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Writing Assignments, FIRAugust 05, 2003
There's good news, there's great news, and there's Amazingly Great news. The good news first.
mezzoblue's conversion to an XHTML/CSS layout would have happened eventually, but it was rushed for a specific reason: I'm getting paid for it.
Which leads to the great news. We all lamented the loss of glasshaus when their parent company went belly-up. Useful titles like Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation became hard to find, and we lost a valuable resource.
Apress is picking up the pieces. Right now, at this very moment, the original authors of Separating Content from Presentation are hard at work revising their original drafts, and a second edition is expected out later this year.
And this is how the two are related: I am contributing. mezzoblue is my case study, and this site and the process of building it will be included in the second edition of the book. More will be posted as it develops.
And speaking of writing assignments, later this week my first article for Digital Web will be published. As the coordinator of a project that relies heavily on the Fahrner Image Replacement technique, naturally it's near and dear to my heart. It gets its fair share of bruising from detractors, so my article goes a long way toward explaining why we need it, and how to work around the problem spots.
Which leads to the Amazingly Great news. We may have finally beat the accessibility problem, and dropped the superfluous
<span> all in one shot.
Two great minds, Seamus Leahy and Stuart Langridge have each independently come up with a solution that relies on
overflow: hidden; to hide the text. For the sake of a name, I'll tentatively dub this the Leahy/Langridge Method, although Todd and Doug should be credited for their initial work. FBLL Method anyone?
A quick box model hack ensures these work in IE5+, but further browser testing is necessary. These look super promising, and both should be credited for their original thinking.
(to be fair, Seamus approached me two weeks ago, so he was First if anyone's counting. But let's not go there.)
Reader Comments
That FIR is a frickin' exciting trick. Dave, thanks for Mezzoblue dude. It's inspiring. I keep learning more here than I ever did at school or on my own. By the way, if you didn't tell me, I wouldn't have noticed the tables were gone on this site. Now there's a sign of good work: when you dodn't even know it changed!
I would have so much fun with all of CSS-3; but I have to wait and play with what is thrown my way with CSS-3 and CSS-2 (which still has a lot of stuff, paged media, that needs to be added to browsers).
I am glad to see someone else thinks the way I do.
Anne - very much a hack. But useful, and necessary. In fact, in my Digital Web article, I… well, you'll just have to wait and see. Admittedly, CSS-3 will be wonderful, in 10 years or whenever it's practical to use.
Jai - thanks! While perhaps that reflects poorly on schools teaching web design, it's good to hear that my writing is useful.
Seamus - you'd better make good on that. I can't wait to see where you'll go with CSS-3. Your work is nothing but inspiring.
Thanks for the links to the FBLL Method (Fibble method?). Works a treat!
I've just realised that if you use this technique on a <a> tag, add display:block to the CSS, and a different background-image on the a:hover - you get a completely image based, javascript-free rollover! Apologies if I'm the last one to make this connection…
Jon - you sure do. See all the rollover effects in the top right corner of this site ;)
Doh! Oh well - I've caught up now! ;)
I used Seamus's method here.
OK, don't mind the rest of the messy coding, LOL, but yah. That's an example of it in use in a company page.
HA! immediately after i used your "span" method to get my header links to show up, you call it "superfluous" lol. You know i get all my CSS info from you; stop confusing me ;) On the real–congratulations!
p.s . that "remember me (on my mozilla) is below the check box in the display".
So we have (on windows):
It still feels a lot like a hack. I'll be happy wenn CSS3 is out en we can use something similar to this:
Great news,
the first edition was simply great!!!
Though too short, I'm aware of cost of printing 1.000 pages book, but I hope this new edition will be larger.
BTW I'm eagerly waiting and I love Seamus experiments too.
I think it will be THE next CSS book that everybody should have, toghether with the new edition of the Meyer's CSS reference
Thanks for sharing
There's still a problem with the modified FIR technique. It breaks when you switch off image loading in a browser that would otherwise show the graphic.
If you really care about the content showing up, just use an img element. If it's no great loss to lose it completely, use a FIR variant.
(btw, 'preview' seems to be broken, I just get the original page.)
One thought on image based CSS rollovers, why not add some blank tags at the bottom of the page that are set to 0 height and width with overflow hidden that load the rollover images?
This should pre-cache the images but by putting them at the bottom of the page it'll get done last. This way you don't get the annoying pause the first time you hover over one of the links. Which admittedly only seems to happen in Mozilla.
Jim - unfortunately, that is still a problem for the time being. I'm confident something can be done about it though. Using an <img> really IS the best solution from an end-user standpoint, but look at the flexibility offered by <img>-free layouts in the Zen Garden…
Simon - I tried pre-loading by assigning the mouse-over image to the <li> that my links live in. No dice - Mozilla variants don't load images that don't actually display. Good thing for load times, bad thing for pre-caching. I'll give your suggestion a shot, it's not a bad idea - but we'll see if Mozilla plays along.
[.. Using an really IS the best solution from an end-user standpoint, but look at the flexibility offered by -free layouts in the Zen Garden… ]
well, dave, why not use that pixel.gif i already wrote you about?
i know, we just got rid of the SPAN tag, and the pixel.gif is again a hack, but i think JAWS should read it ok…
so we still have (pseudo)IMG-free layout, and accessibility support too…
Ah, I see how I fixed the pre-caching thing last time I had it. I put an <img> tag in the code with a height and width of 0.
Which is a bit sick really, but it was a while ago and the cutomer is happy. If I could convince my boss to let me change it I would. But it should work using the CSS version… I might give it a try when I get home.
So Dave, when can we expect CSSZG v2.0?
I haven't bought the first edition, so now I faced with the decision whether to buy it or not because it might cover all the sam ground as the previous edition. Whats your honest opinion? Should I wait for the new and improved or shall I get the first instalment?
I e-mailed you an answer Kevin. Anyone else wishing for an answer to the same question can feel free to contact me: http://www.mezzoblue.com/contact/
I'm trying to adapt the accessible FIRt to allow aligning title to the right. This seems to work fine in Moz and Opera (7) with the simple addition of:
float: right;
background-position: right;
…but of course MSIE 6 inexplicably drops the background image by an arbitrary amount (the height of the text?) Has anyone cracked this one?
…and then I went and read the specs, and it had the solution:
background-position: 100% 0%;
Hi man. Greetings from Zimbabwe. Like your site, looks good to me. CSS is really the bomb!
Your solutions and ideas are very intriguing.
Can you advise where I can find good free downlodable tutorials? A bunch of us ranging from beginner to intermediate would like to have these practical tutorials.


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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Ten members of the Birmingham-Southern cross country teams are set to compete this Saturday, Nov. 10, at the NCAA Division III Regional Championships, hosted by Emory University at Nash Farm Battlefield in Hampton, Ga.
The men's 8K race will begin at 10 a.m. ET, while the women's 6K event is slated for an 11 a.m. ET start.
Senior Robert Willett leads the group of six men's runners after finishing first for BSC in all seven races this past season and placing second at the SAA Championship on Oct. 27, earning First-Team All-Conference honors. Senior David Olsen, junior Christian Clesi, sophomore Scotty Wild, and freshmen Jordan McKnight and John White will also be competing.
On the women's side, freshman Kelsey Holdbrooks leads the group of four runners. She was the Panthers' top finisher in six of seven races this past season. Other runners competing are sophomores Hallie Jordan and Victoria Ports and freshman Katie Ann Bass.
"We are looking forward to the opportunity to race this weekend at the NCAA Division III Cross Country Regional Championships," Head Coach Kenneth Cox said. "It will be a great experience for our men and women's team as they have worked hard all season. There will be a great field of runners from throughout the South/Southeast Region, and I look for our athletes to run well and continue to improve as they have all season."
There are eight regional championships being conducted around the country this weekend, with the top two men's and women's teams from each regional earning automatic bids to the NCAA National Championships on Saturday, Nov. 17, in Terre Haute, Ind. In addition, there will be 16 at-large teams selected for both the men's and women's championships. Approximately 26 teams and 210 runners will be hitting the course in the men's event, while 242 women from 33 programs will take part in this year's Championships.

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Texas A&M (14) vs. Arkansas (18) is on ESPN right now. Northwestern at No. 24 Illinois is on the Deuce. Big Ten Network's got Minnesota at No. 19 Michigan. If you're that into LSU or Boise State to want to watch them beat up on Kentucky and Nevada teams for which they have healthy disdains, you already know what channel's got those games.
In honor of America, CBS's got the Air Force/Navy battle. Rock, flag and eagle.


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Adele Calls Out Stars for Using Sex to Sell Music
Adele, who is pregnant with her first child, doesn't rely on having to cultivate an overtly sexual image or shilling perfume in order to sell records. She has repeatedly stated that she doesn't want to be a pop star or any sort of sex symbol. But now, she is taking pop stars who get a little too salacious in their videos and performances to task.
Adele criticized the overly sexed up looks of some of her peers, declaring, "I've seen them up close and they don't even look like that," according to The Sun.
She continued, "I just stand there and sing. I'm not worried that I'm a 'plus size' and so much bigger than other artists. No matter what you look like the key is to be happy with yourself."
While some may think that Adele is calling out skin-baring performers like Lady Gaga and Rihanna, her message is actually quite similar to Gaga's, who is currently taking a stand against the critics in the media who have taken to calling her fat by posting photos of her real, unaltered body. Adele and Gaga could certainly work in tandem to turn the pop world on its ear when it comes to body image.
Watch the Adele 'Someone Like You' Video


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Gourmet Red Potato Salad Recipe
This potato salad recipe is unique in that it contains no eggs. My husband Lulu doesn't like mayonnaise and one of his sisters is allergic to eggs, so I made an eggfree salad dressing using chipotle peppers, lime, cream cheese, sour cream, roasted Roma tomatoes, roasted red bell peppers, red wine vinegar and pickled garlic. I used wax potatoes from our garden which add color to the salad. To the potatoes, I added red radishes, celery, sun-dried tomatoes, red kidney beans, pine nuts and a myriad of herbs. It's perfect for a summer picnic!
Gardening with the girls... They were so proud of finding the potatoes!
Yields: 6 servings2 pounds red wax potatoes (15 potatoes)
2 teaspoons white vinegar (see tips)
1 (15-ounce) can red kidney beans, rinsed
½ cup celery, chopped
6 red radishes, cubed
2 tablespoons sun-dried tomatoes in olive oil, coarsely chopped
¼ cup pine nuts, slightly toasted
2 tablespoons sour cream
3 tablespoons plain yogurt
4 ounces cream cheese, softened to room temperature
3 tablespoons olive oil
1-3/4 teaspoons salt
½ teaspoon black pepper, freshly ground
3 chipotle peppers, drained, seeded and finely chopped
1 roasted red bell pepper (click on the link for the recipe)
2 Roma tomatoes (see tips), smoked (or roasted), skinned and coarsely chopped
4 cloves pickled garlic, finely minced
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1 lime
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
2 tablespoons capers
1 tablespoon chives, chopped
1 tablespoon tarragon, chopped
1 tablespoon dill, chopped
2/3 cup Asiago cheese, shredded
3 tablespoons flat-leaf parsley, coarsely chopped
Making eggfree potato salad dressing:
Zest and juice the lime.
In a food processor, combine the sour cream, cream cheese, yogurt, chipotle peppers, roasted red bell pepper, roasted tomatoes, pickled garlic, onion powder, Dijon mustard and 3 tablespoons of Asiago cheese.
Add the zest of lime and the juice, red wine vinegar and the olive oil. Pulse until smooth. Check seasoning. Add salt and black pepper. Chill in the refrigerator until the salad is ready.
Boiling the waxy potatoes:
Wash and place the whole, unpeeled, potatoes in a medium-sized pot. Fill with cold water until the potatoes are barely covered. Add the white vinegar (see tips). It's preferable to choose same-sized potatoes and to start with cold water so the potatoes cook evenly. Bring to a boil, add 1 teaspoon of salt and reduce the heat to medium-high (if you cook the potatoes at a full boil, they might fall apart). As soon as the water reaches a low boil, cook for about 15-20 minutes. Test, using a fork; the potatoes should be tender. Remove from the pot. Drain the potatoes thoroughly and let them cool a little.
Making potato salad:
Once the potatoes are cool enough to handle, dice them leaving the skin on. Add the radishes, celery, sun-dried tomatoes, capers and red kidney beans. Set aside.
Assembly time:
Add the salad dressing to the potato mixture. Toss well. Finish with the rest of the Asiago cheese, pine nuts, chives, dill, tarragon and flat-leaf parsley.
Chill in the refrigerator until you're ready to serve.
Bon appétit!
Potatoes are one of the easiest vegetables to plant. Lulu planted a cutting from one we bought from the supermarket as an experiment. We were so surprised by how prolific the potato plant is. We harvested a very large batch this week.
Adding vinegar (or lemon juice) to the boiling water will help the potato hold their shape.
You can use fresh garlic instead of pickled garlic but the flavor will be a lot stronger. You can find pickled garlic in Asian stores.
Red kidney beans are a great source of protein, iron and fiber for a vegetarian diet. You could replace them with chicken, salmon or tuna if you like.
I used shredded Asiago cheese for its strong flavor; you could use any other cheese or even omit it.
How to prepare the smoked tomatoes: You could roast them in the oven. I used a barbecue. Make sure to place wood chips underneath the grill but really, either method is fine. Using a metal skewer, create a hole through the tomato starting from the stem. Thread the tomatoes onto a rosemary sprig. Drizzle with olive oil. Season with salt and pepper. Place on the grill, close the barbecue and cook for about 1-2 minutes on each side until slightly browned and caramelized. Skin and coarsely chop the tomatoes. Voilà!Published By: on July 6, 2010.


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Everything I know about writing a novel, I've learned from Crest Extra Whitening Toothpaste. What? You don't believe me? Ow. That hurts. Okay, okay. I'll prove it. Give me a sec while I run to the bathroom and grab a tube…
I'm back. Ta-dah! Come closer and see for yourself.
1.) Brush teeth thoroughly after meals at least twice a day or as directed by a dentist. Supervise children's brushing until good habits are established.
"The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair." Mary Heaton Vorse
If I waited for the perfect mood or lightning bolt of inspiration to strike before I sat down and wrote, I would never have finished Before Ever After, or perhaps even started.
A huge part of writing the book was just about showing up, sitting down, and putting one word in front of another. It was important for me to follow a schedule and be as disciplined about it as though I were clocking in at an office. Whether I came up with five words or five hundred, it was still more than what I had the day before.
2.) For best results, squeeze tube from the bottom and flatten as you go up.
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." Tom Clancy
One of the things I like about writing is the freedom to create worlds within the pages of the book – but while these worlds spring from our imagination, it must come alive in someone else's. Twists and turns in the story are great, but if it leaves readers going back and forth between pages to understand what's going on, then the writer has failed. Doing the Cha Cha is fun – but not when you are reading.
Writing with the end in mind is essential – each sentence you put down must take you closer to that goal. If it doesn't, take it out.
3.) Questions? 1-800-699-3974
"Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go." E. L. Doctorow
The common advice is to write what you know. I believe, however, that that shouldn't stop us from exploring what we don't. There are treasure troves of information to be found out there and experts who are more than willing to share their knowledge if you just ask them. For me, half the fun of writing is in discovering something new.
4.) Whitens teeth by gently polishing away surface stains. Leaves teeth feeling slick and smooth.
"The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant." Will Shetterly
Polish or die. To fall in love with your first draft is to guarantee doom. The best thing to do with a first draft is to stuff it in a box and forget about it. Dig it up only when the rush of typing "the end" has faded, then don't forget to lay newspapers on the floor. Adverbs and adjectives tend to bleed a lot when you kill them.
5.) Net wt 8.0z (226g)
It helps to be aware of the word count guidelines for your genre BEFORE you write your book. I didn't, and wound up with a first draft that was 120,000 words long. The draft I queried with was trimmed to 86,000 words. The final book's word count is 92,000. I'm all for letting the words flow, but keeping in mind the industry standard will be a big help in making sure that your story is progressing at the right pace.
6.) Do not swallow.
Um, yeah, because that would hurt.


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by Maxine Deeter
There is an old adage which says: Don't wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.
It was a quiet Friday night just before dusk, and my partner and I were vegging out in front of the TV. Our TV sits between two windows that look onto our back yard.
Suddenly he jumps up and says, "Look, look at what's out there."
He does this to me quite often and gets agitated when I can't "see". Not this time – I could see quite clearly a big pig rooting in our back lawn.
It's the time of year when our garden and flowers have been planted and are emerging from the soil. The last thing we wanted was for them to become pig fodder. So my spouse runs out and attempts to herd the pig from our premises.
Herding a pig is not easy. The only experience I've had with it is watching the Junior Livestock kids guide their hogs around the arena by gently whacking them with big sticks. Seems to me like the pigs still go about where they want to.
My spouse is having trouble getting the pig to go out of the yard. He lacked the big stick.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I'm on the phone calling Deputy Todd. Not, that we needed law enforcement for this situation, even though I knew our LE would be on evening patrol.
No, I thought that the deputy and his family had a couple of pigs on their farm, and I wondered perhaps if one of them might be on the lam.
I'd heard recently – and I report it here less, or maybe much more, than actually happened – that the family had lost their steer while they were gone for a couple of weeks on vacation. "When the cat's away, the cow will play."
A good neighbor, seeing the wandering bovine and thinking it probably belonged to rancher "So and So", put it in the nearby field with a bunch of other cattle.
The last I heard, he was "lost" among his fellow creatures. But, I have no doubt that he'll be found (if he hasn't been already) before its time for him to become T-bones and hamburger.
But, no, the officer's pigs were still safely ensconced in their pen. I told him I'd call my granddaughter who knows about everything going on in the village.
"How does she do that?" asked Deputy Todd.
I don't know, but she does have her finger on the pulse of the community.
Alas, she was not home. Ownership of the hog was still unclear.
Within a few minutes, Deputy Todd was on the scene of the escaped pig who was now wandering into the neighbor's yard. I don't think they wanted him rooting there any more than we did.
About that time, my granddaughter's spouse came by and stopped to see what was afoot. He did not know pig ownership either. He did offer to furnish a pen for incarceration of the pig until ownership could be established.
I was not sure that was a good idea. He is a "killer" as attested to by his three cute daughters who were with him.
"He kills coyotes and rabbits all the time!"
I could just see us getting an invitation to a barbeque the next night. Main entrée: roast pig!
By now the pig is making his way back to our place.
"How do you catch a pig?" I ask.
"You grab him by the hind legs" replies Officer T.
He is soon trying to do just that. After several attempts he has the pig by both back ankles and is going: "D-D-D-D-D, hoolldding a a a pppig is like hooldding a jjjjaacckkhaammmmer!"
My Old Man (emphasis on "old" as opposed to the younger, muscly deputy) drops the tailgate of the deputymobile and joins the fray.
I don't think anyone stabbed the pig, but he was sure squealing like a stuck hog! After a few WWF moves – some obviously illegal, like grabbing the pigs long, floppy ears – the critter is flung into the back of the pickup.
May I say here, that observing all this, I did not think the pig was enjoying any of this wrestling match.
During all this, County dispatch has been calling our deputy. He is finally breathlessly able to respond explaining that he has been wrestling a pig.
Dispatch: "Say what!?"
He rattles off a few of those LE numeric codes, one of which I think means "fugitive captured and secured" or something similar. I doubt there is a code for "pig secured".
Deputy T. heads to my grandson-in-law's with the secured fugitive.
Meanwhile back at the ranch, I'm on the phone to a neighbor who thinks the pig belongs to our mutual neighbors. They have no phone, so I again contact our officer and he heads to the suspected owners home.
Lots of traffic goes by our house, and I assume that our adventurous pig has been returned to his very own abode.
So ends an adventurous Friday night in Sierra La Sal. By now it is 9:30 and time for bed. Our LE heads back to his evening patrol, making our little village safe and secure from bandits and escaped livestock, and we head to bed. Hopefully so did the pig.
Note: the above narrative of Friday night's events may or may not have been somewhat (or grossly) embellished for entertainment purposes. I make no claims for accurate rendering of the event.


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Updated 4:11 p.m.
• Facebook says it may launch legal action against employers who ask for user passwords and Senator drafting bill to prevent potential employers from requiring Facebook logins – Facebook isn't amused by employers and other entities demanding login credentials. It may sue, and legislators are looking at making such action illegal. And Protecting Your Passwords and Your Privacy
• Rovio working on Angry Birds Space for WP –CEO – Though there is no release date set.
• Best Buy Is Selling Nearly as Many iPhones as Apple Itself
• Signs in Mountain Lion point to "retina" display MacBooks sooner than later – Mac notebooks with Retina displays could appear with the release of Mountain Lion.
Original post
• The Case Against Google – Mat Honan says Google's core product isn't search anymore – it's Google itself. This is a very length essay about how Google lost its way, and its worth your time to read. Also Google won't be top dog forever says father of the Internet
• Google wants to serve you ads based on the background noise of your phone calls – This patent filing is just about as creepy as it gets.
• Google Play mulls movie sales – You can now rent movies on Google Play, but sales may be coming soon.
• The Future of Apps and Web – The Pew Internet and American Life Project looks at which is winning when it comes to accessing online information: The open Web or apps. Most of those surveyed think the Web will survive, but that most consumers don't care where their info comes from – they just want access in a natural and easy way.
• Facebook amending privacy policy, here's a rundown of the changes – Once again, Facebook is tweaking its privacy policy. And Study shows how much information Facebook can mine just from relationship status changes
• Facebook Is Said to Buy 750 IBM Patents to Boost Defenses – Having access to the patents may help in its defense against a lawsuit filed by Yahoo.
• For Pinterest, Revenue Will Turn Copyright Questions Into Real Problems – For now, there's been only speculation about Pinterest's copyright dilemma, but that could turn into action once the site figures out how make money off its users pinning of images.
• 'Angry Birds' Space Edition Skips Windows Phone in Blow to Nokia – The latest Angry Birds game is available on Android, iOS, OS X and Windows, but not on Windows Phone, and developer Rovio has "no plans" add it. And Angry Birds Space rockets to the top of the App Store charts in over 28 countries
• AT&T Nokia Lumia 900 set for April 9th release with demo units in stores now
• T-Mobile USA to Cut 1,900 Jobs as It Consolidates Its Call Centers – The carrier is closing seven call centers, two of them in Texas.
• iPads keep charging for "up to" an hour after display shows 100% – According to a study by the creator of DisplayMate. This is also true of other tablets and smartphones.
• Austin council OKs $8.6M in incentives for new Apple facility – Apple had also been looking at Phoenix for the facility that will add 3,600 jobs.
• Security Alert: Safari for iOS 5.1 reportedly vulnerable to address bar spoofing – This is in the mobile version of Safari. Apple will be pushing out a fix soon.
• Where is mobile gaming happening? At home, in bed – Put down the phone and go to sleep.


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This form allows you to enter your street address and retrieve the BASD elementary, middle, and high school that services your neighborhood.
Disclaimer: The information obtained in this database is for informational purposes only. While the data is believed to be current and accurate, the district is not responsible for any inaccuracies. Further, the data contained herein is subject to change without notice,and exceptions sometimes are made for special situations. Please contact the district's Child Accounting Department at (610) 861-0500, extension 60273 or 60274, to verify a child's school.


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Hello Summer, I've Been Waiting for You.
Just a few of the things on my summer love list: Popsicles on the front stoop. After dinner walks. Bare feet. Sprinklers. Fireflies. The smell of chlorine in my children's hair when I kiss them goodnight. Beach reading. Wrinkly-pool-soaked-toes. Impromptu visits. Late mornings. Sandy PBJ sandwiches. Canoes. Reunions. Tomatoes off the vine. My husband wearing shorts. Flip flops. Eating outdoors. Strawberry margaritas.
(And a selection of pictures from my project 365 taken over the past month.)


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Erskine Bowles, former co-chair of the president's debt commission, told CNBC on Wednesday that a "Grand Bargain" on deficit reduction is "on life-support," with the chances of reaching one "north of zero" percent. He added that he remained hopeful, however, and would keep pushing for compromise.
Bowles, a Democrat, and his Republican debt-cutting partner Alan Simpson are proposing a new road map to achieve $2.5 trillion in deficit reduction through 2023, in part by replacing the "stupid stuff" like the broad-based, automatic spending cuts of "the sequester."
"If we want this economy to grow," Bowles said in a "Squawk Box" interview, "we gotta reform the tax code. … We've gotta to slow the rate of growth of health-care spending. We need to make Social Security sustainably solvent."
(Read More: What's Ailing the Economy? In a Word: Washington)
While there's been some progress in the two and a half years since the debt commission made its final recommendations, he said it's not enough.
"We have done about $2.7 trillion worth of deficit reduction. We've done easy stuff, the politically easy stuff," Bowles said. "How hard is it to cap discretionary spending and not tell anyone what you're going to cut? How hard is it to raise taxes on rich people?"
(Read More: US Expects First Cut in National Debt Since 2007)
"They've all done the stupid stuff, 'the sequester.' What they haven't done is gotten serious and done any of the hard stuff," he said. "The hard stuff is reforming the tax code and reducing the spending we need to reduce in the entitlement programs."
Despite his criticism of the president in the past, Bowles said that Barack Obama deserves credit for releasing a budget plan that goes after things "that are dear to Democrats." The president has proposed $400 billion of cuts in health care in the way Republicans support, Bowles explained.
"That, combined with the chained-CPI, which will make Social Security more sustainably solvent … [and] some reforms he has in the corporate tax rate … give me hope we can actually get a deal done," he concluded.


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NYCB Performances
A number of ballets in New York City Ballet's repertoire feature roles for children. These roles are filled exclusively by SAB's students, who are typically enrolled in the School's Children's Division. The selection of students for these productions is made solely by NYCB's children's ballet mistress Dena Abergel.
NYCB ballets in which SAB students perform include:
George Balanchine's The Nutcracker™
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn/Balanchine)
Harlequinade (Drigo/Balanchine)
Firebird (Stravinsky/Balanchine)
Circus Polka (Stravinsky/Robbins)
Coppélia (Delibes/Balanchine/Danilova)
Mother Goose Suite (Ravel/Robbins)
Union Jack (traditional songs, Kay/Balanchine) Mozartiana (Tschaikovsky/Balanchine)
Songs of the Auvergne (Canteloube/Martins)
The Sleeping Beauty (Tschaikovsky/Martins after Petipa)
Swan Lake (Tschaikovsky/Martins after Ivanov, Petipa and Balanchine)
Scènes de Ballet (Stravinsky/Wheeldon)
Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saëns/Wheeldon)
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Comment: Our politicians need to start listening to the people
Slowly and reluctantly, more and more commentators have had to acknowledge that the sensational Bradford West by-election result cannot be trivialised or put down to accidental factors.
By George Galloway MP
If more had bothered to visit Bradford during the campaign, they would have been less taken aback by the result and not left floundering for an explanation.
Bradford has revealed the yawning gap between the cast-iron consensus shared by the old three parties over so many fundamental issues on the one hand, and the alienation of millions of people in Britain on the other. The leitmotif of the Bradford Spring was above all the cry for change, rather than the same old, same old. It was for a change in economic policy - not to the Labour frontbench's alternatives of savage cuts for tea rather than for breakfast, but to a strategy for growth, investment and jobs rather than forever putting the interests of the banks and bond markets first. It was for a reversal of over a decade of war and the threat of more war.
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Those who claimed that calling for withdrawal from Afghanistan was somehow disreputable in an area where high unemployment has driven many into the armed forces and which has lost all too many in combat over the last few years clearly failed to appreciate the public mood. This war is unpopular - not only among those whose coreligionists are being killed in even greater numbers than British personnel, but among the public as a whole. And the succession of wars - Iraq, Afghanistan, the threat of war with Iran - has come to symbolise something deeper: that the political class, and sitting in the same echo chamber so much of the media, simply do not represent the feelings of most people over most things.
That was the most salient truth revealed in Bradford. No amount of promises to listen (while carrying on in the same old way) will bridge that gulf. It's not just that people want politicians to sound like they actually believe what they are saying - whether the audience fully agrees or not - it's also the message.
The evidence is mounting elsewhere. The Financial Times this week reported on how all old parties are speculating about a resurgence of "fourth party politics". The reason is that the three established parties resemble more and more three cheeks of the same backside. There has never before been a time when the leaders of the Tories, Lib Dems and Labour between them register a -121% approval rating.
This and Bradford are a British expression of a wider European phenomenon. There has been a grim orthodoxy, especially since the onset of the Great Recession four years ago that austerity, slashing the state, lowering living standards and appeasing the money markets is the only game in town. The result from Greece to Spain and beyond has been disastrous. Now that consensus, only ever shared at the top, is cracking as alternatives begin to register on the political spectrum.
The presidential campaign of Jean-Luc Melénchon has electrified France - eclipsing the Front National and forcing the Socialist Party's Francois Hollande to echo attacks on the financiers and multi-millionaires. In Greece, parties to the left of Pasok, which committed Blairite suicide, are polling anywhere between a quarter and a third of the vote. A general election will take place at the start of May.
So by this time next month, we are likely to see a break in the 'Merkozy' orthodoxy, with Hollande in the Élysée, and also a vote for the left in Greece so strong that it makes it difficult for the others to form a coalition.
Writing from a cafeteria in parliament (three weeks after winning my seat, they somehow have yet to give me an office) I assure you that there are few here who seem to have imagined the consequences of that possibility.
For Bradford was not some "anti-politics" protest. It is nothing short of narcissism for a narrow class of politicians and associated chatterati to imagine that they constitute what is meant by politics. It was a rejection of them, certainly, but it was a vote for another kind of politics. For so many years we have been told that that was impossible or antediluvian. As the recession and foreign disasters grind on in Europe, and Britain prepares for more "one-offs" or "freak results" which together will point to a political awakening, desire is growing for a big politics about the fundamental course of our society. Not about marginal differences, often of presentation.
You can feel it, especially in the northern cities of England and in other industrial or post-industrial areas. In the distressed areas an army for change is beginning to muster. The complacent London class had better start listening.
George Galloway is MP for Bradford West
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VERGE Day 2: The city as startup, platform and organism
Editor's Note: To read highlights from the first day of VERGE SF on Nov. 12, click here.
Over the next 15 years, China will build enough buildings and infrastructure for 300 million people -- an amount that could service almost the entire U.S. population.
It's a pace that reflects the staggering rate of global urbanization -- one that's placed cities at the center of efforts for sustainable solutions. Currently, half of the world's population lives in cities. Seventy-five percent of the population will live in urban areas by 2050.
The global migration and consequent rise of the world's urban population point to the giant potential for gains at the city level.
"Cities need sustainability just as much as sustainability needs cities," said Mark Lee, the executive director of SustainAbility, on Tuesday morning at GreenBiz Group's VERGE SF conference in San Francisco, Calif. The meeting aimed to further the conversation -- and accelerate the action -- around sustainable communities through the convergence of building, vehicle and information technologies.
Lee's remark set the tone for the second day of VERGE SF -- a day focused on how cities have become the place to leverage gains in energy efficiencies, scale sustainability goals and develop more informed, revitalized communities. Through open data and the convergence of technologies, municipal governments, business, hackers and concerned citizens are working together to develop the "smart city." It's a place that uses data and technology as a way to predict and plan -- rather than react -- to events ranging from a daily traffic jam to a devastating natural disaster like Hurricane Sandy or Katrina.
Photo of SustainAbility Executive Director Mark Lee (L) and Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh (R) at VERGE SF by Goodwin Ogbuehi, GreenBiz Group
One of the most inspiring examples of how city-level innovations are taking place with public-private partnerships was shared by Tony Hsieh, the CEO of online shoe company Zappos, who spoke at VERGE SF on Tuesday morning.
His company is leading a revolution of sorts in Las Vegas to revitalize the Fremont East downtown area oft-overshadowed by its glittery neighbor -- the Strip.
When it came time to plan a move from its suburban Henderson, Nev. offices to Las Vegas' former city hall, Hsieh rejected the predictable path of replicating the corporate campuses he visited -- Google and Apple among them.
"[They] are great for employees but insular -- they don't contribute to surrounding communities," he said.
"Maybe we should turn this whole idea inside out and be more like NYU [New York University] in how it blends into the city," he recalls musing. "What about instead of investing in ourselves, we invested in the city?"
Zappos' future corporate offices, Hsieh said, will be located just two blocks away from the Fremont East neighborhood. It's already made strides to bring in small businesses and tech startups to the area.
All this work, Hsieh says, is driven by his company's core values: Collision, community and co-learning.
The city of San Francisco is taking the lead in partnering with developers and entrepreneurs to create apps aimed at improving residents' daily lives.
"We're connecting the energy sector and the built environment," said Melanie Nutter, the director of the city's environment department, during a VERGE SF panel focused on "The City as a Platform."
"We see the city as an R&D lab," she said.
In tough economic times, Nutter said, the "drive to low-cost innovation" is key to reaching San Francisco's sustainability goals. The city has also come up with innovative financing methods through the PACE program, she said, which gives access to capital for building retrofits focused on energy efficiency.
Perhaps one of the most visionary collection of voices came from coders and developers steeped in the sustainable hacking movement. The hackers are working alongside city governments to leverage technology for more engaged communities.
It's a perfect way to make progress in lean times, according to Steve Spiker, the director of research and technology at the Urban Strategies Council in Oakland, Calif.
"Hacking is doing things dirty and cheap. You can hack policy, data and institutions," he said.
Residents of Boston, Mass. and Honolulu are using open data sets to increase public safety. In Boston, Code for America fellows developed an Adopt-A-Hydrant app which enables residents to keep neighborhood fire hydrants clear of winter snow and accessible to firefighters. And in Honolulu, locals committed to refresh the batteries of tsunami warning stations.
Code for America pairs developers for a year of public service with local governments and nonprofits to create applications for social good.
In Oakland, Spiker's group is part of a project coordinated by Code for America -- a civic innovation project called Open Oakland. Its goal is to show how technology can change a city, he said.
"Government is one of the last industries not truly disrupted by IT," said Jack Madams, a program coordinator with Code for America.
"When government realizes that they have this platform for enabling so much in their communities – we can do something bigger than the sum of the people working there," he said.
Reporting contributed by Liz Enochs, Ambika Kandasamy, Hannah Miller, Aaron Tilley and Kristine Wong
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Beyond Fashion and Style
April 18, 2012
Working excerpt taken from: HOME-BUILT HOUSE: Shelter for an Uncertain World, ISBN 978 09762741 7 9 (See PrePub Pitch here)
Most would agree that the cultural context of a building influences the characteristics of its physical form. These are usually seen as decorative features, part of a temporal and evolving style, with no universal truth or purpose other than to entertain the aspirations of their clients. When they work, the resulting buildings fulfill the expectations of their time and place with no lasting influence on society or construction technology.
Even classic building styles are self-defined by the historic, religious, or political discourse that surrounds them, icons of certain cultural values and not the result of some deeper social significance or aesthetic. As a result, we live with buildings that reproduce contemporary ideals only to be oddly antiquated with the passing of time.
The Vernacular of Net Zero
By contrast, a vernacular architecture describes the physical characteristic of a building that reflects a common method of construction that uses local labor and materials to satisfy the shared needs of a community without adding superfluous stylistic decorations. There is no feature in a vernacular that goes beyond the functional requirements of its existence as a building. As such a vernacular is not influenced by changing trends or fashionable statements that find themselves dated and worn in time.
Vernacular buildings are purposeful, reflecting a human response to their environmental, economic, and social context as a collection of inherent qualities that are often dismissed as crude and unsophisticated by proponents of more self-conscious building styles.
The buildings seen in the informal sector reflect many of the values of a vernacular architecture. While some include personal expressions, they all use the same locally salvaged resources, built with simple hand tools and an intuitive, almost primitive approach to their construction. The result is an immediately recognizable sense of disorder that reflects the essence of their function as pure shelter.
This absence of order is of course shaped by impoverished technical limitations, economic exclusion, and a subsequent social marginality that has reduced these buildings to their primal purpose. As such they are a natural response to a basic need for self-preservation as a derivative of a net zero economy with no governing social mandate or regulatory authority to care for them.
Intuitive Construction Methods
What's interesting is that these informal buildings are slowly reinforced by the security that comes with tenure on land occupied with varying levels of economic success. As such, they are not simply the result of a community of people desperately and haphazardly assembling buildings. Instead there is a method to their construction that includes a carefully considered assumption of the potential of materials and methods, with clear evidence of varying levels of construction quality. The distinct features of an informal vernacular are driven by the limitations of the materials, tools, and skills available to their builders.
Though it's easy to discount the resulting structures as completely inadequate, look closer and you see details that require solutions that would be difficult to duplicate with formal construction methods.
As a result, what we see in these informal buildings is an architecture stripped of the systemic support of an industry of processed materials and practices, leaving the informal builder to invent and implement solutions that are fundamental to their personal needs. Design exists as physical form of three-dimensional problem solving, depending solely on available resources and reduced to the essence of self-determination, imagination, and inventive thought.
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Faculty priorities reconsidered: rewarding multiple forms of scholarship
Jossey-Bass, Aug 3, 2005 - Education - 340 pages
No reform effort in American higher education in the last twenty years has been more important than the attempt to enlarge the dominant understanding of the scholarly work of faculty—what counts as scholarship. Faculty Priorities Reconsidered assesses the impact of this widespread initiative to realign the priorities of the American professoriate with the essential missions of the nation's colleges and universities: to redefine faculty roles and restructure reward systems.
Faculty Priorities Reconsidered traces the history of the movement to redefine scholarship. It examines the impact of the 1990 landmark report Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate from The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and the decade-long work of the American Association for Higher Education's Forum on Faculty Roles and Rewards that initiated and sustained much of the work reported on here. The struggles to move beyond narrow definitions of research, to distinguish between scholarly teaching and the scholarship of teaching while acknowledging the importance of both, to encourage faculty engagement in meeting the scholarly needs of the larger civic community, and to recognize the importance of academic synthesis and integration—all elements of a broader understanding of scholarship—are addressed in this book.
In Faculty Priorities Reconsidered the leading pioneers of the movement reflect on their own work with campuses nationwide and examine concrete issues involved in introducing new perspectives on the different forms of scholarship. In addition, the book contains studies of nine very diverse institutions—Madonna, Albany State, South Dakota State, Kansas State, Portland State, and Arizona State universities, Franklin College, the University of Phoenix, and the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Each study tells a unique story of the struggle to change faculty work and its rewards.
This book offers practical advice to academic leaders considering similar changes and responds to questions for the future about encouraging, supporting, assessing, and rewarding multiple forms of scholarship.
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Apple's maps disaster is a big mark against Scott Forstall, a person many people believed was going to fill a big part of the void left behind when Steve Jobs died.
Forstall leads the software development for the iPhone and iPad, which represent the majority of Apple's revenues as well as the future of the company.
When Apple unveiled its new maps, Forstall did the on-stage demo. Ultimately, maps are his responsibility.
He was called the "CEO-in-waiting" at Apple by Fortune reporter Adam Lashinsky in his book on the inner workings of Apple, "Inside Apple." Bloomberg BusinessWeek called Forstall a "mini-Steve," writing, "He may also be the best remaining proxy for the voice of Steve Jobs, the person most likely to channel the departed co-founder's exacting vision for how technology should work."
This is his second consecutive high-profile screw up with iOS software. Last year he pushed Apple to add Siri to iOS. Siri has been an embarrassment for Apple.
Forstall has certainly done a lot of great work for Apple. He won an internal competition to design the original iPhone software, which has since morphed into iOS, the best mobile software on the market.
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Darien forecast: Big chill overnight
There's a slight chance of showers this afternoon in southwestern Connecticut, before the region has its first freeze of the season.
The National Weather Service says that early cloudy conditions today will clear as the temperature rises to a daytime high in the upper-50s. There will be a northwest wind 7 to 17 mph, with the odds of precipitation at 20 percent.
Tonight will be clear, with a low temperature about 30 degrees -- triggering the "freeze warning" to be issued from 1 to 9 a.m. early tomorrow.
Skies should be sunny most of tomorrow with a high temperature in the low-50s. Overnight, there is a slight chance of rain after midnight, the NWS says. The temperature will dip to the mid-40s, and the chance of precipitation is about 20 percent.
On Sunday, there is a chance of rain before noon as skies turn cloudy and temperatures rise to a high in the upper-60s. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent. Overnight, there remains a slight chance of showers, with a low temperature is in the mid-50s. Chance of precipitation is 20 percent.
Monday, there is a greater chance of showers under mostly cloudy skies and temperatures rising to about 70 degrees. Chance of precipitation is 40 percent. There is still a chance of showers Monday night as the temperature hits a low of about 50 degrees. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent.
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Hand in the OP
So let's make a little investigation.
Below contains some screenshot of this episode; thus a very minor spoiler... you aren't seeing anything really..
So after this investigation: It is highly likely that the hand in the OP is CC's hand.
There are quite a lot of emotion in there for some reason. May be CC is hiding something. It is true that she is searching for Lulu for sometime (ep1, she said, I found him).
Last edited by quina; 2007-01-07 at 00:04. Reason: I add Shirley in.
|2006-12-08, 16:21
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Comments about the new OP:
- The hand: guess it's almost a sure-fire that is belongs to C.C. - after trying to grasp something invisible (perhaps foreshadowing a doomed or helpless endeavor? who knows), the hand extends to a shadowy person with the V-like sigil behind, a blatant reference to the power of Geass and Lelouch. The only two persons right now who have knowledge of this particular means of coercion are C.C. and Lelouch. Since Lelouch is already portrayed in that scene, the other person must be C.C.
Moreover, a few seconds later, you get that sequence with C.C. 'swimming' through that maze of blue nerves and ethereal wires - with her eventually turning to the camera and extending her hand - apart from Lelouch, she's the only one making such a gesture in the OP, so it might be a hint.
- The Crimson Lotus 2nd: I noticed two small things on the CL-2. On the left arm, near the elbow, there seems to be a cannon or heavy machine gun sticking out of the arm - I guess this makes up for the apparent lack of ranged weapons. So far I'd have considered the CL-2 as a close range juggernaut only but the appearance of a cannon sort of relieves me. Otherwise other Knightmare Frames would have no problems hacking her to shreds using machine guns from afar - provided she doesn't hop around the place like a rabbit, joyously evading barrage after barrage.
Second thing is, on the right, clawed hand, one can see a cylindrical contraption deeply embedded inside the palm. I can only offer two guesses about what it is - first is that it's a high voltage shocker meant to disable Knightmare Frames by physical contact and a brutal discharge of electricity to short-circuit the target's power plants, batteries, electronic systems and other resources...provided the KFs don't have in-built Faraday cages. Second guess is, it's the JLF's own version of the Britannian Slash Harken - the wired rocket anchors that Kallen used in this episode to drag the Police Frames along with her and have its cockpit shorn off - but in this case it's particular shape make it virtually impossible to be used as a blade but rather as a concussion weapon - perhaps like a wired mace or so. Unless it can be used like the MS-07B-3 Gouf Custom's (from Mobile Suit Gundam - the 08th MS Team) heat rod - to shock enemies from afar.
- Shortly after the CL-2's sequence there is an explosion, which sort of makes me reminisce Utawarerumono's OP with that apolyptical deflagration. Maybe is it a bomb or the Lancelot's power source blowing up? I don't think it's a nuke going off so I'm gonna guess it's either a contraption blowing up, a burst of otherwordly energy (C.C.'s civilization?) or some sort of new weapon designed by the Holy Empire (in Ep01 it looks like Britannia fielded out a shitload of new equipment (and among them, the Knightmare Frame, which made its debut in Japan, needn't I remind it) so it's not impossible.
- The countdown...well, it's not a countdown. The numbers are rising. I dunno what for or why but the group of nucleobases behind is possibly about someone trying to study a DNA sequence. Which brings us to the only possible candidate to this - C.C.'s people. I don't know if some of you remember it, but Newtype (U.S. edition) printed out a scan where the power of geass was, quote, 'able to create or destroy just about anything - and had something to do with the very existence of Humankind'. I'm not sure how much of the information was garbled and warped through overseas translation and interviews with the Sunrise staff (after all, the wording about an idea transmitted from one person to the other can change during the exchange and drastically modify the idea), but I'm going to go with it...for the time being. Bah, perhaps it's just to show how different and special C.C.'s people are compared to us...genetically speaking.
- League of Black Knights: what in the nine hells is Sayoko doing there? O_O Is she acting as medic or what? I can understand Diethard Lied since he has that odd contempt towards Britannian yet a great fascination for Zero (probably because he wants shellshock events for the free press and not official, uptight and government-controlled official broadcasts) - but it makes no doubt he's going to be the journalist covering their end of the fight and record everything that'll go on, for the posterity to behold and remember. As for the new character - someone pointed that she had a mark on her forehead, perhaps a sign of belonging to C.C.'s ilk? It could also be the red mark Hindus bear on the forehead (the 'third eye', if I'm not mistaken). Nevertheless, she bears all signs of being a technician or someone acquainted with science and technology. That blouse is somewhat synonymous of her being a scientist - just look at Ritsuko Akagi and you'll see what I mean.
As for
- The KF fleet. I'm not sure whether this is Lelouch's future army - possibly made of sympathizers or defects from the Army - or if it's a Britannian regiment readying for battle (a new Ragnarok, anyone?). It nevertheless looks like a promise for a good fight, unless, of course, it's there as a symbol representing the Britannian Army - the entire Institution Suzaku fights against. Other than that, another option is that it's
Thoughts about the ep:
- Yuri with Nina blushing about Euphemia? Oh noes...*rolls eyes*
- Even Viletta makes a crack at Jeremiah by calling him 'orange-kun'. ROFL. Anyway, looks like the hanging rope's noose is heading a little closer to Lelouch. Viletta's now bent on investigating that mysterious student she reminisced...
- Suzaku once again reaches new levels of naivety with his 'Black Knights can't do good because they don't cooperate with the police'. Sorry, mister, but if the justice of men, of Britannia and of that police are of no use, then we will use our own. Period. How do you expect a man hunted by all of Britannia to up and go to Cornelia and say, 'hoy, Corny, want a hand? Let's be friends, I suddenly got the mother of all realizations this morning and discovered I was wrong about my actions! But I'm here, all good and refreshed with new, better ideas in mind!'
'ma sorry, Suzaku but you better look in a mirror first rather than criticize. You're one to talk about self-righteousness. Honestly. Not that you don't have an excuse - quite the opposite - but Lelouch has also good reasons to go out like that. You'll have also the excuse that you don't know it's Lelouch. But aside from that...
And, no, I won't start with the GS and GSD parallels. It's becoming almost as cheap as the Death Note ones. Tiresome, too. >_<
- Kallen seems to go through Knightmare Frames like a pop idol goes through dresses...hope the CL-2 will last longer...O_O
- I wonder why Kallen can't draw conclusions with Lelouch dropping chunk-sized hints here and there. I admit he had her fooled with that audio file he broadcast through the phone but I mean, Kallen's not idiot enough to really wonder what the heck's up with him. Even if she doesn't make the link Zero-Lelouch, she sure has to have suspicions about him not being that clean.
- Even if Cornelia seems like the ruthless character, she does seem to be someone of honor - with letting Zero go about his business unchecked, for the time being. I'm sure the next episode will consume the rest of the reprieve she just granted him and will end the ceasefire between the two. I nevertheless wonder (with good reason) if Lelouch will pride decency over need, were he to actually find himself in a situation where he'd have to decide whether kill her or spare her life (let's not forget that she's a potential informant for Lelouch's first and foremost task - discover who killed his mother and crippled Nanaly...and he hasn't used his Geass trick yet) despite her long-standing career as female Terminator for all opponents of Britannia.
Anyway, this ep shows some human side to her, after the whole Euphemia business.
- Speaking of Euphemia, we get to see the first seeds of doubt here. Is she having second thoughts about the entire situation or is she seeing her sister in another light? I don't think the second possibility is the correct one but I guess she's troubled by Zero's attitude.
- Millay lives up to her motherly character stereotype, being the usual benevolent one unmarred by preconceptions about nationalities and origins. Hope we'll see more of her - she seems quite a beacon of hope in a sea of bigoted hopelessness.
- Lelouch really needs to be less blunt and he'll actually have a chance with girls. The opposite will only earn him physical harm. Anyway, well, the message he conveyed to Kallen was quite the controversial and indeed blunt, down-to-business one. Blunt enough to have its implications hidden from first sight or elicit the memory of Kallen's mother instead of some deeper reasoning. But all in all, he's right about what he thinks. The way the Eleven instantly cowered more or less had a 'Pavlov's dog' alert ringing in my head. Acting all subservient shows he has given hope on having a better life and the fight for a social ascension (even slight)...but then again, I'm not in that Eleven's position, haven't suffered the ignominies he had to incur nearly every day and am not in his socks so I can't say I'm in a just position to criticize his attitude. Only state that it's sad it has come to that.
But anyway, Lelouch is too blunt. I dunno if it was voluntary in order to dispel doubts around him and reinforce the idea that he's a normal Britannian agreeing with the reality of social Eleven evolution - or lack thereof.
Dunno if Kallen is going to remain miffed at him or if she'll get her ass in gear and rethink his words.
- C.C. going around (instead of remaining at the pavilion) like this seemed a bit random but I guess she's keeping tabs on Lelouch, making sure he doesn't die before he gets to fulfill her dearest wish. Unless she has a hidden agenda...?
|2006-12-09, 05:01
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>> quina
Lies and deceit! We all know Nanally is aware of Lelouch's nocturnal crusading, and as such, she is worried sick about him. She clearly decided to grow her fingernails and groom herself in the wiles of femininity, so as to appear as a man-eater and a temptress. That way Lelouch would spend all his time fussing over Nanally instead of in his entrepreneurial activities.
|2006-12-09, 07:23
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well onto this ep
- it seems that late nights are getting to both lulu and kallen lol...
- lulu getting the forced fit cosplay treatment was funny XD also great emphisis on milly's chest
- nina is not only an annoying baby but also yuri
- the maid in kallens house is suspicious (she takes drugs? O.o)
- shirley tries to ask lulu out but fails >.<
- lulu uses his geass on some punks who was beating the crap out of a stall owner who is an eleven but tbh he should have made them jump off a bridge
iits shocking for kallen to see his reaction whe she tries to help him up and he notices their britannia uniform ~ i think this is the deep mark left in all elevens in the sense that they are inferior to britnnia ~ this fires up kallen inside
- Viletta calling Jeremiah orange-kun was priceless XD
now onto the serious stuff ~ the OoBK this time cracks down onto a drug manufacture warehouse which kallen smashes into the back room with her frame...theres she sees drugged up elevens and her maid...which she calls to as "mother" *open eyes in disbelief*
she catches her falling with her frame and is even more fired up against to britannia ~ how dare they!
while her knightmare frame gets shot and blows off one of its arms...kallen takes off with the enemy right on her tail...she eventually manages to double KO it but at the same time learns how her mother has suppressed her pains all for the sake of kallen (the internal pain starts >.<)
really emotions at the last moment in hospital...kallen will try harder than ever to achieve happiness with her mother...*sob**sob*
overall a nice ep telling up us more about kallen...even tho the pace was slow the last few mins makes up for it
preview shows kallen's new frame...where the heck did she get that!? O.o
oh and C.C in a swimsuit <----- could it be that she was the one who created the frame?
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|2006-12-09, 07:51
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|2006-12-09, 10:47
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Why is there so much scorn for Nina?
However hopeless it is, I will be cheering for Nina x Euphemia. ^_^;; While she may be shy and a bit skittish, I think she is cute, and thankfully, the writers probably share that feeling.
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|2006-12-09, 11:20
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Worth mentioning that in this ep she was laughing along with Suzaku's antics, suggesting she is beginning to warm to him at least.
|2006-12-09, 11:50
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scorn for nina? naw but its just that so far her actions arent justified with anything other than "she hates elevens" ~ i would change my mind if i can see her side of the stroy but atm she is just imature imo
unpleasent experience with elevens in her past? most possible answer but we dont know to what extent yet so its hard to feel for her situation...and the fact that she nearly got everyone killed in that hostage situation was not up to my liking ~ i mean the cause for that? squeeling like an animal about to get slaughtered at the sight of an eleven...
i just hope her side of the story is enough to live up to why she hates elevens soo much...
|2006-12-09, 12:07
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I'll wait to know more about Nina before judging her but was the hint of yuri necessary? Well, I hope it's just admiration for a strong female (Euphemia), and not a crush...
|2006-12-09, 12:17
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In any case, I expect that we may learn a bit more in the future.
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|2006-12-09, 13:05
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Nina's anti-11 prejudice is to annoying that the only way it could ever be justified imo would be if
a) she was kidnapped and almost killed by elevens when she was younger
b) elevens tried to kill her
c) elevens tried to rape her
Otherwise, I just hope she bites it.
|2006-12-09, 14:25
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IF she fears them so much i really do wonder why she's still in Area 11. If i in her shoes i would've gone from there long ago by any means possible, surely she has to have some means that would enable her to leave. Or has it been said that even Brittania citizens have no such freedom that enables them to move to another area?
|2006-12-09, 17:04
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They put several noble or aristocratic families in the conquered areas to develop them. Until the families has shown an outstanding performance or there is a marriage that increase/decrease the status of each family, they will be moved to a "higher/better" area, until they reach the final position as permanent residents in the Imperial Capital. Of course the families can also be downgraded if there is any commoner/nobility marriage or other reason.
It might explain why the Ashford family was moved to area 11 after being soo close to an Imperial Queen and then downgraded.
Finally about Nina..................... I think the only excuse that I will pass is if she and a friend was actually raped and her friend was killed in front of her eyes. Besides that, I will still hate her as character.
|2006-12-09, 17:28
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She's also got that 'cute' image going for her.. just like any female in Code Geass. :3
|2006-12-09, 17:38
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evil|plushie, I think it is as you describe, and she has good reason for her fear of Elevens. Until we learn more though, I think it is premature to pass judgement on the poor girl. Prejudice is a harsh word here, as we have absolutely no evidence that she bears ill will toward anyone.
If anything, I am disturbed by the intolerance of people here who refuse to give her the benefit of the doubt, while knowing nothing of her situation. If anyone says they are free of all preconceptions, they are lying; what matters though, is how we act on them. So far, we haven't seen anything worthy of punishment, much less rape or death. Any way I look at her, I see nothing but a harmless girl who keeps to herself.
Is it that upsetting that she refers to people as "Elevens?" Because, like it or not, that is an accurate term while Britainia is still in power. Up until this point in the show, we know little about the common Britainians, but it is looking like they have little freedom themselves. Given the choice, why would anyone willingly move to an unstable region?
|2006-12-09, 19:41
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One thing that bothers me though, is that if she's so terrified of Japanese people why is she even there in Japan? she should ship her monkey butt back to Britain or whatever hole she crawled out of. :P
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|2006-12-09, 20:46
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As to answer your question, I don't know, and I doubt (very unlikely) any of us here yet, know the true picture, of the immigration policy to Subjects of the Empire, so until we do it has to be left as a question.
however if I was to hazard a guess, based upon previous empire policies in the real world. Immigration to new areas have always been subjected to the lure of attractive land ownership incentive issued by the government to promote industrial growth in the new area.
Hence people will willing more there for the benifit, onthe other hand there is the other scenario that like Australia, the Empire saw it as a valid area to send those that has been deemed punishment by exile.
Of course there migt be an entirely different reason, but thats the best I can conclude with such short information.
|2006-12-09, 23:49
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After defying the US-led boycott on Hamas by meeting its leaders in Damascus, Syria, former President Jimmy Carter told Israelis in Jerusalem Monday that the Islamist militants assured him they would respect a peace treaty ratified by the Palestinian public.
Despite this stated shift in Hamas's rejection of a peace treaty with Israel, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate cautioned that he is not about to coax Israel and Hamas together in the same way he shepherded Israelis and Egyptians to their watershed peace treaty in 1979.
"I don't ever intend to be a mediator between any of the disputing groups … that's not my goal," he said in a speech. "I don't have any expectation that I would be an acceptable spokesperson for either the US or Israel."
At the end of his Middle East tour, the remark highlights a key question about President Carter's freelance diplomacy: What value is there to talks with groups like Hamas – called a "terrorist organization" by the US and Israel – when the messenger himself does not speak on anyone's behalf?
Israel and Hamas already have a channel of talks via Egypt, which is being used to negotiate a prisoner swap to free Israeli Cpl. Gilad Shalit from nearly two years of captivity in Gaza. The Egyptians are also thought to be mediating talks on a cease-fire and the reopening of the border between Gaza and Egypt.
Carter, who was snubbed by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on the trip, reported that Hamas rejected his suggestion that it declare a unilateral truce with Israel and free Corporal Shalit in return for the release of jailed Hamas political leaders and Palestinian women and children prisoners. But, he said, Hamas did agree to forward a letter from Shalit to his parents and to a two-stage prisoner exchange in which the captured soldier would be transferred to Egypt in between waves of prisoner releases by Israel.
Carter also insisted that Hamas would accept a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in an accord negotiated by the Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas if it were put to a referendum or a Palestinian legislature is elected with a majority in support.
While Hamas leaders have said they support a long-term truce with Israel along the 1967 borders of the West Bank and Gaza, they have consistently rejected a peace treaty.
"This is enormous," says Gershon Baskin, copresident of the Israel Palestine Center for Research and Information. "It's the first indication that Hamas is turning its back on its own covenant of never recognizing Israel."
But Magnus Ranstorp, the author of several books on Hamas, is doubtful that the Islamists have made the ideological shift.
"They have fought a long time and they have a very long-range vision of the future, and one has to be aware of that in gauging their true intentions. Their red lines have not changed," says Dr. Ranstorp, of the Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defense College. He says that it's more likely Hamas seeks new legitimacy through Carter's visit.
"What I see is, 'this is how we can get back into the international community, and to use Carter's visit to gain some momentum,' " he says. "They could do something that wasn't expected or thought possible. But I am still a skeptic."
Hamas accepts the establishment of a Palestinian state on land occupied by Israel in the 1967 Arab-Israeli conflict but would not recognize the Jewish state, Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said Monday, Reuters reported. Commenting on efforts by Carter to persuade Hamas to back peace talks between Mr. Abbas and Israel, Mr. Meshaal said his Islamist group would "respect Palestinian national will even if it was against our convictions."
Though the former president is remembered fondly in Israel for the Egyptian peace treaty, he has outraged many with his book linking policies in the Palestinian territories to the South African system of racial apartheid.
"He's saying we should talk and he's talking. Whether this brings tangible benefits depends on both sides of the conflict and how they view Carter," says Meir Javedanfar, a Tel Aviv-based Middle East expert. "The Israelis are quite happy with the Bush administration's approach to the conflict and see no need to back Carter. On the other hand, he is more useful to Hamas because he's risking so much trying to bring them into the equitation."
Carter's mission coincided with an upsurge in border fighting between Israel and Hamas, with the militants launching attacks that killed three soldiers. Israel's retaliation left more than 20 Palestinians dead, including a Reuters cameraman.
Nicholas Pelham, a senior analyst at the International Crisis Group, says Carter's mission erodes the taboo of engaging Hamas and could help Israel "climb down the tree" from the three requirements – recognize Israel, accept previous agreements, and forswear violence – for speaking to the militants.
To be sure, Abbas's PA has been skeptical. "If Carter intended to convince Hamas to accept the commitment of the PA, like to the two-state solution, that's fine," says Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat. "But at the end of the day, Carter is the head of the Carter institute in Atlanta."
Even those who recognize a need to engage Hamas have questioned Carter's preference of public diplomacy. Yair Hirschfeld, an Israeli political scientist who helped run the secret talks between Israel and Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) that became known as the Oslo Accord, said talking to the media should come last.
Still, Carter's announcement about Hamas's flexibility on the Shalit swap is meaningful. "It's not the way I would have prepared it. But ... the proof of the pudding is in the eating," says Mr. Hirschfeld.
Ilene R. Prusher contributed reporting from Jerusalem.


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|Van Dyne, Wis.
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2014 Season (Sophomore): Did not compete at any meets.
2013 Season (Freshman): Competed in the 1,500-meter, one mile, 3,000-meter and 5,000-meter runs as well as the 4x400-meter relays...INDOOR: Placed ninth in the 5,000-meter run with a personal-best time of 16:33.28 at the Northern Athletics Conference Indoor Championships (Feb. 23)...Ran the mile in a personal-best time of 4:45.84 at the Wisconsin Red & White Open (Feb. 15)...OUTDOOR: Finished ninth in the 1,500-meter run with a personal-best time of 4:26.28 at the Wisconsin Private College Championships (Apr. 27)...Ran the 5,000-meter run three times, recording an outdoor season-best time of 16:51.41 at the NAC Outdoor Championships (May 3-4).
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Personal: Son of John and Sherrie...Has three older brothers, Erik, David, Jackson, and two younger brothers, Zach and Adam.


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Families of 7/7 Bombing Victims Had Phones Hacked by Murdoch Paper
Murdered teenager Milly Dowler wasn't the only person whose voicemail was hacked by the unscrupulous folks at News Corp paper News of the World—it now appears that the families of victims of the 7/7 terrorist bombings in London were "targets" as well.
Police working on the "Operating Weeting" investigation into the News of the World phone hacking have apparently been contacting 7/7 families "to warn them they were targeted by the paper." (Such good timing, too, with the sixth anniversary coming up later this week.)
It doesn't stop there, either: The parents of murdered girls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were also victims of the hacking, based on documents found in the home of the News of the World's private investigator, who has since been jailed for his part in the hacking.
And as the scandal widens, so too does the roll of people implicated: The News was apparently paying off senior police officers between 2003 and 2007 under the editorship of Andy Coulson (pictured back, left)—who later was appointed director of communications for Prime Minister David Cameron. (Coulson resigned in January.)
Meanwhile, Coulson's predecessor Rebekah Brooks (pictured back, right), now the chief of News International, the News Corp vehicle that owns News of the World, claims to have been unaware of the phone hacking that took place while she was the paper's editor—though former News journalist Paul McMullan says that "of course" Brooks was aware. Jack Shafer, writing in Slate, thinks that News Corp owner Rupert Murdoch (pictured front, right) may himself become a casualty:
I can't think of any jam that Murdoch has gotten into that's tighter than this one. As long as the victims of the phone-hacking were rich people and big shots, Murdoch didn't have to worry too much about public opinion dragging him and his newspapers down. But Dowler's parents are neither rich nor big shots.
Murdoch's instinct, of course, will be to sacrifice Brooks, but I doubt that the mob that is gathering will be satisfied with one body. They'll want strong, tough, old meat, too. Something that's fit for grilling on the barbie.


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The Dallas Cowboys have kept Josh Brent on their roster while he awaits trial for the Dec. 8 car crash that killed teammate Jerry Brown. But the patience of the Cowboys might run out soon.
Brent recently tested positive for marijuana, according to Dallas prosecutors. They asked a judge Thursday to revoke Brent's $100,000 bond and issue a warrant for his arrest, The Associated Press reported.
Brent is accused of driving with a blood-alcohol content more than twice the legal limit at the time of the crash.
Prosecutors said in their motion that Brent failed a urine test taken after a May 24 court hearing in which they had sought for his bond to be revoked due to problems with his alcohol monitoring, according to The Associated Press. While the judge declined to revoke his bond, he did order Brent to provide a urine sample.
Brent is required to wear an alcohol ankle monitor and appear for regular meetings with a county officer. Judge Robert Burns last month ordered a second form of monitoring to take breath samples, and for Brent to provide the sample after the hearing.
The prosecutors' motion said the test results indicate Brent took marijuana within 30 days of the test date and it did not appear the exposure to marijuana was second-hand.
There will be much hand-wringing about this latest turn of events but it's hard to muster any faux outrage about it --Brown's death was tragic. Brent has paid for it and will continue to pay for it. This incident doesn't change any of that. It's a deeply sad situation.
The Cowboys have supported Brent, but Clarence Hill of Fort Worth-Star Telegram reports that the Cowboys have kept Brent on the roster "in name only" because of the wishes of Brown's mother. There was no expectation that Brent would ever play a snap for the team again.
Brent faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of intoxication manslaughter.Follow Gregg Rosenthal on Twitter @greggrosenthal.