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In many cases both the media AND scientists seem to imagine life as looking at least somewhat similar to life on Earth...
Methinks you're confusing the 'Search for Extraterrestrial Life' with the SETI project. Vastly different things.
While water is required for the original primordial soup, there is no telling if evolution may have evolved organisms out of a need for it.
Except it's hard to envision even basic metabolic functions without a solvent, and the physical and chemical properties of water make it by far the most likely solvent to allow life.
At least, life as we know it.
If we were just looking for life that was like us, you'd be right. We'd be unnecessarily limiting out search. And we used to do just that, looking only for life similar to our own. Fortunately, we've wised up and are no longer just looking for EarthLife Mk. II. :D
As an example, one of the more interesting places that we are investigating the possibility of life within our own solar system is Titan. Titan's environment is nothing like Earth's, with a much thicker atmosphere and a methane cycle rather than a water cycle. The details can be read in this article, but the basics are that the Cassini probe has reported that there is a large flux of hydrogen within Titan's atmosphere, much larger than can be explained by known chemical processes. In a hydrocarbon-rich atmosphere like Titan's, it is expected that UV radiation from the sun will excite the molecules in the outer edges of the atmosphere, freeing mono-atomic hydrogen. Some of this hydrogen will escape into space, and the remainder, without oxygen to react with, should remain at a relatively stable level. However, this is not happening. Quite a bit of it is migrating down to the surface, where something is removing it from the atmosphere.
The most likely explanation is there is a chemical process going on that we are as yet unaware of. However, it has been pointed out that the process is also consistent with an earlier prediction of methane-based life. This hypothesized life would combine hydrogen with a carbon compound to generate metabolic energy. And in the second chemical conundrum, models of Titan's atmosphere suggest that the carbon compound acetylene (a quite suitable compound for our theoretical lifeform to feed upon) should be produced in significant quantities by the reactions in Titan's atmosphere. And yet, our instruments have detected very little of it.
There are other, non-methane-life-based, explanations for the missing acetylene as well, so the likelihood of methane-based neighbors is still quite slim, but the possibility exists and we're not overlooking it just because they aren't water/oxygen based.
One of the chief methods being proposed for looking for life on other worlds (particularly ones in other solar systems) is spectral analysis of their atmospheres as they pass in front of their sun. Given a knowledge of chemistry, we can get a good idea if the combination of gases is one that is stable or if some other process (chemical or biological) may be affecting it. A planet with a lot of free oxygen, like ours, clearly has something going on to generate it.
"scientists may not recognize life when they find it."
This is probably going to sound pretty stupid to a lot of you but...
Often I think about this. When we look at the human species... in comparison to the universe... we are the size of molecules that have existed for a few seconds... We think we understand to some degree what the universe is. I think we give ourselves too much credit on what we actually know and our comprehension of the universe.
I like to compare us to ants. The ant probably thinks it has its world figured out. But the ant has no idea that it's on a planet which is the third rock from a sun in a solar system which is one of billions of stars in the Milky Way which is one of billions of galaxies. It has no ideal of time and space. How old the universe is. What makes up the universe. What the periodic table is. The ant has no ideal of all its fellow living life forms that have lived and do live on this planet. The ant has no idea of what we humans are. You can yell at an ant all day and try to explain all these things. It won't hear you or comprehend your communications or realize that you even exist.
I often think... what if we were just ants (metaphorically speaking)? What if there was some species out there which compared to us made us similar to our ants? This species would be right in front of our face looking at us.... and we wouldn't even realize it. Just like we are to the ants.
You can yell at an ant all day and try to explain all these things. It won't hear you or comprehend your communications or realize that you even exist.
All the better. Because if one of them does realize you exist, it won't still understand you but might end up writing the Bible.
I bow to no man in my respect and admiration for science. I especially revere it because it does not depend upon faith but upon verifiable, empirical, demonstrable EVIDENCE. That being said, the belief among most scientists that there must be life elsewhere in the universe is just that - BELIEF - and nothing else. Upon what, excactly do they base this belief?
First, there is the anthropomorphic bias we have deep in our psyches. Hey, WE are so wonderful that there must be more of us somewhere in the firmament. It is not a stretch to say that some scientists believe this "religiously." But this is a false argument, because every single thing that exists in the universe is in some way unique. Why can't life be one of those things? The answer: it can; it absolutely can.
Then there is the famous, iconic "Drake Equation." Everyone involved with SETI (The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) cites this formula, created by astronomer, Frank Drake, some 50+ years ago. His most ardent and steadfast supporter was Carl Sagan. Sagan deserved all the accolades he received for his popularization of science in his TV series, "Cosmos," as well as his wonderfully poetic and informative books, such as "The Pale Blue Dot." However, Dr. Sagan had tunnel vision when it came to SETI. He just couldn't believe that the thing we call "life" occurred only once in the history of time. As a result, SETI enthusiasts - professional and amateur - have been haplessly, desperately, and fruitlessly sending radio signals off into the ether for decades in hopes that something other than "I Love Lucy" will return in the cosmic mail. There are two distinct issues with SETI. One is the technological one of ever being able to communicate with something that speaks our electronic language; with our symbolism; at our frequency; and contemporarily with our brief moment in time - all VERY remote possibilities. The other is the almost religious nature of human beings to suppose that our defining attribute - life - MUST be a repeatable phenomenon, given the immensity of space.
But, getting back to the Drake Equation. Scientists love to point out all of these factors that seem to suggest that, statistically, there almost HAS TO BE something like us lurking out there somewhere. What these scientists fail to recognize (or acknowledge) is that the equation is biased. Drake (intentionally?) included all of the factors that emphasized the nearly limitless opportunities for life to arise - but left out the negating factors - one in particular. Drake conspicuously (in my estimation) omitted the most salient factor of all: the chance that life would have ever arisen here on the earth at all. Nearly all evolutionary biologists are in agereement that life likely sprang into existence on earth in one single event, and that from this all forms of life as we know them today, branched and spread. The fact that ALL life is based on DNA, and only DNA, strongly suggests that the phenomenon of earthly "life" began as a one-off combination of proteins and amino acids that, amazingly and fortuitously, replicated itself into daughter cells that possessed the same powerful attribute. And we were off to the races. There is not a shred of evidence that it happened more than this one time. If it did, it did not evolve and leave traces of itself today. ONE SINGLE EVENT out of quadrillions, quintillions, sextillions...of opportunities and it ONLY HAPPENED ONCE, as far as we can tell. The immensity of that number, in my mind, supersedes all of Frank Drake's other (convenient) factors, which clearly were selected to provide a pre-ordained result - a result that validated the faith of the true believers.
So today, the skies are constantly being saturated with signals and scanned for responses - responses that I am quite sure will never come. Sure, life MIGHT exist elsewhere. But there is nothing that implies it beyond the anthropic principle. Further, even if life DOES exist elsewhere, the chances of it evolving to a form that resembles us and our technology in any way is vanishingly remote. We are not likely to ever receive some prokaryotic morse code from many light years distant.
No doubt, this post will generate responses from indignant scientists who accuse me of being narrow-minded and having no evidence for my position. But, to quote Dr. Sagan, "Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." And I am NOT the one making the extraordinary claim. So far, I have not seen any more evidence for life in the cosmos than there is for a god sitting out there somewhere. Show me God and I'll believe in Him. Show me a space alien piloting a "flying saucer" and I'll believe it. Show me life from another planet and I'll believe that. Until then, such concepts are based on nothing but faith.
Forget about the Drake Equation for a moment and ponder this. The Solar system and our lovely home began to form from a cloud of interstellar debris about 4,6 billion 'years' ago. Life on this planet began maybe 3,8 - 4 billion years ago, the oldest common ancestor of us (maybe after becoming successful in destroying all competition) 3,5 billion years ago.
If you zoom out on these events far enough, then you would say that the Earth was crawling with life about as soon as it was chemically possible.
This still does not exclude the possibility of it being an extremely lucky one in a - insert enormously large number here - coincidence, but at least it suggests otherwise.
The origin and evolution of DNA (RNA really in the beginning) might in itself be explicable in a pretty straightforward manner, the 3-letter coding system might have been evolved from a 2-letter (base-pair) coding system.
But anyway, the 'failure' of the SETI crowd (I'm talking about the sky survey angle now) to detect a signal is pretty much guaranteed. The off-chance that we would detect one more than weighs up to the small probability of it being possible. Even if the Universe is teeming with life that having discovered ways to use EM radiation to communicate with, chances of us picking up a signal in the window of SETI looking for it is unimaginably small. Even our home galaxy is a very, very big place and signal strengths wane fast.


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because I liked the excellent Lisp screencasts of Marco Baringer and Rainer Joswig and due to the lack of additional freely available stuff like the beforementioned, I've thought about creating comprehensive tutorial-like screencasts myself. So, during the past summer I began with the creation of a tutorial on writing a simple raytracer in Common Lisp, consisting of multiple screencasts. As I unfortunately do not have the time for further work on it, I finally decided to make the present state available.
Please note that I do not claim to be a Lisp uber-professional and thus you may or may not encounter a few mistakes. The ones I know about have been mentioned and corrected in the subsequent screencast respectively.
If you like what you see or should you wish to contact me, I'm looking forward to hearing from you. You can find my email address as well as the mentioned work at http://home.in.tum.de/~lehmanna/lisp-tutorial.html.
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That stripper who claims she had a fling with Josh Duhamel in Atlanta…he's denying the allegations but now Us Weekly reports she saved her text messages. See now I believe the text messages more than I believe a lie detector test. And she passed one of those too. Always save the texts. It's always the texts and emails. I've heard of so many busted cheaters from texts and emails.
Josh insists that he's been smeared, and apparently Fergie is supporting him. She's currently in Atlanta per the asslicking People.com, and they went on a date, and she doesn't believe he's betrayed her. But more and more of them are emerging. Ladies he loved on location, women coming forward with a similar story.
As for how this all leaked…
Supposedly Josh was shooting his mouth off about it on set, boasting about the infidelity, and someone sold him out. More details, click here.
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|2011-03-03, 18:38
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this was an enjoyable ep and i love that part where laura takes a comedic bullet.
Though i still have one quarrel about this show. Since its a harem I feel like we wont see any more interactions with alot of the girls. For example Rin and Cecilia are left out. Though i am a Charlotte fan, i still find it unfair to the others. I still like houki cuz she does try hard but people get in the way
|2011-03-03, 18:39
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I've got to say that the initial bed scene with Laura was pretty _hot_. Her mood swings have been pretty extreme lately - she went from hostile to dere to determined (kiss) to open (bed sneak) to playful-devious (armlock) to megadere (reaction to being called cute). Well, at least not one boring moment.
And as usual, Houki wins the "best faces" award by several miles.
|2011-03-03, 18:47
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DAT Chifuyu-nee.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner, thanks for playing, but it's already decided now. Seriously, I can totally see why Ichika would go for an incest end.
Well, about the episode itself...well, fanservice episode to the fullest. Really, you can skip the whole show up until the next ep preview, and you would have missed nothing at all. Well, except for all the fanservice, that is.
Laura development is nice to see, at least she got one whereas Brit-tan and China-tan has pretty much regressed as bumbling comedic duo. They really should forget their conquest on Ichika (forget Laura, they have to face Char and Chifuyu...no chance of winning, sorry) and settle on each other, China-tan already got her hand down Brit-tan's ass already anyway....that being said, Laura's development is still kinda weird and all over the place, but at least there's something. Houki's pretty much disappeared for most of the episode, though at least we got to see her in her swimsuit in the end.
Still, if this episode shows anything, it's that Char is really the one most suitable and closest to Ichika's heart. For one, she can see how tough the competition is, although her biggest challenge is undoubtedly about how dense Ichika is (and by Jove, he can't be more dense if he try), and while she's frustrated about it (who won't!?) she keeps trying her best. The difference compared to the other girls is that...it's working, even for Ichika. Maybe it's not as romantic as she wants, but that Char thing is a huge leap considering it's Sir Oblivious McDense we're talking about here, and he got her to fantasize about her body. The teenagers are pretty much a non-issue at this point, and all she needs is to get rid of his siscon and that would be it. Also, she's pretty much the only one who never punch/slap him (bar an accidental kick), so that's gotta count for something too.
One thing I wonder: although Pika-roo-fox's outfit is fitting, won't it get hot?
|2011-03-03, 18:51
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Finally get to see more of Tabane and also get to hear her speak. So Houki's getting a personal IS now. Not surprised Houki had a way of communicating with her sister. Excited to see more of Tabane next ep. I wonder if the date was important
Laura waking up naked with Ichika was unexpected. First kiss now this. Enjoyed her call for advise about the swimsuits. So cute towards the end.
Got to see more Ran!
Charlotte certainly has an effect on Ichika. Enjoyed how they were caught by Chifuyu and sensei. Looking hot in the swimsuit.
Rin and Cecilia were funny as well. That oil! Pika wouldn't by herself if she didn't wear that to the beach, but she must be sweating alot.
The time we've all been waiting for Chifuyu in a swimsuit! Sensei wasn't bad either. Like how Charlotte noticed Ichika was a siscon and even called him out on it. Her toughest opponent.
|2011-03-03, 19:30
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Spoiler for TOO CUTE:
Spoiler for The true ending of Infinite Stratos:
ok enough of charlotte fanboying. Tabane finally make her debut with her cutsy high voice (yukarin is forever 17!!) and having a glimpse of Houki's IS. The mall antics are hilarious as usual, with yandere rin and cecilia teaming up with laura for spying. Now that her gender is disclosed, Charlotte is certainly going for the offensive front even though Laura has launched her attacks. In fact, she got even bolder as shown in the changing room. The girl really knows what she wants and will fight for it. Kudos to Laura for acting totally dere and consulting her team for "emergency" situations.
The beach scenes are kinda meh for me, the only nice parts are the Charlotte and Laura swimsuit scenes. Hot Chifuyu is hot. Seems like Ichika is attracted to mature women more. LOL@charlotte remarking about the increased competition. Looking forward to more Charlotte and Tabane's appearance next episode.
|2011-03-03, 19:36
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I bring demotivators (Misleading name.. very motivational..)
|2011-03-03, 19:55
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I liked this episode. Even if it was a classical beach episode it was funny. I liked Laura with the armlock, the mummy/swimsuit scene and her dere attitude, but the emergency call was the best with all her old companions having eyepatches
But the first place goes to Chifuyu hot appearance! even Ichika the dumb awoke from his denseness!! And I'm happy Charlotte tasted a bit of his denseness.
But what I missed the most was Houki! Charlotte is so many steps ahead now, or so it seems. Even if I still believe Houki will have the upper hand, my faith is wavering
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|2011-03-03, 20:38
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7 for good fanservice. +2 for super-hot Laura bed-scene and super-swimsuit-dere Laura.
Oh, Ichika... you surprised me. You know Pi? ... seems like you're good at math.
but, wait. is that all you know?
and here, I'll just echo 2ch/2chan and say:
Spoiler for BDs:
And here's some pics, you know you want'em! =>
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|2011-03-03, 20:38
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Laura's behavior in this episode confused me to no end. As recently as 2/3 of the way through ep8 she hated Ichika's guts, now she's madly in love with him. Then at the start of the episode she's shameless enough to show up naked in Ichika's bed but then later she's too shy to be seen by him in a swimsuit. I get that she doesn't get how to interact with people very well because of her upbringing but is a little internal consistency too much to ask for?
Charlotte seems to be scared of Laura's advances and seems to be going out of her way to try to increase her lead on the group. Rin, Houki and Cecilia didn't provide much competition so she didn't have to work hard to lap the harem until now. I like how she seems to be taking Laura under her wing, that's either extremely kind, extremely savvy or both since it'll be harder for Laura to pass her by if they're together all the time.
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|2011-03-03, 20:56
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To quote a 'dirty old man' (Raven from ToV) : "Yes, OH GOD YESSS~!" *fall over*
I swear that bikini Chifuyu was wearing is illegal... And she played volleyball in this thing!?!?:
Spoiler for illegal I tell ya:
And Ichikia, no shame, man, there's no shame. If I had a sister that hawt, I'd kill/disown myself. There's no way that Chifuyu didn't wear that for a certain braindead pilot. Apparently she knows - if one head's not working, get the other one revved up.
And as per my usual, a peek into the inner world of the Orimuras:
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And for some extra shots of Chifu-nee:
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|2011-03-03, 21:13
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|2011-03-03, 21:28
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I keep getting the feeling that it's going to be char x ichika in the end, but that's just me I think... either way it's a good episode with many HNNNGH moments.
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A year to the date today, Mueller's Special Counsel had officially begun, fast forward to now and the entire narrative has been flipped on it's head. In a nut shell — instead of becoming an asset for the left, the Russian investigation has become a major political liability and 'conspiracy' as Trump's approval stays steady at 50% average for the past month or so. Maybe this is more '5D' Chess from President Trump who has slowly but surely vindicated himself throughout the year's investigation but has caught Democrats and even Mueller up in actual Russian Corruption.
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News flash! Women's Lives Now More Than Bearable
This is a contentious time for feminism. In the age of #MeToo, Time's Up, and the Weinstein effect, just a few of the many products of the fourth-wave feminist movement, women are continuing to push forward a certain narrative about men and the Western culture's effect on women in general. It seems as if the conversation surrounding women and gender equality has seeped into virtually every realm of life: politics, culture, religion, and even medicine and technology. Fourth-wave feminists are expressing their distrust in men in many ways…celebrities are calling out sexual predators in front of public audiences, politicians are using sexual assault as a political tool, and students are marching and demonstrating. Corporations, eager to jump on the "let's make a political statement" bandwagon, are even using sexual assault as a marketing tool, spouting controversial messages about toxic masculinity and the like. A prime example is the recent Gillette ad, which garnered more than 19 million views on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.
Many women are also writing about feminism. One example of this is an article, written last year in celebration of International Women's Day, that has been circulating on social media for the past few months. The article, entitled "100 Easy Ways to Make Women's Lives More Bearable" and authored by Dani Beckett, has been shared more than 300,000 times since its publication in March 2018. While we would not exactly call it "viral," it is no secret that the article's contents are becoming increasingly normalized, currently believed by a meaningful number of female millenials. Beckett's article was published in Broadly, a subset of Vice Media, a digital media and broadcasting company that launched Vice, the Canadian-American print magazine that gave rise to Broadly. Broadly, a heavily leftist channel catering to women and designed to "provide a space for us to understand, express, and navigate our identities as we define who we are and where we're headed next," has quite a solid readership.
After I kept encountering the article on Facebook for several months, I figured it was probably worth a read, but before reading it, I could not help but linger on the title. How to make women's lives more…bearable? Bearable means tolerable, able to be endured, not even touching the realm of pleasurable or happy. The title implies that women in this country are struggling so much that someone desperately needs to make their lives "more bearable." In a country where the vast majority of workplace fatalities befall men, the chief victims of non-fatal violence are men, men make up three quarters of all murder victims, women are outperforming men at all levels of education (they even outnumber men at most medical schools), women win custody battles, and women legally win half the earnings and belongings in a household, apparently women's lives are not yet bearable enough. I was confused, but intrigued, and proceeded to make my way down the long list of male-targeted demands, some of which are too good not to highlight.
The article is written in an incredibly patronizing tone, as if men in America need to be taught that forcing sex upon a woman is probably not a good idea, as if they apparently grew up in a society that conditioned them to rape. The first item on Beckett's list is, "Before explaining something to a woman, ask yourself if she might already understand. She may know more about it than you do." Well, is that not general logical advice for anyone? I know the point is to call men out for supposedly always trying to explain things to a woman, but if you are versed in the basic tenets of communication, then it must be the case that you know not to prematurely lecture someone on a topic you suspect they are already well-versed in, regardless of their gender. And let us suppose this is not the case and you have a habit of being didactical when not needed. Well, then this advice should certainly go for everyone, not just men. The point is, gender has nothing to do with it. There is no evidence that men are somehow more likely than women to try to explain something to women, simply because they are women, before considering whether those women might actually understand the topic. Fourth-wave feminists are pushing the narrative that men inherently feel entitled and better than women, so they feel it necessary to always explain things to a woman without thinking if she might already understand. It is a dangerous and baseless narrative to push forward. While it was certainly true fifty years ago when male professors would not even call on their female students in lecture, today, men DO listen to women, whether they like it or not. By virtue of the professional empowerment of women, which has become normalized in Western society, men listen to women explain things to them every single day. Consider this: women now hold 49% of total faculty positions in American colleges and universities. Women lecture, and men listen.
Beckett then states, "Related: Never, ever try to explain feminism to a woman." Well, what if she's wrong? Beckett would tell you, "Trust women. When they teach you something, do not feel the need to go and check for yourself. And especially do not Google it in front of them." So, if she's wrong, it doesn't matter. No one cares about facts anyway. Women are so privileged that they now also have the right to be wrong and to lie without getting called out. This is an important reminder of "Believe all women," the Left's mantra during the infamous Kavanaugh controversy. If you feel the need to check something JUST because the person who explained it to you is a woman, then maybe you need to treat your misogyny and perhaps Beckett's list is actually for you. But we live in a society where women are leaders in every sphere – politics, business, medicine, science, the law. At this point, men get it. The need to overpower women, of which remnants will perhaps always exist, has largely dissipated through the years as evidenced by the fact that women now control 60% of the wealth in the United States, for example. If men are such misogynists, why are they collectively not fighting tooth and nail to tear down successful women? Certainly some are, but it's virtually impossible to prove patriarchy-enforcing men outnumber matriarchy-enforcing women. Instead of acknowledging that, fourth-wave feminists are resorting to feelings, as opposed to facts, to craft their man-hating narrative. What's more, they are lowering their standards for women.
Clearly, men and women are different, no matter what radical feminists want you to believe. But even though they are different, every society is founded upon a standard set of basic principles and values that every human, regardless of identity, should be obligated to follow in order to preserve civility. Lying does not all of a sudden become okay for a woman if it's not okay for a man because women should not get special privileges. That is why Dani Beckett is also mistaken in suggesting "Be kind to women in customer service positions. Tip them extra." Because they are a woman? This sentiment points directly to the pinnacle of feminists' hypocrisy. Feminists want women to be treated equally, which naturally entails holding them to the same standards as men. Regardless of whether you are a woman or a man, if you don't do your job well, then you should not be tipped extra. Regardless of whether you are a woman or a man, your customers should be nice to you if you do your job well because that's the right thing to do.
Next on Beckett's list is a whole compilation of demands centered around how to describe women. She states, "Examine your language when talking about women. Get rid of 'irrational, dramatic, bossy, and badgering immediately." This implies that women cannot be any of these things, which they most certainly can. Or perhaps it implies that they can be some or all of these things but they should not be called out for it, which once again, means that according to Beckett, we should hold women to a lower standard. Let's be clear, women should not get free passes just because they are women and their ancestors have suffered through years of misogyny and oppression. If feminists want true equality, then they should not be cutting women slack and lowering their standards for women out of pity. Women are perfectly capable of meeting those standards. Pushing forward women's rights legislation should not be done out of a need to prop up identity politics. Women deserve equal rights not because they are women, but because they are humans.
If that was not enough, Beckett certainly has more! "Never comment on a woman's body," she says. When describing women positively, men should say she is "talented," "clever" or "funny," but not "gorgeous" "sweet" or "cute." Men also cannot call her unique, and "unlike other girls" because all girls are awesome. Long gone are the days when it was flattering for a woman to be told she has a nice physical appearance. And long gone are the days when men were allowed to make their physical attraction, the very basis of biological reproduction, known to women. I am assuming Beckett wants men to assign more value to women than their physical appearance, which is understandable, but assigning more value to personality and assigning some value to physical appearance are not mutually exclusive acts. A 2017 study published in Evolutionary Psychological Science found that most women are likely to choose physical attractiveness over personality and intelligence in potential partners. For a group of people who supposedly hate double standards, fourth-wave feminists sure do love double standards.
And now we arrive at the scariest portion of Beckett's list: the postgenderism demands. Beckett states, "If you read stories to a child, swap the genders. Cast women in parts written for men. We know how to rule kingdoms, go to war, be, not be, and wait for Godot." Right, and that is exactly why the parts of Katniss Everdeen, Hermione Granger, Wonder Woman, Lara Croft, Daenerys Targaryen, Mulan, and many, many more have been written. To show that women can indeed rule kingdoms, go to war, and do pretty much anything. Fourth-wave feminists are called "fourth-wave" because they are not the first. The women of the past have already proven that women are powerful and can rule kingdoms. There's no need to reinvent the wheel by going to extreme measures (i.e. swapping genders) to show something that everyone, barring exceptions, already knows. Perhaps, then, the point of swapping genders is not so much to normalize powerful, masculine women. It is, in fact, to get rid of gender roles altogether. My prediction is that postgenderism will pave the way for fifth-wave feminism.
So why is one article like this one so important? It's maybe just the opinion of one woman. Except it's not. Between 70 and 80 percent of college women currently identify as feminists. The contents of Beckett's article are at least somewhat representative of the mentality of young women in America today, even if some shy away from the label "feminist." I fear that this association we have started to develop between feminism and fourth-wave values, some of which are exemplified in this article, will only become stronger until, eventually, first and second-wave feminists are shut out entirely. Women who are pro-life are shut out entirely. Women who want other women to be held accountable are shunned and considered anti-feminist. Criticizing obesity, pointing to false allegations of sexual assault, challenging the misconceptions surrounding the pay gap, holding conservative views about female sexuality, and acknowledging core differences between men and women will become wholly incompatible with any definition of feminism. Women should be encouraged to be strong, not feed their victimization complexes. Women should be encouraged to listen to other women, even if they disagree. Fourth-wave feminist indoctrination should not be something we stand for if we want to actually help gender equality.
Trump to Enact Massive Change to Prescription Drug Pricing, Sources Say
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration late Thursday afternoon proposed an effort to increase transparency when it comes to prescription drug pricing by cutting the widely used practice of middlemen — one of the major cost-drivers of drug prices.
President Donald Trump is strongly considering signing an executive order to do just that, according to four people inside the administration who asked for their identities to be withheld for various reasons.
The executive order which has already been drafted by White House counsel Pat Cipollone, would allow manufacturers of drugs to offer discounted pricing to customers, but would legally, stop them from giving rebates to pharmacy benefit managers.
"If you can't manage a campaign, how do you manage the country?": Chuck Todd schools Bernie Sanders
In a segment Thursday on MSNBC, network host Chuck Todd slammed Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders for allowing sexual misconduct to occur inside his 2016 presidential campaign.
"Could this derail his chances of another presidential bid," host Chuck Todd wondered before playing a video clip.
"Boy, that is a tough answer to defend of course," Todd said referring to Sanders telling CNN's Anderson Cooper in an interview that he didn't know about ongoing sexual misconduct because he was "a little busy running around the country trying to…make the case."
"Because if you're running to be president of the United States…if you can't manage your campaign, how do you manage the country," Todd continued. "No potential 2020 candidates had a worse start to 2019 than Bernie Sanders"


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Rebecca Richards, a veterans advocate, greeted many of the Vietnam veterans proudly watching Texas lawmakers honor their service Monday at the Capitol with a hug and a "thank you for my freedom", something many feel is long overdue for the group of veterans.
The Texas Legislature is attempting to build upon Richards' and other's simple-but-appreciated acts of gratitude by constructing a memorial dedicated to the Texas men and women who served in the Vietnam war and specifically the 3,417 Texans that did not return home. The Texas Capitol Vietnam Veterans Monument, a 14-foot-high bronze sculpture of an infantry patrol, is set for completion in a year. Hundreds gathered Monday for a groundbreaking ceremony for the monument.
"It says 'welcome home' to all of our Vietnam veterans… It says to those families that their loved ones' devotion to our country will never be forgotten," said state Sen. Leticia Van de Putte of San Antonio. "This is a turning point for us as a state and a nation, our veterans returning from Vietnam did not receive a hero's welcome. We learned that lesson and that will never happen again."
Many state officials and lawmakers, some Vietnam veterans themselves, spoke at the ceremony with one overarching theme: "It's about time."
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who served as an intelligence officer for the Air Force in Vietnam, said the monument will offer "closure" to families of fallen veterans. Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, a retired Marine who served in Vietnam, called the memorial a "long overdue welcome home."
Joseph Strychalski of San Antonio, who served three tours in Vietnam, said the monument represents his government remembering him after being forgotten for so many years. He said he was called names such as "baby killer", spat on and threatened when he stepped off the plane after returning to the United States.
Manuel Moreno, a retired Air Force sergeant, said he has waited a long time to honor six of his childhood friends who died serving with him in the war.
"Now their children and grandchildren can come here and see and remember my brothers who aren't here today," Moreno said.


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Rinc necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 72 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
KNR "Technology Management"
We are a partner startup, "Professional IT Consultancy Company". Our core values are to provide IT solutions that are aligned specifically to strategic business objectives and requirements. (Rather from the typical IT solutions in the market place that provide no added value or competitive advantages to business).
We are technology specialists with strong academic and real world business skills. Our primary focus is to simplify IT to a level that the business understands. We want to focus on the concept of representing ourselves as the company that simplifies the complex and can represent IT from a plain-speaking perspective.
The logo / Business cards should symbolize some of our core values of simplicity, professionalism, experience, uniqueness and innovation. Ideally we would like to differentiate ourselves from the surplus of IT consultancies already in the marketplace via a simple clean style which is the opposite of the traditional cold overly "high-tech" branding approach saturating the industry currently.
Our preliminary target market is positioned towards professional services SME"s (doctors, accountants, lawyers, business services). We want to portray the image of being professional, boutique and trustworthy. We want to differentiate ourselves to these businesses from a "quality and professional perspective". But having said that we don't want to come across to "Business like, plain and boring"
What we don't want:
1. Our current technology market sector is saturated with spheres, wings, swooshes, globes, semi circles, cubes. We want to try to stay away from all these elements
2. Our currently technology market sector is saturated with the following colours: Navy Blue, Green, Grays, Black. Note!: Don't necessarily want to abolish these colours just keep in mind what the current market has
3. Supporting point 1. A lot of IT brands in the current market space represent themselves from an extremely dry and boring corporate and business look.
What we do want:
1. Our Tag Line: "Technology Management"
2. Clean, simple, classy, vibrant (But not too vibrant!), (not to tech like), (But not to dry boring business like!)
3. Colours, fonts, cases up to the individual designers
4. Logo & KNR can be combined. We don't necessarily want a logo and KNR. We are happy for people to be imaginative and represent KNR as the actual logo. The main point we want to make is simple / clean design
5. The overall design must have some sort of focal point. Once again we prefer something simple and smart rather than a pointless Logo associated with the KNR name.
6. We would like separate .AI (layered) files (including fonts) of logo and business cards (ready for print)
Looking forward to working with designers and supporting your ideas! We are a serious customer for future work
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The Brown administration won praise from the city's control board Wednesday for the tentative contract it negotiated with firefighters, while the board revealed that the contract will mean significant raises for department leadership.
The 15-year agreement awards members of the Buffalo Professional Firefighters Association their first raises since 2007 and includes greater health care contributions from new employees, a residency requirement and new work rules that are expected to save the city money.
"By maintaining an adequate fund balance and carrying it through, you put yourself in a position where you could bargain effectively," R. Nils Olsen Jr., chairman of the Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority, told Mayor Byron W. Brown. "I think this is a major step forward for the city."
The control board predicts that the contract will cost the city $29 million, which will be covered by city reserves or future revenue that the city had already planned to spend on the contract.
The city saves 60 cents for every dollar it spends under the agreement, said control board analyst Bryce Link.
Raises are retroactive to July 1, 2012. The average raise from July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013, is 21.05 percent. Between 2013 and 2017, it is 2 percent yearly. For example, firefighters earning $53,917 will earn $63,247, retroactive to July 1, 2012, and see pay increases yearly until July 1, 2016, when their income reaches $68,461, or 27 percent more than their current salary.
The City Charter mandates that raises for union members, which Olsen called "meaningful and appropriate," are tied to raises for the commissioner and three deputy commissioners.
Fire Commissioner Darnell W. Whitfield Jr. will see his salary go up 29 percent during the contract, which expires June 30, 2017. Commissioner pay will increase from the current salary of $102,344 to $121,722, paid retroactively to July 1, 2012, and will rise annually until July 1, 2016, when it reaches $131,756.
The department's three deputy commissioners' salaries will rise from $89,372 to $115,742 in 2016, or 30 percent.
The control board plays an advisory role and does not have the power to prohibit the city from entering into labor contracts, as it did in the past.
But the board's analysis could be valuable to Common Council members in their deliberations before they vote on the contract Tuesday, though Council members have already said they were inclined to approve it given the fact that the firefighters had already approved it.
The city's contract with firefighters expired June 30, 2002, and relations between firefighters and the administration have been acrimonious.
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We reported last year that Louis Vuitton and Gucci were leading a monogram comeback, and that continues to be the case. Gucci is probably one of the hottest handbag brands at the moment, with everyone carrying and wearing the brand (including Lady Gaga during her amazing Super Bowl opening with the national anthem).
I love what Alessandro Michele is creating and the way he's made the brand incredibly buzz worthy again. He believes in the monogram print of the house and there are so many bags that are coming out with varying prints and embellishments. While the Gucci Dionysus is still probably my favorite Gucci bag at the moment, there are so many others that are just as lust-worthy.
I love the whimsical print on this Gucci Padlock Shoulder Bag. Featuring birds and flower blossoms, this pattern was inspired by Chinese landscapes on 18th century tapestries and screens. While majority of the bag is coated canvas, there's a paneled chocolate pocket on the back of the bag and leather on both sides of the bag. The interior is lined in suede and the gold chain shoulder strap can be doubled to create a shorter drop. This bag is unique and intriguing, which is just they way I like it.


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Having a child with unique needs can be the beginning of a journey that leads to great spiritual blessings. Learning how to raise a child with a disability is a process, not an event.
You may struggle at times with painful emotions as you try to understand the disability of your child and your role as a parent. Having a child with unique needs, however, can be the beginning of a journey that leads to great spiritual blessings. Draw close to Heavenly Father and allow His Spirit to comfort and instruct you. Trust that God will make you equal to the challenge and will bless you with insight and understanding in making decisions regarding the welfare of your child.
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Seek Guidance and Help
- Counsel frequently with the Lord through prayer and scripture study. The Holy Ghost can provide comfort and insights into your child's unique needs.
- Learn all you can about the disability. Professionals and reliable sources of information can help you to understand your child's disability and needs. Do not be afraid to ask questions.
- Talk with other parents who share your values and who have similar struggles. This can help you understand your own feelings and can provide you valuable support.
- Seek an eternal perspective. Trust that Heavenly Father loves you and your child. He will hear and answer your prayers. The sacrifices you make for your child can be a blessing that brings you closer to your Father in Heaven.
- Remember that you are preparing for eternity. Your child's disability is temporary. The spirit is not disabled.
- Learn to recognize the Lord in your life.
Strengthen Your Family
Some disabilities may involve physical differences; however, your child's disability may not be visible or readily apparent. This may make it harder for siblings, grandparents, and other family members to understand your child's disability and know how to help.
Remember, extended family members may experience the same feelings of ignorance and fear that you felt when you learned of the diagnosis. Accepting the disability may be harder for some family members.
- As soon as you understand the diagnosis of your child, prayerfully explain it to your children and other family members.
- Help family members understand the disability. Answer their questions honestly.
- Be patient with one another as family members adjust to new challenges and changes.
- Ask children, grandparents, and other family members to help in specific ways; this will help them feel included.
- Do not allow the disability to become the focus of all family activities. Do some things that are special to the child with the disability, but do other activities that meet the needs of other children. Where possible, do things that include all family members.
- Keep the family balanced; help all members understand that they are loved and that all must accommodate each other.
- Strengthen yourself; you need time to relax away from the constant demands that may be required.
- Strengthen your marriage; spend time with your spouse doing things that you both enjoy.
- Strive to keep a balance between encouraging independence and protecting your child from harm. Play to your child's strengths and treat him or her as normally as possible. Provide your child with every opportunity to develop skills, talents, and abilities.


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FRANKLIN SPRINGS, Ga. --- Katelin Rooney (Naples, Fla.) scored six goals, and freshman Jenah Tracy (Naples, Fla.) tallied eight assists in her collegiate debut to lead the Lees-McRae College women's lacrosse team to a 20-4 victory over Emmanuel College in the Bobcats' season opener on Saturday afternoon.
Four Lees-McRae (1-0) players scored at least three goals in the contest, as Rooney found the back of the net six times and Taylor Drake (Jupiter, Fla.) and Olivia Gudewich (Frederick, Md.) each added five goals. Tracy recorded a game-high eight assists, while Jessica Travers (Asheville, N.C.), Nicole Dupont (Fort Myers, Fla.), Rooney and Drake each chipped in a helper.
Senior Jessica MacConnell (Cary, N.C.) also tallied a hat trick with three goals, as Mia Emmerson (Orlando, Fla.) made 12 saves to earn the win in her collegiate debut.
Lees-McRae returns to action on Saturday, February 23 when the Bobcats travel to Charlotte, N.C. to take on Queens University of Charlotte in their Conference Carolinas opener at 1 p.m.


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|September 2008
|OKLAHOMA'S�eGOV NEWS REPORT
Welcome to Oklahoma's eGovernment News Report providing you with up-to-date information on Oklahoma's eGovernment achievements.
OKCareers Proves Popular With State Applicant Population
January 23, 2008, ushered in a new era for state of Oklahoma job seekers with the launching of OKCareers, the state's web-based employment application, testing, applicant tracking and certification system. Now interested applicants can review a complete listing of vacancies in the state's classified service and make application from their home personal computer or any other computer with an internet connection at any time.
In late 2006, the Office of Personnel Management chose JobAps, one of the leading public sector employment platforms in the country, as the replacement for the legacy system that had served Merit System agencies since 1980. Although JobAps systems had been implemented for a number of county and municipal governments, Oklahoma was the first state government to contract with the Santa Barbara, California-based company. "Although there are many similarities among public sector employers at any level, I believe Oklahoma state government presented some challenges to our implementation team that delayed our "go-live" date much later than we had anticipated," said Hank Batty, Deputy Administrator for Programs.�
"The implementation team, including OPM staff in Applicant Services, Personnel Assessment and Network Management Services, have done an outstanding job of adapting JobAps software to the way we must fill jobs in the classified service and in training Human Resources managers and specialists in state agencies on using the new system," Batty added.�
The online processing seems to be popular with the applicant population. In the first week over 3,000 applicants filed electronic applications for more than 250 job requisitions OPM received from Merit System agencies. From January 23, 2008 to June 30, 2008, OPM received 55,336 applications—not far from the 70-80,000 received annually under the old application process—and provided 2,351 job lists to Merit System agencies. Most OPM Merit examinations are now available through OKCareers and OPM anticipates having all open examinations on-line within the next two months.
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Oklahoma Tax Commission Offers Chance to Deal Now or Double the Penalty Later
Oklahoma taxpayers with an outstanding tax liability will have the opportunity to clean their slate with the Oklahoma Tax Commission beginning September 15, 2008. The "Clean Slate '08" program waives all penalties, interest and collection fees through November 14, 2008.
Business and individual taxpayers will have a two-month period to participate in the Clean Slate '08 program and clear up any back taxes for reporting periods ending prior to January 1, 2008. Taxes eligible for the program include income (both corporate and individual), sales and use, withholding, franchise, mixed beverage, gasoline and diesel, gross production and petroleum excise, and a bank in-lieu tax, which banks pay in place of an income tax.
"The Clean Slate '08 program is advantageous to both the taxpayer and our state," said Paula Ross, Tax Commission spokesperson. "It gives the taxpayer an opportunity to clear up a past due account, saves what could be thousands of dollars in penalties and interest, and helps generate revenue for the state of Oklahoma."
During the Clean Slate '08 period, taxpayers will receive a full waiver of penalty, interest and any other collection fees due on the eligible taxes. However, taxpayers must voluntarily file any delinquent returns and pay the taxes owed for periods ending before January 1, 2008.
It should be noted that taxpayers who do not take advantage of the program will face double the original penalty in addition to any interest and/or collection fees.
Visit the Clean Slate 08 Web site For More Information
First Lady Kim Henry Unveils State Video Challenge to Promote Healthy Lifestyles for Teenagers
As part of an effort to promote healthy habits for young people, First Lady Kim Henry announced the launch of an innovative contest that encourages Oklahoma teenagers to tap their creativity. The MyTakeOnHealth Oklahoma Video Challenge awards middle school and high school students who produce informative and entertaining videos about healthy lifestyle choices.
"Young people nationwide face a host of obstacles to good health," Mrs. Henry said. "It's vital that young people get the message, and promote the message, that a healthy life means a happy and productive life."
Her sentiments were echoed by state Superintendent Sandy Garrett.
"We are very pleased to be working with the First Lady and lending assistance on this exciting project. Rare is the opportunity for students to engage in meaningful service learning and get the chance at earning thousands of dollars by doing so," she said.
"For us to be a stronger Oklahoma, we simply have got to be a healthier Oklahoma. There is no better voice to carry this message for us than our future, the youth of this state."
The video challenge begins Oct. 1 and runs through December, with first and second place winners voted on each month. First prize is $3,500 and second prize is $1,500. The school of each month's winning entry receives $1,000. Winners are determined through online voting.
In addition, there will be weekly drawing for such items as Wiis, laptops, televisions and iPods. Best Buy is providing the prizes.
A video must be between 30-60 seconds and demonstrate the importance of a healthy lifestyle or prevention of chronic disease/drug prevention. A student or group of students can submit up to two videos per month.
Visit MyTakeOnHealth Web site For More Information
Web Site Creation Made Simple for State Agencies
66 state agencies and 3 cities see positive results from an online system provided by OK.gov
As more processes move online, state and local entities are increasingly looking to provide their services on the Internet. However, many Oklahoma government entities are short-staffed and do not have the resources to place their services online.�
OK.gov, the state's official Web site, offers an online Content Management System called Go Gov! Web Management Suite. Go Gov! is an interactive and intuitive tool which helps government employees create and maintain their Web site no matter their level of technical experience. The online product is similar to using a combination of an Internet browser and a word processor.�
"What is great about the Content Management System is that it utilizes a common agency template, which provides a common look for all of the state's agencies," says Mark Mitchell, OK.gov general manager. "This allows the end users to always know that they are visiting an official Oklahoma government Web site."�
Recently launched Web sites include:�
The Women, Infants, and Children Service (WIC)�launched their redesigned Web site on September 25, 2008. The WIC Training Web site provides valuable�educational resources for those interested in the state program.�
The Oklahoma Abstractors Board launched their Web site on September 12, 2008. The board investigates consumer and industry complaints concerning abstracting issues and attempts to resolve them by using informal resolution methods.�
The Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training launched their Web site on September 8, 2008. The council enhances public safety by providing education and training, which promotes professionalism and enhances competency within the ranks of Oklahoma law enforcement.
What's Inside
Oklahoma Boll Weevil Eradication Organization
- Joe Harris,
Oklahoma Arts Council
- Suzanne Tate,
Oklahoma Human Rights Commission Web Site
�Women, Infants, & Children Training Web Site
�Department of Environmental Quality Licensed Water Operators Public Search Utility
�Oklahoma Abstractors Board Web Site
�Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training Web Site��
�Oklahoma Accountancy Board Online Licensing System�
�Oklahoma Water Resources Board Online Licensing System�
How Do I Find Information About Voter Registration Before the October 10th Deadline?
��Visit the Election Board's Web site�
How Do I Prepare My Family For An Emergency?
�Visit Ready Oklahoma's Web site�
Tuesday, November 11
National Fire Prevention Week
Health and Safety Expo at the State Capitol
"Wide-Open Wednesdays"
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Use the Mac OS dictionary vs. add on dictionary for spelling in Firefox
I have a series of questions related to the OS dictionary and about looking up the definitions of words and spelling. With Safari I could use Command+: to turn on Spell checker and loved using it. I have spell checker turned on with FireFox via Preferences/Advanced/Check my spelling as I type and like the other method better. I suppose I could get used to the method FireFox uses, but don't understand why cmd: can't work too. I even went in through system preferences and added it as a keyboard shortcut for Firefox without success. I dont' see anything in the pulldown menu's using that key-combination so what's blocking it? Another important feature that doesn't work is I can't click on a word to look up the definition. That's an important feature and I use it often. Because of these I stopped using firefox and continue using Safari even though Safari doesn't work for a main site I visit. Safari is also generally slow and locks up constantly causing me a lot of grief. If the problems I wrote about worked I wouldn't use Safari again and would commit to using Firefox. I would appreciate knowing how to do what I'm trying to do. Thanks,
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I'm running Firefox 20.0 on a MAC OSX 10.7.5. I've been using an Add-On called "Look Up In Dictionary" Works perfectly. It brings up the native MAC dictionary just as in Safari.Read this answer in context 2
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Installed Plug-ins
- Gecko default plugin
- Runs Java applets using the latest installed versions of Java. For more information: Java Embedding Plugin. Run version test: Java Information.
- RealPlayer Plugin
- iPhoto6
- Allows webpages to support pressure-sensitive drawing on Wacom pen tablets.
- The Flip4Mac WMV Plugin allows you to view Windows Media content using QuickTime.
- Shockwave Flash 10.3 r183
- The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:18.104.22.168) Gecko/20111212 Firefox/3.6.25
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When I followed the automatic steps above the following happened;
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Incompatible Extension
Troubleshooter 1.0a could not be installed because it is not compatible with Firefox 3.6.25.
Please update to Firefox 16, which is the last version that will work with your computer, but it is still more modern than the version you are running.
Then Reset Firefox Refresh Firefox - reset add-ons and settings
Question owner
Thanks for the suggestions. I installed firefox 16.0.2 and see additional features but still can't use the Mac dictionary or spell checker. I'm going to install the latest OS on this computer then I'll be able to install the latest version of firefox. The newest OS I can use on my other computer is 10.4.8 as it's a PowerBook and doesn't have an Intel CPU. Maybe I just can't do these commands.
How do I reset FireFox?
Modified by CGillesp
You can only use the Firefox spell checking dictionary in Firefox and not other dictionaries unless they are Hunspell compatible.
In case of the latter you would have to copy the dictionary files to the dictionaries folder in the Firefox application folder.
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I'm running Firefox 20.0 on a MAC OSX 10.7.5. I've been using an Add-On called "Look Up In Dictionary" Works perfectly. It brings up the native MAC dictionary just as in Safari.
Question owner
Thanks for the solution BigfootMac.
Modified by CGillesp
Opening the OS X Dictionary for a selected word anywhere is: Command+Option+D.
Open System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts. Select 'Services' in the left-hand pane, then scroll down to 'Searching' in the right-hand pane. Make sure the reveal arrow in pointed down, and 'Look Up in Dictionary' is checked.
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Question owner
Thanks for the help OldRogue. I thought I had marked BigfootMacs suggestion as the answer, but I hadn't so I just marked it as the solution.


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One of the moderate Republican members of the State Board of Education announced today that he would not run for re-election next year.
Bob Craig, R-Lubbock, said his combined 24 years of experience on the State Board of Education and on the Lubbock school board was long enough.
"Now is the time for me to step out of public service in the educational arena and allow others the opportunity to serve. I will continue to be an advocate for top-notch educational opportunities for all students," Craig said.
All 15 State Board of Education seats will be up for grabs in next year's election. Social conservatives will try to increase their number of seats from six and likely will target Craig's district, which covers 75 counties and the entire Texas Panhandle.


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This lab focuses on basic to intermediate jazz blues techniques including single-note blues heads, solos, and standard dominant-seventh, minor-seventh, and major-seventh blues progressions. Weekly playing assignments; analysis of recordings by various blues artists.
A concentrated course of study for guitarists based on the music of Jimmy Page. Topics will include early blues and rock influences, detailed analysis of solos and compositions, and use of open tunings.
Exploration of technical innovations provided by three decades of classically influenced, hard-rock players. In-depth study of the early pioneers of the style (Ritchie Blackmore, Uli-Jon Roth, Michael Schenker) and the more recent guitarists (Yngwie Malmsteen, Jason Becker, Joe Stump) who helped to redefine the genre known most commonly as shred.
Students will listen, analyze, transcribe, and perform solos by guitarists Kenny Burrell and Grant Green. Material covered will include instruction on the performance styles and techniques of these artists and their approach to improvisation, with attention to fingerings, phrasing, articulation, and harmonic structures.
Study and application of scales and harmony in this style of improvisation and their application to the guitar, including fingering and guitaristic devices (string bending, slides, etc.). Presentation is through written and recorded examples of contemporary artists (including nonguitarists), instructor demonstration, and student performance with taped rhythm section.
The application of harmony as it occurs in popular music. Rhythm guitar parts presented through tapes, transcriptions, and demonstrations of jazz, rock, funk, and fusion records. Included are adaptations of keyboard parts to guitar and discussion and demonstration of various rhythm guitar techniques (two- and three-note voicings, mutings, etc.).
Performance of material from Rock Guitar Styles including extensive lead and rhythm examples in all idioms of rock music from the 1950s to the present day.
Aspects of steel guitar performances in exemplary styles including Hawaiian, western swing, country, blues, and jazz. Extensive listening and study of transcribed examples. Students use their own guitars with an inexpensive accessory to learn bar control and picking methods. Exploration of alternative open tunings.
Study of technique, repertoire, and improvisational approaches with regard to contemporary slide-guitar performance.
Study of advanced rock and blues guitar techniques: string bending, chromatic harmony in the idiom, tone production, and repertoire. This will be accomplished through analysis of tune melodies and solo transcriptions prepared by the teacher and transcriptions completed by each individual student. Emphasis will be placed on jazz improvisation approaches and their application to rock and blues soloing.
This lab will break down all aspects of funk guitar styles. Students will familiarize themselves with salient concepts including phrasing, time, rhythm playing, playing the pocket, harmonics possibilities, and understanding the many roles that the guitar can play in funk settings. Funk is a dialect in the musical language. As is the case with any language, students will focus on understanding and communicating in this dialect, listening to pronunciation and how sentences are phrased, and building a strong vocabulary.
Instrumental lab for guitar principals dealing with two-octave, three- and four-part arpeggios across the guitar. Included in weekly assignments will be exercises and drill studies.


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This Washing Peg Is The Smartest Thing You'll Ever Buy
We've got the gadget that is going to make your life a WHOLE much easier when it comes to doing the laundry.
Laundry brand OMO has created a tech-savvy clothes peg that tells you when your washing is dry and will let you know when it's about to rain.
Aptly named Peggy, it detects the UV light over your freshly-washed clothes and the temperature outside.
The digital creative director of JWT Sydney Jay Morgan said it combined the information it gathers with scientific formulas on the rate at which clothes dry.
Introducing 'Peggy' - a smart peg for #OMO Find out more about our latest work for JWT here: … pic.twitter.com/UvU3khGuKd— CaudalFin_IoT (@caudalfinIoT) April 18, 2016
"Once you've hung your clothes out, it matches weather information with the live readings it's got to give you an accurate picture of when it will be dry," he said.
"If you know what light is actually hitting (the laundry) and you know the humidity of the surrounding area, you can get an accurate indication to within half an hour of when your clothes will be dry."
Peggy can also remind you when you forget to unload clean clothes from the washing machine.
With the smartphone app to accompany it, it determines the fastest drying times through the day.
"It can also send an alert to your phone when it's about to rain and you need to get your clothes in," Mr Morgan said. "It's like a mini weather station."
It's currently in its prototype stage, being tested on five families and will call on interested parties to register online to try the product.
After a few adjustments before it hits the market, it could come down to a reasonable price, in the "tens of dollars".
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Today, YouTube brought me to THIS and THIS. I'm...baffled, yet delighted. I have no idea how a college drinking song that was a hit in the US in the 1930s is now being performed by men in tuxedos and women in gowns in packed stadiums in South Korea over eighty years later. And the singers and crowds are getting way into it! Google translates 우정의 노래 to "a song of friendship." I don't know any Korean, so I don't know for sure if they're using any of the original words or just the tune (I do have to assume they're probably not drinking "to Maine, our alma mater" in any case), but a search for 우정의 노래 yields pages and pages of Korean video and audio recordings of the tune, and many have kept "Stein Song" (in Latin script) in the title, even on Korean websites. I've only found one recording that is actually done in English, and that one is a straight version of the Stein Song ("let every loyal Maine man sing," etc).
It turns out that a few folks from UMaine did notice this phenomenon a couple years ago, so there are a handful of blog-type posts and a four-comment Reddit thread about it, but nobody seems to have a good answer for how our little ditty got to be such a big thing halfway around the world from its origin. Putting 우정의 노래 into youtube gives 36,000+ results, and at least on the first several pages every one that I checked is the Stein Song, performed in stadiums, concert halls, university stages, a church (seriously), wedding receptions...the song obviously has some cultural importance at this point.
With the language barrier, I've more or less hit the end of my searching ability. Questions I still have:
- What are the Korean lyrics (or more helpfully, their English translation)?
- When did the tune make the jump to Southeast Asia? WWII and/or the Korean War would make sense, but that's 1-2 decades after the Stein Song was a hit in the US
- Why is 우정의 노래 so important/popular in South Korea today?
If anyone has any insight, I'd be super grateful.
**Edit: I just found this video that has the words to the Stein Song in English on the screen behind the singers, and the Korean lyrics sound to my untrained ear to be the same as in the rest of the 우정의 노래 recordings...so maybe it is a direct translation after all?


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Directed and produced by musician James William Guercio based on a story by Robert Boris and Rupert Hitzig, 1973's Electra Glide In Blue is an interesting movie, almost a love letter to the films of John Ford dressed up as a cop film, although by cop film standards this movie is anything but typical.
The movie revolves around a motorcycle patrolman named John Wintergreen (Robert Blake), a short but tough cop who works the streets of his Arizona town busting people for speeding and what not. John served his country in Vietnam and is fast approaching his fortieth birthday. He's and honest man and good at his job but he dreams of bigger things: he wants to be a homicide detective. As that opportunity doesn't seem to be about to fall into his lap any time soon, when he and his partner, Zipper (Billy Green Bush), find an elderly man dead in his shack seemingly at his own hand he fights to keep the case and prove that it was murder.
Though the coroner claims the man is dead of suicide, John's actions don't go unrewarded and soon he's working alongside detective Harve Poole (Mitchell Ryan) who brings him on as a driver and protégé of sorts. John soon finds that things are not what he expected they would be, and we'll leave it at that.
Better known for his work with Chicago (the band â€" they have cameo's in the movie and Peter Cetera actually plays a hippy-esque suspect in the murder) in the seventies than as a filmmaker, Guercio's only directorial credit is an interesting one. It understandably gets a lot of comparisons to Easy Rider, as both movies deal with motorcycles and feature a character trying to find himself, but at the same time it's very much the opposite of Hopper's film in just as many ways. Wintergreen and Zipper have no time for free love or hippy ideals, they're out to enforce the law, just as they've been trained to do. They'll do what they need to do in order to get those they deem unfit off of the streets, with Zipper even going so far as to plant some weed on a young man just to bust him because he doesn't like him. Behind closed doors, however, Zipper is prone to taking evidence of the herbal kind home with him.
Shot on location in Monument Valley along the Arizona/Utah border, it's easy to see the influence of John Ford here right from the opening shot. As we see a lone vehicle slowly move along the only road visible, a background made up of beautiful desert mountain scenery, we can't help but think of the westerns Ford made. The similarities don't end there, however, as our two cops are very much cowboys, albeit ones riding motorcycles in place of horses. They do most of their work alone and spend long hours of each day driving around the desert and there are some interesting (and rather obvious) tributes made to The Searchers that western fans ought to appreciate. These outdoor shots contrast intentionally and in interesting ways with those that take place indoors. The indoor scenes are much darker and considerably more bizarre, the movie really springing to life when the camera starts to roam. Those outdoor scenes are beautiful, at times almost hypnotic, and with the movie told in such an unusual way, unfolding in flashbacks and odd edits there's very much an arthouse sensibility to all of this.
Performances are good here. Billy Green Bush is in fine form here as Wintergreen's partner, a man more prone to violence than he and one who bends the law when it suits him. Mitchell Ryan is also good, playing the flashy homicide detective with the slick suit and the cowboy hat, the kind that Wintergreen wants to be, until he finds out the reality of who he and his fellow detectives really are. Blake steals the show, however. Whether he's making time with Harve's 'girlfriend' (a nice supporting turn from Jeannine Riley) or interrogating a suspect he carries himself well even if his character is frequently the butt of incessant short jokes. Blake career may have gone in some decidedly bizarre directions since this movie was made but it's easy to watch him here and see why he'd later be cast in Baretta. His character is tough, empowered even, but unlike most of those around him he seems to care about doing the right thing. The film isn't flawless, it has pacing issues here and there and it's hard not to notice a few rather jarring shifts in tone, but it stands as an underappreciated gem of seventies cinema and it has aged very well indeed.
Shout! Factory presents Electra Glide In Blue on Blu-ray in AVC encoded 1080p high definition transfer framed in the movie's original aspect ratio of 2.35.1. Generally speaking, this is a good image. A lot of the movie has the characters' faces hidden in shadow, so there are some scenes that feature some tricky lighting that the encoding has to contend with but for the most part shadow detail is fine. There doesn't appear to be any issues with noise reduction and the film's grain structure looks completely natural. Skin tones look lifelike, no waxiness and never too pink, and the film's color scheme doesn't appear to have been monkeyed with at all, it retains that sort of gritty, weird, seventies aesthetic that's so important to the movie's tone. Close up shots show good detail, not revelatory in the way that a brand spankin' new Hollywood production might, but definitely better than what we saw on DVD. Creases in leather jackets or some slight fraying around a button on a dress shirt are obvious now where they aren't in the past, and black levels are good throughout.
The only audio option on the disc is an English language DTS-HD Stereo track, there are no alternate language options provided. The film's odd score sounds good, as do the soundtrack selection, they benefit the most from the left to right channel separation, much more so than the dialogue. Some of the effects also come through rather well here. Balanced is good and there's decent depth to the mix. Actors are plenty easy to hear and understand and there are no issues with hiss or distortion to note.
Carried over from MGM's DVD release from a few years back is an audio commentary by Director James William Guercio. Those who have heard this track before know that it's not particularly engrossing and it's plagued by long gaps of silence. When he does talk, he's frequently apologizing for not having a whole lot to say about the movie. Guercio also shows up for a nine minute introduction video, also carried over from the MGM DVD, where he talks about the influence of John Ford and makes some other notes about the production. This is more interesting than the commentary but be advised if you haven't seen the movie before it's got some spoilers in it. Rounding out the extras is a theatrical trailer for the movie, menus and chapter selection. The disc was originally announced as having a commentary and interview with Robert Blake, but that didn't wind up happening.
Electra Glide In Blue is one of most unconventional cop films of the seventies. It defies expectations and goes in directions that you do not see coming. It's tense, intelligent, well made and entertaining and Shout! Factory's Blu-ray release is a welcome one. It doesn't add anything new to the extras, unfortunately, but it does offer an appreciable upgrade in the audio and video departments and comes highly recommended.
Ian lives in NYC with his wife where he writes for DVD Talk, runs Rock! Shock! Pop!. He likes NYC a lot, even if it is expensive and loud.


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Topic: Naruto vs. Boba Fett Part II Preview
Yeah, you know how I wrote a fanfic about Naruto and Boba Fett having a doozy of an encounter? If not, here's where you can find it: http://www.bobafett.com/boards/viewtopic.php?id=883
Anyway, I'm writing a sequel. Here's the a tiny little preview of the second chapter of this massive crossover event of the century!
When we last left our heroes, they had all been placed in individual situations of peril. Boba Fett the mercenary from the Star Wars Universe was plummeting into the massive ocean of Kamino. Naruto ,Neji, & Gaara had met a mysterious man named Luke Skywalker. Sasuke Uchiha had met the man named Han Solo, who's friend Chewbacca was kidnapped by the snake-like Orochimaru, along with the reptilian bounty hunter Bossk. They were accompanied by Rukh, the Noghri assistant to Grand Admiral Thrawn, who intends to take over the universe. One of Thrawn's crowning achievements was the cloning of Darth Vader. Thrawn also met Sasuke & Naruto's mentor, Kakashi Hatake, and placed Kakashi in a chamber for further use. And the Akatsuki, the people who hired Boba to capture Naruto and Gaara, aren't happy with Boba's lackluster job. They decided to use a contingency plan. That plan: to resurrect the dead mercenary Zabuza and his assistant, Haku! Let's read on, shall we?
Naruto vs. Boba Fett
Part II: Naruto's Worst Ever Vacation
Outside Akatsuki Base, Undisclosed Location
Zabuza and Haku had been scouring the land in search of the ones called Naruto, Gaara, and Boba Fett, with no success. They were to update their masters of the Akatsuki every few hours. Now was their latest update time. Their masters would not be pleased. The man named Itachi Uchiha met them outside their base's entrance. His eyes were red with 3 small circles in them.
"Any success?†He asked.
"None, I'm afraid.†The rejuvenated Haku lamented.
"This is unfortunate. From now on, do not return until there is…any…change…â€ÂItachi trailed off as a large spaceship descended from the sky, and out from the ship emerged a tall slender mechanical being with a cylindrical head, carrying a rather large projectile weapon. This being was IG-88, an assassin droid from Boba Fett's galaxy. When Boba took his ship to the planet where Naruto and co. all were from, his ship used up an awful lot of energy to make such a large hyperspace jump, and IG's ship was able to detect it. IG-88 and Boba Fett are both bounty hunters,and neither of them get along, and the assassin droid was interested to see if Boba was on an assignment that IG could best him in. The trail led here.
"WHERE IS THE ONE CALLED FETT??†IG demanded in his metallic voice.
"Boba Fett?†Itachi inquired.
"CORRECT. WHERE IS HE? I KNOW HE HAS BEEN HERE AND SINCE RETURNED TO HIS NATIVE GALAXY. WHAT BUSINESS DOES HE HAVE HERE?†IG demanded.
"We hired Fett for a job earlier, but he has proven…insufficient. Perhaps if you could complete the job, we could…make it worth your while. 100,000,000 credits sound reasonable?â€Â
"I ACCEPT. WHAT IS THE 'JOB'?â€Â
Itachi held up two photos. One of Naruto, one of Gaara. "You must find these two children, and bring them here alive. And for his failure. Boba Fett must die. You will take my associates Zabuza and Haku with you.â€Â
"I ACCEPT.†IG returned to the cockpit. Itachi then motioned for Zabuza and Haku to draw closer. "When the job is finished, dispose of him as you see fit.†He whispered. They nodded in understanding and boarded the ship. IG's space vessel floated in the air before shooting forward like a cork form a bottle into the midday sky, headed for the far-off universe that Boba and IG call home.
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Hey WhiteWolf, you going to make a post on the Build Divers RP? The first practice session is approaching soon. Do you just want to delay your post until the session starts up, or do you want to make post about what your character is doing IRL before the session starts?
Hey WhiteWolf, out of curiosity are you going to join our Build Divers RP?
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Ajax support in jQuery is centered on a global function that is nothing more than an abstraction of the browser's XMLHttpRequest object. In jQuery, to compose and control all aspects of your web requests, you use the ajax function. Here's an example of how to use the function:
$.ajax( { type: "POST", url: "/customers/detail", data: "id=1234", success: function(response) { alert( response ); } } );
The ajax function gets a long list of parameters, such as type, url, data, dataType, cache and async. For further details, you can refer to the jQuery online documentation. The url parameter indicates the URL to call, whereas the type parameter refers to the HTTP verb to use. If you need to pass parameters outside the URL — for example, as the body of the packet — you can use the data parameter. The dataType parameter indicates the type of the expected response whether HTML, XML, JSON, JSONP, or perhaps script. The cache parameter as a Boolean value indicates whether you want the library to cache the response for future access to the same URL. You should note that Ajax calls are always cached by default except for when the data type is JSONP or script. Finally, the async parameter indicates whether the call has to be run asynchronously or not.
The $.ajax function supports several callbacks that are triggered at various times during the call. The beforeSend callback is invoked just before the request is sent out. The callback receives the settings of the call and represents your last chance to modify the call. The complete callback is invoked as soon as the response is received and regardless of the outcome. The callback receives a description of the HTTP status of the request and indicates whether the request completed successfully, resulted in an error, timed out, or pointed to a not modified resource. This callback is always invoked for each Ajax call but from within the callback, however, you won't be able to access the actual response, if any.
Following the complete event, the jQuery library fires either the success or error callback depending on the success or failure of the Ajax call. The success callback receives the response sent over the wire by the server. The error callback gets a code for the type of error (timeout, parse, error) and an exception object (which provides, if possible, more details about the failure).
It should be noted that $.ajax is not simply a wrapper around the browser native XMLHttpRequest object. It does offer additional features not in the standard object but still terribly useful. The aforementioned cache and dataType properties are just a couple of examples. Another interesting example is ifModified, a Boolean property that returns success only if the response has changed since the last request.
Beyond the $.ajaxfunction, the jQuery library provides a few event handlers for global Ajax events. Once registered, such a handler will be invoked for each Ajax operation regardless of the page that triggers it. You can add handlers for the events like ajaxComplete, ajaxError, ajaxSend, ajaxStart, ajaxStop, and ajaxSuccess. Most of these handlers are self-explanatory, but a few words are worth spending for ajaxStop. Ajax operations can run in parallel as long as the maximum number of browser-allowed connections is not exceeded. When this happens, requests are queued. At the end of each Ajax operation, jQuery checks for pending requests. When no outstanding request is found, the ajaxStop event is fired. You'll get the ajaxStop event also if the final request is canceled by returning false from within the beforeSend callback function. Note that you can have multiple handlers for each of these events. If multiple handlers are registered, then all of them are invoked in order.
In addition to the $.ajax function, jQuery counts on a few of helper functions that address specific types of requests such as requests getting a JSON response, a script file, or performing a cross-domain call. In future articles, I'll cover all of them as well.


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New Zealand-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider Xero has been officially listed on the ASX today with the initials XRO in order to make it easier for Australian investors to purchase Xero shares.
The company has been listed on the NZSX since June 2007 and under the dual listing the same pool of shares will be available across the two stock exchanges.
Xero currently has 32,500 paying Australian customers due to an integrated payroll software release and increase in accounting and bookkeeping partners.
Q&A: Xero's Australian MD, Chris Ridd
SaaS model aids Xero A/NZ revenue
In-depth: Cloud computing strategy guide
According to the company's managing director in Australia, Chris Ridd, the planned development of electronic tax filing with the ATO will provide further impetus for new Australian partners to start using its services.
In addition, Xero plans to move into new premises in Melbourne in December. It also has offices in Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane and Perth and, according to Ridd, expects to have 60 staff across these offices by Christmas this year.
Speaking to Computerworld Australia, Ridd said the company currently has 50 staff in Australia.
"We are hired in a range of roles including sales, customer care and building out our development team," he said.
"We develop our payroll product, PayCycle, out of Canberra and we're also building a development team in Melbourne. That team is focused on developing the electronic tax filing system which we will start to release in stages over the next couple of years."
According to a recent operating update, Xero's first half operating revenue to 30 September 2012 is expected to exceed NZ$16.7 million (AU$13.1 million) in revenues. This is compared to NZ$7.9 million (AU$6.2 million) for the corresponding period last year.
Total paying customer numbers across New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States have also more than doubled to 111,800 as at 30 September 2012 compared to 51,300 for the same period in 2011.
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I need a tennis partner. If you are interested in playing at Pflugerville high school or somewhere in the neighborhood, let me know. My phone number is 512 - 739 - 0572. You can also message me here. I wouldn't mind coming to Round Rock and playing there. Where should I come and when? I live in Pflugerville, although I am close to Round rock.
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My family lives in Pflugerville, and I'm there Friday's after work and Saturday's. Would you be up to playing one of those days? maybe weekly?
I have 2 HOA tennis courts located at AW Grimes & Agarita Trl if you want to come here.
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