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- 3 Who can push?
- 4 Hiding circuits / Transferring power
- 5 Faster digging
- 6 Glitch with water
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- 8 Start adding more buttons
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The tooltips in version 1.4 name this item "Button," not "Stone Button." --Mozai
1.5 bug[edit]
Any workarounds yet? quite a few contraptions depend on using a button that is within 2m of the player, which is too close for the hitbox bug. --Mozai 15:05, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
Who can push?[edit]
Can only players push buttons? Can animals? Can zombies and skeletons? --Ericjs 01:32, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
- Only players can push buttons. Every mob can activate pressure plates, and items (I think they're technically entities) can activate wooden pressure plates too. Deanm 01:43, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Hiding circuits / Transferring power[edit]
Do I have to connect a redstone wire or attach a redstone torch to the block that is supporting the button, or is there a better way to transfer the signal that hides the circuit?
I'm asking this because I learned about pressure plates transferring power down 2 blocks LONG after I started making complicated circuits :) Right now, the best way I know of hiding, say, a double door circuit is having a 3-block long doorway and sticking a redstone torch on the button block and putting redstone wire underneath. This makes for some huge doorways if I want the circuit to be hidden. Aib 01:53, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
Faster digging[edit]
It can be destroyed even faster with an axe. Can't beleive that no one added this :P Just found it out now.
- NOPE! It's the sword, and it probably deals double damage, just like it still says in the infobox. --GALAKTOSTalk – Win8βx64, Java7x64, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 14:26, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
Glitch with water[edit]
I just noticed while holding a bucket of water and trying to press the button. I accidentally put a block of water on the face where the button was, and after I picked the water back up I noticed the button had disappeared. I've had this happen to me several times now.
- This is because the water flows into the button and destroys it. Lumpman2 21:49, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
Wood Button Bug?[edit]
It seems that with the new wooden button, there is a funny bug that kind of cheats games that require you to hit the button with an arrow. No matter where you hit on the block face that the button is on, if on the bottom half, it will always activate, even if not on the button, but will never activate on the top half. Trigger hurt 20:58, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
Wool buttons, dirt buttons, birch/spruce/jungle wood planks, gravel button, mossy cobblestone button or cobblestone button Zigzagar 04:04, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
I built a toggle circuit which is basically a pulse generator which is stopped (via the new repeater feature) when halfway through by being timed to the stone button's signal length. When I put a wood button on the same block and activate it (by hand, not with an arrow), the toggle no longer works, as the pulse runs too long. It can be repaired by adding a repeater and setting it to 2, which would mean the wood button's pulse is 0,2 seconds longer. Can anyone reproduce it? Is this a bug or a feature? --126.96.36.199 19:33, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
- I can confirm this, and I should have commented in the talk page on it rather than hidden comments in the article. I'm not sure how much longer wooden buttons are active for though. If you can verify the time and redstone duration of a wooden button, please update the article.
- As a side note, I caught this the same way, trying to make a wooden button toggle with a TFF. You can fix that by adding a simple edge detector that pulses once when the input triggers. Redstone Circuits/Latches#T Flip-Flop has some good TFF designs and explanations. djr013 (talk) 21:20, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
- Text says 10/15 tics but in history there is only mentions of 9/12? /184.108.40.206 15:23, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
Can't reproduce. Does this really work? --220.127.116.11 20:41, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
- Shift click in the latest snapshot 22.214.171.124 20:33, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
Get rid of "button (wooden)" in the table of blocks found under each block page. Pressure pads don't have it like that, door don't have it like that, etc. etc. etc. so why do buttons get the special treatment? Change the icon and rename "Button" into "Buttons" and kill "(Wooden)" 188.8.131.52 20:33, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
- The only reason button has that is because it actually has an icon for it. If anything, something like that should be added for the Door and the Pressure Plate too. It seems more standard, since all of the other blocks that have extra blocks that are mentioned on their page have that too. #trigger_hurt(I|T|C) Check out my project! 21:40, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
- Wooden buttons were originally added separately because they were in the 'Planned' section. Since they both link to the same page, I agree that there's no need to have both listed (especially given how large the template is). -- Orthotope 09:54, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
- But in that case, then what about all of the other things that link to the same page? Like the separate sandstone types. Or the mossy cobblestone wall link. #trigger_hurt(I|T|C) Check out my project! 16:17, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
How were wooden buttons in 12w34a crafted, if it was possible? It mentions in the History section that they were added in 12w34a, but that the new button recipe was added afterwards in 12w34b.
12w34a - Wooden buttons were added. They could be triggered by arrows as well as players.
12w34b - A new crafting recipe was created for both stone and wooden buttons to avoid conflict with the sticks recipe.
188.8.131.52 16:14, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
- As far as I can tell, wooden buttons were not craftable in 12w34a. This has been the case with a lot of new features; the block or item is added first, with the crafting recipe coming in a later snapshot. -- Orthotope talk 19:34, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
Data values different in Bedrock[edit]
In trying to use a command to place a stone button, I discovered the Button/DV Block Data table is incorrect for Bedrock. (DV=0 is correct, but the others are in reverse order.) Has this been replaced by Block State in Java yet, so I could just reorder the table entries? If not, is it correct as it stands for Java? If the values really are different between the two, I'll change this table to have separate JE and BE columns. --– Auldrick (talk · contribs) 00:22, 10 December 2017 (UTC)


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In August of 1997 our local newspaper, the Traverse City Record Eagle published an article about sky observing opportunities in our area. I was contacted by the freelance writer of the article, and nowhere did I mention astrology. However the writer confused the two, and I got one call from someone who thought I was a true believer. The call angered me enough to write this letter to the editor. Someone from the paper called me asking me to shorten the letter a bit, it went 24 words over the 300 word limit. I cut it down and resubmitted it. They never ran it. One day after first posting the letter here I got a letter from the Record Eagle saying they never got the resubmitted letter. I did mail it.
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How do you think or would like people to describe you?Firstly, people describe me as natural and straightforward in my approach to people and life; what you see is what you get! Secondly, people see me as creative and stylish, friends and family come to me for fashion advice. Finally, people describe me as very organized and efficient.
Tell us a little bit about the wedding day?It was fantastically well organised day with both bride & groom getting ready at their parents' house. The ceremony took place in a stunning Berkhamsted church followed by a reception at Ashridge House.
How did you get into wedding photography?I have always been a very visual person and I have enjoyed throughout my live creatively produced photographs, films and books. I enjoyed taking photos as an amateur until 2011 when I decided to set up my own wedding photography business. It was very scary as I had never owned a business before but thankfully so far all has gone very well.
How long have you been a wedding photographer?4 years.
Can you share how you've made your wedding photography business a success? Any mistakes you made along the way?There have been two key things to make my business a success: firstly, getting visibility for my work amongst potential customers – I had to make sure that my website is a good, representative showcase for my style and then I had to work those wedding fairs so that I met the couples who wanted to book me! Secondly, of course, it is just vital for making your business a success that you understand what your customers want from their day, and from the images of it, that you are totally clear with them about what you can and can't do, and that you do an outstanding job for them. Word of mouth from delighted couples has been the best advertisement for me!
Mistakes along the way? There are many, but in the first year I took a couple of jobs that were not the right customer for me; couples on a very tight budget or who only wanted to have part of the full package that I offer. Somehow, those weddings were the most difficult I did and looking back now, I realise that if someone doesn't want to pay you for what you offer, it is better to politely walk away rather than compromise on your package.
What do you think a bride or groom should be looking for and not looking for in terms of wedding photography packages?Find a photographer whose work you really like but also someone who you want to work with as an individual. It's important that you feel comfortable around your photographer on your special day.
Be cautious with photography packages that seem to include everything for very little money. Its 100% true that you will get what you pay for!
How do you advertise yourself and what for you has really worked?I exhibit at local and national wedding fairs which has worked very well for me but I also get lots of bookings by word of mouth; I also share & advertise my work on Facebook and Instagram; more recently people have started to find me through Google as well. So it's a real mix.
Why do you think people hire you?It's the work. They like my style and creativity.
How many weddings do you average per year?30
Whose wedding would you love to shoot?The couples I really enjoy shooting are the ones who have a positive energy for each other as well as a sense of fun.
If you were asked to shoot a destination wedding, where would you hope it would be?On the Isle of Skye, beautiful mountains, lochs and even beaches!
What equipment do you have for a typical wedding day?2 x Canon 5D Mark III
35mm F/1.4
50mm F/1.4
50mm F/2.5 macro
70-200mm F/2.8
2 x Youngno flashes
Holdfast Moneymaker strap (essential for my back)
What is the most challenging thing about a wedding.
Do you have an approach to a wedding?Treat all clients the same way, no matter which package they went for and enjoy the day.
Who or what inspires you?Films, art, nature.
Best & Worst marketing idea so far?Worst – Google Adwords
Best – marrying a marketing director! But no seriously, it's grasping that my work won't please everyone but that if I'm clear and consistent with the way I present it and talk about it then the 'right' clients will find and book me.
If you weren't a photographer, what would you be?If I wasn't a photographer I'd want to be a dancer! If I'm not doing something that is creative and expressive, and that's giving pleasure to other people, then I don't think I would be happy at all.
Share your favourite image of the day and why?We arrived to Ashridge House and the sunlight burst through a window onto the stairs. I knew I had to get a shot of the couple on that spot!
I always try to get the couple to one side for 30 minutes or so for a portrait shoot. It's often a moment when they realise that they are now actually married! I give them some gentle direction, but really what I am doing is making sure that I get shots of them, natural and relaxed in each other's company, that capture their feelings and emotions for each other. The 'shot of the day' always comes from this portrait shoot; the shot they hopefully hang on their bedroom wall and enjoy for years to come.
Do you have any goals for the future photography related or otherwise?I'd really would love to shoot a wedding in one of those 'out there locations', like a mountain top or in a deep forest.
I also very much enjoy doing portrait shoots and I would love to do more of those. You can see some of this type of work on my website under Fine Art Gallery.
What do you think is key to being a successful wedding photographer?It's probably not possible to stress it enough but you have to love what you do as otherwise you wont last as a wedding photographer! It's much harder work than a lot of people realize.
Also, being sensitive to what each couple is looking for and to the way they express their love and energy to each other.
Be planned and organized! Constantly pushing yourself to improve. Keep trying new techniques, try different angles and distances in different light situations. Be nice and friendly towards other photographers, there is room & work for everyone!
Are there any other wedding photographers whose work inspires you, can be a well know photographer or somebody you've stumbled across?Ahh, there are so many! Gabe McGlintock, Fer Juaristi, Ross Harvey, Adam Johnson, Cinzia Bruschini, Mait Juriado, Lara Jade to name a few.
Proudest moment so far. Photography related or otherwise?Portrait session with mum & dad in 2013 which happened to be just before my dad had a stroke, he hasn't been able to walk since. I really am glad I managed to capture their energy and love for each other whilst he was still mobile.
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Kendra Kolling, former fire victim and current flood victim, can't help but wonder if she did something wrong in another life.
"I'm just kind of numb," she said on Thursday, gazing at photos of the floodwaters that were swamping her 4-month-old cafe in downtown Sebastopol.
In 2015, her husband nearly died in a car accident. In 2017, the couple's house in Kenwood burned down on the first day of the Wine Country fires. On Thursday, the rising waters gushed into her restaurant, The Farmer's Wife, and swamped her refrigerator, oven and blender.
The cafe was one of several flooded businesses in The Barlow, a 12-acre, indoor-outdoor arts, dining and shopping district that just opened five years ago in the tourist enclave of Sebastopol. Her fellow business owners were bracing for the worst. Many closed their doors as up to 4 feet of water gurgled through their front doors.
Highway 12 was closed and many Barlow tenants arrived by motorboat and rowboat to inspect the soggy state of their businesses.
But none seemed to have been challenged by fate as severely as Kolling.
During his two years of recovery from the car crash, Kolling's husband, Paul, was unable to help run their apple farm business. Then came the fire that took their home. With the insurance money from that disaster, they opened the cafe in October, just in time for this week's disaster — for which she has no flood insurance.
"I've seen pretty much everything now," said Kolling.
This week she also found herself evacuated from a natural disaster once again, this time from a friend's borrowed cabin in Healdsburg, right on the overflowing Russian River.
By noon on Thursday, she had learned that about five other businesses in The Barlow were severely damaged, too.
"All the other tenants are kind of crying and in tears and hysterical," she said. "I think I'm OK."
Jennifer Hirshfield, owner of Gallery 300, said her place was two-inches deep in water, despite the recently installed floodgates that were supposed to help.
None of Hirshfield's paintings were on the ground, but water damaged a computer and podiums holding up sculptures. The gallery functions as both her studio and her store.
Besides being known for bad luck, cafe owner Kolling is also known as the inventor of a sandwich called "The Works," made from eggs, tomato, Mexican sausage, Irish and Dutch cheeses and Salvadorean fermented cole slaw. It will not be offered at The Farmer's Wife for the indefinite future.
Business at the cafe, at first booming, fell off after smoke from the Camp Fire in Butte County created several weeks of poor air quality that kept Sebastopol shoppers at home.
"The smoke dried up business. I was literally thinking I'm going under water," says Kolling, trying to keep her sense of irony.
The damage began to sink in when a friend in a kayak showed her pictures of the cafe. The pictures showed that the flood water had nearly reached the top of the marble counter at the front of the restaurant. Many appliances were under water.
After the car crash and again after the fire, friends and family created GoFundMe accounts to help pay expenses. This time, she is too embarrassed to think of anyone helping out again.
The Kollings have three children, two in college and the youngest still at home. While their house in Kenwood is being rebuilt, they are able to camp out in it.
"If there's one thing I've learned in the past year, we're resilient human beings," she said. "We'll get through this."
Chronicle Staff Writer Steve Rubenstein contributed to this report.
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I've been playing Joust on the Game Boy. For the original Game Boy I am pleasantly surprised. It provides some quick Joust gameplay but has a few quirks. For one thing it can't seem to handle too much action on the screen. When there's about four or more moving objects there is some noticeable slowdown. However, I take full advantage of this flaw to do some careful maneuvering to maintain my lives. One other problem with this port is the inability to attack the eggs before they fall into lava. I find it incredibly challenging in later levels to attack the enemy knights, avoid the buzzard, and chase the eggs for a higher score. As soon as you hit a knight their egg goes flying and before you know it they plop into the lava- taking your bonus points with them. I think the 2600 version is still my favorite but the GB port is a solid option.
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Al-Araibi was arrested at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport on November 27 when he was reportedly on en route to Australia, where he had been granted residency four years ago. Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei of the London-based campaign group the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy said: "This is a huge victory for the human rights movement in Bahrain, Thailand and Australia, and even the whole world".
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Quebec mosque shooter sentenced to life in prison
One of the man's victim who was paralyzed in the attack, Aymen Derbali, said that numerous survivors were not pleased with the judge's sentencing. Bissonnette walked into the Quebec City Islamic Cultural Centre on January 29, 2017 , opening fire with a nine-millimetre pistol.
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But he added that even if McArthur sought parole at 91, the chances of his receiving it would be "very remote at best". On Friday, Bruce McArthur , a 67-year-old landscaper and former mall Santa, was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years on eight counts of first-degree murder, ending a trial that shocked a city - and a country - that likes to see itself as inclusive and safe.
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Mulegino1 wrote:Steve F wrote:Mulegino1 said:
"Geocentrism= the earth is center of the universe.
Holocaustianity=the Jews are the center of the universe"
Exactly. I'm surprised they haven't hauled up the corpse of Copernicus on Judeocentric Denial charges. The crystalline sensibilities of this people know no bounds. Poland should pay reparations for this!
We live in a Judeocentric universe, the center of which is a Black Hole - ocaust, from which not even Light can escape.


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Mathieu87 (347) Brussels, Belgium | December 9, 2012
Now called Au Saumon. Nothing has changed really. Just a change of ownership and barmen. But the food and beerlist stayed the same.
JoeinDahlem (356) Missouri | September 11, 2012
Modern and somewhat soulless town-square brasserie. Most seats have a view of the clock tower through the big picture windows. Staff and regulars seem used to the odd foreigner popping in for a Foederbier. Had a more than adequate croque monsieur here too.
Rastacouere (701) Montreal, Quebec | November 8, 2011
If you're even reading this, it's probably in the hope to source Rodenbach Foederbier. Indeed, this very special and agressively sour was still being served at De Zalm, right in the main square of Roeselare, a city that is otherwise not all that appealing for the beer geek. De Zalm frankly has little going on for it besides the 3 euros glasses of Foederbier. Very modern, busy, with running very young waiters, and with a huge customer turnover, seemingly dominated by people popping in for a Coke, this feels more like a Starbucks than a proper beer bar. But the Foederbier was still there in October 2011, so have your go.
BriSava (78) , Japan | May 20, 2011
There is only one reason to come to this place. Rodenbach Foederbier. If you visit brouwerij Rodenbach, must-stop. And it takes only twenty minutes by IC-train from Brugge to Roeselare so you can drop by the place easily. However troublingly, the opening hour is irregular.


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I came back from Lesbos yesterday with a heavier heart than usual. We keep hearing about the lives that get lost while trying to make the dangerous crossing from Turkey to Greece on rubber boats. Lives lost due to the harsh weather conditions at sea, the fake life jackets that are given to the refugees and the overloaded boats. Traffickers have no mercy. Bodies are recovered on what seems like a daily basis from the open sea by the coast guards or the fishermen; others are washed to shore, young and old alike.
I decided to visit the cemeteries where some of these people have been buried, because it is one thing to hear about the lives lost and it is another thing to see the graves with actual tomb stones engraved: Ahmad -- 9 months old; unknown baby -- 1 year old; Majed -- 5 years old; unknown girl -- 5 years old; Ajmal -- 23 years old; Ahmid -- 30 years old... The list goes on and on. These are the new Alan Kurdi. All had chosen to live and had the right to live, like we all do. They had chosen life over death but little did they know that life had not chosen them.
Where has our humanity gone? It is in times of trouble that we see the true face of those surrounding us revealed, and what I see could not be uglier. The whole world is standing by watching and doing nothing other than avoiding any kind of responsibility and pointing fingers to Greece for not doing a good enough job in stopping the flow. It is said that Greek authorities were told to push the boats back... a paraphrase to this would be to drown them. Whether this is true or not, the actions of the governments confirm just that, they don't need to say it in so many words.
The western world has a lot of soul searching to do. They should acknowledge their huge responsibility in this crisis, show more solidarity to Greece and step up. Every day that goes by is another day of mourning for humanity.


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"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." ― George Orwell, 1984 Sound familiar? Q
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Nine And Half Weeks... Later (From Zero Hedge)
A few excerpts-
"While it may be the case that the pace of economic decline is no longer as negative as it was at the peak of the post-Lehman credit contraction, the reality is that employment, output, organic personal income and retail sales are still in a fundamental downtrend."
"That leaves us with the opinion, as tenuous as it seems in the face of this market melt-up, that this is indeed a bear market rally and one that may well have run its course."
"Keep in mind that the jury is still out as to whether the March 2009 lows were in fact the bottom, as was the case in 1932."
Click on title for link to story. Tyler does a great job at Zero Hedge. I suggest you put him in your favorites if he's not already.
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Thanks, Shanky.ReplyDelete
Few week long lurker, first time poster. I had only been to Zero Hedge one other time and had forgotten about it. Great post over there, very glad you pointed it out. I did some follow up on Rosenberg as I wasn't familiar, and he predicted 666 (before lowering it to 600 for hitting it too quickly, whoops). Crazy either way.
You do good work over here - I watch you, Daneric, and Kenny whenever I have time to surf
Many want this to be either 1938 or 2003, nearing the end of the respective bear markets.ReplyDelete
It's normal to want the worst to be over in our quest to be happy and to not suffer more wealth destruction. Like Zero Hedge, I think thi was just a hope rally and we will soon set new lows.
Here's my view as posted on Stocktock:
This is not 2003. Back then the bottom had been tested 4 times in 6 months on the monthly chart allowing positive divergence to form on the monthly MACD which was the needed set-up to begin a sustained climb out.
Based on the monthly MACD signature today, we are more likely about where the market was in May 2001 after the spring rally and a stretch to reach for 200dma , where it also fell short of like it is now.
If this TA view is correct, we will continue the downtrend through the summer (sell in May) and eventually break to new lows. In 2001 this happened in September. Since the current decline is steeper it likely will happen more quickly.
The cycle then repeated several times more and the Sept 2001 low was broken again in the summer of 2002, and then broken again in the fall 2002, and eventually set a higher low in 2003. We have this to look forward to in 2010 imo.
Bear markets bottom when the PE and the Div yeilds are "close" and in the range of 6-9. Right now dividend yield is 3.1% and the PE is 54. No, it won't be different this time.
Don't believe Wall Street or the media. They have conspired to make you feel good in the process of transferring your wealth to them.
Brian, as a former Merrill FA I he is one of the few from that camp that I respected and stayed up with after i left. BAC is losing a great one there. Guess he does not fit the "mold" of govt suck up, lie and manipulate the market group and is most likely being forced out. Thanks for the visit and comment.ReplyDelete
S135 - Points well taken. In no way do i prescribe to the "that happened so this will happen" scene. One difference already can be seen in the action of the weekly MACD and RSI. They held their down trend lines thru the whole cycle where this time they are busting the hell out of them here. This market manipulation and belief of Hope and Change has already destroyed the similarities, not to mention that this is a financial crisis not just a bubble burst from super elevated tech PE's. I'm patiently waiting for the Weekly indicators to top out (hopefully they don't embed as well). STO and ROC are almost there. I'm still of the opinion that the only thing that can halt this manipulated market is some sort of external factor. Maybe the Pakistan thing or something out of China will drive the market down. I'm also not going to hold my breath about any serious pullback off of 943. 38 to 50% retrace may be it. Just to manipulated and they have to keep prices up.
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The day I left for vacation, one of my Gerber daisies perished. Amber1 left me a distraught message about it on Facebook and said she wasn't sure if it was Rhoda or VOLTRON, but that she felt really bad. Amber2 suggested it was due to stress since I had relocated their pot behind Gayle before I left, so that they wouldn't have to be alone.
When I came back to work yesterday, it was sad seeing the empty stem that was once Rhoda, but I was pleased to see that VOLTRON survived in my absence.
As soon as I got to work, I noticed that he was wilting, almost in mourning posture and it made my heart break. I watered him, thinking maybe he was thirsty? I don't know!! I'm new at parenting plants. Well, apparently watering him exacerbated the situation, and by late afternoon, he had bowed even lower.
Nate came to offer his assistance, and together we fashioned a splint out of a plastic knife. However, I think this might have made things worse and humiliated poor VOLTRON to boot. Nate, grasping for straws (literally—a straw was his first suggestion when we were about to MacGuyver handicapped accessories but he ended up not being able to find one), even said a little prayer for VOLTRON. ("dear god, save VOLTRON" is how I think the religious spell went.)
(Jeannie witnessed our awkward gardening experiments and shook her head accordingly. Jeannie hates daisies, pass it on!)
Alas, VOLTRON bit it by that evening. I tried to adjust his knife-splint and three quarters of his petals fluttered to the ground like really pretty dandruff. Sue stopped by for a consult and confirmed that yes, VOLTRON had expired. She advised me to chop off his head*, so I did. I lopped it off with my fake blood-coated scissors like I was Winona Ryder and he was Gary Oldman's Dracula.
And then I made a Gerber daisy Glenn to add to the RIP wall. :(
*(New ones might grow? Reanimated daisies?)
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When they do reanimate, what will you name them? Sorry about their passing.


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Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor officially made weight for "The Money Fight" on Saturday night.
Following the official weigh-ins, both fighters met with the media to give their final words before the highly-anticipated pay-per-view.
During McGregor's interview with Megan Olivi of FOX Sports, he gave his prediction for the fight.
Never lacking confidence, McGregor predicted the fight will end with Mayweather "turning into a frozen statue and hitting the floor and crashing." What round does McGregor see the fight ending? Within the very first round.
"Him (Floyd) turning into a frozen statue and hitting the floor and crashing, that's what you can expect." — Conor https://t.co/fRNLc3Ya5a
— FOX Sports: UFC (@UFCONFOX) August 25, 2017
Will Mystic Mac strike again and call his shot? We are just over 24 hours away from finding out who comes away with the win.
Mayweather vs. McGregor takes place at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas with the pay-per-view set to begin at 9:00 p.m. ET.
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Join Skybox™ Security at stand F200 in London 6-8 June 2017 for the latest in vulnerability and threat management, firewall and change management and continuous compliance monitoring. Fill out the form to get your very own tour of the Skybox™ Security Suite.
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February 28, 2013
Windermere Kids: Raising money for afterschool programs
Posted in Events by Marilou Ubungen
On March 3, the Windermere Foundation and the YMCA will participate in the annual Husky Hoops free-throw fundraiser.
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January 18, 2013
Foundation Holiday Recap
Posted in Collections and drives by Marilou Ubungen
During the holiday season, Windermere offices throughout the Western U.S. worked with some outstanding organizations to provide assistance and services to low-income and homeless families. Thank you to all who helped make this season brighter for those in need in our local communities. Here is a recap of some of the Windermere Foundation activities that took place in December.
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December 06, 2012
Bringing Food and Warmth to Those in Need
Posted by Marilou Ubungen
We hope you and yours are having a wonderful holiday season! This time of year is a busy one for our offices, as many are working with local organizations to support families who need a little extra help during the winter months. Below are some examples of how Windermere offices throughout the Western U.S. are giving back to their local communities through the Windermere Foundation.
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November 08, 2012
Greater Seattle Eastside Offices Give $140,000 to Local Organizations
Posted in Grant recipients and News from the Foundation by Marilou Ubungen
When we work together, we truly can make a huge difference in the lives of our neighbors! Ten of our offices in the greater Seattle area team up every year for fundraising and giving. This year they exceeded everyone's expectations, giving $140,000 to organizations and programs that benefit low-income and homeless families in their local communities.
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September 26, 2012
Windermere Redding, Making Wishes Come True
Posted in Events by Marilou Ubungen
On Friday, October 5, Windermere's Redding office will host its first annual Fashion Show and Fundraiser at the WinRiver Casino. The net proceeds raised will go to the local Make-A-Wish and Wings of Angels Foundations. Funds will be used to raise awareness about cancer and other illnesses, as well as to celebrate the strength of the area's young survivors.
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The Great Recession's Lessons on Rainy Day Funds
At least one state is using the experience to find a new way to prepare for the next recession.
So far, 2016 has been a year of tenuous economics. Record losses in the stock market. Slow job growth. Financial turmoil in China and Europe. For the first time since 2007, state budget planners are talking about the next recession.
That conversation naturally turns toward rainy day funds. These funds -- sometimes called "budget stabilization funds" or "counter-cyclical stabilization policies" -- are one of the few tools states can deploy to protect their budgets when recessions cause revenues to drop. The challenge, of course, is that putting money in a rainy day fund means limiting the state's spending on highways, education, Medicaid and other needs. As such, one of the biggest challenges of state government finance is finding a rainy day fund amount that's not too small, but not too large.
States will continue to work through this "Goldilocks" problem. But as they ramp up for the next recession, a few are bringing some new thinking to bear on right-sizing their rainy day funds.
The Great Recession drove home some crucial lessons about rainy day funds. Prior to that, decades of academic research argued that there's no one-size-fits-all fund amount. This became crystal clear during the past recession. We saw how some states' revenues were hypersensitive to movements in the broader economy. Others responded to energy prices, commodities, exports to foreign countries or other idiosyncrasies. North Dakota's revenues actually grew. We learned that each state has its own optimal rainy day fund amount, and that amount varies a lot across the states. Traditional platitudes like the familiar "5 to 8 percent of annual spending" rule really don't work.
We also learned that states don't save nearly enough. Most burned through their rainy day funds in the first few months of the recession. This was no surprise. Bo Zhao, a senior economist at the Federal Reserve of Boston, found that most states cap their rainy day fund balances well below the amount needed to cover their typical recession-led drop in revenues.
All this analysis starts from a simple piece of conventional wisdom: The correct rainy day fund amount is the revenue a state will likely lose in a recession. This assumes, of course, that spending doesn't change. The Great Recession blew up that thinking. From 2008 to 2010 states saw record growth in unemployment claims, Medicaid caseloads, public university enrollments and other new spending needs. As such, one of states' big conceptual and technical challenges today is how to work the spending side into their rainy day fund policies.
To that end, consider Utah's recent experience. Last year its state budget staff subjected the state's finances to a fiscal stress test. Instead of forecasting revenues and spending under normal economic conditions, they forecasted under conditions of severe economic stress. If this sounds familiar, it's because the Federal Reserve requires big banks to go through this same exercise. For banks, the goal is to see how much capital they need to set aside. In Utah's case, the goal is using its findings to set its rainy day fund amount for next year's budget.
The test has showed Utah that its rainy day fund is probably large enough to see it through the next recession. But more important, it has forced several key legislators to consider how certain spending items could quickly outstrip those savings. As a result, "proactive budget adjustment" is now part of the Utah rainy day fund lexicon.
It's also worth noting this relationship works in both directions. Gary Wagner, a regional economic advisor at the Federal Reserve of Philadelphia, has shown that states with formal rainy day funds have more predictable spending trends than states without such funds. It seems that states with strong rainy day fund policies take steps to mitigate unpredictable spending that can render those policies less effective.
As a tool to stabilize spending, rainy day funds are far from perfect. But as we've seen in Utah and elsewhere, they can help to stabilize the often volatile politics of state budgeting. That's why they're more important than ever.