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Make sure you plan your budget appropriately to ensure you have enough money to finish your remodel.
Your kitchen is probably the main room of your home, even more so then the living room or den. You would like to give it a face-lift or even a major overhaul, but how can you live without your kitchen for long? Here are a few dos and don'ts that could save you time, money, and some relief from the stress of not having the center of your family life available.
Do think out carefully what areas you want to improve and how your budget will handle the job. Even a sketched-out plan and a consultation with a designer is better than just jumping in with an "idea" of what you want. As you plan out what you want to do, you can start putting together a budget. Soon, you will start seeing a better picture of what can happen and what will stay on the planning table for now.
Don't be unprepared in this project. Know everything you can about the changes you are about to make and how you will make them.
Do gather ideas if you are not sure of the details you want. Home improvement magazines, kitchen brochures, designer magazines can help. Visit home improvement stores and model homes. You will notice things you might not have thought of otherwise.
Don't spread your budget too thin; the unexpected could happen and you will not be caught off-guard if you give yourself some working room.
Do set a clear-cut budget and stick to it. Now that you have done a little research and have a better understanding of what you want and will be able to do, a budget must be set and followed; after all, you want to save time and money.
Don't measure just once, measure twice and make sure elements will fit correctly when ordering or buying. It can become very costly to get things wrong.
Do decide how much you can do yourself and what will need the help of a professional. Can you do the painting and sanding, for example? Major jobs, such as lighting, plumbing and such, really should be in a professional's hands. That needs to be figured into the budget as well.
The little things can make a big difference in savings and a face-lift may be all that is needed as opposed to an overall remodel. Whatever you decide, make it your style, make it functional, and make it the room you, your family, and your friends will always gravitate towards.
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Lost cartoon episodes?
Hey, first off, yeah, I'm new to the forums, been coming to the site for a long time though, even gave some fan art at one point, but yeah, onto my question
I've got all 3 tapes of episodes released by Sullivan, but it SEEMS like I remember, but feel free to hit me if I'm wrong, that there were a few episodes that got made, but not released on tape. Or maybe they didnt even air for all I know. But I was wondering if these mystical episodes exsist anywhere, be they on official tapes, or maybe some uh...not really as official tapes...yeah.
Or as I said, maybe I'm totally freakin nuts...
yeah...probably...should have posted this in the other part of the forum....sorry.
Moving it now...:)
The other episodes were not put on video and all animated shorts were cut out... sorry, man.
A couple of the shorts didn't get cut... but 6 episodes including, if I'm not mistaken, "The Friend for Life" and "The Glazed McGuffin Affair" didn't make it to tape. Why they didn't is sort of unknown. I mean, was it because the other 3 tapes didn't sell well, or was it because those 6 episodes were too offensive to be put on tape?
I've heard that parents in some cities tried to ban the cartoon, and it just so happens that many of the 6 missing episodes had the potential to be the most offensive (and happened, sadly, to be some of the funnier ones too)... so that's probably the case. The videos probably didn't sell tremendously well either, at least in the US, considering you could only get them from one obscure website. ... Though that website is recommended by Burt Reynolds... hmmmm...
I taped all the episodes back when they were on FOX and if you want I could type up the titles of all the episodes and you can figure out what's missing
The Thing That Wouldnt Stop It
The Second Show Ever
The Tell Tale Tail
Big Trouble At Earths Core
That Darn Gater
Little Big Foot
Max's Big Day
The Dysfunction Of The Gods
We Drop At Dawn
Bad Day On The Moon
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Aaiieee, Robot
The Uglians From Outer Space
The Invaders
They Came From Down There
The Trouble With Gary
So I'm looking for the ones that didnt get released on tape, should be 6 from what I've heard, giving me their names might help. But also, I have to ask, even though I dont like bootleging stuff, if you have any means to make me a copy on VHS of the Sam & Max episodes I dont have, I would be more than happy to pay for the cost of tapes and shipping, and I could make the payment to you via PayPal.com or any other way. email me at email@example.com if you think you can help.
Also if you have a capture card, digital versions of the episodes would be cool too. E-mail me and lemme know.
*Shmargin doesnt like piracy of Sam & Max, but its the only way, THE ONLY WAY I SAY!
Sean (Sasistic/SpiffyGerbil) sent this little update to Unofficial a couple years ago:
I haven't seen any animated shorts in my tapes. Of course the only shorts I can remember is the animated version of making a Max puppet and something about a pancreas... or is it liver... possibly spleen.
I think I've seen both of those... but they might have been on my bootleg missing episodes tape Mercatfat taped off of TV.
Ok, you are actually missing nine episodes.
They are:
Tonight We Love (The Valentines Day One)
The Glazed McGuffin Affair (About Sanck Foods)
A Glitch in Time (About well, Time Travel)
Christmas Bloody Christams (Christmas episode)
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (A James Bond parody)
Hurray for Dangly Deaver (Old TV charectors come to life)
The Friend for Life (My personal favorite)
Fools Die on Fridays (Sort of a sequel to the last one)
The Final Episode (Speaks For itself)
Sorry I don't have a way to copy them, but I can send you more detailed descriptions or something id you want.
I almost forgot the shorts... this may not be all of them, I'm pulling them from memory:
Sam And Max's Artsy Craftsy Bit of Time-Wasting Nonsnese (Make your own Max head hand puppet)
Vice Squad (This was about crushing stuff)
Sam and Max's Guide to your Body (This isn't the exact title, but it does involve the spleen for those who were wondering about it)
Ah the Vise Squad. The part of the show dedicated to crushing things with your [dad's] vise.
Sam: Make sure you always wear Dad's protective eyeware
Max pulls out a mine *WWII Surplus. Do Not Crush In Dad's Vice*
Max:I acn't read a darn thing with these goggles on, oh wel..... BOOOOOOOOOOOM
Sam: Are you Ok little buddy?
Max(Black and Charred):I'm wearing Dad's safety goggles arem't I?....... Call an ambulence
I'm going to be putting clips up from the episodes as soon as I get the time *que audience laugh track* ... and I don't have a couple of the missing ones. If you have the ability to at least capture the shorts to a quicktime file or other simlar format that would be much appreciated.
Hint all you want, nobody can take my babies away from me.... what would i need to get them into quicktime or something? Maybe I can do that....
secret page
*very secret!! :max:
Jake you fool! The menu links work! They'll see everything!!
We'll be dashed to bits!
Also: :sam: :max:
Snuckey's never had a chance. *sniff*
The Messageboard tab still leads to STISH. Don't go there, the angelfire "fix" that allows me to display their hosted images does not work.
I've seen that "image hosted" thing all too often. Change the link immediately.
the... the... links.. work.....
wow. orgasmic.
though they go nowhere.
Feel the power of my bandwidth
I was always planning on uploading all the video-released episodes once Burt Reynolds runs out of stock.
I did a few tests with QuickTime's Sorenson 3 and they look beautiful.
I MUST see the unreleased episodes. Fate kept me from watching Fox Kids very frequently.
...I'm actually looking forward for VideoFlicks running out of the tapes. They're doing a horrible job of distributing the series.
Heeeeeeyyyyyyyy! It's Tyler, the guy who colored the Oni comic!
yeah....I'd kill a man to get my hands on copies of the unreleased epsiodes and the shorts in any form....
That coloring job looks SO dated.
I could color the hell out of it nowadays.
...but alas, I'm too lazy/busy.
Kill a man? Er.... *Sidles off in the other direction*
Any news on this? I've found several episodes on eMule, but they were just the ones from the videos, and I have those already (on video, that is).
Anyone encounter any of the unreleased eps online, or have them recorded for digitizing? If you do, check out http://arstechnica.com/guide/audio-v...vidcap-1.html. And for the love of god, DO NOT encode them into RealPlayer files. Do Divx or mpeg.
Hi Shmargin, welcome to the forums!
Thats a pretty stupid first post! Wow, 2001? You should have a million posts by 2008! See you then!
Whoa, I get TWO replies to my last post, nearly FIVE YEARS after I made it! In a thread that is SIX years in the making.
This blows my mind.
Enough blathering. Here's some real info:
Looks like it's the "full series", so I would expect the previously unavailable episodes to be on there. The shorts ARE going to be there too! Looks like they're going for full completeness here.
At last, I can box up and ignore the VHS tapes (if I haven't already, since I don't own a VCR anymore and I've moved several times since I bought them) and replace them with the latest technology! Well...actually I guess that would be digital (I refuse to acknowledge the existence of next-gen physical media formats) but I'll settle for the shiny spinning disc.
I was just keeping the thread alive, but thanks, good information for those who do not know yet, or who are still living in 2003!
This thread was my first post on Mojo ever and that was the only reason I brought it back... I was just bored, I have the DVDs pre-ordered already.
Which should be coming soon!
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Older DCI receiver
Happy Birthday Dave. Hmm $250. Might just go ahead and build my other kit this time to get it out of the way now. I may need counselling RetVet all these kits and I don't know where to start when the house is done (very soon)
7.62x39 - I'm #904 on that list for the type I......
Gunco, where did you see the type III receivers? ORF hasn't began making them yet and they were the only ones I knew of listing them. I have an IMBEL to do......
I talked to ORF this morning, now I'm getting the "they won't be made for another two months, he had a problem with them and shut down production" three weeks ago it was "he finished the first run and is shipping and will start making the second batch in three weeks".....
Thanks Chris. Anything you need, just let me know. I'm all ears (just ask the wife).:biggrin:
And a Happy New Year too! I've been MIA on most of the forums lately.
So it's an older DCI receiver. It's my understanding that the new ones have some design improvements. Not sure what that entails. Probably all internal.
Compliance Parts Dave Compliance Parts. Just got my M53 today. It's time to outfit a shop and start.
If your pic is showing what receiver you got, this is current model DCI-LAR-1.Quote:
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NoDak Spud LLC
DUH? That would be cool though a little pricy!!! The add said Dan Coonan receiver so I assumed it was an old one since there are now named DCI-LAR-1Quote:
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Still happy..................Wife won't be about the price.....LOL
Times are always better to have receivers in hand and no cash than to have cash in hand and no receivers.
I got the rear receiver sections for my M53 from IMA a while back. Got the replacement nose piece from the Weaponeer group buy. All I need now is the camming section of the receiver in the middle. Once I have that I can start figuring out how to align the parts and start welding (or get someone to help me weld it).Quote:
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This is all 1Pats fault. He's the one who got us into this beltfed stuff!:lol:


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formset_for_form should put the form's base_fields on the Formset class
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When an inline in an InlineModelAdmin contains a field that maps to a ForeignKey and has a ton of options (in my case 5,000+) the add/change pages are extremely slow. I began to trace the problem done and it looks like the root of the problem is each ModelChoiceField has its own instance in memory for each form which results in one query per form in the inline. This gets worse when there is many extra forms. There are really almost two ways to fix this problem and I am proposing to fix the code. The alternative is to use Javascript to add more extra forms so only one query is ran.
It looks like it will be better for the Formset to hold the base_fields and then place it on the BaseForm class before creating it so only one query would run for each form instance. Am I missing something here that would cause problems with this kind of solution?
Change History (3)
comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by brosner
- Keywords nfa-someday added
- Needs documentation unset
- Needs tests unset
- Patch needs improvement unset
Tagging with nfa-someday as this is functionality that is not critical to the merge of the newforms-admin branch. I am unsure if the current admin has the same issue. Could anyone shed some light on that?
comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by brosner
- Triage Stage changed from Unreviewed to Design decision needed
comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by brosner
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- Status changed from new to closed
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Hope Springs Eternal
Washington Post Media Critic Tom Shales pulls his head out of the sand long enough to present his year end review, including this characterization of Rathergate:
Tireless press critics during war or peacetime, the conservatives were handed a valuable new weapon when CBS News fumbled a report detailing the president's shoddy record as a member of the National Guard back in Texas. The report was attacked virtually the moment it aired on "60 Minutes"; documents used to bolster the allegations were condemned by conservative critics as phony and forged, though no forging has yet been proved.
It sounds like he's still holding out for Divine Intervention on that one. Who says these guys aren't religious?
There are approximately five embarrassingly flawed/distorted assumptions in those two sentences alone (not bad for the preeminent media critic in the country). The largest of which being that the burden of proof still lies with those who've already comprehensively destroyed the credibility of those ridiculous documents, instead of those attempting to use them to degrade the reputation of the President of the United States.
Jim Treacher's comments quoted yesterday bear repeating:
Okay, I'm no Howard Kurtz or anything, but I've seen one or two episodes of Law & Order in my day, and ... isn't the burden of proof on the accuser? It is? Okay. And isn't this crewcutted septuagenarian fadebrain the one who made the really big serious accusation? He is? Check. So ... isn't he sort of, you know, under the obligation to verify his claims? And not in a position to sit back and demand that everybody else prove to his satisfaction that it's not clearly bullshit? Is it out of line for me to ask this stuff? Sorry. Sorry. But I mean, if these memos were scribbled in burnt sienna crayon on the back of a Denny's placemat and somebody had the unmitigated gall to say something about it, would that be part of the 'professional rumor mill'? I'm just asking here, no big deal."
Arrogant media bias being practiced by the person assigned by a MSM institution to report on media bias. It makes one nostalgic for Brian Lambert, wherever he is today.


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A Claim for Severance Damages Based on a Temporary Construction Easement Must be Supported By Evidence that TCE Interfered with Owner's Actual Intended Use of the Property
Severance Damages for a temporary construction easement were not allowed by the California Court of Appeal in its recent City of Fremont v. Fisher case (February 28, 2008) 160 Cal.App.4th 666. The Court's ruling was based on the property owner having failed to show that the TCE interfered with their actual intended use of the property. Even though temporary severance damages resulting from the construction of a public project are compensable, the temporary easement must interfere with the owner's actual intended use of the property to present evidence to the jury on temporary severance damages. In the Fisher case, the owner must have presented evidence as to a specific loss attributable to the delay in construction; a claim for such severance damages cannot be based on a hypothetical or conjectural, possible use of the property by the property owner during the TCE.


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Katherine, a great white shark that was tagged off the coast in Massachusetts last August, is headed to Texas according to the pings that she has transmitted. According to Mail Online, Katherine is a 14-foot shark that weighs 2,300 pounds. Since being tagged, she has surfaced several times in the Gulf of Mexico. The tag, likely located on the shark's dorsal fin, sends a signal when it comes to the surface. On Sunday, the shark was located 140 miles west of Sarasota, Florida.
Researchers have tagged great whites in order to monitor their migration patterns. Robert Hueter of the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota said that it was surprising to see the great white heading for Texas because sharks were known to swim in the Gulf of Mexico during the winter months only. So what does this mean?
Is Katherine the great white looking to mate? Or is she staying close to the shore to find her next meal? These questions haven't been answered yet, but researchers hope that staying on top of these pings will provide some concrete clues about where these sharks go, when, and why.
According to USA Today, another great white shark named Betsy (who weighs in at 1,400 pounds), was also tagged. Her last known whereabouts came via ping earlier this month. According to the documented information, Betsy is 120 miles west of Sanibel Island, Fla. -- she too could be swimming in the Gulf of Mexico right now.
Katherine the great white and other sharks like her are often hunted for their fins and teeth -- not to mention how "cool" some think it would be to reel one of these predatory fish in. This is the main reason that research is being done: To protect the species.
Hueter added:
"In order to protect them, researchers need a better understanding of where they travel to, mate and give birth -- all things not yet known about the great whites in the Atlantic."


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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Movie Reviews
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Release Date: May 25, 2007
Genre: Action/Adventure
Rating: (PG-13)
User reviews on Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
This movie was very good. Anyone who didn't understand it, it was probably because you saw it in theaters. I have the DVD, and you can watch it as many times you like, which will help you understand what the point of it is. They are not "flogging this hore to death" what they are doing is being good directors and and actors and actresses and trying to make it seem more realistic. I would say that the reason why they made the close up on his nose and stuff was to show that he was in Davey Jones locker. I really like this movie, and i have to say that I think I have an obsession with Johnny Depp and his character Captian Jack Sparrow], and Keira Knightly and her character [Elizabeth Swann]. They are both excelent actors. The producer has a wild imagination, and really knows how to make things spark out at you. My favorite part was when Jack Sparrow said, "fire" all calm and then everyone else Screamed it. That showed a moment of defeat for Lord Bekkut [i think thats how you spell it]. Oh, and I LOVE the bloopers! :] Over all, it was an awesome movie, and I am hoping that they make at least one more!
To be honest I dont like this type of film and without Mr Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) then this film would completely fall on its arse. However the part in the desert where he is locked 'in eternity' is quite possibly one of the funniest scenes ive seen since american pie. I guess maybe its changed my opinion now. Thumbs up!
Plotless and pointless. A series of special effects strung together for no reason. The first movie was good, but they are flogging this horse to death
i gave this movie 5 stars cuz i love johnny depp!! he is so hot and i just love him well back to the movie well this movie was a lot more action and more serious and the other 2 pirates of the caribbean they were alot more funnier!!:) And all kids and adults can watch this show!!:)
This was not nearly as good as the first two, but it had its moments. My husband and I agreed that it was about 30 minutes too long. There was some good action and a lot of intellectual humor. the kind that I count on Johnny Depp for. Not a terrible waste, but left me wanting something...
I hate to say it, but I was dissipointed. Were they TRYING to make Johnny Depp look old, ugly, & dirty? What was with the close up of his pores on his nose??
They needed to keep the look he had with the first & second one.I realize he'a a PIRATE, but don't make him look like Keith Richards yet! Don't bury those good looks, he won't have them forever!!
(If you will all notice, they use his first Captain Jack image on all the marketing, toys, cereal, etc.)
They seemed to have too many different stories going on, became confusing at times.
Some scenes were poorly directed, with Captin Jack as a mere spectator.
We want more interactive story line & not quite so much CGI. That's what was wrong with the second one! Or at least more of a balance!
Over the top, in many ways. J. Depp was his "usual" self. Supporting actors did a great job. Action-Adventur e to the extreme. A great 12-year old kid's movie, that is entertaining to the old folks too, but about 20-30 minutes too long. Pop settled and hunger pangs set in, so I wasn't sure I'd be able to see the end, if I had wanted to. Fortunately, I did. Wife said it ranked up there with "Men in Black", which she attended with two grandson's who especially liked the the "slime and gore" scenes (but grandma did not). Much the same as the first, but different, but not much. Entertaining - very. Over the top - Yeah!. Computer generated action scenes were wild, vivid and again, over the top. Not bad - just "yeah right - Ms. Knightly makes Bruce Lee look like a lightweight in the fight scenes. Gave folks jobs and made the backers rich. The American Dream in film.
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I just reinstalled a clean version of XP SP3 on a ThinkPad T60. After downloading all of the missing drivers from the Lenovo site, everything seems to work except for the audio.
I installed the audio driver from http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-62928.html (version 18.104.22.16826) so SoundMAX shows up in the control panel and everything in the Sound preferences looks okay, but no sound comes out of the speakers when I try to play music or hear the interface sound effects. There's also no sound if I plug in headphones and listen.
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January 20, 2011 is published in your email 'Skoki Lodge' … did you mean March 20 to join realBanff on a trek to the Skoki Lodge, about a 11 km hike from the Lake Louise area.
Beutiful video, just beautiful country and beautiful people.
Hi Matt,Awesome photo of Moraine Lake. Hard to imagine that was in June! You solhud comeback in the area.I'm pretty sure that the locals where all wearing shorts!Cheers,GT


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College Hockey:Chargers Tight Defense Leads To 2-1 Win
Beavers Tie Record With 0-For-11 Power Play Performance
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Bemidji State and Alabama-Huntsville combined for three goals in the first 15:53 of the contest, then became deadlocked in a defensive struggle which saw Alabama-Hunstville hold on for a 2-1 victory in College Hockey America play. The win helped break a deadlock atop the CHA standings and move the Beavers two points behind the Chargers for the conference lead.
BSU trailed, 2-1, at the first intermission despite outshooting the Chargers by an 18-7 margin. A cross-checking penalty to Huntsville's Mike Salekin at 3:06 of the first led to the game's opening goal. The Chargers opened scoring by picking up an unassisted shorthanded goal from Bruce Mulherin at 3:44. It marked the sixth shorthanded goal allowed by BSU in its last 12 contests.
Six seconds after the Salekin penalty expired, BSU evened the score at a goal apiece. Tyler Scofield picked up his third goal of the season with assists from Matt Pope and Riley Weselowski. Pope extended his personal scoring streak to a career-high five games, while Weselowski pushed his scoring streak to three games.
It was the only goal BSU would see in the contest. The Chargers recaptured the lead, 2-1, on a Chris Martini even-strength marker 10 minutes later, and would win a defensive battle in the game's final two periods and eke out the victory.
Sophomore goaltender Matt Climie saw his four-start unbeaten streak come to an end. He saved 30 shots, including 11-of-11 in the second period and 14-of-14 in the third, and allowed only the two first-period goals to take the hard-luck loss. He saw his season record fall to 5-6-2, as the defeat marked third time this season Climie has allowed just two goals and lost. It also marked the fourth time he has received two goals or less of support from the BSU offense.
Scott Munroe out-duelled Climie, posting 33 saves, including 16-of-16 in the second and third periods, to improve to 12-6-2.
True to form, the Beavers and Chargers played a penalty-riddled contest which featured numerous scuffles. BSU was hit for nine minor penalties for 18 minutes, while the Chargers drew 14 minors for 28 minutes – the second-most penalties this season by a BSU opponent. Three players drew roughing minors at 14:50 of the second period, leading to a BSU power play; two Chargers drew penalties with 52 seconds to play in the second leading to another BSU power-play chance, and a total of five penalties were issued during a fracas around the BSU net at 16:28 of the third.
The Beavers went 0-for-11 on the power play, tying a Division I-era record for worst single-game power-play performance, against a Charger penalty-killing unit which entered the game ranked 47th in the nation. It matched an Oct. 28, 2000 game at Alabama-Huntsville, which also saw the Beavers go 0-for-11 with the man advantage, and marks just the third time since 1999 the Beavers have failed on 10 power-play chances in a single contest.
The Chargers went 0-for-6 with the man advantage.
BSU's lone goal tied its single-game season low, set on five previous occasions. The Beavers have been held to one goal five times in their last 12 starts dating back to a 2-1 loss to Lake Superior State on Dec. 9, 2005.
The loss dropped BSU to 12-24-1 in its all-time series with Alabama-Huntsville and snaps a two-game Beaver winning streak in the series. The Beavers are 4-16-0 all-time against the Chargers in Huntsville, Ala.; BSU had won two of its last three games played at the Von Braun Center.
BSU saw its season record fall to 13-9-3 with tonight's loss and dropped to 8-4-1 for 17 points in CHA play. Alabama-Huntsville improves to 13-8-2 overall and 9-3-1 for 19 points in CHA play. The teams wrap up their two-game series tomorrow with a 4:05 p.m. afternoon start at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Ala.
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Does Harry Styles Kiss Like A Snail? Taylor Swift Says So!
They were a pair of seemingly inseperable lovebirds only a few weeks ago, but now another rumour has come out about their relationship, and DAMMMN is it a funny one
Over in our forum there are hundreds of One Direction Fan Fiction stories, and many of them talk about kissing certain members of the band.
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Published: Sunday, January 15, 2006 at 6:01 a.m.
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It was with great dismay that I read of the Rev. Jim Morrisons announcement to the community. I will not, however, use this medium as did he to give my personal opinion of homosexuality and the priesthood.
What is particularly disturbing to me is that it appears what was done was more self-serving than an attempt at being more honest with the public. Morrison has done a lot of good without revealing his personal tendencies. This announcement will only serve to hinder his progress.
He indicated he was trying to follow his own advice, but what about following the churchs advice? The church does not advise us to publicly disclose our personal struggles, but we are required to bear our burdens. Christ said, "If you want to be my disciple, take up your cross and follow Me."
This revelation will only serve to fuel the current scandal the Roman Catholic Church in our country and diocese is enduring. May God bless us all.
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Tonight's episode of "Deadliest Catch" was titled "Family Affair." With the government shutdown finally over, the fleet is currently behind schedule. Now the market deadline is approaching, and it is an all-out battle to get the best price for their crabs. The weather forecast predicts the impending storm will be right in the path of the fleet.
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On the Northwestern, Sig is far north and the storm is rearing its ugly head, and 100,000 pounds of crab already onboard, as they try to haul the next string, three of the four forward deck lights are not working as he tries to find his pots. To add to the misery, the fourth one goes out too. Now Edgar has to climb the 64-foot mast to check them, so he brings Jake Anderson with him as the 55-mile winds continue to blow. It is not the light bulbs, as they quickly find out and get down as fast as possible. Now what seemed to be a quick fix, is a six-hour repair. So they took a light from another area and mounted it where it shone into the sea. Going back up the mast was not a good choice, as the winds further intensified. Soon the light was working, and Sig got a Coast Guard message that a boat was in trouble. He hears that the helicopter is rushing to the fisherman who is in distress with a life-threatening blood clot in his lung. As they attempt to drop the stretcher basket down, the 100 knot winds are making it difficult to be on target. On the second try, they load the fisherman in the basket and prepare to lift him and bring him into the chopper to work on him immediately as they take him to the hospital.
On the Time Bandit, deck boss Scotty Hillstrand gets pep talk/orders from his father Johnathan. Since Mike Fourtner retired, Scotty became deck boss, and now it is his job to teach his crew what to do and make sure they do it. It is like My Three Sons on the deck, as his son, his brother Neal's son Axel and Eddie's son Eddie Uwekoolani Jr. are also on the boat. The waves continue to wash over the fishermen as they fight for their livelihood, but when it gets too hard to hold the pots, Johnathan calls off fishing for the night.
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Day One, Week One: McCain Campaign, GOP Open Weak
Bad news for the GOP seems to be the common denominator as the one-on-one race for the white house opens today. Some examples:
Apparently John McCain hasn't made much headway since he clinched the GOP nomination, at least in the Buckeye state. L.A. Times reporter Peter Walsten writes on the inept McCain campaign in Ohio.
Ditto in S.C., says MyDD's Jonathan Singer.
Jim Turner of TCPalm reports voters are bailing from the GOP on FL's 'Treasure Coast.'
The Southern Political Report's Hastings Wyman's "The rise and fall of the Virginia GOP" reports on the "precipitous decline" of the "once-GOP stronghold into the Democratic column."
Paul Rosenberg's Open Left post "The Making of A Landslide--A Progress Report" sees huge Dem gains in party i.d., based on the latest Rasmussen polling data.
And Rosenberg flags a DCORPS study indicating significant Democratic inroads in 45 GOP-held districts.
Obama is taking his campaign into the belly of the GOP beast, report Adam Nagourney and Jeff Zeleny in The New York Times.
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Is Facebook Inc's Graph Search Worth Its Salt?
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The new search function began its official rollout on Monday, but will it actually be Facebook's "third pillar" as Zuckerberg claims?
On Monday,
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Mark Zuckerberg has said that Graph Search is different from Web search because it fulfills a different need for Internet users. He has called it the site's third pillar, after Timeline and Newsfeed. In a news release, two Facebook executives who introduced Graph Search on the site
: "Graph Search and Web search are very different. Web search is designed to take a set of keywords (for example: 'hip hop') and provide the best possible results that match those keywords. With Graph Search you combine phrases (for example: 'my friends in New York who like Jay-Z') to get that set of people, places, photos or other content that's been shared on Facebook. We believe they have very different uses."
The new search employs Facebook's vast scale of user data and further illustrates how varied and specific the social network's information database is. Here's the question, though: Is Graph Search actually useful? To be more specific, will it enrich user experience? Will it help advertisers gain more exposure for their products? Will it help Facebook continue its quest to fully capitalize on its wealth of data? The responses to these questions are wide and varied, but essentially all draw attention to the fact that Facebook is still growing into its role as a relationship network, and many of those relationships have the potential to become more and more lucrative for the company and the advertisers who use its social matrix.
Janel Bailey, CEO of Xenos Hospitality in Georgia, thinks the social network's new search feature is less about sales than about building relationships, which can, in turn, influence sales. Xenos has been developing a statewide portal for Georgia to promote small business through local search, and as part of its research, its looked into how consumers use Facebook.
"Facebook was not born to be a search engine. It is a relationship network. Facebook values its company based on the hypothetical value of its users and uses this 'value' to hook advertisers in an attempt to monetize its business model," Bailey told Minyanville via email. "However, our research proves that consumers who are ready to buy do not use Facebook (or any social network for that matter) to search for products."
Phil Rooke, CEO of the e-commerce platform Spreadshirt, agrees. As he wrote in an article for Econsultancy, "Quite frankly, Facebook has been underwhelming for sales generation."
However, according to both Bailey and Rooke, what Facebook is useful for is allowing companies to build and reinforce brand messages in relation to their customers. As Rooke says, "The relationship in Facebook is not about boosting sales figures, but building a fan base."
Whereas users can play with Graph Search out of curiosity or to find friends with similar interests, advertisers can use it and similar apps, like Facebooks's Mobile App Install Ads tool, to target specific demographics for their products.
Andrew Schrage of
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Schrage also cites recent research demonstrating that "Sponsored Story" mobile ads are clicked on 13 times more than even traditional advertisements designed for desktop viewing, earning 11 times more money.
There's also new scientific research that suggests a psychological link between Facebook use and spending more money online. Andrew Stephen of the University of Pittsburgh and Keith Wilcox of Columbia University have been observing through experiments and surveys how Facebook affects the consumption behavior of users. They've found that social media can have measurable affects on judgment and decision-making.
As Wilcox told NBC News last November, "Simply browsing Facebook makes people feel better about themselves and momentarily enhances their self-esteem. It's that enhanced self-esteem that ultimately lowers your self-control." It goes like this: "I am in a good mood, people like me, I like people, I deserve a treat." Or maybe treats.
In the same interview, Stephen said, "People who use Facebook more tend to have a higher body-mass index, increased binge eating, carry more credit card debt, and have lower credit scores." Of course this should be taken with a grain of salt, as it came from a survey of 541 American Facebook users.
One of the experiments Wilcox and Stephen employed had people either browse the Internet or use Facebook for five minutes. Then all subjects took part in an online auction for an
(NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad. People who had spent more time on Facebook, and notedly, had a higher percentage of close friends on the social network, entered higher bids than the people who only browsed the Internet. Makes you wonder how someone would bid if he or she hadn't been using a computer at all.
Though Stephen and Wilcox only included Facebook in their research, the same consumption-heightening effects are presumably at work on other similar social networks like
(NASDAQ:GOOG), and Twitter as well.
As Stephen explained, "It's the strong connection that really triggers this boost in self-esteem which has this commensurate reduction in self-control." Facebook's entire business relies upon strong connections between friends who share information, between friends and musicians, movies, places, organizations, and products . Hence, the relationship network.
Graph Search is simply the newest tool that's both enhancing and harnessing the millions upon millions of relationships that make up Facebook. It's social impact is not yet clear, but as far as making money goes, Graph Search appears to be worth its salt -- and then some.
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Modern Warfare Mod 3 brings World in Conflict from the Cold War into the Modern Age. It also ups the ante on realism and authenticity in every role – Infantry, Armor, Support and Air, while trying our best to keep everything relatively balanced for fun and interesting gameplay.
For those of you who are not aware of camerafreedom, it's recommended that you use it. Open the attached zip file and unpack the 'wicautoexec.txt' file into: My Documents\World in Conflict\ directory path. You'll now be able to freely use your camera at any direction or height.
By default, World in Conflict locks the camera into small confines and uses a fishbowl style in its field of view.
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This will even work without the mod. There are basic console commands which are featured in the game, so yes, it will work.
Yep, this is not a mod feature -- but rather WiC's built in feature.
They are recommended especially when playing the mod, because the depth of gameplay has changed substantially. Restricted camera angles and depth of field really limits your ability to react in a fast paced game.
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Christian Junk Science
Promotes Social Inaction
Ariel Cruz
From: "Ariel Cruz"
To: "Positive Atheism" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 11:53 PM
Subject: Xtian junk science and entropy.
Hi Cliff,
I'm a 17 year old Marxist/Atheist. I just go turned on to your page a few days ao and have been drowning myself in all the great material you have posted. As a socialist, I spend much of my time arguing with Christians and their like who reject Political action because of their belief that the world is already damned and the only way out is to save their own souls. Aside from this being extremely selfish (not to mention contradictory to the supposed Christian tenets of love and altruism) it has become apparent that Xtian junk Sciencetists, namely Chuck Missler, are setting out to prove the validity of the insanely nonsensical fantasies that the funde-"mental cases" have been clinging to all this time. I was wondering if you might be able to help me find some critiques of this quackery either on the web or elsewhere?
Also I have a question for you. How do you think the universe began? Or more specifically, where did energy come from. As I understand it, concept of entropy states that the universe is oriented toward chaos. That energy is always being lost in the form of heat where it become useless to life. If it (energy) is finite, where did it come from? Although I staunchly reject the idea of an intelligent being meddling with the affairs of the universe, this concept kind of begs the question. So if there are any theories that you've heard of or anything let me know.
Very cool page. I'd love to hear your thoughts.
I have divided my response into three sections.
From: "Positive Atheism" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
To: "Ariel Cruz"
Subject: Re: Xtian junk science and entropy.
Date: Friday, July 14, 2000 4:49 AM
I'm really glad you wrote.
As a socialist, I spend much of my time arguing with Christians and their like who reject Political action because of their belief that the world is already damned and the only way out is to save their own souls.
End-times studies prey upon human nature. They invoke fear and make that fear it seem realistic by finding coincidences between Bible passages and current events. The Evangelical Christians bolster this (thus separating themselves from the likes of Nostradamus) by trying to make the Bible appear to be historically accurate. If it can be trusted in verifiable matters (it can't) then, as the leap goes, we ought to trust its unverifiable claims.
They also exploit the common (almost universal) human desire to know the future, and thus resemble any number of prognostication cults such as astrology. Using the Bible as the prognostication tool somehow legitimizes the whole notion of prognostication, which was previously relegated to the realm of the occult and other forbidden crafts.
In my lifetime, the most blatant expression of this resulting irresponsibility was Reagan's Interior Secretary James Watt. He inverted the general historical trend by announcing that we don't need to worry too much about ecology because Jesus is returning real soon anyway. Socially responsible Christians point to passages such as Revelation 11:18 ("thou ... and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth) and urge ecological responsibility. Also, many sects are falling over each other to appear to help the poor, but all too often lately this trend has turned into a money grab for State funding.
I still hold out hope that there are enough sane Christians working toward the common good that we can work together and make a better world for ourselves. I have recently observed that the question of whether a god exists is one of the stupidest things to get into a fight over. I'd like to hear your views on my desire to actively promote cooperation between atheists and theists in mutually solving some of the pressing problems facing our fellow-humans and the non-human residents of this planet.
Aside from this being extremely selfish (not to mention contradictory to the supposed Christian tenets of love and altruism) it has become apparent that Xtian junk Sciencetists, namely Chuck Missler, are setting out to prove the validity of the insanely nonsensical fantasies that the funde-"mental cases" have been clinging to all this time.
I usually consider "Xtian" in its various forms to be an epithet of sorts, but I'll let this one pass. Please understand that we usually either silently change this or reject the letter entirely. But we note the humor intended in some of your other deliberate misspellings, and will retain your use of "Xtian" to keep the flow of this humor. In other words, a case can be made that you are spelling it this way as a part of your series of puns.
Also implied in your letter is a respect for what I will call the more responsible Christians, who will readily work hand in hand with anyone who is willing to try to make this a better world for us all. My hope is that atheist will do the same whenever the opportunity arises, and thus I normally don't like to alienate any Christians from that most crucial of our messages.
Let me ramble about Missler a bit because he embodies so many of the different (as you say) "quackeries" going on within many of the Charismatic (or "Praise") Evangelical circles that hover around Orange County California -- not just Chuck Smith's Calvary Chapel (which has splintered off countless other groups around the world, such as Harvest). This rambling is neither systematic nor up-to-date. These are just some general reflections.
I haven't paid attention to Missler since about 1982, but I doubt he has needed to change his routine all that much. What I write here is about the late-1970s Missler, not the Missler of today (with whom I am almost completely unfamiliar). Perhaps you can gain some insight into the modern Missler (and similar preachers) through my memories and reflections of his former work.
Like Billy Graham, Missler is very good at avoiding the hot-button controversies, but he is still, for most Christians, so far out the trolleys don't run there. Missler was (still is?) what I call a Christian Symbolic-Mystic. He loved trying to decipher varous "secret messaged" in the Bible, but his "messages" always reflected orthodox Evangelical dogma. This is why I distinguis him from regular mystics: I doubt he goes into trances, and if he does, he'd never mention something that controvercial in Evangalical circles.
His biggest trips seem to be Biblical Inerrancy and Premillennialist Prophesy studies of the "Left Behind" school, though he does give lip-service to the Charismatic movement and to Creationism. (He rarely commits to such controversies as speaking in tongues or Young Earth Creationism, rather, letting you just assume that wherever your position is on either axis, he's in your camp.)
I used to listen to Chuck Missler when he was doing his Christian Symbolic-Mysticism routines for the Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa (Chuck Smith's church). Gaud! He came so close -- close enough to hook a lot of people into his trip -- but he always fell so utterly short of actually producing significant cases for any of his (Symbolic-Mystical) claims. I felt this even while I was wishing that he was on to something. He would announce at the beginning of a 16-week course that he was going to prove (or "show" us) this and that -- a whole long list of things -- and always ended up just hinting around one or two of these things. He did stretch the credulity of a lot of people, though, preparing them to accept any number of different Christian and/or New Age trips, and especially priming them for the now-popular approach of trying to use science to justify faith (which is an inversion of the traditional understanding of the word faith).
Missler generally only took advanced "Gone-
He is the only one with the nerve to stand in an auditorium and boldly proclaim things that many serious Evangelical Christians could only wish they could see -- much less think were true. (In this he is not unlike Josh McDowell.) The problem with finding anything resembling a refutation against a guy like Missler is that he's so far out in left field that nobody really cares to bother with it.
He's got all the basics for a great California Evangelical leader, though, and this is where an atheist can gain some real ground against him. First, he's got a very sharp mind, to the point where I always wondered if he really believes what he teaches. Secondly, he is a Premillennialist, he gives lip-service to Creationism, and he stumps for Biblical Inerrancy (without really specializing in it). Thus, Missler's Jesus is no metaphor, but is a bona fide God-Man who will physically return within Missler's lifetime (perhaps as early as 1988!).
Much of the Premillennialism (the "Left Behind" model: the Rapture; the Great Tribulation; the Mark of the Beast; the Four Horsemen) is handled very thoroughly by rival groups of Christians known as Amillennialists (such as the Reconstructionists, who seek an Old Testament Theocracy for Christ and will call this occurrence the Millennium). Both groups are hard-core Fundamentalists, and watching this debate can be fun -- in a twisted sort of way. I doubt many atheists could break a sweat even thinking about the Premillennialist drivel. An outsider looking into the various end-times controversies would be akin to a sober person watching Alcoholics Anonymous members nit-pick over various aspects of Narcotics Anonymous. Premillennialism is very popular in America, though, and a few modern writers have had the attention span to tackle some of his work; typing "missler" into the search engine on Internet Infidels will reveal several such articles specifically on Missler's ideas, such as one by Jehovah's Witness arch-critic Derek Barefoot (who has documented dozens of weird images woven into the drawings in "Awake!" and "Watchtower" -- though I will fall short of suggesting that Missler and Barefoot are cut from similar cloth).
As for Creationism, there are some wonderful books that handle all the Creationists, which are mostly put out by scientists and philosophers of science. Most of the recent books are beginning to handle the Anthropic Principle, which is all the rage in Creationism these days; Victor Stenger has drawn a bead on that whole movement with several articles on his website; he also discussed it in the interview I did with him last year. I also discussed it in a conversation with a 12-year-old named Richard. Of course, we have an entire Science Index in our Web Guide with lots of great Creatinism and phony science links.
Bible Inerrancy is almost impossible to defend against a critic simply because if the critic finds one error, the Inerrancy position crumbles to dust. This topic handled very well by any of the recent Jesus Seminar and Historical Jesus movements, as well as the Jewish perspectives. Of course, any of the classic Higher Criticism studies will provide a solid case against Inerrancy. The most exhaustive source for Inerrancy studies is C. Dennis McKinsey's The Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy for about $54 published by Prometheus. One of the earliest attacks against the concept of Biblical Inerrancy was American Founding Father Thomas Paine's The Age Of Reason. Mark Twain poked fun at the Biblical Literalism in his "Letters From The Earth." McKinsey is comprehensive enough that if someone were to excise the problem portions, it would still leave a hefty-sized book. I haven't had to go beyond the Fig Tree Enigma in years, though; biblical errancy is, to me, a pretty cut-and-dried matter due to the fact that it only takes one error to topple the whole thing -- and the Christian literalists know this.
My favorite new Jesus paradigm is the "Jesus Agnosticism" of Robert M. Price (which, after 15 years, has supplanted the model most lucidly described in Hyam Maccoby's "Revolution In Judaea"); Price's new book is called Deconstructing Jesus which, unlike many books of this nature, is exquisitely hip. This guy's on to everything in the Historical Jesus studies -- to the point where he can and does poke fun here and there! I noticed many little asides that will catch the eye of anyone who has read more then three or more Historical Jesus books. Very thorough. Most of all, his paradigm has supplanted a viewpoint that I have held dearly for almost 15 years. And Price did this within the few couple of chapters. Historical Jesus movements of all stripes: Be afraid. Be very afraid! Another great series, which casts serious doubt that a Jesus even existed, are the books by G. A. Wells. Wells sends even the most liberal Historical Jesus advocates running for shelter.
In summary, keep tabs on the basics of Creationism, Inerrancy, and the Jesus studies and you won't need to pay attention to any of Missler's weirder stuff. You won't even have to delve too far into the archeology claims, many of which are sponsored by the Israeli government and its supporters. Think about it: Israel's claim for nationhood vanishes if the Genesis and Exodus stories cannot be supported archaeologically. Their entire nation is at stake, here. Come to think about it, Evangelical Christianity's claim for validity also vanishes if this stuff cannot be supported. However, I've never really needed to spend too much time in archaeology because the other studies make such a strong case against Evangelical Christianity.
Missler's mysticism goes beyond his Premillennialism and Inerrancy views. Missler is into the Information Sciences, so he is always looking for a message of some sort. For example, he describes how the main core of the Gospel message is hidden many, many times within the Old Testament to protect it from tampering and degradation. Thus, Missler, like some of the pre-Gospel sects, sees "Jesus" in even the most mundane of Old Testament passages. Everything lines up to this or that symbolical or numerological significance -- all of which, of course, points to the Christ of the Evangelicals. (Never mind that the atoning sacrifice of Christ is never once mentioned in the entire Gospel of Luke!) There is a wonderful little book called Gospel Fictions by Randel Helms. This book suggests that many Gospel stories are actually based upon the "Jesus" that the early sects saw in the Old Testament. Though not directed at Missler or his movement, per se, it is a real eye-opener for any reader familiar with Missler's approach to the alleged Jesus symbolism in the Old Testament. As such, it is a complete inversion of Missler's approach.
Missler is very skilled at weaving the basic science with fringe scientific speculation and occultish-sounding symbolism and making it all point to his Savior. Going way beyond The Bible Code, Missler tries to find a unified theory of everything, and that theory (or "Word") is Christ. He repeats this angle so often that listeners soon stop questioning it, though he always falls woefully short of even making himself clear, much less making a case.
His presentation is so self-assured (though cloaked in a lot of maybes and pointed questions and trips around-the-barn) that many times I wondered if he actually believed this stuff or had just found a niche for himself in his ability to think this stuff up or find it in old, obscure books and sermons.
Also I have a question for you. How do you think the universe began? Or more specifically, where did energy come from. As I understand it, concept of entropy states that the universe is oriented toward chaos. That energy is always being lost in the form of heat where it become useless to life. If it (energy) is finite, where did it come from? Although I staunchly reject the idea of an intelligent being meddling with the affairs of the universe, this concept kind of begs the question. So if there are any theories that you've heard of or anything let me know.
I currently prefer the model presented to me by particle physicist Victor J. Stenger, which was summarized in his book Not By Design. The Inflationary Big Bang model, basically, says that the universe appears to have zero total energy, and appears to have begun with zero energy -- a quantum fluctuation escaping into a true vacuum. He says there is nothing in modern science to dispute this model, and that there is nothing to dispute the notion that our universe is just one tiny bubble in a much larger system.
The main point to remember is that the universe is not complex at all, but is almost entirely chaos. Our eyes can only see the order, but chaos and randomness is the basic state of the vast majority of the universe. The earth, for example, is constantly adding to the total entropy of the universe in the form of heat dissipation.
Because the universe is expanding, there is room for tiny pockets of order to form even though the general, overall trend is toward chaos. Until we detected the expanding of the universe, the entropy question posed a genuine problem for the naturalistic views. However, the entropy objection is now outdated by almost 100 years. The Creationists know this, but still exploit it to the hilt in their presentations whenever they can get away with it.
Another point is made by zoologist Richard Dawkins: if the universe is so vast and complex (it isn't) as to require a god to explain it, then that god would need to be even more vast and complex and powerful to be able to invent this complex universe (though it isn't actually all that complex). Thus, if the universe is complex enough to require explanation, then all the more does the god require explanation. Since the theist always wishes to rest at the god, calling it the "uncaused cause," there is no reason not to simply assume that the universe exists and that's all we know about the matter. While this doesn't really settle the question, it is a powerful commentary on the illogic of the Creationists who use this argument.
Like I suggested above, get a solid grasp of the issues involving the claims of the Creationists and the Inerrancy advocates, and understand the objections to the notion that Jesus was a god-man (or that a "Jesus" even existed), and you will have some powerful tools not only to steer people away from Christian fundamentalism, but will be able to speak sense to some of the more liberal (or marginal) Christians and point them toward active social responsibility. While I will rarely try to convert theists to atheism, I often try to meet them on their own perspective and urge social responsibility. True, the Christians you describe above have taken themselves out of the picture, but there are plenty of more reasonable Christians who feel the same way as we do about the Chuck Misslers of this world. Such Christians are getting their hands dirty trying as best they can to make this a better world. Methinks we do well to focus on finding and befriending those Christians, and ignoring the others whenever we can get away with it.
Cliff Walker
"Positive Atheism" Magazine
From: "Ariel Cruz"
To: "Positive Atheism" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: Thanx a lot!
Date: Friday, July 14, 2000 1:32 PM
Many thanks for you time and knowledge. These sources are just what I needed.
You're right about the responsible Christians. In fact, I rode with some from New York to Georgia to protest the School of the Americas in Ft. Benning. They were the notoriously lefty Catholic Workers, and they were cool as hell.
Anyway thanx again.
From: "Positive Atheism" <email@example.com>
To: "Ariel Cruz"
Subject: Re: Thanx a lot!
Date: Friday, July 14, 2000 2:50 PM
Liberation Theology is right in line with many Marxist basic tenets. Also, Liberation Christians tend to avoid fundamentalism and exclusivism that taints so much of Evangelical Christianity and some Roman Catholicism.
If you have any specific questions, I may be able to help you find material on those subjects.
Cliff Walker
"Positive Atheism" Magazine
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Andrew Weissmann is a Senior Fellow to both the Center for Law and Security and the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law.
Weissmann served as the General Counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 2011 to 2013. He previously served as special counsel to Director Mueller in 2005, after which he was a partner at Jenner & Block in New York City. From 2002 to 2005, he served as the Deputy and then the Director of the Enron Task Force in Washington, DC, where he supervised the prosecution of more than 30 individuals in connection with the company's collapse. Weissmann was a federal prosecutor for 15 years in the Eastern District of New York, where he served as the Chief of the Criminal Division. He prosecuted numerous members of the Colombo, Gambino, and Genovese families, including the bosses of the Colombo and Genovese families. Weissmann has extensive experience in private practice. Weissmann won the largest Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitration award in history. He has taught criminal law and procedure at Fordham Law School and Brooklyn Law School. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School and was on the managing board of the Columbia Law Review. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University and attended the University of Geneva on a Fulbright Fellowship.


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A big congratulation is due to Ismael Ghalimi and the Intalio team on the delivery of BPMS 5.0. Ismael recounted a portion of the 8 year (and $6 million plus) road to delivery an open source BPM platform in From Vision to Execution. I am not sure where Ismael is finding the time just finishing up the Office 2.0 conference and designing the Redux Model 1.0 an open source version of the Apple iPhone.
Posts Tagged 'BPM'
Intalio|BPMS 5.0,Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
BPM + SaaSMonday, February 12th, 2007
I am very excited to see the SaaS based BPM offerings from Appian and Lombardi as reported by Sandy Kemsley today in her Column 2 blog. Her postings can be found here Appian also offering on-demand BPM and here Naked Process Modelling with Lombardi.
The Lombardi screenshots look very close to my "process wiki" which uses more standard tools (Visio, DreamWeaver, and RoboHelp) then converted to MediaWiki. Maybe with these new services, I will be able to automate the work required to produce my Product Design documents. This would be a tremendous time saver.
MediaWiki 2 for Printing and DocumentationFriday, February 2nd, 2007
When we create Product Design documents we include descriptions, requirements, test scripts, GUI mockups, and help text for each process step. We use RoboHelp conditional tags for each section, so the right information is outputted at the right time for the right audience. When we converted the RoboHelp files to MediaWiki with our RoboHelp2Wiki extension these sections become sub-headings on each article page. While we gained many benefits moving to a Wiki one important item was lost, the ability to output documentation. Printed documentation is still important for manuals, training materials, and sign-offs. Additionally, it would be very helpful to generate a hard-copy of the updated Product Design Document.
To solve these issues, I would need to convert over hundreds of Wiki articles into another format. Unfortunately, I have not found any good solutions for these conversions or the printing of Wikis in general. I have looked at the wiki2PDF scripts where user enters a list of articles and the script makes a single PDF file. However, it is based on the assumption I want to directly output the list of articles for final printing, which is not the case.
The ideal solution would be a new type of Wiki where the stored format can be used for multiple sources. A DITA based Wiki idea was floated and attributed to Paul Prescod, Group Program Manager, XMetaL in Crystal Ball: A DITA Wiki by The Content Wrangler and elaborated on by Anne Gentle in Document Actions Darwin Information Typing Architecture, meet Wiki. However, no such product yet exists.
Therefore, we are looking at reversing our RoboHelp2Wiki conversion tool to roundtrip the data back to RoboHelp. An advantage of this method is the ability to leverage the independent table of contents capability found in RoboHelp and other help authoring tools (HATs). Wikis and HATs have a natural connection between the HATs topics and Wiki articles. The power of HATs is the ability to organize the topics to best present the data. Organization is through table of contents hierarchies.
As part of the RoboHelp2Wiki conversion process the RoboHelp table of content hierarchy creates a MediaWiki conversion article. To roundtrip the information from MediaWiki back to RoboHelp, we simple need to create a MediaWiki article with the desired table of contents listing all the article pages and the order to present the information. On conversion, the tool would read this Table of Contents article and create the matching Table of Contents in RoboHelp and convert each article page listed.
In truth, we have been thinking about the above since before we created RoboHelp2Wiki, however, we did not want to commit resources until RoboHelp Version 6 was released. We were hoping that version 6 would be XML based without RoboHelp's priority tags ('kadov' tags). This is not the case.
So, before committing to a Wiki2RoboHelp strategy, we decided to look into creating the conversion tool to another HAT or editing tool. We plan to review Flare from MadCapSoftware and some of the DITA tools. We will also review the OpenDocument and Office Open XML. The minimum requirements would be ability to support an independent table of contents and the ability to round trip basic formatting, including tables. A nice to have would be the ability to round trip conditional tags.
RoboHelp2Wiki HistorySunday, December 24th, 2006
On Friday, we released our RoboHelp to MediaWiki conversion tool. I thought I would provide some history on why we created it and some possible next steps.
In my RoboHelp and MediaWiki post, I explained why we use RoboHelp for Business Process Management design documents and the reason we are moving to MediaWiki once the documents were completed or at least signed-off. As I did not want to have to copy and paste the 400 topics from RoboHelp to MediaWiki, I began researching existing conversions tools. It seem there are only two primary conversions tools available: HTML2Wiki and Word2MediaWiki. However, both of these tools are targeted for single uploads, not batch uploads. Nor did they handle images. To me, using these tools would almost be the same as copy and paste. Matt Hart also started a RoboHelp to MediaWiki converter; however, it did not meet all of our needs. He did kindly let us review the code as our starting point. (Thanks Matt!)
So in the end, we built the RoboHelp2Wiki tool ( Thanks Ted!). I believe there is a small market for this tool, so we published the tool and the source code, under a GNU license. Our primary requirements included: (1) Create a new page if one did not exist, (2) Overwrite an existing page if a page already existed, (3) upload all images linked on any RoboHelp topic page, (4) Convert most common mark-up from RoboHelp/HTML markup to MediaWiki, (5) Covert the RoboHelp Topic Name to the MediaWiki topic Name, and (6) Create a upload history file within MediaWiki. With respect to #2 overwriting of existing pages, this was a special case for our needs. Our Requirements document already had four reviews completed and I wanted to capture these changes in MediaWiki. So, during the conversion process I generated 4 RoboHelp output files and upload each one in order using a different MediaWiki user name corresponding to the published Version. (Blueprint Version 1, Blueprint Version 2, etc.) Now we can see the full history of the drafts from pre-MediaWiki usage to post-conversion within The MediaWiki history files.
Next steps, if there is interest we would like to provide a GUI interface that is more configurable and provide some more precision on the markup handling. Also, some Version control in case the Wiki is changed between RoboHelp uploads.