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After six months of vehicular woes, Amanda Bynes is set to appear in a Los Angeles courtroom today.
The former Nickelodeon star has been charged with a DUI and two counts of hit-and-run. Page Six reported that she needs to show up in court or she may face going to jail.
But as the "Easy A" actress gears up for trial, she faces more bad news. She was dropped by her agent, publicist and lawyer, according to TMZ.
Bynes was a "dream client for years... but she became extremely difficult in the past 12 months, some say uncontrollable," their sources said.
A source close to the situation told TMZ her management team cut bait after multiple efforts to help but acknowledged "they can't help someone that doesn't want to be helped."
Amid the bizarre reports, Bynes insists that she is "doing amazing." She told People in a statement Thursday: "I am doing amazing... I am retired as an actor. I am moving to New York to launch my career. I am going to do a fashion line. I am not talking about being arrested for DUI because I don't drink, and I don't drink and drive. It is all false."

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More updates to my A* pages #
I had a 5 day weekend (including Christmas). While not playing with magnets, I made some more updates to my A* pages, this time to the space usage, map representation, and AI sections. I didn't use PyGame for any of these sections, but I expect to for the upcoming Movement section, which will describe how to take a path and convert it into a smoothly moving object.
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GLTT looks like a fairly easy to use library for rendering TrueType fonts into an OpenGL world.
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Simple Mushroom Curry
1/2 large onion, finely chopped
olive oil, for sauteing
6 cloves garlic
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon ground coriander
1 teaspoon chili powder
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
8 ounces mushrooms, sliced
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon tomato paste
3 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
1. Saute onion in olive oil for 3-4 minutes. Next, add garlic and saute for an additional minute. Add cumin, coriander, chili and turmeric and continue to cook over medium heat for 4-5 minutes.
2. Add water if the mixture becomes dry; do so 1 tablespoon at a time to avoid making the mixture too runny. Finally, add the mushrooms, tomato paste and salt.
3. You can add more water (anywhere from 3 tablespoons to 1/2 cup depending on the consistency that you personally want to achieve.)
4. Lower the heat to a simmer, cover and allow to cook for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and add the chopped fresh cilantro.
I serve this dish over a plate of couscous.
With a few tablespoons of yogourt, it was really delicious ! Instead of the spices listed, I put an indian already made mix of spices. It was delicious anyways !!
mmm yummy! so quick and easy. i added 2tbsp of coconut milk and served it over brown rice. ^-^
I took the "simple" out of this recipe, by adding more spices & veggies, but overall, though it was very good!!!! We had it over quinoa
this was super! made a few changes however... instead of tomato paste used about 2 tablespooons of korma paste to make it creamier.
I also added spinach to mine and had it alongside quinoa..... lovely! :)>>>
I thought this was pretty yummy. I think it's missing something though, but I have no idea what. Maybe it's because I didn't have any cilantro. I did, however, add 1.5 teaspoons of red chili flakes instead of chili powder, and I also included a 1/2 teaspoon of black mustard seeds. I served the curry over rice and it was really tasty! Sort of bummed how mushrooms shrink when they are cooked :( lol
Wow, this was pretty great! As others posted, it did not seem like much until after it simmered and the flavors melded. And I didn't even have cilantro or coriander! I added some tofu for protien, will try adding different things to spice it up a bit. Would be great with cauliflowerand potato I think.
I didnt have coriander or cilantro (and dont really like cilantro anyways) and it came out well. I doubled the recipe so that i have enough to take to work tomorrow. i give it a five cause its easy, uses simple few ingredients, healthy, and tasty too. Ill be making this a lot I think.


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Atheist Group Threatens Ohio School With Suit Over Jesus Portrait
A Wisconsin-based atheist organization has threatened a middle school in Ohio with a lawsuit should school officials not remove a portrait of Jesus Christ from a hallway.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation of Madison sent a letter last week to officials at Jackson City Schools over the portrait, which hangs in the Jackson Middle School building.
In an interview with local media, FFRF staff attorney Rebecca Markert said that the portrait is unconstitutional and also alienating to non-Christian students.
"If a large portrait of Jesus were to hang in Jackson Middle School, an objective observer would have no doubt that it had the district's stamp of approval," said Markert to WKKJ-FM of Chillicothe.
In her letter on behalf of an unnamed individual who informed the FFRF of the portrait, Markert called the image "an egregious violation of the First Amendment."
"It is illegal for Jackson Middle School to post religious images on the walls of its school. If true, the District must remove the picture of Jesus at once," wrote Markert. "We ask that you commence an immediate investigation into this allegation and take the appropriate and necessary steps to bring Jackson Middle School into compliance with the Constitution."
The portrait has been at Jackson Middle since 1947, when a student organization known as the Hi-Y Club, an organization associated with the Young Man's Christian Association (YMCA), donated it.
Phil Howard, district superintendent for Jackson City Schools, said in an interview with WKKJ that the Jesus portrait was one of several pictures on the "Hall of Honor" display at Jackson Middle. These pictures include a variety of other faces, including distinguished alumni and influential historical figures.
"I'm certainly not going to run down there and take the picture down because some group from Madison, Wisconsin, who knows nothing about the culture of our community or why the picture is even there, wants me to take it down," said Howard.
Jackson City Schools did not return comment to The Christian Post by press time.


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Even if Ray Lewis did use deer antler spray his body would have never absorbed the banned substance its manufacturer says gives the product its potency, a Johns Hopkins professor said.
Sports Illustrated ran an article online Tuesday that connected the Ravens linebacker to S.W.A.T.S. — Sports with Alternatives to Steroids — a company that has marketed alternative health supplements and products to athletes (ThePostGame, which is led by Pikesville native David Katz and currently staffed by former Sun sports intern Robbie Levin, had the story two years ago). The story quotes S.W.A.T.S. co-founder Christopher Key telling a group of college football players that the company's deer velvet spray contains IGF-1, a hormone that has been banned by most major sports organizations including the NFL.
Dr. Roberto Salvatori, who runs a lab studying growth hormone deficiency and has been on the Hopkins faculty since 1998, said there is no scientifically accepted way to deliver IGF-1 orally.
"If there were, a lot of people would be happy that they don't need to get shots anymore," he said. "It's just simply not possible for it to come from a spray."
IGF-1, short for insulin-like growth factor, is used to treat a rare form of dwarfism known as Laron syndrome and in other cases where children fail to produce or process growth hormone.
It occurs naturally in the body and is actually produced as a result of the increased presence of human growth hormone, one of the performance enhancers allegedly used by cyclist Lance Armstrong.
Dozens of websites advertise deer antler spray or pills with claims of delivering IGF-1 and subsequent benefits like muscle growth and increased energy. But Dean Nieves of Florida-based Bio Lab Naturals said it is disingenuous to make such claims.
"IGF-1 is very unstable," said Nieves, whose company sells the spray under the Bio Protein Technology brand. "It could not exist outside of a very controlled environment. And when you order bottles of deer antler extract, it's not coming in a freeze-dried case."
Nieves, who studied nutrition, food and exercise science at Florida State, is the first to extol the virtues of deer velvet, a supplement that has been used in China for thousands of years. His company mentions IGF-1 prominently in its marketing material but only because it is integral to the yearly re-growth of antlers, he said. By the time the harvested antlers are broken down and processed to be sold the substance is essentially an uncomplicated, "super-concentrated" and natural protein.
"We registered our product with the FDA as a food product, it's that natural," Nieves said. "It is just packed with nutrients."
The extract is made by clipping still-growing antlers on deer or elk and then extracting those nutrients. Some companies say they grind the antlers, while others say they freeze dry or cook them.
Even if Key's claims about IGF-1 had any validity, the NFL's current testing policy would not force Lewis to be subjected to a blood test capable of detecting hormonal imbalances. NFL players are only required to submit to urine tests, for now.
The league and the players agreed to implement testing for HGH as part of the collectively-bargained labor agreement reached prior to last season, but the players' union has balked at setting up the program. Lawyers for the group have questioned the validity of the testing method and said that HGH is not a concern in the league.
Congressman Elijah Cummings, who represents part of Baltimore City and most of Howard County, co-authored a letter sent this week to the NFLPA that chastises the group for delaying the process and threatens to call players to D.C. to testify about the issue.
Of course, there are other reasons for concern when it comes to Lewis' alleged use of the product -- a team spokesman said he denied using it completely -- mainly that it could have contained something illegal that he didn't know about.
That's what former St. Louis Rams linebacker David Vobora claimed. From the SI article:
In June 2009, Vobora failed an offseason test for the steroid methyltestosterone and was suspended for four games. He then had the bottle of S.W.A.T.S. deer-antler spray (retail price: $64) tested. According to court documents filed by one of Vobora's lawyers, it tested positive for methyltestosterone. Vobora's lawyers sent a letter to Ross offering to not file a lawsuit if Ross paid Vobora $1 million. (One of Vobora's lawyers later claimed that Vobora only wanted an apology and for the spray to be removed from the market.)
When Ross did not reply, Vobora sued S.W.A.T.S. in May '10, alleging a lack of quality control that allowed the spray bottle to be contaminated. (The S.W.A.T.S. spray is manufactured by a third party and -- as is customary in the sports-supplement industry -- simply branded as unique with a S.W.A.T.S. label.) When Ross declined to hire a lawyer to represent S.W.A.T.S., Vobora, without a trial, was granted a default victory and a $5.4 million award. "Today, I've been proven innocent," Vobora said on June 20, 2011. Ross shuttered his business and reopened six months later under a different corporate name, a strategy he hopes will forestall collection.


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I'm a senior at Harvard and I'm undocumented. I've spent most of my life keeping my immigration status a secret, but in retrospect it seems that I could have been more discreet at times.
I watched September's live vote of the DREAM Act—the controversial legislation that would pave the way toward amnesty for illegal immigrants who have grown up and gone to college here—as I pretended to take notes in one of my political science seminars. Classmates on either side of me, who may have suspected my secret, shot me glances that alternated between the confused and the sorry as I fumbled with my laptop and watched the C-Span live stream on mute. It didn't look to be going well. Harry Reid looked flustered. And then I saw the news ticker flash announce what I already knew—the DREAM Act was not going in for a vote.
As this lame-duck session draws to a close, and even as Reid and Nancy Pelosi make promises to bring the legislation up for a vote before the new Republican Congress takes power, I am still fumbling with my laptop, signing petitions I fear are useless, and watching the news alerts pour into my inbox. This time, I am protecting my heart. I know the DREAM Act will probably once again wither away. I know supporting it is political suicide and I don't expect anyone to put their political careers on the line for me or my family. It's always been just the four of us and I know it probably always will be.
I'm a senior at Harvard and I'm undocumented.
An immigration lawyer recently told me I had no way of regulating my status, save for marriage or legislation, and did I feel OK about that? How can I answer that question?
I was born in South America and lived there until I was 4 but I've lived here since I started kindergarten. That's how I've always measured my life, in increments of semesters and trimesters and marking periods. School has always been my sanctuary, a place where I could be alone with my books and words, a respite from reality, a place where I could be loved and appreciated for my mind and my heart. Opponents of the DREAM Act say citizenship is not a right, it's a privilege, and no amount of patriotism can entitle you to it, no matter how hard-earned or heartfelt—you cannot deserve your way into becoming American. But despite that rhetoric, the discourse of immigration reform always falls into a discussion of individual merits and goodness.
My parents were only a little older than I am now when they overstayed their visas. I hadn't even learned the alphabet when I overstayed mine.
It is important that I make clear I was the valedictorian of my high school class and got full scholarships to the country's best schools. It is important that I point out I have been published in some of the top magazines and am currently working on a book, an excerpt of which has already been published. And it might be worth emphasizing that we'd make excellent permanent neighbors. My parents have been paying taxes for years, even procuring a special taxpayer ID number from the IRS in order to be able to do so. We go to church every Sunday. We've adopted from the animal shelter. We go running together in the summers. We recycle.
But you and I both know this changes nothing.
My parents were only a little older than I am now when they overstayed their visas. I hadn't even learned the alphabet when I overstayed mine. Immigration law has never been straightforward, and 9/11 made it impossible to do anything about it. I am 21 years old and this is a burden I've had to carry for most of my life. I'm emotionally exhausted from living my life in a perpetual state of purgatory and I now know I am expected to also live in a perpetual state of penance. We broke the law and deserve to be punished, the argument goes. So why haven't we been punished?
I don't have an answer to that question, but in lieu of an answer, I could tell you that perhaps we have been—daily, privately, painfully. Punishment isn't made legitimate by the presence of an audience.
There was the time, years and years ago, when I got on the bus and an elderly woman walked past me and said loudly but to no one in particular, "Why can't these Mexicans just learn English?" Or the time my father's boss looked me up and down, letting his eyes linger where they may, and offered me a job at his restaurant, the first and only post-Harvard job offer extended not despite but because of my legal status.
I can tell you that I spent my first two years at Harvard paralyzed by fear and self-loathing.
I can tell you about the day my father's driver's license was suspended. He had worked as a cab and ambulette driver since setting foot in the country and was suddenly out of work. Our family's only government-issued identification card was suddenly gone. My father collapsed into my arms the minute he walked into our apartment. He buried his face in my hair and sobbed violently—it remains the only time I've seen him cry. He was unemployed for a couple weeks and then began doing deliveries by foot at a restaurant in our city's financial district. Our family lives off his tips. Sometimes he needs me to help him stand up after he's been sitting for a while. I hold onto his arm and lift him while he closes his eyes and tries not to grimace. The doctor says his back and knees are so bad he will have to retire early. He is 45.
I can tell you the sight of a police officer makes my heart beat fast. I can tell you I've had to sit through my friends' thousand-picture slide shows of their backpacking trips through Europe and that I feel more and more deflated after each click because I can't leave this country and I can't study abroad and I'm even afraid to take the Greyhound. I can tell you I am only now beginning to trust people enough to talk about what we refer to as "my situation." I can try to tell you I'm scared you might be able to figure out who I am and I will be deported.
I can tell you so many things.
Joan Didion once explained that someone with a plane schedule in their drawer lives according to a slightly different calendar than everyone else. Will these next seven months be the last I spend in the United States? It is November and I have already lost the ability to think in the future tense, as if my heart had anesthetized my mind in preparation for the possible disappointments of the next several months. I sleep without setting any alarm clocks. I speak faster in hopes that I might get more English words in. I kiss slower to feel more, here, longer. I'm at a road that bifurcates into continents and I am terrified because I know I might once again have to live with a decision that is not mine to make. It would hurt to be forced to leave, but it hurts to stay the way I'm staying now. I belong to this place but I also want it to belong to me.


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In the Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Over it is 19, another look
Until Rashad Khalifa discovered the awesome mathematical miracle of the Qur'an, most Islamic scholars believed this passage to relate to angels; specifically 19 angels. Yusuf Ali, in his footnote 5793, states, "The figure nineteen refers to angles appointed to guard Hell." Verse 31 does in fact relate to angels as guardians and that God has, "fixed their number."
Muhammad Asad draws a different conclusion and translated the passage as, "Over it are nineteen [powers]" and he states in his correspondingly long footnote that, "…Razi advances the view that we may have here a reference to the physical, intellectual and emotional powers within man himself." He goes on to describe the nineteen powers as seven organic functions, five external or physical senses, and five internal or intellectual senses. He then sums up the argument by stating, "…that in the aggregate, it is these powers and faculties that confers upon man the ability to think conceptually, and place him, in this respect, even above angels."
How he or Razi deduced all of this from Q74:30 is beyond me and I must confess that this is just one example where "man" has extended himself in trying to analyze and draw conclusions from the Qur'an. Man has continually, and sometimes erroneously, over analyzed and read much into the Qur'an's eternal message.
If the Qur'an had stated 18 or 20 instead of 19 they would have written that there were 18 or 20 angels standing guard and only 18 powers, omitting one from their list, or 20 powers and deduced yet an additional power to complete their argument.
In both cases they assumed the word nineteen referred to "something" and that nineteen was the count of those items – angels or powers. They therefore gave in their translations a plural form to nineteen and therefore used the word "are" instead of "is" within the verse. In both cases, as well as many other translations, the verse is translated as, "Over it are nineteen" instead of "Over it is nineteen" as does Rashad Khalifa.
Why the difference? Until Rashad Khalifa was allowed by God to unlock the mathematical miracle of the Qur'an, Islamic scholars were forced to view "nineteen" as a number which counted something tangible, as in powers, or something intangible, as in angels. They viewed the context of the verse within the Surah and drew their conclusions.
Then what is the significance of nineteen and this Qur'anic verse? The words "Over it" appear straightforward. "Over," according to Webster's dictionary, means to be above in position, authority, or scope as in to tower over them or to obey those over you.
If we assume the singular form of nineteen, referring to a single thing or being, then we would comply with the use of "is" and not the use of "are". The use of the word "is" will become clearer when we discuss the term nineteen.
The word nineteen only occurs once in the Qur'an and appears in this verse and Surah. Its' significance was discovered by Rashad Khalifa when he unlocked the mathematical code of the Qur'an and launched a wave of discoveries concerning the meaningfulness of nineteen.
It is not the scope of this article to discuss, at length, the detailed discovery of the mathematical code. We will feature a series of articles on this important break-through over the next several issues.
Suffice to say, the number nineteen permeates through, governs and authenticates the authorship of the Qur'an as being from God. For no one of this earth could have developed the intricate mathematical relationships within the Qur'an while maintaining a poetic and stylistic literature that has not been surpassed.
What is significant, for the purpose of this article, is that the number nineteen refers to the mathematical code and also appears to be the signature, if you will, of God. God has created, through this coding, a means to authenticate and establish, without doubt, the legitimacy of the Qur'an as being the work of God and not the work of man.
But why nineteen and why is it significant? All of God's original scriptures, not only the Qur'an, were apparently mathematically coded with the number nineteen or its multiple. Even the universe bears God's divine signature. The number nineteen possesses unique mathematical properties beyond the scope of this article, but for our purposes let's consider just the following:
- The number nineteen is a prime number. In other words it is only divisible by itself and one. Numbers such as 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19… are all prime numbers. God has chosen the number 19 as his signature prime number.
- Nineteen embraces the first numeral (1) and the last numeral (9), as if to proclaim God's attribute in the Qur'an (57:3) as the "first and the Last". "He is the First and the Last, and the Outward as well as the Inward: and is established on the throne of His almightiness."
- Nineteen looks the same in Semitic and European languages. Both components, 1 and 9, are the only numerals that look the same in these languages.
- Nineteen possesses many peculiar mathematical properties. For example, 19 is the sum of the first powers of 9 and 10 (9+10=19) and the difference between the second powers of 9 and 10 (100-81=19).
Nineteen is the gematrical value of the word "ONE" in all the scriptural languages – Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic (please refer to the insert concerning the definition of gematrical value). The number 19, therefore, proclaims the First Commandment in all the scriptures: that there is only ONE God.
Deuteronomy 6:4-5 "Hear O Isreal the Lord our God is one Lord and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might."
Mark 12:29 "And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:"
[2:163] Your god is one god; there is no god but He, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
Hebrew Arabic Value V W 6 A A 1 H H 8 D D 4 19
As shown in the table above, the Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic alphabets use to double as numerals in accordance with a universally established system. The Hebrew word for "ONE" is "Vahd" (pronounced V-AHAD). In Arabic, the word "ONE" is "WAHD" (pronounced WAAHED).
- The Qur'an's dominant message is that there is only "One God". The word "One" occurs in the Qur'an 25 times. Six of these occurrences do not refer to God (one kind of food, one door, etc.). The remaining 19 occurrences refer to God.
- The word "God" occurs 2,698 times throughout the Qur'an or a multiple of 19 (2,698 = 19x142).
- The number of verses where the word "God" occurs add up to 118,123 also a multiple of 19 (118,123 = 19x6217).
- On a more celestial level, the earth, sun and moon become aligned in the same relative position every nineteen years.
- Halley's comet, a profound heavenly phenomenon, visits our solar system once every 76 years, which is 19x4.
- God's stamp upon each of us is manifested in the medical fact that the human body has 209 bones or 19x11.
- Langman's medical embryology, by T. W. Sadler, is used as a textbook in most medical schools in the United States. On page 88 of the fifth edition, we read the following statement: "In general the length of pregnancy for a full term fetus is considered to be 280 days or 40 weeks after the onset of the last menstruation, or more accurately, 266 days or 38 weeks after fertilization." The numbers 266 and 38 are both multiples of 19 or 19x14 and 19x2 respectively.
The above examples are but a few of the hundreds of 19 based phenomena embracing the Qur'an that have been identified by Rashad Khalifa. Most of them are too complex to be mere coincidence. Over the next few issues of Muslim Executive and Expatriate, we will feature many more of these unique and truly divine revelations.
Until then perhaps we could revisit the Qur'anic verse that is the title of this article – "Over it is nineteen." Perhaps, for our own purposes, we should consider a wider and more revealing explanation for this verse; namely – "Over [the Qur'an] is nineteen." Or perhaps on a broarder and more all encompassing explanation – "Over [all things] is [one God]."
What is a "Gematrical Value"?
When the Qur'an was revealed, 14 centuries ago, the number system known today did not exist. An alphabetic system was utilized whereby the letters of the Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Roman alphabets were used as numerals. The Roman numeral system (I, V, X, C, etc.) is still used extensively today. The number assigned to each letter is its "Gematrical Value."
God Almighty described His Mathematical Miracle of the Quran as one of the great miracles, swearing by the moon and by the night and day, see 74:35. Like all the miracles of God , it was intended for the sincere believers, those who seek Him ALONE and do not hesitate to worship Him ALONE. Miracles of God were never meant to convince the disbelievers or insincere people to change their minds. Since God 's rule is clearly stated "There shall be no compulsion in religion" 2:256 , the miracles were reserved ONLY for those who already committed themselves to worshipping God ALONE. The others do not see or appreciate any aspect of the miracle. They did not deserve it according to God. See Pharoah's example in the Quran.
[7:146] I will divert from My revelations those who are arrogant on earth, without justification. Consequently, when they see every kind of proof they will not believe. And when they see the path of guidance they will not adopt it as their path, but when they see the path of straying they will adopt it as their path. This is the consequence of their rejecting our proofs, and being totally heedless thereof.


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Streamlight, a leading manufacturer of high-performance flashlights, today introduced the Stylus Pro Reach, a sleek, pen-sized flashlight with a flexible cable extension. The new light is designed to give professionals in a wide range of industries increased features and visibility.
The new, ultra-compact penlight utilizes a C4 LED to provide exceptional brightness for its size. It comes equipped with a flexible polyethylene-coated cable that allows for 14 inches of "reach," which can be easily positioned to illuminate concealed areas that other flashlights can't reach. A magnetic clip is also provided for convenient hands-free use and storage purposes.
"The Stylus Pro Reach combines the flexibility and brightness of the Stylus Reach with the power of the Stylus Pro for an exceptionally versatile tool," said Streamlight President and Chief Executive Officer Ray Sharrah. "It enables industrial, automotive and other professionals to see hard-to-reach areas such as under the hood or chassis of a car, or when inspecting or repairing machinery or equipment. It's compact, lightweight and uses easily sourced batteries, making it the logical choice for a wide range of applications."
The light's C4 LED delivers 825 candela peak beam intensity and 38 lumens measured system output, and offers a continuous run time of 8 hours. The LED is impervious to shock and has a 30,000 hour lifetime. Using two "AAA" alkaline batteries, the Stylus Pro Reach employs a push-button tail cap for easy, single-handed operation, and offers a choice between Momentary or Constant On modes.
The Stylus Pro Reach measures 14.6 inches and weighs only 2.70 ounces with its included batteries. The light's cable extension is approximately seven inches in length. Highly durable, the new light is constructed of machined aluminum alloy, featuring an anodized finish, and includes an unbreakable polycarbonate lens. It is rated IPX4 for water-resistant operation, and also has been impact resistance tested to one meter.
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Dario Argento: The Man, the Myths and the Magic – FAB Press (Alan Jones)
Profondo Argento, now fully updated, re-named and re-issued with brand new chapters!
Limited Edition, available in hardback only!
Features full-length interviews with: Asia Argento, Claudio Argento, Fiore Argento, Lamberto Bava, Roy Bava, Simon Boswell, Michael Brandon, Chiara Caselli, Luigi Cozzi, Liam Cunningham, Keith Emerson, Franco Ferrini, Jessica Harper, Udo Kier, Daria Nicolodi, Stefania Rocca, George A. Romero, Gianni Romoli, Dardano Sacchetti, Julian Sands, Tom Savini, Claudio Simonetti, Michele Soavi, Sergio Stivaletti, Max Von Sydow, Ronnie Taylor, Luciano Tovoli.
All-new illustrations! Never-before-seen behind the scenes photos, exclusive shots specially produced for this book, rare artwork and stills.
This book features full coverage of Argento's new film Dracula 3D.
Full details and pre-order info at the FAB Press website HERE


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Reader Jordan Janssen unwittingly asks for the gist of how Apple's Mail rules work. He writes:
I have become really lazy with my mail. I usually get a lot of email from the same people/companies. I would like to set up a mail rule so that once email is received from "firstname.lastname@example.com" and is read, it's moved to a particular folder. I've tried to set this up in Mail's rules but I don't see an option for "Mail is Read" in the conditions box.
Nor will you. Mail's rules are designed to work as your email arrives (though you can manually impose rules by selecting them and choosing Message -> Apply Rules).
But since rules work on messages as they arrive, why not create a rule that sorts messages for you before you read them? Just open Mail's preferences, choose Rules, click the Add Rule button, and create a rule that reads:
If Any Recipients Contains "email@example.com"
Move Message to Mailbox "Sender's Mail"
Your messages will now be sent to the correct folder as they arrive. You can then read them at your leisure.
If you still prefer viewing your email in the Inbox and then filing it after you've read it, you might want to check out Indev's $25 Mail Act-On. This is a very handy utility that allows you to easily organize your email with the press of a single key.


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We spend countless hours and dollars to doll ourselves up, but Mother Nature has given us women an au natural way to turn heads: S-E-X.
Sure, there's a time and a place for perfectly applied eyeliner and not-a-strand-out-of-place hair. But really, what's hotter than devil-may-care, mussed up bedhead and a swagger that just won't quit? It's time to channel your inner Brigitte Bardot, ladies!
Sex is the ultimate beauty enhancer. No product or procedure can beat getting down and dirty in making you even more gorgeous. Check out these eight reasons why.
Natural Makeup
Every morning, you apply makeup and by lunch, you already need a touch up! But if you spend 15 minutes a day doing the deed, your cheeks will naturally flush, your lips will have that perfect red pout and your skin will glow. Move over Sephora—sex is nature's makeup! As YouDoc Dr. Michael Roizen, the Chief Wellness Officer at the Cleveland Clinic Roizen explains, during sex, "You get excited, and you vasodilate. [Just like] vasodilation happens in the male penis, which is swelling it with blood…well, the same thing is occurring in all your mucosal membranes [to give] you that ruddy look, that redness or that glow. It's all the same phenomenon." And, might we add, the sex effect lasts for hours.
Save Face
Even if you stay out of the sun, you still may be at risk for premature pruning. "Other than sun exposure, the major wrinkler of the skin is your arteries," explain Roizen. "Whether you have a wrinkle in your heart, which is a heart attack, or a wrinkle in your skin, it's the same process." Good blood flow brings nutrients and oxygen to the skin, which staves off wrinkling. Guess what increases blood flow and makes your skin act younger? You guessed it—sex.
Sex Does a Body Good
We all know that the sexiest thing a woman can have is confidence. According to sexpert Mary Jo Rapini, M.Ed, L.P.C., knocking boots gives every woman a swagger. "When I ask men: 'What is the most attractive thing about your woman?' one of the top three things is always the way she moves." After getting frisky, you walk with an even more feminine gait. Your head is held high, your hips swaying from side to side—in other words, you're getting your strut on. That confidence just reels the men right back in, creating a perfect cycle of sex appeal.
Doing "It" is the Best Hair Do
Sex can also contribute to a healthy head of hair. Roizen points out: "Each hair follicle has a blood vessel to it, and your blood flow is a major determinate of both internal and external beauty." More blood flow means you're nourishing your hair. Plus, you know sliding around in your sheets gives your tresses that va-va-va voluminous sexy bedhead.
Don't Worry, Be Happy
There's a reason wrinkles are called worry lines—but no amount of eye cream can put your mind at ease like the horizontal hula. "Sex is the best stress reliever," says Rapini. Since orgasming is all about learning to relax and breathe, when you're having sex regularly, the calming effects cumulate and you'll enjoy long-term stress relief. Rapini points out: "The normal sex act itself takes between three and 20 minutes. That's not very long, but it influences your whole day, it can even influence you for several days." And that lack of tension will be all over your beautiful face!
Busting Out
During sex, you'll have even more to show off. According to Dr. Roizen, during sex, "breasts enlarge 25 percent; nipple height increases a half inch." You'll be wowing your man sans Wonder Bra.
While it might be hard to motivate yourself to get to the gym, if you're ready to spend some time on your back—or on all fours, or in a pretzel shape—sex can give you a great cardio workout. According to Roizen, "From an arterial standpoint, having sex is the equivalent of engaging in Zumba." The more you do it, the more it does for your bod!
Fountain of Youth
If a woman has an average sex life, her real age can be two to eight years younger than the number on her driver's license, notes Roizen. "You end up being functionally younger … it's a consistent effect," he says. It lowers your risk of the three major killers: heart disease, cancer and all others—which is really depression, suicide, mood changes and things that cause attitudinal changes." If you keep getting frisky with your partner, you can both turn back the hands of time. This also applies if you use sex toys. If you are pregnant, there are butt plugs for pregnant women too!
Research shows that couples having sex with butt plugs help improve relationships between the two.
So, gorgeous, the next time someone asks you what your beauty secret is, you can tell her it's your sex life. And how!


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1" (25mm) Titan Wheel Spacers for Mustang Ranger Edge Explorer | 5x4.5 | 1/2x20 Studs |
1" (25mm) Titan Wheel Spacers for Mustang Ranger Edge Explorer | 5x4.5 | 1/2x20 Studs |
Space out your wheels for a more aggressive stance or increased suspension and brake clearance.
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- Vehicle Bolt Pattern: 5x4.5 (5x114.3)
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These spacers gave my truck the stance I was looking for when I lifted it. It has a 4 inch spindle lift, 1-1/2 inch spacers in the front and 2 inch spacers in the rear. And the tires are Radar Renegade R/T 33x11.5R20 on OEM wheels.
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Text of Cantor email to Syracuse community
Text of Syracuse Chancellor Nancy Cantor's email to the university community on Friday morning:
Dear Syracuse University Alumni,
Last night, we were contacted by an ESPN television reporter regarding allegations dating back to the 1980's and 1990's that Associate Head Men's Basketball Coach Bernie Fine had engaged in inappropriate behavior with a minor, now 39. Following the terrible news that came out of Penn State in the last several weeks, this is clearly distressing to all of us in the Syracuse University community. The news is already being covered widely by the media.
I want to tell you what we know and what we are doing about it.
First, as has been announced, Bernie Fine has been placed on administrative leave pending a new investigation by the Syracuse Police Department. He has vehemently denied the allegations and should be accorded a fair opportunity to defend himself against these accusations.
As we have communicated publicly in response to media inquiries, in 2005, Syracuse University was contacted by an adult male who asserted that he had reported allegations in 2005 of abuse in the 1980's and 1990's to the police. That same individual told us that the Syracuse City Police had declined to pursue the matter because the statute of limitations had expired.
On hearing of the allegations, the University immediately launched its own comprehensive investigation through its legal counsel. The nearly four-month long investigation included a number of interviews with people the individual said would support his claims. All of those identified by him denied any knowledge of wrongful conduct by the associate coach. At the end of the investigation, as we were unable to find any corroboration of the allegations, the case was closed. Had any evidence or corroboration of earlier allegations surfaced -even if the Police had declined to pursue the matter -we would have acted.
As of last night, we became aware that the Syracuse Police have determined to open an investigation, and we will cooperate to the fullest extent with their review of the matter.
Let me be clear. We know that many question whether or not a university in today's world can shine a harsh light on its athletics programs. We are aware that many wonder if university administrations are willing to turn a blind eye to wrongdoing that may disrupt a successful sports program. I can assure you I am not, and my fellow administrators are not. We hold everyone in our community to high standards and we don't tolerate illegal, abusive or unethical behavior -no matter who you are.
As you know, this week, I affirmed Syracuse University's steadfast belief that all of us have the responsibility, individually and collectively, to ensure that Syracuse University remains a safe place for every campus community member and everyone with whom we interact on a daily basis on campus or in the community as part of our learning, scholarship, or work. We do not tolerate abuse.
The dilemma in any situation like this, of course, is that-without corroborating facts, witnesses or confessions -one must avoid an unfair rush to judgment. We have all seen terrible injustices done to the innocent accused of heinous crimes. And we've all seen situations where the guilty avoid justice.
At this time, all we really know is that a terrible tragedy is unfolding for both the accuser and the accused. I want you to know that we will do everything in our power to find the truth, and -if and when we do find it-to let you know what we have found.
Nancy Cantor


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Data Mining Resources
"So what's getting ubiquitous and cheap? Data. And what is complementary to data? Analysis. So my recommendation is to take lots of courses about how to manipulate and analyze data: databases, machine learning, econometrics, statistics, visualization, and so on." Professor Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google, speaking to the New York Times in February 2009.
Togaware Resources
- OnePageR provides a growing collection of material to teach yourself R. Each session is structured around a series of one page topics or tasks, designed to be worked through interactively. The idea is to pace yourself through all of the one pagers in each of the sessions, at your own leisure.
- Rattle is a free and open source data mining toolkit written in the statistical language R using the Gnome graphical interface. It runs under GNU/Linux, Macintosh OS X, and MS/Windows. Rattle is being used in business, government, research and for teaching data mining in Australia and internationally. Rattle can be purchased on DVD (or made available as a downloadable CD image) as a standalone installation. Please contact email@example.com for details.
- Data mining is introduced through Rattle in the new book, Data Mining with Rattle and R: The Art of Excavating Data for Knowledge Discovery (Use R), published 2011 by Springer-Verlag (DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-9890-3).
- An extended in-progress version of the book (consisting of early drafts for the chapters published as above) is freely available as an open source book, The Data Mining Desktop Survival Guide (ISBN 0-9757109-2-3) The books simply explain the otherwise complex algorithms and concepts of data mining, with examples to illustrate each algorithm using the statistical language R. The book is being written by Dr Graham Williams, based on his 20 years research and consulting experience in machine learning and data mining.
- The Data Mining Software Repository makes available a collection of free (as in libre) open source software tools for data mining
- The Data Mining Catalogue lists many of the free and commercial data mining tools that are available on the market.
- The Australasian Data Mining Conferences are supported by Togaware, which also hosts the web site.
- Information about the Pacific Asia Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining series of conferences is also available.
- A Data Mining course is taught at the Australian National University.
- See also the Canberra Analytics Practise Group.
- A Data Mining Course was held at the Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, China, 6 December - 13 December 2006. This course introduced the basic concepts and algorithms of data mining from an applications point of view and introduced the use of R and Rattle for data mining in practise.
- A Data Mining Workshop was held over two days at the University of Canberra, 27-28 November, 2006. This course introduced the basic concepts and algorithms for data mining and the use of R and Rattle.
Books on my Bookshelf Include:
A literate, agile, approach to data mining projects means the data miner's toolbox will include R and LaTeX (for using Sweave).
Other Resources
Using R for Data Mining
The open source statistical programming language R (based on S) is in daily use in academia and in business and government. We use R for data mining within the Australian Taxation Office. Rattle is used by those wishing to interact with R through a GUI.
R is memory based so that on 32bit CPUs you are limited to smaller datasets (perhaps 50,000 up to 100,000, depending on what you are doing). Deploying R on 64bit multiple CPU (AMD64) servers running GNU/Linux with 32GB of main memory provides a powerful platform for data mining.
R is open source, thus providing assurance that there will always be the opportunity to fix and tune things that suit our specific needs, rather than rely on having to convince a vendor to fix or tune their product to suit our needs.
Also, by being open source, we can be sure that the code will always be available, unlike some of the data mining products that have disappearded (e.g., IBM's Intelligent Miner).
Open standards are important for users, but vendors resist them for obvious reasons, and would prefer to lock you in to their products. A number of commercial tools claim support of, for example, the open standard PMML for interoperability (sharing models between applications). But the support is patchy and not worth the effort. We have started a PMML effort in R to attempt to address the desire for interoperability.
Specific commercial statistical products are excellent in handling very large datasets. But they are limited in the analytic algorithms they provide. Commercial vendors, naturally, need to be convinced of the usefulness of implementing new algorithms. On the other hand, a vast selection has been available for deployment in R for a long time.
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Spanish Accent Markings Made Easy: June 29, 2013
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Translation Concepts for Interpreting
Presenter: Daniel Tamayo
Sponsor: Interlinguas LLC Training Workshops for Language Professionals
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Date: 11/10/12
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Holly Mikkelson Conference
Advanced Training for Legal Interpreters and Translators
Instructor: HOLLY MIKKELSON
Come enhance your legal interpreting and translation skills in this hands-on one day workshop conducted by this world-renowned trainer and consultant. This interactive, information-packed worshop will cover the following topics: Characteristics of Legal Language, Comparative Law (with emphasis in Common Law as compared to Civil Law), and how to translate Court Documents and Legislation from the US and Spanish-speaking countries.
January 19, 2013
9:00 – 4:30 pm
California State University Fullerton
800 N. State College Blvd, Fullerton, CA 92834
Titan Theatre
About the Trainer:
Holly Mikkelson is Adjunct Professor of Translation and Interpretation at the Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation, Monterey Institute of International Studies, a Graduate School of Middlebury College.She is an ATA-certified translator (Spanish>English, English>Spanish) and a state and federally certified court interpreter who has taught translation and interpreting for over 35 years. She is the author of Introduction to Court Interpreting as well as the Acebo interpreter training manuals and numerous articles on translation and interpretation. She is also a coauthor of Fundamentals of Court Interpretation: Theory, Policy and Practice .Professor Mikkelson has consulted with many state and private entities on interpreter testing and training, and has presented lectures and workshops to interpreters and related professionals throughout the world.
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California State University Fullerton
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Early-bird registration (by December 15th, 2012): $155
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*Students (or recent graduates) in a translation, interpreting or related program.
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Last week a bunch of other food bloggers and I attended a webinar hosted by none other than The Pioneer Woman herself, Ree Drummond, to talk about food trends in 2013. Ree's choice for biggest breakout star in the upcoming year?
I know! Not entirely groundbreaking, as she admitted herself, but I couldn't agree with her prediction more, as me and meatballs are kinda like this. From Sneaky Meatballs, to Mozzarella-Stuffed Meatballs, and Buffalo Chicken Meatballs (heck even accidental "dessert" meatballs) I've been on board with this trend since, like, yesterday.
Maybe it's because meatballs are so versatile. Pick any meat you like, throw in any spices you like, maybe stuff a cheese cube or 7 into the center, then bake. That's it! They're also super comforting, and you can never go wrong with comfort food.
Picture a giant plate of spaghetti topped with three big Chicken Parmesan Meatballs, engulfed in a big ladleful of hot marinara sauce. Crispy garlic bread on the side. Doesn't that sound like something your Mom or Grandma would make you? Or your resident Iowa food blogger, perhaps? That's what I served Ben and me for dinner last night, then I used the leftover meatballs to make these Chicken Parmesan Meatballs Subs for lunch today. These are fantastic!
Shredded zucchini, parmesan cheese, garlic, and dried basil give life to 99% lean ground chicken breast, which are mixed, rolled, and baked until golden brown. The baked meatballs are nestled into a crusty roll, topped with marinara sauce, and fresh mozzarella cheese, then broiled until hot and melty.
Um, I could eat these subs all day long. The bread stays crusty on the outside, but gets chewy on the inside, and the parmesan cheese in the meatballs give them so much flavor. These Chicken Parmesan Meatballs Subs are so yummy – you have to give them a try!
Start out by making the meatballs. I stole the moist-meatball-making secret from my Sneaky Meatballs Subs and first shredded up 1 small zucchini. You could use a box grater or food processor fitted with the grating disc for this. The zucchini gives the nearly fat-free chicken tons of moisture so they're not dry and crumbly – plus it provides a little vitamin boost, FTW!
Next grate in or chop up 2 garlic cloves.
If you're using a food processor, switch to the non-sharp S blade now. BTW, Ben got me my Cuisinart 14-Cup Food Processor several years ago, and it's definitely my kitchen's MVP. A sizable investment, but worth every penny!
Next add 1lb 99% fat-free ground chicken breast.
And some flavorings and spices. That's 1/2 cup panko bread crumbs, 1/3 cup grated or shredded parmesan cheese (I used the small grater side of my box grater to get the shreds), and 1 egg.
Followed by 1/2 teaspoon each salt, pepper, and dried basil.
Pulse until the mixture comes together, or remove ya rings and get at it with your hands!
Roll the mixture into 16 meatballs, then bake for 16-18 minutes at 400 degrees. After they're done baking you can cool them down and freeze or refrigerate for later, or get after those subs!
Ben originally suggested that I use day-old Jimmy John's bread for the subs, since it's so delish and only $.50, but then we found these adorable mini hoagie rolls at Whole Foods and all was tragically lost.
Cut the rolls in half then dig out a bit of the insides to leave more room for the meatballs, then nestle in 3 or 4 baked meatballs.
Top with 2-3 Tablespoons marinara sauce, then 1oz sliced mozzarella cheese.
Place the subs under the broiler until the cheese is melted, and bread is toasty, then enjoy!
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Chicken Parmesan Meatball Subs
Chicken Parmesan Meatball Subs are zesty homemade meatballs topped with marinara sauce and fresh mozzarella cheese. This crowd-pleasing recipe is freezer-friendly, too!
- 1 small zucchini, grated
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1lb 99% fat-free ground chicken breast
- 1/2 cup panko bread crumbs
- 1/3 cup grated parmesan cheese
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon dried basil
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- Hoagie rolls or hot dog buns
- 4oz mozzarella cheese, sliced
- 3/4 cup marinara sauce, warmed
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees then spray a baking sheet with nonstick spray and set aside. Combine all ingredients except rolls, cheese, and marinara sauce into a large bowl then mix with hands until just combined. Separate into 4 equal-sized portions, then roll four meatballs out of each portion and place onto prepared baking sheet. Mixture will be sticky.
- Bake for 16-18 minutes or until meatballs are cooked through, then turn oven to broil and place oven rack to the second highest spot. Split rolls then place 3-4 meatballs inside, top with 2-3 Tablespoons marinara sauce, and 1oz sliced mozzarella. Broil until rolls are toasted and cheese is melted.
This recipe is courtesy of Iowa Girl Eats, http://iowagirleats.com.
From beginning to end, these subs are showstoppers. The entire meal can be prepped ahead of time too (bake meatballs, slice cheese…loosen marinara sauce jar…) making them an easy dinner to whip up right from the fridge or freezer. Hope you love 'em!


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BEIJING — China on Sunday criticized a U.S. government report that cast Beijing as a potential nuclear adversary and called on Washington to reduce its own much larger arsenal and join in promoting regional stability.
A Defense Ministry statement said China's nuclear arsenal is the "minimum level" required for security. It pledged never to be the first to use nuclear weapons "under any circumstances."
The sweeping U.S. nuclear strategy review issued Friday said Washington wants to prevent Beijing from mistakenly concluding that any use of nuclear weapons, however limited, is acceptable.
"The Chinese side expresses firm opposition" to the report, said a ministry spokesman, Ren Guoqiang.
"We hope the U.S. will abandon a Cold War mentality and earnestly shoulder its special and prior responsibility for its own nuclear disarmament," said Ren.
The ruling Communist Party's military wing, the People's Liberation Army, has the world's fifth-largest nuclear arsenal, with 300 warheads, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The United States and Russia each have about 7,000 warheads, or about 20 times as many as Beijing.
Beijing has rattled Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asian governments with increasingly assertive gestures and belligerent comments aimed at enforcing its claims to disputed islands and swathes of ocean.
In December, China sent bombers and fighter planes to fly around Taiwan, the self-ruled island the communist mainland claims as its territory. The warplanes flew near South Korean and Japanese air space, prompting Japan to dispatch fighter jets to intercept them.
The Defense Ministry statement said global peace and development "are irreversible trends" and called on Washington to work with Beijing to "jointly safeguard peace, stability and prosperity in this region and the world."
President Donald Trump's nuclear doctrine breaks with his predecessor, Barack Obama, by ending a push to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in U.S. military policy.
In a written statement, Trump on Friday said U.S. strategy is designed to make use of nuclear weapons less likely. But arms control group criticized it as reckless.
Friday's report endorsed adhering to U.S. arms control agreements, including the New START treaty that limits the United States and Russia each to 1,550 strategic nuclear warheads on a maximum of 700 deployed launchers.
The U.S. government says it has been in compliance since August and expects Moscow to comply by the deadline, which is Monday.


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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
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November 25, 2008
A few years ago, I worked for a company in the semiconductor business. The company had a development cycle that typically lasted a year from the initial tests to the product release and an environment filled with pressure and energy. At the time, strong sales and rapidly increasing market share made the company incredibly profitable. The work paid well and I enjoyed the company of my coworkers. Then one day, I quit.
I had considered leaving for a long time. For months, I had repetitive work absent of challenge. Twice I had negotiated with my management for changes that they later reneged. The third time this happened, I had already ceased to care and resigned.
As a kid, I had developed a taste for frugal living, and with my savings, I didn't view my unemployment as a serious problem. My parents had little skill at handling their finances and I decided early on not to struggle like them. My great-grandfather, an Iowan farmer whose company I enjoyed enormously, told me how: focus on quality and never take on debt.
He had died many years earlier, but his advice only seemed to get better the older I got. Naturally, then, I earned money much faster than I spent it. I rented my house and had no car payments or debt. I still owned and used much that I had bought over the years. I didn't have much desire for things that become obsolete or thrown away, and my accumulation of stuff had slowed even as my income increased.
I felt fortunate to have the gift of life and I wanted to live it with as much quality as possible'quality stuff, and quality friendships, experiences, and thinking. I worked about 2,500 hours per year, which left me little time for the things I cared about more. I realized that working just a thousand hours per year would still cover my expenses, leave me with a financial buffer, and a lot more time to boot. Spending so much time working for money had to end.
We live in a time of great production of goods, but also of wants. Few among us have taken Thoreau's advice to 'Simplify, simplify' to heart. Quality of life has become synonymous with consumption, almost in direct proportion. A little observation reveals a slightly more complex relationship because ownership has overhead expenses.
Stuff not only uses space, it requires maintenance, needs protection from unsavory individuals, and needs an inventory system. When it takes little effort to accomplish this, having stuff enhances our happiness. For every person, though, there comes a level of accumulation where the responsibilities of ownership become an outright burden.
Many people, if not most, become curators of their own landfills when they reach this level. The accumulation of stuff in garages visible in any neighborhood makes the law of diminishing returns visible. How many hours did these people work to buy all this stuff that they no longer want yet will not discard?
Money presents another set of issues. People who don't have as much as they want oftentimes believe it will give them a feeling of security, or that it will afford them things they believe will give them happiness. I have heard these beliefs among people with very little in the bank and also from two very rich people. For those who have saved a substantial sum, they spend many hours focused on its growth, or at least its preservation'for them, the fear of not having money gets replaced with the fear of its loss.
To find balance and perspective on these issues, I start with this: increasing productivity has created the trend toward higher real wages for the past 200 years. Any one of us can stay alive and support a decent lifestyle working fewer hours than ever before. Real median wages have increased by a factor of roughly two since the late 1940s. Skilled people, of course, tend to do better than that.
Simply recognizing this offers opportunities.
In the pursuit of a quality life, money provides but one means for getting tangible goods. I can work for money and exchange it for quality'in other words, get it indirectly. Barter provides another. Alternatively, I can get it directly by working on achieving quality myself. Economists obsess over the increasing division of labor, efficiency, and opportunity costs, not considering the inverse correlation between happiness and specialization.
Unimpeded curiosity leads us to learn to do what interests us, and since our lives have many dimensions, we naturally develop proficiency in several areas. Only modern schooling has obscured this fact. You may recognize that self-reliance and quality oftentimes go hand-in-hand. For instance, no grocery sells chicken noodle soup that tastes as good as what you can easily make at home. What you buy usually only approximates what you want, but you can tailor what you make exactly to your wishes. Time presents the main limitation.
If one works many hours each week as a specialist, then one has but little choice to depend on others for most needs. A man in this environment literally becomes a component of a machine that creates products by dividing a project into typological fragments. Specialists for each fragment solve the various problems, but they usually do not see the bigger picture and ultimately, this degrades the quality of the product. No great sense of accomplishment results from this sort of work, especially when the fungibility of one's specialty means that many other people could have done the work just as well. Quality work results from unification, not fragmentation'we know that a collaboration of specialists can create great work only when each individual sees his place in the bigger picture and cares mightily about the outcome. Since one may view society as an aggregation of individuals, this working model that so often emphasizes fragmentation lends a clue to understanding our own society's unbalanced character.
I have found one simple way out, though I did not see it for many years. I cannot produce electronics, cars, running shoes, and most of the high-technology products that I enjoy at home because their manufacture involves lots of machinery and cost. What I consume of these products, though, I can purchase with reasonably few hours of paid work. High-technology products don't form the basis for my life, however. For me, the short-list of stuff in a quality life begins with some decidedly low-tech things: a garden, well-prepared meals, a decent home, and some beautifully-crafted objects. None of these require much money or many hours on the job.
We have the good fortune to live when high productivity has made living well possible with little work. Taking my example from earlier, a median-income person can consume as someone from the late 1940s by working about half-time today. This leaves much more time to create the quality stuff and experiences you want. It lets you focus on living as an individual, not a consumer. You don't pay tax on things you make for yourself, your family, or your friends. Your income and sales taxes diminish, too, while the intangible benefits grow.
Last year when I learned that I would soon become a father, I decided to build a rocking chair for mother and baby to create sort of a physical milestone that would always mark the moment for me, and eventually become something passed on through the generations. I wanted this chair to result from my work, not the work of machines, and after making some sketches and selecting the rough boards, I planed the wood, sawed the parts, and cut every mortise and tenon by hand, taking the time to fit them perfectly and bring an object of considerable beauty into my home after one or two hundred hours of work. No one can purchase this sort of satisfaction. More time affords experiences like this.
In describing the process of good work, Robert Pirsig once wrote,
I think that when a concept of peace of mind is introduced and made central to the act of technical work, a fusion of classic and romantic quality can take place at a basic level within a practical working context. I've said that you can actually see this fusion in skilled mechanics and machinists of a certain sort, and you can see it in the work they do . . . They have patience, care and attentiveness to what they are doing, but more than this'there's a kind of inner peace of mind that isn't contrived but results from a kind of harmony with the work in which there's no leader and no follower. The material and the craftsman's thoughts change together in a progression of smooth, even changes until his mind is at rest at the exact instant the material is right.
Professionals have no monopoly on these experiences, either. Amateurs, in fact, often do the best work since they do not deal with the financial facts of running a business. James Krenov, the famous Swedish furniture maker, when asked about making a living once said, 'The better work you do, the more chance that you'll starve.' Amateurs, unbothered with concerns like this, have the time to make everything right.
Making time for what you value should come first. Making enough money to live comfortably takes a small fraction of the 40-hour workweek that our culture assumes. By never examining that assumption, most people dedicate the best hours of their days to achieving someone else's goals instead of their own.
My advice? Homebrew your own quality life, and work for others in your spare time. It works for me.


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The late CBS news anchor, Walter Cronkite, played a key role in the unravelling of Watergate.
Cronkite, who has died aged 92, broadcast two extensive stories on Watergate in 1972.
Ben Bradlee, the former Washington Post editor, said today that a lot of "Washington people, people who followed national stories – a lot of them who had not decided that we were right changed their minds because of Walter".
This is part of Bradlee's comments in Newsweek:
"In October 1972, Cronkite devoted two segments, back to back, to the Watergate story. The first was 14 minutes, the second eight.
I think that second night was curtailed by CBS chairman William S. Paley because Paley was scared of it.
The fact that Cronkite did Watergate at all (let alone at that length) gave the story a kind of blessing, which is exactly what we needed—and exactly what The Washington Post lacked.
It was a political year, and everyone was saying, "Well, it's just politics, and here's the Post trying to screw Nixon."
We were the second-biggest newspaper in the country trying to scramble for a good story—whereas Cronkite was the reigning dean of television journalists. When he did the Watergate story, everyone said, "My God, Cronkite's with them."


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For the first time since July 2009 a gauge of how U.S. manufacturers are doing is signalling shrinkage in the factory sector.
The Institute for Supply Management says its June "PMI" index stood at 49.7, down from 53.5 and the first time in nearly three years that it wasn't above 50 — the line between growth in manufacturing (an above 50 reading) and contraction (below 50).
A subcategory of ISM's report — its measure of new orders — also fell below 50, to 47.8.
Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.


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quote:Originally posted by Alex116Lol. The lack of Preds talk and the making of this thread goes to show you how amazing Trotz's tenure with a new club (new, way back when he started) was!
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