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It seems that the Google accounts sign in page (accounts.google.com) was approved for "Social Networking" - really? I can see plus.google.com being blocked for Social Networking, but locking out every single Google service, including Gmail, YouTube and other subsidiaries is unnecessary. This needs to be corrected.
Confirmed. I was unable to login to gmail as of June 26, 2012. It was blocked as file sharing, social networking.
I had to add acccounts.google.com to my white list ("Never block") to allow gmail access.
Same here. I had to "Allow" accounts.google.com. I've always been able to get to Google Mail in the past. I don't have "web mail" blocked either, never have. Luckily, we can put it in never block.
- CommentAuthorphineasjwhoopee
- CommentTimeJun 26th 2012 edited
This has brought the whole companies email to a grinding halt. Wow, thank you opendns, very well thought through. We are definitely going to be migrating all our clients to another service.
same as what happened to @thenewnumber2
- CommentAuthorcvlsupport
- CommentTimeJun 26th 2012
Guys, you forget one thing: it is not OpenDNS blocking anything, but solely *your* dashboard settings determining what you want to have blocked. The simple solution: don't block what you don't want to have blocked. So easy!
Now you could say, ok, I don't have immediate direct influence on categorization of domains, because domain tagging is a community effort. But it should have been obvious to you that if you went for category filtering that things may change at any time, new tags are approved, old wrong ones may disappear. So, in fact, you accepted that risk, else you would have decided otherwise, so now bear with it instead of complaining!
"We are definitely going to be migrating all our clients to another service."
Btw, exactly this problem is not only with OpenDNS, but generally with any other content filtering appliance or strategy, unless you totally go for your own individual categorization and decisions.Thankful People: ipoint.corp
rotblitz - This is a valid complaint. This is a major domain, and it has been incorrectly categorized. Would you say the same thing if the Google frontpage (google.com) was categorized incorrectly tagged as "Nudity?"
The server Accounts.google.com uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is valid only for these names:
*. opendns.com, opendns.com
(Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain)
Having problems to acess google today...
accounts.google.com definitely needs to be removed from any categories. This brought our entire company to a halt this morning as nearly all of our users use Google Apps.
It is a generic domain used for logging into all of Google's properties. It definitely should not be placed in ANY category.
Just for example, with this blocked, my users noticed the following services did not work this morning: Google Docs, Analytics, Adwords, Gmail, Calendar, Wallet, etc.. just to name a few. Basically nothing from Google worked.
Yup, happened to my users this morning as well. Classified under social networking. Had to whitelist the domain.
- CommentAuthorPatrick Reardon
- CommentTimeJun 26th 2012
This was one single moderator who affected likely a lot of OpenDNS customers. There probably should be certain domains that are locked from being edited at all...this being one of them.
This should have been corrected in minutes
- CommentAuthoripoint.corp
- CommentTimeJun 26th 2012 edited
Same problem here... we need a solution.
- CommentAuthorricardocabrera
- CommentTimeJun 26th 2012
@ipoint.corp People are complaining so much because it should not have been categorized as it was, especially when it breaks such a widely used service.
There are several utility domains used by the various Google properties and by other websites as well. You cannot seriously expect admins to white-list every one of these.
Just another example: ajax.googleapis.com If that domain was to get tagged incorrectly, it would break THOUSANDS of websites.
I added accounts.google.com to my never block list. Still unable to get to in. Showing that the administrator has blocked access to accounts.google.com.
OpenDNS, we need this fixed!Thankful People: fsradmin
I have whitelisted and gotten things to work, but this should never have happened. Looking forward to the explanation.
This really was a badly thought out decision.
And don't forget to flag the site for review if you disagree with the Social Networking tag.
Just got hit with this "bug" at my workplace. Our email is hosted by Google- not cool! Lots of unhappy users!
I'm not sure what's going on. I turned off blocking on the entire IP and it still is blocking domains. We use Google services for our company. This is not good service.
- CommentAuthorbayoulancom
- CommentTimeJun 26th 2012
I have a lot of clients with problems to join to Google Apps. Please, repair that.
Recently I've noticed that mozilla add-on "Ghostery" has begun blocking google+ when I go to google domains. I suspect Google is pushing a third party cookie from google+ and that is what is causing OpenDNS to block the page.Thankful People: fsradmin
- CommentAuthorsquid_ward
- CommentTimeJun 26th 2012
This is a huge issue for anyone using OpenDNS and Google Apps. I suspect that a LOT of users are frustrated at this point.
OpenDNS, please post some kind of statement. Even if it's "we're aware of the situation and are working on it." Silence is NOT your friend in this case.
Thanks for an excellent service. Bumps in the road always occur.
This type of issue has happened a few times for us in the past year while using OpenDNS. We are dropping OpenDNS for now, as the benefits do not outweigh the hassle of having all my users unable to access their Google Apps accounts.
Who is the mental midget that came up with this idea? Do they realize they have blocked some of the most essential internet marketing tools on the Internet? You cannot access Google Analytics, Google Adwords, Google Webmaster Tools, and more! I wonder if Opendns could stay in business if Google black listed their site!
- CommentAuthorthe-engineer
- CommentTimeJun 26th 2012
This happened because someone marked accounts.google.com as social networking, probably due to Google+; however, it was very frustrating that since we use Google Apps this also blocked access to many other things other than just social networking. For those of you who say it is our dashboard settings, well, yesterday, our dashboard settings were fine. Today they are not.
I have whitelisted accounts.google.com to fix the problem, but this should never have been allowed to happen in the first place or should have been fixed immediately. Unintended consequences are far more severe than the positive benefits of blocking google plus.
As an aside update, I have informed my boss (Director of IT) of my severe displeasure in this matter and have informed her that we should cancel OpenDNS unless we receive assurances that such a thing will not be allowed to occur in the future.Thankful People: the-engineer
I have opened a support ticket to get an official response, but here is what I can determine happened.
Someone suggested that accounts.google.com be listed as a social networking site. People voted yes. Someone approved it. As of the approval, if you block social networking sites, you lost access to log in to ANY google service.
OpenDNS is crowdsourced filtering. I doubt they will overrule a vote. The only recourse we have as customers is to flag accounts.google.com for review, and explain why it was a bad idea. No amount of complaining or posting here will make a change. It may make us feel good, but we need to respect the process. If we all flag accounts.google.com for review and explain that it is the gateway to all of google's services, not just the social networking ones, then maybe we can get things reversed.
Unfortunately, it is things like this that cause us to lose faith in a great service. But it is fixable, and we just need to do the work to fix the problem.Thankful People: rotblitz
I just checked the accounts.google.com domain for filters, and the filters that caused the problems were removed completely. Here is what I received from support.
Thank you OpenDNS for taking care of things.
We have located a domain which many Google services use for authentication that was recently tagged as File Storage and Social Networking in our database. However, we've since removed those tags, so these services should be accessible on your network now. Please clear your local web browser and DNS resolver caches using the instructions found here: http://www.opendns.com/support/article/22.
We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused, and we thank you for your patience.
Hmm, the correct link ist http://www.opendns.com/support/category/10
We removed the erroneous tags applied to the subdomain accounts.google.com at approximately 08:50 PDT this morning; if you continue to see issues in reaching Google services while using OpenDNS then please flush your web browser caches.
If you continue to see issues after cache flushing then please open a support ticket with our support team, here: https://dashboard.opendns.com/support/Thankful People: ipoint.corp, oksnj
Many Kudos to OpenDNS for prompt attention to this manner. This is exactly why I chose and choose to stay with OpenDNS for my content filteriThankful People: Daniel Gifford, maintenance
- CommentAuthoryellowbullet.com
- CommentTimeJun 26th 2012
Attention is even more prompt if opening support tickets rather than posting in the forum. Many kudos to those who did so.Thankful People: ipoint.corp, oksnj
- CommentAuthormaintenance
- CommentTimeJun 26th 2012
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|ESPN.com: 2011 (RBR Pickem)
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So how do you win 2011 Round-by-Round Pick 'em? Well, the first rule is not to be chalky. This game encourages you to be daring, because after all, you're picking each game on its own, with no worries about how it impacts the bracket. That means if your upset pick doesn't come through, you'll still be alive the next round to try again. And if you pick against a team and get burned, you still have the ability to ride that team for the remainder of the tournament, if you choose.
Last year's tournament was perfect for this game. There were 10 first-round upsets (according to seeds) in the Round of 64, six upsets in the Round of 32, and four teams not seeded No. 1 or No. 2 reached the Elite Eight. Butler and Michigan State (both No. 5 seeds) would have earned a total of 30 points (2+4+6+8+10) and 20 points (2+4+6+8), respectively, while champion Duke earned only 21 points (1+2+3+4+5+6) for its six victories. Sticking with last year's tournament, the total possible points an entrant could have received was as follows:
62 points for Round of 64 winners
56 points for Round of 32 winners
33 points for Sweet 16 winners
24 points for Elite Eight winners
15 points for Final Four winners
6 points for championship game winner
196 points total
Even if you add in this year's First Four winners -- the four games played on Tuesday and Wednesday -- earning a total of four points, based on last year's results, 59 percent of the points in this entire game were tallied by the end of the first weekend of play.
Going back 10 years (starting with the 2001 tourney), there has been an average of 18 upsets per tournament, with eight coming in the Round of 64. These should be your baseline minimum number of upsets picked in this game, but I recommend taking a few more chances. As far as the first week of tourney play is concerned, here are some places to look.
• A No. 2 seed hasn't lost its first game since 2001, but only once in the past 14 tournaments have all No. 2 seeds reached the Sweet 16. My advice would be to pick two No. 2 seeds to lose their second game, especially if the opponent is a No. 10 seed (such as Saint Mary's last season), which gets six points for a victory in the Round of 32. The two No. 10 seeds that should get their chance to knock off a No. 2 are Michigan State and Penn State. I would probably also pick against North Carolina here after their shaky ACC tournament with two close wins followed by Sunday's blowout loss.
• The No. 3 seed has made just as many Sweet 16 appearances as the No. 2 seed in the past 10 years (25), but it's worth the gamble to select at least one No. 14 seed. When 14th-seeded Ohio beat third-seeded Georgetown last year, the Bobcats earned four points, which is more than the other three No. 3 seed winners combined, which got one point each for a total of three. BYU is probably the most vulnerable of the No. 3 seeds with Brandon Davies not playing.
• A No. 4 seed has suffered a Round-of-64 defeat four times in the past three tournaments, including Vanderbilt last year to No. 13 Murray State. Like the 3/14 matchups, this pairing also warrants at least two upset picks for the 13-seed, which gets four points for a win in that round.
• No. 5 seeds have more Sweet 16 berths (17) than the No. 4s (14) in the past 10 tournaments, including Final Four participants Michigan State and Butler from last year. But the No. 5 seed is a measly 17-11 versus the No. 12 seed in the past seven tournaments, so I advise to go heavy on the No. 12s, especially red-hot Richmond (11-1 in their past 12 games) and grossly underseeded Utah State, which is 30-3 and has been ranked in the top 25 in the coaches' poll since Jan. 24. Also note that eight 12-seeds have made Sweet 16 appearances in the past 10 years, so don't be afraid of them in the Round of 32, either.
• The No. 6 seed is only 12-8 versus the No. 11 since 2006, so there are opportunities here, as well. But don't look to ride too many 6/11 winners in the Round of 32, based on their 15-25 record (37.5 percent) spanning the past 10 years.
• You may be surprised to know that the No. 7 seed is a paltry 2-6 against the No. 10 seed in the past two tournaments, so when in doubt, play the 10. And exactly like the 6/11 winner, this 7/10 winner is also 15-25 in the Round of 32 over the past decade, which is why I advocated selecting against a couple of No. 2 seeds on Saturday and Sunday earlier in the column.
• The 8-versus-9 matchup remains a total coin flip with the 9-seed carrying a slight 21-19 edge in the past 10 years. My advice is to pick all No. 9s, to give you six points if they split the four games. If you pick all 8s and a split occurs, you get only four points.
• One final nugget to store away for the Round of 32, should the situation present itself: Dating back to 1999, when a double-digit seed faces a team seeded sixth or worse in the Round of 32, the better seed is a perfect 9-0.
So, remember to pick plenty of upsets and don't forget to make your picks for the Round of 32 on Saturday morning. Have fun and good luck!
Brian Gramling is a fantasy baseball and college basketball analyst for ESPN.com.


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Orca Book Publishers, Nov 1, 2008 - Juvenile Fiction - 176 pages
Linebacker Reggie Scott is forced to deal with the repercussions of an incident that shakes his belief in the game he loves. When he is persecuted by angry fans for being a "dirty" player, Reggie is forced to confront his own guilt and decide whether he can continue to play his senior season and beyond.
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Reggie Scott is playing the game he love when unexpectedly he is hit, he's ok but the player that hit him is not ok. the player so hit him was injured and all the fans blame Reggie for the injury so he has to the decide if you want to keep playing football or quit the game forever. Read full review
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Feb-roo-ary vs. Feb-yoo-ary
We all know that February is the only month of variable length, and the only month with fewer than 30 days. But of greater concern here: it's the only month that most Americans can't pronounce.
That includes radio and TV commentators, whose job it is to say things right. There are a few meticulous media types who correctly say "Feb-roo-ary." But for every one of them, there are countless others who say "Feb-yoo-ary." Then there are those who fecklessly say "Febber-ary"—at least they're trying, but it only makes "Febber-ary" all the more annoying. Last and least is "Feb-wary," a feeble cop-out.
I hauled out my American Heritage dictionary, about the best you can get this side of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, and I checked to see what the renowned American Heritage Usage Panel had to say about pronouncing February.
It turns out the answer is: a lot. And I hate to butt heads with this great dictionary's panel of experts, but I have a big problem with the "Usage Note" I found. It said that "Feb-yoo-ary" is "quite common in educated speech" and "generally considered acceptable." Whaaat!?
Wait, it gets worse. "The loss of the first r in this pronunciation can be accounted for by the phonological process known as dissimilation, by which similar sounds in a word tend to become less similar." By this dizzy reasoning, your six-year-old has been right all along in pronouncing library "lie-berry."
"In the case of February," the panel adds, "the loss of the first r is also owing to the influence of January, which has only one r." I guess this means we get so accustomed to "yoo-ary" after 31 days of January that our poor little brains and tongues can't make the adjustment—but the compassionate arbiters on the usage panel want us to know it's OK, they understand.
Well, to me, this is a dismal misstep by the panel, usually so strict and no-nonsense in its findings. Legitimizing widespread carelessness is where madness lies. Such leniency is an unappetizing leftover from the anything-goes 1960s. That's when the language was taken down the dead-end trail that has brought America to the brink of illiteracy. That's when traditional grammar was attacked as elitist, even racist, for supposedly stifling spontaneity and marginalizing the underclasses by imposing on them its tyrannical rules. This was the position taken not only by the rebellious youth of that era, but also by many self-doubting teachers and professors, who chose appeasement over their solemn responsibilities as keepers of the cultural flame.
Anyway, reeling from this seeming betrayal by one of my most trusted allies, I sought and found a second opinion in There Is No Zoo in Zoology and Other Beastly Mispronunciations by Charles Harrington Elster. The enlightened Mr. Elster did not disappoint: Feb-roo-ary "is hard to say, and so most people say [Feb-yoo-ary] because it is easier, not because it is right … [Feb-yoo-ary] may now be standard, but it is still beastly." Amen, brother.
But Elster wasn't through. In a direct dig at the American Heritage panel, he said "certain dictionaries have gone to great lengths to tell you that a fancy linguistic process called dissimilation is at work here … the result being that most educated speakers now replace the first R in February with a Y …
"That is a very convenient explanation, which makes a mispronunciation look right because so many people use it, and makes the correct pronunciation look wrong …
"Therefore, I will not dissemble about dissimilation, or feed you some malarkey about how [Feb-yoo-ary] is an alternative pronunciation based on analogy with January." Ouch—a stinging rebuke from an indignant word nerd!
As for me, I'm not quite that angry with the American Heritage dictionary, which I consider an invaluable resource. I'm just glad I have others like Elster, too.
—Tom Stern
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Christmas 'Log Review
Every year, for six weeks or so, I get a taste of what it's like to be a superstar.
From late October to early December, I am accosted daily by an aggressive mob of stalkers who know where I live. Their urgent need for my attention seems to be their only reason for being. No, they're not paparazzi or obsessed fans. I'm talking about Christmas catalogs. Every day brings a new swarm—they burst out of my mailbox, entreating me to behold them in all their holiday finery.
Well, even a six-week celebrity has an obligation to his public. I checked out every last one. None was turned away. Here, then, is my Christmas catalog review.
For big spenders there is the stately Gump's catalog, so tasteful you want to take a nap; or Neiman Marcus, with its sullen, stubbly, pasty pretty boys modeling $390 sneakers; or the gaudy Hammacher Schlemmer, for taste-challenged high-rollers: I've got to have that animatronic singing and talking Elvis, or more accurately, Elvis' head and shoulders—the King has been mutilated, I guess, to spare the embarrassment of pelvic thrusts in mixed company. How about spoiling your child rotten with Hammacher's "6½-foot teddy bear" for $500. If that's too sissified, the NFL Shop will warp the values of your little tough guy with a personalized 12-minute CD of a football game in which the announcer says the kid's name 30 times. It's never too early to learn that it's all about you.
Frontgate offers a machine that enriches your oxygen as it plays music. An up-and-comer called X-treme Geek has caffeinated soap, a talking toilet-tissue holder, and, for the guy whose girlfriend doesn't hate him enough already, a Wild West revolver-shaped TV remote, which makes a loud gunshot as it changes channels. It comes with a "super-cool official-looking sheriff's badge."
The Signals company tempts pet lovers with the "I kiss my dog on the lips" T-shirt, but I have my eye on the coat rack with three duck tails for hangers. Not to be outdone, What on Earth offers a "cat butt magnet set," to go with its flatulent toy puppy ("squeeze his belly") and a Bill Clinton figurine with a corkscrew coming out of his pants.
Wolferman's offers 44 pages of … muffins?! Fahrney's offers 56 pages of … pens!? Don't miss the Marlene Dietrich model ("sensuous curves in all the right places"), a bargain at $880, or the $3,000 "pen of the year" (who voted?).
From high-end catalogs on down, the one constant is the writing, which is excellent across the board. (Is this what good writers have to do to eat these days?) Oh, some are better than others. Fahrney's thinks the plural of entry is "entrys"—a store devoted to writing can't make such a dumb mistake. National Geographic's otherwise classy mailer misfires with the awkward "spiders are one of the creepiest crawlers out there." Spiders, plural, are "one"? Why not "a spider is"? Sahalie's writes "completely waterproof." How is that different from just "waterproof"? Orvis Men's Clothing says, "Crafted in New England, you'll appreciate the comfort." This sentence, taken literally, means "you" were crafted in New England. Herrington's high-spirited but sloppy catalog spells minuscule "miniscule." Herrington is also one of many catalogs that can't get the subject to agree with the verb: "Every one of our vintage Ferraris are parked …" No, every one is parked. Subject-verb agreement is a big problem nowadays, and reflects the carelessness and short attention spans this era will be remembered for.
When you read as many of these things as I did, you come to realize that catalogs have their own language, rules, and customs. Numbers are almost never spelled out, not even leading off a sentence. That's against all civilized rules of writing, but merchants want to be direct, not correct. They're targeting our eyes, not our brains. Capitals are thrown around extravagantly because anything capitalized looks Important and Impressive. Hyphens are avoided wherever possible because advertisers will always choose two simple words with a clean space between them over one long, confusing word with an ungainly bar right in the middle.
Many companies sell jewelry made with "Swarovski crystals," a fancy term for rhinestones, which is in turn a euphemism for phony gemstones. And countless catalogs feature "nutcrackers," so called because they were inspired by the popular Tchaikovsky Christmastime ballet. The 21st-century versions look to be useless, charmless statuettes, tackier than tin soldiers. You can get them wearing uniforms of your favorite pro sports team or branch of the military. Despite the name, I doubt they could even crack a moldy peanut. Their heads don't even bobble.
Finally, see if you can figure out what this list of words culled from several catalogs refers to: chianti, chili, dirt, dragonfly, dusk, espresso, grasshopper, mineral, nutmeg, ocean, persimmon, raisin, root beer, sesame, spa, sweet pea, sweet potato, toast.
You might as well give up, because you'll never guess. They're … colors?! "Oh, sweetheart, you look fabulous in that root beer muumuu!" "Thank you, darling, and that dragonfly-and-dirt sweater goes so well with your spa-and-dusk striped tie and those toast trousers."
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Posted on Thursday, December 12, 2013, at 7:12 pm
Media Watch
Several weeks ago, a Vatican-endorsed medal honoring Pope Francis had to be recalled because Jesus was spelled "Lesus." Just last week, a political placard at a Washington, D.C., press conference spelled filibuster "fillibuster" and against "againts." In light of these disgraces, it seems the right time to reopen our Media Malfeasance file…
• "They have arrested two suspects, neither of whom are British." This decades-old problem is only getting worse. To journalists it may concern: The pronoun neither, like either and each, is always singular. Make it "neither of whom is British."
• "Prop. 32 is an initiative to curb union's influence." Ah, apostrophes. Note that one could also say "to curb the influence of unions"—that's unions, plural. Plural nouns ending in s show possession with the apostrophe after the s, not before. So make it "curb unions' influence."
• "Guess who's coming to dinner?" Looks all right, you say? The problem is the unnecessary question mark. "Guess" is an imperative—a direct order, not the first word in a question.
• "Rebecca Solnit's book, Unfathomable City, was celebrated last week." Remove the commas. This is slipshod editing. With the commas, the sentence means that Unfathomable City is the only book Solnit has ever written. In fact, she has written over a dozen.
The rule is that commas set off nonessential information. If the author has written only one book, its title is not essential to the sentence: "Rebecca Solnit's [only] book, Unfathomable City, was celebrated last week." But since she has written several, we must be told which book directly—no commas. Similarly, The actor, Robert De Niro, was there is incorrect with commas. But The president of the United States, Barack Obama, was there is correct.
As writers' skills decline, so do readers' standards. The acerbic avant-garde musician Frank Zappa (1940-1993) once described a rock 'n' roll magazine as "written by people who can't write for people who can't read." Were he alive today, Zappa might not limit his assessment to rock-music journalism.
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1. "…shot himself with a riffle."
2. "Is it fair to compare the two crisis?"
3. "It does so many other things that drives up the cost."
4. "Everyone has come out looking badly."
5. "Dow closes at new record high."
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1. "…shot himself with a rifle."
2. "Is it fair to compare the two crises?"
3. "It does so many other things that drive up the cost."
4. "Everyone has come out looking bad."
5. "Dow closes at record high." ("new record" is a redundancy)
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Posted on Monday, November 25, 2013, at 1:36 pm
Learning From the Masters
There is a universal fellowship of nitpickers and always has been.
More than a century ago, the iconoclastic American writer Ambrose Bierce gave the world Write It Right (1909) and The Devil's Dictionary (1911). George Orwell published his classic essay Politics and the English Language in 1946. In the 1970s and '80s, former NBC news anchor Edwin Newman and New York literary and drama critic John Simon each wrote best-sellers deploring our nation's declining language skills. The New York Times Magazine ran William Safire's curmudgeonly "On Language" column from 1979 until his death in 2009.
There are any number of grammar sticklers online. GrammarGirl.com is a popular site with young people; baby boomers might enjoy bbhq.com/brushup.htm.
There are also countless reference books, starting with the American Heritage dictionary, with its Usage Panel of distinguished scholars. No pedant's library is complete without The Elements of Style by Strunk and White and A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by H.W. Fowler (I recommend the 1965 second edition; I'm told the 1996 third edition has made some questionable compromises).
Serious authors and journalists are never much farther from the Chicago Manual of Style or the Associated Press Stylebook than a clergyman is from his bible.
These books present a united front against ignorance, but reading them, one notices their authors don't march in lockstep—like politicians, there are conservative and liberal word nerds, and they can differ widely over what's acceptable.
Consider this sentence: It's different for men than for women. "Since the 18th century," says the American Heritage dictionary, "language critics have singled out different than as incorrect."
Although hairsplitters from both sides of the aisle endorse different from, "It's different for men from for women" obviously doesn't work. And "It's different for men from the way it is for women" is wordy and stiff. So language liberals would tend to accept different for men than for women in cases like this. The conservatives wouldn't budge. They'd most likely insist on rewriting the sentence—something like "Men and women differ" neatly sidesteps this whole puddle of mud.
It came as a surprise that some of my reference books didn't condemn different than outright. Fowler's venerated Dictionary of Modern English Usage notes that "different than is sometimes preferred by good writers to the cumbersome different from that which etc." To which Wilson Follett's Modern American Usage responds, "To condone different than because it is sometimes awkward to follow different with [from] is defeatism." "The idea that there is anything wrong with different than is a superstition," declares Roy H. Copperud in A Dictionary of Usage and Style. Theodore M. Bernstein, in The Careful Writer, fires back that if you accept different than, you are a "structural linguist permissivist." Ouch, that can't be good.
I still use these books a lot. Collectively, they've helped me become the stuffed shirt I am today.
—Tom Stern
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Posted on Tuesday, November 19, 2013, at 1:13 pm
Clichés Are Too Easy
Clichés are to good writing as McDonald's is to fine dining. You don't need to shun them altogether; occasionally they have their place. But overall, like fast food, the job they do isn't worth the toll they take.
But what's really so wrong with avoid like the plague? You know exactly what it means when I say it, and besides, I might be on a deadline. Why should I fritter away precious time trying to come up with something fresh and inventive when there's this prefabricated, comfortably familiar turn of phrase available?
That's the lure and the curse of clichés. They're easy and they work, yes, but by definition, they're tired and overused, even the new, trendy ones. They're the earmark of the hack writer.
The irony is that clichés are victims of their own success. As trite and shopworn as they become, they were effective and brilliant when they were first coined. They flourish by expressing something universal in words and images that are memorable and original. There's no such thing as an ineffective cliché, or it's not really a cliché.
Clichés sometimes start as clever punchlines. About fifteen years ago, for a period of several months, it was funny to hear someone reply to an outburst of brutal frankness by dryly remarking, "So, what do you really think?" But now when I hear this, even though it's still about as up-to-date as a cliché can be, I get a wee pain.
Same with "wait for it." It's become quite a favorite with the higher-brows among us. It signals the reader that something deliciously ironic or amusing or ridiculous is about to be revealed: "So they caught that sanctimonious Pastor Reynolds in a strip club last night, and he said he was just there to—wait for it—do some research."
In closing, I'd like to try something either really instructive or really dumb…
Cliché Masterpiece Theater
My friend said in no uncertain terms: "Let's cut to the chase. It goes without saying clichés are something you should kick to the curb, where the rubber meets the road. They stick out like a sore thumb. They spread like wildfire. If you want to be a good writer, don't go there or you'll be thrown under the bus. You'll have your name dragged through the mud. It's as plain as the nose on your face. That being said, at the end of the day, for all intents and purposes, the bottom line is that when you use them, all bets are off. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out; this isn't brain surgery. It is what it is."
"Tell me what you really think," I quipped. I was just jerking his chain since I didn't have a dog in this fight. But by the same token, you can't have it both ways. I knew I had to step up to the plate. "Dude," I intoned, "the long and the short of it is, anyone who thinks I'm not on the same page is barking up the wrong tree. It boggles the mind and it's freaking me out. I won't take it lying down."
You have to get up pretty early in the morning to catch me using a cliché. So let's get the ball rolling. Let's get up to speed here. Let's take the gloves off. Let's pull out all the stops. Let's push the envelope. Let's circle the wagons and stop kicking the can down the road. We need to wrap our minds around this perfect storm and think outside the box. But, you kids: don't try this at home.
In the court of public opinion, clichés are a double-edged sword. On the one hand, they make your meaning clear as a bell; but on the other hand, long story short, in a heartbeat you're confronted by a bunch of strange bedfellows who are shocked, shocked! That doesn't pass the smell test.
Left to their own devices, these Einsteins seem to be having a field day with all their bells and whistles. They should give it a rest. They need to get over themselves, beyond a shadow of a doubt.
After all is said and done, this could have been a teachable moment—but, nooo! They had to turn it into a witch hunt.
Well, to them I say, "Right back at ya!" I'm not trying to sell snake oil to these snakes in the grass—these weasels who want to let the cat out of the bag, free as a bird. So in no way, shape, or form am I throwing in the towel. I'm drawing a line in the sand. I'll fight this tooth and nail. When push comes to shove, I'm not falling on my sword. I'm not going from the frying pan into the fire. I'm not taking the bait like some deer in the headlights. No way, José. That would be deja vu all over again.
I've been around the block, but even if you held my feet to the fire, I couldn't make people put their money where their mouth is—that's above my pay grade.
Creature of habit? No, I'm crazy like a fox. If they keep fanning the flames, they'll be dropping like flies. I refuse to be the poster child for being behind the eight ball when the chips are down.
Well, I think I've run out the clock. It's time for the fat lady to sing. There's nothing more to say—zero, zip, nada. I have to get out of Dodge.
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Will Rafael Palmeiro make it into the Hall of Fame or not? Jerry Crasnick polled 80 Hall voters to get their thoughts.
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Palmeiro Tests Positive
Orioles slugger Rafael Palmeiro was suspended 10 days for violating baseball's steroid testing policy. Story
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• Union might file grievance
• O's cancel Palmeiro ceremony
• Stanozolol easily detected
• Congress to get results
• Perjury charge for Palmeiro?
• Steroid reportedly revealed
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Cruisers are Seemingly Now a Joke.
As of you who read what I post know, I am a huge fan of balance and the restoration of the Cruiser from backseat healer to the heart of the fleet. Now we all know that in current STO, escorts rule the roost, cruisers are stuck in healer spots, and science ships are just looked at with the "wtf are they doing here" attitude (first part to get argued no doubt in responses to this thread).
HOWEVER I must point out that cruisers in the hands of Tactical Captains can be rather nasty. But in all honesty we know that they were designed for us Engineering Captains, and unfortunately in comparison to the Tac Cruisers, ours have far less bite, and tbh seem to be far less useful. Rather embarrassing to have the most magnificent ship in the fleet and have it stuck in the back looking pretty and healing.
So in response to this injustice, MANY good and logical ideas have been proposed to give cruisers back their position of honor as the flagships and hearts of Starfleet, and unfortunately ALL of them have been ignored. That hope was rekindled with the release of the Regent, but just as soon dashed when we realized they gave us a piece of eye candy, and not much more. Another cruiser designed for TACTICAL captains with some seemingly attractive add-ons (that I should now mention are buggy as heck and don't even work half the time) and a torp launcher that can shoot sideways. Whippy doo...
So now getting to the point of this thread. I find myself disappointed that threads keep on appearing asking politely (and sometimes even BEGGING) that cruisers be restored to their positions of grace and honor that they hold so graciously in canon, and having these threads seemingly summarily dismissed by the developers. I mean COME ON!!! They gave the aquarius and escort (everything and it's mother refit) a turn rate boost, something NEITHER SHIP NEEDS BUT CRUISERS HAVE BEEN BEGGING FOR. We don't mind flying whales. We don't mind being slow. But to be stuck with an absurdly LOW damage output with an equally disgusting LOW turn rate? Why? Why did you only give us a shield with no sword? Why have you bound our feet instead of letting us run?
So here I stand before you, just goin bleh. They don't seem to listen even when we ask nicely. They scoff at us when we beg. Look at the Galaxy Joke thread. Look at the Better Turn Rate for Fed Ships thread. BOTH threads contain some very good ideas. BOTH threads have ideas that are not only fair and would add (or should I say RESTORE) some semblance of balance to the game, and yet those threads have been there for two whole patches, and all the devs give us is a turn rate bonus to ESCORTS??? THEY DON'T BLOODY NEED IT. ESCORTS ARE SO POWERFUL THAT THEY ALMOST NEGATE THE NEED FOR ANY OTHER CLASS OF SHIP.
Would it kill you guys to at least throw us a bone? Give us SOMETHING? I mean, the Heavy Beam Array suggested by myself and then modified in thread with some balancing ideas by others like yeodred and angrytarg is a good start. Give us a little bite back. The final stats weren't overpowered, and were designed to give the cruisers a little bit of teeth back and not be encumbered by the horrid turn rate. If not that, then the leadership aura again suggested by myself and then modified in thread by players AGAIN like the above two would also make us at least be considered something good to have around instead of just dead weight.
Now I know that the community moderators read these threads. It's their job. But I have heard rumors that the devs do as well. Rumors mind you, I could just be blowing smoke again, but if you guys do read this, please, say something, ANYTHING so all of us cruiser pilots don't just throw in the towel, esp the engineering ones, who want to be able to do their jobs as tank, and actually cause enough distractions and be enough of a threat that escorts CAN do their jobs, instead of PvP and PvE just turning into a mass of escorts duking it out.
your post is quite interesting. Ive always thought it quite silly that the cruisers are not the backbone of the fleet with the other ships types playing supporting rolls, but that is another story. anyways, good post!!!
We definitely need a shakeup to the current ship roles, for both factions... a way to make all ships equal, while still distinctive.
For example...
Escort class keep their current weapon power bonuses, but get a negative shield and aulixury debuff... because they ARE the fragile type of ship, with limited engineering and medical facilities. They do great damage, but can't take a hit even worse now.
Cruiser ships get an innate defensive bonus, no matter what their speed or engine power levels. In addition, possibly getting an innate damage bonus to ONLY beams and torpedoes (what they're best at). Their slow turn rates and inertia are what balance this.
Science ships keep their auxilary focus, but also gain a bonus/debuff depending on your build (a little more weapon power when you're offensively built, and a little more shield power when you're defensively built). In addition, Sensor Analysis not only builds up a damage bonus on their foes, but give them a small defense bonus for each round (chance to be lost when target lock switches). Crowd control and healing is what they're still best at though.
But what do you all think? And remember, it's just a suggestion
Actually, I've often argued that the ships in this game are designed wrong, and the reason is that there's only one thing to do with them - fight.
Let's face it, the three types of ships would have three distinct roles in the universe.
Escorts (which should really be called "Warships") are designed to fight, and should be at an advantage in a straight fight. Typical missions would be patrols, raids and defenses. They would be built for short missions.
Science Ships are intended to conduct research and long term studies. They're not MEANT to fight things. Typical missions would be surveys, analysis and exploration. They would be built for short to medium length missions.
Cruisers (which I would have called "Starships") are a multirole vessel. They would be expected to be capable in combat (but not on par with equivalent Escorts) and capable when conducting surveys and exploration (but not on par with Science Ships). Typical missions would be colonization, repair and construction, diplomacy and long range exploration. These ships are meant for long missions, perhaps 5 or more years at a time.
Of course, the real issue is that there is nothing in the game but combat, so all ships are measured against that. There IS no research system in place for Science Ships to excel at, and there is precious little exploration for Cruisers (Starships) to conduct. With no exploration or research, no concern for supply or range, Escorts suffer no disadvantage in non-existent non-combat missions, and as a result dominate the game.
Put another way, Escorts SHOULD be better in battle than the other classes of ships. Now we need the other kinds of missions for the other ships to be better at than the Escorts.
While I agree with the sentiment we all know this will just be ignored. A bonus to turn rate for cruisers, a decrease in beam array power drain, a balance pass for sci powers, an increase in cruiser/sci inertia's or other changes could really bring the Fed sci ships and cruisers back around.
Chances are none of these things will happen but some day in the future those that bare Dual heavy cannons will catch a nerf bat to the nuts. That way no one will be happy.
So long as people continue to play the game, and even more importantly, pay them money for NEW SHIPS IN A SHIP BASED GAME.(can you honestly take a step back and wrap your head around that concept for a minute?)
...Then things will never change and this game will bar any legitimate attempt by future or current companies from making a true STO experience now or in the future due to this bomb.
As the user of a Fleet Tactical Escort Retrofit (the introduction of this and the Jem'hadar attack ship upgrade just kicked the bucket on balance), let me offer my view.
I battled my friend's new lobi store temporal ship today (I forgot the class of ship... the fed one), and what I saw was appalling in terms of balance. I was utterly dominating. I tanked her ship, a photonic fleet, and her two past/future ally ships. My ship, the smallest of them all, held up against them. A dual beam bank overload to the past ship finished up the battle. It was just a joke. I was overwhelmingly superpowered.
Cruisers can sit there, heal, draw aggro, but in the end are just useless for damage. Pitted against a cruiser, my Defiant could probably hold its own against it, and simply follow behind the whale, cannons blazing. It's just a joke, with five tactical consoles, the best turn rate, and a subspace jump my ship is nearly unstoppable. Where are the Deferi and their balance when you need them?
Science ships. Need I say more? Next to useless.
At this point in time, if you want to even be able to win you've gotta be a tactical captain in an escort (which I happen to be). It's just unfair to engineers and poor sciences get thrown the moldiest cookie of all. For the sake of balance... fix this!
Did I mention that in Kerrat today I tanked two or three Fed cruisers in my Defiant at once?
You are paying for a new ship to fly around as your primary character or toon.
I don't see them making you pay for a level xx Engineer to play on the ground... why not?
I am saying that so long as players exist who will pay the monthly, or will pay for the new ships, the system will never change. So long as Cryptic/PWE continue to make money off this game, the system will never change.
You are asking for balance in a game where they purposely make the newest ships more powerful than anything available as a part of the game, aka free to some.
When you ask them to balance them out against their counterparts that means that there is no longer a reason aside from purchasing it as a cosmetic ship skin to purchase those new ships. That means fewer sales, that means less money for Cryptic/PWE so they will never balance it.
I'm saying that you are OK with paying for your toon over and over and over and over and over and over again! What other MMO or even game that is actually taken seriously or is trying to actually make a real name for itself in any kind of market does that?!
No paying a subscription fee is not the same thing. These guys are taking your money on the BASIS OF AN IMBALANCED SHIP DESIGN!
The ships are a Pay to Win system. It is a system that is designed to purposely separate you and your money on the base human want to be better than someone else, or to have something that someone else does not. To WIN!
They will not change the system so long as people continue to pay them money for a purposely designed pay to win system.
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Need to identify this shrub/tree urgently!!
Hi all,
So I need this shrub/tree identified urgently...
It is growing in a forest type area in the western cape, in south africa. I have no idea if it is indigenous or not to the area, but I need to know the name of it most importantly and if anybody knows, whether or not it is poisonous? Especially for birds (a rainbow lorikeet to be specific). We want to have it for our bird but need to know if it is poisonous or not and what the name of it is.
Thanks so much :)
Your post is pretty old so you may already have your answer, but right off it looks like a ficus to me. Two came up on my search that had similar leaves and yellow fruits: Ficus burkei and Ficus brachypoda, but its hard to be sure. If you haven't already take a cutting of a branch with enough length to have fruit and leaves on it to a local nursery. They will be more familiar with what grows in the area and might be able to ID it.


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