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I received an interesting note today from the school my children attend. In order to save precious dollars, last school year, I suggested that they begin using OpenOffice and only install Microsoft Office where there are licenses. The note I received today listed computer needs, and one of the needs listed as "Because Open Office is a lesser program compared to the Microsoft office programs, it wouldbe helpful to have either tutorials or at least manuals for these programs." Now, I agree that I should have provided books or pointed them to online manuals. However, since the school has been using OpenOffice for over a semester now, with minimal support requests, I incorrectly assumed everything was running fine, or at least they could google answers to any problems. However, the point that actually amused me wasthe assumption "Because Open Office is a lesser program..."
I have been in the IT field long enough to remember when we didn't live in a Microsoft centric world. Several office applications from different vendors existed: Wordstar, Ami Pro/Word Pro, WordPerfect,Word, etc. Everyone had their preferences, based on needs, personal preferences, support and sometimes just on having learned a particular application first. Microsoft's domination in the office and now educational desktop seems to have led to a generation of technology drones. How can competition exist when anything not produced by Microsoft is considered to be a lesser product?
Part of my involvement with the school includes introducing free and open source software where appropriate. Their web site, which didn't exist before, is running on Joomla and LAMP. Over the summer Iinstalled an Ubuntu LTS server for file and print sharing; using a re-purposed desktop computer. These are behind the scenes deployments and are transparent to users. The school was fortunate enough toreceive a generous donation to replace the near 40 computers in the computer lab. Due to the software they own and purchased new, the desktops are running Windows XP Professional as are the teacher and administrative computers.
This isn't a tirade that free software is the answer to all technological needs, but I am of the opinion to put technology that meets your requirements in place. I can't imagine K-8 students havingthe specific requirements for Microsoft Office. At least I have never seen a RFP for K-8 computer labs requiring MS Office specific features. If there are, I should be a little more concerned about our educational system.
This also isn't a tirade against Microsoft. I currently support both Windows and GNU/Linux environments. Admittedly, I would prefer to operate in a GNU/Linux only environment. My preference is based on my experience with supporting both platforms, independently and in heterogeneous environments. One of the problems I currently have is locking down desktops without a Windows 2003 server and Group Policy (a personal nightmare), or third party applications, (i.e. more money). Since the educational applications are Windows based it would be illogical to suggest another desktop. Desktop lock down in Gnomeor KDE would be a much simpler and cost effective solution if it weren't for the chosen applications. I have had luck with third party applications locking down Windows desktops and sometimes the added cost is worth the uptime.
In receiving this note today—and yes I was amused at the context—it made me reflect on the recent attempts to introduce options for desktop applications. It seemed that Applixware, WordPerfect for GNU/Linux and others didn't have a chance against the Windows desktop domination. Things are changing, GNU/Linux is a viable desktop operating system and choice has been the result. How then does the IT community compete against this singular mindset? This generation must have their minds opened to creating new ways of doing things, new ideas, and new technologies. It amazes me, going beyond the information age, the limits some have put on themselves. I worried that maybe I had become a technological elitist. I knew alternatives were available, I figured out how to use them, and they serve the needs of my users. How can I be an elitist though, when trying to provide a cost effective, hopefully innovative, solution to a problem?
The most troubling though, is that these young teachers have possibly grown up in this technology isolation, never even considering that viable, even superior, alternatives exist. Fortunately, my childrenhave been exposed to their options and know that there are alternatives. They have embraced these alternatives and I look forward to a new generation that can realize these options, make choices based on their requirements and not just become another generation of technology drones. My generation has certainly remembered the way it was, maybe we can change this current generation.
Other free Software for schools
I am the technology coordinator for a small school in New York, and am a big fan of open source solutions. Our website currently uses Moodle (moodle.org), and open source course management software (much like the pricey Blackboard). There are tons of free applications out there for schools to use, but it is often difficult to get administration on board... until they see the numbers:)
If only...
Over here in England, GCSE and A-Level courses are BASED ON MICROSOFT SOFTWARE.
Yes. Really.
Well, they don't say "use Microsoft Word to do this", but it tells you where to find stuff on Microsoft software. So I walk in with Linux, and get told I can't use the internet. They say because I could break it; I say because they don't understand it ;)
You know what's funny? You read their opinion about MS Office being a "better program" than OpenOffice, and because of this, you start to question the whole of humanity, figuratively speaking. Nevermind the fact that the entire blog post is just looking for possible reasons to protect your own opinion.
Obviously, no one can have such an opinion if not for brainwashing. My god, what has happened to society that no application can ever be better than Microsoft's in the eye of the public? Nevermind the fact that this opinion comes from people who have no specific reason to hate one package or another out of fanboyism, and who aren't just saying things because they're too lazy to perform the rollout. These are remarks coming from people who installed OOo, worked with it, and felt, at least somewhere, uncomfortable working with it.
I, as a longtime computer user, software developer and allround technology lover, can't say I disagree with them, and alot of my friends wouldn't either. Honestly, the fact that they're actually telling you they might need manuals (and thus taking upon them the added task of reading and understanding those) might be a hint at the fact that OOo's UI isn't quite as intuitive or inviting as MS Office's. Sure, it might also mean they're just really, really used to using MS Office, but I can't remember the last time I set up MS Office for anyone and had them ask me for manuals afterwards.
There's something really authistic about the idea that, because they have a specific opinion you do not agree with, you start wondering what has happened to the world that such a thing is possible.
He's not saying the users need the manuals
He said that the school administrators think they would need manuals, because of their MS centric perceptions.
it's not the young teachers....
I'm a young teacher who's been fighting tooth and nail to get my school to let me even install "some" OSS apps. I managed it, but only the students in my IT classes were shown them - all other students are ignorant of their existence.
I'd love to run at least one of our three IT labs fully OSS (read: GNU/Linux), but the state education department has a deal with Microsoft that basically has us agreeing to use Microsoft products (admittedly for markedly reduced fees).
Maybe once our Technology Coordinator (who doesn't even know what a CPU is) loses the position (hopefully to myself) in a few years time changes can start to happen.
MS Drones in SE Asia as well
I have been traveling through S.E. Asia recently. The perception here is that MS products are better and all others are inferior. In this context inferior is synonmous with unfamiliar.
I have also noticed that people would prefer to use pirated copies of MS software rather than the GNU/FOSS offerings.
At least they were honest
Well, at least they were honest in blindly calling OpenOffice "lesser". It makes it pretty clear that there is no specific reason for preferring MS other than "everybody else is using it, so it must be better".
Regrettably, MS has shown us what happens when a proprietary format or program is considered a de facto standard.
Have we raised a generation of technology drones?
I loved you post. I have been thinking this for quite some time. I, too, remember a time when there were wordstart, ami pro, multimate, xywrite, etc. As a tech writer, i use and have used many different wordprocessors and know that word holds its "superior" perception only because if MS exercising its monopoly AND, IT support people, for big organizations, seeking a single solution to support. (IMO, this is partly how we got to where we are now.)
Also, while the Open Source movement is making headways, i would argue that they are only duplicating the problem, i.e. Open Office is an attempt to dupllicate MS Office. BUT, if these are not good tools, then the goal is to duplicate only a good tool. I would challenge the Open Source groups to not only try and duplicate, but why not try and create a BETTER product. (e.g., why not try and Open Source a version of Wordperfect?)
For my own use, i still use Xywrite, under DOS, under virtual PC on my six year old Mac Powerbook. A great and extensible wordprocessor that, imo, is still unmatched.
Great article!
Lesser Product...
I used Open Office for years. Then I began contract work. All of a sudden some of the fancier documents that I was to interact with would not open in OpenOffice. Oh well, I care more about my earning potential than advocating an application that is not practical for use. It's just the way it is.
Excellent Points
I too can remember when Microsoft wasn't the dominant game in town. I learned wordperfect in highschool and many people I knew had Apple II family computers. I even still had my C64. After spending several years in a MS world and thinking it was the only thing worth while anymore I then found GNU/Linux and have been using that for a few years now. I have two daughters that I intend to show the freedom of choice to as they get older.
I've been converted since reading this article.
I agree with your comments.
Whilst I read the article I told my friend "Open office IS a lesser product" and told him that you can't email a C.V. saved as a word document to a company without atleast checking it on a real copy of Word first, because OpenOffice regularly screws up formatting and you can't trust it won't damage your reputation as a result.
He challenged me on this so I sent him the most complexly formatted word document I could think of, half pasted from the web with as many features in as possible. He edited it and sent it back and to my amazement it was actually fine.
I was forced to eat my words.
My misconceptions were obviously based on earlier versions of open office. I think people need to stress how much better its become come. Especially since version 2 as well.
Nice Article.
It's true though....
OO.org _is_ lesser. Even for trivial wordprocessing tasks, OpenOffice is not as good as Word. I don't understand how you can argue otherwise. I have gotten totally fed up at Word not working, as I am sure most others have, but when I tried OpenOffice, assuming it must be better than Word as Word fails at this super commong task, but OO does an even worse job. So yes, Word is pretty bad, but OpenOffice is no better, and in most cases is worse.
-Charlie Hayes
What was the trivial task
What was the trivial task you were trying to do with OpenOffice?
they were honest, but wrong
My wife has the same opinion about OpenOffice. To her, it is 'lesser' because you have to learn different methods in order to achieve the same goals. Documents made in one do not look the same in the other, and as most people are afraid of change, they think the system they are used to is 'better'.
Have you considered using wine on top of linux to run the windows-based education software? You could then lock down the desktops in kde or gnome, but allow the windows software to run just fine. A friend of mine just recently got World of Warcraft, of all things, running in linux, so I don't see why a far less complex educational software wouldn't run in it.
Good luck, and thanks for your open-source advocacy!
On Par When Separate
I have worked in open source software, having been a developer of the help browser in Mozilla Firefox. I have also worked at the most notable proprietary software company, Microsoft. I have used OpenOffice.org primarily because it was free. I have also used Microsoft Office in the most Microsoft environment possible.
I do agree that for most uses, Microsoft Office is not necessary. Even features that OpenOffice.org has are rarely used such as styles. Most people seem to just highlight text and change the font settings manually. For rudimentary word processing, and in the case of educational use, OpenOffice.org should be good enough.
However, there is power that can be wielded when Microsoft products are used together. Sure, you can have a Website that lists when school activities are. However, if you do the same thing with Sharepoint, you now have a Web page and a set of calendar events that seamlessly flow into Outlook and Exchange. I believe that is where the power of the Microsoft solutions come from.
Brant Gurganus
I've wondered the same thing myself...
I'm adjunct faculty at a Utah university and the one course I teach is basic computing. We use Win Xp and Office 2003. Everything we do is focused on the MS mentality and I'm convinced that all we have done is teach our students how to use MS Office products instead of teaching them the reasoning behind WHY you create documents with headers/footers, etc.
In my 5 years here as a student and an instructor I've come to the conclusion that the only program out of the whole course we really need to teach is windows. Like it or not, we live in a windows world and it's important that new computer users understand the primary computer interface. But Office Software? That's a dime a dozen. As Brant said, Office is not nessissary for most of what we teach. Instead of forcing students to use Office (and either pay the cost for the program or the time to use our lab) we should teach them on OO, which is freely avalible and they can convert if need be. Getting text manuals is not a difficult thing.
Now, with all that said, OO is a different product the MS Office. As an experiment, I tried to complete our class using Linux and OO. For the most part, all the basics were the same (with the exception of Linux of course). It was the more advanced features, such as Headers/Footers where I began having difficulties. OO and MS Office may look the same, but in higher level functions they are as different as vinager and water. It took me over a month to figure out how to do basic things I knew by heart with Office. But once I relearned them I had no problems.
I don't understand why educational facilities are so dead set against Open Source Solutions. If your teaching a basic Office course where it is assumed that the student has no prior exepriance or training in Office Products...then why not Open Office? It's better for the school financially and it's better for the student educationally. I can't tell you how many students would love to have a copy of Office to use at home instead of spending hours per week at our lab. But as long as we continue to use Office they will have to pay in time or cash for the 'education' they are getting.
And it's not much...most of our students are computer drones....able to repeat what we ask them to do but not have a clue why they are doing it.
Technology Drones?
I have to say that in certain circumstances tehre are things that MS Word can do that OOo can't, eg text to tables and vise versa. However, this does not in my mind preclude OOo from the school environment. I as a PA only discovered some of the MS Word capabilities many years after being introduced to the product and I have found OOo Write to be almost as user friendly as MS Word.
There are some amazing short tutorials available for the OOo package on some of the free education sites.
Also as OOo is open source it won't be long before someone/people create tools and stuff for the OOo package that MS doesn't offer.
PS. If you are worried about the format changing, print the thing to PDF, using free PDF writers and send them that way, or save them in MS Word Format (an option that is available).
A personal rant over freedom of choice in learning.
I don't know about you, but when does school infrastructure bashing become indoctrinated into the personal ramblings of certain situational aspects that over-generalize the true nature of this articles supposed true intent.
From your articles heading, I would have presumed this to be an environmental piece on the nature of the 'digital age' itself and the affects our current generation of young students is facing, and yet it's more of a tirade against opposing forces that may or may not be within ones control. Such are the bounds of institutionalized corporate/government reach, funding, licensing and subsidies that schools must face with diligence at a constant level.
The nature of teaching in schools has never been to mandate 'new ways of thinking,' there is never a climate of creative involvement in many processes, nor is this instilled into student learning behavior. You are pretty much benchmarked by your output, and not your journey through creative means that go against the status quo [i.e. using 'lesser' means to reach the same expected output].
An easier path to learning or to defy what is the norm is a hard cocoon to crack when policies and protocols become standard rigor. As far as I'm aware students have a right to choose, teachers impart their wisdom as to how conclusive results would be best 'managed, marked and scored,' and not how they would be ascertained through 'creative' approaches to dismantling or changing the status quo. This I can confidently say transposes onto replacing or transitioning any process whether it be the hardware that is used or the software. This however transcends a lot of other issues within the educational system as well.
Ergo, we have a common issue where the path to least resistance will inevitably be always taken and not in most cases by choice, but by political and cultural directions authorized by societal acceptance/expectancy/stigma.
The undertone to this whole article is basically showing you why choice within schooling, is and will always be a forgone option.
Now, the true answer to your question: Yes, we are creating a new generation of drones. Why? It's because students are not taught by choice or lack thereof to be given many options to work and define their aspirations creatively. So as a society of parents and teachers, I believe subconsciously we are producing less free-willed and less free-thinking people than ever before.
What about the Kids?
Whats really sad, is that all these kids will leave their school, and they will go to apply for jobs in offices, or just about ANY business, and that business will ask. "do you know Office".
they dont ask "DO you know word processing", or spreadsheets etc.
they ask Specifically for MS Office skills, ALL children leaving school these days, have a minimum lever of computer skills, and skill in using computers for "Office type" applications.
saying "I could learn it, so why shouldt everyone else" is Elitist.
children in schools are there to prepare themselves for the real work, and for their working lives.
they should not be pawns for some idioligy be it open source, Linux or whatever else.
they dont teach latin in schools, because its pointless, and does not help the student in the real world. and like it or not, basically 100% of all business use Office and windows.
im sure it would be cheap to teach latin to students in school, but its not a skill that is easily transferable to the real world.
I believe you are doing those students damage, and giving others that learn office applications an EDGE in the real world.
i wonder if you thought this through before putting your beliefs and constraints and a large group of children who are trying to get the RIGHT lessons in life. their chances of finding an employer asking for skills in "OpenOffice" rather than MSOffice, are Few are far between.
its helps your cause, to "get em young" but you are restricting them.
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You've just used many words
You've just used many words to say "drones". Ever more these days, grey/gray is the standard colour and anything else is discouraged. How dare anyone consider anything different?
Just the admission that one uses OpenSouce software attracts a label - bigot, idealog, zealot, danger to society, brainwashed, etc. These brickbats come from people who have been fed what is acceptible and to regard any alternative as an evil or worse.
Put these blinkers on and you will see clearer than ever before - painless 20/20 vision.
The vocational point is valid, but...
It's true that the educational bias reflects the bias of the companies which will likely do the hiring. This is a case of "education as a means of producing students as product to be consumed by industry", though, and not "education as a means of enhancing the human potential of each student".
So, which is better, "pawns of ideology" or "pawns of industry"?
Yeah, I know, that's "the way it is". But it has serious drawbacks to society -- it's short-sighted.
And, just for the record, knowledge of Latin remains very relevant as it is an important root language for technical jargon in English. As a matter of fact, it is still taught, though not often required. :-)
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However, there is power that can be wielded when Microsoft products are used together. Sure, you can have a Website that lists when school activities are. However, if you do the same thing with Sharepoint, you now have a Web page and a set of calendar events that seamlessly flow into Outlook and Exchange. I believe that is where the power of the Microsoft solutions come from.
And this is why we need open standards! Imagine if the internet used proprietary standards. Some sites would only be available to certain OSes. Wait, it already happens when people use crufty code "optimized" for IE. What we need is for that Sharepoint to work with any calendar software, not just Outlook. It should work on Mac and Linux versions too. But no, MS just likes locking people into only using their software. That's where they get you, if you use one of their programs, you have to use them all.
they dont teach latin in schools, because its pointless, and does not help the student in the real world. and like it or not, basically 100% of all business use Office and windows.
Unless you are doing some majorly complex stuff, I have found Open Office and MS Office to be identical in behavior. You click on the disk-icon to save, you click on the B to make it bold, etc And, having been working in the "real world" for about 4 years now, I know that 99.9% of people are just doing these simple tasks. It's only when one gets into the ridiculously complex stuff that the methods begin to diverge.
Finally, this guy will expose them to Open Office and I'm sure that another school will expose them to MS Office. Now they can list BOTH of them on their CV. If the hiring manager doesn't know about Open Office, they'll think this is some kind of wonder-kid who knows so much about computers. (Yay for differentiation) If they know about OO.o, then the company probably uses it and it'll be a good thing that the person has been exposed to it.
The bottom line
All I have to say about it is Massive Market-share.
Microsoft is the de-facto standard. Like it or lump it.
It doesn't seem to me a complex or involved answer to your musings.
How does the linux/OSS community change this is another question entirely.
PS As to the anonymous coward nonsense... Am I to register at every weblog on the net to be brave?
I agree,I would take it even further
If you ask most people what a computer is and what it is capable of, they will tell you what windows is and what windows is capable of.
When the bubble bursts
The drones will one day all be open sources new best friends. They'll like the different colours when it boots. They'll be excited by the different icons.
What is very very sad about the current situation is the way the MS system keeps you on the outside. I wonder how many potential talents have been lost, having just gotten bored with computing because they were only able to see it from the MS click, click perspective.
Remember their adverts :
"We see security" - Yeah, security problems everywhere.
"We have a vision" - Yup, to make more more more money whatever the consequences.
In the future, our generation of "everything is done for you, go watch TV" will be up against countries where progression is rapid. Where ours may say "I'm bored", the foreign children (who DO use open source) will have been growing and learning - and be much happier for it. Our lot will have no chance.
All we really learn is "Look up to the rich. It's good to be really rich and powerful. If you're really rich and powerful then you must be right." So off they go, not worrying about the best way to do things, but how to make as much money as possible out of anything that they do decide to do.
Thank goodness for open source.
Open Office 1 and 2
I have to agree with those who pointed out that OpenOffice has improved a lot from version 1 to version 2. Version 2 has much better compatibility.
One of the things I felt really suprized by was that OOo 1 did not support ODF format! (I had thought that ODF started life as OOo's native format, but if so, it didn't do it until after the version I was using).
This is still pretty relevant, because it was only very recently that the Debian distribution upgraded to OOo 2, so there are probably still a lot of systems out there with OOo 1 as the default.
My earlier experiences with OOo were pretty uninspiring, but I've found OOo 2 to be useful. OTOH, I don't really use it all that much -- primarily I just use it to convert MS Word documents into some useful format. So far, though, it always manages to do that pretty well (I actually use LyX for most of my word-processing needs).


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For those that don't know: Ceschi of Fake Four Inc is in jail for some bullshit. If you have ever cared about his music/life/etc there is a indiegogo link going around with info and ways you can help:
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I'll say this: some of the options to help fund Fake Four are incredible, like getting a beat from Factor or having Astronautalis call you up for a chat/freestyle session. I'd say that's well worth the price. Also, the entire Fake Four catalog for $100? A fantastic deal. I think it should be clarified as well that all money raised is to keep Fake Four running, not to get Ceschi out of jail. But then I think, doesn't David Ramos co-run the label? Can other homies not help out? Other than income generated from work Ceschi would do if not in jail, why would the label suddenly hemorrhage funds?
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I don't know the inner workings of Fake Four but I'm sure in a world where music doesn't sell all that well, that most of the money for Fake Four came from Ceschi/David/whoever else helps run the label, but I'm sure without that income while Ceschi is in jail or where ever it was coming from. The label is bound to have issues. I mean how much money has come back after investing in the records/promo/etc. From my own experience I know its costly to get the press that Fake Four has. Publicists cost money, video/recording/etc all cost money.
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Such a strange and shitty situation. I hope everything works out for Ceschi and Fake Four as best as it can.
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They made more than double of what they asked for in the first week. I think the label will be fine as that's way more funding than SFR has ever seen outside of the money generated by sales since our inception.
Fake Four as a label isn't the concern at this point. My concern is for Ceschi having to be locked up for so long (although I'm sure glad it wasn't as long as it could have been.) I just hope he keeps his wits about him and stays safe.
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Ceschi is one of my favorite humans and I am fortunate to consider him a friend. The sentencing could have went worse than it did, but it's still fucking horrible to think that one of the nicest, most outgoing and humble dudes I've ever known is sitting in a cell right now on some bullshit.
I feel like I'm not really adding anything to the conversation with this post but I don't know what else to say but, "This is fucking terrible."
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He was lucky to have not gotten more time TBH. I had a friend of mine recently went down for 6 years, federally, charged with the non-violent crime of money laundering (<100k). Ceschi is a great guy. The problem is that the American prisons focus too much on their 'eye for an eye' mentality instead of rehabilitation. It also doesn't help that a good majority of prisoners are low-income and statistically disadvantaged. The prison system is a shit. A big shit.
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Stuart dealt with a lower body injury through the summer and was not able to do much skating once training camp began in September. He then suffered an upper body injury Feb. 7 against Columbus, the Sharks' last game before the Olympic break began, which kept him out of the lineup for 13 games after the break ended.
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Stuart and defensive partner Justin Braun were matched up plenty against the Kings' line of Mike Richards, Jeff Carter and Dwight King in Game 2, and there was no reason to expect that to change in Game 2. The key for all of the Sharks' defensive pairings will be to see how they are able to adjust for the third game in Los Angeles on Tuesday when the Kings have the last change and the matchups may be less favorable.
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WASHINGTON (October 11, 2012)--A late spending splurge by outside political groups helped Republicans take over the House two years ago and the floodgates are opening again, but this time Democrats say they're better prepared.
The Sunlight Foundation reported that outside groups have spent about $49 million since June 1 trying to help Democratic candidates and about $60 million trying to help GOP candidates, but some of the Republican support groups are just getting started.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce recently launched a multi-million dollar ad campaign designed to help 20 GOP candidates in California, New York and Illinois.
Deep-pocketed groups led by Karl Rove have ordered millions of dollars of ads for Republican House candidates after previously focusing on the Senate and presidency.
Americans for Tax Reform is also beginning to invest in House races.


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- Gaming Permits - Alcohol Licensed Premises Gaming Machines
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The Gambling Act 2005 came into force on 1 September 2007 and created a new regulatory system to govern the provision of all gambling in Great Britain, other than the National Lottery and spread betting.
The Act removed from the licensing justices all responsibility for granting gaming and betting permissions and introduced for the first time a unified independent regulatory body for the gambling industry, the Gambling Commission. While the Gambling Commission regulates the gambling industry, the role of the Licensing Authority, Birmingham City Council, is to issue Premises Licences, regulate and issue Gambling Permits for Alcohol Licensed Premises, Members Clubs, Prize Gaming and Unlicensed Family Entertainment Centres, register Small Society Lotteries, and other required authorisations within the City.
The City Council is required to draft, consult on and publish a Statement of Licensing Principles which sets out the policies and principles that the Council will apply when carrying out its licensing functions under the Act.
The Licensing Authority and the Gambling Commission will make decisions in accordance with the three licensing objectives, which are;
Preventing gambling from being a source of crime or disorder, being associated with crime or disorder or being used to support crime;
Ensuring that gambling is conducted in a fair and open way;
Protecting children and other vulnerable persons from being harmed or exploited by gambling.
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If I ever miss a Wings game that they lost, the first thing I jump to is the first Babcock quote. It's always candid and tells me exactly what I need to know about the game:
"We were poor. We were poor in goal. We were poor in the back end. We were poor up front. We were poor in the work ethic department," Red Wings coach Mike Babcock said. "The bottom line was we didn't look like a team that was dying to be in the playoffs tonight in anyway or shape of form."
I suppose that pretty much covers it.
The title of this post isn't meant to drive a fork into this season. But there are only so many "turning points" that I can get behind, only to have my hopes dropped like a bag of rhino shit.* It's now March 4th. It's not good to hear the coach talking about his entire team's lack of intensity on March 4th.
*A particularly weighty form of fecal, one of the heaviest in the animal kingdom. Is this true? Who knows. But I may or may not have just made you Google "rhinoceros poo + density". And that's all I really need for me to sleep tonight.
In other news, I had a blast at The Production Line with Mike, Chris, Rob and everyone else during our Jailsexed Trade Deadline Extravaganza (!). You can go back and read the seven or so hours of trade deadline yammering that included zero blockbusters, but if that actually sounds interesting then I'd appreciate it if you'd go and stab yourself repeatedly.


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After five years, hundreds of filings and countless twists and turns, the most anticipated lawsuit in college sports history goes to trial Monday in Oakland.
It's Ed O'Bannon vs. the NCAA, with the system at stake.
The former UCLA basketball star and dozens of other named plaintiffs in the antitrust case -- the list includes Bill Russell and Oscar Robertson -- are seeking to change the economics of college sports by allowing players to be compensated financially for the use of their name, image and likeness.
If O'Bannon wins, major college football and men's basketball players could have access to millions of dollars generated annually by the NCAA and its member schools from not only jersey sales but network television appearances.
But the O'Bannon case is just one of many facing the NCAA.
The governing body of college sports is under siege on several fronts for enforcing an antiquated system that, to cite one example, recently allowed Ohio State's athletic director to receive an $18,000 bonus after an OSU wrestler won the national title -- but the wrestler himself got nothing.
"We need to find the right answers for the 21st century," Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said. "The NCAA has gotten so large and cumbersome that we have failed at efforts to evolve. ...
"I don't know what will happen in the cases. I think we have positions that are valid, but we also need to change."
Despite the high-profile nature of the O'Bannon case, it's not the greatest threat to the system of amateurism that governs college sports. Nor, for that matter, is the much-publicized unionization movement at Northwestern.
The case that most worries college officials has received relatively little publicity and is just beginning to wind through the court system.
Filed in New Jersey by renowned sports labor attorney Jeffrey Kessler -- one of the named plaintiffs is former Cal tight end Bill Tyndall -- it seeks to completely overhaul the scholarship model by turning players into salaried employees in a free-market system.
That case will also play out in the Bay Area. Earlier this week, it was lumped together with another lawsuit seeking compensation. The combined suit will be overseen in Oakland by Judge Claudia Wilken, who also will preside over the O'Bannon case.
"We're frankly more focused on some other questions being raised: Are student-athletes employees ... (and) the lawsuits wondering whether we should be paying salaries," Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott said.
"To me, those are more fundamental threats to the collegiate model. I don't see the O'Bannon case rising to that level."
A recent move by the five major conferences to compensate athletes for the full cost of attendance -- the scholarship check doesn't cover everything -- could serve to defuse the legal threat. Individually or collectively, the compensation cases are years away from resolution.
So is unionization: The National Labor Relations Board ruling that Northwestern players are employees pertains only to private schools -- the NLRB has no jurisdiction over state institutions.
And for all the drama that could unfold in Wilken's Oakland courtroom over the next three weeks -- NCAA president Mark Emmert is expected to take the stand -- the O'Bannon case could take months, even years to resolve.
Wilken, who has degrees from Stanford and Cal, is not expected to rule from the bench, and a written decision likely will take weeks. Based on her rulings in the case thus far, the NCAA is a significant underdog. A defeat would assuredly be followed by an appeal to the Ninth Circuit and, potentially, to the Supreme Court.
The plaintiffs are no longer pursuing damages. They want injunctive relief, which would free athletes to be compensated for participating in the televised football and basketball games that currently generate approximately $20 million per year for schools in the major conferences.
How would an O'Bannon victory change the landscape? Nobody seems to know.
Would every player in the major conferences have to negotiate his own deal with ESPN? Would the backup tight end earn the same as the star quarterback? And what of the California statute that bars participants in televised sporting events from being compensated? (Many other states have similar laws.)
That's all for Wilken -- and possibly the Ninth Circuit and the Supreme Court -- to decide. The plaintiffs, for now, are focused on removing the cap on what athletes can earn. What happens after the lid gets blown off, nobody knows.
Ex-UCLA star basketball player heads lawsuit vs. NCAA.


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Six Western States Join Two Canadian Provinces in Carbon-Reduction Compact
August 23, 2007
The leaders of six Western states and two Canadian provinces approved the Western Climate Initiative on Wednesday. The initiative sets mandatory targets for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases by 15% in 2020. The initiative also gives the region one year to establish a market mechanism such as cap-and-trade for enabling businesses to meet their targets.
The Western Climate Initiative includes the U.S. states of Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Washington the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and British Columbia. According to news reports, the initiative is led by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 2006, Schwarzenegger signed the region's first law setting mandatory targets for reducing carbon emissions.
In a statement issued from San Francisco Wednesday about the Western Climate Initiative, Schwarzenegger said, "Our collective commitment will build a successful regional system to be linked with other efforts across the nation and eventually the world." California accounts for two percent of the world's emissions of greenhouse gases.
According to California Secretary for Environmental Protection Linda Adams, the regional nature of the compact gives it considerable strength and sends a strong signal to consumers and businesses that emissions reduction targets are real. Adams also said the agreement is large enough that it will be difficult for firms with high emissions to avoid the targets simply by moving operations to a nearby state.
All of the states and provinces signing the compact had previously agreed to the emissions reduction targets in separate actions. "No one is being asked to do more or less than they have already committed to doing," said Janice Adair of the Washington Department of Ecology. Adair noted that now the hard bargaining begins about how to establish a regional market for emissions trading by August 2008.
Source: August 22 article that was published online and distributed by Reuters and titled "U.S., Canadian West Set Joint Carbon-Cutting Target".


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The Australian wine industry is famous for its system of wine shows which hand out gold, silver, and bronze medals for top rated wines as well as trophies for those wines deemed to be the best of class or best of exposition. In many cases, winning a trophy can bring increased wine sales. But what really counts is the publicity for those winners and more importantly, the recognition from their peers in producing a top quality wine.
The wine show system is not without controversy. Critics claim that by tasting so many wines, only the big and bold styles are recognized. Conspiracy theorists say that wineries submit entries that are not actually the "official" bottling released to the general public. Others argue that there are simply too many wine shows. Be that as it may, the Australian show system isn't going away.
I am currently judging at The Sydney International Wine Competition 2010 as one of 12 judges tasked with assessing almost 2000 wines. The panel includes five Masters of Wine, winemakers, journalists, and even a doctor. Over four days, we have sipped, slurped, and bemoaned the state of our purple teeth. Tonight after the judging is officially over, we all get dressed up for a formal thank you dinner and speeches- a tradition in the Australian wine industry. I'll have more to say about the Sydney show as well as some comments about the show system in a later blog. Cheers!


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Kindly help me with the following question.
Why speaker cables are not shielded to block EMI/RFI just like interconnects?
Kindly help me with the following question.
Why speaker cables are not shielded to block EMI/RFI just like interconnects?
I haven't heard any big improvements from shielding the XLR interconnect. But when I properly shielded the speaker cable I got HUGE improvements in dynamics and low-level detail.
As a general rule, speaker level signals are considered high enough above the intrusion level (in voltage) of RFI/EMI signals. There can, of course, be exceptions to this rule but they would be considered special cases where good cable design and appropriate cable dressing can't achieve the desired levels of rejection. Twisted or braided conductor legs will minimize pickup from outside forces. However, almost anything the designer does to minimize RFI/EMI pickup - and most especially shielding the cable with a braid or foil - will increase the capacitance of the cable which might then make the shielded speaker cable a not so good choice in certain applications.
The above responses are good, just wanted to add that with SS, they should be stable enough, but with tube amps and trannies, the core material itself helps to minimize the problem, esp as the frequency rises.
Another problem, though, is the cable capacitance reflects back to the primary, loading the source (output tube) and reducing the high frequency response.
Hope this helps.
Thank you all for your responses.
I do not have a technical background and therefore I do not understand the relation of shield with capacitance of the cable.
What I want to know is that if I just wrap my speaker cables in braided copper shield or in household aluminum foil, without any modification to the inner construction/structure/geometry/design of the cable, will that arrangement help in shielding the cable from EMI/RFI?
Also in the above arrangement, shield is not touching the inner conductors of speaker cable but only makes contact to outer jacket, then how will the capacitance of cable change?
In a capacitor, there is usually two plates and an insulator sanwiched in between.
The added shield becomes another "plate" with a large surface area. The jacket is the sanwiched insulator between the internal wires and the shield.
Hope this helps.
Let's discuss what you're trying to achieve. Speaker cables seldom pick up RF/EM interference. When they do, dressing the cables to keep them away from the source of such interference typically resolves the problem. Since it's very difficult to get a 100% coverage with the methods you describe, there are probably better ways to minimize noise in your cables.
Interconnects are far more susceptible to RFI/EMi pick up than speaker cables. If you're having a problem, this is where I would suggest you begin making corrections.
Have you determined where the noise is entering the system? Have you tried other methods of noise reduction?
Without those answers, the best I can say is; try the shield.
Thank you sasaudio and Jan Vigne. I got your points and now I understand why cable manufactures do not shield speaker cables.
I am not having a noise problem with my old Yamaha amplifier and even if I poke my ear into the tweeters, there is no noise. It just occurred to me during my recent attempt to add a used Krell FPB-300 amplifier in my system that perhaps speaker cables are picking up noise. What happened was that there was hiss/hum/buzz from both channels even if only speaker wires were connected to output of FPB-300 and no interconnects were connected to any of FPB-300
I would tend to think the best approach is as the article suggests, simply unplug the offending AC cable.
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I haven't heard any big improvements from shielding the XLR interconnect. But when I properly shielded the speaker cable I got HUGE improvements in dynamics and low-level detail.
did you ground the shield? if yes where?
Grounding of shield is sometimes necessary. Without grounding, signal can actually become worse because shield can behave as an antenna.
Excuse me, but as an experienced electrical engineer who has been an audio enthusiast for 50 years, I have never read so much nonsense in my life as I see in this thread. Anyone who claims they have heard a difference from shielding speaker cables is in my opinion not credible.
Speaker cables carry a fairly large current and are driven by an amplifier which has a very low output impedance. Almost NOTHING will influence or change the signal in them materially.
They are immune to any significant interference because their current is too large and their impedance is too low to be materially influenced by any other electrical signals that could influence them in the environment. Any competent engineer can do the math and prove it.
That is like suggesting that the current in the Mississippi River will need to be protected against the disturbance of the air due to passing birds that might modify the flow.
The ONE exception to this would be if you were within 100 yards of a VERY powerful radio transmitter AND your speaker cable length was the EXACT length to form a tuned antenna at THAT EXACT TRANSMITTER FREQUENCY. The chance of all of this happening is about a million to one.
The idea of shielding speaker cables is absolutly ridiculous.
ANY correctly constructed balanced (XLR) connection (cable) has an inherent noise rejection of 50 db or more when terminated in the usual appropriate circuits at both ends. It has a balanced design which totally rejects common-mode (noise) signals, and it is already shielded. Trying to add another useless shield is redundant and makes no sense at all.
Until you get a degree in electrical engineering and can understand the basics of what you are talking about, you might want to stick to discussing another subject. Trying to discuss something you have NO understanding of is useless and often counterproductive.
Wow, if i could have EVER hoped for a clearer explanation. .. Thank you "commsysman"
Now to properly connect my speakers to my Lava Lamp!


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UPDATE: "The Flash" Hasn't Cast Savitar, Says Berlanti
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When writer Steve Orlando contacted Robot 6 about his 88-page graphic novel, Octobriana: Samizdat Edition (Poseur Ink), I was intrigued for a number for a reasons. First off, Orlando tapped artist Chaz Truog (Grant Morrison's collaborator on his definitive Animal Man run) for the project. Also, of interest to me, was the Russian history aspect; SAMIZDAT, the underground Soviet movement for spreading censored art and literature and best of all, a character born partially from a pop culture hoax. Once interested, of course, I arranged an email interview and we discussed all of these topics and more.
Tim O'Shea: At the outset, for uninformed readers like myself, can you discuss SAMIZDAT- the underground Soviet movement for spreading censored art and literature?
Steve Orlando: Samizdat (which means "self-making" or "self-made" in Russian) was an underground publishing movement during the harshest times of Soviet repression. It's best summed up by Vladimir Bukovsky, a doctor and writer that exposed psychological torture against Soviet prisoners- "(…) I myself create it, edit it, censor it, publish it, distribute it, and …get imprisoned for it. (…)" With Samizdat, banned documents were printed in secret and passed hand to hand between readers, under the radar. Because the documents were censored by the government, Samizdat was a dangerous movement, its printers were social and political zealots. But it was also extremely important- works such as Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita" were among the circulated texts…making the movement responsible for the continued growth and expression of Russian literature. These were dedicated people- sometimes even recreating the texts word for word by hand or by typewriter.


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Book your room at Inbal Hotel
Get an overview of this hotelLuxury hotel with spa in center of Jerusalem
Gardens: 2 blocks
This Condé Nast award-winning luxury hotel is 2 blocks from Jerusalem Botanical Gardens. Emek HaMatsleva-Rehavia Park is 1.5 km (1 mi.) from the hotel. St. Andrew's Church is 3 km (2 mi.) away.
Outdoor pool and spa
The Inbal Hotel in Carmel features a seasonal outdoor pool and a children's pool. A spa pampers guests with massages.
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Air-conditioned Hotel Inbal guestrooms offer Old or New City views, providing LCD TVs and complimentary Wi-Fi access. Guests enjoy refrigerators, minibars, and complimentary bottled water.Would you like to give us feedback? Share it! Opens in a new window
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At Inbal Hotel, Sofia Restaurant serves Italian cuisine for lunch and dinner. Carmel Restaurant offers traditional Shabbat meals. Free breakfast is also available. This luxury hotel features a seasonal outdoor pool with a bar, a children's pool, and a sauna, as well as a fitness facility, a shopping arcade, and a synagogue. A spa pampers guests with beauty services and massages, including couples treatment rooms. The hotel includes a 24-hour business center, business services, and banquet space. Guests enjoy cell phone rentals and wireless Internet access in public areas (complimentary). Same-day laundry and dry cleaning services are available on weekdays (surcharge). Multilingual staff can provide concierge services, currency exchange, and tour assistance. The hotel offers complimentary onsite parking (limited availability), an airport shuttle (surcharge), and a supervised child care/activities (surcharge).
- 24-hour business center
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- Total number of rooms - 283
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Sofia Restaurant - Italian gourmet cuisine served for lunch and dinner.
Sofia Café - Light snacks, sandwiches, and salads, as well as coffee and cake, served throughout the day. Lobby or courtyard seating.
Carmel Restaurant - Serves traditional Shabbat meals.
Splash Pool Bar - Offers grilled meats, salads, sandwiches, and drinks during summer months.
In-room dining - Available 24 hours a day.
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This Jerusalem hotel features a seasonal outdoor pool, a children's pool, and a sauna, as well as a fitness facility with cardio machines and free weights. The hotel includes a shopping arcade.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Fitness classes on site
Spa Services
Jerusalem Spa pampers guests with massages, facials, and aromatherapy treatments. Guests enjoy beauty services and a hair salon.
- Couples treatment rooms
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To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
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Check-in time starts at 3 PM
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Check-out time is noon
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Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
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Needhams to Celebrate 75th Wedding Anniversary
Published: Tuesday, September 4, 2012 at 8:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, September 4, 2012 at 8:15 a.m.
HENDERSONVILLE-Bruce and Melba Needham, 96 and 95, will celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary on Sunday, September 9, 2012 with their visiting children. They were married on September 11, 1937, in Knoxville, Tennessee.
The Needhams have been blessed with long, healthy lives and many good friends, neighbors, and co-workers. Bruce managed the J. C. Penney store on Main Street from 1962 until he retired in 1976. He was an active member of the Kiwanis Club. Mr. and Mrs. Needham are members of First Baptist Church, where she use to teach Sunday School and he use to help cook Wednesday night dinners.
Bruce & Melba have two children: John (Dodie) of Richmond, KY; and Diana Williams (Tom) of Euless, TX. They have four grandchildren: Bryan Needham and Mark Needham of Kentucky, and Tara Bowman (Chad) and Joy Hamilton (Daniel) of Texas; and three great-grandsons, Will, Ben, and John Bowman of Texas.
The Needhams reside at Emeritus Pine Park, 2601 Chimney Rock Road, #201, Hendersonville, NC 28792.
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Almond Peach Strudel
30 comments:
- John Plummer said...
Happy Veganiversary! That looks amazingly delicious.
- September 9, 2008 at 1:55 PM
- Sanja said...
Congratulations, both with your blogiversary and your veganiversary!
that almond peach strudel looks great!
- September 9, 2008 at 2:32 PM
- Ricki said...
Congratulations on your blog anniversary, and vegan anniversary! Both amazing accomplishments :). Looking forward to your next year of blogging!. . . especially if you continue to post things like almond peach strudel--drool, drool!
- September 9, 2008 at 2:44 PM
- Lisa -- Cravin' Veggies said...
Happy Veganni-blogi-versary!!
Was the date you started blogging a coincidence, or did you plan it?
Anyhoo... great looking strudel.
I can't wait to see what year 2 will bring!!!
- September 9, 2008 at 2:50 PM
- twoveganboys said...
Congrats on your 1 year anniversary. The struedel looks lovely.
- September 9, 2008 at 3:03 PM
- Anonymous said...
Happy blogiversary, Vegan Dad! So glad you decided to do this -- I really enjoy your posts and pictures!
- September 9, 2008 at 3:13 PM
- Bianca said...
First of all, Happy Veganiversary!!!
Then, Happy Blog Birthday!!!
And finally, that strudel is making me salivate. Like big-time. It reminds of the Toaster Strudels I used to love...only way prettier and healthier.
Sadly, my veganiversary is the day after Thanksgiving, and I'm always so sick of food by then that I never make anything special...just leftover Tofurkey to celebrate.
- September 9, 2008 at 3:30 PM
- Sal said...
happy anniversary!! that is one tasty looking strudel.
- September 9, 2008 at 3:46 PM
- tofufreak said...
YUM. this combo sounds awesome.
- September 9, 2008 at 4:09 PM
- lebkuchen said...
Congrats, Vegan Dad! I love your blog, it is one of my favorites and I appreciate how often you post (it's great to have new stuff to read everyday!) I've enjoyed so many of your recipes..your Sloppy Joes, your mac n' cheeze, and naan. I can't wait for your cookbook!! Keep up the good work! And this strudel looks AMAZING!!
- September 9, 2008 at 4:41 PM
- Joanna said...
this is so beautiful! almonds are so delicious. i bet it was delicious
- September 9, 2008 at 4:42 PM
- Teresa said...
Wow. This looks super yummy. I just love pastry.
- September 9, 2008 at 4:52 PM
- Margaret said...
This looks delicious! Only change I'd make is I would probably use almond milk for brushing, instead of soy milk. The peaches this year are fantastic.
BTW, I adore your blog : )
- September 9, 2008 at 6:53 PM
- shelby said...
mmm, those look fantastic! I would never be able to make my own puff pastry but I wish I could just to make these =)
- September 9, 2008 at 7:23 PM
- Happy Herbivore! said...
I'm still licking my lips (its been about 5 minutes now).
- September 9, 2008 at 7:37 PM
- The Little Mama said...
Happy Anniversary!
And, goodness, you are making me hungry!
- September 9, 2008 at 7:51 PM
- Eesh said...
Happy Anniversary! Here's to many more great years of vegan living and cooking!
- September 9, 2008 at 9:06 PM
- Janet said...
- September 9, 2008 at 10:17 PM
- aTxVegn said...
Happy Blog Birthday! You've written an incredible number of posts in only one year, and so many of your recipes look so tasty, including this one.
- September 9, 2008 at 10:54 PM
- Anonymous said...
That looks sooooo good! I'm going to have to try it! If people like you didn't exist, I swear I'd be starving to death! Thanks for your recipes!
- September 9, 2008 at 11:33 PM
- Lily Girl said...
Happy blogiversary & veganivesary! I always look forward to reading your posts and I aspire to one day post daily as you do! Thanks for sharing your recipes and ideas with the world.
That strudel look fantastic!
- September 10, 2008 at 12:03 AM
- Amy said...
Congrats on the vegiversary! You are the mock meat master! (The strudel looks faaaaabulous)
- September 10, 2008 at 1:59 AM
- Vegetation said...
Happy Blog Anniversary!
- September 10, 2008 at 2:32 AM
- Sharon R said...
Happy anniversaries! Last year's blog was certainly inspiring.
Yum, peaches and almonds..sounds like a winning combination.
- September 10, 2008 at 7:02 AM
- eringee said...
Seems a fitting time to leave my first comment. I adore your blog, I check it almost every day. I have made more of your recipes than any other blogger (or cookbook author for that matter) and I know you will never disappoint. Case in point, had seitan marsala for dinner last night and it was a huge hit! My partner and I's all time fave is the Vegan Hot Wingz, but we have loved each and every thing we have ever tried from your blog. So huge congrats and many thanks from South Florida.
- September 10, 2008 at 12:51 PM
- Lisa G/K said...
Mazel Tov! Yasher Koach!
Thanks for all your efforts. Your Utah fanclub 'preciates ya!
- September 10, 2008 at 3:54 PM
- Sarah said...
This strudel looks incredible! Happy 1 year & 3 year! What a great way to celebrate. :)
- September 10, 2008 at 9:10 PM
- Amey said...
happy blogday!
that strudel looks so good. I wish I could zap a piece of it off the internet and onto a plate for me!!
- September 11, 2008 at 1:14 AM
- mustardseed said...
Hi vegandad!
Can I make apple strudel with this? Peaches have disappeared from our supermarkets cause our supply from the US has run dry I guess (:
- September 11, 2008 at 10:59 AM
- Vegan Dad said...
thanks all for the kind words and congrats. I actually created the blog several weeks before my first post, but had a hard time trying to figure out what my particular slant would be. Would it be food? Vegan nutrition for kids? Major whining about being vegan in a lass than cosmopolitan city? I decided to go for pretty much just the food, and made my first post on my veganiversary.
As for the strudel, you can put whatever you want in the middle. Dice your apples, though, so they cook through before the pastry burns.
- September 11, 2008 at 11:07 AM


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Pa. railroad calendar delivered 63 years late
Published: Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 7:07 a.m.
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SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — A northeastern Pennsylvania newspaper has just received a calendar to help ring in the new year — except the year is 1950.
Scranton's The Times-Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/S23ykD ) a mail carrier delivered it 63 years late without explanation on Friday.
The large tube contained a 1950 Pennsylvania Railroad calendar addressed to James Flanagan, former general manager of The Scranton Times.
The calendar includes a holiday greeting from a railroad executive dated December 1949. Flanagan died that month.
A U.S. Postal Service spokesman says lost mail is sometimes found when a machine is dismantled or office space is renovated.
Times-Tribune publisher Bobby Lynett says he'll see if the Steamtown National Historic Site railroad museum is interested in the calendar. If not, he'll display it in the newspaper's offices.
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This Victreebel is a Grass/Poison-type Pokémon that was captured as a Weepinbell in the Kanto region by James with the help of his Weezing.
James then left Weepinbell at the Breeding Centre that Butch and Cassidy of Team Rocket had set up to both evolve and cage other people's Pokémon to send off to their boss, Giovanni. After James retrieved it from the Breeding Center it had evolved into a Victreebel, which would always show affection for James by biting him on the head every time it was released from its Poké Ball.
Although Victreebel debuted in Kanto, it was seldom used in battles and hardly ever came out of its Poké Ball, very much like Jessie's Lickitung. Victreebel was not seen battling or using any of its moves until the Orange Island Episodes and the Johto League episodes.
James often used it to battle alongside Jessie's Arbok and/or Jessie's Lickitung. Also, sometimes, if James used both of his Pokémon he would send out his Weezing to battle alongside Victreebel. He also used both Weezing and Victreebel alongside Jessie's Arbok and Lickitung when they would sometimes use all 4 of their Pokémon in a battle against Ash and his friends.
James really loved and cared about his Victreebel. In flashbacks, they were seen doing things together such as sleeping, eating, and bathing in hot water. James was also seen watering his Victreebel several times, and in The Grass Route James used his Victreebel for the Grass Tournament as Victreebel was a grass type Pokémon. During the contest it lost the battle to Ephraim's Skiploom Skippy.
Victreebel has a number of things in common with Jessie's Lickitung. They were both the second-ever Pokémon and second-ever Generation I Pokémon Jessie and James captured during their journey through Kanto. Also, they were seldomly used in Kanto during battles against Ash and Co., but were used more in the Orange Islands and Johto. They both showed affection for their Trainers in strange ways. Lickitung showed affection for Jessie by licking her on the face, and Victreebel showed affection for James by biting him on the head when being released from the Poké Ball. Also, Lickitung and Victreebel were both traded away during Team Rocket's journey through Johto.
Victreebel also has similarities with James' other Grass-type Pokémon; Cacnea and Carnivine, because they all show affection for James by hurting him when ever they are released from their Poké Ball. They have also all been used as James's main battling Pokémon in each and every different region, Victreebel in Johto, Cacnea in Hoenn, and Carnivine in Sinnoh. Also, they have all been used in many battles alongside Jessie's Poison Type Pokémon based on snakes; Victreebel has often battled alongside Jessie's Arbok, and Cacnea and Carnivine have both often battled alongside Jessie's Seviper.
Victreebel shares some similarities with Ash's Bulbasaur and Bayleef. They can all use Grass-type moves such as Razor Leaf and Vine Whip, but Bulbasaur has more similarities with Victreebel as they are both Generation I Pokémon and are both duel Grass- and Poison- types. Also, they can both use Sleep Powder as well as Razor Leaf and Vine Whip. Victreebel has been in lots of battles against Ash and his friends' Pokémon.
In Here's Lookin at you Elekid James is pushed into trading his Victreebel for a Weepinbell by the Magikarp Salesman becuause Weepinbell can use Sweet Scent, which will attract other Pokémon for Team Rocket to capture. Soon after Weepinbell evolved into Victreebel and started biting Jessie just like James's old Victreebel did to him. Jessie then ordered her Arbok to send the Victreebel flying. Meanwhile, the Magikarp Salesman was being bitten by on the head by James's Old Victreebel. He kicked it way, realizing it was no good to him. The two Victreebel then met and fell in love, skipping off into the forest. They have not been seen since. However, Victreebel did appear in a flashback, when Gardenia, one of the Gym Leaders in Sinnoh mentions trading her Victreebel to James.
Known moves
|Tackle -
|Pikachu Re-Volts
|Razor Leaf +
|A Shipful of Shivers
|Sleep Powder
|A Way Off Day Off
|A Tent Situation
|Poison Powder
|A Tent Situation
|Roll On, Pokémon!
|Swords Dance
|Flower Power
|Take Down
|Flower Power
|Vine Whip +
|Forest Grumps
|Stun Spore
|The Fortune Hunters
|+ indicates this Pokémon used this move recently.*
- indicates this Pokémon normally can't use this move.
Voice actresses and actors
- Rikako Aikawa (Japanese and English)
- Yūji Ueda (Japanese and English)
- Eric Stuart (English)
|Jessie's Pokémon
|James' Pokémon
|Team Rocket's Pokémon
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ALAMEDA -- Add defensive tackle Richard Seymour to the list of players who appear unlikely to play for the Raiders on Sunday against the Baltimore Ravens.
Seymour, who's suffering from a hamstring strain, missed his second day of practice Thursday, which isn't unusual. Coach Dennis Allen often rests the 12-year NFL veteran as a precaution to make sure he's good to go on game day.
The report on Seymour this time sounded more ominous.
"He couldn't practice today if he had to," Allen said. "We'll see where he is tomorrow."
Seymour has missed three games since joining the Raiders in 2009, all of them during the 2010 season.
When asked if he'd be ready to play against Baltimore, Seymour said, "I don't know, I'm not sure. Hammies are tough. I've had them throughout my career. The only thing you can do is work hard. When it's ready I'll be back."
If Seymour is out, Desmond Bryant would be the likely starter alongside Tommy Kelly, with Lamarr Houston and David Tollefson both having the ability to move inside. Also available is sixth-round draft pick Christo Bilukidi.
Bergstrom said he'll consider Kruger "just another nameless face out there," but when asked if he would execute a cut-block on him, said, "Oh, I'd cut him."
He hasn't played since Week 2 after suffering a groin surgery.
"I feel pretty good," Barnes said. "Obviously I've got some kinks to get out, but I'll get those out the more I'm on the field."
Huff could be playing opposite Ron Bartell, who has been out since breaking a shoulder blade in the opener but has been practicing for two weeks.
The Raiders can't activate Bartell from the "designated for return" injured reserve list until Saturday, at which time they will have to release a player from the 53-man roster.
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EAGLE COUNTY, Colorado - This has been a tough year for bears. It may be a tough one for bear-human encounters, too.
Last winter's drought, and a hot, dry June have combined to limit bears' natural food supplies. A lot of bears are also slipping into their ritual of gorging before going into their long winter's naps in the late fall.
That means there have already been more bear sightings than usual along the valley floor this season. Wildlife officials have already euthanized several bears this summer.
The bears' hunger has brought them into down-valley areas where they aren't usually spotted until later in the summer, if at all.
"This year's shaping up to be like 2002," Colorado Parks and Wildlife Area Manager Perry Will said. That year, another severe drought brought an unusual number of bears into human neighborhoods.
This year, a female bear with at least one cub has been spotted in several neighborhoods in Gypsum, from Valley Road south of town to the Bureau of Land Management campground just west of town. That bear was spotted napping in a pasture near the town cemetery Wednesday afternoon.
According to Sgt. George Dow of the Eagle County Sheriff's Office, the bear hasn't been aggressive, and no conflicts have been reported. Still, it's going to be tricky to keep the bear out of town. Since Gypsum rarely has bears in town, the town's trash receptacles are all plastic, and few, if any, residents have bear resistant trash containers.
Dow encouraged residents to do their best to keep their trash inside until trash day, he acknowledged that indoor trash could lead a bear to break into a home, potentially causing more serious problems.
Bears are frequent visitors at the other end of the valley, and the town of Vail has regulations in place to limit bear-human encounters. Those regulations include bear-resistant trash containers, which can only be hauled out to the curb on trash days.
Even with those regulations, Vail Police Sgt. Annette Dopplick said bear reports have increased over the past couple of weeks. Still, no human-bear encounters have been reported.
While bears in towns create a risk for both themselves and humans, they're also more active in area campgrounds, which means areas that just ended fire restrictions for campers are now on full alert for bears.
The Yeoman Park campground southeast of Eagle has been closed to "soft-sided" shelters including tents and canvas-walled pop-up campers. Will said there's evidence people have been feeding a bear near Sylvan Lake, since the animal will just walk up to people.
That's a bad idea, for both people and bears, Will said.
Still, bears are supposed to be in places like Yeoman Park, and Will said he'll close down a campground if necessary to reduce bear-human conflicts.
Yeoman Park "Is 20 miles out of town," Will said. "Where do you want the bears to go?"
Will said most people are willing to help bears by doing their best to limit conflicts.
"But you have to have 100 percent compliance in a neighborhood," Will said. "If you have one house out of 10 that isn't doing it, you'll have conflicts."
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Of all the early-to-mid-1970s bands laboring under the "Southern rock" banner (a term coined by the media, not by the musicians), none could top South Carolina's Marshall Tucker Band for pure country credentials. Their classic-rock staples "Take the Highway" and "Can't You See" contain lengthy, rock-informed improvisations but lope along with a countrified ease; their Top 10 pop breakthrough, "Heard It in a Love Song," should have been a country smash, but radio's increasingly narrowing confines during the mid/late 1970s proved a no man's land for a band as stylistically untethered as the Tucker boys.
The band's sound, however, would prove to be an inspiration to country acts including Toby Keith, Mark Chesnutt and the Garthmeister himself, a devotee who would proudly co-write the final MTB single, 1993's "Walk Outside the Lines." Outside the lines is indeed where Marshall Tucker walked, as a new best-of collection demonstrates. Greatest Hits, a surprisingly comprehensive single-disc overview of the band's fruitful 1973–1977 period, pairs original, uncut album tracks with several songs in their edited single versions (including a neatly trimmed "Can't You See"), all in clean digital sound. The mixture of formats can in fact be a bit dizzying, moving from bluegrass- and western-influenced numbers to romping workouts incorporating swing, boogie-woogie and R&B.
The band's versatile vocalist, Doug Gray, is particularly well-suited for singing R&B, a fact further cemented by Soul of the South [3], a previously unreleased eight-song set of 1981 solo recordings that finds Gray, musical guests and MTB bandmates (some now deceased) in fine form. The album further confounds the band's multigenre legacy, though, moving away from country roots in favor of soul-flavored songs mostly from Nashville tunesmiths, oddly enough, and chosen by legendary country producer Billy Sherrill. Taken together, these additions to the Marshall Tucker catalog basically serve as reminders that, no matter how far you take the highway, you're always close to a country road.
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The recording cuts in on Gin and this one doesnt seem that tight from what is represented here. Divided Sky is ok, Mike sounds off in some spots. Ya Mar gets interesting during the solos as everyone is called out as Leo! Oh Kee Pa into Bag was good and then Trey talks about how good it sounds on stage and how they got there really early to set up and how great the crew is. This becomes ironically funny to me as the next couple of songs have monitor feedback in them. So much for the good sound Anyways, Foam, Lizards and My Sweet One were all pretty well played. Antelope rocked, as usual, and then we have the debut of Lawn Boy, which was funny and well done. The newly added Frankenstein closes up the first set nicely.
The beginning of Reba was also cut and was just ok to my ears. Trey fell off in the middle, but its a hard song and its still new. Possum was good as was my favorite Forbins > Mockingbird combo. Mockingbird had some cuts in the recording though. Fishman then comes out for the worst Undone Ive ever heard. He forgets all the lyrics and gets lots of help from Page and its no wonder that they canned this one after one more performance. Fee was good, though it sounds like Trey is having a little trouble singing it tonight. Melt is really starting to settle in and rock hard on a regular basis. A-Train was nicely done and very dynamic with all four members trading off licks. Suzy, Contact and Bowie were all reasonably well played to close up the back half of a pretty good second set.
After some funny stage banter about the upcoming New Years Eve show the band breaks out the new In a Hole song. The key change transition in the middle was rough, but otherwise its pretty well played. I like this song and I dont know why it didnt stick around in their repertoire? Golgi is the second encore and was pretty standard tonight.
Overall its a pretty good 89 show to hear with lots of teases, funny stage banter, and the first Lawn Boy.


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About the Book
The Beginning of After is a story of hope and healing from Jennifer Castle, a powerful new voice in teen fiction.
When Laurel's family dies in a horrific car accident, she struggles to put her life back together. She is now connected to David Kaufman, who lives down the block, and who lost his mother in the same crash. Both of their lives change—but not in the ways that they thought…
Castle blends tragedy with romance, teen angst, and wit in The Beginning of After, a bittersweet, powerful debut novel that stands as a testament to how people can survive the unthinkable.
Anyone who's had something truly crappy happen to them will tell you: It's all about Before and After. What I'm talking about here is the ka-pow, shake-you-to-your-core-and-turn-your-bones-to-plastic kind of crappy.
Sixteen-year-old Laurel's world changes instantly when her parents and brother are killed in a terrible car accident. Behind the wheel is the father of her bad-boy neighbor, David Kaufman, whose mother is also killed. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Laurel navigates a new reality in which she and her best friend grow apart, boys may or may not be approaching her out of pity, overpowering memories lurk everywhere, and Mr. Kaufman is comatose but still very much alive. Through it all there is David, who swoops in and out of Laurel's life and to whom she finds herself attracted against her better judgment. She will forever be connected to him by their mutual loss—a connection that will change them both in unexpected ways.
Jennifer Castle's debut novel is a heart-wrenching, surprisingly witty testament to how drastically life can change in the span of a single moment.
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"Castle expertly guides the narrative through the various stages of grief, refusing to shrink away from even the most difficult areas, where life and death collide. An honest look at grief that is both achingly real and powerfully hopeful." — Kirkus Reviews
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- Imprint: HarperTeen
- On Sale: 09/06/2011
- Trimsize: 5.5 in (w) x 8.25 in (h) x 1.33 in (d)
- Pages: 432
- List Price: 17.99 USD
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- BISAC2: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Death & Dying
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A Quote by Peter O. Erbe on expressions of love, love the unlovable, knowledge, i am, and out of touch with reality
To love something in this world as True perception would, we have to love everything alike, meaning we grant every thing an equal right to be. Then we may have our preferences, but still evaluate all as expressions of love. This may very well be a stumbling block for many. For how can we love the unlovable? Be learning to see past the form aspect and see the form content. This learning to see the form aspect is really not a learning process. We use the word 'learning' throughout this material for convenience of expression. It is rather a remembering of one's knowledge. Rephrasing the above statement we say: by remembering our identity, we look past the form aspect as naturally as breathing. The instant we know who we really are, the unlovable are recognized as the same I AM as ours.
To despise my left hand for being soiled would seem, at best, extremely unreasonable. Insisting on rejecting it, the day might come where I do not recognize it as my own hand. Each time now it wishes to be recognized and accepted, I either slap it or run away from it. An onlooker would, most likely, esteem me a trifle out of touch with reality. Yet this is exactly the case with our response to our brothers and sisters. However much we fear or despise, therefore flee or fight, we cannot get away from them. My brother and my sister are my left and right hand. They are my eyes - they are my heart - they are ME. To 'get rid' of them, the unlovable, I have to 'get rid' of ME, and to do that I have to tear my heart out. And this is precisely what we, as humanity, did. We tore our heart out - meaning we tore love out. Now we have non to give. So to love the unlovable is not to face him and think: 'Wow, how can I love this despicable so and so?' This leads only deeper into the mire of separation. To love these is to love ME! By discovering my BEING I discover theirs and MINE.
Source: God I Am: From Tragic to Magic, Pages: 186 & 187
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