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It's October for the Real Housewives, and you know what that means: do you? Because I have no idea what that means. These women's lives are such vacuous shadowplays of human existence, shuttled from one publicity event to the next, constantly grasping with ghost claws at whatever shred of meaning they can find in the purchase of a handbag or the somewhat mean-spirited reference in a third-tier gossip column, that I can't honestly believe that the changing of the seasons holds any real meaning for them. Maybe they sling a coat over their arm for the red carpet photographers on their way into yet another teeth whitening product release party? So they opt to push the pomegranate-scented calamari around on their plate indoors instead of out? When they trace the razor up and down the length of their forearm, they push it in a little deeper, just enough to leave a crease, before burying their heads in their hands and sobbing?
Or nothing. It means nothing at all.
So LuAnn's daughter is home for the first time since leaving for boarding school. Now that I know she's getting divorced, I can't help but watch her scenes of domestic bliss (or if not bliss, then at least quiet resignation) with a somewhat more charitable attitude. It's not that she's any less ridiculous or nightmarish of a person. She's the (second) absolute worst (after Kelly), and no amount of divorce will change that. But that's the sweet sting of dramatic irony. Watching her putt around her Upper East Side townhouse like she doesn't have a care in the world, because she doesn't–she hardly even cares about her children–all the while knowing that in just a few short months this sham world is going to collapse on her in a publicly humiliating way, well, you know, a lot of nervous laughter is involved.
Is that a dude dressed up as Chun Li from the Street Fighter videogame? Of course not, that would be ridiculous.
Speaking of publicly humiliating, can we talk about Jill's interview with the BBC?
Jill Zarin does one good deed a day, anywhere from holding a door for someone to holding an elevator door for someone. She's basically a charity factory. Look, I'm not saying that Jill wasn't put in a tough position. No one who is that out of touch with how the world works should be asked to explain anything, ever. I feel like you could interview Jill Zarin about her feelings on lattes and you'd get a couple of pretty serious gaffes. And I do get the sense that she donates some of her husband's fortune to trying to making the world a better place. But, like, it's not "funny" that the BBC guy said Africa. When you're talking about economic inequalities in the world, Africa is a totally common and incredibly legitimate counter-example to a recently renovated penthouse apartment. That's just not how cute anecdotal coincidences work.
The thing I don't understand is Jill's insistence on constantly talking about how hard the economy is. Jill, stop doing that.
Meanwhile, Kelly is having new headshots taken. For what? Her Facebook profile? She was using some "slightly" out of date photos and people were writing on her wall like "R u rlly 16?" and finally she was like "Maybe it is time 4 a change." Because of how she's 40. 40′s not an insult, obviously. I am well into my 40s. But I feel like for her it is an insult, and so it must be constantly repeated. By Kelly's math, she's halfway to 50! But she looks good for 40. On the outside. On the inside she looks really really bad for any age.
Anyway, new headshots.
So she decides to use them for an invitation to a Halloween party, and she actually says "I knew that people would say 'oh my god, that's so great. That's so cool' and then they'd want to be a part of it." Those are words that left her mouth. Although, to be fair, later she said that she was a mom so she didn't want to dress outrageously for Halloween, which is why she chose this subtle, tasteful mom costume. Or momstume.
Total MILK. The point being, it's not like Kelly ever has any idea what the fuck she is talking about. The inside of her brain is like a bunch of Cheetos stuck inside a tub of cream cheese.
So everyone is mad at Kelly because she showed up really late to her party and they were all standing around like (more of) a bunch of assholes (than usual). Fair enough, although shouldn't everyone always be mad at Kelly for the simple fact that she's a wretched, wretched monster? I feel like the party is just grease icing on the poison cake.
Also, Alex finally shows Bethenny the logo she's been designing for Skinny Girl.
Wow. It's weird that Alex got fired from her graphic design job, since she's so good at it. Sarcasm. That is literally the worst thing I have ever seen. Unless Bethenny is changing the name of her company to Whoops That's Our Logo, in which case, perfect.
And Simon?
Still gay.
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OSCAR THE CONCH | Posted on Apr 22nd, 2009 -2
We need a .GIF of the Moose strangling Sarah Palin. Also, a .GIF of the moose putting the gun in his crotch, and in his giant nose holes.
Someone please give Simon his own reality show… please
So I take it you don't like the show What is so funny about the New York Housewives is that they have to instigate fake fights in order to seem mildly interesting – honestly if they film another crappy tennis match I'm going to wonder about the common sense of the advertisers who keep that show going.
Anyway the Housewives of New Jersey look like they're even crazier.
Thought some people may find Alex's article on job hunting of interest: "I'd love to play Lady Macbeth at Lincoln Center but somehow I think people who know me as a Real Housewife aren't ready for that, nor would it replace my income."
lorraine | Posted on Apr 22nd, 2009 +1
it's really says something about how horrible all the housewives are when Alex and Simon look like somewhat normal, down-to-earth people– in the same episode that they buy a $7000 feed-bag corset. The scene when they were carving pumpkins with their kids, decorating the front steps with cheapy-looking decorations, and goofing off in silly hats and glasses was actually kind of heartwarming compared to the other parenting moments we saw that night– Kelly's momstume, LuAnn's self-obsessed shopping spree with her daughter, Ramona's kid's obvious hatred of her parents… yech.
That being said, yeah, Simon's still gay.
Vampires Suck | Posted on Apr 23rd, 2009 +1
Since we're on the topic of gay husbands, has anyone else checked out Ramona's website? http://www.ramonasinger.com/
I just went to Ramona's website and clicked on her bio, and it reads, "She graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, with a B.S. Degree in Business."
A BS Degree. In Business. From the Fashion Institute. I just checked, and FIT does not offer a BS in Business. Or any degree in Business. Cause it's a Fashion School. Guess we know what the "BS" stands for.
Vampires Suck | Posted on Apr 23rd, 2009 0
I like how the bio doesn't mention anything about her daughter or gay husband.
Nick | Posted on Apr 22nd, 2009 +1
Bad-ass Cibo Matto CD, Gabe.
Hapax2 | Posted on Apr 22nd, 2009 +2
Gabe, you probably don't realize it, but you are one of the best writers on the whole wide web. Your first paragraph above, for instance, took my breath away. ". . . another tooth whitening product release party" – it wrenches the heart.
Vampires Suck | Posted on Apr 23rd, 2009 0
What's up with the Love Field DART photo? Dallas is flat. Love Field is downtown. That picture makes no sense.
Brenna | Posted on Apr 24th, 2009 +1
That BBC guy is a dick. I am not excusing anything that Jill says ever, but that BBC guy is full of shite. He caused it too. His country as well. I get the sense that he is saying bloated, overpaid Americans are at fault. Sorry mate, the problems your economy didn't happen to it; your country was a part of this too.


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I'm gonna show you how to install the overhead compass and temperature gauge into your Tacoma if you don't already have it installed from the factory.
First off, get ahold of one of these bad boys:
I got it from our member Sideways. He steals them out of cars. He'll have another sometime soon I'm sure. Mostly because he steals them out of cars. He packed me a sending unit with the console. For a bit i thought maybe you could take the compass out of the console and install it into your own console.. but because of the riveted tabs that would make it very hard to do. Might as well install the whole thing unless you wanna go nutty on an expensive part.. I don't.
So now lets find the plug for the sending unit for the temperature gauge portion of the console. You have to fish for it a bit.. for me, it was tucked away and taped BEHIND the horns. Here's a picture of it looped around in tape off to the left.. (i was laying on the ground, looking up)
The best way to approach this is around the hood latch and reach your hand under the horns and pull the tape away:
Now lets grab the sending unit
and install it into the new found plug
Here is the stock location for the temp sending unit. The sending unit's white clip attaches it to the hood latch bracket
We're done here. Time to move inside. I have already done the mod to make the map lights come on with the dome light. I'll show you how to move that mod over to the new console too!
Start by unscrewing the only screw in this entire mod, located inside the cup holder:
Pull down on the front of the console. Its held on by these little snap connectors, so give it a good yank and it'll come loose
Slide it forward and unhook the back of the console from the headliner. It will be very obvious
You'll have the two plugs only if you have not done the dome light mod.. for me, that black wire is my dome light mod's wire.
Now lets walk our old console inside next to the new one. (Again, these are steps you can skip if you have not and will not do the dome light mod.) Notice where my diode is.. this was an awesome spot. I want to resolder it in the same place on the new console. I left it tooo exposed last time, so i'll clean that up a bit.
So lets unsolder that guy
New console:
Tada. now I'm just gonna clean up my own install a bit. You can also see how i'm expecting to connect the black wire still in my truck to this console with that clip at the end. I like this because it makes the console removable.
Now just reverse the process to get it back up there. I hooked up my black wire first, then hooked up the two plugs. Install the back of the console first with the hooks and then snap the snap connectors in. I'd have pictures of this, but it got dark. So here is proof that both the mod for the dome light AND my temperature / compass actually work.
Good times.
Now, if you just wanted to add JUST the temp unit directly to your unit in the space where the garage door opener is on your current unit, Car15 figured out how to do it. Below is a picture and description, found on page 3 of this thread:
He ended up using epoxy on the tabs, and screws/washers where the plastic rivets go.
You need to have the two parts (the temp screen/unit itself and the cover plate) Good
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A month back, he could only manage a jump of 7.92 metres at the Asian athletics championships, which was good enough for silver.
On Monday, K. Prem Kumar broke the 8m barrier with a new National-record jump of 8.09m, winning gold at the Railways athletics championships.
"If this jump had come then, I would be leaving for the World Championships tonight," he said with a grin after the event.
The 20-year old from Chennai, already being spoken of as the next best thing in Indian long jump, is not disappointed. "In fact, I jumped 8.12 in a qualifying event in the US two weeks back but because it was wind-aided, it didn't count. But I knew then that I could do it. I cannot explain the feeling. When I jumped today, I knew I had made it. I was only praying it not to be a foul," he said.
The previous record was with Amritpal Singh, set way back in 2004. The meet record dates back even further — 7.79 by Sanjay Kumar Rai in 1998. Prem broke that record with only his third jump of 7.95m.
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"Till the end, I was second, with all my throws ending between 44 and 45m. Mukesh Kumari (who finished second with a throw of 47.02m) was leading at that point. But a small correction in my technique helped me overhaul the mark," she said. Earlier, a wet, delayed start to the three-day event gave no indications of things to come. The performances in the first half of the day on Day One were just average. V.S. Surekha remained unchallenged as the pole vault queen of the country, winning with a jump of 3.90m.
The first events of the day were the preliminary rounds of the men's and women's 400m and 1500m respectively, held in pouring rain, and most runners appeared content simply crossing the finish line among the top three to qualify for the finals.
Action started more than an hour behind schedule with the men's discus throw the first to be completed. Meet record holder Vikas Poonia retained gold but his throw of 49.86 metres was far below his own personal best and the meet record of 55.82m — set in the last edition.
Jhuma Khatun upset meet record holder O.P. Jaisha to win gold in the 1500m with a time of four minutes, 25.51 seconds while in the 400m women, Chavi Sherawat won gold. However, Sini Jose, appearing in her first competitive outing since completing a two-year ban for doping, was rusty and a pale shadow of herself.
The results: Men: 400m: 1. Bibin Mathew 47.59; 2. Neeraj Panwar 48.41; 3. Vishamber Kolekar 48.67; 1500m: 1. Sajeesh Joseph 4:01.13; 2. H. Lathiyan 4:01.41; 3. Vipul Rana 4:02.17.
Long jump: 1. K Prem Kumar 8.09 (NR, old 8.08); 2. Nikhil Chittrasu 7.71; 3. Rositto Sax (7.60); Dicus: 1. Vikas Poonia 49.86; 2. Sunil Kumar 48.86; 3. Karan Singh 48.15.
Women: 400m: 1. Chavi Sherwat 55.71; 2. Priyanka Mondal 55.84; 3. Sarita 56.42; 1500m: 1. Jhuma Khatun 4:25.51; 2. O. P. Jaisha 4:26.30; 3. Sushma Devi 4:34.23; Pole vault: 1. V. S. Surekha 3.90; 2. Dija K. C. 3.50; 3. Anusha K. P. 3.50; Javelin throw: 1. Saraswathi 52.18; 2. Mukesh Kumari 47.02; 3. N. M. Hemlatha 40.28.


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A balloon is moved by tapping it up in the air.
Balloons are rubbed on the clothing and are stuck to the wall.
A balloon is blown up on the starting line and then let go.
The group must try to make different pieces of music with the balloons.
Try and encourage their own balloon (with the help of a spoon) into a basket
Try to find out who the description belongs to.
Catch a balloon, sit on it and perform the task inside it.
A water balloon is catapulted back and forth with a hand towel.
The water filled balloon is thrown as far as possible.
Various tasks in one run from A to B to C to D.
Each team must collect items without letting the balloon fall on the ground.
A skateboard rider pulls himself along the rope for the entire length of the rope.
A skateboarder lies on the skateboard and is pushed along by the others.
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How many skittles can the skateboarder knock over with his head?
The skateboarder starts off on a ramp and tries to roll as far as possible.
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Using the mouth to pick up bonbons and place them in a barrel.
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2 people try to wrap a sweet together.
A candy ring is passed from one person the next with the help of the toothpick.
Candy rings are thrown so that they land over a board with nails.
Which candy ring will roll the furthest or the longest?
The first person takes a sweet from the bowl with his toes and gives the bonbon to his neighbour.
Try to open a sweet (or a chocolate bar) with the feet and then eat it.
Taking a spoon in the mouth, bonbons or M&M's must be carried.
Bonbons or M&M's are catapulted into a target with a spoon in the mouth.
With the toothpick in the mouth, marshmallows are passed from player to player.
Who can fit the most marshmallows in his mouth?
Who can spit a marshmallow the furthest?
Who can blow a marshmallow along the ground the furthest?
A marshmallow is kicked.
Who can throw the marshmallow the furthest?
Which team will manage to suck the lollypop away the quickest?
The group must build a creative work of art with sweets.
Wind a candy with thread
Each child uses a fishing pole with a magnet attached to the end of the string to fish out some candies.
This is a nice game for a birthday party or celebration where every child should receive a prize.
A light object is blown through an obstacle course with a straw.
Objects are sucked up using a straw and transported into another container.
Use a straw to suck up water and fill up a measuring beaker.
Several straws are pushed together in a long pipeline.
A game of Mikado with straws.
A wad of cotton wool is blown along the table by blowing into a straw.
The straws are used as a blowpipe.
The cotton wool buds must be blown into the opponent's field.
A straw is used as the blowpipe. The ammunition is coloured cotton wool buds.
Listed items must be brought back within a certain amount of time
The player is shown a word which he must draw on a board. How many words will the group manage to guess within 2 minutes?
Easter eggs must be rolled around a course, only using the nose.
The players must fish the eggs out of the cream as quickly as possible.
Cracking eggs on the head
Each group (red, blue, yellow and white team) tries to collect their own colour bonbons.
Using the mouth, only one Easter egg at a time should be brought back and placed in a barrel.
An Easter card is cut into pieces so that a puzzle is made from the single pieces.
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Is Mackerness in your family? I don't know where he was born, but I think he moved to Bilston Staffordshire sometime after the 1841 census. On that cencus he was a lodger with Cheshire family at Baston, Lincolnshire, can't find him on 1851 census. The Cheshire family moved to Staffordshire in the 1840's. there is a death for a Mackerness Bull in 1847 Bilston, Staffordshire age 72, Is he the same one on the 1841 census aged 55. Help!!!
I'm looking for any one related to a Mary Kew born 1805 or 1813 in Northborough Northamptonshire who married Inkley White in 1834 at Stanground nr Peterborough. Online the surname is 'Chew' but I think it's Kew as there doesn't seem to be any Chews born at Northborough at that time. Any help would be really appreciated
Alan M Henson and Elizabeth M Morris married in Peterborough area in 1962, Alan is the son of William Henson and Phoebe Hales married Peterborough area 1919. Williams parents are my great grandparents (William Henson and Betsey Ann Hill) my great grandfathers mother was Martha Ann Henson (no father named) it is her parents I am looking for. Can anyone help!!!
I'm looking for parents of Inkley White (not sure how it's spelt - Hinkley-Hinckley !!!) born supposedly Northorpe Lincolncolnshire around 1804,married Mary Kew born Northborough and married 1834 in Stanground, both their baptisms would be invaluable to me for previous generations, there must be someone out there either looking for them or have found them
Charles White and Charlotte Ann Henson originally from Peterborough area
Charles and Charlotte are my grandparents, if there is anyone out there who are related to them please contact me, many thanks.
Rainbow - Donson
Is there anyone out there who is doing their family history who is related to Christine A Donson and Michael R Rainbow. They were married in Lincolnshire in 1967. Any help would be appreciated
Rycroft/Ryecroft of Wilsford, Lincolnshire
My 3 x great grandmother was Elizabeth Ryecroft. She married Christopher Donson in 1789 at Welbourn, Linconshire.She was born about 1760 according to the 1841 census for Welbourn. Would like to find the correct baptism for her, there are 2 baptisms at Wilford, one in 1755 and one in 1770, both for an Elizabeth Rycroft. Can't find anymore baptisms, so hopefully one of these is her. There is a marriage in 1790 for Elizabeth Rycroft and Thomas Oxby at Wilsford, presumably the 1770 Elizabeth. Could my Elizabeth be the 1755 one!!! Any help would be really appreciated
White - Inkley
I'm still looking for a connection between these two families - there must be someone out there who can help me!!! There is a marriage somewhere, more than likely in Lincolshire pror to 1750 ish.
mackerness bull
mackerness bull was born 1786/1787. Anybody out there who can help. I have his marriage at Uffington, Lincolnshire to Catherine Tomson, but I'd like to know his baptism and his death. He seems to have connections in Staffordshire, as he appears on the 1841 census as lodging with a Robert Cheshire and famiy at Baston, Lincolnshire, next door to his daughter and her family (Susannah wright) by 1851 the Cheshire family had moved to Bilston in Staffordshire but no mention of Mackerness,there are some Mackerness's in that area but can't prove any connection.Maybe he was born and died there, can anyone help!!!
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Anyone out there that can help me, myself and my mother attened Long Bennington School, me in the 1950/60's and my mother for a year 1924/25?. I've looked on the website for Long Bennington and found a school photogragh with me on but the year that my mother attended seems to have been lost, would love to hear from anyone with any information or knows where I can find it, Lincolnshire Archives don't have it.


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I've used Comet for years on my sink. After reading here, is there another way to get stainless steel pot marks off? |
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I find they come off very well with a microfiber cloth or a Mr. Clean Magic Sponge. Gloria |
- Posted by dchall_san_antonio (My Page) on Fri, Sep 8, 06 at 15:18
I'm not looking for another abrasive cleaner. Comet works well at this. I got the impression from reading other comments that there are things to use that will not damage the surface of the ceramic over the years. For example regular Clorox removes veggie stains. What takes the steel marks off? |
Wenol metal cleaner will work for your sink. It is non-abrasive. I've used it on vintage pottery and it was wonderful. Vintage car owners use one variety for the chrome on their cars. Per the Russel Wright guru this would be a first choice to remove metal marks.....Corelle stovetop cleaner a second. Check that auction site if you can't find any locally. It goes a long way too. HTH, |
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In a prior thread, I asked for help in choosing sconces for the foyer in the new house and how high they should be mounted. As you can see from the linked thread, we had a lovely chat about the sconces, but the question of height never got addressed. After a little searching of the web, I had the electrician mount the junction boxes 60" above the floor. Today, a friend called to tell me she had walked through the house and she thought the sconces were going to be too low. Sheetrock is being floated this week. Now is the time for me to correct this problem, if it is a problem. The electrician and I held one of the sconces up to the wall. We thought it looked fine, but it was at the stud stage and I'm not sure that really gave me an accurate reading on the matter. The ceilings are 12 feet tall. I chose the mirrored Horchow sconce which is about 24" tall. The chest that will be under the sconces is 36" high. What do y'all think? Should I have the junction boxes moved or are they ok where they are? |
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The bottoms of my sconces are 70" from the floor. I have 12 hardwired sconces in my house and the ceilings in the rooms they are located are from 8' and up to 20'. While I love my sconces and the wonderful light they give, the only problem with them is that one cannot arrange tall furniture on the walls where the sconces are. What I would suggest you do is draw a rough sketch to scale of a 12' tall wall with a sconce halfway up the wall. My impression is that they should be slightly higher for good proportion. Consulting a lighting specialist early IMO is a good way to avoid costly lighting mistakes. |
- Posted by beverly27 (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Sun, Jan 5, 14 at 18:15
You want to position the sconces so they are just high enough that you cannot see the light bulb. That depends on the style of the sconce. Some sconces only shine up, some have shades and shine down, so it depends. |
Mine are 5' from the floor (to bottom of sconce) and my foyer is cathedral 2-story. It is new construction condo complex and the builder's electrician did them all this way. For what its worth, when I first saw the sconce location that they had, I was totally perplexed how the furniture & accessories would set up. It seemed totally ridiculous. But as I got going adding my stuff, it actually made sense. It seems a good height for ease of changing lightbulbs too. |
The base of my sconces are 60" from the floor as well. Our ceilings are 8'. The previous owner installed sconces and this is what she did. My sconces are 14" tall, so the top of my sconce is 74" from the floor. Hope this helps! |
My sconces are 15 inches tall. The bottom of the sconces are 58 inches from the floor. The ceiling height is 9-1/2 feet. |
I totally forgot about the nifty app Horchow has to put their things in your rooms. Below is a picture of similar sconces (not the ones I've bought but close in size and weight). Using the lamp that I've blotted out of the picture, I scaled the sconces to what I believe is appx their correct size. This is more or less the same set up that I will have in the new house. Same etchings and same chest. What do you think? |
- Posted by newhomebuilder (My Page) on Mon, Jan 6, 14 at 17:41
So what is that measurement? Hard to tell from the photo without seeing the ceiling, but I think they look a little tall. or perhaps it's just the oddness of the mock-up. I measured mine. they are 64" to the middle of the junction box. My ceilings in this area are 9' to 12'. These are 7 years old. Looking back, I realize that the lighting guy should have suggested I get something larger. |
In my oh-so-crude mock-up, the center of the backplate is at what I guess to be 60" from the floor. The total height of the sconce is what I think would be 24" but it looks a little larger to me. I measured the lamp. From the tabletop to the middle of the shade is 24". I have attached another photograph with a large white diamond about the height and location of ONE of the sconces. (The SnapShop app isn't hard, but it can be a little finicky. I didn't think I could make the sconces small enough to have a useful photo). I think the sconce will actually go from the middle of the lower picture to the middle of the upper one. I estimate the light bulb in the sconce will be about where the top of the lamp shade is in this picture. The lamp will not be there, but the chest and the etchings will be. So, what do y'all think now? Too low? High enough? Too high? This is the foyer of my old house and shows a 12' ceiling. |
- Posted by newhomebuilder (My Page) on Mon, Jan 6, 14 at 23:11
I am now seeing the sconce bases on your original mock-up, lol. I didn't see them earlier. Must have been a glare on my computer screen. I think they will look good at that height. |
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Joan, it wasn't just the puritans, although they were the worst. Almost every colony wanted to have an official religion, only each one was different. At one point Maryland was mostly Catholic, or more tolerant of Catholics than the other colonies were.
And then we had the conquistadores and Franciscan order in the Southwest... We still have the missions as Historical Landmarks. What they rarely say is that the missions were built by indigenous people who were treated like slaves.
sk8eycat, I like your comparison of the Muslims who migrate and the Pilgrims who migrated. You are accurate on the terrible history of Puritanism.
I very much like the Unhappy Muslims post.
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Two things:
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9/11: Promises made, forgotten
Essay: Although a traumatized nation failed to remake itself, it survived and perhaps that is the point.
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Five days after the attacks, the World Trade Center was a nightmare landscape: 50-foot hills of smoking rubble, groves of twisted I-beams and skeletal trusses, snowbanks of singed paper.
Nearby businesses testified to the tender banality of life before that morning: coffee cups on smoked-glass tables, day planners open on desks, dust-covered dresses hanging on sale racks, a parking ticket flapping on a crumpled car.
The scale of destruction defied comprehension: seven buildings, 300 stories, 10 million square feet blasted and pancaked onto 16 acres — the equivalent of every bit of retail space in downtown Seattle being burned and dropped onto Safeco Field.
Stoic cops and firefighters sifted "the pile" in bucket brigades. Billeted rescue workers rappelled into fissures and air pockets in a last, desperate search for survivors.
There would be none. Every survivor — 20 in all — had been rescued in the first 27 hours. All that was left of those 2,750 missing people was remains, pieces mostly, and maddeningly few of those.
Still, every few hours, word would come down the line that some remains had been found and an agonizing ritual would be repeated. The bucket brigades stopped. Machinery was shut off. A flag was produced. Hats came off. The remains were taken away. And the work started up again.
Five days after the terrorist attacks of 2001, Ground Zero was a wrenching place — an incomprehensible mix of graveyard, memorial and construction site.
Ten years later, it still is.
This changes everything.
Remember how everything was going to be different? After 2,977 people died in coordinated suicide attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the crash of Flight 93 in Pennsylvania, Americans came together in a near-unanimous moment of unity and shared purpose.
From now on, we would stop being the superficial, America-first consumerists we'd been before 9/11. (Or, depending on your outlook, we'd stop being godless, unpatriotic hedonists.) Either way, this was the call of a generation, the dawn of a new era — one of responsibility, civility and personal sacrifice.
Blood donations and volunteerism spiked, church attendance and military service were expected to follow. Then-President George W. Bush called on every American to donate "4,000 hours, or two years" to charitable work. Senate Republicans and Democrats skipped out onto the Capitol steps to proclaim their bipartisanship, saying, "There is no opposition party."
But then something happened. We lost our way.
Attacked by lunatics who hoped to destabilize our economy and draw us into endless war in the Middle East, we responded by going to war in the Middle East and destabilizing our own economy.
We went on a seven-year spending spree that sent us into crushing personal and national debt. We fought two wars — one against a country that had no connection to the attacks — without paying for them. We tortured, violated our principles and sacrificed our freedoms all in the name of protecting ... our principles and freedoms.
As for unity and bipartisanship — well, here we are 10 years later more divided than ever, with a petulant Congress that would rather drive us all off a cliff than work together.
As late as 2007, 41 percent of Americans still believed Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11. A similar percentage thought it was possible our own government had something to do with the attacks. You're with us or against us? Freedom fries? The Dixie Chicks? If we don't (fill in the blank), the terrorists have won?
We can admit it now. We went a little crazy after 9/11.
Time bombs never went off
Our decade of terrorism is a story of what didn't happen.
There was no great cultural shift, no call of a generation. We didn't come together, sacrifice, volunteer, go to church. We didn't go after Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora. We didn't find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The crowds in Baghdad didn't cheer our invasion. The mission wasn't accomplished.
But perhaps most significantly, there wasn't another 9/11.
We were so sure there would be. It's hard to remember now just how terrified we were back then, how vulnerable; a Gallup Poll at the time suggested that 85 percent of Americans expected another attack in the United States "in the next few weeks."
In his speech before Congress, President Bush warned of "unprecedented dangers ... thousands of dangerous killers spread ... through the world like ticking time bombs, set to go off without warning."
The time bombs never went off — or haven't yet. Instead, there was the slow drip of smaller plots, most of them averted or thwarted, some of them little more than brash talk.
If we recall those 20 or so near-misses it is vaguely, like we recall the names of old pop stars: There were the shoe bomber, the underwear bomber, the Virginia Jihad Network. Failed attacks against the Brooklyn Bridge, the U.S. Capitol and the Sears Tower; against shopping malls, refineries and skyscrapers in Dallas, Columbus, Ohio, and Springfield, Ill.
Seattle terrorist threats frame the decade. In December 1999, in a prologue to 9/11, an al-Qaida operative was arrested at Port Angeles trying to smuggle bomb-making materials across the border from Canada. In June of this year, a SeaTac man and his friend were arrested in a plot to attack a Seattle military-recruiting station. In between, terrorist chatter occasionally mentioned state landmarks such as the Columbia Center, Grand Coulee Dam and the Space Needle, which showed up on an al-Qaida computer captured in a cave in Afghanistan in 2002.
But without further attacks, the horrors of 9/11 dissipated. We stopped looking around airplanes for suspicious people. We stopped scanning our skylines for targets. Outside New York — where the pain is still visceral — the terrorist attacks became something most of us just saw on TV.
It may be one of the quieter stories of the past decade — the success of the intelligence agencies, and the relative security we've enjoyed. Or, in the upside-down world of 9/11, it may be the story about how we've grown complacent again.
In early 2001, less than 1 percent of Americans identified terrorism as the most critical issue facing the United States. After 9/11, it was 46 percent. Ten years later, that number is again less than 1 percent.
Spend freely, we were told
The day I arrived at Ground Zero on a writing assignment, a reporter asked New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani what regular Americans could do to help out.
"Come to New York and spend money," Giuliani said without hesitation. This was less than a week after the attacks; rescue workers were still combing the rubble for survivors. "Go see a play," suggested the man who would become known as America's Mayor. "You might even be able to get tickets to 'The Producers.' "
What began as a legitimate fear the economy might collapse soon became the ethos of a decade.
Addressing the nation on Sept. 20, 2001, President Bush said, "Americans are asking, 'What is expected of us? ... I ask for your continued participation and confidence in the American economy. Terrorists attacked a symbol of American prosperity; they did not touch its source."
A few days later, the Travel-Agent-in-Chief suggested we "get down to Disney World ... and enjoy life."
When I got back from New York, I saw a sign in Spokane that summed up this national mood: "God bless America. New furniture arriving every day."
But it's overly simplistic to blame our leaders for conflating patriotism and capitalism, for reducing American freedom to free markets.
That current was already running strong in America, trust of public institutions at an all-time low, people urging schools to be run "more like businesses." And if our spend-first reaction was simply the result of a presidential directive, where are those 4,000 hours of charity work we were each supposed to serve? Where's the Freedom Corps?
No, we were perfectly eager to get our share of trillions of dollars in make-believe, bubble wealth, to scurry back to that very symbol of security — our houses. Between 2001 and 2007, the average American home price went from $207,000 to $329,000 — a jump of 59 percent.
At the same time, the country was enjoying its first-ever wartime tax cut — while spending at least $1.2 trillion on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and $700 billion more on homeland security. And those are just the monetary costs.
More than 6,100 Americans have died so far in the wars; 45,000 more have been wounded. The estimates of Iraqi and Afghan casualties during those wars run into the hundreds of thousands.
Then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said after 9/11, "We have a choice, either to change the way we live, which is unacceptable, or to change the way they live."
But why was it so unacceptable to change the way we live? And who, exactly, were they? Why were we in such a hurry to get back to normal? And what was so great about normal anyway?
Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, dove or hawk, member of the tea party or of MoveOn.org — who, exactly, is proud of the past decade?
Back to Ground Zero
After I returned from Ground Zero, I began work on a satirical novel about the American reaction to the attacks. When I showed my wife the beginning, in 2002, she worried I'd be arrested if I tried to publish it, or at the very least, that I'd be "Dixie Chicked."
That book, "The Zero," was published in 2006. Every year since then, I have flown back to New York to visit Ground Zero.
When I went this spring, I encountered the only tangible effect most Americans feel from the attacks, at the Spokane airport, where I had to remove my belt and shoes and take from my suitcase a laptop and a Ziploc baggie of contact solution and toothpaste.
In New York, I stayed in a near-empty hotel overlooking Ground Zero. It's a busy construction site now — cranes on rising skyscrapers, a steady parade of concrete mixers. I went for a walk and saw people laying wreaths on the chain-link fence, taking photos near a place where rescue workers once stacked hundreds of loose shoes.
It's a horribly tragic place — and a fitting symbol of the American unity that wasn't. In those early days after the attacks, firefighters, police officers and construction workers got in occasional fistfights over how to look for remains.
Since then, it's been the site of near-constant squabbles and lawsuits: over who was liable, who should profit, whether victims' families deserve money, whether sick rescue workers deserve money, what constitutes a suitable memorial, whether a Muslim learning center should be allowed near the site.
And yet, on this trip, especially, I saw signs that things are getting better.
After all that wrangling over what to do at Ground Zero, planners got the blend of rebuilding and memorializing right. The half-finished Freedom Tower is rising at the pace of about a floor a week and should be finished sometime in 2013 — a dramatic, 103-story tower that will rise 1,776 feet and dominate the southern Manhattan skyline. Five smaller towers will follow. In the footprints of the original twin towers will be two tree-lined reflecting pools and a memorial park to those who died. An underground museum is scheduled to open next year.
At the same time, we seem to be getting better, too. A team of Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden this year. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are winding down. Americans are saving again, too, paying off their debts. The government may even have to follow suit.
Ten years later, it's still too soon to say if 9/11 was horrific anomaly or harbinger of things to come. It would be nice to say that period is behind us, but history doesn't pay attention to anniversaries, any more than it conforms itself to four-year election cycles.
So we didn't come together in the past 10 years to remake our culture. We didn't learn some great lesson. We didn't eradicate terrorism. We didn't spread freedom through the world.
But we came through it. And that might be enough.
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As part of the ongoing education programs of Steelville Art Council, a short course will be offered in May on Music Improvisation. The course, taught by Dr. Kenneth Colbert, will be offered to beginner and intermediate students of any age on any instrument.
The genres covered will be rock, folk, country and jazz. Students are asked to bring instrument and a recording of two songs to the first session on Monday, May 12. Basics of improvisation will be covered and advice given to student on how to play accompaniment or solo on the student's selected songs in the first class.
The students will work on their two songs that week and return Friday, May 16 for the second session. Further help will be given and then each student will be encouraged to join the monthly jam session at Gallery Zeke on Saturday May 17.


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Archived material. This page is no longer maintained.For EducatorsIntroductionWelcome to the Best Practices section of the Maine Citizenship Education Task Force Website!Maine has a long-standing focus of citizenship education. This emphasis is evident in Guiding Principle #4 of the Maine Learning Results, which states that Maine students must leave school as "responsible and involved citizens." Students require more than lessons about American history and government to become responsible and involved citizens, however. They must practice and master the skills that underpin the other Guiding Principles. These principles state that students must become: 1) clear and effective communicators, 2) self-directed and life-long learners, 3) creative and practical problem solvers, 5) collaborative and quality workers, and 6) integrative and informed thinkers. Quality citizenship education develops those skills through interactive teaching strategies that challenge students intellectually and provide them with opportunities to practice critical thinking, effective communication, problem-solving and working collaboratively with other. Quality citizenship education also promotes many of the Core Principles of Promising Futures, the 1998 call to action for Maine's secondary school, particularly Core Principal #2: High universal expectations with a variety of learning opportunities. In addition to implementing nationally recognized civic education programs, such as We the People: the Citizen and the Constitution, Project Citizen, and mock trial competitions, Maine has been at the forefront of developing innovative models. For example, the Civil Rights Team Project, coordinated by the Maine Attorney General's office, has been highly successful at educating students about civil rights and making schools safe for minority students. The Law and Ethics class at Hampden Academy, profiled on the American Bar Association's Public Education website, not only sets a high standard in terms of course content, but also serves as a model for the use of technology and public resources. Likewise, the KIDS as Planners Model of Service-Learning, from Lewiston-based KIDS Consortium, has received national recognition for its curriculum and community-oriented program. According to the Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools, there are six "promising approaches" to civic education. The grid below, organized according to grade level and approach, lists programs currently implemented in Maine that are demonstrably effective in promoting citizenship. Links to the program provide information on content, special features, required and available resources, evaluation studies, professional development opportunities and contact information. |
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India fast bowlers Shantha Sreesanth and Rudra Pratap Singh have been ruled out of the first Test against Pakistan, which starts in Delhi on Thursday.
Sreesanth is nursing a shoulder injury, while Singh is struggling with a side strain. Munaf Patel has been called up as a replacement.
Zaheer Khan and Munaf are the only two fast bowlers in India's squad for the first match of the three-Test series.
However, there was some good news for India - wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni is recovering well from his ankle knock and should be fit for the series-opener.


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13. On Dame Dash and Jay Z reuniting
"I wake up. Enjoy my 1st snowed in day at my new crib. Which made me happy for some reason. Haha. Then I go on IG and look at what I see. Which brought an even bigger smile. My brothers. @duskopoppington with his beautiful and coolest daughter @ava_dash and HOV! They went to see Hov last night in concert in LA and had a ball. And as I looked at this pic. I just felt good man. I wish I was there.
And as I looked. 2 guys immediately popped in my head. MY NIGGA BIGGS!! And Dame's boy@boogiedash Who is Jay's Godson. But I personally love these guys. And love that they are getting cool again so they can at least share cool moments like this. #mybrothers"
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Belmont looking into placing special empty chair at town hall to symbolize POWs & MIAs
BELMONT — After a presentation on Monday from Rolling Thunder, an national motorcycle club that advocates for the service men and women who are prisoners of war or missing in action, the town is developing a plan to put a specially designated empty chair in town hall.
The chair program, said Robert McGuiggan who made the presentation to selectmen, is one that designates an empty chair in a public place so people who see it will realize there will always be an empty chair as long as there are members of the military who are POWS or MIAs.
McGuggan said venues as large as Gillette Stadium, the Foxboro home of the New England Patriots, and as small as town's like Belmont have designated the single empty chair in a public place.
Town Administrator Jeanne Beaudin said yesterday that the town, at the suggestion of Selectman Jon Pike, who is a Vietnam veteran, is working with the Charles Kilbourn American Legion Post 58 to come up with a plan.
Beaudin said Town Assessing Assistant Cary Lagace has a chair that's in the town hall that she had previously refinished.
"She loves working with her hands and she has adopted this project on behalf of the town," Beaudoin said yesterday.
Beaudoin said her suggestion is to place the chair, which will be clearly marked as the empty chair for people who are POWs or MIA, to be under the Boston Post Cane in Town Hall.
Lagacy's idea, along with suggestions from the American Legion, will be brought to selectmen at their next meeting on January 24.
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Judge finds Town of Belmont did not cause former bank building on Main Street to decline in value
BELMONT — A Merrimack County Superior Court judge dismissed a lawsuit filed against the town by the former owners of the Northway Bank building on Main Street. The plaintiffs had charged the town caused their property to diminish in value when it announced its plans to eliminate Mill Street Extension as part of its village revitalization project.
William and Carolyn McDonough had also asked the court for loss of rental income they said was created when the town announced its plans in 2010 to revitalize the village district.
Judge Richard McNamara ruled that the McDonoughs provided no evidence that the potential of road had diminished its value. He said based on the evidence presented to him, the building had dropped in value due to housing prices that had nothing to do with the road being discontinued.
The McDonoughs bought the building in January 2009 for $275,000 and rented the space. In December 2009 they entered into an conditional sales agreement for the building and property for $275,000 but the voters rejected it at the 2010 annual town meeting.
In 2010, the town also announced its plans to for the Belmont Village Revitalization Plan and in late 2011 hired an architect to design it. The McDonoughs entered into a second sales agreement with the town in 2012 for $250,000 and the voters approved it at a specially convened annual town meeting in August 2012.
Evidence considered by McNamara was two appraisals – one done at the behest of the McDonoughs and one done at the behest of the town.
He said the McDonoughs' appraisal was flawed because the method by which the appraisal was done utilized an income analysis that included the value of the rental along with the tax value of the land and property.
"It is unclear that Mr. Manias (the McDonoughs appraiser) understood whether or not the leases on the property were "triple net" leases," he said, meaning that the commercial tenant agrees to pay all of the expenses associated with the lease.
McNamara also said the sales evidence he presented to compare the Main Street property to sales of other similar commercial buildings was inconsistent in that he used sales of properties along highway that sees up 8,000 vehicles a day and Main Street in Belmont sees about 1,000.
More importantly, said McNamara, the McDonoughs "provided no opinion regarding what the property was worth after the discontinuance" and that was "fatal" to their suit.
He said the town's appraiser included the method by which the assessment was done including evidence that general property values had decline five to six percent from 2009 until 2012. The town said the property was worth $245,000 when it purchased it for $250,000.
In March 2013, McNamara dismissed three other elements of the suit for damages for inverse condemnation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and unjust enrichment.
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Convention Eyes Cutting Employee Raises from County Budget (414)
LACONIA — The Belknap County Convention delved into the minute details of the county budget for more than three hours last evening in a contentious session which ended with the legislators asking that County Administrator Debra Shackett prepare a budget spreadsheet which would show the dollar impact of level-funding wages of county employees at rates currently being paid.
Goal of the convention majority as expressed by Convention Chairman Colette Worsman (R-Meredith) is to back out of the raises which the County Commissioners included in their proposed budget of a 1.6 cost of living increase for county employees and 3 percent step raises for eligible employees.
Convention members said they wanted to see the impact on the county budget, which Rep. Frank Tilton (R-Laconia) called a ''working document'' before they meet for further deliberations today with a plan of finalizing the proposed $ 26.6 million budget next week.
Convention Vice Chairman Rep. Robert Greemore (R-Meredith) asked that Shackett include the hiring of three additional guards at the County Jail and the switch from a part-time to a full-time employee in the Restorative Justice Program in those budget calculations.
Leading the charge for holding the line on county employee pay raises was Rep. Herb Vadney (R-Meredith), who chaired the convention's Public Safety Subcommittee.
Vadney said that it was the job of the convention to smoke out those parts of the budget where he maintained those preparing the budget ''always add a little extra for every line item,'' something he said ''is seldom mentioned and always done.''
He apologized later for his statement after being confronted by Belknap County Attorney Melissa C. Guldbrandsen, who said "There's been an accusation here that this budget was padded and I adamantly deny that. There's not an ounce of padded money in this budget and I'm offended that there is an accusation that I've padded added this budget. I am cautious and I watch the bottom line very carefully.''
She said that there was a chance that she might have to return to the convention later this year looking for contingency funds due to expenses that she can't control such as investigation of deaths, autopsies and other medical expenses.
Vadney apologized for his ''harsh words'' and said he was overreacting to his concerns about the budget.
He was also criticized by Shackett for his statement. She said his comments were a slap in the face to every county employee who worked on the budget.''
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Inocente, the Middle School, and the Care Closet
LACONIA — For most children, a sleep-over at a friend's house is a rite of passage — the ability to spend the night away from home.
For some children in Laconia, a sleep-over can be life-saving.
"We know we have a pattern of students who are homeless and a percentage of them are couch-surfing because of problems in the family," said Middle School Principal Eric Johnson.
On Feb. 17, the Laconia Middle School will host the community as they view "Inocente," an award-winning film that spotlights one girl's attempt to combat her homelessness with her art.
Trying to address some of the problems within families is Stand Up Laconia, a growing coalition of adults and students who want to come together to create positive change for students.
Clare Persson, who is the chair of Stand Up Laconia, said the many of the students she knows don't want to live in a city that is tagged as a place where drug abuse and alcoholism seems rampant. She said many of the kids that Stand Up Laconia and Freedom Found at the high school level is to give some support to the youngsters who don't want to do drugs or drink.
"These kids see a lot, and they're up against a whole different thing than when we were young," she said.
She said her organization isn't necessarily on the front lines addressing acute homelessness, but rather is one of those entities that can help mitigate it by encouraging students not to make some of the choices their parents made.
"These kids are sick of Laconia being associated with drug abuse and alcoholism," Persson said.
She said her organization is there to support these students.
"Quite a bit of it is just poverty," said Johnson, who said he sees a lot of single parents who are working and just scraping by and who suddenly find themselves without a home and forced to stay with friends and family.
For the Middle School, ground zero is often the guidance office and the nurse's office. He said he has had children who often move three or four times in one school year — often from neighboring school districts.
He said his guidance staff stays in very close contact with the guidance staff in other area school districts to better help coordinate students whose families are moving in or out of the district.
"It comes in waves," he said. "We'll go a month or two and have none, and then we'll get six or seven students who are in transition."
Working together, Stand Up Laconia and the staff and students of the Middle School have put together the Care Closet — a place where students who are struggling financially and/or couch surfing can get items they otherwise would be unable to afford.
Johnson said the Care Closet is open to all students who are struggling financially.
He said the closet is stocked with personal hygiene items and clothes that are donated by the staff and the faculty.
He added that are left in the school's lost-and-found for more than four weeks go in the Care Closet.
"It's all confidential and coordinated through the nurse's and the guidance offices," said Johnson. He said the goal is to help these children without calling attention to their circumstances.
Johnson said the number of Middle School students who are struggling and tacitly homeless is "staggering."
"People would be surprised if they knew," he said, adding that 69 percent of the students at Elm Street Elementary Schools and about 70 percent of the students at Woodland Heights Elementary School are eligible for the free-and-reduced lunch federal programs that the school district uses as an indicator for poverty.
The "Inocente" program begins at 5:30 p.m. with a dinner on Feb. 17 at the Laconia Middle School and the 30-minute film at 6 p.m. The goal is to bring all of the agencies — including the school district and Stand Up Laconia — together and learn what a girl like Inocente would find if she were to come to Laconia.
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Renault says it is staying in Formula One and has entered a strategic partnership with a private investment firm.
The French car company says that next year, the team "will retain its name, its identity and the core ingredients that led to the successes achieved in 2005 and 2006."
Renault says that following the proposed sale of a "large stake" in the team to Luxembourg-based Genii capital, "both partners will operate the team together."
The company did not specify the size of the proposed stake in the announcement on Wednesday.
Renault's reputation was recently damaged by a crash scandal that led to former team principal Flavio Briatore's indefinite ban from the sport.
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Feds Plot Massive Internet Router Security Upgrade
Most troubling about this (101 comments)
Most troubling is that problems like these were basically known about for years but nothing is done until after threats are displayed at sec conferences.
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Most troubling about this (101 comments)
Most troubling is that problems like these were basically known about for years but nothing is done until after threats are displayed at sec conferences.
Sculley (399 comments)
Sculley could come in for a 2nd round at ruining the company
Re:oh goodie (199 comments)
Cosmo Kramer used to watch Canadian Parliament on C-Span
Government vs Private spending (365 comments)
So private corporations spending money writing closed software to make profits is bad but governments spending money writing open source software without any focus on profits is good.
If we've learned anything is that governments need to be minimal and get out of the way, let corporations/investors make decisions on where to spend money. That is most efficient.
This could only hurt our competitiveness in the one industry we are the best at.
Re:Wi-Fi (209 comments)
here's the earliest wireless camera I found: 6,535,243 filed in '98 by HP
1. A method of managing image information utilizing a hand-held camera comprising the steps of: capturing raw image data representative of a subject of interest utilizing an imaging device of said hand-held camera; transmitting said raw image data to a host computer during a continuous session via a wireless link between said hand-held camera and said host computer; receiving, as an automated response by said host computer to said transmitting step, related image data at said hand-held camera during said continuous session via said wireless link; forming an image from said related image data on a display device of said hand-held camera, wherein enabling a display of said subject of interest on said display device is dependent upon operations at said host computer; and browsing stored image data that is stored in said host computer, where said browsing is controlled by operations at said hand-held camera.
but as you can see, it's very limiting - round trip of camera sending image to computer and computer processing it before sending it back for display on the camera. So an obvious workaround would be to just do half it (camera -> PC) and patent infringement avoided. This patent might have seemed useful back in '98 when processing power on a small device (like a handheld camera) was not thought of the way to go. So HP seemed to miss this important fact and could/should have realized that processors would get smaller, faster, less-power hungry. I have found this subtle but important miscalculation happens all the time. Call it a design flaw in the patent.
Re:Wi-Fi (209 comments)
here's one filed by Nikon in 2001 but not issued until March 4, 2008 that is a removable unit: 7,340,275
Here's the only Independent claim:
1. A wireless communication unit, comprising: an interface portion signally connectable to a main device, the interface portion including a connector portion having a shape that mimics a shape of a removable memory-medium-device, the connector portion being receivable by and connectable to a memory-medium-device-receiving-portion of the main device; a recording portion performing non-volatile recording; a wireless communication portion performing wireless communication; and a control portion transmitting information through the wireless communication portion to an external destination and generating a backup of the information in the recording portion, the information being inputted from the main device to the control portion through the interface portion, wherein the control portion automatically deletes the backup from the recording portion after transmission of the information in the wireless communication portion is normally terminated, when the control portion generates the backup of the information in the recording portion, wherein the wireless communication unit is a stand-alone unit.
I believe Nikon came out with wifi camera's before Cannon.
Re:Wi-Fi (209 comments)
innovated by realizing the useful potential for combining wireless with cameras first, then second finding the way to make it work. In hindsight this appears obvious, but then you need to ask yourself why didn't everybody start working on this 5-8 years ago. Certainly all the technology was in place. Just like the problems we face today exist because they aren't obvious but in 5-10 years when these are resolved the proper combination will be obvious (after we see it). Partly why demo's help sell a product - before seeing the demo the user doesn't understand how/why it would work but after seeing the demo functioning (even roughly with hardcoded pieces) it quickly becomes "obvious".
Re:Chilling (453 comments)
there isn't much stopping anyone from implementing this on Linux except the payoff is a fraction. Do you go to work for 1/20th of your hourly wage?
Re:Wi-Fi (209 comments)
Yes very convenient (especially for Professional shops where assistant can be doing photoshop or touchup work immediately and ship them off to the magazines/newspapers). Nikon innovated and got the patents for these a few years back.
Re:RMS (504 comments)
he's got limited #minutes so instead of scouting out the articles you want to read & pasting URL into email app, instead scan Inbox for the few dozen stories cultivated that day and read the best ones first until time runs out.
Lame wifi (209 comments)
Unlike competitor products from Nikon or Kodak that have their own Wi-Fi functions, the Sony camera works with AT&T hotspots so that external access point software isn't necessary.
Useless outside of U.S. And in the U.S. limited (e.g. connecting to home wifi).
Pull out the guns (504 comments)
With such short Internet allotment the guys running the ship are asking for trouble. It will be a war out there - somebody someday will be running Denial of Service (Dos) attacks to knock others off. Do this for a couple of weeks and nobody will want to waste their time signing up for Internet time.
Here be Pirates.
Efficiency is key (504 comments)
Limited time would be painful. You will need to maximize efficiency. Leverage your best friends and get them to keep you in touch with only the real important news. Then bring laptop and/or USB keys to pull down your news to take back to your cabin.
For upload, write your emails/replies before hand (in your cabin) and have them ready to send.
Re:RMS (504 comments)
kind of painful/slow and with limited time you want to spend it more efficiently. Write an application that pulls in your favourite RSS feeds and emails you (triggered by CRON). You read the stories you have time for each docking. Actually, there's probably already apps that do this.
Re:A Modest Proposal ... (282 comments)
I wouldn't be so sure. How do you know that letters weren't sent ahead of time and these larger corporations ignored them? I tend to believe that small company/inventor wants to avoid an infringement suit since they easily cost over $1million.
Yes we all pay due to higher costs, but in many cases this all could have been avoided. I'm assuming the patent is valid and innovative.
Re:Time to rethink patent laws (282 comments)
Just follow the EU's software patent battle and you'll see who it is who simply LOVE them, and it's not small inventors or small businesses. It's the big corporations that spend more time patenting the color blue than anything else (even the corporation I work for has a team of patent lawyers that rival some entire business' staff, and the company frequently begs us for "patentable stuff" if we've seen it or made it).
1) Large corporations get patents as a protection racket to throw mud back at. Most of those patents aren't innovative. Show me some that are (...and Google patents don't really count - they innovated and just happen to have grown so fast (actually due to innovating)).
2) Explain to me why the small inventors or businesses dont' see the use in them again?
If a person or small business wants to patent something and then negotiate with a larger company to do the muscle work beyond a prototype, I have no problem with that
ahh but herein lies one of the problems - without patent protection a medium-large corporation will almost always tell the inventor to buzz off, and then depending on the usefulness of the innovation - copy&paste the idea. You'd be surprised. Remember, these are soulless corporations who's sole purpose is to maximize profits for investors - and that means reduce expenses (e.g. technology license fee's).
but I can say that if a person sits on a patent waiting for someone else to come up with it so they can sue in East Texas, that person needs shot in the eye
I believe the problem lies in that the system too heavily favors the bigger guy. To start an infringement suit you need many things - one is due diligence - big time proof that they are infringing. This is intense and can take years to collect the evidence. Remember our law - defendent is innocent. So the larger corporation will make a business decision whether its more cost-effective to negotiate and buy a license or let him drag you through court. An infringement suit is easily over $1million. Now of course, the little guy should recognize this and not be too greedy - but in this case we're talking about innovating AV software here - no trivial innovation and so probably felt it worthwhile to pursue for higher amounts.
Corporatism is to blame for small business' lack of leverage
Interesting, but how so? Corporatism is one of the factors behind Western civilization that isnt going to be easy to get rid of, how is it to blame for small business lack of leverage? Corporations can be small - even one man (owner+employee) and provides certain advantages.
this sort of patent we're discussing here is a poor example of the "little guy" trying to get leverage to bring something to market. (It reeks of troll.)
I disagree. I suspect that what happened in this case was:
all I really want is for it to be equitable, less prone to moronic patents of obvious prior art
On Slashdot we never see proper analysis of the patent claims. Others claimed things like chmod and VMS were prior art - I'm sorry but those aren't antivirus products that stop virus.
Re:Time to rethink patent laws (282 comments)
Rather than encourage development of new technologies, patents have become a way to choke the application of novel technologies in industry. So-called "patent holding companies" have become little more than extortion gangs, demanding their share of the money to which they have no right at all.
Or is it due to the fact that the large corporations completely ignore the little guy when he shows up with his innovation (e.g. years ago)?
It is common practice for these large corporations to get letters from the small inventor showing their innovations and asking for a royalty, the corporations patent counsel then thinks it over whether to
#3 has all sorts of nice tricks (like pretend to be interested and stall him, counter-sue, etc...).
In today's world the large companies have big-time advantages (leverage, afford $better lawyers,
Re:Time to rethink patent laws (282 comments)
arguments against Software Patents and their detrimental effect on innovation within software
Untrue unless you drink Slashdot koolaid.
Small inventors/businesses come up with a disproportionately large number of innovations. Now assume a world without software patents - large corporations could work most efficiently if they leverage their resources, brand, experience in just scanning their competitors and re-implementing whatever looks most profitable. In other words, why would a large company innovate and not just monitor competitors + copy-paste their code. You see large corporations do not need to innovate - they just leverage their strengths (brand, position, existing customer base,
When someone comes up with a way to protect small inventors from larger companies that copy-paste the results of their hard work and innovation THEN AND ONLY THEN we can abandon the current patent system. Sorry copyright doesnt cut it - large companies just re-implement.
You are confusing bringing something to market vs recognizing the actual innovation or improvement. The market can be more efficient for smaller companies to do the actual innovation and selling their innovations to the larger corporations. Software folks miss this point (so far). Really the problem is the small inventor or business does not have enough leverage - companies like the 20 in this suit just dismiss them and expect the small guy to disappear or to run them over in court with their lawyers.
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Stuffed peppers make an easy one-dish dinner idea for any weeknight. Try this version, which features creamy goat cheese and fresh corn.
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Adjust oven rack to the highest position; heat broiler.
Cook the rice according to the package directions.
Meanwhile, cut the poblanos in half lengthwise. Scoop out and discard the seeds. Place the poblanos skin-side up on a foil-lined baking sheet. Broil until the skin is charred black, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool.
In a large bowl, combine the corn, beans, cooked rice, oil, 1 1/4 teaspoons salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Using your fingers or a paring knife, peel the poblanos and discard the skins. Divide the poblano halves among individual plates. Spoon the rice mixture over the tops and sprinkle with the cheese. Serve at room temperature.
Tip: Poblanos (mild green peppers with a sturdy flesh that's perfect for stuffing) are available in many supermarkets. But if you can't find them, try small green bell peppers instead.
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