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/usr/bin/rm [-f] [-i] file...
/usr/bin/rm -rR [-f] [-i] dirname... [file]...
/usr/xpg4/bin/rm [-fiRr] file...
/usr/bin/rmdir [-ps] dirname...
/usr/bin/rmdir [-eps] dirname...
The rm utility removes the directory entry specified by each file argument. If a file has no write permission and the standard input is a terminal, the full set of permissions (in octal) for the file are printed followed by a question mark. This is a prompt for confirmation. If the answer is affirmative, the file is deleted, otherwise the file remains.
If file is a symbolic link, the link is removed, but the file or directory to which it refers is not deleted. Users do not need write permission to remove a symbolic link, provided they have write permissions in the directory.
If multiple files are specified and removal of a file fails for any reason, rm writes a diagnostic message to standard error, do nothing more to the current file, and go on to any remaining files.
If the standard input is not a terminal, the utility operates as if the -f option is in effect.
The rmdir utility removes the directory entry specified by each dirname operand, which must refer to an empty directory.
Directories are processed in the order specified. If a directory and a subdirectory of that directory are specified in a single invocation of rmdir, the subdirectory must be specified before the parent directory so that the parent directory is empty when rmdir tries to remove it.
The rmdir built-in in ksh93 is associated with the /bin and /usr/bin paths. It is invoked when rmdir is executed without a pathname prefix and the pathname search finds a /bin/rmdir or /usr/bin/rmdir executable.
rmdir deletes each given directory. The directory must be empty and contain no entries other than . or ... If a directory and a subdirectory of that directory are specified as operands, the subdirectory must be specified before the parent, so that the parent directory is empty when rmdir attempts to remove it.
The following options are supported for /usr/bin/rm and /usr/xpg4/bin/rm:
Recursively removes directories and subdirectories in the argument list. The directory is emptied of files and removed. The user is normally prompted for removal of any write-protected files which the directory contains. The write-protected files are removed without prompting, however, if the -f option is used, or if the standard input is not a terminal and the -i option is not used.
Symbolic links that are encountered with this option is not traversed.
If the removal of a non-empty, write-protected directory is attempted, the utility always fails (even if the -f option is used), resulting in an error message.
Same as -r option.
The following options are supported for /usr/bin/rm only:
Removes all files (whether write-protected or not) in a directory without prompting the user. In a write-protected directory, however, files are never removed (whatever their permissions are), but no messages are displayed. If the removal of a write-protected directory is attempted, this option does not suppress an error message.
Interactive. With this option, rm prompts for confirmation before removing any files. It overrides the -f option and remains in effect even if the standard input is not a terminal.
The following options are supported for /usr/xpg4/bin/rm only:
Does not prompt for confirmation. Does not write diagnostic messages or modify the exit status in the case of non-existent operands. Any previous occurrences of the -i option is ignored.
Prompts for confirmation. Any occurrences of the -f option is ignored.
The following options are supported for /usr/bin/rmdir only:
Allows users to remove the directory dirname and its parent directories which become empty. A message is printed to standard error if all or part of the path could not be removed.
Suppresses the message printed on the standard error when -p is in effect.
The following options are supported for the rmdir built-in for ksh93:
Ignore each non-empty directory failure.
Remove each explicit directory argument directory that becomes empty after its child directories are removed.
Suppress the message printed on the standard error when -p is in effect.
The following operands are supported:
Specifies the pathname of a directory entry to be removed.
Specifies the pathname of an empty directory to be removed.
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of rm and rmdir when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 231 bytes).
The following examples are valid for the commands shown.
Example 1 Removing Directories
The following command removes the directory entries a.out and core:
example% rm a.out core
Example 2 Removing a Directory without Prompting
The following command removes the directory junk and all its contents, without prompting:
example% rm -rf junk
Example 3 Removing Empty Directories
If a directory a in the current directory is empty, except that it contains a directory b, and a/b is empty except that it contains a directory c, the following command removes all three directories:
example% rmdir -p a/b/c
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of rm and rmdir: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH.
Affirmative responses are processed using the extended regular expression defined for the yesexpr keyword in the LC_MESSAGES category of the user's locale. The locale specified in the LC_COLLATE category defines the behavior of ranges, equivalence classes, and multi-character collating elements used in the expression defined for yesexpr. The locale specified in LC_CTYPE determines the locale for interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data a characters, the behavior of character classes used in the expression defined for the yesexpr. See locale(5).
The following exit values are returned:
If the -f option was not specified, all the named directory entries were removed; otherwise, all the existing named directory entries were removed.
An error occurred.
The following exit values are returned:
Successful completion. All directories deleted successfully.
An error occurred. One or more directories could not be deleted.
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
The ksh93 built-in binding to /bin and /usr/bin is Volatile. The built-in interfaces are Uncommitted.
ksh93(1), rmdir(2), rmdir(2), unlink(2), attributes(5), environ(5), largefile(5), standards(5)
All messages are generally self-explanatory.
It is forbidden to remove the files "." and ".." in order to avoid the consequences of inadvertently doing something like the following:
example% rm -r .*
It is forbidden to remove the file "/" in order to avoid the consequences of inadvertently doing something like:
example% rm -rf $x/$y
example% rm -rf /$y
when $x and $y expand to empty strings.
A - permits the user to mark explicitly the end of any command line options, allowing rm to recognize file arguments that begin with a -. As an aid to BSD migration, rm accepts - - as a synonym for -. This migration aid may disappear in a future release. If a - - and a - both appear on the same command line, the second is interpreted as a file.


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Although ceramics are often associated with the world of women, this pitcher, with its size and imagery, was probably used in a tavern. The subject matter of its images was intended to appeal to men of both high and low-brow tastes. Depicted on one side are Masonic symbols, from the all-seeing Eye of Providence to the black and white checkered floor; each represents different Masonic ideals. Although the Masonic movement was strong in early America with a membership that boasted ambitious businessmen, politicians and professionals, the movement's strength came under scrutiny in the 1820s. Ministers of the Second Great Awakening aroused the suspicions of the public of the philosophical underpinnings of Masonry, while others decried Masons as being undemocratic in their practices. The fraternal organization survived this controversy and still exists today. The opposite side of the jug appeals to more low-brow tastes. Its central image, "Toby Filpot," is typically shown as a bulky old man holding a jug of ale and a pipe. Filpot was a popular character in the song "Toby Filpot" or "The Brown Jug" composed in 1761 by the Rev. Francis Fawkes. Filpot was endearing because most English pubs had at least one regular customer who closely resembled Toby.
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By analyzing the resumes of its 187 million members, LinkedIn has once again compiled a list of the most overused professional buzzwords. Just like 2011, this year's most overused buzzword was "creative," followed by "organizational" and "effective."
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A lot of what grownups say is bullshit. You figure this out in your teens, and wind up just tuning it all out. By 15 I got to where every time I was offered advice, I just nodded in mock agreement and then laughed at them behind their back. "Can you believe that pompous douchebag tried to tell me that? Christ, I'm not 14 anymore!"
So it winds up taking years to filter out the bad advice ("Son, don't ever loan your car to a negro") from the good ("That Def Leppard tattoo isn't gonna be relevant five years from now, John.") I think I heard all of the below at some point, but it would be five or ten (or more) years before I'd realize it belonged in the good advice pile.
#5. Butterflies in the Stomach is Not LoveWhen I was in school, I lost track of the number of couples I knew who got engaged at age 16, and went right into wedding planning after graduation. And why not? Try to talk a 17 year-old out of it, and they'll tell you that of course you don't understand -- you've never felt love like this. No human has. What they and their guy or girl has is the kind of love that freaking changes the orbits of planets. In all of the universe, there has never been a love like this, so back off, old man.
And you sure as hell can't point out to the couple that their hormones will never be at these levels again. They'll think you're dismissing what they have as teenage horniness, not realizing that those hormones also mean that every emotional impulse is piped into stadium-ready stack amplifiers and cranked to Woodstock levels. You will feel that burst of adrenaline and stomach flutters when you touch their hand or just glance at them from across the room, and think, holy shit, if this isn't love, nothing is. God knows I thought that. Over and over. The songs talk about your "heart" but the feeling kind of radiates from the gut. Close enough.
Look, love is clearly located somewhere in the torso area, that's what matters.
Photos.comThat feeling is as addictive as any drug, and once you experience it for the first time, you'll start to crave it, or think that a relationship is dead without it. The problem is that a lot of the fluttery feeling you get is a physical reaction to anxiety and the physical reaction goes away as you adjust -- that's part of the mechanism. So the longer you're in the relationship, the more comfortable you become around that person, and that rush disappears. And if you're anything like me at all, you'll mistake that for "falling out of love." It's most likely the reason only 14% of high school sweethearts make it to the marriage stage.
Yep. This is exactly what love looks like.
Yep. This is exactly what love looks like.
The difference between that rush and actual love is the difference between seeing a picture of an adorable puppy and actually owning a dog. Yes, part of the experience is its adorable brown eyes and soft fur, but it's also about you carrying its poop around in a little plastic bag. The teenager in love thinks that's cynicism from a boring old man ("He says our love is just dog shit!") but that's not it at all. The point is that love is the whole package. It's not a single emotion that can be identified and distinctively felt like anger or happiness. It's a series of connections that exists above and beyond day to day emotion or circumstance, something you feel even after you wake up to find she has grown a third arm shaped like Randy Quaid.
I can harp about it all I want but the truth is, the next time those butterflies gut shot you into a drooling stupor, all of the text I just typed will evaporate. Because this relationship is the one you've been waiting for. You can feel it.
"The one." That's the key, because every single love song or romantic movie insists that you only get "one true love," one "soulmate." So you get used to the idea of a supernatural King of Emotions that bestows "true" love upon you exactly once in your life... and if you don't latch onto it when it arrives, that's it. That was your only chance. So when you're hit with that tide of emotions the first time, you think, "Well, I'm one of the lucky few to have found my 'one' on my first try. All the more proof that it was meant to be!"
Then, about the sixth or seventh time in your life that you feel this emotion, you'll realize that the idea of "one true love" is bullshit. Unfortunately, the only way to truly learn this is to experience it for yourself, to feel it come and go and come again. Just ask the dozen or so of my old classmates who had to drop out of high school to take care of a baby. Or the ones who married right after graduation and now can't say more than two sentences to each other without breaking down into a violent fit of screaming and crying.
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"Chores." That's the word they use to mean the tedious, bullshit tasks Mom and Dad make you do around the house before you're allowed to have fun.
Chores suck seven shapes of dick. And most of you do them, begrudgingly. Or you split them with a sibling, or whatever the system is to make sure they interfere with what you really want to do as little as possible. But much, much sooner than you think, you're going to be responsible for all of that shit, from top to bottom. And if I could go back in time, I'd grab my teenage self by the shoulders and say, "Go learn how to do all of that shit Mom is doing. And I mean all of it."
Bed, clothes, food, dishes, floors, bathroom... everything. Pretend that you're the only one living there, and just completely take over the things your parents normally do for you, for a week, or a month. Because in just a few short years, you're going to be living on your own, you will be fucking shocked at how fast your living space turns into an unlivable shithole. God help you if you get stuck with roommates who treated "chores" the same way. Hey, did you know if you leave dirty dishes out long enough, flies lay eggs on them and then you have maggots on your dishes? You will! Ever wonder how those people on Hoarders can live with garbage piled on every piece of furniture? Just live with some dudes who refuse to take out the trash, you'll see -- that shit piles up in the blink of an eye.
Photos.comFor several years after moving out on my own, I treated doing dishes as a task on the same level as painting a house. So I found the majority of my sustenance coming from The Dollar Menu and little frozen boxes that are prepared with a microwave and the ability to push "4," "0," "0," (which is not only an expensive way to eat, but will kill your ass eventually).
The scratch 'n sniff version would make you vomit your own soul.
The scratch 'n sniff version would make you vomit your own soul.
If you haven't already, learn to use the washer and dryer. There's nothing sadder than sitting in a laundromat and watching a newly divorced husband stare at a washing machine like it was a nuclear reactor. And I'm telling you, go to a laundromat right now and you'll see this guy, with every single piece of clothing packed up in trash bags because he wore literally everything he owned over and over until his neighbors sniffed the air and asked him if he was cooking mushrooms.
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Because you can put this shit off for years without being judged for it. You can haul a bunch of laundry home over Labor Day weekend and Mom will do it. And let's face it, when you're in college, you're not going to be rejected for sex because your bathroom is dirty. All dorm bathrooms are dirty. But after you're out in the "real world," with your own job and apartment, the rules change. If you're 25 and your date smells the stagnant rot of week old dishes and strewn garbage, she's thinking, "What a lazy fucking slob. I'm not doing the whole 'date a teenager' thing again. Just tell him you're on your period and then change your phone number."
Photos.comI know guys who are older than me who still can't take care of their place, and every one of them is alone. Their houses are so bad that I can't visit because the smell gives me a headache. I helped one of them clean once, and we found dead birds and mice under the garbage on his living room floor. And the frightening part is that it's easy to get into that mode because if you live in it long enough, it becomes normal. And they can't break out of that idea of basic cleaning and maintenance are just lame "chores."
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"No, Rob, it's disgusting because it hasn't been cooked yet.
#3. Pay Attention in Writing Classes, It Turns Out You Need Them
Several years ago, when I was working at a low-level manual labor job, I was tasked with picking out a few applications for potential hires. Keep in mind, we weren't hiring fucking lawyers here. We just needed people who could do a job without somebody standing over their shoulder every second of the shift.
I came across an application from a 21 year-old man who had a high school diploma and two years of college. Half of the application was filled out in blue ink -- large, loopy, pretty writing. His girlfriend's writing, in other words. The other half (personal information -- the stuff that his co-author didn't know) was in black ink, and written in a way that suggested he may have been filling it out while being attacked by bees during a gang related drive-by. Nothing was in the disability section, so we assumed it was not a physical or mental problem.
But what made me put the application in the "Not a Chance in Hell" pile was when I saw his response to, "Why would you like to work for our company?"
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GettyI don't have to tell you that this is an online world, and I've touched on this subject before in a past column. So I won't repeat the same point beyond stressing how important it is that you learn to type in your native language better than the average 12 year old.
I swear that some schools still treat the subject of writing the way they did in 1911, when only a select few people would actually need to be able to write eloquently and all the rest just needed to know how to fill out a check at the feed store. Hell, when I was in high school, typing class was optional -- and that was in the 90s. Today, you can't function without a PC and every job makes you write.
If you're working in the warehouse at Cockrings International, odds are that every day, you have to send out at least one email -- maybe you have to file some kind of report, or send a request for forklift repairs, or maybe you'll be in charge of ordering, whatever. And I don't care how uneducated the guys in the buttplug department may be, if your messages are full of typos and jumbled words, they are going to make assumptions about your intelligence.
GettyDon't get me wrong -- I'm not saying you have to be Hemingway by any means. You don't need to know how to write descriptions that touch the human soul. But you need to learn to be concise and clear in print, or it will be coming back to bite you in the ass over and over.
"Ok, let's all point and laugh at Bob's rampant fucking idiocy!"
"Ok, let's all point and laugh at Bob's rampant fucking idiocy!"
Why You Won't Believe it for Years:
I'm not going to bullshit you -- if you're still in school, a significant portion of what you're learning right now will be absolutely useless once you settle into your adult life. No, I don't use my Algebra, and I've yet to encounter a decision that hinged on me knowing what year the Battle of Crunchfist Fuck-Knuckle took place.
GettyWriting is one of those that gets thrown into the "useless bullshit" pile because so much of English class is spent on obscure grammar rules and categorizing words. It comes off like another boring, arcane and ultimately useless subject. "Why do I need to know what a dangling participle is?" You don't, but you do need to learn how to not accidentally type the opposite of what you meant. In an online world, your writing is going to form a shell around you, and most of the people who interact with you will only see the shell.
"Fuck you, we use Algebra all the time and we live under a mountain of panties."
"Fuck you, we use Algebra all the time and we live under a mountain of panties."
But again, until you're in the break room and you overhear a coworker talking about how unfixably stupid you are and questioning whose dick you sucked to get your job, it's not going to hit home. No amount of intelligence or degrees or life experience can make up for the fact that the majority of her contact with you is in the form of emails and memos -- so the person she knows isn't the educated, loyal employee and cool guy. She pictures you as a slobbering four year old, slamming his palms across a keyboard and hoping it forms a thought. Because to her, this is shit that should have been learned in elementary school.
"Screw you, I'm going to be a princess when I grow up!"
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The National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show (or as convention-goers say, "No, not that NRA ...") is the yearly confab of food and hospitality professionals at McCormick Place that began Saturday and ends Tuesday. As national conventions go, this one is unimaginably vast and gobsmackingly specific.
Looking for a sneeze guard for your restaurant? There are nine companies here to field your sneeze guard queries. Thirty-three booths wanting your iced tea business. Two companies with competing pancake batter dispensers. The latest in color-changing straw innovations. The Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture & Food will bend your ear about shopska salad. Outdoor-patio water misters, trailer-mounted barbecue smokers, anti-microbial ice makers, oil-filtration systems, nonskid footwear, menu covers, retractable awnings and the latest in glass and dish design — all this, and much more, can be found at the NRA show.
An industry this large justifies a gathering of this magnitude, held at a space the size of more than 20 football fields. Consider its scope: Projected restaurant sales for 2013 nationwide are $660.5 billion. Figures for this year's convention, its 94th, won't be released until after the show closes, but officials said they expect attendance to outpace last year's 61,000 attendees from more than 100 countries. More than 2,000 companies are on exhibit, up from last year's 1,900-plus. (So many out-of-town visitors come for the restaurant show, many restaurants traditionally closed on Sunday and Monday — like Rick Bayless' three in River North — make an exception this one week of the year.)
In exploring McCormick Place, the convention hall norms of seizing a passerby's attention are put to practice. The most effective way to make people stop is also the restaurant show's greatest advantage: Free food and beverage samples, endless and stupefying.
No expenses were spared here. Entire legs of Spanish jamon iberico de bellota, the most prized ham in the world, were carved for sampling, one $3 retail slice at a time. All that Fermin USA & Wagshal's Importers ask is for you to listen to their pitch — how these free-roaming pigs feast on an exclusive diet of acorns six months before slaughter, so on, so forth — and the ham keeps coming. Same with ribeye cubes of Australian Wagyu beef, like biting down into butter, that visitors pierced three to a frilly toothpick. There was frozen hot chocolate by Ghirardelli, London broil and horseradish-cheddar sandwiches from Dietz & Watson, grilled lamb rib chops from Thomas Farms lamb, prosciutto and other charcuterie from Creminelli Fine Meats and fig-walnut frozen yogurt from Chobani.
The clear winner in the free hot-dog battle was Vienna Beef. While Eisenberg, Red Hot Chicago and Nathan's Famous passed out half-size hot dogs (and attendees were happy to get them), Vienna Beef upped the ante, giving away full-size Chicago-style dogs with all the toppings. Better still, a Vienna rep was positioned halfway up the long line, offering free sausage slices to those patiently waiting. Smart.
Not so smart? A pizza-oven maker who shall remain nameless plastered its booth with at least three signs proclaiming, "We do NOT serve food and beverages." Most exhibitors, in fact, don't give out food, but posting signs to that effect gave the booth a less-than-friendly feel. There were more people at the fly-eradication exhibit.
Free food is the surefire way of stopping convention-goers at your booth, but any giveaway will do. Spinning prize wheels, offering something as mundane as magnets, are guaranteed to form lines. Lines, they'll tell you, are buzzy. At Honey Smoked Fish Co.'s booth, a buxom woman and muscle-bound beefcake type (sleeves cut off) offered free T-shirts bearing the company logo, yours to keep as long as the models could turn you into a walking billboard. Go Daddy, on the other hand, happily passed out its logo T-shirts — no modeling required.
Other swag: Wind-up chattering teeth from Grecian Delights. Battery-operated flameless candles from The Original Flameless Candles. Beer cozies, lighted bottle openers, lanyards and thumb drives. Best in show: Progressive Insurance (which apparently insures a lot of delivery trucks), which offered visitors pens, lip balm, heavy-duty work gloves and Flo bobblehead dolls. Score!
Even if it's just about tasting the latest foods, it's impossible to wrap one's arms around this entire convention. There are 80 educational sessions, covering topics from menu design to social media, as well as cooking demonstrations, and speeches from Anthony Bourdain to Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz. And there were plenty of chef demonstrations and cookbook signings; at one point Sunday the line for a book signing (and photo op) for chef Aaron Sanchez (of the Food Network shows "Chopped" and "Heat Seekers") was 77 hopefuls long.
To comprehend it all, it's more effective to walk laps around the hall and spot patterns, the unique and the new, and what companies — as soon as spotting your press badge — hope to convince reporters will become the dining world's next big thing.
• There was much activity at the booth touting the Viba Body Slimmer, which purports to whip people in shape via a vibrating platform that works glutes in the manner of an introductory twerking class.
• Betson, a company that sells arcade games, unveiled Beer Pong Master, a "minus the mess" re-creation of the classic collegiate drinking game. "It's just shipping now," said the proud rep.
An entire pavilion was devoted to umami this year, that mysterious "fifth taste" discovered by Japanese scientists a century ago. In short, umami is the savory, meaty, full-bodied sensation on the palate found in foods rich in glutamates, such as mushrooms and aged cheeses. The umami booths, mostly from Japanese food companies, aimed to demystify this taste sensation, one which seems to be at an all-time high in comprehension in America. "More and more chefs cooking non-Asian foods are incorporating umami in their foods," said Joe Leslie, whose Kikkoman company produces soy sauce. One display offered taste tests of two french fries — one seasoned with salt, the other with Ajinomoto, the MSG seasoning. Nearby, a man played the role of umami carnival barker, passing around bags of bonito flakes — shaved dried tuna — touting its role in amplifying flavors in Japanese broth.
• The National Restaurant Association, in its 2013 industry forecast, cites these as the top trends this year: gluten-free menu items, meats and charcuterie cured in-house, nonwheat noodles and pastas such as quinoa and buckwheat, house-made sodas and drinks barrel-aged onsite.
• In Illinois, an estimated 517,900 people are employed in the restaurant industry. Sales statewide in 2013 are expected to hit $21.7 billion, a 3.8 percent increase from 2012.
• Coming soon to a retailer near you: iFork is a line of stainless steel and plastic utensils with a built-in tab on its underside (think flatware with heels). This elevates the fork/spoon/knife — the part that touches your mouth — above the surface of the germy table.
We spotted Bang, a caffeinated ice cream from a company in Madison, Wis. One scoop of this ice cream contains the same amount of caffeine as a bottle of energy drink. Sarah Moore, a managing partner of Bang, explained her targeted demographic is college students, who might consider ice cream over coffee to power through a study session. "There's caffeinated beef jerky," Moore said, "why not caffeinated ice cream?"
There's Acid Zap, aimed at those suffering from acid reflux. It comes in a Visine-like bottle, containing a liquid that the inventors claim can balance the pH levels in acidic foods like marinara sauce or orange juice, without changing flavor.
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Number of specialty exhibitors at the National Restaurant Association show:
9 Slush machines
5 Nachos and equipment
16 Breadsticks
14 Bacon
4 Ashtray and ashtray stand
10 Smoked fish
16 Gelato
10 Heat lamps
11 Hot dog grills/cookers
6 Mayonnaise
4 Napkin rings
9 Sneeze guards
2 Pancake dispensers
6 Pretzels
5 Scouring pads
9 Changeable letter signs
33 Iced teas
8 Pie filling
7 Pepper mills
25 Yogurt
2 Tandoori ovens


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Hobo Knife - Fork/Knife Combo Tool
Fork and knife and bottle opener.
- An elegant update to an old classic - fork and knife in one separable tool.
- Rose-wood handles and a leather carrying case make this top notch.
- Fork part also has a bottle opener!
Hobos really began coming into prominence after the Civil War, when the US was feeling its way to a rejoined future. Hobos were migrant workers, with no home, but with a desire to do a hard day's labor. They had their own cuisine (Mulligan Stew, anyone?) and their own tools. One of these tools was the Hobo Knife - a pocket tool that separates into a fork and a knife for simple and functional portable cutlery. And if you think about your commute, your wanderings around your city and office, and all the mobility of your daily life, you'll realize why you need a Hobo Knife, too.
And here's what makes this Hobo Knife so lovely. First, it's not bulky - the fork and knife are very refined looking, yet super strong. Also, we really loved the rose-wood handles; they give the Hobo Knife a sense of class when you use it in a fancy restaurant (and the bottle opener helps crack open some of them fancy wines). Add the leather carrying pouch, and you will always have your Hobo Knife with you wherever so you may roam. Because when the zombies come, you want to be prepared to eat anywhere - and you will be once you get your own Hobo Knife . . . and a shotgun. Get it?
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Lt. Dish wrote:nocera wrote:Mr. Colby wrote:I've yet to ever talk to somebody that admits to doing this... so who the hell does it?Ossa wrote:Me and a bunch of my buddies student rushed a game earlier this year. We woo'd the whole game and it was awesome. The more the people around us got annoyed, the more we would do it. It was a blast.
Ossa, you don't care that the ownership, who provides you with the Student Rush, the players, and the coaches really dislike it?
I'd like Shero to trade your bunch to Winnipeg for 9 white t-shirts, a beer-soaked toque, and petrified nachos. And get Kim Clackson to "deliver" the news to you. Don't you think it can't happen.
Do you have proof the players/coaches don't like it? The team is 17-6 at home.


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Here we are again. If you missed Part I, make sure to read it first. Once again, before we begin, I need to introduce the members of the band:
On the guitar, Tom Scearce (@TLOTL), and on the electric keyboard, Chris Jablonski (@cjablonski).
I can say this, we had a lot of fun. Check out numbers 37-49. @TLOTL has some great ones.
25. Cold calling: I really have no idea why I put this on here. It's pretty simple: You pick up the phone and call someone who has no idea you are calling. In today's day and age, this is best left to professionals — a.k.a., outsourced.
26. Contacts: Just names. The contact movement has been brought upon us by breakthrough companies such as Jigsaw, demandbase and NetProspex. These are not leads, even if these companies market them as such. Contact purchasing is a critical component to push marketing (see below).
27. Leads: A lead is a person who has opted in for an offer (see below). As mentioned above, a contact is not a lead.
28. Offer: An offer can be defined as "something" someone has opted-in for. These can be discrete offers such as white papers, webinars and podcasts. They can also be an appointment with a sales person.
29. Lead generation: Activities designed to create leads.
30. Demand generation: All the activities designed to create demand. Not just lead generation, which is part of it. Everything — including things like PR, speaking engagements, advertising, discounts or special offers and so on and so on. BTW, this is an interesting point of conversation — check out some of the answers to this on Focus.com.
31. Lead nurturing: A process that uses content (offers, tools, white papers, etc.) and distribution tactics (email, phone, Web, etc.) to market to leads over time until they are measurably ready to engage. This one was hard. I got some terrific definitions from experts on Focus.com.
32. Remarkable content: You need to develop this every day, and you know it's remarkable if people can apply it right away. You need to deliver on three characteristics: 1) value: create substantive, meaningful and high-quality content and 2) efficiency: package for simplicity and ease of consumption; 3) relevance: target buyers and address their specific challenges. (@cjablonski)
33. Push marketing: "Knocking on someone's door." In other words, using outbound marketing tactics such as email, phone and direct mail to market to contacts in order to create leads. Examples are outsourced appointment setting and email campaigns to a list.
34. Pull marketing: As opposed to push marketing, "getting people to walk into your store." Pull means you are using SEO, paid search, etc. to attract people who are searching for something you offer. It also includes getting people to look at your products in other stores through online media and white paper syndication, for example. Because not all buyers are walking into your store, you need to make sure you are represented in other stores that attract your type of buyer.
35. Landing page: A Web page with a call-to-action to download an offer, such as a webinar, a white paper, and so on. In order to download the offer, the user has to fill out a form. (@cjablonski)
36. Direct mail: The act of sending a marketing offer via the U.S. Postal Service, FedEx, and so on. This is a dying lead-generation tool. NOTE: there are marketers who believe direct mail still works despite the cost and low conversion rates. My suggestion is that, if you don't do it now, don't start.
37. Return on contribution: Anyone who takes the time and energy to create remarkable content needs to also invest time in managing return on contribution. This can mean several things: 1) crowd-sourcing the content to leverage the friends and followers of the contributors for added distribution; 2) syndicating your content through targeted media properties; 3) engaging in online conversations where your content can be delivered in a relevant context ; and 4) leveraging your content across multiple campaigns, including lead-nurturing programs. (@TLOTL)
38. Micro-marketed content: The opposite of mass-marketed content. An unmediated, free-flowing discussion among genuine experts in a niche category (e.g., this discussion on Focus.com) is often more relevant and helpful to buyers than a banner ad or an industry trade publication. (@TLOTL)
39. "Multi-channel, multi-touch": The mantra of any successful pipeline/revenue generation program. Email, Web and phone are all integrated and response-measured (scored) using marketing automation services. (@TLOTL)
40. The "three legged stool": In direct marketing, results are usually, ultimately, a function of the:
- List (or audience)
- Offer
- Creative
Underperform in any one of these areas and the stool falls over. (@TLOTL)
41. The revenue/sausage factory: A useful metaphor for helping the uninitiated understand how the marketing and sales team work together to drive the top line. The factory can include "upstream" suppliers like Google, direct mail programs or demand-gen agencies. And it can also encompass post-sales "revenue recognition" functions like professional services and account management. (@TLOTL)
42. Pipeline erosion rate: Your sales team converts your leads into pipeline deals. They win some, they lose some. Some deals roll into next month/quarter. Some don't. The erosion rate measures the lost pipeline value that must be replaced through incremental demand-gen efforts and budget. (@TLOTL)
43. Rotting lead rate: The percentage of leads that go untouched by sales (no email, call or voicemail) before they start to "rot." Keep in mind that the goal is not necessarily a 0% "rot-rate." In some cases, it's totally ok for sales to let leads "rot." If sales has warmer leads to work, marketing can take back the leads that would otherwise rot and nurture them until they are ready. (@TLOTL)
44. Funnel jockey: The demand-generation expert in every successful marketing department who understands his or her funnel well enough to hard-wire the entire revenue manufacturing process, from marketing spend, to lead gen, to pipeline creation and booked revenue. This person is one of the Excel users in the marketing department who is most likely to have a working command of functions like VLOOKUP, GETPIVOTDATA, SUMPRODUCT, and RAND. (@TLOTL)
45. Campaign Sorcerer: Describes a marketer who can quickly articulate and illustrate campaign concepts with a unique and integrated skill set that includes design aesthetics, copywriting/storyboarding, program logistics, and schedule visualization. A Powerpoint/Keynote Magic User proficient in spell-casting with SnagIt and Photoshop. (@TLOTL)
46. Market whisperer: The agency-side marketer who can, in 30 minutes or less, figure out the essence of a client's marketing and sales challenges, with minimal to no briefing from said client, consulting only Twitter, Google, WordPress and Michael Porter's Five Forces model. This marketer is more likely than his or her peers to get away with wearing ironic tee shirts or quirky, comment-worthy eyewear/accessories. (@TLOTL)
47. Tweeps: Twitter + Peeps = Tweeps. (@TLOTL)
48. Product myopia: Outdated marketing thinking still practiced by many who engage with prospects and clients through the lens of their own solutions. (@cjablonski)
49. Trapping the chicken in the courtyard: A semi-obscure "Rocky II" reference/metaphor describing the relentless and often frustrating pursuit of repeatable marketing and sales success. "I feel like a Kentucky Fried idiot." — Rocky Balboa (@TLOTL)
50. Buyer engagement: Your goal anytime a buyer comes into contact with you. To get their full attention and immerse them into a brand experience, make sure everything you do is valuable and differentiated. (@cjablonski)
Below are SiriusDecisions definitions I have included because they have done an amazing job of getting marketers to use their methodology and lingo. This is for the other marketers who aren't Sirius trained and want to talk the talk (I chose the three most used terms)
51. MQL (Marketing qualified lead): Prospects defined by your marketing and sales organization as someone ready to pass to sales. They're instrumental in calculating lead gen metrics, such as marketing qualified lead rate (# of MQLs/# of total marketing contacts).
52. SAL (Sales accepted lead): A lead that has met the basic tenets of qualification and that sales has agreed to engage. (@cjablonski)
53. SQL (Sales qualified lead): A prospect confirmed by sales as a true revenue opportunity and entered into the pipeline. (@cjablonski)
Craig Rosenberg is the Funnelholic. He loves sales, marketing, and things that drive revenue. Follow him on Google+ or Twitter


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Microsoft is charging full steam ahead with development on not only its desktop Windows platform, but also its popular web browser. Internet Explorer 11 is now available for Windows 7 as a pre-release, one step up from the developer preview we recently looked at. This release contains numerous performance improvements, updates to web standards support, as well as alterations made to developer tools.
So what's exactly touted as new in the Release Preview of IE11 on Windows 7? The Microsoft blog post goes into some detail surrounding a faster overall web experience. Paul Thurrott rounded up the newest additions rather nicely. The team behind the software has implemented additional performance tuning, leading to a 9 percent reported decrease in load times compared to Internet Explorer 10 (and 5 percent faster than the IE11 Developer Preview).
It wouldn't be Internet Explorer if we weren't to cover improved web standards support. Now able to work with an un-prefixed version of the Pointer Events standard, websites are able to work more efficiently with a mouse, keyboard, touch and even a pen / stylus. You can even personalise how captions appear in the web browser - pretty cool.
The latest Tracking Preference Expression (DNT) draft is also bundled. After installing the IE11 Release Preview, the browser will prompt you to set a default tracking preference that Internet Explorer will send to web sites. Lastly, better developer tools are now supported. In response to feedback from developers, Microsoft has improved the IE 11 in-browser developer tools to help you guys out a bit.
Here's a quick video of the Internet Explorer Release Preview in action:
Want to get your paws on a copy of the Release Preview? Head on over to the official website and download it. There hasn't been any word on an official release date.
Source: MSDN, via: WinSuperSite


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By Christian Moore
In the run up to the Olympics, the prevailing public mood has been one of pessimism and doubt that little old London can actually pull off such a momentous global event. But with the celebration of culture and the arts that accompanies the games, Shakespeare has the chance to rescue our ailing national pride. 400 years after his death, can the bard still do us justice in the international arena?
2012 has been anticipated as the year the eyes of the world turn on Britain as we celebrate two international institutions – the Olympic Games and the British monarchy. The turn of London to host the games coincides with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, an event which will reach out beyond Britain's borders as Olympians travel across in the opposite direction. With so much national heritage bouncing around this summer, it seems appropriate that Shakespeare is to be the main focus of the Cultural Olympiad. But with organisers keen to showcase Britain's cutting edge, some have questioned the writer's suitability for the role of cultural ambassador. It is clear that the events held in his honour must reflect the values of modern Britain.
Shakespeare's relevance to modern life has seen its ups and downs, but has been gaining momentum in recent years. The relatively new trend of modernising his plays has made them more relatable – this is thanks largely to the eternal themes of love and loss, jealousy, power and rebellion which form the heart of the corpus. While modern day adaptations run the risk of aging ungracefully, the practise of emphasising the aspects of Shakespeare that will most appeal to a modern audience is essential to ensuring his continued appeal. This is the ethos driving the homage to Shakespeare at the RSC and all over the country this summer.
The comprehensive series of productions being staged under the World Shakespeare Festival umbrella hope to capture the mood of the nation by demonstrating the power of Shakespeare across all cultural backgrounds. Theatres across the country will host companies from all over the globe, performing the plays in their native languages. This promises to be a hugely unconventional and entertaining celebration of Shakespeare.
More importantly though, this approach represents a challenge to the way Shakespeare is perceived both globally and at home. As new generations of children sift through the often daunting forest of plays and poems, there is a danger for his works to be viewed as stuffy, old school, even impenetrable at times (Blackadder's vengeful punch springs to mind). But the efforts of such a diverse group of people to take fresh approaches to a monolith of British cultural heritage can only serve to make the bard more accessible, and ultimately boost his cultural clout.


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Memphis Responds… and Guess What, Everything Was a Big Misunderstanding!Posted by rtmsf on June 3rd, 2009
Memphis responded to the NCAA's allegations against their basketball program, and surprise of all surprises, the UM athletic department doesn't believe that it should be punished even if the NCAA stands by its position that Derrick Rose cheated on his SAT exam to gain his collegiate eligibility.
In a wide-ranging letter dealing with allegations involving both the women's golf as well as the men's basketball program, University Counsel Sheri Lipman revealed that there were rumors involving Rose's ACT test score being fraudulent (remember, the NCAA's allegation involves the SAT) prior to his only season as a Tiger. This is what those lawyer types might call "notice." Yet, the Memphis athletic department determined through undoubtedly probing interviews with Rose himself and the coaching staff (whaaa??) that these rumors were unfounded. Furthermore, the school claims that it attempted to get copies of materials from the applicable testing service, but was "unable to do so."
Here's an idea. You could have had Rose produce the ACT information, and if he is unable to do so, as it were, suspend him until he does so. That could have, at worst, solved the issue involving the rumor, and at best, put the issue to bed AND provided considerable cover in the form of due diligence when Mr. NCAA came knocking on the door a year-and-a-half later. But Memphis didn't do that. We'd be very interesting in learning why not.
Getting back to the invalidated test score at issue here – the SAT – according to Memphis, the NCAA's sole evidence that Rose had a stand-in take this test for him comes down to a forensic examiner's review of his handwriting. This review determined that Rose "probably" did not write the paragraph that the ETS uses to verify identity. But according to Dana O'Neil's reporting at ESPN.com, ETS only invalidates scores when two of the following three pieces of evidence are present in an examination: 1) handwriting comparisons; 2) comparisons to people seated nearby during the exam; and, 3) substantial jumps in scores. We already know that the ETS (and the NCAA) is relying on #1, so we're probably also looking at #3 as the other piece of evidence, and if you know anything about statistical probability, there's virtually no chance that if Rose scored something like a 600-650 on a previous SAT administration, he then jumped up to a 950-1000 to gain eligibility.
All that said, Memphis is taking the painted corner position that, even if Derrick Rose cheated on his SAT, the program could not have known nor should it have known about such a fraud perpetrated on humanity. In other words… sorry if Rose cheated in high school, but how were we to know? – we didn't find out about the allegation until after he was already gone. If Memphis is acting in completely good faith here, this is a fair argument. But the only way we're going to presume good faith is if we see more credible evidence that the university made attempts to get to the bottom of the ACT issue, and if they did no such thing, then they don't deserve the benefit of the doubt here. Where there's smoke there's fire, and if Memphis only scratched the surface of investigation in order to get Rose into school and eligible, then we don't want to hear any complaining later if they're nailed for looking the other way.
As for the other allegation involving the Memphis program, of particular comedic value is the Memphis response that the free hotel and plane trips provided to Derrick Rose's brother, Reggie, were inadvertant administrative mistakes that "could have occurred for any member of the public traveling with the men's basketball team." Right, because universities and athletic departments in particular are in the regular business of accidentally allowing thousands of dollars in freebies to be given to members of the public – especially, as it happens in this case, when the public is none other than the star player's brother! This is the less hot-button of the two major basketball allegations in this complaint, but there's not much defensible here.
It'll be very interesting to see what evidence the NCAA presents to combat these responses from Memphis. Saturday is the hearing, and the university should expect to hear something later this summer. It says here that UM isn't going to like what it hears.
Update: Gary Parrish is reporting that Robert Dozier also had a "fishy" SAT which precluded his entrance into Georgia in 2004, and we've already discussed Doneal Mack's rejection from Florida based on a test score issue. Are there others?