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Sunday, September 01, 2013
I don't blog very often. I put most of my best thoughts into comments on OTHER peoples' blogs, I guess. I tend to use my blog space more as a record of where I'm at and where I'm going next.
So. September. My favorite month of the year. The weather is usually gorgeous, the kids are back in school, but the squeeze of homework and projects hasn't crushed us yet. My job has (usually) not yet exploded into the relentless damage control it will become in another 6 weeks. (This year might be different, but we shall see.) The leaves are still green, the crickets and tree frogs are drowning out the noise of the freight trains down by the river, and the humidity is jusssssst right!
We all seem to treat this time of the year as a mini-New Years. All those years of September "first-days-of-school" seem to give us all that mindset. So I'm ready to re-evaluate my goals and come up with some fresh plans for the next few months.
I like FlyLady's approach. She likes to "Cruise Through The Holidays" by getting a start on doing some things NOW that would make us bat-guano crazy come November if they're not taken care of. Like washing those stupid dining room and kitchen curtains. Like clearing that space in the downstairs closet so there's room to hang guests' coats. Like fixing that leaky faucet in the powder room that your mother-in-law always comments on. "Do you realize how much all that wasted water costs?? In MY day we would have blah blah blah..."
So what am I up to? Well, I keep working on the same two challenges, and am making progress, though I still don't have them down as well as they need to be. In other words, i still have to think about doing them; they're not routine; they're not something that I feel funny if I DON'T do. They are:
~ Eat at least three freggies (any size portion) every single day.
~ Get at least 6 hours of sleep every night.
I'm getting there. I've made a conscious effort to prepare veggies on the weekend so I'll have things to take to work. And it's really helped me to keep some groceries in the fridge at work. There is always at least some green or colored pepper and hummus in there for me to munch on, and sometimes celery sticks or cucumber rings. So, steady as she goes for September. Just have to keep pounding this habit in there.
I'm still not getting ENOUGH sleep overall, but I've done a bit better than in previous attempts. I'm keeping to a pretty strict rule of "no caffeine after breakfast time" and that has really helped. I am still sticking to the very modest goal of 6 hours a night, because that means I can still stay up until 11:45. I will probably roll this time back by 15 minutes every couple of months. My final goal is only 7 hours of sleep a night (which is about what I seem to actually NEED), so by this time next year I think I'll have that down. (The final push will probably see me adjust my morning wake up time to 6:00, so that I don't have to go to bed BEFORE 11:00. Going to bed sooner than that makes me feel like a second grader...)
I've decided to take a break from tracking for a month or so and see how things go. The last time I didn't track was late last fall, when all hell broke loose at work. That time is right around the corner again. I may as well experiment now and see if I can stay on the rails without tracking while the stress is relatively low. If I can then I should weather our Peak season pretty well.
Other than that I'd like to continue adding little things to my fitness goals, possibly carving out some time in the evenings at home. Those same crazy work days will make it almost impossible to maintain my current workout-at-work regimen.
OK then! I followed my own advice from the September Challenge thread and updated my status and my goals/trackers, so I'm good to go! Let's go!!!!!
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I like FlyLady, it's been awhile since I've read her, though! Good luck with the sleep thing. I suffer from insomnia, so six hours seems like a dream! :P
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sounds like a good plan! keep blogging!
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FlyLady is really great. Sounds like you have a good handle on things!
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I love how you approach things. I also love Sept for many of the same reasons you do. The smell of crayons and school supplies just motivates me to do all sorts of organizing and behaving! I hope you continue to have success towards your goals. You just have such a Clear vision of where you are headed! I love that about you!
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I too am lacking in the sleep department. I absolutely love staying up after everyone else has gone to bed and I keep finding more things to do to make me stay up longer. Like reading this blog and writing this post. Tee-hee. Well, another goal to work on. Ok, off to bed now. Night-night.
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Have you tried turning off most of the lights when it gets dark and then wearing blue blocker glasses? You might be getting too much exposure to blue light and not telling the brain that it is time to shut down. I have been trying to do this and it has been working. Last night I barely made it to 9 pm and for me, that is not normal but I hope it does become my normal. Sleep is SO important and I know what it is like to not get enough. I am still waking up a bit too soon.
Good luck
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Looks like some good goals!
I need to start setting some for myself as well - in addition to the staying active. Sleep is an issue for me as well that I need to work on - I tend to be a night owl.
Thanks for all the comments you leave on my blogs! I super appreciate them!!
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Yeppo, sounds like a plan, a structure, and armature and I liked that you allowed yourself to explore NOT tracking. See what external structure has been internalized. You seem to always be in what I call 'the 2nd attention' - and to me, that's a good place to live from.
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Sounds like a good bunch of plans...I love the beginning of fall too, especially since we've moved up north
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You and I feel the same way about bedtime!
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You DO write the best comments and that is the dern truth! You comment about cheating on my last blog blew me away... YES, I wanted to scream.. THAT's what I was trying in my lame way to say LOL.. you so rock Woubbie (do you pronounce that WOO-B? that's how I pronounce it in my head)...
You've managed to get me looking forward to September even on this 100 degree day... love your plan!
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Chelsea, 17 july, 1845—
Alas, my dear Sir, I am still here in the depths of Old-English Stupor, and the guano-dust of Past Blockheads; deep still in Oliver's Correspondence, namely; and cannot taste the Highland breezes on the hillsides, or the Hospitalities of kind friends! There is still a month of rough ugly labour before me; not till this day month, if then, shall I by any means get out of this affair;—out of this place, shall be on the morrow morning after. I am still clear for Scotland; but doubt, in these circumstances, if I shall get farther North than my good old Mother's house in Annandale: there I must be at any rate; my first step after this ugly job is done. If I do go farther, if I ever come within wind of Shehallion,1 you of course shall hear of me. But the chances at present seem small. Patience is a virtue that beseems all men.
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Scotch Pauperism generally, and Highland in particular, does already attract disgrace to the country; and will attract still worse things by and by, if not looked to; which there is little chance of its being.5 My heart is sick to think of these things. As Dr Arnold once told me,6 "One has no resource but to put the thought of them away."
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Well it's no secret that Joan Rivers (born Joan Molinsky) was a native New Yorker. She was born in Brooklyn and later moved to Larchmont with her family. Even when she hit it big, Joan maintained an apartment in Manhattan for decades. So her connection to New York is indisputable.
In addition to her work as a comedian, Joan was an author, filmmaker and savvy business woman. She also made a contribution to sci-fi, as the voice of Dot Matrix, the female robot in the Mel Brooks sci-fi film parody, Space Balls (Matrix was an obvious spoof of Star Wars droid C-3PO, who was shall we say, less than butch).
Rivers got her big break in show business in 1965, when Johnny Carson invited her on as a guest on The Tonight Show. Rivers frequently appeared on The Tonight Show, even filling in for Carson on many occasions. By the 1980's Rivers' career was smoking hot. She had a hit late night talk show, a hit comedy record out and her catch phrase, "Can we talk?" was a national sensation. So it was no surprise that Brooks cast Rivers as the voice of Dot Matrix— after all, who better than Rivers to inject a zippy one-liner throughout the film.
Space Balls came out in 1987, and parodied not only Star Wars, but Alien, Star Trek, 2001, Planet of the Apes, and a host of other sci-fi films. The film was not a hit when it came out—in fact, it only pulled in around $38 million at the box office (the budget was about $22 million), but over the years it's audience has grown and it's considered somewhat of a cult classic.
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What on earth is your point? June Purvis' biography of Pankhurst also says the birth certificate says the 15th. If you want to argue that the birth certificate is wrong, you should have some actual evidence. As there is none, Wikipedia correctly goes with the evidenced date.
Google's Pankhurst doodle doo-doo shows the perils of using Google to find stuff out
Google appears to have relied on, er, crowd-sourced facts from Wikipedia for its latest Doodle, which celebrates the 156th birthday of British suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. The vast advertising firm suggests in its sketch that the women's rights' campaigner was born on 15 July 1858. Googling "Emmeline Pankhurst" will also …
How could you write an article about Google and Wikipedia being correct? For an article to exist, they must be wrong, and therefore the correct date is July 14th. QED.
Yes, I was trying really hard to see some sort of ironic angle to this article, but I really can't. If there hadn't been a birth certificate or official record, or if there was some significant reason given to indicate that the official records were wrong, then there might be a case to answer, but that doesn't seem to be the case here. In fact it's the opposite, a good reason is suggested as to why Mrs Pankhurst might have claimed to have been born a day earlier than she actually was. Wikipedia is 100% in the right here.
No point at all
I agree the story seems to be both pointless and wrong.
All the primary evidence seems to agree with Wikipedia and Google. I don't put much faith in her comments about being born on Bastille day.
I suppose the author could start claiming the birth certificate is a fake, but then I'm afraid he'd be lumped with with all the Fox-news right-wing wackos still harping on about their conspiracy theory that Obama was not really born in the US.
The birth certificate *does* say the 15th. But apparently the BBC is a more reliable source than the legal document that states unequivocally when she was born. Is it possible she was born extremely early on the 15th? Sure - wikipedia's entry is more factually accurate than the BBC or anybody else because it cites factual (legally prescribed) documentation stating her date of birth.
What I'd say to reg is if you're going to get all pedantry at least get it right.
Like my birth certificate that states unequivocally the wrong spelling of my middle name?
It's the original hand written job from June 1954.
Dunno about UK
Elsewhere in Europe up to the late 1940-es births were regularly recorded up to several days after the fact and birth certificates issued with dates different from the actual birthday. My late inlaw birth certificate was a couple of days out of date, one of my dad's best friends and university roommate had his 5 days out of date. To heck, some countries like Greece did not have a proper birth register and were recording births as they please up to a couple of years ago. That provided a lovely business model for some of the local "minorities" which claimed benefits for the same child 4-5 times based on registering the birth in neighbouring districts. Before pressing downvote google Maria+Greece+Blond (her "parents" had her birth registered 3? or 4? times).
So having a birth recorded a day late in the 19th century? Even in a well off family? I do not find this out of the ordinary. In fact, any date on a birth certificate not issued by a hospital and before the days of national birth registers is _NOT_ primary evidence.
The name on the birth certificate (even if it is spelt incorrectly) is your official name so you have two choices:
1. You can change your name by deed poll from the incorrect spelling to the correct spelling so your official name matches how you spell it,
2. You can apply to the General Register Office to have the birth certificate changed.
By getting the spelling different to how your parents wanted it, that became the right (aka "official") spelling of your middle name. Like it or lump it.
But what about the doodle?
14th or 15th, it's nice that she's being commemorated (but 156th anniversary? What's special about that?)
But at a slight tangent, I'm surpiseed at the doodle itself - why such an odd palette of black and sepia - shouldn't they have used the purple, green and white of the WSPU in there somewhere?
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156 is the number of strokes on the hour bell of a 12-hour clock in 24 hours. It's also the bus from Vauxhall to Wimbledon. I don't know what either of those has to do with the Pankhursts or the WSPU or votes for women.
It is odd that Google omitted the WSPU colours.
Re: But what about the doodle?
The doodles appear over the space of two different dates anyway. Here, I've a microscope and a razor here if you want to split hairs.
Re: But what about the doodle?
"but 156th anniversary? What's special about that?"
ISTR an interview with someone from Google being asked a question along those lines. I believe it was stated that they generally try to avoid the more usual/standard anniversaries precisely because everyone else tends to use 10, 20, 50, 75, 100 as number for anniversaries.
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Shirley violet.
As in green white violet = Give Women the Vote.
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So farewell Emily Pankhurst
You were born
on the 14th or 15th
of July or some other month
and your name was Goulden
but my friend Keith's friend Adam's Mum
says you were born on Bastille day
(whenever that is)
and Keith's Mum says she's an expert.
- E.J. Thribb (59 1/2)
Apparently tomorrow's Google Doodle is celebrating the first anniversary of 16th July 2013
So there is a difference of opinion over whether she was born on the 14th or the 15th with suspicion that she may have said the 14th so that it could coincide with Bastille day but no-one knows for sure. Google choose to go with the authoritative answer of the 15th as that is on her actual birth certificate but has made an error and has obviously copied Wikipedia - which also has to be wrong because it is Wikipedia?
WTF, seriously, stop scraping the barrel.
You can imagine the editors panic when you get to 2 hours before knocking off time and they've only managed to come up with 5 articles criticizing Google.
Does anyone else hate them newspapers
You know, the ones who type frantically to get a post up at the earliest opportunity so that when someone clicks on the Google Doodle, one of the top search results is their post. Normally its the independent or the daily mail. Yes, I KNOW that Google Doodle is celebrating xyz, I see that - that's why I clicked on it! Jees.
Can you imagine their SEO meetings - "Right, at midnight, soon as that doodle goes up, go to Wikipedia and copy and paste like you've never copy and pasted before! Let's beat Wikipedia boyz!"
Typical British press tw*ttishness .
The Register = quite wrong here
As are all other pedants who think mediocre Google skills makes them feel a bit like god almighty. For two reasons, mainly:
1. Birth certificates in the 19th century certainly did not contain exactness for a couple of reasons, for example to keep within maximum registration periods. One needs to find out the date of registration and see it was perhaps around a six week window (or whatever was used at the time). Check with any historian and archivist, you know, real people with actual knowledge based on experience.
2. It's certainly not strange, or wrong, for biographies to select birth certificates over other claims or sources. Even if the person involved herself would make the claim. One might not agree personally but that's how it's done and Wikipedia is not different here from many formal biography projects. Same goes for spelling of names, if one has to be picked it's the one officially registered, if known, and not how someone might have decided to spell it over time. Ideally one would find the entry in both instances but that's not always a good idea.
Re: The Register = quite wrong here
> As are all other pedants who think mediocre Google skills makes them feel a bit like god almighty.
Don't lean on me, man, coz you can't afford the ticket.
Re: The Register = quite wrong here
Wham, bam - thank you Ma'am!
Not a real story
If she was born on Bastille day, and she wanted to identify with the storming of the Bastille there wouldn't be any uncertainty. Since there is uncertainty I conclude that she was probably born on the 15th.
Also her birth certificate says the 15th.
Google isn't an encyclopaedia, it just list sites which match your search times. It strikes me you are falling into the same trap as those confused ECJ judges.
Wiki "inaccuracies"
Watching the excellent Richard Herring Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (or, as all the cool kids are calling it: "rhlstp") he was chatting with Dara O'Briain about Wiki inaccuracies, and it was suggested that *some* celebrities deliberately leave inaccuracies in Wikipedia, as it gives them a quick handle on the calibre of journalist they are dealing with.
On a similar theme, there used to be an story about Van Halen insisting on a bowl of M&Ms in their dressing room with the brown ones taken out. How we laughed at precious stars and their whims. Then one of the band confirmed it, but crucially explained it. Apparently the same rider gives instructions on setting up bits of kit and stage layout. After an near-fatal incident where some equipment wasn't properly secured, they inserted the "no brown M&Ms" clause at the end of the rider as a quick check that the rider had actually been read.
Who cares about her birthdate
Just save me from this Monstrous Regiment of Wiki Twiddlers.
"Wikipedia, though, boldly insists that Pankhurst was born..."
...on the official date recorded by the Register's Office, as opposed to the date she just made up.
For shame, Wiki-tards, how dare you stick to those abominable "fact" things?
Holy poop!
A woman in the early 1900s telling porky pies about her age?
Surely not!
It's odd to see so many people here putting so much faith in paperwork. That's just the 19th-Century equivalent of "If the computer says it, it must be true." I'd hope IT people would be a bit more cynical about that, but apparently not.
Pankhurst, of course, did not misread her own birth certificate. She got her birthday from her parents, who one should assume might have had an inkling. Who you going to believe: the woman who actually gave birth or a piece of paper written on by a bureaucrat some days or weeks later?
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> Who you going to believe: the woman who actually gave birth or a piece of paper written on by a bureaucrat some days or weeks later?
Since the 'bureaucrat' wasn't actually at the birth making notes, he probably asked the parents on what day the child was born when they turned up at his office to register the birth. Whether this is days or weeks later, I can't see the parents getting it wrong.
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> I can't see the parents getting it wrong.
I can see the bureaucrat writing it down wrong, I can see the bureaucrat writing it down correctly but it then being copied incorrectly by another bureaucrat (seriously, is this something we're classing as unlikely these days?), and I can see the parents lying in order to comply with a time-limit dictat.
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"I can see the bureaucrat writing it down wrong..."
Yep, transcription errors can occur, but they don't typically get it wrong by one day. A 7 could look like a 1 in bad handwriting, but a 4 or 5 are very different.
"and I can see the parents lying in order to comply with a time-limit dictat."
If that was the case, then her real birthday was over 6 weeks prior.
Pankhurst herself was there at her own birth but the one person who has the least knowledge of the event. If her parents had said that she was born on the 14th then why has she not said that. Instead Pankhurst says it should have been Bastille day, not because the 15th was wrong but because the 14th is more right for her cause.
Re: Sources
In a previous life, I had some experience matching people records across different datasets from different organisations. Often the same person would have their date of birth out by a day. It was remarkable that it was either identical or out by 1 day. One of the explanations was that parents often make innocent mistakes when notifying various official or semi-official agencies of the birth of a new child. The error persists until events such as the child starts school or applies for a driver licence or enrols to vote or applies for a passport, at which point some, but not all, of the databases correct their records. Or decide that they are the only source of truth and keep marching to their own beat.
it might be helpful to say that I was working in a country that has a federal system so that added a layer of extra pettiness about which record was truthiest.
(Two comments on the same topic. Where's my £5?)
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> It was remarkable that it was either identical or out by 1 day. One of the explanations was that parents often make innocent mistakes when notifying various official or semi-official agencies of the birth of a new child.
From my own experience, I know that one reason for this is that a lot of babies are born in the small hours. If your baby is born at, say, 3am on the 18th after a 20-hour labour, you think of it as late on the 17th. Plus, of course, if your baby's born around midnight, there can be legitimate differences of opinion about what date it is, given that (a) there isn't really a precise moment of birth and (b) everyone's clocks don't always agree with each other.
missing the point
I think the real issue here is the way that Moss Side gets referred to as a "suburb" of Manchester by so many sources. From my own recollections "zone" or "theatre" might be better word choices.
Sounds like this would be a Q.I. "Nobody Knows!" moment...
XKCD's take
On the ball as always.
Re: XKCD's take
You do recognize the last speech bubble could be inadvertently self-referential... ? Surly we all do, don't wee?
There are some significant dates and facts about her life and activities, if the date of birth was wrong by even a couple of years what difference would that make to anything?
BTW: I tried internet dating and I can assure you it's not uncommon for ladies to misrepresent their true age though, unlike Emmeline, they invariably do so to pass themselves off as younger.
FWIW: ladies, I now insist my dates bring birth certificate and passport and prefer to rely on that rather than any alternative information they may choose to offer.
Re: I DON'T GIVE A FLYING F***K
"FWIW: ladies, I now insist my dates bring birth certificate and passport and prefer to rely on that rather than any alternative information they may choose to offer."
Once you've actually clapped eyes on them (or even talked to them!) and they passed muster, why does their documentation matter?
Can I have my 2k back please?
Seriously? Is this REALLY newsworthy?
Article crap; comments OK
In this particular instance Google and Wikipedia seem to be passably OK. Move on,everyone.
And some extremely bored ass had to write 1000+ words to inform the masses of something that absolutely matters to nobody. Born in 1858. And can't remember the day.Either way dude, that was ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY SIX YEARS ago. Did you just happen to drop in off of a malfunctioning time machine?
And I thought El Reg produced useful things... Errr.. nevermind.
Why don't you write about someone who was never born next. I'm certain you could find some "Not yet on wiki" facts to bore us all with. After all, it is hard (but obviously not impossible) to dispute birth details about someone not yet born.
Just like it is when someone was born 156 years ago.
Talent for self-promotion
It seems at least quite possible that Pankhurst chose to (slightly - big deal) misrepresent her birthday so that she could market herself as being born on Bastille Day, given it helped her narrative.
I, for one, do not believe that Mrs. Pankhurst was ever born. *I* personally have never met the lady, and thus she does not, de facto, exist, per se, exactly. Yes, yes, I know - she's also dead - or supposedly so - but this only holds true (???) if she was in fact at some point in time ever actually alive, which I must say seems less and less likely given that no one can manage to state with clarity the date upon which she was supposedly "born", so-called. Frankly, I think there's far too much about the past that we don't know to state that we, in fact, know anything. Who was your great grandmother's great grandmother? Which one? I don't know - any of them! No, not the one you know about - the other ones! There, see, just goes to show. If you don't know that, then it's likely you don't exist either. Now, vanish in a puff of logic, there's a good lad...


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iPad to TV direct instead of AppleTV?
You can already connect an iPad to a TV directly using a composite/component cable, so I don't expect them to limit it's TV connectivity in the next version..
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You can already connect an iPad to a TV directly using a composite/component cable, so I don't expect them to limit it's TV connectivity in the next version..
Now he's cracked it, can he now defeat the algorithm an awful lot quicker the next time?
Same architecture as the SheevaPlug, but with less memory. I've wiped the PogoPlug custom firmware off mine and am now running the PlugBox flavour of ArchLinux on it.
I also encountered occasional errors with USB storage - usually it'd produce a handful of USB-related error messages in the system log, then pretty much lock up all access to the drive 'til I either pulled the USB cable or reset the box. However, since kernel 2.6.35 (where there were some patches to the orion-ehci USB driver that the sheeva platform uses), I've had no trouble whatsoever with the USB storage.
New material much?
I'd be very surprised if ANY classified material leaves DoD by email at all, regardless of which mail server forwards it.
E-mail has no guarantees of security or privacy thanks to its distributed nature and its roots in the 1970s and the DoD are well aware of that fact.
The Blackhawk is almost as old as the Puma (less than a decade in it, I believe), and the Puma is in use by 30ish national air forces around the world. Hardly the massive difference in age and usage that Lewis was implying...
The niche of people who are fed up of lugging a heavy fully-featured laptop everywhere and need something they can actually work on when they reach their destination, rather than a £200 toy laptop with no performance, no storage and a screen the size of a postage stamp.
Back when I was spending my life travelling around the country on the train visiting various research associates, I would've given my left leg for an Air rather than the weapons-grade Dell that I'd been lumbered with...
Are we seriously getting upset about the finer points of sound quality on a piece of equipment that's designed to play back audio compressed using a lossy codec?
The 'Stanza' application, available in the App Store, is a free eBook reader for the iPhone / iTouch.
I went down to the O2 Cardiff store at about 8.30am - I was about 60th in the queue at that point. I think it was taking about 20 minutes a piece for each customer to get signed up and given their box. I finally got out at about 11.15. My iPhone is happily sat here using my old SIM, and will migrate on to the iPhone contract sometime in the next day or two when the paperwork gets processed by the store...
Looks awfully like somebody's taken an ordinary eee and added some tacky carbon fibre effect stick-on vinyl.
The US price doesn't include any sales tax, the UK price includes VAT.
That takes up the majority of the price difference between the two, and I suspect other import duties and associated rip-off Britain costs are responsible for the rest of the price differences.
If the MacBook Air price doesn't sit well with you, you can always go out and buy the nearest equivalent machine, a Sony VAIO TZ, which is bigger, slower and err.. more expensive, starting at £1500ish (but for that £300 premium you do get an optical drive).
.. to the current batch of 'top of the range' camera phones?
The reason I've been holding off spending the extra money on / putting up with the extra bulk of one of those mobiles is because I've never seen them produce results that get anywhere near rivalling the most basic of budget digital cameras.


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A Tax Fairness Forum was held on June 5, 2012 at the Millenium Library.
Taxes are not merely a way for governments to raise revenue. Taxes are a political mechanism for directing economic activity, addressing major issues facing communities, supporting our democratic and cultural institutions and determining how we shape our physical and social environment.
In the last two decades, people with power and wealth have consciously tried to create a public animosity towards paying taxes. However, most tax payers know that the services, supports and systems that we need to function as a society must be paid for in some equitable way.
The workshop, organized by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (Manitoba) and the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg, started to address the tax debate imbalance facing Canadians. A cross section of concerned individuals and representatives of select organizations met to analyse how taxes are now defined and used, and to consider what can be done to promote tax fairness for Manitobans.
Watch this site for more information on the tax fairness issue.
For those who were unable to attend, see below for information about the workshop.
Workshop Objectives
- Assess the impact of tax reductions (mainly federal, but also provincial and municipal) on the public, in the last 20 years
- Identify alternative tax and other revenue generating mechanisms that are available for governments, that have a better distributive and generative effect on our economy, and
- Recommend ways that social and community activists can act to advance alternative tax and revenue options, and therefore contradict a dominating anti-tax policy rhetoric in Canada.
- Linda McQuaig, author and columnist
- Ian Hudson, UofM Professor and CCPA Research Associate
- Academics – economists, sociologists, social work professors, etc.
- Social policy advocates – CCPA and SPCW
- Member of Canadians for Fair Taxes … http://www.taxfairness.ca/front
- Special interest groups – representing people with disabilities, children, people living on low income, labour, Aboriginal leaders, environmentalists, seniors, housing activists, etc.
Here are some photos taken at the Forum - Tax Forum Photos
Resource Blog: Tax Fairness Forum Blog
Handouts - Rich and Poor Benefit from Income Inequality and Understanding Death and Taxes
Linda McQuaig and her recent book, The Trouble with Billionaires: Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality


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Editor's note: We'd like to extend a hearty welcome to our newest intern, Deborah Ricks. Look for her arts & entertainment news posts along with various reviews. Here, she discusses Ririe-Woodbury's 'Configurations,' which runs tonight through Sept. 25 at the Rose Wagner.
Ririe-Woodbury's latest production Configurations is a delectable four-course meal: four savory works by very different choreographers, each one complementing the other like a good Shiraz does a good steak.
It is appropriate that Configurations start with dessert. David Rousseve's "Bittersweet Chocolate" breaks the ice with its intimacy and humor, a piece about love; more true, it seems, and less romanticized than the work that hauntingly accompanies it, the prelude to Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. The piece intermittently follows the story of one African-American woman who leaves her abusive husband, narrated by Rousseve's great aunt. Her voice ends the piece with the last, truly bittersweet words on love, "But you sho' got to have it to survive," as one woman stands alone in the spotlight.
The second segment, "Duet" was choreographed by Bill T. Jones, who is known for his controversial and provocative work confronting social issues. Jones received the MacArthur "Genius" Award in 1994 and won his most recent Tony Award for his Broadway musical Fela! Jones' work is intricate-by far, the most stylized out of the four works-and this particular piece includes a spatial grid floor, two dancers, and traditional music from Madagascar and the Ivory Coast.
On to the main course: If you saw Ririe-Woodbury's production of Cloudless last year, you know it's worth a second showing. To include Susan Marshall's piece in the production, only seven acts were chosen from the original eighteen. One act evokes the loss of innocence, a girl desperately winding string. She looks up, winds again, takes the collar of her shirt in her mouth, biting it like a child, perhaps out of frustration; what she's tried to bring back has blown away. In another act, a defeated couple watch as pages from the book in front of them erratically turn, blown from an ominous standing fan. In another, a man sitting in a hotel room suggestively dips his tea infuser in a cup and saucer that is balanced on a woman's derrie re-the dipping is a bit, well ... dirty.
The final work comes from Ririe-Woodbury's very own Charlotte Boye-Christensen, who was inspired by the life of Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. Boye-Christensen's "Key" starts and ends with a big breath, the kind you take when the nurse measures your blood pressure, and before you're about to embark on something terrifying. Between those two breaths is a dizzy act of fast tempos, dancers struggling and tumbling into place, movements that suggest the conflict between Gould's love of piano and his stage fright, a fear so debilitating he left the stage at the young age of 31. The piece is a nice homage to Gould and a grand finale to Compositions, a meal that has left us both satisfied and hungry for more.
Compositions begins its short run tonight-yes, tonight!-and plays through September 25. Shows start at 7:30 pm at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center. Support the arts this weekend by purchasing your tickets here. You won't be disappointed.


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America's best idea –the National Parks—offer you many free days this fall. Enjoy more than 84 million acres of spectacular scenery, 17,000 miles of trails, 5,000 miles of shoreline, 27,000 historic and prehistoric structures, and 100 million museum items. Enjoy the kind of time with family and friends that build memories that last a lifetime. NPS reports the following free days in the remaining days of 2014.
• August 25
National Park Service 98 Birthday
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Veterans Day
The entrance fee waiver does not cover amenity or user fees for things like camping, boat launches, transportation, or special tours. Some parks offer free admission all the time. Only 133 of the 401 national parks charge a regular entrance fee from $3 to $25. Smoky Mountain National Park never charges an entry fee.
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More: You've done a lot for the sake of show business—you've opened up your home, publicly shared your battle with cancer and your history of abuse—but what is something you would never share with the public?
SO: I wouldn't do cosmetic surgery [on TV]. People don't learn anything by? that. You're not sharing something that can help somebody out. It's like watching somebody on the toilet. That's just for your own benefit of trying to get ratings.
More: As one of the original reality stars, what do you think of today's reality TV, like The Real Housewives franchise?
SO: It fascinates me— the fact that people can be invested in people who aren't famous, who have no notoriety. I'm not knocking it at all; I just think it's just an insight into how we all are.
More: Do you ever regret opening certain parts of your life—or Ozzy's or Kelly's or Jack's—to the public?
SO: Yes, sometimes, but then overall, on a business and emotional side, we got more from it. I can't sit and say that I wish I'd never done that because if I hadn't, I wouldn't be in the position I am today. The only consolation I have to opening everything up so much was that a lot of it was done out of naivety. I didn't know the repercussions because it hadn't been done before. I honestly didn't think it was going to go as well as it did.
More: How is your relationship today with Ozzy and the kids different than it was 10 years ago?
SO: It's very different because my children are now adults and my husband and I are now 11 years longer together. Nothing in life stays the same; everything in life changes. I now have adult relationships with my kids and my husband and I are 11 years closer than we were before.
More: How do you deal with media scrutiny of you and your family? You used to send boxes of excrement to reporters when they wrote something negative about you're family, but it seems like those days are over.
SO: I'm a businesswoman and I've been raised in this industry and I know how important the press is. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. But it's like showing a painting to 100 different people—you will have 100 different opinions of that painting. I don't mind being critiqued, but I don't like having lies written about me or my family. I will take the truth, but when people embellish and make stories up, they'll get a bag of shit [Laughs]. Not anymore, I shouldn't say that. I'm over it. Look at what's happening in the English press [with the News of the World hacking scandal]. There's always going to be the minority of people who like to write bullshit, who like to embellish the truth. You just have to accept it. As you get older, it's easier to accept. It's the world we live in and you can't fight everything.
More: You were once a big supporter of plastic surgery but then you swore it off. Why?
SO: You have to know when it's enough. I still think it's amazing, but I had to know when to stop.
More: Not all women know when to stop…
SO: They don't, and they do end up looking like the Joker [laughs].
More: How did you find your stopping point?
SO: You have to understand that you're going to get your face done and it's going to get lined again. You're going to have your breasts done and they're going to fall again. You have to accept that. Every time you get a wrinkle or a frown line or something, you have to accept it's a part of who you are. You can't be lineless for your entire life. It looks grotesque after a while.


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Keep your senses sharp and take in one of these top-five must-see events.
1. Cali Caillat
The Beach Boys' surf tunes swept the U.S. from coast to coast in the 1960s, but today Cali girl Colbie Caillat makes waves with her acoustic music inspired by the shore. She's here July 12, and local ocean-loving souls are sure to ride the rhythms of her songs. Pacific Amphitheatre, 100 Fair Drive, Costa Mesa, 714.708.1500, pacamp.com
2. State of a Fair
Summer is officially in full swing when the beloved O.C. Fair opens its doors. This year, the festivities run July 12 through Aug. 11, leaving plenty of time for you to catch a rodeo, sample vinos in the wine courtyard, ride the Ferris wheel—and sneak in a few bites of eyebrow-raising fair food. (Don't worry, we won't tell.) O.C. fairgrounds, 88 Fair Drive, Costa Mesa, ocfair.com
3. In Orbit
What better way to pay homage to outer space than with a concert under the stars? The Pacific Symphony does just that on July 13 with The Planets, an evening that showcases music inspired by, yes, the galaxy. Part of the symphony's always ear-pleasing summer concert series, the program begins with virtuoso Caroline Goulding's performance of Mozart's "Violin Concerto No. 5." Up next is Holst's "The Planets"—we're betting you'll know the music from movies, TV shows and video games. Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 8808 Irvine Center Drive, 714.755.5799, pacificsymphony.org
4. The Wolf Pack
Talk a walk on the wildly creative side through Aug. 11 when artist Dennis McNett shows off his latest collection of graphic art, Wolfbat Meditations. McNett dabbles in a range of mediums, including sculpture, performance art and illustration, and his works often feature unique representations of dragon imagery, Nordic giants or Viking ships. Artists Republic for Tomorrow, 210 N. Pacific Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, 949.988.0603, ar4t.com
5. Southern Pride
Celebrate the Fourth of July Texas-style with Red, White & Tuna, onstage July 12-28. The grand finale of the Tuna Trilogy is once again set in the state's smallest town—the play's namesake, where battles between conservatives and liberals, as well as polyester wardrobes and a high school reunion are sure to have you laughing your heart out. Cabrillo Playhouse, 202 Avenida Cabrillo, San Clemente, 949.492.0465, cabrilloplayhouse.org


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PHOENIX (Ivanhoe Newswire) --Summer is in full swing, and that means it's time to break out those grills and smokers. If you thought barbecuing was as simple as slapping meat on a grill, think again. There are some tricks to getting moist, tender and flavorful meat. We're introducing you to one woman who has a passion for barbecue.
This isn't just any meat. These are Susie Timm's works of art.
"It's an art, and it's a sport, and it's fun," Susie Timm, Owner of Girl Meats Fork, told Ivanhoe.
Timm is a self-proclaimed meat connoisseur. She and her award-winning team, Loot'n' Booty, attend barbecue competitions across the southwest.
"I'm not ashamed of the fact that I love meat, and I'm a hungry carnivore," Timm explained.
If you love meat too, Timm says a slow-cooking smoker is the way to go. Getting started is as simple as lighting some charcoal and throwing in a few chunks of apple wood for flavor. To prepare the meat, trim any excess fat. Then, place it in a plastic bag to marinate.
"Italian dressing has won us a lot of competitions, so we're pretty excited about it," Timm said.
Make sure there's no air in the bag. Let the meat marinate in the fridge for about three hours. Then, take it out and pat it dry.
"Any competition barbecue team uses rub and uses it liberally, and rub is their best friend," Timm explained.
You can make a simple rub with brown sugar, paprika, salt and pepper, and granulated garlic. Once you mix it, apply it liberally to the meat. Then, put the meat on the smoker. Susie says a mistake is cranking up the heat and drying out the meat.
"Barbecue by definition is all about low and slow," Timm added.
Other tips she included were to always use tongs to turn the meat. A fork will punch holes in it and allow natural juices to escape. Try to turn the meat only once to get the best flavor. Only add sugar-based sauces at the very end since they burn easily. Most of all Timm says enjoy the process.
"I think food should be fun," Timm concluded.
That's advice that's sure to lead to a cooking success. Susie Timm has her degree in political science and was a banker for years but says she realized her passion was food. She has a web site where she blogs, shares recipes and writes about her competitions, www.girlmeatsfork.com
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I was sitting down and my nose was stuffed up. I stood up to grab a tissue and it went away. I hate angle colds.
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New Toys: Interesting Mobile Linux Devices at CES
The first smartphones based on Intel's Moorestown, the Mini 5 with Android and the Lenovo LePhone: the mobile Linux highlights from this year's Consumer Electronics Show.
After Intel announced that it would optimize Moblin 2.1 as the mobile phone operating system, it was only a matter of time that actual devices hit the market. The CES in Las Vegas revealed that at least two companies announced such a device: the GW990 from LG and a smartphone from the Finnish startup Aava Mobile.
Whereas the LG phone should appear on the stacks in the second half of the year, the Aava smartphone is still in prototype with availability not quite yet determined.
Apart from the Moorestown devices with Moblin, Android also has something new to offer: Lenovo is starting its own, Android-based smartphone it calls Lephone. Although intended initially for the Chinese market, the hugely reworked user interface should gradually make its way to the U.S. and elsewhere worldwide.
Dell also boarded the Android train in November with its Mini 3 smartphone. At CES, it now presented a 5" tablet with SIM card slot, the Mini 5. The device in the Mini series also runs Android and has multitouch support and an attractive GUI. Availability or price details are not yet announced.
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Fedora 24 Released
The whole distro gets rebuilt on glibc 2.3
Canonical Announces Cross-Distro Support for Snaps
Ubuntu Vendor tries to solve app packaging and distribution problem across distributions.
ownCloud Forked
Founder of ownCloud launches the Nextcloud project.
HP Enterprise Unveils a Futuristic Computer
Will The Machine change the way future programmers think about memory?
CoreOS Announces Distributed Storage System
The new Torus distributed storage system is available under an open source license on GitHub
Google Beats Oracle in the Android Lawsuit
Juries decides Google's use of Java APIs Was Fair Use
Linux is the Largest Software Development Project in History
But if you are not using the latest Linux kernel, your system is insecure.
Linksys Says Yes to Open Source Firmware
Home routers will give room for custom firmware but still comply with FCC rules
OwnCloud Founder Resigns
Frank Karlitschek will continue to lead the open source ownCloud project
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS released
"Xenial Xerus" comes with a new packages format and several improvements for the enterprise.


text: Well, it's that time of the year again when us weather geeks try and guess the date of the first measurable snowfall! Since BWI is the official recording station for the Baltimore area, the snow that fell in the mountains of Western Maryland with Superstorm Sandy does not count. Our target is to call the date when we'll get our first measurable snow at BWI. Last year, the big storm at the end of October produced up to 6 inches in Baltimore's northern suburbs...but only a trace was recorded at the airport. I have no real scientific method to make this forecast, except to say that I believe we'll make it through the end of November without a measurable snowfall. That's simply based on the short term computer model guidance. So, with that in mind, we'll have to pick a date in December. My call for the first snow at BWI for this winter season is: December 12th! Again, I have no scientific basis for this guess...it's just a gut feeling. Do you have any premonitions or feelings about the first snow? If so, please post them below!


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Paintings by Craig Bauer Arrive for Stay at the Inn
by Lori LeCountOcean Wilderness Inn is proud to announce the arrival of some very special visitors for an extended stay: six original landscape paintings, by Victoria artist Craig Bauer.
Innkeepers Andy & Lori met Craig at the recent 'Art in the Park' fair in Sooke. Craig's paintings drew their attention with their sweeping natural forms and vibrant color. Craig and his partner, Melinda (also an artist), accepted our invitation to come and experience a stay at Ocean Wilderness. They found a simple, vibrant retreat, which spoke to them, as Craig's paintings spoke to us.
Over a glass or so of wine, we discussed having some of Craig's paintings available for sale at the inn. He agreed to let us enjoy several paintings. Now visiting the inn, and available for sale are:
Active Pass View from Ferry,
Island Off North Salt Spring,
West Eagle Salt Spring View,
Florence Lake,
Gorge Waterway,
Kelowna and the Lake, andSooke-Whiffen Spit (thumbnail shown here).
We are delighted with these guest paintings. Come and see them soon.
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Which Jeans Flatter Your Figure Part II
This entry was posted on September 13, 2011.
In continuation of our first jean post Which Jeans Flatter Your Figure Part I, we're back to give you more important information for you to learn about your body type before you head to the mall to find a pair of jeans that you feel fits you well. As we mentioned before, finding a pair of jeans that fit your body type is very difficult at times because every body is made differently but don't give up because it can be done.
Some women are curvy, very thin, or might have a boyish frame. It doesn't matter what body type you are, what matters is that you feel happy and confident in a pair of jeans that you own. Perhaps you may be frustrated that you are unable to find a pair of jeans that flatter you. Read on to understand which jeans will fit you best and end your frustration once and for all.
Jeggings Do Wonders for a Variety of Different Body Types
Don't let jeggings scare you. They are designed to mold to your body while still giving everyone the appearance that they are jeans! They are snug yet comfortable and if you feel like your jeggings are too tight, simply pair them with a lose top and a belt.
Trouser Jeans Put Emphasis on Your Natural Waste Line
If you desire to hide your stomach or not put as much emphasis on your thighs, put more attention on your natural waist with trousers. However, be aware that most trousers go above or sit near your belly button in case you are used to jeans that rest on your hips. Trouser jeans put emphasis on the small of your waste while hiding a bulging stomach and larger legs.
Relaxed - Fit Jeans Are Very...Relaxing!
Lay back and enjoy in a pair of relaxed fit jeans, which allow you to bend and do your tasks freely, feeling comfortable and at ease at the same time. They are generally made for hourglass and pear shaped figures and are roomier all around.
Plus Size Jeans Gently Hold You in
As we mentioned before, every woman comes in a different shape and size. Plus size jeans are designed with a waist that is slightly lower in the front and higher in the back so your under clothing doesn't accidentally peak out from underneath your clothes. Made with a wide waste band, plus sized jeans gently hold you in and make you feel beautiful at the same time.
When jeans originally came out, they were a new phenomenon and everyone desired to purchase a pair. Now jeans have changed and have been developed to fit a variety of women who are made in many different shapes and sizes. If you go into a store that specializes in jeans or offers quite a few to select from, they should be able to find the ideal pair for you. Now that you've caught up on what each type of jeans emphasize and which body types they most flatter, you'll feel more confident as you head to the sale's clerk, telling them (and not asking them) what kind of jeans you are looking for, only for you.


text: The Ultimate Fighter 9 - United States vs. United Kingdom concludes on Saturday, June 20, 2009 with The Ultimate Fighter 9 Finale live from the Pearl at the Palms Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. TUF 9 featured 16 welterweight and 16 lightweight fighters, who had to fight their way into the house with Day 1 eliminations. The 16 fighters who earned a spot in the house were then split up between coaches Dan Henderson and Michael Bisping. Henderson's team consisted of 8 American fighters, while Bisping's team consisted of 8 British fighters.


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|International Home and Housewares Show 2013 -- Consumer Electronics, General Consumer Goods, Giftware, Household Consumer Goods
|Event Summary:
The International Home + Housewares Show is the world's largest "home & housewares" marketplace, where about 2,000 exhibiting companies have the opportunity to showcase thousands of new products and designs to 60,000 attendees from all over the world. It is the industry event for the home & housewares industry in North America.
Categories include: Dine + Design featuring the finest products for cooking and entertaining; Clean + Contain featuring tools for cleaning and home organization as well as outdoor living products; Wired + Well featuring electrics and home healthcare products and Global Crossroads with International Pavilions. In addition, the Show offers first-class educational and networking opportunities (special exhibitions and displays and a full lineup of seminars on trends & design, visual merchandising and branding, retail success factors and consumer preferences).
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College Hockey:2008-09 Massachusetts Season Preview
Massachusetts reached new heights midway through last year when, after toppling Notre Dame and Colorado College in a holiday tournament, pollsters ranked the Minutemen fifth in the country. Unfortunately, they could not sustain this lofty perch, dropping the next five games and going winless over seven. The euphoric and sadly premature talk among some supporters of a national powerhouse fell silent.
Nonetheless, it's clear that the days of UMass perennially hanging around the Hockey East basement are long gone. This program can expect to contend for home ice most every year and this one is no different.
The questions faced between the pipes going into last season have been answered. Paul Dainton earned his berth on the league's all-rookie team, recording goals-against and save percentage stats that ranked fifth in Hockey East. While Dainton looks to get even better, junior Dan Meyers will be pushing for more playing time.
"Paul has proven that he can be a very effective player, if not a terrific player, at this level, and Danny has gone through a development which is going to serve him pretty well," coach Don "Toot" Cahoon says. "We feel that we've got good goaltending and a solid core to build off of. It's just a matter of giving them the confidence on a day-to-day basis and giving them the type of development over the first few weeks to get off to a good start."
On the blue line, the Minutemen must replace Mike Kostka, an All-Hockey East selection, and David Leaderer. Juniors Justin Braun and Martin Nolet will assume leadership of this group, which hopes to get senior John Wessbecker back in about a month. Wessbecker, a terrific defensive defenseman and the team's best penalty killer, left a major void last season when he was sidelined late-November. Fellow senior Topher Bevis rounds out the returning nucleus.
Freshmen Michael Marcou, younger brother of top scorer James Marcou, and Matthew Irwin will battle Kevin Kessler and Douglas Kublin for the other two spots in the rotation.
"John [Wessbecker] is a key element that was missing the second half of last year," Cahoon says. "We're looking to get him back hopefully in the first part of this season.
"Braun and Nolet are going to be terrific players, seasoned players with a lot of game experience, big bodies. I think they're going to be terrific.
"We think we've got enough experience. We're going to be okay back there and Braun and Nolet could be terrific."
Up front, P.J. Fenton must be replaced, but almost all the rest of the cast returns, supplemented by four freshmen. James Marcou joined Dainton on the league All-Rookie team after contributing 32 points. Seniors Cory Quirk and Chris Davis are the other two returning forwards who topped 20 points. If Alex Berry and Will Ortiz can join them, that will go a long way toward lifting UMass to home ice contention.
"Our forwards are our depth, the strength of our team," Cahoon says. "We think we've got a really solid skating group. We're five lines deep. I literally think I can play anyone within those five lines and not hurt my team.
"Certainly there are some key players among the first two lines because those are the point producers, but we think our depth will give us the ability to keep healthy bodies on the ice and always a maintain a good level of team speed."
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March 11, 2010, the Schuylkill County Democratic Committee has announced its unanimous endorsement of Auditor General Jack Wagner for Governor.
Jack has been a friend to Schulykill County thoughout his career said Edward Kleha the Chair of the Schulykill County Democratic Committee. It is our pleasure to unanimously endorse him and we look forward to making him the next Governor of Pennsylvania.
Wagner said that he was honored by the endorsement from his friends in Schuylkill County. I look forward to working with these and other local leaders on the important issues facing Pennsylvania in the months and years ahead.
Wagner twice elected with bipartisan support as the state's independent fiscal watchdog received record-breaking vote totals in his re-election in 2008.
More information about Jack Wagner's campaign for Governor can be found at www.jackwagner.org.


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High School: Dickinson, Cony
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Financial Strength Ratings
Jackson National Life Insurance Company® (Jackson®) has earned the following financial strength ratings from independent rating agencies:
- A+ (Superior)
A.M. Best financial strength rating, the second highest of 16 rating categories
- AA (Very Strong)
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Standard & Poor´s insurer financial strength rating, the third highest of 21 rating categories
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- #1 seller of annuities in the US during 20151
- Ranked #1 in variable annuity new sales in the US during 20152
- 9th largest seller of fixed-rate deferred annuities in the US during
- 19th largest seller of fixed index annuities in the US during 20154
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Out of the 50 largest individual US life insurance companies ranked by total statutory assets, Jackson ranks as the:
- 8th largest US life insurance company ranked by total statutory assets5
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The Randall Raiders captured a playoff berth out of District 3-4A Tuesday with a 44-37 win at Hereford — and the Raiders can thank a third-quarter eruption.
Trailing 23-20 at halftime, the Raiders outscored Hereford 11-2 in the third quarter to take control.
Randall was led by Logan Brittain and Rantraven Sims with 12 points each and improved to 17-11 overall and 9-4 in district.
Hereford, which led by as many as eight points in the first quarter, dropped to 8-20, 4-8. Nate Adams led Hereford with 13 points.
The Raiders close out the regular season Tuesday, hosting Palo Duro.
District 2-5A
Tascosa 64, Lubbock High 29
Records: Tascosa 15-9, 3-4; Lubbock High 4-23, 0-8.
Leading scorers: Tascosa—Demeco Blue 13, Conner Thompson 10, Francis Aguir 10. Lubbock High—Isaac Rodriguez 11.
What happened: Tascosa jumped on LHS early, snagging a 21-7 advantage in the first quarter and cruising to the win.
District 3-4A
Frenship 72, Caprock 33
Records: Caprock 4-23, 0-13. Frenship 27-3, 13-0.
Leading scorers: Caprock-Kaleen Jones 10. Frenship-Tyler Rogers 23, Colton Hendrix 19.
What happened: Having already won the District 3-4A title, the Tigers outscored Caprock, 21-6, in the third quarter.
District 1-2A
Bushland 58, Spearman 43
Records: Spearman 8-16, 3-6. Bushland 18-9, 8-1.
Leading scorers: B-Kale Lane 21, Jared Vogler 11. S-Jace Lang-Swan 21, Junior Garcia 8.
What happened: The Falcons took control in the second quarter, outscoring Spearman, 22-6.
Highland Park 59, River Road 52
Records: Highland Park 11-14, 3-6; River Road 10-21, 2-7.
Leading scorers: Highland Park—Dre Aragon 30, Lance Mullins 8. River Road—Kadon Bell 15, Zach Jackson 11.
What happened: Highland Park jumped to a 10-point lead in the first and maintained it throughout the game. The Hornets are now in a tie for the district's third playoff seed with Spearman. The two face each other in what amounts to a play-in game at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Highland Park.
TAPPS District 1-3A
Lubbock Christian 83, Arbor Christian 63
Records: Arbor Christian 14-12, 2-4; Lubbock Christian 22-9, 4-2.
Leading scorers: Arbor Christian—
Austin Gremillion 17, Greyson Thompson 14, Sean Jones 11. Lubbock Christian—Connor Bryant 29, Manny Ryan 24.
What happened: The Lions finished third in the district and secured the final playoff spot. Arbor, who would have finished second in the district had it won the game, was tied midway through the third quarter before Lubbock Christian took over.
Girls TAPPS District 1-3A
Lubbock Christian 52, Arbor Christian 50
Records: Arbor Christian 15-12, 3-3 in district; Lubbock Christian 1-5 in district.
Leading scorers: Arbor Christian—Jennifer Lapp 26. Lubbock Christian—Ashley De La Cruz 18.
What happened: Arbor held a 39-35 lead entering the fourth quarter, but let it slip away. The Lady Lions finished third in the district to secure the final playoff spot.


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Clancy Cooper Movies and Career Information
Jul 23, 1906
Jul 23, 1906
Clancy Cooper was an American actor. He appeared in over 100 films between 1938 and 1962. He also guest starred on numerous TV series, such as The Rifleman, Lawman, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Maverick, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents, he also appeared on Sanford and Son as Kelly, an elderly friend of Fred Sanford in the episode "The Copper Caper", the fourth episode in the first season of the series. Born in Boise, Idaho Cooper died in Hollywood, California.
- Clancy Cooper Movies before 2015
- Haunted Harbor 2005
- Wild Youth (1959) 1959
- Artists and Models (1955) 1955
- Railroaded! 1947
- Street of Chance (1942)
- He Ran All the Way
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TC TO WILLIAM MACCALL; 3 November 1848; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18481103-TC-WM-01; CL 23: 146-149
Chelsea, 3 Novr, 1848—
My dear Sir,
I have read your Preface carefully, and about half of the Translation:1 the latter, so far as I could judge in absence of the original, appeared to be well and carefully done,—but finding the hand (contrary to expectation) somewhat indistinct to me, and not having any prospect of seizing the Author's drift, or otherwise coming to clearer insight of a practical sort, I desisted where I mention. The Preface, I am sorry to say, but I ought to say it at once, does not seem to me as if it would answer at all. It is much too angry, emphatic, controversial,—where there is, or well can be, no "controversy" on the part of the public, nothing but nescience and indifference as yet in that quarter. You do nothing to invite us into your somewhat formidable Spinoza Antre, or subterranean shrine; and this, I consider, was the one business of a Preface. Some short sketch of Spinoza's Life, if well managed; some quiet account of what the world has successively thought of him, and now thinks:—all this (or much better than this) might have been some sort of introduction to what we are going to enter upon; but nothing of the present writing seems to me to tend at all decisively in that direction. Surely you should stand at the door of your Hostel with at least a peaceable face; not brandishing the war-club, and testifying that you do not care if we think you a Pantheist &c &c. In short, my dear Sir, I do not think your Preface suitable either for Spinoza or for yourself; and were I the Bookseller of your Treatise, I should insist on having that suppressed, and some little bit of Biography, History, or even Bibliography (for that is somewhat wanted here of itself, the origin, first publication &c of the Book being quite unknown, and rather enigmatic to us) substituted, or even no Preface at all, in its stead. But, alas, I am more and more confirmed in the sad prognosis I gave you the other night, that no Bookseller will undertake this Work at present;2 that to prosecute the attempt to any length, among that class, will but add chagrin and invitation to the other sorrows and toils already invested in this task by you! A most sad verdict to give; and given with quite other than joy, as you may well believe: but you will take it kindly of me, and with the candour you have, perhaps draw profit from it by and by rather than bootless pain. A man, of whom the Heavens intend to make a man in these times, has an immense quantity of sore lessons to learn;—and you, I can perceive, are very much in that case. Courage! Be open to your schooling; prompt to admit things painful if they are true. A man does grow, in that way, to know the will of the Eternal Destinies, and the nature of this terrene element, a little better, and to profit thereby; in another way, he will not know or profit.
I have read with very much more pleasure the Two Printed Pieces,3—at least one of them, the "Individuality of the Individual"; for in the other, called "Creed of a Man," tho' I find a variety of true thoughts, and no opinion not easily pardoned even when dissented from, yet the form of the thing, so rigid, naked, skeleton-like, afflicts me, and there breathes out of it, pardon me if I almost say, something fierce, lean, fanatical; savouring sadly of your death-wrestle with the Socinian and other serpents;—and not right or desirable, whencesoever derived. In your lecture itself there is enough of all this visible; but there comes out farther a certain heroic brilliancy, and sound as of clanging steel, which are of much better omen to me. What you say here, and where I have fallen in with it elsewhere, about the "Individuality of the Individual," I reckon to be perfectly just in its meaning; and indeed have found it recognised everywhere by all truly wise men, this long while: "Be faithful to yourself and your endowment; grow to what the Gods have appointed you for being," in this, sure enough, lies all the Law and the Prophets for a man. Nevertheless I grieve much to see it wrenched from its environments in this Manner, and spasmodically set up like a kind of "new religion"; which, according to my clear belief concerning it, is by no means its real place or attitude. Alas, it is in looking here that I see the sorrowfullest stock of contradictions, and painful experiences, till in many respects you learn otherwise, laid up for you! Believe me, no man is called to use any [but]4 the most solemn conviction of his in that way. New "religions," and even old if they had been set up in that way, are but a ghastly, unfruitful, phantasmal kind of thing, one and all; and to found a Sect, to come forth as if one at all would or could found a Sect, is to me like a kind of spiritual suicide for a man of any geniality, at present! But here, alas, we have again the Socinian Affair, not yet quite triumphed over, tho' trampled low enough. Here, I believe, where your "tendency to the abstract," and to much else, takes its rise;—here, as I construe it, is the grand source of your impediments, not economical only but spiritual as well; and it is to cut you out from this perhaps that your severest lessons, now and till it be accomplished, are appointed you! A brave man ought to come out of this, really ought, if he is capable of anything better.— You have already achieved an immense victory; you have done what not one of a thousand, even who think they have done it, ever does: seen into the damnable nature of all Cant and Conventionalism whatsoever: a man who has achieved this ought really to quit "abstractions"; let him swallow down his once "divine-idea" into the life-blood of him, and circulate it there, at all moments, thro' everything he does and says,—and in this murk of Egyptian midnight enveloping the poor sons of men everywhere, he will find enough to do, and to say of the concrete sort, I should think! But to stand on the highways, crying, "Behold my divine-idea, idea by itself idea!"—this I think will never answer him; and has never answered the like of him,—in spite of Spinoza's example, or rather I may say, witness Spinoza's example. To him, and to all "Socinian" and Quasi Socinian people, including Antoninus, Epictetus & Co,5 a brave man I rather think i[s] now called to say, with pity and affection, Farewell. Let us emerge from Orcus,6 and its pallid shadows, and logics, and articles and "abstractions"; let us enter into the busy light, where we have been long wanted, and where our home and seedfield and battlefield is.
I know not, Dear Sir, whether all this, which has far exceeded what I meant to write, can do anything but grieve you. That surely was not the purpose of it!— On the whole my practical conclusion is, that Spinoza will in no way do anything for you; and that, on trial, which of course you will incline to make with Parker or others, you ought to be prepared for admitting such an unwelcome result. For the rest, that your much likeliest outlook, for the immediate occasion, seems to lie in Lecturing; in which enterprise, if you will resolutely throw all "abstractions" behind you, and insist on something (almost anything) concrete, and on that alone, I promise you considerable success by degrees. Try Northampton, therefore;—or if you cannot get on there, let us endeavour to find you some other place. And believe in general that I, for one, would gladly help you if I could. and, in any case, pray let me know before the cruise quite fail.7 And, Courage! Yours truly
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Courtney Manning
Aug. 22, 2012
Dallas (SMU)The Mustangs open the 2012 season Friday at the Georgia Tech Invite, taking on Charleston Southern on Friday afternoon at 3:30 CT, before facing Cal State Fullerton and host Georgia Tech on Saturday. The Mustangs will have just three returning starters from last season's team, which saw four four-year starters graduate.
Senior Courtney Manning will lead the youthful team this season, which consist of just three seniors, including transfer setter Olivia Bailey. Manning, a first team All-C-USA selection last season, led the nation in blocks last season with a school-record 185 blocks, while Bailey was fifth in career assists at Loyola Marymount before returning home to Dallas for her senior season.
The 2012 roster of 13 players has eight freshmen and sophomores, including C-USA All-Freshmen selection Caroline Young, looking to improve upon last season's 15-17 record, which included a pair of wins over C-USA champion Tulsa.
Among the competition, Georgia Tech is the only other team with at least 15 wins, posting a 15-16 record last season to finish below .500 for the first time since 1990. The Yellow Jackets return four starters and the libero from last year's squad, including Monique Mead. As a junior, Mead lead Georgia Tech with 588 kills and was second with 300 digs. She also had a team high 92 blocks.
Cal State Fullerton went 13-16 last year, and returns three starters and the libero. Kayla Neto led the team as a junior with 442 kills and was second with 366 digs. Charleston Southern returns four starters and the libero from a team which posted a 5-25 record last season and won just one Big South Conference match.
SMU is 1-1 all-time against the Yellow Jackets, winning a five-set match in Atlanta in 2008. Cal State Fullerton knocked off the Mustangs 3-1 in 2005, and this is the first meeting with Charleston Southern.
Manning Chasing Career Records
Courtney Manning broke her own SMU single-season blocks record last season with an NCAA-high 185 total blocks. As a sophomore, Manning posted 162 blocks, breaking Natalie Peters' record of 151 set in 2005. Manning is third all-time in Conference USA for a season. The senior is third on the career chart at SMU with 474 total blocks, needing just 10 blocks to move into the top-10 in C-USA. Kendra Kahanek holds the school record with 530 blocks, and Stephanie Meinig set the conference mark with 593.
Getting Defensive
The Mustangs have led Conference USA in blocks in each of the last three seasons and four times in the past six years, and ranked no worse than third in digs in the past five season. SMU led the conference in digs in 2010, and was second in the league in 2007, 2009 and 2011. The Mustangs were 11th in the nation last season with 2.78 blocks per set, and 40th in digs per set with 17.05. Courtney Manning and Caroline Daly were each in the top-50 in the country in blocks, while Sidney Stewart was 60th with 4.88 digs per set.
All-Freshmen Team
Caroline Young became the first Mustang to be named to the C-USA All-Freshmen team since Dana Powell earned the honor in 2008. Powell went on to earn All-Conference USA accolades the next three years, and was twice selected as All-America Honorable Mention. Young finished her first season with 250 kills, hitting .241. She also had 43 digs and 59 blocks.
All-Conference Team
Courtney Manning was named First Team All-Conference USA and All-Midwest Region honorable mention after leading the nation with 185 blocks as a junior. She averaged 1.45 blocks per set, and led the team with a .307 attack percentage. The middle blocker was third on the team with 274 kills and had 79 digs. Manning earned second team All-Conference honors as a sophomore.
Team Captains
Seniors Courtney Manning, Susan Lewis and Olivia Bailey were elected by their teammates to serve as team captains. The trio mixes experience in the program with a fresh take from Bailey, who returns home to Dallas after three seasons at Loyola Marymount in California. Bailey ranks fifth all-time at LMU in assists with 2,340 in three seasons. Courtney Manning, a three-year starter for the Mustangs, has 475 career blocks, and broke her own single-season school-record with 185 blocks last season. She was named first team All-Conference USA, and garnered All-Midwest Region honors as well. Susan Lewis has played in 208 sets in 71 matches as a defensive specialist. She has 261 career digs and 17 assists.
2011 Block Party
Caroline Daly became just the fifth Mustang to have at least 150 total blocks in a season. The sophomore finished the year with 155 blocks, ranking third behind a pair of marks set by teammate Courtney Manning. Daly was 45th in the NCAA last season, averaging 1.21 blocks per set. She also had 86 kills, 29 digs and five assists.
Talented Transfers
After losing four seniors last season, and entering this season with just two returning seniors, the Mustangs added experience to the young roster with transfers Olivia Bailey and Maddie Lozano. Bailey climbed into the top-five at Loyola Marymount in assists with 2,340 in three years. The Dallas native returned home for her senior season, joined by Lozano, who brings PAC 12 experience to the SMU program. The 6-2 middle blocker played in 49 matches at Arizona over her first two seasons, with 72 blocks and 71 kills.


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