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I am in the process of replacing windows around my house. Windows are in and contractor has put insulation, jams and molding on around the windows from the inside before finishing the outside stucco. I am worried the insulation has been exposed to water from the outside during a heavy storm? Is it necessary for the insulation to be checked before finishing the stucco, which may require him to remove the molding? I did notice he he put tyvek around all but three windows while having them installed. should I be worried? |
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Does anyone know if the arguta is a late summer/fall blooming impatiens. It is nearly time for me to start thinking of bringing my impatiens in for the winter. The arguta are so sprawling that I wouldn't have room for them without trimming them back. The upright ones seem to be sprawling, too. There are 18 plants. The longest is 24 inches. As I was cutting them back, I noticed most of them had buds. I hated to cut them back but I had to. I hardly got any blooms this summer, but if I had left all these branches on I would have had a lot of blooms this fall. Now I am really in trouble because I saved all those cuttings in water.
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Impatiens arguta blooms all the time for me in cooler weather. Most Impatiens species will stop when it gets hot. Brighter light should help keep the upright ones standing but the sprawling one just does that. Since you will have so many cuttings started you could experiment and try them in the ground during the winter. I would be really curious to see if they would survive for you. But wait till next year. |
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Vicki My Arguta's don't look as good as Steve's, but they are surviving down in the cellar. I checked on them today. When weather warms up a bit I could send you a few. Probably too cold here right now to mail them out. What are the temperature ranges where you live? |
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Thank you for your kind offer- I live in Ga and it is too cold to ship right now. I have parrot impatient if you like. Bonsai is another hobby of mine and I have lots of starter plants if you are interested esp japanese maples |
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Vicki, did you ever get any I. arguta? I noticed today that my arguta are putting on new growth. I have them in a large pot that I am getting ready to divide, so I could send you several pieces in exchange for some Parrot Impatiens. How far south of Athens are you? We travel through Commerce on the way to Chattanooga to visit our grandkids. |
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How to Use Internet Based Real Estate and House Hunting Sites
As with anything you find on the internet, the critical thing to keep in mind with internet real estate is that it is subject to input control. In plain English, you only see what they want you to see. If they don't want you to see it, it's not going to be put into the internet so that you can see it there. The vast majority of the time, there is no check upon this simple fact of life. If the owner or listing agent don't want you to see something, it's not going to be available to you on the internet. You're going to have to get out and look at the actual property.
What is put onto the internet is a representation. It could be a good accurate representation or it could be an intentionally distorted representation. The online information is never all there is to see. Kind of like a facade - front facade, back facade, and now, internet facade. Online pictures, home for sale websites, virtual tours - they're all subject to any number of tricks that alter how the property is perceived.
You should never put an offer in without having looked at the property in person. I'm very good at what I do as a buyer's agent. Nonetheless, it is most disconcerting on those rare occasions when someone sounds like they might be intending to put an offer in without looking at it themselves in the flesh. Since I originally wrote this article, I have now done so - very successfully according to the family I did it for - but it was a very special set of circumstances and even so I was so nervous I couldn't sleep until they did manage to make another trip to physically see it. I have had to talk other people out of doing this. There is no such thing as a perfect property, and it's very difficult to point out all of the things I believe buyers need to be aware of when they're not there to see me point.
A lot of the most important things are never online. Even if there is a floor plan (rare), it's very difficult for people who are only looking on-line to get a good grasp of internal sight lines. It's also very hard to convey the full sense of the external environment. What can you see? What do you hear? Are there other environmental distractions? Do airplanes fly right over the house on departure when the wind changes? What's the neighborhood like, are there any obviously disturbed neighbors, what are traffic patterns like, how close and how good is freeway access, where is (are) your grocery store(s), and anything else that might be important to you? How accessible is the neighborhood via public transport? Note that some of these questions are double edged swords by definition. Public transport means your friends who don't have a car can get there, as well as making any public transport excursions you may have need far more bearable - but public transport is also a common conduit for undesirable visitors.
Nor can you really only visit one or two properties. The key to relative value is how the various properties on the market compare to each other, and that includes that whole list in the previous paragraph. No matter how much you make, if you figure you're going to visit an absolute minimum of ten properties before you put in any offers, the probability is pretty much 100 percent you'll end up glad you did.
The internet can profitably be used to narrow your search, by throwing out all of the obviously unsuitable properties. Doesn't have what you need? Asking price way too high? From the pictures, there's no way your family could live there? There's no reason to waste time and gas going to see those properties. You still need to go out and look at not only the properties that are left, but enough properties to give them context. I don't know how often I've heard from people who only wanted to view one property, but in such cases it always seems to be a property I wouldn't buy if the owners paid me to take it off their hands.
The internet can also make it easy to find properties to look at. It certainly beats driving around all the neighborhoods you might like to live in trying to find "For Sale" signs. But it cannot replace physically going to look at properties that might fit the bill. If you're short on time, might I suggest a buyer's agent (or several)? That time is their job, the mileage is a business expense, and nothing is so precious as the time people give us to look at property. It's quite likely that a good buyer's agent will narrow your search a lot more, because going out and looking at property gives a lot more information than the internet, and we do it constantly. Getting a good buyer's agent first will make more difference than anything else to how happy you end up (Here's how to find a good buyer's agent)
Property always needs to be evaluated in the context of the area it's in. A lot of what might sell for $500,000 in my area might be less than $100,000 in other locales. This doesn't mean San Diego is overpriced. It means that there's a lot of people who want to live here very badly, these people make comparatively large amounts of money, it's hard to get permission to build, and the prices for the area reflect those factors. If you've decided you want to live in a particular neighborhood you're going to have to pay about the prevailing prices if you want housing. A good buyer's agent can make a big difference, but nobody can find you something that doesn't exist, and in order to really understand what a good bargain is, you've got to go and actually look at some properties that aren't bargains before you understand what a bargain looks like.
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Submitted by pete on February 7, 2006 - 21:19After two bouts of shootout futility against Dayton, the Chiefs were due.
Brian Eklund stopped 34 of 38 shots faced before prevailing on penalty shots. Justin Kelly had 2G 1A for the Chiefs. Freshly demoted Adam Henrich had 2 assists.
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Submitted by pete on February 7, 2006 - 16:00Karri Ramo was back in the lineup today for HPK helping his club defeat Blues 5-3. Ramo stopped 29 of 32 shots faced and was voted player of the match by fan balloting although he did not receive a three stars selection from the media. His record moves to 8-6-3 on the season.
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Sean Burke stopped 28 of 30 shots faced for the win. Vincent Lecavalier with the overtime winner on a pretty deke on a breakaway set up by a long Martin St. Louis stretch pass. Young Paul Ranger had his 10th assist of the season on Fredrik Modin's game opening goal.
Ryan Craig led all Lightning rookies with 17:07 of even ice time with 1 shot and one hit. Ranger had 14:24 of playing time and was +1 with 1 shot on goal and a slew of shots that were blocked by the Islanders defenders. Evgeny Artyukhin played 12:20 and was -1 with just 1 hit. Norm Milley played a sparing 4:12 and was -1.
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Submitted by pete on February 6, 2006 - 18:08The Hockey News has released their annual future watch issue and the underestimated Lightning were once again pigeon holed in last place with a D+ grade. Tom Jones of the St. Pete Times, who is a contributor to the publication, [url=http://www.sptimes.com/2006/02/06/Lightning/Prospect_rankings_nee.shtml]penned an article today portraying the Lightning prospect system as one on the precipice of disaster.[/url] The melodramatic key line of the piece states:
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In the year 1066, William the Conqueror invaded England from these shores of Normandy, France. My ancestors, the Cheney Clan were a part of that invasion, so I am told. I thought that after almost a thousand years it was time to pay my true homeland a visit. Perhaps they thought the grass greener or the cliffs whiter on the English side, but I'm not sure why they left this amazing place.
So that brings me to this: While I was not actively looking for my relatives, I happened upon this interesting fellow named Hervé dancing on the beach with kelp on his head. Knowing my family as I do, I would not be surprised if there was a strong genetic link.
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I'm new to this forum and a newby concerning fuchsias. I had one plant many years ago but lost it within a month. Now am trying again. Have acquired 5 different plants the past 2 months and already lost one I think...I have cut it back, placed in smaller pot, and moved to indoors hoping it will revive. The others seem to be doing fine and are in pots in yard neath shade of pecan tree getting some early morning sun. However, I am having problems with one of them(different problem than the one in rescue). This plant is an upright plant. Each day I find more leaf tips brown, dry, and slightly curled. No sign of investation that I can see... If left alone over a couple days, the whole leaf becomes dry/dead from the tip inward. So I keep pinching off those leaves when the tip starts to dry/brown. But this plant is becoming bare of leaves because of this. It is producing many new blooms though. I believe I'm watering correctly (cause the other plants seem fine, though they are a vine type). What may be the problem? |
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Depending on the variety; it might be getting too cold at night. Some tender fuschias will lose new growth at 35 degrees. Zone 9 doesn't tell me what part of the country, and it could also be getting not enough or too much sun also. Many of the uprights love full sun. Water? They like humidity, but not water-logged. Feeding? They are hungry little pigs. |
Sorry on the zone thing...farmland south of San Antonio, Tx is our location. Thanks for trying to help and responding so quickly. Tis not cold here...quite the opposite. I've tried sun, half-day sun, semi-shade over the past month (each method about 7-10 days at a time) with no improvement where ever I put them. I think am correctly watering (moist not soaked) and fine-mist spray my fuchsias each morn as it is very dry here. Fertilize once every 7-10 days. This is very frustrating. Should I cut it back hard, bring inside, and hope? Only the top 1/3 of each stem/branch has leaves and blooms and this "strange leaf problem" is continuing to progress upwards to the remaining leaves. :-( On another topic, I recently purchased "diatomaceous earth-organic grade" (dust form) and "beneficial nematodes" (spray into soil form) to help control fleas, June bugs, and other nuisance pests from my yard. When I get ready to use these products, are my fuchsias safe? Can I dust/spray them with these? |
OK, uprights behave differently than basket types; we plant them directly in the garden; however you would need to do that in semi-shade. The problem might be root-bound; basket types like it; uprights don't; Either plant in the gardenn or a much larger pot. As far as the dust and spray; no worry on those. |
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Virtual Private Network Security using a Combination of Techniques
S. O. Ajose, Ph.D.*; FNSE; I. I. Ezebuiro, Ph.D., D.Sc.(Eng), FNSE;
and A. I. O. Yussuff, B.Sc., M.Sc.(Eng)
Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Lagos State University
Epe Campus, Lagos State, Nigeria.
*E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
In order to establish secure links across a
network, Virtual Private Network (VPN) security
is employed. This involves a combination of
some or all of these features; namely:
encryption, encapsulation,
authentication, accounting, and spoofing (or IP
filtering). This project was implemented by a
combination of authorization, authentication,
accounting, and encryption techniques. A
customized network-based, menu driven, and
user-friendly Graphical User Interfaced (GUI) e-
mail package using Microsoft® Visual Basic®
Version 6.0 was applied to further enhance the
security of information (or data) transmitted over
the network.
A program was developed to convert messages
or information being sent into scrambled or
unreadable formats employing a dynamic
encryption code or key before sending. At the
receiver end, the code used to encode that
particular message was supplied before the
message could be
authentication, and
processes were realized by prompting the user
to supply users' name and password to log onto
the package. Users were allowed only three
trials after which the
automatically close itself. A database program
using Microsoft® Access® was created to
ensure that users whose names and passwords
were not in the database were locked out.
The result obtained in this study are highly useful
because the data encryption employed is
dynamic. This means that each encrypted and
decrypted message is accompanied by a key (or
code) peculiar to that message which determines
the complexity of the encryption.
(Key words: VPN, virtual private network security).
package would
The terms E-business, e-commerce, e-
marketplace, business-to-business,
business-to-consumer, electronic cash, and
digital cash are now common business parlance.
Every organization is defining and implementing
its e-strategy.
The Internet allows businesses to reach their
customers, and vice versa, anytime and
anywhere in the world [1, 2]. A Nigerian
company need not deploy any resources or
infrastructure in United Sates or China, for
example, to engage in business there.
A common challenge to companies is the use of
the Internet to leverage their business in a
secured way. One of the key technologies for
using the Internet in a secure and private
manner is the Virtual Private Network (VPN).
VPNs have emerged as the key technology for
achieving security over the Internet. As cost-
effective as the Internet is, it introduces one
major challenge, namely, security.
Since the Internet became a public network there
has been no real security on it. However,
business use requires additional measures to be
attached to the Internet.
One of the ways to achieve the needed security
is the implementation of the Virtual Private
Network, which employs
encapsulation, authentication, authorization, and
firewalls among other techniques to ward-off
intruders by blocking or disallowing all traffic
except messages from designated places or for
a designated type (as in firewall) using a router.
This technique of allowing or disallowing the flow
of very specific types of networking traffic is
called "packet sniffing" [3, 4, 5].
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Figure 1 shows an X.25 Network model similar to
one on which the data to be secured by this work
runs. X.25 is an ITU-T protocol standard model
for WAN communications. It was established in
1976 by CCITT, to achieve compatibility between
computers and packet-switched networks. It also
defines how connections between user devices
and network devices are established and
maintained. X.25 is designed to operate
effectively regardless of the type of systems
connected to the network. It is typically used in
the public switched networks (PSNs) of common
carriers, such as the telephone companies [6].
X.25 network devices fall into three general
categories: Data Circuit-terminating Equipment
(DCE), Data Terminal Equipment (DTE), and
Packet-Switching Exchanges (PSE).
Figure 1: X25 Network Model.
Data circuit-terminating
communications devices, such as modems and
packet switches that provide the interface
between data terminal equipment devices and
packet-switching exchanges, and are generally
located in the carrier's facilities. Data terminal
equipments are end systems that communicate
across the X.25 network that ensures that the
correct numbers of 0s and 1s are received at the
destinations, thereby ensuring that errors do not
occur. They also shape the digital signal. Data
terminal equipments are usually terminals,
personal computers, or network hosts, and are
located on the premises
subscribers. The VPN encryption program
developed in this work was installed on the DTE
at both ends (i.e. sender and receiver's personal
Packet-switching exchanges are switches that
compose the bulk of the carrier's network. They
transfer data from one DTE device to another
through the X.25 public switched network.
equipments are
of individual
Designing The Encryption Algorithm
The flowchart for the encryption and decryption
procedure is shown in Figure 2. Here, the
message to be encrypted was juggled in such a
way that the character at every sixth count in the
message was used in conjunction with every
second character in the ASCII count to form an
encrypted version of the message. The design
could take as much as 256 different input
characters in the message construction. The
decryption process involved the reversal of the
encryption procedure; that
encrypted message as an input data, taking
characters at every sixth count in the message
and combining it with every second character in
the ASCII table count to un-juggle or decode the
Details of the encryption and decryption
algorithms used are in the Appendix. It must be
stated here that there are several other
programs connected with the information given
here that make this work realizable. This
information has not been included in this
publication to ensure compliance with technology
export laws.
The Data Encryption Standard (DES) was
chosen because it is a commonly used and
thoroughly tested encryption algorithm. The DES
system uses 56-bit symmetric keys to encrypt
data in 64-bit blocks. The 56-bit key provided
72,057,594,037,927,900 possible combinations
[1], and it is 65,000 times stronger than the 40-bit
algorithm used by most VPN vendors [7].
Symmetrical or Private Keys
The same key was used both to encrypt and to
decrypt information, hence called a symmetrical
key. This is the method adopted in this work.
Symmetrical keys require users of a VPN to
possess (share) the same key at each end of the
connection. Because the key is shared,
symmetrical keys are frequently referred to as
shared secrets [1]. As the name suggests, these
keys work as long as it is only the authorized
parties who know the key, therefore the parties
involved must take appropriate steps to keep the
key secret. Consequently, one of the problems
with secret keys is distributing them to
authorized users.
is, using the
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Figure 2: Flowchart For Encryption and Decryption.
This is the way of verifying that the person or
system is indeed who the person or system
claims to be. A common technique for
authentication is for each side to "challenge" the
other side by sending a random number. The
challenger decrypted the returned value and if
the decrypted value matched the original random
number, the challenged party was treated as
authentic [1]. In the process, authorization was
granted authentic users; during and after each
session the system undertook accounting in
order to ensure that users were confined to their
areas of granted access. After a total of three
unsuccessful trials, the intending user was
completely logged out and the VPN system
platform was automatically exited. The flowchart
for the complete VPN simulation is shown in
Figure 3.
The results of some samples obtained from the
Virtual Private Network implementation are
shown in Figures 4 to 8.
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Volume 7. Number 1. May 2006 (Spring)
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W i n d o w
D i s p l a y u s e r
m a in t e n a n c e
I s
P a s s w o r d
c o r r e c t ?
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m e s s a g e ?
R e c e i v e
m e s s a g e ?
D is p la y r e c e iv e d
M e s s a g e w in d o w
S e n t
m e s s a g e ?
D is p la y S e n t
M e s s a g e w in d o w
C r e a t e
U s e r s ?
C h a n g e
P a s s w o r d
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D i s p l a y c h a n g e
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D i s p l a y V P N
M a i n W i n d o w
Figure 3: Flowchart For VPN Implementation.
Figure 4: Users are challenged to supply
account name and password.
Figure 5: Sent message being decrypted by
same code.
Figure 6: Mail encrypted with key "code1".
Figure 7: Same mail encrypted with key
Figure 8: Same mail encrypted with key
The program challenged a user to supply user
name and password
authorization, and accounting purposes. To
maintain accountability for message authenticity,
the recipient of the message would need to
decrypt the document using the sender's private
for authentication,
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key. If the keys (or encryption codes) are the
same when compared,
decrypted. After a total of three unsuccessful
trials, the intending user is completely logged out
and the VPN system platform is automatically
exited. This is to discourage intending hackers
who might be attempting to guess the user login
names and passwords.
The algorithm was written such that it is network-
based, so that messages (e-mail) can be sent
over the network or over the Internet.
were made to show the dynamic nature of the
encryption technique employed in this work by
encrypting the same message with different keys
("code1", "2003code2", and "code3is1967") as
shown in Figures 6 through 8. It was observed
that the result of each encryption differed.
Since the Internet offers no security for the data
sent across it, VPN security is therefore an
important issue for both users and VPN service
providers. To achieve this measure of data
security on the Internet, a combination of
techniques was implemented in the Virtual
Private Network for safety and increased security
reasons. The entire project was well tested and
found very successful.
Encryption and Decryption algorithm used:
the message is
Function Crypt (OrigTxt As String, CryptKey As
String, Optional Action As Byte = 0) As String
On Error Resume Next
Dim i, J, CT As String, Codif As String
Dim A_Max As Integer, A_Min As Integer, A_Key
As Integer, A_Char As Integer, Num As Long,
Pos As Long
i = 1
Codif = ""
A_Min = 0
A_Max = 255
For J = 1 To Len(OrigTxt)
Do Events
'Adjust I value so it can correctly loop through
characters of CryptKey
i = ((i - 1) Mod Len (CryptKey)) + 1
'Find the ASCII code of the current character of
A_Key = Asc (Mid (CryptKey, i, 2))
'Extract the character to be coded from OrigTxt
(based on J value)
CT = Mid (OrigTxt, J, 6)
'Obtain the ASCII code of the character just
A_Char = Asc (CT)
If A_Char > A_Max Then
Num = A_Char
Select Case Action ' 0=Code
Case 0 'Coding phase
Pos = A_Char - A_Min + 1
Num = A_Key - 1 + Pos
If Num > A_Max Then
Num = A_Min - 1 + Num - A_Max
End If
Case Else 'Decoding phase
Pos = A_Char - A_Key + 1
If Pos < 0 Then
Pos = (A_Max - A_Key + 1) + (A_Char - A_Min + 1)
End If
Num = A_Min + Pos - 1
End Select
End If
Mid (OrigTxt, J, 1) = Chr (Num)
'Move to the next character of CryptKey
i = i + 1
Crypt = OrigTxt
End Function
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1. Ryan, Jerry. 2001. "A Practical Guide to the
Right VPN Solution". The Applied Technologies
Group. pp. 5, 20, 21.
2. BNET. 2006. Louisville, KY.
3. Carnegie Mellon University. 2001. "Computer
Security." pg. 8.
4. US Computer Emergency Readiness Team.
2006. "Virus Protection". Carnegie Mellon Univ.
5. US Computer Emergency Readiness Team.
2006. "Email Spoofing". Carnegie Mellon Univ.
6. CISCO. 2000. "Internetworking Technologies
Handbook." pp. 1-2.
7. AXENT Technologies, Inc. 1998. "Everything You
Need to Know About Network Security. pg. 21.
8. Lowe, Dave, 2001. "Getting to Know Internet
Security." NTCA ePapers. 1(2B): 5. 12/01.
S. O. Ajose, Ph.D., FNSE serves as Professor
and Dean of Engineering at Lagos State
University. He earned his Ph.D. and M.Sc. from
the University of London, King's College in 1976
and 1974, respectively. Professor Ajose also
holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Hons.)
from the University of Lagos (1971). He was
nominated as a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of
Engineers and was featured in the first issue of
International Who's Who in Engineering. His
research interests are in the areas of electrical
engineering, electronics, and communications
I.I. Ezebuiro, Ph.D. (Eng), D.Sc. (Eng), FNSE.,
is a scholar in the field of telecommunications,
electronics, computer
information technology. He holds degrees from
the University of Technology Giessen-Fredberg,
Germany; Aston University, UK; the Union
Institute and University, US; and Greenwich
University, Australia. His Bachelors degree and
Masters degrees
Telecommunications/Electronics and Electronic
Physics; his Ph.D. is in Electronics and
Computer Engineering, and his Doctor of
Science degree is in Engineering Science and
Information Technology. Professor Ezebuiro has
taught telecommunications, electronics, and
computer engineering at several overseas
universities, before returning to teach in Nigeria
in 2000.
A.I.O. Yussuff, M.Sc.(Eng), is an Assistant
Lecturer and Research in the Department of
Electronic and Computer Engineering at Lagos
State University, Epe Campus, in Lagos State,
Ajose, S.O., I.I. Ezebuiro, and A.I.O. Yussuff.
2006. "Virtual Private Network Security using a
Combination of Techniques". Pacific Journal of
Science and Technology. 7(1):4-9.
Pacific Journal of Science and Technology
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Re:First blacks, (917 comments)
The real question is whether you think a restaurant should have the right to discriminate against gays, black people, jews, swedes, poor people, poorly dressed people, etc. I think they should. It's not because I think discrimination is ok.
I see two problems here. First, you seem to be contradicting yourself. Either you believe it's OK to discriminate or you don't. If you think a restaurant should have the right to discriminate based on sexual orientation, race, religion or attire, than you believe discrimination is OK. You may not practice such discrimination yourself, but your statement makes it clear that you don't have a problem when other people do practice such discrimination.
The second issue I note is a little more subtle, but I think it too deserves attention. Specifically, discrimination based on something like attire, which is relatively easy for anyone to alter to meet a businesses' requirement, is inherently different from discrimination based on an inflexible aspect like ethnicity. In other words, I can change my shirt and tie without too much trouble, but I can't ever change the racial makeup of my parents, grandparents, etc. Conflating these two types of discrimination is, in my opinion, intellectually dishonest. It leaves people with the false impression that restrictions on 'discrimination' are simply trying to limit or curtail the ability of businesses to make *any* choices regarding their clientele, customers, policies, etc. That's not what's going on here. The question at hand is, "In Arizona, will a restaurant be able to post a sign that reads, 'We refuse to serve gays.'"
Re:Good (544 comments)
Throwing invalid and in many cases demonstrably false claims at students who don't have the background to see the invalidity is ludicrous.
But the real world throws-out false and misleading claims all the time. If we don't teach students how to think critically, how to weigh evidence-backed claims against claims based solely on authority, culture, religion, etc., than how are students ever supposed to gain the skills required to make reasoned choices when encountering conflicting 'facts' for the first time?
I mean, why single science out? Why not teach Holocaust denial in history class? After all, wouldn't that challenge students too? Perhaps you could also teach 2+2=5 and French verb conjugation in English class.
I dearly hope schools teach Holocaust denial in history class, and the conjugation of French verbs in English class. Examining the reasons why Holocaust denial persists against overwhelming evidence to the contrary can teach far more about why the Holocaust happened in the first place than any mere regurgitation of the historical facts involved. In the same vein, comparing and contrasting English verb conjugation against the French equivalent can serve as a stepping-stone to understanding how language actually works, which can in turn lead to a whole host of fascinating ideas you might never have even imagined existed otherwise. So yes -- I do hope schools are teaching exactly these kinds of things.
Schools are supposed to teach science, like any other subject, to a reasonable degree of accuracy. Teaching students that somehow just because someone calls some nonsense claim a "theory" is not teaching at all.
You're talking about teaching science instead of religion in the classroom; what I'm suggesting is that we'd be better off if we simply taught the scientific method instead. Ultimately, I don't believe that science lies only in facts like the weight of an electron, or the density of water at one atmosphere, or concepts like the Theory of Evolution. At least as I understand it, what science is truly about is a way of looking at the world around us, thinking about how that world is actually put together, and then testing those thoughts to see if there's any evidence to support them. I think if you can teach core concepts like that to students, and get them to understand what it really means, than you'll have armored those students against the myriad of dogmatic 'truths' the world is all too likely to throw at them.
Useless (and an obvious deception) (137 comments)
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Re:And... (535 comments)
Amen, brother. This is what I've been saying for years. Blaming the corporate name and logo for bad business behavior is both pointless and counterproductive. It's like the police fingering my famous twin brother for a crime I committed simply because my twin's name is well-known while mine is not. Corporations can't commit crimes -- the people making the decisions for those corporations are the ones we need to hold accountable. As long as we let crooks and swindlers hide behind the fiction of corporate personhood, the real people who actually commit these crimes are never going to see any incentive to stop fleecing the public.
I Solved A Similar Problem (208 comments)
A few months ago, I decided to ditch my landline and move as many calls as I could to my iPhone via SIP. Here's how I did it:
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The Incredible PBX (I-PBX) runs within VMware and is pre-configured to support free VoIP calls anywhere in the US over Google Voice. The Google Voice service gives me a local phone number (DID), and will route calls to my home-based I-PBX over GTalk. Siphon on the iPhone gives me both in and outbound SIP calling while I'm on WiFi at home. At home, I also have a Cisco VoIP phone I got a few years ago which also handles inbound and outbound calls. When I'm away from home, I can make outbound calls whenever there's a WiFi network available by routing the calls over a VPN connection back to the Macmini server.
Note that there were a couple of caveats with my setup. The biggest problem is that inbound calls via Google Voice and GTalk don't seem to work reliably; the phones ring, but the voice connection never seems to work. I tend to think the problem is in my configuration though, and if I spent a bit more time troubleshooting the issue, I'm sure I could solve the problem. However, I can still use Google Voice to forward inbound calls back to the iPhone phone via the cellular network. I can then get the call, figure out who it is and how long it will take and, if it's going be be more than a couple of minutes, I can call back via VoIP.
Cannot fully be compensated or measured in money? (861 comments)
I assume this means they're suing for an a full and immediate apology, right?
Re:Yes but (385 comments)
The problem is they lied under oath. And once people are lying about the state of things you don't know what else they are or will lie about. These might not matter, but they might very well lie about the next leak when it is a serious problem. As with many issues, the initial incident isn't nearly as much of a problem as the coverup.
How do you know they lied? How can you be sure it wasn't an honest error by a company official who simply didn't understand the technical details of the reactor's plumbing? I don't know about you but, in my experience, these types of corporate misstatements and goof-ups are pretty common in any industry, nuclear or otherwise. I'm not convinced that isn't the case here. TFA doesn't provide enough evidence one way or the other on this point. It certainly doesn't substantiate a deliberate coverup. There's just no hard evidence of that.
The recent revelation of a tritium leak at Vermont Yankee in 2005 seems, at least to me, to indicate that someone at Entergy is trying to be up-front and honest with the public and the NRC. I applaud that. Good for them. God knows, after Three-Mile Island in 1979, I can't imagine anyone in the US nuclear industry wanting to admit to any accident, benign or otherwise.
As others have already pointed out, a tritium leak isn't particularly dangerous. I don't feel compelled to get my own knickers in a knot over the problem. But I do think it's telling how quickly a minor leak at a nuclear facility spirals into, "They're lying -- it's a coverup!" This type of knee-jerk anti-nuclear reaction is exactly why the US hasn't built a new reactor in over a quarter of a century. It's also why I'm dubious about new nuclear projects today. Until US citizens show a willingness to get facts in their hands and abandon the "if it's nuclear it must be bad' mentality we are never going to have the kind of debate we deserve to have over the pros and cons of nuclear energy.
Re:Dude! Yer gettin' a slap on the wrist. (402 comments)
This is a pet peeve of mine, so I'll apologize in advance for the rant, but I think the idea of a so-called corporate death penalty, or revoking the corporate charter, is just a bad idea in general.
Why? Simple -- it gives corporate decision makers, i.e. the real, flesh and blood people actually responsible for these types of problems, an easy-out of the mess they created. The corporate death penalty is, it seems to me, just a giant grant of absolution for corporate officers who are, in many cases, committing out-and-crimes.
Think about it; did Enron's corporate charter, i.e. the legal fiction we once collectively called Enron the company, commit massive financial fraud? No. Kenneth Lay, Jeffery Skilling and the other directors of Enron deceived the public and their investors about Enron's true state of financial affairs. These individuals committed the crime. The corporate charter had no part in the affair. Does revoking the corporate charter affect Enron's decision makers in any way, forcing them to accept responsibility for their actions? No. What it does is get them off the hook for any personal financial responsibility to the investors they defrauded.
This I think is a bad idea. Acquitting the criminals and focusing on the legal entity as the responsible party does nothing to detour this type of behavior in the future.
Revoking the corporate charter in situations like the Enron debacle only shifts blame away from the individuals responsible for the bad conduct. In addition, killing the corporate entity hurts the investors and the regular employees of the corporation, the folks who, in most part, had little to do with the fraud involved. The employees are now suddenly out of a job and the investors, the real targets of the fraud in the Enron case, are now left with nothing, having been bilked by Lay and Skilling and now, with the imposition of corporate death penalty, further harmed by the public at large. Is that what we want? Does killing the legal facade of a corporation really serve any purpose except to make us feel better when we associate the name 'Enron' with billions of dollars lost to overstated earnings and financial fraud?
In the end, the people running Enron created the mess that sank the company. The investors paid the price; they saw their hard-earned money literally vanish overnight. Revoking Enron's corporate charter wouldn't have fixed this problem. If we want revenge for the crime, we should go after the people who committed the fraud -- the former directors of the company. The corporate charter is just a legal smokescreen, and it should be treated as such.


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Billy Crystal, John Goodman
Pete Docter, Roger Gould
Gale Gortney, John Lasseter
Pete Docter, Roger Gould, Jeff Pidgeon Rob Gibbs
Robert Grahamjones
Randy Newman
- 2002
- Pixar Animation Studios
- Buena Vista Pictures
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- Cartoon Characters: Mike Wzowski, James P. 'Sulley' Sullivan.
- Vocal Talent: Billy Crystal (Mike), John Goodman (Sulley).
- Directed By Pete Docter, Roger Gould.
- Produced By Gale Gortney.
Executive Producer: John Lasseter. - Animated By Michael Berenstein, Jimmy Hayward, John Kahrs, Karen Kiser, Wendell Lee, Daniel Mason, James Ford Murphy, Victor Navone, Bret 'Brook' Parker, Michael Parks, Roger Rose, Ross Stevenson, J. Warren Trezevant, Adam Wood, Ron Zorman.
- Written By Pete Docter, Roger Gould, Jeff Pidgeon , Rob Gibbs.
- Edited By Robert Grahamjones.
Additional Crew:
- Pre-Visualization Artist: Gary Schultz.
- Car Designers: Gary Schultz, Bud Thon.
- Layout Supervisor: Ewan Johnson.
- Animation Coordinator: Chris DiGiovanni.
- Animators: Michael Berenstein, Jimmy Hayward, John Kahrs, Karen Kiser, Wendell Lee, Daniel Mason, James Ford Murphy, Victor Navone, Bret 'Brook' Parker, Michael Parks, Roger Rose, Ross Stevenson, J. Warren Trezevant, Adam Wood, Ron Zorman.
- Supervising Technical Director: Bill Polson.
- Technical Director: Patrick James.
- Modeling Supervisor: Tim Milliron.
- Lighting Lead: Tim Best.
- Texture Painter: Paul Mica.
- Technical Artists: Shawn Brennan, Steven Kani, Shannon Linzer, Holly Lloyd, Kelly O'Connell, Adrienne Othon, Carmen Ngai, Brian M. Rosen, Michael Todd.
- CGI Artists: Phaedra Craig, Paul Mica.
- Shots Leader: Patrick James.
- Production Coordinators: Shannon Wood, Alice Rosen.
- Post-Production Supervisor: Paul Cichocki.
- Assistant Editors: Greg Snyder, Chris Vallance.
- Music Arranger: Ira Hearshen.
- Music Editor: David Slusser.
- Sound Design: Skywalker Sound: Tom Myers.
- Title Designer: Geefwee Boedoe.
- Titles Graphic Artists: Kathleen Chanover, Alex Orrelle.
- Production Assistant: Dan Goodman.
- Special Thanks: Darla K. Anderson, Karen Dufilho Rosen, Bill Kinder, Joe Ranft, David Silverman, Lee Unkrich.
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Don't worry, those plants are just there for the night and for illustrative purposes. :)
This used to be an energy drink display stand. The 3 steel poles are hollow. The yellow shelves are water-tight and about 2" deep. I am fairly handy and have rewired lamps before, and have no problem drilling holes or anything like that. I'd sure appreciate any ideas! The shelves are about 14". The best (and cheapest) idea I have is a regular incandescent fixture with a compact circline fluor. bulb, but that would protrude into the "growing space" in the shelves several inches and probably glare into the eyes. A nice flat slimline circline fluor. fixture would be neater in appearance but I can only find those in ceiling fixture types.. is it possible, or recommended, to wire such a fixture up to a plug-in cord? I intend to hide cords inside the poles. Again, sure would appreciate any ideas! Thanks! |
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The FIFA World Cup Trophy caused its customary stir on visits to Cologne (20 May) and Saarbrücken (22 May). In Cologne, despite dreadful weather and a severe storm warning that forced the show to take refuge in the nearby Cinedom, some 10,000 people began queueing long before the event began, each yearning for a glimpse of the star attraction.
Yet, while the Trophy understandably took centre stage, the focus of the day was on the virtues of voluntary work. Indeed, the event was intended as a thank-you to all the volunteers without whom organised football simply could not take place. More than 160,000 unpaid helpers in Cologne alone give up a portion of their time, assisting in a wide range of communal activities, as Mayor Fritz Schramma recognised in his welcome speech.
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This impressive figure is set to expand yet further for the duration of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, when a team of 250 City Volunteers will take up station at central points around the city from to help and advise travelling fans. The Cologne City Volunteers team is largely made up of German Sports Academy students and city apprentices.
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FIFA and the OC joined forces with city authorities to lay on a wide-ranging supporting programme for the crowds flocking to the FIFA World Cup Trophy show. Kids and youths joined in the non-stop football tournament on a specially constructed mini-pitch. The focus was on scoring: for every goal, FIFA and the OC donated a Euro to 'Six villages for 2006', the official charity campaign of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and to the Cologne-based Anadolu culture and sports club.
Saarbrücken takes visitor total over 300,000
In Saarbrücken, despite torrential rain that lasted well into the afternoon, football fans turned up in vast numbers to witness the Trophy's arrivals. By late afternoon, FIFA and the German Organising Committee (OC) had greeted more than 17,500 visitors to Tiblisser Platz, taking the total figure for the tour beyond the 300,000-mark.
Some 4,000 school pupils used a morning off to explore the informative and entertaining action modules. Later in the day, the crowd swelled to such an extent that organisers switched off the spectacular 3D video show in order to give everyone in the long queues a chance of a close-up view of the Trophy, and a photograph with the glittering star attraction.
A group of 30 wheelchair-users seized the opportunity of a snapshot, along with another local resident who was given a plaster model of the Trophy by his father more than 30 years ago, and who now came in search of a snap with both his replica and the real thing.
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Several events have come up where I can see that I need to be ordained. I need to have some backing behind my name so that I can walk into a congregation or a group and they'll know that I'm orthodox, or at least I'm backed by people that are the same kind of orthodox as they are in a few points.
As I was preparing to figure out how to make this happen, I began to look into what it means to be ordained. One aspect of it is showing that you are educated in the Word, that you know and understand the Bible in a manner that you can teach, discern, and represent Christ in a great way. Another part of that is delving into church history and tradition and understanding classical fields of study such as Ecclesiology (study of the church), Bibliology (study of the Bible) and Pneumatology (study of the Holy Spirit). Some of that sounds good to me, some of it sounds like a bunch of nonsense.
At the same time, finished the book Linchpin by Seth Godin. Near the end, he says that the main point of a resume is to show how you are just like everyone else. It's a form of showing your achievements in a bland, lifeless, search-bot friendly manner so you can be weeded out.
This is the opposite of that. This is where I'm going to go after some heady stuff, wring out the scriptures, and look at all of the drippings. I'm putting it here because it's easier to collect in a single place and because, someday, I might ask some guys to look at it so they may consider laying hands on me and standing behind me.
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Here are my notes from Trey McClain's sermon from this past Sunday. I am trying to take notes in the dark, so the big purple sharpie showed up this weekend. It seemed appropriate to leave the last line from a Palm Sunday sermon up there on the first page. "Help each other, unite. Don't be divided. Unite or stay home."
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This was like a montage of speakers all talking about faith in the workplace. It was really good and full of Biblical stuff as each of these people shared their real-life, tangible and practical ways of working by faith in their daily job.
WCAGLS14: Erica Ariel Fox, There are a bunch of people in your head?
Some of this lady's talk helped me to realize the difference between the good speakers and the amazing speakers at the Global Leadership Summit. There are layers and layers of filters you bring to these kinds of things, and the more you are using, the more exhausting it is to listen.
If somebody else got something out of this talk, feel free to add it to the comments.
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First up, Friday morning, was Joseph Grenny and Mastering the Art of Crucial Conversations. You can tell I liked this one a lot because I took 4 pages of notes. The best talks either get zero or a ton of notes.
One great takeaway was this:
"Everyone tells the truth in the hallway, where it doesn't help anybody."
Of course, we think it doesn't hurt anybody either, which is why we say it in the hallway.
Read through this and see if any of it applies to your work/family/church. I'm sure some of it will.
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There was a really neat introduction and some talk about Compassion International before Pat Lencioni spoke. It is worth mentioning too.
Lencioni's comment about "If it isn't servant leadership, it's economics." has really resonated with me since the GLS. There are a lot of systemic problems in organizations and churches that go back to that issue. If the leader is in it for himself or his own agenda, every decision is viewed through the economics of his agenda. Not necessarily economics of his monetary benefit, but the economics of the ROI toward his agenda.
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So I must have gotten stuck from Susan Cain, because I had some trouble listening through this one too. BUT this guy brought all kinds of scripture and had some awesome connections, especially at the very end. I'm not sure if he was trying to show his authority by quoting so many people or if he wanted us to look all of those people up, but in my ADHD every time he mentioned an author's name I veered from whatever point he was trying to make. It was kind of like listening to footnotes interrupt while listening to an audio book.
His story about giving up his diamond class ticket so that he could sit with his wife was awesome. He didn't change his status, he just gave up the comforts of his seat so that he could be with his wife. Then he pointed to Phil 2 where Jesus gave up all of his honor so that He could be with us. Totally awesome stuff.


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I was coming here to bash on this recipe and realized that I added way to much chocolate extract at the bottling stage. It ended up being around 3 oz. of the extract instead of .6, I must have missed the decimal place when I wrote down my recipe. The beer tastes ok but the nose just ruins it. I guess ill stash the two cases away and hope it mellows with time. This was a promising beer to, im an idiot.
I am a mead maker and started a batch of beer for an upcoming contest I actually made this dark chocolate beer, though I did tweak it a bit **converted some to extract**, with guidance from my local brew store here in san antonio, would ust like your opinion, I have done it all the exact same minus taking out 5 pounds of the majority grain and used an extract instead, I steeped the grains, boiled the hops, kept it on a good timer, when I turned the burner off I added te cocoa powder and lactose, stirred real well, threw it all in the bucket waited for temp to drop and pitched the yeast it looks pretty healthy thus far, like I said I would just like your thoughts on this this is only my second batch of beer...
Sounds good. Once you decide if you are going to stick with homebrewing you should invest in some sort of cooler to cool your wort faster;-)
I actually had a huge chunk of ice that I poured it over so it chilled pretty quick. I just prefer meadmaking because I can be lazier lol...
Did you happen to boil the water before you made the ice? Remember everything that touches your wort after it is cooled should be sanitised in some way.
As a matter of fact I did, however, just out of curiosity, what COULD happen if I had not?
I want to make this and add cherry purée to it, but don't know the best time or how much. Seems like secondary fermentor would be the time, but does anyone have a recommendation for volume of purée?
General rule I've heard for fruit is 2lbs/gallon - but as always, it depends on what you want the final flavor to be like and all of the other bunch of factors (temp, yeast, gravity, etc) involved.
Wow! That's more than I would have expected. I think I'll try just a pound per gallon and see how it turns out. Worst case scenario is a little more subtle cherry than I hoped.


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I am trying to simulate an electronics chassis sitting on a table in a lab. Each chassis side panel has 2 sets of pin clusters with a fan impinging on each pin cluster. This is not really a natural convection problem, but it is not really a wind tunnel-type forced convection problem either, in the sense of air moving over the chassis from front to back.
I created an air environment around the chassis, but it was either too small or I did not assign boundary conditions properly. I assigned p=0 and T=55C boundary conditions to the top surface, but after a few iterations with Heat Transfer enabled the entire air volume was heating up significantly, except for the top surface of the air volume which was still at 55 C.
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I am looking for various tools. Vise grips, dollies, mallets, shot bag, etc... Could probably order from snap-on(who I have an account with), but they would probably be at 3 times the cost. I don't know everything I need and figure that I will find out as I go.
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Thanks for the replies... I gues I am glad that there are no local places that sell this stuff..I'd probably get in trouble. I did get a pair of #5 flip down shades the other day for using with the plasma cutter. I think a O/A torch is the next priority in this hobbie. Chad |
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