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The "near enemy" of even-minded love (Day 82)
The traditional term "near enemy" points to some spiritually unhelpful quality or experience that can be mistaken for a helpful quality or experience. The near enemy is a kind of counterfeit of what we're actually aiming for, and it's unhelpful because while the genuine article helps free us from suffering, the counterfeit doesn't.
Each of the four practices we're focusing on in our 100 Days of Lovingkindness — metta (lovingkindness), karuna (compassion), mudita (joyful appreciation), and upekkha (even-minded love) — collectively known as the divine abidings (brahma viharas) or the "four immeasurables" has a near enemy.
Buddhaghosa, a 6th century commentator, has the following to say about the near enemy … Read more »
Jun 11, 2013
The "near enemy" of mudita, or joyful appreciation (Day 60)
As I've pointed out before, we shouldn't experience mudita, or joyful appreciation for happiness that arises in others through unskillful actions. If someone feels joy because they just swindled an old lady or robbed a bank, or because they're high on cocaine, those would be forms of joy based on unskillful motivations and actions, and those therefore aren't the kinds of things that we should, in our own turn, feel joyful about.
But here's a trickier one. Someone asked me about joy that's based on luck, or worldly gains: "I know too many folks (above all in the IT field) who stumbled into riches and others who worked themselves to … Read more »
May 09, 2013
Sorrow is failed compassion (Day 28)
I've had more people asking me about the "near enemy" of compassion. So here goes…
The "near enemy" is, by definition, something you might confuse with compassion. You might think you were cultivating compassion but were actually cultivating something else, in the same way that you might water and care for a weed, thinking it's a useful plant. The "far enemy" is quite straightforward. It's cruelty, or indifference to suffering, which is just the direct opposite of compassion. That's easy to understand. But what is compassion's "near enemy"?
People often use the word "pity" to describe the near enemy, but the traditional commentaries use the word "grief." Compassion is also … Read more »


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Magazines from 2013 > March – Elle US
Kate appeared on two events to celebrate the Oscars. On February 23 she was spotted at
Appearances from 2013 > February 23 – Chanel Hosts Pre-Oscar Dinner
Appearances from 2013 > February 24 – 2013 Vanity Fair Oscar Party
Kate and Michael were spotted at LAX Airport yesterday, on February 21st. The couple returned from London where they were at
Candids from 2013 > February 21 – At LAX Airport
Kate and Michael appeared at the Unique show during London Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2013/14 at
Appearances from 2013 > February 17 – Unique – Front Row – LFW F/W 2013
Kate has joined the cast of Michael's new movie called
A sexy, fast-paced, mind-bending thriller about Hilary (played by Kate Bosworth) who is nursing her bedridden husband, Garland (Adrien Brody), back to health when he awakens from a coma after a car accident. Garland, suffering from amnesia, can't remember anything about his life, only flashes of memories about a car accident. But as the story unfolds, we begin to question what really happened the day of the accident and whether Hilary is really who she claims to be.
Starring: Adrien Brody, Kate Bosworth
Director: Michael Polish
Writer: Amy Kolquist
Producers: Alexander Tabrizi, Michael Dolan, Spice Factory
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Territories Available: World, excluding China.
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Kate and Michael were spotted arriving at LAX Arport on February 4, after
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I've added to the gallery scans from 2013 Spring/Summer edition of VS Magazine with Kate on the cover. I must say that Kate looks
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It's semi-professional football, where no one gets paid. For some, it's an addiction, "can't get off it, it's the worst drug ever," Ben Bell laughs.
For others it's a chance to keep the dream alive, and no matter what your age or occupation, or background if you can play football, you can find a spot on the Blaze.
With practice 2-3 times a week and at least 10 games a season there's always the chance for injury.
"I hear it from my wife a lot, once a week there's …'what if you get hurt?' It's definitely risky, but you only live once and this is what I love to do," Randy Blackford explains.
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When New England Patriots' owner Robert Kraft met with then-Russian President Vladmir Putin in 2005, he showed off his Super Bowl ring. Kraft told a crowd last week Putin put the ring on, and said, "I can kill someone with this ring." He then put it in his pocket, and walked away. The Kremlin says the ring was a gift.


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American Idol 2013 Spoilers: New 'SuperVote' for Season 12 Announced!
Ever wanted to be able to vote for your American Idol favorites a huge amount of times all at once? 2013 seems to be the year of change and, if you consider yourself an Idol superfan, you're going to love this latest installment.
Beginning tonight, fans will have the opportunity to "SuperVote" online for their favorite hopefuls. You can do this using what FOX calls their new "patent-pending voting experience within the AT & T AMERICAN IDOL VOTE."
Two years ago, the show introduced an online voting window but, with "SuperVote," fans can cast all 50 votes at once. This can be done via americanidol.com, the American Idol mobile app (data and message rates may apply), and Facebook. You must have a Facebook account to cast votes online.
What's really interesting is you can use these 50 votes for all one contestant or for multiple contestants, and you can adjust vote selections as performances happen in real time. Once the voting window opens, you can submit your final votes all at once.
Fans can still vote during the voting window using the toll-free lines and text-messaging for AT&T wireless customers.
This is a fun addition to the AT&T Idol Fan Meter that was implemented during last week's shows. This allowed viewers to agree or disagree with the judges in real time using the hashtags #idolagree and #idoldisagree. The results were then show almost instantaneously.
While the American Idol judges retained a bit more control during the early season by naming the Top 20, the show is now handing over the reigns to the viewers by giving them the opportunity to interact as the show happens.


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The Route: 49 miles on the Seward Highway
What to Expect: Views abound between the 3,000-foot peaks of Chugach State Park and the pack ice floes of the vast Turnagain Arm marine sanctuary, especially after city traffic drops away and the heavily glaciated Kenai Mountains come into view. Turn back after reaching Portage Valley or steel your nerves—and make sure you have chains—for the entire 127-mile journey through mountain passes to Seward.
Where to Stop: The Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center provides a close-up view of native wildlife that were injured and can no longer survive in the wild, such as reindeer, lynx, moose, and grizzlies.


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VIRGIE — A Pike County man was killed Sunday evening, after trying to cross four lanes of traffic on U.S. 23 near Caney.
According to Kentucky State Police, Post 9 in Pikeville received a call of a traffic accident on U.S. 23 in the Caney community of Pike County.
After a preliminary investigation, KSP troopers determined that 49-year-old Merl Adkins, of Virgie, was attempting the cross all four lanes of traffic when he was struck by a silver Hyundai Sonata traveling south on U.S. 23. After being struck, Adkins then wandered into the northbound lanes, where he was struck by two more vehicles.
Adkins was pronounced dead at the scene by Pike County Coroner Russell Roberts.
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LUMBERTON — Nine law enforcement officers with the Robeson County Sheriff's Office have received promotions within the department, according to Randy Graham, spokesperson for the sheriff's office.
Robeson County native Kathy Torre was promoted from lieutenant to captain within the Juvenile Division. Torre has 21 years worth of experience working as a law enforcement officer with the Sheriff's Office.
Jackie Carter was promoted from first sergeant to lieutenant and has been assigned to the Sex Offender Division. Carter, who began her 18-year law enforcement career in 1995, has served as deputy sheriff, detective, detective sergeant and detective first sergeant.
Cpl. Daryl McPhatter, a six-year veteran with the Sheriff's Office, has been promoted to the Major Crimes Division. McPhatter previously served for five years with the Lumberton Police Department and has experience working as an emergency rescue personnel for eight years.
James Edwards was promoted from line sergeant to first sergeant. Edwards, who has 18 years of experience with the Sheriff's Office, was first hired as a patrol deputy and worked his way through the ranks. He is a retired veteran of the U.S. Army National Guard after serving in the military for 23 years.
Dwayne Leggett has been promoted from deputy to line sergeant. Leggett has 19 years worth of experience in law enforcement and in the military, including three years with the Sheriff's Office. Leggett recently worked with the Red Springs Police Department, where he served as a patrol sergeant and a K-9 officer.
Dru Martin, who is a 16-year veteran with the Sheriff's Office, was transferred from the Major Crimes Division to serve as lieutenant watch commander. Martin started his career as a dispatcher and worked his way through the ranks, serving as a corporal, line sergeant, first sergeant and sergeant detective.
Joey Hucks has been promoted from first sergeant to lieutenant watch commander. Hucks, who is a 13-year veteran with the Sheriff's Office, began his career as a detention officer with the Robeson County Detention Center in 1990 and worked his way through the ranks to watch commander.
Lumberton native Ryne Marks has been assigned to the Patrol Division. Marks is a graduate of The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, where he earned his degree in Criminal Justice with a double minor in Terrorism Studies and Sociology.
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Tualatin, Ore. -- (KGW) Heavy steel beams tore through a truck and nearly hit the driver Wednesday afternoon.
"All the police officers said I need to buy them lottery tickets," said driver Jack Phillips. "I was very fortunate, very fortunate today."
It's an accident you have to see to believe. Phillips was driving an 18-wheeler when another trucker cut him off, taking off his left front fender and rear view mirror.
If only that was the worst of it. Phillips was then forced to slam on the brakes, causing 30-thousand pounds of steel to shift on his trailer. Phillips said he didn't know what to do but duck his head and hope for the best.
Steel beams came barreling into the back of the cab.
"It went right by my head, right past it, yeah, inches past my head...I was very lucky. If you look in the cab, the only thing that's not crumbled is my seat and steering wheel. The dashboard is gone, everything's gone. I was very lucky," said Phillips.
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Veterans in Virginia Beach helped build a Habitat for Humanity home for one of their own on this Veteran's Day.
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"It touches me a lot because they're veterans as well and they're using their day off to come out and help build a house," said Lydia Mata, a widowed Navy veteran and mother of three. "I wouldn't be able to afford a house on my own if it wasn't for my family being able to qualify for Habitat for Humanity so, for us it's like a dream come true."
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I forwarded a few questions to WoWP producer Alexander Zelulin about those very topics, so join us after the cut for a quick look at what the firm is thinking with regard to its next World War II-themed multiplayer title.
latest dev diary video hinted at a new "expert mode" in development. Previously WoWP has been marketed as more of an arcade-style shooter than a flight simulator. Is this new mode intended to appeal to more hardcore sim fans? Can you give us any specifics on it -- for example are there engine mixture controls, more realistic aerodynamics, stalls, etc.?
Alexander Zezulin: First of all, we're trying to accomplish a number of things for World of Warplanes. At the core of what we're working toward is a deep and feature-packed gaming experience that blends both arcade gameplay with the depth of a simulation. We really want players to feel invested in the game and really feel connected to each plane they take to the skies.
In actuality, World of Warplanes is a game that blends the best of both worlds -- the freedom of an arcade shooter and the detail and accuracy of a simulation, all wrapped up in an MMO experience like no other. As for the "expert mode," we're still exploring that idea and will hopefully have more to share on that in the near future.
Will the different aircraft have different flight characteristics in expert mode (a P-51 handles differently than an IL-2, for example), or is that moving too far into simulation territory?
Pretty much in all of the game modes, planes will fly and behave in their own unque ways compared to other aircraft you can pilot. We want each type of aircraft to have its own unique characteristics and provide each player a customizable and personalized experience.
For example, the P-51 and the IL-2 both control differently simply because they're two different kinds of planes. Even planes in the same category, like the IL-2 and an IL-10, will have their own unique and nuanced characteristics and control differences. However, the diversity in each plane won't complicate the experience for players, as we really want to make sure the game isn't overly focused on simulation.
World of Tanks and World of Warships in terms of gameplay. How's that going? Is that something we can expect to see at release?
Right now we're completely focused on making sure we make World of Warplanes the best possible experience it can be as well as on working hard to make sure it's released on time.
As far as the integration of World of Warplanes, World of Tanks, and World of Warships is concerned, currently there's integration available through our unified account system. That means you can log in to World of Warplanes with your World of Tanks account and vice versa. In the future we have plans to introduce a unified monetary system as well as the ability to swap Free Experience between all three games.
Both systems are currently in a testing phase and aren't yet available to the public. Our goal, however, is to have this system in place near or at the launch of World of Warplanes, pending further testing, of course.
As for integrating all three titles into the Global Domination map, it's an idea we've been exploring, but we don't have anything new to share. We're incredibly focused on making sure we get World of Warplanes out the door at the best quality possible. And considering World of Warships is still in closed Alpha, we still have quite a bit of time to really investigate how all three titles can be integrated in such a way.
Are there any plans to add more complexity/choice to the tech trees like in World of Tanks?
Of course, in due time, we'll be expanding the current tech trees. Currently we release planes and tech tree options to help give players the chance to try out all the planes they can, and most importantly, get a feel for each one and find their favorites.
In the future, though, the tech trees will become more diverse and complex. In Update 0.3.2, we released presets -- special equipment sets unique for certain types of planes. Each preset was compiled based on the historical configurations of that particular plane. Being based on actual historical planes, a single plane could eventually have up to eight different sub-types available for it.
For example, the I-16 falls into several sub-types, and as a result, can potentially have a high number of different presets available for it. The ability to have a plane and its presets being based on actual history gives the player not only more diversity in terms of outfitting their plane but also the chance to outfit a plane just as it was when it was used in actual combat. That's a feature we find really exciting and hope the players will appreciate as well.
At the moment, players in the game accumulate experience points at a rate three times faster than normal. Obviously, we plan to change the experience and credit accrual rate in the near future and as we get closer to the launch of the game. After the game's release, the in-game economy, the research rates, and the experience rates will be equalized to align closer to what is currently in place in World of Tanks.
Can you talk about potential cash shop items yet? Will we see gold ammo and upgrades similar to World of Tanks?
It's a bit early to say what exactly will be available for purchase for gold in World of Warplanes. Obviously, the economy will be similar to the economy of World of Tanks, but there will be some differences. We're exploring the idea of providing premium goods but want to make sure they don't influence the outcome of a battle. We're actively exploring new ideas for the shop and hope to share new info on it sometime in the future. One thing we can say, though, is that players in the game will be the first to see any new implementations.
Will the recent acquisition of BigWorld affect WoWP development in any way? New tech/features/etc.?
Acquisition of a company like BigWorld will always help accelerate the development process. But those are changes that are going to happen gradually over time. It will take some time to integrate BigWorld into our overall company structure, but in the end, it will ultimately help speed up our production and development.
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DreamscapeWe met again along the highway, that dreamscape among the treesDreamscape by That-Quiet-Guy
An empty little diner where we often shoot the breeze
I speak easy in your presence
Of everything, we talk
Truthful words forming each sentence
As the sun sets after dusk
We wander to the forest
Silent as the standing rust
The age felt in this place
We drift hand in hand
Neither leading or astray
Our minds play tricks and tell us that we've visited before
Deep into the trees we find some open forest floor
We come into the clearing
We settle down in day's last light
Prepare to dream within my dreaming
Eyes gleaming, growing distant
At last you speak again
Whispers of true love pass between your lips like sand
Slipping through my fingers
Everything fades away, I wake
I feel the cold and shiver
I wither in the dark
Reality has you and me so very far apart
CharmerSuffering used to follow meCharmer by That-Quiet-Guy
Inflicted from excess
Overflowing from inside
Carried on my breath
My words used to infect
Seed despair and vast, dark misery
A literary viper, from that pit she bravely lifted me
Brought me back into the light
Extracted all my venom
Returned a kiss for every bite
I might have never known her warmth with my cold blood
She lit a fire in my heart
My veins coursing with new love
Enough time passed between us for my heart to be tamed
She calmed my inner demons and bled out all my shame
If I could speak her name
Confess my feelings to the world
I'd whisper, scream and speak it like a secret to be told
RealPoetry seems to have diedReal by That-Quiet-Guy
A world so full of restless eyes
No time for flowered words or fancy
Once respected, now called nancies
Glancing at my bitter words
You'll likely leave them all affirmed
I have learned over the years
I have no need for praise from peers
I hold dear what my verse earned
The affection of a dreamlike girl
A flower furled that I watched bloom
She's now come into womanhood
If I could begin again
I wouldn't change
I'd grip my pen
And in the end I'd find this joy
Without her, I'd be so void
A Light in the StormYou found me here, in a sea of lettersA Light in the Storm by That-Quiet-Guy
So many better and much more worthy
They'd curse me, but only if they knew
They know nothing of the love that I share with you
My distant muse
Infusing me with beauty
Nothing you could do would ever have you lose me
Choose me and I'll do anything I can
Stop bullets with my flesh
Lend an ever helping hand
I'll stand by you unsevered and even ever after
Lovers or dear friends, in the end it doesn't matter
I've been captured by your fire
You've become my driving force
You've become my great desire
ShadowsThere is a darkness in the corner of my heart,Shadows by Mintamite
Dormant in your eyes but explosive to my soul;
And I hear these voices telling me that nothing is
Quite good enough, no, I'll never be good enough.
So sleep never comes easy, at sword point with
Your creeping, lovely arms encircling me.
We wished we could be something sparkling
And natural like a wave lapping at the shore,
Rocky or sandy, it was always us two.
But I am more of a message in a bottle
Lost in the calmness of the ocean;
I'm sinking forever deeper into an early grave,
but I feel alive and if I can breathe, I must be-
just always screaming these words,
wishing that you heard, the bubbly expulsion
that slurs from my lips in this bottle of oxygen.
My happiness is haunting, I'm a ghost always wanting-
Always loving you.
Despite living in the shadows in the
Corner of my heart,
I want to be a part of your sunshine world.
MehI would like to starve my body to force my mind into submissionMeh by in-waves
Nothing matters much when you're sick beyond remission
The fight within the self between body and mind
Is much preffered to pain of any other kind
I know I look defeated and sound like I lack sense
But life gets much more bearable when it's at my dispense
You're done forRun!You're done for by in-waves
Oh, you had better run!
What's chasing you I couldn't say
But the danger's there all the same
Make haste!
Else you wont escape
The fate that hates and chases you down
the incessant shadow that lurks on the ground
Don't stop!
Oh please don't stop, you'll never survive
You've already given too much,
And your delicious misfortune is temptation enough
Now fight!
Oh, you better fight
You've stumbled and fallen one too many times
With nowhere else to escape, you're face to face
With the lies that have led to your demise
Because the truth is nowhere to be seen
It's a bitter show, you need what it has to say
To seal those vindictive lips of yours
There's nothing to be gained from this.
I'm Justin and I write lyrics. A lot. I have some stuff published, recorded and what have you, but my aim is to make a living doing what I love. I thought that was becoming a Librarian. In retrospect, that was a stupid idea based on a paycheck and health benefits. Since I was a kid, I wanted to open a restaurant and I think it's high time I got the ball rolling on that one. Culinary school is my next step. I guess that really doesn't say much about me, does it? Let's do the basics. I'm 5'7... or 5'8, I'm not sure. Brown hair, hazelnut eyes and permanent angry eyebrows. I'm not always pissed, I just look that way. Also the reason I look insane instead of happy when I smile... I enjoy simple things, like music and cheap suits. Brown corduroy is pure comfort to me. Details, details.... I suppose I'm single, though I hope to ammend that. I live in Kingston Ontario. To be honest, it's not all that much better than the middle of nowhere. I spend most of my days reading, writing and daydreaming about mundane things that should be reality. I can't really think of much to say about myself, but if you read my work, you can form your own opinion.
Favourite genre of music: Hardcore Punk/Metal
Favourite photographer: Gen Laidlaw
Favourite style of art: post impressionism
Operating System: Win 7 Home Premium
MP3 player of choice: psp
Favourite cartoon character: Ren (Ren and Stimpy)
Personal Quote: "I don't care."


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OPPOSITE SEX came together by chance in the isolated North Island town of Gisborne. After a trip to Europe Lucy returned to Gisborne with a bass guitar and nothing to do, so she invented her own percussive style of playing and wrote strange and disturbing songs. She met 2nd hand bookshop owner Tim, who had had found a drum-kit on a front lawn at a garage sale, and taught him how to play drums. Fergus, self-taught from listening to Guitar Player magazine CDs in his bedroom, completed the trio.
The sound they developed in splendid isolation is, they say, some kind of absurdist-logico mix of Euro pop, Beat poetry, and subterranean lo-fi adventuring. Drawing musical inspiration from such disparate elements as The Velvet Underground, Half Japanese and The Beatles and marrying it to lyrical themes of animal kingdoms, love and loss, and master/slave dialectics, OPPOSITE SEX reinvent alternative pop in a style of their own.
Sometimes they play as a three-piece and sometimes Tim & Lucy play as a two-piece – just bass, drums, vocals and a lot of "blood & guts". Some prefer the two-piece with the uncluttered space and raw energy, others the three-piece with Fergus weaving golden guitar threads and spidery webs through the rhythm.
In the summer of 2011 Tim & Lucy relocated to Dunedin to find a bigger, colder and more interesting place place to live, play and study. Along with Fergus they recorded the album at Fishrider Studio in Dunedin in the autumn. It retains the simplicity and space of their stripped down live sound, but in the studio they have found even more of the dark magic inhabiting their songs. The album was released on CD and LP in November 2011 and can be heard, downloaded and ordered at the Opposite Sex Bandcamp page
"La Rat" by Opposite Sex from Ian Henderson on Vimeo.
Their "truly pure and slightly feral" debut is released in the UK on 23 April 2012 on Fishrider Records in association with Occultation Recordings


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Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced, the second part of the popular and comprehensive series, updated for CS5, follows internationally renowned Photoshop guru Deke McClelland as he dives into the workings of Photoshop. He explores such digital-age wonders as the Levels and Curves commands, edge-detection filters, advanced compositing techniques, vector-based text, the Liquify filter, and Camera Raw. Deke also teaches tried-and-true methods for sharpening details, smoothing over wrinkles and imperfections, and enhancing colors without harming the original image. Exercise files accompany the course.
Recommended prerequisite: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals.
In this exercise we're going to discuss the two main ways to adjust the amount of space between neighboring characters of type, here inside a Photoshop. And their names go by Kerning and Tracking, and just so as you know, if you're new to this topic I'm going to be throwing a fair number of vocabulary words at you. So just keep a keen ear out for them. I'm still working inside this image called Gratuitous effects.psd, and I am going to go ahead and zoom in on 365. So it's taken up a bunch of room onscreen here.
Now here is how things normally work. How various letters are spaced away from each other, that spacing information is defined inside the font. And then the various applications: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and so on, just go ahead and follow the instructions included in the font. And that spacing information is designed to make the characters legible at small sizes, but once you increase the size of your characters, you may notice that either the characters need to be spaced closer to each other, or you may notice spacing anomalies, where there appears to be more space between, say the 3 and the 6 than their does between the 6 and the 5.
Depending on how override you want to get about this. Now, where headline text is concerned you may want to spend a little bit of time massaging the character spacing. When you're talking about logos and corporate identities then Kerning and Tracking become very important. So, let's examine how it works on the first place. Everything is dependent upon this stuff called Side Bearing. Every single character includes this, but the 3 includes a little bit of right bearing, which is the space that 3 needs, so it doesn't feel violated by neighboring characters.
And so there is a little bit of right bearing, right there. And then that meets the left bearing associated with a 6, and together the right bearing of the 3 and the left bearing of the 6 add up to the amount of space between those two characters. And that's the way it works with most pairs of characters whether they are letters or numbers or symbols as you type away inside of Photoshop and the other applications. But there are some pairs of characters that look as if they are spaced way too far apart from each other when the standard bearing is observed.
For example, this is the stereotypical example. I'm going to go ahead and select the Type tool and click in front of the 3, in order to add some text. And you can't see it's slightly off- screen there, but I do have a blinking insertion marker going off here to the left-hand side. There it is. And now I'll enter a capital A and a small v, like so. And notice how these guys invade each other's territory, the A is slipping under the space occupied by the v, and the v is slipping over the space occupied by the A.
So what in the world is going on? Well, I'm going to go ahead and select Av, like so, by dragging across those letters, and they appear inverted when they are highlighted which is a big mess, and it gets in the way of seeing what the heck is going on? So I am going to press Ctrl+H or Command+H to hide that highlighting. The letters are still selected so you have to take care. You don't want to press the Escape key, for example, because you'll lose them. However, we can't see what's going on inside of the Image window. All right, now I am going to bring up the Character panel either by clicking on this Final icon in the options bar, or I could click on this A here in the column of icons or, because I have text selected I get access to a new group of keyboard shortcuts;, and it's Ctrl+T or Command+T for Type, which brings up the Character panel.
By the way, Ctrl+T or Command+T normally invokes a Free Transform command. There has to be text active for Ctrl+T or Command+T to bring up the Character panel instead. Now notice the options we have available to us. We've got font, we've got type style, we've got type size which Photoshop, and the other Adobe apps call Font Size, but normal people call it Type Size. Next door we've got Leading, and Leading is the amount of vertical space between rows of type in a paragraph.
You might hear it called Line Spacing inside of another program, but it's called Leading inside of the design applications. Next we've got these two spacing values, one of which is Kerning as you can see here, and the other of which is Tracking, and I'll explain the distinction in just a moment. But notice that they both include Av in their icons because A and v are the classic Kerning pair. Anyway, right now, if I click the down- pointing arrowhead I can see that I'm observing the Metrics. That is Photoshop is looking into the font file, and it's finding the list of so-called Kerning pairs, which are pairs of characters that have to be specially kerned, that is specially spaced when they appear together and Av is one of them.
Now I can override that information and if I assign a Kerning value of 0, so I am overriding the Metrics information, then I am spreading the A and v way apart from each other. So I'm observing the small amount of right bearing, that's associated with a capital A because it leans, after all. And a small amount of left bearing that's associated with lowercase v because it leans as well, so it's always going to want to be close to its neighbors. And I am applying this to ride on top of each other and what that means is as I zoom out here, and I'll go ahead and hide my Character panel, that it looks like the v, and the 3 are sufficiently close to each other, but the A and v almost look like they are part of separate words so that's no good.
So that's why we need Kerning inside of the various design applications. And in order to reapply that Kerning you click the down-pointing arrowhead and you switch back to Metrics, like so, and then Photoshop goes ahead and reapplies that information that's built-into the font file's Metrics, and that's where that term comes from. All right, I am going to go ahead and get rid of the A and the v, like so, just select them, get rid of them. And this time let's press Ctrl+A, or Command+A on the Mac, to select all of 365.
And then I'll press Ctrl+H, or Command+H on the Mac, in order to hide that selection so once again I can see what I'm doing. Now, you can switch between Optical, apparently Optical is active for 365 here, or Metrics. So Metrics goes ahead and observes the information that's built-into the font file. Optical will override that, and it will tell Photoshop to actually examine the character forms. So this is a more intensive operation for Photoshop, but it examines the character forms, and it decides how the characters should be spaced, independently of any information that's built into the font, sometimes it's more accurate.
And what I would suggest you do if you're looking at a sequence of characters, and they just look wrong then try switching for Metrics to Optical and see what happens. And in our case things get spaced together a little more closely. But let's say I want to space the characters more closely still. Well, there are two varieties of spacing here. If you're spacing a bunch of selected characters you use the Tracking value and if you are spacing just a pair of characters then you click between them and you override the Kerning option. So I am going to go ahead and adjust the Tracking, and you can do so by entering a Tracking value, which is a little bit confusing, because when you are changing the Tracking value manually you are entering a value that is measured in thousandths of an em space.
Basically an em space is a space that is as wide as the type size is tall. So our type size is 192 points and em space would be 192 points wide, and then we're talking about thousandths of that, so 192 divided by a thousand. So in this case we're talking about .19 points. So that aside, because you don't want to get too wind up about that. What you really want to do is just adjust this value from the keyboard. That is using a special keyboard trick. And the keyboard trick is Alt+Left Arrow to move the characters together or Alt+Right arrow to move the selected characters apart.
On the Mac that's going to be Option+Left Arrow or Option+Right Arrow. If you want more information than that you can adjust that value in five times the normal increments. So notice by default it's -20 or +20 depending on whether you pressed Left Arrow or the Right Arrow. If you want to adjust the value in five times an increment, it's Ctrl+Alt+Left Arrow, or Command+Option+Left Arrow on a Mac. It'd be Ctrl+Alt+Right Arrow to move the characters apart or Command+Option+Right Arrow on the Mac.
Anyway, -20 is just fine for our purposes, and then I might click between the 6 and the 5, which to me look like they are still a little bit farther apart than the 3 and a 6. And now I could adjust the Kerning value, notice the Tracking value is not dimmed because I don't have any characters selected. When you just have a blinking insertion marker like this you override the Kerning value, and I could press the exact same keyboard shortcuts. I could press Alt+Left Arrow or Option+Left Arrow on the Mac in order to move those characters together. And you might look at that and say, hey Deke! I thought that I was moving the characters together by 21 thousandths of an em space, and I have changed this value or at least you have, looking at the screen here to -44 so what happened? Well, my Optical value, I wasn't seeing what it was previously, but it must have been -24, and now by virtue of the fact that I have subtracted another 20 from it, it's down to -44.
Well, you know what? I'm going to override that value, and I am going to say -30, and I actually like that effect quite fine. So I'll go ahead and close my Character panel there, and I will press the Enter on the keypad or Ctrl+Enter or Command+Enter on the Mac, and I end up getting this result right here. So this is the before version of the text, so I'll press Ctrl+Z or Command+Z on the Mac, and wow! They were so far apart from each other on the Mac. And now if I press Ctrl+Z or Command+Z, again you can see that they are closer together.
And they look a little more consistent as well. Now this is one of those things that you have to decide whether it's important to you or not. You're going to find pairs of characters that are just screaming to be kerned. And once you really get into it, the funny thing is you go out into the real world and you look at signs and you go, oh my gosh! Look at that horrible Kerning. Look at those characters so far apart from each other, what were those people thinking? Anyway, it is quite the fastidious thing to get into, if you want to. In the next exercise, I'm going to show you how to create Area text inside of a rectangular boundary.
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PASA is committed to raising visibility and awareness regarding Asian/Pacific Islander American social and policy issues both domestic and international, within the public service sector and the wider community. PASA also strives to provide a network and support system among Wagner APIA and other students of color, and enhance the educational experience through various forums and resources geared towards professional development, social events, and dialogue addressing relevant issues concerning the APIA community.
PASA membership is open to all NYU and NYU Wagner students and alumni.
Members include individuals who self-identify as Asian/Pacific Islander/American, as well as allies interested in APIA issues and activities.
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Direct and indirect discrimination – what's the difference ?
- June 28, 2012
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Equal Opportunities Law states that all individuals should be employed, paid and promoted solely because of the skills and abilities they possess and how they do their job and when an employee or applicant is treated less favourably than another employee or applicant by the employer this will be classed as discrimination.
In cases like this the employee or applicant being discriminated against, whether deliberately or unknowingly, will then be well within their rights to take legal action against the employer.
Grounds for discrimination can include being treated less favourably because of an individuals:
- Religious or spiritual beliefs
- Age
- Sex/gender
- Sexual orientation
- Nationality
- Ethnic background
- Race
- Colour
- Pregnancy/maternity leave
- Marriage/civil partnership
- Gender reassignment (sex change)
- Disability
Direct Discrimination
Direct discrimination is when an employer deliberately treats an employee or applicant less favourably than another because of one of the reasons above – for example – An employer has both a male receptionist and a female receptionist but the male receptionist receives a higher wage than the female receptionist despite both employees doing the same job. This type of deliberate discrimination would be classed as sex/gender discrimination and is illegal.
Indirect Discrimination
Indirect discrimination is a little more complicated than direct discrimination and is generally when a specific company rule, criteria or condition which has been put in place results in a particular group of individuals or employees being put at more of a disadvantage than another group of individuals or employees.
One example of indirect discrimination would be an employer stating that all male members of staff must be clean shaven, thus putting members of certain religious sects at a disadvantage.
Whether or not it is done on purpose indirect discrimination is unlawful however, if it can be proved by the employer that the particular criteria or condition put in place is necessary for the running of the company/business and there are no other alternative options available it may, in some cases, be allowed.
An example of this would be a restaurant owner advertising for chefs for the kitchen but stating that all applicants must be clean shaven for the purposes of hygiene.
Taking Action against Discrimination in the Workplace
When an employee suffers some form of discrimination in the workplace the first step is for the employee to discuss the matter with the employer or individual who has discriminated against them.
It may well be that the employer was not aware of his/her actions and did not realise how much distress it had caused the employee. If this is the case then it will more than likely be possible for the employee and the employer to reach an amicable agreement with regard to the discrimination.
If it is not possible for the employee and the employer to reach an agreement or even for the employee to approach the employer or individual responsible for the discrimination in the first place then the employer should then utilise the company's grievance procedure.
The grievance procedure will allow the employee to put in a formal complaint regarding the discrimination he/she has suffered and the complaint will then be taken to the person or persons in higher authority within the company with the aim of having the grievance heard and addressed satisfactorily.
If, again, this particular option is not successful, no action is taken against the individual responsible for the discrimination and, subsequently, the discrimination continues the employee may then feel that they have no other choice but to take legal action against the employer.
When making a claim for discrimination through an employment tribunal the employee will need to be able to prove that discrimination has actually taken place so the more evidence they can provide the stronger their case will be with a higher chance of success.
However, in cases of indirect discrimination, it is possible that the employer may be able to demonstrate and prove that any particular criteria or condition which may have appeared discriminatory are actually justifiable.
Although the tribunal will give thought to the needs of the employer's company they will also use their discretion to weigh up the importance of the employer's needs in comparison to the effects of the discrimination suffered by the employee.
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My prankster, older son, came home from college, just the other day.
He saw such great possibilities, in how, he, with the Trolls, could play.
Now, you must remember, my son, has always been, a tad bit wild.
But, he truly is a charmer, when he has a new brainchild, compiled.
The Postman had been so Leary of dropping off mail, with the Trolls about.
So daily, I would greet him, explaining, they were really harmless, big old louts.
And I complained a little, of the time spent, to convince him, back at the house.
So my son took up the cause, yes, he was actually going to try to help me out.
Each day, he got the mail, I was so proud that he was trying to solve my plight.
He said he had an idea, which he would try, the last day in town, to set it right.
Of course, I believed him, he was my son, and I felt such pride, as he drove away.
Then I waited for the surprise, he'd set with the Trolls, to make everything OK.
The postman made his rounds, as usual, until he came toward our house.
Then he shot off like a rocket, which was truly outward bound… the louse.
So I ran out to catch him, for in his hurry, he'd forgotten to drop off my mail…
But he was so fast that I missed him… so back to the house I did sail…
In front of the garage… sat 3 Trolls in bib overalls in their rocking chairs.
Across their laps lay shotguns, yes, the really heavily gauged ones…
And there before my eyes were crickets playing banjos all around…
With 'Deliverance', the song they'd used, to make that mailman bound…
But don't worry; I got even with my prankster son… To end this tale…
The next time he ask for money… I said… the check is… in the mail.
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Section 1 - Preparing to be an EMT-B
Chapter 1 - Introduction to Emergency Medical Care Chapter 2 - The Well-Being of the EMT-B Chapter 3 - Medical, Legal, and Ethical Issues Chapter 4 - The Human Body Chapter 5 - Baseline Vital Signs and SAMPLE History Chapter 6 - Lifting and Moving Patients
Section 2 - Airway
Chapter 7 - Airway 3
Section 3 - Patient Assessment
Chapter 8 - Patient Assessment Chapter 9 - Communications and Documentation
Section 4 - Medical Emergencies
Chapter 10 - General Pharmacology Chapter 11 - Respiratory Emergencies Chapter 12 - Cardiovascular Emergencies Chapter 13 - Neurologic Emergencies Chapter 14 - The Acute Abdomen Chapter 15 - Diabetic Emergencies Chapter 16 - Allergic Reactions and Envenomations Chapter 17 - Substance Abuse and Poisoning Chapter 18 - Environmental Emergencies Chapter 19 - Behavioral Emergencies Chapter 20 - Obstetrics and Gynecological Emergencies
Section 5 - Trauma
Chapter 21 - Kinematics of Trauma Chapter 22 - Bleeding Chapter 23 - Shock Chapter 24 - Soft-Tissue Injuries Chapter 25 - Eye Injuries Chapter 26 - Face and Throat Injuries Chapter 27 - Chest Injuries Chapter 28 - Abdomen and Genitalia Injuries Chapter 29 - Musculoskeletal Care Chapter 30 - Head and Spine Injuries
Section 6 - Special Populations
Chapter 31 - Pediatric Assessment Chapter 32 - Pediatric Airway and Medical Emergencies Chapter 33 - Pediatric Trauma Chapter 34 - Geriatric Assessment and Transfer
Section 7 - Operations
Chapter 35 - Operations Chapter 36 - Gaining Access Chapter 37 - Special Operations
Section 8 - Enrichment
Chapter 38 - Advanced Airway Management Chapter 39 - BLS Review
Appendix A - National Registry Skill Sheets Appendix B - Registry Review Glossary Index
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Chuck Landon: Why can't WVU get over losses to Marshall?
Pardon me for asking, but ...
n What is the gestation period for new West Virginia University coaches to grow their excuse gland?
It appears to be about two months.
That's my guess based on first-year WVU baseball coach Randy Mazey's comments after losing to Marshall, 6-5, Tuesday in Beckley.
To Mazey's credit, there weren't any alibis after the Herd shut out his Mountaineers, 8-0, on March 19 in Charleston. And, naturally, there was nothing but Sunnyside remarks after WVU's 10-2 win over Marshall on April 2 in Morgantown.
But when the defeat in Beckley meant the Herd won the season series, 2-1, Mazey's excuse gland came to excretory life.
"It wasn't actually their bullpen," whined Mazey, referring to the five relief pitchers Marshall used in the victory. "They ran their weekend starters out there. But that's what they do. Their weekend starters always pitch against us and they pitched better than we did."
It took him only two months to age this vintage whine.
How disappointing.
I was optimistic after Mazey renewed the rivalry with Marshall and even agreed to a three-game series. But, alas, he, too, succumbed to the Mountaineer mind-set that there has to be an excuse anytime a WVU team loses to Marshall.
And, as usually is the case, Mazey didn't even get his information correct.
Weekend starters, Coach? Really? The starting pitcher was true freshman Alex Thackston, who has one collegiate win to his credit. He was also the starting pitcher in WVU's win at Morgantown.
For educational purposes, Marshall's weekend starting pitching rotation includes Wayland Moore, who started against Rice in the Herd's 4-2 loss Thursday night. Next, is ace Aaron Blair, who pitched against Rice Friday night and didn't even make the trip to Beckley for the WVU game. And, finally, there's Michael Taylor, who has started in seven consecutive Conference USA series.
Only Taylor pitched against WVU in Beckley and faced only four batters in 0.2 of an inning. In fact, Taylor yielded two hits and an earned run, so what is Mazey complaining about?
The usual.
Like all WVU coaches he expects merely to roll the ball out and beat Marshall. When that doesn't happen the excuses begin flowing like blue-and-gold Kool-aid because, of course, there's no way any Marshall team legitimately could defeat the mighty Mountaineers.
Just one more service I supply free of charge.
n Why was there an 18-wheeler with "Purdue" lettered on the trailer in the Huntington area recently?
It was the Boilermakers' football equipment semi. It was here to move former Marshall assistant football coach Gerad Parker's belongings to West Lafayette, Ind., where he now lives as Purdue's wide receivers coach.
That's how the big-time programs do business.
n What's the latest on Ironton High basketball star Zac Carter?
According to informed sources, he was headed to Morehead State after Tennessee-Martin signed a junior college point guard. But, then, Carter tweeted on his Twitter account that he definitely wasn't going to Morehead State.
n Is DeAndre Kane's decision to transfer to Pittsburgh a smart move?
Probably not.
Sure, it's his hometown, but it's also where his old haunts are located and where his old running buddies live. Familiarity isn't always good.
Especially for an athlete who tends to live on the edge.
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BALTIMORE – On Thursday, Matt Wieters threw another potential base stealer out. So far this season, Wieters is seven-for-nine. His backup, Taylor Teagarden, has thrown out the only runner who has tried to steal.
Manager Buck Showalter thinks that the Orioles' All-Star catcher has gotten better at throwing runners out and his pitchers are doing a much better job at getting the ball to the plate quicker.
Showalter has emphasized to the rest of the organization that pitchers have to get the ball home in about 1.5 seconds.
"If you are not X time or below, our guys know from Aberdeen on up, you are not going to pitch here," Showalter said.
"My point to the pitchers is why would you not take advantage of a commodity that we have in Matt and Tea by being 1.6, 1.5 to the plate?"
Jake Arrieta, who has had Wieters as his catcher in both the minor and major leagues, spoke at length about him on Friday.
"He's one of the best catch-and-throw guys in the league, without question," Arrieta said.
"If we continue to give him a good shot, he can keep throwing out guys at the rate he is."
Arrieta is sometimes criticized for overthinking on the mound, and he especially enjoys watching Wieters try and outthink the runner.
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WASHINGTON, June 4, 2001, June 4, 2001 Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld left Washington June 3 on a weeklong trip to Europe where he will visit U.S. troops in Turkey and the Balkans and confer with senior foreign officials.
The secretary's June 3-9 journey starts in Turkey, said a senior DoD official. Rumsfeld will meet with senior Turkish officials on regional defense issues and visit U.S. troops participating in Operation Northern Watch. Moving to Ukraine, the U.S. defense secretary will participate in a joint protocol signing ceremony, the official said.
The secretary then flies to the Balkans, where he is to meet the new minister of defense of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and U.S. troops stationed in the region who are supporting NATO's peacekeeping efforts, the official said. He is also scheduled to attend an informal meeting of the Southeastern Europe Defense Ministerial in Thessalonniki, Greece.
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Researchers have demonstrated a controlled attack in which private keys can be stolen from a virtualised machine.
The side-channel cryptographic attack was thought to be the first of its kind and could have serious consequences for cloud computing environments where an attacker is co-resident to a victim.
It was demonstrated in a paper (pdf) by researchers from the universities of North Carolina and Wisconsin along with security outfit RSA on a Xen-based virtualisation platform that replicated public cloud infrastructure.
RSA laboratories director Dr Ari Juels said while the attacks were made in a lab, there was "no reason to think that any public virtualised infrastructure is immune" from the attacks.
"The takeaway is this: VMs (virtualised machines) running highly sensitive workloads should not be placed on the same hosts as potentially untrustworthy VMs," Juels said.
The attacks targeted a vulnerability in the cryptographic package libgcrypt used by GnuPG, which lacked defences against side-channel attacks.
Side-channel leaks were present in some crypto installations as a result of resource exposure.
"In our experiments, an attacker VM targets a co-resident victim VM running Gnu Privacy Guard," Juels said.
"The attacker VM is able to steal the victim VM's full private (ElGamal) key. In other words, the attack results in complete compromise of one form of encryption in GnuPG."
The success of the attack in gaining the keys rendered obsolete existing beliefs that virtualisation, through the use of distinct operating systems, provided effective isolation and therefore security.
It did this by targeting shared hardware resources, specifically the L1 instruction cache, which revealed enough information based on alternate process execution between the target and attacker to build a crypto key.
Importantly, the access-driven side-channel attacks overcame challenges including hypervisor noise, core migration, and the "difficulty of preempting the victim with sufficient frequency to extract fine-grained information".
While the attacks required a target and attacker to be co-resident on a single machine, earlier research (pdf) had shown it is possible to locate clients within cloud infrastructure.
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Win a Serious Eats Edition KettlePizza Baking Steel Combo for Father's Day!
My dad likes pepperoni and extra cheese!
My dad likes pepperoni and extra cheese!
Adam, thanks for putting that up! You do not miss a beat.
Definitely all of the above.
Hey everybody, California Cows are happy cows! http://www.realcaliforniamilk.com/advertising/happy-cows-spots/
Hey, out of touch for a few years with New York, but maybe you could go up to Patsy's in Harlem.
Hey, can only speak about my personal experience here. I leased out a sub shop/pizza joint with a big old Blodgett oven. I was so pumped about the opportunity, I never looked (or knew it was necessary) to see whether the oven had stones or not. It doesn't. My oven is about fifty years old and has steel decks. They pose a lot of challenges. For the first month of operation, I couldn't cook a pizza I was happy with without using a screen mid-bake. The entire rim of the pie would burn, while the middle would still require cooking. I got it down after a while, but would have had a much easier time with a stone deck. There are other challenges; the steel deck seems to turn your bench flour, semolina, or cornmeal into black ash. It needs to be brushed after cooking each pie. It also cools quickly. If I am doing more than four or five pies in a row, the cook time will go up dramatically. My experience with a stone is limited to home use, but I think my commercial experience with steel translates.
epoxy method? soaker? square pies by craig? I've been away way too long. these freakin' pizzas look awesome. miss you guys. been real busy. hope to tell you guys about it soon!
Awesome find! I can't believe I wasn't aware of this before.
Hey Ed, nice review. I call that a bakery slice. They're always cheap, usually sold cold, and available at all kinds of Italian bakeries in Mass. (maybe elsewhere too?), many whose only other offerings are sweet. I usually find the crust to be a little denser than a regular Sicilian, sometimes with a slight hint of sweetness.
@DM -- I'm starting to consider putting that stuff on a lot -- the more I use it, the more I like it. Tried the Hellboy at Paulie Gee's this weekend -- fantastic.
@DHorst -- That looks really good. Was it thick like a Sicilian?
@Norma -- I want to try that style of crust. Looks really interesting. I'll check out your blog.
@All -- Beautiful stuff.
Nice! Congrats to Paulie. I'm planning on going to his restaurant for the first time tomorrow night. Can't wait.
Should we worry about Scott Weiner's safety? Kidding, I'm sure they have a great relationship. Setting DVR now.
@DMC, Thanks! I find that the hot honey really mellows out during the bake. Have you used it pre-bake before? Your pizza looks great as usual.
@Norma, That's really cool. Did you cut it like that to keep it flat?
@all, Awesome pizzas!
That pizza did look familiar.
@Adam: Thanks, I just spent an hour and a half looking at Crucial Pizza.
@ Michael: That Sicilian looks nice. I'm surprised you order "very hot." I always order, "not too hot" so that I can get right into it. I've been burned too many times my friend.
This is some deep Boston stuff!
@Meredith: Hate to be scooped on a Boston slice. What's the history on this place? Is it like many downtown Boston places, open only during lunch hours on weekdays? Looks good.
I don't know how I never came across this place.
@timberbarrack: Hilarious.
Skipped pizza to do lobster rolls, oysters, and shrimp cocktail -- everyone was surprised. Next time, I'm going back to the cheesy, crusty, saucy stuff.
@Adam -- Clam and bacon pie is done at my house whenever possible. Salty heaven.
@Andrew -- Nice review, looks like it's worth checking out. Wish they opened before I left Cambridge.
Hello! We're going to be in Philadelphia next weekend. We've got limited time, but I was wondering if anyone's got any must hit spots for a slice on Saturday afternoon.
When I'm in a slice place, I usually like to use crushed red pepper and garlic powder. Many small shops will only have one or two dispensers of each. I'm posting this because I wanted to see if anyone else noticed the number of people that bring these dispensers to their table, and don't return them. The result is that I end up walking around the pizza place, slice on paper plate in hand and going to up to people's tables asking to "borrow" the crushed red pepper or garlic powder.
People, get it together! You need to season your slice at the counter -- if you must bring these crucial condiments to your table, then please return them when you're done dispensing.
Does anyone else have this problem, or have I lost it?
I'd like to make this soon. Anyone have a recipe?
I know Tampa's not known for pizza, but I'm sure there are a least a couple of standout places. I'm headed there tomorrow, and would like to get pizza at some point over the weekend. I've done some research -- seems like Sam and Eddie's is a favorite. Any other suggestions? Any wood oven spots? Thanks!
Hello all, I am thinking of starting a pizza club in the Boston area. Activities will include pizza parties, where we make our own pies, and trips to local pizzerias. Would anyone out there be interested, or am I missing such a club that's already in existence?
I am over-stimulated right now, having just made a couple types of pizza dough for Friday night. Does anyone else lose sleep over pie? Tell us how you feel. You are not alone.
I've used both peanut oil and canola oil in the best, but since I only do it once a year, it's hard to make any real comparison. Peanut oil is expensive, so I'd like to use an alternative. Any thoughts, stories, or suggestions?
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text: WVU's Countdown to Kickoff: Day 61- Mike Fox WVU's Countdown to Kickoff: Day 61- Mike Fox Countdown to Kickoff Current Football Featured On Campus SHARE Jared Martin , June 30, 2014 / 742 0 Continuing on with our 100 day countdown to WVU's season opener against the Alabama Crimson Tide, we have reached day 62, the number once worn by WVU defensive tackle, Mike Fox. Fox, a native of Akron, OH, was a four-year member of the WVU football program from 1986-89. He did not see a lot of playing time his first three seasons in Morgantown, but managed to appear 19 games, and recorded 42 tackles during this time span. He was a part of the memorable 1988 squad that finished a perfect 11-0 in the regular season, and played Notre Dame for the National Championship in the 1989 Fiesta Bowl. Mike Fox (#61) during the 1989 Fiesta Bowl. (Photo via: wvu100blogspot.com) Fox broke out his senior season as he started all 12 games for Don Nehlen's bunch. He recorded an astonishing 78 tackles that season, along with 10 sacks, and 2 forced fumbles. His 10 sacks in a single season was the most for a player at a position other than linebacker or defensive end at that time. The team finished 8-2-1 in the regular season to earn a bid to the 1989 Gator Bowl. While the team lost the game 27-7 to Clemson, Fox took home game MVP honors on the WVU end of things. Clemson's game MVP was a defensive standout; that came in the form of line backer Levon Kirkland. Following his graduation from West Virginia University, Fox was selected in the second round of the 1990 NFL draft by the New York Giants. He would spend five seasons in the organization, earning a Super Bowl ring with fellow WVU alum, Jeff Hostetler, as part of the Giants' Super Bowl XXV triumph over the Buffalo Bills in 1991. Fox would leave the Giants in 1995 to sign on with the expansion Carolina Panthers during free agency. Fox would play four more seasons in the league before retiring from the game in 1998. All countdown profiles of numbers 100-62 are still available here at WVUPros.com. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Posterous share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Tweet about it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend