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He feels that he can revive the Advantage Program, which was helpful in New York's fight against homelessness. The program went away a couple of years ago when the state said that it would no longer fund it.
The issue of homelessness is not a front page issue in this primary, but de Blasio has a track record here. De Blasio worked for Mayor David Dinkins, when the Department of Homeless Services was basically developed. He then went on to work at HUD.
This was 20 years ago, when another homeless advocate, Andrew Cuomo, was active in the fight. De Blasio claims to have a unique relationship with Cuomo that would give him more bargaining room for programs like Advantage, which offers rental assistance for people who leave shelters and need help living on their own.
When the program was in full swing, people who were leaving homeless shelters were required to pay 30 to 40 percent of their rent, with the city footing the rest of the bill. It meant that, although people were getting a lot of help, they were also paying a large chunk of their own rent. It gave them a sense of responsibility when it came to their housing situation.
There is no question that the program worked. It kept people out of crowded shelters, and it allowed for apartments to be rented with landlords getting consistent rent. People in the Advantage Program had up to two years to become independent, so it was not a lifestyle program.
De Blasio feels that Bloomberg could have negotiated a better deal with Albany to keep it going. But Bloomberg took this issue seriously as well.
The mayor entered office with an aggressive plan to cut homelessness, and his commissioners and staff have been dedicated. If de Blasio is serious about bringing the Advantage Program back, all eyes will be on him to deliver should he get to City Hall.
Everyone knows Mayor Bloomberg is a tough negotiator, and de Blasio feels that he can work better with Cuomo than Bloomberg has on this issue. He does have one thing to his advantage: he is likable. He can soften a debate.
Unlike Bloomberg, where the room stands at attention when he arrives, the room exhales when the 6'5" de Blasio walks in. Whether that means he can get more out of Albany, however, is a still a question. But the real question is what does "making a clean break from the Bloomberg years" mean?
De Blasio may see a clean break as pressing the "reset" button on relationships that have jeopardized certain programs for the city.
Bill de Blasio knows the issue of homelessness better than most candidates. He is hanging his hat on bringing back a program that Bloomberg could not resurrect. He is banking on a like-minded City Council and a like-minded governor.
Four weeks ago, banking on de Blasio was a nutty idea, but it was not nutty to de Blasio. Famous movie producer Robert Evans used to say that a true gambler was one who bet more than he could afford to lose.
If de Blasio, Bill Thompson, Joe Lhota or any other mayoral candidate thinks they can bring back a program like Advantage, they are going to need a strong poker face. So far, de Blasio has rolled up to the table and anted up.


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Recently you may have read my article about some hidden functions in SQL Server. In that article you learned that those functions were in some DMOs and that you could get at them through the resource database.
Today I found myself learning more about the resource database. Due to what I had learned in my prior foray into the resource database, I was curious if certain other functions might call some hidden functions in that database.
Sadly – they did not. But in my travels I did happen across something else that is in that database. Those items are called system base tables. Unlike the trio of functions from the last article – you can get to these but it is STRONGLY advised to not do it.
Naturally, I want to check these tables out – especially since the MSDN article does say how to get to them. I will write about some adventures into looking at these tables in the future. I already found one interesting thing that seemed odd – but first I will need to login using the DAC and start testing to confirm a hypothesis.
For now, I want to cover how to create a Dedicated Administrator Connection. This should be something that DBAs know how to do. It isn't difficult, and I will only cover one method and leave the other method to the Microsoft documentation.
You can create a DAC through either SSMS or through SQLCMD. You can create one remotely, but you will need to enable that option since it is disabled by default. You can find the method for creating this connection via SQLCMD here.
To create a connection through SSMS, it is rather easy as well. You simply add (case insensitive) "admin:" to the beginning of your server as shown in this image.
In order for this to work, you will need to have the browser service running. If it is not running, you will get an error message. This error message is informative if you read it. It will provide a clue to look at the browser service.
Once you have successfully created this connection, you can now use it when necessary to perform administrative tasks or for some learning opportunities. If you open a query using this connection you will see something like this next image in your query tab.
You can see in the tab of this query tab that there is the label "ADMIN:". This is your DAC connection. You are limited to one of these at a time – period.
If you try to create a second connection, you will get a nasty message. The message is not entirely informative – just understand that you are getting it because you already have a DAC open.
It is a good idea to become familiar with how to connect via the DAC. I have a connection saved for quick access. Luckily I have a development server which I can test and use for learning opportunities. As the warning MSDN states: "Access to system base tables by using DAC is designed only for Microsoft personnel, and it is not a supported customer scenario." If you venture into the system base tables via the DAC – Microsoft will not support it if you break it.

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I don't know whether to laugh, throw up or both. A reader tipped me off to this Huffington Post article by D.A. Wolf headlined "5 Benefits of Having a Friend With Benefits." In case you're not hip to liberal-speak, "friends with benefits" refers to the "progressive" idea that it's really cool for friends to use each other for casual, meaningless sex.
What could possibly go wrong?
Writes Wolf:
"Some of us believe that friends with benefits can be mutually enjoyable and perfectly suited to our needs—not just when we're very young, and not as a matter of explicitly avoiding commitment.
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"In fact, it seems to me that friends with benefits gets a bad rap, as if women aren't supposed to feel desire (in general) or lust (in particular)—especially once they become mothers, or if they're 'of a certain age.'"
Yes, nothing says "I respect you" like using your "friend's" body to sexually gratify yourself.
Wolf then asks the following:
"When we're putting the pieces back together after a divorce, isn't discovery of our newly single sexual self part of the process? Don't we want to enjoy the flirtation, the fantasy, the sensation and the sense of well-being that comes from sexual foreplay and sex itself? Who doesn't love the jolt of energy, the boost to mood, the sparkle of feeling fully alive that comes from great sex?
"And don't we feel reassured when we re-engage with our sexual selves after divorce or a tough breakup?"
Yes, again, nothing gives a woman a "sense of well-being" like being exploited for casual sex by some jerk who calls himself her friend yet uses her like a piece of meat. Giving away the milk for free? Now that'll earn you some respect. The fellas will be lining up around the corner with marriage proposals. But they'll have to wait on all your "friends" to get done "benefiting" first.
Ms. Wolf, a veritable fount of "progressive" wisdom, blah-blahs on:
"In my opinion, especially as a mother, if you're looking for sex but not in a position to pursue something more, whatever exploration you undertake, you owe it to your kids (and of course yourself) to do it safely."
How thoughtful. Parent of the year material. Hear that, kids? Sure, mommy's a trollop—and sure, she's hooking up with all the guys at the office—but she's "doing it safely."
Aren't we proud of mommy?
Wolf drones on:
"One of the advantages of a friend with benefits is freedom from overly romantic attachments. ... So why not experiment with your special friend, if the thought appeals to you?"
Exactly! Why not? For that matter, why short-change yourself? Why go gratis? You're basically there anyway. Fifty bucks a pop would sure help with those Botox injections.
Wolf concludes:
"I admit that I was a fan of the friends with benefits model from an early age. I love being in love, but that sort of attachment doesn't come around every day. Friends with benefits—in my life—was just right, several times."
Really? Only several times? Mommy has lots of "special friends," doesn't she? Your children must be so proud. "Hey, everybody! Look what my mommy wrote in the Huffington Post!"
And the great news? Once the feds figure out how to make this whole Obamacare thingy work, you'll get all the herpes meds you can swallow—for free!
Now that is a "benefit" you can share with your friends.
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Kristin Hill joined Austin Pets Alive! as a volunteer in the feline bottle-baby program in 2010. She moved from volunteering to employment with APA! as a feline adoption counselor in 2011 where she discovered an affinity for helping the sassiest of sassy cats. She is also a volunteer with APA!'s cat behavior program, where she hopes to be able to help more cats find and keep their forever homes. Kristin recently implemented a clicker training program to socialize and train animals at her adoption site and is beginning to take it to the foster program.


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Stephanie Ann Miller loved to travel. She climbed Machu Picchu, walked the Great Wall of China and visited European countries from England to Russia. The one-year resident of Brentwood died suddenly Nov. 27, 2012, at the age of 65 when a case of the flu worsened into pneumonia. She and her husband, Robert Van Miller Sr., celebrated their one-year anniversary on Nov. 5. Prior to Brentwood, Miller lived for 10 years in Danville and before that lived in Pleasanton for many years. A native of Oakland, Stephanie was born at Kaiser Hospital in Oakland on Jan. 26, 1947. She grew up in San Lorenzo and was a cheerleader before graduating from San Lorenzo High School. During her years in San Lorenzo, she spent summers with her maternal grandmother on her farm in South Dakota. She went to work for the Oakland Police Department and served in a variety of roles before retiring after 20 years. She then moved onto to a marketing position with the Port of Oakland at the Oakland Airport. After 15 years, she retired from the port. Throughout her careers, she traveled widely. Italy and England were particular favorites. She met Robert through an official matchmaker about 2 ½ years ago. Bob was attracted from the first couple of dates, but Stephanie insisted he date other women until he found one that was ?interesting.? When she heard that, it was time for marriage. They built their dream home in Brentwood after their marriage and moved into it six months ago. Before their marriage, she had lived for 10 years in Walnut Creek. They traveled after their marriage, recently spending two weeks in Hawaii and taking the train across Canada from Vancouver to Toronto. The couple was planning a trip to her favorite spots in Italy for next year and she wanted to take Bob to the famed Harrods department store in London for its huge fine foods section. Stephanie is survived by her husband, Bob; his children Robert Van Miller Jr. of Hayward, Mary Elizabeth Hamilton of Pleasanton and Richard Henry Miller of Livermore. She had no children of her own.


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Monday, September 3, 2012
The Survey: Socialism
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- Patrick S. O'Donnell said...
First, thanks for having a post on the "s" word here: something rare in the legal blogosphere (unless its by way of repeating ad nauseam the same old tendentious and ill-informed nonsense).
That there is an entrenched anti-egalitarianism in American law is hardly surprising given the predominance of the libertarian strain of Liberalism in this country, at least with regard to economics ('the basic ethos of US social policy has lone been dominated by rugged laissez-faire individualism and liberal notions of self-help'), which helps account for the fact that our welfare state is characterized as "liberal" rather than, say, social democratic or corporatist (the three main type of capitalist welfare regimes in Western Europe and North America). It also explains why the U.S. welfare state has consistently underperformed its "non-liberal" counterparts with regard to criteria involving the reduction of poverty, the promotion of equality, social integration, social stability, autonomy, and so forth.
As to the history of the Left I would also recommend Richard Flacks' earlier volume, Making History: The Radical Tradition in American Life (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988) which, I think, in some respects, better than Kazin's although Dick does, at times, sound like an apologist for the crudely consumptive materialist aspirations that enchant the working class who endeavor to emulate the conspicuous consumption habits of their middle and upper class "betters." The economy, at any rate, is predicated on the masses feeling an overwhelming need to be indemnified by consumption and possession of as many "goods" (including non-materialist goods, like entertainment) as possible.
While much may hinge on how generously we define "the Left," I do think there is remains a robust Left tradition in this country (there's even a 'religious Left,' of which I am a proud member*), even if its numbers are small, historically and comparatively speaking. Its influence, I believe, and to some extent this has been true historically as well, is far greater than its numbers would lead one to believe (I'm reminded, for example, of the influence of the late Michael Harrington's book on the 'war on poverty'). The Left encompasses not a few radical democrats, most anarchists, communists, socialists, some forms of populism, social democrats, some feminists, some Democrats, some Greens, and so on. It also includes not a few who are Left owing to their religious or spiritual convictions (as in the Catholic Worker movement and among 'engaged Buddhists,' to cite just two examples). It is not well identified by any national party or national organization of any kind.
I have a short post on "American socialism" with a brief list of helpful titles, here:
And I have a post on modest urban experiments in socialism in this country here:
Finally, it should be noted that many of us on the Left still believe May 1 is the true "Labor Day," on which, see the two links appended to my last May Day post at Ratio Juris here: http://ratiojuris.blogspot.com/2012/05/sundry-reflections-proposals-in.html
* See, for example, the blog, ReligiousLeftLaw: http://www.religiousleftlaw.com/
- September 3, 2012 at 2:11:00 PM EDT
- David Bernstein said...
"American law steadfastly prevented the redistribution of wealth along egalitarian lines." Pre-Marx? What are you referring to?
Also, I don't see why greater tolerance of labor unions would have led to an "egalitarian" distribution of wealth, as opposed to a distribution of wealth favoring union members at the expense of non-union members.
Debs's union, for example, strictly prohibited blacks, so any gains for its members would have come at the expense of the poorest group in the country.
- September 3, 2012 at 10:02:00 PM EDT
- Patrick S. O'Donnell said...
If Anders doesn't mind, I'll at least address the second remark by Bernstein regarding unions and egalitarian distribution of wealth. As Freeman and Medoff demonstrated some time ago, "the claim that unionism increases inequality is wrong," indeed, "on the contrary, unionism tends to be in general a powerful force for equalization of earnings in the economy. The claim is wrong not because the effect to which it draws attention—raising wages of some workers at the expense of other workers—does not it occur. It does. The claim is wrong because the increase in inequality induced by monopoly wage effects is dwarfed by three other trade union effects on wages that reduce inequality: union wage policies lower inequality of wages within establishments; union wage policies favor equal pay for equal work across establishments; and union wage gains for blue-collar labor reduce inequality between white-collar and blue-collar workers." In sum, the inequality-reducing effects trump the inequality-increasing effects of unionism, thus the "voice/response effects of the institution seem to dominate the monopoly wage effects." Although as Timothy Noah has pointed out, the reduction in inequality is much less dramatic when union membership is a mere 12% of the workforce (and only 7.5% if you leave out public-employee unions). It may be a mere correlation, but it is interesting to note that the precipitous decline in union membership (a decline which began generally with the long-term effects of Taft-Hartley) roughly coincides with the sharp rise in inequality in this country beginning in the late 1970s. Moreover, this calls to mind some earlier historical facts:
"Early in the century, the share of the American workforce which belonged to a union was meager, barely 10 percent. At the same time, inequality was stark—the share of national income going to the richest 10 percent of Americans stood at nearly 40 percent. This gap widened in the 1920s. But in 1935, the New Deal granted workers basic collective bargaining rights; over the next decade, union membership grew dramatically, followed by an equally dramatic decline in income inequality. This yielded an era of broadly shared prosperity, running from the 1940s into the 1970s" (Colin Gordon).
- September 4, 2012 at 1:10:00 AM EDT
- Patrick S. O'Donnell said...
Here is the remainder of my comment:
Of course it should also be pointed out that the rise in inequality (as well as at least some of the decline in union membership, which occurred in many other countries as well) was in part due to global economic forces (the latest form of capitalist globalization) that, to some extent, national governments have, alone at least, been unable to affect.
An appropriate historical summary is again provided by Gordon:
"One hallmark of the first 30 years after World War II was the 'countervailing power' of labor unions (not just at the bargaining table but in local, state, and national politics) and their ability to raise wages and working standards for members and non-members alike. There were stark limits to union power—which was concentrated in some sectors of the economy and in some regions of the country—but the basic logic of the postwar accord was clear: Into the early 1970s, both median compensation and labor productivity roughly doubled. Labor unions both sustained prosperity, and ensured that it was shared. The impact of all of this on wage or income inequality is a complex question (shaped by skill, occupation, education, and demographics) but the bottom line is clear: There is a demonstrable wage premium for union workers. In addition, this wage premium is more pronounced for lesser skilled workers, and even spills over and benefits non-union workers. The wage effect alone underestimates the union contribution to shared prosperity. Unions at midcentury also exerted considerable political clout, sustaining other political and economic choices (minimum wage, job-based health benefits, Social Security, high marginal tax rates, etc.) that dampened inequality. And unions not only raise the wage floor but can also lower the ceiling; union bargaining power has been shown to moderate the compensation of executives at unionized firms."
- September 4, 2012 at 1:11:00 AM EDT
- Anders Walker said...
Patrick, thanks again for the thoughtful comment, will take a look at Flacks book. David! Hoped my Lochner comment might catch your attention. Two documents that come to mind are Winthrop's Model of Christian Charity and the U.S. Constitution!
- September 4, 2012 at 7:38:00 AM EDT
- David Bernstein said...
I admit my ignorance of Winthrop, but the U.S. Constitution doesn't prevent states from doing anything except abrogating existing contracts. Maybe state constitutions had more severe provisions (and I suppose they mostly enforced just compensation requirements from Takings under their state constitutions), but there was surely nothing in the federal constitution prohibiting, say, a 90% state income tax rate, state ownership of railroads and other important businesses and other socialistic measures. (Come to think of it, there was one federal constitutional provision that likely did retard socialistic measures: the privileges and immunities clause, which meant that capital and labor were mobile).
By the way, I took a look at American Dreamers. Kazin identifies Frederick Douglass, and abolitionism in general, with "the Left." It's hard to characterize historical figures with terms you use for modern purposes, but Kazin seems to be identifying the left as including any social movement that he thinks seems admirable in retrospect.
- September 4, 2012 at 9:56:00 AM EDT
- Anders Walker said...
David, point taken on Kazin. Let me press you on the Constitution. While you are right there is nothing expressly forbidding states from redistributing wealth in the federal constitution, was not the redistribution of wealth something that the founders opposed? Return for a minute to Madison's mention of wealth redistribution as a "wicked project" in Federalist 10, what, to your mind, lay behind this statement?
- September 4, 2012 at 2:22:00 PM EDT
- David Bernstein said...
Yes, and the federal government was given very little authority that could be used for wealth distribution. But we had preexisting states, and that's where most of the fiscal and regulatory action was for quite some time, especially if we're talking about pre-Karl Marx times.
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Okay singles – start your engines.
Hollywood hotties Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel have called it quits, according to reports.
The "Social Network" and "7th Heaven" stars made a mutual decision to end the relationship and will stay friends, sources told People and TMZ.
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News of the split doesn't exactly come as a shock. Since Biel and Timberlake began dating 2007, the couple has been dogged by breakup rumors, according to E! News.
They were last spotted out together at Vanity Fair's Oscars after-party, People reported.


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Time like Ming the Merciless, tyrant of the doomed planet Mongo, catches up with everyone and not even Flash Gordon can rescue you from it's clutches. Al Williamson the Artist that helped bring more comic characters to fame then you can count passed away Saturday June 12th in upstate New York, his wife, Cori, recently released. He was 79.
Williamson the milti award, two time Eisner award winner (1996, 1997) worked from the 1950's steadily till his retirement in 1999 illustrating everything from Flash Gordon to Secret Agent Corrigan to what personally was my first comic his work bringing Luke Skywalker to the illustrated page. If Williamson wasn't making some of the best penciling even before there were such companies as Marvel or DC Comics he was inking the work of other great artists like Jack Kirby. While other artists were thinking about shadow, volume and representing the human figure in dramatic 2d space (even Kirby who's early work when compared to Williamson is dramatically different) Al Williamson was executing that with unparalleled skill and complex sensitivity.
"He was one of the more sublimely talented artists to work in mainstream comics, His men were handsome, his women were beautiful, and the landscapes he drew — alien or westerns or battlefields — always seemed lushly authentic. He made panels you could lose yourself in.â€
said Tom Spurgeon, editor of the online magazine Comics Reporter.
Alfonso Williamson born March 21, 1931 in Manhattan, one of two children of Sally and Alfonso Williamson. His Scottish father, was a citizen of Colombia, and soon after his son was born the family moved to Bogotá.
At the age of 9, his mother took him to his first movies which he saw a chapter in the "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe†serial, was sold and immediately started sketching scenes from memory when he got home.
The family returned to New York when Alfonso was 13. He took classes at the School of Visual Arts (then called Cartoonists and Illustrators School in Manhattan), and was later hired by EC Comics.
Mr. Williamson's first wife, the former Arlene Sattler, died in 1977. In addition to his wife of 32 years, the former Cori Pasquier, he is survived by his sister, Liliana Gonzalez Williamson; a daughter, Valerie Lalor; and a son, Victor.
Al Williamson was a pioneer in countless ways in defining comics as we know them today and will be greatly missed.
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We are pleased to announce the second annual Library Publishing Forum and issue a call for presentation proposals. This year's theme is Creating and Supporting Sustainable Publishing Programs and we invite proposals for a variety of formats and relevant topics. For further details, please see this website.
This event will bring together representatives from libraries engaged in (or considering) publishing initiatives to define and address major questions and challenges; to identify and document collaborative opportunities; to strengthen and promote this community of practice; and to advance this vibrant subfield of academic publishing.
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Panic! At The Disco's roots coming of age in Las Vegas loom large on the band's fourth album Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die!. From its glittery synth-based, drum-heavy sound, to its playful, celebratory subject matter, to the Rat Pack-inspired imagery on the cover, to the title itself (a line from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas author Hunter S. Thompson), the album finds the band, for the first time in its nearly 10-year career, owning up to loving their hometown.
"Before I started demoing any of the songs on the album, I was in Vegas and went to a club," says the band's frontman and songwriter Brendon Urie. "I was listening to the driving beats and watching all these people dance and have a good time. And I thought, 'I want to make music like this. These people are celebrating life.' It made me stop being cynical and see how beautiful it actually was. We left Vegas when we were 17, because at that age, Vegas sucks. You're not 21. You can't go anywhere; you can't play in bars. We never played live shows. So we were really bitter for a lot of years. But this last time I realized that people go there to drop their guard and let loose, and that inspired me. It was a real moment of clarity. Now I'm in love with Vegas. I even wrote an anthem about it, 'Vegas Lights.'"
Urie's inspiration is reflected in the sound of the new album, which was recorded largely on a collection of Arturia and Moog synthesizers that he and drummer Spencer Smith had collected over the years. "I hadn't really delved into it all because I didn't know how to use the technology," Urie says. "A huge part of the process for me is that I wanted to be a producer. I had the sounds in my head, I just had to figure out how to get them out. Our producer Butch Walker [who co-produced Panic! At The Disco's 2011 album Vices & Virtues] and engineer Jake Sinclair were both mentors and taught me how to use the computer. I would explain what I was hearing and they'd say, 'Well, this is how you do it.' It was validating to get positive feedback from Butch, but I still wanted more. So I just kept writing, writing, and writing." Eventually Urie came up with the album's anthemic core: "Vegas Lights," "This Is Gospel," "Nicotine," "Girls/Girls/Boys," and the new single "Miss Jackson." "We had all these songs and I was like, 'This is it; this is the record I want to make,'" Urie says. "I knew it would happen, but finally it's here."
The lyrics sprang from Urie wanting to tell his own story. Though he sometimes masked the ideas in a fictional way, his overall goal was to be as honest as possible. "This album is more confessional than anything I've done before," he says. He found himself writing about his relationships. He describes the final song on the album, "The End of All Things," as the most revealing in terms of opening his heart. "When I was writing it, I was tearing up because I was feeling a lot of emotion."
Urie strikes a more playful note on "Girls/Girls/Boys" — a racy song about women who like girls and guys. Along similar lines is "Nicotine," which compares a girl to a bad habit you just can't kick. Says Urie: "She calls you for a booty call. You think, 'I'm not going to see this girl; it's not going to happen. Twenty minutes later you're at her house. I've been through it; where you know it's so stupid and that nothing good can come of it."
Too Weird To Live, Too Rare to Die! takes a darker lyrical turn on the first single "Miss Jackson," for which Urie drew on the personal experience of being cheated on years ago. "It was very cathartic to write," he says. "I had been through something where I had slept with a girl one night and then her friend the next, but nothing like that had ever been done to me. When it did, it flipped it around for me. Once I felt how it felt, it made me change. Taking something so serious and putting a fun melody to it made me feel less dark and that I'd really overcome it."
Panic! At The Disco is now looking forward to a bright rest of the year. This Fall, they hit the road with their friends Fall Out Boy for The Save Rock and Roll Arena Tour. Urie promises their upcoming tours will be as big a spectacle as the tours they've launched for their previous albums, 2005's double-platinum A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, 2008's Pretty. Odd. (which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Album chart), and Vices & Virtues, which debuted at No. 7 and racked up critical accolades. "I want our show to be a steady stream of continuous music," Urie says. "I want to create that club feel where the music doesn't let up and the beat never stops. You came to a show. I'm going to tire you out. I'm going to make you work for it. I want to create an environment that doesn't feel like an arena. I want the audience to actually forget where they are. Then an hour later, they're like, 'Wow, what just happened?'"


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Mac Safari for Windows
In case you were not aware, Apple released their browser, Safari, for windows last week. They reported there was over 1 million downloads in the first 48 hours.
You might consider giving it a try. They report that Safari is 1.6 times faster than Firefox in HTML performance, javascript performance, and application launch. With some basic browsing over the weekend at home I noticed a pretty big difference.
Here are some of the features I have come to love in Firefox that are missing in Safari; hopefully they will be added soon.
- They have a built in google search box but it doesn't provide suggestions (which I use all the time).
- Safari doesn't support the ability to close a tab with my mouse wheel click (I hate right clicking).
- No CRTL + ENT or CRTL + ALT + ENT to automatically complete keywords like wikipedia to http://www.wikipedia.org.
- When you click in the url, the url doesn't highlight. It just places the cursor where your mouse was instead of highlighting the whole url.
- Most importantly its missing the highly valuable restore session feature.


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Using XML Schemas to Create Strongly Typed DataSets
There is a disjunction between a relational database and objects. A relational database exists to optimize the storage of data and reduce redundancy. Often this means the logically related elements are contained in separate tables. For example, a customer, his address, and phone numbers likely reside in separate tables but are all elated to a Customer. In the database the phone numbers and addresses reside in a separate table to promote only using as much space as necessary, but when that data is presented to the user it is often necessary to reconstruct the data as a whole, for example when printing customer invoices.
We know from experience that one can write a stored procedure that returns the data joined into a single whole. This is not very objected-oriented though because it does not allow for the co-existence of behaviors, for example, a regular expression that validates phone numbers. To resolve this disjunction one can define new objects that include the data from the database and add-on behaviors. The difficulty here is that one loses the simplicity of talking directly to the database, while gaining the power of robust, coherent objects. Using cursors directly in the presentation layer is generally considered client server, and adding a middle-layer that captures the problem domain is called n-tiered. Client-server is fast and convenient, but results in a weak object model. This disjunction is best illustrated by the vendors trying to promote object-oriented databases.
If we stop with a strongly typed dataset then client server code by itself becomes more expressive. However, if we only modify the typed DataSet via generalization (inheritance) then we can re-generate the DataSet anytime the database changes without breaking our code or losing our customizations. In toto the result is very expressive code that easily incorporates business rules that can not easily be captured in a database.
Visually Defining the XML Schema
XML has many uses in .NET. One particular use is to use XML as a means of capturing a database's schema. This technology is referred to by the initials XSD. There is an XSD tool that ships with Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework SDK named xsd.exe, and Visual Studio .NET contains an XSD Schema Designer that permits the visual definition of an XML schema. An XML schema and .NET's CodeDOM can be used to convert the XML schema into code; the code is a class that implements a strongly typed implementation of the schema.
As a refresher the weakly typed database operations are exhibited by indexing DataSets and DataTables to return columns or rows, and a strongly typed DataSet yields typed members. The difference in the code is its apparent expressivity. Using weakly typed ADO.NET one might index a table with a row and column name, which may or may not yield a result and that result will be typed generically as an Object. Using a strongly typed DataSet results in code that is expressive in the context of the solution domain. Instead of Tables, indexes, and columns on writes code in terms of entities in the solution domain, for example, customers and phone numbers.
While many good applications have been written using weakly typed client-server code, improvements are gained by employing typed, expressive code that conveys greater meaning, requires fewer explanatory comments, and is more robust due to its concision. (If typed and untyped objects seem foreign to you then a background on the benefits of strong types can be explored in Grady Booch's "Object Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications" from Addison Wesley.)
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There's a blog post thief about: bring out your memes!
UPDATE: They have now taken down the offending page. We have a screenshot of it in its updated Attacat form below 😉 Page Freeze version here
It appears they have removed the entire blog category: "Digital Marketing | Data Science | Optimisation" which is where the posts were.
UPDATE: An apology has been received from Cube3's head of digital marketing Chris in the comments below. We have also received a personal apology by phone which we have accepted.
UPDATE: The culprit appears to be a (relatively experienced) former employee who now works at a larger agency. We have informed the individual in case he wishes to respond.
So we found a company in Manchester that has reproduced at least 2 of our blog posts without any credit. Amusingly they didn't even bother hosting the images themselves – they're still ripping them off our servers.
This level of stupidy is not unusual and we would normally let them get away with it. However this is a large digital agency with clients like ASDA, Cash Generator and No1 Currency. In short they should know better!
That's why we couldn't resist a little fun & updated all the images in the blog post on their site…
We want to know which one you find the most amusing! Please add your thoughts in the comments below as to which one you think is the best/most amusing etc
The Attacat winner gets to light the burning bag of dog shite we'll be leaving on their doorstep next week.
Even better – have you got any good suggestions of your own?! Upload them onto our Facebook page 😉
The post itself
The post was stolen by a Manchester agency – we'll try to keep it under the radar for a little bit so they are called c-u-b-e 3 (without the dashes).
The blog post is sitting here: http://blog.cube3marketing.com/2011/03/02/e-tailing-analysis-how-to-increase-the-average-order-value/
And here's the original for comparison 😉 http://www.attacat.co.uk/brain/cro-average-order-value
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Ben, that is so funny. Let me know if they respond to your blog.
Well done on catching these cheeky posters/poachers. Please give us a follow up if and when they twig. Send them an invoice!
Edinburgh 1 v Manchester 0
Haha! I came across this shower last year when I performed an audit for a site they made for an Edinburgh-based business. The homepage was riddled (and I mean riddled) with hidden links and hidden text. They're brazen; I'll give them that.
Personally, I like the "I told my boss…" version of the options above.
Be interesting to see how long it takes them to spot the changes! Let us know. But I like the images that mention you as the blog originators
Love it! I liked the "I wryt this post" one which you should add in above for all to enjoy 🙂
I work for Cube3, but this isn't an official statement. Just a little note, this was by an ex employee [Name removed] and we weren't aware of it, he was only with us for a month and a half. This is rather embarrassing…
They've passworded the post!
Ha! Just went to the c3 link and they've now password protected the post to prevent anyone from seeing it and in an attempt to protect their reputation.
Hi guys,
I just wanted to take a few minutes to express our apologies again. Having just got off the phone with Ben and having explained the situation (incl the parties involved) I can assure you we'll be making a public reply over on our blog.
Without going into much more detail, the individual responsible for the post(s), is no longer with Cube3 and was with us only for a short period of time (as you may be able to gather from the time period of his posts). Thats no excuse, but hopefully it should illustrate this is not our normal practice by any means.
For the record, at the moment, the individual posts are still up there – we're not trying to hide anything, just perform a little damage limitation whilst we get this in hand. If you'd prefer us to take them down or credit the posts – please let me know and we'll be happy to assist.
Hopefully that helps go some way to explaining how this situation has come about.
Are they sending cake? I would send cake.
Very entertaining and totally justified. Great work!
Maybe they could decorate the cake with little red faced people? (We would give them a discount on our team building activity that teaches peeps how to do team portraits in sugar icing.)
Just so you know…this was not the only blog post they stole from you…or elsewhere. Or perhaps I should say, not the only blog post the former employee of Cube3 stole from you. There are more…
I think cake would make everything better. A vote for cake is a vote for reconciliation.
very cool response – love it
Our response: http://blog.cube3marketing.com/2012/02/03/our-response/
Again, apologies…this is not representative of 'us' as a company but one person who was swiftly 'de-Cubed' from our team.
If the 'EX -Employee' could learn anything at all from his venture.. it should be this.."It's hard to steal somebody's shoes while they are wearing them and not have them notice".. COCK!
Seen the apology and the revised blog post on cube3's site. Hats off for taking it on the chin and the rapid apology.
I still think it would be a lot better if the blog was reinstated in full – including the switched iamges – with a cautionary header appended as to the perils of hotlinking to images hosted elsewhere!
For what it's worth, I also think tha Attacat were very measured and proportionate in how they treated this incident. I can think of many and varied worse images that could have been used instead of the rather amusing ones that they used :o)
I'm just gonna leave this here…
I like the bit on his twitter where he says his views are his own! The guy's LinkedIn does say he's a "Google Advanced Search Qualified Prifessional", guess that's true! Shame he doesn't know much about hit linking images!
This was *my* favourite bit of his LI profile:
"I would consider myself to be ruthless and a stickler for best practice search implementation…nothing excites me more than good work."
Whose good work?
Looks like twitter.com/simon_jarrett no longer exists… perhaps he's closed it?
Perhaps this page may start to rank for his name on Google though…
Now that's funny.
Hmmm, not a great situation to find yourself in! For what it's worth, I've worked closely with Chris and the rest of the guys at Cube on a range of projects, this doesn't sound like something they would do, so the whole ex employee sounds a plausible reason – im sure they are more pissed than you are!!!!
Dang, I was not expecting that from Cube3! One of the biggest and best in Bolton before they moved into the Manchester.
Pretty awesome that they offered an apology anyway.
lol, though.
I would like to draw your attention to this. This will prove that SIMON JARRETT WILLIAMS' plagiarising goes beyond you guys. (see links and compare VERBATIM!)
Dr Pete will i am sure be interested to know his stuff is being ripped off too.
SIMON JARRETT WILLIAMS was employed by us for just 6 weeks in early 2011. All our employment contracts stipulate clearly that plagiarism will not be tolerated in any way and will result in instant dismissal and possible further action.
Words in contracts though will not stop an individual like SIMON JARRETT WILLIAMS from stupidly trying to get away with this stuff.
People might say that we should have been more vigilant with a new employee, and in hindsight, maybe. But, we are a close knit team here, and until now have had no reason be threatened in anyway by this type of behaviour. If we have to resort to this way of working, we may have to consider nailing down our Macs to the desks, just incase an employee steals one of them.
Can anybody say that they have a foolproof way of stopping this happening to their company?
Basically he knew what he was doing, he knew it was wrong and thought that he would get away with it!
It upsets us all greatly that the reputation of Cube3 has been brought into question by the actions of one individual.
I do hope any more content created about this matter is directed at SIMON JARRETT WILLIAMS himself.. you will find him working at CARAT Manchester. Although It would appear he has deleted all his social network accounts!
Looks like you did the right thing by referencing the images in your blog using the FQDN, which caught them out. I have been through this only once and the DMCA process worked just fine. The chap wrote to me to say he was just "testing" (he is an SEO in Austria) and there was no need to have put him through the DMCA process. Great outcome.
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Well done guys, you are clearly well ahead of the game!
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Penn State Cooperative Extension, Penn State's College of Arts and Architecture, and Penn State Public Media come together to revamp green infrastructure sites as part of the Water Blues, Green Solutions Stormwater Management Project.
Wilson Lee, a junior in Penn State's landscape architecture program, wiped the sweat and dirt from his brow under a hot October sun.
Along a busy street in the heart of central Philadelphia, Lee joined a group of other Penn State students, staff, and community volunteers to revamp two green infrastructure sites in the city he calls home.
"I've been around central Philly a lot and have seen places similar to this throughout the city," Lee said. "Everyone who has walked by has been appreciative of what we're doing."
Lee, his peers, and nearly 40 other volunteers participated in the Water Blues, Green Solutions Stormwater Management Project this past October.
"It's nice to come in and rehabilitate my community with projects and rain gardens like this."—Wilson Lee
The initiative was coordinated by Penn State Cooperative Extension, Penn State's College of Arts and Architecture, and Penn State Public Media.
Organizers from Penn State met with the Philadelphia Water Department in June to discuss possible partnerships, touring the sites that eventually would be revamped in this project.
"I was approached with the idea of doing a year-long research project with the sites on Lancaster Avenue, and I loved it," said Tommy McCann, urban agriculture coordinator and horticulture educator with Penn State Extension.
"I was meeting with Public Media to pitch another idea, actually, and decided instead to run with the Lancaster Avenue project. It took a lot of doing, but has come out wonderful."
"I feel inspired. Putting all my classes together and realizing everything I've learned is applicable to real life, it feels good."—Jamie Milletary
McCann led the students and volunteers in rebuilding two pre-existing green infrastructure sites: a rain garden and a stormwater bump-out.
These features are intended to capture and absorb stormwater, decreasing polluted runoff while also beautifying the cityscape. Both were drastically overgrown.
"The two sites we worked on weren't functioning properly. So we fixed them, prettied them up, mulched, planted — the whole shebang. I had a great time and loved seeing students get involved, especially in Philadelphia," McCann said.
Lee, president of the Landscape Architecture Student Society and aspiring urban designer, was a natural fit for the project.
For Jamie Milletary, a senior landscape contracting major, the project provided an opportunity to explore new options in her field.
"Seeing everything come together has been such an experience of self-realization for me," she said. "I've met wonderful people today and this has me excited for what I want to do after college."
Saturday's community project, funded by Subaru of America, was part of an outreach effort for Penn State Public Media's documentary "Water Blues, Green Solutions," which aims to encourage public education and awareness of green infrastructure.
Philadelphia is one of four cities featured in the film, as it is using environmentally friendly techniques to tackle the most pressing water challenges in the United States.


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TheDarkOrc10 - Wednesday 16/06/2010, 00:04
Hero - Dark Order of Assassins
Hey I am new and the clans like nightmare and prianna seem overpowered even against montana, how does one deal with sob? Of the pussy cats who is better jen or noemie? And finally why is it bad to have 5 stars in elo? It just means more 2 and 3 stars and unlike type 1 you dont get penalised for having 5 stars in your deck when you win. For a split deck is 4/4 best or is 5/3 best? Finally are leaders overated? They have one me the odd battle but they are pritty pathetic at fitting with no decent ability for themselves or clan bonus, yes they help your other dudes but its like playing with a man down. Is pussy cats and jungo a good combo? What about pussy cats and Montana?
Dealing with SoB? easy, use cards that have SoB ability like rescue's Kerry, Lea, or Sledg with his protection, montana has Edd, he does good against Nightmare and Piranas... Noemi is great... it is not bad to have 5* in elo, but if You put 5*, You have to put a couple of 2*/3* also... 4/4 split is usually best, but sometimes it is wise to use 5/3, when we want to have 1 clans bonus more often, and the 3 cards of other clan can be played without their bonus (I use 5/3 split in decks with sentinel Copper, Melvin, Lehane)... Leaders sometimes are the key in strategic playing, but building and playing a deck around leader needs a little experience and good deck idea... lets say Ambre + Glorg, Oshitsune, Caelus? simple idea, devastating power, but if You put Caelus and Ambre in 1 deck, You have only 15* for the 6 remaining cards, wich is pretty painfull... pusycats/jungo is good combo, especially with Sylth or well played Nyema, but playing this kind of deck requies experience, I dont advise using it until You get a hang of the game... to start with elo, I suggest using SoB or SoA clan bonus, or Rescue, they are very strong for beginers
TheDarkOrc10 - Wednesday 16/06/2010, 15:29
Hero - Dark Order of Assassins
Thanks for the feedback. I apologise for the spelling I meant won not "one" and leaders are not good for fighting not fitting!
TheDarkOrc10 - Wednesday 16/06/2010, 15:35
Hero - Dark Order of Assassins
One point If I use a card with the ability sob they use soa and then I am beat, there are not many good cards with sob in montana or in general in most clans, so you can only have 1 or two max per deck and they usually rely on courage, which is not helpful.
ThatPerson - Wednesday 16/06/2010, 15:41
Mmm the problem you have is that Montana rely on their bonus, so that whenever SoB pops up, they usually don't take it well. (Hence why Edd is such a great card).
You mean Jeyn or Noemi right?
Noemi is 3*, so if you need any extra space go with her. (Sorry, not really expert on Pussycats)
Using 5* or 4* depends on your deck. Montana has the 2*s to definitely use them, but their 4*s are more reliable than 5*s. Also think about it this way: What's the WORST draw you can get from your deck? Always think about that too.
Leaders are not overrated. Unless you're using Rescue (And even then you might make a case for Hugo), Leaders always help. And really. you think it's playing man down? Most leaders have at least 7 Power, and their abilities CAN'T be stopped. (think about their bonus as Protection: Ability). Besides, Leaders help take down a clan's largest weakness.
I see you're a Pussycats fan? Well Jungo plays well with Pussycats. They have a great DR with Pegh, 2 Poisons (though one is banned nearly every week), and many cards whose abilities increase your life + the bonus.
Now Pussycats and Montana, i don't know. There isn't much synergy between the two clans IMO, but who knows? Maybe the DR in Pussycats is enough to overcome the low damage on both ends.
And yes it's true. Montana lacks a good SoA/SoB. Though that never stops a Hugo-Montana deck from being played nearly every ELO week.
TheDarkOrc10 - Wednesday 16/06/2010, 16:04
Hero - Dark Order of Assassins
Well an equal power card with a bonus or ability + x attack or + x power or -x opponent attack, - x opponent power beats them easily and if they have used those cards up or they may just ditch their weakest card or use a damage reducer, so when i SAY a man down I mean a leader doesent win in combat that much, they help your other cards to win, but its hard trying to win with only 3 cards.


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Monday, April 26, 2010
Newspaper clipping about Fort Sullivan, Eastport, Moose Island, Maine, probably from the late 1870s.
See images of a 12 page booklet published by the 48th Congress, First Session, regarding the disposition of Fort Sullivan, with folded map, here.
Passing of a Fort
Eastport's Old Fort Sullivan to Be Divided Up Into Building Lots and Sold
Eastport, Me. May 19 -- One of Eastport's oldest and most prominent landmarks narrowly escaped going up in smoke recently during a storm, and while a heavy wind was blowing.
Fire was discovered coming through the roof of the old-time building on Fort Sullivan, where several families live, and a large crowd soon collected, including members of the fire department, who rendered valuable aid in getting the fire under control and saving the building. The damage was small, and the former Government building that was at one time occupied by the English soldiers is yet prominent on the high ground.
Fort Sullivan, on which the above building stands, was built by the United States Government in 1808, the result of the embargo act passed by Congress in 1807, and it is supposed that the old fort was named in honor of Gov. Sullivan. It was during his administration that the Batterman act was passed, which gave settlers at that time, who had no title, a fair compensation for improvements or betterments. The Government turned its attention to the fortifying of Eastport, or Moose Island, as it was called, in the spring of 1807, and in April of the following year instructions came from the Government for Col. Lemuel Trescott, then Collector of Customs at Machias, to build the proposed fort here. It is known that he purchased for $180 three acres of land on Clark's hill and the earth works were soon begun, to be followed by the necessary buildings. A crescent battery of stone mason work was completed which was laid in lime 11 feet thick, and sods six and one-half feet thick laid on top, making the platform for the cannon. A block-house was built near of pine timber, two stories high and having walls 14 inches thick.
They also constructed a magazine 10 feet square, the walls two feet thick and the roof arched. A company of United States Artillery arrived in Passamaquoddy Bay on the warship Wasp, and the garrison was first commended [commanded?] by Capt. Moses Swett, four 18-pounders being mounted.
During the War of 1812, the place was occupied and some time later a fleet of English men-of-war arrived in the harbor and soon took possession of Fort Sullivan, which they held up to the close of the troubles. It is said that most of the buildings on the fort, of which the above-mentioned is one, were built by the British at that time, who improved the fortifications began by the American Government and many buried timbers are yet to be seen on the fort and near the building now standing. American soldiers were stationed at Fort Sullivan at intervals up to 1875, when they were ordered away by the Government and since that time the houses have been occupied mostly by the poorer residents of the city.
Last year a careful survey of the fort property was made and it was divided into lots that will probably be sold at public auction at an early date, when the present buildings will be hauled away and the frontier fortifications of 100 years ago will disappear.
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The Border Historical Society in Eastport has a photo of Fort Sullivan that's captioned "survey of fort in 1900", so this article may be from 1901.ReplyDelete
Thanks for your comment - and your work with preserving old forts! The reference to breaking the grounds up into lots makes me think that the article is from the late 1870s or 1880s. This was spelled out (with maps) in a printed enclosure in the volume of the 48th Congress, First Session. http://eastportmainewarof1812.ning.com/page/history-of-fort-sullivanReplyDelete
Thanks to the interest of American Forts Network and others, I've scanned the pages of the 12 page booklet and stitched together images of the large folded map within. http://eastportmainewarof1812.ning.com/page/48th-congress-1st-session-disposition-of-fort-sullivan-eastport-mReplyDelete


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Some Old Guy Can't Come Up With Any New Ideas; So He Says There Are No New Ideas & It's Twitter's Fault
from the is-this-crap-worth-publishing? deptQuite a week for the luddites out there. First we get Rob Levine's silly screed about the internet killing off a bunch of industries that are actually thriving. And now we have the NY Times publishing absolute tripe from Neal Gabler, bizarrely and ridiculously claiming that the age of "big ideas" is over, and it's all the fault of Twitter and Facebook. It's incredible that the NY Times would publish such absolute garbage. Nowhere does Gabler actually support his thesis.
It's yet another example of "back in the old days" mythological thinking, where someone, who only remembers the "highlights" of a bygone era, is upset that there's a lot of other stuff going on in the modern era as well. Gabler points to a bunch of "big thinkers" from the past -- Einstein, Carl Sagan, Stephen Jay Gould, Betty Friedan and others. And then insists that no one like that is showing up today -- or if they are, they're being ignored. This is, plainly speaking, ridiculous. He points to Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and Jonathan Haidt as "big thinkers" of today who are mostly ignored. Really?!? All three are pretty widely known, and I'd bet are pretty much equally known in the world as his initial list at similar points in their life and career. Gabler just seems to have an arbitrary standard of how well known certain "big thinkers" are.
The real crux of Gabler's argument appears to be that we're all doing too much of that tweeting and stuff, such that we no longer have time to think. And his scientific evidence to back this up is... oh look, absolutely nothing.
It is certainly no accident that the post-idea world has sprung up alongside the social networking world. Even though there are sites and blogs dedicated to ideas, Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Flickr, etc., the most popular sites on the Web, are basically information exchanges, designed to feed the insatiable information hunger, though this is hardly the kind of information that generates ideas. It is largely useless except insofar as it makes the possessor of the information feel, well, informed. Of course, one could argue that these sites are no different than conversation was for previous generations, and that conversation seldom generated big ideas either, and one would be right.Can't there just be a rule? If you ever trash Twitter because someone tweets about eating a sandwich for lunch, we all just agree that person is too clueless to listen to any more? That tired old line has been used so often and the only thing it shows is one's ignorance of Twitter.
BUT the analogy isn�t perfect. For one thing, social networking sites are the primary form of communication among young people, and they are supplanting print, which is where ideas have typically gestated. For another, social networking sites engender habits of mind that are inimical to the kind of deliberate discourse that gives rise to ideas. Instead of theories, hypotheses and grand arguments, we get instant 140-character tweets about eating a sandwich or watching a TV show. While social networking may enlarge one�s circle and even introduce one to strangers, this is not the same thing as enlarging one�s intellectual universe. Indeed, the gab of social networking tends to shrink one�s universe to oneself and one�s friends, while thoughts organized in words, whether online or on the page, enlarge one�s focus.
But more to the point, Gabler is reminiscing about a world that never existed. "Instead of theories, hypotheses and grand arguments, we get instant 140-character tweets about eating a sandwich or watching a TV show." And in what world did millions of people sit around and discuss theories, hypotheses and grand arguments? Sure there are some places where some people did that, and they still do. In fact, those "theories, hypotheses and grand arguments" appear to happen much more frequently, in much more detail and with a wider audience online these days. I often find out about them via the smart people I follow on Twitter.
And while social media may not have enlarged Gabler's intellectual universe, it has massively enlarged mine. Thanks to Twitter specifically, I've been able to meet tons of fascinatingly smart people I never would have met otherwise. Sure, not all of it is brilliant talk, but Gabler seems to make the same fundamental error that so many "back in my day" people make: which is to assume that because a tool can be used for random conversation that somehow cancels out intelligent conversation. I can talk about the sandwich I ate for lunch and I can discuss big intellectually stimulating ideas.
But Gabler seems to have this view that because some people discuss stuff he finds beneath him, they can't possibly also be discussing important stuff. He also seems to ignore that back in his mythical "good old days" people discussed equally as ridiculous things:
The collection itself is exhausting: what each of our friends is doing at that particular moment and then the next moment and the next one; who Jennifer Aniston is dating right now; which video is going viral on YouTube this hour; what Princess Letizia or Kate Middleton is wearing that day. In effect, we are living within the nimbus of an informational Gresham�s law in which trivial information pushes out significant information, but it is also an ideational Gresham�s law in which information, trivial or not, pushes out ideas.If Gabler thinks that there wasn't similar gossip and banal discussions back when he wasn't an old man screaming at kids on his lawn, he apparently wasn't paying very close attention to what the people around him were discussing. There are plenty of "big ideas" out there, contrary to Gabler's claim, but the only really stupid one I've seen lately is this one... from Gabler. With that I'm going back to reading some more interesting and thought provoking ideas... which I most likely found on Twitter.
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It's an open, collaborative project allowing anyone to search, convert, analyze, or store data from molecular modeling, chemistry, solid-state materials, biochemistry, or related areas.
As well as a GUI, use "snap info openbabel" to list the command-line programs.
Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
On Arch Linux, snap can be installed from the Arch User Repository (AUR).
The manual build process is the Arch-supported
install method for AUR packages, and you'll need the prerequisites
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makepkg -si
Once installed, the systemd unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled:
To enable classic snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between /var/lib/snapd/snap and /snap:
Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap's paths are updated correctly.
To install Open Babel, simply use the following command:
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Are you ready for an exotic, adventurous, freaky, funny, and yet delicious food tour? You are going to explore a wide variety of foods that you have never thought of tasting before. Some of you may have never even heard of these foods! They are, however, the favorite foods of millions of people worldwide! Aren't you curious about why others love these foods so much? Is it because of their taste or nutritional benefits? Are you daring enough to explore them yourself? Do you want to see your friends, family, or fellow tourists' funky facial expressions as they try new exotic foods? Furthermore, we are going to have a little food eating competition and give a prize to the fastest chicken foot eater!
Here is your freaky food list:
1. Durian - "king of fruits," the size of a basketball with a unique odor that people either love or hate, and formidable thorn-covered husk; its flesh tastes like a rich custard, highly flavored with almonds!
2. A variety of Asian snacks including dried fish, squid, super wasabi nuts, and preserved plums which are sweet, sour, and salty all at the same time.
3. Chicken feet with black bean sauce - light, moist, & tender; a must dim sum dish for Chinese people.
4. Rice with pig feet – soft and smooth!
5. Noodle soup with beef tendon stew – tender and chewy!
6. Congee with Thousand-year-old egg – Not actually a thousand years old, but fermented for a week or even a month. The yolk is dark green & creamy and the white is dark brown & like jelly.
7. Tofu Brain - The popular Chinese traditional dessert!
You are also going to visit:
a meat market where you can find crocodile legs
a Chinese herbal shop where you will see a bunch of rare dried seafood including sea cucumbers, seahorses, and shark fins.
This freaky tour is not only about food tastings but also about having a hilarious time with your friends, family and/or fellow tourists. Come join us today for an adventurous food tour for only $65. All tastings are included.
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Wear comfortable shoes and clothing.
Takes place rain or shine.
Some are taste on the go and some are seated. There should be plenty of food to eat. Note: food tastings are subject to change without notice.
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It is standard to give a 15% tip in New York City especially if you enjoyed the tour.
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Location: 220 Canal St, New York, NY 10013