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Deborah L. Jacobs, Forbes Staff
I cover personal finance for baby boomers.
When Alexandra Talty announced that she was moving to Beirut, Lebanon to study Arabic and pursue a career in freelance journalism, I was intrigued. She had been on staff at Forbes for three years, starting as an intern while she was still in college, and working her way up to be Senior Manager of Editorial Publicity. In that capacity she had handled a number of my appearances on radio and TV. I'd been impressed with her news instincts and the network she had built in a short space of time.
Having traveled widely myself, I could also understand her wanderlust. The best way to get to know a foreign country is to live there. I spent two years of my childhood living in postwar Germany; lived for two summers with Mexican families in small towns when I was in high school; and have roamed the world ever since, writing about everything from life along the Mekong in Laotian villages to buying rugs in India. (See "The Best Travel Souvenirs Are Inexpensive, Everyday Items.")
Lately I've been writing articles for baby boomers who dream of living overseas during retirement. (See "The Best Foreign Retirement Havens.") For some of them it's the last chance to make the move that Alexandra has bravely made in her 20s. I encouraged her to send me electronic postcards from Beirut, and photographs to go with them. I'll be featuring them in this space in the hopes that they will inform, educate and entertain readers of all generations. This is the first of Alexandra's postcards from Beirut. Others include, "Preservationists Lose Battle To Save Historic Building From Bulldozer."
Postcard From Beirut: First Impressions
By Alexandra Talty
Palm trees line the Corniche, in downtown Beirut where condo highrises meet the Mediterranean. Men jog casually in sunglasses and sweat suits, teenagers stroll the promenade on dates, groups of women in headscarves sit on benches, while children and young boys idle beneath on the rocks. Construction cranes tower in the distance and horns blare. It is my first day and I'm already in love with this city.
When I first arrived, I was convinced that my cab driver wasn't going to find my apartment and that I was going to be stranded on the street at dusk with two suitcases and a backpack, a prime target for mugging.
The only directions I had were the name of the building, the name of the street and these landmarks: the street is behind the Hospital Geitawi and across from Mohammad Nasr Army post. My roommates let me know their bikes were locked outside so as we drove, I frantically scanned buildings for bikes. Thank God the New York City bike craze had not reached Beirut.
The streets in my neighborhood are not labeled by name and there are no official building numbers, so it wasn't surprising that my cab driver could not find my apartment for over 45 minutes during rush hour.
Rush hour is chaotic in most places but imagine it in a city where there are no streetlights. Cars with manual transmissions stall while they go uphill, and sometimes cars go backwards in traffic to avoid gridlock. Taxi drivers yell at each other to move, gesturing right and left. My sole contribution to this mess was an inaccurate printout from Google Google maps. Google Earth has obviously not been prioritizing Beirut.
Finally, with the help of my Lebanese landlady on the phone, vague directions from three sets of strangers and my roommates waving from our balcony, I made it.
Not everything has been as complicated as my airport pickup. It took me all of 20 minutes to change SIM cards and get a local phone number from the cell phone shop down the street. Although Lebanese SIM cards don't always fit foreign phones, the store owner deftly clipped my Lebanese SIM card in half while her son overrode my factory settings, unlocking my phone for international use with half the wait time of a typical Verizon or AT&T AT&T visit.
When my landlady stopped by to introduce herself and collect the rent, the electricity was off as part of the daily rolling blackout programs in Beirut. There is not enough power for everyone in the city, so every day the electricity is shut off for three hours at a time, during different times of the day. She and her son introduced themselves to me, took a picture of my passport and signed a certification of residency–all by candlelight. When the electricity came on at the end of their visit, it felt like a celebration.
I live in Geitawi, a small Christian residential area, five minutes away from the Mar Mikhael neighborhood where bars, art galleries and restaurants pop up overnight. Some of the bars don't have seating and sell alcohol through a store front, so on Friday nights you see customers lining the streets smoking cigarettes and drinking the Lebanese beer, Almaza.
The buildings in Geitawi are not more than seven stories high and feature all types of architecture–a hodgepodge of the last 300 years–from colonial to art deco. The signs are in Arabic, French, and when I'm lucky, English too. Everyone seems to speak at least two of the three languages fluently.
Instead of traditional Arabic greetings like, "Ahlan" (Hello) or "Sabah al-Nour" (Good Morning), Lebanese say "Bonjour" or "Bonsoir," or my personal favorite "Ha-llo." They pride themselves on their multicultural history and always want to know where you are from and how it compares to Beirut.
Downtown, new buildings sit next to those whose facades are bullet pocked beyond repair. International businesses are scooping up retail spaces but there is a sense of caution, as if the city is holding its breath. Still, real estate prices in some neighborhoods rival those of Abu Dhabi, for as hesitant as people can be about this city, you cannot deny its vibrant beauty. It is, after all, the Paris of the Middle East.
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I've been to Beirut and I know exactly what she is talking about. Actually, ever since going there, twice, I've dreamed of just picking up and moving to Lebanon. I can't put my finger on it, but there is something magical about the place, something that is just beyond words – it really, actually does have to be experienced to be understood. I swear you can leave Beirut, but Beirut never leaves you.
ur such an amazing person. your comment brought tears to my eyes !!! thank you for loving beirut <3
a lebanese in ny
With all due respect to both writers, I m a Lebanese who has traveled to cities in every continent in the world & always made my way back to Beirut.
It shocks me, knowing the level and quality of articles published by Forbes, to read something as lame and inaccurate about my city as this article.
I'd expect from a high level writer to make the lamest incidents appear as exciting as it can be, yet I m disappointed to read an article about a city that combines every kind of thing and every kind of people, whose excitement would never cease to impress every single person who has stepped here, in such a boring, not even close to truth, article.
As a citizen of this great city, and a reader of this great magazine, I'd appreciate and expect someone to at least double check what is written, and would at least have a clue on the city and country in overall.
Lebanon's awesome. Here's a quick addition to the list of Beirut traveling tips from my personal experience holster:
6. Always keep a handy stash of cash in your sock for stitches and MRIs in case Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party members jump you and a friend and beat you with lead pipes for being affiliated with an NGO involved in smuggling medical supplies and food into Syria – even if you're insured, a lot of hospitals in Lebanon prefer cash (esp. gov't hospitals), and chances are the SSNP thugs will jack your cards. A handy cash stash will give you a better chance of being able to stagger to a hospital you can afford to get stitched up in before you bleed out.
7. Cancel your STEP subscription. State is populated by clam-necked cowards who will email you a picture of them soiling their Dockers every time a four-year old sets off fireworks in a trash barrel.
8. Bring your own tires, fuel-soaked rags and firestarter to airport and highway roadblock parties. Dumpsters full of flammable trash are cumbersome and can be found not far from the highway anyway – tires burn for longer and are much more portable.
9. Get a gun – you don't want to feel left out in the summer when the university students are squeezing rounds into the air in Dahiyeh after finishing their exams.
Oh and have fun!
thank you jessica obeid for saying out loud what i now don't have to.
THANK YOU Jessica Obeid. Your comment writes everything i thought about when reading this article.
And i really hope that Alexandra will be able with time to get to know the real Beirut and to portray the beauty behind our city.
killi khara w bala kizib
When you read this article for the first time, you think to yourself, oh Lebanon seems like a nice 3rd world country to live in, but hey I think I should keep these points in mind:
"Don't you ever carry a suitcase or a backpack because you are definitely going to be a "prime source of mugging". You remembered to mention the international act of mugging but forgot to mention the hospitality Lebanese people are famous of. Eh Bass Ba2a!
"What a city full of streets and cars, they even have a rush hour!" Oh My oh My! So you obviously remembered the deficiency in urban planning but forgot to mention the culturally-rich alleys that are full of heritage dating to hundreds of years back! Eh Bass Ba2a!
"Streets have no streetlights, names …cars running manually" Are you sure you were in Beirut? I mean even the second picture of the itsy bitsy alley hold a number "27". Eh Bass Ba2a!
"What a mess". So let us see, you got caught up in a rush hour, the taxi cab got a little lost, you got freaked out and bombarded our beautiful city with negativity. Get a grip lady and think again! Eh Bass Ba2a!
"Beirut isn't a priority on Google Earth", well this comment got my really thinking, for 2 full days. I mean how can Goggle Earth make a city a priority, I asked all my computer geek friends, and they all laughed at me so hard. Thanks for making a joke out of me. Eh Bass Ba2a!
"International phones don't work in Beirut". What kind of phone do you have? The kind of stuff they use in Star Wars or something? Eh Bass Ba2a!
"First thing the lady does is to collect rent". Man you are so lucky she didn't mug you! Wohooo! Eh Bass Ba2a!
"There's always a mom and son wherever she goes" Where all the male figures? Isn't Beirut a retarded city where all women are locked? Guess what women actually work over here and they contribute to the community as men do! And we're proud of them! Eh Bass Ba2a!
"So they took a picture of your passport?" Like with a digital camera, or no wait a minute, the Kodak type with a film inside most likely! It's either a misprint for "photocopying" or an intended use of words to show Beirut as a retarded city. Eh Bass Ba2a!
"There's no electricity, candle lights everywhere" Well the mom and son were preparing for a romantic arrival, Lebanese people after all are well known for their hospitality, passion for life and love! But hey when the small party and photo-shoot was over, they switched the electricity back on. Eh Bass Ba2a!
"Lebanese are proud of their multi-cultural history" Well that sentence got me all fired up and triggered me to comment. We got one culture, one history, full of sweat and blood. We are the land of the first alphabet, the same land the Jesus declared sacred, the land that defeated all conquerors, the land with history as pure and singular as its beautiful nature and landscape. You come from a country of multi-cultural heritage, but not Lebanon, not Beirut, not Byblos, not the land of the free, the home of the brave. You have been 2 hours in Beirut, and you start spreading that propaganda about my land. Eh Bass Ba2a!
"And you finish off the article with global business companies running off scared from a city holding its breath". In a country bounded by two hostile countries, we stand as a victim of history. You mentioned the bullet-pocketed buildings, not mentioning that the American Marines had a lot to do with these bullets in the 1982 Israeli Invasion. Eh Bass Ba2a!
I am sure you are wandering all throughout my comment what the hell "Eh bass ba2a" means. Well it means, in Lebanese of course, to back off. I mean I can travel right now to NYC and man I can write volumes about its negative aspects. But no we won't' because we are a people that respect other cities regardless of all, so I plea you do the same and respect ours!
sido la ni3ak ya 7mar ….kiss imak shou kazeb
Maybe I missed something, but I didn't think she was painting Beirut in a negative light, I think she just wrote what she first noticed. As a Westerner, her observations are just those things that are most different to her. (In 740 words)
I am confident as she spends even more time in Beirut and the rest of Lebanon, she will fall in love a thousand times with its history and beauty. Her heart will even break as she learns about its troubled past and she gets to know its hopeful people. She herself will become a Beiruti.
And just like the Lebanese, she will dream of a Lebanon free of politics, and filled with passionate hope for its future.
Here's to Alexandra – she moved to the city so many of us love!
Show her some of that famous Lebanese hospitality!
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I loved this article. Beirut captured me from the first moment I set foot in it in 1972. All these later, through wars and all the various daily frustrations, having left and returned, Beirut, indeed Lebanon itself, always maintains its hold on my heart.
I also don't see what were the negative pictures she gave about Beirut. I found this article very nice, and her description was simple and not exaggerated. It did not even hold any negative connotation or negative judgment. On the contrary, I wouldn't have expected to see a different description for someone who just got there for the first time, and I do not consider this description as bad, or unfair, or judgmental, and it is definitely not inaccurate. This is Beirut, and this is our hospitality, and our way of solving our guests' problems, and of helping them enjoy the greatness of this place. Unfortunately, the comments penned on this article do not support in any way the image that their authors supposedly defend.


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Federal Stimulus Money
Original post made by Stacey on May 10, 2009
The State Fiscal Stabilization Fund is Division A, Title XIV of ARRA. (Web Link) The CDE announced this weekend that PUSD is entitled to roughly $4.2MM to restore cuts to the revenue limit. In June we shall find out how much from SFSF PUSD will be getting to restores cuts to the categorical funds.
PUSD is also getting $2.5MM from Division A, Title IX of ARRA (Web Link) that helps fund IDEA, also called special ed.
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on May 10, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Stacey is a registered user.
Here's the link to the CDE website to search for ARRA Title XIV funds for PUSD: Web Link
Here's the link to the CDE website to look at ARRA Title IX funds (IDEA) for PUSD: Web Link
on May 11, 2009 at 7:52 am
It's good news! Please let your favorite teachers know!
Please read the opening paragraph in the first Web Link posted by Stacey keeping in mind that revenue limit = salary.
Here's another Web Link from the Department of Education explaining the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund.
Web Link picked up the story after Jack McConnell announced it on Saturday morning:aWeb Link He said "These funds will have an immediate and noticeable impact on California's K-12 and higher education systems by helping schools keep teachers and other important staff employed..."
Will local news agencies headline good news? I doubt it. It would be such a shame to waste a good crisis.
on May 11, 2009 at 8:42 am
Sorry it's Jack O'Connell. Sorry Mr. State Schools Chief.
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Editor's Note: Singer Jackie Evancho's concert in Alpharetta, Ga., was featured in the Alpharetta-Milton Patch. Here is the review.
I learned something valuable about myself at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra summer season opening concert at Sunday. My patience runs out after 2 hours.
The concert, with classicial crossover singer Jackie Evancho joining the orchestra, and newcomer Josh Page as well. I think. But two songs into the concert, it was always the same thing.
Ms. Evancho, now 12 years old, was discovered by most of the United States through the America's Got Talent TV show competition. On Sunday night, she performed many of the songs from her CD, Dream With Me, plus other songs which showcased her talent.
It's incredible that such a young, tiny performer can have such a big voice, and that was clearly on display when she was on stage at the amphitheater in Alpharetta.
She seemed more in control of her voice than Josh Page, who was her special guest and performed solos and duets with her. Perhaps his voice control was weaker at the start of songs because he kept being brought out for just a song while she took a break after singing several.
But none of this has to do with my patience, which started to get tested after Ms. Evancho's second song. I can remember how it went with her rendition of "When You Wish Upon A Star." A novice photographer sat down beside me.
When you wish upon a star
Makes no diff CLICK CLICK you are
Anything your CLICK 'sires
Will come to you
If your CLICK CLICK dream
No request is too CLICK
When you wish upon a star
As dreamers do
You get the picture. And that's what the guy who dropped into the seat next to me was trying to do—get the picture. Apparently he wasn't at the concert for the music, he just wanted to get a good photo of Jackie Evancho.
You wouldn't have heard the camera's shutter if you weren't sitting right next to him. And I did ask him if he was going to be shooting during every song, but the subtlety was lost on him as he replied that it was hard to get a good photo.
Since I was reviewing the concert, I didn't feel it was appropriate for me to complain to ushers, if the people on his other side weren't being bothered.
Now those of you who frequent Chastain (Park Amphitheater) and the constant murmur of the crowd as people eat, drink and be merry while performers try to be the center of attention probably have no sympathy with me. And I'm not looking for it. But if you saw me almost running out of the amphitheater as the notes from the orchestra were still dying down from Ms. Evancho's encore, now you know why: It was to prevent myself from saying something rude.
But back to the concert. Other than the constant shooting beside me, it was a great concert with the ASO expertly following Ms. Evancho in her renditions of the songs on her set list. I especially liked her version of Don McLean's "Starry Starry Night." The crowd greeted her with applause each time she took the stage, and whenever she took a break.
While she was singing, her age wasn't apparent. But between songs, she reminded you that she's not even in her teens yet, with little giggles, and shy smiles as she replied "I love you too," to fans who called out to her.
The cool, calm exterior she has while singing shifts easily into what seems to be her real persona, that of a young girl just happy to be on stage, doing something she loves. That joy of singing came through in her songs too.
If you have the chance to see Jackie Evancho in concert in the future, don't pass it up.


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It's a week today that Sarah Palin was named as the Republican's candidate for Vice President, and I tell ya, it's made her the most "in demand" Celebrity with a BlackBerry these past seven days. I received over two dozen emails from people forwarding me articles (like this one) making mention of her BlackBerry use. The best picture I've seen to date is the one above, originally posted by CBS. I think for the most part pretty much every politician is a BlackBerry
users addict.... so before election day rolls around we'll be sure to do up a Special Edition Politician Roundup (send in your pics to editorial @ crackberry.com).
More sightings after the jump, including Serena Williams and John Mayer....
Celebrity BlackBerry Sightings
Serena Williams with her BB, catching a cab in NYC
sent in by Joseph
John Mayer with a BlackBerry Bold, from the August 25th copy of In Touch.
sent in by Justin
Marissa Perry, from the Broadway hit "Hairspray" talking to a fan, pink-skinned Curve in hand
sent in by Scott
Michael Phelps flying on a plane, BB at side.
photo from CBS
Britney in white with a white-skinned Curve
sent in by David via PopSugar
That's it for today folks. Send in your sightings to editorial @ crackberry.com and we'll get them up on the site!
tnewton3 Sep 5, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Don't care too much about celebs and their crackerries but whatever floats your boat I guess.
RavenHairedBeauty Sep 5, 2008 at 1:25 pm
I love seeing them with their BBs everywhere they go!
weeeee, bb around the world !@# :)
HOLLYWOOD42 Sep 5, 2008 at 1:57 pm
I just love seeing people with blackberry's period, its such a kick, I feel like running right over and saying hey look me too, lets exchange PIN's
reeneebob Sep 5, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Knowing Sarah Palin uses a BB makes me want to get rid of it.
Anonymous Sep 5, 2008 at 3:28 pm
I suddenly lost my taste for my blackberry. Palin will do that. Anyone sellin an iphone?
skylartoups Sep 5, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Why do people not like Palin? What has she done thats so bad?
tnewton3 Sep 5, 2008 at 4:09 pm
People don't really know they just aren't republican so they so lame stuff like this.
reeneebob Sep 5, 2008 at 5:03 pm
as a woman I am sickened that she would be perfectly happy to take away the rights I have to my own body.
But, thanks for coming out.
chumpsucka Sep 5, 2008 at 6:23 pm
She's protecting the rights of the other body, not yours. You have the right to do whatever you want to your own body, she's not trying to remove that from you. How can you not see that? Maybe it's above your pay grade.
Please....nothing but interfering with a woman's right to choose.
Anonymous Sep 8, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Sarah Palin + Mc Cain = DISASTER
reeneebob Sep 6, 2008 at 12:23 am
but until it can survive on it's own outside my body, it's my choice.
And no one, not you, not anyone, can take that away.
That's why it's a right to CHOOSE. You choose to do what you want and I will stay out of your decision. All I ask is the same.
And since it's also, in a lot of cases, imposing your religious view on the other person at the same time, it's awfully self righteous.
Where are you right to lifers after the birth when the child is in foster care or in a poor home?
It has nothing to do with pay grade. It's my body. Stay out of it. I am sorry you are too narrowminded to realize that.
So you are saying its better to just kill them rather than give them a chance at life? Wow, I'm am almost disgusted enough to get rid of my berry because of YOU! See what you are forgetting is that you did make a choice, you dropped your pants! You made the choice and you should take responsibility for what you did, created a life. Be responsible and have the child and give them up for adoption to a family that can't have kids. It's like shooting someone then saying oops, I want to take that back! Sorry for the rant all, ignorance ticks me off.
Anonymous Sep 6, 2008 at 1:39 pm
id do her
Anonymous Sep 8, 2008 at 3:07 pm
If she was lil more concerned about the future of our nation she would just stand down. She is extremely under qualified to be VP of the United States of America. If McCains health decides to take a leap off a cliff (God forbid) lil Sarah Palin will wear her prom crown again. I think she needs to be realistic that McCain did a wrong choice... and do our nation a vital favor. I'm a woman and a proud republican... it has nothing t do with gender or political party... just the thruth!
Anonymous Sep 6, 2008 at 4:21 pm
I do not advocate abortion for birth control.
However, when I was pregnant last year, as I have downs in my family I had to have the screening, and even with fertility issues I would have aborted had the fetus tested positive.
And that's my choice.
I took birth control until I wanted my family, so you can back the hell off.
BLACKBERRYFREAK Sep 6, 2008 at 5:54 pm
WELL SAID. Ignorance ticks me off as well.
But how is this fodder for the forum? We all have our opinions, but this was a blog about celebrities and BBs.....and frankly, how anyone else feels about the right to life is their business, and I'd just as soon keep it that way.
We will all vote (I hope)our conscience this November....but since no one is going to change anyone's opinion on this or any other matter, why bother to argue about it?
Anonymous Sep 6, 2008 at 12:15 pm
I don't think Palin has any problem with you choosing to use contraceptive methods so as to eliminate the problem in the first place. If you choose not to do that and something happens, why should somebody else get screwed. I mean, honestly, how selfish is that? This isn't even a religious issue to me. I just look at how many important people in the last 100 years have been "accidents" that have gone on to do so much good in the world. If their parents had continued to be irresponsible after the initial slip up and gotten abortions, we would've lost so much as a society. So the way I see it, you get yourself into the situation and you follow through. If you don't want to get there, "choose" before you make an issue of it.
And for the record, defining life is an ambiguous issue in a legal sense. A mother can abort a fetus and it's not really considered taking a life while if some mugger punches you in the stomach on the street and kills a fetus and then it's murder. That's just a little strange and ambiguous to me. I realize that it's a slightly more complicated issue than that so don't go all postal on me, but again, these definitions of human life are far less religious then many pro-choicers make it out to be. There are plenty of us pro-lifers out there with opinions that are grounded in the world of science with proven facts and statistics to give us cause to believe the way we do.
Ultimately, I think most of us pro-lifers would prefer to stay out of your body, we just wish that you would share your own advice with guys first if you or he are unwilling to be responsible with your little endeavors.
I'm glad you weren't my mom,
Anonymous Sep 6, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Actually the only contraceptive methods Sarah Palin approves of (judging by the sex education she has mandated in her state) is abstinence only. I think we can all agree that the common goal is to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies and abstinence only is not going to do that. People make poor decisions when they're uneducated. So much for that plan...Bristol Palin and Jevi Johnston really carried through w/ premarital sex and an unwanted pregnancy. (There is nothing wrong with them wanted to have a kid, but I don't think they planned on having a kid in the first place and that's why I think it's a bit hypocritical to be abstinence only and have premarital sex. In the words of Levi Johnston: "Cuntry first, condom second."
I mean really... Sep 7, 2008 at 12:13 am
Who would be against condoms in highschool? Your definitely IGNORANT if you believe that teaching abstinence will prevent young adults from having sex. Can we say denial?? Palin is entirely against abortion, meaning...regardless of rape, incest, or anything, shes against abortion. Its a womans right to choose, period. As for the person way up above, too bad they werent your mother, she would have done the world a favor and aborted you.
The world needs more abortions.
Anonymous Sep 7, 2008 at 1:37 pm
You do realize I said abstinence is not effective, right?
Anonymous Sep 7, 2008 at 3:39 pm
That baby that you are so willing to kill did not "CHOOSE" to be brought into the world! You may have made the choice to sleep around and then not deal with what you created, the life you made. How hard is it to see that Fetus as a life, sure it may still be inside of your body, but it has a body of it's own, it's own heart, it's own soul, even if it's mother is lacking both of those things. As for where are the right to lifers when there are babies and children who where not killed by their mothers but left up for adoption? There are people like the McCain's who adopt them and bring them home to give them a better life, or like so many famalies that I know that pray to have just one child of their own, but they are unable to so they adopt 4 to 5 children. I guess I just don't see how some people can have no morales, how they can live with themselves after committing murder.
I guess to sum up the way I feel about you is: To bad your Mom did not have your lack of morals, the world would be a better place.
That baby that you are so willing to kill did not "CHOOSE" to be brought into the world! You may have made the choice to sleep around and then not deal with what you created, the life you made. How hard is it to see that Fetus as a life, sure it may still be inside of your body, but it has a body of it's own, it's own heart, it's own soul, even if it's mother is lacking both of those things. As for where are the right to lifers when there are babies and children who where not killed by their mothers but left up for adoption? There are people like the McCain's who adopt them and bring them home to give them a better life, or like so many famalies that I know that pray to have just one child of their own, but they are unable to so they adopt 4 to 5 children. I guess I just don't see how some people can have no morales, how they can live with themselves after committing murder.
I guess to sum up the way I feel about you is:
To bad your Mom did not have your lack of morals, the world would be a better place.
Anonymous Sep 8, 2008 at 3:51 pm
"but until it can survive on it's own outside my body, it's my choice."
So what you're saying is abortion should be legalized for children up to say, 5 years old? I have yet to see a 2 year cook his/her own meal, let alone survive on his/her own.
Ignorance is bliss...
Anonymous Sep 7, 2008 at 10:41 am
ummmm check out her character assassination speech at the RNC delivered in a irritating, nasal tone and you might get an idea.
dvdpfstr Sep 5, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Now that I see she uses a BB, I'm thinking about getting another one.
wncmps Sep 5, 2008 at 10:55 pm
She is going to be GREAT.
berryg1 Sep 5, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Does Palin have an 8700? Talk about needing change...
crackberryhead Sep 5, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Give me Sarah Palin over a tree hugger any day!!! Oh yeah, at&t still SUCKS!!! Come on BOLD!!! Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh
melaniealdridge Sep 5, 2008 at 5:29 pm
I love her and my whole family laughed when a friend of hers mentioned sending her a text on their BBs.
New issue of TIME has a spread pic of Palin (8700?), Cindy McCain (88xx) and Steve Schmidt (83xx) looking as though they might implode if they take their hands off their berries.
stewdaddy Sep 5, 2008 at 9:17 pm
You libs just can't help yourselves can you?
There are a zillion sites out there where you can post and blog about how much you hate those mean and nasty Republicans. Places where you can say stupid things like:
"If he wins I'm moving out of the country" or
"If she wins I'll never use that product again"
And imagine my surprise---you never, ever do it.
How about doing all of us a favor.............
Go spew that crap somewhere else and leave this one site a place for those who love their Berry's to come and hang out. Or at the very least, confine your stupid coments to a political post.
Kevin, thanks for all the great pics. I could care less about most of those people but it is always cool to see others using their BB. This is a great site.
Thank you stew, maybe someone will open their eyes!
anthonyi Sep 5, 2008 at 9:41 pm
It's time for these Libs to get a job instead of waiting for there Party to babysit them. Economy most be really bad, I see that these crybabies all own Blackberries. I guess they fell they are entitled to keep their Berry's when they can't afford them? lol
reeneebob Sep 6, 2008 at 12:26 am
I'm sorry, I didn't know that as a liberal I wasn't allowed to have a day off work in my 60 plus hour work week.
The only name calling going on here is the republicans bashing the liberals, fyi. Speaks volumes.
As long as you stay out of my country, it's just too bad so many of your bad decisions affect the rest of us.
joepocky Sep 6, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Way to take the low road.
Jakeipoo Sep 6, 2008 at 12:11 am
Britney Spears has the BlackBerry 8310 Curve Red...just like me. So yall don't think I'm a stalker...I know this bit of info because, well I'm a HUGE FAN!!!...but if you checkout http://www.breatheheavy.com and you can see her with her Berry.
SHE IS GOING TO ROCK THE VMAs!!!
JORGEv2.0#CB Sep 6, 2008 at 11:10 am
I'm still trying to find those elusive pics I have of Steve-O from Jackass using his 7290, and this was summer 2006 lol!
mab4285 Sep 7, 2008 at 1:54 am
This is a photo of Palin using a blackberry.....Not a forum to debate abortion or any other issue. Please keep your comments out of these posts....they are not relative to the post. I happen to support Obama, but I'm not going to go and bash Palin or McCain in a comments section such as this.
socalgem Sep 7, 2008 at 1:11 pm
I love seeing anyone carrying a blackberry. I have been a long time fan of BB's and will continue to rock mine.
Pearlish Sep 7, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Fellow Crackberry addicts: I am addicted to Crackberry.com because this "was" a place that allowed me to indulge my addiction regardless of my religion, politics, socio-economic status, or sexual orientation. Here, we are all equally addicted to a multi-media communication device. Please try to leave the politics out. I'm always happy to see "celebrities" who are crackberry addicts, whether I agree with their politics, lifestyle, choice of clothes, or not. :o)
gmpblack Sep 7, 2008 at 9:08 pm
jeeeze this is NOT the place to debate abortion or any
other political sh*t. Why not call your local congressman or
state senator.
roman411 Sep 8, 2008 at 8:52 am
CrackBerry - 100 cool points.
windchime516#CB Sep 8, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Saw this post from blackberryinsight about an article on UK police force equipped with blackberries. This is so much better than celebrity sightings...now that is why BBs rock! :-) Not only are they being used by popular celebrities, they are so functional, they are used even by the police!
check it out at this link:
gumdrops Sep 15, 2008 at 3:48 am
I noticed in some articles they mention her Blackberry phone. In one of the photos I saw, there were 2 Blackberry in front of her on her desk. O.o
My entire clan will be voting for her and McCain! :D


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Meghan Casserly, Forbes Staff
Entrepreneurship. By women, of women, for women.
I know you: You've made looking for your next job, well… your job. You've scoured your resume of clichéd buzzwords, brushed up on body language and even gotten a handle on the dreaded video interview.
But all that might be for naught if you just don't have the personality your dream employer is looking for. New research shows that the vast majority of employers (88%) are looking for a "cultural fit" over skills in their next hire as more and more companies focus on attrition rates. Lucky for you, we've drilled down into data from 1,200 of the world's leading employers (think General Electric General Electric, P&G and Accenture Accenture) to find precisely the personalities big business is looking for.
Universum, the Stockholm-based employer branding firm that annually surveys over 400,000 students and professionals worldwide on jobs-related issues, has culled their data to the top five personality traits employers are looking for in job candidates in 2012. How's that for a leg up on the competition?
"We surveyed employers to get a handle on the challenges that face them in hiring," says Joao Araujo of Universum. "What are they looking for in employees and what are they not finding?" By identifying both traits, he says, aspiring job applicants can both identify the most sought after traits—and brush up resumes and interview tactics to best position themselves.
Professionalism (86%), high-energy (78%) and confidence (61%) are the top three traits employers say they are looking for in new hires. Kathy Harris Harris, managing director of Manhattan-based executive search firm Harris Allied says these first-impression traits are the most critical for employers to prepare for as they all can be evaluated by a recruiter or hiring manager within the first 30 seconds of meeting a candidate.
"A manager can read you the moment you walk in the door," she says; from the clothes you wear to the way you stand to the grip of your first hand-shake, presenting yourself as a confident, energetic professional is about as basic as career advice gets. But don't be off-put by this commonplace advice. Harris, who specialized in high-level executive placement says even the most seasoned of CEOs can get tripped up by the basics. Universum clients agree: confidence ranks highest on the list of skills companies think employees are missing most.
"We remind every candidate of the most granular advice," she says. The most successful applicant is the one who walks into every interview with her hand outstretched for a handshake, has done her homework on the interviewer and company and is dressed to fit effortlessly into the culture of the workplace.
The remaining personality traits that Universum clients say are critical in the hiring process aren't ones that can be read on-sight but instead call for both resume and interview preparation. To present yourself as a self-monitoring (58%) personality type, Harris says to adjust resume language to call attention to work experience where you've worked independently or excelled without the guidance of direct leadership. "In interviews, chose anecdotes that show how you've saved, made or achieved in previous positions… and how self-motivation was critical to that success."
Intellectual curiosity (57%) is, fittingly, a curious trait for Harris, who says she generally advises clients to tightly edit the "hobbies and interests" sections of their resumes. "I'd imagine that in looking for intellectual curiosity employers are looking for two things," she says. "The ability to problem solve and the ongoing dedication to learning new technologies or solutions that will continue to advance in the changing workplace." Employers are asking themselves whether new hires will be with the company for the long term, she says. An employee who will grudgingly adopt a new database is not as attractive as one who is truly passionate about learning new things.
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John, I briefly scanned your book along with your bio on amazon. You obviously have enough evidence and visibility through your professional activity that women have a disadvantage by the fact that they have to manage career and family. I am having my issues with this subject. I think at least in the professional environment women are treated differently, probably paid less for the same job than men just because there is much ado about it. So many people write, talk, discuss about it and offer coaching for it… It would help a big deal if men stop assuming that women want to be treaded differently. I am glad I made my way without any type of those discussions and I am actually better paid than many of my male peers… But then again, you may argue that there are outlier for everything, and you are right…
I definitely am a hand talker, something that I actively try to do as little as possible during an interview. Eye contact can be an awkward thing if there is too much or not enough.
Nice Information, I like your post, Thank you
Canadian Employers are so far behind European companies in the hiring of Handwriting Analyst's to filter out their candidates for future positions. All five of these personality traits can be spotted in the handwriting of each candidate: Confidence; self-monitoring; work independently without guidance or leadership; intellectual curiosity and the fifth personality trait of high energy. I think you should write about success stories of hiring Handwriting Analyst's and encourage more companies to hire their expertise. The companies will soon find how much value a Handwriting Analyst will bring to their company.
Handwriting assessment sounds like a crock. I wouldn't hire someone who's sole function was to judge someone and make assumptions based on something as cliche as handwriting style.
Kerry, you wouldn't by chance be a handwriting analyst or represent a company that provides this service?
it sales jobs toronto needs more employees. If you think you have what it takes to be awesome, then you might want to look into it.
How would these personality traits be treated outside of America?
Why don't the "job creators" just hire actors and be done with it? That way, they can expect exactly what they wished for from every well-rehearsed candidate. Funny, no one has considered that the new "cultural fit" craze could be the perfect code for social conditioning in the workplace, namely the type that sifts out undesirable ages or skin colors. And this is MORE important than skills! That's modern America for you.


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One who is brazen, fearless or disregards the consequences of his/her actions. Crazy, Overconfident, Ill.
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1. He came in and assaulted the young man openly in public, He is rather "shell"
2. Dude just rolled in and punch my man dead in his grill. He straight "shell"
2. Dude just rolled in and punch my man dead in his grill. He straight "shell"
by Wisdoma Allah July 24, 2003
A shell is the command processor interface. The command processor is the program that executes operating system commands. The shell, therefore, is the part of the command processor that accepts commands. After verifying that the commands are valid, the shell sends them to another part of the command processor to be executed.
When Windows failed to boot, I needed to use a DOS shell.
by qbert July 18, 2004
An exclamation used by someone when describing someone else who in a position that's usually both unlucky and embarassing. This is a Manchester UK specific slang-word.
'His mum caught him having a hand-shandy.'
by Jasper Byrne August 25, 2006
slang for bullet, but this is actually incorrectly used. a shell is actually a high calibur bullet, usually from a shotgun.
"I been hit with a few shells, but I don't walk with a limp"
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Oregon 2,000 ft Prominence Peaks > Paulina Peak / Newberry Crater > Climber's Log
Paulina Peak / Newberry Crater Climber's Log
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|Nice view
Date Climbed: Sep 28, 2012
|Good views of East and Paulina Lakes which are a great place to camp in the late summer.
|Posted Jul 1, 2014 1:14 pm
|Up the Road
Date Climbed: Jun 25, 2005
|Can't remember if I did this on 4th of July or sooner. Was on a geology field trip as part of a 6 week field mapping camp. Checked out Big Obsidian Flow too.
|Posted Jun 18, 2014 12:19 am
|Washboard Road From H-E-Double Hockey Sticks
Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2012
|I was already heading north to Bend, and it was not quite sunset, so I took a nice side-trip to Newberry Crater and Paulina Peak. Nice views at the top. It was really interesting to see the massive lake-filled caldera remnant, below. Make certain to scurry ~14' up the nearby rock outcrop to the true highpoint.
The Paulina Peak Road is the one deterrant for this peak. The road was in good condition... except for the nearly four miles of almost constant washboard effect. It was shaking my car like crazy; my car felt like a human popcorn maker.
This was the sixth of seven Top 100 Oregon peaks I summited during a 3-1/2 day timeframe.
|Posted Jul 24, 2012 7:01 pm
|Nick Turtura
Date Climbed: Jul 8, 2012
|Took the kids up on a hot sunny day and encountered the biggest hail I've ever seen. Awesome.
|Posted Jul 9, 2012 1:46 am
|Long walk.
Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2011
|Hour and 20 minutes up and the same down. Nice walk for the mountain we had been on (closed to cars still). Summit was gorgeous with great views of the cascades from Adams to Thielsen. Very nice place.
|Posted Jul 8, 2011 10:38 pm
|Drive up
|I think I could see every major Oregon volcano
|Posted Jan 27, 2011 11:54 pm
|Josh Lewis
|First Drive up
|For the longest time this was Michael's highest summit and my first drive up peak.
|Posted Jan 13, 2011 10:36 pm
|Troy B
|Drive Up
Date Climbed: Oct 2, 2010
|After heading up to the summit of South Sister in the morning we drove up to the summit of Paulina Peak. Amazing view of the lakes and crater.
|Posted Oct 3, 2010 6:05 pm
|Paulina Peak
Date Climbed: Jul 14, 2010
|I was working down here in Oregon, so when I got off early I drove up Paulina. I would have hiked it if I had the time.
|Posted Jul 14, 2010 11:01 pm
|Lovely Area
Date Climbed: Jul 2, 2007
|Alway enjoy seeing volcanic features, this was a very nice park to visit while in the area.
|Posted Jun 10, 2010 2:34 am
|15 mile dayhike
Date Climbed: Aug 2, 2000
|Hiked up from Hot Springs campground (6400') to peak from crater rim via Lost Lake and Obsidian Flow trails. Beautiful weather, nice views.
|Posted Mar 16, 2010 4:00 pm
|Mike Lewis
|Shamefully drove.
Date Climbed: Oct 15, 2006
|My family wanted to visit Oregon and we just happened upon this gem on our drive south. It was a hard fifteen step climb to the top with a most stupendous view of the inside of a cloud.
I did not feel successful, but at 7,985 feet, I guess it was a summit.
|Posted Mar 16, 2010 1:07 pm
|Drove with no shame
Date Climbed: Jul 20, 2007
|Very nice surprise, this area is really cool. Pictures and map at http://www.willhiteweb.com/oregon_climbing/newberry_national_volcanic_monument/paulina_peak_054.htm
|Posted Aug 18, 2009 3:10 am
|been to the top
|Posted Mar 5, 2009 12:25 pm
|Paulina Peak Road
Date Climbed: Aug 16, 2008
|Drove up. Great views and beautiful area.
|Posted Nov 18, 2008 3:30 pm
|On bike
Date Climbed: Sep 11, 2008
|Found a spot to park about 3/4 of a mile short of the summit and rode the rest of the way up. Great views of the caldera and lakes. Don't expect solitude on a nice sunny late summer day. Probably 50+ people on top. Still a nice end to a great 4 day trip.
|Posted Sep 12, 2008 1:27 pm
|Beautiful area
|Great area when it's not too hot.
|Posted Sep 10, 2008 10:51 pm
|while in the area
Date Climbed: Sep 14, 1983
|Date is a bit of a guess. I was staying at the Paulina Lodge, while working on a scientific drilling project. Wife and I walked to the top.
|Posted Jan 2, 2008 2:56 pm
|Drive Up
|I cheated, but the parents were in town. A great view of the lava flows, lakes and across the valley to the Sisters. A very unique place.
|Posted Aug 22, 2007 1:33 am
|Oregons other natl park?
Date Climbed: Jul 29, 2006
|I had originally planned a climb of broken top mountain but the three sisters were closed due to forest fires. I had never visited newberry crater. It was time to give the park it"s due. I had driven most of the morning and Paulina peak does have a road to the summit. I parked at the trailhead for the peak down on the main park road and hiked the approximatly three miles to the summit. A good aerobic workout with summits to scramble to on the north side of the peak. I proceeded over to where people drive there cars and mingled with other tourists. I found that thr restrooms on top of Paulina peak are the highest public restrooms in Oregon. The views of the caldera and cascades to the west are awesome. I really enjoyed my visit.
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The students left their homes to connect to the international flihgt in Chicago early on Saturday before Irene hit the east coast. They arrived early enough at O'Hare to get to know each other and their program assistant Emily before they began they began their long flights. Their flight rides were restful enough that they managed to remain fresh when they finally arrived in Negambo, the only international airport in Sri Lanka. In the words of 2011 fall program director, Professor David Campbell, the students are cheerful, laughing and terribly excited to be in Sri Lanka.
Here are a few photos from their journey and their first day in Sri Lanka.
Before their international flights, the group met at the departure gate in Chicago with ISLE Executive Director Sree Padma Holt. Left to right: Kelsi, Alex, Emma, Meg, Chelesea, Sarah, Erica, Malik, and Mimi (front).
The group arrives in the airport in Colombo. Pictured left to right are: Meg, Emma, Mimi, Erica, Kelsi (front row), and Chelesea, Malik, Sarah, Alex, and Lily (back row).
Mimi, Alex, Erica Meg and Sarah have tea with Faculty Director Professor David Campbell.
Two days after arriving in Kandy, the students met their Sri Lankan host family at a tea at the ISLE Center before they moved in with them. Following are some photos of the students and their host families.
Chelesea with her host parents, the Rajagurus.
Mimi with her host parents, also named the Rajagurus.
Emma and her host family, the Attanayakes.
Erica and the Ekanayake family.
Program Assistant Emily stayed with the Jayamanne family when she studied with ISLE in 2009; here she poses with Kelsi and the family.
Lily poses with her host family, the Wirasinghes.
Malik and his host parents, the Wansekeras.
Meg with her host family, the Navaratnes.
Sarah and her host parents, the Weerasooriyas.
Alex and her host family.


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A Riverside County woman is planning to fight a traffic ticket she got for wearing a Google Glass prototype while driving. She was pulled over for speeding, but was cited for wearing the high-tech eyewear after the officer realized what she was donning. Gadi Schwartz reports from Santa Monica for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013.
A Southern California driver testing a Google Glass prototype was pulled over and ticketed for something she didn't expect - wearing her glasses.
Cecilia Abadie was pulled over in San Diego by a California Highway Patrol officer for speeding. But when the officer saw her high-tech eyewear, he ticketed her under a disputed California law.
"At one point I asked him, 'It's not illegal, right? And he said, 'It actually is illegal,'" said Abadie, a Riverside County, Calif. resident. "I was shocked."
Abadie is a Google Glass Explorer - one of a select few allowed to buy the $1,500 glasses, which feature email, navigation, pictures and Google in a translucent prism she can see over her right eye.
"It's so comfortable, I forget to take it off even when I don't use it," she said.
The officer cited Abadie under a California law that bans the driver's use of television, screens or monitors while driving.
The CHP defends the law, saying that the computerized glasses are a distraction.
In the meantime, Abadie says she won't be wearing her Google Glass behind the wheel anymore.
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Tonight, the college football bowl season comes to an end as Notre Dame and Alabama square off in the Discover BCS National Championship Game.
The Fighting Irish and the Crimson Tide, ranked number one and two respectively in the BCS poll, kick off at 8:30 p.m. The game can be seen on ESPN TV and can also be heard on 101 ESPN Radio.
Oddsmakers have Alabama favored by more than a touchdown.
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Dianne Frances D. Powell
The Tribune-Star
Duke Energy still plans to close four of the five power units at the Wabash River Station, a spokesperson said Wednesday about the only coal-fired power plant in Vigo County.
In a note to Terre Haute business leaders in September 2011, Duke said "because some of our plants are aging and dependent on coal, we expect to retire some generating units." The Wabash River Station is located north of West Terre Haute.
Duke spokesperson Angeline Protogere on Wednesday said "we expect to retire the four units" — that is, Wabash River Station units 2, 3, 4 and 5 — "by 2015."
Protogere said the company is also exploring what to do with the other unit it owns, unit 6.
"The other unit [6] we are considering converting to cleaner burning natural gas," she said.
Unit 1 at the Wabash River Station is owned by the Wabash Valley Power Association and SG Solutions. According to a 2011 Duke Energy message to the Tribune-Star, unit 1 is "powered by the synthesis gas produced at the adjacent gasification plant. It would not be affected by any decision we make."
Duke is Indiana's largest electric supplier. According to a July 2013 release, Duke provided approximately 6,900 megawatts of owned electric capacity to approximately 790,000 customers.
The company, headquarted in North Carolina, says that it has invested approximately $2.8 billion since 1990 in federally mandated pollution control measures statewide.
Tribune-Star Reporter Dianne Frances D. Powell can be reached at 812-231-4299 or dianne.powell@ tribstar.com.


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A Little Devil Called tr
The program called tr is not a big program; it is quite small and not extremely powerful. However, if you write scripts, you will treasure it as one of your favorites. It is a typical script program, reading from stdin and writing to stdout; there are no file names to provide as arguments. The main function is translating characters. A second important function is deleting characters. Furthermore, tr is capable of squeezing repeated characters into one, but that particular function is rarely used.
Let us begin with translating characters. The tr command takes the form:
While tr reads its input, it replaces characters appearing in string1 by the corresponding characters in string2. So, the command tr abc def will replace a line like "the quick brown fox quickly jumped over the lazy dog" into "the quifk erown fox quifkly jumped over the ldzy dog". Well, that doesn't make sense, but it does demonstrate how tr works.
Have you ever wanted to capitalize or de-capitalize a file? To capitalize it, you can use:
tr abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz \ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Luckily, we can also use ranges of characters to specify the characters more efficiently:
tr a-z A-ZEver had those horrible upper case DOS file names? Here's a Bourne script to take care of them:
for f in *; do mv $f `echo $f | tr A-Z a-z` doneMany UNIX editors allow some text to be processed by the shell. For example, to replace all upper case characters of the next paragraph with lower case while in vi, type:
!}tr A-Z a-zAs another example, the command:
!jtr a-z A-Zcapitalizes the current and next line (the character after the ! is a movement character).
If you read the International Obfuscated C Code Contest (ftp://ftp.uu.net./pub/ioccc/), you frequently see that part of the hints are coded by a method called rot13. rot13 is a Caesar cypher, i.e., a cypher in which all letters are shifted some number of places. For example, a becomes b, b becomes c, ..., y becomes z, and z becomes a. In rot13 each letter is shifted 13 places. It is a weak cypher, and to decipher it, you can use rot13 again. You can also use tr to read the text in this way:
tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M
Another interesting way to use tr is to change files from Macintosh format to UNIX format. For returns, the Macintosh uses \r while UNIX uses \n. GNU tr allows you to use the C special characters, so type:
tr \r \nIf you don't have GNU's version of tr, you can always use the corresponding octal numbers as shown here:
tr \015 \012You might wonder what would happen if the second string is shorter than the first string. POSIX says this is not allowed. System V says that only that portion of the first string is used that has a matching character in the second string. BSD and GNU pad the second string with its final character in order to match the length of the first string.
The reason this last method is handy becomes clearer when we take complements into account. Assume you wish to make a list of all words and keywords in your listing. When you use -c, tr complements the first string. In C, all identifiers and keywords consist of a-zA-Z0-9_, so those are the characters we want to keep. Thus, we can do the following:
tr -c a-zA-Z0-9_ \n
If we pipe the tr output through sort -u, we get our desired list. If we follow POSIX, the second string would have to describe 193 newline characters (described as \n*193 or \n*). If we use system V, only the zero byte is translated to a newline, since the complement of a-zA-Z0-9_ starts with the zero byte.
The second important use of tr is to remove characters. For this option, you use the flag -d with one string as an argument. To fix up those nasty MS-DOS text files with a ^M at the end of the line and a trailing ^Z, specify tr in this way:
tr -d \015\032
Many people have written a program in C to do this same operation. Well, a C program isn't necessary—you only need to know the right program, tr, with the right flags. The -d flag isn't used often, but is nice to have when needed. You can combine it with the -c flag to delete everything except characters from the string you supplied as an argument.
Repeated characters can be squeezed into a single one using the -s option with one string as an argument. It can also be used to squeeze white space. To remove empty lines, type:
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The -s option can be used with two strings as arguments. In that case, tr first translates the text as if -s were not given and then tries to squeeze the characters in the second string. For instance, we can squeeze all standard white space to a single space by specifying:
tr -s \n [ *]The -d flag can also be used with two strings: the characters in the first string will be removed and the characters in the second string will be squeezed.
tr may not be a great program; however, it gets the job done. It is particularly useful in scripts using pipes and command substitutions (i.e., inside the back quotes). If you use tr often, you'll learn to appreciate its capabilities. Small is beautiful.
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I'm just back from a breathless and unusually fruitful trip through the Infringement Festival gauntlet. More to come on some of these experiences in my Sunday column, but suffice it to say for now that this fest never runs out of surprises. Just when you think you've seen the most elegant, or unwatchable, or heart-rending thing you're likely to see at the festival, you stumble upon something even more bizarre, more godawful or more utterly moving than you'd ever have expected.
The beauty of the hunt is the beauty of the fest.
First, the heart-rending: Janna Willoughby, a hard-working Infringement organizer and poet who also goes by MC Vendetta as circumstances demand, brought tears to my eyes with her wide-ranging, deeply personal narrative, "Weird Tales and Tall Coincidences (Part II)." Willoughby believes in the sort of stuff most of us dismiss as supernatural hokum. But her stories, which chronicle several lifetimes of incredible occurrences that seem far beyond the work of serendipity, are enough to plant little seeds of doubht even in the most hard-hearted cynics. Even if those seeds of doubt don't grow into some kind of agreement with Willoughby's metaphysical leanings, it's impossible to deny her gifts as a storyteller, or of the harrowing but ultimately beautiful tale she shared with the crowd at SP@CE 2224. "Believe in the magic," she said, "Because there's really no reason not to." Who knows what the professional cynics over at the Center for Inqiury would think of that (though wouldn't it be fun to ask them?). But here's hoping Willoughby brings this performance back, or records it for a wider audience.
Second, the curious: I checked out Ella Joseph's one-night-only installation, "Within Boundary or A Ride in the Air," in her small studio/gallery space on Linwood Avenue. The installation consisted of several IV bags hung from the ceiling by fishing wire, each one containing a swimming fish. Also dangling from the ceiling were headphones, which viewers could put on to hear a sort of ethereal soundscape while they watched a projection of two human legs walking over an abstract background. I'm not sure whether Joseph pulls from dreams to create her work, but this piece was full of the odd little juxtapositions that seem to happen only in dream states. You could speculate endlessly about the meaning of fish swimming around in IV drip bags, or the meaning of the soundscape and the wandering figure. But to me the scene registered as the assured recreation of a strange, subconscious moment not meant to be dissected for meaning. It was like a dream rendered real -- and, like most dreams, it contained elements both of strange grace and vague danger.
Finally, the unwatchable: I checked out a sliver of an experimental film showcase at Casa De Arte, in which I caught part of a wildly peripatetic video set to pleasant indie/folk music that seemed to chronicle a bearded man's delusional existence as he follows the destructive (and perhaps Satanic?) voice inside his head. I was intrigued enough to stay and see how things panned out. But a scene in which our bearded hero, after sprinkling his naked body with what looked to be paprika, pins a live frog down with four push-pins and proceeds to slice its belly open with a knife, was too much for me, and I bolted for the door. Weird? Yes. Shocking for the sake of being shocking? Yes. Largely pointless, artless and juvenile? Yes, yes and yes.
I missed Leme42's animated film"Wool and Water," but fortunately it's on Vimeo, and it's pretty cool stuff. Take a look:
Of course, most of what's on offer at Infringement -- though, yes, the quality ranges from dismal to sublime -- is far better than what I saw at the film showcase. A case in point (though I'm making an educated guess here, as it's going on even as I type) is the annual Squeaky Wheel Outdoor Animation Festival. When I departed Days Park earlier this evening had already drawn a sizable crowd of onlookers ready to take in the stop-motion film work of Hallwals artist-in-residence Brant Greene.
After this, sad to say, only three days of Infringement remain. See you in Allentown!
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Why are you taking Sasha's title away?I already pointed out Fumie would have won the 2005, 2006, and 2009 National titles so would have 3 to Sasha's 0
The years Mao won her titles, except 2008-09, Fumie did not come in second; the three other times she came in either 4th and 7th. So I don't think Mao is a good excuse.
Fumie did come in 2nd to Shizukua once. So Fumie came in second to the "great skaters" twice. Cohen came in second to Kwan 4 times.
A comparison that might have been closer for debate would be Fumie Suguri's career vs. Surya Bonaly's career (3 world medals, 5th+4th at successive Olympics, etc.).
2005 worlds is far more of a than 2004. However small her chances of winning in 2004, winning 2005 worlds over Irina on her home ice skating that well is 20 times less. She could have won the silver in 2005 perhaps though, probably no medal in 2004 even skating her best, but chances of a gold were atleast higher than 2005.
She also was a very nice exhibition skater, so while I agree she wouldn't get the crowds Sasha would, I don't agree that "no one would want to see her".
Sasha was very popular in Europe as well as the US, and I didn't find European audiences during this time particularly receptive to Asian skaters, so I do think Sasha enjoyed a broader audience.
It's funny. The only time I preferred Sasha over Fumie was in the 2005-2006 season. Every other season, I liked Fumie better as I thought she had better choreography, way better skating skills, and more soul. Choreography in 2002-2003 was sort of a wash as I thought both skaters had blah routines. Also, Fumie's Carmen LP blows Sasha's out of the water.
That said, I'd give the edge to Sasha. I felt she improved every season whereas Fumie never improved upon her deficiencies.
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I dont know why you think beating Sasha in 2005 would be easier than 2004. Sasha's SP at the 2004 worlds was spectacular but her LP was mediocre, lots of shaky landings, combinations left out, and an ugly miss on a triple salchow near the end. Fumie probably had a better shot of silver at the 2004 worlds than 2005, but she wasnt winning gold at either one.
Sasha will always be a disappointment. Yes, she had a better career than Fumie but should have been one of the greats. I love Fumie but I would say maximized her potential, Sasha barely scratched the surface of hers.
This is maybe the funniest trash can election, but I fear the discussion will not go anywhere fun.
It would be one thing if she never did it, but she did and just produced something lesser at the most important events and times, as she did at lesser events, and lost gold medals or chances of them because of that.
Sasha losing 06 Worlds to Kimmie when Michelle, Irina, and Shizuka all were not there pretty much tells me she just was never meant to be a world champion. I mean...talk about being handed something on a golden platter...


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White House Discerns 'Need for Abortion,' But Some Disagree
Conservatives object to the White House's goal of reducing "need for abortion."
By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country
As it works to draft a common-ground plan around abortion and related reproductive issues, the White House is careful to emphasize that is not trying to reduce the number of abortions.
Rather, it says, is aiming to reduce the need for abortion.
Interviewing the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Deirdre McQuade, assistant director of policy and communications at the "pro-life secretariat," I was reminded this week that some religious groups object to the very idea of a need for abortion. Says McQuade:
The phrase "reducing the need for abortion" is not a common-ground phrase. We would say that there is no need for abortion, that abortions are signs that we have not met the needs of women. There is no authentic need for abortion.
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Sean Ochinko hit his first Triple-A home run, a three-run rocket to left field in the second inning, and Chien-Ming Wang had a solid outing as the Buffalo Bisons earned a 4-1 win over the Syracuse Chiefs to sweep the Sunday doubleheader at Coca-Cola Field.
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I cover science and medicine, and believe this is biology's century.
You can learn a lot about the world's most generous man when he does an AMA ("ask me anything") on the popular Web site Reddit.
Bill Gates likes to listen to Weezer, U2, and Spinal Tap, and his favorite book of the last decade is Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature, which Gates calls "a long but profound look at the reduction in violence and discrimination over time." He loves playing tennis and the card game bridge. "I like to tour interesting things with my kids like power plants, garbage dumps, the Large Hadron Collider, Antarctica, missile Silos (Arizona)," he wrote. He also commented on Windows 8 ("Higher is better"), doesn't code as much as he'd like, and is surprised that more new languages haven't come along to make programming easier. The last item on his bucket list? "Don't die."
You can view all of Gates' replies by looking at his Reddit user page, here, but here are just a few highlights that struck me:
On Steve Jobs:
He and I respected each other. Our biggest joint project was the Mac where Microsoft had more people on the project than Apple did as we wrote a lot of applications. I saw Steve regularly over the years including spending an afternoon with him a few months before he tragically passed away.
On his foundation's mission:
Our goals are focused on helping the poorest (globally) and improving education (in the US). We spend half of our money on global health. One metric to look at is reducing the number of children (under 5) who die. My annual letter talks about the amazing progress that has been made on this. Amazingly as health improves families choose to have less kids so paradoxically population growth goes DOWN as you improve health helping with almost every issue – from stability to the environment.
So far our biggest impact has been getting vaccines for things like diarrhea and pneumonia out which has saved millions of lives. Polio will be a great achievement along with key partners when that gets done.
On vaccines:
Vaccines are very important in all countries. Some of the bad rumors have lead to kids dying of measles and pertussis. We have backed some information campaigns on the importance of vaccination even in the US.
On how technology will help people learn:
The ability to test your knowledge and get refreshed on a topic you are making mistakes on will personalize a lot of the learning experience. People like Sal Khan are out in front figuring out how to do this well. My foundation has funded a lot of MOOCs focused on community college kids or kids who have to take remedial math. I am optimistic these will make a big difference.
On technologies that will change the world:
Robots, pervasive screens, speech interaction will all change the way we look at "computers". Once seeing, hearing, and reading (including handwriting) work very well you will interact in new ways.
On climate change:
I did a TED talk about the climate crisis. Over time we have to dramatically reduce CO2 emissions so using fossil fuels will require us to do carbon capture and sequestration. There has been far too little work on this.
Again, it's worth taking a look at all of Gates' answers. they convey very much what he is like in conversation. Embedded in this post: the photo Gates used as proof that it was really him doing an AMA — with a Reddit alien version of himself — and a youtube video he did to answer Redditors questions.
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A list of 65 health risks from genetically modified foods
10 reasons to avoid GMOs
Because GMOs aren't labeled, doctors cannot trace food allergies back to GMO products, so no database of GMO health effects can be created either. And the industry fought like the Dickens to keep labeling out of California. Hmm.
I think innocent until proven guilty is a fool's approach to science, yet it certainly explains the approvals given to conduct these mass experiments on humanity.
Here's a really interesting article on the science of rigging studies! http://www.responsibletechnology.org/fraud
You ask why I would be against Golden Rice? Answered here:
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I see Golden Rice much the way Greenpeace does, as a Pandora's Box that will open the door to more widespread use of GMOs. And Vandana Shiva, an Indian anti-GMO activist, sees potential problems with poverty and loss of biodiversity in food crops. By focusing on a narrow problem (vitamin A deficiency), Shiva argued, advocates for Golden Rice can "direct attention away from the larger issue of a lack of broad availability of diverse and nutritionally adequate sources of food."
WHO malnutrition expert Francesco Branca has concluded that "giving out supplements, fortifying existing foods with vitamin A, and teaching people to grow carrots or certain leafy vegetables are, for now, more promising ways to fight the problem (of Vitamin A deficiency in the developing world)".
I see. So talking about this issue is the problem, and its keeping you away from other thoughts? You keep it going too, and I did offer you my permission to erase the whole thread and stop talking about all this. You chose not to delete and instead to keep the conversation going. If that choice of YOURS is keeping you from something more important, by all means, go do that!
And yes, this Pandora's box is partially open (and Pandora doesn't seem to feel bad at all about it, unlike in the Greek myth). All Monsanto needs is even more of a green light to expand their public experiment and GMOs may seriously damage or destroy the natural food supply while putting patented DNA at the forefront of the next food and farm fight.
You may still delete the thread, I'm fine with that. But your mindset about GMOs is what is backwards. In fact, as consumers educate themselves about the food they eat and the effect it has on their digestive health and immune system, I expect we are going to try and shove the lid closed on that box and get it back in the lab where it belongs.
And you're wrong. The only discrediting of that Seralini study was done by the Monsanto PR flaks and their media flunkies, and of course folks like you who say such things as if they are true.
GM is NOT the solution. You have provided ZERO evidence that it is, while cherry picking what I've said to discredit the evidence I've provided. As to corporate farming and monoculture, it doesn't take a genius to see that nature uses diversity as a hedge against attack. Monoculture invites infection and infestation.
However, these are two distinct issues for me. I'm not standing against corporate farming right now, though I prefer and support local farmers' produce whenever and wherever I can, and think others would be wise to do the same.
The issue is GMOs, the trigger for this thread was your praise of Bill Gates, who has loaned his name and reputation to the most dangerous company on the planet, Monsanto (Among their many gifts to humanity, PCBs!) And if we keep this going much longer, I'll start backing up my claims against Monsanto here on the Forbes website by providing any readers you may have with yet more links to see for themselves what these scoundrels have been up to while writers offer such soothingly misleading words.
Here's a place to start:
Monsanto's corn linked to organ failure:
From the article:
"Agritech companies have given themselves the power of veto of the work of independent researchers. Under threat of litigation, scientists cannot compare seeds … [or test whether] crops lead to unintended environmental effects … Only studies the seed companies have approved see the light of day"
FYI, Geneva-based Covalence ranked the company dead last of 581 multinationals in its 2010 reputation and ethics index, which is distributed by Reuters and Bloomberg.