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This is utterly ADORABLE!!! Firefighters dancing to the BeeGee's "Stayin' Alive" and simultaneously teaching basic CPR. A couple months ago, I took CERT classes (LONG course), and they taught us to do compressions to the rhythm of the BeeGee's song, "Stayin' Alive." Pretty memorable. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Youtube video of rookie firemen dancing and teaching CPR
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Pretty cool! I used to teach CPR and Standard First Aid many years ago. Watching this makes me think I could use a refresher course. Not that I've forgotten how to do it, but I think you just get out of practice. |
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Loved the descending disco balls! It was an interesting video - I didn't realize that the compressions were so shallow. Personally I think I'll try Queen's "Another one bites the dust!" |
I've worked with adults with disabilities until I retired last spring and we had to be CPR certified. All I can say is that those EMT's better arrive quickly because I no longer have the energy and stamina to do all that! The video is wonderful! |
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When we saw the announcement on Us Weekly's website regarding their June 5th issue, we applauded the tabloid. This cover which showed Janet Jackson's transformation from tub-a-lub to washboard was one of their best selling issues of the year! Wow!
We're not that surprised — after all, at the time, even we were impressed.
So, props to Janice Min, right? Actually, no. Remember how Janice had a baby? Well, according to Wooden Horse Publishing, the Us Weekly EIC was out of the office on maternity leave beginning in April and is set to return in July.
US WEEKLY - Catherine Romano is acting executive editor through July while editor-in-chief Janice Min takes maternity leave. (April 13)
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Former Pussycat Doll Melody Thornton walked the red carpet at the Elle Women in Music event in Hollywood on Wednesday April 11th and her wardrobe choice attracted all eyes on her. The 27-year-old model and vocalist wore a gold see-through dress that put all her body parts on display.
The dress which seemed to be more transparent than night clothes showed off the former Pussy Cat Doll singer's bare breasts and nipples plus it even put her bare butt cheeks on display as well, as she was completely nude underneath with no bra nor panties.
In my opinion it would be better if she has shown up for the event naked. There's no doubt that her intentions were to get attention and that's exactly what she got. What are your thoughts of Melody Thornton see-through dress at the Elle Women in Music event in Hollywood, was it Glamorous or Tacky?
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Candace's involvement with the Association began in 2001, after hearing Joyce Raezer (then, Government Relations Director, currently Executive Director) speak at the U. S. Army War College. Candace joined the Association and began as a Volunteer in the Government Relations Department in 2001, taking on the role of Chair of Nominating Committee in 2002. She was elected Vice President in 2003, and served as President in 2004, and became Chairman of the Board in February 2005.
After the terrorist attacks in 2001, the United States rallied to support the troops in their missions in Afghanistan and in Iraq. By 2004, when Candace was elected President of the Association, it was becoming clear that these would be long engagements, with repeated deployments for military families. More than ever, military families needed additional support to cope with the realities of a nation engaged in two wars.
Under Candace's leadership, the Association successfully championed an increase in the death gratuity for survivors, as well as improvements to the Casualty Assistance program. For service members deployed in a combat zone, the Association worked to make the temporary increases in the Family Separation Allowance and Imminent Danger Pay permanent. Candace and the Association also worked to increase funding for military children in civilian schools, counseling for military family members and service members, additional childcare facilities, and for more robust family support programs.
During this time, it was also becoming evident that children were showing the stress of repeated deployments. Continuing the work of former President Barbara Williams, Candace and the Association launched the first Operation Purple® camps in 2004, with the goal to empower military children and their families to develop and maintain healthy and connected relationships. In 2004, the Association served close to 1,000 children in 12 camps located across the country. Since its inception, the Operation Purple® program has served close to 40,000 military children and teens, and has filled a critical need within the military community.
The rapid growth in membership during Candace's tenure necessitated changes in the Association's governance and in how the Association reached its members. To respond to this need, the Association developed and launched a new website. Spearheaded by Executive Director Julia Pfaff, the website enabled the Association to reach out to more military families than ever before, and to provide them up to date information and education on a myriad of pertinent topics.
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As usual, Henshaw made some good points about last night's Republican debate, though I'm not sure I agree with his winners and losers. Alas, it is quite difficult to come up with an objective list of winners and losers since a debate isn't quite as easy to score as, say, a boxing match. And even boxing matches that declare a winner without a KO are sometimes controversial.
Even so, here's my list of winners, losers and those who fought to a draw… Winners: Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain. Losers: Rick Perry and Jon Huntsman. Draw: Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum.
Part of my problem scoring and declaring a winner is that these debates don't allow for much explanation by any one candidate, thus they tend to stick to rhetoric and key words. Even when it's narrowed down to two candidates during the Presidential race, debates don't offer much substance.
Still, the candidates could make a move away from the pack by better articulating core principles. In the case of a conservative candidate, one of these core principles, and what is perhaps the most important one, is the role of the Federal government.
Ron Paul and Herman Cain came closest to hitting the mark on this, though no one's really listening to them. The others danced around it and the moderators probably don't know the difference between Federalism and oligarchy, though they certainly know how to gossip ("A friend of your campaign manager said that Rick Perry is a wussie. Why is he a wussie?")
There was a golden opportunity at this debate to point out that the governors in the debate did the best they could with the circumstances specific to their states and the needs of their constituents. And that's the point. Who best to make decisions for the welfare of its citizens than local and state government? And, who is more accountable to their voters than local and state government?
You can yammer on and on about this and that you did as governor, or that this governor had this much or this little job growth in his state, but it's just a waste of time. Just once I'd like to see a candidate point out that an ever-encroaching Federal government endangers the individual and his liberty. The growth of the Federal government is, in fact, a move toward oligarchy; rule by the few over the many. Moreover, it's an oligarchy that favors certain people and groups over others, destroying the concept of equality before the law. The bailouts, stimulus and health care bamboozles are striking examples of this inequality created by cronyism.
Still, I don't know how much you can blame the candidates for their shallow answers. The moderators made it quite difficult to provide any depth by purposely pitting one candidate against the other and framing the questions to make it sound as if they were defending the indefensible. "Rick Perry, Romney said or did this. Respond," or, "Why are Republicans so heartless?" Bullshit. Ask them a real policy question.
Speaking of BS, how about that brief foray into "science"? The Charlie Crist-like Huntsman took a sideways swipe at Perry, playing the ever-so-reasonable-and-moderate Republican card. He's pro-science because he has not an ounce of skepticism about the wild-eyed lunatic-fringe claims of a madman (Al Gore)?
Meanwhile, Perry's response was less than adequate. Once again, a golden opportunity to put the nail in the coffin of the climate change debate wasted. Will anyone rise to the occasion and point out simple logic? As a reminder, logical and thought-provoking arguments Perry could have made include:
- The sun may have something to do with our climate, given that it accounts for 99.86 percent of the mass of the entire solar system
- The climate has been changing for more than four billion years; it always has and it always will. This would mark the first time in the history of earth that a species was willfully unable to adapt to a changing climate. Who's more stupid, the dinosaurs who simply didn't know they needed to adapt, or human beings who drown in extremely slow-rising water because they thought the government was going to do something about it?
- Do Climate Changelings/Global Warmongers really believe that we have the power to regulate the earth's thermostat, and if we did, what is the proper setting?
- Further, if we had the power to regulate the climate, who makes the decision about where to set the thermostat and who benefits from the settings? Will the entire earth be like San Diego, or will only those parts the enviro-nitwits care about live eternally in San Diego's climate?
- Global warming is far better for life on earth than is global cooling. You can look it up. But the beauty of "climate change" is that you can claim the climate's changing no matter what's going on globally or locally. A little warmer this year? Climate change! Unusually cold another? Climate change! No change? Climate change!
The whole thing is absurd, as is the case for a larger and more meddlesome federal government, and yet it's nearly impossible to get a cohesive, coherent and concise answer on either subject from the candidates. Immigration? I know that Rick Santorum's grandparents were immigrants, but that doesn't tell me jack diddly about his plan.
Perhaps most absurd, and also the best part of the debate, was the commercial produced by Californians for Population Stabilization, which proves beyond a reasonable doubt that there's a special interest group for anything and everything these days.
Californians for Population Stabilization is against legal immigration. That's right, legal immigrants are taking jobs away from Californians and Californians for Population Stabilization wants to end this travesty. What's next? Californians against Seeing Eye Dogs and other Working Dogs?


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Last month, I took a look at some features of the new Nmap 4.00. This topic is far too interesting for just one month, however, so this month, I'll describe Cancerbero [1], a server monitoring tool based on Nmap. The tool, which was written in Perl, leverages the power of Nmap to port scan your network devices. Cancerbero logs the results in a database and uses a small-footprint PHP front-end to make the results more readable. The benefits are obvious: I get an at-a-glance overview of open ports, and I can easily see which ports are open or closed.
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Congratulations Mommy! You think the first year went fast....just wait! Next stop...terrible two's!
I just have to share this... on Thursday, March 29th my son will be 1 year old! I can't believe it. Has it really been a year already? It's crazy, it doesn't seem like it could possibly be that long ago. We're giving him his own chocolate cake to devour on Thursday and having a huge party for him on Saturday with lots of mommy's friend's and their children. Anyway! Everyone send some virtual cupcakes his way!!
Sometimes all you need is a reminder that out there lies a better place... a better world... a Walt Disney World.Visited In: 1983, 1988, 1989 x2, 1991, 1992, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 (passholder), 2007 (x2 x3), 2008, 2009 (x2), 2010, 2011 (x2)
Detail is there to make you believe in the reality of the story youre immersed in. - Joe Rohde
Congratulations Mommy! You think the first year went fast....just wait! Next stop...terrible two's!
Congrats!!! We are in the process of adopting but it is hard cuz we are a little older. They are only considering it because I am home full time and Amy has a great job. It also helps that we have way more house than we need, we got a great deal on a beautiful old home in Hyde Park with the wide porches and whatnot, it is a great neighborhood in Tampa with great schools, although we will probably homeschool. But anyway Congrats again!!!!!!!!
If you think the 1st birthday is great, wait till he gets old enough to whip out his own Amercian Express card to pay for your dinner! THAT'S a real milestone!
Happy Almost Birthday to the baby!
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Earlier today, we brought you news of Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine's edict banning alcohol in Boston's club house. Former manager Terry Francona responded to his replacement's new policy by suggesting that it was likely done for the benefit of optics rather than anything else.
I don't think it's a surprise that they put this in effect, or the fact they announced it. It's probably more of a PR move just because, you know, the Red Sox (took) such a beating at the end of the year.
It's probably never a good idea to give your opinion on anything related to someone replacing you at your old position. While Francona, who will replace Valentine on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball broadcasts, wasn't being bitter or contentious with his comments, they will unavoidably end up being read as such.
But just in case rational reactions might have beaten the odds and triumphed over knee jerking, Valentine was happy to provide the following sound byte to Pete Abraham of The Boston Globe among other reporters on the Red Sox beat.
Valentine on Francona's comments: "You get paid (at ESPN) for saying stuff.You get paid here for doing stuff. I've done both."
— Pete Abraham (@PeteAbe) February 27, 2012
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Nice to see things turn around for you Nick. This just goes to show me once again that I will at some point need to reach out to a link building service for some of my sites that are not performing as well as I had hoped.
For the affiliate link re-directs, how did you set this up? Do you use a plugin that cloaks the URL?
Congrats on the twins Nick! I couldn't imagine having 2 kids at once lol.
Good to see your vacuum site bouncing back. I think I am going to need to try the Hoth for 1 of my sites. It dropped off like your site, around the same time and still hasn't bounced back.
I look for ward to seeing how your insurance site comes along.
That's some nice movement you've had since using The Hoth. But I'll be the first to admit that I'm a bit sketchy about using paid links, especially while admitting to do so. But you seem to be seeing good results from it. I'll keep following your progress with it.
@MMD, Nick said he's using SkimLinks server side redirects to hide his affiliate links. I use Eclipse Link Cloaker to accomplish the same thing. I don't know about Skimlinks, but I'm quite happy with how Eclipse works.
Nick, first and most importantly, congrats on the kids!! That is what life is all about!
As far as Hoth, you went with the $60 package? Why did you choose that versus the others… just out of curiosity. Just looking to see where your mind was.
Good luck with all those diapers!
Hey Adam – Thanks for the note on the kids. They are the best thing thats happened to me. Talk about the ultimate motivation to wake up each morning. Nothing like it.
I personally have only used the $60 hoth mini package though i've heard others having success with the larger packages too. While some people use these packages a little more aggressively (exact anchor text) I like to use it to further diverisify links and change up the anchor text ratios. The domain authority if any is just an "extra" for me.
Hope that helps explain why / how i use THEHOTH. Let me know if you use it and if you have any feedback or tips you want to share!
Hi, Nick
Just let you know I ordered theHOTH mini through your link. Now wating for order approval. Hope it works on my site also. I will let you know the result later.
By the way, can you advise some places to outsource site content with reasonable price and quality? Specially like the articles you put on bestcanistervacuum.net. Did you write them by yourself or outsource to some where?
I struggled in content creation for long and didn't have much success on oursourcing. Any advice will be appreciated very much.
Great. Best of luck Eric – hope it gives your site the lift you need.
I'll be writing a post soon on what i do for content. Briefly, I use textbroker.com and odesk.com. I pay roughly $5 an article for the vacuum website.
Can't believe you can get the articles with such as reasonable price. I will check this two source first. But I hope can see your new post about the content production soon. I am sure you will give more value information we need. Thanks in advance!
Hey Nick,
When you are using the Hoth do you have all links point to your money site or to your tiered links?
Yes, I'm using thehoth directly to my money site and not as a tiered strategy. Remember though – I'm not blasting keyword anchor text to the site. I'm simply using broad relevant words that describe my site to further diversify my anchor text ratios.


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Can Roo feel the love?
... At least he's "concentrating on his football"
WHEN Wayne Rooney was given the chance to confirm all was well with the world again, he could not quite say it.
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And that moment left its legacy. "We have this amazing transformative convention here in Denver," Burnap says, "and of all the work we did, bikes seemed to be the thing that really shifted the way people imagined the city." After the convention, Hickenlooper told the group that had worked on the DNC bike program that he wanted 1,000 bikes in Denver as part of a permanent bike-share program by the following spring.
It was an ambitious goal, but one that sent a strong message: Denver would be a trailblazing city for cyclists.
On April 22, 2010 — Earth Day — B-cycle officially launched; by the end of that year, the program had 500 bikes spread across fifty stations around town, making Denver the first city in the country with a citywide bike-sharing program. (Washington, D.C., had already tried a small, ten-station pilot.) Today, B-cycle has 53 stations around the city and nearly 3,000 annual users who pay $80 for a yearly pass; there are also around 40,000 casual users who can pay $8 for a 24-hour pass. And B-cycle will add another thirty stations by next spring, Burnap says.
But bike sharing is just one piece of the puzzle in Denver's rapid transformation into a more bike-friendly city. Even as B-cycle got under way, the city was shifting the focus of its overall transportation planning to include bicycles, hiring a planner primarily dedicated to bike infrastructure. This move, combined with the growing strength of BikeDenver, a bike-advocacy group, has catalyzed the overall expansion of cycling in the city.
Denver, says Hickenlooper, is "poised to become just the international magnet for biking...it gets people healthier. It gets cars off the highway, and in many ways, it allows you to experience your community."
*****On a late Tuesday afternoon, John Hayden and Jonny Rotheram are perched on their bikes at the corner of 16th Avenue and Broadway, watching cars and bikes go through the busy intersection. They grimace as buses and large cars make sharp left turns from Broadway onto 16th, driving right over the painted image of a cyclist facing the opposite direction — a symbol that designates this as a street where cyclists are encouraged to ride.
They watch as a young woman with a guitar on her back rides her bike across Broadway toward the 16th Street Mall, narrowly missing two RTD buses going in opposite directions.
"This whole area needs to be redesigned," says Hayden, the chair of the Mayor's Bicycle Advisory Committee, a volunteer advocacy group.
"Have a prioritized cycling crossing," suggests Rotheram, a bike planner from the United Kingdom who's now a transportation consultant here.
"16th Avenue — this is a primary street for bikes," adds Hayden.
"Bikes should be given priority here to get across this road and get to downtown. And then downtown should be cyclist-friendly," Rotheram says.
Rotheram and Hayden are cycling together around the city to study its current bike infrastructure. As the head of the MBAC, Hayden works with the city on a wide range of issues affecting cyclists, including infrastructure. On their ninety-minute ride through downtown and beyond, the two note all sorts of flaws in Denver's current system, from gaps in the network of streets and paths for cyclists to confusing or nonexistent signage to streets unnecessarily accommodating cars and parking to the detriment of cyclists.
"You have to plan for the whole city — it's not a little bit here, a little bit there," Rotheram says, explaining to Hayden the "cultural shift that cities have to go through" to make urban centers accessible and safe for cyclists with a linked network of streets. "It needs to be a whole strategy [with]...connections and access."
Over the past five years, the city has more than doubled bike infrastructure, from sixty miles of lanes and sharrows (bike markings indicating that cyclists have room to share the road) to 137 miles today. That comes out to about twenty miles of new pavement markings each year. In 2011, the city added two miles of sharrows and sixteen miles of bike lanes; the Denver Department of Public Works will have installed another eight miles of sharrows and seventeen miles of bike lanes by the end of the year.
The driving force behind this major push is Emily Snyder, who joined Public Works as senior city planner in 2009, with a specific focus on both bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure. For Snyder, the issue is personal. She got her master's degree in transportation planning, with a specific focus on bike planning, and she's a year-round cyclist — even when it snows. Most people she works with know her as "Emily, the bike girl," she says, adding that she owns only "half a car." She shares it with her boyfriend, and together they own a total of nine bikes.
She hates parking that car, and finds cycling much less stressful and much more rewarding than driving. "For me, it's fun," she says. "I enjoy being out. I'm an active person, and I like integrating that activity into my day. And I'm a city planner. I love the city. On my bike, I get to experience more of it."
Unfortunately, this article only reinforces many of the biases that are held by many, if not most, motorists. Of course there are a minority of bicyclists that feel the rules of the road to not apply to them. However, most bicyclists understand the unique dangers that face them when riding on the road and take the appropriate precautions. However, these types of accidents still occur no matter how safe you are riding your bike. Our law firm represents many cyclists and their families that have been injured or killed while following the rules of the road. These accidents are far to frequent and they destroy the lives of not only the cyclists but their loved ones as well.
If you are a cyclist and are not sure if or how the laws apply to you, feel free to check out our website. Quick food for thought: you can receive a DUI on a bike C.R.S. Section 42-4-1301.
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I love biking but the issue I find is that too many bicyclists ignore the rules of the road, ride with headphones, ride at night without lights or improper lighting, ride under the influence, run lights or stop signs, ride the wrong way down one way streets. Denver is a great city for biking but for their own safety, like motorcyclists they are forced to be a bit more vigilant. I've been stopped for a burned out tail light but never seen a bicyclist stopped for riding at night without any lights. I have too many friends who think that using their bike for transportation to avoid a DUI is a great thing.
Responsible bicycling is as important as responsible driving. If police enforced rules of the road on bicyclists as fast as they do cars many problems might be solved. Sharing the road responsibly is important. Bicycles are great for health of people and the air we breathe and over crowding of cars but riders have to be as responsible as drivers if the sharing is going to work.
I am always frightened by the number of cyclists at night with no reflectors or lights.
Hi, my name's Ann. (shake hands.) I ride a bike. I'm just trying to get where I'm going. I don't run red lights unless the sensor's broken and the light won't turn green for me. I occasionally ride on downtown sidewalks - at walking speed - because I'm terrified of downtown rush hour traffic. When I do this most pedestrians aren't aware there's a bike behind them, because I'm not trying to pass them. If the sidewalk's crowded, I walk my bike. I don't want to hit anyone and never have, and would much rather ride in the street, but sometimes it's just too dangerous. I always wear a helmet and don't ride with headphones. One time, if I had had headphones on, I probably would have been t-boned and killed by a driver who motored straight through the red light at 45 mph. When I drive I'm very aware that I'm controlling a ton of steel capable of injuring or killing, and try to drive accordingly. I've never gotten so much as a speeding ticket.
Am I your enemy? Should I really be the target of such vitriol?
"We have plenty of bike paths - stay there."
But the places cyclists need to go aren't on bike paths. They need to go to the businesses and residences where everyone works and lives, and very few are on a bike path. At some point you have to use the street to get to your final destination.
"Rush hour is bad enough - don't clog it up further."
If we had dedicated cycling facilities, we wouldn't clog it up. We'd free up space by reducing the number of cars sharing your car lane. The majority of cyclists are also drivers, and when they're on their bikes they're not in cars in front of you. This also means the majority of cyclists DO pay gas taxes. Also bicycles cause orders of magnitude less damage than cars and heavier vehicles, and creating more space to move people by adding a bike lane is far cheaper than adding more car lanes. The problem is there's not a place where bikes *belong* at the moment. Create that - as the article talks about - and things get much, much easier for everyone.
Here's a website that might help explain some cyclist behavior that can be mystifying if you don't ride regularly. I wish this were part of standard driver's education.
The real problem is that bicyclists seem to think that they are sacred cows. They are exercising, and therefore closer to the right hand of God. Get a grip. Be defensive. Cars are bigger. And use common sense as to where and when you ride. We have plenty of bike paths - stay there. Rush hour is bad enough - don't clog it up further.
There is ZERO enforcement of the scumbags who ride bikes on sidewalks. The DPS is appartently only useful when it comes to beatdowns.
The mayor and police chief are dunces.
Every one of these anti bike posts seem to just blame the cyclist. As if all motorist in this town are just driving around following all the traffic rules and it just the angry swarming cyclists that are breaking all the rules. I don't disagree that cyclist sharing the road need to follow the rules but so do the motorist.
Daily I look out my window of my office and see cars that just don't bother to stop at the stop sign at the street corner. Most drivers seem to not know what the big white stop line painted in front of cross walks means. I see drivers all the times the just roll up into the cross walk to stop. If they bother to come to a complete stop at all.
Here is a pop quiz for all you motorist? When making a left hand turn onto a two lane road what lane are you always supposed to turn into? No it's not what ever lane you feel like. It's the left hand lane. Conversely if you are making a right hand turn you need to pull into the closest lane on the right hand side of the road. How often do you see motorist follow that rule?
Currently on 6th Ave and I-25 there are section of the road that are stripped with solid white lines and signage that says "No Passing Stay In Lane". Almost every time I'm passing through one of those sections I see people ignore both the strips and the signs.
My point bringing this up is there are lots of motorist in this town that are either ignorant of the traffic rules or just blatantly ignore them. That isn't an excuse for cyclist behaving badly but no cyclist ever ran a red light or stop sign and killed the driver of a car.
I sometimes commute 18 miles to work and love the fact that I can do this on 17 miles of bike paths. Of course I choose to ride 17 miles on bike paths and if it was 17 miles on Denver's roads I may not enjoy bike commuting so much. I have biked to work in every city I have lived in including Portland (great), San Diego (terrible), Coventry (good) and Sydney (not so good). Denver is good but there is a definite need for education for bike riders and car drivers. Both equally to blame in my opinion. But we have to continue to encourage people to bike; I think we are where Portland was in the mid 90's
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Ass hat hipsters with no brakes riding down the middle of busy streets when there are bike lane streets a block away..
Owners of cars pay for registration once a year on their cars to help cover the cost of maintaining roads. If bicyclists expect to be able to take up the same space as a car on the road then they need to start paying yearly registration fees as well to help pay for the roads - otherwise, get the F outta my way!
Mr Peterson contributed to his own demise. He was riding the wrong way on a very busy street at 2am - he was probably drunk too - and ran a red light to boot. Don't feel sorry for him at all. Bikes need to follow the same rules as cars and stay to the right hand side of the road - period, end of story - or become road pizza.
The wailing complaints of motorists that I always see on these blogs fall under two categories; inconvenience and jealousy. Inconvenienced because they have to slow down and pay attention. Jealous because bikes can break the law more easily (run a stop sign, ride on sidewalks, etc.) and get away with it. wah. Dan Peterson is dead. Before the accident he was breaking the law (riding the wrong way without lights) and paid more of a price than any ticket you will ever pay. Before the accident, his killer was breaking the law too, driving a stolen car. You probably have a choice...you're not breaking the law when you see a rider, but you can choose to then, and pay the price yourself. Bike riders don't bother me. I'm not in a hurry. I had one just miss the back of my car the other day (ran a stop sign). My passenger was outraged. I just shrugged it off, because I wasn't breaking the law, would've stopped and called the police if there was a collision, then sought compensation from the rider for all damages. (By the way, you are required by law to report a vehicle/bicycle collision). Calm down. And counter your jealousy with the belief that the rider you see today weaving in and out of traffic will pay for it someday, they all do. Or you can run them down or get into a fight and pay yourself. They're not going away. And you don't want to be the one paying for their stupidity. Calm down.
An article about bike safety with a picture of the chair of the Mayor's Bicycle Advisory Committee and a bike planner from the UK riding around Denver without helmets on - brilliant! I am an avid bicyclist and this illustrates the problem perfectly, many bicyclists need to be educated (including the advocates apparently) on how and where to ride on the streets safely. Riding down one-way streets (13th and 14th specifically) that do not have bike lanes when there are streets with bike lanes only several blocks away (12th and 16th) does not make any sense.
Perhaps we need some reform to traffic laws (treat a stop sign as a yield, stop light as stop sign, etc) and then people will be more likely to follow them.
Cyclists should signal. Cars should also signal.
Some specific infrastructure changes could also make a big difference. The bike map is great, but too few people use it. The story pointed out one of my biggest pet peeves which is the piecemeal nature of our cycle infrastructure. I go from bike lane to sidewalk to unmarked bike route to within about a quarter mile at one point on my commute. It took close map reading and multiple passes on the bike before I was confident that I was doing it right; most cyclists can't or won't take that kind of time.
Wow, I agree with poster Mike!
These bicycles are never useing lights at night. How can anyone see them. I don't agree with not stopping! However, who sees these bicycles out at all hours of the night with no lights on?
The problem here is the Bike Riders are driving around stoned and drunk....... and so are the car drivers!!!
@mkmccalmont thanks! Almost nothing gets more crazy passionate comments than articles about biking...
what a total crock, please dont lump us pedestrians in with the cyclists.
get the cyclists to follow the traffic laws, stay off the sidewalk, and be halfway aware of their surroundings, and the safety problem will solve itself.
Currently they ride anywhere they can, think they own the road, the sidewalk and the bike trail. Pedestrians are nothing more than interference for them, most will purposely graze pedestrians who arent yielding the sidewalk, or get rude and offensive.
Then they bait drivers and tick them off too, Screw denver cyclists, they suck.
Why the city of denver is becoming a "bike city":
This new generation of bicyclists are annoying and dangerous. With their feeble lights they should not be on the streets at night. It's just plain ignorant.
And the last thing anyone wants to deal with when they are going up the mountains is having to deal with passing them. Most of us want to experience the serenity and beauty of the mountains, not a hundred goofy people on their bikes on one of those bike tours or what ever they call them
Now--a question: How to instill safety with the morons who ride bikes--weaving in and out of traffic, maybe come up with a license--say $50 to ride the bikes, and another $100 or so for licenses FOR the bikes--hey, we can make a lot of money. And of course, require liabilty insurance!
Start handing out traffic tickets to those cyclist who, ride the wrong way on a one way, ride their bikes on the sidewalks of downtown Denver and nearly run YOU down while you are walking. Put police of bikes and start handing out tickets, once they have to start paying for their actions and attitude, maybe then there will be respect for Traffic Laws that apply to ALL vehicles YES a Bike is A VEHICLE!!
'There are plenty of bike paths - stay there' tell you what, go and get a map of bike routes, and then pretend your car is a bicycle that can only use those routes. Try to create your route to work using only those bike routes. I think you get the idea...
So we cycle on the road, we get motorists shouting at us to use the sidewalk, we cycle on the sidewalk, we get angry pedestrians.
@SxPxDxCx I would agree with what you have said; however, I would also add one more grievance: cars (especially taxis) who think the bike lane is a parking space.
@propylene22 What a ridiculous statement. Akin to "Old-ass fogeys with bad attitudes, driving on bike-filled streets, when there is a perfectly good Interstate a few blocks away." Bikes belong on the same streets as cars -- that's the law. Drivers need to just grow up and accept that fact. BOTH need to follow the laws.
@CO_Native It depends which part of 13th and 14th you're riding on. If you're riding around Speer and Broadway, there is a bike line.
@CO_Native I ride 13th and 14th Avenue because the lights are timed. It takes me half as long to get where I want to go on those streets than it does 16th Avenue.
@bill generalize much? I'm sure that there are bad cyclists out there but I doubt any of them "bait" cars. Most of the time I stop but sometimes I roll a stop sign. car drivers say that about stop signs, but not red lights. cyclists say that about both. What we really out to do is turn 12th into a cycling only rode and do the same with washington.
Yeah, those horrifically fit people damn them. The road isn't for all Americans, it's for those that want to go skiing. 'America...where at least I know I'm free'.
I have to pay $150 for a permit to wear a coat over my lawfully carried firearm (it is free to carry it openly) which is a constitutionally protected natural right. Biking on city streets is a privilege and since they are not paying taxes via gasoline I agree a permit is a great idea. Actual enforcement of traffic laws is another.
Build infrastructure where it's safe to ride a bike, and you won't have to worry about bikes being on the roads. @Harley101
Traffic laws, and road infrastructure in this city, has been built around the motorized vehicle, not the bicycle. You build something for one use, it's tough to impose another mode of transport on that same infrastructure and laws, hence you have the situation we have now. Cyclist levels are rising, but the infrastrucuture or training (for drivers and cyclists) isn't there.
@jrodenver @druid06211 Just stay out of my way - and stop pretending your bike is a car.
@Michael564 Seriously there are streets that bike have no business being on. Anything with upwards of 4 lanes and 45+ speeds. Bikes on these roads are just creating a hazard to themselves and everyone else. I rode my bike as my only method of transport for 3 years. It's not hard to get where you're going on side streets, and is usually much faster than taking the main thoroughfares.
@UrbanSnowshoer @bugsycook But the smug and total dissolved douchebag units in the air offset the decrease in wear and tear.
@joem Are they "timed" because you ride 30 to 35 mph and keep up with traffic or is it because you weave between the cars stopped at the lights making those same cars pass you several times before they get off 13th or 14th? How many "close calls" have you had on 13th or 14th?
@yaya @Harley101 Are you in a militia? Do you think the framers had any idea a glock 9 could be carried around underneath a petty coat? You strike me as the guy who wants less government not more...unless it is convenient to your opinion.
Who will pay for this?
"Hey neighbor, let me forcefully take the money you have earned to fund infrastructure only I will use since I am too stupid to follow traffic laws"
@jrodenver @druid06211 Thanks, but I'm just fed up with trying to drive and dodge irresponsible bikers.
If it's much faster than using main throughfares, why do cars use main throughfares? Why does anyone?!
@CO_Native @joem I'm with @joem on this one. Cyclists who use their bikes as a primary mode of transportation need to get places and need to be able to do it quickly. 12th is not efficient. Neither is 7th. That said, vehicular cycling is not a solution, it's just obnoxious.


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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Veterans could receive preferential treatment in the hiring and promotion decisions of private businesses under a bill moving through the Iowa Legislature.
The House Veterans Affairs Committee approved a measure Tuesday that would allow private sector employers to grant preference to veterans when deciding who to hire or promote. The bill now goes to the House floor.
State government already can give hiring preference to veterans. The bill clarifies that it is legal for the private sector to do so as well.
Jimmy Centers, a spokesman for Gov. Terry Branstad, says the bill is part of the governor's plan to support veterans in Iowa.
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Mila Voss is dead. That's what the team hired to terminate her had reported, and that's how her file had been marked. Dead. Six years now. So why did she suddenly show up on a hotel's security camera in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania? Those who'd paid for her elimination are more than a little curious.
One person should know what happened—Jonathan Quinn, one of the best cleaners in the business, the man who'd been tasked with the disposal of her body. Only Quinn isn't exactly easy to get ahold of these days, and he may not be willing to share the answer.
©2012 Brett Battles (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
I can find a book to love in any genre -- a beautifully written classic, an interesting mystery or sci-fi, a trashy romance. Bring it!
Story - The Destroyed is an awesome espionage thriller. It is good from the first sentence, and the suspense and action never let up. There are no dull spots, no filler stuff, just great story from beginning to end. The book is not confusing or hard to follow, but you will need to pay close attention. There are lots of players and it alternates between two timelines that you will have to keep straight. There is violence and killing, but that is not the main thrust of the story.
This is Book 5 of the Jonathan Quinn series, but it's my first. I'm sure I missed out on some background information and history, but this story stands alone perfectly and the ending ties up everything nicely.
Narrator - I know Scott Brick is a favorite of Audible listeneres, and now I can understand why. He does a great job (and has a pretty sexy voice, too), but I withhold my 5's for great jobs done on more difficult performances.
Overall - Get this book. You will not be disppointed.
A few must reads: Mr. Mercedes, Narrows Gate, Cop Town, Bomb Proof, Wayfaring Stranger, The Son (Nesbo), Dept Q series...
"Good Spy Stuff"
I thoroughly enjoyed Becoming Quinn, the novel that reveals how a rookie cop was recruited to become a professional cleaner. This was a good read with great suspense.
However I've been shying away from the novels centered around nearly super human characters. This book comes dangerously close.
Having said that, anyone who enjoys the Jack Reacher, Gray Man and Mitch Rapp series will love Jonathan Quinn series. You will not be disappointed.
"Excellent addition to the Series"
Action, Fast Paced
The Ending
Good job at changing voices with characters. You always know who is talking.
Really enjoyed it. Wanted to know what was going to happen next.
I would recommend reading the series in order, but definitely take time to get around to this one. Although The Cleaner, the first in the series, was good...the author's writing gets better as he goes along.
"Another great Johnathon Quinn "cleaner" story"
After the the #4 novel in the Johnathan Quinn series I wondered where Brett Battles could go next. Not to worry. Battles has Quinn's sidekick Nate take up the slack until Quinn can recover from his loss of anonymity and get back on the case.
I don't consider #4.1 to be next. Too bad Battles didn't begin the series with that novel "Becoming Quinn."
To my pleasant surprise, Battles brings back Peter and a lot of the story line is flash back to a case that Quinn had hoped would never come up again. As with all the Quinn novels, Battles takes you right up to the last few minutes wondering how Quinn is going to come out on top.
I only gave Scott Brick a 4 for his narration since I feel he failed to create the sense of excitement that these Quinn novels produce. At least they are exciting to me.
I only spend one hour a day listening to Audible books (my only source of audio books) and I find myself really looking forward to listening to the Quinn novels and dreading the "The End" of each one.
If you haven't listened to any of novels in the series, begin with either #4.1 or #1 and try not to rush through them faster than Battles can write them.
"Brett Does it Again!"
I'm not sure about the books outside this series but if you haven't followed Quinn's (anchor character) journey in this series (and you like a bit of well intentioned deviousness) then you're missing out. Battles is a master at taking story lines in different directions and crafting the evolution of characters. Mentor and 'student' become equals, but in a realistic (however surprising) way...to say any more would be too much information. Best value for money would be to read the entire series. I have and all were highly entertaining. Its frustrating trying to find well written espionage. They're usually either corny or unbelievable. As usual Scott Brick is perfect as narrator. Often narrators are distracting. Scott is a natural and always adds to the experience. I'm still curious about how an author can make you bond with a character that doesn't lose any sleep over killing. The 'means justifies the ends'? So, if you want to 'get even with the baddies' take a ride with Quinn. By the way: this book is for the ladies too. You won't regret it.
Tell us about yourself!
"New twists in the series!"
Brett Battles does it again. Cleaning up crime scenes, closing their loose ends, and a prequel created a need/opportunity for Jonathan Quinn to do something different.
Quinn has retreated from civilization and finds respite doing the basics. Then Mila Voss, a job he had supposedly cleaned, shows up on a security feed. Everyone involved in the job is under scrutiny. Associates find Quinn and everyone works to sort out the mess. It is not, of course, a straightforward task.
Job completed, they all return to their current lives, and we await the next chapter.
Scott Brick is the perfect narrator for this series.
"The continuation of the series is marvelous"
The continuity from book one and book two. This book keeps the characters real and exciting.
"Excellent story."
This was the first Brett Battles book for me, and it was very good. If you are a fan of Lee Child, DeMille or some of Ludlum's excellent early work, I am sure you will like The Destroyed. I am looking forward to Battle's other work. As usual Scott Brick is fantastic as the narrator.
I listen to and have recently started to write reviews. I've found the reviews have helped me to select books.
"Battles does it again!!!"
Absolutely! A novel that keeps you reading, want to keep reading until the end.
Yes! Needed to understand what his reasoning was to lead him to such a decision.
Yes. I enjoy his reading of this series. I'm able to read each book in the series and I know that that the characters will sound the same as the previous one.
There were many. Some more so than others. That's what makes his novels worth listening to.
The characters are well developed. The action keeps you wanting to read more.
"Another good story from Brett Battles"
This is another good story from Brett Battles, with all the key characters returning, along with a new support from a monk. Also, Peter from the "Office" plays a bigger part in the story.
All in all, a very enjoyable read (listen)
I listen to these stories in my car whist driving and they certainly help the miles to fly by!
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History of The Sundial
In 1907, 23 acres of Hilltop was purchased as part of Denver's "City Beautiful" plan that set aside land for the purpose of installing parks throughout the city. The future of Hilltop was secure with the establishment of Inspiration Park in 1909, then renamed Mountain View Park.
George Cranmer, a native Coloradoan, developed a love for the outdoors as he worked on ranches owned by his father and his uncle. George served as campaign manager for Denver Mayor Ben Stapleton. Following Stapleton's election in 1935, George became manager of the city's parks and recreation system and earned the nickname, "The Pericles of Denver". His accomplishments include Red Rocks Theater, the routes of the Valley Highway and the Boulder "Turnpike", purchase of the land for Stapleton Airport, and the Williams Fork Water Tunnel. George Cranmer constructed his estate atop the hill and alongside the future park in 1916.
The current sundial in the park is the second one to exist at this location in the park. The first was donated in 1941 by Mr. Cranmer. The park was renamed after him in 1935. The sundial was destroyed by vandals who exploded dynamite under it in September 1965 and the replacement sundial was installed in March, 1966 after a successful city-wide fundraising effort led by the Denver Junior Chamber of Commerce. The sundial tells time while visitors match the terrazzo mountains rimming the west edge of the plaza to their namesakes clearly seen in the distant mountain range.
The 1 square mile neighborhood contains houses built in 22 different architectural styles including Tudor, English and Norman Cottage, Mediterranean Revival, Georgian, Regency and Mid-Century Modern.
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The home of many of Brazil's artists, poets, and authors, Salvador is sometimes called the heart of Brazilian culture. The Pelourinho District of Salvador has been named a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and Salvador offers a contrast between this preserved historical district and a contemporary city with typical high rise buildings and shopping malls. Salvador provides a multi-racial population, allowing for cross-cultural studies within the country as well as comparisons between the US and Brazil.
Courses and Facilities
The Cultural Association of Brazil and the United States Associacao Cultural Brasil-Estados Unidos is a binational English language institute in Salvador. University of Oshkosh Wisconsin students enjoyed the superb facilities provided by ACBEU.
American and Brazilian students attended a three hour morning class at ACBEU, Vitoria District. The 12 Brazillian students attending the class were English-speaking psychology majors from several public and private institutions in Salvador.
Past Research Projects
Brazilian and American students made joint presentations of research outcomes in Portuguese and English for host families, ACBEU staff, and friends in Salvador. Outcomes were also presented at the UW Oshkosh Celebration of Scholarship Day, and at the Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Conference in Chicago, Ill.
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Source: Rockets Sign Rashad McCants
Two weeks ago, I wrote at length about Rashad McCants and teams that should be interested in signing the four-year pro. According to Jonathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle, the Rockets have signed McCants to a non-guaranteed contract for training camp. And of all the teams out there, he should have as good a chance as any to make the roster.
If McCants is going to stick around, it seems inevitable that Brent Barry has to go. Barry has said that he will not be back with the Rockets for the upcoming season and that he will either be traded or retire. But the more surprising thing to me is that McCants, the 14th pick in the 2005 NBA Draft, has to settle for a non-guaranteed this early in his career.
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I have two Salvia Transylvanicas (sp?) that were placed by your flag on Saturday. I think they are from Karen W.? I'll bring them to you on Tuesday when I'm there for the shrub tour/lecture. Shannon/Dirtrx |
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Thanks, Shannon. I sure hope the weather forecast for a record high in the mid-90's for tomorrow is wrong. Do you still want the Toad Lilies that I have for you, or would you prefer to wait for them until it cools down? |
Ralph, I didn't get a chance to talk to you on Sat. Is the Portulaca that I got from you the one you have overwintered? I'm going to bring it in to the garage with alot of other plants this winter. The garage is attached to the house but unheated. We have lots of flourescent light in there that stays on 24/7 and most plants I overwintered there last year did well. |
shari, i might be wrong, but i've always read that plants really need at least a few hours of darkness to do well. at least 8 darkness to 16 light is what i'd always read/heard. anyone hear different or the same? thoughts? maybe you can save on your power and have a timer cut down the amount of hours? we do the same thing in the basement and it works pretty well. i can only put the stuff that can really dry out down there, though because i forget it's down there and so forget to water but 2-3 times a winter. which is just fine for quite a few plants. it stays around 45-50, but does get close to freezing on those 10-15 degree nights. the other stuff goes to the cool greenhouse aka plastic'd porch. i had ralph's portulaca out there last winter and it did great. we keep it around 40, but it dipped to freezing couple times last winter with no damage to things. we're going to try harder this winter to keep it from skating so close. we were amazed at how well many things did under those conditions as opposed to the house. |
Sharri, yes the Portulaca that I brought on Sat. is the one that I have been overwintering in an unheated storage bldg and now my greenhouse for about 5 years. I agree with Tammy that you should not need to keep the lights on more than half the time. Parts of my greenhouse got down to freezing a couple of times last winter with minimal damage, perhaps because there was no frost. I can vent the clothes dryer into the greenhouse, and I do have a portable butane heater that I can leave on in case of extreme cold. |
Thanks Ralph. I don't know if I can get my husband to accomodate my wishes on the no more than half light since we come and go through this garage and he considers it his "shop". I will try to turn the lights on and off at bedtime and upon waking. I had pretty good success last year even with them on always. |
The Salvia transylvanicas aren't from me. I remember somebody mentioning them in the pre-trading posts but I can't remember who. Shari, you can buy timers for your lights at the big box stores. I've got most of mine on them, although last winter I ran out of outlets and had a couple of lights that stayed on 24/7 because I never did get back to the store. I work on the edge of survival anyway, so I didn't sweat it. Maybe you could rig one with a motion detector, but surely there's an 8 hour window where no one's coming and going. The plants don't care which 8 hours it's dark. I can't believe we're going from 92 to 37 degrees in 5 days. |
While we're asleep should be fine. Karen, I'm going to bring your salvias and the plectranthus inside the house this year. Do you think I should go ahead now since those thirties are forecast? |
Shari, probably not a bad idea. The Salvia regla will eventually be hardy outdoors but it's still too small to get well established this year and should be planted out in the spring. The plectranthus and the orange flowered seedling of S. van houtteii will be tender and should either be grown in pots or come in as cuttings for the winter. I keep those in the garage under grow lights and although it occasionally drops a few degrees under 40, most of the time it's over. If you lose one or more don't worry, I can start you more cuttings in the spring. |
During the Plantsman tour of the J C Raulston Arboretum this afternoon I had an opportunity to ask the Asst Director, Mark Weatherington, about a stunning new Salvia blooming at the beginning of the Perennial Border. He informed us that it is S. mexicana 'Limelight'. He commented that the Arboretum had a Nurseryman's group in last week and that they all were raving about these plants and talking about their plans to offer it for sale next year. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Picture of Mexican Sage, S. mexicana 'Limelight'
'Limelight' has never wintered over for me. I grow 'Tula' instead, which has the same calyx/flower color combination. |
Ralph the salvias were from me. |
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EOF - Is "Open Phone" an Oxymoron?
Linux and embedded converge at the technical level, but they clash at the cultural one. At the technical level, Linux is like an element in the periodic table, or a pile of 2x4s. You can use it to build all kinds of stuff. Sure enough, all kinds of stuff does get built, including embedded stuff that most hard-core Linux hackers would never develop, or that they would develop in a very different way. We're talking here about stuff that is typically closed as a vault. Examples include electronic picture frames, security cameras, airplane avionics, vacuum cleaners, assembly-line robots and medical equipment. And, of course, mobile phones.
Linux has been at the heart of millions of phones made and sold during the last few years. Few of these, however, are what you would call "open" to the degree that you can do what you please with them—that is, as you would with a PC. At the low end, phones are dumb devices that do little more than telephony. At the high end, they're smart devices that do lots of different things. But alas, not in the same ways—meaning, there is no "write once, run everywhere".
Right now, the Linux smartphone market is split between Android, LiMo and Palm. You write apps for Android in Google's own version of Java5 (described by one developer as "not J2ME, but not quite Java5 either"). You write apps for LiMo in C or C++. You write apps for Palm Pre in JavaScript. Of those three, Palm is the only standalone vertically integrated platform, kind of like the iPhone. The LiMo vs. Android situation is a lot more complicated. The LiMo Foundation has a pile of big names behind it, not including Google. Google's Open Handset Alliance (all developing for Android) includes its own pile of corporate heavyweights, some of which also are involved with LiMo. The differences are easy to play down. For example, LiMo focuses exclusively on middleware, while Android focuses on applications (but covers the whole stack). But, Linux for phones is beyond forked. Which brings me to another F-word.
Phone makers and phone companies don't come from freedom. They come from control—specifically, of whole markets. Take one example from page 12 of the LiMo Foundation's Introductory .pdf (dated July 2009). There, it explains where LiMo's middleware platform fits in the scheme of things. Its middleware sits below three other layers: 1) UI/Applications, "As selected by the handset maker/operator"; 2) General Content, "As selected by the mobile consumer"; and 3) Applications, "As selected by the mobile consumer". In other words, LiMo primarily serves markets that are run by handset makers and phone system operators. Of course, so do Android and Palm. (Not meaning to pick on LiMo here; they just provide a handy illustration.)
Why, as we enter the second decade of the 21st century, should we be forced to choose only from applications provided by handset makers and mobile phone network operators? Can't we finally have an open phone marketplace—one where users and developers are free from control by both makers and operators, where you don't need to get your apps from a "store", where you can make any app you want, for any purpose you want, without confining your innovations to what phone makers and systems operators allow? Hey, that's what we've had in the PC marketplace for going on 30 years. It's what we've had with the Internet for 15 years. Can't we have it in the phone marketplace too?
In a word, no.
Or, in two words, not yet.
The problem is that the phone business has never been open or free. It's one of the most tightly closed and highly regulated businesses on the planet. True, the Internet started cracking open landline phone systems nearly two decades ago, but it's still just getting started with mobile phone systems and the devices that run on them.
Mobile phones today are a bridge across a chasm between protocols, technologies and business categories. To see the big problem writ small, consider the natural conflicts between SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) and SS7 (Signaling System 7). SIP is a peer-to-peer protocol defined by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). It arose from the obvious need for IP-based calling that looks and feels like what we're used to with phones, but without all the other hassles, such as centralized switching and billing for everything. SS7 is defined by the ITU-T, or the Telecommunication Standardization Sector of the ITU (International Telecommunications Union), which began as the International Telegraph Union in 1865. SS7 is the heart and soul of every phone system, including all the mobile ones. While the IETF values "rough consensus and running code", the ITU values top-to-bottom definitional completeness. Yet to various working degrees, SIP and SS7 coexist in our lives, devices and applications.
Trends favor the IETF and the Net, but I wouldn't bet that way in the short run, which may be a decade or more. We see positive signs with smartphones and handhelds for which telephony is one application among many. But the telephony space is a billing space, and it still rakes in the cash. The Net may be a "world of ends" (worldofends.com), but its means include a vastness of phone company cabling, routing and switching. And, most of all, billing.
It is essential to recognize that billing is the core competency of telephony. The Net threatens that. I'm betting the Net will win. But it will be a long, hard fight. And Linux will be right in the middle of it, serving both sides.
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Just to be a little artsy and to have a better background to photograph it against, I leaned it up against a big old rock in my flower bed.
Looks better than just laying on the kitchen table don't you think?
Later I opened the notebook and noticed there was writing in it. About rocks! How weird is that? It's about rocks and I had it sitting against a rock!
So I took it back outside and set up a little scientific looking vignette for it.
But before I go any further, isn't this handwriting beautiful? They used to teach cursive handwriting in school and you were graded on how you made your letters. At some point in High School my handwriting took on a life of its own. I don't think I could make a proper S anymore if I wanted to.
Here are some of the tools I displayed with the notebook:
A rusty compass,
an old slide rule
and some watch repair tools.
Wait...watch repair tools? My husband was out of the house when I
This is my vintage Webster's Dictionary from 1903. I bought this probably 20 years ago in an antique store in Oregon.
A Webster's Dictionary to go with a Webster's Notebook - notice the correlation there.
See, there's Noah Webster himself looking all dapper with his flowing wavy hair.
It has some cool drawings in it.
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I could easily spend my life tweaking photos with Picasa and Picnik. It's addictive!
In case you were going to Google it, Petrology is the study of rocks - igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic. It's a specific branch of Geology. (And I didn't know any of that until I Googled "the study of rocks").
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EUR/USD Outlook and Analysis For 28th November – (Forex FX 4X)
(Forex-FX-4x.com, EUR/USD Outlook And Analysis For 28th November).
Our weekend EUR/USD update noted that the psychological 1.3000 level was viewed as the key near term technical focus heading into the new week. The subsequent price action has seen the EUR/USD push to a high of 1.3008 and then drop as low as 1.2914 after taking out stops on a 1.3000 area rejection. The euro/dollar is now trading around -0.36% lower on the day and consolidating just above the days ultimate low.
- A close around the current area would see a bearish engulfing candle printed on the daily chart; a bearish reversal pattern in this location would be a constructive technical development and weigh on the near term EUR/USD sentiment – if a confirmation follow through move lower is seen over the upcoming 28th November trading sessions.
- Potential near term support comes around the 1.2885 area, which has seen price pivot zone action and may be supportive to a certain extent on any extended downside. Further to this is the 1.2800 – 1.2830 area which has been a key support/resistance flip area over recent trading.
- Any upside may once again find an element of resistance around the 1.3000 area, with the 61.8% Fibonacci retrace located around 1.2955 loosely aligned from a daily chart perspective.
- A failure to sustain today's downside momentum, and any subsequent move back above 1.3000, would negate our near term bearish directional bias.
- In related analysis we note that the USDX 80.00 level has held as initial support with a daily low of 80.03 seen prior to an intra-day reversal, the dollar index is now trading around the 80.40 area. GBP/USD is only trading marginally lower at -0.07% on the day which has EUR/GBP at -0.19%. USD/CHF pared earlier losses and is now trading up +0.35% at 0.9305.
EUR/USD Daily Chart – 28th November Outlook


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A very enjoyable discussion !
I would like to make clear to you that when I quote you and offer a different point of view, this is not meant as critisism. I want help you deepen your insight.
Now that we have cleared the air between ego's:
Just as you mentioned, we have to raise an awarness that the ego mind creates unnecessary thoughts that prevent us from experiencing essence and oneness with the Being.
Try to think of it this way:
The ego IS thought. Everything that happens inside your head is thought. Everything that is still, motionless, the calm centre within is You.
In a way, it is more like
shifting awareness
rather than
awareness. Right now, all the attention is on thought usually. A thought comes up, we react to the thought, this invites the next thought in.
When you shift your awareness to Being, and from there watch the thoughts come up and go without judgement, the stream is broken. Sure, another thought may pop up, but there is no ribbon of related thoughts that come up afterwords. Now you see the silence between the thoughts, and better yet, you feel it, intensely in every cell of your body, you "hear" the silence, you See it....
Are we WHOLEness or NOTHINGness?
lovely contemplation.
What is Self ? What does Self look like ? Is Self some-thing or no-thing ?
We can't deny our existance, yet Self is formless, and this formlessness is what drives our mind crazy. How do you lable an existing nothing ?
We are space, there is no form, no beginning, no end.
We are God, in the same way that another person is God, an animal, a plant, a rock, a sun, a comet, that annoying bug tickling between your shoulderblades, all this I Am. 65 million years ago, when Dinosaurs roamed the earth, I Am. When the universe ends in the big crunch, I Am. No beginning, no end, neither in space nor time.
When I first read this on an Advaita website, my ego went off the charts.
Now it is Truth.
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