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As he prepares to retire, J.P. Patches credits generations of 'Pals'
The longtime clown, suffering from cancer, intends to retire within a year
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J.P. Patches backstage before his show started at the 26th annual Homegrown Festival in Marysville on Friday.
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From left, 5-year-olds Jessie Farrens, Aryianna Maddox and Elizabeth Hanke get help from J.P. Patches as they put their hands in position over their hearts before saying the pledge of allegiance at the start of J.P. Patches' show in Marysville during the 26th annual Homegrown Festival on Friday.
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J.P. Patches directs a song of "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" as Kyle Howton, 6, sings his part as the cow during the 26th annual Homegrown Festival in Marysville on Friday.
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J.P. Patches directs a song of "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" as Logan Studley, 5, sings his part as the pig during the 26th annual Homegrown Festival in Marysville on Friday.
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J.P. Patches backstage before his show started at the 26th annual Homegrown Festival in Marysville on Friday.
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India Al-Khedairy, 6, of Marysville, tries to keep the hula hoop up as long as possible as J.P. Patches looks on during his show on Friday at the 26th annual Homegrown Festival in Marysville.
Slowly making his way to the stage at the Marysville HomeGrown Festival, the crowd broke out in whispers and pointed in his direction.
"There he is, there he is. That's him," they shouted.
His handmade, yellow jacket remains the same -- with checkered patches and an accumulation of random buttons he has received over time.
"I like his shoes, they are so stylish and colorful," said 8-year-old, Brayden Reeves of Arlington. "His clothes have all mixed colors."
J.P. Patches name and costume are unforgettable to those who grew up watching him perform on "The J.P. Patches Show" on KIRO-TV, one of the longest running local children's shows in TV history from 1958 to 1981.
"Are you the original J.P. Patches?" yelled a fan.
"Well, I think so," said Chris Wedes, the only J.P. Patches for more than 50 years.
As he stepped on to the stage, he grabbed the microphone and spoke to the people who inspire him to keep performing.
"It's the kids," J.P. Patches said. "Kids are wonderful. They have the knack of going with the flow."
In October of 2007, Wedes was diagnosed with a blood cancer called acute myeloma -- the cancer is incurable.
J.P. Patches will retire from performing within the next year.
"The medical problems are getting in the way," he said.
Patty Berglund, 65, who lives in Lynnwood, watched him perform in person for the first time at the festival.
"When I was a little kid, I never missed him or a day of his show," she said. "He made your imagination work."
Berglund choked up when she heard that he was retiring.
"How can that be?" she said. "After all of the laughs?"
The laughs aren't just a part of his act, and his wife, Joan, said what you see is what you get.
"He's as special of a person when he's not J.P. the clown," she said. "He's got a creative sense of humor and he doesn't know a stranger."
Wedes said his career has taught him many things but there's one piece of advice he has for his fans.
"If you don't have fun with what you're doing, bag it."
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See biography by P. N. Vanezis (1971).
Makarios III (Μακάριος Γ), born Mihail Christodoulou Mouskos (Greek: Μιχαήλ Χριστοδούλου Μούσκος) on August 13, 1913, Paphos, Cyprus – August 3 1977) was the archbishop and primate of the autocephalous Cypriot Orthodox Church (1950 - 1977) and first and fourth President of the Republic of Cyprus (1960 - 1974) and (1974 - 1977).
In 1948, while still studying at Boston, he was elected Bishop of Kition. Mouskos adopted the clerical name Makarios and returned to Cyprus. Like many public figures in the Greek Cypriot community on Cyprus, in the 1940s and 1950s he was an active supporter of enosis, the union of Cyprus with Greece.
During the 1950s, Makarios embraced his dual role as Archbishop and Ethnarch with enthusiasm and became a very popular figure among Greek Cypriots. He soon became a leading advocate for enosis, and during the early part of the decade he maintained close links with the Greek government. In August 1954, partly at Makarios' instigation, Greece began to raise the Cyprus dispute at the United Nations, arguing for the principle of self-determination to be applied to Cyprus. This was viewed by advocates of enosis as likely to result in the voluntary union of Cyprus with Greece following a public plebiscite.
However, the British government were reluctant to decolonise the island which had become their new Headquarters for the Middle East. In 1955, a pro-enosis organisation was formed under the banner of Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston (in English 'National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters'), or EOKA. This was a typical independence movement of the period, viewed by some as a legitimate resistance movement and by others as an intimidatory terrorist group. The issue is still controversial. Makarios undoubtedly had common political ground with EOKA and was acquainted with its leader, the Greek soldier and politician George Grivas, but the extent of his involvement is unclear and disputed. In later life he categorically denied any involvement in the violent resistance undertaken by EOKA.
In October 1955, with the security situation deteriorating, the British governor, Sir John Harding, opened talks on the island's future. By this stage, Makarios had become closely identified with the insurgency, and talks broke up without any agreement in early 1956. Makarios, characterised in the British press as a crooked Greek priest and viewed with suspicion by the British authorities, was exiled to Mahe Island in the Seychelles on March 9. EOKA continued its campaign of protests and violence during this period.
In the latter years of the 1950s, the Turkish Cypriot community first began to float the idea of Taksim or partition, as a counterweight to the Greek ideal of enosis or union. Advocates of Taksim felt that the Turkish Cypriot community would be persecuted in a Greek Cyprus, and that only by keeping part of the island under either British or Turkish sovereignty could the safety of the Turkish Cypriots be guaranteed. In this way the Cyprus dispute became increasingly polarised between two communities with opposing visions of the future of the island.
Makarios was released from exile after a year, although he was still forbidden to return to Cyprus. He went instead to Athens, where he was rapturously received. Basing himself in the Greek capital, he continued to work for enosis. During the following two years he attended the General Assembly of the United Nations where the Cyprus question was discussed and worked hard to achieve freedom for his people.
Under the premiership of Constantine Karamanlis in Greece, the goal of enosis gradually was abandoned in favour of Cypriot independence. Negotiations in 1958 generated the Zurich Agreement as a basis for a deal on independence, and Makarios was invited to London in 1959 to fine-tune the plan. Makarios at first refused to accept the plan. The reversal of his pro-enosis stance, and his eventual agreement to sign the conditions for the independence of Cyprus, have been attributed to moral suasion on behalf of the Greek and British governments. According to a more controversial account, the archbishop was blackmailed by MI6 with disclosure of material relating to his private life.
On March 1 1959 the archbishop returned to Cyprus to an unprecedented reception in Nicosia, where almost two-thirds of the adult Greek Cypriot population turned out to welcome him. Presidential elections were held on December 13 1959. Makarios defeated his rival, lawyer John Klerides – father of future president and Makarios ally Glafkos Klerides – receiving two-thirds of the vote. Makarios was to become the political leader of all Cyprus as well as the communal leader of the Greek Cypriots.
In March 1961, Cyprus was admitted as member of the Commonwealth of Nations and Makarios represented the island at the Commonwealth Prime Ministers΄ Conference. He attended the Belgrade NAM conference in September 1961, and unnerved the governments in London and Washington, D.C. with his lukewarm policy towards the West. This was seen in the U.S. as demonstrating a tendency towards communism ; Makarios was vilified as the "Castro of the Mediterranean although he had by now been rehabilitated in the British press and was affectionately nicknamed 'Black Mak' on account of his clerical garb.
But the idea of an independent path for Cyprus had not taken root among the general public at home. There was increasing acrimony between Turkish and Greek Cypriots about the workings of the constitution, and Makarios was forced to act to salvage the machinery of state from imminent collapse. In November 1963, Makarios proposed thirteen amendments to the Constitution, which would free many public offices from the ethnic restrictions agreed in London and Zurich. This, he argued, would allow the government to operate more efficiently, and bring together the communities by dissolving rigid inter-ethnic legal boundaries. However, the Amendments were seen by many Turkish Cypriots as threatening constitutional protections against domination by the majority Greek Cypriots.
In response to Makarios' proposals, most Turkish Cypriots in public office, including Vice-President Küçük, resigned; large numbers of Turkish Cypriots moved out of ethnically-mixed areas into villages and towns where the population was already largely Turkish Cypriot. There is still dispute over the motives for this, some arguing that it was made necessary by the intimidation of the Turkish Cypriots by the Greek Cypriots; others suggest that the Turkish community was sabotaging the Cypriot settlement and already preparing for partition by Turkey. By the end of 1963, intercommunal violence had broken out once again.
President Makarios, seeking a fresh mandate from his constituency, announced in January 1968 that elections would be held during February. Makarios received 220,911 votes (about 96 percent), and his opponent, Takis Evdokas, who ran on a platform for unification with Greece, received 8,577 votes. Even though there were 16,215 abstentions, Makarios' overwhelming victory was seen as a massive endorsement of his personal leadership and of an independent Cyprus. At his investiture, the president stated that the Cyprus problem could not be solved by force, but had to be worked out within the framework of the UN. He also said that he and his followers wanted to live peacefully in a unitary state where all citizens enjoyed equal rights. Some Cypriots opposed Makarios' conciliatory stance, and there would be an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate him in 1970.
In 1967, a military junta seized power in Athens, and the relationship between the regime and Makarios was tense. Makarios held that the regime undermined his authority by supporting paramilitary organisations committed to enosis.
In the summer of 1971, tension built up between the two Cypriot communities, and incidents became more numerous. Sometime in the late summer or early autumn, Grivas (who had attacked Makarios as a traitor in an Athens newspaper) returned secretly to the island and began to rebuild his guerrilla organisation, which became known as the National Organization of Cypriot Fighters (Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston B, aka EOKA B). Three new newspapers advocating enosis were also established; all of these activities were funded by the military junta in Greece.
The junta probably would have agreed to some form of partition similar to the Acheson Plan to settle the Cyprus question; however it faced rejection by Makarios. The overthrow of Makarios became the primary objective, and the junta backed Grivas toward that end. From hiding, Grivas directed terrorist attacks and propaganda assaults that shook the Makarios government , but the president remained both a powerful and popular leader.
Relations between Nicosia and Athens were so bad that the colonels of the Greek junta, recognizing that they had Makarios in a perilous position, issued an ultimatum for him to reform his government and rid it of ministers who had been critical of the junta. Mass demonstrations proved that Makarios had the people behind him. In the end, however, Makarios bowed to Greek pressure and reshuffled the cabinet.
Another element working against Makarios was the fact that most officers of the Cypriot National Guard were Greek regulars who supported the junta, and they embraced its desire to remove him from office and achieve some degree of enosis. Grivas also continued to be a threat to the archbishop. He remained powerful and to some extent was independent of the junta that had permitted his return to Cyprus. While the Greek colonels were at times prepared to make a deal with Turkey about Cyprus, Grivas was ferociously opposed to any arrangement that did not lead to complete enosis.
In the spring of 1972, Makarios faced an attack from another quarter. The three bishops of the Church of Cyprus demanded that he resign as president, stating that his temporal duties violated canon law. Makarios foiled the three bishops and had them defrocked in the summer of 1973. Before choosing their replacements, he increased the number of bishops to five, thereby reducing the power of individual bishops (see ecclesiastical coup).
As time progressed Grivas' pursuit of enosis through guerilla tactics became an embarrassment to both Cyprus and Greece. However, his fame and popularity in both countries prevented his removal. Grivas died of a heart attack on January 27 1974. Makarios granted his followers an amnesty, hoping that EOKA-B would disappear after the death of its leader. Intra-communal terror continued, however, and the 100,000 mourners who attended Grivas's funeral indicated the enduring popularity of his political aims.
On May 3 1974, Makarios sent the Greek government a letter that identified certain Greek military officers stationed in Cyprus as undermining the Cypriot government. The Greek regime responded that it would replace the officers in question. In a second letter on July 2 1974 he demanded the withdrawal of all Greek officers in the island. Greek Foreign Minister Tetenes suggested, as a compromise, that Makarios personally select the replacement officers from a roster of Greek officers. On July 11, Glafkos Klerides visited Makarios in an unsuccessful attempt to promote a solution. On July 15 1974 the Greek regime sponsored a coup d'etat in Nicosia. Makarios fled and was replaced by Nikos Sampson, a Cypriot newspaper editor and politician.
While addressing the UN Security Council on July 19 1974, Makarios accused Greece of having invaded Cyprus and of posing a threat to all Cypriots, whether Greek or Turkish Cypriot. Under the terms of the Treaty of Guarantee, Britain, Greece and Turkey were entitled to sanction one, or more of the trio, to intervene militarily with the purpose of restoring peace to the island. With Orthodox Bishop Viktor Busá, Makarios founded the International Parliament for Safety and Peace in 1975 to address the increasingly uncertain situation in Cyprus.
At this time the Greek Junta was imploding, and the British government was facing the constitutional uncertainty of a hung parliament; moreover, whilst in London, Makarios lobbied for the British military not intervene as a guarantor power. The invasion of Cyprus by Turkey on July 20 1974, five days after the coup, remains highly controversial. Northern Cyprus remains occupied by the Turkish Army, despite the constitution and presidency having been restored. To Turks and Turkish Cypriots it is known as a 'peace operation', designed to protect the Turkish Cypriot community. To Greeks and Greek Cypriots, it represents the execution of a long-standing ploy to re-establish Turkish control of a large portion of Cyprus. The international consensus, given subsequent resolutions of the United Nations and other international forums, is that Turkey illegally invaded and occupied an independent country.
Nikos Sampson's presidency was short-lived, as the regime in Athens collapsed only a few days after the Turkish invasion. Unsupported, Sampson fled, and the former constitution was restored. In the continuing absence of a vice-president, the presidency passed to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Glafkos Klerides. Makarios remained in London for five months; then, having succeeded in securing international recognition that his administration was the rightful government of the whole island, he returned to Cyprus and focused solely on restoring Cypriot territorial integrity. He was not successful, and Turkey has remained as an occupying power ever since, with the situation continuing to be unresolved.
At his funeral, held at St John's Cathedral outside the Archbishopric in Nicosia, 182 dignitaries from 52 countries attended whilst an estimated 250,000 (or about half the Greek Cypriot population of the island) mourners filed past the coffin.
Others criticise him for abandoning the goal of enosis in favor of independence, as well as for exercising a style of government reminiscent of caesaropapism. Makarios has been criticised for having submitted the 13 amendments to the constitution in 1963 that resulted in inter-communal strife, for having turned down the Acheson Plan in 1964, and for having delivered a speech at the UN Security Council on July 19, 1974 seeking the intervention of the guarantor powers to restore the status quo, which Turkey used as a pretext for its military invasion of Cyprus.
The Spanish pop act Un Pingüino en mi Ascensor published a song (El Arzobispo Makarios (y su botella de Larios), "Archbishop Makarios (and his bottle of Larios)") in 1999.
"The coup of the Greek junta is an invasion, and from its consequences the whole people of Cyprus suffers, both Greeks and Turks." - Makarios, July 19 1974, UN Security Council
"Independence was not the aim of the EOKA struggle. Foreign factors have prevented the achievement of the national goal, but this should not be a cause for sorrow, New bastions have been conquered and from these bastions the Greek Cypriots will march on to complete the final victory." - Makarios, August 16 1974
"Greek Cypriot people, you hear a well-known voice, I am Makarios, I am alive, I am not dead as the junta of Athens wanted to be" - Makarios, 1974 radio announcement following the destruction of the presidential palace by the coup forces.


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Maybe the answer to this million dollar question should be a stickie.
I've seen this question on the board so many F'ning times and it always entertains me that there will be discussion on the...
Gez, may want to measure myself with shoes on now... :)
Im 6'0, and im vietnamese, and in my culture its considered huge.
I believe it is cause of my Australian upbringing. My parents aren't...
Its havent smoked since March 15 (Wrestlemania 20). I have to say i feel better for it and since i used to smoke everyday.
Im a hell of alot more active now, and i just chose a different way to...
I quit cold turkey couple a years back to after being a heavy smoker.
Every time i felt like a craving i would punish myself 15 pushups followed by five deep breaths.
Find something to do to...
When i quit earlier this year I found it hard to sleep cause i was used to having it before bed and sleep like a baby.
Everytime i snapped i would often just 'burn one down'. Found this hard to do...
Gday mate im Vietnamese, too living down under, im 6"0 too, my cuz is 6"4
down here we're considered freaks cause they arent too many viets here that tall...just wondering if you get the same...
me too, he maybe got the message now.
Must admit, I used to train upperbody (beach muscles) too bout 2 years ago, then I found this forum and became edjew-me-kated.
Good routine, good diet,...
Sorry to hi-jack this thread but i have a friend who is absoultely stubborn about only working uppperbody and refuses to work the lower body...
after lecturing time after time about the importance...
What is your routine?
We all want to explode too!
ive found focusing on incline dumbell press...and lifting hard in this exercise has given me more results then prioritising with bench press.
Chest exploded pretty quickly when I started lifting...
damn straight.
hehehhe :)
www.precisiontraining.com I think
Hey guys,
I read an e-book called "Trainsmart" by Sisco when I was bored the other week. Im just curious whether the contents are true?
has anyone here been through the program and seen better...
ive changed up my routine to work harder on my lagging body parts (chest/upper back)
tell me what you think
mon - chest/tris
tues - back/bis
wed - legs
Used to smoke it everyday.
Havent touched it since Wrestlemania 20...which was march 14 this year.
started training hardcore ever since.
I second that motion.
It worked wonders. A little annoying side effects but i have no regrets after finishing my program in 2001.
Never have to worry about pimples...AT all.
i was always brought up to believe that you were only to have 2 eggs per week, due to the cholestrol.
then i hear its ok to eat an egg a day.
by age 14 i ignored everyone else's bull****, ate...


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Calcaneocuboid joints
calcaneocuboid joint
a somewhat saddle-shaped synovial joint between the anterior surface of the calcaneus and the posterior surface of the cuboid. This is the lateral element of the compound transverse tarsal joint.
Synonym: articulatio calcaneocuboidea.
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Ponds Benefit From TLC Sound Management Can Aid Any Body of Water
By Michael Pearce, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.
Jul. 13–Ranging from desolate stock ponds to sculpted sand pits winding between seven-figure homes, Kansas' 100,000-plus private waters offer some good fishing.
But they could be giving us much more.
"I doubt we get 25 percent of the potential out of our ponds," said Leonard Jirak, a Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks fisheries biologist. "They can be managed and improved like anything else."
Though he manages some huge reservoirs, Jirak is best known for turning small public lakes into fisheries so good they draw anglers from surrounding states.
The same tactics work on ponds and pits.
Clean water
The first requirement for getting a pond or lake to its top potential is clean water.
"Turbidity is an absolute killer," Jirak said. "Murky water can drop production two-thirds. It blocks sunlight from the food chain. That's like trying to grow a garden under a big shade tree. It doesn't work very well."
Keeping livestock from walking into large areas of a pond or lake will go a long ways toward ensuring clarity.
Conservation grass buffer strips are good ways to filter silt before it reaches the water.
A healthy crop of aquatic vegetation around the shoreline does the same.
Establish your goals
Jirak said anglers need to decide if they're after quality or quantity with the fish species in a pond, or a slight combination of both.
That's especially true with largemouth bass.
Wanting a spot where you can catch two dozen 10-pound bass an evening isn't realistic.
Most ponds don't have the food base to support those bass.
"You've got to remember that bass have to consume about 10 pounds of fish to gain one pound," Jirak said. "That means if you have a lot of small bass they're probably not going to grow much."
It also means you'll probably have to cull quite a few of a certain-sized fish so others can grow.
To improve bass fishing, Jirak suggests catching and measuring 20 bass from the pond or lake.
Once you come up with an average, you'll want to remove all you can below that length.
Jirak knows that'll strike a nerve with catch-and-release anglers.
"People are too protective of bass and they shouldn't be," he said. "There's probably more meat on (culled) bass than on an eight-inch crappie."
Taking out small bass also removes fish that aren't growing as fast as others in their yearly class.
Jirak said anglers interested mostly in action can let the bass population build to high densities of fish that'll seldom exceed a pound or two.
A byproduct could be bluegill that get to grow huge since most of their kind are eaten by bass.
Jirak is a big fan of using bluegill for a pond's main forage fish.
They have the ability to individually lay more eggs as bass and other predators thin their numbers. They'll also produce spawns throughout the summer.
Jirak said you may be able to start a population of gizzard shad in some ponds. Most get hit heavily by game fish.
"Nothing will grow crappie better than an annual population of small shad," he said. "But (the crappie) will get stunted if you don't pound the heck out of them."
He said fathead minnows can be great in a new pond, where they'll reproduce and make plenty of tiny fry for game fish when they're stocked.
"But fatheads are one-time only. After that you're wasting your money. Stock them later and they're usually all (eaten) before you get back to the house."
He also said they're not a wise investment since they often cost $6 per pound and it takes 10 pounds of bait to put one pound on a bass.
"Do the math," Jirak said.
Supporting a huge catfish population, even in a small pond, can be much more economical.
Jirak is a fan of feeders tossing commercial fish food to channel cats. They'll quickly start taking the food and free up other foods for other species.
They'll also increase a pond's fertility and help build bigger bluegill.
Channel catfish on food can grow big in a hurry.
"Normally for every two pounds of food you give them, you're getting one pound of growth on channel cats," Jirak said. "That's a pretty good return."
The need for vegetation
A healthy growth of aquatic vegetation provides a ready amount of foods for young fish, and helps keep plankton populations intact.
Jirak said a weed-free pond will never reach its potential.
He's not a fan of grass carp that eat such vegetation.
"In my lake, I'd rather take a beating than stock grass carp," he said. "You destroy the shoreline vegetation, then you've got to wait for those grass carp to die off in 15 to 20 years."
Once those vegetations lines are gone, waves hit the shoreline and the water gets muddy.
Once that happens, pond management is back to square one.
"It can ruin a good lake," Jirak said.
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So I'm at a client's site and we're discussing adding a new method to an existing class. One of the client's programmers said, "We should put the method in the base class and let all the derived classes inherit it from it" Another programmer said, "I think it would be better to create a new class that inherits from our base class and add the new method to it."
And I said, "Let's not change anything. Let's just create the new method."
I had a couple of reasons for disliking the first two suggestions. First, of course they weren't my suggestions. But beyond that, I didn't want to change the base class because the base class had this neat feature: it worked. I hate making changes to working code—it's just asking for something new to fail. Adding a new derived class would avoid that problem, but creates a new one: developers would have to be told to use the new class in order to get access to the new method. Developers were already using the existing classes and I didn't see any value in making them change.
So I suggested we create an extension method and avoid all those problems. An extension method sits in a separate file from the base class, so the base class is unchanged (though the method would be in the same Class Library project and be distributed as part of the same DLL). An extension method also appears automatically in the IntelliSense dropdown lists for the existing classes, so developers would have it presented to them as part of the classes they were already using.
Creating an extension method is easy. In C#, you add a static class with a static method, with both the class and method declared as public. The method's first parameter specifies the class the method will attach itself to (the parameter has to be flagged with the this keyword).
When the extension method is used from an object, that object is automatically passed to the extension method in that parameter. This ToggleCustomerStatus method, for instance, will appear in the IntelliSense list of any Customer object (or any object that inherits from Customer), toggle the value of the Status property on the Customer object the method is used on, and return the new value:
public static class CustomerCSExtensions
public static bool ToggleCustomerStatus(this Customer cust)
cust.Status = !cust.Status;
return cust.Status;
To create an extension method in Visual Basic, add a Module, declare it Public, write your function or subroutine, and decorate the method with the extension method. The first method parameter specifies the class to which the method will be added. When the extension method is used from an object, that object is automatically passed to the extension method in that parameter.
This ToggleCustomerStatus method, for instance, will appear in the IntelliSense list of any Customer object (or any object that inherits from Customer) and, unlike my previous example, doesn't return a value:
Public Module CustomerExtensions
Public Sub ToggleCustomerStatus(ByVal cust As Customer)
cust.Status = Not cust.Status
End Sub
End Module
To use the extension method, you need to add an Imports or using statement for the namespace that the extension was declared in. If the extension method is in the same namespace as the object it's attaching itself to, developers using that object will probably already have that namespace in place. After that, using an extension method looks just like using any other method (and it doesn't matter if the class the extension method is being attached to is written in one language and the extension method itself is written in another language). Here's the C# ToggleCustomerStatus method in action in some VB code:
Dim cust As Customer
If cust.ToggleCustomerStatus Then …
And the VB version used from C# code:
Customer cust;
While my sample extension method accepts only the single parameter that specifies which class it should attach itself to, an extension method can accept multiple parameters, just like any other method. You can also specify an interface as the first parameter's datatype so that your extension method will attach itself to a variety of objects (provided they all implement that interface). And, most importantly, you don't change any working code.
Posted by Peter Vogel on 12/03/2012 at 1:16 PM2 comments
It's hard to create memory leaks in .NET, but I can do it when developing in SharePoint without even trying very hard. The SharePoint Dispose Check (SPDisposeCheck to its friends) analyzes your code to see if you're following Microsoft's best practices in disposing of SharePoint resources.
SPDisposeCheck is a Visual Studio Add-In that adds a new menu item to your Tools menu. When you select it, SPDisposeCheck pops up a dialog that lets you check which parts of your Solution will be checked. In addition to running an analysis when you want, you can also choose to have your code analyzed as part of building your projects. By default, the results are displayed in the Output Window (you have to set the dropdown list at the top of the Window to SPDispose check). However, you can also choose to have any problems listed as Errors.
PDisposeCheck won't stop you from having memory leaks in SharePoint; but at least when you track a leak down, it won't be something so obvious that you'll feel foolish about it.
Posted by Peter Vogel on 11/29/2012 at 1:16 PM0 comments
Scattered across all the services I've created, I must have 257 methods whose names begin with the word "Get" (e.g., GetCustomerData, GetOrdersForDate). And I typically have a corresponding method for accepting the data (e.g., UpdateCustomerData, SetOrders). I wouldn't write a class like that with two separate methods; I'd create a Property just called, for instance, CustomerData.
It turns out that you can use properties in a WCF Service: just put the OperationContract attributes on the property's getter and setter:
Public Property CustomerData As String
<OperationContract()> _
Return _CustData
End Get
<OperationContract()> _
Set(value As String)
_CustData = value
End Set
End Property
Now, when I add a service reference to a consumer to generate the client-side proxy, I discover that I've only solved half of my problem. For the example above, the client-side proxy has two methods: get_CustomerData and set_CustomerData:
Dim cr As New CustomerService.CustomerServiceClient
Dim custData As CustomerData = sr.get_Data()
But on the service side, I no longer have two separate methods. Instead, the getter and setter for my data are now brought together in one Property. I'm OK with that.
If you're feeling very radical, you can write your property so that it accepts a parameter:
Public Property CustomerData(CustomerID As String) As String
<OperationContract()> _
Return _CustData
End Get
<OperationContract()> _
Set(value As String)
_CustData = value
End Set
End Property
On the client-side, the proxy's get_ and set_ methods will now require a parameter:
Dim cr As New CustomerService.CustomerServiceClient
sr.set_Data("ALFKI", custData)
Dim custData As CustomerData = sr.get_Data("ALFKI")
Posted by Peter Vogel on 11/26/2012 at 1:16 PM0 comments
I'm not sure whether to classify this as a tip or bad advice: It's possible to redefine the operators (e.g. !, =, ++) used with a class. That doesn't mean it's a good idea. As I discussed in an earlier tip, the differences in using equality tests between C# and VB (and, within a language, the differences between the equals operator and the Equals method) probably create enough confusion without you assigning an arbitrary meaning to =/== for a particular class. But having said that…
Let's say you have some class that switches between two states: A Customer class that can be creditworthy or not creditworthy; a Service that switches between being "in" or "out" of service; a Product that is in-stock or out-of-stock. You can have a property that allows you to control this:
Dim cust As New Customer("A123")
cust.Creditworthy = False
To toggle between the two states, you could use this code:
cust.CreditWorthy = Not cust.Creditworthy
But it might be nice to just do this to toggle the Creditworthy property:
cust = Not cust
Before showing how to implement this, let me point out my chief objection: How would anyone reading your code or using your Customer object know what the Not operator is doing?
But if you want to do it, you add a shared/static Operator method to your class with the name Not. This Operator method should accept and return the object that it's part of (if you wanted to redefine the + operator, you'd add an Operator method called +). That method will be passed the object that the operator is being used on so that you can modify the object if you wish. Implementing my state-switching code would look like this:
Public Shared Operator Not(Cust As Customer) As Customer
Cust.Creditworthy = Not Cust.Creditworthy
Return Cust
End Function
In C#, the code looks like this:
public static Customer operator !(Customer cust)
cust.Creditworthy = !cust.Creditworthy
return cust;
I can now toggle the creditworthiness of a Customer object in C# like this:
cust2 = !cust;
Postfix and prefix conventions are also honored with operators that support it. The primary difference in overriding binary operators (e.g. +, -) is that your operator method is passed two parameters: the object on either side of the operator.
Posted by Peter Vogel on 10/16/2012 at 1:16 PM1 comments
Entity Framework gets all the attention, but there's still something to like about ADO.NET DataSets. For instance, one reason that typed DataSets remain popular is that you can dramatically simplify your code by extending the DataSet with your own custom TableAdapter methods. All you have to be able to do is create an SQL statement in the Visual Studio query designer: Visual Studio will generate the code for you.
Ordinarily, to fill a table in a DataSet you need a half-dozen lines to open a connection, create an adapter (with its commands and parameters), set values in the adapter's parameters, call the adapter's Fill method, and then retrieve the resulting table (without, of course, forgetting to close the connection).
Update, insert, and delete statements aren't any simpler. What's especially irritating is that the code is virtually identical from one retrieval/update to another: really, only the SQL statement changes. With a custom TableAdapter method, though, you just call a method, passing the values required by your SQL statement.
When you create a typed DataSet, you get a TableAdapter with two methods on it for each table you drag into the DataSet: You get a Fill method that loads data into a DataTable but doesn't return anything, and a GetData method that fills the DataTable and then returns the DataTable to the calling code. As an example, here's the GetData method in action, retrieving all the rows in Northwind database's Orders table into a DataTable in a DataSet and then returning the DataTable:
Dim nwTB As New Northwind.OrdersDataTable
Dim nwtba As New NorthwindTableAdapters.OrdersTableAdapter
nwTB = nwtba.GetData
To create your own GetData, Fill, or update method, first right-mouse click on your table in the TableAdapters area at the bottom of the table and pick Add Query. That will bring up the query wizard where you can choose between using an SQL statement to retrieve your data, select from existing stored procedures, or create your own stored procedure.
Assuming you select Use SQL Statements, you'll be taken to a page that allows you to select the kind of SQL statement you want (everything from Select to Insert statements). After that choice, you'll be shown a default SQL statement you can modify. If you're not confident about your SQL writing skills, click the Query Builder button at the bottom of the dialog to be taken to Visual Studio's form-based query builder.
Once you've finished writing your SQL statement, the wizard will take care of writing all the ADO.NET code for you—all you have to do is name the method that will be added to your TableAdapter. For SQL statements, the wizard even generates a Fill and a GetData method. So to call a SQL statement that fills a DataTable with orders for a particular customer and hands the DataTable back to you, you just need this code:
Dim nwTB As New Northwind.OrdersDataTable
Dim nwtba As New NorthwindTableAdapters.OrdersTableAdapter
nwTB = nwtba.GetDataByCustomerID("ALFKI")
If you're paid by the hour, feel free to write the ADO.NET code. But this is the best kind of code-generation solution, because it allows you to concentrate on the one part of the code that matters -- the SQL statement -- while the boilerplate code is taken care of for you.
Posted by Peter Vogel on 10/09/2012 at 1:16 PM0 comments
It's not unusual to include a link in your page with a URL that points to a PDF file to let your users view the file on their computer. However, you can also control, through the URL, where and how the PDF file is displayed: just add a hash/pound sign (#) and some parameters to the PDF's URL.
For instance, the page parameter lets you open the PDF file at a specific page. This example opens the file at page 3:
You can also set up a search term for the user and position the view on the first appearance of the term (with the term highlighted) using the search parameter. This example searches for the word "test":
You're not limited to just positioning the user in the document. You can also specify how the document is to be displayed by using the view parameter. You can also combine parameters using the ampersand (&). This example repeats the search from the previous example but also fits the whole page into the view:
Additional parameters let you turn on (or off) toolbars, panes, and draw highlight boxes around arbitrary text. Adobe has a document (in PDF, of course) describing all of the options.
Posted by Peter Vogel on 10/03/2012 at 1:16 PM0 comments
A reader responded to an earlier tip on Visual Studio keyboard shortcuts by recommending VsVim, by Jared Parker. If the idea of never taking your fingers off the home row of your keyboard again, never having to use a menu, and never, ever reaching for the mouse sounds like heaven to you, then Jared's right: you should be looking at VsVim.
If using the letter d to delete, using uppercase D to delete to end of line, and using dd to delete a whole line is something you'll remember, then you're probably a veteran Unix programmer. In that case, you'll find the Visual Studio focus on WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer), well, wimpy. VsVim will put you back in control.
If you're as old as me, you remember vi as the world's most powerful keyboard editor -- the populariser (if not the inventor) of the Ctrl-Alt-Shift-meta-Coke-Bottle keyboard shortcut combination. You could do anything with vi if you knew the right keyboard combination. I've never been a keyboard-oriented person, but even I grew to have a nagging affection for the power of vi's keystroke combinations -- and my co-workers who were keyboard oriented loved what they could do with vi without taking their hands off the home row keyboard.
Vi gave birth to vim (vi iMproved), which added mouse support and even more editing commands. Now there's VsVim, which delivers vim functionality as a Visual Studio add-in. You can get VsVim from the Visual Studio Gallery site, or through Extension Manager from within Visual Studio.
It's an excellent package: reliable, quick, and it doesn't seem to fight with other add-ins (I used it with ReSharper installed, for instance). It's not overbearing in re-assigning your keys, so while you'll pick up lots of new keyboard commands, you shouldn't lose any of the ones you're used to. From the time I spent playing with it, it looks like a great tool for the keyboard oriented (and a free one).
Posted by Peter Vogel on 09/25/2012 at 1:16 PM0 comments
Do you get tired of scrolling through the New Project Item lists to get to the item templates that you need, while skipping the ones that you'll never use? The same is probably true, though to a lesser extent, with the New Project dialog.
Why not slim those lists down to the half-dozen items you actually use that will, as a result, be right there when you need them? This probably goes against the grain of most developers' attitude towards new technology, but let's face it: you (and your organization) have probably figured out which templates you are and aren't going to use in Visual Studio.
The templates in the New Project and New Item dialogs are zip files kept in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio versionNumber\Common7\IDE\ItemOrProjectTemplates\language folder (this does vary from one installation to another. Just keep looking -- they're in there somewhere). Before you delete the templates you don't want, copy the folder to someplace safe so that you can get back the templates you've deleted if you ever need them (and drop a text file in the folder to remind yourself where you put the original templates). Then clean house.
When you're done, make sure Visual Studio isn't running and, from the Visual Studio Command prompt, have Visual Studio rebuild its lists with this command:
devnv.com /installvstemplates
NEVER INTERRUPT THIS COMMMAND. Wait patiently for it to finish. When you start Visual Studio next you'll have all (and only) the templates you use.
Posted by Peter Vogel on 08/23/2012 at 1:16 PM2 comments
I was recently asked by a WPF programmer how to modify a value passed between bound properties in a XAML file. You can't, for instance, integrate math into a binding expression, as this example does, to divide the value returned by 2:
<Image Height="100" Width="100" Name="MyImage" Source="Me.jpg"
Opacity="{Binding ElementName=MySlider, Path=Value/2}" /&rt;
<Image Height="225" Width="300" Name="CurrentImage" Source="Me.jpg"
Opacity="{Binding ElementName=MySlider, Path=Value}/2" /&rt;
<Slider Margin="10" Name="MySlider" Minimum="0.0"
Maximum="2" Value="0.5"/&rt;
<Image Height="100" Width="100" Name="MyImage" Source="Me.jpg"
Opacity="{Binding ElementName=MySlider, Path=Value}" /&rt;
Let's say that you want the transparency to be one-half of the value in the Slider: a converter will solve the problem. This converter, for instance, divides the number passed to it by 2 in its Convert method:
[ValueConversion(typeof(int), typeof(int))]
public class Divider : IValueConverter
public object Convert(object value, Type targetType,
object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
return object/2;
public object ConvertBack(object value, Type targetType,
object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
return object * 2;
You need to do three things to use your converter. First, define a namespace for your converter (I've assumed that the converter is in the same project as the XAML file and the namespace for the project is MyApp):
<Window x:Class="MyClass"
Then you have to add your converter to your resources. I'm adding this converter to the Window's resources with the key MyDivider:
<current:Divider x:Key="MyDivider"/&rt;
Finally, invoke your converter by passing the resource's key to the StaticResource object's constructor to retrieve it from the resources collection, and then passing that result to the Binding object's Converter property, like this:
<Image Height="100" Width="100" Name="MyImage" Source="Me.jpg"
Opacity="{Binding ElementName=MySlider, Path=Value
Converter={StaticResource MyDivider}}
Posted by Peter Vogel on 08/09/2012 at 1:16 PM3 comments
Probably the most popular tip has been in this column has been the one on four Visual Studio keyboard shortcuts. But if you want, you can create your own shortcuts for any Visual Studio commands you use a lot. Of course, most commands are already assigned to keyboard shortcuts, but this feature also lets you define a command to some key combination you'll actually remember.
Posted by Peter Vogel on 07/29/2012 at 1:16 PM2 comments
In an earlier column I discussed using the Register and Resolve methods with Microsoft's Unity dependency container. However, if you've got all of Visual Studio's hotfixes applied, you'll have access to some overloaded and generic versions of those methods. For instance, for the Resolve method, I used this version:
res = cont.Resolve(typeof(ICustListVM),"DefaultCustListVM");
The generic version moves the first parameter (the type of class you're looking for) into the generic:
res = cont.Resolve<ICustListVM>("DefaultCustListVM");
In addition to saving you some typing, it can also save you some type casting. The non-generic version of the Resolve method always returns type object, but the generic version returns the type specified in the generic.
There are also several overloads for the Register method, so you don't have to pass as many parameters as I used in the article. In the article, I used this wordy version:
ContainerControlledLifetimeManager cclm =
new ContainerControlledLifetimeManager();
typeof(CustListVM), "DefaultCustListVM", cclm);
With the hotfixes installed, you can just use this:
And, if you use the generic version, you can get away with as little as this:
Posted by Peter Vogel on 07/17/2012 at 1:16 PM0 comments
Up until a few weeks ago, the only way I knew of to get back to an old command in the Command Prompt was to press the Up arrow and walk back through the commands. It turns out that if you press F7 in the Command Prompt, a window pops up showing all the commands you've executed, and you can cycle through them with the Up or Down arrows (you can't edit the commands, though).
Speaking of editing commands: The most common error I make when entering commands is misspelling file or folder names. It turns out that I don't have to type in a full file name in the Command Prompt. If I type my command, followed by the first letters of the file or folder name I want and just keep hitting the Tab key, I'll cycle through all the file and folder names in the directory. I can even use wildcard characters (e.g. c*.DLL to find all the DLLs with names beginning with the letter C) with this trick.
And did you know that if you click on the icon in the left-hand corner of the Command Prompt title bar and select the Edit choice, you can cut, copy and paste in the Command Prompt?
Posted by Peter Vogel on 07/08/2012 at 1:16 PM5 comments
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New School Discipline Guidance Addresses Racial Disparities
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|Elementary Teachers' Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Teaching the Nature of Science: An examination of Teachers Who are Effective in Improving their Students' Views
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|This study explored components of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of three teachers who were found successful at improving elementary students' views of NOS. Assuming PCK for NOS to be similar to PCK for other science topics, we drew from the model of PCK developed by Magnusson, Krajcik, and Borko (1999). Our efforts reflect a critical re-examination of data from a previous study, or what Heaton (1998) refers to as secondary analysis, and relied on the following data sources (1) field notes and transcripts from professional development sessions, (2) videos, lesson plans, and field notes from observations of teachers' classroom teaching of NOS (3) video stimulated-recall interviews conducted with teachers following classroom observations (4) videos and transcripts from teachers' presentations of their teaching experiences and professional conferences, (5) teachers' written contributions to professional publications, and (6) a focus-group session held with teachers at the conclusion of the project. We found teachers held strong intentions to teach NOS, used strategies modeled for them in workshops with their students, adapted their curricula to emphasize NOS, supported student discourse about NOS using "kidfriendly" language, and used a variety of instructional strategies. Though the teachers informally assessed NOS views, they were less effective in formally assessing students' understandings.
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But she couldn't muster the $1,200 filing fee or the 901 petition signatures by noon Friday, the end of qualifying week, and had to file as a write-in candidate.
"I'd collected 888 signatures," McKenzie said Friday. "They (county elections staff) threw out 100 for various reasons. ... I decided to go with a write-in campaign."
McKenzie said she could have protested about some of her signers being rejected just because they hadn't voted in several years.
"If you've been registered to vote and you don't vote, that's part of your right to vote," she said, but added there weren't enough arguable cases to give her the 13 she needed for 901.
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Even though US Airways has been testing Lumexis' fibre-to-the-screen IFE system on a single Airbus A320 flying between Orange County, Phoenix and Atlanta – and, by all accounts, the trial has been a success – the carrier has made known that it does not intend to equip its domestic fleet with IFE any day soon. […]
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US Airways says IFE "on hold" due to financing difficulties
Say it ain't so! US Airways today warned employees that IFE is "on hold" until it can raise the financing to support installations. That is NOT good news for Lumexis. Oh heck, here is US Airways' exact words: The Lumexis trial has gone mostly well but that trial will be coming to an end soon. […]
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My trusted colleague Lori Ranson flew out to Phoenix this week to attend US Airways' annual media day. She reports back with a little update about the Lumexis fibre-to-the-screen system, which is being trialled on a single US Airways Airbus A320. Hey Mary, Just wanted to give you this nib before it gets lost in […]
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Cranky Flier, one of my favorite bloggers, has checked out the Lumexis fibre-to-the-screen IFE system on a US Airways A320. So how is the system doing in trial? It's running quickly! Nice parental controls! You can exit the video and go back to it and it will remember where you were! If you're listening to music, you can […]
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I was going to call this video blog "The Good and The Ugly" since the difference between Virgin America's and US Airways' domestic in-flight offerings is so stark. But US Airways is now working to get up to speed in the world of IFE&C. As you'll see, the Star Alliance member has plenty of room to improve (especially on […]
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That's the question I posed to some private and commercial airline pilots, including an American Airlines 777 captain as well as US Airways crewmembers that frequent the popular US Aviation online forum. The response was decidedly mixed. See for yourself in my latest vlogging effort. As always, I welcome your comments and criticism (we're starting to figure […]
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Really? Environmentalists are making you broke? How about Bush's war? That put some jingle in your pocket? Be sure to flush after you speak.<quoted text>
It's all in what you believe.
My cousin swears on a stack of bibles that he had ghosts in every house he's lived in since birth. Me? I haven't seen a ghost my entire life. One of my best friends years ago was paranoid of aliens from another planet. He even swore he witnessed a UFO on several occasions. I've never seen a UFO in my entire life. My mother used to go to these religious retreats where they climbed a hill and prayed to Mother Mary. She swore she seen Mother Mary. I haven't seen Mother Mary in all the years I've lived. Recently, I was in a discussion on the US Topix board with a black helicopter guy who swore that Norton took his information out of his computer to give to the government because of the political things he was saying on Topix. He said Norton asked him for specific files that only he knew was in his computer. Me? I've used Norton diagnostics since I first purchased a computer with no problems.
If you believe in something strong enough, you will find evidence to support your claim; some pretty convincing evidence too. But that doesn't mean it's happening, it means you are obsessed with something. Manmade Global Warming no different.
You are correct, we should be concerned about pollution, then Global Warming, then Climate Change, and whatever else they decide to call it to avoid negative connotations. But we also have to look at the effect it has on society, particularly from a financial point of view.
You are older than I, so I don't have to explain this, but when I was younger, leaded gasoline and paint was going to end our existence. Then it was fluorocarbons out of our spray cans what was going to eliminate our O-zone. Then it was freon in our refrigeration systems.
It's like I've always said, you can't make an environmentalist happy. It just isn't possible. There isn't enough money, because no matter what we do, it will never be enough for them. So why try? It's making us broke.
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#18058 Mar 22, 2013
Because you are mean & argumentative down to your DNA, you ignore my 1st sentence of the 2nd paragraph & argue for it in your reply post for what I had already said. amazing!
Then you also ignore that scientist suggested a coming ice age in the 60's & early 70's.
Geologic history has also proven that the earth had only 1 continent at one time, that warm blooded dinosaurs roamed every continent (possible exception of Antartica which has been barely explored) & that the magnetic poles have switched a number of times & that the ozone hole has expanded & shrunk over time also.
I repeat...mankind does NOT need to add to global warming.
Now it's your turn to rant.
#18059 Mar 22, 2013
Don't take it so hard, Popcorn. After what Americans endured during the last time conservatives were running our country's show, most Americans have learned to ignore conniving bullsh1t coming from your camp. Hell, you voted for republican presidents your entire life but are too ashamed to admit you are a republican. No wonder America put your kind out to pasture. Pretty soon the game will be "Yes, it is happening. Yes, it's manmade BUT it's a punishment from God on the Liberals."
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Since: Dec 12
#18060 Mar 22, 2013
Yeah, that 4.4% unemployment in the Fall of 2006 was a killer...
#18061 Mar 22, 2013
You mean sending American soldiers off to die needlessly in Iraq for a rightwing oil agenda opened up a couple jobs here in the states? Don't you have a "Civil War 2" to be getting ready for? Guess you toothless racist hillbillies didn't learn the first time you played that little game.
Nice, though, that you decided to come out from under your bed from the last time you peeked your little rich boy head out of that rabbit hole and got spanked.
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Since: Dec 12
#18062 Mar 22, 2013
So, soldiers away at war explains unemployment how? Recruitment was essentially at the same level then as today. And how do you explain the teen age and female unemployment rates in that case? Logic certainly isn't a strong point of yours.
BTW, have you ever been to the Hilliard-Dublin area? Not too many people are missing teeth here, kid. We're generally college educated and fairly well-off.
You're a joke, little man. Keep stroking it.
#18063 Mar 22, 2013
I have. Dublin is exclusive. Hilliard is common. It is hilarious that you live in the one and attempt to leech off the other.
#18064 Mar 22, 2013
and your liberal agenda is going up in black smoke.
This summer is going to be real hot for the liberals in Washington, and they are being stupid enough to vote and record their insolence against this countries survival.
And yes civil war 2 seems inevitable, succession of states, and new currencies.
2014 All of America will see results of the failed liberal policies here, and Europe.
I am laughing at what the election results will be in 2014?
either way sends a clear message.
if you don't like the answer then moving is a way to show your disapproval.
I am sure you are informed that many many of the top 1% have moved to safe havens in the Caribbean.
In 2020 America could look like Detroit does now, everywhere.
I will be fishing in the Caribbean, you can enjoy the rot you voted for.
#18065 Mar 22, 2013
please send some global warming to columbus.
since you are a big boy, fart us some heat.
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Since: Dec 12
#18066 Mar 22, 2013
Dublin is exclusive? Muirfield is, that's about it. Tell me how exclusive Avery Rd, Sawmill Rd and 161 are, Johnson.
#18067 Mar 22, 2013
Right-wing oil agenda? Reading liberal blogs again without question I see. Where is all this oil you on the left keep telling us about? Oil got more expensive a few years after our invasion of Iraq. Better question: where is all that Iraqi oil today? How much are we getting from Iraq?
#18068 Mar 22, 2013
Columbus is a sauna compared to Cleveland. We need to keep all the heat we can. Our "normal" is 48 degrees, and we can't get ten degrees near it. In fact, we won't get near it for at least another week or more. Long-term predictions we won't see normal until the end of the first week--or perhaps the second week of April.:-(
#18073 Mar 23, 2013
the solders volunteered.
what is your point?
a ban on solders right to volunteer?
#18074 Mar 23, 2013
Disagree, I have a relative who was getting ready to get out of the Corps and was frozen by orders of Bush, then was deployed to the invasion of Iraq.
#18075 Mar 23, 2013
Leave what your wife calls me out of this.
#18076 Mar 23, 2013
We've already seen your laughable prediction skills. We also already heard your blabbering mouth with talk of armed revolutions and you running like a coward traitor to another country. Run little scared bunny. So far you are zero for zero.
#18077 Mar 23, 2013
We aren't getting anything from Iraq. Just soldiers needlessly dying for a rightwing Christian GOP oil agenda. Now Haliburton...that's another story.
I base my concepts on the several years I worked for Newt Gingrich during that time. I was on the frontlines of your agenda and I can personally tell you that you guys are ten times scummier than Americans already view you. You base your mouth on emailed tea party newsletters. Get it right.
#18078 Mar 23, 2013
Oh, I see. So in other words, you lied. The Iraq invasion had nothing to do with oil. Of course I knew that already. So if we got no oil, how is it a right-wing Christian oil agenda?
You guys on the left are such hypocrites. You complain when we desire to drill our own oil, yet when we get oil from other countries, you complain about what you suspect that it takes to get that oil. You're the last one to take a bus to work or ride a bicycle to the store. You probably drive a large engine pickup truck to boot.
#18079 Mar 23, 2013
He didn't know that could happen when he joined the military?
#18081 Mar 23, 2013
(CNN)-- Punxsutawney Phil lied.
That's what a prosecutor in Ohio says. He has filed a criminal "indictment" against the famed groundhog, who, year for year on February 2, emerges from his burrow at Gobbler's Knob to predict whether spring will come early or winter will linger.
If he sees his shadow, it means six more weeks of chill. If not, short sleeves are days away.
This year, Phil got it wrong, and it's not the first time.
On the first day of spring this past Wednesday, the Northeast got pelted with more than a foot of snow. It's still cold two days later, and more chilly weather is in the forecast.
Snow on the first day of spring
Michael T. Gmoser is sick of it, and he wants someone to pay.
"I woke up this morning and the wind was blowing, the snow was flying, the temperatures were falling, and I said 'Punxsutawney, you let us down,' " the prosecutor told CNN affiliate WXIX.
The homepage of the Butler County, Ohio, prosecutor's office, which Gmoser heads, prominently features alerts against scammers.
Shadows aren't just for groundhogs
Gmoser is convinced that Phil is one and that he intentionally misled the nation. Now, trouble with the law is a brewing for the famous rodent from Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/22/us/ohio-punxsut ...
Who says people in Ohio have no sense of humor? LOL!
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