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Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Spreading My Wings
When I resigned from Google, back in May, my plan was to work on various projects of my own, including a travel-related website (http://www.skyjinks.com) and, most importantly, a screenplay. But after a few months of self-employment I realized that I missed working with great people. I also noticed that having a lot of time to devote to these projects was not helping me get them done any faster. In fact my productivity took a sharp nosedive. Since only a fool would stick to a plan that isn't working, I decided to change tack and apply for a job. And I'm particularly happy that this job is at Twitter.
Being around great people was one of my main criteria in deciding where I wanted to apply. And I've always had high regard for Twitter on this count. I know many Twitter employees from my past life, and every single one of them is someone I like, respect and would love to work with again. And the people I've newly met there during the recruiting process have been just as impressive. The flock, as Twitter employees are collectively known, are friendly, talented and motivated. I can't wait to start working with them.
What, you ask, of my other projects? Well, that's what nights and weekends are for. The screenplay, in particular, will still receive significant attention. It has to - I have to deliver it to the producer sooner or later. But, as Lucille Ball once said, "If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it." And it turns out that I'm happiest when I'm busy.
So put me to work, Twitter!
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Golden Gate Bridge Tower Tour!
I'll mention right now that I am not allowed to post photos from the tour, but I'll be happy to email some to you on request. It'll be worth it. The views are absolutely unique!
How did I get to do this, you ask? Well, an acquaintance of mine who works for the bridge set it up as a huge favor. Unfortunately it's not available to the general public.
There was some chance the tour would be canceled due to fog. Here in Noe Valley (alright, fine, The Castro) it was sunny and warm, without a cloud in the sky. But the bridge apparently has weather of its own, due to it straddling the tumultuous meeting of ocean and bay. However the tower cameras confirmed that there was enough visibility to justify a tour, so up we went.
Here's how it all went down: I arrived at the administration building on the west side of the toll plaza, where I met the other visitor (only two can go up at one time) and our awesome guide. She gave each of us a hard hat and a waiver. After signing my life away, and confirming that I am neither claustrophobic nor agoraphobic, we got into the back of a little bridge cart, and our guide drove us onto the east side walkway. It was slow going, honking along the way at pedestrians, bikers and tourists. Eventually we arrived at the south tower, which was less fogged-in than the north tower.
If you run or bike the bridge you've probably been curious about the service hatches at the foot of each tower. It was a fun moment when the guide whipped out a key, unlocked the hatch, and we walked into the base of the tower, leaving the jealous tourists outside.
Inside the hatch is an elevator the size of a small phone booth. This is where not being claustrophobic came in handy. As the three of us rode up in proximity usually reserved for couples on their wedding night, our guide explained that this was the original elevator built when the bridge was constructed in the 1930s. It took a full 5 minutes to ride the 500 feet to the top.
Once out of the elevator, you climb up a couple of steel ladders, eventually emerging out of a very narrow hatch onto the platform at the very top of the tower. Words cannot describe how awesome this is. As you emerge your eyes are immediately drawn down the suspension cables to the road bed, where you can watch tiny little cars weave their way through traffic.
The views, as you'd expect, are beyond outstanding. We were above the fog, which rolled in and burned out as we watched. I'd had no idea fog was so dynamic. The city side was more heavily fogged in, but we got some great glimpses of downtown and of Sutro tower. The views of Marin were clearer, but it was looking down onto the bridge itself and the surrounding bay that provided the most unique and spectacular sights.
Besides the views, strolling around the top of the tower is an experience in its own right. There's something surreal about being up there, next to the huge communications dishes, walking around to the outside of the turrets to explore new camera angles. We're used to seeing the top of the tower as tiny and the bottom as huge. Having that sense of scale inverted was unique and wonderful. Most of all, it was a trip just to be somewhere you're not really meant to be, somewhere that only a relative handful of people will ever have the good fortune to visit.
After 15 minutes of ooh, aahs and shutter clicks, we headed back down the ladders, down the elevator, out onto the walkway and back to normality.
What a rush!
Monday, June 21, 2010
Fava Bean Stew Recipe
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
You Say You Want a Revolution
Monday, April 19, 2010
My SummerTomato Guest Post: 6 Reasons to Eat More Sardines
A few days ago we were told the last sardine cannery in the US closed its doors for good. A symbol, so the story goes, of how far sardines–once a staple of working-class pantries across the nation–have fallen out of favor with the American palate.
But if you get past the bad "last sardine factory canned" puns, this narrative starts to seem, ahem, fishy. Because, in fact, the sardine is like Bad Company, alive, well and making a comeback. (Continue on summertomato.com)
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Bands you liked are usually still good 5 years after their peak. That's just a hiatus really. And a bunch of old fogies that cobble together a reunion tour after 20 years of "side projects" are usually just cashing in on a new generation of suckers and are predictably crap (Simon and Garfunkel being the happy exception).
But 10 years after the high point is the unpredictable border line between credible artistry and cynical profit-taking. For every awesome 90s band tour (Pixies, Jane's Addiction) there seems to be a disappointingly mediocre one (The Cure).
So when I heard that one of my favorite bands, Faith No More, were reforming for a tour I was incredibly excited, but also apprehensive. I had seen them live in 1995 and 1997, and those are still among the best shows I've ever seen. Could they live up to their own high standards? The answer, as I happily discovered last night, is "hell yeah!" And also "wow".
Mike Patton's voice has lost none of its range and charisma, and the band can still pound out a song with that combination of abandon and precision that Faith No More always excelled at.
They opened with a sincere cover of "Reunited" by Peaches and Herb, reminding the audience of how well FNM cover ballads without being ironic (think "Easy", "Midnight Cowboy"). We got a few more tastes of this later in the show - A cover of "Ben" by Michael Jackson (Patton pulls off a superb MJ pastiche), another of the theme from "Chariots of Fire", and even a version of "Poker Face" sounded genuine despite beats that should have sent Lady Gaga running for shelter.
But we were soon onto favorites too numerous to list, such as a great rendition of "Land of Sunshine" and a blistering romp through "Midlife Crisis", reminding us that, despite it being so overplayed back in the 90s, it's a truly excellent song. "Ashes to Ashes", a favorite from their last album, sounded just as fresh as it did back then, as did crossover hit "Epic". But a true surprise was saved for the encore, when Chuck Mosley went on stage to sing a few songs (including "We Care a Lot") from his days in the band. A classy move by all parties, considering the past acrimony.
To sum up: Faith No More have still got it, and then some. See them if you can.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Book Review: The Alchemist
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
There are two ways to look at The Alchemist: as a work of literature and as a moral fable. Unfortunately, and despite its astonishing popularity, it doesn't score well on either count.
I won't bore you with the plot details, but in a nutshell: Santiago the Spanish shepherd boy leaves his known life behind to search for his "Personal Legend" in the deserts of north Africa. En route he encounters various characters, such as the titular Alchemist, who help him on his way, if a rambling series of cliches masquerading as philosophical wisdom can be considered helpful.
As a work of literature, it's trite, redundant and its dramatic elements are very weak. Instead of a protagonist who must grow, change, learn or overcome obstacles to achieve a goal we have one who knows, or is given, the answer to every dilemma as soon as it's posed, and who is basically led by the nose directly to his target by no less an authority than God himself, thinly disguised as "the Universe". No dramatic tension is allowed to linger for more than half a page before being forcibly resolved.
The Alchemist has been compared to The Little Prince. But whereas the latter's simplicity is charming, the former's is merely infantilizing. In Saint-Exupéry's incomparably superior novella the lessons are hard-earned. In The Alchemist, they are spoon-fed to the characters and to the reader in the manner of a church sermon, using mystical psychobabble terms like "The Soul of the World", "Master Work", and of course "Personal Legend".
This patronizingly religious aspect of The Alchemist illustrates its even more comprehensive failure, that as a moral fable. The Little Prince draws its broadly-sketched caricatures with charm and empathy: we are supposed to learn from the king, the lamplighter and so on, but we are not supposed to despise them. The Alchemist, however, can scarcely contain its disdain for those who don't drop everything to follow their so-called Personal Legend.
As an example, I give you this insidious passage:
The old man pointed to a baker standing in his shop window at one corner of the plaza. "When he was a child, that man wanted to travel, too. But he decided first to buy his bakery and put some money aside. When he's an old man, he's going to spend a month in Africa. He never realized that people are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of."
"He should have decided to become a shepherd," the boy said.
"Well, he thought about that," the old man said. "But bakers are more important people than shepherds. Bakers have homes, while shepherds sleep out in the open. Parents would rather see their children marry bakers than shepherds." "In the long run, what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own Personal Legends."
Get it? A hardworking man who puts bread on people's plates and supports his own family with dignity, is now worthy of nothing but pity and disdain because he didn't follow a childhood dream.
And then there's this brazen claim:
"Everyone believes the world's greatest lie..." says the mysterious old man.
"What is the world's greatest lie?" the little boy asks.
The old man replies, "It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie."
Coelho fails to acknowledge that this pursuit of "Personal Legend" is a plaything of the privileged few. How does a 14 year old boy living hand-to-mouth in an Indonesian sweatshop follow his dream? How does he even articulate one? In what way can a rape survivor in a Darfur refugee camp, follow her "Personal Legend"? Her "Legend" is not to travel or find treasure. It is to have her dead family back. It's to undo her terrible violation. It is, in short, tragic and impossible.
The lives of most of humanity, are to a great degree controlled by fate. Their life is a struggle to survive. The real universe does not conspire to help people achieve their legend. Rather, it throws insurmountable obstacles across their paths. Yet Coelho is telling every downtrodden person in the world that their plight is due to their own spiritual failure, and that to see the world as it is, without the rose-tinted spectacles of empty truisms, is "the world's greatest lie". The Alchemist sneers with the certainty of a true believer at those whose priorities are hardscrabble rather than mystical. It is the well-known condescension of the religious absolutist to the unbeliever: I am right, and you are unworthy.
There is much to criticize, also, in The Alchemist's blatant sexism, where men are supposed to drop everything in search of their dreams, while abandoned women are supposed to feel privileged to pine for such men. And if you're expecting the treasure that the shepherd boy eventually finds to be metaphorical, prepare for disappointment. Turns out, it was all about money.
In the end, The Alchemist is morally deficient nearly to the point of outright evil. Stripped of the mystical mumbo jumbo, The Alchemist is almost Ayn Randian in the selfishness of its absolute commandment: follow your own personal destiny, whatever it is, whatever the cost to you or to others. Although, in a way, it's actually more slavish than selfish. At least in Ayn Rand's world, you master your destiny. In Coelho's world of religious prostration, your destiny masters you.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Two-Way Street
A couple of weeks ago I attended the first J Street conference in Washington DC. Arriving at the hotel, I figured I'd see right-wing protesters, but there was only one sad eccentric wearing a yarmulka and a swastika. The organizers expected 1000 attendees, but 1500 showed up, leading to conference rooms bursting at the seams, a raucous atmosphere and a lot of fun. Especially at the evening reception. Few things are more entertaining that watching Jewish political dorks trying to get their groove on the dance floor.
The plenary sessions included a keynote speech by Gen. Jim Jones, President Obama's National Security Adviser, a panel with members of Congress of both parties and another with several senior current and former Israeli politicians. Smaller breakout sessions touched on such topics as the Geneva accords, US interests in the region, the settlements, NGOs in Israel/Palestine, civil society in Israel, human rights in the occupied territories, Palestinian perspectives on the peace process, and, most significantly, what it means to be pro-Israel.
Perhaps the most fascinating session was an eloquent townhall debate between J Street founder Jeremy Ben-Ami and Rabbi Eric Yoffie, President of the Union for Reform Judaism. Yoffie, a mainstream yet reliably liberal voice, defended Israel's actions in the Gaza war, while asserting his support for the two-state solution and the need for Israel to provide full civil and human rights to all those who live within its borders. He also made a questionable distinction between "ideological" settlements east of the security wall and the settlement blocs west of the wall, the so-called "suburbs of Jerusalem". Ben-Ami responded by pointing out their many areas of policy agreement, while calling for a full settlement freeze and criticizing Israel's assault on Gaza as unwise, excessive and disproportionate to the threat being countered. Personally, I agree with Ben-Ami. Indeed, it seems to me that the knee-jerk defenses of Israel's actions in Gaza often stem more from cognitive dissonance than from genuine justification. Others may feel differently. But let's agree at least that neither position is beyond the pale.
The consensus at the conference, even among the critics of J Street who were invited to speak, was that any robust pro-Israel stance must support the two tenets of Zionism: that Israel must be a Jewish state, and a democratic state. And all agreed that this requires a two-state solution. Indeed, if you accept those premises then you'd be giving the rules of logic a run for their money by suggesting any other policy. And once you accept the two-state solution, its parameters are fairly clear: E.g., no settlements on the one hand, and no right of return on the other. J Street diverges from its critics primarily over the Gaza war and how to deal with Iran's nuclear ambitions, but even on these issues J Street's positions are nuanced and reasoned, even if you happen to disagree with them.
There are also differing points of view on J Street's position that the US must play a robust role in the peace process, with the traditional AIPAC stance being that the US role should be limited to supporting Israeli positions. Again, I agree with J Street on this one. Let's not forget that engaged US administrations helped bring about the peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan, while an Israeli government left to its own devices, with passive American support, could do no better than the disastrous Gaza disengagement. Furthermore, supporters of J Street, and, for that matter, AIPAC, are American citizens first and foremost. What kind of politics is it to suggest to your own government that their policy in a region should be dictated exclusively by the government of another country, albeit a close ally? In the end, the US must act in its own interests in the Middle East.
It emerges, therefore, that, with a few quibbles, the policy positions J Street endorses are within the boundaries of mainstream Israeli, and American, politics. The two-state solution is the official policy of the governments of the US, the Palestinians and Israel. It is widely accepted in Israel from Likud leftwards, is supported by a large majority of US Jews and is essentially endorsed by AIPAC. Other positions may be more controversial, but are still within the confines of the "Zionist" political discourse in Israel. Israeli attendees at the conference included Ami Ayalon, Amir Peretz, Meir Shitreet, and other MKs from Kadima, Labor and Meretz. Congratulatory letters were sent by opposition leader Tzipi Livni and President Shimon Peres. None of these people could reasonably be accused of not being pro-Israel.
Notably absent from the conference, however, was Israel's ambassador to the US, or any other Israeli government representative. While members of the coalition Labour party spoke at the conference, the official stance of the Israeli government was one of disdain, alleging that some of J Street's position endanger Israel. Of course there's no need to take this overheated rhetoric too seriously. Accusing anyone you disagree with of destroying the country is par for the course in Israeli politics. the inflammatory rhetoric about J Street not being pro-Israel stems more from the threat J Street presents to entrenched interests than to any rational analysis of the issues.
What should be considered seriously, though, is the foolishness of the Israeli government's refusal to engage with its friendly critics. J Street is here to stay, and here's why. The American Jewish community is overwhelmingly liberal. They voted for President Obama in numbers exceeded only by those in the African-American community. And younger Americans also voted for Obama by large margins. This overwhelming support for liberal politics, while primarily domestically oriented, does influence how people think about the Middle East.
Furthermore, younger American Jews don't have the same sort of relationship with Israel that their parents do. The older generation sees Israel in emotional, almost mystical terms, and they back their allegiance up with political clout and donations. Many see Israel as a second nationality, and they take criticism of Israel very personally. Not because they would necessarily disagree with the criticism if they looked at it dispassionately, but because, as one member of Congress put it, "Israel is put upon by everyone, so at least we should always defend it".
Younger, politically active American Jews tend to see Israel very differently. They like Israel, and feel an emotional connection, especially those who've been on Birthright trips, but their identity as Jews is far less tied into Israel than that of their parents. The primary Jewish orientation, if any, of activists of the younger generation is not Israel but Tikkun Olam. Across the country, young Jews are synthesizing their Jewish identity and progressive politics into social and political activism. They increasingly view unquestioning support for Israel as incompatible with their values, and their national identity is overwhelmingly American. As such, they support active US engagement in the peace process for the simple reason that it is in America's interest. And they form their opinions on Israel not according to what Israeli government propaganda tells them but according to their own view of events and their own moral compass. These opinions may or may not concur with specific policies that J Street currently holds. That's not really the point. J Street represents a larger trend, of a community taking an active role in forming its political identity.
Extrapolate these trends 20-30 years into the future and you get a Jewish community that wants a connection with Israel, but only if that connection is a two-way street. If Israel says, in effect, "we want your political support, and your donations, but we're not interested in your opinions", people will tune out. The only way to keep the next generation engaged with Israel, Birthright trips notwithstanding, is for Israel to listen to them. Therefore bickering over this or that J Street policy is beside the point. Long term, the real choice will not be J Street vs. AIPAC, but J Street vs. nothing.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Nostalgia Audio of the Day: "Kodachrome" by Paul Simon
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Book Review: The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
My review
rating: 5 of 5 stars
The Unconsoled is an astonishing, compelling, yet frustrating masterpiece. One that the reader will continue to think about long after putting down the final chapter.
In it, Ishiguro melds the self-important, obsessive yet ultimately impotent first-person narrative of several of his novels, notably The Remains of the Day, with a high dose of the surrealism only hinted at in his later novel When We Were Orphans, to create a highly readable yet sometimes infuriating book.
Mr. Ryder, a world-famous pianist, arrives in an anonymous Central European town. The townspeople grovel over his celebrity, constantly referring to the mysterious cultural crisis he is there to solve. Ryder is ever eager to please the locals, yet he has little grasp of why he's visiting their town and shows no ability to control his own destiny.
Events move beyond Ryder's control as he is dragged through a serious of maddening diversions. Ryder, and the rest of the townspeople, accept their dream-like, surreal world as completely normal: a door in a cafe far out in the woods opens back into the center of town, miles away; A two-floor elevator ride accommodates a ten minute conversation with a hotel porter; Ryder is able to perceive events and conversations that he has never witnessed.
Significantly, Ryder shows no surprise that people and objects from his childhood in England keep appearing, or that a woman he's just met acts as if she's his wife, stirring up maddeningly vague intuitions of a past and present relationship that he nonetheless goes along with.
Like in an anxious dream, every attempt to complete one errand creates a new diversion that takes Ryder further away from his goal. At first he takes these frustrations in his stride, while each new twist provides tantalizing hints about his past and his troubled childhood and early life. Yet tension increases as Ryder's performance nears, his ultimate purpose still unclear to him, although apparently not to the inscrutable townsfolk.
Ryder blunders through the town as an unreliable narrator, knowing less about his reality than the characters he interacts with, yet willing to go along with their explanations and excuses, incorporating them into his experiences and recycling them as his own. As in his other novels, Ishiguro seems here to be discussing how memories of the past, fragmented and unreliable as they may be, inform the present and give it meaning.
A common theme binding all Ryder's experiences and memories seems to be the flawed nature of human relationships, particularly those of parents and children. All the characters he interacts with have somehow harmed or disappointed their parents, their friends, their partners or their children. All are chasing around for some way to right the past, to find consolation in reconciliation, to regain their pride. All require Ryder's help to put their relationships right, much as the town itself needs him to help fix the murky crisis and return the city to its golden days of cultural ascendancy.
All these other characters' conflicts seem to mirror aspects of Ryder himself. The book keeps returning to the nature of his relationship with his own parents, yet this relationship is never explained, only hinted at. The final chapters of the book are a heartbreaking deflation of Ryder's own hopes regarding his parents and a yearning for the simple need for meaningful human contact, while remaining as cryptic as ever.
One way to examine familiar things in a new way is to change your viewpoint. Another, more fragile way, is to alter the background against which you examine them. Do so too prominently and you end up in the realms of science fiction. Do so subtly and you get a work as nuanced, strange yet moving as The Unconsoled. The book pits familiar human emotions and foibles against a world uncannily similar to ours, yet also eerie and disturbing. It is precisely this unusual backdrop that allows us to experience those emotions, fascinatingly, in a new way.
The Unconsoled challenges the reader to find a frame of reference against which to inspect it. At first, our sense of realism holds out hope that future chapters will explain away the surrealism through some mundane device. But Ishiguro is too skilled to allow such a clumsy resolution. If it's a dream, then there is no waking. If it's an allegory, then there is no moral. The novel ends without a big reveal. And while accepting the surrealism of its world, without being able to rectify it against the linearity of ours, is infuriating, what meaning is to be found in this strange and beautiful story we must find ourselves.
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Gmail's New Tabbed Inbox: An Automated Cure For Email Overload
The revised Gmail helps users manage a new breed of spam: the endless stream of semi-relevant deals, newsletters, and social media updates that pour into our inboxes every day.
As developers continue to give us smart new tools for managing our unruly inboxes, Google has turned its attention to the root of our email woes. The problem? We get way too much of it. Google's solution, or at least the latest version of it? Tabs.
But the new system isn't just about keeping your inbox organized. It's a recognition of the simple fact that all emails aren't created equal—and, more important, an admission that some might not be worthy of your inbox in the first place.
The new inbox, which will roll out to users in coming weeks on both the desktop and Gmail mobile apps, puts a row of big, chunky tabs atop the standard list of messages. There are five in all. First is the "primary" tab, which is essentially your main inbox. There's "social," which includes all things related to services like Google+, Facebook, and Twitter; "promotions," where email blasts from daily deals sites get shuffled; "updates" for receipts, bills, and other unglamorous but important digital documents; and "forums" for groups, discussions, message board and the like.
Google touts that the new inbox "puts you back in control using simple, easy organization." But the tabs don't really involve much organization on the user's side at all. With tabs enabled, the corresponding emails are routed automatically. When you get a message from Groupon, say, it automatically gets deposited in your "deals" tab, never once passing through your inbox proper.
You can drag and drop messages between tabs, sure, and you can decide which ones you want to use. But by and large, the tabs are an automated, fixed affair. You can't customize them with your own parameters, as you would with a label. Nor do they just serve as shortcuts to subsets of messages, like labels do. The tabs are wholly separate from your inbox—they're specialized repositories that exist independent from the standard list of emails you revisit throughout the day.
In that way, the update is a fairly radical one, at least in terms of how we think about our inboxes. Until now, no matter what system you used for sorting emails, the inbox could be counted on as the one place where you could find them all. All emails were equal in that sense. The tabbed inbox does away with that. But it makes sense. All emails aren't equal.
Back when Gmail first was introduced in 2004, spam was the scourge of the inbox. Thankfully it was a fairly binary problem—an email is either spam or it isn't—and thus a straightforward one to solve. Over the years, with complex filters and sophisticated algorithms, Google has done a remarkably good job of getting it under control.
Today, though, our inboxes are choked with a different sort of spam. These aren't scams and supplement ads but messages we might actually want to read at some point—things like newsletters, catalogs, daily offers, and social media status updates. They don't require our immediate attention, but they may be of value to us. This isn't spam, exactly. In many cases, we asked to receive it. And it's not entirely useless stuff, either—among those dozen unread Living Social emails, there's a chance that there might be a really good one. Which is precisely why we leave the things sitting there, unread, to be processed later.
Still, these messages aren't as important as emails from friends, family, coworkers, and other actual people. Worse yet, they make a mess of our inboxes, crowding out more time-sensitive messages that might require action on our parts. What this subclass of messages is, really, is clutter. It's the stuff sitting on your desk taking up space—the stuff you don't really have a place to store but doesn't yet belong in the trashcan either. With tabs, Gmail automatically grabs all that stuff before it has the chance to clutter up your real inbox and neatly tucks it away in so many digital drawers.
The main, crucial consequence of this is a more relevant inbox, in addition to a far more accurate count of how many unread messages you have at a given moment. When you're thinking about getting your inbox under control, seeing that you have 782 unread messages to sort through can be a huge psychological hurdle. But when 500 of those have been automatically distributed to their respective tabs—turns out 300 of them were daily new Twitter follower alerts!—you're left with a much more manageable situation.
To savvy users of existing Gmail features—things like filters, labels, and stars, as well as the priority inbox—the new tabs system might seem redundant, if not actively disruptive to whatever system you've already got going. But the tabs mark a fairly significant shift in Gmail's approach to inbox management. Namely, that it's easier to figure out what's not important to an email user than to pinpoint what is.
The idea behind the "starred" message was to let Gmail users manually flag the messages that required their attention. The "important" message filter automated the process. With tabs, Google's tackling the problem from the opposite end. It's not looking for what's important and setting it aside; it's looking for what it knows isn't important—all the junky inbox jetsam we leave unread for later, but never return to—and setting it aside for us.
The way tabs are deployed, though—as separate inboxes instead of subcategories of the same big one—has some powerful implications. Stars let us mark important emails amidst a sea of unimportant ones. Tabs comes with the implicit suggestion that maybe we shouldn't be thinking of those unimportant emails as emails at all. As John Herrman points out over at BuzzFeed, in reality, these types of updates are more akin to a feed than anything resembling two-way correspondence.
Taking a step back, though, you can also see the new inbox simply as a reflection of how Google's changing more broadly as a company. When Gmail first came out, it gave users unlimited storage space and an all-powerful search bar for sifting through it all. The promise was that you never had to delete an email again. Gmail was like your own personal Google. Total knowledge, total recall.
These days, Google is much less focused on the scope, breadth, and size of search. It's more concerned with making search relevant, automatic, and predictive. The tab model is, in a sense, just a shrewder attempt at bringing that type of automated relevance to the inbox. Figuring out what emails a given user wants to see can be tricky. Figuring out what ones we don't need to be looking at all the time is considerably easier.
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Without being able to create your own tabs makes this feature is pretty well useless. When I got it recently I thought it was a good idea right until I saw the configuration options. Each tab on or off.
I honestly think there is a group of of people at Google sitting around a table laughing their asses off. This has to be some sort of joke.
The issue isn't Google's (or anyone's) tech prowess to provide tech solutions to tech problems, it's that they forgot to mention these "improvements" to their users, before implementation and forgetting to allow users any way to opt out. Usually gmail will ask "Maybe Later".. not anymore. Can anyone think of any other tech companies in the past who took the "shoot first, asked questions later" model?
If you're interested go to Google Product Forums/Gmail/How to remove Labels I never created in gmail.. How did this happen?
I think it would be more effective if there was still a tab that had everything in it, along with the 4 other categories. Let people choose how they want to utilize their Gmail.
I get over 3500 emails per month in my gmail account. I belong to Linkedin, Google+, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr. To shorten a long story, it isn't going to work or as we say in Chicago, "It ain't going on here."
I currently use 2 email addresses, one is for the sole purpose of dealing with newsletters, etc. I'll have to see how effective this is for me to possibly close one of my emails down.
Problem is that filters are not static; what's important to you changes over time. Maintaining email filters or routing rules is also a pain. How many of us actually spend the time to update them? I have created filters for Twitter and email, but never updated them. They have become stale over time. It just seems to take less time to do mass deletes each day than deal with the managing rules. This will only become easy once there is some automated contextual way to dynamically manage rules and filters.
I like it. My Gmail account for work and personal use so this would really help a lot. :)
Of course nobody knows that Outlook.com has this feature already.
Aol included this feature in its Alto mail service. Granted nobody is using Alto, but not sure if "the update is a fairly radical one"
I think you're confusing the word 'radical' with the word 'original'.

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Clementine Lasar
Clementine Lasar, affectionately referred to as "Tinie," made her 1871 New York debut in a concert at Association Hall. Throughout the 1870s Lasar performed frequently at the New York Academy of Music and Chickering Hall. In 1880 the soprano married and began to use the name Lasar-Studwell. Holding a flower, Lasar poses imperiously in a magnificent gown and enormous millinery creation, at the Rockwood studio in New York.
- Date:
- 1875 circa 5 years
- Original Format:
- Carte de Visite
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- Photographer:
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Episode 5 No Time Left does indeed feel like there's impending doom up ahead. Since the happenings of the last episode, a major plot turner has left Lee with very limited time to save Clementine from the clutches of her captor.
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Honestly, I don't think you can attribute the theoretical pending loss to Apple iPad demand. If HP posts a big loss, it will be due to two issues: 1. The overall world economy. 2. HP's products.
Sales. Consumer PC sales are down across the board due to the fact that people have no money to spend. Sales to companies are way down (HP's biggest source of income) because companies are slashing budgets due to the economy. Companies & individuals that do have money, spend it on Apple products. All the other people (the lowest common denominator) who the PC industry has historically targeted, don't have any money. And then the kinds of people who can't bring themselves to buy high quality products when times are good, are certainly not going to be buying anything now.
Products. HP needs to rethink their entire product line(s). Simplify. Take advantage of economies of scale. For example, there are literally dozens of preconfigured DL-3xx servers offered, and a near infinite number of customizations. WHY?!? HP needs to shrink that down to just TWO (a 1U and a 2U). Preconfigure nothing. Start with the chassis+motherboard, and then customize it all online... Why do you need a dozen CPU choices? Why do you need ~50 different choices of RAM? Why do you need to choose between 8 different power supplies? Answer: You don't.
For the CPU(s) have a choice of 3 - one low end, one mid-performance/efficiency, and one high end. Choose your CPU type, then choose quantity (1-4). For RAM, have a choice of maybe 3 types, but with smart selection so that you can't pair the wrong type of RAM with the CPU choice. Choose your RAM type (registered, non), then choose quantity (8-192GB). Eliminate the RAID choice entirely - make the best RAID product a standard feature on all systems, it's on the logic board now anyway. For power supplies, 2 choices (smart selection depending on power consumption of CPUs, RAM, etc).
Don't get me started on HP laptops. Our company uses them. They are not always reliable. And they're big, thick, and ugly. Try to look one up on HP.com... There are so many models, it's impossible to keep track of what's already out there, let alone what new models one should choose from. Simplify! HP needs to cut down all the models to just FOUR - one each of 11, 13, 15, & 17". Customize online. Might as well keep the design aesthetic that looks like a MacBook, but make them black anodized aluminum to keep the corporate suits happy and so they don't look quite so much like a direct rip-off of Apple's designs.
HP has the same problem with too many models of desktop PCs... And printers... And...


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Shuttle previews in-car PC
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Small form factor PC designer Shuttle has just revealed the CarPC. Unlike its breadbox-sized desktops, the company's new chassis is specifically geared towards installations inside the often hot and narrow confines of cars. Only one small fan actively radiates heat; cooling fins around the majority of the case keep it cool under a seat or in the trunk. Power is also addressed with an intelligent system that runs the PC from the car's battery and safely turns off the system when the vehicle engine shuts down.
The base system will use a 1.83GHz Core Duo with Intel's dedicated graphics, DVI output, and 7.1-channel audio. Pricing and formal availability haven't been discussed. [via TweakTown]


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Washington - Secretary of State John Kerry has agreed to testify before the House Oversight Committee on its investigation into the 2012 attack on the US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, according to a State Department letter obtained by Reuters.
Kerry was subpoenaed to testify on May 29, but the letter said prior commitments would prevent his appearance. Kerry offered two other dates - June 12 or June 20 - for his testimony, and asked the committee to withdraw its subpoena, the letter said.
If Kerry testifies before the House of Representatives Oversight Committee, the letter said, it should remove any need for the secretary to appear before a House Select Committee that was formed recently to look into the Benghazi incident.
Four Americans, including US Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were killed in the attacks.
House Republicans have launched multiple investigations into the Obama administration's handling of embassy security in the run-up to the attack and the steps it took in the aftermath.
Democrats have accused Republicans of creating the panel for political purposes, including keeping the spotlight on Hillary Clinton, Obama's secretary of state at the time of the Benghazi attack. Clinton, a Democrat, is weighing a 2016 run for president.
Republican House Speaker John Boehner has insisted that the special committee will conduct a "serious, fact-based inquiry."
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Former gang member: "There's nothing you can do to change what you've done"
"I was dealing drugs - crack - before I was a teenager," says Robert Rean, reflecting on how he got to where he is.
"I was a bad a man. Lots of people on the street knew who I was, what I was capable of and to be afraid of me."
Rean, who has been out of jail for almost a year, says that is no longer the case.
"People still know me - especially the cops and people from ATF and the DEA and stuff," he says. "And the people on the street still know me. But I'm no longer that person. Can't afford to be.
"The new laws took care of that. I'm a career defendant. If I ever go back to jail, it would be for a long, long time. That's why it's not going to happen. I am on the straight and narrow."
It's been a long journey for Rean from the small town in Minnesota that his mother fled after being abused by her husband to a neighborhood by Mt. Tabor where he is a single dad trying to raise kids while going back to school.
"We arrived in pre-gentrified Northeast Portland and my mom found love with someone from that you would say was from the wrong side of the tracks," he says. "And that's how I was raised - a ward of the courts and a ward of the streets."
Rean says he quickly realized to survive on the streets there were rules he would have to follow that included carrying a weapon, dealing drugs and "if someone hurts you, you hurt them. It's how I was brought up.
"I'm not proud of everything I did but the fact is that everything I have been through has helped make me who I am today. The people who looked out for me, I look out for them. They will always be my family."
Over the summer, Rean says that he was the passenger in a car that was stopped by police. The officers recognized him.
"They had all sorts of questions and I was straight with them," he says. "I told them I am who I am but I am retired from that stuff now."
A law enforcement official was able to confirm Rean's version of events and added that he hoped it's true because Rean would be a good role model for people looking to get out of the gang life.
Rean says he understands that.
"Since I got out, I haven't had so much as a parking ticket," he says. "I'm going to school to study computer sciences, computer programming, I'm raising my kids. My life is about cooking, cleaning and computers."
Rean says the turnaround for him came during his most recent stint in jail - five years for unlawful possession of a weapon.
"A lot of people, they go to jail and see it as a punishment but don't learn anything from the experience," he says. "I chose a different path. I saw my stint as an opportunity."
He says he took correspondence classes, spent as much time with books as possible.
"I was determined to be able to come out and have a different life ahead of me," he says. "I even timed my financial aid package so I would be ready to go to school when I got out.
"More people should look at that time as a reward, something to be taken advantage of, and things might start getting better."
It's a timely message.
As of October 15, there had been 79 gang-related shootings in Portland this year. And while that is down from the 94 shootings through the same period last year, law enforcement officials are fairly sure the number should start rising.
In the last week, there have been two separate shootings with two victims in each.
Both were gang-related.
Rean says while he understands how easy it is too fall into that life, people need to understand there are consequences that they can't even imagine.
"Day to day stuff that you don't even dream about when you're selling crack, carrying a gun, that stuff eventually comes real and there's nothing you can do to change what you've done," he says.
"I'm working real hard to be a good father. I email with the teachers every day. But I would also love to volunteer at the school but because of what I've done previously, that can't happen."
Rean says he tries to make up for what he can't do by excelling at what he can, particularly teaching his kids not to make his mistakes.
"Crime does not pay," he says. "Oh, sure, it will seem that it does. And you might make $100,000 in a year selling drugs. But it will go away before you know it. And you will end up getting out of jail years later with nothing.
"You're better off flipping burgers than selling drugs. You're pretty much better doing anything."


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Print pattern on card stock. Cut out. Glue blue stars randomly to cover the top half of the heart. Glue about eight small white stars randomly on the blue stars. Glue red and white stars in stripes to cover the bottom half of the heart.
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I am looking to do a slight variation on the below question and code.
- I have a folder full of "Request Forms" in Excel from individual customers which will grow in number.
- I have a request log, where the purpose is to consolidate all the request forms onto a single sheet.
- I want to use some vba code to loop through the all the files in the folder (regardless if the file count changes) and pull out a single row of data from each (say a1:a20) and use the file title as the first column.
- I will also be adding additional new columns to the log for each of the entries so I want to prevent the mismatch of the data being pulled in and the new columns in the case where someone changes a file name etc.
Also this has to be compatible with Excel 2003
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Importing data from many excel workbooks and sheets into a single workbook/table
Sub ImportWorkbooks(destination as workbook)
Dim objFSO As Object
Dim objFolder As Object
Dim objFile As Object
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Get the folder object associated with the directory
Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder("C:\MyFolder")
'Loop through the Files collection and import each workbook
For Each objFile In objFolder.Files
Dim source As Workbook
Set source = Application.Workbooks.Open(objFile.Path, ReadOnly:=True)
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Set objFolder = Nothing
Set objFile = Nothing
Set objFSO = Nothing
End Sub
Sub ImportWorkbook(source As Workbook, destination as Workbook)
'Import each worksheet
For Each sheet In source.Sheets
ImportWorksheet sheet, destination
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End Sub
Sub ImportWorksheet(sheet As Worksheet, destination as Workbook)
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The Last Ship is one of those shows that just sucks you in and you can't stop watching. I wish they had the Netflix model because I want to see them all!
Starring Eric Dane, Rhona Mitra, Adam Baldwin, Charles Parnell and Travis Van Winkle, the new TNT drama is the story of what happens when a global pandemic wipes out eighty percent of the planet's population and the crew of a lone naval destroyer must find a way to pull humanity from the brink of extinction.
Parnell, who plays Jeter, and Executive Producer Steven Kane were at Comic-Con and I sat with them at one of their roundtables to talk about the show.
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Local Sports 2/25/14
Regional tournament play continues tonight around the area in boys high school basketball. At Abingdon, the host A-Town Tornados will meet Bushnell-Prairie City in the first of two games tonight. That will be followed by the ROWVA Tigers against the Galva Wildcats. There will also be two games played in Toulon, where North Fulton plays Illini Bluffs in the opener, followed by the Williamsfield Bombers against Princeville. One game is scheduled at the class 2A Macomb Regional, where top-seed Monmouth-Roseville meets Farmington.
Last night, Knoxville topped West Central 68-45, as Tyler Houston and Noah Hummel combined to score 51 points and grab 20 rebounds for the Blue Bullets. They'll play Macomb tomorrow night on the Bombers home floor.
Ridgewood also won last night at Abingdon, as the Spartans defeated West Prairie 48-39. Sam Althaus had 20 points for Ridgewood, which will play top-seed Wethersfield tomorrow night.
The Lincoln Trail Conference has announced it's all-conference girls basketball players for this season. The first-team list includes Jasmine Jefko of Ridgewood and Mikalyn Bent of ROWVA. Second-team honors were earned by Morgan Green of Ridgewood. And honorable mentions went to Emma Johnson of ROWVA, Katie Miller of Ridgewood, and Callie Brunswig of United. Conference champion and final-four qualifier Annawan had three first-team and three second-team selections.
Both Carl Sandburg College basketball teams will start Region 4 Tournament play on Thursday. The Chargers women will host Elgin at 6pm, while the CSC men will travel to Lake County for a 7:15 game.


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"PENSELWOOD, (or Penscellwood), a parish in the hundred of Norton-Ferris, county Somerset, 4 miles N.E. of Wincanton, its post town, and 7 S.E. of the Bruton railway station. The village, which is of small extent, is situated on the river Stour, and on the London and Exeter road. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in agriculture; but some in a flax-mill, and others in the sand and green-stone quarries in the neighbourhood. At a short distance from the village, on the site of an ancient Danish camp, is a tower 120 feet in height, erected by an ancestor of Sir H. A. Hoare, Bart., to commemorate the celebrated visit of Alfred the Great in the dress of a minstrel to the tent of Guthrum, whom he afterwards defeated." From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) Transcribed by Colin Hinson © 2003
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How Money Are You: Trip to the Grocery Store, Safeway
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My trip to Safeway in San Francisco this weekend showed me that even grocery stores get in on classic Labor Day sales. I got some great deals on everything from cleaning products to snacks, but some items haven't been on sale all Summer and the holiday was no exception.
Let's see if you can guess the prices for the items I purchased this weekend. How money are you?
How Money Are You: Trip to the Grocery Store, Safeway
I scored a box (8 packets) of Quaker Oatmeal on sale for $2.49. Can you guess its original price?
A pint of fat-free milk cost $1.00. What was its original price?
Which of these items retails for less than $4.50?
A jar of Classico pasta sauce cost me $2.99. How much was it originally?
Which of these items retails for the most money?
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cmd0610 7 years
I did so bad! But I did know about the cost of Special K- it's a super expensive cereal but so yummy and good for you!
thelorax 7 years
Hmm, I didn't do very well...and Safeway is my usual store, too! They've raised a lot of their prices lately, motivating me to check sales at both Safeway and BelAir (which are conveniently across the street from each other) and shop at both in one trip.
chatondeneige 7 years
Wow. Items in my shitty small town in Arizona are as much or more expensive than they are in San Francisco. That's... amazing. At least milk was on sale this week. I got a gallon for $1.88, and it doesn't expire for two and a half weeks. I'm pretty excited about that. I usually buy quarts, but since a quart was $1.29, and a gallon was $1.88, I couldn't pass it up.
facin8me 7 years
The Safeway owned store by my house is the biggest dump. I never shop there. The employees are completely disgruntled and they are waaaay overpriced.
ilanac13 7 years
wow - i'm so bad at knowing how much things cost. i've been buying generic fo so long that it shows!
TsuKata 7 years
I don't know. I don't think it's that the stuff costs that much more. I think the odder thing is that the correct quiz answer is the retail price, which I think very few of us end up paying. It often seems to me that the retail price is jacked up to make the sale price seem like that much more of a discount. For example, the retail price of a 12-pack of Diet Coke with Lime at my local Dominick's (Safeway) is $5.69, yet I've never paid more than $3 for it, and I buy at least a couple 12-packs a week. (Often, they do a buy 2 at retail get 3 free or similar, which is the only reason I know the retail price for that item so well!) The retail price for cereals range from $5 to $8, but I just aim for the brands that are "on sale" for $2.50 or less...and there's always one of the ones I like that is in that price range.
Smart-Living 7 years
jspeed- The quizzes are just for fun, and for those living outside the area to get an idea of how prices vary from place to place. Also, for people who do live in the area, it can be a reality check to see if they've been paying attention to grocery prices.
jspeed 7 years
Food in San Fran is so much more expensive than in NC! These quizzes are really hard for us who don't live in San Fran/NYC. It's amazing how much web content in general is created in those two places. I guess they are our "cultural capitals" now!
Lovely_1 7 years
this is so unfair because food in the States in SOOOOO MUCH CHEAPER then in Canada!!!
bellaressa 7 years
2 out of 5. Sad. Of course I never been to the store in question. Interesting and shocking answers.
Catherinette 7 years
Good lord. It's embarrassing that I got every single response wrong. Wow, and all this time I thought I knew what I was doing.


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R 1200 GS / R NineT / S 1000 XR, $1,400
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While six months of data may not mean that much in the long run, the numbers run counter to the expectations of many business groups that oppose raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10. This winter, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that raising the minimum wage could cost the economy about 500,000 jobs, or 0.3 percent of the workforce, by 2016.
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When you're looking for a dog to fit into your country life, there are few other topics as liable to get you into a fistfight. People get very sensitive about their dog, its breed, or its characteristicsmore so, even, than they do about their own kids. After all, your kids were just bornwith the dog, you made a choice. The kind of dog you have says a lot about who you are.
All right. With the sensitive part out of the way, we can get down to business.
What kind of dog is the best for a country home? As with nearly every other rural subject, it depends...in this case, on five crucial factors: work or pet? size and coat? temperament? kids? costs and benefits? We'll look at these one at a time.
Contrary to popular opinion, the first decision about a country dog shouldn't be "what breed?" It should be what the dog's purpose will be. Either the dog will be a buddy and family pet, or it will be a working partner. Here's the difference: a pet dog fulfills your feelings and usually lives in the house. A working dog performs a valuable function and has his own house or kennel outside. A working dog can also be a pet...but a pet might have a hard time doing useful work.
Working breeds have been bred for generations to perform a particular task. They don't need much encouragement or training. They do their work because they love it, and because every fiber of their being requires them to do it. Typical working dog breeds include Great Pyrenees (large livestock guardian), Border collies and blue heelers (medium sized herding dogs), Labrador retrievers (large game-retrieving dogs), or foxhounds (hunting dogs). These kinds of dogs would be expected to perform specific tasks, either around the clock like the guardians, or on-demand like the Border collies and hounds.
But in a backwoods setting, other "working" dogs might also fit the bill. What function do you wish the dog to accomplish? Pulling a cart loaded
with firewood (St. Bernard or Newfoundland), or pulling a sled in cold weather (husky or Samoyed), or aggressively barking at strangers (German shepherd or rottweiler), or friendly greeting of strangers (golden retriever), or watching the kids (collie), or even keeping the mice down in the barn (terriers)? There are breeds for every task.
Pet dogs, to my mind anyway, are animals whose basic skill is to pal up with people. Pets can also be adequate "bark at strangers" dogs, but since their primary orientation is to "be friends" with humans, they're not as serious at this as are more aggressive guardian dogs.
A dog is principally a pet when its "occupation" is to hang around, play with the kids, lay near the fireplace, take walks, or be a companion. Pets can be trained to perform some duties such as herding or guarding, but their heart won't be in it. A pet will do what you ask because it wants to please you, not because it wants to or has a natural inclination to do it. Pets won't be able to do any task as well as a dog that has been bred for generations for a particular job.
Breeds that make good pets include: pugs, Yorkshire terriers, cocker spaniels, basset hounds, Lhasas, poodles, and shelties. Pets tend to be small-to-medium sized and really require daily contact, petting, and company.
Now, after determining the dog's potential job...
Once you've narrowed down your dog choices to pet or worker, you'll want to consider the animal's full-grown size, which means looking at some factors in your surroundings, as well as the dog's future "job." If the dog will be around your children, you'll probably find a medium-sized dog ideal, big enough to tolerate
Along with size, the length and composition of the dog's coat needs to be considered. Dogs with beautiful thick, long coats tolerate the cold very well but really suffer in the heat; they may need to be trimmed if they seem to be overhot. On the other hand, very short-coated dogs can't take ice, snow, or extreme winds, but they cool off quickly in hot weather. If you expect to work a long-coated dog during the summer, make sure it does get that trimming, but be alert to the fact that it simply may not be able to stand the heat very well, trimmed or not. A short-coated dog will need extra bedding and wind protection in its doghouse during the winter months.
Size and coat considerations lead naturally into...
By this I mean three factors: aggressiveness, energy level, and tolerance of stress. Aggressive dogs come in big, medium, and small sizes. But if your goal is a pet for your two-year-old, aggressiveness should be at the bottom of your list of desired traits. Aggressive dogs are confident, assertive, quarrelsome, willing to fight, willing to bite when needed, and tend to be stubborn and harder to train. Unaggressive dogs "just want to get along." They like everybody and will take a one-down position to even the youngest member of the family. Unaggressive is quite different than "shy," by the way. A shy dog is actually an afraid or fearful animal and may be a snappy biter when put in a stressful situation.
With energy-level, dogs are like people: some are real balls of fire, full of pep, ready to run and play at a moment's notice (terriers fit this description); others are lackadaisical and prefer to turn into couch potatoes (basset hounds enjoy a good snooze). If you're a ball of fire, make sure your dog is one, too, or the dog will refuse to go out in the rain with you when work needs to be done. And if you're a low-key kind of person, content to spend all your time in deep thought, a high-energy dog like a dachshund will aggravate you with its constant demands for attention and "walkies."
Tolerance of stress is a measure of the dog's capacity to endure change, noise, confusion, and erratic schedules. This trait is as individual in dogs as it is in people. Some breeds seem better able to tolerate stress, but individual dogs within breeds might or might not take it well. If you're looking at puppies, one way to determine if a dog can tolerate stress is to clap your hands suddenly. Pups that scurry to cover are more sensitive to noise and may be more sensitive to stress than the pup that stops and looks at you to see what's going on.
The presence of children in the household makes a major difference in the types of dogs you'd want around. When our kids were little, the only dogs we had were Lassie-type collies and collie-crossbreds. Like TV's Lassie, these dogs are bright, alert, but very tolerant and protective toward "small things." One of our old collie girls even adopted a litter of abandoned kittens, nursing and washing them as well as any cat could have until they were old enough to find new homes.
I've been horrified to speak to people who wanted to get a "kid's dog," but were looking at Chihuahuas. Chi's are small, all right, but they have a snappy temperament and don't tolerate a lot of childish mauling very well. Plus, a Chi at seven pounds could be squashed, unintentionally, by a heavy child sitting down on it.
In general, friendly, even-tempered, medium-sized, sturdy, and medium-coated dogs make the best kid-dogs, and lots of people remember that mixed-breed muttley dog that was their best-friend so many years ago. Mutts often make excellent kid dogs.
If you're planning to keep a dog for work and not as a companion, the kids won't understandI guarantee it. Hard working dogs, like Border collies, will prefer to herd rather than play anyway, but the kids won't understand that either. A compromise that will satisfy all involved: working dog for the task, pet dog for the kids. The worker stays outside in its kennel when not "at work," the pet sleeps in the kids' room, probably right on their beds. The kids will understand this arrangement.
How much is a good friend worth to you? A friend who would sacrifice his life for yours, one who stays with you through good and bad, who never complains, who only wants to remain at your side no matter where you go or what you do? That's what a pet dog returns over time, all in exchange for a pound of kibble a day and some basic veterinary care.
A working dog, however, can take the place of another human by moving livestock or guarding a portion of your land. If a working dog saves two or three sheep a year from predators, it has paid for itself. If it keeps bad guys from jumping your fence and making off with your VCR, it has bought all its own dog food for a year. If it swims out to collect your shotgunned ducks, it saves you from cold and damp and helps you keep your eyes on the flying birds.
A purebred registerable dog of any breed, as a pup, will set you back $300 plus. Spend much less than that and you can be pretty sure it's not from a quality line. A purebred dog that is unregisterable (no papers) will run half or a fourth as much as a papered purebred. No papers may mean there's a little something not purebred in its ancestryperhaps an unintentional outbreedingbut these dogs resemble pure dogs of their breed and often have the benefit of a little outcrossing to strengthen their health and temperament.
A pup should have had its first shots and been dewormed when you acquire it. It will still need two more routine immunizations and at six months it should have a rabies vaccine. After that, once-a-year boosters should prevent most communicable diseases, and twice-annual dewormings will keep the internal parasites in control. If you don't mind giving your own shots, "5-way" or "6-way" vaccines run about $3 per dose. In most states, a rabies vaccine needs to be administered by a vet and typically runs $6 to $12.
Adult dogs of nearly every breed can be found at animal shelters nationwide. Typically, the cost will be $50 to $75, and that will include license, shots, and spaying or neutering.
To spay/neuter is a question that most people don't think much about. We have been convinced by our social controllers that dogs are better off being "fixed." However, somebody's got to breed dogs. It's a topic that is too detailed to cover in this article, but a family that keeps purebred male and female dogs of the same breed, either as pets or workers, and breeds them once a year, can pay for the dog's food, and then some, from the sale of pups.
If this sounds like an option for you, be especially discriminating in choosing your breeding pair. Get unrelated dogs from different ancestry of the same breed (ask to see the pedigree before purchasing), have them carefully health-screened, learn everything you can about the breed, and plan on keeping these dogs for the long haul. Your dogs can easily last 12 to 15 years, long past their reproductive potential. You might not be able to sell all the pups and wind up with extras to support. If this seems like too much effort, then this probably isn't an option for you.
I would also caution against prematurely spaying or neutering your dog. With a little sensibility, you can prevent unwanted breedings. It isn't uncommon to realize you want puppies out of your dog after it is three or four years old. If the dog's already been fixed, you're out of luck.
People often buy a dog to fit an image, a picture of what they think country living is like, or what they think will look good, or a dog that builds their own self-esteem. It's hard to get past these ideas, but sorting out your reasons for having a dog can help counteract the image problem and will provide you with a dog that truly fits your needs, not just your imagination.
There are fine dogs in every breed and among the world of mutts. Your local library probably has an encyclopedia of breeds that describes traits and characteristics. That's a good place to start. A few visits to the local animal shelter will also indicate what breeds and crossbreeds are typical in your area, give you an idea of full-grown sizes for various breeds, and introduce you to some very nice people who volunteer there.
Then, you can know with confidence what the "best" dog for your part of the country will be.
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ATHENS -- In honor of Liberty Day on March 16, U.S. Rep. Paul Broun has invited students in the fifth grade of the 10th Congressional District to participate in a project headed by the Liberty Day organization. Students will have the opportunity to submit questions regarding the U.S. Constitution to Broun via email and he will answer them personally by letter. Additionally, Broun will select one outstanding class to visit later in the school year to give a briefing on the Constitution.
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Liberty Day is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded in 1996, dedicated to educating all Americans, but especially the next generation, about the contents of the Constitution of the United States of America.
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As the crime trends across the country grow more and more violent each day, it is imperative for K-9 Units to stay progressive and continually improve their training and equipment
By Scott Clark
Thousands of high risk K-9 deployments occur daily across the country and as a result place the handler, dog, officers and citizens at risk. Deploying with all the proper equipment is a must for the K-9 teams and should not be taken for granted. However, one of the biggest obstacles we are presently faced with is determining if a tactical carbine weapon is best suited for a K-9 deployment. As the issue is talked about from agency to agency, several questions and concerns arise. For example, should the K-9 handler carry a tactical carbine on deployments? How will the handler carry a tactical carbine and still be able to work the dog effectively? Won't the carbine interfere with the operation? How can the handler properly control his dog and still be accurate with the carbine? Should the back-up officer carry the carbine instead of the handler? And, which carbine is best suited for a K-9 Officer to carry? Due to the conflicting responses to the questions above, K-9 handlers and administrators are still uncertain if deploying with a carbine weapon will tactically work for their K-9 units.
As the crime trends across the country grow more and more violent each day, it is imperative for K-9 Units to stay progressive and continually improve their training and equipment. We must stay ahead of the curve to ensure that our technology and equipment provides us with the safest and most productive results possible. As I continue with this article, it is essential that you keep an open mind to the possibilities out there for the K-9 world. With just a little hard work and follow through, K-9 units will be able to acquire the necessary equipment needed to deploy in a safer and more discipline manner. The time is now that we take a progressive step forward in our training and tactics to better prepare ourselves for successful deployments with your carbine weapons.
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Initial training with the Carbine should be provided to the handler without the dog present. It is crucial in my opinion, that a minimum 40 hours instructional course be provided covering all the fundamentals of the weapon. In addition, live fire drills should be conducted under all shooting environments. Weapon malfunctions, reloading, transition drills, and tactical weapon handling should be completed in this course. This stage is extremely vital to the handler. If the handler can master the Carbine without issues, he will be able to add the dog into the equation effortlessly. Upon completing the initial training with the weapon, the K-9 handler should now be provided additional training time to combine the dog and the weapon together. During this training, I highly advise the use of a suppressor on your carbine to preserve the dogs' hearing and safety. (The suppressor allows the handler to fire as many rounds needed without causing injury to the dog.) If no suppressor is available to you, you should minimize the live fire drills and spend more time on the tactical manipulation of the weapon with the dog present.
The following covers the necessary K-9 training standards that should be covered to ensure success with the Carbine:
K-9 teams should demonstrate proficiency on all performance objectives as each agency sets them. Routine monthly training should be conducted for all K-9 teams deployed with the Carbine. By doing so, achievement in all the advanced skills will be maintained and it will ensure continued effective performance with the weapon. All Carbine training and qualifications must be documented and should include information about the content of training, who participated in the training, where and when the training took place and who instructed the training. After initially qualifying with the Carbine, it is my opinion that additional qualifications should occur bi-annually. During this re-evaluation, handlers must demonstrate their ability to perform the skills needed to operate the weapon.
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For years now, I have been speaking with numerous K-9 Handlers, from all over the country, and there continues to be an abundant amount of questions and concerns as to what is the best tactical carbine to carry. Ultimately, it's all going to come down to what weapon is the most comfortable, operational, tactical, and affordable for each K-9 unit alike. After extensive research, operation, and firing of several tactical carbines (AR-15, AR-57, HK MP5, HK MP7, M4, SIG 556, FN FS2000), my agency completely supported our K-9 units choice of weapon, the MP7. For us, the weapons specifications and characteristics worked for what we were trying to accomplish.
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