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1 Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon. | 1 King Darius then issued an order, and they searched in the archives stored in the treasury at Babylon. |
2 And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written : | 2 A scroll was found in the citadel of Ecbatana in the province of Media, and this was written on it: Memorandum: |
3 In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded , the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid ; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits; | 3 In the first year of King Cyrus, the king issued a decree concerning the temple of God in Jerusalem: Let the temple be rebuilt as a place to present sacrifices, and let its foundations be laid. It is to be ninety feet high and ninety feet wide, |
4 With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house: | 4 with three courses of large stones and one of timbers. The costs are to be paid by the royal treasury. |
5 And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored , and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to his place, and place them in the house of God. | 5 Also, the gold and silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, are to be returned to their places in the temple in Jerusalem; they are to be deposited in the house of God. |
6 Now therefore, Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shetharboznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which are beyond the river, be ye far from thence: | 6 Now then, Tattenai, governor of Trans-Euphrates, and Shethar-Bozenai and you, their fellow officials of that province, stay away from there. |
7 Let the work of this house of God alone ; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in his place. | 7 Do not interfere with the work on this temple of God. Let the governor of the Jews and the Jewish elders rebuild this house of God on its site. |
8 Moreover I make a decree what ye shall do to the elders of these Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king's goods, even of the tribute beyond the river, forthwith expenses be given unto these men, that they be not hindered . | 8 Moreover, I hereby decree what you are to do for these elders of the Jews in the construction of this house of God: The expenses of these men are to be fully paid out of the royal treasury, from the revenues of Trans-Euphrates, so that the work will not stop. |
9 And that which they have need of , both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail: | 9 Whatever is needed--young bulls, rams, male lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, and wheat, salt, wine and oil, as requested by the priests in Jerusalem--must be given them daily without fail, |
10 That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons. | 10 so that they may offer sacrifices pleasing to the God of heaven and pray for the well-being of the king and his sons. |
11 Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up , let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this. | 11 Furthermore, I decree that if anyone changes this edict, a beam is to be pulled from his house and he is to be lifted up and impaled on it. And for this crime his house is to be made a pile of rubble. |
12 And the God that hath caused his name to dwell there destroy all kings and people, that shall put to their hand to alter and to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with speed. | 12 May God, who has caused his Name to dwell there, overthrow any king or people who lifts a hand to change this decree or to destroy this temple in Jerusalem. I Darius have decreed it. Let it be carried out with diligence. |
13 Then Tatnai, governor on this side the river, Shetharboznai, and their companions, according to that which Darius the king had sent , so they did speedily. | 13 Then, because of the decree King Darius had sent, Tattenai, governor of Trans-Euphrates, and Shethar-Bozenai and their associates carried it out with diligence. |
14 And the elders of the Jews builded , and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded , and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia. | 14 So the elders of the Jews continued to build and prosper under the preaching of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah, a descendant of Iddo. They finished building the temple according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia. |
15 And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king. | 15 The temple was completed on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius. |
16 And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy, | 16 Then the people of Israel--the priests, the Levites and the rest of the exiles--celebrated the dedication of the house of God with joy. |
17 And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel. | 17 For the dedication of this house of God they offered a hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred male lambs and, as a sin offering for all Israel, twelve male goats, one for each of the tribes of Israel. |
18 And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses. | 18 And they installed the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their groups for the service of God at Jerusalem, according to what is written in the Book of Moses. |
19 And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month. | 19 On the fourteenth day of the first month, the exiles celebrated the Passover. |
20 For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves. | 20 The priests and Levites had purified themselves and were all ceremonially clean. The Levites slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their brothers the priests and for themselves. |
21 And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat , | 21 So the Israelites who had returned from the exile ate it, together with all who had separated themselves from the unclean practices of their Gentile neighbors in order to seek the LORD, the God of Israel. |
22 And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful , and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel. | 22 For seven days they celebrated with joy the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because the LORD had filled them with joy by changing the attitude of the king of Assyria, so that he assisted them in the work on the house of God, the God of Israel. |
The King James Version is in the public domain. (The King James Bible Version Online) | Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |


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An inside job?
— Staff at chateau where Royals stayed face probe
— French snapper claims photographer is an expat Brit
COPS hunting the sneak snapper who took topless pictures of Prince William's wife Kate are to quiz staff at the French chateau where they were staying.
Detectives want to know how the photographer knew exactly where to snatch the intrusive shots amid suspicions it was an "inside job".

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Explorer Plans Hunt For Genghis Khan's Long-Lost Tomb
Re:What about Jesus's ? (243 comments)
Joshua, actually.
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Re:What about Jesus's ? (243 comments)
Joshua, actually.
Re:Why those vegetables? (178 comments)
I make a ratatouille that is to die for.
Re:Hydrogen is indeed quite dangerous... (479 comments)
It's the latest SI prefix.
Re:Hydrogen is indeed quite dangerous... (479 comments)
So true. I was very surprised to learn that lithium batteries have an energy density in the same ballpark as gunpowder and dynamite. Small wonder that one of them cutting loose and letting all that power go at once is a big deal.
Re: Hydrogen is indeed quite dangerous... (479 comments)
> A lithium-air battery has an energy density (per kilo) comparable to traditional gasoline
It's still got problems to overcome, but the point is, battery storage is only getting better.
Re:Hydrogen is indeed quite dangerous... (479 comments)
If solar energy were dirt cheap but batteries were still for shit, then yeah, using H2 as a storage medium wouldn't be so bad. However, both PVCs and batteries are getting better all the time. The latest lithium-air batteries actually have the same energy density as gasoline. H2's density is still better of course, but has a host of storage problems that make even a lesser storage system more appealing.
Re:On the upside... (375 comments)
On the pads, not phones. Too damned early on a Monday.
On the upside... (375 comments)
At least now the school knows not to include camera-enabled surveillance software on the phones.
Space Activity Suit (37 comments)
Space suits in general and the SAS in particular are why I no longer give a rat's ass what happens to NASA. Cut their funding, Congress orders them to start launching their rockets upside-down, I couldn't care less. NASA had a working prototype of a replacement for those injurious, exhausting, and dangerous inflatable suits 40 goddamn years ago, and they flushed it down the toilet and haven't looked back since.
The future of the human race is in outer space, but NASA will have zero role in it. Giving them money would be no better than throwing it away.
Beyond 2000 (104 comments)
Am I the only one who remembers seeing this sort of 3-d painting reproduction featured on Beyond 2000 a good 20 years ago? They made a rubber mold of the original painting, printed the copy either with special ink or onto a surface that could be flash melted to fit the mold.
Re:that settles it (168 comments)
Copyrights with a theoretical duration of nearly 2 centuries (max human lifespan plus 70 years) is kinda stretching the definition of the word "temporary".
Re:Perfect analogy for NASA (184 comments)
Not really. The tools are impressive, but mostly in how they try to overcome the crippling need to run remotely from umpteen million miles away.
Let's have a look: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_(rover)#Instruments
Lists 14 instruments. But 5 of them are just cameras, strategically placed because they can't be moved. My friend the amateur photographer could do much better with her DSLR. The "environmental monitoring station" measures humidity, pressure, temperatures, wind speeds, and ultraviolet radiation; not exactly groundbreaking stuff here. Same with radiation assessment. There's a robotic arm capable of drilling holes a whopping 2" deep and a dust removal tool, commonly known as a 'broom'. The "Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons" sounds sexy as hell, but then you realize a person with a trowel could do the same job.
The other instruments are all spectrometers and a chromatograph. The means by which they work are novel, due to the aforementioned remote requirements, but the end result is not really different from what could be done in any decent lab 50 years ago. Honestly, a decent scientist with a shovel and a few thousand dollars in high school lab gear could do better than all the rovers ever sent. God help us if we ever needed a probe to do something _really_ difficult.
So by all means, send what probes are needed to figure out how to get people there, but anything beyond that will just provide minimal information at enormous cost.
Quantum drives (187 comments)
I always was rather impressed with those Quantum drives. I had a Quantum 1.2GB hdd in my computer when we suffered a house fire, and that drive was the only piece of electronics to survive in usable condition. Indeed, it lasted a good 4 or 5 years beyond that.
Big plans (63 comments)
NASA sure does dream big, considering they can barely even get to LEO these days. Their launch capacity has been diminishing steadily for the past 40 years. Thank goodness it's not entirely up to them anymore.
Re:Was it EA..... (386 comments)
> Wake me up when every single AI agent is simulated in detail with urges, wants, needs, desires, disgust, hatred, genetics, a simulated lifespan from birth to death....
I did like that part of the Total War series. The lifespan of your family members is a real concern. Train a son up into a terrifyingly competent commander, then he goes dies of old age? Fuck! Definitely a good start, though.
How about a massively multiplayer civ game? Run it at or nearly at realtime, so no tech tree. BUt every city, every army, everyone in any sort of position of power is controlled by a real person, all jockeying for MORE.
Re:Was it EA..... (386 comments)
It'd be fine, except that all the implementations make it so that it takes centuries to bring a new or damaged city up to speed. Master of Orion 1 did it much better; you can turn a brand new planet into a top-notch research/production node in just a handful of turns. Same thing with military units. It takes so much dedicated effort to make them that the loss of a few is just devastating. In reality, historically, whole new armies could be and were drawn up overnight. Actually, I think Civ4 had some kind of analog to this; you could conscript units instantly at the cost city population. It just had the same problem that maximum population growth was not even remotely appropriate.
Also, recapturing lost cities is always be a matter of grinding through it, when in reality you often just had to beat the army in the field and suddenly the cities in revolt would come begging to be let back into the fold. Point is, revolt was a constant problem, but there were more ways to deal with it than brute force military solutions.
By far the biggest problem were wars of succession, which really can't have much analog in a game where the same person pulls the strings for centuries or millennia of game time.
I've imagined a massively multiplayer game that ran at some small multiple of realtime, and would operate at pretty much every level from individual people to SimCity to Civilization. The players would occupy various positions of power: governors, city mayors, military commanders, warlords, kings and emperors, wealthy merchants, etc. The decision for a city or province to revolt, or for a barbarian tribe to ally with A to attack B, or for a trusted advisor to try to sabotage the leader's rule, etc would thus be made by a real person. And just like in real life, there'd be a lot of players itching to get up into a higher level of power at the expense of whoever is already there. You'd have to be real careful how much you trust your underlings. Since not much time would be passing, it'd be pretty much a historical period piece. No space marines vs musketeers, sadly.
Re:TL;DR? (269 comments)
Sure. But what happens if someone else goes there and takes it down?
The flag by itself is meaningless if the US can't contest its removal.
Re:Don't worry, there is plenty (269 comments)
Well, stuff in space _is_ scarce, in the sense that it's not infinite, that is. Sure, there's _a lot_ of non-stellar mass in the solar system, but the parts of it that are easily accessible with current technology is really pretty limited. Luna, Apollo asteroids, and the occasional comet, mostly. And to make things even trickier, what happens when people start living out there permanently? That chunk of rock will be just as much 'their' property as any piece of terra firma.
Start with the simplest way to handle ownership claims and see where that goes: You have to go out and stick a flag on it to even have a shot at such a claim being legit. In person, or will a probe suffice? Define "probe"; don't want anyone spamming the surface of Mars with 1" radio cubes and claiming the entire planet as a result. For that reason, I'm inclined to limit ownership claims solely to putting boots on the ground. You own your unmanned probe and anything in produces using unowned resources (so automated factories are allowed), but the body as a whole is still up for grabs.
Of course, how much can you claim? The entire asteroid/cometplanet? Well that sucks. The EU founds a small colony on Mars just a few weeks ahead of the US and Chinese, so they get the whole pie? I guess you could make it a function of how many people you actually have there, but do they have to be there permanently?
And hey, who's going to enforce all this anyway? Considering the potential riches involved, nobody is going to accept a UN ruling that means that country A gets the piece of rock that country B just spent $10 billion putting a mining facility on because A sent a suicide volunteer on a one-way trip to put them on said rock before B.
I suspect that in the end, the 'border's will be decided in the traditional way. Namely, guys with guns moving them around until they conclude that getting a bigger piece of the pie for themselves would be more trouble than it's worth.
Re:Jimmies Rustled (312 comments)
That's just what he _wants_ you to think!
Re:Or... go old school (289 comments)
You basically cannot overstate just how indestructible these things are. I visited one in Atlanta and the owner said that just a few months earlier an 18" wide tree had fallen over onto the house. This would have caused tremendous damage to any regular house, but this dome shrugged it off almost entirely, with the stump of a limb poking a 6" hole through the wall. There's that beach dome in Pensacola that survived repeated direct strikes of powerful hurricanes back in '04-'05 that just leveled every surrounding structure. The only damage it took was things like the main stairs washing away, which they were designed to do anyway. There's a story about a guy who bought a piece of land with a monolithic dome barn on it and hired a contractor to demolish it. Took the guy a solid week of whaling on it with a wrecking ball before it came down. There was a cheap knockoff version of a monolithic dome (no rebar) in Oklahoma that took a _direct_ hit by a tornado. Terribly damaged, but the structure is still intact. Lastly of course is the dome in Baghdad that served as a government office building. During the US invasion back in '03, they dropped a 5000 lb bomb on it. The bomb punched through and destroyed everything inside, but the building is still standing.


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Hi. #1 I've saved the seeds from some peaches we ate, and would like to plant them to grow my own peach trees. Should I just stick them in some potting soil, water and in the sun, or are there specifics.? The only problem is that they are peaches bought from GA. Do you think they probably wouldn't winter over here in Ohio once they get big enough to transplant outside one day?
#2 I have also saved watermelon seeds. Should I just save them in a ziplock bag til next year for planting, or what do you suggest? Thanks for all advice! |
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- Posted by shrubs_n_bulbs z8/9 UK (My Page) on Sun, Jul 2, 06 at 10:34
Prunus persica (Peach tree) is only hardy to about zone 7, so not much chance outside in Ohio. I don't know about this species, but most Prunus require several months cold stratification, and often several months warm stratification first. Your best bet is to sow now and leave the pot outside to expect germination in spring. Before you sow, clean the seed thoroughly, then soak overnight in fresh water to remove all traces of the pulp. |
If these are hybrids then you will have problems with the results. They won't resemble what you saved the seeds from. Seed saving is generally done if you grew a non-hybrid (open-pollenated) variety yourself. Most peaches and other fruit trees are generally grown by grafting the desired variety onto a different tree which is less vulnerable to diseases and grows better in your climate. They grow one kind of tree, cut it off about 3 inches above the ground, and then grow a peach tree, cut off the roots, and graft the two together. You might have fantastic results with planting a peach pit, I don't know. |
- Posted by kaye kirk(email@example.com) onMon, Jul 4, 11 at 14:33
I live in central Texas and I have some fruit that I have eaten and saved the seed. I would like to know when to plant them. I have a peach,purple plum and a large apricot. Thanks, Kaye |
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I have tried a lot of them, but I really don't have a favorite. I would love to hear what has worked for everyone else. Thinking about trying that Pantene winter hair stuff... |
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I've used expensive salon products like Kerastase and bargain products from WalMart. I keep coming back to Pantene shampoo and conditioner for my hair which is fine and a bit thin. Right now I use the brunette hair products because I am coloring my hair a deep brunette shade at this time. Still love it. |
- Posted by littleredhen (My Page) on Thu, Jan 19, 06 at 12:52
Hi! I'm one for the cheapies, rather than expensive salon stuff. I do enjoy pantene w/conditioner, and also I have always loved the VO5 line. They have a strawberries and cream shampoo that smells EXACTLY like the lifesavers/creamsavers candy! They also make a nice blueberries and cream. And they cost less than a buck in many cases!!! Funny, you always see the ads for that Herbal Essence where the gals are moaning and breathing heavy and need a moment alone with their shampoo! lol I have purchased that, and the VO5 stuff is better imo! |
- Posted by dragonfly2 (My Page) on Thu, Jan 19, 06 at 18:57
I drift between Dove Shampoo for thick hair ,, and Biologe for color treated hair. |
I love tresemme... they have a good deep cleansing shampoo that gets my hair really clean of all the waxy products that are on the market today... and their conditioner leaves my hair feeling really soft and healthy without weighing it down... I have long curly hair that gets tangled easily. The best part is the cost.. It's only about 3 bucks a bottle. |
I second Tressemme, and you can also leave the conditioner in your hair and it looks shining and healthy! |
I don't think I have a favorite. I'm a hair product junkie so I've always got several bottles of stuff going in my shower. Right now I have Herbal Essences fruit fusion, VO5 blueberries and cream, a few things from LUSH, and some Pantene in there and I just love them all! |
I've been using Color Conserve shampoo and conditioner by aveda for years; it helps my color stay longer, it's gentle enough for everyday use. I buy the shampoo in the large bottle with a pump. The conditioner I buy the regular tube since it goes a long way. It's expensive but I use it sparingly. The containers match the color of my shower tiles and I like that.... |
- Posted by dragonfly2 (My Page) on Sun, Feb 5, 06 at 9:33
Where do you buy Color Conserve? Sounds good. |
- Posted by southernheart (My Page) on Sun, Feb 5, 06 at 20:34
It was developed specifically for color-treated hair (although anyone can use it), and it is the first shampoo that really doesn't strip my color. I have the pump bottles for both the shampoo and conditioner. It can be very pricey, but I usually get mine on eBay. I get the voluminizing type; they also have one for straightening. |
dragonfly, I also use Aveda shampoo and conditioner also. I get mine at the salon that colors and cuts my hair. |
- Posted by dragonfly2 (My Page) on Tue, Feb 7, 06 at 7:58
Thanks Riverrat, yesterday I saw Color Conserve in CVS... sounds like it's worth a try. |
I use Advance Techniques Volumizing Shampoo and Conditioner Its from Avon but I love how it makes my hair smell fresh and it feels clean. |
I alternate between Pantene's formulation for fine hair and the Redken anti-snap products I get at my stylist's. I have a ton of hair but it's very fine; and in winter weather it has a tendency to stand straight up as though I'd been struck by lightning. Not my best look! |
- Posted by elizabeth_5 (My Page) on Tue, Feb 28, 06 at 15:09
I don't use any conditioner - leaves my hair heavy and gluey and it gets dirty faster. My hair performs best when spanking clean. I have used a lot of shampoos over the years. The ones I prefer are those that lather easily. I do find the Pantene for darker blonds to be fine for the price even if my hair dresser thinks it's too harsh. I have bought shampoos just because I like the bottle. ;) |
- Posted by michele1980 (My Page) on Fri, Mar 10, 06 at 4:15
I had problems with hair loss and got over it with H3 Revitalizing shampoo which contains Extracts from Burdock, Horse Tail, Birch Tree, Rosemary, Common Sage for regular use. After seeing the effects I tried H2 Regenerating Hair Lotion with Vitamin C that nourishes and strengthens the hair. You can find these products at www.aslaskin.com . Since the, I really can say that H3 Revitalizing is my favourite :) |
- Posted by housewitch (My Page) on Fri, Mar 10, 06 at 8:56
I use and love L'Occitane's Angelica shampoo and conditioner. A little goes a long way, it's just moisturizing enough for my fine, thin, hair without weighing it down. Plus, I really like the way it smells. In the middle of the summer when my hair is really dry, I'll switch to the shea butter shampoo and conditioner from the same line. |
In the case of shampoos, if you color your hair, you should spend the extra money on shampoos that protect your color. Unfortunately I have found most inexpensive shampoos and conditioners contain alcohol, and even some of the more pricey (like Pantene)have alcohol. Look at the ingredients. If it has alcohol, it will strip your color and ultimately dry out your hair. Many inexpensive conditioners make your hair feel conditioned because they contain wax which does nothing but coat the hair. The combination of wax and alcohol will ultimately require you to use more product and wonder why your hair is so dry without it. There was a special on one of the news shows (I think 60 minutes) that exposed the fact that many of the products we buy today like conditioner and lotion actually contain ingredients, like alcohol, that do the opposite of what you think they should. What good is a moisturizer or conditioner that drys you out? |
I love bumble and bumble creme de coco shampoo and conditioner. It is so pricey, but it lasts so long. I can really use half as much as any other shampoo and it lathers up really well. I love Ojon spray conditioner, it makes my thin hair feel thicker but does not weigh it down at all. I look for products that don't contain alcohol, and some of the good ones I found are Paul Mitchell, Ojon, Bumble and Bumble. I found that the more you pay, the better quality you get, especially when it comes to cosmetics. Biolage uses lots of alcohol in their products. |
- Posted by stargazer_1118 (My Page) on Mon, Mar 13, 06 at 19:19
Biolage shampoo and conditioner work the best. I have long, curly VERY dry hair and the inexpensive stuff doesn't work. |
- Posted by braee(:(email@example.com) onMon, Feb 28, 11 at 1:02
I am VERY careful about my hair products. I have a medium-thick type of hair. I only died my hair in the beginning of the year and with my shampoo and conditioner its kept the color long-lasting and extremely vibrant. Also, my hair is naturally curly, but I straighten my hair every time after I clean my hair and/or get my hair wet and this keeps it healthy, smooth, shiny, manageable and very moist. Also, NO MORE FRIZZ! The products I use are called "Pantene Med-Thick Hair Solutions." I use their moose, hairspray, conditioner, shampoo, straightening creme and detangler. I love them all! Please try. You will LOVE IT! :) |
- Posted by michelle_phxaz (My Page) on Mon, Mar 14, 11 at 4:14
Biolage for me. Perfect weight on the conditioner, and it smells so good. I use a clarifying shampoo about once every 2-3 months to wash out any buildup. |
I like the Aussie (Redmond product) shampoo & the leave- on rinse; also Infusiun 23 shampoo & leave-on rinse |
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I understand that there is another thread mentioning this subject, but I really think that in order for AutoCAD P&ID to be more robust, it needs to be re-addressed. This may be a wish-list item, but for me, this is more of a hotfix-scale item.
I as well as many other users would love to have the option to have a "blank" value in both annotations and selection lists to substitute for the "dot" or period that appears when a value is null. Entering a space to hide the period isn't so bad in some cases, but for cases like the one below, it becomes a huge ordeal.
My Situation:
I have created an instrument bubble that has 4 seperate selection lists (one for each corner (function) of the bubble). Most of the time, these values will be null, so for me to have to enter a space character for each of the fields becomes a real pain on a drawing that contains dozens of instruments. The project we are using AutoCAD P&ID for will have several hundred drawings - all of them will have anywhere from a dozen to 3 dozen instrument bubbles on each drawing.
Our only way to deal with this is to export our entire project list of instruments to an excel file, filter by the blank values and populate them with a space character, and then import the file back into AutoCAD P&ID.
A simple fix would be to allow a space character as one of the options in a selection list.
If any other users would like to have this option, please comment in order to help get this moving along.
Thanks for hearing me out in advance
*Notice the periods in the instrument's corners as it is newly-placed in a drawing*
Solved! Go to Solution.
Solved! by jason.drew. See the answer in context.
Please see this screen recording for more info:
Null characters in annotations
It looks like a workaround might be possible, but it requires using non-AutoCAD, TrueType fonts in annotations.
Thank you,
Please try this:
In your selection list, add a new value and type in ALT+0160 (unicode character, not a space so you have to hold down the ALT key and type in '0160') Then set the description to something like 'NULL' or 'TEST'
Once that is saved, go to the properties and set the second item on the list as the default value for your selection list. That will leave a "null" value in your instrument functions by default and will not display the dot on the drawing when it's initially placed.
I saw that procedure mentioned in the previous thread, and tried it, but continued to get the same result as if I had entered a "space" character.
The following error message appears:
I'm using 2013...
Any ideas?
Interesting, it worked for me the first time around. Now that I have gone back to double check I cannot add the unicode character again.
Let me do some additional testing and I will let you know what I find.
That is interesting...
Thanks for looking into this for me, I really appreciate it!
Please see this screen recording for more info:
Null characters in annotations
It looks like a workaround might be possible, but it requires using non-AutoCAD, TrueType fonts in annotations.
Thank you,
Jason Drew - you are my hero...
This is huge! You just saved me a lot of time...and money on aspirin
I just wanted to follow up to let you know that I found a character even better than the Unicode Unit Separator to hide the periods from blank properties. The problem with the Unit Separator is that a rectangular unicode glyph would still plot on our pdfs. I just discovered that using U+200B instead of the Unit Separator will cause the property to be null both in the program AND on pdfs because it inherently does not have a graphical glyph representation, at least for true type fonts.
Here is a link with more info on this character and how someone can easily get access to it:
Just thought I'd pass along for future reference in case you run into this again.
Hi Craig,
Thanks for sharing this!
This all seemed to work great. Problem is that it now prints out a vertical bar for any component that has a unicode character in it. The bar prints out a couple of inches to one side of the component. Oddly enough, it does not show on the screen, or on a PDF or DWF, but does print out in hard copies. Must have to do with using the true type fonts. I have tried changing the print settings on the printer for true type fonts to be both text or graphics and you get different results, in the location of the vertical bar, but it still prints out the vertical bar either way.
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'Jack Reacher' Teaser Trailer: Tom Cruise Will Actually Break Your Face (and Your Arm, and Your Leg)
Movie News By Kate Erbland on July 3, 2012 | (3) CommentsWhile we may always wonder what a Jack Reacher film would look like with a star who actually fits the description of the character from Lee Child's popular book series (you know, "a giant, standing at 6′ 5″ tall with a 50-inch chest, and weighing between 210 and 250 pounds…Reacher is strong enough to break a man's neck with one hand and kill a villain with a single punch to the head or chest"), star Tom Cruise seems pretty determined to get down to the neck-cracking, despite his smaller frame.
In the film's first teaser trailer, Cruise's Reacher breaks approximately one bone every twenty seconds (you know, other people's bones – it doesn't look like Reacher can even bleed), and no matter how disgusting the necessary sound effects are, it's a riveting little bit of marketing. See just how much Jack Reacher doesn't care about the law (and does care about cracking skulls), after the break.
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Recently my son has joined me in gardening. He has taken a keen interest in hostas and orchids. I have a nice collection of sans and recently re-potting one largely over grown one I cut off three nice sized pups and set them aside. When I was done I asked, 'What am I to do with these? Maybe the compost bin?' Quietly at first he said, 'I can take one. Maybe two or three.' I just chuckled. Next thing I knew they were potted up and off to a new home. I am enjoying this time very much with my son. Paula=^..^= |
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My son just had a birthday this month and turned 28. He has grown up in green houses from California to Florida since he was a small child. Mostly they were filled with cactus. He generally had a few of his own that were the colorful grafted ones. He has been paying attention. He has now managed to beat me out of some of the better deals and knows where the clearance table is in the garden dept. Going to have to watch that child! |
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Hmm my daughter is 7 and properly taking care of a Mammillaria, a Crassula ovata and of course a Sansevieria trifasciata. She already excels her mother in keeping plants alive ;) Our son is yet too little at 4 1/2 Helli |
Sounds great! I share the love about growing plants with my Mom too. If she wasn't 81 and could move around better I'm sure she would have more plants. Every plant she has looks so vigorous and healthy! It's great to share the same interests with (one of your) parents (from a daughters perspective of view). Hope you have many more precious moments with your son! Nicole |
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I predict 2012 will be the year of the calorie. No more low-carb this or cabbage soup that. We will hear more and more about the good ol', simple calorie.
Frankly, I'm thrilled. Some in the health and wellness industry have been chanting "calories" since forever, but we haven't really been listening.
We've preferred the lure promised by off-the-wall eating strategies. We are drawn to them, and the crazier they are, the more we clamor for them. A wacky diet plan has a strange appeal. Calories, by contrast, are boring.
So, instead, we've eaten our way through low-fat to no-fat, low-carb to hCG, vegan and paleo to baby food and grapefruits. Yet 66 percent of us are still overweight, and way too many of us are obese. Either the grapefruits didn't take, or we were sneaking some Milky Ways on the side, hoping an extra grapefruit would offset them.
We've purchased books, watched experts on TV and picked up grocery store magazines — all purporting explanations as to why we are supposedly rendered helpless in the face of fat. Genetics, hormones, pesticides and UFOs have been implicated.
No more. We are about to see the focus put squarely where it belongs: the minuscule calorie.
A calorie is a scientific measure of heat — the amount of energy it takes to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1 degree Celsius. Nutritionally speaking, a calorie measures what food is worth to our bodies when it comes to energy. It takes 3,500 of them make up one pound of fat.
Tracking calories in and calories out removes the mystery of why we sometimes manage to shed a few pounds and sometimes don't. Goodbye to wondering if you were abducted by aliens and injected with fat. Adíos to pondering which diet is better than the other — or if dieting at all is the answer.
By focusing on the calorie, we'll have direct, scale-moving data. We'll all know how much we burn in a day just as readily as we know how tall we are. We will quickly assess the caloric value of that mocha-chip scone before deciding to bite into it.
The thought of this calorie-driven world makes me giddy. Getting fit and healthy — sans the time spent unraveling the myths and false information — will practically be a breeze.
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Ubisoft's Montreal and Toronto studios have new games on the way, as communicated unto the discerning enthusiast public via LinkedIn portfolios.
Montreal's lead game designer Simon Larouche, for instance, has a project in the chamber for Xbox One, PS4 and PC. Unannounced games also appear on the LinkedIn pages of his colleagues Jérôme Lasserre (AI team lead) and Stephanie Seaut (lead level artist) - Seaut's game is an "AAA" game, not that this tells you anything.
What could they be referring to? The strongest possibility is, of course, a new Assassin's Creed. The next game in Ubisoft's history-spanning series is mostly a mystery right now - series writer Darby McDevitt has warned against taking certain Assassin's Creed 5 plot "teasers" too seriously. Black Flag's lead game designer Jean-Sebastien Decant has suggested, however, that the next game might feature open world multiplayer, akin to that of the forthcoming Watch Dogs.
There's also Rainbow Six: Patriots to consider. Announced way back in 2011, the project hit a bit of a wall during the console generation transition, and has been rebooted. Larouche mentions Patriots separately on his LinkedIn portfolio, though, so whatever Secret Thing he's working on, the Rainbow Six don't feature.
Ubisoft Toronto's Chris Smart also has secrets to share. The game in question is presumably a new Splinter Cell, hinted at by Splinter Cell: Blacklist art director Scott Lee last year.
"For next-gen there are a lot of plans in the works, obviously we can't talk about that at the moment but I definitely look forward to seeing Sam in new adventures, bigger and better as we go along," he said at the time. According to animation director Kristjan Zadziuk, the franchise is "still evolving" - it's anyone's guess where the next game might take us, though I'll wager that chokeholds will have a part to play.
Any thoughts, brethren? I want to hear more from Ubisoft Montpellier - they're working on Beyond Good and Evil 2, in theory. Come to think of it, this Gamestop listing may be worth a ponder.


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Why aren't accretion disks around giant stars as hot as accretion disks around black holes?
Material in an accretion disk heats up due to friction within the disk. The basic answer to your question is that the closer you get to a massive object, the more heating occurs, and the hotter the disk gets. Since you can get closer to a black hole (or other compact object, such as a neutron star) than you can to a giant star, accretion disks around compact objects are hotter.
The way to think about this in detail is to imagine each particle in the accretion disk in orbit around the massive object in the center. Closer to the massive object, the force of gravity will be stronger so the particles there get pulled around in faster orbits than the particles which are further away. Therefore, if you imagine two adjacent "rings" of particles centered on the massive object, the ring that is closer to the massive object will be spinning around faster and so it will rub against the ring next to it.
This rubbing between the two "rings" will heat them up due to friction between them. The rate at which heat is generated from this process depends on several factors - for example, how strong the friction is between the two rings. If the accretion disk is made up of material that is very viscous, it will heat up more. As a silly example to make things clear, an imaginary accretion disk made of molasses would heat up more than an imaginary accretion disk made of water! In fact, the source of the viscosity in the material that actually does make up an accretion disk is thought to be due to mixing by turbulent magnetic fields (so it isn't really a "viscosity," technically speaking, although it works in a similar way).
However, for our purposes we don't have to worry about the viscosity - the effect that we really care about is the relative speed of the two rings rubbing against each other. As you can imagine, if the rings are rotating faster with respect to each other, they will "rub" against each other more and generate more heat.
Now, it turns out that the closer you get to a massive object, the greater the relative speeds between two adjacent rings of particles orbiting the object. (To see this, you might need to use a little math. The force of gravity from a massive object is proportional to 1/R2, where R is how far you are from the object. If you play around with some numbers you can see that if R is small, changing R by a little bit will give you a big difference in the gravitational force. That means that if you are very close to the massive object, the gravitational force on two adjacent rings will be very different, so the inner ring will get pulled around in a much faster orbit than the outer ring, and the relative speed between the rings will be larger than the relative speed between two adjacent rings further out.)
So what does this all have to do with the difference between giant stars and compact objects? Simply that with a giant star, the accretion disk can't get very close to the center of mass! If you try to get too close, you will suddenly find yourself hitting the surface of the star and entering into it. But if you imagine a compact object of the same mass as the giant star, then by definition it is a lot smaller so you can have an accretion disk extending much closer to the object's center. In the inner part of this accretion disk, the "rings" of material will be rubbing against each other very hard, so this part of the accretion disk will get very hot.
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Clothes for the Camino de Santiago aren't necessarily critical equipment, but if you choose right, you'll be cool when you want to be, and warm when you need it. Mostly the former.
You want something to shade your face. So at minimum, a baseball cap will do. I saw one guy who had cut up a t-shirt and sewed it to the back of a ball cap to cover the back of his neck. I wore a Tilley Airflobroad brimmed hat, which shades not only your face, but your whole head and neck. It has a great sweatband, and, one of my favorite features, ties front and back, which make it pretty impossible to blow off your head. It's washable and dries quickly. I often on hot days would soak it in a fountain, shake it off and wear it. It felt great. Again, I've had this hat for years, and if I were buying again, I might go for a cheaper alternative. The Tilley hat now costs around $72 and there are lots of others out there for a lot less.
As with all your clothes, you want lightweight and quick drying. I'm a big fan of Ex Officio brand and wore their ExOfficio Give-N-Go Boxersmany days. I also had a pair of Under Armour boxers,which I alternated with the Give-N-Go. I like the Ex Officios better for a couple of reasons. They were just more comfortable, and they dried faster. Next time, I'm sticking with Ex Officio, but am going with the Boxer Brief, which offers a little more support. My wife wore ExOfficio Give-N-Go Bikini Briefsand said they were great.
Again, I went with Under Armour HeatGear and it was just fine, although if I had it to do over, I'd probably go with ExOfficio Give-N-Go Teeor Columbia. The Under Armour stuff took longer to dry, and wasn't as cool as I would have liked.
Long-sleeve shirt
Ex Officio again. This time the ExOfficio Men's Air Strip Lite Long Sleeve Shirt.It's vented on the sides and back, has expanding pockets, and a collar that you can turn up or down depending on the sun. I wore it over my t-shirt at the beginning of every day, then shed it as the sun got higher and warmer. It washed out easily every night, and was usually the first thing on the line to dry. And, it weighs less than 0.2 kg (6 ounces.) There are now variations of this shirt that are impregnated with insect repellent, which would have come in handy on some days along the Camino. Next time, perhaps. I carried two of these in light colors. You'll want light colors if you wear them in the Spanish heat.
Rain jacket
As I mentioned before, some people had a poncho that also covered the pack, but I decided to go with a separate pack cover and rain jacket because you can also wear the rain jacket just for warmth on a cool night or morning. I had a Columbia (www.columbia.com) Omni-Tech rain jacket, which worked great for warmth and rain, but frankly was a little warm when the rain came during the warmth of the day. I sometimes ended up wearing the jacket unzipped so I wouldn't overheat while walking in the rain.
Columbia lightweight pants with zip off bottoms. Very light and quick drying, and easy to zip the bottoms off and on. Often, I'd start a cool day with the bottoms on, and zip them off when I took off my shirt when it got warm. Two pairs are a good idea. I like, too, the cargo pockets, where I carried my sunglasses in one and a kerchief in the other. I carried my money and credit cards in the zip front pocket, where they were easy to get to, yet there was no danger of them falling out.
Clothes for the albergue and evenings out. I had a pair of gym shorts (Adidas Cool Mesh or something like that, with pockets) a Patagonia short sleeve quick dry sport shirt, and the above-mentioned Teva flip flops. If I needed warmth, I added my spare ExOfficio long sleeve shirt or my rain jacket.
Again, I went with Columbia. Their black leather card case with money clipwhich has enough space for about three cards and a money clip is all you need. Also, you can carry a copy of your passport here, just in case you need identification. I always carried this in my zipped front pants pocket. (I carried my actual passport deep in my pack where it would be hard to get to. I never needed it on the Camino. The copy always sufficed for those albergues or hotels who required ID.)


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I am still pretty afraid of new people so I am going to need some extra TLC while I get used to my new home. Because I am still a bit of a scaredy cat the people at the Haven do not think I should go to a home with young children. I am starting to seek attention from people that I do know and I am quite a funny boy. I have been to the vet and had a big haircut (the lady who cut my hair says I have very soft Shirley Temple curls!) I would love a doggie friend or an owner who would take me to the dog park sometimes because I get along just great with dogs and love to play. Hope I find my new family soon.
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- Rescues and shelter volunteers in Antioch already know the personality and tendencies of their pets. This means they can match you with the right pet. That will makes it much easier transition to owning a pet for yourself and your new pet.
- On average adoption fees are much less than you'd pay a Antioch breeder, or pet store. Plus most often rescue pets have already been to the veterinarian for a check-up, had a round of vaccinations, and are spayed or neutered. That is a lot of savings!
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Healthy Snacks to Keep at the Office
by Robin Miller in Robin's Healthy Take, March 4, 2013
Morning and afternoon snacks (whether at home or at work) not only squelch hunger pangs, they offer additional opportunities to incorporate vitamins, minerals and fiber during the day, important nutrients that you can't always get in your average three square meals. It just takes a handful of ingredients and a little creativity to make gourmet snacks that will make you the envy of the office. Just remember this when planning: Including fiber and protein in your snacks will keep you satisfied for hours (not true of a candy bar or handful of pretzels).
Healthy Snacks to Keep in the Office:
Note: Some snacks require a refrigerator, freezer or ice pack, but they are well worth it.
Roasted red pepper hummus with cut-up bell peppers and zucchini, baby carrots and cherry tomatoes
Frozen grapes dipped in lowfat vanilla yogurt (freeze grapes the night before)
Pumpernickel bread squares with spreadable herbed cheese (such as Boursin or Alouette)
Olive tapenade on whole-wheat pita, whole-grain crackers or a whole-wheat sandwich thin
Part-skim ricotta cheese mixed with diced oil-packed sundried tomatoes and fresh basil; spread on Triscuits or whole-grain crackers or served with whole-wheat pretzels
Light vegetable cream cheese stuffed into mini sweet peppers (also known as vine sweet mini peppers)
Mixed unsalted nuts with dried cherries or dried cranberries
Dried mango and pineapple dipped in lowfat lime or lemon yogurt
Instant oatmeal with slivered almonds
Sliced apples dipped in nut butter (peanut, almond, pine nut, pecan, cashew, pistachio, macadamia, hazelnut, Brazil) or seed butter (hemp, sesame, pumpkin, apricot)
Fresh green beans dipped in lowfat herbed cheese (like Laughing Cow)
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2011 Record: 86-76, 2nd NL West
2011 Prediction: 88-74, 2nd NL West
Impact Player: 3B Pablo Sandoval
Impact Pitcher: LHP Madison Bumgarner
Best Reliever: RHP Sergio Romo
Top Prospect: CF Gary Brown
Last Year
After surprisingly winning the 2010 World Series on the strength of an all-world pitching staff, the Giants took a bit of a step back in 2011. Their pitching was still excellent, but their bad lineup and questionable defense were even worse and they wound up with 86 wins. That number still should have been enough to win the weak NL West division, unfortunately the Arizona Diamondbacks went bananas and stole the division.
As has been well documented on this website, the Giants made (and continue to make), well, let's call them questionable roster decisions. Despite having one of the premier prospect bats in all of baseball in Brandon Belt, the Giants refused to give him anything in the way of regular playing time in 2011, instead electing to start 240-pound paper weight Aubrey Huff. To top it off, it looks as though the same storyline is about to take hold for this season as well with Belt potentially starting the year in AAA despite having a monster spring.
There offense and overall roster construction may be questionable, but there's no denying the Giants ability to develop top flight pitching. Tim Lincecum, Matt Cain and Madison Bumgarner are all back for 2012 and have the potential to rival the effectiveness of even the Phillies' big three of Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee and Cole Hamels.
Lincecum is widely regarded as the ace of the staff. Since really taking off in 2008, the two-time Cy Young Award winner is fifth to only Halladay, Lee, C.C. Sabathia, and Justin Verlander in fWAR. That being said, there are some (minor) concerns with Timmy! given his strikeout- and walk-rate have been in steady decline in each of the last two years, as has his velocity. Still, even a "regressed" Timmy! is a force to be reckoned with; he finished with a 4.4 fWAR last season.
Cain is certainly helped out by the pitcher-friendly nature of AT&T Park, but last year he took a big step forward by increasing his groundball rate and lowering his already solid homer-rate. His 5.2 fWAR was a career-best, and he managed an xFIP under 4.00 for the first time.
Bumgarner, who's still just 22-years-old, is probably the best of the three. He led the team last season with a 3.10 xFIP and a 5.5 fWAR, finishing sixth and fourth in the NL respectively in those two categories. I'm just going to go ahead and say it right now: Madison Bumgarner is going to win the NL Cy Young Award. Given my obvious superiority in predicting outcomes of baseball seasons, you should probably immediately call Vegas and book it.
Although he's expected to start the year on the DL, Ryan Vogelsong will eventually slide in as the fourth starter on the team. Last year, he shocked everyone by posting a 2.71 ERA and a 2.4 fWAR in 179.2 innings of work after not pitching in the Big Leagues since 2006! He was aided slightly by AT&T Park, posting a 4.29 xFIP away from home, but he should still be good enough as a fourth starter considering just how good the first three are.
The fifth starter will be Barry Zito, which is really just unfortunate for everyone. The Giants are still paying him too much to just cut him loose and he really can't be that bad, can he? The answer is yes. Yes, he can be that bad.
The Giants once again return one of the best bullpens in baseball for 2012 with closer Brian Wilson and dominating setup man Sergio Romo. Wilson was okay last year, but certainly wasn't as good as he was in 2010 and many speculate that he's actually hurt. Romo, on the other hand, is better than just about anyone. His 13.97 K/BB ratio is the stuff dreams are made of. Wet dreams. Too bad manager Bruce Bochy only found a use for him in 48 innings last year (seriously, guys?).
Santiago Casilla is also back after his 1.74 ERA a year ago, but don't expect a repeat in that performance. His 4.35 BB/9 is far too high for sustained success at that rate. Joining him in middle-relief will be lefties Jeremy Affeldt and Javier Lopez who both had xFIPs on the good side of 3.00 against lefties last season. Veteran Guillermo Mota and swingman Clay Hensley are expected to fill the final two bullpen spots with Dan Runzler and Dan Otero still hanging around.
It would be pretty hard for the Giants to repeat their awful 570-run performance of last year, mostly just because scoring that few runs is really hard to do. The only player in the lineup last season that finished with a wOBA above .330 was third baseman Pablo Sandoval who once again proved that you can be portly and still be damn good at baseball. Not only did he rate out impressively on defense according to most of the metrics, Sandoval had an excellent 142 wRC+ and 23 homeruns. He has become an elite third baseman.
Buster Posey is back after missing most of last year with a terrible ankle injury and barring a setback, should find his way to the middle of the Giants order. Before getting hurt in May, Posey had a solid .338 wOBA and was on his way to a very good year. Although he'll see some time at first base to ease himself back in, he should resume the everyday catching duties.
The Giants continued refusal to play Belt at first base is truly mind-numbing. Although he didn't light the world on fire at the Major League level last year, he still had a 98 wRC+ which would suggest that he was at least close to average in his 209 plate appearances. Close to average on the Giants makes him one of their best hitters, yet still Aubrey Huff and his 84 wRC+ and general uselessness saw far more time. It appears as though, at least to start the year, that madness will continue.
The rest of the Giants lineup leaves much to be desired. Melky Cabrera was acquired from the Royals for underachieving lefthander Jonathan Sanchez and he's expected to start in leftfield. He was terrific in Kansas City in 2011, finishing with a .349 wOBA and a 4.2 fWAR, but his high batted-ball average suggests regression. Still, he's better than most of the hitters in this lineup.
In centerfield will be another offseason acquisition in Angel Pagan who was acquired from the Mets. Now 30, he's tapped out most of his potential and is at best an average hitter with suspect defense in centerfield. In rightfield will probably be Nate Schierholtz who is a decent all-around player, but is probably best suited to be a good fourth outfielder.
The middle infield will be interesting. The Giants may actually break camp with Brandon Crawford as their short stop and Emmanuel Burriss as their second baseman. Starting second baseman Freddy Sanchez missed all but 60 games last year with shoulder problems and isn't expected to be healthy to start the year so Burriss could see a majority of the playing time in his stead. Ryan Theriot could fill in but isn't really any better and Mike Fontenot was just released.
The backup catcher will be Eli Whiteside who was forced to fill in as the starter last year with Posey's injury. He had a very Giants-like 55 wRC+ and should never be counted on as anything more than a backup or third catcher. Chris Stewart could also fill the role if Whiteside can't handle it. The extra outfielder will probably be Gregor Blanco and utility player Brett Pill may also make the team. Belt may find his way on to the Opening Day Roster on the bench in Vogelsong's roster spot.
For a detailed look at the Giants' roster, click here.
The Giants should hit a little more than they did last year, if from nothing else except a dead-cat-bounce phenomenon. Still, having Posey back and having Cabrera at all should help and if they ever figure out that Brandon Belt makes them significantly better, maybe they'll score more runs than the Padres. Their pitching, however, is so good that they won't need to score more than a run or two to have a chance at winning most nights. Providing there's no D'Backs-like surprise this year, they should be the favourite to win the division.
2012 Prediction: 88-74, 1st NL West
And that concludes the Getting Blanked 2012 Previews. I hope you've enjoyed their irreverence! There will be a wrap up of all the previews on Monday.


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Islamic dreams about Granted Wishes find dream interpretations. Meanings & explanations for Granted Wishes dictionary!
Granted Wishes dream interpretations
Reciting Surah Alaq Dream Explanation
— He will be
longevity and his status will be raised.
Reciting Surah Naas Dream Explanation
— Its reader will be safeguarded against all calamities and
refuge from the accursed devil.
Reciting Surah Ahzaab Dream Explanation
— Its reader will praise his family members; he will be
longevity; and he will be very cunning to his friends.
Reciting Surah Dukhaan Dream Explanation
— The One who recites it in his dream will be safeguarded against harms caused by oppressors; he will also be
protection from the chastisement of the grave and punishment of hell-fire. He will not weaken in his belief.
Opening a Closed or Locked Door Dream Explanation
— If the house whose door is being opened is known to him it means he will marry. If not, it means his Dua's will be
Amnesty Dream Explanation
— (Absolution; Acquittal; Pardon) To be
amnesty in a dream means a safe passage in real life. (Also see Pardon)
Mounting an Ox or Bull Dream Explanation
— Mounting an ox or becoming the owner of one means the person will be
such a position by the king that other deputies of the king will be subservient to him. Moreover, by virtue of his status he will acquire good fortunes.
Becoming a Nabi Dream Explanation
— If anyone sees that he has become(any) one of the former apostles of Allah it means that he will be afflicted with similar hardships suffered by that particular Nabi. But he will finally attain success and be
acceptance in both the worlds. His grief and sorrow sill also come to an end.
Incident Dream Explanation
— A person said to Imaam Jafar (RA) that he dreamed that he was soaking in the rain for one full day and night. The Imaam exclaimed: "How wonderful a dream you have seen! You are being soaked in the rahmath and bounties of Allah. You will be
peace and rizq in abundance".
Dyeing the Hair of the Head Dream Explanation
— Dyeing the hair symbolises concealment and protection. Thus, if a person sees himself dyeing his hair it means that Allah will protect him from the evil consequences of what he intends to do. But if the dye does not stick to his hair, it means he will not be
Mina Dream Explanation
— (Pilgrims camp; Pilgrimage) Seeing oneself in Mina in a dream means fulfilling one's
in this world and in the next, and it could mean dispelling all fears. (Also see Arafat; Circumambulation; Cradle of Ismail; Kabah; Muzdalifa; Pelting stones; Pilgrimage; Responding; Station of Abraham; Umrah)
Ascending Dream Explanation
— Seeing oneself ascending ordinarily (as in real life) means one will attain honour, dignity and an elevated postion. Such ascension is indeed, an enviable one. In general, ascension or climbing represents one's honour and dignity in worldly and religious matters. At other times, climbing a mountain or tree suggests that the beholder will be
protection against calamities of all sorts.
Run Dream Explanation
— • Running: Triumph over enemies.
• Running on a horse, camel, or any such animal or on one's feet: Request will be
speedily; escape and salvage from a fearful matter. It could also mean trying to flee from God Almighty or the Angel of Death, in which case the dreamer is doomed to perish.
• A dead person running: (1) Danger is gone. (2) The dreamer has fallen short of achieving a certain goal and feels bitter about it.
Insult Dream Explanation
— The rule in such dreams is that the aggressed is always better than the aggressor, as the aggressed must ultimately triumph.
• Being insulted by a person: (1) The dreamer will be harmed by that person, then triumph over him. (2) The one who insults owes something to the dreamer and is duty-bound to settle it.
• Insulting someone: The dreamer
to kill him.
Ornaments Dream Explanation
— (Decoration) In a dream, ornaments are a sign of poverty. If one sees the world decorated for him and he is able to ask for whatever he
from it in a dream, it means that he will become poor, or that he may face destruction. As for unusual ornaments that are not recognizable, or decorated lands one does not recognize, then ornaments are a good sign, and the same goes for wearing customary or traditional ornaments one is used to adorn himself with. (Also see Earrings; Gem; Gold; Necklace)
Prostatic Dream Explanation
— Dreaming of prostatic discharge or lubricating secretions means: (1) Surplus and nondurable money, as opposed to semen. It could also mean money that the dreamer
to increase without exerting much efforts. (2) Waste of money. (3) The dreamer's land will be revived. (4) The dreamer's secret will be unveiled. (5) Wife will not be available. (6) Death of the dreamer's children.
Mercy Dream Explanation
— (Compassion) Seeing a merciful person showing compassion toward a weak person in a dream means clarity about one's spiritual commitment, and that one's religious devotion will grow stronger. If one sees himself being treated with mercy in a dream, it means that he will receive forgiveness. If one is
divine mercy in a dream, it means that he is endowed with favors and blessings. If one sees himself being merciful and happy in a dream, it means that he will memorize the holy Quran by heart.
Betrothal Dream Explanation
— (Betrothal here is in the sense of engagement.)
• Getting betrothed to a lady: The dreamer is striving in life and will succeed as much as he was accepted by the lady and/or her parents.
• Getting betrothed to an already married woman: The dreamer will not get what he is aiming for.
• Getting betrothed to a woman who desires you: Life is smiling on you.
• Asking for a very beautiful lady's hand in marriage and being accepted:
will be fulfilled, good augury, and joy.
Bathing in the River Dream Explanation
— Bathing in the river or sea and not experiencing any fear, panic or humiliation suggest deliverance from afflictions: if the observer of the dream is grief stricken, his grief will be removed an replaced with happiness; if he is suffering from a disease or sickness, he will be cured; if he is in straitened circumstances, Allah will grant him relief; if he is afflicted with debts, Allah will have them fulfilled; if he is imprisoned, Allah will grant him freedom. All this is in the light of this Quranic verse wherein He commands Ayyoob (AS) : Strike with you foot. This spring of water is for bathing, cooling and drinking. And We
him his family and doubled their number as a special grace from ourselves and a commemoration for all who have understanding.
Gutter of Mercy Dream Explanation
— (Mizaab) If one sees the Gutter of Mercy in a dream, which is located on the roof of the Holy Kabah in Mecca inside a mosque or a house in a dream, it carries the same interpretation as that of seeing the Well of Zamzam in a dream. Standing under the Gutter of Mercy at the Holy Kabah in a dream means that one's
will come true, and particularly if pure fresh water pours through it. However, if murky water comes through it, then it mean the opposite. (Also see Gutter; Kabah; Zamzam)


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By Sarah Thornton. Comment, Issue 193, July-August 2008Published online: 01 August 2008
Beautiful Inside My Head Forever" sounds like the name of a new work by Damien Hirst, but it's actually the title of his solo sale at Sotheby's. The ambiguity is appropriate because Hirst's rank as an artist is inextricably linked to his status as a headline commanding businessman who wields considerable power over the buying and selling of his own work. The "Beautiful" auction raises many questions, including: Is Hirst sabotaging his own market? On several stands at Art Basel last month, new and vintage Hirst works remained unsold. Hirst's studios are not only extremely efficient in keeping his official dealers well stocked with a good range of spot, spin, and butterfly paintings, but in making direct sales themselves. At a time when some gallerists are experiencing a minor slowdown, one dealer suspected the artist of orchestrating an "end-of-boom fire sale" to accommodate his alleged over-production. True believers, however, see Hirst's abundant serial output as essential to his oeuvre. Harry Blain, director of Haunch of Venison, whose backroom is busy in the trade of Hirst works, explained: "Just as Warhol and Picasso were highly productive, it is an important aspect of Damien's market that he is prolific. There need to be enough works in circulation to sustain the growing global demand."
Are primary dealers becoming cuckolds? Sotheby's Senior International Specialist Oliver Barker claims that the sale has "the wholehearted support of Damien's dealers…who recognise his rulebreaking charisma." However, Jay Jopling, owner of White Cube, sounds a tad ambivalent. "8,601 flawless diamonds notwithstanding, ours has never been a traditional marriage," he said in Sotheby's press release, evoking the financial sacrifice his gallery made to co-own Hirst's diamond skull when it didn't sell outright. One collector close to both Jopling and Gagosian told me, "I love Damien's work, but his treatment of his business partners is abusive and selfish." Certainly many gallerists believe the auction is "a horrible precedent". However, some view the sale as an almost philosophical event. As dealer-collector David Mugrabi explains, "It seems to be a game for Damien. He's seeing if he can get away with murder, just as Duchamp did with his urinal."What are the strategies of the auction houses with regard to the primary market? Whilst Sotheby's goes public with a straight-from-the-studio sale and is rumoured to be courting Takashi Murakami, Christie's buys the multi-location primary gallery Haunch of Venison. According to Haunch's director, "The two auction houses have entirely different approaches and relationships. Christie's vision is more considered. It recognises the best interests of artists themselves. Damien is one of the few who could pull this off." Interestingly, Phillips de Pury aligns itself with Sotheby's move as senior partner, Michaela Neumeister, asserts, "This Hirst sale would have been a perfect project for Phillips. It's so fast-forward. We have been the crossover pioneers of morphing business models. Art is all about transforming and border testing, but the dealer logic has been very conservative." However, when artists become their own dealers, Dr Neumeister says, "I worry for their freedom and their peace of mind. It's time consuming and distracting. That's why it's great Damien has his alter ego. Frank Dunphy [the artist's business manager] is a genius."What will the auction contain? The answer to this question is the key to the success or failure of this high-risk event. With its solid gold eighteen-carat hooves and horns, The Golden Calf is either a decadent masterpiece or a derivative work targeting a nouveau billionaire. In the end, it is important to note that the sale is not guaranteed and to remember that Hirst's personal collection is called "Murder Me". So, one must agree with Sotheby's Oliver Barker when he declares, "Damien is totally fearless. He's not just an outstanding artist, he's a cultural phenomenon." The writer is a regular contributor to The Art Newspaper. Her book, Seven Days in the Art World, is published by Granta in the UK in October and WW Norton in the US in November
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13 for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live; | 13 For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, |
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Article brought to you by: Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)In spite of high unemployment, many job positions left unfilled
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
January 13th, 2012 Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) With high unemployment rife across the United States, the logical
conclusion would be those that are hiring have a wide pool from which to
draw upon. That's not the case, as more than half of U.S. employers say
they're having difficulty filling job openings because they couldn't
find qualified workers. The survey, conducted by the staffing firm
Manpower Group found a huge 38 percentage point jump from 2010, when
only 14 percent said they were having trouble filling positions. Others think that there are other factors making it difficult for employers to connect with the right employees. "Employers have been spoiled by the recession," Melanie Holmes, a vice president with Manpower Group says. Some think that the nation's high unemployment rate left many recruiters feeling they didn't have to expend effort to find a great candidate, and they could skimp on money or benefits. Employers also may not be willing to spend the time or money training someone for a highly specialized job, or one that requires unique skills. "Employers are getting pickier and pickier," Holmes said. "We want the perfect person to walk through the door." Employers just aren't working as hard as they used to recruit workers, either because they can't afford to or they don't feel like they have to. Steven J. Davis, a professor at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, regularly tracks "recruiting intensity per vacancy," or how hard employers are looking for the right employees. Davis says that recruiting intensity declined a lot at the onset of the financial crisis in 2008. With economic recovery weak, Davis says that "maybe most employers don't feel a great sense of urgency in order to increase their ranks." Davis thinks one big issue is the plethoras of mostly male workers who may have made a decent living in low-skill construction or manufacturing jobs but now find they can no longer get a job in those fields - and don't have the education or training to get a different job. "There's a generation of young men who might have gotten the training to become a health care tech but instead they're working in the construction sector, and it's difficult to make that transition if you're now in your early 30s and you've been earning a good living in construction," he said. However -- the gap between what employers want and which workers are available isn't nearly enough to explain the nation's high unemployment rate. Heidi Shierholz, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute notes that unemployment rates are elevated across most industries and all education levels, which is a sign that there simply aren't enough jobs to go around. Article brought to you by: Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) |