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Pair of Prince homers power Tigers in home opener
After Fister allows dinger, Fielder puts Detroit ahead, then pads lead
DETROIT -- The Tigers spent three games in Minnesota looking for a big hit. They came home Friday to find two of them in a familiar place from a familiar face.
This is what the Tigers' collection of power bats can do, turn a season-opening hitting slump into a blip. They couldn't find that big hit over three chilly afternoons in Minnesota, Prince Fielder included. It wasn't that much warmer in Detroit, but it felt borderline balmy by the time Fielder's second home run of the afternoon carried the Tigers on their way to an 8-3 win over the Yankees before the largest home opener crowd in Comerica Park history.
"Hitting is contagious in general," said Alex Avila, who added a tape-measure solo homer in between Fielder's fifth- and seventh-inning drives.
It didn't spark a scoring binge, the go-ahead three-run homer Fielder drove just over the right-field railing and off a fan's head. The only hits in between his home runs were Avila's no-doubt drive in the sixth and an ensuing single from Austin Jackson. Yet by changing the scoreboard, it changed the feeling.
The Tigers didn't need a barrage of hits to turn this game, just like they didn't need many in three games at Minnesota. One did the trick.
Asked how much one game like that can carry over, Fielder shrugged.
"A lot, I hope," Fielder said. "That's the plan."
Those hits aren't necessarily contagious for Fielder, though it marked his 25th career multi-homer game and third in just over a season with the Tigers. He said he tries not to linger on at-bats, one side or the other. If he did, he might have had a tougher afternoon.
Not only did Twins pitching hold the Tigers to three doubles for their only extra-base hits in their season-opening series, but Detroit had yet to drive in multiple runs with a hit. Fielder was one of the Tigers who had a chance Thursday before Twins lefty Tyler Robertson struck him out on a close checked swing with the bases loaded in the seventh inning of a one-run game.
From there, the Twins pulled away, making a close contest unrecognizable by the end.
"Fortunately in baseball, you can make it up the next day," Fielder said. "That's the beauty of it. It's obviously not the best feeling at the time, but you can do it tomorrow."
If anything was a spark for Fielder on Friday, it might have been the out that preceded the home runs. He hit a screaming drive to right field in the fourth inning that sent former Tiger Brennan Boesch crashing into the right-field fence to make the catch as Fielder froze along the first-base line.
Fielder claims he didn't feel he was getting his swing locked in at that point. His teammates might have had other ideas.
"You try to forget each at-bat whether you do good or bad, just because you have another at-bat," Fielder said. "I just knew that at-bat, I hit it hard. In some way, you have to find some positive out of it, even though you're out."
He didn't get another shot against Yankees starter Ivan Nova. The right-hander was out when he hit Miguel Cabrera with a pitch at the bottom of his left hand, extending the fifth inning with two runners on and the Tigers down one after Kevin Youkilis' two-run homer in the top of the inning.
Like the Twins before, the Yankees tried to set up the lefty-lefty scenario by going to southpaw Boone Logan, who had held Fielder to a single in six career at-bats over the last two seasons, including last year's American League Championship Series.
Unlike Robertson on Thursday, Logan missed with a slider, and he did not catch Fielder off guard with a fastball after that.
"I threw him a first pitch with a slider, and I was trying to go down and away with a heater," Logan said. "The pitch was way out of the zone, but it looks like he was sitting hard and he was able to get to it."
Manager Jim Leyland has seen that before. After Fielder struck out Thursday, he said he'd take his chances getting those situations all year, even lefty against lefty. It worked in his favor Friday.
"Particularly with power hitters, you never know when they're going to explode," Leyland said. "They can explode at any time. But Prince Fielder's an outstanding hitter. He's a better pure hitter than I thought he was."
Fielder's 31st home run as a Tiger was the 11th go-ahead homer in the bunch.
"I wouldn't say we were down, but it was right after Youkilis hit that home run and it's like, 'OK, we have to grind it out,'" Avila said. "Boom, he hits that home run and all of a sudden we're up again. That kind of gets you going."
Avila's no-doubt drive to right field padded the lead before Cabrera walked leading off the seventh. Fielder got a hanging slider from Kelley and skied it deep to right.
"It's like we were in a competition to see who could hit it the farthest," Avila said. "It's like I'm losing every time."
More importantly for Avila, the Tigers were not. The rally made a winner out of Doug Fister, who battled through the command problems that plagued him in Spring Training to last five innings. All three runs came in the fifth, one on a wild pitch before Youkilis hit his two-run homer.
Drew Smyly took the bullpen-by-committee scenario out of play by pitching the last four innings, earning the first four-inning save by a Tiger since Esteban Yan in 2004.


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One thing I don't understand is what is useful about electric indentation. This is when entering a special character such as a single or double quote or a semi-colon will automatically cause the current line to be re-indented.
I configure my programming modes to do an automatic indentation when I press the return key. For example, in my cc-config.el file I have this line.
(define-key c-mode-base-map (kbd "RET") 'newline-and-indent)
A Small Criticism of Yegge's Javascript Mode
Steve Yegge's javascript mode has a particularly unfortunate interaction with electric indentation. He wrote:
[Automatic indentation] turns out to be, oh, about fifty times harder than incremental parsing. Surprise!
I put a few tweaks into Karl's original indenter code to handle JavaScript 1.7 situations such as array comprehensions, and then wrote a "bounce indenter" that cycles among N precomputed indentation points.
This moved the accuracy, at least for my own JavaScript editing, from 90% accurate with Karl's mode up to 99.x% accurate, assuming you're willing to hit TAB multiple times for certain syntactic contexts.
So, how does this interact with electric indentation? Pretty badly. Consider if you have the following line and the default indentation isn't what you want.
if (...) { var x = "some string"; }
When you begin to enter your line, you tab it into your prefered location, then when you enter the quote for the beginning of the string, it resets the position back to the wrong place. No problem, you fix it again but then it breaks once again when you enter the closing quote. Suppressing your rising fury, you make the mistake of retabbing it for a third time then the semicolon at the end of the line causes another reindent and almost guarantees that you throw your PC through the window.
But, is it fixable? Well, Yegge did include a flag called
js2-auto-indent-flag but unfortunately it has to be set before the code is loaded otherwise the definition of the electric keys has already been trashed.
(defvar js2-mode-map
(let ((map (make-sparse-keymap))
(when js2-auto-indent-flag
(mapc (lambda (key)
(define-key map key #'js2-insert-and-indent))
The default definition of
js2-insert-and-indent doesn't check this flag so I modified my copy to enable me to change the behaviour at runtime.
(defun js2-insert-and-indent (key) "Run command bound to key and indent current line. Runs the command bound to KEY in the global keymap and indents the current line." (interactive (list (this-command-keys))) (let ((cmd (lookup-key (current-global-map) key))) (if (commandp cmd) (call-interactively cmd))) ;; don't do the electric keys inside comments or strings, ;; and don't do bounce-indent with them. (let ((parse-state (parse-partial-sexp (point-min) (point))) (js2-bounce-indent-flag (js2-code-at-bol-p))) (unless (or (not js2-auto-indent-flag) (nth 3 parse-state) (nth 4 parse-state)) (indent-according-to-mode))))
This is the diff:
9901c9901,9902 < (unless (or (not js2-auto-indent-flag) --- > (unless (or (nth 3 parse-state) > (nth 4 parse-state))
So, back to the initial question: Does anyone use/like electric indentation and if so, how do you get around the problem described above (and why is auto-indent on carriage return not sufficient)?

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The Battle of the Bronze was a coaching showdown between me and a friend. The stakes were high, the blows were low.
Lobber is an aspiring Starcraft 2 Pro Gamer. I volunteered to design his stream page to help him better establish himself as a serious player.
Flakwolf is a growing video game trading service. I analyzed, redesigned, and developed nearly 50 pages of information and user interface. jQuery is used extensively throughout the site.
I designed this site for my very talented brother, Ryan Metcalf. He needed an online portfolio to present his work when he applied to Carbine Studios (where he is now presently employed).
Tom Lang, the author of The Haiku Tao Te Ching was looking for a simple solution to sell his book online. This single page paypal site did just the trick. The haiku ticker uses flash/xml.
I was commissioned by Waterford to help analyze their UI and redesign their internal portals and public facing site.
I was given 100% creative liberty in designing Code Greene's blog. Mark has a thing for Ninjas, so I had some fun turning Diavlo glyphs into typographical weapons!
It's always fascinating working with other artists from other fields, Robert was no exception. His experienced design skills proved invaluable throughout the design process.
Eliminate Paper Time Cards is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce paper waste by providing alternative time-keeping solutions. Props to Tim Haslam for his WP magic.
Ideal Dentistry is a small, state-of-the-art dental office in Kennewick, Washington. It was a fun challenge organizing all of the information Dr. Rowe wanted on the site in a concise way.
ReportTime is an up and coming time and attendance system for the web. I worked closely with the CEO to illustrate some solid UX for him to present to investors.
For two years I had the pleasure of working at Lead Media Partners where I helped plan, design, develop, and analyze their lead generation portals and technology.
The creative director at LMP, Joseph LeBaron, laid out this storyboard for presenting our services and technology. I animated the boards in their entirety (gears, puzzles, arrows, slides, etc).
The studio's owner traded me some recording time for my band in exchange for some design work, this is the result.
BattleLeague.tv is a Starcraft 2 training league created by me and a few friends to help encourage learning, competition, and fun at every skill level.
An investigation into similarities between glyphs and real life objects.
When I learned that there were actually insects that explode to kill their enemies, I could resist putting this graphic together in honor of one of my favorite Starcraft 2 units, the baneling.
Limited to 6 square frames, this was an exercise in creating movement and interest without any animation. Source illustration via iStockphoto.
A collection of quotes from a variety of sources set in various fonts and forms to match the meaning of the quote.
A simple typographical exercise exploring words and their appropriate typefaces.
Trust in Chariots is my former band. The torch is a symbolic reference to the biblical passage from which we named the band. The grunginess is symbolic of awesomeness.


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Nils Magnus (of LinuxTag) on Security and aKademy
As part of a series of articles previewing KDE's World Summit,
Q: Is Linux actually more secure then Windows or is it just less common?
Nils: Well, Linux is in fact still not as common as Windows at the moment. But it
However, the major difference to Windows and all other proprietary software is
In the expert's view, the kinds of current Windows vulnerabilities are
As soon as a vulnerability is known, the reaction time is in the range of
Finally, due to its architecture, Linux is free of one plague: There are no Linux
Q: Is physical access to a computer insecure in general?
Nils: Yes, this is generally correct. If the attacker has physical access, the system administrator
With desktop system, the focal point of
And of course we should consider the 'Trusted Computing' issue. It was originally
Q: How good must security be, or is absolute security needed?
Nils: There is no absolute security per se with computer systems. The administrator's task is to define
Fortunately, a modern operating system like Linux has protective mechanisms that
Q: What effects do you expect from software patents?
Nils: So-called software patents are a dangerous threat for the small and medium enterprises
Q: What hardware and software do you work with?
Nils: I work with a Linux system that was set-up from an installed Knoppix with some
Q: Is there something else that you want to say to our readers?
Nils: Safety is a fascinating topic with many aspects. In our totorial we want to
Q: Thank you for your answers and your time
Nils: No problem.
More secure Knoppix
> Q: What hardware and software do you work with?
@Nils: Did you somewhere document what you changed to make Knoppix more secure? I think there are quite a few people running HD installs of Knoppix who might be interested in hearing that...
By cm at Fri, 2004/08/06 - 5:00am
Re: More secure Knoppix
and what did he do to make knoppix more debian-compattible, as this is the problem for alot ppl - apt-get often breaks, especially with dist-upgrade. I use kanotix, which solved this, but its annoying if I try to fix problems related to this on knoppix-hd installs on other computers.
By superstoned at Fri, 2004/08/06 - 5:00am
Re: More secure Knoppix
A lot of people have complained that apt-get dist-upgrade is not really possible with Knoppix, and they are usually right. I came up with a rather simple solution for this: I ususally don't do dist-upgrades. I do security fixes by hand and may upgrade single packets the same way, but every twice a year or so I ask Klaus to release a new version of Knoppix and just install it from scratch.
It's a good way to keep your system clean and you have rather easy desaster recovery strategy for free :)
By Nils Magnus at Fri, 2004/10/01 - 5:00am
Re: More secure Knoppix
> every twice a year or so I ask Klaus to release a new version of Knoppix
Considering that more than twice releases every year there must be other people other than you asking too. :-)
By Anonymous at Sat, 2004/10/02 - 5:00am
Re: More secure Knoppix
well, debian's best thing is its upgradabillity... so I'd prefer not having to reinstall it, that's a windows thingy ;-)
By superstoned at Sun, 2004/10/03 - 5:00am
Re: More secure Knoppix
Making Knoppix more secure is mainly a matter of personal preferences. In most aspects Klaus already does a pretty decent job; however, in some aspects like a better IPSec support he could still improve a lot, though.
I also think, Knoppix could be good platform to distribute a community driven trust base by placing some well-defined certificates onto the CD/DVD. In the end, every user should decide for herself or himself if this kind of trust is suitable. However, some well known web pages could be security-improved this way.
Other things I usually add to an installed Knoppix are lots of not so well know and widely used security tools as I need them for my daily work as a security tester.
By Nils Magnus at Fri, 2004/10/01 - 5:00am
Any computer with a network connection?
> So any computer with a network connection is sufficient
So any computer with a network connection can boot from a DVD or USB memory stick? Not in my world; I have enough trouble finding public-access machines that can read DVDs or memory sticks, let alone boot from them. I guess things are more advanced in Europe. Or less likely to have alternate booting mechanisms disabled in the name of security.
By Rob Funk at Sat, 2004/08/07 - 5:00am
Re: Any computer with a network connection?
You are right, not every computer can boot from DVD or USB storage devices, but most of the relevant can. If everything else failes, I am usually able to install a local SSH client on most operating systems. I am very proud that I actually managed to do so on one of these colorful half-swallowed systems, what are them called? Oranges? Kiwis? Forgot :)
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Professionals in the Catholic Church are like every other professional. They are in a time crunch. The problem is exacerbated by the priest shortage, which increasingly causes the work of the Church to fall on the shoulders of lay women and men. To do the job well, they need to be prepared.
In the itinerant spirit that characterizes the Order of Preachers, Aquinas Institute of Theology has fulfilled that need by offering academic programs through a combination of online study and intense days in which groups gather for study.
Aquinas Institute is preparing lay men and women for positions in dioceses with critical priest shortages. It is training hospital executives from all over the United States who will sustain the healing ministry of Jesus through Catholic health care. And it is training preachers to become master preachers and deliver the word of God more powerfully than ever.
The school is one of the few accredited graduate schools of theology for lay students from St. Louis to California. It has launched degree programs in the Diocese of Colorado Springs, Colo., where the ratio of Catholics to priests is more than 2,200 to one; the dioceses of Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City-St. Joseph in Missouri, where the ratio is 899 to one; and the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, where there is one priest for about every 980 Catholics, according to The Official Catholic Directory.
Participants in these remote programs pursue Master of Arts in Pastoral Ministry degrees. They study online and convene every third weekend for four years. Aquinas professors visit the dioceses twice during each of the 22 courses to provide an intense weekend session. Experts from each diocese provide spiritual formation. By graduation, the MAPM students have spent as much face-to-face time with instructors as students in classrooms at Aquinas Institute.
Similarly designed programs exist for health care professionals and preachers, but because participants are scattered from coast to coast, groups gather in St. Louis.
The Master of Arts in Health Care Mission program draws physicians, social workers, hospital CEOs, chaplains and board members, among others. The program gives participants a spiritual backbone by which to wrestle with complex ethical, legal and policy issues in Catholic health care.
The Doctor of Ministry in Preaching program brings students to St. Louis twice a year for a week during the first three years. In the last two years, students continue their online study and complete a thesis project. Again, the degree program is unduplicated in the United States.


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Manhattan is certainly known for its pricey real estate, but this $100 million triplex penthouse may just take the cake. The New York Times reports that this incredible (errr... incredibly priced) penthouse, located on 56th Street between Seventh and Eight Avenues, is owned by Steven Klar, president of the Klar Organization.
The sky-high triplex penthouse features an internal elevator, a wine closet that can host up to 1,000 bottles, six bedrooms and nine bathrooms. Perhaps most astounding (besides the price, of course) is the home's 3,000 square feet of wraparound terrace space. Klar claims that the unit boasts the highest terraces in all of the Big Apple.
The penthouse, which is shaped like an octagon, boasts 135 windows with views of all the city's bridges, 360-degree terraces on three floors, and 8,000 square feet of interior living space. Klar scooped up the home in 1993 for a relatively mere $4.5 million as a raw space, so if he fetched anywhere near the list price, Klar is set to have one gigantic pay day.
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Macroeconomics and Government Policy
Economists use gross domestic product (GDP) to keep track of how an economy is doing. GDP measures the value of all final goods and services produced in an economy in a given period of time, usually a quarter or a year.
A recession occurs when GDP is decreasing. An expansion occurs when GDP is increasing.
The unemployment rate measures what fraction of the labour force cannot find jobs. The unemployment rate rises during recessions and falls during expansions.
Anti-recessionary economic policies come in two flavours:
Monetary policy uses an increase in the money supply to lower interest rates. Lower interest rates make loans for cars, homes, and investment goods cheaper, which means consumption spending by households and investment spending by businesses increase.
Fiscal policy refers to using either an increase in government purchases of goods and services or a decrease in taxes to stimulate the economy. The government purchases increase economic activity directly, while the tax reductions are designed to increase household spending by leaving households more after-tax monies to spend.


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Maine senator to present belated Purple Heart to Vietnam veteran
HARRISON, Maine (AP) � A Vietnam veteran from Maine is getting a long-overdue honor.
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins on Thursday will present the Purple Heart to Stephen Andrews of Harrison. Collins says Andrews was wounded in battle in Vietnam in 1967, but never received the medal he earned and deserves.
After being contacted by Andrews' family, Collins, a Maine Republican, worked to secure the medal for the 66-year-old veteran.
Maine National Guard Chief of Staff Col. John Jansen and representatives from the VFW and Auxiliary will join Collins in the late-morning ceremony.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department said Tuesday that it has sold all its remaining shares of American International Group (AIG), moving to wrap up the government's biggest bailout of the 2008 financial crisis.
Treasury said it received $32.50 per share for its 234.2 million remaining shares, which represented a 16% ownership stake in the giant insurance company.
On Sunday, AIG said it will sell up to 90% of its airplane leasing unit to a Chinese investor group for $5.3 billion. It said it planned to use the proceeds to help repay the government for the bailout.
With this sale, Treasury said the government has received $22.7 billion more than the $182 billion bailout it provided to support AIG. It was the largest government bailout package, including both loans and federal guarantees.
AIG, based in New York City, nearly collapsed at the height of the financial crisis. The company suffered massive losses from financial instruments whose value was based on mortgage securities.
AIG became a symbol for excessive risk on Wall Street. It was criticized by some members of Congress for spending $440,000 on spa treatments for executives only days after it was bailed out and for millions of dollars in bonuses it provided executives.
In November, a federal judge dismissed a $25 billion lawsuit arising from the government rescue of AIG. Starr International Group, run by former AIG CEO Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, had accused the Federal Reserve Bank of New York of taking valuable assets from AIG shareholders without their consent or fair compensation.
AIG stock has traded between $22.19 and a high of $37.67 the past 52 weeks.
Proceeds from the final stock sale are expected to total approximately $7.6 billion.
Treasury said with the stock sale it has realized a positive return of $5 billion, while the Federal Reserve received a positive return of $17.7 billion.
Treasury conducted six public offerings of AIG stock the past 19 months, selling a total of 1.66 billion shares of the company. At the start of the sales, Treasury had owned 92% of AIG's outstanding common stock.
Since the financial crisis, AIG has undergone a significant restructuring that cut the size of the company nearly in half, aimed at focusing on its core insurance operations.
The AIG stock sale was the latest step in an effort by the government to wind down the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP.
With the AIG stock sales, the government has gotten back $380 billion, or more than 90% of the $418 billion it disbursed through TARP.


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It looks like this pair of 2009 Hyundai Genesis Sedans got a bit tipsy on the way to their upcoming luxury-party crash. What you see here is a pair of early production or pre-production Genesi that were probably on their way to something important in Korea. Somehow along the way the truck carrying the black and silver pair lost its way, sending the cars tumbling on top of each other. Oops.
Though we've brought you photos of the Godzilla crashing earlier today, we don't see this as an alarming increase in Asian car accidents but rather a welcome increase in people sharing pics of wrecked exotics. And by "exotic" we mean, you know, stuff we don't see here yet. [Zeanon via CarScoop]


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Anxiety also denotes sets of proposed mental illnesses called anxiety disorders, as in the title of this chapter. The theory that some psychological problems are anxiety disorders, or are caused by anxiety disorders, derives from the medical model that views people's psychological problems as psychopathlogy, symptoms, psychiatric syndromes, mental illnesses, mental disorders, and related disease-like conditions. Anxiety disorder theory is emboded in detail in leading psychiatric organizations' official manuals of mental disorders (American Psychiatric Assocation, 1994, DSM-IV; 1980, DSM-III; 1987, DSM-III-R; World Health Organization, 1992, ICD-10).My wife is in grad school to be a professional shrink; I have fun reading some of her books (and I'd be a horrible counselor, trust me). I'll tag Jen, Jerry, Ron, Nick and Russ. Grab the nearest book, turn to page 123, post sentences 6, 7, and 8 from that page, then curse five more people.
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Almost weekly we are confronted with disturbing news about bullying, the most recent being the cruel and vicious physical and verbal abuse of a school bus monitor by middle schoolers, recorded on video with impunity by another child who then posted it on YouTube, thus herself engaging in cyber-bullying.
After the video went viral, and again since the sentencing, the blogosphere has gone wild with comments, some of which are cause for grave concern. Many people blamed the victim for allowing the bullying to continue. The father of one of the bullies dismissed what his son did as ... a stupid mistake ... and said it was time for things to get back to normal. Some said that this was just kids being kids. Others said that if these kids had been whupped more when growing up they wouldnt have bullied; others thought whupping was still an appropriate punishment.
These opinions are disturbing not only because of their hostile, aggressive tone, but because they reflect a serious misunderstanding of the underlying causes of bullying, and the terrible costs to society of this destructive epidemic of maladaptive behavior. Who suffers when bullying occurs? Everyone: the victims, of course; the frightened witnesses; the parents of the victims suffer for their children; our humanity takes a nosedive; and yes, the bullies suffer, too. If feelings of compassion dont motivate us to get involved, there is a bottom line argument that might impel us: bullying costs our communities lots of money, particularly when the bullies are older as are these middle schoolers.
Almost all school districts have policies and/or programs aimed at stopping bullying after it occurs. Often these are get tough interventions that include a punishment aspect, usually require an apology, perhaps community service, and participation in anti-bullying programs. Why are so many unsuccessful and expensive? Kids arent born bullies; they become bullies over time, and the older they are, the harder it is to change. Punishment just drives bullying behavior undercover (and certainly, whupping is bullying perpetrated by an adult); apologies cant possibly be sincere at this stage in intervention because most of these children dont yet recognize that their behavior is wrong. Suspension is never appropriate unless it is in school or at an alternative school. Most intervention programs fail to address a major underlying cause of bullying and other aggressive behavior the failure to develop empathy (more on that shortly). Children who dont develop empathy from infancy are often resentful, angry, jealous, remorseless, and dont accept responsibility for their actions. For a variety of complex reasons they dont behave with compassion, are not altruistic, and thus dont get enough of the feel-good brain hormone, oxytocin, to act with kindness and compassion. They dont know what it feels like to feel good about themselves and their behavior.
Should we just give up on these children? Absolutely not their bullying will continue and escalate through their lifespan, eventually destroying them and the social fabric of our communities. What does work for children who missed out on the kinds of interactions and experiences they needed to develop empathy? The most successful, large scale, evidenced-based (meaning it has been proven to work by good research) anti-bullying program for school-aged children is called Roots of Empathy, founded in 1996 by Mary Gordon. It now has a younger sibling called Seeds of Empathy for early childhood programs. These wonderful programs fight bullying with babies yes, babies! All children participate, not just bullies; the goals include encouraging the development of empathy, compassion, altruism, and responsive parenting. I urge everyone to visit the websites and learn more. In the absence of these programs locally, get involved in our schools to give input about bullying policies and programs so they are consistent with what works. Always model respect, compassion, and empathy in interactions with children, particularly those who bully. Avoid shaming, denigrating, and other forms of bullying no one can change from a position of shame. Ensure that bullies get the long-term counseling they need in order to develop better social-emotional competence, and their families have opportunities to participate in parenting programs to develop more helpful parenting strategies. Dont give up on bullies!
And finally, prevention of bullying is better in every way than intervention. Empathy is a complex, abstract emotion that develops over time through sensitive, nurturing, predictable, and developmentally appropriate interactions beginning from birth. Through these interactions babies fall in love with their caregivers and learn self-regulation. Toddlers learn to recognize their feelings and those of others, and express feelings using symbols instead of actions. Preschoolers learn to take another persons perspective (to know how another person feels), and gradually develop the social-emotional competence that enables them to behave altruistically and with compassion, to make friends, to be kind to others. Parents, caregivers, and teachers are absolutely essential to this gradual interactive process, as they model these behaviors and help children navigate the sometimes-troubled waters of growing up.
We are so fortunate that our community has many programs for families, for young children, in early childhood settings, and through home visits designed to encourage the development of social-emotional competence, including empathy. I hope everyone reading this will become familiar with these community resources, will make a personal commitment to do whatever he or she can to encourage the development of empathy in our youngest citizens, will model empathy in interactions with others. Lets work together to prevent bullying, one baby at a time!
Mary Dodd is a MECC member who failed early retirement and is so glad to have found a community of wonderful professionals to continue growing with and learning from. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com with comments about this column.


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Reviewed By Ronn B (Sioux Falls, SD) Reviewed for a 1998 Chevy Lumina —12/10/2009 8:51 PM
The mats were delivered within quoted time frame. It is -20 below with windchill here in South Dakota currently and the mats stay pliable and not stiff. Wish the were a little deeper as they do not catch as much snow as I like. Maybe a textured top to get more traction as they become slick when its very cold and wet.


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|Small fish on a Whipcoral
This time we stayed in Borneo Divers Mabul Resort. It was my first time there and I am not dissapointed. The cleanliness and setting was up to my mom's standards hence there was no complaints (phew!).
We did 2 dives on the first day both at Paradise II the house-reef of BDMR. Visibility sucks as it was just about 3-5metres but underwater life was lovely. This was expected as I have dived here so many times before.
|Small Cowrie snail seen at one of the dive sites around Mabul
I still have not gone through photos taken above water at the resort and in Sipadan Island. Therefore, I am only putting up the underwater photos. Just in case anyone is wondering why there are only macro shots the wide-angle stuff I took sucks; viz was bad but I have never been a great photographer anyway!
|Taken at the jetty of BDMR about 2 feet under the water level
|Three turtles at Barracuda Point; I wasn't sure if we were witnessing an orgy
|Common as this species may be it still makes me happy to get good close ups of them


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How did I come up with the name, Book Cover Diva?
I was hashing out the particulars of my new venture with a friend when I had mentioned in passing that while I'm very low-key about my writing, I am a dyed-in-the-wool-diva when it comes to design. I pick through stock art like Versace chose fabrics.
I know almost immediately when something looks right. It's part instinct and part training. It's knowing the trends without clouding the aesthetics.
If I come across as picky and obsessive about your cover art it's because I want it to wow your audience. There's a subtlety to cover art. It's more than splicing two pictures together. It's being able to tell a story and share a moment.
Who am I?
If you follow me on my author blog (MariaZanniniHome.com) then you already know I'm an author, a homesteader, and a dog lover--not necessarily in that order.
What many people don't know is that my first vocation was graphic design. I've designed logos, advertising, and point-of-purchase merchandising. I worked for a large telecommunications company until I relocated to the country where I quickly discovered I wasn't cut out for long commutes.
What could I do so far from any metropolitan area?
I had designed a couple of book covers for my own self-published books. Almost immediately, I started getting requests to design other covers. I had turned them down, but now I wonder--had I been hasty?
Was there a need for someone like me? There was only one way to find out.
As an author, I've been in your shoes. I understand how daunting it is to encapsulate a whole novel into one thought. As a graphic artist, I will guide you through the process.
When you commission me, you are working with me. Not some big company or a cookie cutter outfit that stamps out covers by the dozens.
I talk to you, and more importantly, I listen. I'm not going to wedge in every bell and whistle from the book. I'm going to create a cover that delivers a promise to the reader.
If you take nothing else away from this introduction, remember that good cover art creates an emotional response. It's the reader's segue into another world...the one you created.
Please visit the rest of this web site. Email me at (CoverMe AT argontech DOT net) and ask questions. If you like what you see, let's talk.
Self-Publisher's Punch List is now at Amazon. Pick up a copy for a list of tips on what to do before you click publish, and an honest heart-to-heart about the various promotional venues available to you.
Self-Publisher's Punch List is now at Amazon. Pick up a copy for a list of tips on what to do before you click publish, and an honest heart-to-heart about the various promotional venues available to you.
If you liked the book, I hope you'll leave a review.


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I have a question: with how many additional skills does a character start in Talislanta 2nd Edition?
Does that mean I can choose 4 additional skills: any one (except Primary Combat, Primary Magic, Secondary Combat, or Secondary Magic) plus three from my Background?Page 9: Choose one bonus Skill, and mark this down on your character sheet.
Page 54: Each player is allowed to pick up to three Comon Skills related to his or her Background


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Amazing ATV
ATV Albert Einstein, Europe's supply and support ferry, docked with the International Space Station last Saturday. This image, taken from the Station, reveals the exhaust plumes as the 20-tonne craft fires some of its 24 thrusters to adjust its approach.
At the end of this delicate and automated procedure, ESA's largest spacecraft made contact with humanity's largest orbital outpost at 14:07 GMT (16:07 CEST) as they travelled at 28 000 km/h.
The docking was so precise that Albert Einstein was only 11 mm off centre, hitting its target without touching the surrounding docking cone: "A hole in one," as controllers remarked at the ATV Control Centre in Toulouse, France. Russian specialists there said they had never seen such precision before.
In this image, ATV-4 is lit by the Sun from behind as its solar cells absorb the Sun's energy. The golden 'lights' are the sunlight shining through the solar panel hinges. The vertical antenna at the top is the 'proximity boom' that is used to communicate with the Station.
ATV Albert Einstein has brought 7 tonnes of supplies, propellants and experiments to the complex. The hatch separating them was opened this morning. ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano will now oversee the unloading and cataloguing of the cargo of over 1400 individual items.


text: Sunday, December 16th The First Congregational Church, in Southington, held a prayer vigil to morn the losses and pay tribute to the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementry School attack. Parishioners from the town of Southington gathered together to lead the service. Those in attendance reflected on scripture passages, poetry, moments of silence, and music. At the close of the service families approached the front of the church to light candles in memory of the souls lost. Photos by: Tammi Naudus


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A traditional Italian holiday treat, pizzelle are thin, delicate waffle cookies that offer endless options for culinary creativity. This compact iron makes two at a time, cooking them evenly and releasing them easily, thanks to its non-stick surface. What you top or fill them with is up to you.
- Makes two 4 3/4" pizzelles (the traditional size for cannoli) in less than 30 seconds.
- Aluminum baking plates heat evenly and recover quickly between batches.
- A one-handed locking latch ensures uniform thickness, and a non-stick surface makes pizzelles easy to remove.
- Hot from the pizzelle maker, they can be rolled for cannoli, formed into cones to hold gelato or simply left flat and topped with a dollop of jam, custard or whatever you please.
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- Steel and plastic construction with aluminum baking plates.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Grandma Karen from A beauty!! My old pizzelle iron was almost 50 years old...this one is perfect. It has non stick grates and came with a tool to roll the pizzelles which is not only good for canoli's but you can produce a rolled pizzelle with the ends dipped in melted chocolate chips and sprinkled with finely chopped nuts. A great tool for the cookie maker.Date published: 2017-09-23Rated 5 out of 5 by Lissy from Lots of fun Picked this up over the weekend and have made a few dozen pizzelles on it so far. The unit is very small which makes it great for storage and it heats up really quick. I got consistent results from it. The mocha flavoured ones I tried making turned out nice and crisp. Very happy with this unitDate published: 2014-12-02


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) Louisville's No. 1 concern heading into its showdown with Syracuse is attacking the Orangemen's signature 2-3 zone defense.
How well the top-ranked Cardinals can penetrate and create easy scoring opportunities will determine who takes control of the Big East.
Louisville coach Rick Pitino says No. 6 Syracuse presents a different challenge because of its effectiveness in limiting opponents' shooting and passing options.
Then again, Louisville (16-1, 4-0 Big East) also presents defensive problems for Syracuse (16-1, 4-0). With their man-to-man defensive pressure, the Cardinals rank in the top three nationally in several categories, including turnover margin and steals.
But ending a two-game losing streak to Syracuse and retaining the school's second-ever No. 1 ranking depends on Louisville's ability to penetrate the Orangemen's zone.
``Teams just never shoot a real good percentage against Syracuse,'' Pitino said Friday. ``They don't give you a whole lot, they create a lot of steals, they get out on the break and not too many teams are as good at stealing the ball in the zone as they are.''
The coach added that his team has attacked zones well this year, noting the Cardinals' 49 percent shooting against Missouri in November.
``But again, nobody shoots a real high percentage against Syracuse; that's not how you're going to beat Syracuse,'' he said.
Opponents are shooting 35 percent against Syracuse and just 32 percent from 3-point range. A big reason for those stats are Orangemen guards Brandon Triche (6-foot-4), Michael Carter-Williams (6-6) and Trevor Cooney (6-4), who are quick and long.
If Louisville guards Peyton Siva and Russ Smith are lose with their passing or ball handling, it will lead to turnovers and the Orangemen will be off and running the other way. Smith (18.9 points per game) and Siva (11.8) will also likely have to have good games shooting from the perimeter to help break down Syracuse's defense.
One of the reasons the Cardinals have fared better against zones recently has been the play of 6-11 center Gorgui Dieng. He could play a vital role against the Orangemen, who will be without forward James Southerland. He has had some academic issues and was declared ineligible by the NCAA last Saturday.
Even without Southerland the Syracuse presents the Cardinals' biggest test since losing to then-No. 5 Duke in the Battle 4 Atlantis final on Nov. 24.
``One thing I know is we can't make a lot of mistakes and think we're going to win the game,'' said Dieng, who has posted double-doubles in three of his past four games. ``We just need to be really focused and play every position.''
Louisville has won 11 straight and enters the game ranked second in turnover margin (plus-7.5 per game) and third in steals (11.4). The Cardinals figure to use their trademark pressure often against the Orangemen, winners of six straight.
Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim is just as impressed with Louisville's offense, which was suspect in the teams' two meetings last year. He also said the experience of reaching last year's Final Four - an eight-game run that followed a 58-49 loss to the Orange in western New York - has given the Cardinals more confidence.
``They do everything well,'' the longtime Syracuse coach said. ``They can press you and do it well, their halfcourt defense is very good and their matchup zone is too. They can play man-to-man and are pretty effective at that.
``Offensively, they have inside scoring and outside scoring. They really don't have a weakness when you look at this Louisville team. You take a team that went to the Final Four last year and improved over the course of the year, and now those guys are just that much older and better.''
Louisville players have used that seasoning to earn the school's first No. 1 ranking since March 15, 2009, but Pitino said their attitudes haven't changed. Picked to repeat as conference champions and considered a favorite to return to the Final Four, Monday's ascent to the top spot is something the Cardinals knew could happen if they kept on winning.
And as big as Saturday's game looks from a records and rankings standpoint, the Cardinals view it as the first of many they expect to face with their lofty status.
``If you have something that everyone likes and wants to have, you have to take care of it,'' Dieng said of the ranking. ``We're going to try our best to take care of it and try to be No. 1 at the end.''


text: The last time the Hot Rod Power Tour was at GM's Milford Proving Ground it was the just the Long Haulers. This year there are nearly 3,000 vehicles parked on Black Lake on either side of the vendor's midway. We did our best to get pictures of every vehicle that rolled in and parked on Black Lake, but we just couldn't keep up with the sheer volume of cars. If we missed your car, we apologize.


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Hi Ladies and Gents,
I'm trying to teach myself about sets from scratch and the uses of them and I have thought of a method that could be useful.
If I had a method called for example displayWordsInString() which takes a string argument called text.
Could I get this method to return a set consisting of words that are in the string referenced by the argument.
So myClass.displayWordsInString(" the train is late again ");
should print out an array:
the order of print out is not really that important to me!!
If there is a solution to this I could try out, it would really stretch my knowledge a bit , thanks again in advance to this great learning forum!!.


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Computerworld: Aaron Seigo on Free Software and Reinventing the Desktop
Computerworld interviews Aaron Seigo on life, free software and reinventing the desktop at this week's Linux.conf.au conference. He talks about some of KDE's successes, the targets of the 4.0.0 release, the future of Plasma and Nokia's purchase of Trolltech. He concludes that "The KDE project has never been more exciting".
Great interview
Speaking of the future, does anybody know what's up with Decibel? The mailing list has almost no traffic and I read that basyskom kind of dropped the development.
Re: Great interview
Nothing but compilation fixes for the last few months:
If it's not outright "dead" then it is, at the very least, on life-support. Not looking promising :/
By anon at Fri, 2008/02/01 - 6:00am
Re: Great interview
> If it's not outright "dead" then it is, at the very least, on life-support. Not looking promising :/
I'm afraid so, plus Decibel is supposed to be using Tapioca which I think was dropped too :/
Re: Great interview
This is a feature I'm sad to see drift away, having chat and VoIP accessible in a uniform way would be priceless these days.
By Skeith at Fri, 2008/02/01 - 6:00am
Re: Great interview
No! This can't happen... I was really excited about Decibel. Way more excited than I was about Plasma!
I want my presence-aware, task-aware applications! E.g., my Voip app that shows small pop-ups if I'm watching a movie, but rings if I'm not, and all music/video pauses if I accept a call... my email client that shows a "Reply by IM" if the sender is currently online... my Plasmoid that changes my Facebook and IM status at once... not having to reconfigure IM accounts every time I try a different client... my I-want-to-talk-with-Joe button that picks between video conferencing/voip/IM/SMS/email for me...
By kwilliam at Fri, 2008/02/01 - 6:00am
Re: Great interview
hopefully someone gives decibel his or her love, and continues to maintain, and develop it!
By Richard Bollinger at Fri, 2008/02/01 - 6:00am
Re: Great interview
This is the type of thing a desktop overhaul should bring. If there was more stuff like this, I'd have far less heartburn over what I see as useless changes designed to appeal to people who don't and will never use KDE.
By AS at Sat, 2008/02/02 - 6:00am
Re: Great interview
+1 I like these features you described.
By Max at Sat, 2008/02/02 - 6:00am
Re: Great interview
In the feature list for KDE 4.1, they are a few plans for Decibel.
By jeremy at Sat, 2008/02/02 - 6:00am
Re: Great interview
Decibel has been somewhat dormant for a while, but don't worry its coming back to life again. It is definitely not dead. Look out for some bigger progress in the near future! And if anyone wants to help it I'm sure it would be very welcome.
By George Goldberg at Thu, 2008/02/07 - 6:00am
plasma runtime?
So when do we get this plama based flash competitor that we can use with python, js or ruby and that runs on all browsers IE, FF, Opera, KHTML/WebKit etc? Sounds great, but wouldn't the runtime be huge compared to the flash plugin? doesn't matter though.
Re: plasma runtime?
But yeah, it's a pretty crazy idea, and that's what Aaron said in the Interview as well. ; )
By Anonymous at Fri, 2008/02/01 - 6:00am
Re: plasma runtime?
> But yeah, it's a pretty crazy idea, and that's what Aaron said in the Interview as well. ; )
Maybe it's not that crazy, it's not the first time I see people talking of a qt run time that would act as a java or flash plugin on all platform with svg. Actually, given that TT are including phonon and webkit, it wouldn't surprise me if they come up with a qt run time by the time 4.4 or 4.5 comes out.
Nice talk, but a warning
The speech is good, well trayined, but reality is still some years ago.
Let's se:
Is this a flame/critic? Not in any way!!
Oh, and before I forget: the criticism over KDE in my opinion IS a good thing (tm). Those will make developers work even more hard, and when aplause comes in the future, it will be much deserved ;)
By Iuri Fiedoruk at Fri, 2008/02/01 - 6:00am
Re: Nice talk, but a warning
++ - it's good to be honest about the amount of time and work needed to bring these things to fruition.
By anon at Fri, 2008/02/01 - 6:00am
Don't give up on KDE people!! Help make this best
C'mon guys!! Don't slow down. You're doing a great job so far.
We have a long way to go. 4.0 is not an excuse to slow down. It's a reason to really start developing. Harder, Faster!! We need to show the naysayers that KDE 4.x.y is the future! We're not anywhere near being able to take a break.
Look, many people slowed down, or took a break because of the Nokia deal. While I understand the "wait and see approach" we really can't do that. We won't know how the Nokia deal will pan out for quite a while 6+ months, maybe.
In the meantime we have to work on getting 4.1 out the door and for it to be the greatest release EVAAAR!! *sorry, had to.* =)
Amarok 2.0 will probably be one of the "killer apps" Rightfully so. It's a great program with tons of potential. I can't wait to use it cross platform (everything from a Smartphone,Car Pc, Media Center, products we haven't conceived yet...)
Vista proved to be a dud. "Windows 7" is just around the corner. (Yahoo's help might make it even better than we fear.) If we want the free desktop/mobile phone OS/Set top box/Media Center/Car PC/etc. to succeed, our product needs to be on the market before then. Heck it needs to be better than the competition. I'm sure even Nokia and Google will help us if they see we gain acceptance and marketshare. Nokia is smart enough not to destroy something that's thriving.
Especially Nokia can make devices like KDE powered Media centers, Smart phones, Car Stereo's/PC's, Cross platform devices. *hint, hint to Nokia and others*
By Max at Fri, 2008/02/01 - 6:00am
Re: Don't give up on KDE people!! Help make this best
Don't worry about the devs slowing down, commit levels have been quite high lately. ;)
And as for Windows 7 being around the corner, ha! I'd doubt it. Vista was just released, XP hasn't died, and Vista took fooooreeeeverrrr.
By Jonathan Thomas at Fri, 2008/02/01 - 6:00am
Re: Don't give up on KDE people!! Help make this best
Yea but Vista has proven to be a dud. Even Bill Gates himself admitted to that. (if you read between the lines - I think it was an interview with engaget IIRC)
I think "Windows 7" will be out much faster than that, unfortunately. I give it less than 2 years. Mark my words.
All the "leaked" material is pointing that way. It scares me.
Hopefully you're right. Hopefully development hasn't slowed down. It seems that there are many abandoned projects, or projects that are just creeping along. No big leaps yet.
We'll see with 4.0.1, and 4.0.2 and so on. Hopefully the changes will be made steadily.
Don't give up people. You can always code during the Superbowl. :) juust kidding.
By Max at Sat, 2008/02/02 - 6:00am
critical != not visionary
Dear mr king,
Being critical does not nessecarily imply not being able to understand or have or appreciate visions.
Lots of the critic that amongst others I have expressed was and is valid, and helped opening some eyes to critical issues with kde 4. Not enough that kde 4.0 became a vital choice for ones daily desktop, but I'm sure that will come. Even with a little bit of contributions from me, althoug the attitude from higher level geniouses makes my time spent with coding kde less ;)
By Anders at Fri, 2008/02/01 - 6:00am
Is there going to be a video of Aaron's speech at Linux.au?
Since it's all the way down under it would be nice to at least "virtually" be there.
By Max at Sat, 2008/02/02 - 6:00am
Re: Podcast?
The video and presentation slides are available at http://linux.conf.au/programme/presentations
But the site is down at the moment, check back later.
By Gusar at Sat, 2008/02/02 - 6:00am


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The Broadway/Weidler Facility Plan goes to the Oregon Transportation Commission
Nov 21, 2012 at 4:29 PM
Facility Plan goes to OTC
The Broadway/Weidler Facility Plan, adopted by City Council last month as part of the N/NE Quadrant Plan, will go to the Oregon Transportation Commission (OTC) next month for approval. The plan contains recommendations for safety and operations improvements for the I-5 Broadway/Weidler freeway interchange.
Key elements of the facility plan:
- Adding auxiliary lanes and full-width shoulders (within existing right-of-way) to reduce dangerous traffic weaves and allow disabled vehicles to move out of traffic lanes.
- Rebuilding structures at Broadway, Weidler, Vancouver and Williams and adding a lid over the freeway that will simplify construction, increase development potential and improve the urban environment.
- Moving the I-5 southbound on-ramp to Weidler to improve circulation and safety.
- Improving conditions for pedestrian and bicycle travel by adding new connections over the freeway and safer pedestrian and bicycle facilities in the interchange area
The OTC will consider the plan at its December 19th meeting at the Gail L. Achterman Commission Room, ODOT Building, 355 Capitol St NE, Salem at 9:30 a.m.. There will be a public comment period during the meeting.
Visit the OTC website to view the agenda and additional meeting information. View the packet of materials that will be considered by the OTC here, including the staff report, findings of compliance, facility plan and City Council resolution expressing support for the recommendations. For more information contact Andy Johnson at email@example.com or 503-731-8356.


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YPC is looking for Young Insurance Professionals
Professional Insurance Agents of Wisconsin's YPC Committee is dedicated to getting young professionals interested in the insurance field. Then making it fun, interesting, and resourceful to keep them here! The more involved agents are within the association, the more committed they will be to the insurance industry in the future. Get your young and/or new Insurance professional involved with PIAW/YPC!
Great Way to:
- Network with peers in our industry
- Share Ideas
- Share market experiences
- Stay in tune with current issues
- Meet other young professionals with the similar goals
- Gain new resources
- Develop leadership skills/promote future leaders


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The Disputed Election of 1876
There have been three contested elections in the history of the United States: 1876, 1888, and 2000. The election of 1876, between Samuel J. Tilden (Democrat) and Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican), came at a particularly difficult time for this country. Though the policies of Reconstruction had been in effect for almost a decade, tension still existed between the South and the North. This tension was embodied in the struggle between the states rights-supporting Democrats and the federal government-supporting Republicans. When the Electoral College could not determine the outcome of the election, each side asserted it should win and accused the other of voter fraud. Eventually, with the help of a committee of representatives, senators, and Supreme Court justices, and a compromise between Hayes and the Democratic leaders, Hayes was elected president.
In this lesson, students will model how the Electoral College works. They will learn about the disputed election of 1876 and the Compromise of 1877, and relate the Compromise to compromises in their own lives. Finally, they will explore the politics involved in Reconstruction-era America.
- Have the class vote on the following question: which ice cream flavor is better, vanilla or chocolate? Count the votes and write the tally on the board.
- Divide the class into groups of seven. Each group should contain two electors and five citizens.
- Explain to the class that their electors will be voting on an issue. The electors will represent their groups of citizens.
- Have the citizens vote on the following question: which ice cream flavor is better, vanilla or chocolate? The electors should not vote now, but should pay attention to how the citizens in their group vote.
- Have each elector vote. Both electors can vote the way the majority of the group feels, each elector can vote for a different side, or electors can vote according to their own consciences. Remind the electors that they are representing the citizens.
- Count up the electoral votes and see which flavor won. Did the same flavor win as when everyone voted directly?
- Explain to the class that they have just modeled the Electoral College system, a process set up in the Constitution so that people in less populated states would have more of a voice in elections. In the real Electoral College system, the number of electors for each state is the number of representatives plus the number of senators. Presently, in most states, all electors vote for the candidate the majority chose. Only Nebraska and Maine choose to split their votes.
- Explain that the Electoral College system sometimes elects a different candidate than the majority of people support. This happened in 1867, just after the Civil War, in the election between Samuel J. Tilden (Democrat) vs. Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican). Many Democrats were from the South. They believed in state's rights and that the South should be allowed to continue to do things the way it wanted. Republicans supported a strong central government and wanted the south to adopt policies such as rights for African Americans.
- Write the following on the left side of the board or transparency:
- Tilden - 4,288,546
- Hayes - 4,034,311.
Tell the class that Tilden, a Democrat, won the popular vote.
- Write the following in the middle of the board or transparency:
- Tilden - 184
- Hayes - 165
- Disputed - 20
- Tell students that it appeared Tilden had won the electoral vote (the one that matters!) but 20 votes were disputed, i.e. people didn't know if they were valid. Because nobody knew if those 20 votes should go to Tilden or Hayes, and if Hayes received them he would win, nobody knew how to decide the election.
- A panel was created to decide the election. It consisted of five senators, five representatives, and five Supreme Court justices. Write the results of the panel's vote on the right side of the board or transparency:
- Tilden - 7
- Hayes - 8
- Announce that with the panel's decision, Hayes won the election! But the Democrats were not very happy about this. They thought Tilden should have won. They accused the Republicans of cheating, and they threatened to use violence, filibuster or disrupt the inauguration. So, before the inauguration, Hayes reached a compromise with the Democrats so they would peacefully allow him to be president.
- Have the class discuss briefly the meaning of "compromise" and what compromises they have made in their own lives.
- Explain that in the compromise, Hayes said he would remove the federal troops from Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida, where they remained after the Civil War. This officially ended Reconstruction, the time of rebuilding the relationship between the North and the South. He also gave a southern Democrat a cabinet position, and threw his support behind a southern transcontinental railroad.
- Ask students if they think the way this election was resolved was fair. Ask them to stand along a continuum line that is labeled "Fair" on one end and "Unfair" on the other end. Students may choose to stand at any point on the line, but must be prepared to justify why they chose to stand where they did.
Fair |_________________x _______________x _______________| Unfair
Lesson Extensions
- Discuss with students the possible problems that occur in the voting process. The election of 1876 was filled with such problems.
- Some ballots were illegible and some were missing.
- African Americans in many southern states were barred from the polls or tricked with fake ballots.
- Some ballot boxes were withheld from districts so they could be filled with fake ballots later.
- The time restraint of the fast-approaching election meant that voting errors could not be investigated properly.
- Have students create a pro-con chart for the Electoral College. This may require some outside research. What are the advantages of this system? The disadvantages?
This lesson was written by Gloria Moeller, El Cajon, CA; Shawn Cunlisk, Vancouver, WA; and contributing editor Claire Gould.


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As experienced bulldozer drivers retire, heavy equipment manufacturers are including technology in new models to make precise earth-moving easier. WSJ's James Hagerty takes a spin in a brand new dozer. Photo: Raymond McCrea Jones.
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I ... it's not your typical driver's ed class ... here in Charters village orgy of ... heavy equipment maker Komatsu Limited offers training courses for their earth moving machine ... that includes all those years with high tech sensors to data processing ... to make machines easier to operate in the middle ... there's no hard to get ... there ... as the baby boomer generation starts to retire ... skilled Josey drivers are getting harder to buy ... so what we do ... their first day of ... the one human ... the equipment makers like Komatsu Caterpillar and Deere ... are using GPS and other technologies to automate maneuvers that use to require years of training and experience to master ... for the first part of ... this is true for all ... and so ... on ... were the King ... in the two hours I had at the controls I manage to get to the late start ... lifting the front of the dozer off the ground ... the end of my session I was carving fairly smooth plains in the various ... thanks to the computerized system dieting delay ... I'll save the parallel parking ... for next time ... this is James Haggerty for The Wall Street Journal in Carter's Bill George ...


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JPMorgan Chase (JPM) plans to claw back bonuses from executives who caused the bank to lose up to $9 billion on some cruddy trades. The targets include Ina Drew, who ran the chief investment office, as well as the "London Whale" trader, Bruno Iksil, who made the bad bets.
This looks like good public relations, and not much more. Despite a Bloomberg report in June that heaped some blame on Jamie Dimon, it doesn't seem like Dimon will be made to return funds. Doing that could chasten him. Instead, he'll keep his job, his money and his bravado.
Moreover while the Wall Street Journal reports the amounts to be clawed back are still to be determined, they're probably not enough to matter. Drew and Iksil made millions but nowhere close to the amount the bank lost, whatever that amount may be. It was first announced as $2 billion on May 10, later reports described it as up to $9 billion, and now $5 billion is the anticipated official figure for the quarter.
All told, clawbacks are a good idea, but these won't help investors much in the short term or the long term.
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It is the four-letter word that can spark fear and panic in parents.
"Lice seems to be parents' biggest nightmare," says Risa Bar, creator of the Fairy Tales Rosemary Repel line of anti-lice shampoos. "When they hear another kid has lice, even if their own child doesn't show any sign of them, they're ready to put a bunch of chemicals on their head. Just take a deep breath. It's not the worst thing that can happen."
Knowledge can go a long way toward preventing and treating lice, as well as the other conditions that can cause your child's scalp to itch and flake, such as cradle cap, dandruff and eczema.
The chances are high that you will get a letter from your child's school or camp at least once to inform you that another child in the class has lice. Head lice is one of the most common - and most dreaded - issues for young children and their parents.
Lice spread from one child's head to the other through contact with an infested person's clothing, brushes or other belongings. Discourage your child from sharing combs, brushes, towels or hats with friends.
Children with lice may have an itchy scalp, and may feel a sensation like something is moving in their hair. They may also have red sores on their scalp caused by scratching.
Remember that head lice is not a reflection on your child's hygiene. In fact you should make sure not to wash your child's hair everyday.
"Lice like clean hair, not dirty hair," Bar says. "It's easier for them to attach to a clean hair shaft."
Lice make their home in human hair, nourishing themselves with blood from the scalp, holding onto the hair with hook-like claws found oat the end of their six legs. The average number of lice on a child's head is about 10.
When looking for lice, focus on your child's "hot spots" - the part line, the top of the head, the hairline, behind the ears and the back of the neck. They usually reside within a quarter inch of the hair shaft. Adult lice are light brown and the size of a pin head. Also look for the eggs - or 'nits' - which look like tiny white dots.
If you find them, there are several options, says Cozy Friedman of Cozy's Cuts for Kids in New York, which just came out with its Boo! line of lice products.
Some believe chemical removal is best, using popular lice shampoos such as Rid or Nix.
But chemicals aren't the only, or necessarily the desirable, solution. They actually contain the same harsh chemicals found in products like Raid Yard Guard and Black Flag Flea Ender. There is evidence that permethrin and pyrethrin, found in Nix and Rid, can trigger asthma and other respiratory problems. Some of the prescription lice products contain strong chemicals like Malathion, a harmful neurotoxin, and Lindane, a carcinogen that has been banned in California.
"It's like spraying a pesticide on your child's bed or car seat," says Jim Rompel, president of Safe Effective Alternatives, which developed the popular Lice B Gone pesticide-free lice treatment seven years ago.
Rompel discovered that the number of children with head lice in America had risen to over 12 million cases, and growing every year. A big part of this rise was because head lice had developed a resistance to the pesticides (pyrethrin/permethrin) that have been used for the last 15 years in head lice shampoos. Scientists at the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre in Cardiff, UK discovered four out of five lice were resistant to the chemicals. And many are ineffective against the eggs, which is why it can be so difficult to get rid of lice.
With four children of his own, Rompel wondered why anyone would intentionally pour pesticides on their child's head if they knew they could solve them without them. Using his 25 years of experience in sales, marketing and distribution of health-related products, he developed Lice B Gone and launched it in 1999. He made it in an ice cooler and sold it out of the back of a van.
"I wanted to help people fight the problem without harming their children or harming the planet," Rompel says.
Lice B Gone is an pesticide-free, enzyme-based treatment that dissolves the lice's exoskeletons and softens the glue that nits use to attach to the hair shaft. It is sprayed on the hair, left on for 15 minutes and then combed out with a nit comb.
It is one of several natural solutions to prevent and eliminate lice. They contain such natural ingredients as eucalyptus, sandalwood citronella oil, tea tree oil, lavender, rosemary and geranium oil. Lice don't like the smell of these ingredients. There is documentation dating back hundreds of years of rosemary being used to cure lice.
Fairy Tales makes Lice Goodbye, a yeast enzyme that dissolves the glue that the nits use to stick to the hair. Quit Nits by Wild Child is an Australian product that contains eucalyptus, lavender and geranium oils as well as wildflower essences to kill head lice and make it easier to remove the nits.
"It's safe, effective and cheap," Rompel says of his product, which is recommended by the American Journal of Nursing.
As a preventative measure, comb your child's hair with a fine-tooth comb after shampooing to lift out the lice and nits. Last year a study found those who fine-combed their wet hair were four times more likely to remove head lice than those relying on products bought at the pharmacy.
Also try using some of these natural products on a regular basis as a preventative measure. The Fairy Tale line has four Rosemary Repel products that can be help keep lice away. Lorraine Massey of Devacurl recommends using a lavender spray such as her Mist-er Right as a lice repellent. Rompel recommends parents use a product like Lice B Gone before school starts.
Mayonnaise and Vaseline also have been effectively used to kill lice. Grab a handful of mayonnaise or Vaseline and cover all of your child's hair with it. Then cover it with a plastic shower cap to keep the mayonnaise from dripping. Leave it on for two hours to smother the lice and eggs. Then shampoo the hair thoroughly. It may take baby oil or dish soap to remove the Vaseline. Olive oil and coconut oil are also good weapons in the war on lice because they dissolve the lice's exoskeletons.
After shampooing, rinse the hair and scalp with vinegar, which loosens the glue that holds the nit onto the hair shaft. Rinse with hot - not scalding! - water. After you're done, check your child's hair under good lighting to make sure the nits are gone. If you see a few more, use a vinegar wrap to further loosen the glue. Thoroughly wet a towel with a mixture of half vinegar and half water, wrap the child's head with a towel and leave it on for an hour.
Check the hair daily for any missed nits. If one living nit remains, it could hatch and start the whole process all over again, bringing about eight new eggs per day. Every person in the house will also need to be checked. Also inform the parents of kids who your child has been in contact with, as well as the school.
Another common culprit when it comes to an itchy scalp is dandruff. Dandruff is a persistent scalp condition in which the skin cells on the head shed excessively. It may be accompanied by redness and itching. To treat, shampoo with a doctor-approved shampoo. Dandruff responds to more frequent shampooing or a longer period of lather. Rub the shampoo into the hair thoroughly, leaving the lather on several minutes before rinsing and then repeat.
A product like Paul Mitchell Tea Tree Special Shampoo or AG Hair Cosmetics Stimulating Balm also works well with dry, itchy scalp by refreshing and moisturizing the scalp with ingredients like tea tree oil, peppermint, lemongrass, menthol and aloe.
"As with any shampoo or conditioner, just be sure not to get it in your child's eyes," says Tatiana Jovic, spokeswoman for AG Hair Cosmetics.
It is not a serious illness, but if the dandruff persists or if the scalp becomes inflamed, see a dermatologist. It may require a prescription shampoo.
In some cases, dandruff may not actually be dandruff at all. Product buildup, which can cause itching and flakes, can be confused with dandruff.
"Sometimes kids aren't as patient and may not rinse out their conditioner all the way," says Christo of curl salon Christo Fifth Avenue, creator of the Curlisto Kids line of products. "They think the flakes are dandruff, but it's not."
Childhood eczema is another very common condition, affecting approximately 10 percent of infants and children. It can start as early as two months of age.
Eczema has two distinct components -- dry, easily irritated skin and allergies. When a child with eczema is exposed to allergens, the skin overreacts and breaks out in a rash. Common culprits include laundry soap, fabric softener and bath soap.
Moisturizing is crucial to avoid dry skin. Apply moisturizing lotion or cream all over your child's body, two to four times a day, paying extra attention to the affected areas. Many brands are formulated specifically for eczema. Select a thick, non-watery cream for better protection. Natural ingredients such as shea butter, pure lanolin, calendula cream and tea tree oil are recommended to treat eczema-type irritations. Honey B.U.N.S., a line of non-synthetic products for babies, makes an all-natural product called Honey Butter Cream, containing shea butter, cocoa butter and sweet almond butter, to combat eczema.
Give your baby lukewarm baths, and avoid adding soap. Hot and soapy water can make eczema worse, while lukewarm baths allow water to soak into the skin, moisturizing it in the process. If you need to use soap, a soap-free cleanser such as Cetaphil is recommended.
For serious flare-ups, it's best to see a dermatologist who may prescribe a strong cortisone cream. Stop using the cream once the rash subsides.
Cradle cap -- also known as seborrhoeic eczema -- is a common condition for babies, usually appearing in the first few weeks after birth. It is a harmless and temporary condition characterized by yellow, greasy, scaly patches on the skin of the scalp. The same rash often is prominent around the ear or the eyebrows. Its cause is unknown.
There are several ways to treat cradle cap. Some suggest rubbing olive oil or jojoba into the baby's scalp before bed. Comb the hair with a fine-toothed comb in the morning. When the scales have been removed, wash the baby's hair with a mild shampoo. Bar also suggests rubbing a tear-free conditioning shampoo into the scalp, using a baby toothbrush to help melt away the flakes.
Cradle cap usually is gone by eight to 12 months, and often long before that.
As with any condition, see a pediatrician or dermatologist if it persists.
Natural Lice products
Fairy Tales Rosemary Repel Shampoo
Fairy Tales Rosemary Repel Creme Conditioner
Fairy Tales Rosemary Repel Styling Gel
Fairy Tales Rosemary Repel Leave-in Conditioning Spray
So Cozy Boo! Leave-in Spray Conditioner
Rosemary essential oil
Lavender essential oil
Wild Child Quit Nits Treatment
Wild Child Quit Nits Preventative
Wild Child Head Lice Control Styling Mud
Nitmix Wet Combing Aid
Nitmix Ultra Fine Comb
Pure Nitmix Daily Spray
Lice Arrest
Facts About Lice
Head lice (pediculus humanus capitis)
1. Lice are about the size of a sesame seed and are light brown in color.
2. Lice do not jump or fly.
3. Head lice has nothing to do with cleanliness. In fact, lice prefer clean, healthy heads.
4. Lice usually are transmitted by direct head to head contact with an infested person or their belongings.
5. The most common symptom of head lice infestation is persistent itching, particularly around the ears, back of the neck and crown.
6. Head lice can live off a human head for up to 48 hours and live on a head for approximately 30 days.
7. Nits are tiny white to light gray colored eggs that attach to one side of the hair shaft and do not come off easily. That is how you know the difference between nits, dandruff or dried gel.
8. Lice are most common in children five to 12 years old because of their play habits.
9. It takes seven to 10 days for a nit to hatch, and another seven to 10 days for the female to begin laying her own eggs.
10. Whatever technique you choose, you will most certainly need to manually remove nits by combing.
11. Make sure you wash everything that has come into contact with your child - pillowcases, sheets, towels, brushes, etc.
12. Off their human host, head lice will starve.
Sources: Headlice.org and dermatology.about.com
For more information about lice, check out this FAQ from the Harvard School of Public Health.


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Where the heck have I been? Why have I NEVER tried anything from this truck. Why didn't I know that Grill 'Em All won the first season of The Great Food Truck Race? I haven't been Food Truckin' it lately but Grill 'Em All made an appearance at the Tropical Shave Ice/Rich's Shrimp Shack brick and mortar one Wednesday night, and since it's close to my house I couldn't pass up the chance to try a few things.
I first tried their homemade tater tots with truffle oil and garlic aioli dipping sauce. These things were surprisingly HUGE and even more surprisingly GOOD. It's not your ordinary frozen tater tot. It was smashed potatoes but still with little chunks breaded with seasoned panko bread crumbs. When you bite into one the cheese inside just oozes right out. It's simply amazing by itself, but when dipped in the garlic aioli it's phenomenal. I couldn't stop eating them but I had to since I had some other things to try.
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It wouldn't be a visit to the Grill 'Em All truck without ordering the Behemoth. Grilled cheese buns, cheddar cheese, bacon, beer soaked onions, pickles and bbq sauce are what makes this burger a Behemoth.. YES, I said grilled cheese buns! The burger, the cheese, the onions, the bacon in between two grilled cheese sandwiches.. HOLY HECK. When I saw this burger I don't know which was open wider, my eyes or my mouth. This thing was ginormous!!!! The name definitely fits the burger. My mouth seriously isn't big enough to take a bite of the entire burger. I thought it was going to be too much with the grilled cheese sandwiches, but it wasn't. The grilled cheese by itself was so good, so buttery and toasted. The beer soaked onions were really good too. The bacon was still really crispy. The burger was cooked perfectly and everything just went so well together. Everything about this burger was perfect if you're not looking at fat and calories!
Overall $29 for the tater tots, 2 burgers, a bottled water and coke was definitely worth it. Go hungry because the portions are big!


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