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Essie Mink Muffs
51 reviews
80% would repurchase
Package Quality: 4.1
Price: $$$
Package Quality: 4.1
Price: $$$
Age: 36-43
Skin: Dry, Medium, Neutral
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Green
This is my first Essie polish and I'm having a hard time understanding the fuss. This was really watery and streaky. The color is a beautiful, chocolate brown, but the coverage was poor. I expected a lot more.
Age: 44-55
Skin: Dry, Medium, Neutral
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
Beautiful chocolate brown color. Trendy, but I think it can be worn to the most conservative of offices. I think it would work well with many skin tones. Creamy texture, but requires two coats to be opaque. It dries glossy, and looks good even without a topcoat. I think it somehow makes me look more dresssed up and put together, if you know what I mean. One of my favorites from Essie.
Age: 19-24
Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Cool
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Brown
I was a bit skeptical about the colour because I am used to more red, pink colours. But on the first application I loved it!!!!!! Perfect natural colour. Not too warm not too cold. Perfect taupey colour! And applies very smoothly.
Age: 36-43
Skin: Combination, Other, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
Classy mod color. Took three coats, though.
Age: 30-35
Skin: Very Dry, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
Love this color! Coverage was very good. This color makes me think of hot chocolate for some reason. Simple but classy. Essie polishes are my favorite.
Age: 36-43
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Brunette, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Green
Classy but trendy - perfect for my middle aged but still wanting to look hot toes.
Age: 36-43
Skin: Oily, Fair, Cool
Hair: Brown, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Hazel
Melted milk chocolate brown. Pretty much opaque with one coat, but two is perfect. Lovely, delicious looking color!
Age: 36-43
Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I grabbed this color at a private sale because I remembered it having great reviews on MUA. It looks so good on my very pale skin. Amazing color. the formulation is not the best : 3 coats for me but I am a little OCD ;-) . I still can't understand how a muddy brown can look so sophisticated and trendy but it's working !
Age: 30-35
Skin: Dry, Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Brown
im becoming more & more of an essie fan as time goes by.
this colour is fantastic. it applies really well, even & dries fairly fast.
the finish is glossy but not overly so, a top coat finishes it off perfectly.
its a great autumn colour that can be worn well into winter. i probably would never wear this in summer but lets see.
highly recommended if you are looking for a good neutral brown/taupe for the colder months.
Age: 36-43
Skin: Sensitive, Dark, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
This is my absolute favorite polish. It's brown and I think it looks neat on my brown feet with my brown sandals in summer. Also, obviously because it is brown, it's super autumnal! In addition, the polish has awesome coverage. 1-2 coats are enough. Can't recommend enough for all skin tones!
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Demonic Servants
22.36.1 The power of this spell is the greatest conjuring I have written in all my life. Use this power freely with your heart blacker than night and so full of hate, it flows like rivers of blood after battle. Neither exorcism nor forces, even the darkest of Darkness and the brightest of Light can touch that which has been summoned. This ritual has hate and malice upon this greatest of power.
22.36.2 To call upon this most terrible of powers is asking a price. Is life so worthless? To they, who call upon my darkest thoughts is asking to, know what drove me mad. I will say this for you; this spell alone drove my darkest thoughts.
23.36.3 This is for use with the Binding Spell. Hold the crystal and in the ritual, use the demon's name instead of the Elder Order. Doing this will allow you to bind the powers of white mages and users of white magic. By doing this, you will also have to replace the Elder Order in the Spell of Releasing to undo the binding. If the demon is released, the bindings will be permanent, unless you can get that demon back.
1 wooden altar
1 altar bowl
7 Azahran's Awakenings
11 pages folded twice over
14 small black candles
1 quartz crystal
1 white or black chalk
Do not attempt any of this if you believe in god or any monotheistic deity or have any association with a monotheistic religion or the demons I refer to will kill you.
Originally posted by Carseller4
Some demons get annoyed if you call on them.
They will hold a grudge, and the first chance they get, they will mess with you.
How to make Dragon Scepters
19.3.1 There are rituals and spells that require dragon scepters to be able to summon forth powerful gods.
Originally posted by 0cryptic0truth0
You do know that the book is a work of fiction, right?
Originally posted by Timely
Why would you want to focus so much negative energy on creating death and disaster?
I hope someone can come up with an equal and opposite action for you to try.
There is enough killing and disaster in this world.
Try something positive instead; try smiling at random people or read a story to a sick kid in hospital, plant a tree,
help an elderly lady with the groceries - whatever. You will surely feel better about yourself.
Be one of the good guys ... we have enough nastiness, thanks.
Originally posted by isyeye
The art of Calling Demons is one of the most misinderstood practices. It's not what most people think.
Calling a Demon = focusing on a specific pathway of learning.
The rituals surrounding it are to help with focus and memory.
The are no physical demons, angels or anything else involved.
Demonic seals, squares, pyramids, etc.....are part of a decoding tool.
Originally posted by isyeye
There are no physical demons, angels or anything else involved.
Originally posted by Cosmic911
reply to post by ramle
You're a fool...and ill-practiced...you know nothing.
If you don't believe in God who do think is going to protect you from those summoned demons. A belief in God is a must if you want a manifestation of a demon. Who do you think you need to pray to while preparing your magic circle of protection?
You have no idea of what you're talking about. People like you end up dead...

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Prophylactic treatment post needle stick injuryHi If I take this prophylactic treatment and the source test result is negative, I have been advised to stop the treatment. However my question is if I do this and later in my career have another needle stick injury from a higher risk source how...
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University of Minnesota, School of MedicineLater use of HIV drugs for PEP should still work fine in majority of situations. KH Read more »
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Most Surgical Residents Fail to Report Needle-Stick Injuries, Increasing Risk of HIV, Other Bloodborne Diseases, Study Says...and sought treatment immediately, the Baltimore Sun reports. According to the Sun , surgical residents are prone to needle sticks because they are inexperienced. In addition, residents often work with high-risk patients and conduct... Read more »
About Half of Nurses in U.K. Have Experienced Needle Stick Injuries, Many Are Concerned About HIV Risk, Study Says...everyday threat for nurses" ( BBC News , 11/19). Currently, 94% of employers have a policy that covers prevention and reporting of needle stick injuries, but only 55% of the nurses surveyed had received training from their employer on safe needle... Read more »
Health Workers in New York State Call for Change in HIV Testing Requirements...emergency department workers, paramedics and EMTs -- are hoping to change a state law that requires written consent prior to HIV testing of patients in the event that health workers experience needle-stick injuries, the Albany Times Union ... Read more »
HIV Transmission...Prevention Information Network (NPIN)Web site , or call NPIN at 1-800-458-5231. To find a testing site near you, visit the National HIV Testing Resources Web site . Are patients in a health care setting at risk of getting HIV? Although HIV... Read more »
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Posted by Anonymous, 3 RepliesA user in the other section said she sat on a needle and got HIV, its very possible and it has happened before, my question is has anyone ever heard of this happening ? and do they know anyone tht this has happened to ? or say sat on a needle and... Read more »
Florida 69 and the rest, read what my research is
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Boyfriend just diagnosed
Posted by Tori, 4 Replies... We are a mongamous couple who only used protection when I was fertile to prevent pregnancy. His HIV+ status was due to a needle stick injury that occurred in May. I suspect he was given erroneous info, but it may have been denial on his part.... Read more »
Needle Sticked
Posted by Anonymous, 1 ReplyI thought the chance of getting HIV was very very low ? how do you know the doctor got HIV from the needle ? and like i said im not crazy, i was right all along about the needles, so thank you all for telling me tht sick shit and tht im crazy and im... Read more »
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It's Friday! Fridays are great. Someone should make a song about Fridays. Anyway. Time for another Forum Feature. It's a short one this week since I'm on a mini-vacation in sweaty Baltimore, but here are a few threads from our official forums that could use your kind attention:
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Frequent travelers and those living the jet-setting lifestyle will be happy to learn that Mobiata's FlightbBoard application for Android has been optimized for tablets. The app, which updates every five
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Heathrow Airport is celebrating their resumed flights this week with the announcement of Heathrow Airport Guide for Android handsets. As the official app for the United Kingdom's largest airport, this
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GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan took a shot at Vice President Joe Biden Thursday over his latest gaffe.
Biden on Tuesday mistakenly told a crowd in Danville, Va., that they could help President Obama win North Carolina in November.
"We can win North Carolina again," Biden said.
More from The Hill:
♦ White House says Obama will stick with Biden as running mate
♦ Suspect in shooting allegedly said: 'I don't like your politics'
Biden is enduring a difficult week on the campaign trail. He also made headlines on Tuesday when he told a crowd in Virginia that the GOP ticket would "put y'all back in chains" by undoing financial reforms for Wall Street. The Republican ticket hammered Biden over the remarks, but Biden said GOP policies were more outrageous than anything he said.


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I e-mailed my web host asking where mine was located on the server and they told me they never use one. Should I be trying to make one for the SE's and where should I upload it? Thanks,
Most SE's will/should obey a robots.txt file while there is a lesser amount will read the META tag.
Am open for correction on this, but I think that is what i have came to understand.
If you have an META tag instruction for robots, do you need a robots.txt?
It depends.
At the very least, you should put an empty robots.txt to cut down on 404s on your site.
Using META tags allows you to control how robots index or follow links on your pages.
Using robots.txt restricts access to files (text and binary), as well as directories.
I have wondered for the past year if there may come a time when spiders will not visit sites without a robots.txt file. The reasons are the increasing amount of privacy laws around the world. With email it's opt in, with any information we gather on our sites it's a published privacy policy. In the future, new laws may require web spiders to get an opt in (robots.txt permission slip) before they visit and list pages. I'm just commenting on the way the wind is blowing these days. I'm sure many people disagree with me, but I don't think it hurts to tell all robots it's ok to spider their site. We've added this information to all our domains and sub domains over the past few month. I hope to hear some more comments on this.
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Ben is Product Director for SMS at Twilio. Previously, he was the founder and CTO of Mobile Commons.
He lives on a small redwood grove in Oakland with his wife Arin and sons Gabriel & Ezekiel, a beagle, and from time to time flock of chickens.
Hiking with the boys at Tomales Point
Well, it finally happened: I personally know more people who got hacked in 2015 than people who followed my annual advice to secure yourself online.
And don't fool yourself: the problem is getting worse. You need to secure yourself online or you are going to get hacked.
Here are 4 trivial things you can do RIGHT NOW to protect yourself online. Yes, it will take 1 hour. Yes, it will cost you $100 this year. Wah. Just do it.
1. Use a password manager
Using a weak password in 2016 is unacceptable. Repeating a password is inexcusable. If you even know your password, you are doing it wrong. You need to use a password manager. LastPass is my favorite: it's secure, syncs everywhere, cross-platform, and mobile. Start by changing your most important accounts (email, bank, Dropbox, and Facebook) today. Then, over the next few weeks, every time you login to a site, just change that one password and save it. Easy. The best part is, a password manager actually makes your life easier, not harder.
2. Turn on 2-factor authentication
Start with Gmail. Follow Google's excellent instructions. Then do it everywhere else: your bank, Twitter, Dropbox, Facebook. If your bank doesn't offer 2-factor, switch banks. Seriously. Your security is more important than any interest rate or bill pay feature. I like to get my codes delivered over SMS, but if you prefer an authenticator app, use Authy.
3. Autolock your phone
Touch ID and swiping make it so easy to unlock phones these days, it's inexcusable not to lock it. If you really hate it, set a long timeout. I don't care; just set autolock to something.
4. Backup
This one is 2 parts: First, enable offsite backup. I like Backblaze. Windows users try Carbonite or Crashplan. It takes 5 minutes to setup and only costs $5/month. Care about your photos? Your finances? Your music? Do this now. I'll wait. Next, if you don't have one, order an external hard drive. When it arrives, plug it in and turn on Time Machine or Windows Backup. Done.
There you have it folks. Four super easy things you can do to protect yourself online this holiday season. You'll be glad you did.
Little family in the cow pastures
#NowPlaying Movin' Right Along by Fozzie, Kermit
Hilarious movie poster juxtaposition in my news feed this morning… if only it came true!
It's finally happening. Today, the FCC votes on whether the internet belongs to you, or to the cable companies.
You've already done a phenomenal job of encouraging the FCC to adopt rules that will keep the internet free, fair, and thriving—nearly 200,000 calls to Congress have been placed from Tumblr alone, hundreds of thousands more from a diverse coalition of partners, and 4 million total comments have been submitted directly to the FCC. You raised you voice and, holy cow, your government is actually listening. By all accounts, Chairman Wheeler is prepared to do the right thing—a politically brave thing—and enact firm net neutrality rules under Title II of the Communications Act.
If this happens, it's you guys who deserve the credit for making it happen. So let's make sure it happens. If you haven't called your representative yet, call your representative. If you've already called your representative, call them again.
And with your help, we'll all have an historic milestone to celebrate: An internet whose freedom is secure for generations to come.
Today I Learned: Diaper Genie makes an amazing catapult for launching T-rex at little brothers at high speed.
What does reblog mean? Is it going to hurt?
Wow. This was Gabi's first ever Tumblr post, which he did without any help. 4 years 2 months.
On February 26, the FCC is going to decide if the internet should stay free and fair, or if it should be handed over to the cable companies.
You don't want them to pick the cable companies.
Join everybody on the internet to help the FCC do the right thing.
The boys out to dinner in Jamaica
Snow Day
I'm in Google Maps street view!
What's really weird (and actually a little disconcerting, given our innate understanding of object permanence), is that the photos from Ditmas Ave and the photos from Argyle Rd were taken on completely different days. So if you "turn" up the street to get a closer look, I disappear. Like Keyser Söze.
"Out of all the TOS I have dealt with in 20 years, Facebook's are the most intrusive. To be granted rights to track an individual's movements, and thus the people that would be with those individuals, and to potentially commercially exploit without permission all pictures posted on Facebook without specific consent, is breath-taking."
I recently bought an iPad Air 2, upgrading from an original iPad 2.
TL; DR: I returned it after 2 days for a Nexus 9 and couldn't be happier.
Note: this is mostly a blog post for @aaronwolfe so we don't have to actually discuss this in person.
Having spent 2 full days with each device, I'll give my early thoughts on both in the style of Brent Rose. Normally I buy (or drink) everything Brent tells me to, which is why I went iPad in the first place, but in this comparison, I think he was pretty far off base.
I agree with Brent here. It's pretty much a toss up. The Nexus has a little bit of lightbleed around the edges. Doesn't bother me too much, but it's there. Slight edge iPad, but overall a tie. They are both gorgeous.
Again, this one is pretty close. They both look great. I went with the white Nexus over the black one after reading complaints about cheap feeling manufacturing on the black one, specifically a slight bubble when you press the back. I have to say, the constuction of the white Nexus is excellent. Doesn't feel cheap at all, and no bubble in the back. Personally, I prefer it over the iPad. I found the iPad's sharp metallic edges to be unconfortable. Reminded me of the switch from iPhone 3G to iPhone 4: the sharp metallic corners leave lines on your hands. The Nexus is definitely more confortable. Touch ID is nice on the iPad, but double tap to turn on the Nexus screen is also nice. Slight edge Nexus here for comfort.
(After using the Droid Turbo's wave-your-hand-in-front-to-see-active-display-notifiations, everything else, including these tablets, seems absurd. It's one of the most how-did-i-possible-live-without-this-before features I've experienced in a long time. Like using a mouse that doesn't scroll)
Not even close. Nexus has amazing sounding front facing stereo speakers. The iPad has speakers on bottom, or worse, on the side when watching a movie in landscape. It's like listening to headphones when one earphone breaks. I found it unusable for watching movies without headphones on. Oh, and when you turn the volume up, the entire iPad vibrates. Like a lot. Like a whole lot. You can't actually listen to music and read at the same time. Nexus=great. iPad=dealbreaker.
I didn't try the camera on either and never will.
Since it's not my phone and I just use it for movies and reading, I thought I could get by with iOS. I was so wrong. I forgot how awful iOS is. The put-30-apps-into-a-folder-called-crapple-and-move-it-to-the-last-page thing? It's ridiculous. Apple Maps? Ugh. Safari? Mail?
And logging into new apps, which you do like 50 times in a row with a new tablet, is a personal hell on iOS. It takes 12 taps, some searching, and a bunch of double clicks to copy-paste credentials from LastPass. Compare that to one-click autofill every single app on Android. Boom.
Speaking of software, this was my first time using Android on a tablet. I found it pretty good but not earth shattering. On a phone, it's earth shattering. Google Now, Aviate, etc. It literally blows my mind every day. On a tablet that I use in the evening? Well, it's fine. It gets out of the way, which is mostly what I want.
Oh, and it runs Lollipop too. Lollipop is pretty enough, but nothing too exciting for me. I was already using ART. Most of my apps already upgraded to Material Design in KitKat. Motorola's active display notifications really are fantastic, so the new Lollipop notifications aren't a huge leap. I think if you're coming from 4.3 or a non-Motorola device, it's a pretty sweet upgrade. For me, meh.
I didn't notice a difference.
I am loving the Nexus 9. Between iOS, the mono speaker on one side, and the vibrating speaker, the iPad Air 2 was a complete nonstarter.
Internet access is a utility. A commodity that should get better and faster and cheaper over time. Anyone who says otherwise is lying for money.
Last night I upgraded from the MotoX (2013) to the Droid Turbo (metallic black, 32GB).
Here are my early observations:
Do other media companies subscribe to Wikipedia in the same fashion? How about it Gawker, NY Times, Vox, Wired, ESPN, WSJ, New York Magazine, Vice, Washington Post, The Atlantic, Buzzfeed, Huffington Post? Even $500/month is a drop in the bucket compared to your monthly animated GIF hosting bill and I know your writers use Wikipedia as much as I do. Come on, grab that company credit card and subscribe.
Kottke and Dreyfuss make a pretty good pitch for contributing to Wikemedia as a business expense.
Your shadow is a confirmation that light has traveled nearly 93 million miles unobstructed, only to be deprived of reaching the ground in the final few feet thanks to you.
most perfect beatles gif ever
"The best crowd I've seen in any post-season experience I've had"
-Tigers catcher Ian Kinsler about Orioles fans
Incredible work, everyone. These numbers are huge.
How huge? With 10,000 sites participating in yesterday's net neutrality effort, a total of 304,993 calls got made. You made nearly half of them. Bravo.
Also…which one of you made that 61 minute call? What'd you guys talk about?
The fight isn't over, by the way. You can follow themediafix and demand-progress to keep up with everything that happens from now until the FCC votes.
Tumblr totally knocking it out of the park on internet slow lanes today
Today's the day. The day you help save the internet from being ruined.
Yes, you are, and we're ready to help you.
(Long story short: The FCC is about to make a critical decision as to whether or not internet service providers have to treat all traffic equally. If they choose wrong, then the internet where anyone could start a website for any reason at all, the internet that's been so momentous, funny, weird, and surprising—that internet could cease to exist. Here's your chance to preserve a beautiful thing.)
The only thing that would have made this trampoline better is if there were no kids to cramp my high flying style
She has created a wonderful thing with Notorious R.B.G. I will admit I had to be told by my law clerks, what's this Notorious. And they — they explained that to me.
Best laptop sticker. Ever. By far.
Today I helped lead a blind man out of a subway station. At the exit, he turned towards me and said:
Blind Man: By any chance are you carrying a baby on your back?
Me: Yes
Blind Man: Oh good. That explains the little arms that have been grabbing me.
For future reference, the easiest solution to a raccoon stuck in the hood of your car is to convince your sister to marry a man who carries a Leatherman.
It's obvious just how much more is being done on phones and tablets than on computers, and the trend is continuing.
I think that's a very bad thing.
Computers with their keyboards, mice, and multitasking are so much more efficient than iOS & Android.
I would like to know how much faster a laptop is at doing routine everyday tasks than doing the same thing on a phone.
Has this been studied before? If not, I think we should. We can publish it.
My hypothesis: In 2014, Americans will waste over 16 BILLION hours because they are doing things on their absurdly inefficient phone interfaces instead of on a computer.
Most state primaries are either over or over soon, so once you know you're headed to the general election it's time to start building your SMS list for the campaign.
Here are some tips on easy ways to grow your text list (and your email list) during election season.
- Put your keyword on yard…
Golly gee willikers!
One of my Tumblr posts just passed 10,000 notes this weekend. How awesome is that?!
Can I just get a Task Rabbit to go through labor for me?
I tried to look up how many presidents have been grandfathers while serving in office. It's pretty hard to look up because no one in the history of presidents has ever cared about whether or not they have grandchildren or will ever have grandchildren because it is truly one of the dumbest things to care about in the universe.
As if my own personal iMessage problems weren't enough, take a look at my wife's iPhone storage. Her phone is close to unusable because her text messages are taking up TEN GIGABYTES of storage! WTF? Corrupt database? Unclearable cache? No clue how this is happening, nor how to clear out the space, etc.
I can't wait until everyone is off the iMessages.
Ben oversees the Messaging products at Twilio, including SMS and MMS both domestically and globally. Previously he was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Mobile Commons, acquired by Upland Software, where he was responsible for product development, system architecture, and technical operations.
Ben has 15 years of experience building Internet applications of all shapes and sizes. He spent much of his career building distributed software for B2B customers. With a background in both the financial and medical industries, he has extensive experience with high availability systems with a focus on security and data sensitivity. As a software engineer at Bloomberg LP, Ben developed their trading system, search engine, and web services. After Bloomberg, he worked at ShadowTV, transcoding, indexing and streaming 100s of terabytes of video data for government and corporate customers.
He earned a BS in electrical and biological engineering and a Master's in medical image processing, both at Cornell University. After completing his studies, he took a position as a Visiting Scientist, developing medical software used in clinical trials for lung cancer screening and image analysis tools used in General Electric's CT scanners.
Ben lives in Oakland CA with his wife Arin and sons Gabriel & Ezekiel. He can usually be found coding, biking, playing basketball, listening to Audible, or losing at pub trivia. He is one of the leading pioneers shaping how organizations successfully use messaging for advocacy, fundraising, list building, and organizing. He sits on the board of ioby.org and advises nonprofits on effective uses of technology.
Specialties: Product Management, Agile Development, System Architecture,
Ben leads the Product and Technology teams at Mobile Commons by Upland Software
Ben is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Mobile Commons, where he is responsible for product development, system architecture, and technical operations. He is one of the leading pioneers shaping how nonprofit organizations successfully use mobile communication for advocacy, fundraising, list building, and organizing.
I've been thinking a lot about the NSA's global electronic surveillance.
Say what you will about erosion of civil liberties, you have to admit, we live in the mother fucking future.
i enjoyed this
As a security and privacy expert, I'm expected to know which companies protect their users' privacy and which encryption programs the NSA can't break. The truth is, I have no idea. No one outside the classified government world does. I tell people that they have no choice but to decide whom they trust and to then trust them as a matter of faith. It's a lousy answer, but until our government starts down the path of regaining our trust, it's the only thing we can do.
In my experience, telling people to do something hard (open source, keep privacy, etc.) in the face of a barely perceived danger (government is coming to get you) is kind of a hard message to get heard.
I'm shocked that more hackers don't send Dropbox invitations sharing folders that contain malicious files.
It's such an incredible vector to get people to automatically download a ton of files to take advantage of zero day flaws in Windows Explorer.
"Your Mom has shared a folder 'Amazing Kitten Pictures' with you." and BOOM! p0wn2d!
Name: Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
Writes: Right
Dominant Cortex: Left
University: Cambridge University
Key Contributions: "In Book I of Principia, Newton opened with definitions and the three laws of motion now known as Newton's laws (laws of inertia, action and reaction, and acceleration proportional to force). Book II presented Newton's new scientific philosophy which came to replace Cartesianism. Finally, Book III consisted of applications of his dynamics, including an explanation for tides and a theory of lunar motion."
This is like asserting that my former hometown of Washington, D.C., has several football teams: the Redskins, the Georgetown University team, and the Gonzaga High School team.
You should have distinct memories of you or someone under your employ having at least two separate incidents in the last four weeks in which they dropped everything they were doing and immediately took action to resolve these problems.
Last night during the hurricane, we could not telnet to one of our partner's data centers from our primary data center. We could get there from our workstations and from our backup sites.
A traceroute revealed a router somewhere in Washington DC that was hanging things up between the two data centers.
So my question is, how could this happen? I would have expected all the TCP/IP packets to be rerouted automatically around the malfunctioning router? Isn't that the way the Internet was designed to work?
Everyone on our production support team installed the following cron on their local workstation so we would know if anyone loses power and can't get in touch with the rest of the team:
*/1 * * * * ssh server "echo '`date` `whoami` reporting for duty' >> sandy.log"
Love the new Slashdot logo.
I also love the neckbeard comments about how that wouldn't actually be an accurate little endian representation "even on 24 bit machines"
This is such a useful little feature for the new version of Skitch.
Update: The app store reviews of Skitch 2.0 are scathing. I'm not upgrading yet.
From the Stripe blog:
Today we're launching Capture the Flag: Web Edition, a security contest where you can try your hand at discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities in mock web applications. If you've ever wondered how a CSRF attack works in practice, this is your chance to find out. We've found that hands-on experience with exploiting security flaws helps us write more secure code, and we hope that working on the CTF will be both enlightening and fun.
I'm giving my development team the afternoon off to compete in this!
Look, I love programming. I also believe programming is important … in the right context, for some people. But so are a lot of skills. I would no more urge everyone to learn programming than I would urge everyone to learn plumbing.
Jeff Atwood, "Please Don't Learn To Code"
Ben Says:
This is one of the dumbest things I have ever read.
The article is conflating "coding" with "professional software development". Learning to code teaches you, among lots of other things:
When a programmer gets requirements from a product manager or business analyst, they are ALWAYS incomplete. The edge cases are NEVER identified and none of the "what if" scenarios are played out. 9 times out of 10 it is up to the programmer to understand the nuances, to take things to their logical conclusions, to consider what happens in the case of N=0 or as N approaches infinity.
These are all skills I use EVERY SINGLE DAY, not just when I code, but in solving problems in life. Broken toilet? How do I figure out where the problem is? You bet I'm going to divide and conquer that shit (pun intended)!
This kind of thinking helps me in everything that I do in life and it wasn't until I learned to code (in college, mind you) that I started thinking this way.
Do I want my son to become a computer programmer? I don't care. Up to him. Do I want him to understand how to think critically and logically and in a structured & methodical way when approaching problems? Absolutely. And computer programming teaches these skills better than anything else I've ever done.
Half of New York City's best and brightest technologists live or work in Brooklyn, yet we travel to Manhattan every week for the best tech talks.
Not anymore! BK Tech Talks are presentations about the most interesting problems and solutions that New Yorkers are working on.
Presentations should be 30-45 minutes long and are for a technical audience. Don't be afraid to show source code. And if you're afraid to read code, this Meetup isn't for you. If you would like to present or there's something you'd like to hear about, please let us know.
The first few presentations: "MTA BusTime: Real Time GPS Tracking of New York City Buses" and "Bitcoin is Not a Currency" look awesome.
So? What are you waiting for? Come join the Meetup and we'll see you in Brooklyn!
Hackathons are how marketing guys wish software were made.
I missed it all, I was too busy building a product.
Michael Wolfe's amazing answer (via @marcoarment)
The great thing about the web is linking. I don't care how ugly it looks and how pretty your app is, if I can't link in and out of your world, it's not even close to a replacement for the web. It would be as silly as saying that you don't need oceans because you have a bathtub.
In a fresh commit, Rails edge now has the ability to automatically add query plan info to the standard Rails logger:
# Log the query plan for queries taking more than this (works # with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL) config.active_record.auto_explain_threshold_in_seconds = 0.5
… which will yield something like:
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+-------+------+-------------+ | id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra | +----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+-------+------+-------------+ | 1 | SIMPLE | users | const | PRIMARY | PRIMARY | 4 | const | 1 | | | 1 | SIMPLE | posts | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 1 | Using where | +----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+-------+------+-------------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
A little shell script that lets you generate sparklines at the command line:spark 0 30 55 80 33 150 ▁▂▃▅▂▇
You can also pipe stuff to spark—see this wiki page for some clever examples.
This is pretty cute. I like the idea of putting inside your prompt, think there's some interesting information you pull to put there.
Maybe a graph of how many times you had to run `sed` to actually get your prompt to render?
Four years I abandoned all native desktop apps except an ssh client and a text editor.
I completely migrated my work life 100% to site-specific browsers with Google apps and 1Password.
We were living in the future and I loved it.
Fast forward to today: 1Password doesn't work with Fluid anymore and Google's new borderless-contrastless-whitespace interface is rolling out everywhere.
Now we've actually reached the future and it's miserable. What's a guy to do? I'm thinking about going back to all native desktop apps. Mail, iCal and Pages, I guess.
I hate to sound like a curmudgeon, but I really want to roll-back everything to 2010.
How are you dealing with this?
A trigger is an action that is performed when text matching some regular expression is received in a terminal session.
What can Triggers Do?Various actions may be assigned to triggers. These include:
- Bounce Dock Icon: Makes the dock icon bounce until the iTerm2 window becomes key.
- Ring Bell: Plays the standard system bell sound once.
- Run Command: Runs a user-defined command.
- Run Coprocess: Runs a Coprocess.
- Send Growl Alert: If Growl is enabled, a Growl alert is sent.
- Send Text: Sends user-defined text back to the terminal as though the user had typed it.
- Show Alert: Shows an alert box with user-defined text.
iTerm2 is so frackin' cool
-#define RUBY_VERSION "1.9.4"
+#define RUBY_VERSION "2.0.0"
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (Username: dmr, September 8, 1941 - October 9, 2011)
RIP Dennis Ritchie.
I think having your username inscribed in your epitaph before your birth date is something all nerds should aspire to.
Add the following to your .ssh config file:
ControlMaster auto
ControlPath /tmp/ssh_mux_%h_%p_%r
Then, when you open up a second terminal to the same remote server, it will automatically reuse the existing connection and the new prompt will appear almost instantaneously. It doesn't have to re-authenticate for every new window. Amazing.
If you also add
ControlPersist 4h
then the connection will stay open in the background. Super useful for things like git that re-establishes a connection on every operation. Dropped my `git pull` from 10 seconds on the first run to 2 seconds on the second.
via @malmckay
First follow these steps in OS X Lion:
Is there a way to toggle between the windowed Safari and the full-screen Safari using just the keyboard?
I haven't figured it out. Cmd-` (back tick) and Ctrl-F4 don't work in this mode. And cmd-tab will get you to ONE of them, but not both.
It's driving me crazy, and makes it so I can't use full-screen.
Anyone know how to get around this?
You rent a hotel room. You put a book in the top drawer of the bedside table and go to sleep. You check out the next morning, but "forget" to give back your key. You steal the key!
A week later, you return to the hotel, do not check in, sneak into your old room with your stolen key, and look in the drawer. Your book is still there. Astonishing!
How can that be? Isn't the contents of a hotel room drawer inaccessible if you haven't rented the room?
Well, obviously that scenario can happen in the real world no problem. There is no mysterious force that causes your book to disappear when you are no longer authorized to be in the room. Nor is there a mysterious force that prevents you from entering a room with a stolen key.
The hotel management is not required to remove your book. You didn't make a contract with them that said that if you leave stuff behind, they'll shred it for you. If you illegally re-enter your room with a stolen key to get it back, the hotel security staff is not required to catch you sneaking in. You didn't make a contract with them that said "if I try to sneak back into my room later, you are required to stop me." Rather, you signed a contract with them that said "I promise not to sneak back into my room later", a contract which you broke.
In this situation anything can happen. The book can be there – you got lucky. Someone else's book can be there and yours could be in the hotel's furnace. Someone could be there right when you come in, tearing your book to pieces. The hotel could have removed the table and book entirely and replaced it with a wardrobe. The entire hotel could be just about to be torn down and replaced with a football stadium, and you are going to die in an explosion while you are sneaking around.
You don't know what is going to happen; when you checked out of the hotel and stole a key to illegaly use later, you gave up the right to live in a predictable, safe world because you chose to break the rules of the system.
C++ is not a safe language. It will cheerfully allow you to break the rules of the system. If you try to do something illegal and foolish like going back into a room you're not authorized to be in and rummaging through a desk that might not even be there anymore, C++ is not going to stop you. Safer languages than C++ solve this problem by restricting your power – by having much stricter control over keys, for example.
This is a fantastic explanation for new programmers about accessing memory, low level languages, and undefined behavior.
This is a fantastic explanation for new programmers about accessing memory, low level languages, and undefined behavior.
All they did was change account IDs in the URL and voila, they were in someone else's account. This makes me so sad.
At least they have 2 factor authentication and Site Key and ridiculous password length and content requirements that are incompatible with any of my other password algorithms and auto-logoff because those things aren't at all annoying and really help protect my info.
Then I will hug and kiss some poisonous snakes
Troy Hunt has an unsurprising-yet-nonetheless-terrifying analysis of the passwords found in the recent Sony security breaches. The nice thing about so many different Sony properties getting hacked is that we have data from multiple web properties to cross-reference :)
The most striking (yet still unsurprising) things to me: 99% of passwords contained NO non-alphanumeric characters and 92% of passwords are re-used on multiple sites.
Oh, and passwords like dallascowboys and 1qazZAQ! that people think are strong are still in the password dictionaries.
The whole post is worth a read later.
My conclusion: if you actually know any of your passwords, you're doing it wrong.
2011 is the 10 year anniversary of the Agile software development methodology (or at least the anniversary of the term).
Ask ANY developer or project manager if they practice agile development.
90% will say yes.
Now ask if they use scrum, velocity tracking, XP, TDD, FDD, or pair programming. The number will now be closer to 10% (followed quickly by "but we're still agile").
The problem is that the opposite of the term "agile" is slow, stodgy, and not able to move quickly. Who wants to be that? No one. It's a loaded question to begin with.
So when someone says "we do agile development", it's important to make the distinction: are you saying your team moves quickly and respond well to changes? If so, that's great. Good for you. Or are you actually describing your methodology?
I don't actually hate agile development. I just hate the name.
"It's Agile with a capital A, baby!"
Related: As funny as the term Extreme Programming is, it completely avoids this problem. If you ask someone if they practice XP, you will get almost no false positives.
Similar: asking someone if they have a zero-tolerance policy for bugs (AKA Joel Test #5: Do you fix bugs before writing new code?) is a similar question. Answering "no" implies that you accept and tolerate bugs, which no one wants to admit, even though they definitely do.
A federal judge in the case has agreed to allow the U.S. Copyright Group to subpoena internet service providers to find out the identity of everybody who had illegally downloaded [The Expendables via bit torrent].
Whoa. Not good.
"Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning." @tsilb
You can now clear Flash cookies from Chrome preferences rather than going to that horrible Adobe page to do it.
The data privacy geek in me loves this.
Fixed 'Web page loading slow issue'
From the changelog on my Netgear router firmware.
I ponied up $130 on this router, which I thought was a lot of a home wifi router, but I was tired of having to reboot my old Linksys.
The funny thing is that this upgrade actually seems to have fixed that exact problem.
The best part about using an SSD with OS X is that, for the first time, Spotlight is actually usable. And it's great!
This means I can finally get rid of Quicksilver, which I've used and loved for 10 years but is by far the buggiest piece of software I've ever relied on.*
* Not totally true. The Treo 750's text messaging application on Verizon was much buggier and I relied on that for a long time, but only out of necessity.
Exceptional tracks errors in Ruby apps. It's wildly popular. It now processes a few hundred million errors per month for over 10,000 apps—including some very big and popular ones.
So if my math is correct, ~300 million exceptions per month for 10,000 apps works out to about 30,000 exceptions per month, or one thousand exceptions per day per application!
That's a little terrifying, no?
Sony has a platform for e-books. Amazon has a platform for e-books. Barnes & Noble has a platform for e-books. Apple has a platform for e-books. But Apple is the only one which allows its competitors to have apps on its devices. And Apple is the anti-competitive one?
Upgrading through every version of Windows
For the old fogies (read: over 30) this is a surprisingly interesting video. Lots of reminiscing, and 20+ years of compatibility is just mind boggling.
Things Real People Don't Say About Your App is my new favorite Tumblelog
Here's what I heard: puppet, chef, moonshine, cap, cloud, fog, plover, rake, cat. It sounds like you were talking about the Muppet Show.
This is such a phenomenal resume (via Jim Plush)
Flying a kite all by myself Goat Rock Beach
Goat Rock Beach
Hiking at Tomales Trail near Point Reyes
Tomales Bay trail
Chinese checkers
Elephant ears keeping him warm.
Point Reyes
Happy Halloween!
Getting stronger because I'm eating my meat.
Gardening with Mami
Climbing in the Gunks
Hiking the woods of NJ with Papi
roller coaster with auntie zoo
Car shopping
Looking way too much like a big kid for my parents' liking…
Rocking my new parrot pyjammies
Eating as many NY bagels as we can before we move!
Prospect park, almost spring
It's a strep throat and hot chocolate kind of morning.
Getting ready to party
Pig tails. Check. Green orange juice. Check. Apple pyjammies. Check.
JFREJ Purim party
Second breakfast
Skiing at Hunter Mountain
Skiing with Emily
Great Wolf Lodge
Grandpa Carl's birthday
Happy Year of the Ram
Today I Learned: Diaper Genie makes an amazing catapult for launching T-rex at little brothers at high speed.
Rainbow #jamaica
Snow Day 2015
At the B&O museum
Boat cake
Dyker Heights lights
Dyker Heights Xmas lights
Skating at Lakeside in Prospect Park
Using tools to open gelt is what separates us from the animals
Performing Let it Go, MST3K style
Puzzle master
Goat Rock Beach
A boy and his dog
Couldn't stay up long enough to go trick or treating :)
Happy Halloween!
Dirty boy, getting clean
Pier 5, Memorial Day weekend
Coney Island rides are the best
prospect park
Underwood playground
Riding up here is exhausting
Riding up here is exhausting
I assume this was how Cal Ripken got his start too.
Q train
Rocking out with the buskers
Night time snow football with Gabi
First ice cream sandwich
Grandpa Carl's birthday
Some Jamaica 2015 Highlights
On our way to Jamaica!
Snow Day 2015
Working on my hair style
B&O Train museum
Happy New Year!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy birthday abi
Ready for winter. Sort of.
Pumpkin making with Mami
Sort of getting the concept…
Me and Scotty in my new big boy bed!
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Purchase the 6900 this week - tried to hook up to my network got the exact same error - phoned Samsung they says it's my router that's the problem, but all my other devices are fine ie. Laptop, Wii and iPhone!
Due to change in WIFI policy cannot support the TKIP security type in 802.11n mode. In that case check a security on the Access Point.
Does anyone know the answer please?
In anticipatio - thanks
I purchased my BD player in December and was able to connect to the Internet, upgrade the firmware and access NetFlix. Just the other day I was unable to get online to do any of the above. The message from the BD was "Due to a change of a WiFi policy cannot support the TIP security type in 802.11n mode. In that case check a security setting on the access point."
A phone call to Samsung support was singularly unhelpful and suggests that now begins the finger pointing between my ISP, the router manufacturer, and Samsung. Before I chuck it all out the window I'm wondering if anyone has come across this and how they fared.
System info:
Samsung BD Player BD-C6500T
D-Link Router DIR-628
Windows 7
Norton Internet Security 2011
(I add the last two because on my Windows 7 laptop I can view all devices on my wireless network via the Network Security Map in Norton. On my PC (wired to the internet) running the same software I cannot see the BD player. The computer that "sees" the BD Player shows a physical address but no IP address. I'm hoping that Norton somehow isn't the culprit - then I'll have to deal with more finger pointing)


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Write STL file from surface data.
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SURF2STL Write STL file from surface data.
SURF2STL('filename',X,Y,Z) writes a stereolithography (STL) file
for a surface with geometry defined by three matrix arguments, X, Y
and Z. X, Y and Z must be two-dimensional arrays with the same size.
SURF2STL('filename',x,y,Z), uses two vector arguments replacing
the first two matrix arguments, which must have length(x) = n and
length(y) = m where [m,n] = size(Z). Note that x corresponds to
the columns of Z and y corresponds to the rows.
SURF2STL('filename',dx,dy,Z) uses scalar values of dx and dy to
specify the x and y spacing between grid points.
SURF2STL(...,'mode') may be used to specify the output format.
'binary' - writes in STL binary format (default)
'ascii' - writes in STL ASCII format
See also SURF.
Author: Bill McDonald, 02-20-04
This file inspired Surf2solid and Stlwrite(Filename, Varargin).
Is there a way to create a volume using this script? I have the .stl surface, but want to extend that to some "ground" so I can print it with a 3D printer.
Hi. I have cute solids by using trisurf(tri,xmesh,ymesh,zmesh,colorVector), where x(nx1), y(nx1), z(nx1) and tri(n/2 x 3). But, unfortunately it does not run at your surf2stl. Do you have any idea how can I run trisurf2stl? Thank you.
Does not work anymore
Hi, I am trying to get MATLAB to output STL files of chaotic systems (Rossler, Lorenz, Chua). The graphs are made from iterating x, y, and z in a for loop. So I converted the vectors into a matrix using the vec2mat command. It gave me the STL files but the lines have no thickness. How can I resolve this problem? I tried adding space below the graph but it just makes a cylinder shape and doesn't thicken the lines. Please advise.
L = 40*membrane(1,25);
[rows cols] = size(L);
x = 1:rows;
y = 1:cols;
And voila! You can 3D print the Matlab logo! (or any other surface for that matter) =)
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Thanks for the awesome code!
Please help I get a flat gray surface, is it because my x ,y, are vectors and not meshgrid?
Really usefull for my research with flow over different surfaces
Man great submision. I have used it to make some geek gif in my blog.
Thanks for this file! You save me a lot of time! Very helpfull
nice work bill. i'm wondering about how one would go about adding labels to such stl files. such as, adding little spheres in a surface plot at a certain location (say x = 10, y = 10) and add labels such as "x = 10 & y = 10" at that location.
@ Prashanth,
AFAIK, .stl is inherently meant for triangulated geometry representation.
What you can do is to split rectangles into triangles - e.g. rectangle (n1, n2,n3,n4) gives two triangles - (n1,n2,n3) and (n3,n4,n1). Note that the order of n1,n2 etc is such that the normals obtained by cross product of vector, say n1_n2 x n2_n3 points outwards direction and there is consistency in this normal direction among all triagles. i.e. no sudden flips.
hope it helps,
Hi Bill,
What changes to be made in the program to get a stl with rectangular grid instead of triangular grid
But you could speed it up - it counts at large meshes, if you could find a way to avoid the for loop. For calculating the surface normals, you could use "surfnorm".
Great job! Thanx a lot!
Thanks Bill! You made a very useful MATLAB function for geometric modeling purposes.
Woks just fine!
Awesome! It helps me alot.
Very nice program. Does anyone know a way to write the STL file while keeping other data intact to describe the color?
Very helpfull! I tried for a long time to open a MATLAB generated mesh or vrml in different 3D environments and couldn't. This did the job.
very neat. Used for converting small pieces of scarcely digitized bone surface point clouds to STL surface which can be loaded into Mimics and Amira.
Has good nift. Use with gridgen to make mathematical surfaces into stl files for cfd. mmmm
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Factors affecting nucleolytic efficiency of some ternary metal complexes with DNA binding and recognition domains. Crystal and molecular structure of Zn(phen)(edda)
Seng, Hoi Ling and Ong, Han Kiat Alan and Raja Abdul Rahman, Raja Noor Zaliha and Mohd Yamin, Bohari and Tiekink, Edward R. T. and Tan, Kong Wai and Maah, Mohd Jamil and Caracelli, Ignez and Ng, Chew Hee (2008) Factors affecting nucleolytic efficiency of some ternary metal complexes with DNA binding and recognition domains. Crystal and molecular structure of Zn(phen)(edda). Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 102 (11). 1997-2011 . ISSN 0162-0134
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2008.07.015
The binding selectivity of the M(phen)(edda) (M = Cu, Co, Ni, Zn; phen = 1,10-phenanthroline, edda = ethylenediaminediacetic acid) complexes towards ds(CG)6, ds(AT)6 and ds(CGCGAATTCGCG) B-form oligonucleotide duplexes were studied by CD spectroscopy and molecular modeling. The binding mode is intercalation and there is selectivity towards AT-sequence and stacking preference for A/A parallel or diagonal adjacent base steps in their intercalation. The nucleolytic properties of these complexes were investigated and the factors affecting the extent of cleavage were determined to be: concentration of complex, the nature of metal(II) ion, type of buffer, pH of buffer, incubation time, incubation temperature, and the presence of hydrogen peroxide or ascorbic acid as exogenous reagents. The fluorescence property of these complexes and its origin were also investigated. The crystal structure of the Zn(phen)(edda) complex is reported in which the zinc atom displays a distorted trans-N4O2 octahedral geometry; the crystal packing features double layers of complex molecules held together by extensive hydrogen bonding that inter-digitate with adjacent double layers via π…π interactions between 1,10-phenanthroline residues. The structure is compared with that of the recently described copper(II) analogue and, with the latter, included in molecular modeling.
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It isn't worth it. You have a car payment and I don't think they worked all the bugs out yet.
No. If I ever get an electric car, it will be a Honda Clarity. It certainly looks nicer than the Volt: http://automobiles.honda.com/fcx-clar...
There is no way I'm paying 40,000 even with a 7,000 tax credit for a GM product when I can get a Lexus hybrid for that much and guarantee that I have a top quality vehicle. They won't sell enough to make it profitable and GM already has enough no profit cars including the Cobalt.
Erplane, the problem with your numbers are that you have not figured in the cost of charging the batteries after a few 20 mile trips. Now the gas engine did not start but that doesn't mean it was a free ride. Also, how long will the batteries last. Will they need replaced after those 6 years you mentioned? How many thousands of dollars will it cost to replace the batteries when they give out. Last but not least, where will the Volt be produced? In the US hopefully but no guarantee of that just yet.
A 20-mile trip? Under what conditions?
Summer? OK. What about in one of our winters? Let's see, running the headlights eats some of that. So does running a defroster. What does that do to your range?
How about a drive from, say, Boardman to downtown Y-town, in a February 'freezing fog', leaving out around 6:00am and coming back, with a stop at the grocery, getting in around 6:00pm. Let alone Canfield to Niles. These are not long trips, they are part of 'normal' commutes, and they happen at all hours and in all conditions of weather. Even windshield wiper motors require electricity to operate. You really expect to run all of these things off the battery and have no expectation that it will reduce your travel range?
Now let's talk about charging. Anyone familiar with the term ''demand meter''? Bet there are a few. Want to see the meter spike, and stay there all month? Betcha it will affect your power bill.
Oh, and by the way, there is not sufficient additional capacity on the power grid to service very many of these. If we were allowed to build power plants ..... but of course the sleazy liars of Greenpeace and other propagandists will never permit that.
This vehicle is the answer to a question no one asked. VERY few people will find it to serve their needs.
you certainly expanded the basic point I was trying to make. Generating that additional power is going to cost in resources as you alluded to.
We need to expand our drilling for natural gas etc. I understand that there is not a nationwide network of natural gas refueling stations but just as we did in the early 1900's we build the stations in and around the cities and then expand as the need grows. Besides, the cleaner burn of natural gas is what we need in the cities anyways.
I think our future needs a variety of energy sources, fossil fuel, natural gas, solar, wind, bio-diesel.
Of course before that happens we must deal with the dirtbags you mentioned!
Oh, there are ''five nuclear plants green-lighted''? Hmm. What are the chances that ANY of them will actually be built and put on-line in the next 5 years?? Since I worked up at Grinnell in Warren MANY years ago when the usual gang of screaming idiots shut down nuclear power plant construction, many built using components built right here in the Valley by us, and saw the plant shut down back around 1984, you'll forgive my skepticism. I know about construction projects, some near completion, that were shut down by screaming idiots, shyster lawyers, and judges with delusions of adequacy. Look up the history of WPPS some time. So you'll forgive my skepticism on that score.
And having worked in engineering roles with several of the automotive companies, both the OEM's and the parts suppliers, I am far less trusting of the thoroughness of their testing. I've seen test reports within the last month that add to the skepticism.
Again, this mess is ''the answer to the question no one asked''. What may be appropriate for someone whose whole life exists within a relatively small area, may be utterly insufficient to others. Want to have three vehicles just to handle the different needs, or just one that adequately handles all of them? Most people have answered that question already.
This entire thing is not a response to real customer demand, it is a bow to the self-appointed 'elites' with large mouths and small foreheads. And you know it.
I can assure you, many of us in northern California do not want, nor are interested in any type of electric car.
The first time you go to replace it's expensive battery, you'll think about putting that money toward something newer.
No, car companies now are already producing small, fuel efficient cars, Unless we live in downtown New York City or Los Angeles, it's not worth it.
I am a lifelong "car guy" and I am not interested in the Volt or any electric car, frankly.
Even Hybrids, the extra 1 1.5 extra MPG it gets over a similar conventional model, it's not worth the added $.
We tend to agree to disagree but it is nice to see a civilized discussion!
Give the tax credit as described to domestic products and tax the foreign products at a rate 4x higher than the current number. As a primary investor the fed government should have every right to do what they can to ensure success of companies they support financially. Things turn around quickly at that point.
Erplane, you also fail to add to your argument the fact that Obama has stated many times that we pay too little for electricity. His goal is to drastically increase rates will change the scope of your calculations. So even with increased gas $$ the same will hold true for electricity.
As for the power plants, most of those "near green lighted projects" have been in limbo for years. Obama will make it nearly impossible to build one with emision standards strict enough to keep the wackos happy.
As much as I'd like to see the Volt survive, I don't think we currently have the infrastructure to support it in mass. This vehicle is designed more for large metropolitain transportation (New York, Chicago, LA, San Fran, Huston, etc) outside of those metropolitan areas the gas guzzler is still the best option.
I agree with the posters who say that today's electric and hybrid cars are not for everyone. If you need a new car today and you drive a hundred miles a week those cars don't make much sense. A four cylinder car would serve you well. If you commute 2-3 hours a day hybrid is your car.
This technology is going to take off and these cars will be the future as they become more efficient and less expensive. The motto in "High Tech" is "every 18 months, twice as fast for half as much". The most optimistic forecasters predict that the WORLD will be out of oil in 40 years. This technology is our future and and is well worth the investment.
The "Volt" is the car that will bring GM back to solvency. Are you kidding? I haven't bought a 40K car ever! Check the latest conumer guide on dependability for all cars currently on the market. GM has serious problems with those models it now produces; would it be any different with the new "Volt"?
Amen to the $40K price tag not appealing to very many people no matter what the "tax credit" You still have to spend the money and have enough taxable income to make a tax credit worth anything. And as pwin above notes, GM has serious quality issues.
For all the build-build-build comments on power plants and such - I just gloss over your ranting. Move to a cabin in Idaho where you'll fit in.
Heck NO!!! What about a family with 3 teenage kids (or more for that matter)? That is what these liberals in NY riding the subway and the dual income no kid liberals forget as well. Furthermore, I have to drive to work in whatever weather (not warm, sunny, Southern California) at whatever hours and be able to get there in my job. Finally, the cost does not work out, but don't worry, after Obama taxes the heck out of gasoline, it might. So much for not taxing the middle class. The sad thing is how many of you believed him.


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ISLAMABAD: Senior PML-N leaders called on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, currently in Murree, to meet his close aide, Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan to discuss the confronting issues of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) Azadi march and Pakistan Awami Tehreek's (PAT) Inqilab march.
Sources said that the prime minister held consultation on Saturday with the Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Federal Railway Minister Saad Rafique, Ishaq Dar and Chaudhry Nisar and close party leaders seeking their opinion to deal with the upcoming political scenario. The top PML-N leaders mulled over a strategy to cope with PTI and the prime minister will hold discussion regarding demands of the PTI Chairman Imran Khan during the meeting with the interior minister. Sources further said that Ch. Nisar has always been tasked to take measures persuading the adamant Imran Khan to avoid taking extreme steps and settle matters amicably.
Meanwhile, Imran Khan has asked PTI's MNAs to submit their resignation ahead of their scheduled long march on August 14.
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My oldest son was born withĀtwo large irregular birthmarks, one wrapping around half his neck and the other on his tailbone area.Ā
I always pointed them out to whoever did his annual check up and knew that NF was a possibility, butĀno one ever was worried, just said to "watch it".Ā When he had his annual check up last year when he turned nine, that pediatrician (we see a different one pretty much every time), sent him to dermatology and opthamology to get checked out.Ā Dermatology counted the one wrapped around his neck as two different ones, then the one on his tailbone, and also a small, darkerĀoneĀon his calf as one, which made four...not enough to actually qualify as aĀcafe au lait syptom.Ā But she also found freckling.Ā His eyes were fine at opthamology.Ā Well, he's ten now and I've read that symptoms startĀshowing up quicker at puberty.ĀĀThis month I've found two more, about 3Āx 1 inch ovals,Āso now he has six.ĀĀ
They never officially diagnosed him with NF but he'll haveĀanother annual checkĀwith derm. and opth. this summer and really, I'm pretty sure he has it.
My questions...
At what age did your child have to start having MRI's (or whatever scan they do)?Ā Did they ever find anything?
What symptoms other that the birthmarks and freckling has your child had?
Anyone with a child that has started or passed puberty, how much worse did it get during that time?Ā
Did you get your other kids or youĀor spouseĀchecked for it?Ā Dh or I have no symptoms of it we can see, nor anyone else in our family.Ā Our other children do not either that I've noticed.
Does it affect life insurance coverage in anyway?Ā Is this a "pre-existing condition" that you have to disclose?
My son's birthmarks are pretty light and usually no none notices unless I point them out.Ā He is not self concious at all of them.Ā Really, I don't think he notices them either.Ā
Thanks for any help!


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Translation of talent in Italian:
- 1 (gift) her talent(s) as a speaker, teacherla sua (innata) capacità oratoria, di insegnareshe has a remarkable talent for musicè molto dotata o ha grande talento per la musicaa man of many talentsun uomo con molte doti
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- 3 (British English) [informal] (sexually attractive people)fauna (feminine) [humorous]to eye up the (local) talent [informal]
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About Ribblesdale Guest Farm
Ribblesdale Guest Farm is situated among spectacular koppies and offers breathtaking sunsets in an utterly peaceful and quiet setting where one can still hear what you are thinking.
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