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Sometimes this indicates that you are not good at diet management for your dog. This gives an indication that your German Shepherd is being over fed. He/She is trying hide the extra amount of food for the future use. It is hence important for you to understand the right quantity of food for your dog. Some dogs eat up everything even though they are given extra, while a few refuses to eat, and some of them are smart enough to hide their favorite part of the extra food so that then can have them later.
However, there may be other reasons to this behavior as well. Some dogs tend to eat at their own choice of time. Many dogs have been noticed to hide their food to be eaten whenever they would prefer, and not on the schedule you want to set for their meal.
Diet management for your dog doesn't just involve planning the food components, but also includes planning the feeding time and food quantity. Failing to set time/ schedule for feeding your dog and managing quantity will eventually create lot of mess, and end up with health issues.
Managing the food quantity
Over feeding your German Shepherds, as for any other breed, may turn out to be quiet detrimental. Most overfed dogs tend to develop irreversible anatomic problem. Digestive and hepatic problem are also quite common in dogs that are overfed. Quantity management for your dog's diet should be based on the science of giving your dog correct amount of food that provides right kind of nutrition. Whether you give your GSD raw whole foods or you want to keep him on homemade diet, it is important that your dog should finish it within 15 – 20 minutes of serving it. Take off the amount left and do not force your dog to eat or allow him to take her favorite meat piece to hide it for future use.
However, gulpers will finish off even the extra food within a few minutes of serving it. It is important to understand how much should your dog be fed at her age.
Manipulating your dog's hunger
Set your dog's biological clock according to your will without jeopardizing her health. The moment you bring your German Shepherd puppy home, it is important that you set the meal times, play times, and repose times. These are all part of basic training. It is easy to teach your dog when to expect her meal. Fixing a specific time for her diet will help teach your dog not to hide part of his food to be eaten on his own schedule. She should know her time for meal. All you need to do is to be consistent about your dog's feeding time. If you offer food to your puppy at a fixed time, her biological clock will be set on that particular time for the meal. This is how you can manipulate your dog's hunger – you already knew this.
Managing the food ingredients finally
Most owners prefer chicken heavy diet because they think breeds like GSD, Rotties, Mastiffs dobs etc. require very high protein. BIG NO. Meat heavy diets cannot be considered as balanced diet. Give your dogs some green as well, like spinach, carrots, pumpkin, bottle gourd, parsley, green papaya, ladyfingers, broccoli, cauliflower, etc. and also fruits apple, banana, ripen papaya, cantaloupe (in small quantity), mango (in small quantity). It is a misconception that dogs are carnivorous animals. They are rather omnivorous, like us humans. A more related read could be found here: German Shepherd Food
Few Things You Probably Don't Know About German Shepherds
Here are some very rare facts about the breed that most owners would love to know. I bet that you were not aware of some of these facts. Read on and enjoy…
First GSD registered in the US: The first German Shepherds that was registered in the US was the "Queen of Switzerland" – beautiful female whose offspring sadly suffered from anatomical problems due to unplanned breeding…. Read More…
Fact about Rin-Tin-Tin: Rin-Tin-Tin (September 1918 – August 10, 1932) came into had America with the an American soldier, Lee Duncan. Duncan discovered Rinty (as he was lovingly called by his owner) in the debris of a bombed German dog kennel, while returning back from the battlefield.
Death of Rin-Tin-Tin: Rinty died on August 10, 1932 when he was 14 years old. He expired in Los Angeles in the arms of Jean Harlow Carpenter - American movie actress. After his death Rinty was taken to his birth land - Lorraine, France for his burial in the Cimetière des Chiens, the famous pet cemetery in the Parisian suburb of Asnières-sur-Seine.
German Shepherds in the World War II: After the WWI, GSD had a myriad contribution in WWII. A huge number of German Shepherds were effective trained to work for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. GSD did a commendable job in the war…. Read More…
"Long Straight Topcoat with Undercoat" is considered as a distinctive variety in the GSD breed standard: The resolution of 2008 -2009 Federal Assembly, the SV filed a motion with the Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI) for considering the coat type "Long Straight Topcoat with Undercoat" as a distinctive variety of the breed. The motion was approved… Read More…
Loudest dog in the world: A white GSD – Daz has been crowned as the loudest dog in the world. Daz is the Guinness World Record holder… Read More…
Beyond all doubts... there's nothing more important than immunization and diet during the growing phase of your puppy. The two most important things regarding this that should be kept in the forefront of your mind are:
a) The puppy's diet should be nutritionally beneficial having all components to promote growth
b) The puppy's diet should be in correct quantity based on age
Your German Shepherd puppy should get a balanced diet. Any highly reputed commercial dog food brand that "meets the nutritional requirements of puppies established by the American Association of Feed Control Officials (AAFCO)" is recommended. Your vet should be the best person to give you a proper guidance about the brand of dog food for your puppy. Remember that all dog food brands that are hugely advertised may not be good for dogs. There's nothing like home made foods if they are prepared keeping in mind your puppy's nutritional requirements.
Whether or not you are using a commercial food but here are certain foods that you should consider giving your GSD pup...
Chicken neck: Properly cooked chicken neck is highly beneficial for your puppy because chicken neck is rich in natural calcium. There is no risk developing splinter with chicken neck. Moreover, necks are easy to digest for your dogs.
Pure Chicken: Apart from just neck, pure chicken meal is very rich in vitamin B6. Vitamin B6 is essential for the metabolism of carbohydrate, fat and protein and production of RBC and strengthens the immune system.
Chicken gizzards and hearts: Both chicken gizzards and hearts are rich source of natural zinc which helps in strengthening the ligaments. Apart from zinc these are are rich sources of iron, which is one of the most essential components for puppies during its growing phase. Both heart and gizzard provide all B vitamins - especially vitamin B12. Heart and gizzard are also very decent source of riboflavin, folate and pantothenic. Chicken hearts are good for your dog's heart too.
Chicken liver: Chicken live is a nutrient-rich organ that is rich in vitamin A, vitamin B, protein and essential minerals like phosphorus, zinc, iron, niacin and copper. Liver is a decent source of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, and amino acids that are essential for your growing GSD puppy. Feeding too much of liver may lead to constipation. Give your pup small quantity of it daily or moderate quantity for at least 4 days a week, giving gaps in between.
Give him green: I have purposefully and consciously used this phrase "give him green" in many of my articles across the web. Remember that puppies that are kept only on meat and egg do not get balanced diet. Vegetables like asparagus, broccoli florets, brussels sprouts, carrots, cauliflower, edamame, green beans, peas, sweet potatoes, potatoes, pumpkins, green papaya, gourd, spinach.
Here is why these veggies are important for your growing GSD:
Do you have more than one German Shepherds? Great, if you have! And I hope you know all rules of keeping multiple dogs - especially large breeds GSD, Rotties, Danes and Dobs. If you already know and if you are an experienced dog owner having several dogs, I am sure you will still like to read this post. This post is going to talk about something that probably many of the professional trainers and canine behaviorists do not tell you while giving you advices. Here is why you should NOT kennel all you dogs together even though they are highly obedience trained.
Yes... it is suggested not keeping all your dogs (irrespective of breeds, types, groups and size) together as a group in a single unit. Once your German Shepherd puppies reach an age of approximately 70 days you should consider kenneling them in separate suites. As several German Shepherd puppies grow together under one roof they will eventually develop a very strong pack. Since pack instinct is already genetically ingrained in dogs the instincts gets strengthened as they live and grow together in a single suite. Once your group of shepherds starts developing the pack they will also have a pack leader - the "Alfa Member" of the pack, who is usually the dominating specimen of the group. Eventually he/she (pack leader) will develop dominance problem.
Moreover the pack, as a whole, will gradually turn out to be more and more territorial. The entire pack will consider the whole area where all of them together or any member of the pack roam about as their territory. This means their territory widens up. Not only this, the pack's prey instinct will also be strengthened, which in turn stimulate the whole pack to exhibit attacking tendencies within their territory that is already wide.
Pack problems, at times, turns a simple undesirable behavior to a serious intra-pack aggression which can end up with an irreparable loss. Most types of group bad manners is often a start to aggression, which cannot be handled easily - especially when its a pack of large breed dogs German Shepherd, rottweilers, Dobermans etc.
Exception: There is obviously ONE exception to this norm. Opposite genders can be kept together in a single suite. And this is the only one single exception! Particularly for Bullmastiffs two males or two females should NEVER be left together unsupervised.
Summer is a season that puts wrinkles in the forehead of German Shepherd Dog owners. Many GSD owners – especially the new comers tend to clip/ trim their dogs' coat, thinking that trimming would make their dogs' life comparatively comfortable in an extreme environment where the outside temperature is much higher the body temperature.
Fact is that you should NOT trim your dog's coat in the hot weather season. The body temperature is radiated out via panting, not through the skin, unlike humans. For human the sweat is evaporated on the skin surface, and the process acts as a cooling mechanism. But for your dog, evaporation doesn't happen on surface of its skin, and air circulation, hence, is not much important on the skin surface. Trimming or clipping hair is not necessary. Remember a trimmed German Shepherd faces tougher times during summer than its untrimmed counterpart. Coat acts as an effective insulator against environmental heat. If the environmental temperature is warmer than the body, then the body gets heated up faster if the insulation is removed.
German Shepherds, like any other canine breed, have thinner layer of coat in their inguinal region. Whenever they have to cool down they would lay on cooler surfaces with the region exposed to the surface. This way they would help themselves to radiate off their body temperature.
So, it is recommended not clipping your shepherd's coat during the summer. Keep him in a cooler place inside that is airy. Natural thermoregulation through panting allows a dog to drop his body temperature. However, brachycephalic dog breeds (breeds with broad, short head like Boxers, Pugs, Bull Dog, Boston Terriers, Shar Pei, Cavalier King Charles Spaniel etc.) do not pant effectively. This, consequently, leads to insufficient thermoregulation, which over heating during the hot summer days.
Mesaticephalic or Mesocephalic dog breeds (breed that have intermediate length and width of head such as German Shepherd Dogs, Dalmatian, Cocker Spaniel, English Foxhound, English Springer Spaniel, Field Spaniel, Labrador, Komodor etc.) can thermoregulate through panting better than the brachycephalic dog breeds. Hence they have comparatively lesser chance to get overheated during summer.
On the other hand the dolichocephalic dog breeds (breeds that have long slender head like Afghan Hound, Great Dane, African Azawakh, Borzoi, Chart Polski, Galgo Español, Greyhound, Hortaya Borzaya, Irish Wolfhound, Italian Greyhound) are least prone of get overheated during the summer, because they pant most effectively. However, whatever type of breed you own, it is important to keep your dog in cool place, with making fresh water readily available. And it is one worst idea to trim GSD's hair in the summer.
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Coca-Cola may take on Starbucks
Posted by TheShot on 31 Jan 2006 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends
The Atlanta Business Chronicle reported today that "Coca-Cola may take on Starbucks." I used quotes here because the overlap of both businesses isn't significant enough to warrant their headline — or at least what it leads you to believe.
The story is this: Coca-Cola is always looking for growth opportunities (read: cash flow) in anything you can ingest in liquid form. Soda, water, juice, coffee, gasoline … it really doesn't matter. Apparently, Coca-Cola has expressed a bit of envy over the consumer-inspired growth of the specialty coffee industry and want a piece of the action for "this thing of ours".
To this end, Coke filed five U.S. patent applications in 2005 for single-serving coffee pod designs, single-serving brewing machines, and a system for steaming milk to make cappuccinos and lattes. The invasion of the "pod" people has only just begun (I'll save that for its own article), and Coke knows it. Which is why it is bothering a second attempt at the coffee market after its Planet Java fiasco five years ago.
Despite all these reports, the fact is that Starbucks — for a point of comparison — is heavily about the point-of-sale, the café atmosphere, and the emphasis on a service business where beverages are prepared of a quality that (despite worthy criticisms) beats what the average household can instantly produce. Sure, they may dabble in retail sales of coffee beans and equipment to consumers, but that's ancillary. Meanwhile, Coke is all about the bottle and the can. As a business, their core competency is in the worldwide production and delivery of standardized liquids that come in small-serving containers.
Arguably, any successes Coke might have in coffee will have much more of an effect on supermarket Frappuccino sales than on what most people think of when they think of Starbucks. As new coffee-related products are introduced later this year, such as Coca-Cola Blāk and Pepsi Café Chino, these soda bottlers must believe they are relevant enough to syphon off the successes of specialty coffee. Unfortunately for them, I expect them to learn the hard way that it's not just about the convenience of a mass-produced beverage, designed for lowest-common-denominator tastes, with a label slapped on it to provide the illusion of choice.
When the consumer wine revolution broke Americans out of thinking just in terms of "red versus white," what thrived wasn't more readily available forms of Boone's Farm. Consumers developed more discerning tastes and rewarded those products that catered to them. The rest was just…. blēk.
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[…] Refrigerated beverage fads come and go faster than Pepsi A.M. So what really makes me curious is what Coke still has up their sleeves — given all their recent patent applications for single-serving coffee pods, pod brewing systems, and a system for steaming milk. […]
[…] Coca-Cola continues its coffee beverage push, recently announcing a drink to be launched in July that's "more decadent than just plain coffee": New coffee launched by Coca-Cola and Godiva – Drinks Business Review. Undoubtedly, it will be another Coca-Cola BlāK — meaning that we should expect consumers' short attention spans to give this a shelf life until about September 2006. […]
[…] So Coca-Cola finally revealed some of what they've been up to with their recent patent frenzy: Coca-Cola's next 'real thing': lattes – Sep. 1, 2006. Next Wednesday in Toronto, Coca-Cola plans to formally announce their foray into "premium" brewed tea and coffee. […]
[…] ChannelNewsAsia published an article today on Coca-Cola's venture into coffee distribution in Singapore: Channelnewsasia.com – Coca-Cola ventures into premium specialty coffee. Coca-Cola has been investing in coffee service for quite some time. In previous posts here, we've covered their development of Far Coast pod systems — among other patents. As one of Wall Street's darling growth stocks, and a stock represented in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Coke continually seeks out new revenue streams to keep the party train going. […]
[…] We've been monitoring Coca-Cola's murky interests in the coffee business for some time now. The most obvious example being their patent filings in recent years, which has lead to — among other things — their launch of Far Coast coffee pod and machine systems for food service retailers. […]

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The Cartoon Art Museum and The Hero Initiative proudly present the museum's Annual WonderCon Weekend Party and Silent Auction, which will be held on Saturday, April 2, from 8pm to 11pm. Tickets for this event will be sold on a sliding scale from $10 to $100. Special incentives will be given for higher-level donations including membership, signed catalogs, and special limited edition prints. Advance tickets may be purchased through this link. Capacity for this special event is limited, and advance reservations are recommended.
Please visit The CAM and Hero Initiative booths at WonderCon on Friday and Saturday to get a sneak preview of the featured original artworks for Saturday night's auction.
Many top comic book creators will be in attendance as special guests of the Cartoon Art Museum and the Hero Initiative. We are pleased to announce that our featured guest will be Berkeley Breathed, creator of Bloom County, Flawed Dogs and Mars Needs Moms, courtesy of WonderCon and IDW Publishing.
Sponsorship for this fundraiser has been generously provided by IDW Publishing, the publishers of Bloom County: The Complete Collection, a five-volume series that reprints Berkeley Breathed's classic comic strip in its entirety. Please visit www.idwpublishing.com for more information on this and other collections in IDW Publishing's Library of American Comics series.
Additional sponsorship has been provided by Guestlist Ticketing, which is facilitating advance ticket sales for this event. For more information about Guestlist, please visit guestlistapp.com
Ticket Pricing:
$10: General Admission for Saturday night's party featuring Berkeley Breathed and other special guests
$25: General Admission plus a copy of From Bloom County to Mars, CAM's new exhibition catalog featuring the original artwork of Berkeley Breathed; $5 from this ticket goes to The Hero Initiative
$50: General Admission, catalog, merchandise, plus exclusive CAM merchandise; $10 from this ticket goes to The Hero Initiative
$75: General Admission, catalog, merchandise, plus your choice of a CAM membership or a Hero Initiative membership; $25 from this ticket goes to The Hero Initiative
$100: General Admission, catalog, merchandise, Cartoon Art Museum membership and a Hero Initiative membership; $40 from this ticket goes to The Hero Initiative
About the Exhibit:
The Cartoon Art Museum is pleased to present From Bloom County to Mars: The Imagination of Berkeley Breathed, a retrospective exhibition covering the Pulitzer Prize-winning artist's career from his beloved comic strip Bloom County to the upcoming Disney film Mars Needs Moms, based on his children's book of the same name. The exhibition features a comprehensive look back at Bloom County as well as Berkeley Breathed's children's books and movie projects, including material from Secondhand Lions and Flawed Dogs.
Celebrating the cultural impact of this remarkable comic strip, IDW Publishing has teamed up with Breathed for the first complete and chronological collection of Bloom County. The first three volumes of Bloom County: The Complete Library are currently available at fine bookstores everywhere, with release of the fourth volume coinciding with Breathed's appearance at San Francisco's WonderCon, one of the nation's largest comic book and pop culture conventions. Each volume features the many quirky citizens of Bloom County—such as Opus, Bill the Cat, and Milo Bloom—while projecting Breathed's uncanny ability to be both cynical and naïve, often at the same time.
IDW Publishing and the Cartoon Art Museum are producing a limited edition catalog to accompany the exhibition. The From Bloom County to Mars exhibition catalog will debut at WonderCon in April.
About Berkeley Breathed
Berkeley Breathed (born June 21, 1957) is an American cartoonist, children's book author/illustrator, novelist, director, and screenwriter, best known for Bloom County, a 1980s cartoon-comic strip which dealt with socio-political issues as seen through the eyes of highly exaggerated characters (e.g. Bill the Cat and Opus the Penguin) and humorous analogies.
His first regularly published strip, Academia Waltz, appeared in the Daily Texan in 1978. The strip attracted notice from the editors of the Washington Post who recruited him to do a nationally syndicated strip. On December 8, 1980, Bloom County made its debut and featured some of the characters from Academia Waltz, including former frat-boy Steve Dallas and the paraplegic Vietnam war veteran Cutter John.
Bloom County earned Berkeley the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1987. The strip eventually appeared in over 1,200 newspapers around the world until he retired the daily strip in 1989, stating, "A good comic strip is no more eternal than a ripe melon. The ugly truth is that in most cases, comics age less gracefully than their creators."
He replaced this strip with the surreal Sunday-only cartoon, Outland in 1989, which featured some of the Bloom County characters, including Opus the Penguin and Bill the Cat. He ended Outland in 1995.
Eight years later, Berkeley began producing the comic strip, Opus, a Sunday-only strip featuring Opus the Penguin, who was one of the iconic characters from Bloom County. He colors the cartoon himself with Adobe Photoshop.
In addition to his syndicated cartoon work, which has produced eleven best-selling cartoon collections, he has also produced seven children's books, two of which, A Wish for Wings That Work and Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big, were made into animated films. Berkeley's writing has also been featured in numerous publications, including Life, Boating, and Travel and Leisure, and he produced the cartoon art in the film, Secondhand Lions, which featured a strip called Walter and Jasmine. The panels he drew for Secondhand Lions appear in Opus: 25 Years of His Sunday Best, and he refers to them as "the comic strip that never was."
Berkeley is a fan of outdoor activities such as power-boating and motorcycling. In 1986, he broke his back in an ultralight plane crash, later incorporated into a "Bloom County" storyline in which Steve Dallas breaks his back after being attacked by an angry Sean Penn. Berkeley also nearly lost his right arm a few years later after a boat propeller severed his humerus bone.
Berkeley, his wife and their two children live in Southern California. Although a private person, he has given interviews to on-line magazines such as The Onion and Salon – but only rarely face-to-face or telephone interviews. He and his wife support animal rights, and his book, Flawed Dogs: The Year-End Leftovers at the Piddleton 'Last Chance' Dog Pound, promotes adopting pets from shelters.
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Ahead of next week's UFC on FUEL TV 6 event, the UFC has released a nifty tool to allow viewers to watch some of the most pivotal bouts in the welterweight division.
Fittingly, the YouTube video series is called "UFC 154: The Road to the Welterweight Title."
In all, it features eight full fights, which are all available for online viewing.
They include four with UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre (22-2 MMA, 16-2 UFC) and four with interim titleholder and fellow UFC 154 headliner Carlos Condit (28-5 MMA, 5-1 UFC). They meet Nov. 17 as part of the next major pay-per-view event at Montreal's Bell Centre.
Check out the video above for the following fights that led to next week's title-unification bout:
- Georges St-Pierre vs. Jay Hieron (UFC 48)
- Georges St-Pierre vs. Frank Trigg (UFC 54)
- Georges St-Pierre vs. Matt Hughes (UFC 65)
- Georges St-Pierre vs. Matt Serra (UFC 83)
- Carlos Condit vs. Rory MacDonald (UFC 115)
- Carlos Condit vs. Dan Hardy (UFC 120)
- Carlos Condit vs. Dong Hyun Kim (UFC 132)
- Carlos Condit vs. Nate Diaz (UFC 143)
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Portland Sea Dogs re-up Red Sox contract
Team gets additional four years with Boston
Sea Dogs fans have a new reason to cheer -- the local AA affiliate has a new contract with the Boston Red Sox that runs through the 2018 season.
The two teams have agreed to extend their player development contract for an additional four years, a release from the Sea Dogs said. The Sea Dogs entered into a contract with the Red Sox in 2002 after a nine-year affiliation with the Florida Marlins.
"As we prepare for our 20th season of Sea Dogs baseball, we are thrilled to announce this new agreement," Sea Dogs Chairman Bill Burke said in the release. "It is an honor to be associated with the Boston Red Sox, one of the greatest franchises in professional sports, and we are pleased to let our incredible fans know that this relationship will continue well into the future."
The Sea Dogs and Red Sox had extended the affiliation in January 2011, when a two-year extension was announced.


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Right now Eliot Spitzer, Anthony Weiner and Mark Sanford are trying to become Bill Clinton. Not that they are trying to become president of the United States, at least not at this time, but they are trying to overcome past sexual "indiscretions" and renew their political careers. Who can forget the big hullabaloo over the sexual mores, or lack thereof, of President Clinton? Except that we have largely forgotten about it. Clinton today is seen as a respected elderly statesman instead of a lecherous pursuer of young flesh. While part of the Clinton legacy will always include a mention of Monica Lewinsky and his sex scandals, he has largely marginalized those incidents so that now when we think of him we focus on his presidential accomplishments instead of his shortcomings as a husband.
The three men I mention above would love to be in the position Clinton is in today. They deeply desire to create a new image where their sexual infidelities, while not completely forgotten, pale in comparison to their other accomplishments. You know what? I think they have a chance to achieve this. In our society we seem to have a high level of tolerance for these types of sexual immoralities. If they have a solid political career from this point forward, then they will gain that second chance.
This brings me to Paula Dean. Our society is not so eager to forgive her of her immoralities. The best I can see for Dean is that she will maintain a certain core group of fans who will keep making her money. But generally she is always going to be linked to racist comments and seen as a racist by the general public. I cannot see the scenario by which she can get her reputation back. Can you? Has anyone been guilty of making a racist, sexist, or homophobic statement and been able to shake that statement from their reputation to the degree that President Clinton has been able to shake from his reputation the image of sexual infidelity? We like to think of ourselves as a forgiving society, but we are selective in whom we are willing to forgive, or more specifically what we are willing to forgive.
Dean can still be judged to some degree on her culinary skills. Years ago the pitcher John Rocker made a series of racist, xenophobic comments. He did not automatically lose his job. He could still get batters out and that is what matters to a MLB team. But even as he kept his job, his reputation as a racist never went away. So I am not arguing that if a person makes a racist or sexist statement that he or she will lose his/her job or be thrown in jail. But the taint of being a racist or sexist will never leave that person. If you think I am wrong then please provide the name of a person who made such a statement and recovered to the degree that President Clinton has from his mistakes.
Perhaps we should not forgive Dean or Rocker. That is a moral question I am not attempting to address right now. But as a scholar I am curious as to why certain acts of deviance can be forgiven in our society and others cannot. Note that we are not talking about illegalities as most sexual infidelities and intolerant comments are not illegal. What occurs to me is that there are progressive "sins" and there are conservative "sins." In general sexual infidelities tend to be conservative sins. This is not to say that political and religious progressives do not care about people who cheat on their spouse or visit prostitutes, but generally political and religious conservatives show more concern about such shortcomings. Exhibitions of racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia tend to be progressive sins. Once again I am not arguing that religious and political conservatives do not care about those issues, but my observation is that political and religious progressives care more about these transgressions. If I am correct about who tends to care about certain human failings, then I have some insight into why some actions are forgivable and others are not. It seems to me that conservative sins can be forgiven but progressive sins cannot be.
The question becomes why we, as a society, forgive conservative sins more than progressive sins? One possibility is that the value of forgiveness is more prevalent among conservatives than it is among progressives. Why might this be? Research has shown that political conservatives have higher levels of religiosity than political liberals. (This does not mean that atheist conservatives or highly religious progressives do not exist, it is just that they are not the norm within their respective political group). It is possible that forgiveness is a value they learn through their religious beliefs. Thus, if we perform activities conservatives hate, then we have more of a chance to be forgiven due to their religious beliefs. This explanation has potential, but it is not convincing to me. Quite simply, this explanation assumes that all religions emphasize forgiveness. That is an unwarranted assumption. Furthermore, this seems like a surface explanation for what seems to me to be a fundamental difference in how conservatives and progressives understand social reality.
My speculation begins at the basic worldview of conservatives and progressives. I contend that religion matters, but not because religious individuals are taught how to forgive. Since research has shown that conservatives are more religious than progressives then conservatives are more likely to envision the need for supernatural assistance. They are more likely to see themselves as incomplete without that assistance. They are also more likely to see others as incomplete without supernatural assistance. This is a point of view that expects humans to fail. Forgiveness is an expected response to these failings. This is not to say that forgiveness is always provided. Often conditions placed upon individuals so that they can receive that forgiveness. However, I suspect there is a general expectation to forgive others among religious individuals since they have a religious ideology where those individuals expect to fail themselves and may one day need that forgiveness.
An alternative understanding of human nature is one born out of a more secular, humanist perspective. This perspective is based upon the idea that humans are perfectible. Human reason and ability are the keystones to a healthy society. Progressives seek for our society to "progress" to a state where we can use our human abilities to our fullest extent. This is not only the idea exhibited in documents such as the Humanist Manifesto, but it was an ideology I heard time and again in my interviews with atheists and read in answers to the open ended questions I gave to cultural progressive activists. Our emerging enlightened society is one that will be free of racism, sexism, homophobia etc. So individuals who exhibit these qualities are bridges to a new and better world.
This by itself does not explain the lack of a willingness to forgive progressive sins. Theoretically, we can help those who have engaged in racism, sexism or homophobia to overcome those failings and then forgive them after they have made their transition to a progressive human. But since redemption is not usually given to those who have committed those offenses we should ask why would forgiveness be denied? I speculate that when we have the vision of human perfectibility then we have less sympathy for those who do not obtain that perfectibility. While the religious conservative understands that he/she is also vulnerable to doing wrong, the non-religious progressive may not understand how individuals still have intolerant attitudes. This provides less empathy towards those who participate in progressive sins and thus they are not likely to gain the benefits of forgiveness. The stain of their sins can be linked to their reputation forever. With this theory, forgiveness is tied to whether we think we are likely to engage in future societal sins and thus may need that forgiveness ourselves. If conservatives believe that they are likely to "mess up" while progressives do not have such fears, then it is reasonable that conservatives will be more forgiving of those that violate norms that they hold dear than progressives.
This is speculation as I have no sociological data to back up my assertions beyond the argument of who receives forgiveness in our society. I wish I could say that this is a research direction I would be undertaking in the near future, but alas that is not the case. Nevertheless, it would be fascinating to question individuals in an effort to learn why they are more tolerant of certain shortcomings as opposed to others. Whether there are religious differences in how people forgive is also a question of empirical interest. I am not certain if anyone has looked into that question. Finally, one can argue that society is better off not forgiving those who transgress certain moral boundaries. While forgiveness is an important quality for our mental health on the individual level, providing such forgiveness on the corporate level may encourage more transgressions. Exploring whether forgiveness of shortcomings encourages more problems is another fascinating direction for future research.


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Wow I have never heard of having an "oportunity account" this is really a great idea! And you made it very clear with your story about your friend. Thanks for the tip!
Saving for Opportunity
What happens if an opportunity comes your way that you just can't pass on, but just can't find the money for either? If you have an opportunity account, you won't have this problem.
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- Retirement
- Emergency fund
- Kids' education
- Down payment for a home
- Major purchases
- …among others
Although the investment instrument in question might be nothing more special or specific than a high-interest savings account, we still save for very specific goals. While I think that this does constitute effective financial planning, it also leaves out one crucial component: opportunity.
Many of us would know of an opportunity account as a rainy-day account. But how many of us have one of these accounts, much less make it a priority? Pursuant to general financial discipline and psychology, if we don't make it a priority, the money tends to get spent elsewhere.
If we want something badly enough, then we tend to do what needs to be done to make it happen. I was chatting with an old friend who had her first child three years ago. When discussing if there would be more, she said "oh yeah, we'll probably have another one. I worry about whether we can afford it, but since we didn't think we had the money for the first one, I figure we'll make it work the second time around too!"
For her, letting money get in the way of having another child is not an option. She realizes that once the priority of having kids is set, the other building blocks in her financial house will fall into place.
Such is the case with any financial goal. We tend to find money where we need to, by reducing our expenses elsewhere. Nothing gets us off those lattes better than a passion and purpose-driven goal.
Lump Sum Opportunities, and Going into Debt for Them
But if we still don't plan for these unpredictable opportunities, we may miss out on our chance. Having children involves a long-term increase in expenditures. But what if the opportunity that falls in our lap involves a lump sum? However large or small this lump sum is, it is rarely smart to rely on debt instruments like credit cards to be our opportunity fall-back. This is how people get into trouble.
Why? Because although we can find a way to save for opportunity, if we have already spent the money and now have to re-pay it, we will lose sight of why we got into debt to begin with. By using a debt instrument as our opportunity account, the following can happen:
- We pay more for the experience in the form of interest on our debt
- We feel stress about repaying our debt
- We feel guilty for spending money we didn't have to begin with
- We lose the motivation to pay off the debt (and can create a downward spiral by feeling the need to "treat" ourselves to more debt when we're feeling down)
- We lose our passion for the opportunity we spent on to begin with
Opportunities that go Sour
A friend of mine put a large opportunity purchase on her credit card. The purchase was both entirely justified as an opportunity and would improve her quality of life drastically. She even had extra income potential by virtue of making this purchase. If she had an opportunity account and used that money for this purchase, I have no doubt that her lifestyle, income, health, and finances would have been transformed by now.
But sadly, this is not what happened. Instead, because of the stress of paying the purchase off (in addition to other similar debts she was still trying to pay off), she felt she was drowning. Every time she looked at the purchase in question, she was reminded of her debt load, and it often led to panic attacks. She ended up re-selling the item for way less than she paid for it; it was a true loss in every sense of the word. Why? Because she's still paying it off, and has absolutely nothing but grief to show for it.
Staying Motivated
It may be difficult – at first – to be passionate about an opportunity account. After all, if we don't know what we are specifically saving for, it is tricky to stay motivated. But if we automate the process and save into an opportunity account just as we would for your other purpose-driven goals, we take the human element out of it, and we simply find a way to live with the money we have left over.
The monthly amount going into the opportunity account might not be massive, especially if our income is variable. And that's okay;
Here is how opportunity accounts have helped me:
- I got my full skydiving license and gear, and enjoyed multiple skydiving-related trips, training, and competitions
- I pursued my life-long passion of performing as an actor/singer/dancer and had the money to float my expenses during this low-income period
- I began my current lifestyle of traveling the world full-time
What would you do if you had an opportunity account?
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I actually have what I refer to as my "Sunny Day Fund," which is just about identical to an "Opportunity Fund." It's extra money set aside in a savings account... Doesn't really have a definite purpose, it's just there to be spent on whatever I decide is an appropriate use for the funds. So far, it's only things that are really really important to me... A great rare item for a collection, more tattoos, supplementing another fund, etc.
I also have a "Travel Fund" that doubles as an "Opportunity Fund." Just this past week we used some of it to provide the funds to buy a used set of wheels a friend of a friend is selling for our project car. It's a good deal, and having the cash on hand to pounce on the opportunity was great! (Of course, money gets paid back ASAP, but it's great to have funds to draw on when necessary.)
Really, everyone needs one of these. It's the best thing ever. :)


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Russia says no to US-funded disarmament effort
Russia said Wednesday it had no intention to automatically extend a 20-year old deal with the United States helping secure the nation's nuclear stockpiles, a move that comes amid a growing isolationist streak in Kremlin policy.
Under the 1992 program initiated by Sens. Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar, the U.S. has provided billions of dollars in equipment and know-how to help Russia and its ex-Soviet neighbors deal with Soviet nuclear legacy.
The Cooperative Threat Reduction Program provided reinforced rail cars to carry nuclear warheads, high-tech security systems for storage sites and helped pay for the dismantling of mothballed nuclear submarines and other weapons. It played a major role in preventing the deadly weapons from falling into the wrong hands while the Russian government was facing a severe money crunch amid an economic meltdown and political turmoil that followed the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that it wouldn't accept a U.S. offer to extend the deal that expires in 2013 without a major overhaul.
"American partners know that their proposal doesn't correspond to our ideas about what forms and what foundation we need to develop further cooperation," it said in a statement. "For that, we need, in particular, a different and more modern legal framework."
While the ministry wouldn't elaborate further on the motives behind Moscow's decision, or spell out its demands, representatives of Russia's top military brass have long complained that the Nunn-Lugar program gives the U.S. too much access and information about the nation's military technologies and weapons sites.
Lugar said in a statement that during his trip to Russia in August, Russian officials told him that they would like to make changes in the original agreement instead of simply extending it. "At no time did officials indicate that, at this stage of negotiation, they were intent on ending it, only amending it," he said.
He added that Russia's space agency officials also welcomed prospects for future work during his visit to a facility dismantling mothballed missiles.
Moscow's move follows its decision last month to end the U.S. Agency for International Development's two decades of work in Russia. Moscow explained that decision by saying that the agency was using its money to influence elections - a claim the U.S. denied.
President Vladimir Putin, who was re-elected to a third term in March despite massive demonstrations in Moscow against his rule, has permeated his campaign with anti-American rhetoric, accusing Washington of fomenting protest.
Following Putin's inauguration in May, the Kremlin-controlled parliament quickly rubber-stamped a series of repressive laws that sharply hiked fines for taking part in unauthorized protests, recriminalized slander and required non-government organizations that receive foreign funding to register as foreign agents. Yet another bill under discussion expands the definition of treason to include handing over information to international organizations.


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XFire plugin
compile "org.grails.plugins:xfire:0.8.3"
This is an XFire plugin for Grails. This plugin allows you to expose Web services using Grails' service classes.Main contributor: Chanwit Kaewkasi (chanwit At gmail Dot com)Latest plugin version is 0.8.1.
InstallationType this command in your Grail application directory
or if you have a plugin archive locally.
$> grails install-plugin xfire
$> grails install-plugin /path/to/grails-xfire-0.8.1.zip
DependenciesThis snapshot includes some dependency jar file. If it cannot run out-of-the box, please report in the Grails user group.
Getting StartedThis plugin detects the static property 'expose' of a service class. If the 'expose' property contains 'xfire' keyword, then the plugin exposes the service as a Web service.For example, type this:
You will get "TestService.groovy" in your service directory. Then, declare the static property "expose" and you may have some methods like: You may declare some method like:
$> grails create-service Test
In the above example WebParam is the standard javax.jws.WebParam annotation. In order to use this you will need groovy 1.1 or later and to add an import statement at the top of the source file.After running the command "grails run-app", you can access the WSDL of this example fromhttp://127.0.0.1:8080/your_grails_app/services/test?wsdlPlease note that TestService.groovy becomes 'test' in WSDL.Remark
class TestService { static expose=['xfire'] boolean serviceMethod(YourDomainClass dc){ return true; } MyPOGO otherServiceMethod(@WebParam(name="token", header=true)UserToken token, MyOtherPOGO obj) { // do something here }}
- Do not use def as returntypes of methods: it will generate xsd:anyType in the WSDL - specify your return type!
- To avoid circular referencing, which may cause stack overflow, you have to specify the following in your domain classes (as of version 0.8.1):
Example of avoiding circular references:
static xmlTransients = ['<property name>',...]
class Author { static hasMany = [books: Book] String name }class Book { static xmlTransients = ['author'] String name Author author }
Upgrade to Grails 1.0.4Content Negotiation for xml has to be switched off by removing the "xml" mime-type mapping from the grails.mime.types configuration option in Config.groovy. See http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRAILS-3537
Upgrade to Grails 0.6The name of the plugin has changed from the earlier version to 0.6.1 from XFire to Xfire. Grails gets confused by that, so simply installing the new version is not sufficient, you also have to delete the previous version manually from ./plugins
Upgrade to Grails 0.5(URL Mapping)It starts to use URL mapping since grails 0.5, the grails project's XxxUrlMapping.groovy and the URL mappings of plugins, that provide their own mapping, has to be modified as blow:
static mappings = { "/$controller/$action?/$id?"{ constraints { controller(matches:/.*[^(services)].*/) } } }
Version Historyv. 0.8.1
- added detection of 'static xmlTransients' in Domain classes to exclude association properties that may cause circular referencing.
- fixed jar linkage conflicts.
- upgraded for Grails 1.1
- fixed POGO containing generic fields
- tested against Grails 1.0
- GRAILSPLUGINS-222 - Regenerate XfireGrailsPlugin*.class when service class is modified
- GRAILSPLUGINS-229 - Reloading when name or namespace of the service class is changed
- GRAILSPLUGINS-232 - Exceptions thrown by xfire service methods always returned as java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException
- GRAILSPLUGINS-217 - Support Generics
- GRAILSPLUGINS-219 - Allow to customize generated targetNamespace via @WebService
- minor bugs fixed
- tested against Grails 1.0-RC4
- tested against Grails 0.6
- tested against Grails 0.5.6
- support the WebParam annotation via Groovy 1.1
- added POGO serialization support (beside Grails domain classes)
- updated to use the new Artefact API
- tested against Grails 0.5
- updated XFire to 1.2.6
- test against Grails 0.4
- fixed detection of the transactional property (again)
- improved skipping of all "Groovy" properties
- skipped a java.lang.Boolean property (with "get" prefix !)
- changed convention (using "static expose=['xfire']" instead of the "XFireService" suffix)
- changed URI (now it's http://127.0.0.1:8080/app/services/test?wsdl for "TestService.groovy")
- the jar name is going to be SNAPSHOT until Grails 0.4 released.
- updated XFire to 1.2.4
- fixed detection of the transactional property
- fixed detection of "metaMethods"
- refactored
- added support for Grails domain classes
- changed the version number to be compatible with Grails
- first public release
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Two hundred years after the Brothers Grimm published their first book of fairy tales, a special exhibit in the Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences explores the parallels between the magic in fairy tales and ancient medicine. While fairy tales are imaginative flights of fancy, they also helped people gain a better understanding of serious issues such as illness, injury and even death.
The exhibit in the University of Alabama at Birmingham's museum, titled "The Charm was Broken, Illness and Injury in the fairy tales of Mary de Morgan," is based on the works of the English author who, writing in the late Victorian period, penned three volumes of fairy tales. Illness featured prominently in many of her stories. She, and many in her family, suffered from consumption and she ultimately died of the disease. The exhibit was created by Valerie Gribben, a UAB medical student and fan of the fairy tale genre.
"As a child, I loved the idea of the evil troll and the wicked queen battling against the beautiful princess and the handsome prince," said Gribben. "As I grew up I started to see the complexities and subtleties in fairy tales, and by the time I came to medical school I started to see the overlap between fairy tales and medicine."
The exhibit features the work of de Morgan and examples of centuries-old medicine, magic and myth, drawing on the venerable medical texts housed in UAB's Reynolds Historical Library. Because once upon a time, when the world's medical sophistication was somewhat less than today, magic and medicine were more closely intertwined.
One panel in the exhibit, drawn from a Reynolds Library text, promotes unicorn horn as a powerful cure-all of ailments from stomach disorders to poison. Another points out that rapunzel, an English herb whose name was appropriated by a long-haired fairy tale heroine, was thought to be good for pregnant women.
Mike Flannery, associate director for historical collections at UAB, says that at the time that many fairy tales originated, disease was poorly understood and never far away.
"Disease was an ever-present, sort of ominous cloud that hung over every family," says Flannery. "These fairy tales are stories to convey the reality of life to children and in some ways to assuage the fears of parents regarding diseases that then were death sentences but today are largely treatable."
Flannery says fairy tales gave people a target for their fears. Witches, goblins and trolls became the manifestation of diseases that had no cure, such as consumption. We know it today as tuberculosis, but 200 years ago, it was the cancer of the day.
"When you live with the uncertainty of life and death, when you live in a world where 30 percent of children born won't survive one year, you have to come to grips with that reality in some meaningful way," he said. "This is a literary genre that helped them do that."
Gribben says that while training to be a physician, she's met many characters that resemble prototypical fairy tale figures in clinic exam rooms and hospital corridors. She's seen the Abandoned Prince, the Evil Stepmother and the Lecherous King.
"Fairy tales and medicine both deal with the things that go bump in the night," said Gribben. "It's the unknown, the dark forest, the shadowy world. When you go to a hospital you enter the realm of the sick — the ill, and it's a transition from the outside world. I think medicine is about reaching deeper and having compassion for everyone around you even if they don't look like you or sound like you. I think fairy tales and medicine both deal with the human spirit and the human condition. "
The exhibit is on display through May 31, 2012, in the museum on the third floor of the Lister Hill Library, 1700 University Blvd. Gribben, who has written her own three-volume set of fairy tales, will present a gallery talk at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 15.


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I spotted these on the floor at a late night CES event. Alas, by the time I'd managed to find our video guys in the sea of people, the crowd waiting to get footage of it had already grown out of control.
Fortunately, the guys over at PhoneArena got a pretty good video. Next step for Samsung: add touch screen controls. Next step after that: Make me a super awesome wrist-worn computer. Would I look like a dweeb? Sure! But I'd be way too busy surfin' the Internets ON MY ARM to care.


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BUSINESSES and residents in the Abingdon Road remain concerned about the threat of more bad weather this week.
More rain is expected today and businesses that have already lost thousands of pounds are waiting to see what will happen next.
Nisa shop owner Mohammad Afzal said he lost about £10,000 when the road was closed because of flooding last month and estimated he lost £2,000 on Monday alone.
He told the Oxford Mail: "I am relieved it has gone down.
"We had a delivery today. The driver made it, which is a relief."
He suggested that a barrier could help with the flood problem and added: "We are concerned because people are scared the water might go into their homes. If we can save Botley Road, why can't we save Abingdon Road?
"I think keeping the road closed all week is too much."
The water levels dropped overnight on Monday to the relief of many.
John Brooks, managing director of Isis Creative Framing in Northampton Road off Abingdon Road, said: "It has gone down a huge amount.
"But we are sitting on 49,000 litres of water. It is just below the floorboards.
"It is depressing for business owners and residents. It is just relentless.
"It is frustrating when for the last 20 years everyone has been talking about the effects of global warming and in those 20 years people stopped dredging the rivers."
Abingdon Road resident Katy Hamilton was forced to move her car from her driveway on Sunday because of rapidly rising water.
She moved her car at about 5.30am to Redbridge Park and Ride, owned by Oxford City Council and just metres from her home.
But she says she was unable to pay as her mobile phone was out of battery and the machine did not accept her money.
Later that day, she was issued with a £100 fine, but the city council promised to refund it after the Oxford Mail intervened. Ms Hamilton, who has since paid the early fine of £50, said: "I am really pleased."
But residents who have lived in South Oxford for many years are worried that it happens more often now than it used to. Grandmother-of-seven Yvonne Bayliss, 80, of Abingdon Road, said: "I am a bit concerned. They say we are going to get more rain."
Grandfather Arthur Shefford, of Abingdon Road, said: "The flood water has gone down. It is not as bad as it was last time."


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Government agencies are starting to embrace the power of big data, but Deloitte executive Bill Briggs says understanding and utilizing predictive analytics is key.
The concept of big data is a major trend in the IT world, and public-sector IT is no exception. In fact, data exists at the core of many emerging concepts in IT, including cloud computing and social media, according to Bill Briggs, chief technology officer of Deloitte Consulting. On Tuesday, Aug. 20, Briggs spoke on big data during GTC West – a two-day executive event hosted by e.Republic Inc., Government Technology's parent company.
But with exploding quantities of data reaching new levels – terabytes and petabytes – predictive analytics is key for helping government agencies structure the way they do business. Briggs noted that in Pennsylvania, predictive analytics is used to help determine the likelihood of a noncustodial parent paying child support.
Through the Pennsylvania Child Support Enforcement System, the state can analyze a series of nearly 40 variables and identify if a parent is likely to become noncompliant in making child support payments on time. The system allows staff to identify appropriate preventative actions, conduct proactive intervention and improve intervention efficiency.
The system deployment helped the Pennsylvania's Bureau of Child Enforcement increase collections to nearly twice their total before implementing predictive analytics. In addition, they were able to improve operational and process efficiency and improve outreach and defendant relationships.
Briggs said other agencies can duplicate the success of Pennsylvania's predictive analytics program, achieving similar wins for their organizations.
Before addressing a big data project, Briggs said it's important to recognize the need for specialized talent – namely, data scientists. Briggs offered a few suggestions for successfully taking on a big data/analytics project.
1. Narrow Focus
Analytics, according to Briggs, can be a broad topic, so government agencies shouldn't set out to tackle big data just to tackle it. He recommends finding a specific area in the enterprise that could by improved by the integration of big data and analytics. For example, agencies can utilize big data to help with fraud detection.
2. Set Expectations
When planning a project using big data, Briggs also recommends setting clear expectations. It's important to "anchor" and establish what success means, he said.
3. Stay on Target
Briggs said when deciding within your organization how to implement an analytics and big data project, it's important to stay on target. You may have an idea of what the success of the project will look like, so stay focused on that specific idea, rather than keeping goals open-ended.
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Classic Burgers Outside Minneapolis at Lions Tap
Lions Tap
16180 Flying Cloud Drive, Eden Prairie, MN 55347 (map); 952-934-5299; lionstap.com
Cooking method: griddle
Short Order: Classic, simple burgers done right
Want Fries With That? Crisp and well seasoned
Price: single hamburger, $3.30; double cheeseburger, $7.45; fries: $2.25
Lions Tap is an old place. Cemented in the bluffs of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, outside of Minneapolis, the Tap has been selling burgers since 1958, but it's far older than that. The low building has been rehabbed and renovated over the years, so that it now resembles a classic, Midwest basement complete with Vikings and Twins collectibles and bucolic wallpaper featuring deer, ducks, and other birds. It feels like a wholesome place, too. Bert and Bonnie Notermann, the owners and formulators of the current burger (served since they purchased the restaurant in the 70's), are introduced on the menu as "Your Hosts."
An absurdly detailed pair of prominently hung posters lays out the entire history of the location beginning epically with "The year was 1855...". From there, the poster traces the story of the Tap as it has evolved from a vegetable market to a beer stand, a bar, a gas station, and back to a bar before the then owners began selling burgers in 1958. Other key details include the fact that the parking lot was blacktopped in 1981 and the specifics of an easement granted to previous owners at the dawn of the twentieth century. No detail is too small for the Tap.
Lions Tap serves the classic ideal of a burger (described as a "purist's favorite" on the menu) and is better for it. Despite the Jucy Lucy's inextricable identification with Minneapolis, customers will not find any cheese-stuffed burgers here. Instead, quarter-pound patties are ground and hand-formed daily, cooked to a fine, nearly black sear on a griddle and topped with Lions Tap's seasoning blend, which most likely contains a bit of garlic and onion powder and black pepper, among other, more secret ingredients.
The resulting beef is plenty juicy, with a meaty bite and properly salty. The single hamburger ($3.30) comes simply with raw or fried onions and pickles, but I opted for a double cheeseburger ($7.45) with fried onions (always go fried). The attention paid to detailing the history of the Lions Tap carries over to the burgers; they're appropriately minimalist, but carefully constructed.
Other burger options include a mushroom and Swiss burger (single, $4.75; double, $8.95), which has its benefits, but isn't as memorable as the original.
The California burger (single, $4.60; double, $8.65) comes with lettuce and tomato (not this California Cheeseburger).
Fries ($2.25) are crisp and well seasoned, but you may be better off ordering a second burger as a side.
Root beer on tap and fountain "pop" are available and screamingly sweet, but they me nostalgic for the homemade root beer stand I grew up on in Ohio.
Lions Tap is as advertised—straightforward burgers done right and not overcomplicated. If you're looking for a classic burger in the Minneapolis area, the Tap has you covered.
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Last week, I found myself having to dive into the udev code to figure out how it determines whether what is a mouse or a keyboard. To solve the problem I was working on, I ended up having to replicate some of that logic in python, which is posted at the bottom. Let me explain how it works.
Device Info in /sys
To start, let's look in /sys and see what input devices we have. If you look in /sys/class/input on your system, you'll see many symlinks to devices. I'll pick /sys/class/input/event12 to look at in more detail, so cd to event12/device
mfisch@caprica:/sys/class/input/event12/device$ ls -al
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 0 Jul 8 16:05 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jul 8 16:05 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 8 16:05 capabilities
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul 8 20:50 device -> ../../../serio1
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jul 8 16:05 event12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 8 16:05 id
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jul 8 20:50 modalias
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jul 8 16:05 mouse0
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jul 8 16:05 name
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jul 8 20:50 phys
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 8 20:50 power
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jul 8 20:50 properties
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul 8 16:05 subsystem -> ../../../../../../class/input
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jul 8 16:05 uevent
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jul 8 20:50 uniq
There are some interesting things in here, but the two I'm interested in are "name" and the "capabilities" directory. Let's look at name first.
mfisch@caprica:/sys/class/input/event12/device$ cat name
PS/2 Generic Mouse
Using Capabilities
Okay, so this looks like a mouse, but udev doesn't use the name to figure this out, it uses the capabilities directory. Let's look there:
mfisch@caprica:/sys/class/input/event12/device/capabilities$ ls -al
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 8 16:05 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 0 Jul 8 16:05 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jul 8 16:05 abs
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jul 8 16:05 ev
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jul 8 20:43 ff
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jul 8 16:05 key
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jul 8 20:39 led
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jul 8 20:43 msc
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jul 8 16:05 rel
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jul 8 20:43 snd
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jul 8 16:05 sw
The aptly named capabilities provide information to udev on what "capabilities" the device has. udev is specifically interested in the following ones: abs (Absolute axes), ev (Event types), key (Keys and Buttons), and rel (Relative axes). Let's examine one of these to determine what data it contains:
mfisch@caprica:/sys/class/input/event12/device/capabilities$ cat ev
So what does 7 mean? This is a bitmask (111) who's bits are defined in /usr/include/linux/input.h. That file has bits defined for each of the types listed in the capabilities directory, the #define prefix matches the name in the capabilities directory, so we're looking at EV_ (Note: key is represented by defines KEY_ and BTN_, since it's for keys and buttons).
Since this mask is 0x7 or 111, we have bits 0, 1, and 2 set and the rest are false. Judging from the #defines, the following bits are set for this device:
#define EV_SYN 0x00
#define EV_KEY 0x01
#define EV_REL 0x02
This tells us that our device gets key events, relative movement event, and synchronization events. (Figuring this out required poking around the header a bit more).
A Quick Note About the 'key' Capability
The entry 'key' is much longer than ev and requires more explanation. Let's look at what the 'key' capabilities shows for my keyboard:
20000 20000000020 0 0 500f02100002 3803078f900d401 feffffdfffefffff fffffffffffffffe
So that's much larger than ev was. It's still a bitmask, but it's been split into words, using the word-size sense, so 8 bytes on my system. Since this mask is little endian, the '20000' represents the highest set bits. This makes processing need to take place in word-size chunks, starting at the right. Another way to think of the output above is to think about it as one large mask, as long as you pad each "word" to be 16 digits, for example, what you really see above is this:
00000000000200000000020000000020000000000000000000000000000000000000500f02100002 03803078f900d401feffffdfffeffffffffffffffffffffe
To solve my problem, I split the output up on the spaces and set 64-bits at a time in my mask starting from the right-most word.
Now that we've read all these bitmasks, we need to do something with it.
What udev Does with this Info
If you look at the udev source code, specifically udev/udev-builtin-input_id.c, you can see how this data is used.
For mice, the code is fairly straightforward, look at the code for the test_pointers function. We really want to know where they set "is_mouse". The code is also looking for other stuff like touchpads, so let's ignore that. It basically boils down to this:
if EV_REL and REL_X and REL_Y and BTN_MOUSE:
you have a mouse
There's also a similar block where you can replace REL above with ABS, which the comment claims is for VMWare's USB mouse, but I kept it in my solution because I didn't quite trust the comment and it seemed harmless otherwise.
For keyboards, the code is a bit more complex because it's basically checking to see if you have a bunch of keys defined, this code is in the function test_key. then test_key looks for a keyboard it boils down to this:
If any bits are set in 'ev' and
if bits 1-31 (but not 0) are set:
you have a keyboard
Note: bits 1-31 represent the Escape key, numbers, and Q through D.
Putting it All Together
So now that we know how it works, let's see it in action! Here it is run on my dev box:
mfisch@caprica:~/tmp/find_input$ ./find_input.py
INFO:root:/dev/input/event3 is a keyboard (AT Translated Set 2 keyboard)
INFO:root:/dev/input/event12 is a mouse (PS/2 Generic Mouse)
Here it is run on another system with more devices attached:
INFO:root: /dev/input/event3 is a keyboard (AT Translated Set 2 keyboard)
INFO:root: /dev/input/event13 is a mouse (PS/2 Generic Mouse)
INFO:root: /dev/input/event15 is a keyboard (BTC USB Keyboard)
INFO:root: /dev/input/event16 is a mouse (Primax HP Wireless Laser Mini Mouse)
My python code including unit tests! is avaialble in bzr at lp:~mfisch/+junk/find_input
Comments, bugs, and fixes all gladly accepted.


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FBI: 'Bucket List Bandit' caught in Oklahoma
Fri., Sept. 14, 2012
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — In banks from Utah to Pennsylvania this summer, a middle-aged man with grayish, thinning hair, glasses and a blue polo shirt has been demanding money from frightened tellers and offering the same sad story: He only had months to live.
After his fourth heist, this one in Utah, he earned a nickname, the "Bucket List Bandit," because the robberies were believed to be the actions of a desperate and dying man.
On Friday, the FBI announced the suspect had been captured during a routine traffic stop Thursday night in the eastern Oklahoma city of Roland. Officers determined Michael Eugene Brewster, 54, of Pensacola, Fla., was driving a stolen SUV that he borrowed from a friend 10 days before the first robbery and that it had improper Utah license plates, said Rick Rains, a spokesman for the FBI's Oklahoma City office.
"They determined the vehicle was reported stolen, and one thing led to another. Ultimately, they called us and we were able to determine who he was," Rains said. "It was a little bit of luck on our part."
Rains would not say whether Brewster was armed. In the robberies, the suspect told tellers he had a weapon was armed but never showed one.
Brewster appeared briefly Friday afternoon in U.S. Magistrate Court in Muskogee, shackled at his hands and feet and flanked by a pair of federal marshals. He acknowledged being the man sought by the FBI, and said only "Yes, ma'am" and "No, ma'am" when questioned by the judge.
He was ordered held at the local jail pending court proceedings in Pennsylvania. Public defender Julia O'Connell said the process could take two months.
According to the FBI, Brewster had crisscrossed the country since June, hitting banks in nine states and telling employees he had only months to live. In some instances, the suspect explained he was suffering from cancer.
During Friday's hearing, Brewster coughed twice and chuckled once while talking to his lawyer, who declined comment on his health. Assistant U.S. Attorney Edward Snow said he wasn't aware of Brewster being terminally ill.
It was only on Thursday that the FBI issued an arrest warrant for Brewster, saying a confidential informant gave the agency his name and birthdate following a Monday heist at a Huntington Bank branch in Erie, Pa. Surveillance video from a nearby carwash showed an SUV similar to the rental Brewster was accused of taking from an acquaintance in Pensacola on June 11.
The first robbery occurred June 21 in Arvada, Colo., and by July 6, the suspect was believed to have robbed banks in Flagstaff, Ariz.; Pocatello, Idaho; and Roy, Utah — where he picked up his nickname after a teller told police that the robber passed her a note demanding money and said "I have four months to live."
Following a two-week lull, robberies resumed in Winston-Salem, N.C., and within five weeks the Bucket List Bandit was being blamed for heists in Chattanooga, Tenn.; Bloomington, Ill.; Columbia and O'Fallon, Mo., the FBI said. About two weeks passed before Monday's robbery in Erie.
A teller at the Erie bank picked Brewster's photo out of a lineup and authorities then reviewed surveillance video and found an "obvious likeness" to Brewster during the nine prior robberies. Photos from the various robberies show a man with grayish, thinning hair, generally combed or brushed backward, wearing glasses and what appears to be the same blue polo shirt with a front pocket.
"We knew this was our person; we just didn't know who was going to be lucky enough to get a hold of him," said Bloomington Police Chief Randall McKinley, who said Brewster is suspected of robbing a PNC bank branch on Aug. 17 in the central Illinois college town.
McKinley said it's not uncommon to have serial bank robberies in the same community or state, but it's rare to have them stretch over so many states.
"To have them go all over the country is very interesting," he said.
It wasn't clear why Brewster was traveling in Roland, just west of Fort Smith, Ark., and more than 1,000 miles from Erie. Investigators also hadn't determined whether Brewster is terminally ill, said Danny Hammon, a sergeant with the Roy, Utah, police department.
The federal arrest warrant issued in Pennsylvania indicates that Brewster is wanted for allegedly borrowing but not returning his Florida acquaintance's black Chevy Captiva. The vehicle was similar to one described by witnesses at several of the robberies authorities think Brewster committed.
No one was hurt in any of the robberies and officials declined to say how much money the suspect stole, except for the $4,080 taken from the Erie bank, which was disclosed in the FBI arrest warrant.
Associated Press writers Caryn Rousseau in Chicago and Joe Mandak in Pittsburgh contributed to this report.
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3 SF Bay Area children missing after dad's slaying
SAN PABLO, Calif. (AP) — An Amber Alert has been issued in the search for three young children whose father was found fatally shot in his backyard in the San Francisco Bay area.
The alert issued Monday night for 12-year-old Hugo Anguiano, 6-year-old Merari Anguiano and 2-year-old Jenh Anguiano says their mother, 35-year-old Alicia Ortez, is suspected of taking them.
Authorities believe they were taken at about 11:30 Sunday night from their home in San Pablo, where they live with their father.
The father, whose name was not released, was found dead at the home Monday morning.
San Pablo police say they are not calling Ortez a suspect in the killing. They say she is a transient who may not have access to a car, so no vehicle information was released.


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To the Editor:
Since November, the whole district has known that Shuler told us all an endless stack of lies regarding his dealings with the TVA and his own personal property investments. His tall tale that he had never contacted anyone at the TVA to push his multi-million dollar deal along was blown sky high.
The Smoky Mountain News gave Shuler their "Pants On Fire Award", saying: the "TVA report later confirmed that the Congressman had lied when he told media he had had no contact with the TVA."
The Asheville Citizen Times' John Boyle said: "There's no pretty way to put this. Congressman Heath Shuler flat-out lied ... — repeatedly."
The HendersonvilleTimes-News said: "Shuler tried to slide around the truth, apparently hoping that the whole story would never come to light."
Shuler knew that it was wrong for a sitting Congressman to call the CEO of the TVA about his own sweetheart land deal so he decided to bald-face lie about it. And he has never once apologized for it.
When Shuler asks for your vote to be part of Pelosi's majority again, will you let him pretend that what every major paper in WNC has reported as shameful fact never happened?
Robert Danos
Henderson County GOP


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Last week, I spoke at the GO-Tech meeting, which was held at the A2 Mechshop in Ann Arbor, MI. I was there for a terrific demo of aluminum casting by Rick Chownyk. He was not only well-informed but very entertaining.
Rick began with a styrofoam mold he had created already.
He had built his own burner for melting scrap aluminum. (He said that you can't do this using aluminum cans.)
He buried the mold in a bucket of sand. When the aluminum was red-hot, the exciting time for the pour arrived. In the video below, listen to the enthusiastic audience and their questions — this is why these demos are so cool.
Minutes later, after the mold had cooled, he removed it, dunked it water, and raised it high to the delight of the crowd — a metal Make sign!
Rick recommends the site, Backyard Metalcasting, for instructions on how to do this yourself. He also credits the Dave Gingery books available from Lindsay's Technical Books.
Thanks to Dale Grover and A2 Mechshop for inviting me to speak and to the hundred or so who came out.
A2 Mech Shop, a "co-engineering" space, is a positive sign that good things are happening in Michigan.