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Up a size? I wear a Large top in most Gore stuff including the Xenon Softshell, jersey etc.
In this the large was, well, like a small childs one. I think even the XL would have been too small.
The catchily named Gore Xenon 2.0 AS Jacket is a lightweight, windproof and water-resistant jacket made from Gore's Windstopper Active Shell fabric.
When you don't need it the Xenon AS is airy light and packs down tight and small so it doesn't feel a burden in a rear pocket at all, happily taken along for just-in-case duties (so most rides then) without being a pain in the arse, literally, and when you suddenly do need it, it works.
The Gore Xenon jacket is not just a panic 'throw it on to get you home sort of dry' bin-bag style jacket seemingly made by someone that likes parachutes, it's designed for riding in, and to be comfortable when doing so.
The tailoring of the Xenon 2.0 AS is unashamedly cut for being on a bike, in the drops. The arms are plenty long enough and sewn on the curve to perfectly conform with your bent elbow, and the body fits high up the front and extra-long out the back for perfect coverage when you're chewing the stem.
The overall cut of the jacket is racer taught so there's no annoying flapping in the wind, despite the fabric being quite crinkly if you scrunch it in your hand. It's actually tight fitting enough to make it troublesome to fit over exuberantly stuffed rear pockets sometimes.
Those carrying a bit of a sportive tummy might want to look elsewhere, or admit it and go up a size.
The Xenon 2.0 AS isn't overburdened with unnecessary details - that helps it to be light you see - but what there are matter. The full-length zip has protective docks top and bottom to stop chin and lycra chaffage. The top is augmented further with a leatherette anti-rub tab, which is also handy for holding the jacket taut with teeth when pulling on the zip on the move.
The collar sits high to keep the chill off, but the rear is scalloped so it doesn't runkle up against the back of the neck, which is also why the hanging loop is offset to the right. Neat.
The ends of the arms are adorned with light neoprene cuffs, subtly tailored to extend further down the back of the hand, where they fit comfortably snug, stopping breezes from rushing up the wrist.
The sides are meshed internally, as are the arms, which makes the jacket comfortable against sweaty skin if worn with a short-sleeved jersey. Reflective piping slashes down the front over the shoulders help with low-light visibility and the patterns and logos spotted on the sides, along the arms and in the tail are also reflective.
The AS in the name stands for Active Shell, a Windstopper fabric that's designed for 'highly active people', it says here, being a membrane that offers a total windproof experience but with maximum breathability and added water resistance. Windproof it certainly is, and especially useful for those last few hills home when the temperature's dropped and the body's feeling the cold.
It's water resistant too, in fact it's a bit more than that. Is there a rating somewhere between water resistant and waterproof? Worn on those days that gently waft between depressing perma-drizzle and annoying light rain, the type that usually makes other water resistant jackets weep, the Gore shows a defiant two-fingers to wretched weather.
The AS jacket doesn't have any mesh panels or vents, zipped or otherwise, to help with ventilation All the breathing of the jacket is left solely down to the efficiency of the Active Shell. And it's a job it does very well - it can get a little warm inside but it doesn't get clammy or sweaty, which makes grey drizzly climbs a little less miserable.
The Gore Bike Wear Xenon 2.0 AS Jacket is a lightweight jacket that's a bit pricier than most, but then it's more water resistant and breathable than most too, and cut to be ridden in comfortably with thoughtful details that'll help defer the cost.
Superbly thought-out lightweight packable jacket that you'll be glad to have in your back pocket.
If you're thinking of buying this product using a cashback deal why not use the road.cc Top Cashback page and get some top cashback while helping to support your favourite independent cycling website
Make and model: Gore Bike Wear Xenon 2.0 AS Jacket
Size tested: M
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
The blurb says WINDSTOPPER® Active Shells are the lightest, most packable products offering total windproofness, maximum breathability, and water resistance. Keeping you comfortable for enhanced performance during highly aerobic activities.
I'd agree with that, it's a very good cycling jacket, well fitted with what details it does have being very rider friendly. It's very windproof and better than merely water resistant.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
147 g, size L, partial mesh lining, zip pocket on back, long back, front zip with semi-lock slider, zip-underflap and zip-port, elastic sleeve cuff, snap-insert on collar for easy, one-handed opening of the front zip, ergonomically shaped collar, partially elastic hem, reflective print on sleeves and sides, reflective piping on back and sleeves, reflective logo on front and back. Colours; white, red or black.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
Lightweight, packable, water resistant, yes, it was all of them.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
The light weight in the back pocket, the racer fit, the water resistance that veered towards actually being pretty waterproof.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Bit pricey.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes.
Would you consider buying the product? Yes. I like a jacket that I don't know is there until I need it, when I need it to work.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes.
Age: 42 Height: 180cm Weight: 73kg
I usually ride: It varies as to the season. My best bike is: The one I\'m on at the time
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Most days I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: road racing, cyclo cross, general fitness riding, fixed/singlespeed, mtb, Fun
Jo Burt has spent the majority of his life riding bikes, drawing bikes and writing about bikes. When he's not scribbling pictures for the whole gamut of cycling media he writes words about them for road.cc and when he's not doing either of those he's pedaling. Then in whatever spare minutes there are in between he's agonizing over getting his socks, cycling cap and bar-tape to coordinate just so. And is quietly disappointed that yours don't He rides and races road bikes a bit, cyclo-cross bikes a lot and mountainbikes a fair bit too. Would rather be up a mountain.
I've got one of these. It's a really great jacket, well-fitting, and packs perfectly in a rear pocket. I think I've worn it most days since I got it earlier in the autumn; covers a range of temps from freezing upwards and feels breathable.
The only slight issue is the zip is small and pretty fiddly at the bottom join, I've got small hands and it's easy to not quite get it right when standing about and even harder when on the bike. It's a minor point though.


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April 22, 2013, 04:47:50 PM »
Between scholarships and my family's help, I can go to Northeastern or Suffolk and graduate without any debt. I have a $30K scholarship to Seton Hall, but will need to take out loans for the remainder of the tuition and living expenses.
SH is ranked higher, but is it worth it over Suffolk or NUSL? Will my job prospects be any different with a degree from SH over NUSL or Suffolk?
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April 23, 2013, 12:01:48 PM »
I'm gonna ask you the same things they asked you over on TLS. Do you want to live in Boston, what kind of work, etc..
If you want to live/work in Boston, cross out Seton Hall. Don't think too hard on how it's ranked "higher" than Suffolk and Northeastern. You have a way better shot of landing a job in Boston with Suffolk or Northeastern than at Seton Hall.
Take my advice with a grain of salt..I'm not even in law school, just on 0L but I've done so much research on this in the past year. Just be realistic with your goals. Good luck
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April 23, 2013, 12:15:35 PM »
Just looked at your post on TLS to get more info. With your numbers, you should have better offers. You applied very late and that probably affected your results. Completely anecdotal, but know of somebody who had very similar numbers to you, but they applied very, very early and was admitted to a T6 and nearly every school in the top 30. Granted, the T6 was at sticker but it sounds like you can afford to go to a better school if your parents are supporting you. Will they offer to pay for your education if you're going to a highly ranked school? If so, it might be worth it to try and see if BC/BU are possible or a better regional than Seton Hall.
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April 24, 2013, 08:38:43 AM »
I am open to working in either Boston or the NJ/NY area. I don't have strong feelings towards either location.
I really don't want to wait another year, but that seems to be the advice that everyone is giving me. What are your thoughts about transferring? Would you still suggest waiting for the next application cycle over going to Suffolk for a year and then transferring to a higher ranked school?
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April 24, 2013, 09:46:05 AM »
I understand about the retaking/waiting thing; I was literally about to withdraw and retake until I got a named scholarship at a school which guaranteed my scholarship for all 3 years and I couldn't pass it up. If you look at my posts, I am in your same shoes; my parents are willing to pay for school, etc. My parents were so upset when I told them I was thinking about waiting a year, and I understand that when your parents are financing it, their input weighs a lot more than anonymous posters on the internet.
With that being said, if you're not willing to retake, I'd choose Suffolk over Northeastern in your case. Northeastern at sticker is just a waste of your parents money, and at least you're not spending a ton at Suffolk. (you got a scholarship right?) Employment data is pretty similar at the two..so don't waste the money to attend the higher ranked school.
I wouldn't go to law school hoping to transfer out. If that's your plan, you're better off waiting a year and retaking the LSAT. Curves and grading in law school make it hard to assume how well you will do. Meanwhile, you literally control your LSAT score. I wouldn't take the "transfer-out" gamble. Retake if you want to go to a better school.
In the end though, the decision is up to you. Go to a school that you feel will get you to where you want to be. It sounds like you are hesitant about going to Suffolk/Northeastern even without the debt, so that should be a red flag. Whatever you decide, go with it 100%. If I were you, my choices would be A) Suffolk B)Seton Hall C) Retake. Do not go to law school hoping to transfer. Good luck to you
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April 24, 2013, 09:53:04 AM »
Thank you, your input has been really, really helpful!
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There are several things to consider when choosing a law school and it is a life altering decision, but one thign to really understand is that every ABA school will provide you with roughly the same education and job prospects. There are a few that will truly open doors i.e. Harvard, Yale, Stanford, but other than that it is much more up to the individual what they do with the degree with that said I think any 0L shoudl consider the following factors when choosing a law school. (1) Location (2) Cost (3) Personal Feelings about the school (4) Understand the reality of legal education and a distant (5) U.S. News.
1) Location
As shoreman mentioned if you want to live in Boston go to law school in Boston at a minimum you will be in the city you attend law school for three years and realistcally you will get an apartment, friends, internships, likely a romantic relationship, and take the state bar of the state you attend law school in.
Also what kind of person are you would you prefer living in a big city like Boston during law school can you handle the distraction, will you enjoy it, etc. Or will a smaller town be more your style only you know the answer to that, but really consider the location.
2) Cost & Scholarship Conditions
Suffolk 41k per year
Northwestern 49k per year
Seton Hall 45k per year
I noticed the 30k scholarship at Seton Hall, but what are the CONDITIONS? Typically it will say something along the lines of maintaining a 3.0 GPA. As a 0L this sounds like a piece of cake, but typically schools require you to be in the top 35% of the class you have a 3.0 GPA that is the "curve" you will hear so much about. The reality is everyone at an ABA school is smart, hard working, and motivated and 100% of them are sure they will be in the top 35%, but 65% won't be, which means there is a 65% chance you will lose your scholarship for years 2 & 3.
Every schools conditions differ, but ASK what they are and negotiate for better terms this NY times article does a better job explaining the scholarship conditions than I can
3) Personal Feeling About the School
When I was a OL I visited many schools and as a law student I participated in mock trial competitions. I can tell you some schools I liked others I hated, but that was my opinion. It is very possible you will like what I hated and love what I hated. To determine YOUR personal feelings I highly encourage you to visit both campuses, interact with students, talk to professors, admins, etc. You will get a gut feeling about each and maybe you will like both schools equally, but you may also hate one and love the other, but really listen to that gut feeling where you attend law school is three years of YOUR life, $100,000 of YOUR money, and YOUR legal career and don't let a magazine or anonymous internet poster overrule your gut feeling.
4) Reality of Legal Education
The realty is what you learn at an ABA school is pretty much identical. Your first year will consist of torts, civil procedure, property, contracts, and criminal law. In these courses you will read Supreme Court cases and they do write separate opinions for different schools. You will read Palsgraff in Torts for proximate cause, Pennoyer v. Neff in civ pro to learn about notice etc .
You might have a few electives here and there, but the majority of your legal education will be identical no matter where you go. As for your IP courses I know in the Bay Area where IP is everything schools over a few IP courses, but realistically you can only take 4-5 specialized law school courses based on availability, scheduling, etc.
On top of that you can't really know what you want to do until you start law school. I honestly though IP was what I wanted when I started, but after the one course I dropped it and really liked trial advocacy, which all schools offer.
Bottom line is at any ABA school you will learn the same thing.
5) U.S. News Ranking
You are making the common mistake that many 0L's myself included make by basing a life altering decision on a magazine. It is very important to realize that U.S. News is a for-profit, unregulated, magazine offering an opinion. Furthermore, their opinion changes from year to year
As you can see from 2009 until 2013 Kansas has gone from 65 to 86th and if you had been a 1L in 2009 you would have been attending the 65th best school, but somehow by the time you graduated in 2012 it became the 86th best. There is no rhyme or reason for this and review this chart to see how drastically schools change from year to year
. You can see Depaul is 80th then in the 90s, then back to 80's and this year in the 100's nothing has changed there over the last few years.
To further illustrate this point U.S. News ranks more than law schools New Mexico is the best place to live
. Are you going to move there because U.S. News says so? I imagine not surely there is something good about New Mexico, but I would not alter my life because U.S. News says New Mexico is a great place to live. Similarly I would recommend not making the life altering decision on where to attend law school based on this magazine.
You can certainly use it as a tiebreaker and if you were debating Harvard or St. Louis then it might be a different story, but truly nobody cares about the ranking difference between the 65th or 80th best school especially since it is very possibly St. Louis could be ranked higher than Kansas by the time you graduate.
I cannot possibly tell you what is best and neither can anyone else on this board. However, your main question is the difference in rank worth it I really do not think so. Really consider the location, cost, and your personal feelings about each school. It will be a life altering decision and some magazine writers in Pennsylvania should not be the basis of it.
Congrats on getting into law school and good luck in your legal career.
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I'm trying to decorate my house for the fall. I thought I had tons and tons of fall decorations. But, I don't. For some reason having painted our previous house in fall colors (reds, golds, pumpkin) it always looked great in the fall, then spring would come and I'd be saying, "Who picked these colors? For crying out loud where are the pastels?!" Well, now we have the pastels and I'm thinking, "Didn't my house used to look great in the fall with all those decorations I had? Where are the decorations?"
Okay, this is where I need your help. Since we are still all Dave Ramsey intense and not spending money on anything we don't NEED or WANT, I can't justify running out and buying cute little autumn plates to put in this plate rack, even though that is a HUGE temptation. I took down the white plates I had up and was desperately looking for something and this is what I came up with.
A fake wreath with fake berries. I know, the whole fake thing, but honestly I'm always drawn to this stuff. It's an addiction, I need treatment.
Look, another fake wreath on the door. Is this too many fake floral wreath things in one space? Do these wreaths make my butt look fat? What do you think?
How about a couple photos in there? I have an awesome friend coming to my house next weekend to take photos of our family and I will buy new frames to put some of them in, so maybe a few different sized photo frames in fall colors???? Lose the wreath? No photos? Beg Mom to buy me cute plates? Let's move on to the opposite wall.
Here's my hutch, or at least the bottom half of it. We had to store the top piece in our basement because we don't have a wall large enough without an opening to have the entire hutch upstairs. But, I don't miss it because it's nice to use as a buffet or a gigantic retrospective in fake stuff extraordinaire. Actually, the big pumpkins are the real deal, my compost pile produced them this year. After I was done bedecking the hutch I stood back and wondered what other crap could I pile on there?
Here's some ribbon. PILE IT ON APRIL! Let's get GAUDY!! Where's the GLITTER?!!
Okay, I couldn't take it all. I simplified a bit. How's this? Which do you like better? The full glitz or the tame yet fake fruit display or for heaven's sake just leave it alone!
A small note about the candle sticks. These were my mother-in-laws which were her mother's which were her aunts. So, restating these were Clay's mother's mother's aunt's candlesticks. I think they are some sort of sought after glass collector's thing. I love them and try to use them all the time.
Well, what do you think? Keep it? Try something else? Don't go into the decorating business? Stay away from Hobby Lobby? Do you care?


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Nerves fray as anniversaries of April attacks arrive
As most Americans this week enjoy mid-April's well-deserved warm weather, educators, law enforcement and civil rights groups are perhaps understandably a bit on edge with the approach of several dates that bring bad memories.
Saturday marks the anniversary of the 1995 terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City, as well as the 1993 FBI attack of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, which killed cult leader David Koresh and 75 followers.
Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh called his attack payback for the deaths at Waco at the hands of the FBI, calling the siege "first blood." The Oklahoma City bombing killed killed 168 people.
Six years later, Colorado teenager Eric Harris would boast in his journal that he planned to outdo McVeigh's body count in an attack on Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. The 15th anniversary of that attack falls on Sunday. Harris, along with Dylan Klebold, killed 13 in a siege that was actually a failed bombing, police say. The Columbine attacks took place on the 110th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's birth.
"These are key dates on the calendar of the radical right," says Mark Potok, senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., which tracks hate groups.
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"Many people in the anti-government militia movement see it as this big day for freedom," Potok says. "Of course, it's also (the anniversary of) right-wing radicals murdering large numbers of people."
April 19 in particular has been significant in law enforcement circles since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
For years, schools each spring have endured annual "Remember Columbine" bomb scares and violent threats invoking the Colorado attacks, which have become a sort of cultural touchstone among a few disaffected youths. Last week also marked the seventh anniversary of the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings, which killed 33 people.
School-safety experts say springtime in general is a stressful time for students, who are preparing for exams and socially stressful situations such as prom and graduation day.
"Whenever you see people under stress, you can see threatening behavior," says Marisa Randazzoof Sigma Threat Management, a Virginia-based training and consulting firm. Randazzo is a former chief research psychologist for the U.S. Secret Service who was on the panel that in 2000 applied its "threat assessment" model to examine the behavior of 41 school attackers over the previous 26 years.
What they found was that there was no good "profile" of the type of person who becomes a school shooter. Rather, they found similar patterns of behavior. School shooters didn't just "snap" and begin shooting impulsively. They planned, sometimes for weeks. In almost every instance, the attacker gave those around him cause for concern beforehand: trying to get a gun, writing poems in English class that talked about suicide or homicide. In one case, a student began talking about a way to poison people in a pizza restaurant.
Randazzo agrees that for educators at this time of year, "their antennae are up," but adds, "We need those antennae up all times of year." Paying attention to changes in kids' behaviors and regularly conferring with one another about smaller threats is key to heading off bigger ones, she says. Of the attackers the Secret Service studied, "Nearly all of them had seriously troubled one or more adults," she says. "These are not kids who were invisible — they actually were on multiple radar screens."


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The 20-year-old Alamodome, which has hosted NFL games, the NCAA Final Four and the NBA Finals, will host baseball for the first time when the Rangers and San Diego Padres play two exhibition games March 29-30.
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The polls suggest that Romanoff is very much of a long shot in his race against Bennet. Nor can Clinton expect to have the impact in Colorado that he had in Arkansas.
In short, this does not look like opportunism on Clinton's part. Rather, the best explanation for the endorsement seems to be that Romanoff supported Hillary Clinton in 2008.
Still, I wonder whether Clinton would be breaking ranks with President Obama this way if he did not sense Obama's weakness. And if Obama's weakness deepens, I wonder whether we'll be seeing a lot more of Bill Clinton, and what kind of advice he might start whispering in his wife's ear.
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Bacon-Wrapped Baked Pears with Chevre and Walnuts for Two
Everything was fried! There were two restaurants in the traditional supper club style, both along the shore, and these we patronized. We'd sit at the bar sipping cocktails before dinner, and generally order steak or seafood. At one point, the restaurants switched owners, which turned out to be rather fun. The smaller of the two was purchased several times over, and finally closed about eight years ago.
In the interim, a casual French restaurant opened in an old mansion, followed by a French bistro, and a cafe near the harbor that served healthy fare. A supper club in a neighboring town modified its menu, and another shoreside family place became a bit more inventive with its fare. In the boom of the late 90s, several Chinese restaurants opened. More recently, we gained a genuine Mexican restaurant.
Today our community now has two "taste of" events, one in winter and one in spring. The choices are so broad that someone with a mild wheat allergy like me can eat quite well at these fundraisers.
The most recent entree to our eclectic assortment of restaurants is an Italian place downtown. We made reservations for my husband's birthday recently and ordered as an appetizer bacon wrapped pears stuffed with goat cheese. Wow!
Here is my version:
- 1 Asian pear
- Dash lemon juice
- 1 Tablespoon butter
- 2 Tablespoons chevre
- 1 Tablespoon cream cheese
- 1 slices bacon, cooked
- 1/8 cup chopped walnuts, roasted
- 1/2 teaspoon brown sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon fleur de sel
Slice the pear down the middle to create two halves. Scoop out the inside to create a place for the cheese mixture. Drizzle with melted butter and lemon juice and stuff with cheese. Bake for about 20-30 minutes in 325 oven (check frequently; pear must be soft, not mushy).
Prepare the bacon as you usually do. I bake mine in the oven, but you could certainly prepare it in a frying pan. You may want to drain it on a paper towel.
Wrap the pear in bacon and sprinkle with roasted walnuts. Add a quick dash of fleur de sel and a larger dash of brown sugar.
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Despite the seeming arbitrariness of natural catastrophes, and even lunatic behaviours, there are statistical laws that govern the frequency of their occurrence. There is order behind the recurrence of mortal earthquakes, sudden death by lightning, and the inspiration that leads to posts on the Eggcorn Forum. I downloaded the list of eggcornistas a while ago, somewhere in 2009 I think, and fitted a model to the number of posts (Fig. 1). I haven't checked lately, but I'd say it's unlikely that the general pattern has changed much.
Figure 1. The lifetime number of posts to the Eggcorn Forum, by all eggcornistas, versus the rank ordering by relative frequency. The number of posts are expressed on a logarithmic scale.
What can we conclude from this revelation of order? First, although certain forum regulars may be suspected of employing a whole army of collaborators to add to their long eggcorn life-list, the simplicity of the pattern says that, no, there is nothing there to inspire more than a normal measure of awe, the giants of eggcornery are just fulfilling their role in a much larger plan. To put the relative extremity1 of the eggcornistan submission record in perspective, I've also provided models for the annual per capita rate of death by lightning strike among countries (Fig. 2), and the mortality figures associated with historical earthquakes (Fig. 3). The increase in eggcorn posting among afflictionados is thereby seen to be akin to, or slightly greater than, the rate of increase of fatal lightning strikes among countries2, but it is significantly more acute than the incidence of geological disasters.
Figure 2. Annual deaths by lightning, per million people, among countries. . Figure 3. Total death toll per earthquake, vs. rank.
[1] The slope of the relation between Number of posts per eggcornista on the Y-axis and Relative rank on the X-axis, of a semi-log plot, where the most fecund poster has the rank 1, the next 2, and so on. Here, the slope for eggcorn posts was 0.17; for lightning deaths, 0.13; for earthquakes 0.07. Neighboring eggcornistas differ by plus or minus 18% of the total number of their posts.
[2] The units of expression make a big difference to the slope in this sort of
muddling modelling so I wouldn't push this analogy too far.
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It's the spiral structure of DNA that does it, isn't it? Nevertheless, it is not blind fate: as Isaac Bashevis Singer was fond of pointing out, we must believe in free will—we have no choice.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
The graph at the top shows that the people who post most frequently have the largest number of posts?
I must be missing something—isn't this slope always the case? How could there be points that don't fit the graph (i.e. that fall in the lower left or upper right corner)? Could there be such a thing as a person who posts frequently and has a low number of posts, or a person who posts infrequently and has a high number of posts?
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
David, there is an interesting pattern there, and I like the idea that it's DNA writ large. The pattern is the kind of pattern that develops when unique beings do what they enjoy doing, and get tangled up in the process.
Kem, this is an instance of a , albeit a simple one. The point, if there is one, is in the linearity of the relation in this form and the value of the slope, not in the inevitable monotone decline with rank. Models of this sort are used in ecology to describe the pattern of abundance in natural communities. For example, is a community-composition rank-abundance diagram. The form of these curves and the abruptness of the slope are used to draw inferences about diversity.
You may be familiar with other famous power laws in linguistics, including , that describes the uncanny regularity of the decline in frequency with rank of words in a corpus of language. The most abundant word, the, is twice as frequent as the next, of, and so on. One consequence is that a large number of words will be hapax legomena.
More pertinent for the relative number of posts to a forum might be , which describes the relative frequency of publishing among scientists. The relation is an inverse squared proportionality, like gravity. The number of people publishing 10 articles per year is 1% of those publishing just 1. Lotka's law is not applicable to the eggcornistas, but it fits surprisingly well to other member's posts, though the porportionality if slightly greater than inverse squared. Single-posters number 954 today. The number of members having contributed 10 times is 6, which is just a bit less than 1% of singletons.
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Things like this always make me think something like, "Wow, the world is really, really big—and the fact that I'm made aware of some of the bizarre patterns it produces only serves to suggest how many more I'll never even have a clue about."
And until I post this, David's adjective "eggcornistan" is a hapax legomenon on the internet. Amazing that it took 5 years to produce the adjectival form.
Maybe we should all move there? (An island of insanity in central Asia …)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
Sorry, David, didn't read your post carefully enough to pick up the power law point. I've had my head around linear regressions lately and I assumed I was looking at another example of fitting lines to scattergraphs. File that one under "Blinkers, for Horses and People."
Yes, I've come across some of the power law applications. Zipf and Lotka I know about. I hadn't heard about Whittaker's beetle plots. Oddly, I was just in the library yesterday scanning a couple of Whittaker's books-he plays a small part in the piece I'm writing. Another of these Fortean intersections.
Have we really had a thousand single posters? I'm amazed. Over the life of this forum, that's almost one every other day. That doesn't seem like the current rate-we must have had a lot of single posters in the days before I jointed the forum.
Speaking of Lotka's law, I read somewhere that the most prolific author of scholarly articles cranks out almost an article a day. His field is medicine and his name is just one of many on each of the articles, of course. Then there is James Patterson in fiction. Perhaps you saw article on him earlier in the year. Any writer with a rejection slip takes some comfort the way Patterson has reversed the author/publisher relationship. But all of these publishing champions take a back seat to the almost unknown , at least in sheer number of titles.
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bq, That doesn't seem like the current rate-we must have had a lot of single posters in the days before I jointed the forum.
Well, we've had such long periods in the last two years during which auto-registration wasn't possible, and that really cuts down on the number of hapax-posters. We're under such a ban(n) now, and on top of that a lot of regulars (including me) aren't posting as regularly as they used to. (How the rest of you manage to keep posting while you're trying to write things of extended length is beyond me. I'll always be in Lotka's lower range.)
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...Speaking of Lotka's law, I read somewhere that the most prolific author of scholarly articles cranks out almost an article a day. His field is medicine and his name is just one of many on each of the articles, of course. Then there is James Patterson in fiction…But all of these publishing champions take a back seat to the almost unknown , at least in sheer number of titles.
And then there's the late Isaac Asimov, who, in the words of Wikipedia, "...was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 9,000 letters and postcards. His works have been published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System (The sole exception being the 100s: philosophy and psychology, although he did write a foreword for The Humanist Way, which is published in the 100s)."


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Mosquito Lagoon, Indian River: Lagoon Bait and Tackle's Greg Noel had a good bit of action to report. Despite the wind and front that moved in this week, Noel said sheepshead, mangrove snapper, black drum and reds are being brought in. Noel said fishing in the flats has been lackluster, but south around Haulover Canal has been the hot spot. "People are catching their limit in black drum," he said. "Trout is the only thing there that has been a slow bite." Noel said he is looking for bigger sheepshead to move out of the inlet and into the river. "People are catching tons of them," he said. "But you have to catch three or four to get one keeper." Noel said the colder weather turns the sheepshead bite on. "They start to eat because they don't know when they will eat again," he said. Noel said the reds have been coming in medium-sized, and that they are not yet schooling. He said best fishing is early morning or late afternoon.
SURF, PIERS: Sunglow Pier's Debra Cook said pompano, sheepshead and black drum are being caught. "We are also seeing a couple reds later, mid-noonish," she said. Reports from The Fishin' Hole are that whiting are being caught in the surf and from the pier. Flagler Pier is reporting catches of reds, whiting, black drum and pompano.
PONCE INLET, HALIFAX RIVER: Granada Pier Bait and Tackle's Tommy Atkinson said black drum are being caught in the basin, and blue fish are being caught offshore.
MATANZAS INLET, RIVER: Devil's Elbow's Henry Miles said reds and trout are being caught. He said the best method has been trolling with small grubs, live shrimp or using plugs in deeper water. He said sheepshead and black drum are being caught off the bridge.
TOMOKA BASIN, RIVER: Don's Bait and Tackle's Don Parksey said whiting, reds, pompano, mangrover snapper and catfish are being caught. He said a few tarpon are being brought in as well as some blues.
ST. JOHNS RIVER: Highland Park Fish Camp's Capt. James Hillman said that a "pile" of bass are being caught. He said the speck bite has also been strong. "Everything is on wild shiners right now," he said.


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Evidence and common sense no match for hype
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND, I am reposting my blog piece from 2011, one in an annual series. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
For many, Halloween is a blast. Trick-or-treating, giving out candy, dressing up, perhaps even throwing a party.
But for many convicted sex offenders, it is the most dreaded night of the year. Group roundups, dusk-to-dawn curfews with the lights out, mandatory "no candy" signs on their doors and spot checks for compliance are among the various techniques of control ostensibly designed to protect the public.
Contrary to the sex offender hysteria on All Hallows Eve, however, sex offenders are not out snatching and molesting children on Halloween. And they never have been.
Last year, a published study proved what most experts already knew: There is no Halloween spike in sex crimes against children.
"The wide net cast by Halloween laws places some degree of burden on law enforcement officers whose time would otherwise be allocated to addressing more probably dangerous events," noted Jill Levenson of Lynn University in Florida, one of the study's authors. Her research, published in the journal Sexual Abuse, examined crime trends over a 9-year period.
The researchers used data from the National Incident-Base Reporting System to examine crime trends in 30 U.S. states over a 9-year period. They found no increased rate of sexual abuse during the Halloween season. Also, the number of reported incidences did not rise or fall after police implemented current procedures.
Unfortunately, empirical evidence seems incapable of bringing common sense to bear. Probation officers and others continue to implement ridiculous roundups and other once-a-year restrictions on sex offenders, instead of focusing on the real threat to children, which I'll get to in a moment.
Around the nation this Halloween, parole and probation officers will continue to order convicted sex offenders not to answer their doors, decorate their porches, or wear costumes on Halloween. Sex offenders are being ordered to post "NO CANDY HERE" signs on their doors. Others must attend special Halloween "counseling sessions" or "movie nights" where they will be monitored (and, incidentally, protected from false accusations). The restrictions are so widespread and so varied that I no longer have the time or energy to catalog them as I have done on my professional blog in past years. (If you are interested, just do a Google news search for "Halloween sex offender roundup.")
This despite at least one federal court ruling that the restrictions were overly broad, and ridicule from late-night TV pundits of some of the sillier Halloween restrictions.
The farcical crackdowns are a prime example of what Scott Henson at Grits for Breakfast calls "security theater," that is, "hyping (and pretending to solve) a threat that in reality is extremely remote, even to the point of diverting resources from policing activities like DWI enforcement that would protect more people and save more lives."
Why Halloween, we might ask? After all, most sex offenders target people they know, not children off the street. And the crackdowns on registered sex offenders miss the mark anyway, because the overwhelming majority of new sex offenses are committed by men who have never been caught for a past sex offense. Furthermore, registered sex offenders feel so branded and ostracized that most are ducking and hiding today.
But the scare feeds into a deep-rooted cultural fear of the bogeyman stranger. This fear is memorialized in the timeworn Halloween legend of tainted candy that has endured despite myriad attempts at correction. As Benjamin Radford of the Skeptical Enquirer pointed out about the persistence of that stranger-danger myth:
"Despite e-mail warnings, scary stories, and Ann Landers columns to the contrary, there have been only two confirmed cases of children being killed by poisoned Halloween candy, and in both cases the children were killed not in a random act by strangers but intentional murder by one of their parents."
The sad part of both myths is that children are taught a message of fear: Strangers, or even their own neighbors, might try to poison or molest them.
Oh, yes. What is the real danger facing children this Halloween?
It's one your mother always warned you about: Getting hit by a speeding car while crossing a dark street. Car accidents kill about 8,000 children every year in the United States. And children are more than twice as likely to be killed by a car while walking on Halloween night than at any other time of the year.
So this Halloween, show compassion toward a publicly identified sex offender. But please, children, don't get too friendly with cars.
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Recommended reading:
Sex offenders: Halloween's boogeyman: Registered abusers are being rounded up tonight to protect trick-or-treaters. How real is the threat, though? by Tracy Clark-Flory, Salon (this piece quotes yours truly)
Stranger danger and the decline of Halloween, Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Lenore Skenazy (author of Free Range Kids)
My prior Halloween posts include:
Stranger danger and the decline of Halloween, Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Lenore Skenazy (author of Free Range Kids)
My prior Halloween posts include:
2008: Pendulum swing on Halloween hype? (Oops! That one was just wishful thinking.)2010: Psychology Today blog post


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diningin.com works well for the downtown area, even big bowl -- which has their own system -- also use diningin
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Shine Your Light by Lee Bice-Matheson and J.R. Matheson
Shine Your Light, Book Three, Paige Maddison Series, synopsis:
Paige Maddison is only 17 years old, but many know her spirit is ageless. She holds the gift of seeing beyond the layers of our reality, the courage to battle the evils that threaten to tear those layers apart, and the key to an ancient mystery that will decide the fate of the spirit realm, and our own, for another century.
In Shine Your Light, the third book of the Paige Maddison series, Paige finds herself precariously balanced between the mortal and spiritual realms, even while being haunted by events of the past. Surrounded by powerful allies, old and new, she discovers the true power of friendship and the impact of its betrayal as she faces her greatest challenge: the Prince of Darkness himself. The Ultimate Evil.
When a black moon looms over All Hallows' Eve, and the battle for control of an ancient Grimoire threatens to destroy the world as we know it, Paige will be put to the test. Will love and goodness win the day? Will the strength and magic of her Celtic ancestry, the First Nations People, her Spirit Wolf family, or even divine intervention be enough to help her prevail?
Paige's visions tell her that she is the Chosen One chosen by fate, God, or perhaps the universe itself ... but is she worthy? The ultimate battle between fallen angels, humanity, and the upperworld is about to be fought on Earth's battlefield.
What if they've made the wrong choice?
Jaimie 5* - Shine Your Light keeps you captivated from start to finish. The third installment of the series deals with good vs. evil and tackles this difficult subject matter through the eyes of Paige Madison. With the help of her family and friends, Paige attempts to overcome seemingly insurmountable forces to achieve the greater good. This inspiring story highlights how easy it can be to feel overwhelmed and succumb to negativity when we feel alone. The authors gracefully remind us that asking for guidance and support is not a weakness, but more importantly, takes courage and can help us stay grounded and truly let our LIGHT SHINE. I highly recommend this read!
K.S. 5* - In Shine Your Light, authors Lee Bice-Matheson and J.R. Matheson pose the question: what would happen if one does not fulfill their destiny and allows darkness to prevail? This novel is electrifying, fast-paced and full of genuine emotion as it transcends matters such as self-doubt and evil. The authors explore and expose details from various sources allowing the reader to learn and grow alongside the heroine. We meet new characters who are gratifyingly developed, namely the villain who aided the plot in becoming the most thrilling and inspiring novel of the trilogy. Paige is transformed throughout her explorations and conquers all with the help of her gifts, angels, respected mentors, family and friends. The authors leave us with a final notion that we must trust our own instincts and ultimately come from a place of love.
Amazon Reviewer 5* - Wow, what an exciting read! After reading the previous books in the trilogy, I was eager to read Shine Your Light and was not disappointed. Once again the writing from both Lee Bice-Matheson and J.R. Matheson is seamless, working in perfect unison. Hard to believe there is mother-son duo behind this masterpiece. All of the characters are interesting and so complex, although our heroine, Paige has matured quite a bit throughout the series after overcoming countless otherworldly experiences. Growing up is challenging enough when juggling things such as high school commitments and pressures from friends, but Paige is also navigating her extraordinary gifts. This book has it all: adventure, mystery, multifaceted relationships, discovery and left me feeling uplifted and hopeful. Do yourself a favour and read it!
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Looking for a supernatural series full of twists and turns at every corner? John Robert Colombo, Canada's Master Gatherer, has this to say: Shine Your Light is a delightful and insightful novel...It beautifully describes the incredible adventures of the youthful Paige Maddison...wise beyond her years. As well, she is an intuitive person whose feet are firmly planted on the ground...she communes with the spirits of Archangels Raphael and Michael, King Solomon, Grey Owl, and even the dreaded Beelzebub! Like many of her high-school girlfriends, Paige is a well-rounded and purposeful personality...I found myself thinking about her as the Nancy Drew of the realm of high spirits and dreams and visions...all convincingly described...descriptions of lively human beings with whom it is easy to identify, will find this well-wrought work of fantasy to their liking. In my opinion, it is "a keeper." It is also (risking a pun) a Paige-turner. John Robert Colombo, Author and Anthologist
Shine Your Light is a unique blend of Biblical quest and supernatural adventure, as Paige Maddison experiences her spiritual awakening and joins forces with angels and shape-shifters to fight the most important battle of her life. A very enjoyable and deeply spiritual addition to the Paige Maddison series. Philip Henry, Author and Film-maker
Shine Your Light, the third instalment of the Paige Maddison Series is a heart stopper. The ongoing struggle between good and evil plays itself out on the O'Brien Estate with ever increasing intensity. The protagonist is Paige, a seventeen-year-old young woman who has spiritual powers and helpers revealed through a crescendo of events. The antagonist is the mysterious Ariana desperate to locate the ancient Seal of Solomon and its accompanying grimoire. Helped by black magic and the prima-demon Beelzebul the struggle ends in an epic battle between Paige and Ariana. The epilogue provides a lesson in life sure to be beneficial to all young adults. I enjoyed it thoroughly. David D. Plain, Award Winning Author
Lee Bice-Matheson began her writing career as a storyteller, often weaving tales for her son, J.R. Matheson. Her stories parlayed into a writing career that was united with her son's creative imagination, as a mom-son writing team. It was her dream come true! Lee is proud to say they have coauthored Destiny's Gate, Book Two, and Shine Your Light, Book Three. Lee is also the author of Wake Me Up Inside, Book One, in the Paige Maddison Series. It was the recipient of the Literacy Award from the Readers' Advisory Panel, Orillia Public Library, and the Paige Maddison Series continues to be included in the Battle of the Books, Simcoe County. Lee is passionate about spirituality, and all it encompasses. She loves spending time in nature, and canoeing and portaging into Algonquin Park with her husband. Lee has degrees in Honours History, Master of Library & Information Science, both from Western University. She has worked in public, medical, and corporate libraries, and now works proudly with her husband, Kevin, in their Chiropractic Clinic.
J.R. Matheson has been writing fantasy and horror since he was old enough to hold a pen. Collaborating on the Paige Maddison Series has reignited his passion for creative writing. When he's not weaving tales with his mom and coauthor, Lee Bice-Matheson, he can be found drowning in scientific publications and talking incessantly about his research at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, Ontario, where he is a pharmacology PhD student. Some may claim that science and the creative arts are at odds, but J.R. feels they are one and the same.
J.R. Matheson has been writing fantasy and horror since he was old enough to hold a pen. Collaborating on the Paige Maddison Series has reignited his passion for creative writing. When he's not weaving tales with his mom and coauthor, Lee Bice-Matheson, he can be found drowning in scientific publications and talking incessantly about his research at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, Ontario, where he is a pharmacology PhD student. Some may claim that science and the creative arts are at odds, but J.R. feels they are one and the same.
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Book News: Caro Wins His Third National Book Critics Circle Award
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The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
- The National Book Critics Circle Awards were given out Thursday night at the New School in New York. Ben Fountain's magnificent novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk won in the fiction category, and Robert Caro garnered his third NBCC award, this time for his biography The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson. Other winners are Andrew Solomon's Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity in non-fiction; Leanne Shapton's Swimming Studies in autobiography; Marina Warner's Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights in criticism; and D. A. Powell's Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys in poetry.
- Joan Didion's 1996 essay for The New York Review of Books in which she dissects books by journalist Bob Woodward of Watergate fame is newly relevant. She writes: "[T]hese are books in which measurable cerebral activity is virtually absent."
- As expected, Barnes & Noble had a difficult fiscal third quarter, with the Nook division posting a 26 percent drop. CEO William Lynch called the Nook results an "obvious disappointment."
- "I read fan fiction online in the nether regions of the web, but once you start looking you find it everywhere: Arthurian legends, fairytale adaptations, a 'sequel' by a different author, historical novels, RPF (Real Person Fiction). Geraldine Brooks's March, a novel which sees the events of Little Women from the perspective of the girls' father, and which won the Pulitzer Prize? Faaan fiction," writes William and Mary undergraduate Katherine Arcement about her fan fiction habit in the London Review of Books.
- Novelist Michael Idov on the conservative backlash against Vladimir Nabokov in his native Russia: "[T]hirty-six years after his death and twenty-two years after the fall of the Soviet Union with all its khudsovets, Vladimir Nabokov is, once again, controversial."


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Icon Aircraft has been (probably not too patiently) waiting for the FAA to answer its formal request for exemption to the Light-Sport Aircraft gross weight parameter for its Icon A5 (pictured).
The Southern California company submitted a proper package to the FAA after carefully laying the groundwork by talking to key leaders in and out of government. The FAA normally replies in 120 days. More than a year passed … and then the Small Aircraft Directorate asked for more detail on the request. One can imagine the frustration level at Icon, despite where you land on the pros or cons of allowing them extra weight.
Meanwhile, on another front, a new ASTM subcommittee was just established as part of a standards writing group that has prepared all the requirements for a fully manufactured Special LSA to be accepted by the FAA. The new group will work on a standard for aircraft weighing less than 120 kilograms (about 260 pounds) for use primarily in Europe. A German official, stating that the German LBA (Federal Aviation Office) wanted to "deregulate" these sub-120 kg aircraft, said all they had to do was create a new standard they could meet. I suppose that's the government way of non-regulating in rule-driven Germany, but at least it slightly relaxes their grip.
So, Icon is asking for 250 pounds more (114 kg) to be added to the 1,430 pounds (650 kg) it is presently allowed, while an industry group called DULV is working on a standard for aircraft weighing less than 260 pounds in total empty weight. You just have to marvel at the diversity in light aviation.
Perhaps these dual requests illustrate the main message. Even though governments here and abroad are still very much involved in regulating aviation, they have stepped back a few inches (centimeters) from complete control.
When the FAA first released the Sport Pilot/Light-Sport Aircraft rules in 2004, it unleashed the most explosive pace of development aviation has ever seen worldwide. More than 130 new aircraft models of every description came to market in only eight years. If the government, here and abroad, would step back another yard (meter) or two, who knows what might happen?
Good luck to both Icon and DULV as they pursue their chances at greater aviation freedom.
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Alicia Keys pregnant: expecting second child with Swizz Beatz
How exciting! Alicia Keys surprised her fans when she posted a gorgeous photo revealing a huge baby bump. Congrats on your second pregnancy, Alicia!
Alicia Keys, 33, is pregnant with her second child. The singer and her husband, Swizz Beatz, 35, revealed their exciting news by sharing two brand new photos of themselves in honor of their fourth wedding anniversary on Instagram. Yay!
Alicia Keys & Swizz Beatz Expecting Second Child - Congrats
How sweet is this? In the wee hours of Thursday morning, July 31, Alicia shared a sweet photo of herself on Instagram hugging a huge baby bump in a beautiful Grecian dress.
Her hubby Swizz has his arm wrapped around her waist and cupping her pregnant belly, looking at his beautiful bride with lots of love in his eyes.
"Happy Anniversary to the love of my life @therealswizzz!! And to make it even sweeter we've been blessed with another angel on the way!! You make me happier than I have ever known! Here's to many many more years of the best parts of life!" Alicia captioned the photo, which celebrated their wedding anniversary.
Swizz shared a similar photo from the same shoot in which he is kissing Alicia's shoulder. So sweet! "Love is life & life is love and we're so excited for another GIFT from up above. Happy Anniversary my Goddess. 4 years of greatness & cheers to 100 plus more inshallah @aliciakeys," Swizz wrote.
These two are clearly VERY in love - and it's wonderful that they are expanding their family once again!
As you know, Alicia gave birth to her first child, a son named Egypt, with Swizz in Oct. 2010. Swizz has three other children - Nicole, Prince, and Kaseem - from previous relationships.
Congrats to the happy couple on their exciting news!
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An Israeli bus driver refused to take Palestinian passengers on board, was ordered to do so by police, and took his revenge by forcing them off the bus at the entrance to a settlement. The bus company: "The driver acted exactly as expected of him." Tel Aviv Central Bus Station, Thursday, two weeks ago: a bus driver on the 286 line that goes to the settlement of Ariel refused to allow a group of Palestinian workers on board who wanted to get back home to the West Bank. After a short argument the driver called the police, asking for the…Read More... | 36 Comments


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icy wrote:Ah, I see. I have something in common with the lady, I cried even by watching that on DVD...I think it was a highlight in the history of Q+PR, that song at that time.
And once again I am blown away by being in contact (however lightly) with someone who was there. I know Taryn, Pastie, and Loretta and went to Hyde Park too, come to think of it.
Small world, for some anyway! Awesome!
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Barring a miraculous Tiger comeback or something extraordinary like Augusta being overtaken by Somali pirates, you can consider this the last post of the day on Easter Sunday. It's your Easter DUAN.
If you're stuck at work or just feel like dicking around on Easter, please use this space to air all your grievances or find a new best friend for life. Or if you're part of the Angel Cabrera fan club, you can stay here too and talk about how fat he's become since he quit smoking.
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. We'll be back tomorrow in full force, doing that thing we usually do with grace and aplomb, or more likely, an actual plum.
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The iniquity of the companies that knowingly aided and abetted the security forces of the illegitimate apartheid regime is that not only did they break international sanctions imposed by the United Nations, but their actions have directly and indirectly resulted in a number of people's lives being almost irreparably damaged. These companies include IBM, Daimler, General Motors, Ford Motor Company and Rheinmetall. Many others were involved – banks, oil companies, mining companies, arms and ammunitions companies, construction companies. Indeed any local or international corporation that allowed itself to be co-opted in one or other way not only in sustaining and maintaining apartheid's illegitimate legislation, but also those companies that assisted the security forces to oppress the people of South Africa. Some of this oppression was through following the immoral and illegitimate laws of the land at that time. For example: did Daimler pay its workers in South Africa (through Mercedes Benz SA) the equivalent rate that its workers in Germany received? Or was it the opportunity to exploit cheap labour that made SA so attractive to Daimler (and many other companies)?
Many victims and survivors of the myriad deliberately harming and destructive actions of the corporations are today worse off than before liberation. The promise of a 'better life for all' has become a 'better life for all – except for those who had a better life before, and except for those who are not connected' . . . to elites in the ruling party. The tragedy is that many of the victims and survivors who have been transformed into elites themselves do not care about their comrades who have seen no justice or whose lives are worse off than before: dispossessed, as Prof Ariel Dorfman says, of their futures.
Victims testified at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission under the impression that, because they had voluntarily given up the right to sue their perpetrators in pursuance of the truth of the past, they would be appropriately recompensed for their suffering and losses. Government broke that promise despite the TRC itself recommending that reparations be paid annually to the victims and survivors for six years. This must have partly been to try and ensure that none of the victims and survivors were worse off afterwards than they were during apartheid. A once-off reparations grant of R30,000 was provided by President Thabo Mbeki and his government.
One of the mothers of a disappeared son bought a second hand car with the money and named the car after her son. But the possibility of a son who may have gone on to study or work and to help support his mother in her old age could never be compensated for by the minimum payment made by government, or the purchase of a car. The worst broken promise — a betrayal of trust — comes from those in positions of power or wealth who have turned their backs on their comrades.
Broken laws require that the perpetrators are found guilty in a court of law and suitably punished. This includes that those guilty of apartheid crimes, and apartheid was a crime against humanity that cannot prescribe or be allowed to prescribe through glib legal arguments.
Broken promises require that the promise-breakers should make amends for their defaulting. This means that our government must come to the table with the victims and survivors and ensure that the resources made available by donors and foreign governments to the President's Fund eventually reach those people they were meant for. It is a disgrace that the President, the TRC Unit and the officer in charge of the President's Fund have not yet published the required regulations for distributing the money in this fund to those it was created for, thirteen years after the first donations were made by the Swiss Government and the Kingdom of Denmark! The Swiss Government stipulated that the funds be distributed as mandated by the TRC. The Danish money was to be spent "solely in accordance with the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Commitee on Reparation and Rehabilitation". This has clearly not been done.
Broken lives require that the resources for redress of material, emotional, social and community reparations are provided. It requires that every one of us living in South Africa, but especially the elites and the new elites, do what we can to make sure that the forgotten heroes of the struggle who suffered for justice and freedom in our land are enabled to carry on with their lives not worse off than when they joined the struggle.


text: Chao Races Chao races are just that, a group of 8 Chao race on one of several different courses. To enter a chao in the races all you do is head to the regular Chao Garden and go through the door behind the waterfall. Once there select the race catagory you want to try(at first Begginer Races and Party Races are the only ones open) then select the Chao you want in the races, and the specific course to race in. Stamina Your Chao's Stamina will play a big part in the races, as your Chao runs it's Stamina will slowly decrease, if the Stamina runs out your Chao will severly slow down, so keep an eye on the meter. Also during the race if you press the L/R triggers it will give your Chao a boost of speed, though it will take up some extra Stamina. A good strategy to use to get the most out of a boost is to boost your Chao while it's in it's strong element.(In otherwords, boost a Run Chao while it's running) Race Course Tracks There are 6 different Race categories and 10 different tracks altogether. Here's a quick list of the Race categories and tracks. Beginner Races Any Chao can enter, 3 difficulties. Crap Pool Emphasis is on Swimming Stump Valley Emphasis is on Flying Black Canyon Emphasis is on Running Mushroom Forest Emphasis is on Strength Jewel Races Any Chao can enter, 5 difficulties. Topaz Emphasis is on Flying Peridot Emphasis is on Running Aquamarine Emphasis is on Swimming Garnet Emphasis is on Strength Onyx Emphasis is on Intellegence and Luck Diamond Emphasis is on all Abilities Challenge Races- Challenge Tracks, any Chao can enter. There are 3 rows of 4 Challenge Races, each race has a group of unique, challenging Chao to race against Hero Races- Dark Tracks, no Dark Chao allowed. There is 4 Challenge races, each race has a group of unique, challenging Dark Chao to race against Dark Races- Hero Tracks, no Hero Chao allowed. There is 4 Challenge races, each race has a group of unique, challenging Hero Chao to race against Party Races- A mode just for fun, this category lets you pick up to 8 of your Chao and race them in any track in the Begginer and Jewel Categories Toys Your Chao can also win Toys from the races. The Toy they win depends on the race the Chao wins. Toys won from the Begginer and Jewel Races are kept by the Chao that wins them, the Chao will pull them out when it wants to use them, a Chao will lose it's personal Toys when it Dies/Reincarnates. Toys won from the Challenge, Hero and Dark races are kept in the Garden and can be used by all the Chao in that Garden. The Neutral Garden has the Toys from the Challenges Races, the Hero Garden has the Toys from the Hero Races and the Dark Garden has the Toys from the Dark Races. Here a list of what Races give your Chao what Toys. Race Track Name What do I get? Must win on 3rd Difficulty Beginner Races Crab Pool Trowel (Shovel) Stump Valley Water Can Black Canyon Race Car Mushroom Forest Rattle Must win on 5th Difficulty Jewel Races Topaz Broom Peridot How to Plant Seeds book Aquamarine Sonic Doll Garnet Pogo Stick Onyx Crayons Diamond Bubbles Challenge Mode Complete each row 1st row Beach Ball 2nd row Chao-in-the-Box (?) 3rd row Television Dark Races Second Race Beach Ball Fourth Race Boom Box Hero Races Second Race Beach Ball Fourth Race Rocking Horse


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Are you going to attend a traditional Ugly Christmas Sweater Party this year? If you have not heard of this particular kind of party; I can't say you're just lucky or missing out on good fun. These parties exist and an ugly sweater with Christmas motifs is the dresscode. We made a selection of ugly Christmas sweaters for you. Get the full dose after the jump.
Vintage Ugly Christmas Sweater
This vintage Christmas sweater is available via Urbanoutfitters. The picture is an example. You will receive a unique sweater with a surprise motif. The cut is quite snug.
This Is My Ugly Christmas Sweater
If color and print, crazy pattern and motifs are not for you; this one sais it out loud without being loud. You can buy it at Dentz Design via Etsy.
Darth Vader's Christmas Tree
This bright green crewneck Christmas sweater features a print of Lord Vader decorating his Christmas Tree. Purchase this sweater here.
Santa Christmas Sweater
This Christmas sweater features Santa surrounded by stars and jingle bells! The tiny jingle bells can be heard when you walk, Santa's beard is textured and really stands out just like the real 3D belt around Santa's belly. Damn ugly! Buy it here.
Reindeer Threesome Christmas Sweater
This Christmas sweater features the classic Fairisle knitted style and colorway with the exception of a not that classic motif. This ugly Christmas sweater is available via www.skedouche.com.
Mickey Christmas Sweater
This black long sleeve sweatshirt features a Christmas Mickey printed detail. Made of 100% Cotton it is machine washable. Available at Topman.
Ski Hut Motif Christmas Jumper
This sweater shows a ski hut on a snowy mountain. Without typical reds, greens, and Christmas motifs this sweater still pulls it off to be a Christmas sweater. Buy it at Asos.


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uring the campaign Samantha Power served as one of Barack Obama's most trusted foreign policy advisers, until she let slip in an interview abroad that Hiilary Clinton is a "monster." The interview occurred during the trip Paul Mirengoff dubbed the book tour from hell. Power was peddling Chasing the Flame: One Man's Fight to Save the World (formerly subtitled Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World).
Power's imprudent remark about Clinton led to Obama's throwing her under the bus. I doubt that Obama severed his ties to her and never doubted she'd be back. Today the AP reports that Power will take a senior foreign policy job at the White House. Power is to be named senior director for multilateral affairs at the National Security Council.
Toward the end of her book tour, Power turned up for an interview on BBC's HARDtalk with Stephen Sackur. Paul drew on this interview for a well-deserved parting shot at Power before Obama threw her under the bus. Martin Kramer declared that Sackur had "pummeled" Power, and Sackur was indeed a relentless interviewer. Video of the interview is posted here.
Not having heard Power before, I was most struck by what a fast talker and slippery customer she is. She is at the same time self-righteous, high-minded, and unserious — in my view, a pompous phony. (It should be noted that Max Boot, who I believe knows Power well, wrote to take issue with me somewhat vehemently when I described Power as such this past March.) The Weekly Standard's Scrapbook commented that "Power's very bad book tour told us as much about Obama as it did about her."
If she is, as she declared during her book tour, lacking in "conventional political ambition" (according to Power, unlike Condoleezza Rice), she is nevertheless a creature of some other conventional ambition. She is certainly willing to do anything to sell a book.
John Hinderaker found Power's "childishly incoherent thinking" to provide a valuable window into Obma's mind. In the BBC interview, John noted, there was an exchange that was too little reported amid Power's other gaffes. It came when the BBC reporter asked Power whether she thought Iraq had been lost.
This was sort of a trick question, since she clearly says so in the book she was promoting. So the question quickly evolved into whether Obama agrees with her that the Iraq war is lost. In trying to wriggle out of the question, Power volunteered that the concept of "winning" or "losing" in foreign policy is obsolete in the "21st century:"
JOHN adds: It would be fun to be a fly on the wall for meetings attended by Power and the "monster" who is now Secretary of State. Is this what Obama meant by a "team of rivals"?
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ACNB Bank ABA Routing/Transit Number used in PA for all types of transaction is 31309945.
ACNB Bank Routing Number (RTN) is a nine-digit bank code used in USA to make transactions between Banks possible, such as direct deposits, electronic payments, wire transfers, check ordering and many more. Mainly, Bank Routing Numbers are design to identify the location (financial institution) where a person originating the transaction in United States. In other words, ABA Routing Number of ACNB Bank point outs the location where your account was opened to make transaction possible. That's why Routing Numbers are also known as bank routing numbers, routing transit numbers (RTNs), ABA numbers, ACH routing numbers and Checking Routing Numbers.
Now, you may think what ABA is supposed to be meant here? Please note that here ABA denotes to American Bankers Association. American Bankers Association (ABA) was the body that introduced Routing Number System, originally designed to identify only check processing endpoints, electronic funds transfer, and on-line banking for various bank's branches in different location. These Routing Numbers were start working in 1910 in most of the States of USA, and various banks which were associated with ABA start using RTNs including ACNB Bank. However, this RTN System has changed over the years to accommodate the Federal Reserve System, the advent of MICR, and the implementation of the Expedited Funds Availability Act (EFAA) and most recently.
How to Find ACNB Bank Routing Number:
ABA Routing Transit Number of ACNB Bank appears on the bottom of negotiable instruments i.e. checks to identify the financial institution on which it was drawn. ACNB Bank ABA Routing Number is magnetically encoded numbers on your check. The best way to find your ACNB Bank's routing number the routing numbers of savings or business account is to look into the lower left corner of the bank check. You can find your ACNB Bank routing number, account number and check number from the following example image.
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