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Austin Nature Center
Austin, Texas
Waiting in heavy, moist September air,
listening to sounds of urban motion.
steel vibrations of machines,
along paths,
connecting points from here to there.
planes overhead,
jetting metal noises,
to "who knows where".
children playing, running, screaming,
among pebbled ways,
lacking focus,
calling out, "Let's play ball!"
unseen birds,
projecting determined signals,
attracting others to join.
migration butterflies
pastel frames of beauty,
flitting among a collage of colors.
leathery ebony dragonflies,
fanning breezes,
through synchronized zig zag movements.
red-earned turtles,
gliding through mirrored pea-soup,
gurgling bubbles,
among a well-planned niche,
with waterfalls of electric power.
sunfish and perch,
forming patterned ripples of watery sounds,
leaping for pellets of nourishment,
delivered by soft-spoken visitors.
chalky-white strata,
embracing secretive clues from animals' past,
harboring purple-grape American Beautyberry,
reflecting the sounds of time.
cattails bending
their wispy white explosive veils,
quiet in the still air.
Confined within an oasis of urban sounds.


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I have to wash and brush my hair at least, my bedhead looks like a family of rats had a wrestling match in my hair.
This girl I use to play poker with always showed up with a big rats nest in the back of her head. We always assumed her and her creepy boyfriend just had a romp in the backseat of the car and she forgot to brush. Maybe she just got done watching a scary movie instead.
I use to try to be more girly, did my hair and make up daily, wore dresses or skirts regularly, etc. Then on the days I didn't feel up to it people would ask what was wrong, was I sick... Now I show up in jeans and tshirts most days, hair up, no makeup, on the rare occasion I have something special planned I dress up and people comment on how great I look. I like it better this way.
This is my typically my philosophy, too.
Why dress up for work, when I'm shoved in a corner?
I do clean up good though! I'm just waiting for my hair to grow back out. I feel masculine without it, sometimes.
This article annoys me. It does not really go into any biological reasons why this happens; it just points to social media. I am not "addicted to pregnancy" because of social media.
I want to cut my hair off again, because I can't stand doing my hair. But with the little time I leave myself to get ready in the morning, it's easiest to pull it back. The only time you will see my hair down or not under a hat is when I have come from the hair salon, and then I'll not wash it for days so it can stay "nice" for a bit.
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This is interesting. Also, attn people who say Lorde is not Goth.http://www.salon.com/2014/05/21/from...win_for_women/
I need to find a new salon. The lady who had been doing my hair isn't answering my texts. She was kind of sketchy to begin with, but she was in my budget. I keep looking at groupons. I want to lighten it up for the summer again. I am thinking a lighter red with blonder highlights.
Ok I found an article, and I'm going to put it HERE:
I haven't finished reading it yet, but I remember going to many, MANY concerts and club shows alone growing up, and if people asked me about going alone, they were always somewhat surprised that I never got attacked. This article is actually about hitchiking on the road, but my situation seems tangentially related. Anyway I HAVE gone on many road trips for shows alone as well.
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I bought my Depeche Mode ticket through Groupon, lol.
The article she wrote for GQ in 2012 - The Truck Stop Killer is good as well. And I've got Sheltering Sky on my bookshelf from an ex boyfriend but I haven't read it yet.
(this is a good representation of her argument, for anyone feeling lazy)Whereas a man on the road might be seen as potentially dangerous, potentially adventurous, or potentially hapless, in all cases the discourse is one of potential. When a man steps onto the road, his journey begins. When a woman steps onto that same road, hers ends....
...A man on the road is caught in the act of a becoming. A woman on the road has something seriously wrong with her. She has not "struck out on her own." She has been shunned. And once one person has shunned her, the next will as well. Simply the fact that she is out there says something about her is frightening.....
...This is what it means to have no narrative outside of victimization and violence: it means wasting time constructing your moral right to tell a story in the first place, it means watching it get choked in the crib…
10/18-19: Treasure Island Music Festival
10/22: Roman Flugel @ f8
10/25: Moodymann @ PW
11/20: The Drive by Truckers, Sturgill Simpson @ The Fillmore
I hitchhiked once, but with a female friend, in Wales. A station wagon loaded with 12 year old boys picked us up.
edit: My friend had arrived in the British Isles a couple weeks before I did and spent that time with another friend in Ireland, and there she learned that sometimes the only way to get somewhere was to hitchhike (she didn't know how to drive herself so couldn't rent a car).
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I started going to the movies by myself when I was 16, and I remember then having to explain it to bewildered people. And I will never forget when I was 18, like the first weeks of college, going to the cafeteria for dinner (alone!), saying hi to my friend who was sitting on a bench outside and who revealed to me that she'd been waiting there for 20 minutes because she was really hungry, but didn't want to go in and eat by herself. And her friend that was supposed to go with texted her cancelling and she'd already biked all the way over and was now waiting til another friend got out of class and could join her. Did I want to wait and eat with them? No bitch, I'm starving.
"You eat alone?"
"All the fucking time"
"Aren't you worried about....I dunno....like....what people might think?"
"I assume they'll think I'm hungry, Janelle."
10/18-19: Treasure Island Music Festival
10/22: Roman Flugel @ f8
10/25: Moodymann @ PW
11/20: The Drive by Truckers, Sturgill Simpson @ The Fillmore
I'm going to stop reading right now as I'm talking about driving almost a thousand miles by myself later this month. :P
I used to drive a lot alone when I was young, before there was cell phone coverage in most areas, and never had any issues. Used to hitchhike occasionally and most of the time people seemed more worried to take me in the car than I was to take a ride from them.
I wish I could drive up with you, Heidi! It's been so long since I've road tripped. Coachella doesn't count.
10/18-19: Treasure Island Music Festival
10/22: Roman Flugel @ f8
10/25: Moodymann @ PW
11/20: The Drive by Truckers, Sturgill Simpson @ The Fillmore
BTW, I love going to the movies alone. Movies are not a social experience normally, so I don't understand why it's weird to go solo.
Eating alone is something that more people seem to have trouble with. We were just talking about this last night! I have no problem eating alone but tend to bring some sort of armor against the world... like a book, newspaper, playing with my phone, or just even keeping my head down. It's tougher (but really great people watching) to just eat alone looking ahead without worrying about the appearance or that someone might approach you.

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From the looks of it, all I've been eating lately is salad and pizza.
There's a little truth to that.
You'll want to make this one for yourself for lunch or dinner soon. It's seriously so good. I made it for my lunch earlier this week but it's going to be my dinner tonight…Gina and I are having girl's night in while the boys are at the Magic game. This is perfect girls night in food don't you think? (and no, Gina won't eat this exact same thing with me, I'll make her pita toasted with some cheese and chopped tomato and cucumber on the side)
And before I forget, I have to tell you about this pita bread I found at Walmart. It's the only place I've seen it and I stocked up on a few packs for the freezer. One pita bread is only 60 calories, has 4 grams of fiber and 6 grams of protein. It's called Joseph's…look for it! It has slightly changed my life as far as pita bread is concerned.
I posted the recipe for this Greek Salad and Hummus Pita Pizza over on Family Kitchen this week. Go check it out! Happy Friday!
PS…my sister-in-law Jamie of Mom's Cooking Club is having a giveaway for a $25 gift card to Publix! We ((LOVE)) Publix!
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Lee pauses, wondering how much he should reveal about the situation. "I think he caused a lot of tension between the band that was just unnecessary, that they had to get rid of him," he continues. "And you could tell, too. I saw Todd downtown the week it happened, and he was like, 'We got rid of him; here we go.' They're happier now than I've ever seen them."
In Bunch's stead, Lewis took over as manager, a position he held for the next year. He was skeptical about the idea, at least at first.
"It was great," Lewis begins, "because I was able to go out and meet people firsthand and see how things really worked and not have to hear it from somebody else...I always thought that getting involved in the business side would distract me from doing music, and distract me from what I wanted to do, and it really didn't. It really did the opposite, made me feel more in control and more creative."
Lewis took over at a time when it would have been easy to be distracted by the business side of the music industry. In December 1998, Seagram Company Ltd. (which already owned Universal Music Group, home to MCA, Geffen, Universal, and Interscope Records) purchased PolyGram Music (parent company of Island, A&M, Mercury, and Motown) for $10.4 billion. As a result of the merger, nearly 200 bands were eventually released from their contracts, including local acts such as Slowpoke and The Tomorrowpeople.
Because so many bands were stretching their necks across the chopping block, many of them more active and profitable than The Toadies, the group appeared to be in line for the axe. But Interscope stuck by The Toadies. It wasn't a completely left-field decision; Rubberneck had, after all, sold more than a million copies, and more than four years after its release, it was still moving a respectable number of albums each month. That said, hanging onto a band with The Toadies' lack of productivity was a risky move.
"It was a weird time," Vogeler says. "Every other band in town got dropped."
"Every other band, period," Lewis corrects. "Man, that was nuts." He pauses, thinking about the situation. "So we took that as a vote of confidence."
The lack of bureaucracy between The Toadies and Interscope helped. "They don't have an A&R guy, and they didn't have a manager at the time," Lee says. "It was really just Todd communicating with Tom Whalley at the time, going, 'Please don't drop us. You know what we're capable of. We've sold this many records. Please take a chance on us.'"
In a strange way, the merger was just the latest bit of bad news that ended up working in the band's favor. Interscope's rejection of the Austin sessions allowed The Toadies to return to the studio to make the album they really wanted. The group's split with Bunch, and Lewis' subsequent stint as manager, let the band see the inner workings of the business up close, so they'd know exactly what was happening at every step of the way. The merger, along with Interscope's decision to keep the band on its roster, gave them the freedom to do what they needed to do to finally finish the album, safe with the knowledge that Interscope would release it. Eventually.
hr style="size: 1px; width: 50%; text-align: centerOn January 3, The Toadies entered Sunset Sound studios in Los Angeles, their second--and hopefully, final--attempt to deliver to Interscope a follow-up to Rubberneck. Tom Rothrock and Rob Schnapf (the producer team that recorded Rubberneck, as well as albums by Beck and Elliott Smith) were back at the helm. Sunset Sound is, in Vogeler's words, "a classic studio," a Hollywood fixture since 1959, and home to recording sessions by Prince, the Rolling Stones, Van Halen, and Led Zeppelin, among tons of others.
The Toadies' line of credit was almost exhausted. There had already been too many false starts (they were originally supposed to begin the Sunset Sound sessions in November) and fake finishes, too many experiments that didn't pan out, too much of everything except for results. Vogeler had been a Toadie longer than any other guitar player the band had ever employed, and had only a few short tours and one song (a cover of Thin Lizzy's "Cowboy Song" that appeared on 1997's locally released Come On Feel the Metal compilation) to show for it.
The situation wasn't any easier for the other members of the band. The Toadies' last major tour was in 1997, and since then, there had only been sporadic gigs, a handful of shows here and there. They'd decided not to schedule any more serious tours (one of the band members' few sources of income) until the album was finished.
"There's not really any reason to go out and tour if you don't have a record out," Lewis says. "It's just kind of pointless."
Vogeler adds, "We can drink beer here," and they all laugh.
"Yeah, drink beer and lose money here," Lewis says, topping Vogeler, and they all laugh harder.
The new material the band was coming up with was enough to keep them off the road by itself. Something about Interscope's rejection of the Austin sessions had sparked a new fire inside the band, and they were finally hitting their stride as songwriters.


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Legal Progress
Over the past 10 years, many countries have adopted
new laws or amended legislation to advance gender
equality, seeking to eliminate all forms of discrimination
based on sex as well as to prevent genderbased
violence and increase penalties for those who
inflict it.
Among the countries adopting legislation to outlaw
discrimination based on sex are Malta, Mauritius
(this legislation also ensures equal rights for women
regardless of their pregnancy or marital status) and
Mexico. Colombia and Slovenia enacted laws to promote
equal opportunities for women with men, and
a decree in Costa Rica calls for improvements in the
living conditions and opportunities of poor women.
Djibouti passed legislation adopting a National
Strategy for the Improvement of Women in Development
and a National Action Plan, which states that
all policies and laws will be evaluated based on their
impacts on the integration of gender into development.
The law also details activities the Government
will take to promote reproductive health and equal
education for women, and to improve women's participation
in decision-making (in the public sphere
and the family) and in economic development.
The Republic of Korea passed a law establishing a
Commission on Gender Equality to manage policies
on gender.
A number of constitutions, newly drafted or amended,
contain strong provisions on gender equality. For example,
Bahrain's 2002 constitution, while noting the Shari'a
is the principal source for laws, affirms the equality
of women and men in politics and in the economic,
social and cultural spheres. Cuba's 2002 constitution
affirms that spouses are equal in rights and duties.
Timor-Leste's post-independence constitution affirms
equal rights for women and men in marriage and the
family and within social, economic and political life.
Rwanda's 2003 constitution also guarantees equal
rights of spouses in marriage and divorce, outlaws
discrimination based on sex, and establishes a
National Human Rights Commission and a National
Council of Women. It also guarantees the right of
women and men to vote and run for office, calls for
equal pay for equal work and establishes the right to
education. In 2002, Togo amended its constitution
to ensure gender equality before the law and in
labour relations.
Poland has established a Plenipotentiary for
the Equal Status of Women, located in the Prime
Minister's office, to analyse women's legal and social
status and promote equity through laws and policies.(6)
In 2000, in Azerbaijan, a presidential decree
instructed the Government to ensure women and men
are represented equally in the state administration
and have equal opportunities under ongoing reforms.
Government institutions were also directed to appoint
a gender focal point in each district office.(7)
GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE. Addressing domestic and
sexual violence directed against women is another
priority for many governments' legislative action.(8) In
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a punishable offence, and codes of conduct address
sexual harassment in the workplace. Belgium, Peru
and Yugoslavia have amended laws to define sexual
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Belgium, the Dominican Republic, Portugal, Spain
and Uruguay, among others, have passed laws increasing
penalties for gender-based violence. In Brazil, a
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hotline operated by specially trained staff for women
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Human trafficking has also been the subject of
legal changes. Many countries enacted laws to combat
trafficking of women and girls and many ratified
international treaties.(9) The Democratic Republic of
the Congo outlawed trafficking in children in its 2002
labour code.
While most governments say they recognize the
importance of promoting gender equity and women's
empowerment, many find it difficult to work directly
with women at the community level. Accordingly, in
countries such as Jamaica, Malaysia and Mozambique,
women's NGOs are implementing such programmes.
NGOs are often more effective in working with
victims of gender-based violence, since they are
perceived as being more sympathetic and are more
likely to be trusted.
NGOs are also training police officers, judges and
others in how to deal with victims of gender-based
violence when they seek help. In Ethiopia, for example,
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against domestic violence and sexual abuse. Ethiopia's
National Council on Traditional Practices and other
NGOs are actively working to eradicate harmful
traditional practices like female genital cutting.
In the Philippines, NGOs have established women's
crisis centres for victims of domestic violence.
Jamaican NGOs including the Association of
Women's Organizations in Jamaica, Fathers'
Incorporated and the Bureau of Women's Affairs
collaborated between 1999 and 2002 to increase public
awareness of gender-based violence. They worked to
increase media coverage of the issue, and to educate
police, the judiciary, and health and legal professionals
about the importance of a strong response to
violence against women and of support systems
for victims.
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS. During the past decade,
NGOs in many countries have become increasingly
involved in monitoring reproductive rights and using
the reporting procedures for international human
rights instruments that their governments have ratified.
Many submit "shadow reports" to complement those
submitted by the government and attend sessions of
the relevant monitoring committee when the report
of their country is being examined.
In some countries such as India, Indonesia,
Malaysia and Nigeria, human rights commissions can
play an important role in ensuring that reproductive
rights are observed and can provide redress in cases of
violations. Other countries have ombudsmen or other
mechanisms that civil society groups can use.
MALE INVOLVEMENT. NGOs are recognized as often
being more effective than government agencies in
encouraging men to take responsibility for their
sexual and reproductive behaviour and their social
and family roles. In Cambodia, for example, Men
against Violence against Women actively participated
with women's and other NGOs in a 16-day campaign
on gender-based violence.
In the Philippines, NGOs are actively promoting
male support for women's empowerment and rights
with respect to reproductive health. And the Women's
Centre of the Jamaica Foundation counsels young
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GREAT SCOTT!! "PC"… stands for "Personal Computer"… I just this moment got that…
Apologies for the non-typical image on this post, but… come on. Our old friend Scott Johnson, as he always does, nailed it.
Hey, and since we're being atypical today, before we get into the real good stuff, let's begin the ol' Duce with a friendly reminder that tomorrow the Jays and Red Sox play at 4:05 PM ET, which means that if you're in Toronto you should totally cut work early and head to Opera Bob's (Dundas St. W at Ossington) for our little shindig, co-presented by the folks behind the outstanding web series I'm involved in, Sports Bar Heroes. There will be $5 pints, $4 tall cans, $2 hot dogs, and hopefully a better performance from the Jays than when we last tried this on Opening Day. Here's the Facebook invite, if you're looking for a map or something.
Before we move on from Arencibia, and hopefully — though surely not — for the last damn time, NotGraphs deliciously tells us about his "brother," J.Q. Arencibia, and his bitterness at being fired from his job as an accountant. Hilarious stuff.
OK, now to the real stuff: Rob Rasmussen! It sounds absurd, but that was a hell of a big league debut last night for the just-called-up lefty, facing one batter — David Ortiz — and inducing a crucial out. Shi Davidi of Sportsnet spoke to him after the game about reaching the majors, and his mindset after falling behind to Big Papi. In the same post we get a nifty video of that alright play Brett Lawrie made.
Before the game yesterday, Davidi also wrote about Rasmussen, who he says is hoping to make the most of his chance in the majors — and, given that J.A. Happ didn't kill the bullpen yesterday, might now have more of a chance to, as it's still possible Todd Redmond will be given Saturday's start, which could give Rasmussen the chance to stick around.
Sticking with Sportsnet, Arden Zwelling was in Buffalo for Marcus Stroman's start on Tuesday, and he writes about it and about the ideal role for the young right-hander — which is the one he's currently in: starting.
Another Sportsnet piece sees Davidi suggesting that the Jays have a golden opportunity in front of them, as the mediocrity of the AL East sinks in. Or, at least, that's what the clickbait-y headline says, though it's mostly just a game story. Headlines. What a world.
Over at theScore, GROF also looks at baseball's weirdest, wildest division. To wit: "Fangraphs projected standings tip Toronto as the eventual champ with just 84 wins – a grand total of five games ahead of the last place Orioles when their computations are complete. Baseball Prospectus uses PECOTA to construct their projected standings, producing a slightly different result. BP has the Yankees taking the division with 83 wins, the Blue Jays second with 82 and the Red Sox, Orioles, and Rays finishing right around 80 wins."
Carson Cistulli of FanGraphs looks at the most improved pitchers this season, based on the preseason projections and the current ones. One of the top five is, unsurprisingly, Drew Hutchison. Atop the list is name we might remember from his surprisingly good outing at Rogers Centre a few weeks ago: Dallas Keuchel of the Astros.
Elsewhere at FanGraphs, Jeff Sullivan looks at a new trick being employed by Mark Buehrle: a two-strike sinker to right-handed batters. "Buehrle's always been a little bit deceptive and a little bit finesse, and it's not like you very often see a pitcher in his mid-30s make an approach adjustment. But if you dig beneath the 2014 Mark Buehrle surface, you notice something you can't un-notice. Of his 31 strikeouts, 20 have been called. This is unusual, and this has an explanation," we're told.. And that is the sinker. "What used to be an almost forgotten pitch has become a favorite weapon. Previously, Buehrle's sinker accounted for about 6% of his strikeouts of righties. This year, that's up to 61%, as Buehrle has caught hitters unprepared for his sinker's location and movement."
A tweet from prospect Clinton Hollon earlier in the week informs us that he's slated for Tommy John surgery. This isn't exactly surprising, as injury issues were the reason that the Jays chose him in the first place. He was a first round talent by some accounts whose stock dropped because of what he now admits was a 59% UCL tear (it was determined he should try to avoid surgery at first, but a drop in velocity this year seems to have necessitated it), as did his leverage in terms of bonus demands. The Jays snapped him up understanding the risks, and used some of the money saved elsewhere. A nifty move, looking a little less nifty now, but hopefully it works out for all sides.
Speaking of that kind of manoeuvre, Bluebird Banter takes a look at draft prospect Jeff Hoffman. He's a potential top five talent who just went under the knife himself, and who some folks — including Keith Law of ESPN.com in his latest mock — are hearing that the Jays might target with their second first round pick. It makes sense: with two picks so high the Jays can feel more comfortable assuming risk on one of them than other clubs, who would understandably be wary of taking a guy who just had his elbow reconstructed with their one shot at the top of the talent pool — and also wary of having to justify the selection to their fan base, most likely. Hoffman's lack of leverage in terms of bonus demands (he'll only barely be back on a mound by next spring, and in addition to being a senior with limited leverage to begin with, won't have time to drive his stock up) could end up mitigating the risk by freeing additional bonus pool money to be spent on late-round fliers, much as the Jays did with Hollon. So, of course, some other shit-ass club will probably grab him first.
Elsewhere at Bluebird Banter, Nick Ashbourne looks at how Jays pitchers have struggled in the clutch.
And speaking of KLaw, at ESPN.com (Insider Only) he redrafts the 2004 draft's first round, and has the Jays taking Lorenzo Cain instead of David Purcey. More interestingly, one pick later he has the Dodgers, with benefit of hindsight, taking Glen Perkins, and adds this note: "I hope Alex Anthopoulos won't mind me sharing this story, but I distinctly remember that he was a big Perkins fan in that draft class, insisting that Perkins be in our discussion for the two picks we held at 16 and 32 — and Perkins has had a more productive career than either of the players we took, David Purcey and Zach Jackson."
Blue Jays Plus goes under the hood for a look at Brett Lawrie's swing mechanics, and finds what you might entirely expect: a mess.
On the other hand, Brendan Kennedy of the Toronto Star looks at Lawrie in terms of his power production, which is beginning to return.
Over at the National Post, John Lott looks at Liam Hendriks, who some might say is the favourite to get the spot start on Saturday against the A's at Rogers Centre. In the same piece he notes the oddly-timed MRI given to Colby Rasmus, which apparently turned up nothing serious: "he's healing," says John Gibbons.
Elsewhere at the Post, Lott also talks to Rob Rasmussen, who is living the "absolute dream" as a big leaguer.
From over the weekend, Gregor Chisholm and Teddy Cahill of BlueJays.com tell us, in addition to other items in a notebook post, that the sudden retirement of Chris Getz came as no surprise to John Gibbons.
Jays Prospects tells us about the piggybacking program Alberto Tirado is on in Lansing.
Your Van C's continues assessing the first round selections made in the Alex Anthopoulos era, this time looking back on the 2011 draft.
MLBTR tells us that the Jays have lent Ricardo Nanita to a team in the Mexican League. Specifically, Los Tigres de Quintana Roo.
At ESPN.com (Insider Only), Jim Bowden suggests a bunch of trades that he thinks should happen, including the Jays going after Jeff Samardzija, as has long been rumoured. "Perhaps an offer of left-handed pitcher Daniel Norris, right-handed pitcher Roberto Osuna and third baseman Mitch Nay could get it done," he says. Perhaps the backwards-trending strikeout and walk rates of Aaron Sanchez (7.69 K/9, 5.59 BB/9) make Norris — who is killing it, at least statistically, at high-A, continuing where he left off after last year's breakout campaign — the more valuable prospect.
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According to some vets, another up-and-coming mistake made when feeding cats is trying to make cats vegetarians or vegans.
Cats are obligate carnivores, meaning they must eat mainly meat and animal organs to thrive. The amino acid taurine, for example, is found only in animal tissue. Lack of taurine can lead a cat to experience heart problems, blindness, and even death.
"The nutrients cats need that come from meat, can be provided in the food synthetically," Case says. "But you have to be very careful, and aware of the cat's nutritional idiosyncrasies." Because most of us aren't quite sure of our own nutritional needs, it can be next to impossible to guess the needs of our cats.
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The report of a committee headed by Raghuram Rajan on backward states has drawn attention to development disparities among states in India. Not that these were not known or assessed before. The report offers an index for identification of states according to the degree of backwardness and their share of financial assistance from the central government.
The committee's recommendations, even if efficiently implemented, are not likely to show results soon. The per capita income in Bihar, for example, is a fourth of the per capita income of Goa and half that of Gujarat. But it is encouraging that GDP growth in backward states has recently accelerated and, to some extent, reduced the income gap. It took place because state governments realized that growth counts politically, not because of any additional assistance from the central government.
Present-day disparities are rooted in history. Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Gujarat developed earlier and far more than other states. This is because they had the advantage of access to ports that were excellent outlets for trade. Exports of jute from Calcutta (now Kolkata) and cotton from Bombay (now Mumbai) helped the states to industrialize with mills springing up all around. To an extent, the central government also used industrial policy before 1991 to disperse industrial locations but then it hardly worked because the locations has to be commercially viable.
When it comes to industrialization, it is taken for granted that the government is committed to it. Gujarat can be a hub for manufacturing automobiles because that's the target the government has set for itself. But commitment by itself is not enough. It must translate into creating the necessary infrastructure like provision of electricity, water or land. West Bengal lost its advantage because of labour problems, something that may happen to Haryana as well.


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The federal government shutdown may have distorted the US employment report for October — but not the US economy.
Blowing away expectations, the Labor Department reported a surprisingly large 204,000 gain in October non-farm payrolls vs. a 125,000 consensus. Add in a combined a 60,000 upward revision to job gains in August and September and the three-month average is 202,000 vs. 154,000 in the August-October period in 2012. Capital Economics:
Apparently, the near three-week Federal government shutdown had little, if any, impact on payrolls. Manufacturing increased by a healthy 19,000, construction increased by 11,000 and retail increased by 44,000. … the US economy appears to be overcoming a summer swoon.
Now those numbers are from the establishment survey, which counted furloughed government workers as employed. The smaller household survey did not, and it showed. The unemployment rate ticked up to 7.3%, while the labor force participation rate and employment-population ratio fell sharply. But as Capital Economics points out, "With those Federal employees back at work now, however, all of this will be reversed in November's report."
So for this monthly only, Republicans will look to the bright side of the monthly jobs numbers — "See, the government shutdown was a non-event" — the Democrats the opposite. Of course the counterfactual here, one Democrats will try and sell, is that even more jobs would have been created without the government shutdown. Indeed, the Obama White House seems to like counterfactuals. Recall the "jobs created or saved" metric to judge the stimulus.
It should still be noted, however, that even at 202,000 jobs a month, it would take more than 5 years to return to prerecession employment levels, according to the Hamilton Project. As the Economic Policy Institute points out:
We need 8.0 million jobs to get back to the pre-recession unemployment rate, and at the average rate of growth of the last 12 months, that won't happen for another five years. … There are currently roughly 6.1 million missing workers, and if these workers were in the labor force looking for work, the unemployment rate would be 10.8 percent instead of 7.3 percent.
Still, the decent jobs numbers, along with a not-so-bad third-quarter GDP report might make it more likely the Federal Reserve soon starts paring back its bond buys. RDG Economics:
The economy appears to have sustained growth momentum in recent months, which argues for the Fed to throttle back on QE (which Bernanke argued was a tool for managing the near-term momentum of the economy) and we expect this announcement at the next Fed meeting (to be foreshadowed by speeches pointing to such a possibility).
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Oh, we long for the days before products liability suits took away our lawn darts and all the rest of our fun.
Professor Bill Childs, professor at Western New England School of Law and author of TortsProf Blog, has this post, about receiving as a gift from a student a "Golfing Gizmo."
[It's a] device from the 1960s and 1970s that is the subject of the Hauter v. Zogarts case (534 P.2d 377 (Cal. 1975)) in David Owen et al.'s Products Liability and Safety casebook and possibly others. And they even found the same model and manual as is in the case, including the almost-blank-verse notation on the front: "COMPLETELY SAFE BALL WILL NOT HIT THE PLAYER."
The device was such that you drove a golf ball attached to a cord, which of course made the golf ball come back at you. If it came back to the left, you had a slice; to the right, you had a hook. If your shot was perfect, you got zinged in the head and won a lawsuit. Perfectly safe.
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News roundup: Jindal signs private school tuition tax break … B.R. firm lands contract to build $32.5 million student union at SLU … Trilingual vacuum robot utters witty dialect
On the books: Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed into law a bill to create a new tax break program providing rebates for donations to voucher programs that allow students to attend private schools. Jindal says it will give children in failing public schools more opportunities to get an improved education. He signed the measure Monday. The tax break begins with the 2013-14 school year. The bill provides a nearly dollar-for-dollar state tax rebate to individuals and businesses donating money to nonprofit organizations that give the private school scholarships to students. Opponents say the tax break program will damage public education in the state by siphoning off children to private schools and taking dollars away from public schools.
Big time: Lincoln Builders of Baton Rouge Inc. has been selected by Southeastern Louisiana University—through its affiliate, University Facilities Inc.—as the contractor on the $32.5 million expansion and renovation of the SLU Student Union building on the Hammond campus. The three-phase construction project will include a new 87,000-square-foot addition to house dining operations on three floors, as well as renovation of the existing 89,000-square-foot War Memorial Student Union, originally built in 1964, and the renovation of the Student Union Annex, which was built in 1981. Holly & Smith Architects of Hammond is the design firm on the project. The expected completion date is October 2014.
'Cool and feeling good': It looks just like iRobot's Roomba vacuuming machine, except the new circular roaming vacuum cleaner from Sharp Corp. is trilingual, and even knows a hip, humorous dialect. Cocorobo, which can also send photos taken from your home to your cell phone, says 36 phrases, including "Long time no see" and "Hello," in Japanese, English and Chinese. The Japanese electronics maker says the robot also speaks the Kansai dialect of southwestern Japan widely viewed as more comical and witty than standard Japanese. The machine answers, "So good," when asked, "How's it going?" In the Kansai dialect, it replies the equivalent of, "I'm cool and feeling good." Sharp is based in Osaka, where the Kansai dialect is spoken. The dinner plate-sized robot sells for about 130,000 yen, or about $1,600. Check out a video of it in action here.
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Yet Another Commencment AddressHere it is, the opening of commencement address season, and once again this year I've not received a single inquiry, much less an invitation to give an address. But I'm not bitter.
No, I understand -- I'm not the sort of person to say what college administrators think graduates ought to hear. So once again I'm going to offer up The Commencement Address Nobody Will Ever Ask Me to Give, and hope you'll send it to a graduate.
It's an honor to be here at North by Northwest State, here in beautiful Wealthy Dead Guy Hall within Corporate Sponsorship Plaza. I'm here to pass along one key word to you on behalf of my generation: OOPS!
We didn't mean to screw up the world for you, and we hope you won't take it out on us by cutting off Social Security. Our blundering was strictly a series of accidents. Honest. Here's what went wrong...
My generation inherited a pretty sweet situation. As Americans we were beloved. And why not? The generation before us overcame the Depression and Hitler, then gave the world The Marshall Plan.
Our parents not only fought evil, but then picked both allies and enemies off the ground and gave them a Hershey's bar and the money to buy more of them. That generation, the greatest generation, opened up the world.
Our generation, the greediest generation, exploited that opening by seeking new markets and cheap labor. We put our manufacturing everywhere and taught everyone our technology. Then we came up with the idea of free information on the Internet, putting all our knowledge into databases that everyone in the world could use. And then the world knew what we knew.
So, instead of competing for jobs with your fellow graduates, you get to compete with the entire world. If there is anyone on the planet willing to work for less than you, corporate America will find that eager young employee and let him or her work eighteen hour days with no benefits. OOPS!
Another thing that went awry was opinion research. It seems like good business to so market research, to ask people their opinions in order to serve them better. But when government and media get businesslike, the result is the Focus Grouping of America, where the informed ask the uninformed for opinions, creating a massive industry of telling people what they want to hear instead of what they need to know.
What that means for you, as recent college graduates, is that you were offered programs in which to study and graduate, not based on what wise and knowledgeable people understood was important to learn, but based on what degrees would be bestsellers in the market for student dollars. OOPS!
The good news here is that all of you with Communications degrees will be especially effective at making the case for living at home till you're forty.
What has my generation gotten right? Well, if you're a woman or minority, you now have a more-or-less equal chance at the sort of good corporate job that is disappearing. Plus, if you get one of those vanishing jobs, then there's a good chance you can wear a polo shirt to it on Fridays. So we got that much accomplished.
As for you, you probably want to go out into the world and "make a difference." Odds are, you will end up making a sameness. College is a big bureaucracy that trains you to be a successful bureaucrat. You're one of those unique snowflakes, but when you're in a blizzard, who really notices?
If you're going to make a difference, you're going to have to be better than we are. What happened to my generation is that our ideals were purchased in a friendly take-over and those ideals were restructured to be more lucrative -- "Ideals" were broken up into "I" and "deals" and a lot of people got rich.
Now, my advice to you, is to learn from our mistakes. Let us be the power of a bad example. For good examples, look past us. Look past Donald Trump to Walt Disney. Look past Dr. Phil to Dale Carnegie.
The world is going to need people who can thrive in adversity, because that's what we've left you. However, that means that here is our legacy to you: the world is wide open for heroes.
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Thursday night was Senior Night at Matthew Knight Arena and full of emotion, not only from the players, but from the 10,000 plus fans that came to watch the Civil War between Oregon(23-6, 12-4 Pac12) and Oregon State(13-16, 3-13 Pac 12). The Ducks won 85-75, but the pesky Beavers fought till mid way through the second half. The Ducks also saw the return of Freshman Dominic Artis.
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Altman on the return of Artis
Artis played limited minutes that did not go unnoticed. He received a standing ovation from the crowd when he entered the game. In 12 minutes he put up six points and two three pointers, one bounced off the rim and fell through the basket. The speed of the offense seems more crisp when Artis is on the floor. He now has a week to rest to get ready for Colorado.
The Ducks suffered a scare with about six minutes left in the first half when Freshman Damyean Dotson hit the deck hard on a drive. He was down for about five minutes and was helped off the court by teammates. He returned for 2nd half warmups and appeared to be favoring his left hip. Altman said after the game he will injured his hip and could need a week to recover.
The Seniors led the charge for scoring against Oregon State. Carlos Emory had a career high 21 points and Arsalan Kazemihad 17 points and 12 rebounds. Center Tony Woods finished with 16 points.
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Oregon shot 51 percent from the field, their best performance in the last 10 games and are winners of five of their last six. Dana Altman's club leads the Pac 12 by a game over UCLA, Cal and Arizona. They finish out their season next weekend with a roadtrip to Colorado and Utah before heading to the Pac 12 Tournament in Las Vegas.
Oregon Ducks This Week:Oregon Basketball: Pac 12 Tournament Seeding Scenerios Are Easy If Ducks Win Former Oregon QB Nate Costa Returning To The Ducks As A Graduate Assistant Track And Field: Oregon's Galen Rupp Breaking Records And Chasing Dreams For more on the Ducks you can follow AutzenZoo on Facebook and Twitter Justin Phillips is Sports Reporter for Newsradio 1120 KPNW in Eugene, Oregon
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None mean more to me than Gov. Haley Barbour's autograph on the program for the Mississippi Press Association's Education Foundation Roast from 2005.
Governor Barbour was the honoree that evening, and that just happened to be the year I served as president of MPA. Getting to introduce Governor Barbour that evening at the Jackson Hilton was a highlight of my life.
At that time, Governor Barbour was not even halfway through his first term. He was inaugurated on January 13, 2004.
Two weeks ago, more than six years after the roast, Governor Barbour made what may be his last talk to the newspaper representatives across the state. We were gathered at the Beau Rivage in Biloxi for the 145th Mississippi Press Association Convention.
Governor Barbour's second and final four-year term in office is winding down.
"I don't expect to run for anything," said Barbour, when asked about his plans for the future. "But I'm not going to retire."
One possibility, he said, is becoming an author.
"I'm considering writing a book on crisis management," the governor said.
He was in his first term in office when Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. Barber has received lots of positive national attention for the way Mississippi responded to and handled the disasater.
"Being governor has been a great challenge," he said. "After Katrina, outsiders saw our best."
But that's not the only disaster Barbour has faced. There was the Gulf oil spill, deadly tornadoes and Mississippi River flooding.
The governor talked about economic development, particularly focusing on the Port of Gulfport, closed after Katrina but on its way back later this decade. The long-range plan calls for doubling the port's size.
"In 25 years, people will look back and say this is the biggest economic development project in the history of Mississippi because its scale is global."
He said the state has about 40,000 less people working than at its peak employment before the national economic downturn.
Barbour continued to push workforce development in Mississippi – saying "it is something we owe our people."
He said Mississippi can't be first in everything but "there's no reason to be last."
"We can be first in some things," the governor said.
He urged Mississippians to dwell on the kind of state "we're going to leave our children and grandchildren."
"The biggest problem is when we underestimate ourselves, but Katrina helped a lot of people in America come to appreciate Mississippians a whole lot more and see our people a whole lot differently," he said
Barbour, with candidates for governor in the room awaiting a debate before the MPA group, emphasized the importance of having vision.
"A body of 174 (the legislature) cannot have vision," he said, "because it cannot speak with one voice.
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When it was reported that Amar'e Stoudemire was being held out of scrimmages in team workouts last week, many thought it was just part of the plan.
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According to Frank Isola of the New York Daily News, Stoudemire had another knee procedure:
According to a Knicks source, Stoudemire had an unreported surgical procedure in July to repair one of his ailing knees. The Knicks open camp on Tuesday and have yet to announce that Stoudemire has had a third knee operation in 12 months. The surgery was described as "clean up" and isn't considered major.
However, the secrecy surrounding Stoudemire's latest health issue could be an indication that the club is not optimistic that they can rely on the veteran power forward.
Stoudemire only appeared in 29 regular season games for the Knicks last season, while undergoing two separate knee procedures.
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"Today, by moving to open more military positions—including ground combat units—to women, our armed forces have taken another historic step toward harnessing the talents and skills of all our citizens. This milestone reflects the courageous and patriotic service of women through more than two centuries of American history and the indispensable role of women in today's military. Many have made the ultimate sacrifice, including more than 150 women who have given their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan—patriots whose sacrifices show that valor knows no gender." —President Barack Obama
Charlie Pierce: "According to the 2010 study, a recent IDF report found that female combatants maintained alertness better, were more knowledgable and professional when using their weapons, and had better shooting abilities than men. But even still, like in many other nations, a good number of combat positions remain closed to them, including much of those on the front lines. And though there was a 400 percent increase in Israeli women military careerists between 1999 and 2009, the brass ceiling in many ways still remains. [...] But momentum is gathering. And while, again, this morning's change has a three-year span before the military needs to make final decisions about which combat roles it will open to American women, over the next few years, across the world—in South Korea, in Australia, and now in the U.S. — more and more women will see combat with some, but, if precedent holds, not all of the titles they damn well deserve. [Via NPR]"
Mother Jones: "If the United States had previously allowed women to serve officially in military combat roles, including special operations forces, there might be fewer sexual assaults in the armed services, the Pentagon's top general told reporters Thursday. Having studied the issue of rampant sexual misconduct in the ranks, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, noted that he has concluded that the phenomenon exists partly because women have been subordinated to men in military culture: "It's because we've had separate classes of military personnel.""
Additionally the United States is, once again, lagging behind the rest of the civilized world in finally opening combat roles to women. Over a dozen other countries have allowed it for years, such as: (Buzzfeed)
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- Israel
- Finland
- Poland
- Norway
- Denmark
- France
- Romania
- Germany
- Sweden
- The Netherlands
- Australia
- New Zealand
And what are some of the silliest reactions to this news so far?
- Steve Benen: Internet television personality Allen West was not at all pleased with the Pentagon's decision to lift the military's ban on women serving in combat, calling this part of "another misconceived liberal vision of fairness and equality." Of course, given that West was forced from the military after an interrogation in which he threatened to kill a police officer, then fired a 9mm next to his head to make the threat credible, maybe he's not the best judge on military qualifications.
- Tucker Carlson also tweeted: "The latest feminist victory: The right to get your limbs blown off in war." Note to Tucker: 130 American women have been killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. And of the several hundred who are injured, one now serves quite ably in Congress. (Rep. Tammy Duckworth flew helicopters.) I suspect that many feminists might well agree with Carlson: Women ought to have the right to get their limbs blown off if they're as qualified as men are. Duckworth, whose limbs were, well, blown off, was as good a pilot as the many more men who were injured by IEDs too. This is quaint and false chivalry.
- David Frum: "The people we are likely to meet on the next battlefield are people who use rape and sexual abuse as actual tools of politics. In Iranian prisons, rape is a frequent practice. Women are raped before they are executed. In Iran, in Pakistan, in Afghanistan rape is a conscious tool of subjugation and it is something women will be exposed to. In the name of equal opportunity they will face unequal risk." — Adam Serwer: "It's true that women face the danger of sexual assault if captured. The same could be said of men. Frum's objection seems somewhat selective; women in the US military are more likely to face sexual assault from their comrades in the service than they are to be killed by enemy fire. Perhaps that's less sensational than the thought of scary foreigners violating American women, but it's a more urgent threat."
- WSJ Op-ed: Women shouldn't be allowed in combat positions because men poop and it would be humiliating to poop in front of women.
- Bill Kristol: "It's predictable that few in our political and cultural elites will speak up for biology, for common sense, or for decency or honor."
Finally, WHY is ending the ban so crucial? Andrew Sullivan:
Without the combat designation, women veterans can be denied the benefits they need, particularly medical and psychological, because they were designated non-combat while serving. Receiving many benefits from the VA is dependent on "if the veteran engaged in combat with the enemy." A critical part of the approval process is what was the veteran's designated military occupational speciality. If women will have noncombat MOS even if they engaged in combat because they are women then that means the VA might not approve them for combat related requests for benefits. Women are not being treated equally under the law because of the noncombat designation.
I expect there will be a massive lawsuit on behalf of all the female veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to be retroactively reclassified as having served with combat duty in order to get the medical benefits they will need from the VA for the rest of their lives. Because right now, that shit is being denied and will continue being denied for the entirety of their lives, all because they were designated 'non-combat' when they served.


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Performance As Design
Too often, any talk of web performance quickly ventures into the land of heavy geekery. Terms like DNS lookups, Gzipping, minifying, far future expires headers, caching, ETags and more are thrown around and consequently lose the attention of most non-techy people. This perpetuates a mentality that performance is solely a technical concern that only developers need to concern themselves with.
It's time for us to treat performance as an essential design feature, not just as a technical best practice.
We all feel it
From time to time I get asked what I do for a living. Whenever I mention that I work in mobile, I've had people immediately react
Why such an immediate, visceral reaction? They aren't reacting to the intuitiveness of Facebook's navigation, nor questioning the elegance of the Timeline redesign. The whole Facebook clusterfudge had everything to do with the fact that their app was slow as shit.
The average web page is increasingly obese. We now have more toys to play with, and that means more potential to do damage. Phil Hawksworth brilliantly called out the ridiculousness of these gratuitous, parallaxified websites:
If your website is 15MB it's not HTML5, it's stupid. Christian Heilmann
While these sites may be visually arresting (though for a lot of them that's certainly debatable), a good many visitors will never stick around to see them. 74% of mobile web users will leave a site if it takes longer than 5 seconds to load. That means you have 5 seconds of someone's time to get them what they want, or they're gone.
Good performance is good design
The road towards better performance doesn't start with developers or technology stacks (though I'm certainly not suggesting those things are unimportant). It begins with a shared interest on everyone's part in making a product that's lightning fast. Some things to consider:
- Include performance in project documents—Statements of work, project proposals and design briefs should explicitly and repeatedly call out performance as a primary goal. "The goal of this project is to create a stunning, flexible, lightning-fast experience…"
- Get designs into the browser as soon as possible—A picture of a website design comp hanging on a wall may look purdy, but it's a terribly unrealistic way of gauging how effective the design will be once it exists in its final environment. As we enter The Post-PSD Era, we're able to see performance implications of a design direction much sooner than a traditional waterfall process.
- Test on real devices—Stephanie Rieger properly states that it's impossible to gauge a design's performance in a shrunken viewport or emulator. It's essential to test and test early on real devices to see the true ramifications of every interface element you introduce into your designs.
- Collaborate—Developers should be involved early on in the design process and should call out potential performance concerns in wireframes and comps. It's important that this process isn't just a yes/no grunting match, rather a truly collaborative session between disciplines.
- Educate—Many people in the design process simply don't know a lot of performance consequences of their design decisions. Help them understand that including five font faces is going to do some damage. Help them think twice about adding tons of massive images. Do a quick prototype in Codepen to demonstrate an idea, then sit together and use it on a real device on a 3G connection.
Ultimately performance is about respect. Respect your users' time and they will be more likely to walk away with a positive experience. Good performance is good design. It's time we treat it as such.
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Here here!
Two of my favourite performance presentations/articles in recent times are from
– Chris Coyier: https://speakerdeck.com/chriscoyier/lets-do-a-bunch-of-simple-stuff-to-make-websites-faster
– Harry Roberts: http://csswizardry.com/2013/01/front-end-performance-for-web-designers-and-front-end-developers/
Also this was a MAJOR focus point for many of the clever folk we interviewed about responsive design over the christmas period (yourself included).
@Justin Avery: Thanks for the two links! Really nice stuff in there, I really appreciate it.
@Brad Frost: Thanks for the post! Sadly the technology side of the implementation often ruins everything. There are two many folks out there who produce 10 JavaScript requests because they need 9 jQuery plugins.
There should be an easy way for people to see that a website is slower than it should be. That would lead to more awareness and developers / agencies would care more about what they deliver to a customer.
Currently the customer just assumes the slowness is "normal". Nobody will check with web inspector and point out what is wrong.
Another amazing and easy to follow article is from CSS Wizardry:
A definite must-read.
I like what you are thinking. I've found the biggest inhibitor to education is ego. Though I try my best to educate my clients on speed being more important factor for conversion than window-dressing, they often still go for window-dressing.
Well put. Respect is an important thing. Don't waste someone's time and they'll appreciate it on any platform.
Great article! Unfortunately I've seen many instances where performance hasn't been thought about as it hasn't been implicit in a project methodology (Its slips between the gaps). The other phrase used is "Performance by Design" … http://www.perftesting.co.uk/performance-by-design-an-agile-approach/2011/11/18/
I think you're saying something worthwhile here, but I'm having a hard time getting past that incredible "visually arresting" pun. It's just that good.
Great summary and excellent links. Education and respect really are essential in building a bridge between disciplines with regard to this subject. Technologists have a responsibility to help designers understand that speed and performance impacts user experience and IS an aspect of (his/her) design.
Well put, Brad.
I think there's a common misunderstanding in our industry about what good design is. There is a constant struggle between sites that look incredible and sites that function superbly. I believe it's possible to do both, but it requires that performance be part of the conversation from the beginning—as you state above.
I agree with Matt Griffin at Bearded (http://blog.bearded.com/post/28841412909/making-it-look-easy), but can't help but think the level of design he describes requires all members of the team to be involved throughout the process. This means that big organizations with separated disciplines (most that I've talked to) will struggle to achieve "good design" until they're able to restructure. And, that takes time.
I love that we're finally starting to think about the possibilities—and the challenges—of our medium. It's an exciting time!


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Obama discusses Christianity in Easter prayer breakfast
For a man who hasn't joined a church in Washington since moving into the White House, President Barack Obama has packed a lot of religion into his life this week.
After attending church with his family on Easter Sunday, the president held a prayer breakfast on Tuesday at the White House and, without offering an intimate look at his own spirituality, expressed some joy at being able to celebrate his religion, Christianity.
"Today, I'm particularly blessed to welcome you, my brothers and sisters in Christ, for this Easter breakfast," Obama said at the opening of the event, noting that the White House had held a Seder to mark the Jewish Passover and an Iftar with Muslim Americans during Ramadan.
"I can't tell any of you anything about Easter that you don't already know," he said to laughter. "But what I can do is tell you what draws me to this holy day and what lesson I take from Christ's sacrifice and what inspires me about the story of the resurrection."
During the 2008 presidential campaign Obama had to deny recurring suggestions that he was Muslim. He also struggled to distance himself from controversial remarks by his long-time pastor, whose church Obama eventually left.
The president has not joined a church in Washington. On Tuesday he focused his remarks, which were greeted with affirmative murmurs of "yes" from those attending the breakfast, on the message of redemption.
"As I am continually learning, we are, each of us, imperfect. Each of us errs — by accident or by design. Each of us falls short of how we ought to live. And selfishness and pride are vices that afflict us all," he said.
"So, on this day, let us commit our spirit to the pursuit of a life that is true, to act justly and to love mercy and walk humbly with the Lord. And when we falter, as we will, let redemption — through commitment and through perseverance and through faith — be our abiding hope and fervent prayer."
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Photo credit: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque (Obama at prayer breakfast; best-selling author Joel Osteen, the pastor of Lakewood Church in Texas, with his wife, Victoria, at the prayer breakfast)
Cool!!! RM
Spoken like a true Christian. All the other fear preachers could learn something.
Beware the Soothsayers. By their fruit you will know them.
Words, just Words. HIs actions speak louder than his words!! You can not be a Christian and kill babies.
So now Obama kills babies?
How many babies has he killed?


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Kids ☆ Seven, Four & Four Months
We spent our first summer vacation with 3 kids in 2012. My three kids were seven years old, four years old and four months old. We are having many "first time" experiences as a family of five. This was the first time for our baby to go into the swimming pool with his two big sisters. I must say that it is the small mundane things that give me joy of having three kids.
These photos were taken at my husband's grandmother's beautiful patio. My husband's grandmother can be an interior designer. She's really talented and her house is dazzling.
Little one with crossed legs. Don't you think he kind of looks like a grown up?
My friends with grown up kids often told me that I should enjoy the time with my kids when they were little because they grow up fast. I think I finally see what they meant.
Kids were obviously fascinated by something, but sadly I don't even remember what they were looking at. Does this happen to you? Is this aging or sleep deprivation? Hopefully it's the latter.


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