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Reviews for NoScript Security Suite
NoScript Security Suite by Giorgio Maone
Rated 4.5 out of 5
4.5 Stars out of 5
3,398 reviews
- by mpzz, 16 hours agoRated 1 out of 5NoScript simply doesn't work anymore. For months now, it constantly shuts off, allowing all scripts. As of today it deletes all settings when you close Firefox, so you have to reset every site you visit every time you sign back on. It's garbage.
- by Firefox user 14385427, 2 days agoRated 3 out of 5Keeps resetting all permissions to default each time I start Firefox. Works correctly when reset though. Becoming tedious.
- by Modia, 3 days agoRated 1 out of 5Does not work well anymore, does not remember the settings. Need a quick fix!
- by Firefox user 15309272, 5 days agoRated 1 out of 5This addon isn't working properly anymore in Firefox 79
NoScript doesn't remember settings/rules.
Luckily, I have been backing up settings, so I can just import the settings file on every restart. It is not perfect but still can live.
Maybe is the NEW Changes to storage.sync in Firefox 79
Please fix the problem as you guys were great with NoScript for the past years,
BTW it still works in 78 or 78ESR, may be we will have to downgrade to ESR for the time being. 79 do have lots of changes and bugs for extensions.
e.g. uBlock, Download manager, GApp Launcher, Google Translator, open link in/with new tab, PrintEdit, Context Search, Tab open/close position, Download Youtube....
- by progan01, 5 days agoRated 4 out of 5Up until Firefox 79, NoScript was an indispensable part of my security suite, handling intrusions and trouble scripts very well. But now either Firefox or NoScript does not remember my instructions from one session to the next, forcing me to re-approve privileges each time I revisit a site. I don't know why this is happening, but it's an enormous hindrance and a great timesuck. Can you look into this for me, Giorgio? Your product has been a Godsend to me, and I want to continue using it.
- by ctuk, 5 days agoRated 1 out of 5This was great for a long time but recently it loses all its permissions regularly, requiring them to be re set. From the other reviews i can see i am not the only one with the problem. Its a shame really as it was so useful
- by Zitronella, 5 days agoRated 5 out of 5NoScript works perfect also on firefox 79.0
If it doesn't remember settings the reason could be CCleaner > Custom Clean > Applications > Firefox > "Internet Cache" option deletes all *.sqlite-shm, *.sqlite-wal,
That's a bug in CCleaner, not in NoScript and not in Firefox.
- by Patroclus, 6 days agoRated 1 out of 5This addon isn't working properly anymore, it doesn't remember settings. I have to uninstall and then reinstall it on some web pages. I have used it for years and it has worked fine, but now it's really buggy. I don't know if it's because their updated version or if it's not working well with Firefox 79.0. I suspect it's the later, I haven't had any problems with NoScript, before I uppgraded to the latest version of Firefox?!
- by Firefox user 14973844, 7 days agoRated 1 out of 5been using NoScript for many years, and love(d) it. but now, permissions are no longer saved each time i close FF and clear my cache. and i must go through the arduous process of assigning each web site its specific permissions again. Ive lost patience doing so. is there a fix for this sudden change in the behavior of this add on?
- by Jaga, 23 days agoRated 4 out of 5Works perfectly on all websites used. All pages loads slower than usual time.
- by gep23, a month agoRated 4 out of 5One of my best ratings. Recently, however, the permissions are no longer saved and I have to reassign them almost every session.


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Jenny from Juliababyjen's Reading Room and Dana from Dana Square are hosting a Read-a-thon from December 9th - 22nd called End of the Year 2013 #ReadingCram.
Day 7 Progress:
Total books read so far: 7 (and one novella)
Total pages read so far: 2176 (+40 minutes of an audiobook)
Challenge #7
Dream CastFor today's challenge, we're supposed to come up with a dream cast for one of our favorite books we read in 2013. I'm never any good at these, but I'm going to give it a go anyway. I chose My Life Next Door because I loved it and it's relatively fresh in my mind. So, here goes -
Samantha - Dakota FanningI think the actress that plays Samantha needs to be sweet and lovely and young. I love Dakota Fanning for this role!
Jase - Logan Lerman
Like Samantha, I picture Jase as sweet. young and attractive. Logan Lerman from Percy Jackson seemed to fit the bill.
Tim - Mark Saling
I actually pictured Tim to be blonde, but I couldn't find a blonde actor who I thought worked for the part. Tim needs to be cute and cool, but kind of a messed-up guy - Mark Saling works for that!
I have no idea who this kid is, but he's really adorable and George has to be an adorable kid!

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Kevin Tersavige, founder of the CPPRA and Kristeen Reynolds, a psychic with the organization, visited the home to discuss, along with Sauers, its rich history of paranormal activity.
The loud crashing noise, which could not be explained, sparked the curiosity of those gathered.
Tersavige said his group, which conducts an average of 50 studies a year on potentially haunted locations, has held multiple studies at the Packwood House. He said the museum is the top spot in the Susquehanna Valley for documented cases of paranormal activity.
As the three walked through the home recently, Sauers snapped multiple photos of empty rooms. In some of those photos, small round balls of light, which the three described as orbs, appeared that were not visible to the naked eye.
"I've been here almost five years," Sauers said. "I always suspected the house was haunted. You felt like someone was looking at you."
He said the museum, located on the corner of Market and Water streets in Lewisburg, has a rich history, dating back to the 1790s when a 35-by-35-foot log cabin was built on the property. In the late 1830s, the building was expanded and became the American House Hotel.
A third story was added to the building in 1868. George Kelly later purchased the building and converted it into apartments. George's daughter, Edith, and her husband, John Fetherston, were the last to own the home.
John died in 1962, while Edith died in 1972. In accordance with their wills, a trust was established and the museum opened to the public in 1976.
According to Sauers, several people may have died in the home. He said documents left behind by Edith indicated she believed there was a murder on the third floor of the home at some point in its history.
"(Edith) said there are dark stains on the floor that she takes as blood stains," Sauers said.
Edith also passed away in the home, in a room which is currently used as a library. As Sauers, Tersavige and Reynolds walked through the museum, Reynolds expressed the unique sense she got as she walked into the room where Edith had died.
"I'm relaxed in this room. I don't feel there are any spirits," Reynolds said, noting that wasn't the case in the other rooms of the home.
"I'm afraid in every other part of this building," she said "I feel (paranormal activity) all over this building."
When members of the CPPRA first visited the Packwood House, they expected to encounter one entity in particular. However, they quickly found the entity in the home wasn't what they expected.
"The initial thought was Edith Fetherston was the one in the house, and she may be," Tersavige said. "Through our investigations, we found it's John Fetherston here… There are multiple entities here."
He said the most powerful evidence of John's presence came in a photo that was taken inside the museum during a preliminary visit. The photo was taken as Sauers and Tersavige were standing next to a mirror in the room that had been John's bedroom.
"In the photo, you see Rick, you see me and you see a third man," Tersavige said.
That third man was an image in the mirror which strongly resembled John. In addition, Tersavige said psychic investigators have detected John's presence. They've also detected a French soldier, an African-American woman and a young girl named Maria, who had worked at the American House Hotel.
Throughout their visit to the museum, Tersavige and Reynolds kept reflecting on the mysterious crashing noise which was heard from the entryway.
As the CPPRA conducts investigations at various locations, Tersavige said the investigators look for any plausible explanation for strange activity.
"We try to repeat some of the (mysterious) activity to see if it could be natural," Tersavige said. "We have a few people (in the group) that are general contractors."
He said the contractors are excellent at picking up things with a building that are natural structural occurrences.
"We rule out the normal. What's left is the paranormal," Tersavige said.
Pick up Standard Journal later this week as Tersavige highlights other haunted locations throughout the area and discusses more about what takes place as his team visits a location that is suspected to be haunted.
from 7/29/2009
Psychics Coax Out Spirits in Central Pennsylvania Museum
DailyItem.com - A series of strange events left Packwood House Museum Executive Director Dr. Richard A. Sauers scratching his head. Turns out a specter may have found its way into the museum.
"We've been told for years that the place is probably haunted," Sauers said. "We've had psychics identify themselves after tours and tell us they notice things here and there."
With years of rumors and psychics reporting findings in the museum, Sauers decided to take action. Who did he call? The Central Pennsylvania Paranormal Research Association.
"Every once in a great while I'll feel something brush me, just to let me know they are there," Sauers said. "I decided to find out for myself and called the Central Pennsylvania Paranormal Research Association."
Maria the barmaid
The Packwood Museum originated as a log cabin in 1799. Throughout the 19th century, the cabin continued to grow as owners John and Edith Fetherston continued to add editions.
The continued growth transformed the once-small cabin into a tavern and hotel that acted as a resting place for people traveling and transporting goods along the Susquehanna River.
Upon entering the tavern portion of the museum during a visit, psychics immediately felt someone in the room. Dr. Sauers said one of the psychics, who has the ability to determine the layout of old rooms, identified the presence as an old barmaid who identified herself as Maria. Maria was described as just giving a casual greeting before leaving.
Mirrors aid the spirits
In two separate visits in the spring, the CPPRA stayed from 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. and found a number of specters throughout the museum.
"Mirrors, according to what the psychics told me, tend to attract psychic energy," Dr. Sauers said of the investigation. "Especially if the mirrors are facing one another. The psychics said it acts as a conduit to bring in spirits. There are a couple rooms with a lot of concentrated psychic energy. There are over 90 mirrors on display in the building."
Sauers said Edith Fetherston was an avid mirror collector. He said John Fetherston showed himself during the first visit of the CPPRA, with the aid of mirrors.
Sauers and a researcher were standing in the room where John's portait hangs, he said. Mirrors on either side of the room face each other and were reflecting the image of Sauers and the researcher.
Sauers said his reflection disappeared, and the spirit of John Fetherston appeared standing next to them.
Along with the healthy supply of mirrors, there are many instances of mirrors reflecting off of one another. The CPPRA informed Dr. Sauers this is an especially tempting for the spirits because it acts as a gateway for them to enter our world.
"We have one room where there are three sets of opposing mirrors," Dr. Sauers said. "They found stuff up there and in a storage room where there are two opposing mirrors."
For anyone worried about a possible encounter, the psychics have reassured Dr. Sauers that the spirits are friendly.
"According to the psychics they are all friendly ghosts," Dr. Sauers said. "I've worked in haunted places before."
Dr. Sauers experience with the paranormal happened when he worked in Wisconsin at another historical site.
"I've literally walked into a ghost one day in a hallway basement in Wisconsin," Dr. Sauers said. "I was going down to check on some supplies we had stored. I walked into an ice-cold pocket of air that was probably five to six inches thick."
Along with being startled and having the hair on his neck stand up, Dr. Sauers spoke out to the spirit and said, " 'The next time you see me coming, could you stay out of the way?' When I came back five minutes later, it was gone."
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"It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday." – Boyz to Men
Archive for January, 2017
Quote of the WeekPosted: January 31, 2017 in Quotes
Tags: Boyz to Men, quotations, Quotes
Instagram CatnipPosted: January 26, 2017 in Fun with words, Words and communications
Tags: Amy Plitt, Architectural Digest, Ellen Gilbert, Ground Zero, Instagram, Joan Gonchar, NY/NJ Path train, nycurbed.com, Oculus, Santiago Calarava, St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, Urban Agenda Magazine
The winter 2016 issue of Urban Agenda Magazine had a very interesting article about the then newly completed "Oculus" at Ground Zero. Built in stages, it is NYC's newest transportation hub, a fact you can really miss if you walk its many confusing passageways. Yes they all lead to the many subway connections (sorry no free transfers) and the NY/NJ Path train but it lacks any of the feel of a train station or airport. White and sterile, when I first visited it I nick named it an inverted whale skeleton. Well the article is this magazine "Inspiration In the Big Apple" goes further with colorful and descriptive phrasing.
The article's author, Ellen Gilbert gives a good, many paragraph background on the architect Santiago Calarava, but it's the quotes that produce the phrases that tickled my writer's funny bone.
Here are some outtakes:
Amy Plitt, writer for nycurbed.com, says "sure to be Instagram catnip" because of its photogenic unique design.
Joan Gonchar, writer for Architectural Digest,is quoted as saying, "this subterranean drama doesn't translate into coherence above ground." And goes on to state, "the building which has been likened to everything from a stegosaurus to a porcupine to a Thanksgiving turkey carcass, is ill at ease on its site."
Calavera is also the architect for the replacement at Ground Zero of the historic St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church that was destroyed on 9/11. Archbishop Demetrios, the primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in America, said in this article that he hoped the nondenominational bereavement center in the church would "project something that will open a window to eternity."
Whether "catnip" or a "window to eternity", it's always refreshing to read an article that has fun with words.
Quote of the WeekPosted: January 24, 2017 in Quotes
Tags: Inaugural address, President Donald J Trump, quotations, Quotes
"If you open your heart to patriotism then there is no room for prejudice" – President Donald J Trump, Inaugural address
Communications: From Face-to-Face to FacelessPosted: January 19, 2017 in Words and communications, Writing advice
Tags: baby boomers, Donald J Trump, Facebook, meetings, President of the United States, President-elect Trump, telephone, tweeting, Tweets, Twitter, verbal communications
Until the advent of the telephone, communication was face-to-face (yes, there were letters, telegraph, smoke signals, drums, but here we are covering daily communications between regular people). It was one human being using spoken words to be received by another human's ears. The important matters of businesses, town councils, and governments took place in meetings, where one not only received information but could also see the emotional state of the person speaking. The telephone changed that somewhat especially when the speakerphone (and later the video camera) was invented. However, people still gathered together in real time and space to discuss matters of importance. Then came text messaging and the internet.
Yes, live meetings became the bane of existence for business people. These meetings got the reputation of time wasters, where you were trapped in a room accomplishing little after spending a good chunk of time getting there. So with the creation of electronic devices accessed through high-speed connections, one can be anywhere on the planet and still participate. Cool, right? That's if there is a video feed to the equation. Most of the time, people just "text" or "post". So what you get, in essence, is an electronic letter to read which can be misinterpreted in its meaning. Sorry, but "e-moticons" do not count. As humans we need face-to-face communication not only to discern the speaker's emotional state but also to be able to immediately ask a question to clarify something confusing.
A prime example of how this faceless communication not occurring in real time can go wrong, was recently when President-elect Trump sent his infamous tweet with the word "Nazi" in it. He knew why he was using that to backup a point of his but did anyone other than historians and Baby Boomers get what he was referring to? No. And since tweeting isn't "real time" even if someone responded to his tweet asking for clarification, he didn't have the time to send out another tweet to do so. That hardly happens in real time meetings and we saw this during the press conference when a reporter brought it up and Trump went on to explain himself. Bingo, the entire watching universe understood.
I'm not saying that tweeting or texting should be avoided. We can't go back to the days before these devices and programs were available. However, like we all learned with the e-mail universe, once you hit the send button it's out there for better or worse. With faceless communications, we all need to try very hard not to say things in a confusing manner or make references that only a certain portion of the population gets (hmm, like telling an in joke that can backfire on you when most of the listeners don't get it!) It's also great that now our chief executive can communicate instantly with the masses. Very few previous Presidents had either the technology or the skill to use it as he does.
Meetings have become the dinosaur of the 21st century and Twitter and Facebook have taken its place. It doesn't matter if you are the President of the United States, or a 12 year old communicating with her best friend, what you say can become a disastrous opportunity to be misunderstood. Keep the message simple, avoid jargon or historical/political references, and you should be on safer ground as a 21st century communicator.
Think Before You SpeakPosted: January 13, 2017 in Words and communications
Tags: CNN, Donald J Trump, Fake News, Gospel of St. Mark, gossip, Jesus, leper, New Testament, President Elect
On Jan 11 we saw on a national scale how untrue words, i.e. "Fake News" can hurt. No, president-elect Trump didn't reveal whether the story about him hurt him psychologically, but it did create a hostile attitude towards CNN, took time away from the important items of the press conference, and kept people still wondering about the truth.
We are all guilty of spreading "Fake News" in the form of gossip. And sometimes even "good news" or honest words, when revealed at the wrong time, can have a detrimental affect on the listener.
Yesterday morning I found it ironic that a story from the Gospel of St. Mark (Mark 1:40-45) dealt with this very topic. In the Catholic Church's Mass, readings go in a 3 year cycle and today's was selected long before the Trump incident occurred. In this reading we have Jesus, teacher and healer, healing a leper and asking him to tell no one about how he was cured. The leper, however, delighted that he has been cured tells EVERYONE he meets! Yes, good news but its affect on Jesus' ministry is that he now is mobbed everywhere he goes by people who want to be cured. Our priest used this as a teaching point in his homily: Whether good or fake news, our responsibility in using our gift of language is to take care in what we say and when we say it.
Words matter not only in their content but also in their timing and to whom we speak them.
Quote of the WeekPosted: January 9, 2017 in Quotes
Tags: Carolyn L. E. Benesh, Luis Adamic, Ornament magazine, Robert K. Liu
As we start this new year, which has already been stained by violence across the globe, I would like to share with you this quote from the editors of Ornament magazine:
"We struggle with the terrible flaws that mark us as human, those imperfections that lead us to take destructive actions that could quench all life. Indeed, it was a rueful acknowledgment of the perils and glories of existence when Yugoslavian author Luis Adamic (1898 – 1951) wrote 'My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.'
"The time is past when we can stand alone with our own close–knit communities and view the rest of the world as strangers, foreigners, others. The time is past when the world can be viewed as endlessly bountiful. This Earth is our only true treasure not the gold that lines our pocket. We are nature and we are part of an extraordinary universe. If there is transcendence to living it is our commonality with everything, ironic as that may be to some." – Carolyn L. E. Benesh, Robert K. Liu, Postscript, Ornament, Volume 39 NO. 3


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Obama is wrong about the 'sue the Saudis' bill
"President Obama needs to put 9/11 families first by signing this law. If he doesn't, I'll join my colleagues on both sides of the aisle in Congress in pushing to override his veto. I refuse to let foreign threats stand in the way of justice for American victims of terror."
-Rep. Dan Donovan (NY-11)
If you don't know why 9/11 is covered up to this day it's really not as incomprehensible as our schizophrenic media would have you believe. They wanted the attacks to succeed, and so US personnel are implicated, including the CIA. That means perpetual smokescreen, perpetual lying and political pressure to maintain the cover-up.


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PHILADELPHIA — Joe Biden used the first major rally of his 2020 presidential campaign to issue a call for unity — while also arguing he understands better than any other Democratic candidate the entrenched Republican opposition the party's nominee will face.
"Let's stop fighting and start fixing. And we can only do it together," Biden told a crowd of thousands in a park near the Philadelphia Museum of Art steps made famous by the "Rocky" movies.
His speech was intended to sell a message of overcoming partisan rancor. But Biden also forcefully responded to progressives who have cast his approach as naïve. And he attacked President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans in personal terms.
Touting his time as former President Barack Obama's vice president, Biden argued that he would be capable of actually getting things done while working with many of the same congressional Republicans that he watched for eight years attempt to thwart all of the Obama administration's legislative aims.
He recalled muscling toward the passage of the Affordable Care Act "without a single Republican vote." He pointed to the 2009 stimulus package, which won passage after Biden convinced three Republican senators to back it.
"I know how to get things done, folks," Biden said. "I know how to go toe-to-toe with the GOP. But it doesn't have to be and it can't be that way on every issue."
Biden entered the Democratic race last month and instantly became a stronger-than-expected frontrunner, leading in polls nationally and in the early-voting primary states.
He has so far campaigned on calls for a return to normalcy after a Trump presidency he has said will be viewed merely as an "aberration" if it is limited to a single four-year term.
"Some say Democrats don't want to hear about unity. That they are angry — and the angrier you are, the better. That's what they are saying you have to do to win the Democratic nomination," Biden said Saturday. "Well, I don't believe it. I believe Democrats want to unify this nation."
Though every candidate has called for unity, other Democrats — particularly Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — have also focused on systemic problems that existed before Trump took office.
"I believe we must acknowledge that the word 'unity' has often been used to shut people up or to preserve the status quo," California Sen. Kamala Harris said in her campaign kickoff speech in Oakland.
And on Thursday in Chicago, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg said, "Any suggestion that our party's message ought to be to promise to return to normal overlooks the extent to which normal hasn't been working for a lot of people.
Despite Biden's calls for unity — and insistence that "working together matters" — Biden attacked Trump, who he said is inspiring tyrants across the globe to stifle dissent, and congressional Republicans on several occasions.
He smacked GOP lawmakers for allowing the Trump administration to reject congressional oversight efforts "without a whimper from the Republicans in Congress who know better. They know better."
He also said Trump is taking credit for a strong economy "that was given to him, just like he inherited everything else in his life."
"And just like everything else he's been given in his life, he's in the process of squandering that, as well," Biden said.
Biden didn't delve deep into policy details during the rally. He backed abortion rights, called for free community college and funding for job-training programs, said he supports a "public option" for health coverage like allowing people to buy into Medicare, and previewed a climate policy speech he is expected to deliver before the end of this month.
But on Saturday, for Biden — who launched his campaign with criticism of Trump's handling of white supremacists and has attempted to bash Trump while winning over some of his voters — policy talk largely served as another entry into an attack on Trump.
"The first and most important plank in my climate proposal," Biden said, "is beat Trump. Beat Trump. Beat Trump."


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Friday, June 19, 2009
no, I will not
No, I will not give you the answer for your school paper. You should probably do some research.
No, I will not critique your resume for you. People charge hundreds of dollars to do that. (Actually, I do sometimes do this for people who tell me an interesting or compelling story. But not as a rule.)
No, I will not promote your company's product or news release. Really?
Stop asking me those things.
I will do the following: tell you what your manager is probably thinking, tell you if your manager sucks, tell you if you sound like you're the one who sucks, tell you how to handle your annoying coworker, tell you whether or not you really want that job, and so forth. That's pretty much all.
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What, you mean you don't have the time or desire to wade through misspellings, typos, cliched metaphors, and inflated job descriptions?
C'mon, it'll be fun! ; )
- June 19, 2009 at 6:54 PM
- DrJohnDrozdal said...
At fairly frequent intervals, I will get calls from people who want my advice about becoming an independent consultant. I always tell each one the same things: Get so clear on what it is you will do as a consultant that you can explain it in less than one minute in a way that everyone can understand; and get clear on what you don't do so you can say, "No" to some requests.
You rock! I wish everyone could be as clear as you are about what you will do and what you will not do. Great example for everyone.
- June 19, 2009 at 10:00 PM
- Suzanne Lucas said...
Heh. Do you also not allow people to "guest blog" for you? I get tons of those requests. "Hi, I'm Samantha from [some lame new HR service]. Can I write a guest blog for you?"
One look at my blog will tell you I don't do guest posts, and I certainly don't do advertised guest posts.
Although, if you wanted to guest blog, I'd let you.
- June 20, 2009 at 1:42 AM
- Deirdre HR Maven said...
You don't think this will stop the inquiries, do you? This is for 'other people' - you know, not the special people who will continue to ask....
- June 20, 2009 at 8:19 AM
- HRD said...
Send them over my way. I'm always happy to help.
It will be a top class product....honest!
They won't ask twice.......
- June 20, 2009 at 8:32 AM
- Office Humorist said...
Will you tell me what my manager is probably thinking about my resume objective and this awesome Product X from Company Y....
I do wish more people would identify their posteriorities (as Drucker called them).
- June 20, 2009 at 2:39 PM
To complement what Deirdre said, I think that people who do those things don't even read blog posts - they just find a blog and ask away. Therefore, I don't think there will be any decrease in the number of ridiculous requests like the ones AAM mentioned.
- June 20, 2009 at 9:49 PM
- Rebecca said...
Posteriorities! I love it! Thanks, Office Humorist, for that Word of the Day.
- June 21, 2009 at 10:27 AM
- Anne Marie said...
In some of what I've read on your blog, you give some very good advice. I believe you lose your credibility when you use words such as "sucks" and "hell" in conversation.
- June 27, 2009 at 1:30 PM
- Ask a Manager said...
Really? I guess I'm not bothered by that.
- June 28, 2009 at 10:29 AM


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Well, the Canadians stole the show tonight in Rochester. Winnipeg Academy of Mixed Martial Arts brought three fighters to Rochester, and all three were victorious in impressive fashion.
The main event went about as expected. Logan Clark beat up on Chris Barden pretty good, and he finished the fight less than two minutes into the first round via TKO.
Here are the quick results for Gladiators. Check back Sunday for plenty more on this event at Olmsted Count Fairgrounds in Rochester. Also make sure to check the photo gallery on Sunday!
Nick Bussell defeated Cody Furlong via TKO in the third round.
Brad Katona defeated Derek Desart via rear-naked choke in the first round.
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Dan Copp defeated Frank DiDominico by KO in the first round.
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Louis Fisette defeated Andy Selvig via triangle choke in the first round.
Jeremy Lafferty defeated Mike Bannister via Americana in the first round.
Mariuscz Ksiazkiewicz defeated Heath Rud via kimura in the second round.
Logan Clark defeated Chris Barden via TKO in the first round (1:30).
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Equipment Stolen from Bastrop State Park By Emily Zendt • Jun 11, 2012 Five storage units containing disaster response equipment at the Bastrop State Park were broken into last week. About $16,000 worth of state equipment including chain saws, power tools and two generators were stolen. Mike Cox with Texas Parks and Wildlife says when funding is available, "the equipment will need to be replaced to maintain the same level of preparedness we had prior to the break-in." Texas Courthouses Among the U.S.' Top 11 Most Endangered Historic Places By Emily Zendt • Jun 6, 2012 Emily Zendt for KUT News Texas courthouses are named on a list of the "11 Most Endangered Historic Places" in the U.S., released by The National Trust for Historic Preservation this morning. Texas has 244 historic courthouses in the state – that's the largest collection of county courthouses in the country. About 63 of them have been fully restored, including central Texas' Williamson and Lee County courthouses, but more than 70 are still in need of serious repairs. Texas courthouses on the whole were first placed on the list in 1998; the following year, the Texas Historic Courthouse Preservation Program was created by Governor George W. Bush. Since its inception, the program has awarded nearly $247 million to 83 counties for the preservation of their courthouses. Is Bastrop State Park 'America's Favorite?' By Emily Zendt • Jun 6, 2012 Photo by Mario Jacinto for KUT News Fire-ravaged Bastrop State Park is in second place in an online competition naming "America's Favorite Park." At stake? First place is a $100,000 grant, second place nets $50,000 and third place gets $25,000. The park was devastated last year by the Labor Day wildfires which burned 96 percent of the historic 6,500 acre park. Texas Parks and Wildlife spokesperson Rob McCorkle says the grant money would allow the park to extend a contract with an American YouthWorks team that's been rebuilding trails and bridges. McCorkle says despite the damage done by the fires, the park is making a comeback. "Everything is pretty much up and running – it's just the landscaping that took such a serious hit from the fires." The park largely reopened in April. Architects, Designers Descend on Lady Bird Lake By Emily Zendt & Wells Dunbar, Texas Standard • Jun 4, 2012 Image courtesy City of Austin The City of Austin wants to know: What do you want our waterfront to look like in 20 years? Starting tonight, planners are facilitating a three-day discussion on the future of Lady Bird Lake's "south shore central" area – Congress Avenue, First Street and eastward, including sites like the Hyatt Regency and Austin American-Statesman building. The talks kicked off this morning with boat tours of the area at stake. Alan Holt, a principal planner with the city, says that this area is lacking in good infrastructure and "like it or not, slated for some big changes because there are a lot of parking lots and development at the end of their shelf life." Crowdsourced Site Encourages Discovery of Historic Austin By Emily Zendt • Jun 4, 2012 Photo by Filipa Rodriguez for KUT News A recently-launched website allows anyone to add information about historic Austin landmarks to an online map, augmented with historical data, architectural descriptions and more. The Austin Historical Survey Wiki works like a Wikipedia page. Anyone can sign up and add information to the site, which is then filtered by a moderator. But here, users add pin points to a map, creating a compilation of information, pictures and data about Austin's historic sites from professional and architectural historians. Survey Says Austin Tops for Small Business By Emily Zendt • May 31, 2012 Photo by Caleb Bryant Miller for KUT News Austin scored an A-plus in a survey of small business friendliness. The capitol city ranks as the nation's fourth friendliest city to small business, according to a survey by Thumbtack.com and the entrepreneurship-focused Kauffman Foundation. The nationwide survey asked 6,000 of the small business owners registered with Thumbtack – a service which aggregates bids for hiring local help – questions about small business friendliness and finance in their city. What a Feeling: 'Flash' Dance Your Way to Emergency Preparedness By Emily Zendt • May 30, 2012 Image courtesy youtube.com/user/austintexasgov Catastrophic floods. Bio-terrorism. Nuclear attacks. Can a flash mob and a funky beat help people prepare for such emergencies? The City of Austin's Homeland Security and Emergency Management office thinks it might be weird enough to work. Today, HSEM is gathering a flash mob outside of City Hall to spread its message of preparedness. The city partnered with Dance Austin Studio to design a dance accompanying a song with instructions for making a plan. (Yes, such a thing exists.) Council Wraps Up Work on Austin Energy Rates By Emily Zendt & Andy Uhler • May 30, 2012 Paulo Martins for KUT News Yesterday, the Austin City Council unanimously came out in favor of what is called a moderate plan for increasing Austin Energy electric rates – and against a potential discount to customers outside the city limits. The proposal would see an overall increase of seven percent, spaced over five years – an effort to "spread the pain" of rising rates, as council member Bill Spelman put it. "At this point it feels like it's a little bit more an art than a science," council member Laura Morrison said before council voted to adopt the moderate plan over other proposals. "And since we don't have any one single, definitive reason to go in another direction. There's so many different things that we're trying to juggle." What's Open, What's Closed on Memorial Day By Emily Zendt • May 28, 2012 Photos courtesy austintexas.gov Many people are enjoying a three-day weekend this Memorial Day. The City of Austin offices are closed, although city pools and golf courses are operating on a regular schedule today. The Austin Animal Center is open today from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. It's holding an adoption special: $35 for all pets one year and older, over half-off its normal $75 fee. Pets five years and older are free. All pets are spayed/neutered, vaccinated and microchipped. Some 400 kittens are currently at the shelter, a "record number" according to Animal Services Foster Coordinator Sarah Hammond. "The mild winter and the abundance of rain have made for an explosive kitten season," Hammond says, exasperating the crowding at the animal center. The Austin Animal Center is located at 7201 Levander Loop. Memorial Day Weekend Street Closures By Emily Zendt & Sam J. Ellison • May 26, 2012 Image via austintexas.gov It wouldn't be a major weekend in Austin without some downtown street closures. Don't worry, as KUT News has everything you need to know to navigate Austin this Memorial Day weekend. Sunday: As a precursor to Memorial Day's Capital of Texas Triathlon, organizers are hosting a Doggie Du Dash and Kids K fun run – meaning the following streets will be closed: Safety Tips and Warnings this Memorial Day Weekend By Emily Zendt & Sam J. Ellison • May 25, 2012 Photo by KUT News Austinites will flock to the city's numerous parks and waterways this weekend. We've put together a guide for what you need to know about rules and safety. Watercraft Ban: Put Away that Motorized Surfboard! If you're planning to celebrate the long Memorial Day weekend on Lady Bird Lake, you'll need to leave your motorized surfboard at home. The Austin Police Department will be enforcing an annual ban on motorized personal watercraft – like jet skis – from sunset on Friday until sunrise on Tuesday. City Council Update: Hurry Up and Wait By Emily Zendt & Wells Dunbar, Texas Standard • May 24, 2012 Image courtesy / City of Austin It's slow-going at City Hall as the Austin City Council trudges through its agenda. A lengthy executive session has kept the council off the dais since this afternoon. And some marquee items have been postponed until this evening: The sale and redevelopment of the former Green Water Treatment Plant site downtown (Items 12 and 13) won't be heard until at least 6:30 p.m. And Item 22, which would allow Austin Pets Alive to occupy the entire Town Lake Animal Center won't be heard until at least 6 p.m. Similarly, a public hearing on new regulations for short-term rentals by homeowners (Item 140) has been postponed to June 7. Planning Commission Proposes New Regulations for Short-Term Rentals By Emily Zendt • May 23, 2012 Filipa Rodrigues/KUT News At a marathon meeting that stretched early into Wednesday morning, Austin's Planning Commission recommended new regulations for short-term rentals – properties that homeowners offer for rent on sites like HomeAway and VRBO.com. Short-term rentals are increasingly popular over events like South by Southwest and the Austin City Limits Music Festival, with Austin visitors choosing to rent area homes instead of staying in hotels. But the growth in short-term rentals hasn't been applauded by all. Those pushing to regulate short-term rentals argue they can be detrimental to neighborhoods, and have considered regulating them as commercial rather than residential properties. Homeowners that rent out their homes and companies that depend on their business – like Austin-based HomeAway – argue too much regulation will drive the market underground, giving aggrieved neighbors even less options for dealing with bad actors. City Council Considers Urban Rail (and How to Fund It) Tuesday By Daniel Martens & Emily Zendt • May 21, 2012 Photo by Caleb Bryant Miller for KUT News Austin's urban rail plans will take a major step tomorrow when a preliminary funding and phasing plan will be outlined during an Austin City Council work session. The Austin Transportation Department sent out a memo last Thursday outlining initial phases of investment for urban rail. The first proposed phase would serve Downtown, the Capitol Complex, UT, Hancock Center and Mueller. Phase Two would cross the river and head down Riverside Drive to Pleasant Valley. 'Click It or Ticket' Starts Today By Emily Zendt & Sam J. Ellison • May 21, 2012 Photo by By Daniel Reese for KUT News Today marks the beginning of another "Click it or Ticket" campaign, a two-week undertaking by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to enforce seat belt usage. In Texas and across the country, law enforcement will be on the lookout for drivers and passengers shirking seatbelt laws, or whose children are improperly restrained. (Children under eight years must be in a child safety seat, unless they are taller than 4'9".) Citations run up to $250. The NHTSA writes on its website that in the annual "Click It or Ticket" initiative, over three million tickets have been written over the last five years – a ticket every other second. Photos: Inside the Waller Creek Tunnel By Wells Dunbar, Texas Standard & Emily Zendt • May 21, 2012 Photo by Jeff Heimsath for KUT News On Saturday, members of the media were invited to check progress on the Waller Creek tunnel, currently being burrowed some 70 feet underground. When finished, the tunnel will stretch just over a mile from Waterloo Park to an outlet at Lady Bird Lake. The tunnel will create a steady flow for Waller Creek, and inlets along the creek will prevent water from overflowing, pulling 1 million square feet of developable land out of the 100-year floodplain downtown. A design competition plotting the future of the Waller Creek area is unfolding alongside the tunnel excavation. A Couple Winners (But a Bunch More Losers) in the Austin Bond Proposal By Emily Zendt & Wells Dunbar, Texas Standard • May 17, 2012 Photo by KUT News Yesterday, KUT News took a look at what made the cut in the city's latest proposal for a bond spending package. Today, we look at what took the biggest hits, and the few areas that saw a boost in funding. What's In Austin's $575 Million Bond Recommendation? By Emily Zendt & Wells Dunbar, Texas Standard • May 16, 2012 Here's a financial crash diet: going from $1.5 billion to $575 million. And then, down to $400 million. Those are some of the moves Austin's Bond Election Advisory Task Force has recently made. A citizen group appointed by the Austin City Council, the group was tasked with paring down an initial $1.5 billion "needs assessment" from the city's various departments into something it could put to voters this November. At a meeting Monday, the task force recommended what it feels is a balanced bond package. But because a separate vote on Urban Rail funding might also make it to the ballot – the Transportation department is set to make a recommendation for rail investment this Tuesday, May 29 – the task force is also compiling a smaller, roughly $400 million package to recommend, should rail make it to the voters.


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Commentary: More than Trial and Error
Veteran vaccine developer Stanley Plotkin reminds researchers that not all vaccines were developed without any notion of how they worked
By Stanley Plotkin
"Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future."
—T.S. Eliot
As new strategies for vaccine development proliferate, mainly based on genetic engineering, and as systems biology comes into its own, it has become cliché to say that prior vaccines were developed empirically, without any idea of the mechanisms leading to effective immunogens or the ways to produce them. Perhaps a member of the older generation may be forgiven for pointing out that this is a canard with respect to any vaccine developed since the mid-20th century, and is insulting to a large group of living and dead researchers.
It is true that Jenner had no clear idea of how vaccination protects when he used vaccinia virus to prevent smallpox. Rather, he developed this approach based on the observation that milkmaids were protected against the disease by prior exposure to cowpox, and on the analogy of vaccination to variolation, the centuries-old practice of minimizing the severity of a later smallpox infection by deliberate infection with dried smallpox scabs in order to provide immunity during subsequent exposure to natural smallpox. It is also true that Pasteur's discovery of attenuation of the chicken cholera bacillus some 80 years later was serendipitous.
Nevertheless, Pasteur applied attenuation techniques to other organisms including the anthrax bacillus, and, after his famous experiment at Pouilly-le-Fort showed protection by the anthrax vaccine, he stated that it was now possible to generalize his methods and to make vaccines at will. Moreover, by the end of the 19th century, Salmon and Smith in the US and Roux and Chamberland in France developed methods to kill bacteria with the expressed purpose of rendering them harmless while guarding their immunogenicity. "Immunity," they wrote, "is the result of the exposure of...the animal body to the chemical products of the growth of specific microbes which constitute the virus of contagious fevers."(1)
The discovery of diphtheria and tetanus toxins by Behring and Kitasato, also at the end of the 19th century, confirmed that substances secreted by bacteria could cause disease. In addition, they demonstrated that injection of those substances elicited neutralizing factors in blood. Early in the 20th century, Paul Ehrlich's idea of antibodies as substances generated by the host in response to foreign antigens became accepted, and when Ramon inactivated diphtheria and tetanus toxins by formol to produce toxoids, his purpose was to induce antibodies to the toxins without causing adverse reactions.
During the first half of the 20th century, two major vaccines were developed, BCG [Bacillus Calmette-Guérin] and yellow fever. In both cases, the idea was that passage of a pathogen in bacteriological media or in an unnatural host would weaken its virulence for the natural host, as had been demonstrated by Pasteur for rabies years before. Success was achieved by Calmette and Guérin, who developed the BCG vaccine, and by Max Theiler, who developed the yellow fever vaccine, although it should be noted that Theiler had several competitors who were also passaging yellow fever virus in animals. All were pursuing the idea that selection by passage in a foreign host or in vitro would favor attenuation. Although they and subsequent researchers knew nothing of genetic engineering, they did know that their methods were selecting for attenuated variants.
The discovery that viruses could be grown in cell culture allowed expanding the method of attenuation by serial passage in cell culture. Of the two polio vaccines that launched the mid-20th century explosion of vaccines, the oral vaccines of Koprowski and Sabin followed precisely that idea. They selected populations of poliovirus cloned by plaquing in cell culture and tested each one for monkey neurovirulence. Similarly, measles and mumps vaccines were created by passage in cell culture, with attenuation measured in humans. During the fiercely competitive activity to develop avirulent strains of polio, it was found that passage at suboptimal growth temperatures allowed more rapid attenuation, a principle followed in the development of rubella vaccine. Also, varicella vaccine could be created because passage in guinea pig instead of human cells exerted a profound selection for attenuation.
Meanwhile, Salk's inactivated polio vaccine followed directly his work on inactivated influenza vaccine, the goal of both being to produce antibodies. In fact, the success of the polio vaccine was foretold by the prior demonstration that polio could be prevented by serum antibodies contained in pooled gamma globulin.
Development of the vaccines that have followed was also predominantly guided by the principle that the induction of antibodies either in the serum or on the mucosa is the way to prevent infection, as repeatedly demonstrated by prior experimentation. This principle extends to the vaccines recently produced by genetic engineering: hepatitis B and human papillomavirus. Rotavirus vaccines were developed by serial cell culture passage or by reassortment of RNA segments of the viral genome to induce limited replication in the intestine with the aim of inducing mucosal antibody and local cellular responses similar to those after natural infection. In contrast, the zoster vaccine induces T-cell responses that prevent the reactivation of varicella virus latent in neurons, following another established principle that once infection takes place, T-cell responses control replication.
My desire here is not to deny the hope we all have that future vaccine development will be informed by new strategies, including the identification by systems biology of genes whose products predict protection. However, hope for the future does not require denigration of the past. The main difficulty we face in the case of vaccination against HIV is our inability to identify naturally protective immune responses, particularly on the mucosa. However, studies in non-human primates and the recent moderately successful RV144 trial suggest that as in other diseases, antibody of the right specificity and functionality prevents infection, whereas cellular immunity controls replication.(2)
The writer, an emeritus professor of the University of Pennsylvania and the Wistar Institute, developed the rubella vaccine that is used throughout the world, is co-developer of the pentavalent rotavirus vaccine, and has worked extensively on the development and application of other vaccines including anthrax, oral polio, rabies, varicella, and cytomegalovirus. He is a consultant to all major vaccine manufacturers.
1. Salmon DE, Smith T. On a new method of producing immunity from contagious diseases. Amer. Vet. Rev. 10: 63-67, 1886
2. Plotkin SA. Correlates of protection induced by vaccination. Clin. Vaccine Immunol. 17: 1055-65, 2010.


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(13 tents) Moremi Safaris, PO Box 2757, Cramerview 2060, South Africa; tel: (2711) 465 3842/3; fax: (2711) 465 3779; email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Less than a kilometre northeast of Camp Moremi, Xakanaxa has long been run by Bob and Flo Flaxman. It's a classic old camp, and one of the few independents in northern Botswana, (ie: camps that aren't run by a large company as part of a group). In the last few years their lounge/dining room area and reception had a major fire, but the camp's been rebuilt with energy and has bounced back.
Twelve of the tents here are traditional Meru-style tents which all stand on wooden decks, with verandas which overlook the lagoon. Inside these you'll find solid wooden twin beds and, at the back of the tent, a hot shower, handbasin and flush toilet. The whole of the tent, and the toilet and shower behind, is covered by a large canvas roof on to which, when I last visited, they were experimenting with innovative ways of spraying water, to cool the air inside. An unusual thirteenth chalet has eight beds (complete with its own lounge, dining room and pool) which is sometimes used by families or small groups.
Xakanaka's raised, thatched dining area overlooks the lagoon. It's memorable for a long table, made from reclaimed old railway sleepers, on which dinners are served, lit by candlelight.
There's a swimming pool here, and the whole camp is surrounded by a high, 3-strand electric fence. This is designed purely to keep elephants out of the camp, which can be destructive to the trees as well as dangerous. Xakanaxa is better than most camps in Botswana at catering for families and children.
Activities from here are 4WD game drives and boat trips onto the lagoon – though if you're combining this with a trip to Camp Okavango, then you'll stick mainly to game drives here.
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Pope Francis will be welcomed to the Holy Land by Israel on May 25, 2014. His visit will, no doubt, be touted by the press as a renewed call for peace and reconciliation among the diverse and divided population who call this place home. His visit brings to mind the long and turbulent history of Christianity's connection to Israel. The Pope is supposedly bringing with him a message of unity and peace however it is not for everyone. Reports state that he is planning to meet with the Mufti of Jerusalem on Israel's holiest site, the Temple Mount. What a slap in the face to Israel. Clearly the Pope seems to be aligning himself with the Palestinians.
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Christine Hart, Clemson University
On a walk along the beach, have you ever noticed the garden growing at the water's edge? During low tide patches of green and gold speckle the sand, growing what researchers have called a "Secret Garden."
The "Secret Garden" is made up of a variety of microorganisms like cyanobacteria, flagellates, and diatoms. These small, sand-dwelling organisms are collectively known as benthic microalgae (BMA). BMA are responsible for 50% of primary production in estuary systems through photosynthesis and an extracellular polymeric secretion. Though small, these photosynthetic powerhouses form the basis of ocean food webs. BMA are also important indicators of ecosystem health. Scientists have documented the response of BMA to a variety of environmental conditions. As humans change natural estuary conditions, BMA will serve as a bioindicator for changes in ecosystem health.
The visible patches of green and gold at low tide indicate an increasing density—or biomass—of BMA. Currently, researchers do not know the mechanism for the visible change in BMA biomass. Our study will focus on two possible mechanisms of biomass change. One mechanism may be the vertical migration of BMA to the top of the sand. The increase in biomass could also result from growth among BMA species due to sunlight exposure.
In addition to the unknown mechanism, the particular BMA species associated with the green and gold sheen have not been well studied. Like plants in a garden, BMA species are diverse and serve their own roles in maintaining a healthy environment. To better use BMA as a bioindicator, we will characterize the type of BMA contributing to the visible biomass changes.
Our study will focus on the mechanism of changes in biomass during low tide, while also identifying changes in the presence of BMA species. The results from the study will give us a greater understanding of the BMA that are essential to estuary systems. This information will establish a basis of BMA dynamics that can be used as an indicator of the health of estuaries.
Thank you to my mentor, Dr. Craig Plante, and my co-advisor, Kristina Hill-Spanik, for their support and guidance. This project is funded through the National Science Foundation, and supported by The College of Charleston's Grice Marine Laboratory.
Literature Cited
Lobo, E. A., Heinrich, C. G., Schuch, M., Wetzel, C. E., & Ector, L. (n.d.). Diatoms as Bioindicators in Rivers. In River Algae (pp. 245-271). Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-31984-.
MacIntyre, H.L., R.J. Geider, and D.C. Miller. 1996. Microphytobenthos: the ecological role of the "Secret Garden" of unvegetated, shallow-water marine habitats. I. Distribution, abundance and primary production. Estuaries 19: 186-201.
Plante, C.J., E. Frank, and P. Roth. 2011. Interacting effects of deposit feeding and tidal resuspension on benthic microalgal community structure and spatial patterns. Marine Ecology Progress Series 440: 53-65.
Rivera-Garcia, L.G., Hill-Spanik, K.M., Berthrong, S.T., and Plante, C. J. Tidal Stage Changes in Structure and Diversity of Intertidal Benthic Diatom Assemblages: A Case Study from Two Contrasting Charleston Harbor Flats. Estuaries and Coasts. In Review.
Underwood, G.J.C., and J. Kromkamp. 1999. Primary production by phytoplankton and microphytobenthos in estuaries. Advances in Ecological Research 29: 93-153.


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Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud,
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.
All men make faults, and even I in this,
Authórizing thy trespass with compare,
Myself corrupting, salving thy amiss,
Excusing thy sins more than thy sins are:
For to thy sensual fault I bring in sense -
Thy adverse party is thy advocate -
And 'gainst myself in a lawful plea commence.
Such civil war is in my love and hate,
That I an áccessory needs must be
To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me.
Considering the breadth of topics and poets that this blog has covered, it is somewhat surprising that I've only engaged with Shakespeare three times, one of which did not even provide any sort of analysis. Shakespeare is one of the great sonnet writers in the English language, and it's not hard to understand why. Even so long after their writing, they can speak to our hearts directly, becoming immediately modern and relevant. I firmly believe that his writings will never go to the wayside.
The forgiveness of love, even when it is self-damaging, is the central theme and source of the narrator's pain in this sonnet. The narrator's love, be it romantic or otherwise, clearly has some flaws. That's okay. The first four lines establish that all things, even beautiful things, have their (often painful) flaws. Roses have thorns, fountains get muddy, the sun and moon are hidden from sight, flowers get dead spots. The narrator admits as much of himself. "All men make faults, and even I in this."
In this refers to the narrator's habit of enabling his love's faults. "Authorizing thy tresspass" is the way he puts it. He corrupts his love, and encourages bad behavior, instead of "salving" (healing). He over-excuses the faults of the other. Even when he is the one harmed, he advocates for his love. "For to the adverse party is thy advocate." The narrator's "civil war" is the way he enables this behavior from his love, gets hurt, and does it again regardless out of love. He is the accessory to that which "sourly robs from me."
To act out of love in such a self-destructive way, knowing full well that you are causing your own woes, but being unable to do otherwise. That's as relevant today as it has ever been. So often people are attracted to those who are bad for them, and they know it, but they persist anyways. This poem will never stop being relevant, and this internal struggle will always play out. It's somehow comforting to know that people who lived in such an almost unimaginably different past than us had such similar struggles in their daily lives.


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Pork chops really soak up the flavour of wine. These are first coated in flour and garlic salt, browned then baked.
I was worried after reading the reviews that it would come out dry so I added a little bit of chicken broth to the chops before I put them in the oven. And after adding marsala wine and finishing I made a gravy with the sauce. It came out good. I will be making it again - 11 Feb 2007 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)
I used thin pork chops with bones and made the recipe in an electric skillet instead of the oven. I browned the chops at 450 degrees in butter & olive oil (I believe butter gives a better flavor to the sauce than plain olive oil). I only cooked them for another 15 minutes after they were browned and I lowered the temperature to 250 degrees. I served them with garlic mashed potatos. My family absolutely loved them! - 22 Jul 2006 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)
I agree with the first reviewer! This did not work AT ALL. The meat ended up like overcooked stew meat - it was stringy and chewy. With so many pork recipes on this site I suggest you just pass this one up. - 30 Jan 2006 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)


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Frost is a sim wide Winter Fashion Fair. All designers will be creating a NEW and exclusive item. This item will be for sale 50% below the regular retail price. The item can be sold in your shop after the event full price.
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Course Description: This 4-day Business Analyst training course will give you hands-on experience with the latest proven techniques for identifying a project's scope, developing and discovering requirements and uses cases, and documenting them expertly. Lively lectures combined with insightful demonstrations and realistic practice exercises will provide you with the competence and confidence to improve project outcomes through better requirements elicitation and use case development. You'll gain a thorough understanding of the challenges faced in defining correct requirements, practical approaches for eliciting and documenting requirements, and strategies for managing requirements throughout the project life cycle. If you play a role in defining project scope, capturing requirements, or managing project scope, you can't afford to miss this course! Day 1 1. Introduction 2. The BA Profession 3. The Business Case for Requirements Engineering 4. Foundations of Requirements Engineering Day 2 1. Project Initiation 2. Eliciting High-level and Mid-level Requirements 3. Scope Modeling Day 3 1. Eliciting Detailed Requirements 2. Documenting Requirements with Use Cases 3. Improving Use Case Quality 4. Improving Requirements Quality Day 4 1. Creating the Solution Requirements Documentation 2. Requirements Communication and Management 3. Review The Business Analysis Profession ● IIBA® and the BABOK® ● What is Business Analysis ● Business and Solution Domains—how they relat ● Key roles in requirements developmen ● The competencies of the Business Analys ● Distinguishing novice and expert Business Analyst ● Effective communication ● Six important BA skill ● Practice session The Business Case for Good Requirement ● What is a good requirement? ● Requirements attributes—who needs them? ● Key practices that promote excellent requirements ● The cost of requirements errors ● Requirements engineering overview ● Practice sessions Foundations of Requirements Development ● Key terms in requirements development ● A strategy for analyzing systems ● Common requirement-classification schemes ● The three parts of a system ● Levels and types of requirements ● The importance of traceability ● Understanding the business context of projects ● Practice sessions Project Initiation: Eliciting High-level and Mid-level Requirements ● Understanding product vision and project scope ● Identifying and describing project stakeholders ● Modeling the business ● Identifying systems and actors ● Determining scope ● Understanding and identifying use cases ● Taking the Agile approach: writing user stories ● Identifying and defining data ● Documenting business rules ● Finding quality attributes ● Practice sessions Improving Requirements Quality ● Requirements quality ● Common problems with requirements ● Analyze for ambiguity ● Requirements inspection, analysis and improvement ● Defining and documenting the project scope ● Practice sessions Eliciting Detailed Requirements ● Overview of requirements-elicitation techniques ● Decompose processes to lowest levels ● Document analysis ● Modeling processes to generate interview questions ● Interviewing the stakeholders ● Documenting the interview and resulting requirements ● Adding detail to requirements we already have ● Refine and rewrite for clarity ● Practice sessions Documenting Requirements with Use Cases ● Use case basics ● Ways to identify use cases ● Use cases and requirements ● Usage narrative ● Anatomy of a fully dressed use case ● Writing effective use case narratives ● Understanding sub-use cases ● Linking use cases for larger or more complex systems ● Use case quality ● Avoiding common traps and pitfalls ● Practice sessions Packaging and Presenting Requirements ● Organizing and packaging requirements ● Presenting requirements for review ● Baselining the requirements ● Getting to consensus and approval ● Conduct formal and informal reviews ● Documenting requirements in a Requirements Specification ● Practice sessions Learning Objectives: Individuals certified at this level will have demonstrated their understanding of: ● Bridge the expectations gap between business stakeholders and technology solution providers ● Enhance business analysis techniques to reduce project cost ● Implement practical methods for understanding user requirements ● Improve your requirements elicitation, development and documentation ● Understand and describe the business environment in which a project exists ● Explore proven tactics for managing project scope ● Focus on discovering root causes, not just symptoms ● Gain tools and techniques for developing more precise requirements ● Practice state-of-the-art business and system modeling techniques ● Organize and categorize project requirements ● Quickly identify accurate use cases for new or enhanced business systems ● Produce high-quality, readable use case documentation ● Avoid common use case traps and pitfalls ● Overcome real-world challenges that confront today's Business Analysts
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How To: Back Flip with a Mute Grab
1. Similar to a spin, it's important to think only about the flip first, then the grab, then the tweak, then the landing.
2. Set your flip like a tuck, only with more rotation then you need, because you're about to screw your momentum up.
3. As soon as you've set your tuck, go for the grab as quickly as possible. You want to be tucked and grabbing before the first quarter of your rotation is complete.
4. Once you've gotten the grab, arch your back as much as possible. This turns your tuck back flip into a layout back flip and slows your rotation down a lot, which is why you need to set with more rotation than you need.
5. After you've arched your back, you'll be able to spot your landing really quickly. I tend to point at mine. See?
6. Once your feet pass the top of your rotation, it's time to get ready to land.
7. Stomp the landing.
8. If you've forgotten to let go of the grab, you're not that smart.


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A picture is worth a thousand words.
I think this popular phrase often limits us, sends us the message that adding a caption or story behind an image somehow lessens its impact. The picture shouldn't "need" that.
Maybe there is some truth there; I do see value in pushing ourselves to create images that need absolutely no explanation (or that are so powerful they inspire thousands of interpretations), but I also see value in hearing more of the story.
The more I know about a person, the more I tend to understand and like that person. Once I experience motivations and trials and reactions, the relationship deepens. The same can happen with an image.
This month, in The Art of Storytelling group, our theme is The Rest of the Story.
Tell us the back story of the image, the motivation for the shot, the techniques you used, any additional information that tells us the REST of the story. I can't wait to read the stories behind your images!
This image was shot at the beginning of October 2013, a week before we drove to KS to adopt a baby girl. After taking this image, I wondered what he was thinking about the artwork. Later during our museum visit, I was able to discuss his thoughts about it as he sat in a window sill sketching. It was a beautiful mommy/son date day.
Immediately after this image was taken, we sat down on a viewing bench and a tired mom sat next to us. She had a daughter about H's age and a 1 year old boy. We small-talked for a couple of minutes and then the 1-year-old started fussing and she said they needed to head home. The older sister was devastated – "we just got here!" The mom told me how the girl loved museums and how badly she felt that they had to leave so early, but that she didn't have a choice. It was a brief encounter, but it stuck with me as I edited this image later. I had spent over 5 years dedicating all of my thoughts and actions and love and devotion to one child. I nurtured his thoughts and creativity and had time to spend with just the two of us daily, exploring and talking and sharing. What would life with two children look like? Would I be distracted, too busy to notice it all, too torn between two to ever fully focus on one? I knew my fear was shared by many moms with growing families, but this image of him, standing there as the main focus, taking in the world while I got to observe every second of it, represented that fear in a way I never planned when I clicked the shutter. This image is a favorite, but it's not just the colors and composition. It serves as a reminder to me to slow down and notice my kiddos, to notice what they are noticing, and to spend individual time with both of them.
Oftentimes, my images are a results of a journaling session. A few weeks before this image was taken, I journaled my daughter's walk – it's so energetic and bouncy; she moves with intense spunk and excitement. As I was writing about her feet, I remembers how they turn in a little as she walks, a trait I know will not be here forever. I started trying to find opportunities to photograph those little toes. It was hard to photograph because it's most obvious when she's walking, but it was difficult to capture the angle in a walking photo. When I saw her reflection in this puddle, I loved the symmetry and lighting, but then I saw her feet – those little turned in toes that I had been trying to capture! This is a trait I know will disappear over time, a trait that defines this time in her life that I don't want to forget.
My son is a creative, social soul. He loves spending time in his own imagination, creating his own worlds and stories, but he also always wants to be the last kid at the park because he loves interacting and playing with others. Last Halloween, he was determined to have a costume party in our apartment complex. He said he would make all of the invitations and plan the entire thing if I would just give him the okay to move forward. The next thing I know, flyers are hanging all over the complex, complete with potluck assignments for each block. The night of the party, complete in his rainbow-mohawk-Flash costume, he decided at the last minute that part-goers needed a map of the events. The party was a success, with H's enthusiasm even encouraging the tired adults to participate in full character in his "costume contest runway walk." This event combined the things he loves – imagination and social interaction (and appetizers 😉 ) into one beautiful evening.
My daughter is very energetic. Part of what I love so much about her is how that energy is contagious. Anytime we are out in public, it affects people, smiles spreading as we walk, like a wave of happy crashing through the crowd. I have photos of her moving and smiling, but I wanted something that felt how it feels when you are in the moment with her. I had been playing around with how to express her contagious happiness, but I was always taking the photo of her, not WITH her. I had seen this technique done with the photographer holding both of the child's hands and spinning, but I really wanted a photo where it was obvious that she was including someone else in the happy, where my hand was visible. I thought, "what would happen if I held on for the ride and just started shooting?" I have never felt more dizzy in my life, but this photo and the memories from it were worth it.
The most painful experience of my life was when we went through a birthfather-contested adoption. We had our baby girl in our home for three months. The pain of losing her was almost unbearable, but my faith is what kept me sane. When we were matched with our daughter a few months later, everything fell into place and I felt that I understood the plan. During this trial, I listened to the song Oceans every day. The message kept me strong in my faith even on the most impossible days. I wanted to express the fear I had at that time and how it was calmed by my faith and my belief that I would be carried through this time if I just trusted. When I found out we were planning a Costa Rican family Thanksgiving, I knew I had to find a way to photograph the ocean in a way that would symbolize this time in my life. I grabbed my coffee hours before the rest of the family even thought about rolling out of bed and headed to the ocean before sunrise. I had planned on a self portrait with me in the ocean, but as the moonbeam hit the sand, I thought of that Footprints poem I had heard so many times in my life, and this scene started unfolding. I ended up with an image that truly defined my journey.


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Sunanna Chand - Cities as connected learning networks - The Pittsburgh Remake Learning model
Debates on Education with Sunanna Chand, Learning Innovation Strategist for the Remake Learning movement since 2015. Remake Learning is an extensive educational network of educators and innovators who, while fully respecting the city's history and unique features, are working together to reimagine and design future learning and its applications to local solutions. It is a model that aims for collaborative solutions to real problems and challenges in integration with their social context.
Event organized by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia) and the Jaume Bofill Foundation, with the collaboration of MACBA. http://www.debats.cat, #debatseducacio
In 2007, a group of teachers in Pittsburgh started to meet up to consider how to approach student learning in a changing world, in which technology played a major role. They confirmed that they were not connected with their students and that students were subject to lots of information.
The first informal network was enlarged to discover different points of view and to seek learning tools both inside and outside school. This led to the creation of Remake Learning. In 2017, the network is made up of 500 organizations, including museums, libraries, not-for-profit organizations, universities, companies, entrepreneurs, artists, politicians and technology experts, among others.
The aim is to make learning motivating, relevant and inclusive. It should have a major practical component and also involve families. In fact, every now and then Remake Learning holds open days so that families can participate in the learning activities.
- What is this network like?
- How do you go from a group holding informal meetings to the Remake Learning ecosystem?
- How can we get teachers to sign up to the initiative?
- How can we create personalized learning strategies?
- Technology is very important in this model. But what mistakes can be made in the use of technology?
- How have we succeeded in getting families to appreciate the value of learning networks?
- Does learning outside the classroom also require accreditation credentials?
- Is it important to have a brand?
- How is the network evaluated?
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Irish Champions Weekend Racing at the Curragh Racecourse
- At September 2, 2014
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World Class racing and spectacular entertainment set for Irish Champions Weekend
Irish Champions Weekend Sunday, September 14th at the Curragh, a unique racing event which sees two racecourses joining forces to stage the highest concentration of Flat racing ever seen in Ireland. A total prize-fund of €3.73m has attracted many of the best racehorses from around the world. It will be an amazing sporting and social event combining history, spectacle, glamour, excitement and prestige. The Weekend will be action packed with the focus on showcasing Ireland as a world centre of excellence for horse racing and breeding.
Sunday 14th September at the Curragh will feature three Group one races, including the 100th running of the Irish St Leger. Victoria Smurfit, Ambassador to Irish Champions Weekend, will have an extra interest in the Irish St. Leger Legends presentation to honour the 100th running of the iconic race this year. Owned by her uncle, Dr Michael Smurfit, the career of Vintage Crop who died earlier this year will be marked as the greatest ever Irish St. Leger winner.
In addition there will be an exciting variety of entertainment throughout the day.
The Curragh Thoroughbred Trail, sponsored by Dublin Coach, will take place during the morning of 14th, September, offering the opportunity to visit some of the top trainers and have a unique chance to see behind the scenes. Johnny Murtagh, Dessie Hughes, Michael Halford, John Oxx and Paul Deegan are some of the leading trainers taking part, while the world famous Irish National Stud, Kildangan Stud and the Racing Academy and Centre for Education are some of the other locations which can be visited.
Places for the Trails will be limited and should be reserved by booking on line at www.curragh.ie. All proceeds from the Thoroughbred Trail will be donated to horse racing charities.
Kildare Village will offer the winner of the best dressed/style award a 3k shopping spree and Palmerstown House Estate, sponsor of the Irish St Leger, will give the winner a VIP stay for the winner and 19 friends in their magnificent manor house. The five fashion finalists from the Curragh's style competition will be entered into a draw to drive away in a brand new Jaguar XF, which will be theirs to drive for one year. The multi-award winning Jaguar XF combines sports car performance with outstanding luxury saloon comfort. The draw will take place after the feature race at the Curragh on Sunday, September 14th.
Throughout the afternoon the attractions will include a Parade of Champions featuring four Champion Hurdlers – Hurricane Fly, Jezki, Binocular and Hardy Eustace, while Quevega and the legendary Moscow Flyer will also be part of the parade. The Moyglare Stud Kids Zone will provide a variety of exciting free entertainment throughout the day for younger race goers with shows featuring well known Disney and Star Wars characters, while a performance by the world renowned Celtic Tenors will bring the raceday to a spectacular close.
The Curragh is delighted to welcome charity partner, Childhood Cancer Foundation and the Light it Up Gold fund raising initiative at the races on 14th – to create awareness for Childhood cancer. This campaign will see buildings and famous landmarks throughout Ireland Light Up Gold during September, International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. September 2013 saw buildings across the country shine gold for childhood cancer including Belfast City Hall, the O2, the Mansion House, Trim Castle, Dunbrody Famine Ship and many more. Childhood Cancer Foundation is working to improve the services for children and families affected by childhood cancer.
As many as 20,000 visitors are expected to attend both racecourses over the weekend with many thousands due to visit from the UK and overseas. Tickets can be purchased from the Irish Champions Weekend website with weekend tickets priced at €30 – http://irishchampionsweekend.ie/ICW/Tickets/. Follow Irish Champions Weekend on Twitter @IrishChampsWknd and on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/irishchampionsweekend
Dunmurry Springs Golf Club
Its the Irish Champions Weekend at Leopardstown and the Curragh Racecourse, so why not get in a round of Golf as well at Dunmurry Springs Golf Club www.dunmurrysprings.ie
Special Offer for Irish Champions Weekend
18 holes of golf and lunch
Friday 12th September €30.00 per person
Saturday 13th September, €40.00 per person
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We are beyond excited to be appearing at RuPaul's DragCon 2016!
Brandon went last year just to absorb all the glamour and just KNEW we had to be a part of it this year. It was a who's who of RuGirls as well as queens from every city across the country, and possibly internationally too! We can't wait to meet everyone attending and share our love for those fabulous 7-foot-tall creatures of the night! We will have all our fan-favorite shirt designs on sale, PLUS a new shirt design, a new volume of Drag Diary, and other swag!
RuPaul's DragCon is May 7-8 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Are you going?? Let us know or come find us and say hello!


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Washington, D.C. partner Paul Moorehead will be speaking at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Native American Enterprise Initiative (NAEI) on December 10, at the Lee Anderson Veterans Center, U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C.
The NAEI was established by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to advocate on priority issues in Indian Country such as legal and regulatory reform to encourage energy and other economic development, forced unionization, tribal tax matters and others.
Paul will be speaking on behalf of our clients, the Southern Ute Indian Tribe of Colorado and the Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma (O-Gah-Pah). Other speakers at the meeting will include:
- Congressman Tom Cole (R-OK)
- Arctic Slope Regional Corporation
- Chickasaw Nation
- Navajo Nation
- Tunica-Biloxi
To learn more about the Native American Enterprise Expedition, please click here.


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In cosmetic dentistry, some procedures are more popular than others.
Teeth whitening is one example. Orthodontics are another, and dental veneers have become more common in recent years.
But there are many more ways that you can improve the appearance of your smile. We want to talk about two of them today that have to do with the size of your teeth.
Tooth contouring and crown lengthening are great ways to change your smile at our office in Woodbury, MN. Our dentist, Dr. Mark W. Wilhelm, can redefine what your smile looks like with either of these procedures.
So, what are they? Who are good candidates for these services?
We will answer these questions below, or you can make an appointment with us. We will be happy to answer your questions about any of our cosmetic services. Call (651) 319-9064 or contact us online.
What Is Tooth Contouring?
All you have to do is look around at the people you meet each day to realize that the human body comes in a variety of shapes and forms. That's also true for individual body parts like our fingers, ears, noses, and chins.
So, it may not be a surprise to learn that teeth can be very different, too, even within the same smile.
It is possible that you have a tooth or teeth that look long or large in comparison to the rest of your mouth. This can affect people in a few ways.
First, a larger-than-average tooth could be a distraction when you smile. If you've become aware of this, it also can make you feel self-conscious about smiling or speaking in front of other people.
Second, when you have teeth that seem too large for your mouth, this can lead to greater wear and tear on the teeth above or below the long tooth. That could wear down the enamel on those teeth, which could leave you more vulnerable to tooth decay and cavities.
Tooth contouring is a way of removing some of the enamel of a tooth to make it a little smaller. This will help the tooth blend in with the rest of your smile, and it can reduce the effects of rubbing against nearby teeth.
Before we perform this procedure, however, we will take digital X-rays. This will allow Dr. Wilhelm to better determine how much enamel can be removed without exposing the innermost parts of your tooth.
What Is Crown Lengthening?
In a way, the name of this treatment is a bit of a misnomer. Dr. Wilhelm won't actually be making your tooth larger. Instead, he will be exposing more of your tooth so more of it is visible.
You may be interested in this procedure if you have "short" teeth or a "gummy" smile. This can happen if your teeth don't erupt very much from your gums. This also can be the result of having excess gum tissue.
In general, a gummy smile would be one in which gum tissue is more noticeable than teeth. If you feel this is the case with your smile, Dr. Wilhelm can help you change it.
During this procedure, he will remove a portion of your gum tissue. This will make your teeth more prominent when you smile.
We also should point out that you may have more gum tissue in some parts of your mouth than others. Removing gum tissue from certain areas can give a more uniform appearance to your gumline, and that too can improve the appearance of your smile.
Crown lengthening isn't strictly done for cosmetic reasons, however. If you needed a dental crown or bridge, for example, we may need a certain amount of tooth available to support your restoration. Crown lengthening can create the space needed for that procedure.
Make It Part Of A Smile Makeover
If you are interested in either of these procedures, we want your smile to look its absolute best.
Either tooth contouring or crown lengthening can improve the overall appearance of your smile.
And you can take it one step further by combining your treatment of choice with another service like our professional teeth whitening. This way, you can remove the stains from your smile while reshaping it to make the overall effect even more noticeable.
If you would like to find out more about contouring, lengthening, or any of our services, call (651) 319-9064. You can also request a consultation by contacting us online.