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Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Wherein ENWorld Makes the Same Faux Pas I Was (Rightfully ) Accused of Years Ago
A few years back, when WotC started releasing (or re-releasing) the classic TSR titles in PDF on RPGNow, I was excited and started posting their releases here at The Tavern nearly in realtime. As I do with reviews, I included the publisher's boilerplate. I also was including Shannon Appelcline's historical pieces that were attached after the boilerplate. I truly don't recall if I gave Shannon credit or not - but as his credit line is the last paragraph of each of the entries, I probably did. I'm an asshole if I didn't.
I was, however, accused of "stealing content" from OneBookShelf in a thread at ENWorld at the time and they were right. The boilerplate is legit, its the product description, but the historical summary? That's wasn't mine to copy the whole cloth of. Quote a few sentences perhaps, but refer back to the source for the rest.
I guess such social graces don't apply to ENWorld. Funniest part? They use the whole historical piece EXCEPT for the author's credit:
Here's the bottom part of the same article on RPGNow:
Oh, and I guess they no longer worry about mentioning articles with affiliate links have such links:
Notice the line just over the posts here at The Tavern?
Its not hard to do. And I mention it again on posts that have affiliate links.
I am far from perfect. I do, however, admit my mistakes and try to not repeat them. I find it amusing to see others commit the exact same mistakes they rightfully called me out on prior.
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Mine is a bit buried, at the bottom of a dedicated links page: "Please assume that any links to these sites on my blog are affiliate links as I don't mark them individually."ReplyDelete
Enworld is worth visiting for the Q&A threads with Gary Gygax. Once you have read those, there is no reason to visit that place again. None whatsoever.ReplyDelete
"Do as I say, not as I do ..."ReplyDelete
EnWorld doesn't have to uphold the typical journalistic standards, because they aren't a news site..they are a "pay to play", totally bought commercial site that will advertise your product for bucks.ReplyDelete
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I put my affiliate link mention in my About section of my site and also at the end of article that i have links into.. As you said, it's not that hard to do.. and you supposed to do it via what the FTC has to say...ReplyDelete
After Morrus took something I posted in the forums and turned it into a front page "news item", completely re-wording a key section of the post to literally create the opposite meaning than what I intended... (without mentioning such change mind you)... ya... kinda woke me up to what sort of "news" site this is.ReplyDelete
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"Bob's notes" are reports from CFCA President Bob Hentzen, who regularly accompanies mission awareness trip participants. You can see Bob's full update on his Facebook page.
From my recent report from Medellin and Cartagena, please allow me to offer a little general information about CFCA in Colombia:
From the northern border with Venezuela to the southern border with Ecuador, we've walked every kilometer of Colombia, this wonderful country.
(Editor's note: This is a reference to Walk2gether, the nearly 8,000-mile solidarity walk that Bob and CFCA staffers undertook through 12 Latin American countries. The walk lasted from December 2009 to June 2011.)
I remain deeply grateful for all the blessings, prayers and solidarity.
Colombia is a big piece of the Lord's creation. In size it is number 4 in Latin America after Brazil, Argentina and Peru.
Colombia is special to me and to my family. I first landed here in 1960 as a Christian Brother missionary teacher.
I was assigned to Colegio La Salle, Cartagena. I have many wonderful memories of my students and fellow teachers at La Salle.
Since Cristina and I sponsored the first CFCA child, Florelia Delgado (Bogota project), CFCA-Colombia has grown to include 19,349 children and 2,179 elderly friends.
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Before the sponsors arrived
Cristina and I enjoyed an inspiring day at the CFCA Center in Bogota on the Friday before the sponsors' arrival.
In-depth conversations with dynamic scholars were followed by a training session for mother leaders on the subject of self-help projects. The identification and loyalty to the ideals of CFCA run deep here.
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On the outskirts of Bogota, we were able to spend a day with the CFCA families of Oasis. They welcomed us on the streets with the Colombian national anthem.
What a privilege to share a morning with 13 mothers groups, each color-coded. It was like a rally of sharing and learning.
At present in the CFCA project in Bogota, we have 183 mothers groups serving 4,000 families. Each mothers group is like a mini-foundation.
"I have experienced personal changes in me," one of the mothers said. "Mujeres, we are guardians of the earth."
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A mother speaks: "I have learned to be tolerant and to speak confidently in public. I have learned to share what I am learning with other mothers."
At CFCA, we respond: "Let's give her the microphone!"
Confident mothers transmit that confidence.
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For me it's very encouraging to see the integral growth of sponsored friends and their families over time. We also celebrated the joy of this day with a sing-along performance by the sponsors and lots of dancing.
Question often heard: When are you coming back?
Spending time with our families was bittersweet as always, a confrontation with the truth. I intend to write more often.
Most of our mothers are single heads of households. To support their families, they work during the day. We hold our mothers group meetings in the evening.
All photo credits in this report go to the staff at CFCA's project in Bogota and the CFCA communications center in Bogota.
Cristina and I are looking forward to seeing everyone soon. Now in Guatemala, we are blessed with the privilege of participating in the celebration of Fr. Greg's resurrection and homecoming. God's blessings.
Bob Hentzen
Bogota, Colombia
May 2012

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By Jim Howell
In Zimbabwe, one of the protein staples of the native human population is mopane worms. They are big, fat, black, caterpillar-looking critters. When Daniela and I are down there with our tour groups, we always make sure our clients are presented with the opportunity to munch on this local delicacy. After all, getting in touch with native custom is one of our big draws. Amazingly, most of our adventurous travelers decline the privilege, turning their noses up like a five year old presented with a plate of broccoli. The local folks, on the other hand, eat 'em like potato chips.
Why is this? How can a food item so readily devoured by one group of humans be so repulsive to another? What does this have to do with managing livestock? Actually, the principle(s) involved transcend the species gap like you wouldn't believe. It turns out that food preference has just as much to do with culture as it does with nutrition. Culture encompasses the norms, traditions, and accepted code of conduct between members of a population. Taken together, they contribute to a population's success at surviving within a given set of environmental constraints. In humans, just about every bit of it is learned. We learn to eat, or not eat, worms. Most of us figure that groups of animals don't really have culture. We think they do everything innately, by instinct – that they don't learn to eat things, they just know what to eat.
Well in early December, I attended a one day workshop by one of the more grounded and practical academics I've met – Dr. Fred Provenza from the Department of Rangeland Resources at Utah State University – which greatly expanded my appreciation of what makes a cow a cow. Turns out that cows have culture too. In the case of many of us managing holistically, this whole issue of herd culture has huge implications as we begin to plan our grazing and develop our ranch infrastructure. In my opinion, it goes a long way to explaining why so many of us have struggled as we transition to this new style of management. If we can understand the components of culture and more deeply appreciate the ways that animals interact with their environments, I think we might be able to smooth out these discouraging learning curves.
A Change of Scenery
Most of us who manage livestock realize that it's hard to take a bunch of critters
from one environment to another and expect them to keep on breeding back and weaning
big calves without missing a beat. There's always the dreaded adjustment period. Depending
on how different the environments, the pain of this transition can be highly variable,
but it pretty well always happens, even when moving from relatively tough country
to what looks like easy street. This adjustment period also happens when we decide
to change our management for the benefit of our land. When we start amalgamating animals
that don't necessarily want to be with each other, and then make them go into areas
that they don't particularly fancy being in, a uniform chorus of bovine protestation
often results.
Well, what would you do if you were unwillingly plucked off of your pretty farm in the green hills of Missouri, transported to a new ranch in the badlands of Wyoming, given a brand new set of friends, all new food, different weather, a novel landscape, and salty water? You most likely would protest and perform below your potential, at least initially. What if you had been on that same Wyoming ranch your whole life, and had been in charge of the winter country down in the Red Desert all that time. You know every square foot of that place – where all the winterfat and best grass patches are, the good places to take shelter in blizzards, how far you can ride out and still get back before dark (or how to get home in the dark), etc. You are intimate with the land. Now your foreman has decided to move you to the summer unit in the Green Mountains. How long will it take you to learn that place and become as intimate with it as you are with the winter country? Probably a long time, but if you have to do it, you will. You can adapt. You have the capacity to change your culture to enhance your prospects for survival.
Such scenarios are equally as applicable to your animals, including this ability to learn and adapt to new circumstances. That's good news for those of us who realize we need to change our management. Riparian zone blowouts, overrested mesas, and sagebrush monocultures are not acceptable in the modern West. To begin to rectify these problems, we need to change the behavior of our animals, which means we must change their culture.
How do Cows Get Cultured?
Now, to get to the point, what exactly constitutes bovine culture, and how do we change
it? Complexity is the rule, but here are some basics. Young animals learn what to
eat and how to eat from their mothers. Sounds simple, but its impact on how animals
use the range is huge. If a calf or lamb doesn't see its mother grazing larkspur,
it won't eat it either. If it sees its mother munching fallen mesquite beans, or sagebrush,
or taking a bit of snakeweed every now and then, by golly it will too. By following
their mothers, young animals learn which toxic plants to avoid, which toxic plants
they can eat some but not a lot of, which grasses, forbs, and browse are most nutritious
at certain times of the year, etc. It's not innate knowledge. It's learned; it's part
of their culture.
Once mother becomes less of a focal point, peers start to have an important impact on foraging behavior. If you buy a load of yearlings and stick them in with your weaned heifers, the new kids on the block will watch what the experienced locals are eating, and they'll gradually take on those habits.
All this begs another even more fundamental question: What exactly tells the mother cow that it's safe to eat this, a little bit of that, and none of that? She probably learned from her mom, too, of course, but this knowledge had to start somewhere. I often think of the poor Fleckvieh Simmentals from the lush pastures of Germany that first set foot in Namibia, in southwestern Africa. Those first bulls were lowered into the icy Atlantic, swam ashore onto the Namibian coast, and were then lined out in a forced march across the blazing Namib Desert to the scrubby arid savanna of the country's interior. Talk about culture shock. How did those poor critters learn what to eat?
Satiation vs. Palatability
For many years now, Allan Savory has been saying that animals don't select their diet
based on which species are palatable as opposed to unpalatable. They simply select
from all the plants on hand to meet their energy, protein, mineral, and vitamin needs.
Sometimes this correlates to a particular species, but oftentimes it doesn't. Things
such as growth form (young and tender vs. old and fibrous) and growing site (highly
mineralized vs. leached soil) often have just as much or more to do with a plant's
attractiveness as the species itself. The animals know how to select what they need.
Many academics have said that's hogwash.
Dr. Provenza disagrees. In fact, his trials indicate that animals can figure out what they need. It's not a conscious choice, but the result of a complex web of interrelated physiological and cognitive processes. In one trial, as lambs were given an energy infusion into the rumen during the consumption of straw, daily intake of straw increased steadily. The body sensed that its energy needs were being met, the lambs associated this sensation of satiation with the flavor of the straw they were eating, so they kept eating straw. In the control group without the energy infusion, daily consumption of straw steadily dropped. The straw was not satiating their energy needs, so they quit eating it. These two groups were in pens side by side, and Dr. Provenza had parts of the trial on video. By the third day, when the straw was placed in the pens, the energy infusion group was diving into the feed rack with incredible enthusiasm, while the control group was looking at them through the fence, with looks on their faces that seemed to wonder, "What on earth do you guys see in that crap?"
And not only do they know what they do need, they also know what they don't need. The emetic system is the body's defense mechanism against overconsumption. Animals can eat too much of a good thing, like protein or energy, or too much of a bad thing, like toxic compounds. In either case, when too much goes down the hatch, the emetic system kicks in and makes us feel sick to our stomachs. Usually we can sense this coming before we need to head for the bathroom, and we naturally stop eating the thing that's making us full or starting to make us nauseous. When an animal overeats on a particular plant, it remembers it for a long time. Humans can relate. The unique sensation just prior to losing one's cookies tends to stick with us. Your brain associates that sensation with the food you just ate, and maybe even with the restaurant or room you ate it in. Chances are that food or restaurant will be unpopular for years to come. Same goes for animals. A bad eating experience can last a lifetime.
Diversity – the Spice of Life
From a practical management point of view, this is both good and bad. If the plant
is indeed highly toxic, we want the animal to avoid that plant for the rest of its
life. More often than not, however, the plant has the potential to play an important
part in meeting the animal's needs as long as not too much of it gets consumed at
any one time. Dr. Provenza has demonstrated that when presented a variety of different
plants, livestock will consume more total nutrients per day than with only one or
two plants available. This isn't because the high variety diet contains more nutrients
per pound than the simpler diet; it's because an animal will only eat so much of one
plant type before it becomes satiated on that plant and wants to eat something else.
Usually the satiation is caused by toxic compounds in the plant. Essentially all plants
contain these compounds and are potentially toxic if overconsumed. The emetic system
starts to tell the animal to slow down on one plant and switch to another.
Most rangeland landscapes support a broad diversity of species, especially those in which the ecosystem processes are functioning effectively. Most of those species can be used by our domestic livestock to one degree or another. We often assume that broad, uniform utilization of our ranges can only be achieved by a mix of livestock species. That of course is one way to do it. Some species have higher tolerances for some toxic compounds than others. Goats, for instance, will tend to browse sagebrush more readily than cattle. But oftentimes, a particular species has the potential to feed over a much broader range of plants than we give them credit for. The reason they don't, typically, is because they've never learned to. This learned behavior can take years to evolve, but there are things we can do as managers to help it develop faster – more on that in a minute.
Culture Shock
This brings us back to culture. The Fleckvieh Simmentals in Namibia know how to make
a living in their very un-German environment. Over the past hundred years, the animals
that have figured out which combination of plants they can best make a living on have
been the ones to survive and pass that behavior on to their offspring. They have evolved
a new culture.
A population of animals that is intimately familiar with a ranch, and that has been managed the same way for years, decades, or even centuries, will have developed a very strong culture – a culture of survival molded by history and dependent on a diversity of plants. When we change that culture by mobbing them up into bigger and bigger herds, for example, and into tighter and tighter units of land, we have to expect a culture shock. Many of the little bunches that formerly occupied their own smaller home ranges are now being forced into areas of the ranch where they seldom venture, and possibly exposed to plants they've never seen. The foraging patterns or habits of each original little bunch will change drastically, because the land they have access to on any given day will be totally different to what they're accustomed to, and it will take time before the animals learn a new grazing pattern that meets their nutritional needs. If the animals are moving through lots of pastures, they'll have to go through this learning curve in every pasture. This is stressful.
Smooth Transitions
Be prepared for trouble, but be patient, observant, and don't give up, because the
good news is that the animals will learn. They will change their culture, and there
are some things we can do to help them along. One of those is to take things slowly.
Expecting to turn a desert into the Garden of Eden in one season is wishful thinking.
Initial enthusiasm wanes quickly when animals aren't happy.
As you start to amalgamate herds, think about the best way to do that from the animals' point of view. For example, scattered groups of animals that are already using one ecologically distinct region of the ranch (and therefore already know each other and the plants) can be combined into one herd and managed under that new social and spatial context before they're taken into completely new country and combined with totally unfamiliar animals into even larger herds. When planning the development of new pastures or grazing units, try to make sure each area has as much plant diversity as possible. Remember that the more plant types an animal has to select from, the more able will it be to meet its needs. You may already have animals that know how to meet their needs from the range of plants on your ranch, but if you mob them up into smaller pastures that lack that diversity, expect trouble. I have had personal experience with this exact challenge on a fairly degraded ranch that I managed in New Mexico. If I would have understood the importance of "access to plant diversity", I would have urged our management group to do our land planning and subsequent infrastructure development much differently.
When bringing new animals onto a property, remember that younger animals will more readily adapt to the new environment than older individuals. The old adage that "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" applies to cows as well. Also, those new animals, regardless of age or history, should always be mixed with animals that know what to eat and where to go, and an effort should be made to keep them mixed. The new ones will tend to segregate themselves, but the quicker they integrate, the faster the newcomers will learn how to make a living in their novel surroundings.
Fine Tuning
And finally, for those of you who have survived the inevitable performance dip and
now have culturally sophisticated livestock that prefer to be bunched and constantly
moving, here's another tidbit Dr. Provenza threw out. He is now experimenting with
different levels of protein and energy supplements designed to stimulate animals to
eat plants that they normally don't select (or at least don't select aggressively),
like sagebrush and other plants that dominate vast tracts of land in the West. If
we can get animals to go after these plants, we'll have a much better chance at healing
many severely degraded landscapes. Heavy browsing pressure on sagebrush, in combination
with hoof action, will help open up these sagebrush monocultures and stimulate new
forbs and grasses to start filling in bare ground. If the animals refuse to eat sagebrush,
there is little chance of making this happen.
With two groups of lambs that were familiar with sagebrush (i.e. it wasn't a novel plant to them), he offered one group a restricted amount of an energy supplement (200 grams per day) and a protein supplement (also 200 g/day), along with all the sagebrush they wanted. Another group was offered both of these supplements ad lib – meaning they could eat all they wanted, in addition to the sagebrush. The restricted group ate 1500 g of sagebrush per day, while the ad lib group only ate 800 g per day. The ad lib group wasn't stupid. The alfalfa and barley in the supplement met their needs more readily than the sagebrush, so without the restriction, they ate more of it and less sagebrush. The 200 g each of protein and energy was enough of a complement to the sagebrush, however, that the restricted group really put away the sagebrush – lots more than they would have without the supplement. Roughly 75% of their daily dry matter intake was composed of sagebrush. That's pretty good. This indicates that restricted use of strategic supplements, in combination with sound grazing planning, might just be the trick to the utilization and healing of vast tracts of otherwise worthless rangeland, or to getting animals to eat any plant that is potentially useful but greatly underutilized. Anyway, they're currently trying it out on the Deseret Ranch in northeastern Utah on a commercial scale, so we'll have a better idea of how this works in the real world pretty soon.
One last thing. It's awfully important to remember that most of us, when starting to manage holistically, will not only be changing the culture of our animals, but our own as well. Give yourself time, be clear on what you're doing and why you're doing it (holistic goal), and keep a positive attitude. If you think the transition to a healthier ranch, a healthier lifestyle, and a healthier bank account is going to create more pain than it's worth, you'll probably be right. If you know you're going to make it work and be successful no matter what happens, you'll also be right. It's up to you. Now go get cultured.


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Agreed. But please give me some time to work with my graphics designers to stabilize the "look & feel". They are working on this now. Before the end of this month (Sept), all of this should be ready.
Agreed. But please give me some time to work with my graphics designers to stabilize the "look & feel". They are working on this now. Before the end of this month (Sept), all of this should be ready.
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Alex 13 September 2006
About the recording function, in WinCE based mobile there are some third-party applications to support this. So is in palm OS based mobile. I have being searching for an open-source one, but haven't got any. Would you please give some suggestion? Thanks.
One listed feature is DTMF support, should this be a hardware feature and given support by hardware or we should implement by software in Dialer?
(Sean Moss-Pultz) A: This is supported by Ti. We just need to impliment the UI. Please read this spec if you want more information. I'm going to write more details for this feature within the next few days.
Tony guan 03:05, 6 September 2006 (UTC): Q1: I think this design should be closely combined with the hardware button design. Some feature can be called or completed by directly press the hardware buttons. For example, call the history, or call directly from the current input by pressing the green call button. such as the nokia cell phones.
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer: We don't have any hardware buttons except a power button and a "phone" button. As mentioned in Look & Feel, the "phone" button calls the dialer on 'tap'.
Alex Q: In old specification (Call Handler Application Specification v0.2), there is another mode called "In Call", both of the Incoming and Outgoing mode will switch to "In Call Mode" after taken some action. However, call handler application is not listed in the Application Page now. Does this mode won't need any more or there will be other countermeasures? Thanks.
( Sean Moss-Pultz) A: Check out In Call Mode. All of features from the Call Handler have been integrated into the Dialer.'
Tony guan 08:45, 8 September 2006 (UTC):
Q1:Talking about the phone application stay on backgroud, should we consider the offline mode now? or other profile settings. It will determine the status of the underlayer libgsmd.
( Sean Moss-Pultz) Q: Do you mean where the RF is shutdown? Or when their is no GSM signal? We currently support a mode called Flight Mode, where all RF will be shutdown.
Tony guan 01:14, 14 September 2006 (UTC):
Yes, RF will be shutdown, and so as the dialer will not function or part of it will not function. It's a point for system design.
I'm planning on designing the Panel Applications to reflect their status. For example, if the GPS connection is off, the GPS Connection Status will show a red X (or something like this) through it.
Q2:So 'Profile Setting' should be an application. It will allow user to select the ring volume or vibrate or not.
( Sean Moss-Pultz) Profiles are a huge part of this phone. We've started to define this part but it's not complete yet. Please see Profiles.
Tony guan 01:14, 14 September 2006 (UTC): A: From the view of a developer, I care more about the effects of the current profile on the applications. That is, we have to make clear which one or which part of one will be affected by the current profile settings.
( Sean Moss-Pultz) Agreed. We will provide a common interface for all applications to know the state of the current profile.,
Tony guan 06:03, 11 September 2006 (UTC):
Q:Dear Sean, could we first make clear what the phone application should be like? Let's focus on the basic function first.
( Sean Moss-Pultz) A: Do you mean from a "look and feel" standpoint? Or from a feature set?
Tony guan 01:14, 14 September 2006 (UTC):
A: I mean both. Maybe we have to narrow our view to some extent to facilitate our project progress. The great ideas will also shine, but they will not take too much effort.
Agreed. But please give me some time to work with my graphics designers to stabilize the "look & feel". They are working on this now. Before the end of this month (Sept), all of this should be ready.
Q: Since the last number entered is stored in the dialer session, does it make sense to still prompt for saving to the phonebook?


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This March marks the third anniversary of the passage of the president's sweeping health care legislation. But for many in the business community now facing a litany of difficult decisions in the law's wake, this milestone will be met with capitulation rather than celebration.
With the employer mandate, Obamacare puts the nation's job creators between a rock and a hard place. Despite the gentle sounding title, the Shared Responsibility provision actually takes the two parties who should be making decisions about employer-sponsored health coverage (the employer and the employee) completely out of the equation. Beginning in 2014, large employers must provide a prescribed level of health care coverage to all full-time employees or potentially pay a hefty penalty. While this may sound relatively straightforward, it is anything but.
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Beyond imposing a costly and non-negotiable mandated benefit, the law also redefines the long-standing definition of a full-time employee. With the passage of the law, an employee working an average of 30 hours or more per week over a month is a full-time employee. Further, the law sets out a complicated algorithm to determine whether a business is a large employer. Aggregating the hours of all part-time workers and adding in the number of full-time workers are necessary to determine whether a business has the equivalent of 50 or more full-time employees and is therefore, a large employer.
Under the guise of improving access to coverage, the mandate presents a false choice for owners: provide one-size-fits-all health care coverage at the expense of higher wages and other benefits; or potentially pay a penalty. The unfortunate reality is that, with this devil's choice, everyone ends up paying a penalty — employers, employees and the unemployed. Whatever "choice" the employer makes will lead to fewer jobs, lower wages and lost revenue.
For employers near the "large" employer threshold, we can expect to see layoffs or dramatically reduced hours. These will be tough decisions, especially for small businesses where employees are like family and benefits options are often discussed and agreed upon collaboratively. The rising cost of the mandated insurance plans will very likely force many businesses to drop coverage entirely and pay the steep penalty, a difficult choice but a necessary one in light of increasingly cost-prohibitive employee coverage. Smaller businesses that might otherwise be eyeing expansion and growth down the road will most likely reduce or cap the number of employees to avoid the expensive mandate in the future.


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Women and fashion trends have changed over the past 100 years, but what's stayed the same is that they've cared about the way they dress and the types of handbags they carry.
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Renault, the car company that previously had a partnership with TomTom, has chosen rival CoPilot for its new Twingo. The CoPilot Live app will be "an integral part of an iPhone-based infotainment system" for the latest model of the car.
The French car manufacturer is installing the Oxygen Audio O Series in-car system in the Twingo, which allows a driver to dock his or her iPhone in order for it to effectively become part of the dashboard. The iPhone then controls all of the car stereo functions through a dedicated app called e-Renault.
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So I wanted to talk about which misconceptions, be it definitions of atheism, scientific ignorance or what have you. Which ones do you hear all the time or rarely that really dig under your skin and tickle your insanity nerves?
For me it would have to be big bang cosmology. Whenever someone says that "they can't believe that the universe came from nothing." makes me want to shout and let it all out, I can really do without that. It would either have to be that or the scientific illiteracy that goes along the lines of "the big bang was an explozionn."
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@Kris K. tell your Dad that unless it's gold, frankincense or myrrh, its not a Christian Christmas present.
So I guess the frozen year's supply of Haggis I got you needs to go back --?
Arch, that's for Hogmanay! And I want the 'gravy' they always serve with haggis.
Of course it is - I should have known that --
The concept of the "Big Bang" is beyond my capacity to really understand in any deep sense. But it's a moot point, since nobody has ever provided me with a better explanation of how it all got here. Just today, I received, for Xmas, Sean Carroll's new book, The Particle at the End of the Universe. Perhaps, after I've read that, I'll have a little better grasp of the idea.
I've read the entire Bible, cover-to-cover, and it didn't even mention the "Big Bang," much less "how it all got here," other than God did it. But the Bible doesn't have a foreword that explains how God got here. So let me postulate one: I'll call it The Big Fart Theory.
The thing is, the Big Bang theory doesn't mention the universe arising from nothingness. All it mentions is that the universe began in a hot dense state a long time ago. There's not enough data to suggest that it came from nothing or that it was even created at all. That's why it hits my nerves when people suggest that it entails the universe coming from nothing.
So one more great attempt to synthesis a deep vision for the creation of the universe.
Ok, I am waiting. 'The Big Fart Theory', does it have lots of gas, a large mexican food emporium before the universe, a gestation period before the event, and a cast of characters? Is it a tragedy or a satirical farse?
I remember a one liner out of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe', something like, 'it has been suggested by many philosophers, that the creation of the universe was clearly a bad idea'.
From political activists (far right and far left), and from right wing xians, I've heard enough nonsense that it no longer gets under my skin. For me, saying "The First Amendment protects a lot of stuff" has a calming effect.
What fires me up is the religious-like certainty I have long heard about the big bang, even from people who know of Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty and Kurt Godel's undecidability.
A few years ago, a professor in a writing course spoke of deconstruction. His words stirred my interest and the research I did persuaded me that deconstruction (close reading) does for language what the work of Heisenberg and Godel is doing for physics and mathematics.
It's certainty that causes people to burn other people at stakes. (That's a metaphor; don't read it literally.)
Yes a little doubt, could really cause a sea change in radical politics.
I detest the term "Intelligent Design". It is such a ridiculous concept that the word "intelligent" is completely counter-indicative. Theistic Design or Creationism cover the fantasy well enough. The word 'Intelligence" should be reserved for those who actually use it.
They had to come up with a new name so they could continue to try to push the bullshit in the schools--"Creationism" had been ruled unconstitutional. However, the Dover trial of "Intelligent Design" had the same result.
The most honest name for it is is something along the lines of "Pseudoscientific iguana crap" but I doubt that would get past school boards.


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SAN JOSE DEL CABO, Mexico — My dinner at the thick, green oasis in the hills above Baja California's southern tip, known as Flora Farms, didn't begin with a meal. It began with a tour.
Late every afternoon, Flora staffers guide visitors through bushy rows of rosemary, radishes (three kinds), basil, asparagus, lemon grass, baby arugula, turnips (two kinds), eggplant, hibiscus and, well, more than can possibly be recounted here because nearly every ingredient employed by Flora's Field Kitchen — the restaurant that is the farm's engine — is raised in its fields.
Never mind that Flora Farms is surrounded by beige hills and cactus. After buying the land in 1996, owners Gloria and Patrick Greene, of Northern California, spent 10 years enriching the sandy soil with compost and cover crops.
Once it became viable, Flora Farms carved a growing season out of the nine months of the year that aren't the oppressively hot Mexican summer. Its bounty is now wide and robust, which is a point of pride at the farm. So are its 90-plus heirloom vegetables, many of which are pulled from the ground the day they are served.
"It means we serve the same radishes people were eating before the era of pesticides and genetic modification," my tour guide said. "It's like eating out of your grandmother's garden."
We spent 40 minutes strolling through the farm, and when we finished, it still wasn't time to eat. It was time for a cocktail.
As a small band strummed acoustic guitars and tapped bongos, I took a spot at Flora Farms' U-shaped bar to order a Farmarita, a margarita made with heirloom carrot juice. The drink arrived in an ice-filled jar, and I sipped it slowly amid a crowd of handsome West Coast Americans as an almost-full moon rose in an inky black sky and the palm trees turned to silhouettes.
It was all a lovely scene: lights strung through the trees, relaxed couples at tables of reclaimed wood and colorful plates of fresh food streaming by on a warm Mexican evening. The bar and restaurant had no walls, which allowed that Mexican evening to come in and greet us. It was destination dining to the fullest.
Finally, it was time to eat. The idea of "farm to table dining" usually comes with an ounce of faith from the customer: Whose farm is it? How far away is the farm? Are you sure no pesticides were used? Flora Farms presents one of the most convincing versions of the concept imaginable: The farm is steps outside the dining room.
Even what can't be grown is taken seriously at Flora Farms. For instance: The baker arrives each morning at 2. He spends several hours stoking a wood-fired oven to the proper temperature, then slaves over that day's breads and pizza crusts.
When my breadbasket arrived, the proof was clear: A variety of fresh, crusty breads was highlighted by a wheat loaf full of black olives, green olives and nuts. If there is such thing as pre-meal bread that is too tasty — because emptying the basket seems imperative — this was it.
The menu turns over regularly, depending on what the farm has yielded. As I perused that evening's version, I quizzed the waiter about the ingredients. Almost every last bit of it came from Flora Farms, he said, either at the farm where I sat or at what they call "the ranch," 15 miles away. That's where Flora grows larger-quantity vegetables, such as carrots and cucumbers, and raises its animals.
Was the rabbit in the strozzapreti pasta raised by Flora Farms? Yes, he said. How about the brown-sugar-cured bacon on the bacon-and-tomato pizza? Yes, that too. How about the soft, rich butter that arrived with my bread? Sure enough — churned on the farm.
Then the food started to arrive. The green gazpacho, poured over cucumber, radish, breadcrumbs, almonds, smoked grapes and a thin layer of paprika sauce, was just as complex as you might expect.
The radish slathered in butter and topped with salt was crunchy and fresh and harvested that morning. The asparagus, which arrived with a farm egg custard and pancetta vinaigrette, wasn't far behind. But it was the pork trotter (code for foot) ravioli and a bulb onion that stopped me cold. It was that little itty-bitty onion that did it. That one onion was supple and crunchy, smoky and tangy. It was a wholly different vegetable from what we buy off of American shelves. The advantage of the farm was becoming clear.
Finally came the main plates: chocolate clams and guanciale (which pulled off deft savory-zesty balance) and the "rabbit trio" — rabbit wrapped in pancetta, a shishito pepper (from the farm) stuffed with rabbit and rabbit confit.
"We've never had rabbit before," my server said. "We're just starting to raise it, and we're very excited about it."
And for good reason: Fresh, tender rabbit is a deliciously lean meat.
My meal ended with a luscious burrata topped with purple flowers (chive and basil blossoms), fennel, sorrel, parsley, chives and salt — an ideal creamy conclusion. However, one problem: The cheese was made of a local cow's milk that didn't come from the farm.
My server must have noticed a shadow of surprise cross my face because I was told, "We are in the process of getting our own dairy cows."
"We also have four pregnant goats. So eventually we'll have goat meat."
Of course they will.
If you go
Flora Farms is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day but Monday (closed) and Sunday (brunch only; the mango French toast is a stunner). Reservations are suggested for dinner. Situated in the hills above San Jose del Cabo, getting to Flora Farm is possible only by rental car or taxi (which will cost about $20 from San Jose and $100 from Cabo San Lucas). Tuesday is the well-regarded fried chicken night. Baked on homemade crust, the pizzas are world class; I was thrilled with my half arugula, half bacon-and-tomato pizza. Entrees are generally in the $20 to $40 range.
The farm also has a grocery open Tuesday through Sunday that sells house-made breads, meat and produce, jams, dressings and food to go.
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In the past, however, some of Nantz' work has been pretty bad (in my opinion). For instance, in 2005, when North Carolina (led by Sean May) won, Nantz said this:
It started in March, ended in April, and belonged to May.
WHAT? What does that even mean? Well, I know what it means, but how lame is that? In 1999, when Connecticut won the Title, Nantz came up with this:
UConn, you can.
That, I truly have no idea what it means. But that's beside the point. This year, I'm hoping Nantz can top himself... IE come up with something even cheesier than the May line from 2005.
So I've come up with my predictions for what he might say, and then you give your guesses in the comments. The winner gets a congratulations from me, as well as my undying respect. Now that's incentive!
If Florida wins...
- "'Noah' jokin' around - Gators are champions again."
- "'Noah problems for the Gators, they're the champions."
- "No gruff for this 'Billy' - Gators are the champions."
- "No Joakim, 'Noah' problem." (I'm covering by bases in case Noah gets hurt)
If UCLA wins...
- "How'land' do you spell championship? UCLA."
- "'Ben' there, done that - Bruins are the champions."
- "Make it a dozen, another title is 'Bruin' in Westwood."
- "UCLA, on a 'Collison' course with destiny are your champions."
If Ohio St. wins...
- "It's an ode to "Oden" - Buckeyes are the champions."
- "Put your "Buckeyes" on Ohio St. - they're the champions."
If Georgetown wins...
- "Like father, like 'Thompson' - The Hoyas are the champions."
- "By 'Georgetown,' the Hoyas are the champions."
- "Everyone else is 'Green' with envy - Georgetown is the champions."
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So many exchanges in the past have involved someone telling me I should shut up and be thankful for the freedoms provided in this country that I think it's time to take a quick look at the basics to see just how thankful I should be.
- There is no right to basic human equality
Human Rights were deliberately left out of the Australian Constitution because the draftees sought discrimination. British Nationalism and racism were the dominant attitudes at the time of drafting the Australian Constitution. The draftees of the Constitution did not want to entrench Human rights into the Australian Constitution because it would prohibit them from effectively discriminating against minorities they disagreed with and would prevent racial purity. As well as the clear intent to disregard and decimate Indigenous Australians, the draftees also sought to discriminate against Chinese and Pacific migrant workers from entering into Australian shores.
- Australia has no right to freedom of speech
Australian's have the implied right to free speech only in regards to political communication within the Australian Constitution. It only exists as something absolutely necessary to allow the Australian government to function as a democracy, but even still, the implied freedom is strictly limited and may be rebutted in application. The freedom has been limited, to include those communications that will influence an individual's choice at elections. In short, the use of the freedom is tenuous at best; you are only offered limited protection from it. Where the legislation unreasonably burdens the freedom, it will be struck down. Where a political communication becomes slanderous and the one making the communication has not taken reasonable steps to verify the content, the defence of political communication (encapsulated as Qualified Privilege in defamation law), will not be available. The freedom will not work against private individuals.
In fact, attacking the validity of the Constitution may even amount to Sedition (which is possible given that the legal reasoning for the validity of the Australian Constitution is not that it was accepted by referendum, but that it was passed as an act by the British Imperial Parliament, evidenced by Covering Clause 5). Artists and writers may be subject to charges of Sedition where their work deliberately or accidentally leads to seditious action.
To emphasise just how limited political communication may be, in the past it has been an offence to instruct voters to fill out a ballot in a manner not preferred by the Australian Electoral Commission.
- There is no separation of church and state enshrined in the Australian Constitution
Australia has no Separation of Church and State. The Australian government is only prevented from 'establishing' a national religion by s 116 of the Constitution that limits the Commonwealth's legislative powers. State governments, however, are perfectly capable of 'establishing' a religion. What Australia has is a policy of neutrality in regards to the treatment of religious practitioners. The Commonwealth Government cannot unduly interfere with your right to practice a particular religion and it cannot favour one above another, although a little discrimination against all religions is tolerated.
- The indefinite detention of stateless persons is lawful
Thanks to the wisdom of the High Court ruling in Al-Kateb v Godwin, the Commonwealth government is perfectly able to imprison a stateless person indefinitely i.e lock them up for the rest of their lives.
- There is no right to freedom of association
It is thought that the right to freedom of association may exist in tandem with the implied right to political communication, as a necessity to facilitate that communication. However, such a right has not been extended by the High Court. Freedom of association has been enshrined in legislation in various acts at State and Commonwealth level, such as in the ability to strike in areas relating to Industrial Relations. But even these are limited, while State and Federal Governments have often attacked freedom of association which may be highlighted in the legislation targeting Bikie organisations around the country by attacking their freedom of association. The South Australian Act, which has been declared partially invalid by the South Australian Supreme Court had the effect of criminalising association with an individual belonging to an 'outlawed' organisation more than 6 times in a year, although the legislation expressly prevented it from being applied to political organisations and contained exceptions for family members.
Yes, Australia does have express rights within the constitution, trial by jury and right to a fair trial being two of the most prominent. It is even said that many rights and freedoms are protected better through legislation, and some are, to be sure. However, what needs to be remember is that the Australian Constitution is light of the 'biggies', those rights and freedoms we tend to refer to when talking about how great our country is. Additionally, it is a fundamental legal principle that whatever the parliament legislate on, it can repeal, meaning that even if parliament does provide us with rights, it is well within its power to remove those rights if needed.
In conclusion, you can forgive me for not being as 'thankful' as some would like.


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text: Before a Hasidic Grand Rebbe passes away, he chooses his youngest son to succeed him. But when the new appointee dies suddenly, Danny (Donnie Wahlberg), Detective Candice McElroy (guest star Megan Boone) and Detective Wolf Landsman (guest star Luke Kirby) investigates the oldest son and others within the Hasidic community, on BLUE BLOODS. Photo: Jojo Whilden ©2013 CBS Broadcasting Inc.


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Robert L. McNeil Jr., a pharmaceutical executive who introduced Tylenol in 1955 as a competitor to aspirin for pain relief, died on May 20 at his home in Wyndmoor, Pa. He was 94.
The cause was heart failure, said his public relations adviser, John Moscatelli.
Mr. McNeil was the third generation of his family to work at the company that became McNeil Laboratories, which was founded in 1879 by his grandfather as a pharmacy in Philadelphia.
During his tenure the firm introduced the first Tylenol product, Elixir Tylenol, as a liquid children's medicine to reduce pain and fever. Its marketing campaign included a cartoon fire engine and the slogan "For little hotheads."
Johnson & Johnson bought the firm in 1959. Mr. McNeil was the chairman of Johnson & Johnson's McNeil subsidiary until 1964.
Johnson & Johnson's McNeil Consumer Healthcare unit has been in the news recently after it recalled more than 136 million bottles of liquid children's Tylenol and other pediatric products on April 30 because of quality control problems at a company plant.Continue reading the main story
Mary Ellen Bowden, a senior research fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation who worked with Mr. McNeil on an essay about his contribution to the pharmaceutical industry, said she wondered how he had taken the news of the recall by the Johnson & Johnson unit that still bears his family's name.
"You could count on McNeil because they could make the preparations correctly," she said. "That's what the company had prided itself on for generations."
Robert Lincoln McNeil Jr. was born on July 13, 1915, in Bethel, Conn., to Robert Lincoln McNeil and Grace Slack McNeil. He grew up in the Germantown area of Philadelphia.
Mr. McNeil graduated from Yale in 1936 with a bachelor of science degree in physiological chemistry and bacteriology. Two years later he completed a second bachelor's degree at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, now called the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. He began his career with a part-time job in 1936 at his family's firm, and became a full-time employee in 1938.
Mr. McNeil set about turning the family drug business into a modern pharmaceutical company. He re-evaluated the product line, reorganized the company's structure and established a research division to develop prescription drugs that would comply with the safety requirements of the newly enacted Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938, according to the essay about Mr. McNeil, which appeared in the book "Pharmaceutical Achievers," published by the Chemical Heritage Foundation.
Although the active ingredient in Tylenol was discovered in the 19th century, it was not until the mid-20th century that scientists deemed the drug safe and effective. Even then, many drug companies did not pursue the medicine lest it compete with their existing aspirin products.
Mr. McNeil, who had heard about the drug at a pharmaceutical conference, urged his company to pursue the medicine because McNeil did not sell its own aspirin products.
He told doubters at McNeil that though the new drug would be more expensive, it had an advantage over aspirin in that it did not cause stomach irritation. Mr. McNeil gave Tylenol its generic name, acetaminophen.
Approved by the Food and Drug Administration, Tylenol went on the market as a prescription medication in 1955. It became an over-the-counter drug in 1960.
Mr. McNeil was named chairman of McNeil in 1956. That year, he also married Nancy McKinney Jones. She survives him, as do his sons, Collin and Robert L. McNeil III; his daughters, Victoria McNeil Le Vine and Joanna McNeil Lewis; and 11 grandchildren, all of the Philadelphia area.
After his retirement, Mr. McNeil pursued philanthropic causes, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Zoo, where he paid to renovate the birdhouse, now known as the McNeil Avian Center. Two science centers at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia also bear his name.Continue reading the main story


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I recommend this book because it has pretty pictures and lots of animals. This would be a good book to read before you go to a zoo.


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