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Request for ketchup on a Philly cheesesteak, leads to fight in Subway shop
I've ordered a Philly cheese steak before, and asked for it with no cheese. I afterwords put ketchup on it. I realize it defeated the purpose of a "cheese" steak, but it tasted good.
I should really update this more
Clearly both of them are having a bad day which it might not gotten that way if one of them chose to just let it slide.
Most fights nowadays are caused by just a misunderstanding and stressful aggressive response so sad.
As a employee in a food establishment i think he should just respected the customer.
deleting the acount ASAP... Thank you Everyone!
I used to work as a cashier at a small gas station. The corporate policy basically said customer is king, kiss their ass.
The store manager however, held another view point. If anybody started giving lip, and became irrational and would not calm down, tell them to leave. They start being wise asses? Tell them to leave. If they disrespect you? Tell them to leave.
One instance, I had this young man, probably late teens early 20's come into the store. There was 1 customer at the register, 2 others behind that person. Man becomes the third in line. I am doing stocking, cleaning, the basic day to day stuff. Kid starts hollering at me to get at the register to help out my co-worker, I told him he isn't going to wait long, and I don't go to assist unless there is at least 5 people in line (keep in mind, gas station lines don't last long, usually about 10-15 seconds long for cash gas purchases. 30 -1 min for for CC purchases. )
This kid starts scoffing and starting up a whine fest. 2 more customers come in, and get in Line, so I go to the register and and specifically call the kid over, instead of next person in line. At this point, I was still going to process his purchase, but as he was walking to the register, going "Finally!" and made a smart ass remark. Started taking his items while he was checking out the lighter rack, then when he looked back and tossed the light on a now empty counter, I picked up the lighter and told him the store is refusing to make a sale to him and he needs to leave. The look on his face was like shock, and a little bit of whiney face going on. As he left the 3 men that were in front of him just busted out laughing. The 2 new customers where going like, "Wtf did I just walk into?"
The store lost of lot of assholes, but at the same time we gained lots of regulars because word spread, respect is given as taken.
The corporate guys hated is and made demands that we start following the policy. But the boss man, he always stood firm about the whole respect deal. With sales increasing due to the higher regulars, he kept his job.
Evil and Good are subjective.Chaotic Neutral FTW!
Well if the weirdo wants ketchup then no one should stop him.
If I don't have to do it, I won't. If I have to do it, I'll make it quick.
Putting ketchup on a Philly cheesesteak is a sin in some places. The customer should've been arrested.
Haha, Subway doesn't carry Ketchup. It's not like the employee was refusing to put ketchup on because of taste or something. SUBWAY JUST DOESN'T HAVE ANY KETCHUP. In order to comply with the request, the employee would need to go to the grocery store, pick up some ketchup, and then come back, which is ridiculous for a minimum wage employee, and ridiculous as a business strategy. If Subway bought ketchup, IT WOULD GO BAD BEFORE IT COULD BE USED. They lose money by carrying it, because almost nobody wants to put ketchup on a fucking turkey sandwich.
The employee probably didn't know how to explain this to the guy, and the guy took it as a personal insult, possibly thinking that he was denied ketchup out of spite. I dislike people that think the customer is always right, especially customers that think the customer is always right. I've found that with most people though, if you just explain to them the reason that they're wrong, they either understand and accept it, or they get pissed off and leave. In the extreme cases, we have a customer that gets into a fight over ketchup.
To the OP, this has nothing to do with freedom, as the customer is free to go elsewhere if he is infuriated by a lack of ketchup. Remember that businesses are free to offer whatever condiments they want if they can stay in business. If you want ketchup at Subway, either get your own, or start a campaign to promote ketchup on philly-cheesesteak sandwiches. Subway does just fine -- even better than fine -- without offering ketchup.
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justanotherguy_2005 wrote:
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A business is not a democracy. It's private property. Your "freedom of choice" does not apply once you walk through their doors. Neither does your freedom of speech. They can refuse a customer anything. The only right you have is to take your business elsewhere (and to obtain what you paid for obviously). That's it.
Am I right or wrong?
In this case, you're wrong. Yes, a good employee would consider the "customer king", but they don't have to. And that's where you're wrong here.
Actually the employee has to abide by the company policy not his own. If the company wants the customers to get whatever they want within reason the employees must act in accordance with that or face the consequences. Subway allows you to modify any of your sandwiches however you want as long as you pay any additional costs that may be attached to your choices. The employee was wrong in this case not the customer.
It is the company's policy to not offer ketchup. Subway does not consider ketchup within reason, so they don't carry it. The article you posted verifies that. The employee was acting in accordance with the company policy of not offering ketchup. The employee was right in this respect, although perhaps he was wrong to reciprocate the customer's (probably) irrational behavior. See my above post for further reasons that you are wrong.
I just find a lot of retail/food services incompetent. That's why whenever I'm at a supermarket, I use the self-checkout machines. I hate interacting with people and I want to interact with them as minimal as possible.
Like one time, I walked into this inn, and the boss yelled, "What do you want?"... what kind of... language is that? Instead of asking, "How can I help you?"... it's "WHAT DO YOU WANT?"
I've never worked in hospitality, but I know that how you approach a customer can make or break the business.
I'm very sensitive to people's tone/behaviour, if I feel even a bit of hostility, I just leave the premise and go somewhere else where I can feel comfortable.
The way I hold you and the night just seems to fly
Ketchup? ON a Philly Cheesesteak?
Justice was served.
Girl slow down.. You're heaven sent.
Hmm, I don't think Subway has ever carried ketchup. But then again, I have not step foot in one in a very long time. According to the story, little is told about who started the argument, but the employee is mainly at fault if he really made death threats. My first thought was who argues over some condiment? How ignorant can you be dude?
I would have told the customer that we don't have any ketchup, but I can make you the sandwich and you can put some on when you buy it from inside the Wal-Mart. People make things so complicated, sheesh.
Should not our choices also be free?
Our choices are free. We have the freedom to choose what businesses we support and which one we don't. In a free market the business is also free to determine what goods it offers. Subway does not have a monopoly in the food service industry. The customer easily could have gone to another establishment.
In this case the employee should have been fired, regardless of who was right in the argument. This is because he was clearly creating a hostile environment for customers and coworkers; which no one has the right to do. The employee also had no right to prevent the customer from leaving. He should have been arrested for unlawfully detaining the customer.
I challenge you!
After looking into it more, and I have no idea why I did, the subway franchisee is the one who decides if ketchup is carried or not and so some subways will have it and some won't. This one clearly didn't but the whole thing has a lot of holes in information and logic. It seems both people were having a bad day to even get into the argument. On top of that the article says that the subway worker felt there was a gun threat and so he moved out from behind the counter to block the customer from leaving. I don't know about anyone else but it doesn't make sense to me to get in the way of a person you feel threatened by and that you believe has a gun. Blocking the customer even without any kind of threats being made doesn't even make sense though. Since it was also the customer who had to call 911 it seems the employee was even more to blame for things going as badly as they did but there is way too little information to really tell at this point.
They could have asked for A1 and the problem could have been resolved.
Still waiting for a reply from help area! And waiting and waiting...
"Would you like ketchup with your Italian BMT sub sir?"
"Why yes I would thank you!"
Things never heard in Subway ever.
The only thing I can think of is maybe the customer made some vague threat and headed for his car, and the employee thought he was going to get a gun from his car. From what I gather about Florida laws you can legally carry firearms in your vehicle.
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On top of that the article says that the subway worker felt there was a gun threat and so he moved out from behind the counter to block the customer from leaving. I don't know about anyone else but it doesn't make sense to me to get in the way of a person you feel threatened by and that you believe has a gun. Blocking the customer even without any kind of threats being made doesn't even make sense though.


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Every few weeks, the Baltimore Center for Design– a fledgling coalition of planners, architects, and other urbanists — holds a public discussion of urban design in Baltimore and beyond. Ben Stone, a planner from the Baltimore Development Corporation, hosted the fifth Design Conversation to a standing-room-only crowd at a local art-bar on February 4th. The stellar line-up of guest speakers included two particularly visionary presentations with bold implications for placemaking. Read Part 1.
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The key, he said, is to look beyond just the official parks and realize how many un-official green spaces there are in and around Baltimore as well. Then we can concentrate our future greening efforts in the spots where they will contribute the most to regional connectivity.
He showed the crowd a map of all of Baltimore's greenspaces, official and un-official, and then demonstrated how they might be connected to each other with green lines. "I want to stress that we have no idea what these green lines mean!" Ziger said. "They could be street trees and a good sidewalk. They could be a series of community gardens, a bike path, another park -- anything that makes sense for that community," he concluded.
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When I came across the Sonja Dress by Salme Patterns in early 2012, I had in mind to make it to attend a friend's wedding. I knew I would need to alter the pattern, due to my relatively short torso and because I'm just short. I shortened the bodice pieces a tiny bit and took in the side and back seams by quite a bit. And here is the result – a wearable muslin.
The pattern was easy to follow and construction fairly simple. I applied the all-in-one facing the Burdastyle method rather than the one suggested in the pattern instructions because I think it gives a neater finish.
I bought this lightweight blue and white polka-dotted voile because I thought it would be a fun challenge to match the dots. It was fiddly to match the polka dots at the centre back invisible zipper seam – it took me 4 attempts, but I think it was worth it.
You can see from the photos that there are still a few fit issues:
1. The bust darts are too low
2. There is excess fabric in the back bodice
… so things to work on before I sew the real thing.
I have already worn this dress heaps this summer because it's so breathable and comfortable. The silhouette is also warm-weather friendly, although the skirt can be a little sheer in certain types of light (the problem with voile…) The halter-styled neckline and the large polka dots remind me of dresses from the 90s, so popular with the hipsters of the 2012s. Just know that I'm channelling my inner hipster when I wear this dress, especially when teamed with those outrageous floral sunnies!
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May 29, 2013, 02.50 PMby carrie18584
Great job and your matching of the polka dots is amazing! I'm making the dress now and it definitely needs quite a bit of tweaking to get right
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very cute. great job
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love this version of the dress. looks beautiful on you.
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Jan 7, 2013, 08.52 AMby cynthia-1
Thanks everyone for all your kind comments. xoxo.
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Love this! I love that you matched the polka dots in the back! it's one of those things that you don't see in RTW garments. BEAUTIFUL!
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Very nice dress and hats off to you for matching the dots at the back zipper seam, that facinated me most :)
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Corrie Wallace has helped immigrant parents — from the Philippines, Mexico, Malawi, Russia, Poland, Pakistan and elsewhere — navigate the sometimes puzzling American public school system, giving them tools, as she says, to "help parents help their kids."
Wallace, 40, has been director of the Niles Township Schools' English Language Learners Parent Center in Skokie since it opened in 2008. Working with superintendents from the township's schools and partnering with community organizations, she has developed programs ranging from several levels of English classes to family literacy and computer instruction.
"We want to give people what they need so that they can go out and achieve their own objectives and goals and better themselves and their families," Wallace says.
In mid-July, her focus turns to a new job: the first director of equity and English Language Learners for Niles North and West high schools in District 219. It involves, she says, "looking at the curriculum, the students, the hiring, all pieces of the school system through a racial lens and seeing where there are areas of disproportionality, then making sure everyone has access to what they need to be successful, regardless of who they are or where they come from."
It will be a challenge. There are some 90 languages spoken in an area that is home to one of the largest concentrations of immigrants and refugees outside the city of Chicago.
Then again, Wallace's doesn't shy from challenges: "My father always said, if you're going to do something, you give it 110 percent or you don't do it at all ... but really (be) open to trying anything."
Born and raised in Skokie, Wallace is fluent in Spanish, graduated with a bachelor's degree in Spanish and women's studies from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, then added a master's in educational leadership from Western Michigan University. She has taught and volunteered in the U.S. and had teaching stints in Japan and Singapore. Wallace and her husband, Andre, have three children. Here's an edited transcript of a conversation with her.
Q: When you took the Parent Center job, were you were building a new program?
A: My job at the time was to work with the superintendents — 10 superintendents in four communities: Skokie, Morton Grove, Lincolnwood and Niles — and come up with programs to help parents learn how to navigate the American school system and access resources so their kids could be successful. … We started out with a relationship with Oakton Community College, where I provided space at the center, and they sent over a teacher to teach a family literacy class. … There are also community and high school volunteers who support programming as well.
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Sundays mean God, family -- and meatballs
As Mother's Day approaches each year, my thoughts take me back in time to my childhood and I reflect on the women in my family who played a major role in defining who I am today. The journey for me is reflective and spiritual.
I remember my grandmothers, my mother and my aunts, who were almost all Italian immigrants. They settled in America and raised their families in Italian neighborhoods where learning how to speak English was not a priority. All the vendors, Italian immigrants themselves, came to the house offering all the goods you needed to feed your family. The men went off to the workforce and the women remained behind to care for the home and the children.
My sister and I grew up in a house built by my paternal grandfather, a mason by trade. It was a home where three generations lived and it is of these years that my memories are most vivid.
My paternal grandmother (after whom I am named) bore six children: five boys and a girl. Every Sunday, the pasta board came out to the kitchen table and the ritual of making the ravioli and the pot of "gravy" began. I was always amazed at how she never measured anything. She poured flour on the board, made a well in the center for the liquids and skillfully blended the two until it made a huge mound of dough.
On Sunday, there was also always a double batch of fried meatballs, some for the gravy and some in a huge bowl on the table. Sundays in my home were all about God and family. My cousins and I went to church, attended religious education classes and returned home to nestle with the family and every Sunday, all of the grandchildren were brought to the house to visit my grandparents ... hence the meatballs on the table.
If I close my eyes and think hard enough, I almost can taste those meatballs still. To this day, I won't eat a meatball once it goes into the gravy.
My mother and my aunts were brought into the fold of cooking Neapolitan style early on. As we grew older, the granddaughters (12 of us in total) were called to participate. We, of course, were given the most menial of tasks and although we may have wanted to take on a higher level of responsibility, it was not allowed until we mastered each step in the preparation.
Being bold, even as a child, I can remember being resentful of the process and always feeling like it was my penance for something I had done. But as I grew older, I realized that it was the appropriate method of teaching because it ensured that when my time came to take their place, I could perform with the same mastery as my grandmother, my mother and my aunts.
When my grandmother passed some 40 years ago, I asked for her pasta board and rolling pin and they take residence in my house to this day. A couple of times a year, the pasta board takes its place on my dining room table and I sift through the old recipes and decide which will grace the holiday tables.
As I place the pasta board on the table, I run my fingers over the little cuts in the board. The cuts represent the marks made by the cutting wheel my grandmother used when she made the ravioli. I think about my time in her kitchen using a fork to be sure the ravioli were sealed properly.
As I prepare the recipes, I can almost feel the presence of my mother and my aunts as they guide me through the process. I can almost hear the conversation, the laughter; and experience the camaraderie that was shared by all of them.
Every now and then my sister and two of my cousins join me and grandma's pasta board takes a road trip. We stand where our mothers and ancestors once stood and we take our place in the family history. We have all matured into responsible adults, as mothers, aunts, and grandmothers. The central focus of our lives remains God and family.
There may not be a big bowl of fried meatballs on the table on Sunday, but the memory ever remains.
So on this Mother's Day, I celebrate the women in my life who contributed to who I am today and I smile as I remember each and every one of them.
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For any ski fans in the northern hemisphere, there is one burning question on the mind right now: where's the snow? It's been a long time since the last of the resorts closed their doors across Europe and north America and for diehard snow-sport fans, the arrival of the winter season cannot come soon enough. With the help of some of our Suunto ambassadors, we list some fail safe options for early season snow.
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Where: Sunshine Village, Canada
Opens: 14th November
Why: Despite the name, Sunshine Village is also known for its large deposits of the white stuff. Says ski mountaineer and Suunto ambassador Greg Hill: "It boasts the longest non-glacial skiing season in North America. The Rockies have gotten off to a great early season start," he adds.
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Where: Whistler, Canada
Opens: 27th November
Why: Thanks to the Horstman glacier, there's always great skiing to be had in Whistler. "Due to the type and amounts of snow that Whistler gets its easy to go from zero to hero in a couple of days of coastal snow storms," says Greg.
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Where: Lyngen Alps, Norway
Opens: November
Why: Situated 300 km north of the Arctic Circle, it's safe to assume that the Lyngen Alps are a reliable bet for snow conditions. The dramatic and wild scenery – there are no lift-served areas – make it a real magnet for adventurers. Says Suunto ambassador Emelie Forsberg: "It's a winter paradise up there now and often in end of October beginning of November it's snowing a lot up there! I have had four years of that experience now! But if you want more light I recommend the south of Norway – the Jotunheimen or Myrkdalen."
Where: Tignes, France
Opens: 4th October (glacier), 29th November main resort
Why: Says Emelie: "If you want to ski early in the season Tignes is a safe bet because you can always ski on the glacier if it's not snow all the way down to the village – which it can be because the village is at 2,000 meters!
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Where: Kitzsteinhorn, Austria
Opens: Already open
Why: "It's offers great skiing almost all the year thanks to a big glacier," says Austrian pro freeskier Alois Bickel, a team-member of Salomon S-Force. The Kitzsteinhorn offers skiing up to 3,000 m. There's also another reason for visiting. Says Alois: "It's also a nice region for wellness spas."
Southern Hemisphere
Where: Bariloche, Argentina
Closes: soon
Why: Nature may be calling time on all southern hemisphere skiing but as of November, conditions were still good in Bariloche. Says Greg: "It appears that they are having and incredible end of the season. There is still tonnes of great skiing to be had down there. The alpine area is still well covered and skiing really well."


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Mr. and Mrs. Kenton Ladenburger of Pratt announce the engagement of their daughter, Amber Ladenburger to Chaun Johnson, son of Mr. John Garcia and Mrs. Julie Garcia of Denver, Colo.
Amber is a graduate of Pratt High School class of 2007, and a 2011 graduate of Fort Hays State University. She is employed as a sonographer for Shawnee Mission Medical Center.
Chaun is a 2008 graduate of Cherry Creek High School and is currently taking classes through Fort Hays State University towards a criminal justice degree.
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We love kitchen tours, here at The Kitchn, and while we enjoy peeking into people's homes, from time to time we also visit other, more unusual kitchens. Storm Peak Laboratory was definitely one of those.
Storm Peak Lab is at the top of a mountain in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and at any given time it is home to a dozen (or more) scientists doing short-term research projects at the top of the mountain. These projects range from measuring snow grain size with massively expensive pieces of equipment to tracking the effects of beetles on the local pine trees. There are also ongoing, long-term projects to track moisture and pollution in the air.
Since researchers regularly stay up there overnight, and the two scientists who care for the station spend 75% of their time there during the busy winter season, this place has a real kitchen! It's not much to look at; there are no granite countertops or stainless steel refrigerator. It was definitely designed and implemented for pure functionality, on a research budget!
But this kitchen is the heart of the place — maybe more so than any other kitchen I've ever seen.
Everything happens in this kitchen: From research meetings, to lunchtime cooking, to last-minute wiring of expensive equipment. At this altitude, and in this cold, hot food and drinks are a frequent priority, too. You burn calories fast, working out in the 8-foot-deep snow!
And since this station is at the top of a mountain, every resource means something different than it does down at sea level. The little station is perched next to a ski lift, and at an altitude of 10,500 feet. During the winter it is only accessible by snowmobile, skis, or snowcat. Every piece of food has to be trucked up in the snowcat, which is a cross between a snowmobile and a bulldozer. Water for washing-up comes from melted snow, shoveled laboriously into huge melting tanks and then purified through a series of filters. Drinking water is sent up separately in bottles.
My husband had a week of fieldwork at Storm Peak Lab last month, and one day I tagged along and worked in the warm cozy kitchen, looking out the giant picture windows. This kitchen may be small and basic, but it feeds people so well, and it has a view anyone would swoon over!
Gannet Hallar and Ian McCubbin are a married couple who act as caretakers of the station, overseeing everything from government-funded research projects to equipment transportation to the weekly menus for visiting scientists. They are great hosts, and obviously very fond of their little aerie on top of the mountain.
I asked Gannet and Ian a few questions about the kitchen and how it works for them — here are their answers!
1. What's your cooking style?
Americana; short ribs, stews, bbq chicken…
2. What inspires your kitchen?
At the lab, time is always in short demand! So speed inspires this kitchen.
3. What is your favorite kitchen tool or element?
When cooking for 9 to 12 people in such a small space, the crock-pot often saves the day. At the lab, we must discourage frying foods, due to the small space and lack of ventilation. The building is well-sealed both to keep us warm and cozy, but also to prevent the odors of the kitchen outside to contaminate our air samples.
4. Best cooking advice or tip you ever received:
My sister, Tracy, is a professional organizer (DClutterfly) and her tips on eliminating clutter are essential in this crazy/busy kitchen.
5. Biggest challenge in your kitchen:
By far our biggest challenge is space! Often we have 5 people trying to fix individual lunches in this small space. It is constantly a dance around the refrigerator.
6. Biggest indulgence:
Without a doubt, our Nespresso coffee machine and milk frother are the best! This makes a great, hot cappuccino in seconds.
7. Dream tool or splurge:
We are dreaming and looking for a new refrigerator — definitely need a larger one.
8. What are you cooking this week?
This week, we have a graduate class from the University of Colorado visiting and pasta is on the menu.
9. What cookbook has inspired you the most?
We love all of Mark Bittman's cookbooks, especially "The Minimalist Cooks at Home," which works well at Storm Peak Lab. Baking is obviously difficult at 10,500 ft. The best cookbook that I have found is "Pie in the Sky" by Susan Purdy.
10. What's the most memorable meal you've ever cooked in this kitchen?
A few years ago, we had a graduate student, Subhashree, living at Storm Peak Lab. She brought a container of Indian spices and made chai everyday. It was wonderful and perfect to take away the chill after working outdoors.
Thanks so much, Gannet and Ian!
Have you ever encountered a kitchen in an extreme or unusual location? I always find it fascinating to see how people cook in unusual places, and how much the very act of cooking and eating keeps people in extreme situations grounded and comfortable. The kitchen is the heart of the home — and, in this case, the research station!
We're always looking for real kitchens from real cooks.
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|2010-02-06, 03:33
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I was shocked when I read that it could only run one application at a time, I read it in a news paper report of the presentation
Having multiple applications running is a must
Also the aspect ratio for movies is bad as well, let alone the darned thing cannot handle playing one that is of suberb quality
|2010-02-07, 01:14
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Think about it. My grandma is running her iTune app or just running an MP3 tune ... and decides she wants to browse something she just thought of. Or wants to email something that just popped into her head.
The iPad apparently can't do that - that IS the typical scenario for 'appliance people'.
Help me here... in my local survey, NONE of my computer-illiterate friends say they'll buy a device that can't handle more than one thing at a time. At my age, I have a fair number of peers who qualify as compu-challenged.
The -save- here would be if there were a single executable they were developing (like the old Lotus Symphony or a mutated OpenOffice) that handled these things. Haven't heard anything about that though.
I can think of all sorts of *business* uses for an iPad. It'd be like a totally reprogrammable app hand-held device for warehousing, inventory, pharmacy apps, etc. Run the one business app and its good.
|2010-02-07, 19:26
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I'm not sure if the iPad can play music while doing other things. The iPhone and iPod Touch can, but those devices don't require an app to do it, while the iPad uses the iTunes App to play music. And since it doesn't allow more than one app to run at a time... the iPad may have far less functionality there than the iPod Touch does.
|2010-02-08, 18:00
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If iPad doesn't satisfy you, there is always the Axiotron Modbook, which is essentially is a modified Macbook with a Wacom Tablet Screen put on it. The only problem is that it's alot heavier and it uses a pen, but it's more ideal for taking notes or photoshop.
|2010-02-09, 00:56
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What a lot of my friends who are artists would like to see is something very much like the Modbook, but lighter and with better battery life.
The problem with Apple is much like other stylish brands, they're often more flash than substance. Apple computers doesn't generally give you a very good price-performance ratio. You're paying a significant premium for the weight of the brand rather than the guts of the system.
I'm not terribly fond of Apple's aesthetics myself, but I have to admit their hardware is quite well put together. I personally prefer Sony's hard-edged "Eighties Time Warp" style, or the Thinkpad's no-nonsense, means-business plainness to the Star Trek-esque curves and bare minimalism of Apple designs.
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|2010-02-09, 03:23
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The iPad isn't amazing and mind-blowing because the iPhone already was. Some UI designers have been frothing at the mouth for years, lost in visions of "appliance devices". It was a pretty stupid idea... until capacitive touch screens on mobile devices made it practical to convert one device that itself wasn't inherently good at multitasking could itself become multiple appliance devices.
The iPhone, for its flaws, changed how people interacted with data. No, they weren't using it in new ways, but they were integrating it into their lives in ways they hadn't. Internet/email/music/GPS maps and routing weren't just something a phone "could do" (with enough fiddling and head-to-desk impact). They just were. The functionality was constantly available in a usable fashion.
And, it turns out, for a lot of people, the iPhone was almost enough to take care of their needs. A bit bigger, and it is enough. Enough to replace a PC for some people, and enough to replace a laptop for a lot of people (nearly the entire netbook market). We're really talking about a revolution in user-interface here.
To the more rabid complainers: The iPhone doesn't do everything you want? That doesn't make it garbage... that makes it targeted at a demographic that is not you. (Seriously, to cast insults because you aren't the target market takes some ego...)
It may multitask the basic tasks that 95% of people need multitasked, but if I'm going to haul anything around the way I do my laptop, it would need to do the things I need a laptop for. I'm not the market for it, either. (Heh, well, I use a laptop for way more than the iPad could do even if it multitasked.) I'm not fond of Apple's strong-lock on the app market or lack of multitasking (among other things...). I understand why they do it, but I disagree with them. That means I'll tell my mom that the iPad is completely awesome... and if I think I need a "tablet device" I'll hold out for an Android driven one.
From my point of view, the iPad rates a "Well, how about that". It's not going to change the face of computing... yet. When it does (and I think it will make a significant impact over time), I'll be on another platform. The big news out of the iPad is twofold:
a) PA Semi is making custom chips for Apple. This was expected from previous reports, but kind of a Big Deal. It rumbles interesting things about the future of the chip manufacturing market.
b) The future of ebooks is now visible. Apple chose epub. Mobi's lost any significant traction it had outside of Amazon. I'm hoping, really hoping, that Apple drags the book market toward freedom from DRM the way he did music. For any complaints about Steve Jobs, I will always respect the gutsy, masterful play he made in forcing the hands of the entire music industry to drop DRM. We were probably saved around a decade of struggle thanks to that... and that's something he personally made happen.
|2010-02-09, 07:06
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I just thought of a demographic this could appeal to.
Housewives too dumb to use laptops.
"Oh, what did Billy want me to do? Oh yeah order tickets on fandango!" *manipulates maxiiPad to get online, drops it on floor and breaks it*
Seriously, what in the hell demographic does this pertain to that can't use a laptop as a cheaper and more capable substitute? It's not like it's harder to use.
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|2010-02-09, 09:53
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Constructive criticism is good since you don't have to like the product, but posting outright flamebait isn't, which is a reason I don't have a particular liking to fanboys. You have to realize that without Apple, stuff like Android, Palm Pre and even Windows 7 won't exist since Apple drives competition, which is a good thing.
|2010-02-09, 11:40
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I have an Ipod and I think it is a good piece of equipment before I bought my PSP. That is just about the only Apple product I own, and the only bone I have to pick is with the customer service in my region : there are only a couple of providers on the entire island.
Buy a Mac and give it a try, you would be surprised by how much more efficient it is for graphic design than normal PCs.
|2010-02-09, 11:52
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Add third-party x86 system hardware support for OSX. Stop blasting Hackintoshers, but praise them! Get OSX working on all Intel x86-64 platforms... and how about AMD while you're at it?
Raise the price of the OS, since it's no longer tied to Apple hardware (while continuing to sell for bargain-basement prices to those who buy Apple hardware), but be cheaper than Windows 7. And use your awesome marketing muscle to show the world that Windows 7 is largely an Expy of OSX in the first place.
The way Apple's puttering along now, they'll never have much more than 10-15% of the market. Does anyone really think Microsoft would have as much of the OS market if they only allowed Windows to be installed on Dells?
If Apple manages to get a good chunk of the OS market, we might see more games ported to OSX, which would be a great thing for gamers who are fed up with Windows and its various instabilities.
|2010-02-09, 13:37
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Linux is a great alternative to Mac OS X for those who aren't willing to spend the time getting it to work since they are both POSIX and Unix like OSes. However, I did managed to get Mac OS X Tiger to work in 2006 on a old Dell Desktop I had, which sparked my interest in switching to Macs.
|2010-02-09, 13:47
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I know what you're saying, but things are different now that Apple is using Intel based hardware. When Apple still used PowerPC processors, it was different. There was a stronger reason to lean Apple, because not only did you get a different OS experience, but a wholly different architecture and different type of performance.
I kinda wish Apple would have stuck with the Power architecture, but I know why they left, due to the G5's heat problems and inability to stick it in a laptop.
Basically Apple's holding onto their market share with anti-competitive practices similar to what Microsoft did with Internet Explorer years ago. That's not cool. They're making money because of the legal fuckery they do with OSX being only legally permitted on approved hardware. That basically enables them to price their systems uncompetitively and still sell them. An enviable position for sure, but kind of shady.
In 2010, choosing an Apple computer means choosing OSX. The hardware is virtually identical to a PC these days, and usually Apple charges much, much more for their hardware than other hardware vendors. For the same price as a MBP, I can get a Sony Vaio SR with 40% more power for less money. And Sony is considered an expensive brand, too.
Because of these things, it does not really surprise me Apple can't manage to get much more of the market.
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|2010-02-10, 03:37
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There are two major problems with Apple releasing a PC-friendly OSX:
1. They, in all honesty, probably can't afford the driver support. Even with no work to stop hardware from working, there's a lot of incompatible hardware. An Apple certification program could help substantially, but even then, I'm not entirely sure Apple is equipped to handle the support necessary to make this work. And of course there's the issue of the amount of sales they'll lose on their Mac line if they do this.
2. Far more importantly, Apple's not doing bad. Yes, they have a crappy share of the desktop market (which they don't even seem to care much about, especially given that their Mac Pro didn't see a video card update for two years, and that was a x300 series card), and of course they don't have any notebooks under $1000, but for notebooks in their price range, at least in the states, they are slaughtering.
At the moment, it seems that we'll be perpetually in the spot where Microsoft rules over the low end notebook sector and desktops while Apple continues to gain ground in the high end notebook sector.
I still think it wasn't a great idea to release a tablet without the semblance of flash or even a book-friendly screen, but I'm sure it'll do well among the iDevice market, so it's really hard to fault them. Then again, it could easily end up like the AppleTV, where it's a niche device at best. Either way, I plan on going to whoever gets a nice sub-$400 ($399 is fine) tablet with ION or Tegra (or equivalent chipset). PixelQi or Mirasol both look nice (tho I worry about what seems to be a slow refresh rate on the latter), but I'll settle for regular LCD if it's under $250. At $500 for a 10" iPod Touch tho, their pad's just not for me.
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Leakage of sensitive information has always existed, but with the advent of search engines it becomes a bigger problem. Now sensitive information is incredibly easy to retrieve, even by beginners. Many people blame the search engines for this, but in most cases search engines just do their job; they index whatever they find on the servers over the internet.
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I am afraid that most often it is not Google's fault, because Google's spider will not break into an office and index files on a computer that is not connected to the internet or are properly isolated from the web. Google's task is only to index files on web servers, and the fact that it finds so much sensitive information means only one thing. Those who are responsible for keeping this information away from Google's crawlers have not done their job.
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Aside from stolen databases of credit card numbers and social security numbers, it is possible to perform simple queries on Google and get juicy info about people and organizations of interest to you. Also, there are combinations of search keywords and commands that reveal another type of sensitive information: passwords, the schedule of your company, shopping details of your customers, and more. For instance, if you write a query like "inurl:password" you will quickly discover URLs where a password string is contained (most likely unencrypted). You may even see the user name itself. When optimized pages, you probably do not have such keywords in mind; however, you wouldn't be happy to top a listing like that, right? Maybe you as a SEO expert knew that URLs are important for success with search engines, but you are not focusing on security, right?
If you are interested in more details about what is possible to find on an unprotected site, a place where a lot of information is gathered is the web site of Johnny Long. He is an author of books about Google hacking. His site is http://johnny.ihackstuff.com, and an especially informative section is the Google Hacking Database.
Even if security is not your focus, some precautions in dealing with people's private data is always necessary. Even if Google themselves does not index this information or you manage to remove it from their index, there are enough hackers in the world that will take advantage of somebody else's negligence and ignorance. It does not hurt to make some efforts to secure your site and, above all, to make sure that security is working.How Can I Prevent Sensitive Data From Appearing on Google?
On one hand, the measures to prevent sensitive data from appearing on Google depend on what kind of site you have and what applications are running on it. On the other, there are measures that are universal no matter what kind the site is.
{mospagebreak title=Protect Your Data from Search Engines}Do Not Put Things on the Web You Wouldn't Like Your Competitors To See
This is a really simple tactic and it is flawless. If you do not put sensitive data on a server that is connected to the internet, then there is no way for Google to find it and index it. Your web server and online database are not the best hiding places for your sensitive data! It might be difficult if you have only one computer or if your server is connected to an intranet, but still the risks of exposing sensitive information are enough of a reason to buy a second computer or to physically separate your web server from the intranet. One piece of sensitive data that you should never put on a server, which is connected to the internet, is a file where you store passwords and user names. As you can see from the previous section, putting files with passwords and user names is a costly, yet common, mistake.Configure the robots.txt File
The properly configured robots.txt file is a very important tool to protect your server files and directories from being indexed by Google. Google respects the instructions in the robots.txt file, which cannot be said for some of the other search engines. There are some controversial issues around the robots.txt file; by listing which files and directories you do not want to be indexed and putting this listing on your web server, you place information about what you do not want people to see right in the hands of hackers. But in any case, it is much better to have a properly configured robots.txt file to tell the search engines what to exclude than not to have such a file and open up the information to anyone who can search for it.
Tip: Traditionally, the robots.txt file is configured to exclude files or directories and bots that reap e-mail addresses are forgotten. Since e-mail addresses are private information and the reaped e-mail addresses are most often used for spam, you may want to include an instruction to tell mail-reaping robots that they are not welcome.
There are many aspects to consider when configuring the robots.txt file, and a detailed explanation of how to do it is outside the scope of this article. Two good places where you can find more information about the robots protocol, the robots.txt file and all the things around them are: http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html and http://www.google.com/remove.html.
{mospagebreak title=Protect Your Data from Search Engines Continued}Remove Content From Google's Index
Although it is often no use to cry over spilled milk, contacting Google and following their instructions helps. Most of the tasks that you have to do are performed via the robots.txt and http://www.google.com/remove.html. That is the place to see what you can exclude from their index, like entire sites, parts of sites, snippets, cached pages, dead links, images.Secure Your Public Servers and Operating System
If your public servers and the operating systems they are running on are not secured, the robots.txt file is of little help. Although Google will keep to the instructions in the robots.txt file and will not index specified files, there are other crawlers on the web that will take advantage of the files they find on your computer. Regardless of the fact that you are telling them in the robots.txt file to keep away, they do not all listen. It is a wise choice to use password-protected folders for especially sensitive data. This definitely helps in keeping privacy, no matter if Google or another search engine are involved as intermediaries or someone directly goes to your computer to hunt for stuff.
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If your site has a database as a backend, you need to protect it as well. There are many techniques that exploit vulnerabilities in databases and use SQL injection in order to get access to sensitive data. Depending on which database you are running, the measures that you need to take and the exact steps that are to be performed vary; in any case, applying the latest patches is a must. Also, you may need to talk to your web developer if possible to do it, but a second database that is not accessible from the net could be a wise choice for keeping sensitive data and retrieving it by authorized individuals when necessary. Again, your Web developer is the guy or girl to ask about how to hide columns with sensitive data to exclude them from possible searches.Whose Job Is It?
At first sight, most of the tasks that need to be performed in order to secure a site from disclosing sensitive information seem to be a job more for the system administrator than for the web marketer or the SEO expert. While it is true that it really requires some knowledge and skills in system administration, most of these tasks are not that difficult and can be performed by the SEO expert, or together with the system administrator. And if, as it happens very often, you are both webmaster and SEO expert or are optimizing your own site, then the exclamation "But it is not my job!" becomes absolutely pointless.
Many of the techniques that are used to check the security of sites (or to take advantage of any security oversight) are often called "Google hacking," They can be used both by potential hackers and by you. Needless to say, it is much better that you first use them to discover any potential holes than if hackers come first. What is more, very often the measures needed to secure your web server and the pages on it are neither difficult, nor time-consuming, especially if you use automated tools to do the checks. There are several tools for performing automated tests for Google hacking: SiteDigger, Gooscan, WebInspect, and AppDetective. You may want to consider trying several of them in order to see if your site is vulnerable.


text: There is an unusually high frequency of torsion dystonia in Panay. Of the 28 Filipino cases, 23 (82%) are from the island of Panay and 19 of the 23 (82%) are from the province of Capiz. The 28 cases belong to 25 families. Six sets of brothers are noted. All are males Pedigree analysis reveals six families with several members affected. Two families show features suggesting possible sex-linked recessive transmission, a mode of inheritance previously undescribed in the literature The clinical features of the cases seen in this series differ from previously described cases in the literature in several aspects : (a) sex preponderance - all males; (b) age at onset - older age onset, mean 31; (c) hereditary - possible sex-linked recessive transmission; (d) spasmodic eye blinking as first symptom in four patients.(Auth. Sum.)


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this morning, the sun is shining, the birds are chirping and tails are wagging!!!!! first dog Bo stays in the White House… Big Bird is happy… NO MORE ADS… Landslide. #Obama2012
Last night Ohio and many other states showed the country that our democracy is not for sale.
To the President…"When you were elected in 2008, you inspired the world with a call to take responsibility for the problems we face as global citizens. Since then, you have made earnest efforts to live up to that great hope and trust placed in you by the American public. I believe you have been re-elected now in recognition of that effort." — the Dalai Lama."
WOMEN, WE DID IT!!! 18 women were elected to the Senate. That has never been done before.
Democrats don't have to cheat to win


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Eleanor L. Beehler, 87, of Henryville, died Thursday, June 20, at her daughter's home in Smithfield Township. She was the widow of Robert L. Beehler who died April 23, 1997.
Born on Nov. 29, 1925, she was one of nine children to the late Claude E. and Sadie (Cramer) Metzgar. Born and raised in Analomink, she then lived at Pokona Farm in Bartonsville for eight years before moving to Henryville, where she lived the rest of her life.
Eleanor worked at the former Ronson Corp. in Delaware Water Gap for 16 years, also in the Prothonotary's office at the Monroe County Courthouse and as a secretary for the local U.S. Army recruiter.
She was a member of St. John's E.C. Church in Bartonsville, where she was awarded for singing in the choir for 50 years.
As a very dedicated volunteer to the Democratic party, she worked at the election polls and was awarded by the Pennsylvania Voter Hall of Fame for voting consecutively for 50 years.
Eleanor was an avid Phillies fan; enjoyed crossword puzzles and loved animals.
Surviving are two daughters, Lana Kay Argot and her husband, Howard, of Dawson, and Dixie Lynn Bender and her husband, John, of Stroudsburg; two grandchildren, Rachel Argot of Greensburg, and Jay Argot and his wife, Monica, of Dawson; two great-grandchildren, Ethan J. and Evan J. Argot, both of Dawson; a sister, Irene M. Besecker of Analomink; two sisters-in-law, Mabel Metzgar and Mildred Metzgar, both of Analomink; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by two sisters, Belva Fish and Velma M. Frantz and five brothers, Maurice E. "Babe" Metzgar, Clair E. "Cuke" Metzgar, Wayne D. Metzgar, Lloyd Metzgar and Mitchell Metzgar.
There will be a viewing from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday, June 23, at the William H. Clark Funeral Home, 1003 Main St., Stroudsburg. The funeral service will begin at 2 p.m. Monday, June 24, at St. John's E.C. Church, Custard Road Bartonsville with the Rev. Paul J. Miller officiating. Burial will follow in Custards Cemetery, Bartonsville.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial remembrances be made to St. John's E.C. Church, 6014 Custard Road, Stroudsburg, PA 18360.
William H. Clark Funeral Home
1003 Main St., Stroudsburg
Eleanor L. Beehler
Eleanor L. Beehler, 87, of Henryville, died Thursday, June 20, at her daughter's home in Smithfield Township. She was the widow of Robert L. Beehler who died April 23, 1997.


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Editorial: A nice place not to live?
Albany County lets violators of a residency policy off the hook, but keeps the rule.
How about creating a policy that's enforceable, and that everyone can respect?
Considering how loosely Albany County's residency requirement has been enforced, it made sense, in a way, for county legislators to throw up their hands and give everyone who violated it a pardon.
If only the legislature had admitted that the policy is fundamentally flawed, and had come up with a more rational one.
And if only there wasn't the cloud of a political deal hanging over this. We'll probably never know if Council 82, which represents 270 officers at the county jail, gave a $10,000 campaign donation to the county legislature's chairman, Shawn Morse, as a quid pro quo shortly before the legislature's vote, or if it was just an oddly-timed coincidence.
The county has had a rule for 19 years requiring its employees to be Albany County residents. Dozens of the county's 2,100 current employees, and perhaps hundreds over the years, are said to have violated it. Yet enforcement has been selective: few violators have been held accountable.
Some of those who got away with living out of the county for years appeared to have done so with a wink and a nod from higher-ups. A former Stop-DWI official, for example, claimed that her bosses, including former Sheriff James Campbell, told her it was OK to use bogus addresses; a disabled correction officer who was fired for living in Saratoga County also said officials in the sheriff's department knew all along.
He was among those who were let off the hook when the legislature last month pardoned any current violators, and said those who haven't yet been caught can keep their jobs.
Going forward, though, the county plans to keep the rule, applying it only to new hires and anyone seeking a promotion. Besides the effect on morale of creating two classes of employees, this reaffirmation of a policy that hasn't worked for nearly two decades raises the question: how long will this attempt last? What, then, if the county finds the ideal candidate for a job just across the county line? What about years from now, when the legislature finds another raft of side deals?
We understand the philosophy behind this — that government employees should live in and have a stake in the communities they govern and collect a paycheck from.
Perhaps the rule has been so widely disregarded because it is unnecessarily broad and unwieldy. Wouldn't it make more sense to apply it only to people whose proximity to their jobs is essential — such as police and firefighters, say — and to key leaders who create the policies that affect the lives of county residents?
If the legislature wants more rank-and-file employees to live in Albany County, it could offer an incentive, such as extra points on civil service exams for residents, similar to what is offered veterans, so they would have a leg up in hiring and promotions.
Oh, and one more thing: Whatever the county does, it would be nice if it could happen without any money changing hands. No matter how coincidental that may be.


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Plainedge High School students join with Rebuilding Together to help restore homes of underprivileged families in their community
This past April, the Plainedge High School chapter of the English Honor Society coordinated with the Long Island chapter of Rebuilding Together. Together, the two groups succeeded in helping to restore homes of underprivileged families and elders.
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By EconMatters, Aug. 19, 2012 The big buzz about the debt-embattled Euro Zone on an otherwise quiet Sunday came from German news magazine Der Spiegel that ECB is considering measures to cap the borrowing costs of the crisis-central PIIGS countries. According to Bloomberg, The European Central Bank is considering setting limits on yields of euro area sovereign debt by pledging unlimited bond purchases, Germany's Spiegel magazine reported without saying where it obtained the information. The policy will be decided at the September meeting of the ECB's governing council, Spiegel said. Earlier this month, U.S. Treasury Secretary Geithner has already put on the pressure saying "the eurozone must take steps including bringing down interest rates in the countries that are reforming." With the PIIGS sovereign bond yields rising to unsustainable levels (See Chart Below), it is understandable why ECB resorts to this "big bazooka" plan partly making good on ECB President Draghi's bold promise to do "whatever it takes" to save euro. However, it also demonstrates how the Euro Zone seems to be at its wit's end to effectively restore market confidence. Instead of simply a problem of higher bond yield, central to this crisis is PIIGS nations have had years of excessive spending relative to revenues, If these debt-problematic countries have control of their own currency, then they might be able to follow the debt restructuring model such as Argentine to slowly dig themselves out of the hole. However, this is not the case for the Euro Zone. This sugar-pill proposal of "unlimited bond purchases," if implemented, will most likely relieve the rate pressure in the short term, but the rudimentary issue is that the Euro Zone is nowhere near getting these PIIGS countries to really commit to getting spending under control. Now, ECB's balance sheet has ballooned to 3.087 trillion euros, or USD $3.8 trillion (See Chart Above), so the more important question is how much longer can ECB keep this bond buying spree? Eventually traders and bond vigilantes will call ECB's bluff dragging down the entire Euro Zone, and here are some likely events that would follow:
- The problematic nations could continue piling on debt with ECB as the "sugar daddy."
- ECB would continue wasting good money (ultimately from the European taxpayers) on bad "solutions," instead putting into promoting GDP growth.
- Even if PIIGS countries come to agreements on austerity measures, that would still take a decade before any meaningful signs of recovery.
- Europe would be pushed deeper into a recession or even a depression.
Since the Euro Zone is bound by a single currency, the member countries in the zone sink or swim together. Market fears of the bloc's difficulties have prompted Moody's to threaten cutting the hard working and earning Germany's AAA sovereign credit rating. For now, the Euro Zone will try to stay together for as long as they can. Kicking the can down the road is one thing world politicians love to do until it blows up in their faces, and that's when everything hits the fan-- fast and furious. © EconMatters All Rights Reserved | Facebook | Twitter | Post Alert | Kindle
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David Rakoff, the popular writer and radio personality, died yesterday of cancer, age 47. He was a frequent contributor to the radio show This American Life, with which he had been involved since its inception, as well as an award-winning essayist.
Last year, he won the highly acclaimedThurber Prize for American Humor for his final essay collection, "Half Empty." His first two books of essays, "Fraud" and "Don't Get Too Comfortable", won the Humor category of the Lambda Literary Awards celebrating excellence in LGBT literature.
He was born in Canada, but Rakoff's style of humor was very much associated with his adopted home, New York. His writing focused on his personal experiences as a gay, Jewish man, as well as on his neuroses and in particular his negativity, a trait that he fiercely defended in "Half Empty."
David Rakoff was friends with the writers Amy and David Sedaris. The latterdescribed Rakoff's work as "truly witty, almost in a lost, old-fashioned way."
His three essay collections were published over 11 years, a relatively low level of output that the writer Edward Champion, who met Rakoff several times, put down to "the high neuroses David brought to the writing process."
He also acted in Off-Broadway plays and movies. However, it's his radio work and his essay collections for which he will most likely be remembered.
David Rakoff was diagnosed with a malignant tumor in 2010. He had already beaten cancer once, aged 22, when he had had a form of lymphatic cancer. While undergoing chemotherapy for the tumor, he went on The Daily Show, where he told Jon Stewart, "The will to keep on going is incredibly strong... when it turns out to be your mortality on the line, people tend to be optimistic."
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Mary Charles Painter Hill of Winston-Salem passed away Tuesday, April 16, 2013, in her home, surrounded by her loving family after a brief illness.
Mary Charles Painter Hill of Winston-Salem passed away Tuesday, April 16, 2013, in her home, surrounded by her loving family after a brief illness.
The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Oak Forest United Methodist Church by the Rev. Darren Alexander. Burial will follow in the Oak Forest Cemetery.
The family will receive visitors from 6 until 8 p.m. Friday at Oak Forest United Methodist Church Family Life Center in Winston-Salem.
She was born Jan. 13, 1936, in Mount Holly to Houston and Grace Painter. When she was 9 years old, she went to live at N.C. Baptist Children's Home in Thomasville after the death of her parents. Mary graduated from Thomasville High School. At the Mills Home, she was active in music activities such as choir and piano. She was also a talented athlete where she excelled in softball and was named MVP of the basketball team.
Mary is survived by her devoted husband of 57 years, Claiborne Hill; three daughters, Sharon Henderson (Jeff) of Lexington, Diane Craver (Jeff) of Cary and Kim Phifer (Maurie) of Garner; one son, Mark Hill of Winston-Salem; seven grandchildren, Kari Henderson, Alexandria Phifer, Alianna Phifer, Amaris Phifer, Andre Phifer, Tyler Hill and Ethan Hill; great-aunt Ruby Toomey of Cary; and sisters-in-law Joyce Floyd and Dora Hathaway.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her brothers, Bill, Robert and Richard Painter; her sister-in-law, Helen Wilson; and her mother and father-in-law, Carlos and Emily Hill of Thomasville.
Mary was a beloved and faithful member of Oak Forest United Methodist Church where she was a member of the United Methodist Women and sang in the choir. She was also a devoted volunteer for Meals on Wheels. Mary spent 22 years at Midway Elementary School as a teacher's assistant and encourager of second-grade children in the classroom alongside Helen Bracey.
Memorials may be made to Oak Forest United Methodist Church Building Fund, 11461 Old U.S. Highway 52, Winston-Salem, NC 27107 or Hospice and Palliative Care Center, 100 Hospice Lane, Winston-Salem, NC 27103.
The family wishes to extend their sincere appreciation to Hospice and Palliative Care of Winston-Salem and Forsyth Medical Center, ninth floor.
Hayworth-Miller, Silas Creek Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Online condolences may be made at www.hayworth-miller.com.