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Posted by Smokey Stover on February 08, 2004
In Reply to: Spat out? posted by Dr. Minor on February 07, 2004
: : : : : : : where did the phrase "chewed my a s s out" come from?
: : : : : : I don't know. But I can tell you that one reference says it dates back to 1946 and originated in the U.S. ("Oxford Dictionary of Slang" by John Ayto (Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York, 1999)
: : : : : : I'm going to guess that it refers to some drill sergeant who was chewing on a soldier like a dog chews on someone.
: : : : : "I heard that every expression ever used originated in the USA, whether in English (misnoma), Spanish (New Mexico), French (Cajuns), German & Dutch (Noo Yoirk). I am surprised that the world even existed before 1492, let alone spoke."+
: : : : : When common-place expression uses simple words in an obvious context, I think it unlikely that it took until 1946 for anybody to use it.
: : : : : + from "If I ruled the word" Chapter 2 of the collected musings of Li Yar with a forward by William Shakespeare.
: : : : The usual practice of this type of reference book is to assign a date based on the first use of the expression in print.
: : : Everybody's right, including Li Yar, but someone neglected to say (I think) that the addition of "my ass" is supererogatory, just an attempt to be more emphatic by being more vulgar. I'm a bit surprised that the Oxford Dictionary of Slang has a leg up on the OED, which could only find a citation from 1948. The transition from chew something to chew someone is not a difficult one to make, but I can't honestly say that I remember hearing "chew out" before WW II. The OED gives a citation from "c1230" of chewed used to mean "to worry with reproaches." As for the apparent hegemony of American slang, I think Li Yar is well suited to study the subject, or at least brainstorm it, and report back to the rest of us. I'm not trying to belittle the idea; it would not have occurred to Li Yar without some reason. So what's the reality? I would point out that what we call standard English is riddled with expressions which were once slang or obnoxious cliches (and brought to North America from Britain), and have since won a permanent place in the mother tongue. SS
: : A common usage of giving somebody a verbal going-over is to use the metaphor of chewing - for example (without any sexual allusions) one can say "She chewed him up and spat him out!" meaning that the person overcame and dominated with ease.
: : With good scanning, eventually most of the written word may be contained in a database, but that is a very difficult task as much that is written was not created using fixed type. The question of establishing original use is very difficult, but despite this, caution should be exercised as to fairly recent 'first usage' with commonplace words. If one only has American literature from 1950 in the database then first use will not be earlier or from elsewhere - it requires a comprehensive survey to have any meaning whatsoever. To me, it appears entirely misleading to cite first use based upon inadequate data, especially citing American usages - America has only had a few hundred years to create a canon of the written word whereas the words within English have been in use for perhaps 1,300 years in written form (albeit that latin was the scholars medium). The Old World has many centuries of opportunity for combinations of words to be used and thus it appears ridiculously Americocentric to give citations without explaining the breadth of the sources analysed.
: : I'm not anti-American, simply want the truth not self-agrandising cultural propaganda.
: : It's bad enough that the outrageously over-priced Starbucks replace local cafes without cultural domination replacing truth. Braveheart was 'true', Titanic was 'true', The Patriot was 'true' and Independence Day was 'true' - they were all 'true' because they were 'based on a true story' (although I'm not quite sure about Titanic, which seemed a bit far-fetched.
: : As I have posted before - let entertainment be entertainment and history be mundane if that is what truth requires. What we seek on this site is what is known, plus debate and stimulating ideas - what doesn't contribute to that is ill-considered reference to inadequate external sources.
: But the 'inadequate external source' in question is British?
"She chewed him up and spat him out!" There are some phrases or sentences that are not ambiguous at all, like "chew out" (= "scold," or as it is said in some parts, "scold out"), and others that really require some context. My take on "chew up and spit out" is that if it is a she doing it, she is probably someone who might be said to "devour men." If it is a he, then it is doubtless a boss or some authority figure. In either case, it is someone forceful and dominating enough to shrivel the self-esteem of the one spat out. There could be scolding, but only incidentally if at all.
I feel I should make some sort of response to Li Yar because his comments straddle mine. If I have understood him, he feels that the American phrase-heads are indulging in the same self-aggrandizing cultural propaganda as, say, the present national Administration, or the corporations engaging in globalization. I'm not sure I understand cultural propaganda as opposed to, say, political propaganda or cultural invasion. We North Americans are admittedly a somewhat insular people, since we live on a very large island, connected by a sort of causeway to another large island, but separated from the rest of the world by big oceans. So we give a lot of attention to the idiosyncrasies of American English and its slang. But are the Americans who contribute to this site really word-chauvinists, or language-chauvinists? If so, let us be told so by our fellow English speakers from elsewhere-with examples, please!
The other point of Li Yar is, I think, that the contributions of the present crowd of phrase-heads (who sometimes demonstrate a sense of humor verging on the raucous) are often careless and lacking in scholarly precision. Actually, this message board (the Discussion Forum) is only one of the parts of the complete site, and doesn't compete with the more serious parts, which are edited by Gary, the Webmaster of the site. If Gary wants to, he can make us all shape up or ship out. SS
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NBC's first recipient of "Saturday Night Live" star Leslie Jones' burst of energy is late-night, or early-morning, host Ryan Seacrest.
Hurriedly brought to Rio de Janeiro after her fan-girl social media posts about the games became an Internet hit, Jones is bringing the same enthusiasm in person. She jumps up and down in excitement meeting Shaun White, bursts into tears seeing Simone Biles and trades Olympic pins with Kerri Walsh Jennings. She's excited to meet people who are probably just as thrilled to meet her.
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We know that Jacques Bunel was born Lucien Bunel but we know remarkably little else about his childhood. We know that he became a Roman Catholic priest and member of the Carmelite order and took the name Jacques de Jesus.Jacques served as a minister of the Faith he confessed and loved by becoming headmaster of a school in Avon, France. This school was known as Petit Collège Sainte-Thérèse de l' Enfant-Jésus. From this refuge he would engage in the activities that make him laudable but also cost him his life. As the Nazi scourge swept through Europe, Jacques found a way to resist the Nazi empire nonviolently and in a way that would save lives. Jacques began his revolutionary life saving by offering three spots at his school to three Jewish boys whom he helped assume false identities and names. These three boys were named Hans-Helmut Michel, Jacques-France Halpern, and Maurice Schlosser and would be part of the reason that the Nazis would eventually murder Jacques. Had Jacques known that protecting these three boys would cost him his life it seems that he would have done it anyway. Unlike many other clerics and Christians, Jacques was not blind to the atrocities being perpetrated and was willing to risk everything to be on the side of the righteous and loving. Looking at the faces of the children he protected, Jacques knew he was offering refuge to his savior.
Jacques' sacred work did not end with the three students–like any holy work Jacques' life saving gathered momentum and soon pushed him onward toward more of the same. He found a way to shelter a boy named Maurice Bas by providing him with a job at the school and a new identity.Maurice Schlosser's father was running out of places to hide and so Jacques found a home in the village that would serve as a nearby but disconnected refuge for the man. Finally, he dared another sacred moment when he brought Lucien Weil–a famous Jewish botanist–onto the faculty of his school. Having brought at least six people within his protective power, he knew that it was only a time until the Nazis cracked down upon him. That day came on January 15, 1944 when the Gestapo arrested Jacques and the first three boys he protected. Within the next month they had arrested the others that Jacques had worked to hard to protect. All were shipped away to work and death camps. When told he was being arrested for disobeying the law, Jacques responded: "I know only one law: that of the Gospel and Charity."
The boys and Lucien Weil died in Auschwitz. Jacques was transferred from camp to camp before ending up in Mauthausen in May of 1945. Wherever he went he was known as optimistic and hopeful for liberation. Further, he encouraged his fellow prisoners to share their food and encourage each other. Often, he would go without food so that others might eat. This was near the end of the war and liberation was steadily coming to the camps as the Allied forces beat back the Nazi empire. When Mauthausen was liberated Jacques did a curious thing. He was suffering from tuberculosis and weighed less than 80 pounds when the liberating forces came but he insisted that the others be liberated first. He waited until he knew that all others had gone before him before he consented to be liberated from the hell that the Nazis had engineered for him and other innocents. He died from his illness before he ever made it back to France. His body was shipped back to the school he loved and buried on the grounds of the refuge God had gifted him so that he might try to protect others. Those whom Jacques protected were still murdered by those whom Jacques resisted but he offered love and protection as a testament to the right place of the Church in opposition to great evil. Jacques died a martyr whose death confessed greater allegiance to the Kingdom than to himself.
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I'm grateful for all the people in my life, who are constantly supporting me. To my boyfriend (you already know him) Mateo who is my photographer, life coach, my number one fan and biggest support ever! Thank you for always seeing the best in me, even though sometimes I don't deserve it. You are the best thing that happened to me! Love you! I couldn't be more happier for having the best family in the world! I mean, I'm so privileged to have three best friends without doing anything to deserve it, my two sisters and brother! Family really is everything. When everyone fails you, they will always be there! They will always love you, truly and unconditionally. So, don't act like a fool to your younger/older brother or sister. Take care of them, show them how much you love them and they will respond with so much love and care!
They say when you are older you are starting to have less friends. It's a part of growing up, knowing yourself and what you want from your friends. You don't have time for everyone, you can't just chill with people for the sake of chilling. You need friends who will be there when you need it, in good and bad situations. As everyone, I started with bunch of friends, but I ended up with few of them who are totally worth every minute of my time. I am lucky enough to know some of them for more than 15 years! Thank you, thank you and thank you for always being there!
Last, but not least I wanted to say huuge thank you!! For all of you that have been here from the beginning and for all of you that are here, reading me and supporting me. If there wasn't for you, I wouldn't be where I am know. I'm very grateful for every single one of you and I love you soo much! This was a big year for me! I learned to make priorities, real priorities, to turn down, people, events, brands.. I found out who my real friends are. And when I look back, I can't believe it was only just a year! When I remember certain situations, I can't believe how small and insecure I was and I'm so happy to be where am I and I'm super excited to see what adventures are waiting for me as a 23 year old lady. I'm ready! Cheers and don't forget to take an extra shot if you are going out tonight, it's maa birthday!!


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MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) � A 21-year-old New Hampshire man has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for kidnapping and torturing a teenage boy .
WMUR-TV reports (http://bit.ly/V2arlb ) that Ismael Bangs of Manchester told the court on Thursday that he wanted to apologize to the boy and was embarrassed and disgusted by his actions.
Police say Bangs stripped his victim, burned him with a hot knife and glued his lips shut in July 2011. Police say the assault was recorded by cell-phone video.
Bangs' co-defendant Yvens Luclaise was found guilty last year of being an accomplice and sentenced to a minimum of 10 years in prison.
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John C. Reilly, a wise mentor trying to help a troubled teen through a difficult coming of age? Really?
Really. Reilly, who's specialized in headlining big, broad comedies in recent years, continues his foray into smaller, more nuanced yet still funny films ("Cyrus," "Cedar Rapids") with "Terri," the engaging story of an overweight, frequently pajama-clad student struggling to cope with his difficult high school years. As the concerned, chatty vice principal whose own life isn't so together, Reilly delivers a vivid yet amusing turn as the well-meaning but decidedly imperfect adult trying to reach out to a kid in crisis.
It was a story he could easily related to, he tells PopcornBiz.
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"I remember what it was like to be in high school and to feel kind of like an odd kid," Reilly recalls. "I was doing plays and singing in the chorus at a school that prided itself on sports, so that was kind of an odd thing to be doing. Then I also remember all the different mentors that I've had through my life. The relationship between Terri and Mr. Fitzgerald felt a lot like some of the relationships that I've had with different mentors over the years. If you're really being honest with each other, age really doesn't have anything to do with it. We're all just human beings trying to sort out our time on this earth."
The actor, who would go on to be both Oscar- and Grammy-nominated (for "Chicago" and "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" respectively), says he was able to navigate his own outsider experience with the help of adults who took an interest in his ambitions.
"I felt such encouragement in what I was doing," he affirms. "Before I was even doing movies, before I dreamed I could be in a movie, there were all kinds of people along the way – drama teachers and chorus leaders and vocal coaches and people like that – who were really encouraging and made me believe in myself before I really believed it of myself. They believed in me. You have to do something that makes you feel good that you feel like you're good at, that you can you find success in no matter what it is and just know that the top of food chain in high school ends at graduation, pretty much. It's a big reshuffling of the cards once you leave high school."
Upon venturing into Hollywood, says Reilly, he also benefitted from the support given to him by a certain emerging acting icon on his earliest film projects, beginning with 1989's "Casualties of War." "He's not much older than me, but Sean Penn was a big role model for me when I started out," he reveals. "I did my first three movies with him. I was lucky to have people like him, Robert De Niro ["We're No Angels"], Robert Duvall ["Days of Thunder"], Ed Harris ["State of Grace"] – a lot of pretty amazing people for my first few movies, but Sean, especially. He was an early champion of mine who spoke up for me behind closed doors when things were being cast. He never lorded it over me. It's not like I had to be his boy as a result, but he just respected me for what I could do as an actor. He let people know, 'Hey, this guy has something to give,' and I'll be eternally grateful to him for that."
With "Terri," Reilly came full circle, trying to set an example for the fresh, promising ensemble of young actors (Jacob Wysocki, Olivia Crociccia and Bridger Zadina), who re-energized him on set. "It's inspiring, that enthusiasm," he says. "It's contagious and it makes you realize, like, 'Wow, I should really appreciate every day I have while telling a story on a movie set.' These kids, some of them it was their first experience. It makes you reflect on what you were like at that age and it makes you think about what would be the perfect older person in your life at that time, how would they act."
"So I got to be the senior statesman, even though I still feel like on inside I'm a very young person."
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ESSAY- Jiffy feud: When the wars hits home
The man storms into the tranquil waiting room of Jiffy Lube where everyone is drinking coffee and quietly checking vehicular maintenance off to-do lists. He is a blur of Polo and chinos, rage pumping off his tanned skin like fever. "Who the hell do those anti-war stickers belong to?"
I glance around nervously. Next to the decals of our children's colleges are the following declarations: "Support Our Troops– Bring Them Home" and "Iraq is Arabic for Vietnam."
Hoo boy. Generally I avoid face-to-face confrontation the way other people duck intense physical pain. Everyone is pretending to be reading. (Everyone that is, except for my chronically oblivious husband. He really is reading.)
Nobody says anything. My pulse begins tapping Morse code against my wrists. Run, it says. Run!
Something, I'm not sure what, compels me to stand up for the aged and bubbled convictions on my fender. "I guess that would be us."
He spins around. And lets loose with a fusillade of contempt. He's not obviously insane (he doesn't have those crazy eyes), but he could definitely pass. "What the hell do you know about Iraq?" he demands.
Enough to know that it's pretty ironic that this discussion is taking place during an oil change, I think. Out loud I reach for Southern decorum and smile. "Excuse me?"
"You people make me sick!"
My husband lowers his magazine. (Finally.)Despite asking for it, I feel blindsided by the man's hatred. My hands begin shaking. A tidal wave of coffee sloshes over the rim of my cup. I have to put it down.
"What gives you the right to drive around with those things on your car?" he badgers.
"The First Amendment," my spouse answers calmly.
"You ought to be ashamed!" the guy shouts. "Have you been over there?"
"What does that have to do with opposing the war?" I ask, hands clasped. Tightly.
"You should be thanking all the soldiers who are fighting for your freedom!"
"What are you talking about?" I sputter. "Those poor kids aren't fighting for my freedom!"
"They're protecting you!"
"No they're not! The Iraqis didn't attack us on 9/11! The suicide bombers were mostly Saudis!"
"You ought to try getting your information from places other than Moveon.org and the DNC," he sneers, nastiness coating each word.
"Like where?" I ask. "Rush Limbaugh?" I find I'm actually starting to warm to the fight.
So, it appears, is my husband. When Bush's smirk conveniently appears on the courtesy TV in the corner, my spouse points. "We get our information from him, that idiot with the IQ of 50."
The man is incensed by the disrespect. "The president went to Yale!"
"Yeah, his daddy bought him an Ivy League degree," my spouse shoots back. "Big deal."
The guy snorts. "How about Kerry! You like him? He put himself up for his own Medal of Freedom!" The Swiftboat-ism is followed by, "If you haven't been over to Iraq, you don't understand their culture. Have you been to Iraq?"
"No," I say. Then I stupidly add, "Have you?"
"Yes, I have!"
"So understanding their culture means we should bomb them?" asks my spouse.
Point! I think, getting over my temporary oratorical misstep.
"My son was killed over there," the man yells.
The air gets sucked out of the room, an implosion. Everyone shifts uncomfortably, the silent observers waiting to see what happens next. My face burns.
"That's terrible." I whisper. "I'm so sorry."
"I don't need your sympathy," he swats my words. "My son killed– I mean was killed– doing something he believed in."
"I'm glad he believed in what he was doing," I offer quietly.
Again he waves me away and plows forward. My husband and I do our best to disengage, but the barrage continues. I try to be understanding and make allowances. He is clearly consumed with grief and anger, I tell myself. He is another casualty. "Your son's death– and all the others– are why we're against the war," I say.
He sneers something ugly. The mechanic calls him outside. I mutter a name under my breath.
And I don't feel bad.
When the door closes, the other customers express outrage at his behavior. One says his own son, a high school senior, keeps getting called by a Marine recruiter– and it's making him nervous.
I tell him when the recruiters phoned my son, I told them not to call again. "You've got to be careful. As soon as they get them to enlist, the kids are stuck. And now their tours are being extended. The finish line keeps getting moved."
Another man nods in agreement. "The only thing sure about military service is the day you sign."
"Were you in?" I ask.
"Twenty years."
I wave towards the waiting room and the Middle East beyond. "What do you think about all this?"
He shakes his head. "It's an ongoing tragedy."
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I'm building a physics simulator for a graphics course, and so far I have it implementing gravitational and Coulomb forces. I want to add collisions next, but I'm not exactly sure how to go about doing it.
A quick summary of how this is working so far is: All objects are spheres of a set radius, mass and charge. The mass's and charges of the spheres are treated as point charge/mass for the calculation. Every step in time (about 1/50th of a second) the forces acting on each object are calculated in a nice big nested for loop that figures out the coloumb and gravitational force between 2 objects, for every set of 2 objects, and then they are summed together. I use this net force to determine the acceleration, and the rest is fairly obvious from there.
What I want to add in is collisions. I can deteremine pretty easily if a collision is happening (if the distance between them <= radius of one + radius of other), what I am not so certain of is how I should add in the collision force (and would need to do it component wise). I want elastic collisions, though for now I'd just be happy with getting conservation of momentum
The information I have easily available are: the velocity of each object (and I mean velocity, speed and direction), the position of each object, the mass/charge (charge obviously not needed here) and the Net force calculated so far for each object for the next step in time. I dont need exact formulas (would prefer if they arent exact), just need a nudge in the right direction.


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The US national team managed to stretch Ghana to extra time, but the marks are bound to be punitive after the youngest team in the field sent the Red, White & Blue home by making them look green.
Tim Howard (4.5) - He would tell you he should have had both goals, so we'll do the same. Howard was slow to get low on the short side opener and ducked under the winner, clearly the greater crime. In between these events, he was perfectly fine.
Steve Cherundolo (4) - The veteran was as poor in this game as he was outstanding in the first three. Cherundolo had more than a half dozen nice 'n easy chances to cross and only his last serve was useful. He had a few troubles in defense as well.
Jay DeMerit (4.5) - The center back was again sloppy early. With Clark rallying in support, he should have stepped up to the shooter on the opener. DeMerit was also again fantastic in the second half, including a terrific low cross interception. In extras, he went back to poor, failing to offer Bocanegra proper support on the Gyan winner.
Carlos Bocanegra (5) - Up until being schooled by his Rennes teammate on the fatal goal, the skipper had mostly kept things very tidy in his bubble, even if his passing was sub-par. After that error, he looked a little tame and squandered a great last gasp chance to cross.
Jonathan Bornstein (6.5) - In the first half, the Chivas USA man was extremely timid in the defensive lines taken to ball carriers and got beat a couple times early. After the break, he was extremely solid and managed to wiggle a couple of dangerous balls into the area.
Michael Bradley (5) - Like Cherundolo, the central midfielder had easily his worst World Cup 2010 showing against Ghana. It wasn't so much awful as just very disappointing. Both his outlet passes and area raids fell flat, but he did make some defensive plays.
Ricardo Clark (4) - It's a little difficult to hammer him too hard, if only because he barely made the half hour. If Clark looked tentative before the turnover that led to Ghana's opener and a quick yellow card, he looked even more so after.
Landon Donovan (5.5) - His clever touch released Dempsey for the penalty reward and he pinged the spot kick in off the post. This all happened to cap the best period Donovan enjoyed, from halftime to the goal. Before and after that he was all but invisible when he wasn't applying a poor touch. In other words, the scoring sequence raised his grade considerably.
Clint Dempsey (8) - If anyone out there doesn't have Deuce as their U.S. top performer, I want to check if they've had any sleep. Dempsey was in the middle of nearly every positive American sequence, most notably to win the equalizing penalty.
Robbie Findley (4) - It was another so-so 45-minute outing overall, but he has to do better on the golden chance. Has. To.
Jozy Altidore (5) - The Tractor still plowed, but not as much and not to as great effect. His touches were also a bit shabbier, but he battled through it. Altidore also had a few very nice pressure relief passes, but the name of the game is finding your chance and he didn't.
Coach Bob Bradley (3) - Let me first say that I am actually being a little lenient on the coach because his most of his players simply didn't deliver. Now... where do I begin complaining? Restoring Findley to the line-up ended predictably, the Clark call was a misfire and again the team stumbled out of the blocks. The stumble lasted a good while, no doubt in part because of fatigue at elevation. His changes had some impact, but offered zero in the way of surprise to Ghana - they were ready for them. The bottom line against Ghana strikes at the heart of the same gripe I've had since Bradley married this empty bucket formation with patient, safe, opportunistic tactics early in his tenure. There wasn't enough impetus, enough imposition, enough daring. And most shockingly, there wasn't nearly enough fire in the bellies. I mean, at what point does the boss decide to begin a game with the personnel and approach that always is asked to rescue them in the second half? It's been a decent World Cup campaign for Bradley, but this was an ugly exit.
Maurice Edu (6.5) - There were a couple of hiccups, but the Rangers midfielder generally offered stifling ball pressure, plenty of starts forward and some prohibitive positioning. He wasn't great, but he was certainly good enough that many observers will wonder why he didn't start.
Benny Feilhaber (5.5) - His first 15 minutes or so were terrific, just the type of impact the boss wanted. From there, he floated out of the game, relegated mostly to the occasional hustle defensive play or traffic direction easy ball.
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John Barrett is a Texas farmer and environmental steward. He cares for his land so that it's here for generations to come. Now he fears removing the word "navigable" out of the Clean Water Act could prohibit him from doing his job.
American Farm Bureau recently launched a campaign called "Ditch the Rule." The goal is to prevent EPA from implementing what the group fears is too much overreach with proposed changes to the Clean Water Act.
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"The removal of that one word—navigable—puts every ditch that connects to a navigable water of the United States subject to EPA and Army Corps of Engineers regulation," says Barrett, who farms in San Patricio County.
EPA says a lot of these fears are simply assumptions, and the agency is now clearing up the muddy waters by cutting through confusion. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy told reporters on Tuesday this isn't true. With so much confusion about what the proposed changes would mean, she says she wants these false assumptions to be cleared up soon.
"The bottom line is with this proposal, if you weren't supposed to get a permit before, you don't need to get one now," she says. "That is the reality and that is what we need to talk about."
McCarthy is setting out on a Midwest farm tour this week, hearing farmers' and ranchers' concerns. She says Waters of the U.S., or WOTUS, isn't about restricting farmers; it's about protecting downstream water quality for everyone. And at the same time, ensuring that doesn't get in the way of allowing farmers to farm.
"And while there are some legitimate concerns with the rule, and ones we teed up ourselves with the rule to try and seek comment, we're hearing some concerns that really are, to put frankly, ludicrous," says McCarthy.
One concern Barrett has is with his ditches. He says after a heavy rain, water will sometimes top his creek bank, overflowing into a river. He fears under the proposed changes, the ditch would then be considered a Water of the U.S. and he couldn't touch it without permission from the EPA.
"We've been farming this water way behind me for many, many years," he says. "We have had no water quality problems. And they don't need to start calling it a water of the U.S., because it's not."
McCarthy says the assumption that all ditches would fall under EPA jurisdiction is false.
"For the first time ever, we're making it clear that we don't regulate all ditches," she says. "Again, we're just looking at what science tells us can have a significant impact on downstream water quality."
She says unlike what some in agriculture are saying, EPA isn't trying to control every body of water on farms.
"All normal farming practices are exempt, period," McCarthy explains. "We don't shrink current exemptions. We actually expand them."
For Barrett, however, it comes down to government overreach.
"The real issue is the EPA and the Corps are trying to expand their reach over row-crop farmers that grow grain and cotton and corn and whatever," he says. "The ruling doesn't have anything to do with pollution. It has to do with a regulatory power grab."


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One of my assignments for the recent American Library Association Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA was to cover the exhibit hall for American Libraries. I consider the time spent in the exhibits as an important part of my conference schedule. It's great to connect with the many different colleagues associated with the various vendors and to get a glimpse of new technology products and gather news about any important developments in the industry.
My summary of the exhibits appeared online and was included in the August 2012 print edition of American Libraries.
Interested buyers found tech products that press beyond established boundaries as well as those that enable bread-and-butter library activities in the Anaheim Convention Center during the 2012 ALA Annual Conference. Products ranged from discovery services that aim to deliver access to the universe of library collections to new library management systems bringing together print, electronic, and digital resources and ebook-delivery products for those in search of innovative, pragmatic solutions. Integration was a common theme: Business partnerships and technical APIs enabled products and services to blend into seamless patron interfaces. But with budgets tighter than ever, any tech product that saves libraries time and money deserves attention. [continue...]
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Travis Bounds, Jr.
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- Written by Mount Vernon Optic-Herald
Funeral services for Travis Bounds, Jr., age 65 of Hagansport, were at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 30, 2013 at Harvey Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Jack Culpepper, Sr. officiating.
Burial was at Hagansport Cemetery.
Mr. Bounds was born on Nov. 9, 1947 to Travis Duette Bounds, Sr. and Dorthey Crowston. He married Melba Ruth Stephens in Hagansport on June 25, 1966. He was a retired truck driver.
He died Friday, Aug. 23 in Seminole, Tex. He was preceded in death by his parents.
He is survived by his wife, Melba Bounds of Seminole; his sons, Randy Bounds of Seminole and Russell Bounds of Waxahachie; a daughter, Kristie Bounds Culpepper of Seminole; two sisters, Sandra Taylor of Hagansport and Linda Ruth Bethard of Daphne Prairie; eight grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Rocky Bounds, Randy Bounds, Russell Bounds, Jackie Culpepper, Jr., John Turner, and Joe Taylor. Stevie Cooper and Steven Jean were honorary pallbearers.


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Dinner Tonight: Roasted Chicken Salad with Crunch Recipe
Your source for quick recipe every single week day.
I return again and again to Barbara Kafka because her recipes are both straightforward and always flavorful. This recipe for chicken salad with crunch comes from Roasting: A Simple Art, and it's dynamic and also really easy to prepare. As you've probably guessed from the name of the cookbook, this recipe calls for chicken that has been roasted instead of simmered. Of course, Kafka doesn't roast lightly, and recommends cooking chicken breasts in an oven set to 500°F. The chicken comes out full of flavor, while still remaining surprisingly juicy.
The other interesting aspect of this recipe is that instead of using pulled or chopped chicken, the breast pieces are sliced. The cucumber and red pepper are also sliced, making for slightly different texture than most chicken salads. I think it works. The dressing adds a little acidity to the equation, and is easy to whip together. Kafka claims you can just eat this on a bed of lettuce, but I'm sucker for a good chicken salad sandwich.
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- Yield:4 people
- Active time: 30 minutes
- Total time:1 hour
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- 2 bone-in, skin-on chicken breasts
- 1 cucumber, peeled
- 1 large red pepper, stemmed, seeded, deribbed, cut into thin strips
- 4 tablespoons fresh mint, chopped
- 4 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 2 teaspoons ground cumin
- ½ cup mayonnaise
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 4 leaves romaine lettuce, thick stems discarded
- 8 slices of bread (ciabatta or sourdough are good)
Adjust oven rack to lower middle position and preheat oven to 500°F". Using a very sharp knife, cut the chicken breasts in half crosswise. Season with salt and pepper. Arrange pieces bone side down on a roasting pan that just fits them. Place in oven and cook for 10 minutes. Flip pieces carefully with a pair of 12-inch tongs. Cook for 10 more minutes. Meat should be cooked, and juices should run clear. If not, return to oven to finish cooking. When done, set aside and let cool completely.
When chicken is cool, remove skin with your hands and remove any bones. Cut lengthwise into thin strips.
Cut cucumber crosswise into thirds. Halve each third lengthwise, remove seeds with a spoon, and then slice into thin strips.
Gently toss sliced chicken, cucumber, red pepper, and mint in a medium-sized bowl. In a small bowl, whisk together lime juice, cumin, mayonnaise, salt, and pepper to taste. Pour ¾ of the dressing into the medium-sized bowl and gently mix. Taste, and then add more of the dressing if needed.
Top one slice of bread with a leaf of romaine, one cup of chicken salad, and another slice of bread. Repeat process three times. Serve with potato chips.
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For years we have maintained a running tally of features that our users would like to see added to the software. And the community has offered some excellent suggestions, many of which have been implemented as the software developers further. The list has gotten more than a little cumbersome, though, as it is now 40 pages long. So, we decided to close that discussion, and move the actual list over to this new thread. The entire list from the old thread is here, so all the ideas are still compiled into the list, which will hopefully make things easier to find. And you can post any new ideas you have here, and carry on with the discussion.
Please note that a wishlist feature being on the list does not mean it is being worked on, or that we even agree it is a good idea. We do carefully consider all suggestions, though! As always, implemented features will be removed from the list.
Media Import
3D Effects
3D Models
2D Effects
So an emotion publishing in this list. My view as beginner (see some ideas already there!)
- +1 for liquid/gas simulation
- +1 particles simulation: allow any 3D object to became a deflector
- particles simulation/general UI: use tabs for better separation of different options
- general UI: use tagging for better control of relations between effects
- effects: allow real 3d shatter of a shape
- UI: put xyz arrows in a corner when in true 3d, so to better understand directions
I've got some more ideas.
RAM preview for the NLE. I've mentioned this before but since it is not on the compilation list so I mention it again.
Allow the Roll edit tool to work on a cut/edit with a transition while preserving the transition position. Right now we have to delete the transition, do the roll, and then re-create the transition.
When you resize a transition duration, Hitfilm does not let us re-center the transition over the cut/edit. Probably because it thinks the transition is already centered. After a resize, it obviously is not centered. We have to drop the transition on the left/right event, and then we can pick it up and drop it centered. This just saves excess mouse fiddling.
To save us some time, when rendering an Image sequence (PNG/EXR) and the folder chosen already has the destination file format in it (PNG/EXR), give us an option to delete the existing files before render. This is like saying yes to overwrite for MP4 and other single file video output, but for image sequences.
Keyframe ability in the NLE. Sophisticated keyframing can be handled by the comp timeline. For all those times you just want to ramp an effect or start/stop it in the middle of an event just basic keyframing ability would be great. Even a popup dialog or something similar'ish the how the lifetime panel does things. Think music file on the NLE timeline, and many events spanning the music and events need some basic keyframes. Getting the proper bits of music into a respective comp because you need a simple keyframe is far from an easy task in Hitfilm.
This previous request, and on the list, was implemented in HF4 Update 1 but I have issue with the implementation. It effectively does a Ctrl+Home after every PageUp/Down press. That is a quick and dirty fix and is inconsistent with how other keyboard playback cursor moves operate. It should do a Ctrl+Home, or some other scroll, only when the playback cursor goes off screen. This is like if a word processor always scrolled the screen when moving up/down a line with the text entry caret. Yuk.
Grid Snapping would be great!
I noticed in AE the other day while watching a Video co pilot tutorial on creating an Earth zoom in, that when creating a comp, where ever you are on the time line in the comp, the time line ends up in the exact same spot on the nle time line. . I may be off on this but this could come in handy..
To me that would be top priority.
A keyboard shortcut or right-click context menu option to collapse a Composite Shot duration and/or size to match currently selected media.
@LIFE_LEADERSHIP - can you clarify what you mean exactly (or link to the video?)? After Effects doesn't have an NLE aspect.
@SimonKJones I pointed Ben at the relevant tutorial. What he's noticing is that the AE playhead position in consistent when switching between compositions and precomps.
Ah, I see. I can't decide whether that would be useful or annoying. It's rather contextual. Does AE make it a user pref?
I suppose in AE you're almost always working on a single shot, so the timeline being in the same place makes sense. In HitFilm projects are likely to be more complex or comprised of multiple shots, at which point it could be annoying.
Options menu toggle?
@SimonKJones I don't know if it's a user pref in AE or not but in Vegas it is whenever you're dealing with a keyframe timeline for an effect or pan/crop and yes it can be annoying when you forget to turn syncing off but luckily it's just a button in the window you're working in so it's quickly changed.
@Aladdin4d although Vegas's interface is fundamentally different from Hitfilm's. Vegas's "synch to timeline" button is a lifesaver, but, in Vegas you have one timeline open in the Project. In Hitfilm one could have multiple Composite Shot timelines and one Editor timeline. This is something that, if implemented, should be a toggle. For myself, I might be flipping between a 10 second embedded comp in a 30 second shot. Now, if my embedded comp starts at 0:0:15:0, obviously if I am at 0:0:17:0 and flip to the embed, the playhead can't go to 17 seconds on a 10 second clip, and I probably don't want the playhead on the last frame.
@Triem23 That was mostly a comment on how I get annoyed by my own stupidity when I forget to turn off sync to timeline but what you describe is pretty much the same annoyance. With sync enabled the playhead probably won't start out where you really want it to be a lot of the time.
On the other hand there's just as many times when sync to timeline is a lifesaver so if implemented at all it needs to be a quick and easy toggle. And I'll still be an idiot that forgets to turn it off
For me, this is a top priority. Having to enter small increments by typing numeric values on the keyboard is extremely tedious.
As an alternative to using a modifier key, perhaps implement this like Adobe does, i.e., mouse drag left or right = full increments / mouse drag up or down = finer increments.
@Aladdin4d I hear ya!
As long as we're also listing "top priorities," I would argue for XML import/export and a greater range of output options. These aren't actually important for my workflow, but changes to Hitfilm to help it "play well with others" will be vital to product growth. The number one complaint I see about Hitfilm on other sites and forums is lack of certain export formats.
My personal priorities would be for some kind of multicam (I edit events. That's my sole "deal-breaker" on the editing side of Hitfilm.), point of interest camera targeting, parenting particle deflectors, forces and targets to points, spherical forces, and collision detection with models. Just to keep the list to five things.
Viewer Panel: Add a window control icon that toggles between normal size and full-screen size.
I want to be able to quickly assess the sequence I'm working on from the viewpoint of an audience member, i.e., full screen, without the distraction of all the other panels. (Almost full-screen would be fine - keep the transport controls etc visible).
Audio: increase range when dragging audio levels down from -60 dB to -90 dB to cover the entire dynamic range of 16-bit audio.
I'll put OMF export on the list, critical for collaborating with sound designers.
I really would like to be able to integrate HitFilm and Scratch. Getting those two to play together would be wonderful.
Regarding PBR, maybe instead of dedicating R&D to a rather large field of endeavor, enable integration with Cycles or TheaRender or Octane or something similar?
Not that I wouldn't like to see PBR in HitFilm, but integrating an already existing and fully supported renderer might be a more efficient way to accomplish that and also to keep it up to date with future developments.
The ability to copy/paste transitions from the Editor timeline would be fab.
i know it's presented before so forgive me.....
magic wand tool and or puppet tool
IMO, Just because something is already on the list does not mean you should not get your vote in on something.
Thanks, I agree. I have mentioned that particular wishlist item a few times over the last 2 years... One can only hope, right?
I know the HF Crew has done an amazing job by continuously improving the product over time. I'm sure there are limitations on what's possible, based on the list above, but I would love to know, out of pure curiosity, what the HF staff's long term goals are? Are you guys looking to take HF as far as possible, or just looking to make more focused changes and improvements to the existing software, that may not include a lot of the wishlist items people are begging for? Just hopeful that the team is shooting for the moon.
I admit, I am such a big fan of HF and the customer experience, yet I get jealous of some of the features of After Effects and Vegas. Since I refuse to pay for AE and never really cared for the steep learning curve of AE, my only hope is that HF will continue to improve and ultimately offer just about everything and anything AE or any of the other nle/compositors offer. HF is awesome and getting better so I look forward to future updates and new features from the list.
@WhiteCranePhoto @AxelWilkinson I note that "PBR" (Physically Based Rendering) is a generic term. I also note that Cook-Torrance is considered a Physically Based Rendering solution.
So, that can technically be crossed off the list.
WhiteCrane, interesting idea about plugging into something like Cycles.
A full-featured renderer is a pretty big task... so I figured, why not take advantage and join forces with what's turning out to be a great open source renderer?
Maybe this is in the works, but I would like to see some sort of indicator flag on a Controls channel that indicates that there is a Value Graph curve (and or keyframes) associated with it.
Once you get several effects on a layer, but are only keyframing a few of them, it is hard to remember which ones have keyframes without selecting each channel one by one. Very tedious.
In addition when looking at a very long Controls channels list for a layer it would also be helpful to have an indicator that a channel has been moved off its default value. Again this would help in finding channels that have been modified (but not keyframed over time) versus ones that are still at default.
Shooting for Mars? Now that's more lIke it. You guys already made it to the moon. Darn, now I have it in my head to go watch Apollo 13...
Keep up the good work.
Editor's timeline should have ability to add effect to whole track, not only for single footage or composite shot. I've made few movies entirely in hitfilm with many scenes and shots, and it is very hard to grade scenes, because we have to copy and paste the same effect many times. If we could add effects to the tracks it would be muuuuch easier and faster to tune effects on multiple footages at the same time. Now the editor is very poor and I put all my scenes in composite shots - but there are again another problem... if we have many shots, they're arranged vertically of course instead horizontally as in editor.
It would be excelent, if editor also could have keyframes for animation.
To add to "Track Level" effects, I wouldn't mind "Bin Level" effects.
A Resolve/Scratch style gallery where you can save grades + effects and grab the one you want. Or maybe clip grouping, so that you can apply effects to all of the clips in a group at once?


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Please let me preface this post by saying I am not a bitter man-hating woman, I don't curse happy couples on V-Day. I was not recently burned and looking for revenge. I'm just a woman and mom giving her two sense in on 2.14.
It's cute. From the freshly trimmed bouquets of flowers, to neatly wrapped boxes of chocolate, to plush singing teddy bears, to mushy cards, Valentine's Day is truly a cutesy day. Supposed to be a day where lovers unite to rekindle their love over expensive dinners and bottles of wine. Where lovers who have gone astray once again remember the love they shared. A chance to spoil your Valentine and show them how much they mean to you. It all sounds GREAT, doesn't it? It sure does! But, not for this single mama.
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It wasn't epilepsy; doctors pricked and prodded her but couldn't find a diagnosis. Her seizures continued, without any predictable cue. She writes in her new memoir, "The Shaking Woman: Or a History of My Nerves," "I could float in the limbo of an unknown affliction."
"To study something, it's got to be socially acknowledged. It must have a name first. But there was no name for this," Hustvedt told CNN. "But I thought I could understand something."
She had a head start with her research on the brain, an interest that began when she was a child and began suffering migraines and their occasional offspring -- aura hallucinations, brief fantasies that can be flashes of light, zigzagging patterns, blind spots. Hustvedt's early "sparklers" also once came with a small pink man and a pink ox.
In high school, she read anything she could find on psychoanalysis. She experimented with mysticism and transcendental meditation in college.
In her 30s, her arms and legs tingled, a symptom she has never been able to link to a diagnosable disorder. Incidentally, her fiction and poetry (including an international bestseller) were infused with psychological themes inspired, in part, by her participation in a chat group of scientists studying neuropsychoanalysis. That science blends psychiatry and neuroscience, supposing, for instance, that patients with brain injuries produce false memories because it's their bodies' involuntary, natural way of healing, and that hormones can cause memory suppression.
Hustvedt's husband, acclaimed writer Paul Auster, whom she lives with in New York, has described her as an "obsessive" reader. She loves to research and dig, and "The Shaking Woman" is heavy with encyclopedic facts and anecdotes about psychology and brain science.
• Hysteria, a disorder associated with screaming women until the mid-20th century, was first believed to be caused by vapors rising from the uterus.
• When one learns a language, the brain begins to understand sequence -- that a story has a beginning, middle and end.
• A 13-year-old boy with a brain tumor, whose case was documented in a 1994 paper in the journal Brain, proved that memory can exist solely in a mind-hand motor connection called "automatic writing." Neil could recall things only when he drew them (he could not answer questions or talk about memories) and as soon as he drew them, he could not recognize what he drew.
In every anecdote, study and historical bite, Hustvedt searches for clues to her own illness. She writes, "Shaking looks like a fear response. ... He was 'trembling with fear' is a cliché," noting that when a dog hears thunder, it shakes.
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By this time in her wandering, she had taken Thorazine -- once --and lorazepam. Now she takes propranolol, a beta blocker, to keep her shaking at bay.
Hustvedt considered that the shaking might have been triggered by a memory related to her father, a lauded writer and professor of Norwegian studies. She wondered whether her shaking was her fear of death itself. Neither was true, she concluded.
Another mystery: Once, hiking a mountain, she felt tired and went into convulsion. It quieted down before her husband or their accompanying friend could witness it. Shortly after the hike, she had her nerves retested.
The doctor told her, "It could get better; it could get worse; it could stay the same." She laughed.
Hustvedt told a story to CNN about giving a talk at a literary festival in Key West, Florida. As she spoke, she began to seize violently.
"I said [to the audience], 'Listen, I'm going to address the shaking so if you just hang on, bear with me, I will explain about this and I think it will go away,'" she recalled.
She kept giving her speech as her body jerked and buckled. It subsided.
"Humor is good, too," she said. "You need that."
There is no answer at the end of Hustvedt's book. On most days, she wakes up with migraines and "clouds in the head." She spent time hooked up to a biofeedback machine which registered the vacillations of her nervous system. Now she doesn't need the machine but meditates, more in tune with her nervous system, able to calm herself through concentrated thought.
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