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Now we'll take a look at working with our SoundLoader class to start making the songs load into our Mp3 Player. If you're following along I'm working in 06_Sound_Loader.fla, in the 06 folder, in the Chapter 9 folder, in the Exercise Files folder. We'll start off by connecting this file to our classes so just click the Publish Settings button at the bottom of the Property Inspector, in the Flash tab of the Publish Settings window, click the Settings button by ActionScript version, select the current class path, click the Remove Selected Path button, click the Browse to Path button, find the 06 folder inside of the Chapter 9 folder, choose the Start folder, inside of that folder, and the Classes folder, inside of that folder and then click Choose, click OK and click OK to close the Publish Settings window.
Good times. All right, now let's start working with our Sound Loader class. Choose File, Open and we'll navigate into the Chapter 9 folder, in the 06 folder, Start folder and then Classes, com, lynda, audio, mp3 and we're going to be working with two classes in this exercise, we'll select Mp3Player.as then I'm holding Cmd on my keyboard and that's Ctrl on the PC. I'm going to select the SoundLoader.as file and then I'll click Open to open both of those files.
First let's go to Mp3Player.as. Scroll down all the way to the bottom of the code and below the last line of code that you wrote in the last movie, we're going to create a new instance of the SoundLoader class. If you remember from the last movie, the name of the SoundLoader object was SoundLoader. So below the last code that you wrote type soundLoader, capital L, equals new SoundLoader, so we'll set it equal to a new instance of the SoundLoader class and we're going to pass in two values.
The first value we're going to pass in is our songs array. The next thing we'll pass in is this instance of Mp3Player, so we'll type this. The songs variable represents the paths to all our songs, and we'll need that in order to load the songs. This represents the Mp3 Player object. That way we will be able to comunicate to our MP3 Player from our SoundLoader and as well as from other classes which we'll talk about a little more later on. Once you've written in that line of code, choose File, Save, to save the file and then go over to the SoundLoader.as file.
The first thing we'll do in this file is set up some variables that we're going to be working with. Above the constructor function, I'm on line 11 in my code, I'm going to create some private variables. So create a private variable, we'll call this songList and this is going to represent all of our songs. So it's going to be an Array data type. On the next line, create another private variable called soundReq with the capital R and this is going to represent the URLRequest for the files we are going to load.
On the next line we'll create another private variable and this one is going to be called loader and this is the sound object that will load all of our sounds, so the data type is going to be Sound and we'll set that right here equal to a new instance of the Sound class. As you may know from working with sound that you need a Sound Channel object to control a sound so we'll create a private variable, and we'll call this song and the data type will be SoundChannel.
Lets create another private variable called songIndex, capital I, and this is going to be an integer with an initial value of zero. This will represent the current song, or the current index of our songs array or in this class, the songList Aarray. On the next line, create another private variable called musicPlayer, capital P. This is going to represent the Mp3Player object.
So the data type will be MP3, capital M, then Player with a capital P. Now, when we created an instance of the SoundLoader class in our Mp3Player file, we passed in two values. First our array of songs and then second we passed in the value this representing the instance of the Mp3Player class. So I need to receive those two values inside of our SoundLoader constructor function. So now I'm working in line 18. That's in my code, it may be differing yours, so inside the parentheses put your cursor and type songs and the data type will be Array, so we'll receive that songs array from the Mp3Player instance and we're also going to receive the Mp3Player. So we're going to type player, and the data type is going to be an Mp3Player. Now we'll connect some of the variables that we've created to the objects passed in when an instance of the SoundLoader class is created. So put your cursor in between the curly braces for the SoundLoader function, I'm working on line 20 in my code, and then type songList = songs.
On the next line type musicPlayer = player. So now we've connected our variables inside of our class file to the values passed in when the instance of the SoundLoader class is created. So now this file or this class knows the songs that are passed in when an instance of the Mp3Player class is created. That information from the songs array all the way from our FLA file goes into the Mp3Player file and then into the SoundLoader file, and now we can work with it in here.
On the next line we'll give a value to our SoundRequest variable. Type soundReq with a capital R, and we'll set that equal to a new URLRequest and in the parentheses we'll pass in songList, remember that's our array of songs, and then in square brackets after songList the index of the song that we're going to pass in it's going to be songIndex, which currently is zero.
On the next line of code, we'll make our loader object, which is an instance of the sound class, load the soundRequest file. So type loader.load and we'll pass in soundReq with capital R. So our sound object will load the first song, which if you remember from our FLA file I'm just going to quickly show the ActionScript, is songs navigating to the Songs folder and a song called chad.mp3.
Back in the SoundLoader file, on the next line we'll add an event listener to our Sound object. We'll have it listen for the complete event, once the sound file is finished loading. So type Event.COMPLETE, all caps, and we'll run a function called songLoaded, which we'll define right now. So right below the constructor function, let's create a new private function called songLoaded and it will receive an event with the data type of Event and in curly braces we'll make our song play. So type song, that's our soundChannel object, equals loader.play and make sure to put the parentheses after play.
Now if we've typed everything correctly the sound should play when we test the movie. So let's go to File, Save to save our ActionScript file and then we'll test the movie directly from here using Cmd+Return on the Mac or Ctrl+Enter on the PC. (Music plays.) And the sound plays just fine. Great. Now since we don't want to hear that sound blaring every single time we test the movie let's just make our sound stop right off the bat. So on the next line of code, type song.stop.
We'll control the sound later on when we work with our buttons. Now you may be wandering why we're making the song play and then the song stop right after. well, what happens is, when we make the song play we're actually setting a value to our song object which is actually an instance of the SoundChannel class. By giving our sound a value, even though we're giving it a value and stopping it immediately, we can control the sound while it's stopped. So before you close this file, make sure you choose File, Save to save the file.
So there's a look at loading sounds into Flash which could potentially be familiar to you already. So now that we've loaded our songs into our Mp3Player we can access the ID3 tags inside of those files. We'll take a look of how to do that, next.
- Customizing Flash CS3 and managing assets Working with ActionScript variables Understanding dynamic text fields Adding interactivity to dynamic text Animating a complex MovieClip Using buttons to navigate labeled frames Working with components Exploring advanced audio and video techniques Creating accessible Flash content Understanding Flash Mobile


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- Introduction & Preliminary Steps: things to consider before diving in
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Community Concerts
2015-16 Season Schedule
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Aquila Theatre Company
Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015, 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $25 and $30
The legendary sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, takes the stage in this witty, fast-paced production by the acclaimed Aquila Theatre. Sherlock Holmes remains the definitive and most famous detective in world literature. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's vivid characters jump from the page weaving a tale of mystery, suspense, and intrigue. In addition to Holmes, many of Doyle's other well-known creations are on hand, including Dr. Watson, Irene Adler, and Jabez Wilson. The Aquila Theatre brings it's energetic and physical style to this new adaptation with actors drawn from the top British and American stages.
Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox
Saturday, Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $30 and $35
Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox has been viewed on their YouTube channel well over a hundred million times for their imaginative and energetic performances of present-day pop hits performed à la pop hits of the past; Miley Cyrus' "We Can't Stop" assayed as a doo-wop number; Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' "Thrift Shop" tricked out in flapper jazz; Sam Smith's "Stay With Me" rendered a 1940's big-band standard. Bradlee's method of styling these contemporary hits runs deeper, as he educates his audience about 20th century song styles, while breaking the rules and uniting generations.
Danú: A Christmas Gathering
Thurs., Dec. 17, 2015, 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $30 and $35
The acclaimed Irish ensemble, Danú, celebrates Christmas with 'Féile na Nollag' (A Christmas Gathering). Many Irish people living abroad come home to gather in celebration with their family and friends for one of Ireland's most important holidays, and Danú's Christmas Gathering offers a taste of these extraordinary events, which have been held across Ireland for hundreds of years. Celtic music lovers around the globe have been thrilled by their virtuoso players on fiddle, flutes, button accordion, percussion, and the gorgeous voice of Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh along with top notch guest dancers. Winners of major awards from the BBC and Irish Music Magazine, Danú returns to the U.S. with a new celebration of Christmas and Wrens Day from their homeland.
Drowning Ophelia | Gaslight Theatre Company
Jan. 28-30, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 31, 2 p.m.
Tickets: $12 for students and seniors, $15 for adults
Gaslight Theatre Company returns to the Community Concerts stage for the sixth consecutive year with the East coast premiere of Drowning Ophelia by regional playwright Rachel Luann Strayer. Jane doesn't know what to do with the literary character who has taken up residence in her bathtub. She doesn't want Ophelia interrupting the obsessive order of her life with obnoxious songs about death and valentines, disrupting her relationship with Edmund, or stirring up memories of a brother she would rather forget. But Ophelia doesn't care about what Jane wants so much as what she needs. As Jane's past intrudes dangerously on her present, it becomes clear that Ophelia is not simply a character from Hamlet, but a long-forgotten messenger with a question from Jane's own troubled mind: How do you move on when reconciliation is not an option?
About CCLC
Having operated as Scranton Community Concerts for 81 years, the organization was officially adopted by Lackawanna College in July 2009 and is now known as Community Concerts at Lackawanna College (CCLC). The mission of CCLC is to present culturally significant performing arts programs and serve the Lackawanna College community, local educational community, and our residents with educational outreach events to enrich the quality of life in Northeastern Pennsylvania, and to carry on the decades long tradition of concerts under the auspices of "Community Concerts." Each year, CCLC presents a concert series with a diverse selection of high quality artists from multiple genres that are renowned throughout the country and across the globe.
For more information, please call the Box Office at (570) 955-1455. Tickets can be purchased in-person or over the phone during Box Office hours, or any time through www.ticketfly.com.
Extra events are added throughout the year, so be sure to check back frequently and sign up for our electronic "mailing list"!


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A Port Orange man will spend the next 30 years in jail after he was found guilty in a drunken driving death case.
Investigators said Al Hopkins was found guilty Thursday of killing two people.
He faced two counts of DUI manslaughter.
Investigators said Hopkins' blood alcohol level was more than four times the legal limit when he struck and killed a couple riding on a motorcycle during Biketoberfest in 2011.


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Severe storms hit North Texas
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I arrived minutes before the umbrellas were removed, but I was taken by the colour, or perhaps the lack of it. I have published photos before of these umbrellas, against a brilliant blue sky, with the water in the pool a stunning turquoise.
I guess the rain just washes the colour away!
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AOL launches first mobile game
AOL launches its first mobile game today, one that combines video with word play.
Clucks is a new free game that AOL vice-president Sol Lipman describes as "Taboo" meets "Draw Something."
Taboo is the popular board game that asks contestants to guess the word you're trying to describe based on clues while Draw Something is an online drawing and guessing game.
Clucks is an iPhone app that also lets players challenge their friends to guess a word they are describing. What makes it unique, says Lipman, is that folks use video to supply the answers, and can answer when they feel like it -- the play doesn't have to be in real time.
It should be available in iTunes shortly.
AOL is working with speech recognition pioneer Nuance (maker of dictation software) to ensure that you don't cheat while playing the game,and hot new video app Viddy to post games on its social network (as well as Facebook).
Clucks players get a clue -- like "birthday" -- and have to avoid five "forbidden" words to describe it. Offending words would be things like birth, cake and the like. Players record their responses in a 12-second video describing the word and send it to the opponent.
The games are being sponsored by Sony Pictures, which will encourage stars of upcoming movies to appear in the games as well. No names have been announced yet.
The game was developed by former staffers of the 12 Seconds app when AOL acquired a later company they started -- RallyUp. "It was a video status update app," says Lipman. "When we saw Viddy take off, we realized we were too early with 12 Seconds. No one had ever combined social video into a turn-based game. It would be fun to see your friends faces and be able to play a game using video."
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This week in "Apple TV News from the Web":
1. Siri on Apple TV?
2. Real Racing 2 AirPlay and Party Play
3. Coming to Apple TV – iTunes Match
4. Movie streaming
Get more from your shiny box of joy: Taking Apple TVs to the next level
This week in "Apple TV News from the Web":
1. Siri on Apple TV?
2. Real Racing 2 AirPlay and Party Play
3. Coming to Apple TV – iTunes Match
4. Movie streaming
Firecore has just updated Seas0nPass to support a TETHERED jailbreak of the new Apple TV 4.4 (iOS 5) software (also supported is the 4.4.1 update). A tethered jailbreak means every time there is a need to reboot your Apple TV, you will have to connect it to a computer. The new Seas0nPas doesn't support XBMC, Plex, Remote HD and Rowmote plugins yet, so think twice before deciding to upgrade to 4.4 and run the jailbreak.
If the support for Media Player, Couch Surfer, NitoTV, Last.fm, Weather, RSS Feeds and Overflow and the new Apple TV 4.4 features, like AirPlay Mirroring, Photo Stream, NHL and WSJ Live are enough to convince you to update, you can then jailbreak your atv following these steps:
Your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch have been generously updated by Apple with over 200 new features yesterday, and the Cupertino-based company didn't forget about its "hobby device". Apple released the Apple TV 4.4 software update, which adds Photo Stream, AirPlay mirroring, NHL live games, Wall Street Journal news, support for subtitles in Netflix, new movie trailers section and some new slideshow themes.
Brought to you by the developers of Remote HD, AirServer is an advanced AirPlay/AirTunes receiver that lets you seamlessly stream audio, videos, photos, and photo slideshows to your Mac or iOS device. The software has just been updated to version 3.0, which comes with a new built-in video players and enhanced iOS 5 and Lion support. AirServer has now the ability to stream slideshows with visual effects and music intact via AirPlay.
Deep inside the iOS 5 file system 9to5Mac has found an evidence for a next-generation Apple TV being in the works – a reference to 'Apple TV 3,1' (current model is listed as 2,1). According to 9to5Mac, the number changing from 2 to 3 should signify a major upgrade. What changes can we expect? Most likely, the device will get a dual-core A5 processor that would open door to true 1080p. In July AppleInsider reported that Apple may be preparing to begin supporting 1080p movies in its iTunes Store later this year. True 1080p would be a nice update for iPhone 4S owners since the device allows to shoot 1080p videos and then stream it to Apple TV via AirPlay. Games mirrored in 1080p, like Real Racing 2 HD, would also be awesome. The current Apple TV's A4 processor only allows 720p playback.
First announced for iPad 2 back in June, AirPlay mirroring is now coming to iPhone 4S. This feature will let you see on your TV (with the Apple TV 2 plugged in) exactly what's on your new iPhone. Although iOS 4 natively supports AirPlay for photos, videos and music, and there are iPhone apps that let you AirPlay pretty everything – web pages (Web Browser for Apple TV), live view of your iPhone's camera (Camera for Apple TV), maps, text editor (TVOut Genie!) – one thing still missing are games. Well, it will finally change with the arrival of the iPhone 4S and, as this video shows, we can expect it will work as smooth as we are hoping for.


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There's a short article at http://www.sciam.com/2002/0202issue/0202patents.html on some of the worst patents of all time. My favorites are - 3 dimensional pie charts (U.S.: 5,491,779: "Three-Dimensional Presentation of Multiple Data Sets in Unitary Format with Pie Charts"; Richard D. Bezjian.) - training manuals (U.S.: 5,851,117: "Building Block Training Systems and Training Methods"; Keith A. Alsheimer and others.)
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Hi All,
My wife and I would like to add kettlebell workouts to our routine. I'd say we're definitely at the beginner stage, as we haven't done much (if anything) along the lines of working with weights. Occasional pushups/pullups/squats/planks have been our only approach to heavy things, so far.
Any recommendations for starting weights for reasonably fit (but not weight-lifting) people of our size? Me: 5'10" 170lb. Wife: 5'4" 127lb.
Appreciate tips on kettlebell size, as well as any favorite beginner kettlebell youtube videos/articles out there.


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Bodies to Watch at the Emmy Awards
Elisabeth Moss, best known for her role as Peggy Olson on the TV series Mad Men, may be shy on screen but her shining personality is undeniable in real life.
Moss adheres to a mostly vegan diet, opting for coconut milk in her coffee instead of cream. As far as her approach to beauty, Moss is somewhat hands off, admitting to Telegraph UK that, "I'm not the girl who's blonde and weighs 100 pounds," embracing her natural beauty instead.
To better embrace her role as a working woman in the '60s on Mad Men, she and her castmates are encouraged not to workout and simply eat healthy instead to better represent a "healthy woman."
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Mar Coorilos, Dr Mar Yulios, Dr Mar Seraphim to hold Holy-Tri-mass
3-day Family conference, Gospel convention, OVBS part of the valedictory
AHMEDABAD : 50 Golden years of existence to the Glory of God is worthy of celebration. Elevated as a Cathedral of the Orthodox Diocese of Ahmedabad by the Catholicos of the East in March 2011, the St Mary's Orthodox Cathedral, in Behrampura, Ahmedabad
is celebrating its Golden Jubilee valedictory on October 30, Sunday.
Metrpolitans Geevarghese Mar Coorilos, Diocese of Mumbai, Pulikkottil Dr Geevarghese Mar Yulios, Diocese of Ahmedabad,Dr Abraham Mar Seraphim, Diocese of Bangalore and Rt Rev Thomas Macwan, Bishop of Ahmedabad, Catholic Church will bless the occasion with prayers and presence.
As a prelude to the valedictory, there will be a family conference consisting of retreat, meditation, seminars, counseling, Bible class, gospel convention by Sukadha Voice for parishioners and OVBS from October 27 to 29.
This will be inaugurated by Most Rev Stanislaus Fernandes, Archbishop, Gandhinagar on October 27 at 11 am.
On October 30, Geevarghese Mar Coorilos will lead the Holy Tri-mass at 8.15 am
This will be followed by felicitating initial members and elders of the Cathedral. There will be a public meeting in which Shri Asit Vora, Mayor of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation will be the chief guest.
All the three Metropolitans including Rt Rev Thomas Macwan, Fr Dr O Thomas, (Faculty, Theological Seminary, Kottayam) and C K Koshy, IAS (Addl Chief Secretary, Retd), will be felicitated.
Dignitaries from various walks of life, heads and representatives from other Christian denominations will grace the function.
A website of the Cathedral will be inaugurated on the occasion followed by release of the Golden Jubilee Smaranika.
The public function will end with a love feast.
St Mary's Orthodox Cathedral was founded as a congregation in October 1960. It was elevated as an independent parish in Mary 1963. Having acquired its own parsonage in July 1973, it built its onw church building and consecrated in October 1975. The church was registered as a public charitable trust and society in February/March 1977. The church was retrofitted, and the reconstructed church was consecrated in January 2004 and later elevated as a Cathedral in March 2011.
The Cathedral has craved a name for itself in serving manking in various religious, philantrophic, educational, cultural and diversified fields.
For details contact: Fr Joji George, Vicar, St Mary's Orthodox Cathedral, Ahmedabad
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BARRY COUNTY – State police arrested two suspects on methamphetamine charges in separate incidents on Wednesday night.
Troopers Phil McNabnay and Cecil Vashaw responded to a 7:19 p.m. tip that a man with a history of methamphetamine use had just bought components to make the drug at the Kmart in Hastings.
Police found the man in his vehicle in the parking lot. When McNabnay returned to his patrol car with the suspect's identification, the suspect drove off. Police followed, with the suspect tossing items out of his window.
After a 10-minute chase, McNabnay used his vehicle to ram the suspect's vehicle and bring the chase to an end. No one was injured, and both vehicles sustained minor damage, police said.
Police recovered items that were thrown out the window - materials used to make meth, police said.
The suspect, a 38-year-old Middleville man, was arrested on multiple charges, including fleeing police and operating a methamphetamine lab.
A few minutes before that incident, Trooper Lane Booms stopped a motorist in Orangeville Township for a traffic violation, and found the driver's license had expired.
The driver, a 29-year-old Middleville man, was uncooperative, and taken into custody for resisting and obstructing police. During a search of the suspect, police found suspected methamphetamine in his pocket.
Police then found materials used to make meth in the man's car. He was jailed on multiple charges.
Police did not know if the men know each other, but said the traffic stops were unrelated.
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Amy Winehouse vows, from the comfort of her chaise lounge in St. Lucia, to stop incarcerated husband Blake Fielder-Civil from filing for divorce. Is it possible for us, as the rest of the human race, to file for divorce from Amy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil?
"I still love my Blake. I won't let him divorce me," Winehouse tells Britain's The Sun. "Blake is the male version of me. We're perfect for each other. I don't want to go back home to England. I want to wait for Blake here."
Fielder-Civil has been in prison for more than a year -- with a short, ultimately unsuccessful break at a drug rehab facility -- for trying to pay off a bartender whom he'd beaten up in exchange for not testifying against him.
With rumors of Winehouse stepping out on him and indications that she continues to abuse drugs and alcohol -- there was one report last week that she had started stealing the dregs of other guests' drinks after bartenders at her resort cut her off -- Fielder-Civil made it known recently that he planned to end his marraige to Winehouse.
Winehouse tells the newspaper that she's not doing drugs, and that her fling with a vacationing rubgy player was just a "holiday thing." She says, "I've got my Blake."


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1963 J.R.R. Tolkien Signed Letter with Lord of the Rings Content
Starting Bid - $500.00, Sold For - $1,972.00
Beautifully preserved, signed letter referencing The Lord of the Rings by the trilogy's author, J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) on his personal letterhead. The correspondence is on white bond paper (7 x 9 inches) and headed: "Professor J.R.R. Tolkien, Oxford 61639, 76 Sandfield Road, Headington Oxford." The typed body of the letter is dated "21st February 1963" and reads in part: "Dear Mrs. Gill, Thank you very much for your letter. I am so glad you have found pleasure and encouragement in The Lord of the Rings,...I was surprised to learn that you had to wait two years for Vol. III...I regard this as a most gratifying testimonial. With best wishes, Yours sincerely,". Below the salutation the author has signed, "JRR Tolkien" ("9") in bold blue ballpoint. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series, first published in 1954-1955, has recently reached new heights of popularity with the release of the award-winning films from director Peter Jackson. The author was a professor at Oxford University in England when he first developed his Middle Earth trilogy from stories he made up for his children at bedtime. This letter was obviously a cherished keepsake. It is in essentially flawless condition, with sharp, clean edges. The signature, done with a flourish, is a near perfect example. Normal mailing fold lines. Near Mint to Mint condition. Ideal for framing, this is a magnificent letter from this enduring icon of literature, with mention and content relating directly to The Lord of the Rings. LOA from James Spence, Steve Grad & John Reznikoff/PSA DNA. Reserve $500. Estimate $1,000/$2,000. SOLD FOR $1,972.00
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Q: About four years ago, my then 14-year-old cat was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism (high thyroid hormone levels). She has been on methimazole twice a day since diagnosis, and her thyroid hormone level returned to normal. A few months ago at her checkup, she had started losing weight. Her levels reflected hypothyroidism (low thyroid levels). The blood work was repeated, but again it showed low thyroid levels. The vet wanted to do more blood work and X-rays but for the time being we adjusted (reduced) the methimazole dosage. My cat has gained a little weight, is only nauseous occasionally, eats well but does not eat or drink excessively. Now, as an 18-year-old, she still plays with her toys and loves attention; she even teases my small dog at times. Have you experienced this with any of the cats you have treated? How would you handle it? Or what would you recommend? What could cause it? Thank you in advance for your time and response.A: There are two potential reasons for your cat's low thyroid hormone level. One reason could simply be that you were giving your cat an excessive amount of thyroid medication. Sometimes, a cat's thyroid-medicine requirements will change. This is why the thyroid hormone level must be monitored regularly. I would have handled it the same way you did: I'd reduce the thyroid medication, and see if the thyroid hormone level (and the accompanying clinical signs — losing weight) returned to normal.The second reason for the low thyroid level would be the presence of another medical condition. When cats are ill in general, their thyroid hormone level will decrease, despite the cat having normal thyroid function. We call this the "euthyroid sick syndrome." If your cat had a low thyroid hormone level because of a concurrent illness, reducing the thyroid hormone level would not cause the thyroid hormone level to rise back into the normal range. The concurrent illness would still keep the thyroid hormone level depressed.
Because your cat responded to the reduction in thyroid medication (she gained a little weight, is eating well, is active, and heck, she's still alive four years later!), I think it's reasonable to conclude that those low thyroid hormone levels were due to you giving her a little too much thyroid medicine. I wish you had measured the thyroid hormone level after you reduced the thyroid dose. If you had, and the level was normal, it would have proven this for certain, but given that your cat is still thriving, I'm sticking with my theory.
Carolyn Hickory, NC
My cat was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism and I have been feeding here the Hills Science Diet for 3 months now. She started to gain a little weight but is still only about 5 lbs, her weight was 4 lbs when I took her to the vet in December 2014. She sleeps all the time and drinks lots of water. I still worry she is not getting better.
Linda Mandeville, LA
Good article.
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So anyway, they have a new album. Like its predecessors, 2009's Carving Out The Eyes Of God and 2012's Blood For The Master, the new release combines elements of many different extreme-metal subgenres into a (WARNING—gratuitous Looziana reference coming) gumbo that is all their own. Songs are short and to the point, often jumping right in with furious blastbeats as if the band had been playing for a couple minutes before somebody thought to hit "record." There isn't always a discernible verse-chorus pattern, but somewhere along the way, the songs usually downshift (somewhat) into a more headbangable groove that allows a riff or vocal pattern to stand out. On that note, Zack Simmons's drumming is really impressive. Ben Falgoust's vocals generally stay in a medium-pitch shout, occasionally dipping an octave for a deep, death-metal curveball (sinker?). If you're a certain kind of twisted, it's fun music while it's playing, but for the most part, damn hard to remember when it's over.
There are exceptions on every Goatwhore album, though. On Constricting Rage Of The Merciless, they come in the form of the catchy, thrashy first single "Baring Teeth Of Revolt," and the similar but even more clumsily-titled "Nocturnal Conjuration Of The Accursed." These songs, sandwiched amid all the blastbeating frenzy of other tracks, jump out with a gust of fresh air, real hooks and something for your ears to grab onto. The real surprise, however, is a happy little ditty called "Cold Earth Consumed In Dying Flesh." The title sounds sorta Crowbar-esque, and sure enough, it's a plodding, sludgy monolith that seems to move at an impossibly slow pace compared to the other nine songs. Odd how that tune-low-play-slow aesthetic is so common in the downers-crazed New Orleans metal swamp, yet Goatwhore only rarely explore it, and never to this degree.
Perhaps not surprisingly, given the band's black-metal origins, the lyrics of Falgoust and guitar Sammy Duet are steeped in over-the-top, Venomous blasphemy (capital V on purpose). "FBS," on this album, even stands for "Fucked By Satan," with lyrics that might have been shocking in decades past, or if easily shockable people would ever hear them. But, it's 2014 and this has all been said before, and Goatwhore are an underground band anyway, and will likely stay below the radar of all but the most avid metalheads.
Pitriff Rating: 77/100 – Don't get me wrong, I enjoy Goatwhore's music, particularly the last few releases. Constricting Rage Of The Merciless delivers everything a fan of the band would want. But I'm not going to lie to you and try to sell it to you as the soundtrack to your backyard barbecues or beach volleyball games. And, except for the three named above, the songs tend to run together without leaving a lasting impression, unless you eat and breathe this stuff 24/7.


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In accordance to the criticism aimed at studying business ethics, many viewed it as a mixture of _____ and personal opinion that could interfere with the functioning of a business.
A) Abstract thinking
B) sentimentality
C) religious connotations
D) rigidity
What might a producer do while considering lost production that results from a trip to the market? A
A) Have a sale for the product
B) Increase advertising of the product
C) Increase the price of the products
D) Hire a retailer for the product
The flipside of a diverse workplace is that it can potentially increase several areas of _____.
A) technological concerns
B) values tension
C) gender discrimination
D) managerial lapses
The American Marketing Association defines marketing as "an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating, and delivering _____ to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders."
A) value
B) quality
C) technology
D) the best deals
From a ______ perspective, agreement on the fundamental rights and their appropriate prioritization is not yet universal. A
A) utilitarian
B) deontological
C) social justice
D) virtue ethics
This, among many, provides explicit guides and resources detailing appropriate behavior as well as offering legal direction and parameters for both employees and employers.
A) Title VII of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964
B) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
C) Occupational Safety and Health Administration
D) Portability of Health Coverage
Which among the following industries use cost-benefit analysis while treating health and safety as an instrumental value common?
A) Financial industry
B) Insurance industry
C) Automotive industry
D) Marine industry
\According to the universal principle of Kantian philosophy, the ethical obligation of _____ should guide employment interactions.
A) family responsibilities
B) respect for people
C) honesty
D) core customs
The 'Tripartite' part of the Tripartite Declaration of Principles Concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy refers to all of the following except
A) critical cooperation necessary from governments.
B) critical cooperation necessary from employers' and workers' organizations.
C) critical cooperation necessary from multinational enterprises involved.
D) critical cooperation necessary from the suppliers and agents associated with the firm.
Which among the following approaches to workplace safety and health requires the birth of a child with serious birth defects to ensure that the same circumstance does not repeat?
A) Health and safety as ideals.
B) Health and safety as acceptable risk.
C) Health and safety as market controlled.
D) Health and safety as government-regulated ethics.
According to which among the following techniques, would OSHA be persuaded to aim for an optimal, and not, the highest feasible, level of safety?
A) Risk assessment analysis
B) Cost utility analysis
C) Cost affectivity analysis
D) Cost benefit analysis
Identify the distinguishing feature between cost-benefit analysis, and cost-effectiveness.
A) Cost-effectiveness is a longer procedure to implement.
B) Cost-effectiveness uses ethical criteria before setting the standards.
C) Cost-benefit analysis uses economic criteria in setting the standards.
D) Cost-effectiveness uses economic criteria before setting the standards.
Which among the following prohibits the "interception" or unauthorized access of stored communications?
A) Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986.
B) Computer Security Act of 1987.
C) Privacy Act of 1974.
D) Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986.
The threat of compensation acts as an incentive for employers to maintain a reasonably safe and healthy workplace environment most in the situation where the approach to
A) health and safety is as acceptable risk.
B) health and safety is as an ideal.
C) health and safety is government-regulated ethics.
D) health and safety is market controlled.
The enlightened self-interest model of CSR would be a valuable theory to introduce and apply to which among the following approaches to workplace safety and health?
A) Health and safety as market controlled.
B) Health and safety as ideals.
C) Health and safety as acceptable risk.
D) Health and safety as government-regulated ethics
Which among the following professions entails the highest probability of consumers being consenting, but not informed?
A) Insurance
B) Healthcare
C) Automobiles
D) Law
Values that are fundamental across culture are called
A) moral freeness.
B) hypernorms.
C) global norms.
D) universalities.
The _____ depend upon the existence and enforcement of a set of rules that define who has a right to undertake which activities on their own initiative and how the returns from those activities will be allocated.
A) private property right
B) privacy
C) legal system
D) government administration
Privacy can be protected by all of the following three ways except by
A) the constitution.
B) judicial opinions.
C) federal and/or state statutes.
D) common law.
Which among the following provides a strong support for democratic institutions and policies?
A) Utilitarianism
B) Virtue ethics
C) Deontological ethics
D) Social justice
Which among the following methods of constraining a business's activities is beyond dispute?
A) The social responsibility of a firm to prevent harm when one is not the cause for it.
B) The social responsibility of a firm to not cause harm to others.
C) The social responsibility of a firm to obey the law.
D) The social responsibility of a firm to do good.
_____ was part of the same social movement that gave rise to modern democratic market capitalism.
A) Utilitarianism
B) Virtue ethics
C) Deontological ethics
D) Ethical relativis
Utilitarian thinking would promote the following policies except to:
A) deregulate private industry.
B) protect property rights.
C) regulate advertising.
D) allow for free exchanges
According to the text, which among the following is often determined by the company's mission, practice, board, or custom?
A) The prioritization of stakeholders.
B) The generation of profits.
C) Analyzing relationship specifications.
D) Defining the ethical custom.
According to the text, the presumption of which among the following factors leads to an entrenchment of the firm, rather than its enhancement?
A) The decision-making skills of the board.
B) The ethical nature of the firm's leaders.
C) The prioritization of the stakeholders.
D) Employee understanding of the mission.
_____ are those things that we ought, or should, do, even if we would rather not.
A) Responsibilities
B) Decisions
C) Socializations
D) Theories
Which among the following is indicative of the ethical concern over alleged benefits obtained through market exchanges?
A) An informed shopping decision
B) Internet shopping
C) Impulse buying
D) Advertising
In essence, talk about business's _____ is to be concerned with society's interests that restrict or bind business's behavior.
A) profit generation
B) decision-making
C) social responsibilities
D) ethical culture
This type of CSR often exists when a strong leader with a sense of responsibility and connection to the community leads an organization.
A) Social contract model of CSR.
B) Corporate citizenship model of CSR.
C) Enlightened self-interest model of CSR.
D) Individual sense model of CSR.
Which among the following has the closest connection to the utilitarian framework of ethics?
A) Enlightened self-interest model of CSR.
B) "Walk the talk" principle of leadership.
C) Moral imagination.
D) Corporate citizenship model of CSR.
According to which type of ethical framework would child labor in any country be tolerated?
A) Virtue ethics
B) Deontological ethics
C) Utilitarianism
D) Social justice
A responsibility is based on an aspect of some relationship, and is empty of content until
A) that relationship is nurtured.
B) that relationship is described and specified.
C) it is realized in financial terms.
D) the subjects involved in the relationship are ethically sound.
Philosophical ethics seeks foundations that all reasonable people can accept, regardless of their
A) educational background.
B) economical background.
C) cultural background.
D) religious background.
The European Commission has defined CSR as "a concept whereby companies decide voluntarily to contribute to a better society and _____."
A) better opportunities
B) equality of treatment
C) a cleaner environment
D) a freer market system
Two general and connected understandings of privacy have been identified as a right to be 'let alone' within a personal space, and privacy as the
A) right to understand one's emotions.
B) fundamental duty of every citizen.
C) right to control information about others.
D) right to control information about oneself.
The reason the Constitution's Fourth Amendment protection applies only to public sector workplace is because
A) unions exist only in private sector organizations.
B) the private organization does not cater to appeals of unreasonable search or seizure.
C) the Constitution applies only to the state.
D) it is illegal by common law to trespass on private property.
This type of CSR often exists when a strong leader with a sense of responsibility and connection to the community leads an organization.
A) Social contract model of CSR.
B) Corporate citizenship model of CSR.
C) Enlightened self-interest model of CSR.
D) Individual sense model of CSR.
Which among the following has the closest connection to the utilitarian framework of ethics?
A) Enlightened self-interest model of CSR.
B) "Walk the talk" principle of leadership.
C) Moral imagination.
D) Corporate citizenship model of CSR.
Which among the following can be misunderstood to mean that ethical responsibility is not necessary from a corporation's perspective?
A) Enlightened self-interest model of CSR.
B) "Walk the talk" principle of leadership.
C) Social contract model of CSR.
D) Corporate citizenship model of CSR.
According to the text, Mectizan, a drug manufactured by Merck, is provided as an example to explain
A) that a firm's social responsibility includes doing voluntary good.
B) that a firm's social responsibility includes not causing harm to others.
C) that a firm's social responsibility signifies obedience to the law.
D) that a firm's social responsibility entails the prevention of harm.
If the basis for finding an invasion of privacy is often the employee's legitimate and reasonable expectation of privacy, then a situation where there is no real expectation of privacy occurs when
A) the employee has actual notice.
B) the employer is covered under the ECPA.
C) the work requires transference of sensitive data.
D) the employee belongs to a minority group.
The right to privacy, founded in the individual's universal right to autonomy, is restricted by a social contract in our culture which prevents us from infringing on someone else's right to his or her personal autonomy. This is referred to as
A) obligatory independence.
B) fundamental privacy.
C) reciprocal obligation.
D) social autonomy.
Since employers cannot be responsible for providing an ideally safe and healthy place, discussions about these factors revolve around
A) the tangible risks faced by the employees.
B) the relative risks faced by the workers.
C) the relative cost of health coverage for the organization.
D) the optimum security against workplace risk chart.
These business decision-making must move beyond the narrow concern with a stockholder towards considering the impact of decisions on stakeholders.
A) Ethical
B) Technological
C) Human resource
D) Accounting
Learning about the history of ethics through the works of Aristotle, Immanuel Kant etc, involves an approach to ethics that focuses on the
A) descriptive nature of ethics.
B) accountability of human choices.
C) informational content of the class.
D) reasoning behind the action/ decision.
Immanuel Kant argued that there is one fundamental ethical principle that one has to follow, no matter what the consequence. Identify it.
A) Speak the truth always.
B) Remain loyal to family.
C) Respect the dignity of individuals.
D) Always help the poor
In the government-regulated ethics approach to workplace health and safety, _____ can be applied to overcome market failures that result from the lack of information.
A) experience
B) standards
C) ethics
D) creativity.
Among which of the following would both law and ethics say that business should be held liable for violating its responsibilities?
A) The social responsibility of a firm to prevent harm when one is not the cause for it.
B) The social responsibility of a firm to not cause harm to others.
C) The social responsibility of a firm to obey the law.
D) The social responsibility of a firm to do good.
Many businesses looking to hire graduates expect an impetus on teaching not just information and knowledge about ethics, but also:
A) ethical behavior.
B) to train others at the workplace.
C) intervention in case of unethical practices.
D) humanitarian, political and psychological perspectives.
Understanding the change in attitude towards studying business ethics includes the understanding that corporate scandals in the recent past have largely affected _____.
A) stockholders
B) employees
C) directors
D) stakeholders
Which of the following theories has been contended to be most effective when dealing with issues on downsizing within an organization?
A) Social contract model of CSR.
B) Corporate citizenship model of CSR.
C) Enlightened self-interest model of CSR.
D) Individual sense model of CSR.
One sector of economists that view profit maximization as a central idea to corporate social responsibility are following the
A) social justice through fairness framework of ethics.
B) deontological framework of ethics.
C) utilitarian framework of ethics.
D) virtue-based framework of ethics.
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Sarnia won its sixth game in a row and is now 7-1-0-1; Plymouth is 4-4-2-0.
DeAngelo - 15 years-old and one of the youngest players in the Ontario Hockey League - followed up Brett Ritchie's rush up the left wing into the Plymouth zone, found a loose puck through traffic and scored with a low shot from just outside the blue ice past Plymouth goaltender Scott Wedgewood for his first OHL goal.
Earlier, Plymouth built a 4-2 lead on a pair of goals from first star J.T. Miller (3-4) and singles from Jamie Devane (second) and Mitchell Heard (sixth). Besides DeAngelo, Sarnia received a goal and two assists from Nail Yakupov (sixth), a goal and two assists from Alex Basso (second) and goals from Reid Boucher (ninth) and Brett Ritchie (second).
Plymouth took a 2-0 lead into the dressing room after one period of play on Devane's goal at 0:18 (scoring on a rebound in front of the Sarnia goal after Sting goaltender Brandon Hope stopped Alex Aleardi's shot from the right circle) and Heard's marker at 6:40 (rebound from Tom Wilson's shot).
Yakupov cut the Plymouth lead to 2-1 at 9:08 of the second period on a power play, scoring from the slot. Miller sandwiched his goals at 10:57 and 19:15 around an Alex Basso tally at 16:51. Miller's first goal came on a hard shot from the top of the left circle after a pass from Heard; his second goal came when Beau Schmitz shot the puck from the right point wide and it caromed off the end wall to Miller on the right wing side of the Sarnia goal.
Plymouth led, 4-2, after forty minutes.
Sarnia outshot Plymouth, 14-4, in the third period. Ritchie cut the Whalers lead to 4-3 on a redirect from Yakupov's pass in front of the Plymouth goal at 14:07 and Boucher scored through traffic at 18:49.
DeAngelo scored on the only shot taken in the overtime.
Sarnia outshot Plymouth, 51-33.
Plymouth now hits the road for five straight games - 10/21 at Erie, 10/22 at Niagara, 10/23 at Mississauga, 10/26 at Saginaw and 10/28 at Sault Ste. Marie - before returning home Sat. Oct. 29 at 7:05pm at Compuware Arena against Kingston.


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For a social network scientist, Amazon is a great sandbox for experimenting and searching for interesting patterns!
I started mapping book networks in the last century. It was 1998 when an on-line conversation raised my curiosity. Here is the original white paper I wrote about that initial investigation.
After the late Tim Russert brought us the "red states – blue states" meme during the 2000 election I started to investigate patterns of political books. I tried various data collection techniques and found an interesting outcome –- no matter how I collected the data I ended up with highly similar patterns. I use snowball sampling -- start at a known point and follow the data out 1 or 2 steps. Once the snowball sample is complete, I start to eliminate the noise in the network -– I want to find the strong patterns that multiple overlapping networks provide. When the patterns emerge I usually see two strong clusters, with a minor cluster or scattering of books between the two large components. I only color the components after my network analysis software finds the emergent groups in the data –- then it is obvious which cluster is blue and which is red.
Below is the first political book map I published on my web site. It showed the famous red-blue divide that had become common wisdom by 2003. It was ironic, and a commentary on our situation, that the center book -– holding both sides together -– was titled: What Went Wrong!
The sharp left-right divide remained in place for the 2004 US presidential election. Below are two graphs of the same data. The first graph is the emergent cluster view –- those similarly connected are closer together. This map was done about 1 year after the 2003 map above. They both contain many different books, yet reveal a very similar pattern and a strong divide.
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Just coming back to this thread after several years. One thing that strikes me, which I didn't pay attention to the first time around, is that I've never read any of these books. I would estimate that, during the time of this study, more than half the books I read were books about politics, in one way or another, but not one of them is on this list. It would be interesting to see what sort of pattern emerges for less popular books.
In fiction and other forms of entertainment, it seems to me that the more popular examples tend to be more black-hat/white-hat, with subtler arrangements being generally less popular. This is true whether we're considering movies, books, or even TV talk shows. I wonder if less polemical political books might be less popular specifically because they're less polemical, but therefore also show less of a divided pattern?
Posted by: Tedd | Wednesday April 18, 2012 at 8:38 AM
The key to understanding the dynamics of networks is reading the emergent patterns of connections that surround an individual, or that are present, within and around, a community of interest. I wanted to see the network in which my book of interest was embedded. Seeing those connections would give me insight into the 'network neighborhood' surrounding this book and hopefully help me make a smarter purchase.
Posted by: Marketing Course Brisbane | Monday November 7, 2011 at 9:14 PM
The graph above looks so confusing on my part, good thing support text explains everything and identify myself in blue camp.
Nice post.
Posted by: Events Management Courses | Friday April 29, 2011 at 12:38 AM
All sentences are about a little something or someone. The a little something or another person that the sentence is about is called the subject with the sentence. From your weblog, I see that, and study anything I would like. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: jordan 12 | Wednesday November 3, 2010 at 7:17 PM
We obviously inhabit two completely separate realities. If two groups cannot agree even on basic facts, what hope is there for calls to unity? The divide seems to be getting deeper.
Posted by: Color wheel chart | Friday October 1, 2010 at 4:22 AM
I think Samuel Davis has hit the nail on the head. What's needed is much less discussion or debate about specific issues, and much more discussion of basic facts and, even more importantly, fundamental premises and definitions. People on both sides like to characterize the other side as illogical, but in my experience both sides have (at least in some cases) sound logic, just fundamentally different premises. Only a discussion about fundamental premises can bridge the gap.
To be clear, here are some examples of what I mean by fundamental premises and definitions. What is economic value, and how can it be determined? Where do you stand on the trade off between freedom and security (or do you think there needs to be a trade off)? What is the purpose of government? To what extent does the separation of church and state mean preventing the state from controlling or influencing religious choices and to what extent does it mean keeping religion out of politics? Are people essentially bad or essentially good, and can anything be done about that?
That sort of thing.
Posted by: Tedd McHenry | Friday May 14, 2010 at 5:34 PM
Interesting that pro-globalization books like "The World is Flat" and "Lexus and the Olive Tree" appear on the left rather than the right.
I'm also wondering how you chose the starting point. In particular, I'm wondering what the results would have been if you'd chosen a more neutral starting point like "The Age of Turbulence" by Alan Greenspan.
(There's also supposed to be a quite good neutral account of Bush's presidency whose name eludes me.)
Posted by: Mikel Ward | Saturday November 8, 2008 at 6:41 PM
I definitely dwell in the Red camp. I have tried to read books sent to me by "Blue" friends, but I find them to be incoherant screeds rife with faulty logic based on false assumptions.
We obviously inhabit two completely separate realities. If two groups cannot agree even on basic facts, what hope is there for calls to unity? The divide seems to be getting deeper.
Posted by: Samuel Davis | Thursday November 6, 2008 at 9:03 PM
I definitely dwell in the Red camp. I have tried to read books sent to me by "Blue" friends, but I find them to be incoherant screeds rife with faulty logic based on false assumptions.
We obviously inhabit two completely separate realities. If two groups cannot agree even on basic facts, what hope is there for calls to unity? The divide seems to be getting deeper.
Posted by: Samuel Davis | Thursday November 6, 2008 at 9:02 PM
There are some serious and well-researched books on both sides that deserve to be read by all Americans.
Over half the books are no more than rants and finger pointing.
Posted by: Austin | Thursday November 6, 2008 at 3:15 PM
A few points:
1. If the left buys more books than the right, that doesn't necessarily mean they READ more books than the right. I suspect that many books are purchased as status-markers, to sit on shelves unread but so their titles can be perused by visitors to one's home. It seemed to me that during the Bush years, liberals were especially eager to prove their bona fides to each other.
2. It could be that conservatives would buy more books if more were produced that cater to their point of view. The decision-makers in the publishing industry have a leftward tilt, and are more inclined to publish books that reflect their prejudices and assumptions.
3. When a party is out of power, party adherents tend to be more charged up, more inclined to consume literature (books, magazines, etc.) that attack the other side and reaffirm their beliefs. I predict we will see a corresponding rise in right-leaning critical literature during the Obama years.
Posted by: Manuel | Thursday November 6, 2008 at 1:59 PM


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Last week's Inside Erie examined the court-ordered delay in the implementation of a law that requires Pennsylvania voters to show a current photo ID at the polls. Supporters say it's a reasonable measure to prevent voter fraud, while detractors charge that it's a Republican-backed attempt to suppress voting by groups of people who on balance favor Democrats. Inside Erie readers had strong convictions of their own. Check out what they had to say.
Every citizen has the constitutional right to vote. By asking citizens to procure and produce ID, you are impeding their free exercise of this right. This is just a Teapublican ploy to disenfranchise certain groups of voters. Shame on them. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was supposed to take care of this kind of illegal suppression of voting rights. I guess Gov. Tom Corbett and the Legislature forgot to read the law. The timing of this maneuver is also suspicious, and how much taxpayer money has been wasted on this effort? And you are correct. It is a solution looking for a problem that does not exist. Pennsylvania has been added to the "backward-leaning" states that have attempted to tamper with the right to vote!
Mary Heberle
Yes, the young may have driver's licenses, but many seniors no longer drive, and some have never driven. It is a sin to deny seniors who have religiously voted their whole adult lives because they felt it a civic duty to honor. And getting other required ID in some Pennsylvania counties is impossible because some counties have no motor vehicle offices or ones only open a couple of hours a month. The law was an admitted political trick to eliminate Democratic votes so they could steal the election. Those who defended the law could not produce one case of voter fraud, but the company they hired nationally to register voters is now accused of criminal offenses. So much for their self-righteousness.
Jim Kelvington
Having lived in Florida for 14 years, I've always been required to show a photo ID when I vote. So what's the big deal about identifying yourself when voting? If you have to show a photo ID to check into a hotel, go to a doctor's office, get on an airplane, etc., why not for the privilege of casting your vote?
Bob Arndt
I fail to see the sense in the arguments of those supporting the voter ID law when they say that people have to show ID to cash a check, buy insurance, have a drink, etc. Those things are not constitutionally protected, and voting is. It's as simple as that.
Mark Banister, Pittsburgh
Your own testimony about the hassle of getting a valid identity card for your mother attests to the underlying motive behind such laws: voter suppression. Wanting to reduce the number of likely Democratic voters who are elderly, poor, Hispanic or black, yet unable to openly propose Jim Crow laws, Republicans are throwing a veil of respectability over their suppression efforts by using their favorite motivator, fear.
Mark Johnson
You and Pennsylvania move into the real world. ID is required in every part of daily life in these United States: using the credit card to pay that meal, cross the border into Canada, cashing a check. In every example plus 25 more, you need some form of ID. For a former Erieite now living in Florida, ID is needed to vote. Also, the voting booth is open eight days before Election Day.
Bob Durst, Leesburg, Fla.
I'm shocked! I'm shocked by the fact that you are "still of two minds about the voter ID laws."
As you surmise, the law is a solution in search of a problem. According to research by Justin Levitt, associate professor of law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, during the period between 2000 and 2010, just 13 people were convicted of impersonating someone else in order to vote in their name. Wow! Voter fraud runs rampant.
You then present the anticipated difficulties entailed in getting the necessary voting credentials for your mother and your mother-in-law. But you are there to provide help. Imagine what it would be like for the many elderly who have no one to do the necessary running around, or minorities who may not be able to produce the required documentation, yet may have voted for years, and at the same polling place!
You skirt the real reason about why the law came into being -- and was so well expressed by Pennsylvania state Rep. Mike Turzai when the law was passed. He proudly voiced, "Voter ID, which is gonna allow Gov. Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done."
Voter ID is a clever gimmick to resurrect a poll tax, so to speak, short of abolishing the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Vincent Monacella, Fairfax, Va.
Gee, one commenter wrote there were "hundreds of thousands" of voters in Pennsylvania who did not have a photo ID. I guess I'd better stay off Pennsylvania roads with all of those unlicensed drivers. I also guess there must be massive "check-cashing" fraud taking place, too, when people have no ID to show when cashing a check.
I live in North Carolina, and the election of 2008 was rampant with illegal and "maybe legal" immigrants voting. This I saw with my own eyes. You have a party hack register a bunch of names and addresses, give the illegals $20 (that was the going rate then) and then "bus" them from polling place to polling place to vote using one of those names and addresses. One can't complain about it when one party ran the state for years and years and just ignores complaints of voter fraud. As long as two people do not use the same name and address, nobody cares.
Bob Hille, Raleigh, N.C.
Perhaps the delay will lessen the partisanship about this issue. However, voter ID as proposed should be implemented, if only because of the rise in identity theft.
Rodney E. Blystone III
I say yes to the voter ID law. You have to show your driver's license everywhere. I think it's the Democrats trying to protect the illegals and the stupid!
Nancy Dash
We need ID for everything else, why not to show you're a legal citizen of this country? Then, how about making it easier for everyone to vote. Why do we vote on a Tuesday? Why not a two-day span, like a Friday and Saturday? It would also prevent "early projections" of a winner that the media love to do and that discourage some from voting.
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Q: Our 19-year-old cat, Jo Jo, who is mostly a Maine Coon, has developed, we believe, a serious hairball problem over the last week. She has had hairballs ever since we got her at about 3 months of age. We're used to waiting these situations out until she expels them, but this time is different. Seven days ago, she vomited a few times as if she was trying to expel a hairball, but no hairball came out. She cried for hours that night and early into the next morning, something she's never done. Since then, she is not her normal self. She isn't able to eat very much (a real change from the norm), she doesn't purr as much as she normally does, and she often can't seem to get comfortable. She is drinking water, and she is urinating and passing stools normally. I've been giving her a dollop of Hartz Hairball Remedy on the tip of my finger each morning to try to help. Is this the best product to use? Should I give it to her more frequently?
We moved about a year ago and haven't taken her to see a vet since then. It is very traumatic for her, and we want to avoid taking her to a vet's office if at all possible. If we knew that they could do something to help her expel this thing while we stay there with her we would take her, but we don't want to put her through this trauma just to have them tell us that it will come out sooner or later and we'll just have to wait. Can you please advise us:
1. Will this (possibly large) hairball eventually pass one way or the other; 2. Is there anything else we can give her that would help her; 3. Is there anything that a vet can do in an office that can help her pass this hairball?
We love Jo Jo very much and want to do what's best for her.
A: I guess the big assumption we're all making is that this particular episode is due to a hairball. Certainly, your cat's history fits the bill. You've been cleaning up Jo Jo's hairballs for 19 years, so you know her pattern and habits pretty well. A 19-year-old cat, however, is definitely at increased risk for a variety of illnesses, many of which include vomiting and decreased appetite as a symptom. I think you should take her to your veterinarian, even though she finds these veterinary visits to be traumatic.
If your vet determines that this is not a serious concurrent illness, and that this is merely hairballs, then yes, I do think it will pass eventually. The brown gooey hairball remedy that you are currently using is fine. If this is a hairball that is lodged in her stomach, giving more hairball remedy is unlikely to help. In rare cases, when a hairball does seem to get lodged in the stomach, it is usually because there is something wrong with gastric motility. This can happen in cats as a result of other illnesses, such as inflammatory bowel disease or stomach cancer.
Again, I'd play it safe and have your cat evaluated by your veterinarian.
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Good article; I wish them well.
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Good article.
Amanda North Hampton, NH
I'm glad more attention is being brought to the fact that older cats evidencing any changes should be brought to see a vet!
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Rocket City United technical advisor Desmond Armstrong played eight years with the U.S. national soccer team, which included trips to the 1988 Olympics and 1990 World Cup. He was an ABC analyst during the 1994 World Cup. Here are his thoughts on Sunday's World Cup final between Spain and the Netherlands, neither of which has ever won soccer's greatest prize:
I'm excited. I think this will be a classic. Brazil was my favorite, but the Netherlands was one of my darkhorses, along with Argentina.
Spain and Holland will have a lot of respect for each other. I don't expect there to be any gamesmanship, and that's why I think it will be so good. I'm going to go with Holland.
The style of the Spanish, and the flair they show, really comes from Dutch coaching. The Dutch won't be intimidated by it, because they're used to it. (Dutch midfielder) Wesley Sneijder is one of the best players in the world. He's a game-changer.
I also like (Robin) van Persie because I support Arsenal. He hasn't really shown up yet, but I've got a feeling he will in this one.


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After spending the last 10 years teaching and conducting research at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., economics professor and Nobel laureate Eric S. Maskin '72 will return to Harvard in the spring.
Maskin, who was the Louis Berkman professor of economics at Harvard from 1985 to 2000, won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2007 for laying the foundations of mechanism design theory, a field within game theory.
Maskin will teach Economics 1052: "Game Theory and Economic Applications" in the spring, and he plans to teach a course in social choice theory in the fall of 2012.
According to a number of faculty members in the Economics Department, his presence on campus will be welcomed.
"He'll be a very forceful intellectual presence," said economics professor Oliver S. Hart. "I think there's a lot of happiness in the department about him coming back."
During his 15-year tenure at Harvard, Maskin co-taught courses with Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya K. Sen and prominent political philosopher Robert Nozick. He was also the head tutor for applied math concentrators specializing in economics and served on the committee responsible for designing the quantitative reasoning component of Harvard's core curriculum.
According to Maskin, the time-intensive nature of his committee work, combined with his tendency to overcommit, contributed to his decision in 2000 to move to the Institute.
"It wasn't that Harvard was deliberately trying to overwork me, but I think I had a tendency to take on more things out of enthusiasm than were good for me," Maskin said.
Maskin was drawn to the Institute for Advanced Study—a theoretical research center with ties to Princeton University—partly because of the Institute's fewer responsibilities.
"The position at the Institute was very attractive," Maskin said. "It gave me a lot of freedom to do what I wanted to, and gave me an affiliation with the Princeton Economics Department." During his time at the Institute, Maskin also served as a visiting lecturer at Princeton.
But 10 years later, Maskin cites "personal, emotional, and intellectual" reasons for returning to Harvard.
Maskin first began his career at Harvard as a math concentrator in the College and then moved on to complete a doctoral degree in applied math.
He said that he was first inspired to pursue economics after taking a course taught by Kenneth J. Arrow, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics the year that Maskin graduated from the College.
After a year of work as a research fellow at the University of Cambridge, and eight years as a professor at MIT, Maskin returned to his alma mater in 1985.
"I have a strong attachment to Harvard," Maskin said. "I've got a lot of strong friends in the department, who I've taught with before."
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What can you learn from a bad breakup?
I was recently left by my partner of 4 years.... after I'd made significant life decisions based on the commitments he made to me. Now I feel like I've learned all these cynical life lessons. What should I take away from this? [special snowflake details inside] [more inside]
"That's deep."
Books that "hint" at life lessons or realizations about life? [more inside]
What "life skills" do you wish you had been taught before becoming an adult?
What did you have to learn the hard way that you wish someone had just taught you about? Or what do you think adolescents should be taught, either in school or by their parents, that they aren't? An example would be basic personal finance (i.e., how not to get into bad debt). Another would be workplace & job interview etiquette. [more inside]
Lessons Learned
What are the most important and valuable things I can teach my new granddaughter? What endeared you the most to your grandmother?
Rites of passage and the requisite advice
Any advice for a fresh graduate jumping from a world of possibility to a world of potential naysayers? Help me tone down the naïveté, or whatever else needs to be done. [more inside]
What happens when young dreams grow old?
How have your life lessons/philosophies/epiphanies etc changed over the course of your life so far? What has changed now? What don't you believe in now that you did ten years ago? And vice versa. [more inside]
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