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Skip to comments.Niall Ferguson: Obamas Gotta Go
Posted on 08/19/2012 1:47:13 PM PDT by blamEdited on 08/19/2012 5:08:39 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The other day, Newsweek had a cover story about Mitt Romney's "Wimp Factor."
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
That's okay, the one dreams of being able to speak every language so he can be king of the world.
Astonishing for Newsweak! (and really nice to see—just the headline alone!)
When is Eric Holder going to start the investigation against Newsweek?
This is a joke, right
Brilliantly played by NEWSWEEK to get those from both sides to buy the magazine.
All 1.5 million are leftwing liberal kooks...and that's gotta leave a mark!
I see a lengthy tax audit in "Newsweek's" very near future...
Interesting. The MSM is giving up on the kenyan sooner than I anticipated.
reminds me to search through my video library for "Sink the Bismark!"
Today, tomorrow, and the next month and the months immediately after we must...
Sink the Obama!
It is racist not to talk about racism in the workplace and talk about work and real governance... don't you know? (sarc off)
We got so screwed...
If this is true, It will be interesting if NewSpeak has its highest sales week ever.
He hasn't failed. He's done exactly what he intended to do!
The Niall Ferguson column:
He has SUCCEEDED in RUINING this country.....we now have OPEN GAYS IN THE MILITARY and the straights better shape up!!
It's real.
Win The Future. Obama Must Go.
Very few realize just how true your statement is.
Hardly. They're publishing this cover in mid-August for insurance. That way, when they start their heavily biased, full court press against Romney/Ryan throughout September and October, they'll be able to point back to this cover and say they've been "even-handed," with their criticism during this campaign cycle.
Reminds me of the Komen breast cancer to abortion issue reversal scam... Hmm....
Now we need a parody song using Sink the Bismarck and rendering it "Sink the Obama". Any musicians game?
Uh oh. Will the editor be picked up and brought to a mental institution?
We know Newsweek hates traditional Americans... why would they do this? It's strange ...
We know Newsweek hates traditional Americans... why would they do this? It's strange ...
All I have to say is that Niall Ferguson better watch his back if he is walking the Streets of NYC or Washington DC.
"N" [Obama's head] "eek"
We used to get US News and World Report. When it went belly-up, we started receiving Newsweek, apparently because they bought the subscription list. I usually get it out of the mailbox and put it in the trash, but this issue I might take a look at.
Niall Ferguson - former advisor to John McCain.
When the commies at newsweek start piling on you know he is dead meat
Read the other day the main reason liberals are mad at him is because he is NOT LIBERAL ENOUGH!!! Not liberal enough???? Geeze, he is just left of Stalin now. How much further left can he go, except to divorce his fat wife and marry a man.
Still wont read it.
I don't believe it. Has to be satire.
Must be Team O didn't cough up some "stimulus" for Snooze Week?
Not being familiar with Niall Ferguson, I Googled him (did not read full search btw)
Jul 30, 2012 ... Niall Ferguson is a professor of history at Harvard University. He is also a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford University,
also NYT is already chiming in that "Newsweek must not have fact checkers"
so must be real.
LBJ: "If I've lost Walter Cronkite..."
BHO: "If I've lost Newsweek..."
Looks like this is the cover so they can continue to claim they're a fair-and-balanced news source while publishing wall-to-wall Republican bashing for the next 10 weeks leading up to the election.
"Racist magazine."
Great comment, but perhaps they're interested in trying to sell some copy, rather than just make a statement into a more and more empty forest.
These parody issues are a blast.
Amen! You're right on top of it!
Another few million read the cover in the grocery store lines each week.
Yes, it is strange. Could it be that some in the media are finally realizing that they have no credibility or believability, and maybe they're trying to regain a shred of legitimacy?
Nah, I doubt it. There must be another reason.
Sink the Barack.
Well, let's put it this way. I have a birthday to shop for later on and actually went to some shops this afternoon. I have not done this for a Loooonnnnngggg time.
Everything, I mean EVERY LAST BLOODY THING that I picked up and thought might be worth considering was 3 to 4 TIMES what I remember things like this would be 3-4 years ago.
I found myself speeding as I was leaving the area. I realized I was fleeing the prices. No joke.
Now, I don't know what I am going to do. I can't buy those things anymore.
And then, there were the people with kids shopping for school. Clothes and shoes and school supplies and backpacks and OMG. You could drop $1K without batting an eye...per child. I heard several people that didn't look like I'd expect—saying that they couldn't afford to buy X Y Z. Couples were shopping with their children, not just moms.
Then there was the grocery store. I am beginning to get an inordinate fear of the produce area of a grocery store. Did you know that if you want to buy real, healthy food, you need to practically take out a 2nd mortgage?
Thank you, 0bama, Democrats and RINOs, for making us pay now, later and until Jesus comes.
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Editor's note: Writing software that is truly multilingual is not an easy task. In this excerpt from Chapter 8 of Java Examples in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition, author David Flanagan offers real-world programming examples covering the three steps to internationalization in Java. This week, he covers how to use Unicode character encoding and how to handle local customs. Next week's excerpt will cover the third step: localizing user-visible messages.
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Java Examples in a Nutshell
Internationalization is the process of making a program flexible enough to run correctly in any locale. The required corollary to internationalization is localizationthe process of arranging for a program to run in a specific locale.
There are several distinct steps to the task of internationalization. Java (1.1 and later) addresses these steps with several different mechanisms:
A program must be able to read, write, and manipulate localized text.
Java uses the Unicode character encoding, which by itself is a huge
step toward internationalization. In addition, the
InputStreamReader and
OutputStreamWriter classes convert text from a
locale-specific encoding to Unicode and from Unicode to a
locale-specific encoding, respectively.
A program must conform to local customs when displaying dates and
times, formatting numbers, and sorting strings. Java addresses these
issues with the classes in the
java.text package.
A program must display all user-visible text in the local language.
Translating the messages a program displays is always one of the main
tasks in localizing a program. A more important task is writing the
program so that all user-visible text is fetched at runtime, rather
than hardcoded directly into the program. Java facilitates this
process with the
ResourceBundle class and its
subclasses in the
java.util package.
This chapter discusses all three aspects of internationalization.
A locale represents a geographic, political, or
cultural region. In Java, locales are represented by the
java.util.Locale class. A locale is frequently
defined by a language, which is represented by its standard lowercase
two-letter code, such as en (English) or fr (French). Sometimes,
however, language alone is not sufficient to uniquely specify a
locale, and a country is added to the specification. A country is
represented by an uppercase two-letter code. For example, the United
States English locale (en_US) is distinct from the British English
locale (en_GB), and the French spoken in Canada (fr_CA) is different
from the French spoken in France (fr_FR). Occasionally, the scope of
a locale is further narrowed with the addition of a system-dependent
variant string.
Locale class maintains a static default
locale, which can be set and queried with
) and
Locale.getDefault( ).
Locale-sensitive methods in Java typically come in two forms. One
uses the default locale, and the other uses a
Locale object that is explicitly specified as an
argument. A program can create and use any number of nondefault
Locale objects, although it is more common simply
to rely on the default locale, which is inherited from the underlying
default locale on the native platform. Locale-sensitive classes in
Java often provide a method to query the list of locales that they
Finally, note that AWT and Swing GUI components (see Chapter 11) have a locale property, so it is possible for different components to use different locales. (Most components, however, are not locale-sensitive; they behave the same in any locale.)
Java uses the Unicode character encoding. (Java 1.3 uses Unicode Version 2.1. Support for Unicode 3.0 will be included in Java 1.4 or another future release.) Unicode is a 16-bit character encoding established by the Unicode Consortium, which describes the standard as follows (see http://unicode.org ):
The Unicode Standard defines codes for characters used in the major languages written today. Scripts include the European alphabetic scripts, Middle Eastern right-to-left scripts, and scripts of Asia. The Unicode Standard also includes punctuation marks, diacritics, mathematical symbols, technical symbols, arrows, dingbats, etc. ... In all, the Unicode Standard provides codes for 49,194 characters from the world's alphabets, ideograph sets, and symbol collections.
In the canonical form of Unicode encoding, which is what Java
char and
String types use,
every character occupies two bytes. The Unicode characters
\u0020 to
\u007E are equivalent
to the ASCII and ISO8859-1 (Latin-1) characters
0x20 through
0x7E. The Unicode
\u00A0 to
\u00FF are
identical to the ISO8859-1 characters
0xA0 to
0xFF. Thus, there is a trivial mapping between
Latin-1 and Unicode characters. A number of other portions of the
Unicode encoding are based on preexisting standards, such as
ISO8859-5 (Cyrillic) and ISO8859-8 (Hebrew), though the mappings
between these standards and Unicode may not be as trivial as the
Latin-1 mapping.
Note that Unicode support may be limited on many platforms. One of the difficulties with the use of Unicode is the poor availability of fonts to display all the Unicode characters. Figure 8-1 shows some of the characters that are available in the standard fonts that ship with Sun's Java 1.3 SDK for Linux. (Note that these fonts do not ship with the Java JRE, so even if they are available on your development platform, they may not be available on your target platform.) Note the special box glyph that indicates undefined characters.
Figure 8-1. Some Unicode characters and their encodings
Example 8-1 lists code used to create the displays
of Figure 8-1. Because Unicode characters are
integrated so fundamentally into the Java language, this
UnicodeDisplay program does not perform any
sophisticated internationalization techniques to display Unicode
glyphs. Thus, you'll find that Example 8-1 is more of a Swing GUI example rather than an
internationalization example. If you haven't read
Chapter 11 yet, you may not understand all the code
in this example.
package je3.i18n;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
* This program displays Unicode glyphs using user-specified fonts
* and font styles.
public class UnicodeDisplay extends JFrame implements ActionListener {
int page = 0;
UnicodePanel p;
JScrollBar b;
String fontfamily = "Serif";
int fontstyle = Font.PLAIN;
* This constructor creates the frame, menubar, and scrollbar
* that work along with the UnicodePanel class, defined below
public UnicodeDisplay(String name) {
p = new UnicodePanel( ); // Create the panel
p.setBase((char)(page * 0x100)); // Initialize it
getContentPane( ).add(p, "Center"); // Center it
// Create and set up a scrollbar, and put it on the right
b = new JScrollBar(Scrollbar.VERTICAL, 0, 1, 0, 0xFF);
b.addAdjustmentListener(new AdjustmentListener( ) {
public void adjustmentValueChanged(AdjustmentEvent e) {
page = e.getValue( );
p.setBase((char)(page * 0x100));
getContentPane( ).add(b, "East");
// Set things up so we respond to window close requests
this.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter( ) {
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) { System.exit(0); }
// Handle Page Up and Page Down and the up and down arrow keys
this.addKeyListener(new KeyAdapter( ) {
public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) {
int code = e.getKeyCode( );
int oldpage = page;
if ((code == KeyEvent.VK_PAGE_UP) ||
(code == KeyEvent.VK_UP)) {
if (e.isShiftDown( )) page -= 0x10;
else page -= 1;
if (page < 0) page = 0;
else if ((code == KeyEvent.VK_PAGE_DOWN) ||
(code == KeyEvent.VK_DOWN)) {
if (e.isShiftDown( )) page += 0x10;
else page += 1;
if (page > 0xff) page = 0xff;
if (page != oldpage) { // if anything has changed...
p.setBase((char) (page * 0x100)); // update the display
b.setValue(page); // and update scrollbar to match
// Set up a menu system to change fonts. Use a convenience method.
JMenuBar menubar = new JMenuBar( );
menubar.add(makemenu("Font Family",
new String[ ] {"Serif", "SansSerif", "Monospaced"},
menubar.add(makemenu("Font Style",
new String[ ]{
}, this));
/** This method handles the items in the menubars */
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
String cmd = e.getActionCommand( );
if (cmd.equals("Serif")) fontfamily = "Serif";
else if (cmd.equals("SansSerif")) fontfamily = "SansSerif";
else if (cmd.equals("Monospaced")) fontfamily = "Monospaced";
else if (cmd.equals("Plain")) fontstyle = Font.PLAIN;
else if (cmd.equals("Italic")) fontstyle = Font.ITALIC;
else if (cmd.equals("Bold")) fontstyle = Font.BOLD;
else if (cmd.equals("BoldItalic")) fontstyle = Font.BOLD + Font.ITALIC;
p.setFont(fontfamily, fontstyle);
/** A convenience method to create a Menu from an array of items */
private JMenu makemenu(String name, String[ ] itemnames,
ActionListener listener)
JMenu m = new JMenu(name);
for(int i = 0; i < itemnames.length; i++) {
JMenuItem item = new JMenuItem(itemnames[i]);
item.setActionCommand(itemnames[i]); // okay here, though
return m;
/** The main( ) program just creates a window, packs it, and shows it */
public static void main(String[ ] args) {
UnicodeDisplay f = new UnicodeDisplay("Unicode Displayer");
f.pack( );
f.show( );
* This nested class is the one that displays one "page" of Unicode
* glyphs at a time. Each "page" is 256 characters, arranged into 16
* rows of 16 columns each.
public static class UnicodePanel extends JComponent {
protected char base; // What character we start the display at
protected Font font = new Font("serif", Font.PLAIN, 18);
protected Font headingfont = new Font("monospaced", Font.BOLD, 18);
static final int lineheight = 25;
static final int charspacing = 20;
static final int x0 = 65;
static final int y0 = 40;
/** Specify where to begin displaying, and redisplay */
public void setBase(char base) { this.base = base; repaint( ); }
/** Set a new font name or style, and redisplay */
public void setFont(String family, int style) {
this.font = new Font(family, style, 18);
repaint( );
* The paintComponent( ) method actually draws the page of glyphs
public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
int start = (int)base & 0xFFF0; // Start on a 16-character boundary
// Draw the headings in a special font
// Draw 0..F on top
for(int i=0; i < 16; i++) {
String s = Integer.toString(i, 16);
g.drawString(s, x0 + i*charspacing, y0-20);
// Draw column down left.
for(int i = 0; i < 16; i++) {
int j = start + i*16;
String s = Integer.toString(j, 16);
g.drawString(s, 10, y0+i*lineheight);
// Now draw the characters
char[ ] c = new char[1];
for(int i = 0; i < 16; i++) {
for(int j = 0; j < 16; j++) {
c[0] = (char)(start + j*16 + i);
g.drawChars(c, 0, 1, x0 + i*charspacing, y0+j*lineheight);
/** Custom components like this one should always have this method */
public Dimension getPreferredSize( ) {
return new Dimension(x0 + 16*charspacing,
y0 + 16*lineheight);
Text representation has
traditionally been one of the most difficult problems of
internationalization. Java, however, solves this problem quite
elegantly and hides the difficult issues. Java uses Unicode
internally, so it can represent essentially any character in any
commonly used written language. As I noted earlier, the remaining
task is to convert Unicode to and from locale-specific encodings.
Java includes quite a few internal byte-to-char and char-to-byte
converters that handle converting locale-specific character encodings
to Unicode and vice versa. Although the converters themselves are not
public, they are accessible through the
InputStreamReader and
OutputStreamWriter classes, which are character
streams included in the
java.io package.
Any program can automatically handle locale-specific encodings simply
by using these character stream classes to do their textual input and
output. Note that the
FileReader and
FileWriter classes use these streams to
automatically read and write text files that use the
platform's default encoding.
Example 8-2
shows a simple program that works with character encodings. It
converts a file from one specified encoding to another by converting
from the first encoding to Unicode and then from Unicode to the
second encoding. Note that most of the program is taken up with the
mechanics of parsing argument lists, handling exceptions, and so on.
Only a few lines are required to create the
InputStreamReader and
OutputStreamWriter classes that perform the two
halves of the conversion. Also note that exceptions are handled by
LocalizedError.display( ). This method is
not part of the Java API; it is a custom method shown in Example 8-5 at the end of this chapter.
package je3.i18n;
import java.io.*;
/** A program to convert from one character encoding to another */
public class ConvertEncoding {
public static void main(String[ ] args) {
String from = null, to = null;
String infile = null, outfile = null;
for(int i = 0; i < args.length; i++) { // Parse command-line arguments.
if (i == args.length-1) usage( ); // All args require another.
if (args[i].equals("-from")) from = args[++i];
else if (args[i].equals("-to")) to = args[++i];
else if (args[i].equals("-in")) infile = args[++i];
else if (args[i].equals("-out")) outfile = args[++i];
else usage( );
try { convert(infile, outfile, from, to); } // Attempt conversion.
catch (Exception e) { // Handle exceptions.
LocalizedError.display(e); // Defined at the end of this chapter.
public static void usage( ) {
System.err.println("Usage: java ConvertEncoding <options>\n" +
"Options:\n\t-from <encoding>\n\t" +
"-to <encoding>\n\t" +
"-in <file>\n\t-out <file>");
public static void convert(String infile, String outfile,
String from, String to)
throws IOException, UnsupportedEncodingException
// Set up byte streams.
InputStream in;
if (infile != null) in = new FileInputStream(infile);
else in = System.in;
OutputStream out;
if (outfile != null) out = new FileOutputStream(outfile);
else out = System.out;
// Use default encoding if no encoding is specified.
if (from == null) from = System.getProperty("file.encoding");
if (to == null) to = System.getProperty("file.encoding");
// Set up character streams.
Reader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in, from));
Writer w = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(out, to));
// Copy characters from input to output. The InputStreamReader
// converts from the input encoding to Unicode, and the
// OutputStreamWriter converts from Unicode to the output encoding.
// Characters that cannot be represented in the output encoding are
// output as '?'
char[ ] buffer = new char[4096];
int len;
while((len = r.read(buffer)) != -1) // Read a block of input.
w.write(buffer, 0, len); // And write it out.
r.close( ); // Close the input.
w.close( ); // Flush and close output.
The second problem of internationalization is the task of following
local customs and conventions in areas such as date and time
formatting. The
java.text package defines classes
to help with this duty.
NumberFormat class formats numbers, monetary
amounts, and percentages in a locale-dependent way for display to the
user. This is necessary because different locales have different
conventions for number formatting. For example, in France, a comma is
used as a decimal separator instead of a period, as in many
English-speaking countries. A
NumberFormat object
can use the default locale or any locale you specify.
NumberFormat has factory methods for obtaining
instances that are suitable for different purposes, such as
displaying monetary quantities or percentages. In Java 1.4 and later,
java.util.Currency class can be used with
NumberFormat object so that it can correctly print
an appropriate currency symbol.
class formats dates and times in a locale-dependent way for display
to the user. Different countries have different conventions. Should
the month or day be displayed first? Should periods or colons
separate fields of the time? What are the names of the months in the
language of the locale? A
DateFormat object can
simply use the default locale, or it can use any locale you specify.
DateFormat class is used in conjunction with
TimeZone and
classes of
java.util. The
TimeZone object tells the
DateFormat what time zone the date should be
interpreted in, while the
Calendar object
specifies how the date itself should be broken down into days, weeks,
months, and years. Almost all locales use the standard
SimpleDateFormat is a useful subclass of
DateFormat: it allows dates to be formatted to or
parsed from a date format specified with a simple template string.
Collator class compares strings in a
locale-dependent way. This is necessary because different languages
alphabetize strings in different ways (and some languages
don't even use alphabets). In traditional Spanish,
for example, the letters "ch" are
treated as a single character that comes between
"c" and
"d" for the purposes of sorting.
When you need to sort strings or search for a string within Unicode
text, you should use a
Collator object, either one
created to work with the default locale or one created for a
specified locale.
BreakIterator class allows you to locate
character, word, line, and sentence boundaries in a locale-dependent
way. This is useful when you need to recognize such boundaries in
Unicode text, such as when you are implementing a word-wrapping
Example 8-3 shows a class that uses the
NumberFormat and
classes to display a hypothetical stock portfolio to the user
following local conventions. The program uses various
NumberFormat and
objects to format (using the
format( ) method)
different types of numbers and dates. These
objects all operate using the default locale but could have been
created with an explicitly specified locale. The program displays
information about a hypothetical stock portfolio, formatting dates
and numbers and monetary values according to the current or the
specified locale. Figure 8-2 shows example output
in different locales. The output was produced by running the program
in the default locale, with the arguments "en
GB" and "ja JP".
Figure 8-2. Stock portfolios formatted for U.S., British, and French locales
package je3.i18n;
import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
* A partial implementation of a hypothetical stock portfolio class.
* We use it only to demonstrate number and date internationalization.
public class Portfolio {
EquityPosition[ ] positions; // The positions in the portfolio
Date lastQuoteTime = new Date( ); // Time for current quotes
// Create a Portfolio
public Portfolio(EquityPosition[ ] positions, Date lastQuoteTime) {
this.positions = positions;
this.lastQuoteTime = lastQuoteTime;
// A helper class: represents a single stock purchase
static class EquityPosition {
String name; // Name of the stock.
int shares; // Number of shares held.
Date purchased; // When purchased.
Currency currency; // What currency are the prices expressed in?
double bought; // Purchase price per share
double current; // Current price per share
// Format objects like this one are useful for parsing strings as well
// as formatting them. This is for converting date strings to Dates.
static DateFormat dateParser = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
EquityPosition(String n, int s, String date, Currency c,
double then, double now) throws ParseException
// Convert the purchased date string to a Date object.
// The string must be in the format yyyy-mm-dd
purchased = dateParser.parse(date);
// And store the rest of the fields, too.
name = n; shares = s; currency = c;
bought = then; current = now;
// Return a localized HTML-formatted string describing the portfolio
public String toString( ) {
StringBuffer b = new StringBuffer( );
// Obtain NumberFormat and DateFormat objects to format our data.
NumberFormat number = NumberFormat.getInstance( );
NumberFormat price = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance( );
NumberFormat percent = NumberFormat.getPercentInstance( );
DateFormat shortdate = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.MEDIUM);
DateFormat fulldate = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.LONG,
// Print some introductory data.
b.append("<i>Portfolio value at ").
b.append("<table border=1>");
b.append("<tr><th>Symbol<th>Shares<th>Purchased<th>At<th>" +
// Display the table using the format( ) methods of the Format objects.
for(int i = 0; i < positions.length; i++) {
// Set the currency to use when printing the following prices
double change =
return b.toString( );
* This is a test program that demonstrates the class
public static void main(String[ ] args) throws ParseException {
Currency dollars = Currency.getInstance("USD");
Currency pounds = Currency.getInstance("GBP");
Currency euros = Currency.getInstance("EUR");
Currency yen = Currency.getInstance("JPY");
// This is the portfolio to display.
EquityPosition[ ] positions = new EquityPosition[ ] {
new EquityPosition("WWW", 400, "2003-01-03", dollars, 11.90,13.00),
new EquityPosition("XXX", 1100, "2003-02-02", pounds, 71.09,27.25),
new EquityPosition("YYY", 6000, "2003-04-17", euros, 23.37,89.12),
new EquityPosition("ZZZ", 100, "2003-8-10", yen, 100000,121345)
// Create the portfolio from these positions
Portfolio portfolio = new Portfolio(positions, new Date( ));
// Set the default locale using the language code and country code
// specified on the command line.
if (args.length == 2) Locale.setDefault(new Locale(args[0], args[1]));
// Now display the portfolio.
// We use a Swing dialog box to display it because the console may
// not be able to display non-ASCII characters like currency symbols
// for Pounds, Euros, and Yen.
javax.swing.JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, portfolio,
Locale.getDefault( ).getDisplayName( ),
// The modal dialog starts another thread running, so we have to exit
// explictly when the user dismisses it.
Example 8-3 contains
code that explicitly sets the locale using the language code and the
country code specified on the command line. If these arguments are
not specified, it uses the default locale for your system. When
experimenting with internationalization, you may want to change the
default locale for the entire platform so you can see what happens.
How you do this is platform-dependent. On Unix platforms, you
typically set the locale by setting the
environment variable. For example, to set the locale for Canadian
French, using a Unix csh-style shell, use this
% setenv LANG fr_CA
Or, to set the locale to English as spoken in Great Britain when using a Unix sh-style shell, use this command:
$ export LANG=en_GB
To set the locale in Windows, use the Regional Settings control on the Windows Control Panel.
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In addition to my 40+hr a week day job I also run an IT consulting business. I currently have a Windows 7 desktop with Office 2013 and a Lumia 710. I use Google Apps email for my business, and that's all I use Google Apps for. Are there any issues using Google Apps email on the Surface that you're aware of?
In some of the initial reviews of the Surface there were points made about apps being sluggish to launch. Some taking upwards of 5 seconds to launch. Has this been resolved? How's battery life treating you?
Since I can't actually browse the Windows 8 Store w/o using some sort of Windows 8 device, I can't see if the apps I need are available. That's just dumb! The apps I am looking for are Google Reader, Pocket (formerly Read It Later), Twitter, and Toodledo. Do you have any idea if those apps are available on Windows RT?
Have the updates from Microsoft made improvements you can feel and see? I read on ZD Net the other day that the Mail app on Windows RT is fairly basic. Will this hinder me in conducting business?
During day-to-day operation of your Surface is it helping you get stuff done? That's the reason I will be buying mine, to get stuff done. It won't be used for games or movies or ebooks. It will be primarily an email, web browsing, Toodledoing, and document creation machine for me.
I realize I can get a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 plus keyboard, or an Asus Transformer Pad plus keyboard, for far less than a Surface (or Asus VivoTab RT or Dell XPS 10) plus keyboard. But I prefer to stay within the Windows ecosystem and get the bonus of Office 2013 on Windows RT. I'm just trying to feel out the Windows RT ecosystem and the performance and quality of the Surface. I do appreciate your time and answers.
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While I can't answer all of your questions I can knock off a few of them. I find it a little weird also that Microsoft doesn't allow you to see their store online somewhere.
Apps still take a little bit of time to open but to me its very quick but that depends on how quick you are expecting. I just timed the mail app for opening and it took 4 to 5 seconds to open. To me this isn't very slow but that's my opinion.
Battery life for me I couldn't be happier for the size of the display to me its very good. I can do a very full days use of mixed video, internet, music, games, and even office on one charge.
For apps you will still have to wait for some. There are good alternatives like tweetro or rowi for twitter, nextgen reader as a Google reader substitute. The others I'm not sure of but there are no official pocket or toodledo apps that I can see of.
the updates have been pretty good in my opinion and have made apps and overall use much nicer and improved the whole operating system. I think with each month it will keep getting better. If you use office a lot you will really appreciate the included apps that function very well. That's about all I can answer though. Don't know if that helps any.
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Are you considering using the email app to read your Gmail? I didn't have a problem pulling in my gmail account with the mail client. But I immediately removed my gmail account because I don't want to see my work first thing in the morning.
Email is ok. There's quite a bit of latency when you move from one email to the next. Also when replying or forwarding an email with a long thread history or attachments, the email client just doesn't work period. Clearing out your trash folder is a pain as well as deleting emails with having to click the delete button. I don't understand why they couldn't implement what they had in WP. Team work/code once use elsewhere is a foreign concept at Microsoft. Everybody has their goals they have to hit in order to make their bonus.
Anyway, when I use my Surface I find that I rarely go into the desktop save for updating documents because touch is ok on the desktop not great. This is the complete opposite of my Thinkpad laptop running Windows 8. On my laptop, I rarely go into Metro because I have the touchpoint which give me lots of control with the mouse. I have to say I'm not a big fan of touchpad mouses, and the Surface implementation with both the type and touch pads have not changed my mind. Honestly, the accuracy of the mouse sucks. Trying to adjust document layouts or cell spacing with the Surface mice is awful. If you're going to be doing heavy document creation, then you're better off using a standalone mouse. Now the keyboards are very nice, but I rarely use my keyboards with my Surface.
I think where the Surface shines is on the Metro side. It's awesome as touch. I love swiping right and left to move backwards and forwards on the Metro browser. The gestures are really cool. I was trying to browse on an Ipad using the Win8 gestures. People were asking me what I was doing, and I said why can't the iPad work like Win8. Anyway, I love my Surface for what it is an entertainment device while providing me an adequate productivity experience.
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i think you'll find the new chromebooks a better buy at $250-$199
they actually have been rated highly among most reviewers who live and work in the google cloud
l really like my new samsung for the google/chrome world
But on the other hand I really like my surface for my microsoft office based work world
Quickness is good. I had an HP TouchPad when it launched and kept it for a year then sold it. About six months into owning it I pretty much just abandoned it, it was too slow. I don't want the same thing to happen to me if I buy a Surface. I played around with a Surface for a very short time at one of my internationally-acclaimed (ha!) St. Louis Windows Phone Meetups, but I didn't get a real good feel for it as I couldn't use it for a couple of hours straight. 4-5 seconds for the mail app...man, that seems like a while to me. Definitely reminds me of my TouchPad.
I am very glad to know the battery life is good. I have read that it is, but that's from a reviewer who uses the tablet for 24-48 hours and writes a supposedly "comprehensive" review. It's much better to ask folks who've had the device for a couple of months. Sounds to me that the Surface and WinRT are an excellent match on light battery usage.
That's what I thought about apps--I'll have to wait. I understand that. I am completely open to alternatives like Rowi. NextGen Reader is what I use on my Lumia 710, so that would be just fine. I appreciate you looking into Toodledo and Pocket apps. I was able to look for them, too, thanks to the link from DewgZom, and also came up with no results. That's very disappointing. I can certainly live w/o Pocket for my business, but Toodledo? I'm not so sure.
That's great the updates from MS have been beneficial. MS has said they'll support WinRT (or was it the Surface itself?) until 2015. That's a strong commitment. I would definitely use Office 2013 a lot on the tablet. Your post has been very helpful, thanks!
I'm in a similar situation as you, except I started my own IT consulting/software dev business 5 years ago, so it's my 40+ hour a week day job. I picked up the Surface with RT on release day. Not really because I needed it (I have other tablets from each OS), but because I wanted to see if I could find a tablet that I could actually use for work. Because I am at my main work computer most of the day, the Surface doesn't get much use. After hours and on the weekend is when it really shines.
Some apps are slow to launch. But I leave the apps I use most often open so it's not really an issue for me. I'm not sure why the slow launch times, but that Windows I guess. Battery life is good for me. It's not iPad good, but good enough that I don't have to worry about it.
I'm not a big app person, and a poorly designed Modern UI app, and there are plenty of them, are the worst. I don't get the whole full screen, horizontal scrolling thing but whatever. There are Google readers out there. No Pocket that I could find. According to their web site they didn't have it in their immediate plans to create an app for Windows 8. Tweettro+ seems to be the go to Twitter client (i just use the browser). No Toodledo, but again using the browser works just fine.
As far as using it day to day... I have no issues using Google Apps on it. The Mail client does leave a lot to be desired, but I don't think it will hinder you. TouchDown just released a mail client for Windows 8. It's pricey but you can get a trial version of it. I used Surface mostly on the weekends, when I'm away from home. It's great for responding to e-mails, and writing for a couple blogs I submit articles to. Get the Type cover by the way (or use a BT keyboard). I also use PowerPoint for doing a weekly presentation. To me, that makes the Surface worth it. For everything else the Surface can't do, like build a Visual Studio project and publish it, I use RDP to my home computer.
Like the poster above me said, a Chromebook is a decent tool as well. I have the Acer C7. I take it with me when I know I have to do a lot of typing. It's so much easier to hold on my lap, and the bigger screen is nice. Someone really needs to make a Clamcase or Crux case for the Surface.
I see your points on mouse and keyboard usage. So the Surface RT allows the plugging in of a standard USB mouse?
Gestures are great! It's good to know they're fairly prevalent in WinRT. That's a funny story about trying to use an iPad in the same way as your Surface. I did the same thing when I transitioned from a webOS phone to an Android phone. You specifically mention you love the Surface as an entertainment device, yet it's only providing you an adequate productivity experience. I appreciate the honesty. As I mentioned in the OP, I will not be using mine as an entertainment device, nothing wrong with using it that way of course, but I'll be using mine as a productivity device for my business. Thanks for your reply!
So you and Chinocop both mention some sluggishness within and launching apps. Hmm. Thanks for checking in on the Pocket and Toodledo apps. Like you, I am not a big app person. But there are a couple that I truly do require. Thanks for confirming Google Apps works fine. Google Apps email is the biggie for me. Oh, does the Google Apps calendar work well on WinRT's calendar app? Right, I will get the Type Cover if I end up getting a Surface RT. I'm glad to know someone is able to pound out blog posts, articles, and other typing-intensive tasks on the Surface easily.
Interesting, another positive note on a Chromebook. I will check it out. Thank you for your informative reply!
Edit: I looked for TouchDown, but it appears to be a football game. That's not what you're talking about, is it?
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SpeedTouch, don't get me wrong. I love my Surface. When I travel, I don't even bring my laptop anymore because the Surface is just so portable. There are things that I do miss when using my Surface like my Forex applications, but for the most part I think you'll really like it. I have not tried using a regular mouse, but I bet that it greatly enhances the desktop experience. Because the touchpad is so poor I really find myself using my fingers as it's just easier.
I wouldn't call it sluggishness, because once the app is up and running it's fine. And I think a lot of the times developers add a custom splash screen and they show it for a second or two just because it's cool or whatever. So it's really just a load time.
Calendar works fine with Google Apps too. And the Type cover makes all the difference in the world. I started out with the Touch cover (for sale if anyone wants it) and I would get so frustrated. The Type cover changed my world and I use the Surface so much more now with it.
The TouchDown mail client is made by NitroDesk. Here's a link on the store: TouchDown app for Windows in the Windows Store
When I say sluggishness, I do mean the time it takes for an app to launch. Like you mention, I haven't heard of real app sluggishness once it's loaded. Other than the email app sluggishness that Chinocop mentioned. Thanks for confirming Google Apps Calendar works just fine.
Ah ha, so there's the TouchDown app. I knew it couldn't have been that football app!
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Wood feels that everyone can benefit from having a dog in his or her life, but she advises against getting one simply to find a date.
"There are cheaper ways to attract a mate," she said. "Not every person should have a dog."
Dogs can be expensive, and Wood explains how the cost of a pet could be used elsewhere, if you really aren't interested in investing time and energy into a pet.
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Dogs can also help once you've met someone new. What should you do if your trusty companion is less than thrilled with your new date?
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Other dogs are often considered irritating by people. However, you can prove them wrong.
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The book "A Dog Lover's Guide To Dating" offers the five best and worst "date bait breeds:
- Golden retrievers, Labradors -- friendly, nonthreatening dogs
- Papillions -- pleasant-acting, mild-mannered dogs
- Scruffy terrier-mixes -- extra points for you if he had a sad life before you
- Collies -- especially popular for those who remember Lassie
- Afghans -- their unusual appearance can get comments, compliments
- Pit bulls -- Some people will cross the street before meeting this dog
- Rottweilers -- Same as pit bulls
- Yapping little dogs -- quick to irritate and annoy
- Dogs with elaborate hairdos -- these dogs make owners look high-maintenance
- Chinese crested -- this breed is unusual, but not in a good way
What Does It All Mean?
"The bottom line is that love attracts love," said Wood. "If you love your dog and have a great relationship with them, people will respond to that," she said.
And if you don't meet anyone while walking, playing and interacting with your dog, you haven't lost a thing.
"The worst that can happen is that you have a great relationship with your dog. If you don't meet anyone, at least you've had a great time," said Wood.


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My First Baseball Game
Today I decided to blog about my first baseball game. It's not like there's anything else interesting to talk about, and we've still got a lot of offseason ahead. Today I have been inspired with a bunch of stuff I can write about, so keep stopping by: I'll have new entries up frequently.
So, my first baseball game. Before it, I was not very interested in baseball. I remember summer days when we would have the game on the radio, but we weren't big fans. I'm not sure why my parents wanted to take me and my three younger siblings to a game that day, but I am so glad they did. It was Thursday, June 23, 2005, a 12:35 pm start against the Dodgers. We bought the tickets there, so we were in line for 15-20 minutes. We missed the national anthem and the first pitch, but we got to our left field seats in good time. I've kept journals for a good part of my life, and I recently discovered the entry I wrote on this game: "My first glimpse of the field was amazing. Our seats were so perfect. It was such a beautiful sight. I would love to go again, and I can't believe I never wanted to go to a baseball game…The game was wonderful. Ryan Klesko hit a home run. That was my favorite part. Trevor Hoffman was a pitcher. There were 41, 686 people who came to watch. The Padres were winning 3-0, but in the 8th inning the Dodgers got three points. Then they got another point. They had a tenth inning and the Padres lost. But the game was amazing. The Padres are greatly supported. There were not many Dodgers fans…That game was so amazing. I would love to go again."
I really don't remember much about that game. I don't remember Klesko's home run, nor do I remember Trevor coming into the tie game and giving up the Dodger's winning run. But with the internet I was able to go back, read an article on that game, and even watch highlights. I don't remember details. There was this one fan who kept booing everything, though. I remember him. But as you can tell from my journal entry, I was captivated. I didn't understand much about what was happening on the field. I might have been a little bored, but I really enjoyed it. That game was the seed. In the next few years it took root and grew. But not right then. I still wasn't sure about this baseball thing.
This game did spur my loathing of the Dodgers. They beat my Padres in my first baseball game ever, and so they have always been my most-hated team.
In that game, I took 4 pictures with my disposable camera. Today, when I go to a game, I take 200-300 pictures with my digital. Things have definitely changed since that first game. Then, I was a casual observer. Today, I am a die-hard Padres fan.
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Great memories! I think most of us go to our first games with our parents. I went with my sister and my parents. We are Red Sox fans and my mom was a big sports fan and it rubbed off on to my sister and I. All families, I think, should experience games together. Nothing beats looking back on your childhood and reliving the times that you cheered together. Enjoy your memories and here's to hoping that you make a lot more.
Great memories here, and I'm with you… taking 200-300 pictures of whatever I can. Baseball is such a beautiful thing… it's hard to explain why you love it… it's one of those things that you just do. Besides Coco being traded (and Pedroia's award) not too much has been going on besides various trade rumors.
I think memories like this are the ones that we have to hold on to the most.🙂
I believe my first game was in 05. I was going to Atlanta and me and my friends decided to catch a Braves game when they played Arizona. I liked the Braves, but I didn't really pay much attention to baseball. I don't remember the score, but I do remember the Braves lost by a lot. Maybe like 11-1 or something like that. Anyway, Chipper Jones hit a double and it actually showed me on the big screen since I was sitting by the foul pole. I've been to like 3 games since then since but I never have time to any other games. The bad part is they haven't won a game since I've been there. Maybe I'm bad luck for them in real life =\ I usually just stick to watching them on TV haha. Hopefully I will get to go to more games now that I live in Birmingham, Alabama. I do hope I'll witness a win for the Braves in real life though =)
I can still remember my first game. Veterans Stadium, 1993. I was eight. We sat in right field and my dad threw his shoe onto the field to see if Jim Eisenreich would throw it back. He did not.
I don't remember the final score, or the starting pitchers, or the exact day. But then again, that's not what baseball is about now, is it?
Ahhh…the memories. Great story. The best part about walking into any Major league stadium for the first time is walking down the concourse, clearing the tunnel and entering the seating bowl/area…then having everything open up right before your eyes! Everything is so huge! I look at it as my big kid playground…
By the way, home runs are my favorite, too🙂


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Ghost Hunt
Forbidden Pastime, Part 3
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The ghost of a suicidal student has been swallowed by an ever-growing foxfire, and the SPR believes the threat was released with evil intention. While the scourge was meant for one teacher, everyone is at risk.
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Most FS fans underestimated Shawn and Koffe before their national events, but both proved the detractors wrong. We'll have to wait and see what will happen with Ryan, but it would be really cool if he exceeded people's expectations.
The video of Shawn's LP is fabulous siberia82. I have yet to see the Kurt/Tracey version of Patrick's skate so if you decide to make one I will be first in line to download it!
You talkers need to quit bashing on Canadian commentators. First you get Barbara Underhill fired from her long time post where her contract wasn't renewed, now we have a new sweetie Josée Chouinard, who's hometown girl with Joanne Rochette, please leave her alone!!
While I'm waiting, I guess I should mention my thoughts about our national champion since I've been neglecting him so far. People generally seem to love or hate Chan's skating, while my feelings were somewhere in the middle. Over-all I like him, but depending on how he performed, sometimes I leaned towards the fan-gushing (though I wouldn't call myself a fan), while other times I was more inclined listen to what the haters said (though I could never despise him).
For this competition, I definitely agree with his fans that he was absolutely Chan-tastic this past weekend!!! Patrick's free skate was so mesmerizing that it always surprises me when it ends because it felt so short! There were moments in his career when I felt that he wasn't fulfilling potential the way I hoped he would, but WOW, what we saw at Canadians was out-of-this-world!!! For the first time, I finally saw how untouchable he truly is when he skates his best (I'm talking performance-wise, not points-wise).
I had some minor reception problems, which is why there was no sound for several seconds in the middle of the program. As I mentioned in the post with Shawn's LP, you can shrink the size of your media player so that the vid looks less "shaky".
2011 Patrick Chan CFSC LP (CBC television) 157.07 MB: http://www.mediafire.com/?zi09wvwg37uia09
Hey all. I will have to find Siberia82's video. Sounds like it's great quality! I can't get Sawyer's performance out of my head!
Here's an article from Rosie Dimanno that all but rips apart Shawn Sawyer and his inclusion on the 2011 world team. If you read near the end of the article, she even goes as far as to call his program loud and CRUDE, even criticizing him wearing that mad hatter hat at the end. Heaven forbid he entertains an audience!
As much as the future should be promoted (Reynolds and those quads are something we haven`t seen the last of yet), Sawyer earned his spot on the team. SO did Joey Russell.There`s a few years left for the future to build. For diminishing their accomplishments (and Russel`s and Sawyer`s accomplishments this Nationals were BIG), let`s say I`ve lost some respect for Dimanno (not that I ever had any tangible respect for her after the articles I have read from her over the years).
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Shawn Sawyer should compete for another year just to piss off that soggy *****.
His LP would go over very well with the French crowd at 2012 Worlds. He can tailor a new SP for next season with French sensibilities in mind as well. He'd gain a bunch of fans. We need more skaters like him.
I can see her point on Sawyer. Like congrats on being on a teenage level and finally kind of being able to do a 3A! LOL!
Ha! Bladesofpassion. Nice comment.
I got mixed up. She wrote about Russell having 2 double axels (and the protocol indicates his 3A was weak- all -2's). I was thinking of my reaction to Sawyer and his 3A problems a lot of the time. I would flat out send Reynolds to worlds and Russell to 4CC but of course Russell earned his spot to worlds. I'd just trust in Reynolds more than Russell or Sawyer. Chan has his own 3A problems but at least he is a solid quad bet now. With Russell or Sawyer iffy on quads and 3a. I know you can say the exact same thing about Reynolds too! So I see where she is coming from. Just flat out criticizing Sawyers program the way she doesn't seem the most important thing she can be writing about.
DiManno's homophobia is plainly obvious. Little surprise from her. She is so butch she is a women who is even sexist against fellow women. Her article thrashing the Hockey Hall of Fame for inducting a couple of great female hockey players tells it all.
After reading some of Dimanno`s articles since 2006, I am going to have to agree with you pantongfan. Where her vitrol comes from I don`t know, but if she can discriminate against her own like what you mentioned, this doesn`t suprise me either. Too bad she still gets paid for writing that garbage.
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who is Rosie Dimanno?
Not including Sawyer is the most stupid thing I read, his Lp is one of the best in the season, I wanna see it at Worlds!!
I don't know who she is and has never read her column before. By judging this article alone, apart from this quote,"is pretty much a waste in a year when Canada has qualified three spots for men at worlds." when talked about Sawyer going to the worlds which didn't sound right, this article largely was saying the truth, even though some people who are in the height of the joy don't want to know.
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The Progress
GEORGE WEST – It's probably safe to say you probably won't think about wealth the same way again.
At least, not in a good way.
Horton Foote's play "Dividing The Estate" — as interpreted by the sharp and rich performances of the Dobie West Performing Arts Theatre performers this past weekend — will really wear you out.
The burden of family money is relayed very effectively in this two-act play, whose author won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1965.
And really? You'll probably be familiar with the circumstances of the play. Its theme closely mirrors the activities currently taking place in the Eagle Ford Shale area.
This past week's production, incidentally, was put together in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the city of George West.
Author Foote is best known for his screenplays for "Tender Mercies" and "To Kill a Mockingbird."
A word of caution: This descent into the lives of the Gordon family, a family whose wealth for generations has been derived from inherited land, can be a dizzying experience for the theatre patron.
It's important to understand that greedy Gordon family members have borrowed and borrowed and borrowed from the family fortune ad nauseam over the years. They have no realistic idea of how much money is still contained in the estate.
But the time has come to pay the piper. This play, based in 1987, takes place at a time when the Texas economy had taken a downturn because of decreased agriculture income and inflation, and, well … money just ain't what it used to be.
The family's central debate: Should they divide the estate while their mother is still alive in order to ensure themselves financial independence? Mother certainly won't agree to do it, but she won't be around forever.
The reality of the situation: Is there any real money left in the estate at all? Or has it all been squandered away?
Glynis Holm Strause's strong directing manages to expertly weave together the threads of a compelling tale — with very strong performances by all.
(Unfortunately, what this means is audience members will probably end up hating at least some of these characters.)
Mary Ann Pawlik, who portrays grandmother and family matriarch Stella, delivers an excellent performance as she presides over this cat's cradle of malcontent personalities that is her family.
(Pawlik, incidentally, received a much-deserved standing ovation at the conclusion of the play.)
As Stella's alcoholic and possibly bipolar son Lewis, Jarrod Richter is REALLY fun to watch, providing both dramatic tension at times and comedic relief at others.
The complacent daughter Lucille, played by Mary Joy, is pit against her deliciously predatory sister Mary Jo, played by Mauri MJ Joy, in a scary tug of war over who gets what.
(What really makes this interesting is that, in real life, Mary Joy and Mauri MJ Joy are mother and daughter.)
One has to wonder about what effect this kind of family can have on its children. What kind of children would someone as devious and greedy as Mary Jo, for instance, actually produce?
These would probably be children who have heard their loved ones continually plot against one another in an endless loop of "I want my money" played over and over again their entire lives.
Kayla Strause and Blayne Huston, as Mary Jo's daughters Emily and Sissie, provide excellent examples of innocents whose lives have been poisoned by greed instead of nurtured by love.
Chaz Elliot plays estate caretaker Son, Lucille's beloved grandson. His character provides the glue that holds the cast together.
Like his cousins Emily and Sissie, Son has had to deal with unending greed his entire life. But unlike his cousins, Son refuses to let greed define him. He is trying with every fiber of his body to do the right thing and hold the family together both morally and financially.
Kudos to Ann Snuggs and Mackey Alvarez for their cute performances as Mildred the cook and the maid. Joseph Moore adds to the dramatic tapestry as Bob, Mary Jo's equally greedy husband. Janae Friedelle is interesting as Pauline, Son's fiance, who has to suffer through the greedy overtures of her soon-to-be in-laws.
Ellen Nance provides a touch of young humor as Lewis' young Whataburger-working YOUNG girlfriend Irene.
Special kudos to Don Martin, who successfully tackles a very difficult role as Doug, the family's VERY elderly servant who is facing the end of his life — and reaches it before the play is over.
All in all? A fantastic production.
Ultimately, money does change everything. And the Dobie West Performing Arts Center cast deals with that subject in "Dividing The Estate" so you don't have to.
Ben Tinsley is a reporter for The Progress newspaper in Three Rivers. He can be contacted by email at email@example.com or by phone at 361-786-3022. Tinsley can also be followed on Twitter at www.twitter.com/BenTinsley, Google at http://plus.google.com/+BenTinsley or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ben.tinsley.12.


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Pop culture -- all of it -- is something I like too much. I may have hated myself for watching Miley Cyrus prance around at the VMAs with the grace of a slutty car slamming into a tree, but secretly I loved it. I'm just as happy to have watched it as I was after watching any episode of Seinfeld, reading Preacher, or playing way too much Saints Row IV. Even when I dislike a pop culture moment, I still enjoy it; it's a shared experience. A certain movie or album or TV episode sucked -- so? Now we can talk about why it sucked! Break out the confetti and cake, 'cause that sounds like a goddamn party to me.
All that enjoyment comes with a set of downsides that mar the experience of saturating my brain with too much ultimately meaningless bullshit. Do you consider yourself a pop culture nerd like I and so many of us here at Cracked do? If so, then maybe you've noticed that ...
4 There's Too Much Stuff and Too Little Time
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There's just too much great shit out there, stretching back decades. It's nearly impossible to catch up with the old great shit while still being up to date with the new great shit. There's no collective summer break for pop culture that lets us all catch our breath. It's a continuum of incredible experiences tempting you to partake. You can't, you shouldn't, but man, those eight identical seasons of Wings on Netflix need to be watched NOW. Life isn't as self-sustaining as a cat. From time to time it requires some of your attention.
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"Fine. Fuck you and your Netflix queue. I've got an asshole to lick."
To read all of The Walking Dead comics before the next season of the show starts while you finally watch The Wire while playing 100+ hours of Skyrim so you can get to Saints Row IV before Grand Theft Auto V comes out, all while trying to clear the 15-recording pileup on your DVR, means that you are the physical embodiment of the classic stereotype of a nerd: You have no life.
You've inundated yourself with pop culture, and for what? Just so you can say you've been there and done that? You made it all the way through a TV series, 90 percent of which you did in your underwear. You didn't climb Everest. No one will congratulate you. There's a tremendous relief that comes with realizing that none of this stuff needs to be experienced NOW. Or ever. But if you're a pop culture nerd, absorbing too much is what you do. You're not looking for accolades, just something to share with others like you.
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"... and then the marines realized they weren't there for a mission, but to make a profit."
"You guys talking about the war?"
"Uh, no, Aliens."
Shows, movies, comics, all that pop culture stuff used to fade away because we didn't have places to showcase them after their initial run. Your desire to experience them was filed away in the "Maybe when I die heaven will have a movie theater that plays all the things I missed" portion of your brain. We may not have cured AIDS just yet, but we've cured this problem, because ...
3 Nowadays, It's All So Easy to Get
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For only eight bucks, Netflix throws every movie and show in existence at you. You can get dirt cheap used copies of stuff on Amazon. If spending money isn't your thing and you like it when people refer to you as a pirate, there are torrents.
"Ahoy, mateys! Thar be Season 4 of The Sopranos, but there be no seeders!"
It's become so easy for us to access pop culture that with no effort we can flood ourselves with it to our own detriment. There are two repercussions of this: The first is an effect called the burden of choice. That's when you are given so many options that choosing becomes an anxiety-filled chore. You feel it every time you open your packed refrigerator and close it despondently because there's nothing to eat. Netflix, Hulu, HBO GO, Comixology, iTunes, your TV -- it's all one "empty" overstuffed fridge after another.
We've so thoroughly eradicated the disease of boredom that we're fighting off the cure. DVRs were supposed to unshackle you from oppressive appointment viewing. Then you reshackle yourself by creating a nuclear stockpile of shows and movies so large, they could obliterate 10 Earths' worth of boredom in an instant. Why? Because you could, so you did.
The second repercussion affects fandom. When I saw Jurassic Park as a kid, I instantly developed a morbid obsession with it. I knew every line, every beat, every sound effect by heart. I cleaned my home relentlessly for weeks just so I could build up enough allowance to buy the behind-the-scenes books that were released in the pre-DVD-special-features era of human existence. I knew everything about Jurassic Park. I fucking WAS Jurassic Park.
The greatest moment of my life.
Today, a kid could cover all those nerdy bases after about an hour's worth of Googling. You won't know a certain show or comic series exists on Tuesday, and by Friday you're getting a character portrait tattooed on your chest. You used to cram for tests; now you cram Mad Men. And you don't even need firsthand experience with something anymore. All the hard, embarrassingly detailed work that once went into being a superfan has been obliterated by Wikia pages that turn every pop culture pursuit into an easily searchable database. Streaming, on demand, and Wikis are the closest thing to Matrix-like instant brain downloads we have today.
The barrier of entry for superfandom has been lowered, so hardcore fans raised the bar by doing outlandish shit to prove their worth. So you got a tattoo of a video game character -- big deal. Do you get your recipes from a cookbook that instructs you on how to eat like your favorite fictional characters? Did you build an exact replica of a set from your favorite sitcom? No? Good. That means you're not a member of any ...


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10x for the process, looking grate, Anthony ! I love how metalic it feels, I guess it is due to how you managed your highlights and the clean forms of the design.ReplyDelete
I am GRATEful :) thanks guysReplyDelete
Wow this is awesome AJ! (It's Sloane, from last semesters creature design course) As always, you're a great inspiration. :)ReplyDelete
Someone loves new Star Wars like me. Well done pal, well done :)ReplyDelete
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So is it video comming soon? Or perhaps is available somewhere already. Share a link if it is.ReplyDelete
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Now I'm thinking I wish I would like to see this robot moving. Waithing for this mentioned video.ReplyDelete
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text: I'm just not sure if I can rely on my pump for my second son due this October. Anybody have experience with the lansinoh double electric? Should I get some new parts or replace the whole thing? It got somewhat regular use but I was not a full time pumper. It will be about 2 years old. Any advice would be helpful, thanks.


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These healthy recipes follow a broader interpretation of the vegan diet.
Delicious Vegan Recipes
For those who follow a vegan diet, which means no animal products of any kind including eggs, milk, cheese, yogurt, and other dairy products, we've identified recipes that meet those criteria with each recipe. We've focused on the widest interpretation of a vegan diet, so some of the recipes we've identified as vegan do include honey.
To begin our vegan recipe journey, we'll start with Potato Roti Curry. This mild, soupy side dish hails from the Caribbean, where it's often made with sweet calabaza squash and served alongside or stuffed into the tortillalike Indian flatbread roti. While roti is traditional, whole-wheat tortillas or pitas are great accompaniments for sopping up the liquid. Serve this dish with lime wedges and rice.