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Chaotic family schedules can often make dinner time a challenge, but it doesn't have to be!
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Tell Us... How do you turn mealtime into quality time with your family?
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by GypsiSkyMay 6, 2013 at 5:15 PM
We use our mealtime (usually dinner) together to reconnect after our busy days. We all talk and we all listen. It's a really great time for us. We even have our monthly family business meetings at the dinner table.
by SP_MamaApril 30, 2013 at 10:30 AM
I have a family of 4. There's me, DH, my SS who's 7, and then DS who's 6. My SS is really into Lego's and is starting to play baseball with DH as a hobby. He's also great at drawing. DS is into reading and video games and also starting to play baseball. They both recently joined the Cub Scouts and we are looking forward the adventures we'l have in the Scouts.
Dinner time is important to our family because it's really the only meal where we all gather around the table and eat together. We turn some music on lightly in the background and enjoy the family time.
My husband and I usually take turns making dinner, though we help each other out often. When it's all done, we all gather to the table and turn the music on and get started on dinner.
I can't really think of a really great story that happened during dinner, but during dinner the boys usually keep us quite entertained with stories from school or the park. Some days, they have so much to say it's like pulling teeth trying to get them to eat because they are talking a mile a minute. *L*
We are looking forward to trying the Tyson Crispy Chicken Strips. Both boys love to eat chicken and while we've never tried the Tyson Crispy Chicken Strips, we have had the Tyson Fun Nuggets and those are big hit here. I expect the Crispy Chicken Strips will too. We will probably make them for a supper one night with some yummy side dishes to go with them.
by mewebb82April 30, 2013 at 10:30 AM
My husband and I have 3 kids ages 12, 6, and 4 months. My brother lives with us as well. My oldest son has always been a science and video game kid, but is starting to get interested in football and will be playing next year. My 6 yr. old daughter is into crafting, dancing, and swimming. And my 4 month old son is just generally happy watching everything going on around him.
We try to sit down for dinner as a family at least 3-4 days per week, but our schedules are kind of chaotic right now between my husband's long hours and the kids' extracurriculars. Hopefully my husband's schedule will slow down soon and we can have more family mealtimes again. When we do get to sit down for dinner as a family, we like to catch up on what has been going on in our lives and what our day was like. My daughter loves to help out with cooking and my oldest son helps when asked mainly with simple side dishes, setting the table, or helping out with his baby brother while I'm cooking.
We are looking forward to trying the Tyson Crispy Chicken Strips. I'm sure it will be a nice quick meal along with a few veggie sides on one of our busier nights.
April 30, 2013 at 10:30 AMI have 2 boys ages 12 and 7. The little one loves to play outside, fish, explore the forest, and camp. My older son loves to ride his bike, play video games, hang with friends, and go to the movies. My husband, the boys and I eat dinner every night, we always have and I hope that continues. Eating dinner as a family is very important to me, it gives all of us a chance to talk about our day and I believe it instills a sense of love, values and open communication within our boys. :)
by mumsy2threeApril 30, 2013 at 10:30 AM
We are a family of 5~ our oldest and only dd is 19, we have 2 boys aged 10(will be 11 next week) and 8.
Our dd graduated from high school last year and now works full time. She is currently living at home and saving money to get an apartment with her boyfriend. Our oldest son plays football and basket ball in our local youth league. He also likes hanging out with his best friends, building with Legos and playing video games. Our youngest son is playing Little League baseball for the first time this year and loves it! He also enjoys drawing, playing Army/soldier and playing video games.
Meal time is family time for us. We are all going in different directions through the day, throughout the week and dinner is the one time that we all sit down together, including our dd if she's not working, and catch up with one another. We don't have traditions during dinner other than it's always served at the dining room table and everyone sits down together to eat. On the rare occasion we'll eat pizza in the living room, but we're all still together.
I can't think of a specific story from a recent dinnertime but there is always good conversation about school or work and laughter happening while we eat.
I am looking forward to trying Tyson crispy chicken strips in the near future, I can't wait for my stuff to be delivered. I am thinking about using them in a recipe we've had before that uses chicken strips. If it turns out well I'll share the recipe :)
by Sama2MammaApril 30, 2013 at 10:30 AMWe are a family of 5. We have a 9 year old daughter, 6 year old son, and 13 month old son. My children are not in any special programs or actvities due to financial issues. However, they are very active amd enjoy riding their bikes, climbing in trees, and annoying our neighbors with all their loud laughter as they play outside :)
Dinner isnt anything special to us. Its just another meal. We dont do anything special. If we did then they would take forever to finish eating. On average they take an hour to eat dinner. Like i said, very active children lol. My children do like to "help" me with dinner every now and then.
by jessymokaApril 30, 2013 at 10:30 AM
Right now we are a family of 5, expecting our 4th child in July, so soon to be 6.
Our family is generally pretty busy, and I try to keep healthy, easy foods around. When we do sit down at the table it's typically a four course meal.
I used my coupon and gift card today on our crispy strips... Thank you Cafemom!
by jen113000April 30, 2013 at 10:30 AM
I am a family of four. Myself, husband and two growing boys! They are seven and almost four!! My oldest son is very busy between his sports. He does tang soo do karate and baseball! We also love being outside. You will find us out riding bikes, playing at the playground or taking walks together! Sometimes meal time needs to be easy for me. Especially with doing homework then heading off to the sports activities for the day! I usually have dinner ready to go by 4:45-5pm every night. That way we have time to eat and time to digest before heading out. We don't currently have any family traditions for our dinner table. But that is a time when we do talk about our day. I ask my boys how school was and what was the best part of their day. I am looking forward to trying the Tyson Crispy chicken strips! My husband is super excited! We can't wait to get our package!
by pamelakellerApril 30, 2013 at 10:30 AM
Hello everyone! I am a 45 year old SAHM with 4 Boys, Tristan (10 years old), Alexander (8 years old), Lucas (5 years old), and Adam (2 years old). My boys are not in any sports as of yet, but they do enoy spending time outside when the weather is nice. As typical boys, I always find them climbing trees, riding bikes, and running around just playing outside.
When we are all in the same place at the same time, family dinners are extremely important. It gives us a chance to sit around a table as a family and talk about our day. It is also important for us to have easy and quick dinners as well, especially when the kids have places they need to be (i.e. AWANAS, school functions, etc). As for dinner prep, my older two boys, are learning to help around the kitchen, so they help with prep, or cook the easy dinners.
I especially love the holiday dinners. Here, we set the table with the fine china and flatwear. My boys help by setting the table, dinner prep, and help put the bowls of food out on the table. Once everything is out on the table, we all sit around and say prayers before our meal. Then we serve the dishes and enjoy our meal talking to one another about our day or something special that happened to us.
I am looking forward purchasing the tyson products for my family to have for dinner. Something that I or my older kids can make for dinner, especially on busy evenings.
April 30, 2013 at 10:30 AM
Right now we are a family of 4, my DD is almost 13 and DS is 3. DD is pretty busy with school and Taekwondo but enjoys anything video game related or anime related in her free time. DS is an aspiring graffitti artist and is always busy "tagging" our house with his assortment of crayons. DH works full time and I currently and happily stay home with the kiddos.
Dinner is important to our family because it is really the only meal that all of us get to enjoy together. DD is at school and DH is at work so during the day it's just DS and I. Both DH and I grew up in families that shared mealtimes together and we think it's important to give that to our children as well. TV goes off and the only thing we have for background noise is soft music and the conversation about how our day went. Prepping and everything is usually up to me, but it's probably "safer" that way since DH isn't that fond of cooking and DD is totally uninterested. If you left those two in the kitchen it's unpredictable what would happen and I could honestly say that it probably wouldn't be edible either. Lol. I have no great stories about dinnertime, just that we just enjoy each other's company and DD is such a motormouth, we're always entertained. We are excited about the Tyson influcencer. Got the coupon yesterday and plan on going to retrieve my product from the store tomorrow! Thanks, cafemom!!!
by zoo003April 30, 2013 at 10:30 AM
My husband and I have 3 kids that are 15, 13, and 11 years old. They are very active kids who are usually involved in various sports that include soccer, football and swimming. For us, dinner is very important. It is a time where everyone comes together and discusses his/her day, talk about any issues he/she may have, joke, laugh, and kid around. It is basically our together time in a day. I am looking forward to trying Tyson's Chicken Strips.


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This special message is focused on important and time-sensitive certification matters. We hope you will read it carefully and share it with your colleagues and staff.
Topics covered in this message are:
Elimination of Phone Service
Because of line item budget cuts by the Governor, the Department of Certification and Professional Development has sustained a loss of 20 positions, about 45% of the current staff in this department. This requires significant changes in our operating procedures, including closure of the Chicago Regional Certification Office (serving Chicago District 299) and elimination of phone service for certification and certificate renewal questions. We regret that it is necessary to take these actions; however, with the reduction in staff, we simply cannot answer phone calls nor provide certification services in Chicago.
On or before August 15, 2003, the 800 phone numbers for the Department will be modified to indicate that we are unable to take calls and to refer the caller to other resources. Within a few months after that, the 800 numbers will be eliminated.
We are establishing special email addresses for public use in submitting certification and other questions that cannot be answered through the Regional Offices of Education, the institutions of higher education or the State Board website. Those email addresses are:
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If the volume of questions exceeds our staff resources and therefore our ability to respond, we will need to modify this arrangement as well. Again, we regret having to take this action.
Status of Certification Processing
Because of the staff reductions and the volume of applications for certification and/or endorsements, we have a significant backlog of pending cases
To address the large number of requests that had been identified as "job-critical priorities" by Regional Superintendents, we have suspended our work on the regular transcript review cases due to our budget cutbacks.
"Job-critical priorities" are those cases in which the teacher's ability to obtain or retain a position is dependent on a certification decision by this office. This priority does not apply to individuals who want or need a response in order to seek jobs; there are simply too many of those. However, individuals who have a job offer, or who have a job and need to obtain a certificate or endorsement to retain it, may request priority attention through the Regional Office of Education. That office will forward it to us with an indication of the nature of the priority, and we will try to respond within a few days.
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New requirements and procedures for administrative certificate renewal went into effect on July 1, 2003. Information about the new system was sent in hard copy to all district superintendents and cooperative and state program directors, and it is also available on the State Board website.
A special procedure has been adopted to address an issue related to the transition to this new system. Administrators who are unable to enter their renewal plans because a reviewer has not been identified will be allowed to claim credit for participation in local professional development activities and approved Administrators Academy courses in the interim. This is contingent on the following:
If you are responsible for serving as, or designating a reviewer for administrators under your authority and you have not entered the reviewer information into the CeRTS system, we urge you to take immediate action to do so.
We are continuing to accept proposals for Administrators· Academy courses using our previous procedures. However, since all funding for the Academy has been eliminated through the Governor·s veto of that line item, we expect that some changes will be necessary. We will update you on this situation as we become more certain about our future direction.
Identifying Applicable Certificate Renewal Requirements
Individuals who have some assigned administrative duties but hold only a teaching certificate must meet the certificate renewal requirements for teachers. Individuals in this situation have often been designated as ·administrators· by their district or cooperative (especially if they evaluate other staff), so they may have been unaware of this expectation. These individuals need to begin participating in the teacher certificate renewal system as of July 1, 2003. Procedures for adjusting the their continuing professional development requirements to the time remaining on their certificate will be posted at the following location within the next several days. http://www.isbe.net/recertification/certificate_renewal.htm.
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Please advise your staff about this clarification.
Highly Qualified Teachers
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We had planned to provide you with information about the alignment of your teachers· credentials with the new Illinois criteria for being ·highly qualified· for each assignment. Unfortunately, the impact of the budget cuts on the Certification and Professional Development has been so severe that we are unable to provide this service.
However, the format for the Illinois criteria · a list of the options available to be considered ·highly qualified· for each type of assignment · was designed to serve as a checklist for teachers and administrators to determine whether an individual meets the ·highly qualified· criteria for a given position. This should enable to each district to conduct its own analysis of how its teachers· credentials are aligned with the Illinois criteria.
Subsequent Certificates and Endorsements
Emergency rules adopted by the State Board in June allow the agency to continue to use transcript review as the basis for issuing subsequent certificates to individuals who already hold a valid Illinois certificate. This action was intended to eliminate confusion about this matter and give us time to develop requirements for subsequent certification and endorsements that are appropriate for a standards-based certification system. We hope to present those recommendations to the State Board by mid-year. Meanwhile, subsequent certificates may be issued through transcript review.
Citizenship Requirements for Certification
HB 3587 eliminates the requirement that the State Board cancel the certificates of non-citizens if they do not become a citizen within six years. Instead, this legislation requires that the certification candidate indicate on the application that he or she will seek citizenship within ten years, or as soon as possible. There is no requirement for subsequent follow-up.
The Governor has not yet signed this legislation, but we are ready to implement it as soon as he does so. This will mean that the registrations of those individuals who have applied this spring will be processed and that we will not cancel any certificates of educators whose citizenship window has expired. This is consistent with the intent of the General Assembly, which was to assure that individuals did not lose their right to teach because of factors beyond their control, such as the length of time typically taken by the federal agency that processes citizenship applications.
We will let you know when this legislation is signed. Meanwhile, we hope you will take these facts into consideration as you make staffing decisions for the coming school year.
Guidance Counselors
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The task force that developed the Standards for Guidance Counselors also developed recommendations that would address the new option for ·other requirements.· We plan to create a small advisory group to build on that earlier work and make recommendations to the State Board as quickly as possible. We·ll keep you posted on our progress.
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
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Snow totals locally included Kumbrabow State Forest, 13 inches; Helvetia, 12 inches; Elkins, 8 inches; Beverly, 7 inches; French Creek, 5 inches; Buckhannon, 4 inches; Snowshoe, 8 inches; Marlinton, 4 inches; Belington, 6 inches; and Philippi 3 inches. Totals are from the weatherundergound.com website.
Tom Mazza, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Charleston, said the "surprise snow storm" came from a number of combined elements.
"We had a weak low pressure system that came through with an ill-defined center," Mazza said. "Within that system was another low pressure system containing an upslope flow of air. The air movement, paired with the mountains, converged, and that, combined with the cold air masses, caused enhanced accumulations of light, fluffy snow."
The National Weather Service issued a winter storm advisory for the area from noon today to 7 a.m. Saturday.
Mazza said Friday temperatures should climb to the high 20s.
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|Title: Financial Responsibility Requirements Under CERCLA Section 108(b) for Classes of Facilities in the Hard Rock Mining Industry
|Abstract: Section 108(b) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980, as amended, establishes certain authorities concerning financial responsibility requirements. The Agency has identified classes of facilities within the hard rock mining industry as those for which financial responsibility requirements will be first developed. EPA intends to include requirements for financial responsibility, as well as notification and implementation.
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Humans always have taken to heart God's behest to "have dominion" over all the animals. They practiced artificial selection in their breeding programs in order to produce what they thought would be better animals.
They kept rabbits that had long ears and cows that happened to have no horns. Sure enough, sometimes those choices showed up in the animals' offspring, which made the animal breeders happy. So they continued by keeping the animals that possessed the desired traits and not keeping the others. Eventually the whole herd had the desired trait.
For example, cattle breeders who preferred cattle with no horns kept those when they appeared and sold the ones with horns. They ended up with hornless — called polled — cattle.
Also about that same time (the 1940s and early 1950s) cattlemen decided they preferred short, stocky animals, so they kept that type when it appeared. They believed what they called "compressed" cattle were the most desirable they could raise. It worked. The grand champion bulls at a national show one year were so short the tops of their backs were waist-high to the showmen.
The downside to these successes soon became apparent, and the cattlemen learned the hard way about unintended consequences inherent in "single trait selection." Yes, some developed herds of cattle with no horns, and others had herds of short, stockily-built cattle.
But the polled cattle had hardly any rear end, the part of the animal that produces the most desirable meat. The compressed cattle had a worse fate. Suddenly, cows began giving birth to dwarf calves. They were tiny and malformed. Some could barely walk.
Breeders had taken their single trait selection too far, and they also learned single trait selection wasn't such a great idea after all. The total animal must be kept in mind throughout the selection process.
I've been thinking about the similarities between animal husbandry and other human selection practices. Let's think about our politician selection for example, here in America. I don't know if it would apply in other parts of the world.
About the same time the cattlemen were making their unwise breeding selections, they and all other Americans were selecting political leaders using interesting trait preferences. Actually, those parameters continue today.
The selection criteria for politicians includes: charisma, good looks, public speaking finesse. Other criteria — like intelligence, honesty, optimism and common sense — don't seem to be at the top of selection preferences.
Cattlemen remember their mistakes, and recall the Longhorn cattle. They were left, or escaped, from the Spaniards and for hundreds of years they developed according to Mother Nature — natural selection. They have long horns for protection from predators, long legs the easier to run. Their baby calves are born small, needing no help in the birthing process.
They are not exactly pretty according to cattle breeders' nomenclature, but they are survivors. Now, many cattlemen have rediscovered these admirable animals.
So….do we want political leaders who are pretty and charismatic, or do we want statesmen/stateswomen who can help us survive?
I'll leave the answers up to you.


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- Identification of PIP aquaporin genes from wheat
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- Yousif, Sh. A.; Bhave, M.
- Abstract
- There is strong evidence that water channel proteins 'aquaporins (AQPs)' are central components in plant-water relations as well as a number of other physiological parameters. We had previously reported the isolation of 24 plasma membrane intrinsic protein (PIP) type AQPs. However, the gene numbers in rice and the polyploid nature of bread wheat indicated a high probability of further genes in the latter. The present work focused on identification of further AQP isoforms in bread wheat. With the use of altered primer design, we identified five genes homologous, designated PIP 1 ;5b, PIP2;9b, TaPIP2;2, TaPIP2;2a, TaPIP2;2b. Sequence alignments indicate PIP 1;5b, PIP2;9b are likely to be homeologues of two previously reported genes while the other three are new genes and could be homeologs of each other. The results indicate further AQP diversity in wheat and the sequence data will enable physical mapping of these genes to identify their genomes as well as genetic to determine their association with any quantitative trait loci (QTLs) associated with plant-water relation such as salinity or drought tolerance.
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- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. Environment and Biotechnology Centre
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- World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, no. 59 (Nov 2011), pp. 2192-2196
- Publication year
- 2011
- FOR Code(s)
- 060702 Plant Cell and Molecular Biology; 060705 Plant Physiology
- Keyword(s)
- Aquaporins; Homeologues; PIP; Plasma membrane intrinsic proteins; Wheat
- Publisher
- World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
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- Copyright
- Copyright © 2011.
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The American Association of Community Colleges Names New CEO
Walter G. Bumphus, chair of the Department of Educational Administration at the University of Texas at Austin's College of Education, and professor in the university's Community College Leadership Program, where he also earned his doctorate, has been named the next president and CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). AACC is a national organization of more than 1,200 accredited two-year, associate degree-granting colleges. In addition to serving in leadership roles in Texas, Bumphus has served as president, CEO, chancellor, or dean at community colleges in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Maryland. He began his career as director of minority affairs at Murray State University (KY). Bumphus succeeds George Boggs, who will retire Dec. 31, 2010.
Virginia's SIA Participants Recap Lessons Learned
Roanoke City Public Schools (RCPS) adult education program recently revealed lessons it learned from participating in OVAE's Standards-in-Action (SIA) project. Prince William County and RCPS adult education programs worked with the SIA team to integrate English language learning (ELL) content standards into adult education curriculum following SIA procedures. For example, participants indicated that standards should be integrated and that, to help students, teachers need to understand all levels of content standards, and not just the standards for the levels they are teaching. RCPS also learned the value of a "critical friends" learning community of teachers to exchange ideas on how to improve instructional quality. Virginia was one of five states chosen to participate in SIA. The project was supported with state leadership funds available under the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA).
CLASP Helps States Find and Use Federal Support for Career Pathways
The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) released a new tool kit, Funding Career Pathways and Career Pathway Bridges: A Federal Policy Toolkit for States, to help states find and "braid" federal resources to develop career pathways and bridges for adults and out-of-school youths. It also helps states pinpoint state policies that create barriers to using federal resources for career pathways and bridge programs.
National Council for Agricultural Education and National Association of Agricultural Educators Recognized
The National Council for Agricultural Education and the National Association of Agricultural Educators have been named to the 2010 Associations Advance America Honor Roll, a national awards competition sponsored by the American Society of Association Executives and the Center for Association Leadership, Washington, D.C. The groups received the award for their National Teach Ag Campaign, a multi-faceted effort to raise awareness of the need for agricultural educators in the United States. The Teach Ag Campaign includes National Teach Ag Day, which took place on Feb. 25 this year, an informational video, a grant program, a collegiate contest, involvement in a variety of youth career fairs, and development of materials for teachers and other agricultural education advocates to use when introducing students to agriculture as a career opportunity. The Teach Ag Campaign also collects contact information for persons interested in becoming agricultural educators and supports them through regular contact and a variety of social media networks.
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The National Research Center for Career and Technical Education (NRCCTE) has released a new consolidated report of findings about to what secondary school CTE teachers need to learn to prepare their students for college and careers. The five studies and areas discussed in the report, Professional Development for Secondary Career and Technical Education: Implications for Change, include two studies on curriculum integration of academic knowledge into CTE instruction (Math-in-CTE; and Authentic Literacy in CTE Projects); the use of technical skills assessment data to improve instruction (Professional Development in Use of Assessment Data); an effort to improve enrollment and retention of students in non-traditional CTE programs (Technical Assistance Academy); and the Alternative Licensure CTE Induction Model. The NRCCTE is supported by a grant from OVAE.


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The event brought together women business leaders from around the country to share stories of how they took their businesses to new levels, and learn how to take the most important next steps. "It was an honor to be recognized by Barbara, who has done business with and gone up against Donald Trump in her real estate career," notes Garnand. "Her creative approach of starting with just $1,000 and building and selling her business for $66 million is inspiring to women in real estate and anyone with a streak of entrepreneurialism."
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Oktoberfest is getting a better idea of just how much the city might charge for next year's festival.
The Board of Public Works took at look Monday at how much work the city put in during last year's event.
They've already proposed charging Oktoberfest $11,000 in 2013 to cover things like clean-up and parade route barricades. That is in addition to the $14,000 the La Crosse Police Department is charging the fest.
Oktoberfest wants to make sure if they are charged any extra fees that they are being treated the same way as other events being held in the city. "We're looking for some consistency, I think it's only fair that whoever gets charged gets charged the same way and that that's how they find out numbers versus picking something out of thin air," said Oktoberfest Executive Director Tina Severson.
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Cosmetic surgery, or plastic surgery, might seem like the easiest way to shave years off your appearance or improve your physique. If you're not satisfied with your appearance, cosmetic surgery might help you look and feel better.
Cosmetic surgery, however, has risks and limitations. If you're considering cosmetic surgery, here's what you need to know.
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- Your expectations. Anticipate improvement, not perfection. If you expect cosmetic surgery to turn you into a movie star, you're bound to be disappointed. Don't count on surgery to save a rocky relationship, gain a promotion or improve your social life.
- Expense. Cosmetic surgery isn't covered by most health insurance plans. The cost varies depending on the procedure, ranging from hundreds to thousands of dollars. Also, consider the cost of any follow-up care or additional corrective procedures.
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Once again the Republican Party has proven that they are not the party of economic growth. Studies of the recent legislation passed by GOP Speaker Boehner's House of Representatives were analyzed by both liberal and conservative groups and the projections are alarming:
"The new GOP budget proposes cutting non-security discretionary spending by $81 billion relative to the president's $478 billion request for 2011. Non-security discretionary cuts of this magnitude would likely result in job losses of just over 800,000." – Rebecca Theiss, Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit Washington D.C. think tank, created in 1986 to broaden the discussion about economic policy to include the interests of low- and middle-income workers.
"The spending cut package that passed the House of Representatives would have a deeper effect" on economic growth than the spending cuts proposed by President Obama. "Under the House passed spending bill, the drag on GDP growth from federal fiscal policy would increase by 1.5% to 2%" in the second and third quarters of 2011 as compared with current law. -- Goldman Sachs proprietary report.
"A Republican plan to sharply cut federal spending this year would destroy 700,000 jobs through 2012", according to a report, by Moody's Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi, one of the advisors to John McCain in his failed presidential bid.
Meanwhile, the same Republicans that pledged that this last election was all about "Jobs, jobs, jobs" have failed to introduce a single bill that will create jobs.
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Keep in mind that Character Bashing is now prohibited. Making fun of certain characters/character pairings leads to a pointless thread filled with insults and general rule breaking.
Also, remember that Versus threads are allowed only in the Versus section.
Thank you, NarutoBase Staff
Hey hey hey!
I am Ringo Ameyuri :D.
Check out my purplish red haircolor.
Am I an Uzumaki?
I am Uzumaki Nagato.
Maybe you are an Uzumaki, Ameyuri,
we have the same hair color .
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No. O_o
Originally Posted by vint0man
Ok this was laid out weirdly.
The post where its all in a spoiler or the one without?
Or just the conversation between Ameyuri and Nagato?
Instead of writing it like:
''Hey, did you people notice the hair color of Ringo Ameyuri?
It looks like the specific hair color, used in this series, for Uzumaki.
Do you think she is one?''.
I thought nope, lets do it differently, so it turned into this :D.
Ridiculing the ''red hair, uzumaki alarm'' thoughts a bit ,
yet still leaving room to discuss if she is one.
Originally Posted by -Sasuke Uchiha-
I'm like 60% sure you're making fun of people who think that any character with red hair is an Uzumaki, but not entirely
maybe but she's dead , we need alive uzumakis we need more
haha nice
Lol **** move.
Yes, I'm also tired of people saying everybody with red hair color is a Uzumaki -.-
seems legit why not haha,
LOL......for the uzumakies fanboys
I thought the princess from The Lost Tower movie looked very Uzumaki like.
Last edited by khimra; 11-15-2012 at 03:56 PM.
Uzumaki guarantees red hair, except in Naruto's case. Red hair DOESN'T guarantee an Uzumaki bloodline.
Why does nobody seem to understand this!?!?!?!?!?
red hair not = uzumaki
true power = uzumaki... If only the uchiha where as strong as the uzumaki they would have been wiped out earlier....
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Original Swarm GM Won't Return in 2012
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SAINT PAUL, Minn. – The National Lacrosse
League's (NLL) Minnesota Swarm today announced general
manager Marty O'Neill will not return to the team after his current
three-year contract concludes in September. O'Neill will be
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"Marty has been an integral part of the Swarm organization since its inception seven years ago making this is a difficult decision for both sides," Swarm owner and governor John Arlotta said. "The organization is indebted to Marty for what he has accomplished from the start up of the team in 2005 through leading the team to five playoff appearances and two home playoff games during his tenure."
O'Neill was named the first-ever general manager of the Swarm on September 14, 2004 after serving in the same role for the Philadelphia Wings from 2001-2004. During his time with the Swarm, O'Neill was named NLL General Manager of the Year in 2007 and 2008. Prior to joining the Wings front office, he played eight seasons in the NLL as a goaltender and was recognized as one off the top goalies in box and indoor lacrosse. O'Neill spent five years with the Boston Blazers (1993-1997), one season with the Syracuse Smash (1998) and two years with the Buffalo Bandits (1999-2000). He was named Boston Blazer team MVP for both the 1994 and 1995 seasons.
"I'd like to thank John Arlotta and Bob Naegele for providing the chance to manage the Swarm and especially Matt Majka for hiring me back in 2004," O'Neill said. "I've thoroughly enjoyed my seven years in Minnesota working with many wonderful people in the organization. I'm going to stay a little closer to home and spend more time with my family and work on some outside projects. I wish the Swarm the best of luck in the future."
Arlotta also added, "In addition to many other strengths, Marty was an incredible judge of talent. What I will remember most about his skill in this area was what he accomplished prior to the 2010 season when his trades brought the Swarm two young stars in Ryan Benesch and Callum Crawford. He saw the potential of these two players when they had not yet played to their full capabilities.
"My son Andy and I would like to thank Marty not only for his service to the Swarm, but also for sharing his wealth of knowledge about lacrosse and the National Lacrosse League with both of us. We will miss his many contributions and sincerely wish him well on his future endeavors."
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Home List of Titles Anaerobic central metabolic pathways active during polyhydroxyalkanoate production in uncultured cluster 1 Defluviicoccus enriched in activated sludge communities: research letter
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/232642
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- Anaerobic central metabolic pathways active during polyhydroxyalkanoate production in uncultured cluster 1 Defluviicoccus enriched in activated sludge communities: research letter
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- Burow, Luke C.; Mabbett, Amanda N.; Borras, Luis; Blackall, Linda L.
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- A glycogen nonpolyphosphate-accumulating organism (GAO) enrichment culture dominated by the Alphaproteobacteria cluster 1 Defluviicoccus was investigated to determine the metabolic pathways involved in the anaerobic formation of polyhydroxyalkanoates, carbon storage polymers important for the proliferation of microorganisms in enhanced biological phosphorus removal processes. FISH-microautoradiography and post-FISH fluorescent chemical staining confirmed acetate assimilation as polyhydroxyalkanoates in cluster 1 Defluviicoccus under anaerobic conditions. Chemical inhibition of glycolysis using iodoacetate, and of isocitrate lyase by 3-nitropropionate and itaconate, indicated that carbon is likely to be channelled through both glycolysis and the glyoxylate cycle in cluster 1 Defluviicoccus. The effect of metabolic inhibitors of aconitase (monofluoroacetate) and succinate dehydrogenase (malonate) suggested that aconitase, but not succinate dehydrogenase, was active, providing further support for the role of the glyoxylate cycle in these GAOs. Metabolic inhibition of fumarate reductase using oxantel decreased polyhydroxyalkanoate production. This indicated reduction of fumarate to succinate and the operation of the reductive branch of the tricarboxylic acid cycle, which is possibly important in the production of the polyhydroxyvalerate component of polyhydroxyalkanoates observed in cluster 1 Defluviicoccus enrichment cultures. These findings were integrated with previous metabolic models for GAOs and enabled an anaerobic central metabolic pathway model for polyhydroxyalkanoate formation in cluster 1 Defluviicoccus to be proposed.
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- FEMS Microbiology Letters, Vol. 298, no. 1 (Sep 2009), pp. 79-84
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- 2009
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- 06 Biological Sciences; 07 Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences; 11 Medical and Health Sciences
- Keyword(s)
- EBPR; Enhanced biological phosphorus removal; GAO; Glycogen nonpolyphosphate-accumulating organisms; Microautoradiography; Wastewater
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JavaServer Faces (JSF) has been dubbed the next big thing in Java web programming. With JSF, you use web components on your web pages and capture events caused by user actions. In the near future, Java tools will support this technology. Developing web applications will be similar to the way we write Swing applications today: dragging and dropping controls and writing event listeners. This article is an introduction to JSF. It highlights the most important aspect of JSF: JSF applications are event-driven. Also, it offers a sample JSF application that illustrates the event-driven-ness of JSF. To understand this article, you need to be familiar with servlets, JSP, JavaBeans, and custom tag libraries.
First of all, a JSF application is a servlet/JSP application. It has a deployment descriptor, JSP pages, custom tag libraries, static resources, et cetera. What makes it different is that a JSF application is event-driven. You decide how your application behaves by writing an event listener class. Here are the steps you need to take to build a JSF application:
ActionEvent and
ActionEvent is fired when the user submits a form or clicks a
button, and
ValueChangedEvent is triggered when a value in a JSF
component changes.
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Now, let's take a look at how JSF works in detail.
JSP pages are the user interface of a JSF application. Each page contains JSF components that represent web controls, such as forms, input boxes, and buttons. Components can be nested inside of another component; an input box can reside inside a form. Each JSP page is represented by its component tree. JavaBeans store the data from user requests.
Here is the interesting part: every time the user does something, such as
clicking a button or submitting a form, an event occurs. Event notification is
then sent via HTTP to the server. On the server is a web container that employs
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In the background, the processing performed by the Faces servlet is
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Event object and passes it to any registered listener. You can
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object associated with the request.
An event fired by a web control on the client browser is encapsulated in an
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<f:action_listener type="jsfApp.MyActionListener" />
An action listener must implement the
javax.faces.event.ActionListener interface and a value-changed
listener must implement
Let's build a simple JSF application that illustrates how event-driven
JSF is.
Source Code
Download the source code for the example application.
We'll build a simple JSF application that can add two numbers. To run this application, you need Tomcat 5 and JSF v1.0 EA4 (included in the Java Web Services Developer Pack (JWSDP) 1.2. The application consists of:
NumberBean, a JavaBean for storing user data
MyActionListener, an action listener
For your JSF application to work, it needs a set of .jar files containing the JSF reference implementation and other libraries. Once you install the JWSDP 1.2, you can find these files under its jsf/lib directory. Copy these .jar files to the WEB-INF/lib directory. Here is the list of all .jar and .tld files.
javax.faces package.
In addition, a JSF application will need the following libraries, which are part of the Apache Jakarta project. These libraries are included in the application accompanying this article.
The following subsections discuss each part of the sample JSF application. The final subsection, "Compiling and Running the Application," explains how the JSF application works.
Start by creating a directory structure for your JSF application. In
Tomcat, this goes under webapps. Figure 1 depicts the directory
structure for an application called
Figure 1. The directory structure of the JSF application
Just like any other servlet/JSP application, this application needs a deployment descriptor, as shown in Listing 1.
Listing 1. The deployment descriptor (the web.xml file)
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC
"-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"

<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<load-on-startup> 1 </load-on-startup>

<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
There are two sections in the deployment descriptor. The
<servlet> element registers the Faces servlet, and the
<servlet-mapping> element states that any request containing
the pattern
/faces/ in the URL must be passed to the Faces
A JSP page called adder.jsp provides the user interface, as seen in Listing 2.
Listing 2. The adder.jsp page
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" prefix="h" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" prefix="f" %>
<title>Add 2 numbers</title>
<jsp:useBean id="NumberBean" class="jsfApp.NumberBean" scope="session" />
<f:use_faces>

<h:form id="addForm" formName="addForm" >

First Number:

<h:input_number id="firstNumber" valueRef="NumberBean.firstNumber" />

Second Number:
<h:input_number id="secondNumber" valueRef="NumberBean.secondNumber" />

<h:output_number id="output" valueRef="NumberBean.result"/>

<h:command_button id="submitButton" label="Add" commandName="submit" >
<f:action_listener type="jsfApp.MyActionListener" />
We first define two
taglib directives to use the two JSF tag libraries,
html and
core. The tag library descriptors for these
two libraries can be found in the jsf-ri.jar file, so you don't
have to worry about them. Their prefixes are
h and
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" prefix="h" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" prefix="f" %>
<jsp:useBean> action element defines the
NumberBean JavaBean with a session scope.
<jsp:useBean id="NumberBean" class="jsfApp.NumberBean" scope="session" />
Next come the JSF controls. Note that JSF controls must be enclosed in the
<f:use_faces> opening and closing elements:
Inside them, you have a form.
<h:form id="addForm" formName="addForm">
Nested inside of the form are two
input_numbers, an
output_number, and a
First Number:
<h:input_number id="firstNumber" valueRef="NumberBean.firstNumber" />

Second Number:
<h:input_number id="secondNumber" valueRef="NumberBean.secondNumber" />

<h:output_number id="output" valueRef="NumberBean.result" />

<h:command_button id="submitButton" label="Add" commandName="submit">
<f:action_listener type="jsfApp.MyActionListener" />
Notice the action listener for the command button? Figure 2 depicts the component tree for this JSP page, with the root omitted.
Figure 2. The component tree of the adder.jsp page
The main component is the form, which has four child components.
For this application, you need a JavaBean to store the two numbers to add
and the result of the addition. Listing 3 presents this JavaBean,
Listing 3. The
NumberBean JavaBean
package jsfApp;
public class NumberBean {
int firstNumber = 0;
int secondNumber = 0;
public NumberBean () {
System.out.println("Creating model object");
public void setFirstNumber(int number) {
firstNumber = number;
System.out.println("Set firstNumber " + number);
public int getFirstNumber() {
System.out.println("get firstNumber " + firstNumber);
return firstNumber;
public void setSecondNumber(int number) {
secondNumber = number;
System.out.println("Set secondNumber " + number);
public int getSecondNumber() {
System.out.println("get secondNumber " + secondNumber);
return secondNumber;
public int getResult() {
System.out.println("get result " + (firstNumber + secondNumber));
return firstNumber + secondNumber;
The action listener for the command button is the most interesting part of this JSF application. It demonstrates how an event causes a listener to execute. The listener simply prints messages to the console. However, it shows important information, such as the hierarchy of the component tree of the JSP page from which the event was fired and the component that triggered the event. Listing 4 shows the action listener.
Listing 4. The action listener for the command button
package jsfApp;
import java.util.Iterator;
import javax.faces.component.UIComponent;
import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;
import javax.faces.event.ActionEvent;
import javax.faces.event.ActionListener;
import javax.faces.event.PhaseId;
import javax.faces.tree.Tree;
public class MyActionListener implements ActionListener {
public PhaseId getPhaseId() {
System.out.println("getPhaseId called");
return PhaseId.APPLY_REQUEST_VALUES;
public void processAction(ActionEvent event) {
System.out.println("processAction called");
// the component that triggered the action event
UIComponent component = event.getComponent();
System.out.println("The id of the component that fired the action event: "
+ component.getComponentId());
// the action command
String actionCommand = event.getActionCommand();
System.out.println("Action command: " + actionCommand);
FacesContext facesContext = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
Tree tree = facesContext.getTree();
UIComponent root = tree.getRoot();
System.out.println("----------- Component Tree -------------");
navigateComponentTree(root, 0);
private void navigateComponentTree(UIComponent component, int level) {
Iterator children = component.getChildren();
// indent
for (int i=0; i<level; i++)
System.out.print(" ");
// print component id
// navigate children
while (children.hasNext()) {
UIComponent child = (UIComponent) children.next();
navigateComponentTree(child, level + 1);
To compile the application, change to the myJSFApp/WEB-INF/classes directory. If you are using Windows, type the following command:
$ javac -classpath ../lib/jsf-api.jar;../lib/jsf-ri.jar; \
../../../../common/lib/servlet.jar jsfApp/*.java
Note that you need to use library files in the lib directory and the servlet.jar file. In Tomcat, the servlet.jar file can be found in the common/lib subdirectory of Tomcat's home directory.
If you are using Linux or Unix, change the semicolons that separate library files to colons:
$ javac -classpath ../lib/jsf-api.jar:../lib/jsf-ri.jar: \
../../../../common/lib/servlet.jar jsfApp/*.java
Then run Tomcat. You can then direct your browser to the following URL:
Note that you use the
/faces/ pattern before the JSP page
name. You will see something similar to Figure 3 in your browser.
Figure 3. Running the application
In the console, you'll see the following message:
Model Object Created
get firstNumber 0
get secondNumber 0
get result 0
getPhaseId called
Now type in two numbers into the input boxes and click the Add button. The browser now displays the result of the addition, as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4. The result of addition
More importantly, check the message that gets displayed in the console:
get firstNumber 0
get secondNumber 0
processAction called
The id of the component that fired the action event: submitButton
Action command: submit
----------- Component Tree -------------
Set firstNumber 10
Set secondNumber 20
get firstNumber 10
get secondNumber 20
get result 30
In this article, you have learned the most important characteristic of JSF applications that makes them different from other servlet/JSP applications: event-driven-ness. You have also built a simple JSF application that consists of one JSP page. More importantly, you have written the action listener that responds to an action event.
Real-life JSF applications are more complex, often with multiple JSP pages. In this case, you need to be able to navigate from one JSP page to another. However, this is a topic for another article.
Budi Kurniawan is a senior J2EE architect and author.
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The innovative venture taps the methane emanating from an old county landfill to power artist kilns and forges for blacksmithing, glass blowing and ceramics, along with greenhouses for local growers.
But with financial support from the county at a fraction of what it once was, the Green Energy Park is at a crossroads, said Green Energy Park Director Timm Muth.
Historically, the county funded the parkŌĆÖs operations to the tune of $250,000 a year. But, the county decided to decrease the funding, by 20 percent each year. Funding this year is at $135,000.
ThatŌĆÖs put pressure on Muth to find a way to make the Green Energy Park financially self-supporting. MuthŌĆÖs solution: spend money up front to finish out the parkŌĆÖs master plan, in turn creating more studio space, which in turn can be rented out to generate revenue.
ŌĆ£IŌĆÖm caught in a quandary,ŌĆØ said Muth. ŌĆ£On one side, IŌĆÖve got commissioners telling me this place isnŌĆÖt profitable and itŌĆÖs a drain on the county coffers. On the other side, we canŌĆÖt become anywhere near self-supportive because the project isnŌĆÖt completed.ŌĆØ
Muth said he needs a cash infusion from the county for an expansion, primarily for ceramics studios, to generate more rent from artists and reduce reliance on county funding.
The additional studio space was part of the parkŌĆÖs original master plan but was left incomplete. The $70,000 worth of kilns and crates to outfit the pottery shop was already purchased with a federal grant years ago and is waiting in storage.
Without the build-out, the park will be stuck in a sort of limbo, or may even close if the county decides not to fund it further, said Muth.
The project will cost about $900,000. Muth asked the county for $450,000, with hopes of raising the remaining $450,000 or so in grants and donations. In all, 14 new studio spaces would be added ŌĆö and rented out between $350 and $500 per month ŌĆö as well as a courtyard, a lounge and a pottery shop. The park only has communal work stations now. There is no permanent, individual studio space for artists.
Muth also would like to have funding to hire a manager who could oversee the artistic and marketing side of the operation. MuthŌĆÖs background is in engineering and project construction.
Muth pitched his long-range plan to county commissioners in September but was received with skepticism from some. Commissioner Doug Cody said he doesnŌĆÖt want to be funding a program that provides cheap studio space indefinitely for an artist. HeŌĆÖd rather like to see the park as a stepping stone before artists get their own studio space in a nearby arts district.
ŌĆ£I think it definitely needs some incentive to move on ŌĆö if not, they would have all this equipment available with nothing invested,ŌĆØ he said. ŌĆ£Basically, weŌĆÖre subsidizing people.ŌĆØ
However, Muth pointed out that the park was never meant to be a profitable venture, rather an educational and recreational asset to the county, much like a swimming pool or gymnasium. That, in turn, has benefits that reach beyond the bottom line of the parkŌĆÖs budget, perhaps attracting homebuyers or vacationers.
ŌĆ£Everyone wants to build an indoor swimming pool and a recreation center, are the fees that people pay ever going to pay for that pool?ŌĆØ Muth said. ŌĆ£No, but thatŌĆÖs not the point.ŌĆØ
He believes, if brought to its full potential, the park could be a feather in the cap of the county. It already is in many ways.
Visitors from across the globe stop in to see the park, one of the only endeavors in existence that takes gas from a landfill and converts it into art. The Green Energy Park goes hand in glove with nearby Dillsboro, an artsy village known for its studio-lined streets. Two new artist galleries are opening in Dillsboro this month.
County Manager Chuck Wooten acknowledged that the park does have a reputation for the unique work that is done there in the fields of art and green energy. But he expressed concern at investing heavily in expanding studio space that might not even be used. He recommended some sort of market study be conducted to see if there is public interest in renting the space.
ŌĆ£The worst that would happen is to build a facility, and itŌĆÖs a nice facility, but thereŌĆÖs no interest in it,ŌĆØ Wooten said.
Muth said he receives numerous inquiries about studio space from artists, but that may not be enough to sway commissioners.
If not for the Green Energy Park, the methane gas seeping off the landfill would have to be captured and flared off since it is an environmental hazard.


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You might not be aware of this, but there are a lot of dickheads on the Internet.
Since this phenomenon seems to get worse with the size of the crowd, it is theorized that we will reach a critical mass; an Asshole Apocalypse, if you will. That's when casual Internet users--and the corporations who want their business--will step in.
There are ways to solve this crisis, but I'm telling you now, you won't like some of them.
But first, the problem...
Right away let me shut down everyone who's snorting derisively into their can of Mountain Dew and saying, "Trolls will be trolls!" You should know that there are billions of dollars at play here. The trolls are driving away business, and that simply won't be allowed to continue. I'm not saying I'm rooting for it--I'm saying that's the economic reality.
There are two huge, growing industries at stake: social networking and online gaming.
Social networking is at the heart of "Web 2.0," the future of the online world, the Facebook/MySpace/Twitter web where users create all the content and their parent companies make billions just for hosting it. It's a pretty sweet deal.
Or it would be, if they could only convince everybody to use it. But they're finding that lots of users will communicate online with people they know (virtually all use email and 37% use private text messaging), but only 8% use message boards or blogs or anything else that exposes them to the Internet's assheads.
Hell, look at this site. We just had an article that was read by 305,396 unique users in a few days ... but fewer than 100 of them joined the conversation down in the comments. That's .002%, folks. It's not that the Cracked comments are mostly retarded or nasty; it's that for a normal person, the memory of getting called a fucktard in public even one time is striking enough to make them avoid the comments forever, even if it was accompanied by 10 non-fucktard comments. It's human nature to remember the fucktard.
It's the same in gaming. There are reports that most people who give up online gaming aren't frustrated by the games themselves or technical issues. It's the sheer number of fuckwads they have to play with. Even on the most popular online multiplayer game, World of Warcraft, 70% of new players stay in modes where they don't have to interact with anybody else.
So there is a clear barrier to entry for the vast majority who haven't joined the Web 2.0 party, and that barrier is a moat full of dipshits. How can we bridge it? I see five ways:
5Develop Anti-Troll Software
Imagine a world where you get in a heated argument in a hallway, but before even one sentence can get fully out of your mouth, a robot voice pipes up and tells you to cool it. Well, what sounds like really stupid science-fiction in real life is entirely possible online. Of all the futuristic movies to turn out to be cruelly accurate, who would have thought it'd be Demolition Man?
I'm talking about programs like:
This highly experimental piece of software is in beta and will some day be able to recognize comment stupidity the moment it's posted. They have a demo on their site you can play with.
You plug this code into your comment section and it's like a strap of tape over the mouth of every teenager who can't type a sentence without including the word "fail."
This is a program invented by Randall Monroe, the XKCD webcomic guy that requires every post to be unique. If someone types "First!", no other post can ever consist of just that.
This sounds pointless to anybody who's never been in a chat room or message board before, but the rest of us know better. Mindless repetition of jokes (or "memes") is one of the primary tools of bored trolls who want to fill a thread with noise to drown out the signal. For once, many will find themselves using keys other than Ctrl-V.
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Linguists speculate that no single body of written communication in the history of human language has ever been as collectively retarded and horrible as the comments under YouTube videos. After the aforementioned Randall Monroe suggested a feature to force users to hear their comment read aloud before they can post it, YouTube implemented that very thing (though only on an optional basis). Many a YouTuber has sat in dismayed silence after realizing that "lol wut", when spoken aloud, did not sound as clever a they had first believed.
Real-Time Voice Censor:
Now we're in the realm of the real Demolition Man-type solutions. Want to know how bad Microsoft wants to control the trolls on Xbox Live? They've patented a real-time voice censoring program. Yeah. You curse into your headset and it bleeps it in real time. How does it know the difference between "The cock crows at midnight" and "My cock grows at midnight"? With technology. Don't question it.
Of course, widespread use of this stuff will just kick off the same "DRM vs. pirates" arms race we see any time they try to control human behavior with software. The humans always win.
Also, the technology has to get a whole lot smarter before we can even try. Playing with the StupidFilter demo I linked earlier taught me that it doesn't find any stupidity in the sentence, "lol, wut your mom farts lolcats."
There are better ways. For instance, you can...
4Start a Posse of Moderators, and Arm Them
Right now if you have a blog or forum or anything else with open comments, and you don't have a human moderator to watch it, you're going to wind up with a wasteland. As soon as more than one troll shows up, they will feed off each other until everyone else is gone. You have to control them. And don't start talking about free speech; the troll's goal is to shut down speech, to either fill the channel with noise until no one can talk to each other, or to get everyone talking about him instead of the subject at hand. He's a guy in a coffee shop screaming nonsense over a bullhorn.
And it's here where the marriage of creative software and human moderators can make all the difference. With things like...
This is a bit of code that will suck all of the vowels out of a targeted post, so that this:
"What an unfunny piece of shit. Somebody should be fired for letting this guy write for the site."
"Wht n nfnny pc f sht. Smbdy shld b frd fr lttng ths gy wrt fr th st."
The theory is that it makes people slow down and try to parse what was being said and thus robs the post of its impact. Also it makes the troll look retarded.
Geek megaportal SlashDot was among the first to use this, a way of allowing the community to moderate itself. Registered users can vote every post up or down, and each user winds up with a karma "score" that is just the sum total of all the "up" votes minus the "down" ones they've ever gotten.
We use this in the Cracked forums (where each member's karma score is visible to other members at all times). You can only vote once per day, so even a coordinated karma voting campaign couldn't change a score faster than the rest of the community could correct it.
Yes, it works. Everyone claims they don't care what their karma is, yet any time a person sees an unexplained drop, I get an email complaining about it. You just can't ignore a number right next to your name that announces what the community thinks of you.
But we're still thinking small, on a site-by-site basis. After all, assheads will simply migrate to places where security isn't as tight. If this is an Internet-wide problem, we need to think big. But how?


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