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Exodus 20
From LOLCat Bible Translation Project
Noo Roolz - Teh Ten Commanders1 Then Ceiling Cat spoked all them werds:
2 I iz Ceiling Cat An I iz Top Cat, An I broughted u out of hawt litturbawx wit no cheezbrgrs for hard mousin at all
3 No can has other ceiling cat!! U gotz other Ceiling Cat, I shoot yous wit mah lollazer eyes. Srsly.
4 If u try be Ceiling Cat of any of mai creayshunz up in floaty skai, down in erth or in watr or I shoot yous wit mah lollazer eyes.5 If u think faek Ceiling Cat iz Ceiling Cat, I mek u ded An ur kittenz ded An if yur kittenz have kittenz, dey be ded too, for being stupid and stuffs.6 If not I wuv u An all ur lotz uf kittenz!
7 U sez Ceiling Cat bad, I shoot yous wit mah lollazer eyes, cuz I dun liek it. Srsly.
8 Remembur Caturday An keep holy.9 U ketch mousies 6 dais An finish ketchin, K?10 Caturday, u no ketchin mousies. U An all ur peepz go wrship me. And, if yu beez gudd, I maks it so yu can stays home and do alla stuffs yu wanted tu doos.11 I maded heavenz An erth An see An the stuff that does teh funney hoppey stuffz in An on it - so I make it holy cuz I no ketch mousies.
12 Bez u good to papa kitteh An mama kitteh so u has long nine liefs.
13 U no maek peepz ded with teh malice! Srsly!
14 U no maek sexxes wit other gurlz or menz than urs (that mi jobz!).
15 U no taek cheezburgerz for free if not getz for free.
16 U no tell bad stuff ov ur neibor.
17 U no wantz neibor cheezburgerz! No wief, no gurlz, no menz, no abimalz, NO BUKKITZ! DEY NOT UR BUKKITZ, K? dey da LOLrus' bukkits.
18 When peepz see mai great orkestr wit thundr An all cool speshul effects thei wur scairdey wimps
19 Thei sed to Mozus 'U goez speek to uz An we will listen; but Ceiling Cat will shoot us wit His lazer eyes!'
20 Mozus LOL'd lotz, An a bit moar, for thei wuz such scairdies, An sed 'Ceiling Cat no maek u ded; he just wantz to hav fun wit u gais An maek u scairdey cats so u obei him.'
21 But peepz wur still scairdies An let Mozus go ther to Ceiling Cat.
Ceiling Cat roolz for idles an alters
22 Ceiling Cat sez "Tellz them scairdies: 'U see I meowed to u from big ceilingz.23 U no mek me of silvar or goldz.
24 U mek me altar of kitteh-litturz An gif me pwnz0rzed animulz ther An I gif u cheezburgr.25 But u no maek me altar of bjutiful stonez. DO NOT WANT!26 An u no use steps on altar or I can see ur penises. DO NOT WANT!"
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Most quarterbacks taken on Day 3 of the draft are deemed "projects" by NFL teams. Arizona Cardinals rookie Logan Thomas, a fourth-round pick, however, rejects that term.
"I think I'm a lot more ready than people think," he said Friday, per the Associated Press. "I think people labeled me as a project simply off stats, which I can understand what they see, what they think."
Thomas said people use the word project when "you're thinking of building something from the ground up," and believes his issues aren't so deep.
The 6-foot-6, 248-pound Thomas pointed to his offseason work where he began the process of correcting mechanical mistakes. Still, scouts see him as a raw athlete with a long road to playing quarterback in the NFL.
"He's got 25 or 30 (game) tapes out there," NFL Media draft analyst Mike Mayock said last week. "Twenty-three of them are bad."
Following the draft, Around The League's Chris Wesseling dissected when to expect this year's rookie quarterbacks to make their first start. The esteemed seer has so little faith in Thomas that he predicted Thomas would eventually be converted to tight end. (Ouch.)
Thomas knows he won't get a shot to play in 2014 -- he'll fight for a roster spot behind Carson Palmer and Drew Stanton -- and said he hopes to get his chance in Arizona down the road.
Thomas might not like the tag, but he is the definition of a quarterback project.
The latest "Around The League Podcast" plays the post-draft version of the game "What's More Likely" and breaks down all the latest news.


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Auto vs. Manual Differential LockersPosted in How To: Transmission Drivetrain on May 1, 2011
As far as off-road performance goes, there's nothing you can do to your Jeep that will make as big a difference as adding a rear locker. And once you add a front locker, you'll be amazed at the tractor-like clawing abilities your ride will possess. Lockers help offset the drawbacks of a stiff suspension because forward momentum is no longer impeded if you lift a tire. Lockers add finesse to your driving because you'll be able to idle over obstacles rather than take a running start and making a hail-Mary pass through difficult lines. Lockers have drawbacks. There, we said it.
When a vehicle makes a turn, the outside tire needs to spin faster than the inside tire. An open differential allows the axleshafts to spin at different speeds, but always sends power to the tire with the least traction. The drawback is if you lift a tire, that's the side that's going to spin. An automatic locker locks the axleshafts together when under drivetrain power. The axleshafts can only disengage and spin independently when the vehicle is coasting. The downside is when turning under power the inside tire will chirp and bark and the outside tire will scrub. Also, an auto locker will instantly engage or disengage when power is applied or removed, which can cause noticeable jerking, banging, and clanging. A manual locker allows you to engage or disengage the locking function of the differential at will. This allows quiet and seamless on-road drivability without giving up any off-road performance. The downside is high costs and sometimes complicated methods of engagement/disengagement, such as bulky cables or air lines. Here's the staff's take on the subject.
Hazel's Hammerings
I've run almost every locker ever made in a variety of vehicles ranging from big and leaf-sprung to small and coil sprung. When it comes to lockers, I've got some very definite opinions-but no set rule. In other words, my choice very much depends on my application.
For starters, let's talk front lockers. If my vehicle has locking hubs I'm gonna go straight for an auto locker. I like their simplicity and the fact I don't need to remember to turn it on or off when on the trail. The only downside is if you bust a shaft under power there's a higher-than-average chance you'll damage an automatic locker, so, I'll factor axle strength and tire size into the equation. I normally go for a Detroit Locker and, although they can increase turning radius, I've found I can turn sharply by modulating the throttle during slow, slinky trail work. On the other hand, if I'm running a vehicle with unit bearings or no locking hubs, I'll go straight for a selectable locker. I've never had a metallurgical failure with a pneumatic locker, but I have had my fair share of leaky seals, crimped air lines, and other associated troubles. It's been enough to steer me over towards the electric locker camp. I much prefer simply running a couple wires through the diff than routing a bulky cable or plumbing an air system.
In the rear, I let my wheelbase and suspension determine my locker selection. For a long-wheelbase vehicle with leaf springs like a J-truck pickup or even a Cherokee I'm more than happy to run an auto locker. I never even noticed the Detroit Locker in the rear of my M-715. On the other hand, running a Detroit Locker or automatic lunchbox locker in the rear of a short-wheelbase YJ or TJ Wrangler was enough to make my hair white. It was so bad I wouldn't let my wife or friends drive those vehicles, so I wound up switching over to selectable lockers. For the sake of stability and predictability, I'd really recommend a selectable locker in any short-wheelbase Wrangler, CJ, or vehicle of that ilk. That is, if you're not manly enough to run a spool. But that's a different story.
Trasborg's Tourettes
I don't know what Christian is talking about with automatic lockers making his hair go white. We all know he's got no hair on his dome. Heck, if he had money he could be a stand-in for Daddy Warbucks. But seriously, I totally agree with keeping automatic lockers out of short wheelbase Jeeps. I've been in and out of more Jeeps of all shapes and sizes than many of my friends have owned underwear. The quick answer on wheelbase and auto lockers is that I draw the line at 100 inches. If the wheelbase is in the two-digit category (less than 100 inches), an auto locker can be scary on-road. I hate hearing people talk about "getting used to it." While life is a series of compromises, if you do something to your Jeep that can make it change half a lane on the highway or spin you clear around when it is wet, that isn't a good change. I'd rather a spool or a good old Lincoln locker in the rear of a short-wheelbase Jeep.
That said, weight comes into play too. The heavier the Jeep, the less likely it is to exhibit handling quirks with an automatic locker. I'm not sure what the numbers are exactly and some of it has to do with the type of suspension you are running. In a sub-4,000 pound short-wheelbase Jeep I'd stay away from an automatic locker, but I've also run an automatic locker in a 6,000 pound short-wheelbase Jeep without the big handling quirks. I won't even point out that you need to leave the kitchen sink home if your Jeep is that heavy, but I've seen it more than I care to admit.
I'm a big fan of selectable lockers. I like the idea of having the Jeep handle like stock when full traction isn't needed. Like Christian, if I have a short-wheelbase Jeep with unit bearings up front, selectable lockers front and rear are going to be my default. That said, I have really bad luck with pneumatic lines in an automotive environment and given my electrical bent, I find myself once again agreeing with Christian (I hate it when that happens). My ideal selectable locker would run on 12-volt power, not have any friction clutches to wear out, and would be able to be locked or unlocked with a bolt through the housing if (when) the solenoid ever died.
Money can sometimes be an issue, and we all know that a selectable locker costs more than an automatic locker. In those cases, I'd suggest a selectable up front and a spool out back. It would work out to about the same cost as a pair of automatics with way better on-road handling. Sure, you'll get some scrub of the tires in a short wheelbase rig on-road around tight corners. The other thing to bear in mind is that a rear locker alone can do wonders towards getting a longer way down the trail. Maybe you don't need to go full-gonzo with a pair of lockers right out of the gate. Save some coin by putting one in the rear and running it. You might find you don't need a front locker for the kind of wheeling you do. Or you can go the lunchbox locker route to save some cash. You won't get the same kind of strength, since a lunchbox locker is hindered by the strength of the factory carrier. But it is a relatively cheap way to figure out what is right for you before dumping all your money on high-end stuff.
Cappa's Locker Box
When I choose a locker for a specific Jeep I take into consideration how much I plan to drive it on the street, the wheelbase and weight of the Jeep in question, power output, tranny type, and the overall strength of the axles. Like Hazel, I prefer simplicity, and if I'm working on a dirt-mostly, short-wheelbase Jeep, I'm steering into a pair of automatic lockers. But I generally wouldn't want this combination on a high-horse, manual-transmission, short-wheelbase, street-driven Jeep-especially if I expected to toss the keys off to locker-inexperienced drivers.
The on-road handling quirks of a lightweight short Jeep with an automatic locker can be exponentially worse when you add a manual tranny and or V-8 power. Going with an automatic transmission absorbs a lot of the harshness, but not all of it. Most owners of daily-driven CJs and Wranglers are better off with a selectable locker out back. Heavier and longer wheelbase Jeeps like FSJs can get by with an automatic rear locker with far fewer on-road handling drawbacks.
Off-road, I'm all about simplicity. With fewer moving components, there are fewer things to go wrong. That means less spare parts for me to carry and fewer things for me to worry about. It doesn't matter if your selectable locker is engaged by air, cable, or electricity. They can all become problematic and each has its own advantages and disadvantages.
The truth is that most trails don't require a front locker all the time, if at all. But it's nice to have in reserve if things get nasty. In most cases the front axle is significantly weaker than the rear axle and you may not always want the added front axleshaft and steering U-joint stress caused by a front locker. So if I'm trying to get the most out of a budget front axle, I'll spend a little more to install a selectable locker. That's not to say I'll waste money on a crappy front axle, but not every application requires a Dana 60 1-ton frontend either. In fact, only one of my Jeeps has ever even had a Dana 60 front axle. I've successfully run 38-inch tires with Dana 44 axles on heavy fullsize Jeeps with up to 350 hp thanks in part to selectable lockers. Most of the time I leave it disengaged until I really need it, and then when it's locked I generally go easy on the throttle.
Yes, it's true that if you break an axleshaft with an automatic locker like a Detroit, the locker can fail too. And in this case the selectable lockers are generally stronger than their automatic counterparts. However, I've personally had more selectable locker problems than auto-locker failures. Ultimately, choosing between an auto or selectable locker for your Jeep is always a compromise between handling, simplicity, durability, and cost.


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If I had to choose another name for this blog, it would be the Lazy Crafter
Because I am lazy
and crafty
This is also coincidently why I cling to my glue gun like it's the last raft on the Titanic (...too soon?)
Whoever invented the glue gun, my hat off to you.
You made my life a little more lazy, and I thank you for that
Now presenting.....
The 5 Minute Apron Tutorial
Time: 5 minutes (duh!)
Cost: 5-10 bucks
Difficulty: You can do this in your sleep
Place mat
Glue Gun
Step 1: Ribbons
Measure around your hips...Don't forget to leave room for a bow!! Using a stove burner, melt your edges (this will keep it from fraying)
Step 2: Glue your Ribbons
Center the ribbon so it is equal on both sides. Grab your glue gun, and glue that puppy down. I tried only to glue the edges of the ribbon so it didn't look all bumpy.
Step 3: Wear it proudly
Yep. That's really it. I just threw a rosette clip on it for some added flair.


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At the start of the year I was asked by the London Web Standards Group to do a talk at their January meet-up and after a bit of thinking I decided to talk about writing
jQuery/javaScript that doesn't suck; I've had to clean up plenty of badly written code in the past and I therefore thought I had some decent things to say. It must have gone well as the London jQuery user group asked me to give it again in their July met-up (which is on the 4th July). I included reference to plenty of external sites in the talk and they can ALL be found in this post (and a few extra bonuses). Read more


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Despite winning 10 of 20 events, MIT's women's swimming and diving team finished runner-up at the 2009 MIT Invite, held Friday and Saturday in the Zesiger Pool. The host Engineers recorded a score of 863.5, falling well short of the winning squad from New York University (1045).
Tufts University (472.5), Wheaton College (403), Colby College (343), Bowdoin College (318) and Brandeis University (308) rounded out the participating schools.
MIT dominated the relays, winning all five relays and recording NCAA "B" cut times in the 200 Free Relay (1:36.71), 400 Medley Relay (3:58.78) and 800 Free Relay (7:50.19). Freshman Anna Kokensparger broke school records-some her own-en route to four individual wins, four individual "B" cut times, and seven wins in her seven races.
NYU's win resulted from its ability to consistently place a number of swimmers at the top of the leaderboard. The Violets put at least two swimmers in the top-ten of every individual event, including a 1-2-3-4 sweep of the 1650 Free and five of the top six athletes in the 500 Free. NYU freshman Tatum Gormley scored her team's only "B"-cut time with her winning swim of 4:37.85 in the 400 IM.
Tufts diver Lindsay Gardel gave the Jumbos a win in three-meter diving (236.35) and placed second in one-meter (252.35), barely losing to Kelly Dietz from NYU (258.10).
Wheaton's Dania Piscetta was the only swimmer to stop NYU and MIT from sweeping all eighteen swimming events. Piscetta won the 100 Free (53.85) and her second-place effort in the 100 Fly (58.39) was a "B" cut time. She also made the 50 Free cut with her opening swim (24.38) of the 200 Free Relay.
Colby senior Danielle Carlson recorded four top ten finishes in five individual events, including a third-place performance in the 400 IM (4:47.41). Carlson's contributions to four relay teams also added to the Mules' scoring.
Sophomore Angela Chui was a standout for Brandeis, finishing top-three in the 200 IM (2:12.12), 400 IM (4:42.98), 100 Back (1:01.32) and 200 Back (2:13.32).
Bowdoin's Katherine Foley had a pair of runner-up finishes with her times in the 500 Free (5:15.30) and 200 Free (1:58.47).
This weekend's meet marked the final competition of the calendar year for most of the teams competing. MIT hits the water again on January 8, 2010, when it hosts Wheaton College for dual meet action.
NCAA National Qualifying Times
New York University:
Gormley, Tatum 400 IM 4:37.85 B Cut
Rippe, Margaret 1650 Free 17:24.34 B Cut
Wheaton College:
Piscetta, Dania 50 Free 24.38 B Cut
Piscetta, Dania 100 Fly 58.39 B Cut
|200 Free Relay
|B Cut
|400 Medley Relay
|B Cut
|800 Free Relay
|B Cut
|Jacobi, Amy
|100 Fly
|B Cut
|Kokensparger, Anna
|50 Free
|B Cut
|Kokensparger, Anna
|B Cut
|Kokensparger, Anna
|100 Fly
|B Cut
|Kokensparger, Anna
|200 Breast
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1. Re: Accurate Shape CombinationDayForce Apr 12, 2012 7:00 AM (in response to Not_Relevant)
The fastest way is to use a plug-in. I would get the outer shape by intersecting the four large circles, and then use the Dynamic Corners tool (part of the VectorScribe plug-in) to round the four corners to the small radius. Dynamic Corners can round any corner, even those created from curved beziers.
Total time to create is about 45 seconds.
2. Re: Accurate Shape CombinationJacob Bugge Apr 12, 2012 7:22 AM (in response to Not_Relevant)
You may do as DF says, with the alternative option of using the free Round Any Corner script available here:
Some of the other scripts, such as the Common Tangents, may be convenient for other tasks.
3. Re: Accurate Shape CombinationDayForce Apr 12, 2012 7:45 AM (in response to Jacob Bugge)
Unfortunately, the script suffers from the same problems that the Adobe "Round Corners" effect does:
1) Except for straight-line, right-angle intersections, the corners do not actually have the specified radius. The more acute the angle of the corner, the smaller the radius. So getting the radius close to what you really want is lots of guessing and undoing.
2) Again, except for straight-line, right-angle intersections, the corners are not sections of circles, but more parabolic.
4. Re: Accurate Shape CombinationJacob Bugge Apr 12, 2012 8:32 AM (in response to DayForce)
Quite true, DF, and I should have mentioned the fact.
It may be better, though, at least in some cases where it may yield a more natural transition.
5. Re: Accurate Shape CombinationDayForce Apr 12, 2012 8:38 AM (in response to Jacob Bugge)
It may be better, though, at least in some cases where it may yield a more natural transition.
Certainly worth trying first, since it's free.
6. Re: Accurate Shape CombinationGrant H Apr 12, 2012 9:01 AM (in response to Not_Relevant)
this is easy to do in illy as is,
1. Draw a rectangle (the size of the "inside track") as desired
2. Add 4 anchor points (where i have set the guides)
3. Select the two "horizontal middle" anchors press E (free transform) hold option and drag away from shape to get this:
4. do same to these 2 anchors:
5. Select shape, and apply corner effect.. set radius...
7. Re: Accurate Shape CombinationDayForce Apr 12, 2012 9:05 AM (in response to Grant H)
Grant, this is not the same shape. Not_Relevant's shape doesn't have any straight segments, but rather is composed of all curved beziers of three different radii.
8. Re: Accurate Shape CombinationJETalmage Apr 12, 2012 10:19 AM (in response to Not_Relevant)
It would be nice to know what would be your approach to such a task.
As you can see from the replies so far, it depends upon the strictness of the geometric requirements. For example, Grant's (Post 6) suggestion does not match the shape of your original. That may be all you're after. That is, if the requirement is for just an "eyeballed" shape, there are several ways to achieve a similar shape. A very quick one would be:
1. Rounded Rectangle Tool: Draw a rounded rectangle.
2. Apply Effect>Warp>Inflate, or two iterations of Effect>Warp>Bulge.
3. Object>Expand Appearance.
The result will be accurately symmetrical and may work just fine for the intended purpose. But the corner arcs may not actually be circular. If you need geometric accuracy (all circular arcs joined with perfect tangency), it can be done in Illustrator, but you have to take the time to deliberately construct the geometry as a workaround for the absense of good geometric construction features in the interace. Your third screenshot is a start, but it is not necessary to construct all four corners. You just need to construct tangency between three different radii (the radius for the top/bottom arcs, the corner arcs, and the side arcs.) Once you have created one quadrant of the shape, the rest can be added with two reflections. For example:
(SmartGuides on)
1. Ellipse Tool: Click. Specify a height and width equal to the desired diameter of the corner arcs.
2. Line Tool: Draw a vertical line upward starting by snapping to the cirlcle's center and dragging far enough to cross the circle. (It will intersect the circle at its topmost anchorPoint.)
3. Rotate the line about the circle's center a few degrees counterclockwise.
4. Duplicate the line. Rotate it about the center point to fewer degrees short of horizontal.
5. Select the upper left segment of the circle. Copy. Paste In Front. Delete the circle, leaving just the upper left 90° arc.
6. Scissor: Cut the arc where the two lines intersect it. You now have three tangent circular arcs. The top arc's right end is tangent to 0°. The bottom arc's bottom end is tangent to 90°.
7. Proportionally scale the top arc about its left endpoint. (Tangency between the two arcs is maintained as you scale, because you are scaling about the point of tangency. No matter how much you scale, the other end of the arc will still be tangent to 0°.)
8. Proportionally scale the bottom arc about its top endpoint.
9. Join the three arcs. You now have one quadrant of your figure.
10, Vertically reflect a copy about the rightmost endpoint. Join the two paths. Horizontally reflect a copy about a bottom endpoint. Join the two paths.
Day's (Post 3) comments state the crux of the matter: Illustrator's inteface just doesn't provide things like tangency snaps, as do other drawing programs. If it's a recurring need, the geometry can be automated in script, but that's a far cry from a proper tangency feature in the interface, which is rightly expected in a market-dominating (over-rated and overpriced) general-purpose 2D Bezier drawing program.
Nowadays, 2D CAD-like geometry is pretty ordinary and should be standard fare in any decent drawing program marketed as ostensibly "professional." Illustrator in particular has always been very weak in that regard. Too many of its features are designed to favor a loosey-goosey, artsy-tartsy "eyeballed" approach, without also providing for straightforward numerical/geometric construction. Its hideous Round Corners Effect and Arc tool are prime examples.
9. Re: Accurate Shape CombinationGrant H Apr 12, 2012 10:15 AM (in response to DayForce)
as Jet has mentioned, many ways to skin a cat. I believe the OP requires workflow tips, based on his "finished" shape (which is not radius perfect), I have offered him a tip to accomplish a similar shape with minimum effort, and a technique that he can use in future. Calculating geometry to determine radius, ie: if he wants the corner radius as per the 4 small circles seen in his screen shot: and the circles are 25mm butt joined, then he needs the rectangle t be 50mm high. the radius he needs to apply is 12.5 mm... math calculations is also helpful for the other steps.
or he can go the loong way around as per his post, but he needs to learn about aligning techniques..
10. Re: Accurate Shape CombinationCarlosCanto Apr 12, 2012 12:35 PM (in response to Not_Relevant)
1. draw your big circles, and 1 small corner circle
2. grab one small circle anchor and snap to the green circle's anchor
3. with the red circle selected grab the Rotation Tool and click on the green circle's center (where the x is)
4. drag the red circle, at this point it will rotate inside the green circle.
4. drop the red circle close to where you want it and zoom in as fas as you can
5. grab it again near the point where you "see" it should snap
6. press Control while dragging, so it snaps to the path.
11. Re: Accurate Shape CombinationNot_Relevant Apr 12, 2012 2:58 PM (in response to Not_Relevant)
Thank you all for replies.
So, I have tried the way suggested in the post above.
Here are the screenshots:
I used CTRL+Y to be as accurare as possible. Zoomed in to the maximum level. Looks like it's perfect.
The result after hitting the Divide button in the Pathfinder panel.
So the tiny triangular shape that had to be isolated by the circle was not chopped off. Funny and sad at the same time.
Type design requires high accuracy, but I guess it is very hard to find the shape intersections optically. I wonder why Illustrator has not offered this function yet.
Take a look at the some old sketches from 1912:
12. Re: Accurate Shape CombinationCarlosCanto Apr 12, 2012 4:25 PM (in response to Not_Relevant)
ok, pathfinders did not work, try
1. selecting all and using the Paint Bucket Tool, paint all corners, use different color
2. Flatten Transparency
3. Grab the Shape Builder Tool, and move your mouse over the corner piece. Notice the corner will get shaded.
4. Alt+Click on it to remove.
5. then Pathfinder Unite, will give you one shape....damn, too many steps.
13. Re: Accurate Shape CombinationCarlosCanto Apr 12, 2012 4:44 PM (in response to CarlosCanto)
14. Re: Accurate Shape CombinationJETalmage Apr 12, 2012 8:35 PM (in response to Not_Relevant)


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Nearby, you hear this voice, asking... "Do you have two minutes to...?"
Will you stop to listen? Not very likely, is it?
Work looks a lot like that busy street corner. Hustling to keep up, our colleagues are taking on more and working harder. Even strategic issues are getting shorted; we spend less than two percent of our time discussing strategic issues. Given this context, new ideas have a tough time being heard. It's no wonder that our colleagues resort to some aggressive approaches to get theirs on our radar screens. Here are some that I've seen recently:
Rapid-fire ideas. Don't pause to see if any of them are catching on — just keep going, guns a-blazin'. This is the Rambo approach, akin to Sylvester Stallone armed with the biggest-gun-you-ever-saw delivering a one-man barrage of shock and awe. Carried into work, it suggests that if you just fire off enough ideas, at least one will hit the mark.
Be super-friendly. Recognizing that trust and camaraderie can help get your ideas a moment of consideration, you work the relationships. This is the Sally Field approach (You like me! You really like me!). The problem is that the focus is on the personal relationship, rather than the merit of the idea.
Hijack the discussion. Just as someone else is putting forth an idea, use a contradictory word or phrase, such as "but," "no", or "I disagree." to interject. You could even do it more insidiously by saying "Great idea. We could also try..." As attention swivels in your direction, direct the conversation to your own idea under the guise of adding commentary. While you're at it, affectionately mention some of your previous ideas. This contrarian and dismissive approach — best exemplified for me by the movie critic Roger Ebert — is unfortunately commonplace. While acceptable with professional critics, it's just plain annoying at work.
As much as we'd like to deny we do this, we can at least admit to being tempted to use techniques like these to give our ideas a chance to be heard. Add (in the comments section) your own pet peeves from your work setting, and we'll have good collection of how not to do it. While any of these methods might be successful in the short run, they typically only result in surfacing the idea, which rarely influences others or gets acted upon.
And that is really is the point. Remember that the goal of offering a new idea is to move the organization forward. We want to serve the needed role of protagonist: someone who helps organizations become more competitive because of their ability to name issues, point to new horizons and create solutions. The goal then is to not only speak up but to be heard.
To be heard implies speaking up in such a way that the idea is given a chance to influence the organization and be acted upon. To be effectively heard, you need to recognize the context, plan your approach, and adjust your style to communicate ideas that, with any luck, will connect with the needs of the business.
Let me offer six better techniques to getting your ideas heard:
- Be an anthropologist. There are so many tools for learning about people — what topics they track, what they value, how they approach their work, their opinions. Figure out what your colleagues care about. If they blog, read 'em. If they tweet, follow 'em. Their LinkedIn.com endorsements also tell a story. Observe, learn what makes them tick, andshape your idea to the receiver's perspective.
- Have a perspective. Many people show up at meetings unable to offer a well-considered opinion. If you don't have an informed perspective, then you risk being labeled a Doer, someone ill-suited to being a protagonist. Doers don't need seats at the table; no, they can be told what to do via email. When we are working on tough problems — whether it is a new direction or a product or program — we will seek out the folks who are co-thinkers, to become co-creators of our destiny. If you want that role, then come ready to meetings, with a point of view. Sometimes offering a perspective can be as simple as knowing what questions you want to ask.
- Create relevance. Every argument can benefit from relevant quantitative data. Figure out which facts matter and get 'em. Even in early markets where the data is still fuzzy, you can figure out if something is the size of a breadbox or a Humvee. Real customer stories and anecdotes are great; backing those up with facts is even better.
- Choose your medium. If these are people who value numbers, use an Excel spreadsheet. If they value good graphics, invest there. Better yet, tell a story that weaves together facts of importance in ways people can get lost in. Facts go in and go out, but ideas that stick always have stories that create meaning and resonance.
- Answer the question of "why not." When we can understand the risks, flaws and options more fully, we go from being just an advocate of one idea to being an advocate for the organization. Complex issues deserve each of us thinking about them robustly.
- Be passionate. Our point of view is based on our experiences and observations; your idea may not be something that the rest of the group is thinking about yet. This means you're going to need to explain it to them. If you do it in a way that is about you being in love with the idea rather than about you being right, someone else just might fall in love with that idea, too. Being passionate does not mean having an outburst, but being clear-minded about your approach. A commentator on a recent post, wrote that the the best words are spoken with the most honest, curious (not challenging), and genuine voice. This speaks to a kind of ego-less-ness that is passionate about doing the right thing for the business.


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Liverpool, Unite...
After over a month away from sewing and blogging due to a very busy last term at uni, I am finally free to get back to being creative and sharing my projects. I hope you like this one. It keeps with the vintage theme I have been drawn towards lately and incorporates an adorable lace collar that develops into a deep V down the back.
Super cute!!
Check out this project on the Hugs and Kisses Blog for more info and pictures:
On another note – can anyone tell me where all my project views have gone? I logged on a week or so ago only to find they have disappeared – dropped from the hundreds to next to nothing. I'm so upset! Any help would be really appreciated :D
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Aug 23, 2013, 07.14 PMby nishavinod2009very nice!
Jul 18, 2012, 10.18 AMby kess
I love the color! it's so perfect for the dress! also the lace collar adds a lot to it. is it just made out of straight strips of lace? about the project view count – I actually talked to burdastyle about it, they say that they had some difficulties with the site and that the project views were erased for some users and unfortunately we can't get them back.
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Jul 18, 2012, 04.17 PMby Hugs-and-Kisses
Thank you for your lovely comment. yes the collar started out as lace strips but I strategically cut them to form the collar, gradually getting thicker the lower down the back. I am eternally grateful to my mannequin! :D
That is very interesting about the views. I sent in a question myself to customer support and they said they are working to get the views back. I'm going to be so disappointed if they don't return. It seems silly but getting all those views is such a confidence boost and means so much that people have liked what I shared! oh well,, I will just look forward to hopefully adding up more views over future posts :D
Thanks again xXx
Jul 17, 2012, 05.37 PMby Käsekosmonautin
lovely :-*
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Jul 17, 2012, 09.33 PMby Hugs-and-Kisses
:D xXx
Jul 17, 2012, 01.53 PMby efh1687
what a beautiful dress. i love anything in mint and that lace is the most adorable touch. also, those shoes!!!!! they are so so cute!
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Jul 17, 2012, 09.32 PMby Hugs-and-Kisses
:D I'm a big fan of the shoes too – a bargain find! Though fabric shoes aren't the most practical thing in the world! Hehe xXx
Jul 16, 2012, 11.54 PMby winnie0115
so pretty!! :)
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Jul 17, 2012, 09.31 PMby Hugs-and-Kisses
Thanks xXX
Jul 16, 2012, 06.41 PMby Mary Athey
Love this dress xx
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Jul 16, 2012, 07.19 PMby Hugs-and-Kisses
:D I'm very glad – thankyou hun xXx
Jul 16, 2012, 06.26 PMby lienepien
Nice dress, as always!
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Jul 16, 2012, 07.18 PMby Hugs-and-Kisses
thank you very much! It really means a lot people like my creations :D
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Kelly Clarkson Excited for Face-Off With Miranda Lambert on 'The Voice'
The battle rounds begin on NBC's hit show 'The Voice' tonight (March 5), and Kelly Clarkson says the group of contestants she mentored is built to win. Both the pop singer and Miranda Lambert took six of Blake Shelton's 12 finalists and worked with them for a few days before intersquad head-to-head matchups began.
"My team is so much better. We're gonna be the two Texans going at it," Clarkson says with a smile and a laugh in a promotional video from NBC. "I think the other six should watch out." Fans can expect to see both women helping Shelton's team on Monday night.
Shelton and Clarkson are longtime friends, and she is a huge fan of 'The Voice,' so it made sense to include her as a mentor alongside Lionel Richie and Alanis Morissette, who are helping the other coach's teams. Clarkson says she wishes she could audition for the show. "I wanna see how many chairs turn around," she says.
The original 'American Idol' winner has been a longtime friend to country music, having recorded with Jason Aldean and Reba McEntire in recent years. Her friendship with Lambert and Shelton has created a few impromptu performances, but no recordings yet. Clarkson says fans don't get to see the real Blake Shelton she sees behind the scenes.
"It's so funny, because if you follow him on Twitter," she says, "he seems like such an a– [laughs]. But he's not. I mean he is but in a fun way." 'The Voice' begins on NBC at 8PM ET. Be sure to check back late tonight for an update on Team Blake and the show's country hopefuls.
Watch Kelly Clarkson Talk About Helping Blake Shelton on 'The Voice'


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Wikitravel And Wikimedia Are In A Legal Battle... But Not Over Creative Commons
from the misrepresentation-may-be-an-issue dept
Now, let me be clear: I think that suing your volunteer admins is unbelievably stupid and shortsighted. It pretty much guarantees that it's going to be difficult to attract such help in the future. Similarly, some of Internet Brands' actions in trying to stop this new travel site seem at least somewhat questionable. But... in looking over the details of the initial lawsuit, it seems that Gerard and the Wikimedia Foundation (who I almost always agree with) are not telling the full story, and are being slightly misleading.
The actual lawsuit against the volunteer admins (and again, it's stupid to sue those admins) isn't because of the "forking." In fact, Internet Brands makes it clear in its own filing that the content is CC-by-SA and can be copied with attribution. Instead, the concerns are over how the admins presented themselves and their relationship to Wikitravel in convincing others to move over to the new project. Specifically, Internet Brands suggests that these admins implied that they were speaking for Wikitravel and the entire community there, by saying that the community was moving over to the new operation.
For example, on August 18, 2012, Holliday improperly and wrongfully emailed at least several hundred of Wikitravel members, purporting to be from Wikitravel and informing members that the Wikitravel Website was "migrating" to the Wikimedia Foundation.This is Internet Brand's version of things, but you can see how their complaint might be a bit more legitimate if Holliday really suggested that it was Wikitravel itself that was "migrating." Of course, the text of the actual email (at least the text shown in the filing) suggests that Holliday didn't go quite that far -- though he was at least somewhat vague.
Specifically, Holliday's email contained the Subject Line, "Important information about Wikitravel!" and its body stated, "This email is being sent to you on behalf of the Wikitravel administrators since you have put some real time and effort into working on Wikitravel. We wanted to make sure you are up to date and in the loop concerning big changes to the community that will affect the future of your work! As you may already have heard, Wikitravel's community is looking to migrate to the Wikimedia Foundation."That's not quite as clear-cut as IB stated in the preceding paragraph. He doesn't claim to necessarily be "from Wikitravel." He notes that he's writing on behalf of "Wikitravel administrators," which is slightly different, since many of the administrators are volunteers, not employees or representatives of the site. That's part of what makes this tricky. Separately, he doesn't directly say that the entire Wikitravel website is migrating... but rather that the "Wikitravel community" is "looking to migrate." It's a subtle difference, and one could read the email in multiple ways. However, even in the interpretation that favors Holliday the most, you can certainly argue that he was unnecessarily vague, and at least implies that he's speaking for the site and the community as a whole, when he's really just speaking on behalf of some admins and some portion of the community.
Finally, IB also complains that even with the CC-by-SA license, the new site failed to provide proper attribution. This is always a bit tricky too, because people disagree over what constitutes proper attribution. But for all the people jumping immediately to Wikimedia's side in this dispute, it's worth noting that on this point, if you're a Creative Commons supporter, you might be interested in IB's argument, because if they're right here, it could provide ammo to others who seek to enforce any CC "attribution" license in situations where people don't attribute.
Nothing in the lawsuit really, directly, appears to be about the fact that these guys were creating a "fork" -- despite Wikimedia's claim about the legal fight. Now, you could argue that this is the true intention of the lawsuit -- that it's designed to intimidate these admins and try to throw a wrench into this competitive effort. But, at least on its face, the actual legal filings seem to have a bit more merit than Wikimedia's initial claims suggest. In the end, I (once again) think that Internet Brands is making a tactical (if not legal) mistake in suing, because it will likely tarnish the brand and may make it difficult to attract new admins. And, conceptually, I'm all for Wikimedia Foundation setting up a fork of Wikitravel and trying to do more, and create value that brings the community from Wikitravel over to the new site.
But the lawsuit is about these specific activities, in which the filing makes a reasonable argument that a few admins implied they spoke for Wikitravel (or for the wider community) when that was not necessarily the case. Either way, it'll be interesting to see what happens, but I hope that people read the details before automatically assuming the spin that's been making the rounds is entirely accurate. The claims that these admins are being sued for forking Creative Commons content appear to be simply incorrect.
Similarly, in my read of Wikimedia's lawsuit seeking default judgment, it seems like they may be going a bit too far. The filing tries to argue that Internet Brands is seeking to prevent the use of the content itself, but the actual filing does no such thing. Thus, it's possible that Wikimedia Foundation may run into some problems, if the court doesn't believe that an actual "controversy" is being presented here. For what it's worth, courts don't always look kindly at declaratory judgment cases if there's no real controversy, as they see them as a waste of time. While there is perhaps the germ of a controversy here, I could definitely see the court reading Wikimedia's filing and Internet Brands' actual lawsuits, and realizing that what Wikimedia describes is wholly different than what IB actually said in its lawsuit, and then just dumping the case.


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Letters came from Philip Jose Farmer, Fredric Wertham.
Letters came from Philip Jose Farmer, Fredric Wertham.
Yandro won the [[Hugo Award for Best Fanzine]] in 1965. It was nominated every year
Yandro won the [[Hugo Award for Best Fanzine]] in 1965. It was nominated every year 1958 to 1967.
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Yandro was a science fiction fanzine by Robert "Buck" Coulson and Juanita Coulson in Wabash, Indiana, U.S.A.
It was first published in 1953 and ran till 1985, with 259 issues released. The last issue was not distributed till 1991. Yandro began life as the organ of the Eastern Indiana Science Fiction Association, originally called EISFA and edited by Juantia Wellons (before becoming Juantia Coulson) and Beverly Amers (;ater Beverly DeWeese). The Coulsons married in 1953, and Robert "Buck" Couson, began doing book reviews for the zine. By the late 1950s the name had been changed to Yandro derived from an old folk song in a Manly Wade Wwellman story.
Yandro featured fiction, articles and reviews of books and fanzines.
Contributions of writing included George Barr, John Brunner, L. Sprague de Camp, E.J. Carnell, R.L. Clancy, Alan Dodd (Camber), Dennis Lien, Dave Locke, Allen Mardis, Alexei Panshin, Seth Poole, Jerry Pournelle, Gene Roddenberry, George Scithers, Robert Silverberg (Spaceship), Don and Maggie Thompson (Comic Art), Bjo Trimble, Bob Tucker (Le Zombie), Ted White, Gene Wolfe, and Roger Zelazny.
Contributions of art work came from Dan Adkins, George Barr, Sherna Burley, Jim Cawthorn, Richard Delap, Richard Flinchbaugh, George Foster, Robert Gilbert, Alexis Gilliland, Jay Kinney, David lewton, Dave Prosser, Bill Rotsler, Dick Schultz, Randy Scott, Reg Smith, Mike Symes, Arthur Thomson.
Covers were by Herb Beach, Jim Cawthorn, Robert E. Gilbert, Cynthia Goldstone, Taral Wayne (DNQ), and the Yandro logo was by Arthur Thomson.
Letters came from Philip Jose Farmer, Fredric Wertham.
Yandro won the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine in 1965. It was nominated every year from 1958 to 1967.


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Berta Rivkina
Born: 1929
Minsk, Belorussia
Berta was the youngest of three girls born to a Jewish family in Minsk, the capital of Belorussia. Before World War II, more than a third of the city was Jewish. Berta's father worked in a state-owned factory building furniture, an occupation in which several of his relatives also made a living.
1933-39: We lived on Novomesnitskaya Street in central Minsk, only a few blocks from the Svisloch River. My older sister, Dora, loved to swim there in the summer. By the time I was in the fourth grade, there were many Polish refugees in our city. Germany and the USSR had divided Poland, and Poles were fleeing eastward. Many stayed in Minsk because it was still close to "home," being only about 20 miles from the Polish-Soviet border.
1940-44: I was 12 when the Germans reached Minsk in 1941 and set up a ghetto. A year later, trying to escape a roundup, my mother and I hid in a warehouse. When we were discovered by a German guard, I was so scared that I began talking gibberish and started to run--the guard followed me. As I fled I slammed into another woman who appeared out of nowhere. Just then the guard fired his gun. We both fell and I was sure I'd been hit. But I stood up and found that I wasn't wounded. The other woman lay motionless.
Berta was taken to be executed but managed to get away. Later, she escaped from the ghetto and joined the Soviet partisans. She was liberated by the Red Army in July 1944.


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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 12, 2008) - If there was ever a time for a much-needed win for the ETSU women's basketball team it came on Friday night.
For the third time in the last four years head coach Karen Kemp and the Lady Buccaneers upset an SEC foe on the road, as ETSU walked into Memorial Coliseum and stunned
Four Lady Buccaneer players scored in double figures as junior TaRonda Wiles (
This marks ETSU's first road win of the season and the Lady Buccaneers moved their record to 2-5. Ironically, last year the Lady Bucs knocked off another SEC contender (
"This win was really big for us tonight," commented Kemp, who coached the Lady Bucs to their first win over
In the first half, Evans and Wiles gave ETSU a lift early on, as they combined to score the Lady Bucs' first nine points and the visitors held a one-point advantage six and half minutes into the contest.
Over the next seven-plus minutes, the Lady Bucs used the 3-point shot to extend their lead to seven, 23-16, after Tara Davis (
Eventually, from the 11:02 mark to 2:38 remaining in the half, ETSU used a 20-9 run to push its lead to 12, 31-19, after Kami Phillips (
The Lady Bucs shot 42.9 percent (15-35) in the first 20 minutes, while
ETSU wasted little time extending its lead back into double figures to start the second half.
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However, with ETSU up 49-38 at the 10 minute mark and Belcher on the bench with four fouls,
From there the game became a battle.
Over the next two minutes both teams traded buckets, but with the Lady Bucs leading 51-49, ETSU stepped up its game.
Following an offensive rebound by Evans and a timeout by Kemp,
The Wildcats never had an answer for the two daggers and four free throws down the stretch iced the game for ETSU.
"I am really pleased with how we kept our composure down the stretch," added Kemp. "It would have been really easy for us to give up on the road at
Washington - who made her first collegiate start - finished with a stellar game. The
For the game ETSU shot 35.8 percent (24-67), but more importantly the Lady Bucs finally showcased some 3-point shooting. After going 2-for-27 in its last two games, ETSU finished 6-of-11 (54.5 percent).
ETSU returns to action on Thursday, Dec. 18, when the Lady Bucs take on conference rival
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The novelist with Christian concerns will find in modern life distortions which are repugnant to him, and his problem will be to make these apear as distortions to an audience which is used to seeing them as natural; and he may well be forced to take ever more violent means to get his vision across to this hostile audience. When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax a little and use more normal ways of talking to it; when you have to asume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock--to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.
"'He was a university unto himself,' says David McCullough, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and a close friend of Boorstin's, 'and he was an ever delightful companion. But you had to be on your toes when you were with him. He didn't tolerate your saying the obvious or the banal. At his offices at the Library of Congress, he would serve a full-scale lunch and have eight to 10 people. He would sit at the table like a headmaster and he would pose a question and go around the table. He liked the give and take. He liked the sparks to fly.'"
At this moment, Mel Gibson is producing a movie version of Christ's Passion that promises to be the most graphic and confrontational ever filmed. Mr. Gibson is depending on the power of the image to speak truth, so much so that he doesn't want to impose subtitles over the Aramaic dialogue. [He has rescinded that decision. - phil] Miracles have been reported on the set. Miracles may be reported in theaters also, but I'm skeptical already: Without a clear command to repent and believe, viewers are unlikely to make a connection between themselves and the Man of Sorrows. Believers may be confirmed in their faith, but to unbelievers it will be just a story, however gut-wrenching. They can bring to it nothing beyond what they already know, and they can't know what they have not heard, and how will they hear without a preacher?I think she's right. It doesn't prevent us from praying that the Lord will save many in part through this film. In fact, I would rather hear that Christians were praying en masse for the Lord to save people from their bondage to sin than hear that they were buying and giving movie tickets. I know both can be done and probably are being done by some, but if I understand the state of the American church correctly, we tend to buy tickets rather than pray faithfully, all the while telling ourselves that prayer is the most important thing we can do.
None of this is to say that Christians shouldn't make movies, or see them, or talk about them among ourselves or with non-Christian friends. But we should never fool ourselves into thinking that movies evangelize. Art can show, but it can't tell.
At usual the Euston train was 20 minutes late by the time it reached Berkhamsted. Through Watford, King's Langley and Boxmoor, Sergeant had picked thoughtfully at the sore place on his lower lip until the blood was running down his chin. What did the General want, he wondered with impatient affection? What could he want so many years since the mugging in Belize?The story I searched for followed the wrap-up article.
At Berkhamsted station he walked rapidly along the tiled passage smelling of urine, like an elongated public lavatory, and came out into the misty Hertfordshire rain. Under the weeping willows on the canal bank a child was crying and a dog barked. Driver was waiting for him on the canal bridge. How much time, he thought, the General must have spent all those years ago on acquiring a sergeant called Driver and a driver called Sergeant. 'Whom are we to kill this time?' he asked, almost cheerfully.
"Graham Greene, so it is said, once won a Spectator competition with a parody of his own work. It was partly in the hope that he might attempt to do so again that in April 'Jaspistos' set a similar competition asking for an extract from an imaginary Greene novel. There was a large number of entries, some of them extremely good. But was any one of them from Greene himself? The winning entry was sent in under the name of Sebastian Eleigh. Sebastian Eleigh, we have established, was none other than Graham's younger brother, Sir Hugh Greene. In third place was a contribution from a certain Katharine Onslow, who, so it turns out, was in fact Graham's sister, Mrs Elisabeth Dennys. So the family acquitted itself remarkably well. But what of Graham? We felt sure that he had entered. Our suspicions, for a number of good reasons, came to rest upon an entry under the name of Colin Bates, which, I am afraid, was not included among the five best that we printed."
Forty percent of adults said they read books for leisure during 2002, compared with 27 percent who surfed the Internet for fun. That's reassuring to publishers worried about the state of reading as electronic amusements multiply.Well, this is interesting, but it does not provide enough detail to satisfy my curiosity, so I looked at the data myself for a more complete understanding of how Americans are spending their leisure time.
"There's something kind of comforting about a book — the texture of the paper, you can dog-ear the corners — it's like a comfort food," said Pat Schroeder, president of the Association of American Publishers.
The story was shaped as well by coming across the characters of John and William Bartram, early on in my reading about dew. Although the story is fairly short, and there are just a few pages about the Bartrams at the end, in writing it, I probably read as much about those two men as anyone who's not a Bartram specialist. William Bartram shows up, mentions some frogs, speaks about his pet crow, and then he's gone—that's it. So why did I need to read everything that both these naturalists wrote, and why did I need to go visit their house in Philadelphia, and why did I need to go look at all those paintings, and why did I need to read not just their correspondence with each other but with another naturalist named Peter Collinson, and then his correspondence with all sorts of other people? Why do I do that? I don't know. Not much of it's in the story, but somehow amid that swirl, the story grows.
[Sam] Hamill plainly wants his anthology [Poets Against the War, Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books 2002] to have a democratic flavor, so there are plenty of folks here you never heard of—including several children, whose contributions are scarcely worse than those by many of the adults. Here's a quick test. Read this poem: "Wet bodies of those who have fallen / Afghanistan blown to pieces! / Right on target—the men, the women, / the children, crying, mommy, mommy!" Now read this one: "I'm sorry that your mom was killed / When a missile struck your home / You were only three, and innocent / Your mother too was innocent." One of these works is by an eleven-year-old; the other is by a woman of thirty-five. Guess which is which. And while you're at it, ask yourself this: What does it mean to profess the inestimable value of the poet's role in society ("there are things learned from poetry," Hamill insists, "that can be earned no other way") and then to suggest that even an eleven-year-old can fill that role?
N: Has the controversy around the film and the fact that Mel's been accused of anti-Semitism surprised you?
JC: It's been the most frustrating thing to watch. I can tell you this much, the guy is not in the least anti-Semitic. I never saw it. Maia Morgenstern [who plays the Virgin Mary] is this beautiful Jewish Romanian actress whose parents were in the Holocaust. Every day he'd say, "Maia, tell me about your traditions. Is this OK to do?" He wanted to make this film very Semitic. Instead of having an Aryan, blue-eyed Jesus, he wanted to have a very Semitic Jesus. Our faith is grounded in our Jewish tradition. We believe we're from the House of David. We believe we're from the House of Abraham, so we cannot hate our own. That crowd standing before Pontius Pilate screaming for the head of Christ in no way convicts an entire race for the death of Jesus Christ any more than the actions of Mussolini condemn all Italians, or the heinous actions of Stalin condemn all Russians. We're all culpable in the death of Christ. My sins put him up there. Yours did. That's what this story is about.
He understood [mercy] was all a man could carry into death to give his Maker and he suddenly burned with shame that he had so little of it to take with him. He stood appalled, judging himself with the thoroughness of God, while the action of mercy covered his pride like a flame and consumed it. He had never thought him self a great sinner before but he saw now that his true depravity had been hidden from him lest it cause him despair. He realized that he was forgiven for sins from the beginning of time, when he had conceived in his own heart the sin of Adam, until the present. He saw that no Sin was too monstrous for him to claim as his own, and since God loved in proportion as He forgave, he felt ready at that instant to enter Paradise.
As regards the insinuation that he had secretly inspired attacks on Wagner, we are glad to see him absolutely acquitted of such conduct by that enthusiastic Wagnerolater, Mr. H. T. Finck. The insinuation arose from his personal friendship with Dr. Hanslick and Dr. Billroth, both uncompromising anti-Wagnerians. Brahms was incapable of any mean or underhanded action. He never indulged in newspaper controversy, but kept his views to himself. There is a story of a friend who met him after a performance of 'Die Walküre' and asked him what he thought of it. Brahms replied: 'We must all of us listen to Wagner with our own ears.' If he did not sympathise with Wagner's methods, it is known that he recognised his genius, and testified his respect by sending a wreath to Venice on Wagner's death in 1883.
The catholicity of his taste is sufficiently shown by his immense admiration for the genius of Strauss – in which he shared the views of Wagner and Von Bülow – on whose wife's fan he inscribed a few bars of the 'Blue Danube' with the charming compliment 'unfortunately not by Johannes Brahms.' We have left ourselves no space to touch upon his life-long friendship with Dr. Joachim, or on Hans von Bülow's devoted championship of his genius. Whatever may be the verdict of posterity as to the vitality of his compositions, the lesson of Brahms's life – in which consistent and unfaltering devotion to the highest aims was the dominant principle – can never fail to exert a stimulating influence on his successors. 'The example of a noble man,' so wrote Dr. Parry more than then years ago of Brahms, and the witness remained true to the close of his life, 'tends to make others noble, and the picture of a noble mind, such as is presented in his work, helps to raise others towards his level.'
Teaching would-be writers, which I have also done, is an especially complicated enterprise. I used to tell students all that I could not do for them: Give them a love of language, make them more observant, teach them a dramatic sense, reveal the mechanics of wit, and much more. All I could hope to do for them was point out the possibilities in prose style, many of which they were unlikely to be aware of, and where their own mistakes might lie. Not, when you think about it, all that much. I used to end this with a little Zen koan of my own devising: "Writing cannot be taught, but it can be learned."
In teaching literature, there is the question of whether one ought to be teaching what one does in the first place. Lionel Trilling made this point in his essay "On the Teaching of Modern Literature," in which he quite appropriately asked if it is right to inculcate the dark visions for the young of such standard curriculum writers as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, and Freud. I felt much the same teaching the perhaps less dark but still difficult Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Willa Cather to people at the end of their adolescence, who already had enough on their minds, and in their hormones, without having to worry about, say, Joseph Conrad's essential message that we come into the world, live, and die absolutely alone. Does one really need to know this at nineteen?
N: John Updike recently released a well-received collection of his early stories. Can we expect something similar from you?
O: No I don't think I would do that. John's a friend of mine. John collects everything that he has written and publishes everything. I don't have that philosophy. Even James Joyce could edit some of his work. ...
N: Do you have stories, then, that you may never publish?
O: I do have some manuscripts in my archives that I'll never publish, novels that I just don't feel that I want to publish. My idea of a book is not like John's. I think he thinks of himself as a great writer - he is a great writer. He's a major American writer and he feels that anything that he writes and publishes would be of interest and should be in a book. I have a different position. I think of each book as a work of art in itself and the book in itself has to have an aesthetic shape to it.


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If you're a PC user, you've perhaps been curious about the different options available for browsing the internet other than Internet Explorer, or I.E. for short. After all, who said that the best software always has to be the one that comes with your OS? I remember a few years ago when my quest to find the best browser started, after finding a hidden file where it seemed as if Windows had kept a record of all websites I had ever visited. (This site has more information on that subject.) In addition, I wanted a popup blocker, but for various reasons, I never liked any of the add-ons I tried.
So I downloaded Opera Software, version 7. Although I liked some of its features, such as browsing multiple tabbed pages in the same window, I found that they caused too much of a load on my PC's memory. I found that the "speed" that Opera claimed for its product really wasn't significantly faster than I.E., especially since after being open for a period of time, Opera slowed down quite a bit. After I did some research, I discovered several complaints online that the free version of Opera was spyware and generates ads based on browsing. I haven't tried newer versions of Opera, but suffice it to say that this software was not music to my ears.
My unsatisfactory experience with Opera, as well as some other browsers, ended my search for an alternative browser for a while. However, after downloading Mozilla's freestanding browser, Firefox, my search for the ultimate browser was put to an end. After 8 months of use, I haven't gone back to Internet Explorer. Firefox provides the fastest rendering of sites that I've seen in a browser, except perhaps using Safari on a Mac G5 (where a dual processor for sure makes some difference). With Firefox, Mozilla incorporated the two most important features in a browser: ease-of-use and speed, and speedy it is: tables and graphics rendered consistently faster on Firefox 0.8 compared to I.E., on both Windows '98 and XP with broadband.
Mozilla Firefox also has additional features that cemented my switch. With tabbed browsing, several websites can be kept open in the same window, keeping a dizzying array of websites appear orderly. Firefox solves the daunting problem in I.E. when titles are so scrunched on the toolbar, it is impossible to see their titles (unless, of course, you have window-stacking turned on in XP). Users can also effortlessly close a tab or window by pressing Ctrl + W. Some other quick keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl + T to create a new tab, and Ctrl + N to create a new window.
Another great innovation: Firefox has a popup blocker built in, saving time for faster rendering of the originating page. A small blue icon located in the lower-left corner will appear after any popup has been blocked; click on to have the option of unblocking the whole site. Also saving time while surfing, Firefox offers to save your username and password to any visited site. Although I wouldn't recommend auto-completion to sensitive sites like bank accounts, it is a convenient tool for those logins to weblogs, newspapers, or similar sites where security is not important. Sites that are auto-completed are accessible on the Privacy Tab in Options, so if your friend clumsily saved his username and password for Hotmail, it is easily removable.
Many find the Google Search Toolbar for I.E. a valuable tool, but with Firefox, the search toolbar is taken to a whole new level. By selecting "Add Engines," you are taken to mycroft.mozdev.org, a sister-site to Mozilla that lists hundreds of plugins available. Here I was able to download Google, Vivisimo, Ebay, Amazon Popular Music, and IMDB searches, all now available in the same search toolbar. Speaking of extensions, Mozilla also has plugins available for adblocking, blogging, emailing, sharing bookmarks between computers, viewing Flash, blocking Flash, and using RSS (news aggregation). Even a film script production extension and a calendar are available. The list of extensions is, to say the least, extensive.
Mozilla has seen great success, as measured by the number of people making the switch to Mozilla browsers. The number has more than doubled since 2003 to 10.7% of all net-surfers, and now surpasses Netscape users, according to W3 Schools. The number of people switching presents a challenge to web designers, as some sites have not updated their code to the W3C standards that Netscape 7.0 and Mozilla use. Suffice it to say, the sites that don't render correctly are few and far between. The upside in using Firefox is that it's a very robust program that rarely quits or freezes, a significant point if you tend to fiddle with programs (read: press many keys at once when the going is slow, rare with Firefox). With this kind of popularity, one could expect Microsoft to start incorporating some of Firefox's features into the next version of I.E., but with such a dynamite freeware program and the joy of supporting the open source community that is Mozilla, don't expect many to be switching back to I.E. anytime soon.
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Titanfall Trailer: Expedition Launch Window Opens
Just as Respawn Entertainment unveiled its official trailer for Titanfall: Expedition, we have learned of some of the major updates that are finally coming to the Xbox 360 edition of the game.
We have received our first official look at the Runoff, Swampland and War Games maps in action as Respawn Entertainment has let us in on some of the content updates that are hitting the current-gen version of Titanfall. While we have reported on these maps in the past, it's great to see how they function when there are Pilots and Titans about shooting at one another. In particular, the holographic effects of the War Games level are particularly stunning. War Games incorporates the same technology used for the Pilot-training sequences of the game's tutorials, but with some wild effects tossed in. The level is actually a mashup of preexisting Titanfall maps with holographic effects occurring in-between each themed area of the level, but these holograms are visibly broken in some areas, offering a vibrant visual effect.
We also got to see the Runoff and Swampland maps in action. Runoff is an industrial water/waste treatment plant that features many trenches to camp your Titan in, along with plenty of buildings to use for cover. The Swampland offers local fauna for you to hide behind and even climb as you get your Titan-war on in the bayou.
Respawn said that Bluepoint Games (who developed the Xbox 360 version of Titanfall) are working around the clock post-release in order to enhance the game to the standards of its Xbox One and PC counterparts. Rebirth explains that it finely tunes its content repeatedly before releasing it and Bluepoint can't start work on bringing these changes to the 360 version until the Xbox One/PC update is finalized in order to find out what is exactly being changed. Xbox 360 players should expect the same Gooser challenge and private match options that the next-gen version received this past March in the next few weeks.
Titanfall's Expedition DLC is launching later this month for Xbox One and PC at the price of $9.99. Expedition will be hitting the Xbox 360 sometime in June. There will be two more DLC packs coming out in the future that have yet to be announced. Pilots hoping to buy all three of these DLC pieces should get the Season Pass for Titanfall for $24.99, which includes the Expedition DLC and gives you a $5 discount compared to buying each map pack individually.


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Dell in Buyout Talks: $13 - $14 Per Share
Silver Lake Partners was in discussions Tuesday with Dell for a leveraged buyout at around $13 to $14 a share, David Benoit reports on digits. Photo: Dell.
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IE9 Compatibility Mode: How-to Enable it?
Internet Explorer 9, the latest browser from Microsoft family has some glitches in its operations. Some of the users reported that web pages doesn't render correctly with IE 9 as its evident because most of the web pages were designed for earlier functions and still some of them didn't update. Not to worry, we will see now how you can improve the look of these sorts of websites just by enabling "compatibility view" which will render the web pages correctly.
Now, let's check out two options with which you can enable compatible view by just following simple steps described below:
Process 1 to enable IE9 Compatibility Mode
- After opening any web page, click on compatibility icon which is just next to URL as shown below. If the site is displayed in compatible view the icon will turn blue and if the compatible view is not enabled, the icon will remain white.
- Now, to get out of compatibility view all you need to do is to just click again on the blue colored compatibility icon to make it white so that compatibility view is disabled.
Process 2 to enable IE9 Compatibility Mode
If you don't want to set "compatibility view" every time for particular websites you can set the compatibility view for a list of particular websites so that every time one opens the website it will automatically switch to compatible mode.
- Now, press "Alt" button so that you can see the tool bar option at the top. Now, you need to click on "Tools" and select "Compatibility View settings".
- After clicking on "Compatibility View settings" option, a new pop up will be popped up where in you will be asked to add the websites in "Add this website field" and click on "Add" so that web pages which are added will be opened in compatibility mode by default.
- If you want to display all websites in Compatible view by default, you can do so by checking the option "Display all websites in compatibility view".
- Now, after selecting the option "Display all web pages in compatibility view", click on "close" and you can now view all web pages in the compatible view without needing to make changes every time you surf the net.
So, now in two different ways you can now enable IE9 Compatibility Mode view option so that the web pages rendering problem will be solved in the latest Internet explorer browser edition 9. For better page rendering you can also disable hardware acceleration in Internet explorer 9.


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Courtesy of St. Joseph's College Sports Information
STANDISH, Maine – MIT baseball (16-16) split a non-conference twinbill with non-conference opponent Saint Joseph's College (32-11) at Larry Mahaney Diamond on Thursday afternoon. In the opener, the Monks fell 7-6 in eight innings before rebounding to edge the Engineers, 3-2, in the nightcap.
In the first game, St. Joe's rallied from a 6-2 deficit with four runs in the bottom of the fifth to force extra innings, but MIT shortstop Dan Hyatt '11 led off the top of eighth with home run over the left field wall to provide Tech with the eventual game-winning run. Aric Dama '13 tossed two innings of one-hit relief with a pair of strikeouts to earn the victory for the Engineers, while Mason Roberge '11 allowed one hit, the Hyatt homer, with three K's in two frames and falls to 4-1 on the year with the loss for the Monks. St. Joe's starter Pat Moran '10 fanned a season-high 10 batters in five innings with four earned runs and seven hits allowed, while reliever Chris Nanof '10 allowed a run off two hits with two K's in an inning of work.
St. Joe's did not trail in the nightcap, as the Royal Blue scored single runs in the first, third and fourth innings en route to a 3-2 triumph. SJC starter Sam Murray '12 improved to 7-1 after allowing an earned run off five hits and three walks with four strikeouts in 6.1 innings. Kevin Chamberlain '11 notched the first save of his career after sitting down the only two batters he faced in the top of the seventh. Engineers starter Max Ockner '13 went the distance for the Cardinal and Gray, surrendering three earned runs off six hits and three walks with a pair of punch-outs in the losing effort.
The Monks got on the board first in the opener with two runs off a pair of hits in the bottom of the second inning. The Engineers cut their deficit in half with a run off a first and third double steal play in the top of the third.
In the top of the fifth, MIT took advantage of an infield error on an apparent double-play ball by scoring four runs to gain a 5-2 lead. Zach Carr '12 plated a pair with a bases-loaded single, while James McKinney '13 doubled home a run and Stewart Park '10 registered an RBI double during the frame.
The Engineers padded their lead with an RBI single by Andrew Jeanquenat '13, but the Monks rallied with four runs off four hits to tie the game at six apiece in the bottom of the sixth. Craig Woodbrey '10 and Mike Burdin '10 notched RBI singles, Ben Grant-Roy '10 doubled home a run and Woodbrey scored on an infield error during the four-run sixth.
Roberge entered the game for the Monks in the seventh and produced an efficient 12-pitch inning with a pair of K's and a pop-up, but the Royal Blue squandered an opportunity to win the game in the bottom of the inning. Moran led off with a line-drive single to right and was lifted in favor of speedy pinch-runner Nate Martin '13, who advanced to second on a wild pitch. Mike Pratt '13 moved Martin over to third with a deep fly-out to center, but the inning ended with the winning run 90 feet away, as Woodbrey took a called third strike on the outside corner.
Hyatt greeted Roberge with a solo jack in the eighth, the junior right-hander settled in to retire the side on a couple of ground-outs and a strikeout. Now trailing by one, pinch-hitter Kyle Neagle '12 was plunked to lead off the bottom of the eighth and was moved over to second with a sac bunt by Burdin. Neagle advanced to third when Todd Keneborus '11 grounded out to the right side, but was left on third as Grant-Roy grounded out to second base to end the game.
For the Monks, Woodbrey went 3-4 with three RBI, Moran was 2-2 with two runs, Burdin went 2-3 with a run and an RBI and Keneborus was 2-5. Saint Joseph's stranded 10 base runners in the loss.
For the Engineers, Brian Doyle '11 went 2-3 with two runs scored and a pair of stolen bases and A.J. Hansborough '12 scored twice and also swiped two bags in the victory.
St. Joe's struck quickly in the nightcap, as Burdin led off the game with a double to right and scored when the next batter, Keneborus, hit a line drive up the middle. The Monks tacked on another run in the third, as Keneborus doubled and later scored on an infield ground-out to make it a 2-0 game.
SJC shortstop Dan Achorn '12 plated catcher Travis Adams '10 with a single in the bottom of the fourth to put the Monks on top 3-0, but the pesky Engineers chipped away at the deficit with an unearned run in the top of the fifth, as Carr led off with a single, stole second and scored on an error by Murray.
Chamberlain entered the game with one out in the top of the seventh after MIT scored a run on a bases-loaded hit batsman. The junior righty forced Tech to strand all three runners, as MIT slugger Ricardo Perez '13 stuck out and Hyatt, the game-one hero, popped up to second to end the game.
For the Monks, Keneborus went 2-3 with a run and an RBI and Pratt was 2-3 in the triumph.
The twinbill caps the regular season for the Monks, who captured the 2010 GNAC Championship over the weekend to earn an automatic qualifier into the NCAA DIII Tournament, which begins on May 19th. MIT will host Suffolk University on Saturday at 1:00 PM.


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M/I Homes (MHO) Hits New 52-week Low During February 11 SessionEquities Staff Follow |
M/I Homes (MHO) established a new 52-week low yesterday, and could be a company to watch at the open. After opening at $16.10, M/I Homes dropped to $15.59 for a new 52-week low. By the closing bell, the company's stock was at $15.76 a share for a loss of 3.84%.
Falling to a new 52-week low is never fun for company's shareholder, but, depending on who you ask, it can be either a buy or a sell signal. Someone bearish on the stock might see it reaching its lowest price in a year as a sign of growing downward momentum and make sure they sell their shares. Bulls, though, are more likely to see a new 52-week low as the stock hitting its low point and anticipate a bounce in the share price.
However one plays it, it's often a critical moment for any stock and should be noted by investors.
M/I Homes saw 109,751 shares of its stock trade hands, that's out of 24.65 million shares outstand. The stock has an average daily volume of 242,975 shares. After hitting a new 52-week low, M/I Homes enters the new trading day with a market cap of 388.47 million, a 50-day SMA of $19.89 and a 200-day SMA of $23.06
M/I Homes now has a P/E ratio of 9.8.
For a complete fundamental analysis analysis of M/I Homes, check out Equities.com's Stock Valuation Analysis report for MHO. To see the latest independent stock recommendations from Equities.com's analysts, visit our Research section.
M/I Homes Inc is a builder of single-family homes. It also provides financial services to support its homebuilding operations by providing mortgage loans and title services to the customers.
M/I Homes has 905 employees, is led by CEO Robert H. Schottenstein, and makes its home in Columbus, OH.
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Lydia Kann Nettler's forests of paper tell stories
Her latest installation integrates her mothers WWII experience with her own
Western Massachusetts-based artist and writer Lydia Kann Nettler creates environments made of paper and paper products. Her site-specific installations of sculptural and charcoal-drawn forest scenes include collaged prose that explores the impact of being the child of a Holocaust survivor, single parenthood, mental illness, and poverty.
Nettler's latest installation, "Embedded Legacies," which opens Oct 1 in the Kniznick Gallery of the Women's Studies Research Center, concerns itself with integration and transformation, integrating the story of her mother's experience during World War II into the daughter's present identity.
An opening reception will be held from 5 to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 4.
While at an artist residency in France this past spring, Nettler did substantial research into one of the mysteries of her heritage, asking "where was my mother during the War and how did she survive?" Nettler says that "while she uncovered some information, she is still engaged in the search and in making sense out of the story."
Nettler's black-and-white installations—moving from representational to abstract, from two dimensions to three—surround the viewer, creating a haunting and mysterious environment that speaks to the experience of a first-generation American woman struggling to find her identity. Tree to paper to story is a natural progression which comes full circle as Nettler's stories are grafted back onto her paper trees.
Nettler has exhibited her installations widely in New England and has created several public art projects. She also writes fiction under the name Lydia Kann and works as a therapist. She holds a B.A. from the University of California Los Angeles and an M.S.W. from the University of Connecticut and has studied art at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
The installation, which is free and open to the public, will remain in the gallery through Dec. 18. Gallery hours are Mondays through Fridays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and by appointment.
The exhibition was made possible by support from the Natalie Marcus Endowment for the Arts.
About the Women's Studies Research Center
The Women's Studies Research Center (WSRC) is a place where research, art and activism converge. Bringing together scholars, students and artists, the WSRC is a community that thrives on the sharing of knowledge and ideas. The WSRC is home to the Kniznick Gallery, which is committed to feminist exhibitions of artistic excellence that reflect the activities of the Women's Studies Research Center Scholars and engage communities within and beyond Brandeis University.
The center and the gallery are located at 515 South St., across from Brandeis/Roberts commuter rail stop. For more information, phone (781) 736-8102 or email email@example.com
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