive a list of immunization clinics in their area. Site visitors may also schedule reminders and sign up to receive seasonal influenza news. The Flu Clinic Locator will remain active as long as public influenza immunization clinics are offered. The Flu Clinic Locator can be accessed via http://www.facesofinfluenza.org, http://www.flucliniclocator.org and http://www.lungusa.org.
About the American Lung Association
Beginning our second century, the American Lung Association is the leading organization working to prevent lung disease and promote lung health. Lung disease death rates continue to increase while other leading causes of death have declined. The American Lung Association funds vital research on the causes of and treatments for lung disease. With the generous support of the public, the American Lung Association is "Improving life, one breath at a time."
For more information about Faces of Influenza, visit http://www.facesofinfluenza.org. For information about the American Lung Association or to support the work it does, call 1-800-LUNGUSA (1-800-586-4872) or log onto http://www.lungusa.org.
The American Lung Association's Faces of Influenza educational initiative is made possible through a collaboration with sanofi pasteur.
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New York, NY 10036
Mothers See Flu As Serious Health Threat, But Often Don't Get Their Families Vaccinated
While 78 percent of mothers in the United States consider influenza a severe and potentially life-threatening disease that can strike anyone, only half say it is likely their families will get vaccinated this season, according to a new survey from the American Lung Association.


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I've never had chicken noodle soup before, so I actually have no idea how accurate this vegan version is! Alas, muffin loves chicken noodle soup, and so I made it for him. It's a pretty american dish that never really made it across the ocean into my household as a child. Nevertheless, this one is tasty.
2 Tablespoons olive oil
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 carrot, diced
1 celery stick, diced
1 leek, diced
1 small onion, diced
1/2 zucchini, diced
1 small turnip, diced
1 Tablespoon fresh rosemary, finely chopped
1 Tablespoon fresh parsley, finely chopped
1 Tablespoon dried oregano
1 Tablespoon dried bouquet garni
1 teaspoon dried chilli flakes
1/4 cup white wine
200g pasta (i used vermicelli)
Heat oil in big pot, add all the vegies and cook on a low heat until they are softened but not browned.
Add all herbs and cook 1 further minute.
Deglaze with white wine.
Add stock, bring to boil.
Take a spoonful of the hot stock and make an arrowroot paste in a small bowl. Add to big pot and whisk quickly to prevent lumps.
Cut up pasta with scissors so it's about -------------- THAT big! Add to pot and cook untl al dente.
Season to taste.
Serve with crusty bread, love and hugs.
* I used 'massel chicken style stock' cubes because it's vegan, gluten free, lactose free, trans fat free and has no added msg.
** arrowroot dissolves clear unlike corn flour. Arrowroot is also gluten free; made from tapioca!


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On the contrary, other mythologies of the world had connected the Moon with the feminine, like the Greek/Roman deities [[Wikipedia:Luna|Luna]], [[Wikipedia:Selene|Selene]], [[Wikipedia:Hecate|Hecate]] and others.
On the contrary, other mythologies of the world had connected the Moon with the feminine, like the Greek/Roman deities [[Wikipedia:Luna|Luna]], [[Wikipedia:Selene|Selene]], [[Wikipedia:Hecate|Hecate]] and others.
The gender of the celestial deity, is mirrored also in the gender of the noun for "Moon" in these languages
The gender of the celestial deity, is mirrored also in the gender of the noun for "Moon" in these languages (eg. French ''la Lune'' but German ''der Mond''). This was also perhaps the case with some of the [[languages]] of [[Arda]].
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|Other names
|Ithil, Rána, Isíl, Phainakelūth, Nīlū
|the sky
- "The round Moon rolled behind the hill,
as the Sun raised up her head.
She hardly believed her fiery eyes;
For though it was day, to her surprise
they all went back to bed!"
- ― The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late[1]
Ithil, the Moon, is a celestial object seen in the skies of Arda at night.
After the Darkening of Valinor and the destruction of the Two Trees, Telperion the White Tree bore one last Flower of Silver before its end. According to the lore of the Elder Days, Aulë and his people made a vessel to carry to the silver flower aloft, and Tilion, one of the hunters of Oromë; was granted the task of steering the new Moon through the sky.
Tilion guided his charge up into the western skies just as Fingolfin entered Middle-earth, and so marked the beginning the First Age. After seven lunar "days", Arien, the Sun also rose. The Moon first rose above Valinor in the far West of the World, but Varda came to change this arrangement, so that the Moon would pass beneath the World, and arise in the east instead, as it does to this day.
According to the legends of the Elves, Tilion was an unsteady steersman, sometimes dwelling overlong beneath the Earth, or appearing in the sky at the same time as the Sun. He was drawn to the bright new Sun, launched from Valinor shortly after his own vessel, and his coming too close to his fiery companion was said to account for the darkening of the Moon's face.
According to a tradition,[2][3], Melkor will discover how to break the Door of Night, and will destroy both the Sun and the Moon.
Lore of the Moon
For the Númenóreans, the Sun and the Moon - Ûri and Nîlû, called collectively also Ûriyat ("two suns") or Ûrinîl(uw)at ("two sun-moon") - were personified entities, the Man in the Moon and the Lady in the Sun.[4] They were the chief heavenly lights, and the enemies of the eternal Dark.[5]
This notion was carried over to Gondor, where the sons of Elendil each had either of the lights in his name: Isildur and Anárion, and with them their cities Minas Anor and Minas Ithil, and the lands that lay about them, Ithilien and Anórien.[5]
When the Hobbits were still a wandering people, their calendaric unit was not a 'week' , but a 'month', governed more or less by the Moon. However they adopted the weeks they had in the Shire Reckoning from alien peoples.[6]
In Hobbit folklore, the moon was imagined to be inhabited by the Man in the Moon[1]. Possibly this tradition was derived by the Dúnedain.
It is not known if the Moon had any significance in the Dwarven folklore and tradition. It is known however that the Dwarves had earlier based their calendar on the Moon. The Dwarven year begun with the first day of the last moon of Autumn on the threshold of Winter[7]. However it seems that by the late Third Age the Dwarves adopted the Stewards' Reckoning[8], and few had the skill to calculate the Durin's Day.
The fact that the Moon in Tolkien's legendarium is connected to a male entity or person (like Tilion or the Man in the Moon), is obviously derived from the Germanic mythology where the Old Norse Máni is a male lunar god.
On the contrary, other mythologies of the world had connected the Moon with the feminine, like the Greek/Roman deities Luna, Selene, Hecate and others.
The gender of the celestial deity, is mirrored also in the gender of the noun for "Moon" in these languages (eg. French la Lune but German der Mond). This was also perhaps the case with some of the languages of Arda.
Tolkien was very careful in the moon phases described in his works, so that they fit the passing of days realistically. Tolkien was remodelling the phases while reviewing the book in 1944 so that he preserves the consistency. The moon phases described in the Lord of the Rings correspond to the phases of years 1941-2 and its probable that he used a recent calendar for reference[9]. Unfortunately, some minor errors (that can be detected only after thorough measurement and astronomical knowledge) slipped his attention (for example cf. September 22)
The mention that Hobbits and Dwarves based their year and months on the Moon, mirrors the lunar calendar used by several ancient cultures through history, such as the Hebrews. The observation of the Moon was very useful to calculate the months; the words are even related etymologically in some languages (cf. the English words "Moon" and "month")
According to Andreas Moehn, the orbital period of the moon as described by Tolkien, indicates that it was about 20 minutes shorter/faster than today[10]. It is not known if this was deliberate by Tolkien to mirror the astronomical fact that the moon has slowed down over the millennia by the tidal friction.
Other versions of the legendarium
Early concepts
In the early versions of The Silmarillion as described in The Book of Lost Tales Part 1, a part of the History of Middle-earth series, the Moon was described in great detail as an immense island of crystal. It was also said there that the youth Tilion was said to secretly be in love with Arien, the maiden who guided the Sun, and that because he steered the Moon too close to the Sun the Moon was burned, causing the darker spots on the Moon which in reality are caused by the great basalt plains known as Lunar maria.
The Man in the Moon is even described in those writings, as being an old Elf who secretly hid on the island of the Moon, and built his minaret there. This is alluded to further in Tolkien's Roverandom, where the Man in the Moon also lives in a Minaret.
In writings which are older than the material from which the publised Silmarillion was drawn, the Moon was described at one point rather as being created by Morgoth as a mockery of Arda the world, but this notion was abandoned.
Later concepts
In the Round World version of the legendarium, the Sun and the Moon were not the fruit of the Two Trees, but actually preceded the creation of the Trees. Instead, the Trees preserved the light of the Sun before it was tainted by Melkor when he ravished Arien.
Portrayal in Adaptations
1978: Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings:
- The moon appears in the background of various scenes. In a notable animation error, it is visible behind both Frodo and Boromir when the latter tries to persuade Frodo to give the Ring at Amon Hen.[11]
2002: Vivendi's The Fellowship of the Ring:
- The Moon - or rather, an image of the near side of the moon in the plenilune - is used as a backdrop for scenes playing at night, and appears recognizably in the sky in cut scenes. It appears behind Strider as he finds Merry in the streets of Bree,[12] behind the Watcher in the Water, [13] and behind the fell beast in the final cut scene.[14]
See also
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, "The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Shaping of Middle-earth
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Sauron Defeated, "The Drowning of Anadûnê"
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 347 (dated December 17, 1972)
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix D
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, A Short Rest
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix D
- ↑ http://shire-reckoning.com/moon.html
- ↑ The Moon and Durin's Day; However she doesn't explain her mathematical calculations that led her to this conclusion.
- ↑ Goofs, IMDb.com
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (video game), "Bree"
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (video game), "Hollin Gate"
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (video game), "Amon Hen"


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These days, remaining competitive in the graphics market takes more than being fast and cheap. Fulfillment offers a new way to not only stay ahead, but also to stand out among the crowd.
It's the F-word your customers love to hear when they bring their graphics jobs to your shop. Members of your sales team may use it a lot to attract new business and take care of current accounts. And if you're lucky, it's a word that everyone on your staff uses liberally in each area of production. We're talking about fulfillment, an area of service that has come to mean much more than simply making sure that clients get what they've ordered.
Competition in graphics printing today is such that producers must look beyond pricing and turnaround time and focus on what happens to a finished print run once it leaves the pressroom. Fulfill¬ment is a way you can set yourself apart from the companies that trade solely on same-day service or a few cents less per print. However, fulfillment can be a gray area, so it's important that you determine precisely what it means—and what it means for your business.
What is fulfillment?
For some, fulfillment is organizing and packing graphics and shipping them to the client on time as soon as the job is done or on an as-needed basis. Those who routinely handle complex jobs, such as customized, multistore campaigns, may offer fulfillment by warehousing raw substrates and finished products, managing inventory, picking and packing, kitting, drop shipping, tracking, and installing. Engineering and project management also may be a part of a graphics producer's fulfillment arsenal. But regardless of what's on the menu of services, most printers would agree that fulfillment is doing whatever it takes to satisfy the customer.
"The way we define it is making sure we package signs and get signs where they need to be for the customer. It's that simple. We also inventory signs for some customers, and we do have a full installation department," says Tim Leary, president of Fresno, CA-based Pro-Screen, Inc. "Once a sign is produced, we do what the customer wants us to do with it—ship it, or install it, or just put it into inventory. That's fulfilling their needs, and that's what the word is all about."
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It's very exciting to see more people talking about and taking seriously the idea of minting a trillion dollar platinum coin in order to circumvent the debt ceiling, and avoid being dragged down in other economically costly standoff.
Pretty much every media organization has now done something on it, although the quality of the reporting has been uneven.
Probably the worst mistake that gets frequently made is seen in this headline from the Christian Science Monitor (which is by no means alone): Is a $1 trillion coin the solution to the debt crisis?
There is nobody suggesting that the trillion dollar coin be a solution to the "debt crisis," whatever that means. This has nothing to do with the US paying back its national debt.
The idea of having the Treasury mint a trillion dollar coin is simply a technical way of addressing the debt ceiling, putting a coin at its bank account at the Fed, so that it doesn't miss any obligation payments, in the event that Congress doesn't raise the legal limit on borrowing.
This may seem like a silly quibble, but it's actually incredibly important, since one of the biggest failures of media, in general, has been to not explain to people what the "debt ceiling" is very well. As it is, the majority of Americans tell pollsters that they don't favor raising the debt ceiling, a position they would be unlikely to take if they new the consequences of that. But it's understandable why they say this: They think the debt ceiling has something to do with accumulating national debt, rather than just authorizing payments made on promises that have already been made.
So in this trillion dollar coin campaign, we're seeing it again, the media failing to draw a distinction between the coin being used to circumvent the debt ceiling, and the coin being used to pay down the debt (which its not).
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Sterling silver jewelry is both known for it's beauty and ability to stand the test of time. But just because it's durable doesn't mean it lacks the need for special treatment. Read below to find out exactly how to care for you sterling silver jewelry!
Over time, sterling silver can and will tarnish. Tarnish is a darkening that forms over metals as their outermost layer undergoes a chemical reaction. Usually it's due to the piece's natural exposure to air, but can also be from water, hand lotions, and other foreign substances. For this reason, it's important to remove your sterling silver jewelry when showering, exercising, washing your hands, etc. I know it's convenient to leave your jewelry on, but removing it will keep your piece shinier longer. Furthermore, it prevents any damage or pitting to the surface that cannot be fixed and will make it appear dull even when polished.
1. Polishing Cloth. Fortunately cleaning sterling silver jewelry can be done at home. The best option is to purchase a polishing cloth, like Goddard's. What's great about the cloth is that it can be used on all jewelry, not just sterling. I highly recommend it. In fact, if you purchased your ring through my jewelry shop, the cloth that came with your order is, in fact, a small sample of a Goddard's cloth.
2. Vinegar. Another remedy (and green too!) is to warm a class of white vinegar and allow your piece to sit in it. This may take longer that chemically-based options but it will get the job done.
3. Fine steel wool. Fine steel wool can be used to polish your piece and can easily be purchased at your local hardware store. However, it may not be able to get into the nooks and crannies and will shed as you use it, so be sure to polish over a trash receptacle.
4. Baking sodas. Another "home remedy" is to create a mixture of baking soda, water, and lemon juice. Rub your piece with the concoction and a tooth brush to remove any tough to reach tarnish.
Restoring Design Details
With all this cleaning, any oxidized areas purposely placed to highlight details and designs may fade. Although as the piece re-oxidizes (tarnishes) the details will be restored, the fastest option is to color in the areas with a Sharpie and remove any excess with a polishing cloth or fine steel wool. It's fast and works every time.
Green Fingers
Not an urban myth, sterling silver CAN still turn fingers green. If you're not normally allergic to sterling silver, there's most likely a residue on the inside of the band that is causing the skin reaction. Clean with the above methods daily until the reaction stops occurring.
There you have it! Follow the above directions and your sterling silver jewelry will always be in tip-top shape!


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I would love to find out, um, firsthand, whose skin is softer - Farrah's or Maserati's?
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Chapman University Fowler School of Law strives to connect employers with our students in a multitude of ways:
- We facilitate on-campus interviews and resume collection between students and employers biannually.
- We provide an on-line job posting service, Symplicity, as well as the fall and spring Resume Books.
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Above all else, we stand ready to assist you in your recruiting efforts, and can adapt our services to fit your schedule and requirements. For more information, please feel free to contact the Career Services Office.


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The golf course is beautifully manicured and maintained, and the greens and bunkers are exceptional. Enjoy the dazzling array of natural flora and fauna as you work your way around our lake-studded design highlighted by our finishing-hole island green. Whether your're a high-handicapper or a low-handicapper, we have the right set of tees for your level of expertise. Door County golf at its finest is at IdleWild Golf Club.
On behalf of the owners and staff at IdleWild, we would like to invite you to come on out and see the changes in the Pub & Grill and chat about your game with the friendly staff. Whether you are looking for something to eat or to play a round of golf, IdleWild is the place to be. We strive to maintain the course and offer you the best golfing experience. If you have any suggestion on how we may improve the experience we would love to hear them. We can be reached anytime at (920) 743-3334 or (920) 743-5630. Thank you very much for choosing IdleWild and we look foward to seeing you here at the course.
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By Jeff Caplan, NBA.com
HANG TIME SOUTHWEST — Jameer Nelson is finally packing up. The moving trucks have been summoned to transport a decade's worth of belongings and memories halfway across the country. It won't be easy for Nelson and his wife, Imani, and their four children — Jameer Jr., two weeks from turning 13, and daughters Jamia, 8, Jayden, 6, and Jayce, 2 — to pick up and leave the city he's played his heart out for, or the community the family loved … and that loved them back.
Yet sometimes even the youngest ones can sense when it's time for a fresh start.
"My daughter is back there listening, my 8-year-old, she's excited," Nelson said during a phone conversation with NBA.com on Thursday afternoon. "My 6-year old, they're both excited. My son hasn't said too much, but I actually picked his brain a little bit when I was figuring teams out, asking him some questions. He said, 'wherever you want to go, let's do it.'
"So, yeah, we're going to all move down and build up the population in Dallas."
Nelson is leaving the Orlando Magic after 10 seasons to join the Dallas Mavericks. An intriguing team after a busy summer, Dallas hasn't landed the superstar it covets. But it has added Nelson, center Tyson Chandler and small forward Chandler Parsons to play alongside Dirk Nowitzki and Monta Ellis.
Nelson will earn $2.73 million this season and holds a player option for next season.
The missing man in the Mavs' plans was a trustworthy, veteran starter to run coach Rick Carlisle's flow offense. They lost reliable Jose Calderon in the Chandler deal to New York, which foisted the erratic Raymond Felton upon Dallas to complete the trade. Dallas re-signed Devin Harris, but prefer to utilize him off the bench.
"I feel like one of the reasons I chose Dallas is I wanted to play a significant role on a good team and I felt like there's opportunity there," said Nelson, who averaged 12.1 ppg and 7.0 apg in 32.0 mpg last season.
"Nothing's going to be given to me; nothing's ever been given to me my entire life. I'm up for any challenge that's in front of me, so if we got to battle for the [starting] spot, we'll battle for the spot."
Nelson, 32, was waived by the Magic on June 30, a salary-cap-saving move made by a franchise deep into a rebuilding movement. He responded by gracefully thanking the organization for all it had done for him and his family and the team responded in kind. In 2012, at the height of Orlando's "Dwightmare," Nelson opted out of the final year of his contract only to re-sign. Even after coach Stan Van Gundy was fired and Dwight Howard was traded, setting the stage for a ground-up rebuild, Nelson never asked out.
"That [loyalty] was something that was instilled in me through my younger years by my parents and the people who helped mold who I am," Nelson said. "I was willing to stay the first year, and the second year got a little tougher. It was just time for me to go. It was time to go."
In retrospect, he witnessed one of the more stunning free falls in sports. The Magic reached The Finals in 2009 — an injury-plagued season for Nelson, who missed the entire postseason before making a courageous, but ultimately unsuccessful Finals return against the Lakers — and then the Eastern Conference finals in 2010. From there, a series of personnel moves and the Howard disaster sent the franchise spiraling.
"I thought that team was going to be together forever," Nelson said. "One of my good friends, Keyon Dooling, always preached to us as one of the veteran guys to never take things for granted because you might be on a good team now, but next year you might not be on such a good team. It's the truth. You think things don't end, but that obviously ended pretty quick."
Nelson looks at yet another revamped Mavs roster and compares it to those potent Magic teams, boasting multiple shooters and scorers and a defensive backbone.
"And then fortunately," Nelson said, "I'm in the mix of being there as the quarterback."
The marriage of Nelson and the Mavs was a two-way street from the start. Nelson made a list of desirable destinations based on roster strength, need at point guard, organizational culture and location. While Dallas was linked for weeks to combo guard Mo Williams, who recently signed with Minnesota, Nelson was the team's more pressing need.
His level-headed, team-oriented approach are the most desired traits in a Mavs locker room long led by Nowitzki, one of the league's most down-to-earth superstars. The 7-footer proved it again this summer by agreeing to a massively below-market contract worth $25 million over the next three seasons. His willingness to take less allowed Dallas to make Parsons an aggressive offer and also add roster-wide depth.
"Dirk sets the tone, he's a superstar and he takes a three-year, $25-million deal," Nelson said. "Now it's like who else can argue? Nobody can argue with that, nobody can complain. This guy is sacrificing a lot to win. That's what it all should be about. That's one of the major reasons I came to Dallas, to win."
Nelson won't end up being a career one-team player, and he must leave the community where and his wife raised a family.
But opportunity beckons in Dallas, where the population just increased by six.


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and, of course, I did not leave empty handed.
(and that is as far as the confession goes)
I will tell you that what I bought is soft, squeezy, and very pretty. (duh)
These are some soft and squeezy things I have made in the last little while (except for Charlie and Sophie, of course)
I am joining in the Creative Friday blog hop. It looks like a lot of fun, with lots of beautifully creative blogs to investigate. Have a look!
Each Friday, I will make a special post just to share something creative I have made. (it should help use up the new yarn!)


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Section 1441 of the Internal Revenue Code provides a separate tax system with a different set of tax rules and regulations for individuals deemed to be nonresident aliens. Agencies making payments to nonresident aliens are subject to different tax withholding, reporting and liability requirements. Nonresident alien U.S. source income is subject to withholding unless the income is excluded under a specific provision in the Internal Revenue Code.
Travel reimbursment payments made to nonresident aliens are also subject to the IRS withholding and reporting requirements. Although the IRS routinely applies the accountable plan rules to U.S. citizen and U.S. resident alien independent contractors, the IRS has informally taken the position that an agency cannot use the accountable plan rules with respect to payments made to or on behalf of nonresident alien independent contractors.
In order to ensure that the requirements of the Internal Revenue Code are met, we have established new object codes for nonresident aliens. Agencies should review their procedures for assigning the codes to ensure expenditures are recorded correctly as transactions are processed. Effective January 1, 1997 agencies should use the following object codes as appropriate:
|Nonresident Alien Independent Contractor - Taxable
|Nonresident Alien Independent Contractor - Exempt
|Nonresident Alien Independent Contractor - Foreign Source
|Travel Nonresident Alien Independent Contractor - Taxable
|Travel Nonresident Alien Independent Contractor - Exempt
|Travel Nonresident Alien Independent Contractor - Foreign Source
If compensation income is earned with respect to services performed both within and without the U.S., Treasury Regulation § 1.861-4(b) requires the income to be prorated between the U.S. and foreign source on a time spent basis. Therefore, the income should also be appropriately allocated between object codes.
Care should be taken to ensure that the proper amount of income tax is withheld from payments made to nonresident aliens. Section 1461 of the Internal Revenue Code states that a withholding agent is liable for the income tax that must be withheld from payments made to or on behalf of a nonresident alien. Thus, if the agency fails to withhold the requisite tax and the nonresident alien payee fails to pay the tax due, the agency will be liable for the tax that was required to be withheld. There are also penalties associated with the failure to correctly report the income to the IRS, or failure to pay or deposit the tax when due. Agencies may also be liable for penalties and interest, unless it can be shown that the failure to pay or file was due to reasonable cause and not willful neglect.
The procedures for processing payments
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Black-eyed peas are often the legume I go to when I want an easy weeknight meal solution employing staples that I am likely to have on hand. This was another winning dish that went well with a bed of steaming hot buttered basmati rice. The sweet corn adds a nice textural and flavor contrast to the earthy black-eyed peas. The curried tomato base brings the whole dish together in one great big group hug.
|Black-Eyed Peas Simmered in a Spicy Tomato Sauce with Corn
|Recipe by Lisa Turner
Cuisine: Indian
Published on January 20, 2014
Sweet corn and earthy black-eyed peas simmered in a simple and zesty curried tomato sauce
More black-eyed pea recipes from Lisa's Kitchen:
Black-Eyed Pea Sambar
Black-Eyed Pea Tomato Curry
Black-Eyed Peas in an Indian Curried Soup
Savory Black-Eyed Pea Pancakes (Poora)
On the top of the reading stack: Naturally Sweet & Gluten-Free by Ricki Heller
Audio Accompaniment: Jan Jelinek


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I would like to THANK NLSC for allowing us to post about out NEW site on here.
THE Editors Corner is a NEW Website/Forums that we(Taste of Chaos, Myself, Sellaz, Eaglerock, CW Sapp, and many more) came up with to get more Exposure for the Editors who take the time on Every Gaming Platform(PC,Xbox,PS,etc). We also wanted to create a Place USERs can came to find Gaming tips as well as projects. We also have Forums for Real Life Sports Conversations, Movie Reviews and MUCH More. We would be honored to have you stop by and check out the Site and the Forums. Let us know if you have any suggestions for improving the site as well.
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It was Mexican Independence Day, racist
For "Abomination Release Day", I popped in the AVCHD's of Harmy's Despecialized Edition. Free of charge, no money to Lucas, and more care went into them than the Blu-rays. I'll just get the bonuses off the Internet.
If it hadn't been for the fact that Target put the only two copies of the Complete Saga they had in those oversized boxes instead of the Iron Man chest reactor thing with wires, I wouldn't have gotten it there either. When the last two Harry Potter Ultimate Edition BRs came out, I made the Target electronics woman go into the back storeroom to get me two non-reactorfied boxes, as the ones on the shelf had huge divots dug into them on each of the four edges. I also don't buy any BRs with those cardboard outer sleeves at Target, as the security boxes are too small for them and Target just crams them in and/or pulls them out indiscriminately, ripping the sleeve in the process. If I'm going to pay for something, I'd prefer it not to be damaged before it even gets in my hands.
I guess I don't have to ask if the the other site's forums are still down......
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The quest for software quality has given us lots of new tools: new compiler warnings, making the compiler treat all warnings as errors, style checkers, static analyzers and the like. These are all good things to have. Sooner or later in a project someone will decide to make them mandatory. This is fine as well, and the reason we have continuous integration servers.
Still, some people might, at times, propose MRs that cause CI to emit errors. The issues are fixed, some time is lost when doing this but on the whole it is no big deal. But then someone comes to the conclusion that these checks should be mandatory on every build so the errors never get to the CI server. Having all builds pristine all the time is great, the reasoning goes, because then errors are found as soon as possible. This is as per the agile manifesto and universally a good thing to have.
Except that it is not. It is terrible! It is a massive drain on productivity and the kind of thing that makes people hate their job and all things related to it.
This is a strong and somewhat counter-intuitive statement. Let's explore it with an example. Suppose we have this simple snippet of code.
x = this_very_long_function_that_does_something(foo, bar, baz10, foofoofoo);
Now let's suppose we have a bug somewhere. As part of the debugging cycle we would like to check what would happen if x had the value 3 instead of whatever value the function returns. The simple way to check is to change the code like this.
x = this_very_long_function_that_does_something(foo, bar, baz10, foofoofoo); x = 3;
This does not give you the result you want. Instead you get a compile/style/whatever checker error. Why? Because you assign to variable x twice without using the first value for anything. This is called a dead assignment. It may cause latent bugs, so the checker issues an error halting the build.
Fair enough, let's do this then.
this_very_long_function_that_does_something(foo, bar, baz10, foofoofoo); x = 3;
This won't work either. The code is ignoring the return value of the function, which is an error (in certain circumstances but not others).
Grumble, grumble. On to iteration 3.
//x = this_very_long_function_that_does_something(foo, bar, baz10, foofoofoo); x = 3;
This will also fail. The line with the comment is over 80 characters wide and this is not tolerated by many style guides, presumably because said code bases are being worked on by people who only have access to text consoles. On to attempt 4.
//x = this_very_long_function_that_does_something(foo, bar, baz10, foofoofoo); x = 3;
This won't work either for two different reasons. Case 1: the variables used as arguments might not be used at all and will therefore trigger unused variable warnings. Case 2: if any argument is passed by reference or pointer, their state might not be properly updated.
The latter case is the worst, because no static checker can detect it. Requiring the code to conform to a cosmetic requirement caused it to grow an actual bug.
Getting this kind of test code through all the testers is a lot of work. Sometimes more than the actual debug work. Most importantly, it is completely useless work. Making this kind of exploratory code fully polished is useless because it will never, ever enter any kind of production. If it does, your process has bigger issues than code style. Any time spent working around a style checker is demotivational wasted effort.
But wait, it gets worse!
Type checkers are usually slow. They can take over ten times longer to do their checks than just plain compiling the source code. Which means that developer productivity with these tools is, correspondingly, several times lower than it could be. Programmers are expensive, having them sitting around watching preprocessor checker text scroll slowly by in a terminal is not a very good use of their time.
Fortunately there is a correct solution for this. Make the style checks a part of the unit test suite, possibly as part of an optional suite of slow tests. Run said tests on every CI merge. This allows developers to be fast and productive most of the time but precise and polished when required.


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Let Your Attic Help Improve Home Comfort Year Round
Looking to cut energy costs and improve home comfort? Focus on your heating and cooling systems. While it is imperative to choose an Energy Star-certified unit properly sized for your home, a variety of factors influence the effectiveness of your system, according to the experts at Lennox. And some of those factors, it turns out, have very little to do with areas of the home that you actually live in.
Your attic is the primary buffer zone between the conditioned air of your home and the roof that shields your dwelling from the elements. If your attic is not properly insulated and ventilated, then your home may be losing heat in the winter and cool air in summer. As a result, your furnace and air conditioning units may be working harder than necessary to maintain a comfortable indoor temperature.
Proper attic insulation is key to ensuring that you pay no more than necessary to run your HVAC equipment. Requirements vary by region, but for most attics, the recommended R-value is up to R-38, or about ten to 14 inches, depending on insulation type.
Insulation alone won't do the trick. Attic ventilation also plays an important role in optimizing your home's heating and cooling performance. In winter, a natural flow of outdoor air helps the attic stay cool, reducing the risk of ice dams and related roof damage. In summer, the same ventilation—in some cases aided by an attic fan—helps usher out superheated air, reducing its burden on air conditioning.
Take note: One of the biggest mistakes that homeowners make when installing insulation is blocking the flow of air at the eaves. Not only does this compromise the insulation's effectiveness in winter, but also, the combination of blocked vents, poor insulation, and an operational attic fan could mean you're paying to air-condition the attic—something you certainly don't want to do!
The condition of your crawl space also impacts the overall efficiency of your heating and cooling system. Years ago, it was common practice to insulate the floor above the crawl space and to keep the wall vents open so that any moisture buildup would vent to the outside.
Particularly in climates with humid summers, the reality was that vents actually allowed moisture in, and that moisture would eventually degrade the crawl space's insulation. Energy experts today advise that crawl spaces be included in a home's conditioned space. That way, condensation is eliminated, energy loss from air ducts is reduced, and in winter, thanks to drafts being prevented, first-level floors remain warmer.
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text: « Return to Search Cannata Earns Norman Knight Nursing Clinical Practice Excellence Award May 30, 2014 BOSTON (May 30, 2014) – Joan Cannata, R.N., a resident of Wakefield and an operating room nurse at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, was recently presented with the Norman Knight Nursing Clinical Practice Excellence Award, which was established in 2002 to recognize and honor nurses whose clinical practice demonstrates excellence and a commitment to quality care. "Joan always gets the job done and is a great person to have on the team," said Chief Nursing Officer Eileen Lowell, R.N., M.M. "An exemplary nurse who always puts patient safety first, Joan continues to pass along knowledge to her peers, and is always willing to step up and help orient new nurses and surgical technicians." The award was presented at Mass. Eye and Ear's recent Nurses Appreciation Week Dinner, where President and CEO John Fernandez praised the organization's nurses for their "tremendous courage, professionalism and grace" in the face of many unique challenges last year, including caring for many Boston Marathon bombing victims. The appreciation and awards dinner was among the highlights of Mass. Eye and Ear's annual Nurses Appreciation Week, which offers a variety of learning opportunities and recognizes that Mass. Eye and Ear's nurses, like all employees, are an integral part of the hospital's mission. About Massachusetts Eye and Ear Mass. Eye and Ear clinicians and scientists are driven by a mission to find cures for blindness, deafness and diseases of the head and neck. Led by the Eaton-Peabody Laboratory in Otology, the Howe Laboratory in Ophthalmology and Schepens Eye Research Institute, Mass. Eye and Ear in Boston is the world's largest vision and hearing research center, offering hope and healing to patients everywhere through discovery and innovation. Mass. Eye and Ear is a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital and trains future medical leaders in ophthalmology and otolaryngology, through residency as well as clinical and research fellowships. Internationally acclaimed since its founding in 1824, Mass. Eye and Ear employs full-time, board-certified physicians who offer high-quality and affordable specialty care that ranges from the routine to the very complex. U.S. News & World Report's "Best Hospitals Survey" has consistently ranked the Mass. Eye and Ear Departments of Otolaryngology and Ophthalmology as among the top hospitals in the nation. Nurse Joan Cannata, R.N., (left) receives the Norman Knight Nursing Clinical Practice Excellence Award from Chief Nursing Officer Eileen Lowell, R.N., M.M., at the hospital's recent Nurses Appreciation Week Dinner.


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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Six years ago those boring old San Antonio Spurs were winning another title and then Tony Parker was jetting to Paris to wed Eva Longoria and Tim Duncan, we think, was happily married and that barren pasture on top of Manu Ginobili's dome, well, the recessive gene hadn't quite kicked in.
"Mmm, you could see it a little," Ginobili said.
The point is a lot has changed over six years. And then something like Saturday night happens, a 103-94 Spurs overtime win that might as well have dialed back the calendar to 2007 or heck even '05. Even as San Antonio has retooled, added snipers to transform the old plodders into a high-powered offensive juggernaut and significantly reduced the median age all around the Big Three, it was the Big Three on this night that carried them to the brink of a fourth Finals appearance together and the fifth in the Duncan-Gregg Popovich era that now bridges three consecutive decades.
This vintage performance ripped the heart and likely the soul right out of the Memphis Grizzlies, who hoped to ride a first-ever Western Conference finals home game in front of a 16th consecutive playoff sellout crowd back into this series.
They were this close, a missed Mike Conley floater that would have won it at the buzzer in regulation. The irony had it gone down would have been that Ginobili, stuffing the stat sheet in every way, opened the door with a missed 3-pointer with 20.9 seconds to play. Memphis called timeout and Ginobili, on the bench, was so upset with himself that if he had hair longer than an eighth-of-an-inch he'd have yanked it straight out.
"Yes, of course I was upset because I made a very similar one a few minutes before and I thought I had a good opportunity to almost close the game and I missed it," Ginobili said. "They had 20 seconds to win it and it could have been painful to lose like that."
The start of Game 3 was painful for the Spurs, who couldn't quite believe what was happening after all the talk of "Remember Last Year," two wins away from their first Finals berth since '07 and then wiped out four in a row by Oklahoma City.
Eight turnovers in the first quarter with four by Parker in the first two minutes as he called it maybe "the worst start of my career." Down 18 points before the first 12 minutes were up. The Grindhouse in full throaty howl. With 4:53 left in the opening quarter and Memphis up 16-5, Popovich called a 20-second timeout and sat all five starters, pinning the first eight minutes as "one of the worst starts I have ever seen."
"The first half I was grandfatherly and in the second half, what word can I say?" Popovich said. "I was ugly because I wasn't going to watch it again."
By the end of the night, with Duncan scoring the first five points of a breeze of an overtime considering the grinding hell of the first 48 minutes, the victory was being hailed as momentous by those who have seen it all on a team that has seemingly done it all. But as Parker said with a believing smile: "This is one of the best wins since I've been here with Timmy and Pop."
Ginobili: "One of the best wins I've witnessed being a Spur."
These are proud players wearing the uniform of a proud franchise and they all know that this kind of thing can't last forever. It probably shouldn't have lasted this long with Duncan now 37 and breaking down at 35, and Ginobili 35 and warding off injury with every maniacal drive and Parker a high-mileage 31 with enough nagging injuries from head to toe to suffice for a lifetime.
Just two years ago, right here, the up-and-coming Grizzlies again read the Spurs their last rites, an eighth-seed toppling a tired, creaking No. 1 in the first round. But then this happens and the fairy tale keeps going. The Big Three in Game 3: 69 points, 21 rebounds, 15 assists. Nothing coming easy. Everything earned. Tiago Splitter's 11 points amounted to the only other double-figure scoring the Spurs got outside The Big Three.
The Spurs can pull off a most unexpected sweep on Monday night in Game 4 back at Memphis' FedExForum. They've now taken out the Grizz with a blowout in Game 1, avoided a late collapse to win in overtime in Game 2 and then clawed back from the horrific start when the Grizzlies were making steals and fastbreaking and fueling their fans with belief.
Parker, who simply terrorizes these defensive-minded Grizzlies, finished with a game-high 26 points and five assists. After his turnover frenzy in the first two minutes, he had three more the rest of the game, logging 44 minutes. Duncan was phenomenal setting screens, battling inside for 10 boards to go with 24 points and five assists in 44 minutes, leaving Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph out of answers.
The last time Duncan logged as many as 44 minutes in a single game? Dec. 27, 2008.
And Ginobili, the warrior who ripped away rebounds to give him seven for the game, fed teammates for five assists and twice in the final 90 seconds of regulation came out of a timeout to backdoor on Quincy Pondexter, the second time fouling out Memphis' best perimeter option who had hit three of the team's seven 3-pointers.
"Those were huge," Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins said of those four of Ginobili's 19 points. "They hurt us."
The Spurs will look to apply the final hurt on Monday night and if they do put away the Grizz, they'll await the surviving combatant from an Eastern Conference series that could go on for a while.
That'll suit those old boring Spurs just fine.
"We've been old for probably eight years now," Ginobili said. "I remember in 2007, our last championship, they were saying that we were old, and it's all right. I guess we are. But we play well, we play together and every year we are out there contending. That's a great thing."
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These statistics are pretty amazing when you consider the number of people affected by pemphigus and pemphigoid is relatively small. For example, according to Google Analytics, people visited other skin condition websites for an average of 24,376 page views, 3.31 pages viewed per visit, and remained for just over 2 minutes. In contrast, the IPPF Community saw 31,886 page views, 12.31 pages viewed per session, and visited for an average of 7.5 minutes.
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James Cameron loves Woods Hole. He has been coming here for decades, first to meet with Bob Ballard and the team that discovered the Titanic for his hit film of the same title, later to research the underwater sequences for the international blockbuster Avatar.
When Cameron crossed the line from film-maker to explorer to built his own deep-sea submersible called the Deepsea Challenger, he became one with the scientists and engineers here, and his visits increased culminating in the donation of his incredible vessel to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
In Woods Hole last month with his whole team, Cameron talked about the team of engineers and his solo dive to the Mariana Trench, one at 11,000 meters one of the deepest places in the ocean. His exciting journey to the bottom of the sea (think Abyss, literally) gathered video and samples allowing for the identification of over 60 new species!
Cameron's vessel Deepsea Challenger will live next door to us here in Woods Hole, where WHOI scientists can make the most of this incredible vehicle. Here are a few photos of the donation ceremony, as well as a link to more information on the WHOI website.
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Black History Month reminds me of a really great golden oldies station, always blaring the same handful of terrific tunes. Every February, it plays Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman soul — with a chorus or two of the George Washington Carver blues.
Now don't get me wrong. This is my kind of history, and my kind of heroes, and I understand why we must tell every generation their stories. I just think that including some fresh tales too would produce a far fuller picture of how blacks enriched America.
Rosa Parks, for example, had many counterparts. One was Irene Morgan. Eleven years before Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus, Morgan did the same thing on a Greyhound bus in Virginia. But Morgan's response was far from soft-spoken. She first refused to let the young, baby-carrying woman sitting next to her give up her seat. Morgan then ripped up her arrest warrant and threw it out a window. The high-heels-wearing Morgan also kicked a sheriff's deputy in what she called "a very bad place." When another deputy tried to touch her, she tore his shirt.
NAACP lawyers appealed Morgan's 1944 arrest and fine all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. That resulted in a 1946 decision ending segregation on interstate buses.
In the South, though, some Greyhound drivers ignored the ruling. As a result, young white and black activists began testing the decision by riding together on interstate buses. Often arrested and sometimes beaten, they became known as Freedom Riders. One rider was Bayard Rustin, who would later organize the unforgettable 1963 March on Washington.
Martin Luther King Jr. is another Black History Month favorite, justly celebrated for pushing America to fulfill its promise of liberty and justice for all. Yet we seldom hear about Dorothy Cotton, and she was a giant too. She grew up in a shotgun shack on an unpaved road in Goldsboro, N.C., to become part of King's inner leadership circle.
As head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Citizenship Education Program, Cotton trained the citizens who became the tireless feet and bottomless faith of the modern civil rights movement. She taught them to understand the Constitution, hold meetings, organize marches, practice nonviolence and endure abuse without striking back. Most important, she taught ordinary people to believe that changing themselves would ultimately change their country. Shouldn't we hear her story?
Harriet Tubman, the never-turn-back conductor on the slave-freeing network known as the Underground Railroad, always gets an annual salute. Why not? I mean, who doesn't love Harriet Tubman? But people should also hear the story of Kentucky's Arnold Gragston, who, while still enslaved himself, rowed more than 100 escaping slaves across the Ohio River to freedom.
The scientific contributions of George Washington Carver are celebrated each February, and rightly so. He is credited with discovering several hundred uses for peanuts, soybeans, sweet potatoes and other plants, and for persuading the South to enrich its soil by rotating crops.
But what about Carver's good friend Claude Harvard, whose automatic piston pin inspection device was one of the stars of the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair? The son of a Georgia sharecropper and a maid, Harvard worked for Ford Motor Co., where he invented a machine that inspected piston pins and rejected faulty ones at the rate of 1,500 an hour. He also created a process enabling workers to roll steel into thinner, stronger sheets, which Ford sold to U.S. Steel Corp. for a quarter of a million dollars. Harvard helped build testing devices for two-way car radios for Detroit's Police Department as well. Later, he brought together George Washington Carver and Henry Ford.
Black war heroes don't get a lot of ink in February either. But Cpl. Miles James certainly earned that title. One of more than 200,000 black troops who helped the Union win the Civil War, James had one arm amputated during the Battle of New Market Heights in Virginia on Sept. 29, 1864, but continued loading and firing his weapon with his other hand and arm. He and 13 other black soldiers won Medals of Honor for their furious and brilliant fighting there.
Meanwhile, John Robert Bond, a half-black Englishman, crossed the Atlantic Ocean on a merchant ship to join the U.S. Navy and fight in the Civil War. He is almost as forgotten as Maria Lewis, an African American woman who passed as a white male soldier to serve in the 8th New York Cavalry.
Another of my nominees for attention this month is a mixed-race woman named Edmonia Lewis, who battled prejudice against women, African Americans and Native Americans to become a skilled sculptor in the 19th century. Some prospective customers found it so hard to believe she'd created the pieces she sold that they demanded to watch her work.
Many people probably found it equally tough to believe that Moses Fleetwood Walker integrated Major League Baseball (with the Toledo Blue Stockings) in 1884, 63 years before Jackie Robinson joined the Dodgers. Or that Fleetwood also received patents in 1891 for an exploding artillery shell. Or that Moses Rodgers and other blacks owned highly productive gold mines outside Stockton.
Black History Month shouldn't be an annual oldies roundup. It's too rich, too varied and too surprising for that. It's the many-layered saga of people who took what sometimes seemed like very little and turned it into more than enough — claiming their slice of an often elusive dream.
Betty DeRamus is the author of "Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories From the Underground Railroad" and "Freedom by Any Means: True Stories of Cunning and Courage on the Underground Railroad."


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It wasn't long ago that the questions surrounding the Houston Dynamo were not, "How far can we go in the playoffs?" but, "Can we make the postseason at all?"
Fast-forward to Sunday night and the scene has certainly changed with the Houston Dynamo headed to their third MLS Cup final in six years after beating Sporting Kansas City 2-0 in hostile Livestrong Sporting Park.
"Three months ago, I don't think a lot of people thought we would be here at the end or close to it," Houston head coach Dominic Kinnear said at the postgame press conference.
In those three months, the Dynamo have undergone a number of changes, including introducing three new players and shifting others around the pitch. The result has been a nine-game unbeaten streak, culminating in Kinnear's team overcoming adversity on their way to a convincing shutout win.
Much of that adversity came late in the first half when Houston's MLS MVP candidate Brad Davis went out injured – Davis told MLSsoccer.com after the game that he was "done" due to what he termed a torn quad – after an awkward play on a Graham Zusi tackle.
"I told the guys keep going, we're playing well," Kinnear said. "Brad wasn't around, he was in the doctor's room so there was no sight of him which I think was pretty good so the guys could focus on what we were trying to do."
The message was received.
Houston came out in the second half and continued to put in a masterful defensive performance, getting quality play from all everyone on the back line. While the defense was busy stifling KC's vaunted attack, the attack was starting to rev up minus their playmaker.
In 53rd minute, the work and resolve paid off, and on a set piece no less, when Andre Hainault converted an Adam Moffat free kick put Houston ahead. With Carlo Costly's 87th-minute goal and the continued stifling play from the Dynamo back line and midfield putting a bow on another conference championship, Kinnear and the Dynamo are ready to prepare for another crack at an MLS Cup title.
And if any of the midseason naysayers want to come along for the ride, they're welcome as well.
"To all those people … always remind them that Nov. 20 there's a game and we're involved," Kinnear said. "And if you want to watch it and be part of us, and hopefully get back on our good side, please do."
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TUSCALOOSA — It will be at least another week before the University of Alabama coaching staff introduces a game plan for the BCS National Championship Game against Notre Dame to players.
TUSCALOOSA — It will be at least another week before the University of Alabama coaching staff introduces a game plan for the BCS National Championship Game against Notre Dame to players.
But that doesn't mean the Crimson Tide isn't getting a look at the Irish on their own. Players are able to access film on Notre Dame and engage in some mental preparations of their own, and they've been doing just that in the days before the team's Christmas break.
"I'm still up front. I'm still watching those guys up front. I've got a whole month. There's no rush to watch. It ain't like I've only got a week," said senior defensive end Damion Square. "I'm still watching the keys of the guys up front and seeing if they give away different things."
Players said familiarizing themselves with the 12-0 Irish will make the coaches' game plan all the easier to understand when the time comes to install it. Until then, the Alabama staff is emphasizing fundamentals and self-improvement to players at practice.
Quarterback AJ McCarron said he's not watched any Notre Dame games in full, but has begun looking at "cut-ups" of film from different games, and of different positions.
"Their secondary, I haven't watched enough on them. Their defensive line, they move around," McCarron said. "They'll show the O-linemen one look and at the last second move to another gap and stuff, so you know, they change it up, which could be tough."
The amount of time the players spend learning Notre Dame's schemes and tendencies will intensify over time, nose guard Jesse Williams said.
"We watch a little bit every day — not too much at the moment," he said.
What's become clear to Square is that Alabama is in for a tougher, more physical game. Watching Notre Dame's offensive front alone has convinced him of that.
"The center is a big, physical guy. All those guys have great size on them, great height. They protect the young guy back there (quarterback Everett Golson) pretty well," Square said. "It's definitely a game we're going to have to strap it up and come to play. It's power football. Those guys are coming at you and not trying to run around you."


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