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A first-run foreclosure notice has been filed for the Shops of Laurelwood, a Class A shopping center on Perkins Road Extended, after property owner Z Investments LLC defaulted on a $1.7 million loan through LaSalle Bank. The notice was published in the Tuesday, April 17, edition of The Daily News.
A foreclosure sale is set for May 9.
Built in 1959, the 10,770-square-foot center at 402 S. Perkins Road Extended and 406 S. Perkins Road Extended is anchored by El Mezcal Mexican restaurant. It is on 0.8 acres on the east side of Perkins Extended north of Poplar Avenue and south of Aldersgate Road, if that road were extended, in the Laurelwood Shopping Center subdivision. The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2011 appraisal was $837,400.
Memphis-based EZR Management Inc. manages the center, formerly known as Perkins Plaza.
Z Investments, which bought the center in December 2005 for $2 million, lists a residential address in the Los Angeles area.
The company's $1.7 million loan through LaSalle, taken out in August 2006, is currently held by Perkins Laurelwood LLC, the entity that has initiated foreclosure proceedings. Allison T. Gilbert and William P. Moss III are the substitute trustees appointed by Perkins Laurelwood.
The first-run notice is available in Tuesday's Daily News and at memphisdailynews.com. It is scheduled to run again April 24 and May 1.
Source: The Daily News Online & Chandler Reports
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Memphis-based FedEx Corp. is in negotiations to buy Tatex, a 36-year-old French shipping company that focuses on heavy shipments of parts and technology across France.
Neither company released any further information about the talks, which surfaced Tuesday, April 17.
FedEx has its European hub in Paris. Tatex operates a central hub near Paris and has more than 1,000 employees.
Word of the acquisition talks comes the same month that FedEx and Opek Sp.z.o.o signed an agreement in which FedEx acquired the Polish courier company.
Like Tatex, Opek has a domestic ground network.
In the current fiscal year, FedEx Express has opened 26 new stations across Europe in a move to not only link Europe to other continents but to become a domestic carrier on the continent.
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The Shelby County Election Commission meets Wednesday, April 18, at 4:30 p.m. to certify the names of candidates on the Aug. 2 election ballot.
Candidates in the primaries for the Tennessee Legislature and U.S. House and Senate as well as the nonpartisan countywide school board races and Millington city elections had until April 5 to file their qualifying petitions and Thursday, April 12, to withdraw if they wished.
The list of contenders after the second deadline totaled 67 candidates not counting the statewide race for the U.S. Senate in which Republican incumbent Bob Corker is seeking re-election. He has four challengers in the GOP primary, eight Democrats and five independents.
The Shelby County ballot also includes general election contests for Shelby County district attorney general, General Sessions Court clerk, assessor of property and Shelby County Commission District 1 Position 3. The Republican and Democratic contenders in those races were decided in the March county primaries.
Early voting begins July 13.
The U. S. Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) has named The Mid-South Minority Business Council Continuum (MMBC) the first MBDA Business Center in the state of Tennessee.
U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Memphis, announced the designation Monday, April 16, at a press conference at MMBC Continuum Office's, 158 Madison Ave.
The MMBC Continuum will join the more than 35 MBDA Business Centers across the U.S., each strategically located in areas with significant levels of minority population and minority-owned firms.
The main objective of MBDA Business Centers is to provide strategic business consulting services to minority firms to increase public and private sector contract opportunities and capital investments, hopefully resulting in the creation and retention of jobs.
MMBC is a non-traditional, business-to-business, economic development agency committed to empowering and assisting scalable minority and women-owned businesses to grow and create jobs by providing quality goods and services to corporate partners.
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Beena White, chair of the 2012 Vox Awards Committee and founder of cocoabeens communications, was named Professional of the Year Friday, April 13, at the University Club of Memphis.
The honor is presented to a member of the Memphis Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America for exceptional professional contributions.
"Beena always gets the job done and makes it look easy, but she puts a great deal of effort and thought into everything she does," said Christina Meek, communications specialist for the Greater Memphis Chamber, in presenting the award. "She proves how powerful PR can be."
White was also instrumental in bringing the awards ceremony back after a year hiatus.
"The last one was in fall 2010," White said. "We surveyed the membership about all aspects of Vox, and one of the frequent comments was that the program should be in spring. Rather than rush through a quick process and host a spring 2011 event, we took time to research best practices and refine our entire program."
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United Housing will host its "An Evening at the Theater" on Thursday, April 19, consisting of a dinner and a special viewing of "Present Laughter" – a comedy based in the 1940s that the New York Times calls, "sharp, withering and funny."
The reception starts at 5:30 p.m. at Circuit Playhouse, 51 S. Cooper St. Curtain call is 7 p.m. There will also be chances to win prizes like a Redbird's box and gift cards.
United Housing programs have counseled more than 6,5000 families that have resulted in the sale of more than 2,200 homes for a total impact of more than $190 million in the Memphis community.
"An Evening at the Theatre" is open to the public. Proceeds benefit UHI's upcoming programs and services.
For more information and tickets, contact Amy Schaftlein at 728-6937 or email@example.com.
A leading specialty mattress retailer has opened a new store in Wolfchase Galleria.
The Mattress Firm store will display a selection of Tempur-Pedics as well as memory foam beds, including popular brands like iComfort by Serta and Sealy. The store also will carry accessories including Tempur-Pedic pillows and slippers, Protect-a-Bed mattress covers and DreamFit sheets.
To celebrate the opening, the store will offer sales and specials and will be giving away free Tempur-Pedic slippers with a mattress purchase until April 30.
– Andy Meek
A proposal that increases the penalty for drunken driving when a child under 18 is a passenger in the vehicle is headed to the governor for his consideration.
The measure sponsored by Republican Rep. Tony Shipley of Kingsport was unanimously approved 94-0 in the House on Tuesday. The companion bill unanimously passed the Senate 32-0 last month.
Under present law, a person arrested for DUI with a child under 18 in the vehicle is sentenced to a mandatory minimum incarceration of 30 days and a fine of $1,000.
The proposal requires such incarceration be served consecutively with any sentence for convictions of DUI, vehicular assault, vehicular homicide, or aggravated vehicular homicide.
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5 Best Jobs to Meet Single Women
We all need to earn a living so we can pay those pesky things called bills, but that doesn't mean we can't hold jobs that help our social lives, too.
In fact, there are several jobs where meeting women is an even bigger perk than getting a paycheck with four numbers to the left of the decimal point. Here are some of the best jobs to meet single women.
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File this under "no-brainer." Whether it's a fun night tossing back cosmos with some gal pals or a work party, the opportunity to find available women in a watering hole is a well-documented phenomenon — one which is responsible for a good chunk of the liquor industry's success. Bars are loaded with available women, so it's quite easy for a man tending bar to strike up a conversation that goes well beyond the typical, "Whaddaya having?"
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We're not talking getting dressed as one of the NFL replacement refs who work at Foot Locker. We're talking Al Bundy-get-on-your-knees-to-fit-women-for-some-hot-pumps. Women love them some shoes, that's for sure. And while most (straight) men can't distinguish Kate Spade from David Spade, brushing up on the trends may be a good idea because you are bound to meet a gaggle of eligible bachelorettes as they look for the most stylish high heels on the market to stomp all over your heart.
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Go to any gym and you're bound to see women rocking the treadmill in an attempt to keep their figures svelte. A trainer is the buff person who can help sculpt them into the goddess-like shape they dream about while sneaking in some Ben & Jerry's before bed. Women may hate trainers for making them do crunches until their eyes pop out, but trainers can win some serious points by being supportive. It's almost like being in the dreaded friend zone, but with the bonus of having a chiseled body that makes women fantasize about being friends with benefits.
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Hey, everybody has to get a checkup, right? And it is scientific law that all women dream about dating a doctor, so you don't need to be pre-med to know the odds are heavily stacked in your favor if you go into this field. Heck, even an ear, nose and throat guy is considered a catch and a good chunk of his business revolves around mucus. So, throw on your white lab coat, tell the ladies you're a resident and watch them flock to you like prescription pads to a pharmacy.
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It's no secret that women love a man in uniform and as long as that uniform doesn't have the Mickey D's logo on it, they are powerless against it. Cops and firefighters are tough authority figures who often come to the aid of those in peril or distress, qualities that ratchet them up the attractive scale to levels only Channing Tatum is currently able to attain. What woman doesn't find that irresistible? Seriously – we'd like to meet her.


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Galerie m Bochum is presenting from 8 May to 11 July 2015 works on paper by the Berlin artist Antje Dorn (b. 1964 in Aachen). Dorn's "Rare Animals and Numbers," "motorgirls" and "Imbisse" series are being shown as part of our "Feature" series of exhibitions.
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The title
"Rare Animals and Numbers" (2006)
succinctly describes the main motifs of these ink drawings. Curious four-legged creatures resembling dogs, sheep, donkeys and other familiar animals share the white paper plane with numbers from 0 to 9. In our rational understanding, two completely different "worlds" collide here: that of living beings and the abstract, mathematical realm of numbers.
Dorn harmonizes these opposing themes in her own special way by lending the numbers the mass and weight of objects while the animal forms become mere immaterial graphic outlines. Rendered in this fashion, the "zeros," "ones" or "eights" coexist side-by-side with the fleet-footed creatures, interrelating with them in a peaceful-seeming symbiosis.
The first driver's license in history was acquired by a woman. Nevertheless, driving in the early days of automotive history was mostly the preserve of men. Clichés and prejudices thus soon abounded about women's relationship to cars, also manifested in pictures.
Antje Dorn takes a humorous look at this genre in her gouache series
"motorgirls" (2000/01)
, displaying a number of different facets. Instead of trying to look alluring, Dorn's "motorgirls" appear confidently and sometimes helpless at the wheel of a car or doing their own repairs – in comical exaggeration.
The series of ink drawings titled
"Imbisse" (Snacks, 2003)
shows individual buildings, sometimes with the character of objects and in other cases with a futuristic or improvised look. Large billboards on their facades or roofs are emblazoned with words referring to "beans," "Tomatoes," "blaukraut" (red cabbage) or other staple foods, alluding to the possible function of the fantasy buildings as production sites or points of sale. Dorn explores here buildings typical of the cityscape whose undistinguished forms are often at odds with the products they advertise. The disproportionate emphasis of the product names reveals the absurdity of their marketing.
The three series on display all demonstrate Antje Dorn's consuming interest in the imagery that surrounds us in our daily lives. She toys with our viewing habits by changing the contexts of certain pictorial elements, thus allowing us to see them with new eyes. Through humorous exaggeration or by taking things to absurd extremes, she thus sharpens our awareness of many aspects of our everyday culture.


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WASHINGTON -- Washington, D.C., and more than two dozen states are not adequately prepared if the outbreak of swine flu becomes a full-blown crisis, federal records indicate.
The federal effort to combat a possible pandemic includes emergency supplies of ant-iviral medications, a stockpiling system now being tested as cases of the H1N1 strain of the influenza virus continue to spread.
The Washington Post says 27 states and the nation's capital are 10 million dosages short of the levels that the federal government believes they should have for a pandemic. The drugs, in this case, Tamiflu and Relenza, would be used to treat the illness, not to prevent it.
Federal agencies, which under the plan are expected to create their own stockpiles, are also reported to be falling short. The U.S. Postal Service, which would be expected to deliver medications in a pandemic, has no anti-viral medicafion stocked, the Post said.
Overall, the federal government says it has met its goal of accumulating 50 million courses of the medications, and the rollout of drugs to the states has gone smoothly.
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Hogan joined the Swiss industrial group as CEO in September 2008, and has invested some $20 billion to strengthen the company since then, including the major acquisitions of U.S. groups Baldor and Thomas & Betts and, in April this year, solar energy company Power One .
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However, this is definitely not the first title or award that Steve has taken away. Last year in November, he was also given the "CEO of the Decade" title, and was named as the "World's Most Valuable CEO" by Barron's. And yet again, earlier this year in March 2010, he managed to make space for his name in the annual list of the best CEOs in the world by Barron's.
In the same month, "The Fortune Survey report" was released that declared Apple's CEO as the "Smartest CEO", and their Senior Vice President, Jonathan Ive as the "Smartest Designer" in tech. industry. Apple as company was declared as the "World's Most Admired Company for 2010", and that too consecutively for the third year in a row. The report also showed that in the 2010 edition of their annual ranking of "World's Most Admired Companies", Apple Inc. was at the top of the list for the third year in a row, and by the highest margin ever in the ten-year history, beating other internet Giants like Google and Microsoft.


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C and I can sometimes be like Mr. and Mrs. Sprat when it comes to eating. C likes leaner cuts while I adore the fattier morsels. C hardly ventures past tomato-based pasta while I love olive oil based ones. I look forward to a good French toast or yogurt for breakfast while C prefers a more Filipino-style, rice and meat/fish dish for his morning meal. C does not really have a sweet tooth to speak of, and when he does he favors fruit filled desserts…while I am a solid chocolate girl.
That being said, we also have a great deal in common food-wise. We love to experiment and try new dishes and ingredients. We love the gastronomic paradise that is Asian cuisine. We both agree that food is an essential part of travel. We both don't fancy junk food too much. We love eating at home. You know, the important stuff.
And, also very important (at least in my book), we both love spicy food. Our crisper is home to 2-3 different types of fresh chilies at any given point in time. Our pantry is stocked with dried chilies, chili flakes, and various hot sauces and chili pastes. Sriracha is one of our current favorites. It is incredibly versatile. It can be used as a condiment, say in a Vietnamese soup, as a dipping sauce, or even to top a burger. It also works beautifully in marinades or rubs.
Sriracha Chicken Thigh Fillets
- 3-4 tablespoons sriracha (depends how much heat you like)
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon vinegar
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- 2 tablespoons pineapple or mango jam (I used pineapple-mango jam…yum!)
- 1/4 cup ketchup
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- 1/4 cup finely chopped white onion
- 1 1/2 tablespoon chopped green onion
- 1 tablespoon minced ginger
- Salt, to taste
- 6 chicken thigh fillets
- Canola oil for pan-frying
– Mix all the ingredients, except for the salt and pepper, in a bowl. Taste and adjust seasoning with salt if needed.
– Pound your chicken fillets with a meat mallet (I do this in between 2 pieces of cling wrap to avoid bacterial chicken goo from splattering all over my kitchen) until they are of uniform thickness.
– Take a third of the marinade and pour this over your chicken pieces. Place in the fridge and let the chicken lay in its spicy bath for an hour or two.
– Heat a few glugs of canola oil on a non-stick skillet. When the oil is hot, pan-fry the chicken until they are cooked and have acquired some nice caramelization around the edges, turning once.
– Placed the cooked chicken on a chopping board and slice into strips. Lay on a bed of steaming white rice and sprinkle with sesame seeds (some chopped green onions would be good too but I didn't have any!).
You can use chicken breast fillets but can I just try to convince you to thighs? They are really so much tastier and come out so much juicier…and are a bit more forgiving when you've erred on the side of overcooking. I love them so! But if you cannot abide by dark meat then go ahead and use breast fillets…we'll still be friends 🙂
This recipe makes about 2-3 portions of marinade, depending on how you use it. Stash the rest in the freezer for future use…you won't regret it! For another meal, I used roughly 1/3 of the marinade on 3 pieces of chicken marylands (the leg and thigh together) which I then baked. You can also use it on chicken wings, which is I think is the most popular, or any other kind of chicken pieces you prefer. I'm thinking you could even try it on a whole roast chicken, basting with the extra marinade as it cooks. Or on a spatchcocked chicken on the grill (basting with extra marinade as well) if you are lucky enough to have a nice outdoor grilling space. I'm also itching to try it on some pork ribs! So you see, really versatile. If you've got some sitting smugly in your freezer, dinner will just be a matter of thawing and cooking.
This recipe is cobbled together based on several I found online. You can even learn to make your own sriracha here.
I'm thankful C shares my love for spice. I always have someone with whom to get goofily excited when finding new spicy sauces and I never have to temper the heat when I am cooking for the two of us (as I often have to do when we are cooking for company). So it's easy to forgive when he is not to enthused about things like this or that 😉Happy weekend everyone! And if you are Filipino happy independence day tomorrow! 🙂***Thank you M for my Moomin chopsticks! I love them! 🙂


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Veterinary Healthcare Associates is a veterinarian owned small animal practice that encourages a self-directed and entrepreneurial work environment. For over 30 years, VHA has proudly served the Central Florida community by delivering outstanding patient care and unmatched client service. Our practice offers a diverse and challenging case load and the tools and equipment to manage them. Our incredible facility, coupled with our exceptional team is the dream of every veterinarian. Our fast growing, progressive, AAHA accredited 10 doctor emergency, specialty referral and primary care practice has a place on our team for a full-time Associate Emergency Veterinarian. New graduates are welcome to apply! Our 11,000 sq ft facility offers: • Talented team with several credential technicians • Complete in-house laboratory • CT Scanner with 3D reconstruction software • Endoscopy, Cystoscopy and Bronchoscopy equipment • Hyperbaric Chamber • Digital Radiology Suite • Two Ultrasonography units • Oncology Suite • 2 Surgical Suites • Full Rehabilitation Department including underwater treadmill and therapeutic laser Comprehensive Salary and Benefit Package: • Guaranteed base salary starting between $80,000 - $110,000, plus production based bonus • Relocation benefits • Retention Bonus • Retirement Program – SIMPLE IRA match up to 3% of annual salary • Full cafeteria insurance plan available with benefits bank amount of $240.00/month • Long-Term Disability Insurance Plan—Fully paid by VHA • Life Insurance Plan--$25,000 Policy Fully paid by VHA • Three weeks of paid vacation per year, included in base salary • $1,500 Continuing Education Allowance each year plus up to 5 days off clinics for CE as needed • Paid Professional dues to AVMA, FVMA, RVMS, and one organization of choice in your preferred field • Paid Professional licensing fees • Paid Professional Liability Insurance • Dry Cleaned lab coats available at all times • Uniform Allowance for scrubs and VHA dress uniform • Gold's gym membership—Fully paid by VHA • Discount on Veterinary Care at VHA • Environment of collaboration with specialists and doctor team • Continued professional development and growth opportunities


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by William H. Woodwell, Jr.
The League of Women Voters devotes these pages to a special call for action by the next Administration on four priority issues: climate change, which threatens our environment, our economy and public health; our health care system, which currently leaves 47 million Americans uninsured, while wreaking havoc on the economy because of skyrocketing costs; our immigration system, which has not addressed the status of 12 million unauthorized immigrants living and working in the United States and is incapable of dealing with either legal or illegal immigration; and the growing inequality in wealth and incomes that threatens the very fabric of our society, turning the United States into a land where the rich keep getting richer and everyone else struggles just to get by. The League believes significant progress is possible on each of these four issues. It's time to stop the partisanship and political wrangling. It's time for real action to build a better, stronger America.
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text: On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Gustavo Gobi Martinelli wrote: > > I'm trying to make the pvm 3.4.5 work, but I'm having a problem with "rsh". > > if I execute the command: > > # rsh 192.168.0.2 'set' > > I will see a list of variables that isn't in the .bash_profile of root user. > > But, if I execute this: > > # rsh 192.168.0.1 > > the login occurs and I can execute > > # set > > Now, I can see the variable that I need. > > What did happen? How can I find the local where I can declare the variables that > will be appear with " rsh 192.168.0.1 'set' " command? > > Because this, the PVM doesn't work. It needs see $PVM_ROOT variable that exists > in .bash_profile but not in "rsh" session. > > Someone know anything about it? I'm using the Fedora Core 2 with kernel 2.6.7. Use ssh, and look into the environment commands. rsh has many flaws, one of which is a failure to pass environment variables at all sanely from the calling host. So this is one way to proceed. Also note (from man bash): When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-inter- active shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes com- mands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable. The --noprofile option may be used when the shell is started to inhibit this behavior. In other words, there is a difference between the behavior of an interactive shell (what you get when you execute rsh hostname to log in) and a non-interactive shell -- they actually read and execute different .??* files in a different order. In fact, you can control the order to some extent with the call syntax. Assuming that you're using bash, you might read the man page carefully and experiment -- if you put the requisite environment variable definitions in the right place you should still be able to have them initialized even over rsh, as long as you don't have to pass them via the remote shell itself. If you do, you'll NEED to look into ssh in more detail. HTH, rgb > > -- > Atenciosamente, > Gustavo Gobi Martinelli > Linux User# 270627 > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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In an exclusive interview, Rick Blum, director of OpenTheGovernment.org, answers questions on open access to government, individual liberties and security. He emphasizes the importance of citizens "asking questions, documenting successes and problems, and really pushing aggressively to defend participation and democracy."
by Kelly McFarland Stratman and Nancy E. Tate
The League of Women Voters Education Fund launched its multi-tier project, Local Voices: Citizen Conversations on Civil Liberties and Secure Communities, in February 2005. The project combined one of the League's strongest traditions—convening community dialogues—with established methods of public opinion research. A complete report of the project's findings and the League's recommendations for action was released on September 7. Citizen desire for a transparent and open government is among the project's important findings. The League's recommendations in a nutshell: When it comes to the critically important relationship between our civil liberties and our nation's security, government openness and public involvement are not just desirable—they are essential.
by Shirley Tabata Ponomareff
In 1942, national League President Marguerite Wells cautioned that in times of crisis such as war, "the citizen loses sight of government and what government is doing, who is doing it, how it is being done." She summed up the League's objective in that wartime period: the support of democracy. Today, as our country wages a war against terrorism, the League continues in this proud tradition. From the time that the USA PATRIOT Act became law in 2001, the League has actively lobbied in support of legislation that would limit some of the law's extreme provisions. At the same time, it has promoted education through panels and workshops as well as its "Local Voices" project.
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Good afternoon. I am pleased to be able to join the Economic Club of Indiana for lunch today. I note that the mission of the club is "to promote an interest in, and enlighten its membership on, important governmental, economic and social issues." I hope my remarks today will meet that standard. Before diving in, I'd like to thank my former colleague at the White House, Al Hubbard, for helping to make this event possible. As the head of the National Economic Council under President Bush, Al had the difficult task of making sure that diverse perspectives on economic policy issues were given a fair hearing before recommendations went to the President. Al had to be a combination of economist, political guru, diplomat, and traffic cop, and he handled it with great skill.
My topic today is "Five Questions about the Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy." I have used a question-and-answer format in talks before, and I know from much experience that people are eager to know more about the Federal Reserve, what we do, and why we do it. And that interest is even broader than one might think. I'm a baseball fan, and I was excited to be invited to a recent batting practice of the playoff-bound Washington Nationals. I was introduced to one of the team's star players, but before I could press my questions on some fine points of baseball strategy, he asked, "So, what's the scoop on quantitative easing?" So, for that player, for club members and guests here today, and for anyone else curious about the Federal Reserve and monetary policy, I will ask and answer these five questions:
- What are the Fed's objectives, and how is it trying to meet them?
- What's the relationship between the Fed's monetary policy and the fiscal decisions of the Administration and the Congress?
- What is the risk that the Fed's accommodative monetary policy will lead to inflation?
- How does the Fed's monetary policy affect savers and investors?
- How is the Federal Reserve held accountable in our democratic society?


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Homemade Fruit & Vegetable Wash: Recipes & Tips
Mix ingredients listed below then pour in clean spray bottle. Spritz on fresh produce generously. Sit for 5 minutes then rinse off well.
1 cup water
1 cup vinegar
2 TBS baking soda
2 TBS lemon juice
Note: Make sure to first combine ingredients in deep container since there will be some fizzing action.
There are also these tips and recipes to try:
*Ensure the sink is thoroughly cleaned or use a plastic dishpan just for this purpose
- Sprinkle items with baking soda then gently scrub. This method safely removes dirt and residue. Mentioned previously on this page.
- Vinegar/Water Spritz (50/50) works well.
Note: Rinse and allow to soak for a few minutes in clear water after treatment.
To Full Sinks (Water) Add…
- 4 TBS apple cider vinegar.
- Parasite buster: Add 1/2 teaspoon of chlorine bleach and soak items for 30 mins.
- 2 teaspoons of hydrogen peroxide (3%) per gallon of water and leave items for 20 mins.
- A few drops of your favorite liquid dish detergent (for handwashing dishes), leave items for a few minutes before scrubbing. Good residue remover.
- Arrange fruit and veggies first before filling. For every gallon (16 cups) of water used, add 4 drops of grapefruit seed extract and 2 TBS of salt.
- Produce Bath: Combine 1/2 cup vinegar and 3 TBS salt (stir until dissolved) then add to sink. Soak for 15 to 20 minutes. Remove, pat dry.
**Note: After treating allow to sit for at least 10 mins in clear water.
Did You Know: You should wash the outsides of melons before cutting through them? If you don't, the knife will drag the pesticides/dirt/bacteria from the outside rind into the melon as you cut. The outside rinds can carry some seriously nasty cooties. See Melons: Safe Handling Practices for Consumers (pdf).


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Isn't she the one who figured out that Jeff was a baseball player? Or was that our other mystery girl?
Ok at least she talked more this episode.
Katie Hanson, the seventh person voted off "Survivor: Philippines," has taken aim at host, Jeff Probst, insisting he gave her a hard time on the show.The former Miss Delaware, 22, has opened up to People.com about her ejection this week, and it's clear she's not a fan of the reality TV host-turned-talk show anchor.Bing: Watch 'Survivor: Philippines' clips and full episodes She says, "Jeff Probst just hammered me a million times about my challenge performance, but let's face it -- I wasn't the only one to slow us down."I wasn't the most athletic person out there; I totally admit that. But they showed my failure again and again, and glossed over others. "I'm not sure why he [Probst] had it out for me, but he really seemed to focus on what I did wrong. He would say, 'Katie's really slowing everyone down,' which I'm not saying wasn't true, but I wasn't the only one. I think it sort of influenced other people's opinion of me."But Hanson was quietly glad to be voted off -- because the experience on the latest "Survivor" was tough.She tells People, "The conditions were terrible. It doesn't show this [on TV], but because of all the rain, our shelter started to grow black mold. I developed a terrible cough."And she became so malnourished that her body couldn't even handle cookies and treats: "Production gave me cookies and apples when I was voted out. I got really sick. My body didn't want food. I just wanted a cheeseburger, but my body wouldn't have been able to handle it. I gorged on Twix bars, and oh my God, that was a big fail on my part. I paid for that dearly."
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NY judge: Anti-gay marriage law unconstitutional
NEW YORK – A federal judge in Manhattan joined a growing chorus of judges across the country Wednesday by striking down a key component of a federal law denying benefits to partners in a gay marriage.
U.S. District Judge Barbara Jones said the federal Defense of Marriage Act's efforts to define marriage "intrude upon the states' business of regulating domestic relations."
She said, "That incursion skirts important principles of federalism and therefore cannot be legitimate, in this court's view."
The judge said the law fails because it tries to re-examine states' decisions concerning same-sex marriage. She said such a sweeping review interferes with a system of government that places matters at the core of the domestic relations law exclusively within the province of the states.
The ruling came in a case brought by Edith Windsor, a woman whose partner died in 2009, two years after they married in Canada. Because of the federal law, Windsor didn't qualify for the unlimited marital deduction on her late spouse's estate and was required to pay $363,053 in federal estate tax. Windsor sued the government in November 2010.
As part of her ruling, Jones ordered the government to reimburse Windsor the money she had paid in estate tax.
The government declined to comment through Ellen Davis, a spokeswoman for government attorneys in Manhattan.
Civil rights groups praised the ruling. The American Civil Liberties Union included comments from Windsor in its release.
"It's thrilling to have a court finally recognize how unfair it is for the government to have treated us as though we were strangers," Windsor said of her 44-year relationship with Thea Spyer.
The ruling came just days after a federal appeals court in Boston found the law's denial of federal benefits to same-sex couples unconstitutional. The decision by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a federal judge's 2010 ruling. In California, two federal judges found this year that the law violates the due-process rights of legally married same-sex couples. The issue is likely to reach the Supreme Court.
The law was passed in 1996 after a 1993 decision by the Hawaii Supreme Court made it appear Hawaii might legalize gay marriage. Since then, many states have instituted their own bans on gay marriage, while eight states have approved it, led by Massachusetts in 2004 and continuing with Connecticut, New York, Iowa, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maryland, Washington state and the District of Columbia. Maryland and Washington's laws aren't yet in effect and might be subject to referendums.
James Esseks, director of the ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Project, said the ruling "adds to what has become an avalanche of decisions that DOMA can't survive even the lowest level of scrutiny by the courts."
Brian Silva, executive director of Marriage Equality USA, called the ruling "another example of the trend of the judiciary continuing to see that treating same-sex couples differently than their heterosexual counterparts is not only wrong but goes against the laws of equality and justice here in the United States."
State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman called the decision "a major step forward in the fight for equality."
In court papers filed last August, a lawyer for the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the U.S. House of Representatives defended the role of the federal government in defining marriage.
"While it is true that regulating the details of traditional marriage historically has been left to the states, it also is true that the federal government has been involved with and injected itself into marriage law when states have deviated from the traditional definition. Thus, for instance, the United States Congress banned polygamy in United States territories when faced with widespread plural marriage in the Utah Territory," wrote attorney Paul D. Clement on the group's behalf.
In another point in his papers, Clement noted that multiple studies concluded that a high number of people who experience sexual attraction to members of the same sex early in their adult lives later cease to experience such attraction. In a footnote, he pointed out that Windsor had once been married to a man, a fact that she responded to in an affidavit of her own in August, saying that her brief 1951 marriage didn't indicate she had a choice about her sexual orientation.
"Although I tried to make a 'choice' about my sexual orientation by getting married to a man, I was simply unable to do so. Thus, as a matter of fact, I really had no choice at all," she wrote.
She added that in the "context of the homophobia that was so prevalent in the 1950s, I certainly did not want to be a 'queer.' Instead, I wanted to live a 'normal' life."
She noted that she parted on good terms with her ex-husband, who married another woman and had a family.
"He telephoned me on my 70th birthday in 1999 to wish me well," Windsor said.
Associated Press writer Deepti Hajela contributed to this story.


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Perforce Software announced the availability of P4Mylyn, its new connector to the Mylyn task and ALM framework for Eclipse. P4Mylyn's task-focused interface filters a developer's view to include only those Perforce-managed assets, along with their dependencies, that are associated with a given change request. Distilling a developer's focus to only those resources relevant to a particular task lets them respond quickly to change in agile workflows.
P4Mylyn was developed in cooperation with Tasktop Technologies, creators of Eclipse Mylyn. The P4Mylyn extension is distributed via Mylyn's Connector Discovery mechanism, making it effortless to download and install the integration from within the Eclipse IDE and ensuring interoperability with a wide variety of Tasktop Certified open source and commercial ALM solutions.
"Our Mylyn Connector will help developers manage and focus on a set of tasks, as well as prioritise, schedule and share the context of a task with others," explained Kevin Sawicki, P4Mylyn creator and lead contributor to Mylyn's SCM subproject API. "Contributors can quickly understand which Perforce-managed assets are associated with the task and coordinate their work more effectively, regardless of the team's physical location or area of expertise."
The Perforce Mylyn Connector automatically tracks code changes on a per-task basis, making it easy to commit to Perforce only the relevant changes when working on multiple tasks. It automatically generates commit comments that link back to the relevant story, defect or issue, providing complete traceability from any line of code back to the relevant task associated with the change.
Specific benefits of the P4Mylyn connector include:
- Easy client integration and code-to-task traceability with other third party tools that have Mylyn connectors, such as Bugzilla, JIRA, Mingle, Rally, and VersionOne.
- Hyperlinks to tasks from any repository. This allows developers to easily switch back and forth between tasks, file revisions, source code comments, and submitted or shelved groups of changes. For example, P4Mylyn gives developers the ability to switch from the Perforce to Bugzilla or JIRA repositories.
- 'Jobs', Perforce's built-in defect tracking system, becomes a first-class Mylyn task. This gives developers complete visibility into the tasks their team members are working on as well as automatically linking their own pending work to the Perforce job being fixed.
- Graphical differencing tools display only those changes specific to the associated change request.


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- Good-looking compact sports sedan
- Lighter and stiffer than old S3 hatch
- Quality cabin materials and ergonomics
- Entertaining to drive
- Plenty of AWD grip
- Decent soundtrack
- 300hp 2.0T motor
- Cleaner and more efficient than previous S3 model
- Manual six-speed or dual-clutch S tronic automatic
- quattro drivetrain with magnetic ride as standard
- Lightweight build pins weight to 3197 lb
- Latest generation MMI with 11" folding display
- Xenon Plus headlights with LED DRL strips
- S instrument cluster with color DIS
Fast Audis are a conundrum if you place an emphasis on driving satisfaction. Their showroom appeal can't be underestimated since they always look good and the build quality is practically bombproof, but the dynamics can be a little hit-or-miss. For every sparkling R8, second-gen TT and B7 RS4 that wins plaudits, there are other S and RS Audis that were spoiled by numb steering, a brittle ride or excessive understeer.
Enter the third-generation S3. It epitomizes the hot hatch formula, even if it costs more than many of its contemporaries. However, Audi feels it's onto a winner by grafting a trunk to the back of the hatchback to create their first ever compact sedan S model.
The good news is that the Sedan is both the best-looking version of the S3 to date and it's coming to America. The design has a real clarity from the moment you first see it, with its squat, hunkered stance, coupe-like profile and sharp lines. It's muscular and taut, and works well in almost any color.
Inside, things get even better. The usual excellent Audi interior is evident and you can load it with a slew of optional equipment, such as adaptive cruise control, active lane assist, a 14-speaker B&O stereo and MMI Navigation Plus. But fortunately, all the basics are flawless, from the fantastic leather front seats to the chunky three-spoke steering wheel, so you could probably keep the sticker price under control.
There's also plenty of space for four adults, even with the driver's chair pushed back, while the trunk is actually bigger with the seats up than in the S3 Sportback.
The S3 Sedan shares its 2.0-liter TFSI engine with the hatchback version, and again, this is a very good thing. Supremely strong throughout the rev range, it delivers meaningful acceleration no matter what speed you're going. The boost delivery is lag-free, and you'll have a hard time remembering it's turbocharged.
The motor has a nice exhaust note, which is augmented by a flap in the exhaust and an electromechanical sound actuator in the bulkhead. Unfortunately, this makes it sound slightly artificial and grates a little. Still, 300hp and a sub-5sec 0-62mph are stats befitting more expensive machines, so we'll cut the S3 Sedan some slack.
We sampled the engine with the S tronic six-speed dual-clutch auto, and while we'd normally make a strong case for a stick shift, the S tronic is such a capable companion for the four-cylinder that it might be the better option...
It only showed slow-witted behavior when coming out of the tightest hairpins and asking for more than 50% throttle. In this situation it took its time to kick down. Otherwise, the trans shifted imperceptibly, emitting an entertaining "pop" from the quad exhaust tips on fast upshifts.
Obviously, the S3 is equipped with quattro all-wheel drive, as well as torque-vectoring, which means you've got seemingly endless grip to put 300hp to the pavement in any conditions. But what really impressed us was the Sedan's entertaining steering. Uninhibited by the huge expectations placed on anything wearing an RS badge, the S3 delivered excellent dynamics.
There are still flaws, chief of which is the steering remains numb unless in the sporty driving modes - the S3 has the mode select switch that allows you to choose from five different setups. These alter throttle response, steering weight, damper rates and S tronic shift speed. However, even in the Dynamic setting the steering remains numb around dead center. Yet it has consistent weight and the S3's nose always reacts to inputs in lightning fashion. We were also happy to discover that understeer was practically eradicated unless you're travelling at extremely high speeds.
The Audi S3's ride quality exhibits a compliance in all areas that many previous S/RS models failed to achieve. It's not only comfortable but keeps the rubber on the road, making the car devastatingly quick when the curves come thick and fast. You find yourself grinning as the S3 encourages you to commit to each bend more than the last. The grip is astonishing in the dry as it scythes through curves and sweepers with aplomb - in the wet, it's going to be peerless.
With great stopping power provided by the ample brakes, the S3 is blessed with a suite of controls that work so well together, this might be one of quattro GmbH's best efforts since the original '80s legend that bore the hallowed name.
The drawback is it doesn't leave much room to maneuver for an impending RS version... and in some ways it's better than all the existing S/RS Audis as well.
With only the Mercedes-Benz CLA45 AMG occupying this rarified performance niche - a car that's even more powerful and expensive - the S3 Sedan has a clear route to success. Although once the next Golf R and BMW M2 arrive, things could get a lot more exciting for this sports sedan.
- Beautifully made
- Good-looking exterior
- Drives better than predecessors
- Immense quattro grip
- Strong, lag-free engine
- Little competition
- Not as much fun as RWD
- Most of the best bits are optional extras
- Steering not perfect
Tech Spec
2014 Audi S3 Sedan
Layout front-engine, quattro AWD
Engine 1984cc TFSI four-cylinder 16v petrol turbocharged, direct and indirect injection
Drivetrain six-speed S tronic dual-clutch automatic transmission
Brakes ventilated rotors all round, dual circuit with diagonal split, ABS and ESP, S3-branded calipers f
Suspension MacPherson strut f, four-link r
Wheels & Tires 19" twin-five-spoke wheels, 235/35 R19 tires
Max Power 300hp at 5500-6200rpm
Max Torque 280 lb-ft at 1800-5500rpm
0-62mph 4.9sec (S tronic)
Weight 3197 lb (S tronic)
Economy TBC


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Letter to House of Representatives Supporting FY2010 House Budget Resolution
March 31, 2009
Dear Representative:
On behalf of the National Education Association's (NEA) 3.2 million members, we strongly urge you to:
Vote YES on passage of the FY2010 Congressional Budget Resolution (H.Con.Res. 85);
Vote NO on any amendment that would spend federal funds on private school vouchers;
Vote NO on any amendments that would cut proposed discretionary spending; and
Vote YES any amendment that would increase discretionary spending.
Votes associated with these issues may be included in the NEA Legislative Report Card for the 111th Congress.
NEA believes the Budget Resolution should reflect the priorities of our nation, and ensuring all of our children a quality education should be a top priority. Particularly in these troubling economic times, investing in education makes both good fiscal sense and good public policy. Funding targeted to quality public schools will see the greatest return on taxpayer money and will strengthen the entire economy.
H.Con.Res 85 meets these standards. Specifically, it:
Builds on the historic increases for education included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), from early childhood through post-secondary education and training;
Expands access to college by continuing to raise the maximum Pell grant award;
Supports the Administration's commitment to providing access to quality, affordable and comprehensive health care coverage for all residents of the United States.
Again, we urge your support for the Congressional Budget Resolution.
Diane Shust
Director of Government Relations
Randall Moody
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
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10 comments:
- Jacqueline said...
Awesome shots....perfect lighting.
- 7:26 AM, May 10, 2012
- Kerri said...
Gorgeous photos! I love the one of her laughing~it is such a natural shot and you captured it perfectly! You truly are talented my friend! I am so glad you are sharing your talent with others! XO
- 7:40 AM, May 10, 2012
- traci said...
another beautiful young lady. wow. they are making your job super easy. love a floral dress and cowboy boots!!
- 7:58 AM, May 10, 2012
- Debby said...
Beautiful shots. She is a pretty girl. You are soooooo good.
- 9:09 AM, May 10, 2012
- Jeannine said...
Lovely young woman! You capture the individual beauty of everyone you photograph, Paige.
And I love that short-dress-with-cowboy-boots style I always see on your blog. Don't see that much around our neck of the woods, but it's totally charming.
- 11:45 AM, May 10, 2012
- Alecia said...
Beautiful!!! You did a wonderful job and you had a lovely subject.
- 4:43 PM, May 10, 2012
- Lemonade Makin' Mama said...
What a cutie... that girl has gorgeous eyes! You do such a great job Paige.
- 6:10 PM, May 10, 2012
Oh my goodness. You've made it nearly impossible for her parents to choose just one, or two or seven! While I don't know Sara, it appears that you captured her beautifully and perfectly. Destiny
- 8:21 PM, May 10, 2012
- julieann said...
BEAUTIFUL!!!! Each and every shot..
- 4:08 PM, May 12, 2012
- vermonter said...
Beautiful work. What an inspiration you are to so many in many different ways.
- 9:42 PM, May 12, 2012


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Fish are entertaining pets, but they require maintenance like feeding, regular tank cleanings, and the occasional health check. If you like the idea of a small colorful creature swimming around, but don't want to deal with the care, then the Capsule could be what you're looking for. It's a sealed spherical tank full of water and a robot fish (called the LumiPuff) that gains its power through the wireless induction charger built into the base.
A mobile app for the fish syncs to the aquarium to let you change settings and access gaming opportunities. The fish can be named and their colors changed from the app. The fish can also be set to flash when you receive a smartphone notification, which is actually pretty nifty.
There's a bit of a Tamagotchi aspect to the app game. When the fish gets "hungry," the lights start to turn off. If you're a neglectful robo-fish parent, your colorful fish will lose its glow. Fail to feed it for long enough and it will stop moving. Yes, you just killed your robotic fish and you're an awful human being. Restarting the game will bring your fish back to life.
Even without the app, you can still have fun with the fish. A vibration sensor lets the fish know when you tap on the tank so it can react to your attention. Thanks to the wireless charging system, you never have to pull your fish out to charge it up, it just keeps going.
The Capsule holds a rather unusual Guinness World Record for "first wireless induction-powered aquatic toy." It's an oddly specific record, but it's a record nonetheless. It's also the kind of record that isn't likely to be broken, unless someone comes along and proves she made an induction-powered shark before the Capsule was invented.
Sphere, the company behind the Capsule, has creating a prototype of the bowl and robo-fish. According to the company's timeline, it intends to ship the Capsule by the middle of 2015. The gadget is expected to be available for pre-order early next year for $170, though the price will rise to its regular level of $270. Yes, that is pretty expensive for a fake fish, but at least you can impress your friends by telling them your robo-fish holds a Guinness World Record.
I went outside to my small pond to interview the resident Shubunkin goldfish about their views on potentially being replaced by robot substitutes, but they had no comment.
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They're waiting, down there at the bottom of well-reasoned articles and in forums across the Internet, eager to stoke the fires of a flame war, exaggerate minor flaws in "the other" products, and generally let non-believers know that "UR FONE SUX." You know who I'm talking about: fanboys.
After the slew of recent holiday tech announcements drew fanboys out of their lurk-holes in droves — slinging accusations of bias like so many Molotov cocktails – it raised the question: What does it take to turn an otherwise healthy human being into a raving Droid, MacHead or WinDrone that refuses to hear anything other than songs of praise for their chosen obsession?
Turns out, that leads down a rabbit hole to darker questions. Could snarky advertising campaigns and carefully engineered interfaces be inadvertently tapping into neuroscientific principles and creating hordes of irrational super fans? And once you've become a fanboy, is it possible to reject the ideology of <INSERT PRODUCT HERE>?
Stop caressing those smartphones you so oddly self-identify with, folks. This is going to be an interesting ride.
Us. vs. them
The jump from Average Joe to Raving Fanboy isn't much of a jump at all, as it turns out. Its roots can be traced to a decades-old psychological theory known as "social identity" that was put forth by psychologists Henri Tajfel and John Turner.
The Neuroscience Marketing blog offers a great summary of the duo's full testing of the theory. Click either link if you want the dry details, but in a nutshell, people naturally tend to categorize themselves into groups over the tiniest and most meaningless of even artificial differences in order to give themselves a sense of belonging in the world. Once you've established yourself as part of a particular group, you tend to show intense loyalty to the cause, favoring facts and people that agree with your group's view while simultaneously discriminating against outsiders — especially if they belong in a competing camp.
In other words, as social creatures we're socially predisposed to "us vs. them" behavior. Democrats versus Republicans. Atheists versus believers. Yankees versus Red Sox. Our brains slip into such artificial distinctions as easily as we slip into clothes … and if you're not with a fanboy's chosen cause, you're against it.
Viewed in that light, commercials such as Apple's "I'm a Mac, not a plodding PC" and Samsung's "I'm a cool Galaxy S III owner, not a dork waiting in line for an iPhone" pieces take on a whole meaning, literally fanning the flames that lead to irrational fanboyism.
Am I saying that tech companies are trying to intentionally push those hardwired hot buttons? Not at all. What I am saying is that <INSERT PRODUCT HERE> and <INSERT PRODUCT HERE> owners could already be inclined to dislike one another, and inflammatory, divisive ads only serve to exaggerate our natural tendencies.
The social identity theory suggests that fanboys might not consciously choose to become the hardcore brand devotees that they are. That's troubling, because other studies and theories suggest that as with any other crackpot cause, once you're in the cult of a given product, extricating yourself can be extremely difficult.
A fanboy's brain literally changes to see the world his way.
Blinded by the light
Once a fanboy has established himself as part of a given group, his devotion is fanatical. His chosen (or not-so-chosen) product can do no wrong, competing products can do nothing right, and any criticism of the enlightened brand is tantamount to heresy or blasphemy. The truly hardcore even call themselves brand evangelists.
The religious overtones don't end there. One bit of evidence claims that extreme fanboys could see their chosen item of worship as truly being holy.
The BBC program Secrets of the Superbrands decided to drag Alex Brooks, the obsessed editor of World of Apple, in for an MRI scan to determine how an Apple fanatic's body physically responds to Apple stimulus. Neuroscientists showed him pictures of both Apple and non-Apple products and found that Brooks' brain indeed behaved differently for each. The scary part: The areas of Brooks' brain that activated when he saw pictures of Apple products were the same parts of the brain that flared up when religious people are shown images from their chosen faith.
"This suggests that the big tech brands have harnessed, or exploit, the brain areas that have evolved to process religion," one of the neuroscientists proclaimed.
I disagree that the effect is limited to big tech brands or is even being actively "exploited," but it could explain why fanboys attack any perceived slight towards their chosen products with such tremendous zeal.
It's hard to turn your back on your god, after all.
Hook 'em while they're young and you have them for life
Fanboyism is more than a religion; once you've locked yourself into a particular product family for an extended amount of time, your body actually adapts to better function with it, as I talked about in last week's column, Are we evolving tech, or is tech evolving us?
Helen South, the About.com Guide to Drawing and Sketching (who also happens to be a lover of both psychology and Linux), raised an interesting point when we were talking about Windows 8 and its unfamiliar gesture-based control scheme. Could Apple's fierce defense of its gesture-based patents in the courtroom be partially due to the human brain's tendency to adapt to the interfaces it uses on a frequent basis? If common interface quirks like tapping to zoom or "rubber-banding" return to Apple exclusivity, simply attempting to use another phone would feel alien to long-time users.
"Try re-arranging the cutlery drawer and see how long you stop reaching for the fork in the knife compartment," she wrote. "How long does it take to adapt from right-hand-drive to left-hand-drive when you move countries?"
If you feel flustered just picking up a competitor's phone, you're much more likely to stay locked into the "home" ecosystem — and the effect would only worsen the longer you stay with what's familiar. The interface differences between devices and the confusion a fanboy would feel when using another gadget only highlights the divide between "Us" and "Them." (There's that social identity theory again!)
There are indications that the major operating system creators may realize this, as well.
Apple's developer guidelines for OS X encourage designers to take advantage of so-called Metaphors — "the building blocks in the user's mental model of a task" — as often as possible while building an app. The guidelines explain that those building blocks come "from a combination of real-world experiences, experience with other software, and with computers in general." Unsurprisingly, it goes on to suggest that developers should "use familiar OS X user interface components to offer standard functionality." The iOS Developer Library contains similar "Human Interface Principles."
These are solid design principals to be sure, but training users to look for "familiar OS X user interface components" in their mental building blocks for a basic task just seems so calculated, so… Orwellian.
And it's not limited to Apple. Microsoft is journeying down the same path with its Windows 8 gesture guidelines, which tell developers to avoid using similar gestures "to avoid confusing users." In fact, Microsoft has guidelines in place for virtually every aspect of Windows 8 apps.
What does it all mean?
To be honest, I'm not certain. I don't mean to suggest that the random snipes and irrational arguments of forum fanboys should be tolerated or accepted. If anything, the age-old practice of 'Don't Feed The Trolls' is even more valid if you think my argument holds any water. After all, you can't fight brain-deep fanaticism with logic.
If nothing else, at least I can rest a little easier the next time a fanboy leaves a comment accusing me of bias or throwing a fit over a minor flaw that I identify in an otherwise wonderful device; there's no point getting mad. He's just engineered that way.
The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not reflect the beliefs of Digital Trends.


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5/16 Sunday's secret weapon: Yoshi
Last year, they wanted Yoshi [Nakazawa] to be the bat boy, and I know he's undefeated. I don't know how many wins he had but I know he's undefeated. We begged him today. He saw that we were in need so he did it. We always need a lttle luck on our side. It seems like he brought it. I think he has a new job — massage/bat boy/everything else.
It's just great to get a win, great to get good pitching and get timely hitting and have something go our way. The Pirates, they played great. Defensively, they had four web gems in the game. If we keep playing like this, like I've said over and over again, we're going to be fine and start winning series and we're going to take off and catch up to whoever's in first in the Central.
— Marlon
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I must admit its been pretty rough watching you guys play the last few games. For the first time I went to 2 games in one week and both games were lost. Thankfully we came away with the win today. Go cubbies!
I thought the cubs were going to lose, but they didn't. From now on they are going to start winning. GO CUBS!!!!!
I think for the first time in a while we have a balanced lineup from both sides and some quality pitching depth. Not to mention good hitters off the bench. Championship teams always have someone unexpected step up and we have several who are primed and ready. X started it last night. D Lee and ARam will heat up and its going to be a fun summer and fall at Wrigley, and on the road. Keep trucking boys!
Hey Marlon just leaving another comment for you…people around Wrigley are starting to think what ive been thinking for awhile now and that is someone who leaves it all out on the field like you will have an impact on every game and lead to winning…I cant wait to play philly and st. lou so we can start beating quality teams in the NL…I hope D-Lee and A-Ram come around…please keep preaching hustle in the clubhouse because the hard work will pay off, it always does. Thank you again and stick it to the Rox tonight….
Go Cubs Go
You are THE MAN. Last night you came into that game against the rockies and even though you didn't get a hit you made that spectacular catch that – let's just admit it – saved the game. You knew that ball was the game and went balls-out to make the grab. Awesome. Even when you don't get a hit, which is seldom, you find a way to do something good for the team. If you don't make the all-star team it's a crime. Keep up the great work.
Hi Marlon!
Way to be Rad! Not like a dorky guy named "Brad", but like a guy that helps his team every way he can!
My brother-in-law, Andy, has really come around. He was like "yeah, I wish Marlon Byrd could play in our church league softball games" and I said "too bad he's busy helping the Cubs turn this stinky start around!"
I hope my brother-in-law, Andy, can convince Bud Selig to allow 4 outfielders at once like we have in the church softball league because it's a shame you can't have YOU (Marlon), Soriano, Fukudome and Colvin all playing at once. Now THAT would be RAD!
Remember, no matter how bad things get…you're still filthy rich, man!
Hi Marlon,
I was at the April 30 game in Wrigley, and a couple of things I noticed:
(1) That liner you hit onto Waveland in the bottom of the eighth went 461 feet according to HitTracker.com
(2) It was kind of wild that the seagulls landed in the outfield when you entered the game in center in the top of the eighth, then left when you came in to bat, and then again landed on the field when you went back out for the top of the ninth. How did they know your name is Byrd?
Anyway, that was my first game in Wrigley and I just wanted to thank you for making it the most entertaining baseball experience I've ever had.
Sure was great to see you guys take a series from the Rangers!
As a player when your going through a rough patch and the noises are in the head, what do you do to get throught it. i heard something simple as changing your diet works(many pro athletes swear by this)


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