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Sally Impossible: What could be more important than your family, Richard?In a great deal of media, science and technology are portrayed as inherently masculine. Men, according to this trope, approach life as a puzzle to be solved by logic and reason. Women, on the other hand, tend to be in tune with their emotions and approach problem-solving by relying on their feelings and intuition. If a show has men and women both from an academic background, the man will typically have a degree in science, math, or engineering, while the woman will have one in arts or literature. (This may be why so many mad scientists are male.) Even if both characters are scientists, expect the man to research physics or mathematics and the woman to research psychology or biology. (This particular aspect is currently Truth in Television — men usually outnumber women in university courses in mathematics, engineering, chemistry and physics, while women outnumber men in the humanities and in social and biological sciences.) Even when a character works in a field not usually associated with their gender, gender may still affect the approach they take — for instance, a female engineer may be portrayed as understanding machinery in an intuitive way, while a male gardener might see himself more as a botanist than as a caretaker who loves beautiful flowers. Even people in the exact same careers will often change their approach; female doctors in fiction are likely to view themselves as compassionate healers, while men in the same profession will often see themselves as problem-solving scientists (hence why Dr. Jerk is virtually Always Male). This may lead to Harmony Versus Discipline conflicts. Note that which approach is portrayed as better varies widely; see Romanticism Versus Enlightenment. In many works that come down on the side of Enlightenment, you'll see women portrayed as hysterically irrational and easily manipulated, while their male counterparts' hard-nosed, pragmatic rationalism proves to be the key to saving the day. More Romanticist works, on the other hand, often portray men as cold, arrogant, heartless, and unable to appreciate beauty or emotional realities, while the women are more balanced, compassionate, and in tune with nature. In some works, it will be suggested that both approaches are necessary and have to balance each other. (Note that this doesn't entirely get rid of the Unfortunate Implications if it's still implied that your gender determines which approach you have to take.) Nowadays, due to widespread awareness of this trope and its Unfortunate Implications, it's increasingly common to see inversions, with a sensitive, emotional man and a cold, logical woman. Again, which one is portrayed as right will still vary, although works like this are perhaps slightly more likely to go with the "both sides are necessary for balance" approach. This is Older Than Feudalism: ancient Greek thinkers believed that men were blessed with rationality and self-control, allowing them to handle tasks like philosophy and politics, while women lacked rationality and were controlled by their emotions and physical passions much like animals were. Unlike modern writers, though, the Greeks had no doubt which one was better. Compare Clarke's Law for Girls' Toys, Men Buy from Mars, Women Buy from Venus and Mars and Venus Gender Contrast. See also The Chick, The Smurfette Principle, Straw Vulcan and Strawman Emotional. Contrast Wrench Wench and Motherly Scientist (usually female, but not always).
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Lets face it folks, we were playing Peyton Manningin 2012 regardless of his final choice. The bands were already listed on that lineup. Now, what makes this signing so very interesting to me is what to do with Timmy Tebow..
He's not going to be in Denver much longer, that's for darn sure. With Peyton likely calling the offense from the line of scrimmage, Tebow would never be able to handle such a complex system. If the Broncos have any chance of getting Manning some help, they're going to have to move some people around. Why not start with a QB due to make $2 million that you have ZERO use for?
I'm sure they'll be looking to trade (no one likes to give up something for nothing) but I don't know what anyone would be willing to give up. In a league where your starting QB is the most important player of the franchise, you're not going to find many teams willing to part with a good back up that's affordable. Most probably he'll be cut at some point during this off season. This is where New England may step in.
The Patriots are always looking for that player that is seen as a 'value pick'. Guys other teams pass on but are looking to contribute in any way possible. Guys like Tim Tebow. Coach Bill Belichick is a fan of Tebow. He liked him coming out of Florida, just not enough to waste (yeah, I said it) a first round draft pick. Who was it that DID waste that pick? Oh right! The Patriots new Offensive Coordinator for 2012, Josh McDaniels. Being that he did draft him as a QB in Denver, it stands to reason that he already had plays in mind for situational football. This could be a great asset to Tom Brady and the reloaded Patriots offense. Tebow could come out and change the pace of the game. His big frame would look better than Brady on those 4th and 1 plays where we see Brady dive in the pile and than all hold our collective breath till he stands back up.
It will, as it always does, come down to money, but you should ask yourselves this: Does Tebow always play hard? Yes. Is he willing to do what needs to be done? Yes. Does he absolutely HATE to lose? Ohhhhh yeah. Sounds like New England Patriots material to me.

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A man has been jailed for stealing a TV from a supermarket.
Joseph Nickels, 37, from Redruth Road, Romford, was sentenced at Barkingside Magistrates' Court to four weeks.
He admitted stealing the 24- inch Polaroid TV worth £129 from Asda in Dolphin Approach, Romford, on December 31.
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The NIJ is organized into three major offices. The Office of Research and Evaluation supports grants in the social sciences relating to the causes and prevention of crime. The Office of Science and Technology supports investigator-initiated grants for the development, testing, and evaluation of technologies to deter crime and enhance criminal justice operations. It also funds six regional National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Centers that provide technical assistance on research and development to help state and local criminal justice agencies. The Office of Development and Dissemination transmits information through publications and conferences geared to practitioners (i.e., judges, prosecutors, police, corrections officials, and victims' advocates).
NIJ supports research in the following areas: criminal behavior, crime control and prevention, and the criminal justice system. The preponderance of NIJ's budget is awarded for extramural projects conducted by academic researchers and researchers at private nonprofit institutions. Grants average about $250,000 per year over a two-year period. All extramural funds are awarded through a competitive selection process carried out by independent peer-review panels in a process similar to that conducted by NIH. The major differences are that NIJ study sections are not standing study sections, and they require that at least one reviewer be a practitioner (i.e., a judge, prosecutor, policeman, correction official, or victim advocate). Investigator-initiated projects are awarded as a result of an open solicitation process, but this avenue represents a minor component of NIJ's extramural grant program (U.S. DOJ, 1997a). The majority of NIJ's research funds, including transfers from other offices, is awarded after a directed solicitation for research proposals targeted to specific topics, many of which are prescribed by the Crime Act of 1994.
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Cum slut: I thought the spermicide would take the sperm away. But it stayed in there and just got itchy. And burns. –Ginger, Ave. A Overheard by: Tibbie X
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Manhattan as a Pooper-scooper
Tough-looking guy to tough-looking friend: Manhattan is all about shitpiles. – Manhattan
They Make My Ass Cry Brown Tears
Woman on cell: I think they put onions in my sandwich. I'm running home now, let me call you when I get off the toilet. –Park Slope Overheard by: Anne C.
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Super: Toilet's fixed. Sorry I was so gruff before, but my hands were full of shit. –Ave A
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Teen girl: Whenever I like a guy I get diarrhea. –8th Ave. & 16th St. Overheard by: Kevin Allan
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Hispanic nanny: And you know how I have to make poo?
Excited toddler: Yeah!
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Six-year-old boy #1: Poop fart! Poop fart poop fart poop fart. Poop fart!
Six-year-old boy #2: Okay, you win.
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Overheard by: Samantha
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Mom #1, about sniffly kid: Don't worry, my kid's not sick. He's just sad.
Mom #2, to kid: Aw, why are you sad?
Kid to mom #2: Because my poopie won't come out.
Mom #2 to kid: Don't worry, I get sad too when my poopie doesn't come out.
Mom #1 to kid: See, I told you it happens to everyone.
–79th St & West End
Eww, They're Wet!
20-something girl to friend returning from restroom: There you are! I almost sent a search party.
Friend: Yeah, I, uhm, had to go do number two.
20-something girl, enthusiastically: Awesome!
Friend: Yeah, I love a good number two.
20-something girl: Me too, man! Alriiiight! (raises hands for a high-five, then hesitates) Wait, you washed your hands, right?
Friend: Yeah, of course.
20-something girl, with renewed enthusiasm: Alriiiight! (they high five)
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Will Your Certificate Be Arriving Via Postal Mail?
Girl #1: Ugh, I just took a huge shit in Tiffany's.
Girl #2: Oh my god, are you serious? That's awesome. Because, you know what? You get to say for the rest of your life that you took a shit in Tiffany's.
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WINCHESTER — The Shockey Cos. CEO William F. Simmons III officially retired this week as one of the firm's longest-tenured leaders.
Simmons first joined Shockey in 1978 as operations manager with then-affiliate Crider & Shockey Inc. He rose through the ranks, becoming Crider & Shockey's chief operating officer in 1993. That same year, Simmons was named executive vice president and chief operating officer of both Crider & Shockey and its sister companies, Howard Shockey & Sons Inc. and The Shockey Precast Group.
In 1999, Simmons was named president of The Shockey Cos. In 2003, he became chief executive.
During Simmons' tenure as CEO, geographic expansion, capital investment projects and the sale of a major division were key areas of focus, according to a press release. His management style valued employee participation and led to top performance in safety, quality, profitability, timely project completion and customer satisfaction, the release says.
Twice in recent years, Shockey employees reached the 1 million-manhour threshold without a lost-time accident, it says.
"He was a visionary leader at a progressive time for our companies, the first CEO of our companies whose last name was not Shockey," says Shockey Cos. President J. Donald Shockey Jr. "Bill's 31 years' worth of contributions will long be visible in the quality of our work, the quality of our facilities and — most importantly — the quality of our people."
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"We are interested in looking at other ways of using existing and emerging mobile technology in a more sociable way, to bring people together with their immediate environment and the people around them."
Ideas in development include games which combine 'tilt' sensors and GPS with augmented reality, enabling players to play games on their phone, either individually or with a group interacting with their real environment and a type of interactive installation known as Mash Reality.
Mash Reality enables people to text fragments of prose to giant screens using their mobile phone. The words are then married up with matching images chosen from photo sharing sites such as Flickr or MOSH.
Lancaster researchers are testing their ideas in the real world at large social gatherings such as Futuresonic, Urban Festival of Art, Music & Ideas, 1-5 May, Manchester, UK and Roskilde Festival, 3-6th July in Denmark.
Nokia Mobile Experiences Group Members are: Lancaster University; Technical University of Denmark (DTU) ; University of Aarhus, Denmark ;New York University, ITP ; Parsons: The New School for Design, New York; Helsinki University of Art & Design; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab.
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Lancaster University has played a lead role in the inaugural meeting of a new engineering network for all types of engineers working on particle accelerators in the UK.
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Lifshitz suggests that Americans look to other countries for useful advice about healthy diets. "In Japan, they recommend eating 30 different food sources a day. Thirty! It sounds like a lot but those of you who like sushi know that if you go to a sushi bar you get all these different foods, but small servings," he says.
Ayood tells parents to use moderation and variety. "For example, try foods of different colors." He also advises getting "children involved in food preparation. Have them cut up the green beans. Who cares if the cuts are uneven?" That involvement, he says, will pay off, as children become more interested in variety.
Finally, Lifshitz advises, "there are no junk foods, just junk diets. If a child eats a piece of chocolate, the child shouldn't feel guilty." He says the problem comes when a diet is either dominated by a single food or arbitrarily eliminates certain foods. "Remember, variety and enjoyment."


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That line is from NYU professor Jay Rosen (shortened for Twitter's sake), he continues:
It's better to be savvy than it is to be just, good, fair, decent, strictly lawful, civilized, sincere, thoughtful or humane. Savviness is what journalists admire in others. Savvy is what they themselves dearly wish to be. (And to be unsavvy is far worse than being wrong.)
Definitely a symptom of our local press.
The entire article can be found on The Atlantic's website and is a must-read.
There's so much talk about saving newspapers (which I am fully in support of) but who is going to save journalism? As we head into what is sure to be a super contentious presidential race in 2012, I cringe to thing of the type of coverage that we're in for.


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Monday, September 15, 2014Mark Frink 09/15/14 12:54 PM,1) Both Ears Or None. Using only one ear encourages much higher sound levels. Good custom molds provide 20 to 25 dB of isolation, allowing lower monitoring levels for artists, and reduced stage noise to compete with front of house. Mixed mode monitoring combining wedges and personal monitors ultimately results in higher overall SPL. 2) Hard-Wired Equals Hi-Def. Wired personal monitors will always sound better than wireless. In addition to loss of stereo separation and frequency response, multiplexed stereo wireless… View this story
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Friday, September 05, 2014Mark Frink 09/05/14 04:06 PM,With the advent of digital consoles, the monitor engineer's ability to reset the entire desk with the push of a button is a powerful tool. However, there are many situations where the console must be adjusted from scratch or "zero initial data," whether it's a festival, support act or a one-off. Doing a little homework in advance can save valuable time. Look at everything that must be taken care of on the console before the band is on stage: inputs… View this story
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Friday, April 18, 2014Mark Frink 04/18/14 12:11 PM,Ten important things to be aware of in the quest for optimum results with in-ear monitoring: Coordination. TV broadcasts are the dominant feature of the local RF spectrum. Online resources like the Sennheiser Frequency Finder, which uses a ZIP code, and the FCC's database to provide a list of local TV broadcast stations and their signal strength, helps users tune wireless systems to interference-free frequencies, removing much of the guesswork. Antennas. Most wireless in-ear monitoring transmitters come with a simple… View this story
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Thursday, March 13, 2014Mark Frink 03/13/14 05:12 PM,Though there are other conventions, it's generally agreed that the kick drum goes into the first channel of the console, and for time immemorial, inordinate efforts have gone into tediously adjusting it. Sound check never really starts until after this first input has been tweaked to satisfaction. The kick drum is the cornerstone of rock. It puts the pop in pop music and is the one input that holds it all together. It's the heartbeat of rock and roll. With… View this story
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013Mark Frink 02/20/13 05:41 PM,Touring as a monitor engineer has taught me many tricks over the years. Here are some of my favorite pieces of advice for those who may be just starting out… Audio Logs Like Groundhog Day (or a symphony pops tour), I keep repeating the following: the best loudspeaker accessory is the simplest and cheapest. If you have nothing better to do one day, find an hour to cut some 2 x 4 lumber into one-foot lengths and paint them black.… View this story
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Adrian Peterson and Chester Taylor are both listed as questionable on the injury report. AD continues to nurse a bad hammy and Chester…somewhere along the line he came down with a bad foot. I'm sure both will play this Sunday against Tennessee but still, it's bothersome to always see so many key offensive players littering the injury report. On the bright side…Sidney Rice is listed as questionable this week, after missing the last game, and says he will play. Gus Frerotte will have a full complement of weapons at his disposal as he attempts to pick apart the solid Titans defense. There are no significant players listed as questionable for the Titans, and only one listed as out – Vince Young. He continues to deal with an injured knee and…other issues.
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This Easter come to "the place" where we celebrate family, friends, food and life! We will serve a limited menu that includes ham hock hash, uova pizza, Il Posto French toast, and house favorites. Reservations are required.
Sunday, 20 April, 2014
Location: Il Posto Trattoria
Phone: 707.251.8600
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Americans are not in the mood for more taxes or fees — already half our hard-earned money goes to one government entity or another. Like my family, governments must learn to live within our means. Do not play scare tactics by touting police and firefighter cutbacks. To be fair, every government entity should cutback evenly; it's not rocket science.
Ninety percent of our $34 million deficit ($30.6 million) is city payroll. If the Park Department gets 8 percent of total payroll, then it must cut its cost to the city by $2.5 million — by equally shared pay cut or employee reduction.
Likewise, the other ten percent deficit disappears with proportional cuts to each cost entity.
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Glad gladiators and merrier terriers!
Blog Guy, I know that President-Elect Barack Obama brought diverse groups together. What's the oddest coalition you've seen from the election?
That's easy. In Italy, there was a group called Terriers and Roman Centurions for Obama.
Really! Tell me about that.
Well, they held a victory rally in Rome yesterday outside what looks like a run-down old stadium, and they carried authentic Italian flags, just like Roman Centurions carried 2,000 years ago.
I didn't realize Roman Centurions could vote in U.S. elections.
They can't, but Jack Russell Terriers can, and they take the Centurions with them to add "gravitas."
Waiter, a comb for my noodles!
People, we need to brainstorm an advertising slogan for Acme Noodles, our newest client. We're using photos of dogs lounging outside on big sheets of noodles being dried for sale to restaurants because, well, what goes together like noodles and dogs!
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Dogs recline on sheets of rice noodle being dried near a railway track in Phu Dien village outside Hanoi October 22, 2008. The village produces rice noodles, a staple breakfast meal, that are sold to restaurants in Hanoi. REUTERS/Kham
Here's the President and his poodle, Fifi!
It seems someone is playing a big practical joke on Barack Obama.
A few weeks ago, the American Kennel Club began a national poll where people could vote on what breed of dog Obama should get for his daughters. So 42,000 people voted, and the winner was the POODLE!
Excuse me? Do you want to see your President walking along behind a dog like this with a pooper scooper? Plus, in the famous Dogs Playing Poker series of genuine artwork, the poodles are just observers. What kind of signal is that?
Please look at me, Senator!
It seems Barack Obama has promised to get his daughters a dog after the election. You can even go to an American Kennel Club site and vote on a breed for them, in case the Obamas want your opinion. The AKC says, "presidential purebred dogs are as traditional as baseball and apple pie."
But tradition isn't all good. There was a time when choosing U.S. Presidents of a certain breeding, race and gender was traditional. Times change.
Mutt-mobile: can Spot design your car?
We have a video report about how auto designers are shifting into neuteral, so to speak, fighting for the pet owner market by adding Fido-friendly features. I have a list of the options my own dogs are demanding:
- deluxe hamburger dispenser
- giant window control buttons
- peanut butter dispenser
- big fans aimed at their face
- toast and jelly dispenser
- indoor tennis ball flinger
Come to think of it, that doesn't sound like such a bad car, does it?
Let's go surfin' now, even pets are learnin' how…
Blog Guy, a couple of days ago you posted an item on a surfboarding cat in Peru. It's not that I doubt you or anything, but if this is true, wouldn't you have video of it?
As a matter of fact, yes. Here is footage not only of the cat, but a surfing dog, too.
Heavy petting online: love me, love my dogs…
If you decide to go on a date with somebody you met on the Internet, it's probably easier to hide the fact that you're already married than it is to keep pets a secret. There's hair on everything you wear, you have those sticky lint rollers in your car, and when you dig in your pockets for money you pull out plastic bags for cleaning up after your dog.
So, you may as well be honest about it up front, which is where a new Dutch dating site comes in handy. Inspired by similar sites in the U.S. and Britain, it is specifically aimed at finding a partner who is compatible with your dog, cat, snake or spider.
The mother of all dog fantasies…
This dog lives the life other dogs only dream about, helping with quality control for a dogs-only bakery operated by her owner. Here's the part I really like. Her owner used to be a florist. So, one day the dog comes to work expecting more boring flowers, and finds this stuff instead. No wonder pets are endlessly optimistic and extravagantly hopeful.
Ronja stands in front of the display in her owner's dogs-only bakery in the western German city of Wiesbaden January 8, 2007. The owner of the bakery, "Dog's Goodies", Janine Saraniti-Lagerin, is a former florist. REUTERS/Alex Grimm
A fetching day at the office…
This one is going to strike some readers as odd, but others – including me — will see it as an idea whose time has come. It turns out a substantial number of U.S. companies let employees bring their pets to work, and if you've ever seen a big office with a few nice dogs walking around, it's a very soothing sight.
Tomorrow is "Take Your Dog to Work Day." Several thousand companies are participating – is yours?


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text: Starting Out June 13, 2011 Issue The Money Neighborhood thieves By Junot Diaz Table of Contents Credit OLIMPIA ZAGNOLI All the Dominicans I knew in those days sent money home. My mother didn't have a regular job besides caring for us five kids, so she scrimped the loot together from whatever came her way. My father was always losing his forklift jobs, so it wasn't like she ever had a steady flow. But my grandparents were alone in Santo Domingo, and those remittances, beyond material support, were a way, I suspect, for Mami to negotiate the absence, the distance, caused by our diaspora. She chipped dollars off the cash Papi gave her for our daily expenses, forced our already broke family to live even broker. That was how she built the nut—two, maybe three hundred dollars—that she sent home every six months or so. We kids knew where the money was hidden, but we also knew that to touch it would have meant a violent punishment approaching death. I, who could take the change out of my mother's purse without thinking, couldn't have brought myself even to look at that forbidden stash. So what happened? Exactly what you'd think. The summer I was twelve, my family went away on a "vacation"—one of my father's half-baked get-to-know-our-country-better-by-sleeping-in-the-van extravaganzas—and when we returned to Jersey, exhausted, battered, we found our front door unlocked. My parents' room, which was where the thieves had concentrated their search, looked as if it had been tornado-tossed. The thieves had kept it simple; they'd snatched a portable radio, some of my Dungeons & Dragons hardcovers, and, of course, Mami's remittances. It's not as if the robbery came as a huge surprise. In our neighborhood, cars and apartments were always getting jacked, and the kid stupid enough to leave a bike unattended for more than a tenth of a second was the kid who was never going to see that bike again. Everybody got hit; no matter who you were, eventually it would be your turn. And that summer it was ours. Still, we took the burglary pretty hard. When you're a recent immigrant, it's easy to feel targeted. Like it wasn't just a couple of assholes that had it in for you but the whole neighborhood—hell, maybe the whole country. No one took the robbery as hard as my mom, though. She cursed the neighborhood, she cursed the country, she cursed my father, and of course she cursed us kids, swore that we had run our gums to our idiot friends and they had done it. And this is where the tale should end, right? Wasn't as if there was going to be any "C.S.I."-style investigation or anything. Except that a couple of days later I was moaning about the robbery to these guys I was hanging with at that time and they were cursing sympathetically, and out of nowhere it struck me. You know when you get one of those moments of mental clarity? When the nictitating membrane obscuring the world suddenly lifts? That's what happened. I realized that these two dopes I called my friends had done it. They were shaking their heads, mouthing all the right words, but I could see the way they looked at each other, the Raskolnikov glances. I knew. Now, it wasn't like I could publicly denounce these dolts or go to the police. That would have been about as useless as crying. Here's what I did: I asked the main dope to let me use his bathroom (we were in front of his apartment) and while I pretended to piss I unlatched the window. Then we all headed to the park as usual, but I pretended that I'd forgotten something back home. Ran to the dope's apartment, slid open the bathroom window, and in broad daylight wriggled my skinny ass in. Where the hell did I get these ideas? I have not a clue. I guess I was reading way too much Encyclopedia Brown and the Three Investigators in those days. And if mine had been a normal neighborhood this is when the cops would have been called and my ass would have been caught burglarizing. The dolt and his family had been in the U.S. all their lives and they had a ton of stuff, a TV in every room, but I didn't have to do much searching. I popped up the dolt's mattress and underneath I found my D. & D. books and most of my mother's money. He had thoughtfully kept it in the same envelope. And that was how I solved the Case of the Stupid Morons. My one and only case. The next day at the park, the dolt announced that someone had broken into his apartment and stolen all his savings. This place is full of thieves, he complained bitterly, and I was, like, No kidding. It took me two days to return the money to my mother. The truth was I was seriously considering keeping it. But in the end the guilt got to me. I guess I was expecting my mother to run around with joy, to crown me her favorite son, to cook me my favorite meal. Nada. 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CHELMSFORD, Mass. -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Qvidian, the innovator in sales execution solutions, today announced that the Company's CEO, Lewis Miller, was named 2014 Finalist for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year™ award in the Technology category. These coveted awards represent the world's most prestigious business recognition for entrepreneurs.
The EY awards program recognizes entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. Lewis Miller was selected as a finalist from hundreds of nominations by a panel of independent judges.
"I'm deeply honored to be chosen as a finalist for EY's Entrepreneur of the Year Award," said Lewis Miller, CEO of Qvidian. "This honor is a true reflection of our commitment to customers as their long-term partner, and represents the energy and unwavering drive our company has achieved to ensure customer success."
Miller led the successful merger of two dynamic and diverse organizations in 2010, and has positioned the company as the market innovator with positive and consistent growth. Today, Qvidian provides cloud-based sales execution solutions that enable companies to capture new business faster, accelerate sales ramp up time, and optimize sales efficiency by transforming how sales teams operate and sell. He led the Company's strategic direction to deliver this innovative software that offers real-time insight to ensure sales teams do what's needed to win business by driving repeatable methodologies and making sales organizations more agile. Through Miller's vision and leadership, Qvidian's technology advancements have leap-frogged the market, helping companies solve these complex sales execution challenges while delivering significant and quantifiable results to customers.
In addition, Miller's philanthropic initiatives included serving as Chairman of the Board at Per Scholas, a non-profit organization whose goal is to break the cycle of poverty by providing access to technology education, training, and job placement services for individuals in underserved communities.
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July 13, 2010 My in-laws are here for a couple weeks. Yesterday, I took my son and his grandpa to the Cité de l'Automobile National Car Museum just over the border in France. That was my first time there, and I was pretty impressed with the collection. My son has recently been into Bugatti cars, and the museum holds loads of them. In fact, it has over 400 amazing old cars- quite a history lesson as you walk down the rows.


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Recipe: Macadamia Popcorn
Serves 6
After your first taste of popcorn drizzled with macadamia oil, ordinary butter won't stand a chance. Add macadamia nuts and raisins and you have a tasty, healthful snack. Other nuts and corresponding oils, like walnuts or peanuts, also work well.
3 1/2 to 4 cups popped, unseasoned popcorn
2 tablespoons macadamia nut oil
Salt to taste
1 1/2 cups raisins
1 cup roasted, salted macadamia nuts
Place popcorn in a large mixing bowl. Drizzle about 2 tablespoons of macadamia nut oil over the popcorn. Mix well and season with salt to taste. Add raisins and macadamia nuts and toss well. Serve immediately.
Per Serving (69g-wt.): 330 calories (200 from fat), 22g total fat, 3g saturated fat, 3g protein, 35g total carbohydrate (5g dietary fiber, 1g sugar), 0mg cholesterol, 260mg sodium
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For the student of igneous or eruptive rocks there is no question which excites greater interest, and the correct answer to which would be of greater importance, than that involving the relation or connection between the various forms and kinds of coarse grained rocks and the different varieties of glassy ones. Any group of observations, therefore that bears upon this problem should be studied with the greatest care, in order that we may learn how far it contributes to our understanding of these intricate relations, which not only lie at the foundation of any system of classification of igneous rocks, but which must affect our comprehension of the real nature of the rocks themselves.
The observations recorded in the following pages appear to contribute so largely to certain phases of the problem that it is hoped they may be presented in such a manner that the reader will be able to judge whether the conclusions arrived at by the writer are sufficiently well founded.
This study forms a part of the work undertaken by the division of the U. S. Geological Survey under the charge of Mr. Arnold Hague, which has been investigating the region of the Yellowstone National Park. It constitutes a chapter of the contributions which are being made from time to time to the knowledge of this highly attractive region, where the character of the country is so diversified that the student is confronted by nearly every phase of geology, among the most prominent of which are the phenomena of volcanic action, including the distribution and character of the volcanic material, the physics and chemistry of the thermal springs, and the dynamics of erosion and glaciationproblems which are being investigated by different members of the division. The present paper deals with a group of eruptive rocks occurring at Electric Peak and Sepulchre Mountain, which has been studied with special care because of the bearing of the results upon the general petrological question already stated.
The eruptive rocks of Electric Peak and vicinity embrace a group of intrusive rocks that occur in the form of a stock with apophyses, breaking up through Cretaceous strata, which had already been penetrated by horizontal sheets of intrusive rocks from a neighboring center of eruption. They also include a group of extrusive or volcanic rocks, lying east of Electric Peak, which form the mass of Sepulchre Mountain and contain certain intruded bodies.
The object of the present paper is to describe the nature and occurrence of these intrusive and extrusive bodies and to trace the geological and lithological connections between them, and to show the development of crystallization and the resulting mineral constitution of magmas of similar chemical composition which have solidified under a variety of physical conditions.
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Is Easter Really a Pagan Holiday?
- Wednesday, March 23, 2005
So is it ok to bring on the baskets, chocolate bunnies, and colored eggs? "Absolutely," says Hanegraaff. "These basic symbols are springboards to talking about what is truly important... the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ." He urges that children be taught the representation of the symbols within a Christian context.
The resurrection is "the central event to the Christian faith. As he rose, we too shall rise. This is the apex of Christianity, anything that points to new life is pointing to the resurrection," says Hanegraaff.
Richardson sites the example of Paul in 1 Corinthians 8, discussing the eating of meat that has been sacrificed to idols. "(Each person) should take the question before the lord individually to determine what he would have you do," she says. Explaining, that if a particular custom is a stumbling block, then "it is right to remove that barrier and not participate in that custom."
"The last thing I want to do is to cause more division within the body of Christ. We are going to disagree on some things, but as long as we are not disagreeing on the essentials - the birth, death, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ then it is unimportant," says Richardson.
Richardson herself quotes Hanegraaff regarding debate within the body of Christ, "In essentials, unity. In non-essentials, liberty. In all things charity."
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– Members of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) recently gathered at the Hilton Anatole Hotel to celebrate the Legacy of Design Awards, the annual competition recognizing the finest interior design achievements within the ASID Texas Chapter. The event was held in conjunction with METROCON06 Expo & Conference, the 350+ booth two-day tradeshow exclusively for interior designers, facility managers and other design industry members.
This year's competition attracted more entries than ever. New for 2006 were the Rising Stars categories, which were open to designers who have practiced 10 years or less. ASID designers from all across the Texas Chapter's region—which includes Abilene, Amarillo, Austin, Corpus Christi, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Lubbock, Midland/Odessa and San Antonio—were eligible to participate.
The ASID Texas Chapter congratulates the winners, who will be honored by having photos of their projects appear on the home page of both ASID Texas Chapter Web sites: www.asidtx.org and its soon-to-be-renovated public counterpart, www.texas-designers.com. Currently, a listing of the winners and sponsors are available on the Legacy of Design page: www.asidtx.org/members/legacy.asp.
And the winners are….
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1st Place Michelle Roberts, AM Design Associates – Dallas
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Muriel Award Sidebar: Other Stuff We Loved, Pt. 3 (Misc. Categories)
(Sorry about the lateness of this one - didn't get a chance to queue it before leaving for work…)
Best Body of Work: James Gandolfini
"James Gandolfini is a big man. He can play a powerful Pentagon general (In the Loop) or a lonely Wild Thing (Where the Wild Things Are) and he's physically impressive even when, as in the latter, he's not actually visible on screen. But there's nothing "big" about these two 2009 performances. Sure, he commands your attention (and both characters have some temper issues), but he does so with refreshing modesty and playfulness. In Wild Things, he's a hurt little kid in a big fuzzy body who builds toy models he wishes he could live in; in Loop, he's a grown-up reduced to using a little girl's pink-and-purple play laptop to calculate troop strength for a likely invasion of Iraq, clear across the big world. Either way, he makes a vivid, distinctive impression. To say I can't imagine any other actor in these roles is a cliche, but I can't. Gandolfini deserves to stand beside himself as a best supporting actor of 2009." - Jim Emerson
Best Direction: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
"History will probably be made at the Kodak Theatre next Sunday, as it seems extremely likely that Kathryn Bigelow will become the first female filmmaker to win the Academy Award for Best Director. But I for one grow weary of how every consideration of this filmmaker's prodigious talent always hinges on the apparently astounding fact that she does not have a penis. Last summer, Bigelow was present for a Hurt Locker screening I attended at the Harvard Film Archive, and during the embarrassing Q&A that followed, every inquiry from the audience took a similar form: "Ms. Bigelow, we agree it's unfair that you're always being pigeonholed as 'a female filmmaker.' But speaking as a woman, how do you feel about…"
So much for a discussion of craft. A shame, as you won't find a finer example of pure, nuts-and-bolts cinematic skill this year than The Hurt Locker. A collection of almost unbearably intense set-pieces shot on shaky 16mm cameras, the movie elicits gasps not through groundbreaking special effects or cutting edge 3-D technology, but with simple, old-fashioned juxtapositions of image and sound. It's just great filmmaking, pure and simple. There's a jittery kineticism at work in even the film's quietest scenes, a pervasive threat that violence could erupt at any moment, from any direction. Death comes swiftly and without warning in The Hurt Locker — characters are here, then gone in the blink of an eye.
Re-watching the film recently, it was impossible not to marvel all over again at the dexterity with which Bigelow prolongs the tension. Think of those languorous pauses between long-range rifle cracks and the eventual bullet hits, or Jeremy Renner's slow, almost lunar walks in the bomb disposal suit. She's in complete command of the medium here, perversely revolutionizing the genre by making a white-knuckle action-picture in which the audience really hopes that stuff *doesn't* blow-up, instead of the other way around." - Sean Burns
Best Cinematography: Christopher Doyle, The Limits of Control
"Wong Kar-Wai's better half teaming up with Jim Jarmusch for The Limits of Control had to be a visual lay-up. Doyle's work has always had a meticulous sensuality, and Jarmusch has framed each of his films so fastidiously, it's easy to recognize his stamp within a few seconds.
Doyle's imagery in Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park showed what he could do with the pedestrian world of adolescence - transforming mall food courts, locker-lined school halls, and basement hangouts into existential outposts on the way to adulthood. Just think what the guy could do with Spain, Issach De Bankole's chiseled mien, and a naked Paz de la Huerta!
I'm a huge Jarmusch fan (I'm one of those who think Dead Man is the best film of the '90s) but I was disappointed with Limits. Rewatching bits of it for these piece, I was struck with how much better it would play with the sound off (or, as Mike D'Angelo pointed out, in a foreign, un-subtitled, language). Doyle's lens seems to have a firmer grasp — control, even — of the metaphysics inherent to each scene than Jarmusch's rambling script." - Philip Tatler
Best Direction: Spike Jonze, Where the Wild Things Are
"Spike Jonze deserves an award for going the distance if nothing else. Where The Wild Things Are began shooting in 2005, two years before it suffered a disastrous test screening that led to a two-year struggle to bring his vision of Maurice Sendak's book to the screen intact (at one point, there were rumors that Warner Bros. might scrap and reshoot the whole movie to make it more kid-friendly and palatable to a large audience). Thanks to Jonze's tenacity (and an assist from Sendak), Where the Wild Things Are made it to the screen intact, which would be admirable even if the film didn't work. But it works beautifully - the director's rambunctious sense of humor comes into sharp focus through the eyes of his young protagonist, Max. While there was little question the film would be visually inventive, the sensitivity and insight Jonze brings to Max's story are astonishing. Drawing a remarkable performance from his 10-year-old lead and shooting from a authentically childlike point of view that recalls films like E.T. and The 400 Blows, Jonze helps us remember with alarming clarity the wonderful and horrible experience of being a kid." - Andrew Bemis
Best Ensemble: In the Loop
"In the Loop proved that satire is not dead, something that any viewing of War, Inc. a few years ago would immediately call to question. Turns out Terry Southern might not be rolling in his grave after all.
Like the great Southern scripts, In the Loop is funny not because of the characters (who alone might grow tiresome) but because of their interactions. When, say, Malcolm is walking around laying a litany of unfathomable profanity into a phone, it's not as funny as when he's in a room with others watching their faces react to his thesaurusical blasphemy.
Even when characters are trying to segregate themselves, they're surrounded by others. Linton's office is an aquarium and he complains about the clear windows ("Glass offices, in my opinion, are for perverts"). The louvers on Simon's office are controlled by someone who works for him ("I'm a government minister, and I don't have control of my own blinds"). The sequestered meeting between Gen. Milller and Karen Clarke takes place in a little girl's room, and even though said little girl is not present, she inserts herself through her encouraging audio calculator. There is no alone time.
The fact is, the whole movie is a table top of spinning tops ricocheting off each other, propulsion offered by Malcolm's ebullient cussing. Since there are no pockets for escape, they keep banging into each other. Bottom line is that the amazing feat accomplished is that we start taking them seriously, and because of their interactions, can imagine that the comedy has not completely shielded them from bruising." - Martin McClellan
Best Music: Passing Strange
"Given that Passing Strange is a filmed version of a Broadway musical that won a raft of Tony Awards, you'd expect the music to be pretty fantastic. I'll admit, though, that I was unprepared for just how raucous and diverse the sonic palette was in Stew and Heidi Rodewald's book. As the story follows a nameless young man breaking away from his comfortable home life in California and trying to find himself in Europe, the music swings from gospel to rock, from punk to pop, from singer-songwriter sensitivity to faux-art-rock weirdness. And it all comes off beautifully; as the narartive unfolds in ways both familiar and surprising, the vitality and energy in the music first informs, then counters, the proceedings. The truth, the life of the music will stand as a representation, both good and bad, of a man looking for the real stuff of life yet continually choosing to recede into his own inner world whenever, as the people sing, "it was starting to feel real." In light of this, the final group chant of, "It's all right!" is a violently ironic one. But thanks to the expert songcrafting, it's still uplifting anyway." - Steve Carlson


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eighthdeadlysin asked:
JERUSALEM — A sign at the ice cream parlor may caution men and women not to lick cones in public, but the warning didn't stop Jewish zealots vandalizing the shop in Jerusalem's main ultra-Orthodox neighborhood.
eighthdeadlysin asked:
Such a teacher would be a douchebag if the handing out of problems was not preceded by a discussion on how to solve them. Isn't that obvious? Such an individual would be anything but a teacher, maybe a bad teacher at most.
In the same manner a god that is unable or unwilling, if such a thing existed, would be total douche him/her/itself. Such a being would be anything but a god, maybe an evil god at most.
At the end of the day how can a deity that does nothing be something? To think for oneself is to accept reality as is first. No whining like a bitch in defense of a deity that cannot defend itself, mainly due to a total lack of existence.
In reason:
People tell me that I cannot even begin to attempt to understand God, for He is a concept too large for us to grasp.But from what I've heard, there are a few rules about Jehovah/Yahweh/God that most theists seem to agree on:
- God is the omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient creator of everything. He knows everything, has the power to do anything, and is the point of origin for everything that has ever happened in this universe.
- God is Perfect. He makes no mistakes, His creations are perfect, and everything that happens is part of His perfect plan.
- God loves everything He creates. He loves the planet Earth, he loves all its inhabitants, and He loves YOU. As a result of this love, He also gives his creations free will.
With these three rules in mind, it would be very assuring to believe in God (I mean, you have an all-powerful Father than loves you, has your back, and plans for every event in your life from birth til death).
Is anybody else beginning to see the contradictions here? If such a being is truly Perfect, why is his creation so imperfect? If God spawned everything that ever existed, and He exists, what spawned Him? How can God have emotions, such as jealousy and anger, when He is omniscient? How can we have free will if He already has the past, present, and future planned out? Why does He create atheists if He wants humans to believe in him? Why didn't God preserve His Holy Word the Bible over the centuries? There are a thousand questions one could ask. All of them imply that God doesn't exist, or that God doesn't really hold the above properties.
Reblog this, and add something that doesn't make sense to you. I kind of want to see what other issues people see with the existence of this all-loving all-powerful all-knowing Creator.
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The Hineshouse Project Inc. resident services staff and the Summer Learning Camp participants boarded a chartered bus early in the morning on July 11 at Regency Apartments and headed to Atlanta for a field trip.
The group made a visit to the World of Coca-Cola Museum, The Georgia Aquarium and the Martin Luther King Center.
The trip served as most campers' first visit to Atlanta.
Others had been previously, but had never toured the city's main attractions.
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there in the stairwell of a fourth floor walk up
dark walls and a hallow silence
city buzzing outside the building door
and two lives falling apart on the inside
stuck in the hallway
afraid to open the door
the door to the truth of this brokenness
the door to the mirror of my mistakes
the door leading to the floor….of it all
the door to falling apart years before dying
halfway across the world miles from comfort
in a strangers house
two lovers felling like strangers for the first time
because a stranger made them strange
dark. empty. cold.
the bathroom tiles feel like ice to skin
when the bathroom counter once burned with passion
lying on the floor in a pool of pain
regret. remorse. guilt.
seven summers have passed since that moment
that summer it didnt last it torments
and the busy streets
in the place we'd meet
still feel as empty and that fourth floor walk up
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ecclesiastes 1:18
for in much wisdom is much vexation and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow…
ok so not too long ago i stated that ignorance, in my book, isnt bliss rather just stupidity.
im wrong…..whoa….those words are hard to say lol
solomon sought out all pleasures and all things lofty.
he dined with dames,
laid with ladies,
sought substances for enlightenment,
led lands,
and was wise beyond wealth.
and yet in all the time he spent fulfilling his flesh he learned one great lesson…
without God his soul was never satisfied.
Now this all seems right and just to me. I too have lived in my flesh…giving in to every sinful desire that has arisen. I understand how empty one can be living a life like that. I have been in fullness and in want, both physically and spiritually. Ive noticed that no matter how lowly my life becomes, how dark my despair is, my spirit seeks Truth for comfort. Once I find HIM I find peace.
Conversely, when I have lived in plenty with money to spend without thinking and all success the world strives for…when ive been surrounded with an "elite" crowd and am fleshly satisfied in every way, without Him I still feel empty.
Do you think its a coincidence that the most joyous of people are those singing praises to God in the dirt that is their home in some third world country? I think not.
So now back to the verse…
Ive also spent many years praying for wisdom, seeking out a knowledge that far surpasses my minds own capabilities. I've cried out to God to show me….show me what lies beyond. I feel like, just as Solomon writes, that the more I know the more sorrow I know also.
This is a hard concept to grasp, let alone explain, but it rings true.
The wiser one becomes, the more easily one can get very annoyed at the complexity of it all.
I get frustrated so easily that others dont understand, dont have knowledge or even seek it. Dont care to be wise. Accepting ignorance.
Im not saying IN ANY WAY that there is a loftiness that comes with knowledge and wisdom….if anything, gaining those makes one loose themselves.
I am saying though that I can now imagine what frustrations great thinkers like Eddison, Einstein, even Gates must have felt. When my brain gets wrapped around a thought that is so deep it begins to hurt, and I try to speak of these things with those I love, and they dont get it….I feel stuck.
When I try to walk in wisdom and understanding…when I seek integrity and honesty and purity and others dont get it….I feel stuck.
More wisdom is more sorrow.
More knowledge is more frustration.
More money is more problems.
So how does one balance a simple life and still a smart one?
Is it wiser to live more simply and not think so deeply?
Not seek out more knowledge?
If so then the whole cycle begins again and my brain begins to bleed….
all over again….
dang you Solomon.
the cold sweeps over my face
the covers keep me cozy
my dogs breath warms my cheek
and i dont want to move.
i want to lie in bed for hours and think of nothing
i dont want to shower
or shave…. i really dont want to shave
and i dont want to face the day
thank you God for this day called today
thank you for a home to wake up in
a bed to stay well in
and a pets love to comfort me
thank you for the tasks of the day that beckon me
working…that i have a job
dishes…that ive had food to eat
getting ready…that i am clothed
thank you for the things that I oftentimes dread
and this day…i dread them
im blessed in my home and find peace here
i want to lie with the Lord all day here
on this hill…
slowly pushing my way towards the mountaintop
away from the valley
refusing the valley
deserting the valley
for places greater
and higher
and more lovely
and those places are here….home.
where the soul finds rest and the heart is whole.
where coffee and a blog keep constant company
and the Spirit fills space…singing
the day is long
the nights are restless
and a woman doing her work braves it all.
these moments of still quiet…
before the breaking of the dawn…
before life really lives
grace and peace abound and the cup fills
in these early moments the cup fills…
so that it may be poured out.
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