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Collaborators In the Campus War against Israel and the Jews: Joel Beinin By Steven Plaut October 16, 2009 Jewish Enablers of the War against Israel (pdf) By Steven Plaut 2011 Joel Beinin: Apologist for Terrorists By David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin May 19, 2006 Stanford's Islamist Threat By Alyssa Lappen December 21, 2004 The Return of Joel Beinin By Cinnamon Stillwell September 15, 2008Target Israel By Cinnamon Stillwell June 15, 2010 The Professor's Obsession By Cinnamon Stillwell June 2, 2009 Everybody's Always Picking on Joel Beinin By Winfield Myers November 19, 2008 Stanford Ideological War Leads to Suit By Carrie Sturrock August 4, 2006 Editorial Questions Beinin's Political Stance By Bob Borek October 17, 2005 The Lethal Consequences of the Trahison des Clercs By Melanie Phillips October 13, 2005 The Outing of the Noisy Professor Beinin By Steven Plaut October 9, 2005
Professor Joel Beinin teaches Middle East history at Stanford University and is a former President of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). Once a Zionist, Beinin now refers to jihadist suicide bombers as "martyrs." He directs his ideological hostilities against the state of Israel and its citizens, including those who were refugees from persecution in Arab countries. He denies that the exodus of Jews from Arab lands after 1948 was caused by the historic persecution of Jews in Arab countries and intensified by the creation of Israel. According to Beinin, this exodus of hundreds of thousands of Jews from nations they had inhabited for millennia was the result of "provocative actions by Israeli agents." Born in 1948 to Labor Zionist parents, Beinin experienced an ideological transformation at age 22 while living on Kibbutz Lahav. He joined the "New Left" at Hebrew University, then migrated to Trotskyite anti-Zionism and finally to Maoism. A Marxist ever since, he earned his BA, MA, and Ph.D. at Princeton, Harvard, and the University of Michigan, respectively. He has received Ford Foundation grants, and has taught in France, Britain, Israel and Egypt. The violence of the first Palestinian Intifada (1988-92) was, in Beinin's view, actually a "strike for peace." He has praised "the first martyr of the uprising," and has excused the "small number of violent incidents" against Israelis. In 1991 Beinin dismissed U.S. concerns over Iraq's invasion and attempted annexation of Kuwait as "patently ridiculous," insisting that the real American goal was not to stop Saddam Hussein's aggression, but rather to maintain weak, unstable "mini-states" in the region, thereby assuring cheap oil and generating demand for U.S. weapons. Just before the 2003 Iraq War, Beinin appeared on Al-Jazeera Television to condemn U.S. "imperial" policy in the Arab world, despite the fact that the United States never had a Middle East colony, and that in 1956 the U.S. famously supported Egypt's defense of the Sinai against America's own allies, the colonial powers Britain and France. Beinin told Al-Jazeera's Arab audience that President Bush was plotting to establish "a puppet regime" in Baghdad to benefit U.S. oil interests and to force "Israeli dictates" on the Palestinians. Once the war began, Professor Beinin accused Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and other U.S. policymakers of colluding with "Israel's Likud Party," and asserted that America and Israel had collaborated with Arab regimes to block "democracy and economic development in the Arab world." Beinin claimed that the U.S. was bent on displaying its "overwhelming military power … to make and unmake regimes and guarantee access to oil." American conservatives, in his opinion, wanted to provoke "Islamist forces" so that they would "forsake legal political action and engage in armed struggle." Beinin has coined the derisive term "terrorology" to mock the notion that the terrorism of the War on Terror is the creation of fanatical Islamicists themselves. A year after 9/11, Beinin congratulated fellow members of MESA for their "great wisdom" in refusing to recognize Islamic terrorism as a threat to international stability, and for thereby refusing to succumb to imperialistic prejudices against oppressed peoples. After 9/11, Beinin focused not on Osama bin Laden's fatwas calling for global jihad against the West, but on "Israel's disproportionate use of force" against Palestinians as a root cause of the Arab-Israeli conflict. In the face of the explicit programs of Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other Islamic groups calling for the "liberation of Palestine from the Jordan to the sea," Professor Beinin steadfastly denies that Palestinian terrorism "pose[s] an existential threat to Israel." Moreover, Beinin has criticized the Ford Foundation for not financing NGOs that support Hamas. In 2002 Professor Beinin initiated a petition that accused Israel of planning the "ethnic cleansing" of Arabs, which allegedly would commence with the war in Iraq. He predicted that Israeli premier Ariel Sharon would use the war as an opportunity "to push the Palestinians into Jordan." This is the opposite of what actually happened: Sharon proposed the withdrawal of Israelis from Gaza instead. Beinin and his wife Miriam support Jewish Voice for Peace, a suspected Palestinian front in the Bay area. The professor appears regularly on Pacifica Radio, blaming U.S. policies for the major problems facing the Middle East. Despite staggering diplomatic efforts and vast sums of American money given to the Palestinian Authority, Beinin sees only a "consistent [U.S.] denial of independence and self-determination" for the Palestinians. As MESA's President, Beinin influenced the education of middle- and high-school students through the Teachers' Curriculum Institute (TCI), which writes textbook entries and social studies curricula to meet standards in 20 states. Beinin filled TCI's Middle East Committee with such ideologues as Betsy Barlow (a U.S. coordinator for the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center), Glenn Perry (of Indiana State University) and Kamran Aghaie and Abraham Marcus (both of the University of Texas). One TCI high-school handout gives Hamas greater political significance than Israel's Labor and Likud parties. TCI textbooks include class "exercises" that pit students in roles of "advantaged" Jews against others posing as "disadvantaged" Palestinian Arabs. The Stanford Review, a conservative campus newspaper, describes Professor Beinin's courses as "expensive training for the Marxist press corps." When students in his class rejected his request to attend an anti-Iraq war protest in lieu of the class, Beinin trumped them by holding his lecture at the protest itself. Beinin conducts an online course sponsored by Oxford, Stanford and Yale Universities, called "Palestine, Zionism and the Arab-Israeli Conflict." The "Zionist lobby" in Washington, he informs his students, has the power to induce Washington to adopt an "uncritically pro-Israel foreign policy." For "serious" reading, he recommends Egypt's state-run Al-Ahram, a newspaper that routinely features anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, endorses Holocaust denial, likens Israeli leaders to Nazis, and praises suicide bombings. (Al-Ahram's editor Ibrahim Nafie was actually sued in France for publishing a piece claiming that Jewish rituals require the use of Christian children's blood.) Beinin is an Advisory Board member of the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. Portions of this profile first appeared in an article titled "Stanford's Islamist Threat," written by Alyssa Lappen and published by FrontPageMagazine.com on December 21, 2004.
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We're officially in the second stage of this year's session, where House bills move to the Senate for consideration and debate and Senate bills move over to the House.
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I took my annual trip to the dermatologist Thursday. The news was good. Nothing suspicious turned up and those reassuring words from Dr. Artis Truett at Owensboro Dermatology erased the anxiety that builds up early each year as my annual skin review nears.
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In his State of the Union speech to Congress last month, President Obama drew widespread attention for pledging to use his executive authority to advance his priorities.
He insisted he intends to act with or without Congress, and listed well over a dozen actions he plans to take by executive order.
"Wherever and whenever I can take steps without legislation to expand opportunity for more American families," he said, "that's what I'm going to do."
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Editor's Note: The Perry County News is publishing a series of interviews conducted by eighth-graders in Joyce Stath's English class at Tell City Junior-Senior High School. The interviews are of people one or two generations older than students. Today's column is by Bryon Reid, who profiles his grandfather, Dale Jones.
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I suspect not that many Perry Countians knew the name Roger Tomlinson before perhaps hearing news reports about his death Feb. 9.
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Because of our harsh winter, which has affected all of us throughout Indiana and the Midwest in general, our state is facing a real propane crisis. I have been getting a number of calls regarding this shortage and how it is affecting our community.
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The copenhagen meeting had not been an entirely vain attempt
With the closing of the Copenhagen Meeting, we have unfortunately achieved no more than three years of unbinding-agreement under which no legal constraints are applied. Is such an ending really the worst ever? Or is the new page of history not as blank as it is seen as?
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110 political leaders met to discus one issue – the environment
A meeting as large scale as this one has never taken place before; the fact is that the meeting took place for the sake of the environment. This opens a new window, it shows that political leaders are aware that human conduct is having an impact on the environment and it is down to political leaders to change the status quo. Even if nothing substantial was achieved by way of emissions targets, procedurally, Copenhagen has opened the door for more such meetings to take place with each country knowing that they all see the environment as a problem which they need to resolve.
Public awareness was heightened
Whilst the outcome of the talks in terms of legally binding emission agreements were not as successful as first imagined, the amount of publicity these talks have gained will have immeasurable benefit for the future.
If we look over the last two weeks and the controversy that has been involved it was inevitable that no fixed agreement would be reached. However, the controversies with China almost pulling out and Denmark accused of being a bias host, the media coverage was substantial. This has made the public more aware of how much the environment is a pressing issue that needs addressing right away. Rather than seeing the environment as a far removed issue, the Copenhagen conference has resounded to the public that world leaders are recognising that something needs to be done now before it is too late. This will undoubtedly influence the public's behaviour, not only in how they act, but in what they buy, who they vote for and the values they teach their children.
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GlobalFoundries Touts $10 Billion Fab 8 Module 2.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
More iPhone 3 Development Update
We're just finishing up the networked applications chapters. Our original plan was to just cover GameKit networking over Bluetooth, which is relatively straightforward since Apple provides high-level objects that handle all the gnarley aspects for you. We were originally not going to cover online play over regular network connections. Our original thinking was that because there's no high-level objects yet for sending and receiving over the network that are suitable to network play, that to do an online play chapter well would require a really long chapter. Long both in terms of number of pages, and in terms of how long it would take us to write, and we didn't feel like we could afford another long chapter in light of our schedule.
To be perfectly honest, I had hoped that GameKit would add support for online play and then the whole thing would become a moot point since the GameKit chapter would be all you needed. Apple may still add that functionality to GameKit at some point (there are certainly hints in GameKit), but they haven't yet, and frankly, there just isn't a good place to go and find out how to do online play. All the information is out there, but nobody's put all the steps together in a single, easy, comprehensive place, at least as far as I've been able to find.
So, after some back and forth discussions with Dave, we came to the conclusion that we needed to cover online play in addition to the straight GameKit chapter in our original Table of Contents. We decided to do it as a follow-on chapter to the GameKit chapter. We take the game that we created in the GameKit chapter and add online play to it. We show how to use Bonjour to let the user find other peers (pretty much the same way GameKit does over Bluetooth) and show how to connect to them and exchange data in a similar manner to GameKit so we don't have to substantially rewrite the application's logic. The use of Bonjour limits play to opponents on the same network subnet (basically, phones connected to the same router or WiFi base station), but the techniques are the same for play over the internet, and we're going to have a sidebar that shows how to connect to remote machines based on a DNS name or IP number and port. The other thing this offers over GameKit is that the code can be used on a Mac, so you can write code that lets an application on a Mac talk to one on an iPhone, which opens up a whole slew of possibilities.
As with the Core Data chapters, our focus has been on writing code generically to maximize reuse, and I think we've done a good job as far as the online play stuff is concerned. We've created a class that works very similarly to GameKit's GKSession class. You pass it NSData instances to send, and it takes care of sending and receiving the data, re-assembling the packets, and making sure its delegate receives the data in the same order it was sent in. You should be able to just drop this class (along with another supporting class) into your other projects and use them as-is, making it relatively easy to implement network play. To add online play to an existing GameKit app with this should also be relatively trivial since that's what we do in the chapter.
For those who have asked what fruit will be on the new book, it'll be a blood orange.
I don't know if the cover to the left is final, but it's what is on Amazon right now, so I figure it's okay to share. Until it's approved, it definitely could change, but this is the cover image you'll see if you pull it up on Amazon. Note that the description on Amazon definitely isn't final, either.
6 comments:
- Damian said...
Sounds fantastic. I cannot wait for this to hit the shelves! Keep up the good work!
- October 28, 2009 at 4:41 PM
- Philippe said...
The first book is probably the better entry point for iPhone development that is available right now, and with your chapter on network development in the next book, that one will probably be an instant classic too!
Good Job guys!
- October 28, 2009 at 9:04 PM
- kelly said...
This will definately prove to be Excellent Guide for iPhone Developers for their iphone projects from Concept to Completion.
- October 28, 2009 at 10:34 PM
- Erik said...
I for one am very glad that you and Dave decided not to shy away from showing how to implement networked play, despite Apple not providing high-level constructs yet. I realize that for you it is a balancing act - if, in the next version of the iPhone SDK, Apple provides some facilities for doing this, one might think that your chapter becomes instantly out of date or redundant. This isn't the case, though. Those readers who are interested in seeing how such functionality could be implemented will still learn a LOT from seeing how professional iPhone developers/authors would have implemented them, even if it's recommended that these readers use the Apple-provided constructs in a shipping application.
Furthermore, I think it's unfortunate that most Mac/iPhone-related technical books tend to relegate themselves to documenting Apple's APIs and high-level constructs. All of the books on Core Animation, Core Data, etc, are great to see on the bookshelf, but on the other hand these are also the subjects that Apple documents quite extensively themselves. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I really do appreciate it when authors go a bit beyond explaining how to use some framework or other, and show how someone might actually "roll their own" functionality for situations that aren't easily solved using the off-the-shelf APIs out of the box. So I thank you and applaud your decision.
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KJ's Secret Weapon for Sudden Death
2014 Shell Rotella Challenge Cup, Denton, Texas, Oct. 25, 2013 :: Sudden Death Day Two
by Lynn Burkhead
|SUDDEN DEATH Day 2 Competitors
DENTON, Texas – Kelly Jordon is a native son of Texas and one of the best at figuring out the state's big bass riches.
So it would stand to reason that the Jack Link's Major League Fishing pro from Palestine would feel somewhat confident as the 2014 Shell Rotella Challenge Cup is being contested on Lake Ray Roberts and Grapevine Lake - and perhaps other water - in and around the Denton area.
After all, there are few Texas waters where Jordon hasn't done well catching numbers of fish and good numbers of high quality fish.
KJ, as many known him, grew up fishing tournaments all over the Lone Star State, gaining early success and showing an angling prowess that announced he would one day be a force to be reckoned with on the professional circuits.
Then he became a highly sought after guide on lunker factory Lake Fork, leading anglers to the double-digit largemouth bass riches pulled from the East Texas reservoir near Quitman.
With habitat similar to that of Ray Roberts, Fork is a magical place where Jordon has caught numerous double-digit lunkers of his own, fish that have weighed up to 13 pounds on several occasions.
He has hooked, not landed, some that were even bigger.
Those brutes include one lunker largemouth of giant proportion, even by Texas' lofty big bass standards, a fish that literally straightened out KJ's hook after easily stripping out line from his tightly-wound drag.
To this day, so brutal and one sided was the fight that Jordon believes he hooked and lost an almost certain state record. To take over the record, the fish would have to have been larger than the current 18.18-pound record fish from Fork caught by Barry St. Clair in January 1992.
And despite the mere seconds that he had the fish on, Jordon believes that he hooked, and lost, a sowbelly bass that could have gone well over 20 pounds and perhaps challenged George Perry's long-standing world record.
How accurate are Jordon's big fish estimating skills?
KJ knows big bass, earning a reputation as one of the Bassmaster Elite Series' big fish specialists. He enjoys that reputation as a member of the B.A.S.S. "Century Club," where membership requires a tournament four-day bag weighing more than 100-pounds.
What's more, Jordon has caught more daily big bass in tournaments than any other angler in B.A.S.S. history.
Even outside of the Bassmaster Elite Series, Jordon shines at catching big ones, especially on Texas waters. In fact, in 2008, he captained the team that captured the Toyota Texas Bass Classic, an event that he also helped to co-found.
And just a few years ago, Jordon rode of wave of good bass in the first and second rounds at Lake Amistad in southwest Texas. That allowed him to advance to the finals of the inaugural MLF event in Del Rio, an event eventually won by Brent Ehrler.
Now you can add the biggest bass ever landed in MLF competition history to Jordon's resume. KJ accomplished that feat in the Elimination Round when an 8.02-pound Ray Roberts' largemouth attacked his umbrella rig before the Outdoor Channel cameras.
So if Jordon is quietly confident coming into the Sudden Death Semifinal Round on Grapevine Lake, you can understand why.
Even if he has limited experience on the lake.
Because given his big bass abilities and his knowledge of similar Texas waters, it is reasonable to expect KJ to do well on any lake that the MLF gang fishes in the DFW Metroplex area.
Especially with a new ace tucked up his sleeve, a power card known as the "baby pattern," after KJ's wife Kerri gave birth to the couple's first son.
"Yes, yes, we have little Charles Cole Jordon," smiled Jordon. "He's a bouncing baby boy, so I have a little girl (Ruby Kate) and a little boy."
Jordon said Charles Cole is growing "like crazy" and was almost 10 pounds at the time of this interview.
And that's just about the size of bass that KJ is hoping to catch at Grapevine.
"What can I say, I can't wait to get a fishing rod in his hand," said Jordon, a four-time winner on the B.A.S.S tournament trails and a one-time winner on the FLW Tour.
How has being a dad changed Jordon as a professional angler?
Quite a bit he said.
"You know, you've got a family and you've got to do the best you can for them," said the winner of more than $1.4 million in career B.A.S.S. earnings and a qualifier for nine Bassmaster Classic events.
"It (being a husband and father) is a pretty good motivator, there's no doubt about that."
" It helps motivate you pretty good since you want to bring them home something good and show them something good like a trophy. "
– Kelly Jordon
That being said, Jordon admits that it is much harder for him to leave home now and go on the road, leaving his wife and two small children behind.
"Byron Velvick has a daughter the same age as my daughter and we talk about how hard it is to get out the door (now)," said Jordon. "But at the same time, you think about them while you're fishing and use them as inspiration.
"It helps motivate you pretty good since you want to bring them home something good and show them something good like a trophy."
Or a big winner's check, perhaps.
Hence the reason that Jordon now has an ace up his sleeve known as the "baby pattern."
"They call it the baby pattern because a lot of times the people that have kids do pretty good (out here)," said KJ. "Hey, (we had him about a month ago), but I'm going to keep trying to ride that wave."
If Jordon can ride that wave again in Sudden Death and be one of the first three anglers to reach the 20-pound qualifying weight, then KJ just might bring home the biggest trophy of his career thus far.
And that would be the 2014 Shell Rotella Challenge Cup, a trophy big enough to even impress little Charles Cole and Ruby Kate, the newfound apples of their daddy's eye.
NOTE: Sudden Death Day Two of the 2014 Shell Rotella Challenge Cup will premiere May 3 at 3 p.m. ET on Outdoor Channel. Check here for the full schedule.


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Perfect Pumpkin Roll
- Prep Time: 30 min
- Cook Time: 15 min
- Ready Time: 195 min
- Yield: 9
- Crisco® Original No-Stick Cooking Spray
- 1 (17.28 oz.) Pillsbury™ Pumpkin Caramel Delight
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/3 cup Crisco® Pure Vegetable Oil
- 3 large eggs, separated
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1 cup frozen whipped topping, thawed
Preparation Directions
- HEAT oven to 375°F. Spray bottom of a 13 x 9-inch pan with no-stick cooking spray. Line pan with wax or parchment paper. Spray paper liner with no-stick cooking spray.
- BLEND cake mix, water, oil and 3 egg yolks in medium bowl, using a spoon, for 50 to 75 strokes or until mix is blended. Using an electric mixer, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form. Gently fold into cake batter. Spread evenly in prepared pan.
- BAKE 11 to 15 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Sift powdered sugar onto clean towel. Run a knife or spatula around edge of cake. Immediately invert cake on top of powdered sugar on towel. Carefully peel off paper. Roll up cake with towel from narrow end. Cool completely on wire rack.
- STIR together the two cream cheese filling pouches and whipped topping until blended. Unroll cake. Spread filling evenly over cake. Re-roll. Cover loosely with foil. Refrigerate 2 hours or overnight. Sprinkle cake with almonds and drizzle with caramel, just before serving.
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Serving Size (1 slice, 1/19 of roll), Calories 340 (Calories from Fat 150), Total Fat 17g (Saturated Fat 4.5g, Trans Fat 1g), Cholesterol 70mg, Sodium 230mg, Total Carbohydrate 44g (Dietary Fiber 1g, Sugars 34g), Protein 3g; Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 2%, Vitamin C 0%, Calcium 2%, Iron 6%.
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Disability Discrimination in the Workplace: An Overview of the ADA
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) protects employees from discrimination based on a disability.
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits employers from discriminating against employees or applicants with disabilities in all aspects of employment including hiring, pay, promotion, firing, and more. It also protects employees from retaliation when they enforce their rights under the law. (To learn more about ADA rules for the hiring process, read Nolo's article Getting Hired With a Disability.)
Private employers with at least 15 employees must follow the ADA. Many states have similar laws, which may apply to smaller employers too.
Employers subject to the ADA cannot discriminate against a "qualified worker with a disability." Furthermore, the employer must provide a reasonable accommodation for a worker with a disability as long as the accommodation won't cause the employer undue hardship. The ADA specifies what counts as a disability, which workers are protected by the law, when accommodations are required, and what constitutes an undue hardship.
Covered Employees
The ADA protects the following employees:
- An employee who has a disability. If an employee has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity, he or she is protected.
- An employee with a history of impairment. An employer can't discriminate against an employee based on his or her previous disability.
- An employee who the employer regards as disabled. This is true even if the employer is wrong, and the employee is not actually disabled. If the employer discriminates against an employee based on its incorrect belief that the employee has a disability, the employee is protected by the ADA.
Defining "Disability"
A disability for purposes of the ADA is a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity. What constitutes a major life activity is broadly defined to include basic tasks (like walking, reading, bending, and communicating), as well as major bodily functions (such as functions of the immune system, normal cell growth, digestive, bowel, bladder, neurological, brain, respiratory, circulatory, endocrine, and reproductive functions).
If an impairment doesn't significantly limit a person's ability to perform a major life activity, it isn't a disability protected by the ADA. Temporary ailments also don't count as disabilities. For more information on whether specific ailments are considered disabilities, visit the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) website at www.eeoc.gov.
Who is a Qualified Worker With a Disability?
Only qualified workers with disabilities are protected by the ADA. A qualified worker with a disability is someone capable of performing the essential duties of the job, with or without a reasonable accommodation by the employer.
The essential duties of the job are those tasks that are fundamental to the position. Ancillary duties don't count. For example, a call center's customer service representatives may answer phones, draft correspondence to dissatisfied customers, and resolve customer complaints. If business is slow, the employees may also file or restock office supplies. The customer service tasks are probably essential duties of the job, while the "filler" tasks probably aren't.
Reasonable Accommodation
If needed, an employer must provide a reasonable accommodation -- an adjustment or modification that allows the employee to do the job -- to a qualified employee with a disability. The employer isn't required to guess whether a reasonable accommodation is needed. Also, the employer isn't required to provide the particular accommodation an employee requests if another accommodation will do. But the employer must engage in the "interactive process," a dialogue with the employee about accommodations that will meet that person's needs. Read more about reasonable accomodation for disability.
Undue Hardship
The employer doesn't have to provide a reasonable accommodation if doing so would create an undue hardship. An undue hardship means significant difficulty or expense to the business. These factors determine whether an accommodation creates an undue hardship:
- the nature and cost of the accommodation
- the financial resources of the employer (a larger, more successful business can usually afford to do more than a smaller one)
- the nature of the business, including size, composition, and structure, and
- accommodation costs already incurred in the workplace.
If the cost of an accommodation threatens the financial viability of the organization --whether because the company is so small or the cost is so large -- it's probably an undue hardship, and not required. However, according to the EEOC, the majority of accommodations cost less than $500. For most employers, that makes them reasonable and easy to implement.
To learn more about laws that protect against job discrimination, get Your Rights in the Workplace, by Barbara Kate Repa (Nolo).
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Today, while walking to my car after work, I witnessed some moron who was texting while riding her bike running right into my parked car, resulting in a broken side mirror, a damaged windshield, two dents, and for her, a broken phone and nose. She's threatening to sue me for damages. FML
by Anon / 04/08/2013 at 6:04pm / United States (Ohio) / Transportation
Today, my fiancé dumped me because he claimed he needed to "focus on his career and his engagement." When I asked him how dumping me would help with his engagement, he immediately replied with, "No, I mean my other one." FML
by t.hughes / 04/01/2013 at 10:50am / United States / Love
Today, I was buying condoms at Walmart. I grabbed the XL size, and the cashier commented, "Ahh, you'll definitely need a smaller size." FML
by nottoosmall / 04/03/2013 at 12:57pm / United States / Miscellaneous
Today, I met my boyfriend's family for the first time. We got on the subject of theatre, and his dad brought up "The Book of Mormon", how finally someone was making fun of those "nasty, polygamist, cultist freaks", and if his son ever dated one, he would disown him. I'm Mormon. FML
by kenabrookee / 04/03/2013 at 1:48am / United States (California) / Love
Today, I regretfully confessed to my parents I have trichotillomania. There was a torturous pause, followed by the question, "Are you gay?" FML
by Anonymous / 04/05/2013 at 7:23am / Australia (Queensland) / Health
Today, I was on a scavenger hunt. One of the things on the list was to ask a stranger to marry them. I saw an old lady in a wheel chair; I tried to make her day by asking her to marry me. She declined and attempted to run me over with her wheel chair. FML
by nickcedola40 / 04/03/2013 at 8:24pm / United States (Florida) / Miscellaneous
Today, after paying for my groceries, I noticed that a bread-roll hadn't been charged. I felt guilty and went back to the register to pay for it. The cashier burst into derisive laughter and mockingly asked me if I was "running for Pope or something". FML
by moosy0_o / 04/07/2013 at 3:22pm / Netherlands (Noord-Brabant) / Money
Today, I was working at a daycare. There was a 6-year-old boy pretending to be my doctor, holding a little, plastic thermometer. He then, without warning, quickly shoved it deep into my ear. The last thing I heard was his giggle. I think I'm deaf. FML
by icanthearyou / 04/04/2013 at 7:55pm / United States (Illinois) / Kids
Today, it is my birthday. Since my parents are in the middle of a divorce, my mom thought it was perfectly reasonable to burn the gifts my dad got for me in the fireplace. FML
by child of a crazed women / 04/07/2013 at 5:19am / United States (Maryland) / Miscellaneous
Today, while working at a porn store, a group of six people tried to return used toys and penis pumps. Even though you can't return any items, it's still an unfortunately common occurrence. The semen in these particular toys, however, is not. All of them began shouting at me for not refunding them. FML
by ohgodwhyyoufreaks / 04/01/2013 at 7:57am / United States (Minnesota) / Intimacy
Today, I noticed a stray string on a seam of my pants. I started absentmindedly pulling at it thinking maybe I could pull it off. Five minutes later, I realized it looked like I was fiddling with my crotch in the middle of Starbucks. FML
by WearingSomethingStringy / 04/09/2013 at 8:02pm / United States (Rhode Island) / Miscellaneous
Today, my cousin is visiting from Oklahoma. He can't go a minute without saying "YOLO" or "Swag". He's going to be here for a week. FML
by fuck YOLO / 04/03/2013 at 1:20am / United States (California) / Miscellaneous
Today, as a learner driver, I embarked on my longest drive ever: back home, from Sydney to Melbourne, which is around a 700km drive. I managed to get the whole way without any problems. I crashed into my driveway. FML
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- 1Today, I took a test. I got up to turn it in, and accidentally bumped into another student. We both… 2Today, I tried to fire the worst worker I've ever had over the phone because he never shows up for… 3Today, it's been two years since I graduated with my master's. It's also been the same amount of…


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His Kind of Love
I came across this excerpt from Max Lucado's book, "A Love Worth Giving." They were the perfect words that I needed to hear. Isn't it cool to know that God knows what we need to hear, and when? This is what it says:
"God loves you simply because he has chosen to do so. He loves you when you don't feel lovely. He loves you when no one else loves you. Others may abandon you, divorce you, and ignore you, but God will love you. Always. No matter what."
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2013 Oscar winners: Complete list
And the winners are . . .
Complete list of winners at the 85th annual Academy Awards on Sunday night: »Read Full Article(2)
Skylight makes the most of bland 'Pump Boys'
In the fictionalized North Carolina being served up in "Pump Boys and Dinettes," the country music pastiche that's now open for business at Skylight Music Theatre, none of the six characters actually works much.
To be sure, designer Brandon Ribordy has stuffed this really fun, vintage 1950s set - half gas station and half diner - with props suggesting that the four pump boys might actually service cars and the two fun-loving waitresses next door might actually take and fill orders. »Read Full Article(2)
Florentine finds cozy home for 'Albert Herring'
If you're looking for the Florentine Opera Company, you'll find them in Vogel Hall for the next couple of weeks, trying something a little different.
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Rascal Flatts
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Rascal Flatts brought their "Changed" tour to Milwaukee on June 27th and opened the first day of Summerfest in a rocken style. With a catalog of hits that could keep a crowed going on its own, Rascal Flatts brought along one of the most eye pleasing lighting shows I have seen in years. Between the good music, professional light show and great weather you couldn't help but have a good time. Not even an average at best audio mix wasn't able to dampen the energy the guys brought to their performance. Link to the bands site bellow for more information and go see Rascal Flatts when they come through your town. In a time when money is tight, its nice to have a sure bet of a good time.
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AIDS: How to Protect Yourself and Others
What is HIV/AIDS?
HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) infects people by entering the bloodstream after direct contact with semen, vaginal fluids, or blood from an infected person. Virtually all HIV-infected persons will eventually develop AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), although the time from HIV infection to AIDS can range from 2 to 15 years. People with AIDS usually die from serious infections because the virus permanently invades special blood cells which work to fight off infections and rid the body of cancerous cells. There is no cure at present, but there are medications to prolong the lives of infected people.
Q: How can you tell if someone is infected with the AIDS virus?
A: You can't!
A person infected with HIV can feel and appear well for up to 10-15 years but still be able to spread the virus to others during this time.
Many people are infected but do not know it. Others may suspect they carry the virus but are afraid to be tested. Others may not be honest about their HIV infection, their sexual/drug history or pretend that they have been tested when they have not.
Protect Yourself from AIDS
Highest Risk of Infection
- Unprotected (without a condom) anal intercourse
- Unprotected vaginal intercourse
- Sharing needles for any reason (injecting any drug, including steroids)
- Unprotected sexual contact with multiple partners
- Unprotected sexual contact with someone whose sexual history is unknown
Moderate Risk of Infection
- Unprotected oral sex (mouth on genitals without a condom or dental dam)
- Attempted protected sexual contact using a condom, but due to tearing/breaking or the condom slipping, some body fluids were possibly exchanged
Lower Risk of Infection
- Oral sex with a condom or dental dam
- Deep (French) kissing when blood may be present
No Risk of Infection
- Abstinence from vaginal, anal and oral sex
- Hugging, touching and massaging
- Mutual masturbation (no cuts or sores on hands)
- Any sex with a long-term partner who has never used injectable drugs, is monogamous and is HIV negative. Both partners should be tested for HIV before any unprotected sexual contact.
You can't get AIDS from...
- Hugging/touching a person with HIV
- Using any equipment, touching any surface or using a toilet after a person who is HIV positive
- A mosquito bite
Note: Because of the presence of blood, it is not a good idea to share razors or toothbrushes with HIV-infected individuals.
Reduce Your Risk of Getting AIDS
Abstain from sex until you can enter into a long-term monogamous relationship with an uninfected person who does not inject drugs. Be sure you are only having sex with each other.
If you are not certain that your sex partner is uninfected and monogamous, use latex condoms every time-start to finish-using a water-soluble lubricant (such as KY Jelly).
Condoms lubricated with spermicide can cause irritation in the genital area. This can actually increase the chance of HIV infection. Condoms lubricated with spermicide are no more effective in preventing pregnancy. Use only water-based lubricants - never spermicide.
Don't use drugs. If you do, don't share needles. If you use drugs or excessive alcohol and can't stop, get help.
Creating Intimacy in a World With AIDS
Many people want a relationship where they can safely share their feelings and sometimes their bodies. Being intimate with someone does not necessarily mean you are having sex. The more connection you feel with your partner the easier it will be to share your views on safer sex. If a person is turned off by your need for safety, she/he may not be a good long-term partner for you.
A diagnosis of a sexually transmitted infection (including herpes, genital warts, syphilis, gonorrhea or chlamydia) poses increased risk of HIV because of breaks in the protective skin barrier that may allow access for the virus.
If you are in a sexual relationship this would be important information to discuss with your partner.
If you are considering having sex with someone new, discuss this information with him or her ahead of time. Many couples are wisely choosing to get HIV tested anonymously and share their results with each other before they have sex.
If you anticipate getting pregnant and feel you may have any risk for carrying HIV infection, get tested before you conceive. If your test is positive, postpone pregnancy and consult a doctor knowledgeable about HIV/AIDS.
Other Important Considerations
People with HIV need your help and/or emotional support in dealing with this emotionally and financially devastating disease.
HIV infection will not be eliminated by judgment or discrimination against those who are infected. Fear of recrimination will only discourage people from being tested or being honest about their infection, which will in turn hasten the spread of the disease. Protect those who are already infected from further harm.
Children and HIV
Whether you have children or not, this information may be helpful in preparing your children, or those you may have in the future, to deal with the AIDS crisis.
Remember, the best gift you can give them is the knowledge and the skills to take care of themselves by making healthy choices. It is very important to share information with your children that will help them make life-and-death decisions. By age 4 they should know correct anatomic names for body parts. By age 7 they should know about HIV and how it is contracted. By age 11 they should understand reasons for postponing sexual involvement. They must develop the skills to assert themselves regarding sex and drugs in the face of peer pressure.
If you have children, consider what your response to this important question might be: "When is it OK to have sex?" Issues to discuss might include: making sure no harm would come to yourself or your partner; what would happen if pregnancy or infections occurred; and whether or not guilt feelings might occur before, during, or after sex.
Please Teach Others About AIDS
Share this information with other people. You may help save a life. Help reduce irrational panic and resulting discrimination against HIV-infected people.
It's Your Choice
As a member of Utah State University, you have a right to know the facts about HIV infection. You also have the responsibility to use that knowledge when making choices that will affect your quality of life. HIV infection affects every aspect of your well-being-not just your physical health, but your emotional, social, professional, and spiritual health as well.
We are all members of a generation at risk. You are not immune from the effects of HIV on your health, the health of your classmates, and the health of your culture.
Your best defense against HIV will be the behavioral choices you make. And the choices you make are based on a) how you value yourself, b) your ability to communicate your needs, and c) the knowledge you share with your friends and classmates.
Knowledge is nothing without action. Confront these health-related issues. Challenge yourself to understand the reasons behind your behavior; ask questions and seek counsel to troubleshoot on your own behalf. Learn about the risks and options. And learn the rewards of empowering yourself and your university community.
You have a choice to make about your well-being. Make it based on knowledge, self-worth, and action.


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#1 – While his B list television actress wife on a long running hit network medical drama was at home with their child, her husband was at the Roxy this week hitting on women and getting as many phone numbers as he could.
#1 – While his B list television actress wife on a long running hit network medical drama was at home with their child, her husband was at the Roxy this week hitting on women and getting as many phone numbers as he could.
#1 is Ellen PompeoReplyCancel
ENT, where are you getting all this Twilight stuff? It makes it way too easy to tease the numbskulls over at Ted's!ReplyCancel
1 – definitely Ellen Pompeo – aren't there constantly rumours about her husband?
2 – Uh…is that Jackson guy even in any of the Twilight posters? Kellen is too obsessed with his body, Lautner too closely watched by his father and Pattinson seems too afraid of getting naked with anyone.
3 – is R. Kelly still A+ list? Though I'm thinking it might be someone older…
4- Was Jonah Hill ever on TV? I'm too lazy to look it up.ReplyCancel
Here's my guesses:
1. Ellen Pompeo and Chris Ivery
2. Kellan Putz
3. ?
4. Joel McHale (noooo hope not)
1. Ellen Pompeo and her loser "music producer" husband.ReplyCancel
4. Jason Segel has already had the lead in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, though…Augh, I really have no guess for this one.ReplyCancel
3. Usher, there have been rumors about him slipping into serious drug use for a while nowReplyCancel
It sounds like Enty is insinuating that the person in #4 is into child pornography. I would like to point out that, with their big eyes, all the girls in anime and manga look 12 years old.ReplyCancel
Ellen Pompeo's husband is a dog. I remember a girl coming out a couple years ago and talking about their affair.ReplyCancel
1 – def ellen
2 – i agree its one of the wolves that think they are hot shit because they are in twilight at all. seems any of the others would be qualified as twilight "stars" not just actors. for new moon they had several posters featuring just the wolf boys.
3. no guess
4. not sure but i don't think its jason segal. as someone pointed out he's already been the lead sarah marshall, so a second lead can't be a "breakthrough" role. he already had his breakthrough role. i also think HIMYM has already put him on the map. plus he's not just an actor. he wrote both sarah marshall and the muppets. i think this is someone smaller than segal. and not just in height 😛ReplyCancel
What about Jason Sudeikis for #4? That's the first guy that came to mind.ReplyCancel
And a lot of Japanese anime porn is violent and sometimes looks like rape. So it's kind of sickening all the way around.ReplyCancel
#4 – Jason Sudeikis?ReplyCancel
usher wasn't there. Going to re-read the blogs now and see who attended that would qualify as A+ list R&B singer.ReplyCancel
Yes, Bubbles, Akon did have an event. Certainly would categorize him as more rapper than R&B. There was another event in Atlanta, but mostly rappers. Ludakris, Common. There were female R&B singers, but certainly not A+ list. Who qualifies now days? Usher (not him), Trey Songz, Neyo maybe? who else?ReplyCancel
As you can see, I want to figure this out lol. Would Chris Brown qualify as A+? His popularity soared (for worse, not better) after the "incident." Bobby Brown I would say is A list, nor is El Debarge or Kem, though they all have reoccuring drug issues.ReplyCancel
I first thought Jason Segal for 4, but he must be at least B now. I don't have a problem with anime girls or anime porn. They ARE cartoons after all. No toon was hurt in filming. Cartoon violence (like Tom and Jerry or Family Guy) is very present, but being a cartoon, the impact is much lessened. From what I've seen though Misspoppypants is also right imo. But I would never call someone who watches anime porn a pedophile, that has a much more chilling definition.ReplyCancel
bubbles, you're right; in hindsight, he is a singer and not a rapper. I guess I never categorize people who sing hip hop as actual singers. Certainly not R&B. Like Drake, for instance, I see him and Akon as hip hop artists. I see Usher, R Kelly, Trey Songz (vaguely) as R&B. Hopefully this blogger is reading this and knows the difference. lolReplyCancel
Not Usher. No footage of him helping out anywhere, and considering his A list status, there would've been some sort of coverage.


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I love inside jokes, I'd love to be a part of one some day.
I got into Anthrax when Persistence Of Time came out so that album will always be my favorite from them. But Spreading The Disease is second on the list. For as great as Among The Living is, I think it gets too much praise and STD doesn't get enough for how great of an album it is. Great energy and song writing and some damn catchy tunes. Meldoic thrash metal at it's best on STD. The first five songs, Armed And Dangerous and Medusa are some of my favorites from Anthrax.
I agreed with Spreading's 9/10 score at first but then I remember I really hate "The Enemy." So 8/10.
and the singing dies down for just a second, right? Long enough for my dad to go "This is how they used to transport the Jews!"
agreed on POT & Spreading being great but I still think Among The Living is their pinacle
Cheers !
Life Down There Is Just A Strange Illusion
Mysto Dysto - The Rules Have Been Disturbed - February 7, 1986
It's finding albums like these that make this little 'journey' totally worth it. I mean, who the fuck is Mysto Dysto (one of the worst band names ever, they would later change it to Mandator) and what does their only full-length sound like? Well, it's pretty fucking good! I mean, the vocals aren't great, the production is about what you would expect for some random band from the Netherlands in 1986 and there are some kind of 'WTF' moments, but this is some very nice thrash metal with a classic melodic European sound. The other cool thing about this album is that most of the songs go into these lengthy instrumental passages with blazing guitar solos. This is good stuff. I'd recommend it to anyone who is a fan of the more melodic, speedy side of the genre.
Standouts: Confused, Full Speed to Hell, Indenter
Score: 7.5/10
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Alright, JRA. Awaiting your comments.
Metallica - Master of Puppets - February 21, 1986
I always find it a little more difficult to review an album that I've listened to about 3000 times than one that is fresh to my ears. It makes it all the more difficult when it is one that evokes such strong emotions as Master of Puppets. I've read a lot of differing opinions on it, from it being the best album in thrash/metal/popular music to that it is the album that killed heavy metal. I'm in neither camp, but if I had to pick one I'd be closer to the former.
The main gripe I have with Puppets is that it's a near clone of its predecessor, Ride the Lightning. Did they get lazy? Did they just go "hey that worked really well, let's just do it again!" There are differences of course. The album doesn't sound quite as deadly as Lightning did, but it's still very powerful. The songs have also gotten longer for the most part, almost to the point of ridiculousness in some cases.
I'd be lying to myself if I didn't give this album a favourable review though. Just like with Ride the Lightning, Metallica still seem like they're a couple steps ahead of the competition. Songs like "Disposable Heroes", "Damage, Inc." and the title track are all time thrash classics. "Orion" is a step down from "The Call of Ktulu", but it's still one of the best metal instrumentals I've ever heard. This is a controlled, very structured effort, much more so than anything Metallica had done before. In the grand scheme of things, Master of Puppets is a transitional album, setting the stage for what would be Metallica's thrash metal swan song.
Standouts: Disposable Heroes, Damage Inc., Master of Puppets
Score: 9/10
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6/28 - Def Leppard/Styx/Tesla
8/29 - Rick Springfield/Loverboy/The Romantics
8/30 - Motley Crue
First off, Wild&TheYoung your answer is here:
I think a more level-headed critical account can be found in Noctir's assessment (which you'll have to scroll down for, but its only 1/4 as long):
Both assessments are damn good, and what makes them interesting is differing opinions on critical points of the album. Noctir thinks Orion has some of the finest riffs on the album, whereas Ultraboris thought the riffs were average and that its coming brought on Opeth and all sorts of idiotic bands trying to make the ugliness of metal beautiful.
I personally think the Ultraboris essay serves more as a companion piece to Some Kind of Monster, in that after seeing Metallica utterly humiliate themselves with that film so many fans were left wondering what the hell happened to their beloved Metallica, and that they simply weren't going to be satisfied with "Cliff died" or "they liked money." Well, if you want that kind of truth, its going to be one truth that you are not going to like and you will swear up and down that its wrong despite the fact that deep down, you know it to be true.
There is one thing both reviews have in common. At the end of the day, Master of Puppets was just a mediocre follow up to Ride The Lightning, and it was really just better off for the world to ignore Metallica and move on to more creative bands/albums the genre was offering, like Pleasure To Kill, Reign In Blood, even Peace Sells. Peace Sells was a better album in my opinion because when Dave brought in the clean guitars, the notes played were not these relaxed interludes, they were buildups filled with tension and suspense. Your ears were fixated because you knew something horrible was coming, and by the time it reared its ugly head, you were already paralyzed with nowhere to go but your inevitable death. Good Mourning/Black Friday as well as My Last Words demonstrate this the best. These two songs chew up Cliff Burton and spit him out.
But here's the problem, music doesn't exist in a vacuum, and in 1986-87, hair metal was on the rise and drastically altering the publics perception of what metal is supposed to be. Because of major label backing, positive press reception or whatever, true metal heads realized that even though Reign In Blood was the superior album, mainstream press wouldn't go within 100 feet of it, and so Master of Puppets was the best weapon they had to combat the glam metal onslaught to popular perception. For whatever reason these idiotic music critics couldn't see that the far superior version of the album was released two years before, choosing meaningless terms like "refined and mature" when they really meant "This is more digestible to me."
The problem was that again, Master of Puppets was a mediocre album, and while fanboys were sreaming "so what if its mediocre, its Metallica!" metal as a whole should have responded "so what?" Rather than shoot for any kind of excellence, such as the death metal directional Pleasure To Kill or Darkness Descends, the "clean guitars are not creative" fuck you mentality of Reign In Blood, the crossover convergence of Game Over and Age of Quarrel, or even a 70s throwback done properly such as Candlemass debut EDM, all you had to do now is play kind of fast at times, throw in a slow section to appear "more than just a thrash band," and well there's your recipe for poison. When you combine that with the commercial and critical success of Metallica's career, you get an album with a reputation that proceeds it and ultimately doesn't live up to the height. I maintain that the success of the Black album helped this albums reputation way more than it ever could have on its own. Especially with the fact that most average people hear of Metallica via Enter Sandman and a common reaction from a diehard is "fuck that shit, they were so much better on their oldstuff" and Master of Puppets would be an album they'd choose because of crosses on the cover or whatever.
If a Ratt or a Dokken released an Orion they'd be ridiculed nonstop for it. But because a hippy who wagged his hair alot and did a thousand note a minute bass solos came up with it, it was ok. Really, even back when I was a Metallica fanboy eating up the likes of Load and Reload I still didn't get what the big deal was about Orion. The guitar solos were cool I guess, but the guitar solo was cool in Walk as well, and that's the lamest fucking riff in heavy metal. Ironically, Slayer, who will never get the Rolling Stone/Spin/Time Magazine respect Metallica gets, were able to fully realize Cliff's ideas -albeit in a much ballsier way- with South of Heaven. An album which, I think is a fast thrash album through and through despite the idiotic masses calling it doom because of two or three slow songs. Lars is as much to blame for not telling Cliff that the reason his ideas were never done before in heavy metal is because Tony Iommi realized those ideas were fucking retarded in 1975 (Fluff was a mistake people, not progress). Lars knew that a jump to a Shout At The Devil type of album (which is exactly what the black album was) would have stopped Metallica dead in their tracks. It would have been a Cold Lake/Turbo like disaster. He had to ease the band into the sellout, and that's exactly what Cliff's hippie tendencies provided. And of course, because Cliff died on the tour of this album, no one will ever have the balls to say that maybe Cliff's concepts weren't such good ideas and that he should have stuck to Joey DeMaio soloing and shut up. Hell, if he was playing Orion during that solo at that fateful Trauma show, would James and Lars have given Cliff a second look?
It's astounding to me how I've been one of the few people to understand this essay all these years. There are folks much smarter than me that have this childish knee-jerk Cliff Burton loyalty and refuse to entertain for a minute any sort of re-evaluation. Isn't that what criticism is supposed to be, folks? Ultraboris didn't call the album the worst thing to happen to heavy metal because it was an audio disaster along the likes of Iwrestledabearonce, he called it that because it was just ok. People, the shit that they are, are much more willing to copy something that is passed off as "acceptable," yet just low-caliber enough so they don't break their backs trying to create something. It's sad how with everything Metallica have done you still have morons that just won't knock Metallica down from the top 3 greatest of all time to 11-15. That's what destroying a legacy is folks. and Master of Puppets was the beginning of that drop. It's just in close enough proximity to the greatness of the first two albums to be considered Number of the Beast when it really should be considered Fear of the Dark.
Do I hate Master of Puppets? No. Hell both reviews hate The Thing That Should Not Be and the non-Mustaine part of Leper Messiah, and I love both! In the case of the latter I think the song is a tasteful tribute to perennial inspiration Am I Evil. I just don't think the album has any business being in the top 20 of any metal list whatsoever. Top 30? Sure.
Strangely enough Don Jameison, however briefly, seemed to understand this too. When That Metal Show was making their top 5 thrash albums of all time list he said the album shouldn't be on there because it's not a thrash album. Smartest thing he ever said. Of course those three couldn't make up their damn minds and Eddie just decided to put the album at #1, cos the segment was dragging on too long. Assholes.
and the singing dies down for just a second, right? Long enough for my dad to go "This is how they used to transport the Jews!"
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Higher yields and better breeding of wheat – which accounts for some 20 percent of the earth's population calorie intake -- are promised in the wake of researchers recently unlocking the genome of the crop. The discoveries by teams of scientists in England, Germany the United States could also provide guideposts to dealing with diseases like UG99 and mitigate alarming claims about coming climate change-caused food catastrophes.
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One of the research teams involved is at New York's Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. To meet the challenge, according to a statement from the lab, "they used 'next-generation' sequencing techniques, in which the DNA is broken up randomly into numerous small segments and assembled into longer sequence reads by identifying the overlapping ends. The sequence 'reads' generated for bread wheat were then compared to those from the known sequences of a diverse range of grasses, including rice and barley."
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Common forms of denial of service attacks are:
Buffer Overflow Attacks
The most common kind of DoS attack is simply to send more traffic to a network address than the programmers who planned its data buffers anticipated someone might send. The attacker may be aware that the target system has a weakness that can be exploited or the attacker may simply try the attack in case it might work. A few of the better-known attacks based on the buffer characteristics of a program or system include:
- Sending e-mail messages that have attachments with 256-character file names to Netscape and Microsoft mail programs
- Sending oversized Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packets (this is also known as the Packet Internet or Inter-Network Groper (PING) of death)
- Sending to a user of the Pine e-mail progam a message with a "From" address larger than 256 characters
SYN Attack
When a session is initiated between the Transport Control Program (TCP) client and server in a network, a very small buffer space exists to handle the usually rapid "hand-shaking" exchange of messages that sets up the session. The session-establishing packets include a SYN field that identifies the sequence in the message exchange. An attacker can send a number of connection requests very rapidly and then fail to respond to the reply. This leaves the first packet in the buffer so that other, legitimate connection requests can't be accommodated. Although the packet in the buffer is dropped after a certain period of time without a reply, the effect of many of these bogus connection requests is to make it difficult for legitimate requests for a session to get established. In general, this problem depends on the operating system providing correct settings or allowing the network administrator to tune the size of the buffer and the timeout period.
Teardrop Attack
This type of denial of service attack exploits the way that the Internet Protocol (IP) requires a packet that is too large for the next router to handle be divided into fragments. The fragment packet identifies an offset to the beginning of the first packet that enables the entire packet to be reassembled by the receiving system. In the teardrop attack, the attacker's IP puts a confusing offset value in the second or later fragment. If the receiving operating system does not have a plan for this situation, it can cause the system to crash.
Smurf Attack
In this attack, the perpetrator sends an IP ping (or "echo my message back to me") request to a receiving site The ping packet specifies that it be broadcast to a number of hosts within the receiving site's local network. The packet also indicates that the request is from another site, the target site that is to receive the denial of service. (Sending a packet with someone else's return address in it is called spoofing the return address.) The result will be lots of ping replies flooding back to the innocent, spoofed host. If the flood is great enough, the spoofed host will no longer be able to receive or distinguish real traffic.
Computer viruses, which replicate across a network in various ways, can be viewed as denial-of-service attacks where the victim is not usually specifically targetted but simply a host unlucky enough to get the virus. Depending on the particular virus, the denial of service can be hardly noticeable ranging all the way through disastrous.
Physical Infrastructure Attacks
Here, someone may simply snip a fiber optic cable. This kind of attack is usually mitigated by the fact that traffic can sometimes quickly be rerouted.
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Anybody remember the snake gourd we got along with our Halloween pumpkins this time last year? Well, we talked about the idea of trying to dry it out over the course of the year and turning it into a rainstick if we had success.
We'd been letting the gourd just hang out and dry in our garage over the course of the past year, waiting for it to dry, which it did amazingly well. It was pretty incredible how the gourd dried out over the year — we would wipe it down every so often with a vinegar/water solution just to keep it clean and cut down on mildew and that was it.
Since we had an entire year to plan out how we'd transform this baby into a rainstick, when the time was finally right, we got to it! I liked the idea of painting the gourd in a solid gray color and embellishing it with metallic bird shapes to give it a little bit of a modern feel.
To get things prepped for painting, Tim rigged up a spray painting station using unwound metal coat hangers he gets his dry-cleaning back on — just like the one he made for our stool makeover:
After a final wiping down and drying with a vinegar/water solution, we hung the gourd from the coat hanger hook and applied a thin layer of spray primer all over it:
After the primer dried, we sprayed thin layers of a glossy solid gray spray paint to completely coat the gourd. Thin an even layers, allowing to dry between coats, always does the trick!
Basil supervised, I mean sunbathed, the entire time Tim was spraying the gourd:
Once dry, we finished off the spraying process with a thin and even coat of the same low odor clear finish we used in the stool makeover project and stump table project — we're growing quite fond of this stuff!
After all the spraying was done (over the course of a weekend), we actually let the gourd hang out and cure up out in the garage for about 2 weeks. OK, I admit it really only needed one week (if that), but we got busy and didn't get around to the next phase of the project for 2 weeks.
When it came time for phase 2 of the gourd-to-rainstick transformation, I really got to break out my craft basket! Tell me I'm not the only one who has a giant craft basket filled with years of collected supplies and whatnot.
Cutting Edge Stencils had sent us a particular patterned stencil to try out in an upcoming project (look for it next week) and when it arrived we realized they included a few extra shapes with the shipment, like this cute little bird stencil:
In true Portlandia fashion, I got overexcited at all the different ways we could "put a bird on it" around our house using this stencil before landing on the idea to completely cover our gray gourd with metallic versions of it.
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
I wanted to create metallic fabric stickers to place all over the gourd, so I just painted over some scrap fabric I had on hand with a Martha Stewart metallic multi-surface paint in "champagne" metallic color:
Once two layers of that dried, I flipped over the fabric and started stenciling as many of the bird shapes as I could get within the painted area and cut them out one by one while we watched a movie that weekend:
I cut a lot of them out:
I just love how uniform the birds look from using the stencil.
To make the stickers, I just flipped the birds over onto a piece of paper towel and sprayed them generously with a spray adhesive. Why didn't they make spray adhesive when I was growing up? Seriously. I love this stuff. I've certainly been overcompensating for only just discovering it in my adult life:
The spray adhesive creates an immediate tacky surface on the back of the fabric, making it easy to arrange, position and press the birds exactly how I wanted them up and around the gourd:
They smoothed out and adhered to the surface right away. I just kept placing them wherever I wanted all the way up the gourd.
It was that easy!
Here's our gourd rainstick all complete and hanging out around the house:
The fabric stickers are cool in that they make for a textured "gripping" surface throughout the rainstick while giving off a faint sheen at the same time:
It was hard to get a full shot of it at once so I asked Tim to hold it for me — can you see how excited he and Basil were to have this task?
Then I reminded them of the fun they had horsing around with this same gourd last year:
Which instantly spurred a reenactment on the front porch of our new house:
I'll never get sick of these boys.
The best part though was watching our niece, Virginia, try to play with the rainstick, given she'd never encountered one before:
We were in the parking lot of the Children's Museum of Richmond in case anyone is wondering why it looks like we are out in the street. After she got the hang of flipping it up and back down to hear the "rain" fall with each turn, she was a happy camper:
I didn't think to grab a video of her playing with it so you could hear how much this dried gourd sounds like a rainstick, so I again forced my boys to pose for the camera and they obliged:
So that's how we made a rainstick from the snake gourd we got last year. It couldn't have been easier — it just took a year's worth of patience to let it dry out. Now we've got another fun toy hanging out at our house when the kids drop by and get to talk about how we made it ourselves.
What autumn crafts or projects have you been taking on this year? Do you remember playing with rainsticks when you were younger or also wish spray adhesive had been around back then? Maybe it's better for all of us that it wasn't (or that I just didn't know about it if it was).
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New York. May 6, 2013
Unlike last year Mayor Bloomberg's proposed budget does not propose teacher layoffs but there could be a battle with the City Council over $135 million dollar cuts to after school and pre-school programs.
New York City Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott says unlike last year, Mayor Bloomberg is not proposing reducing teacher slots. But Walcott says school principals will still face a major challenge in finding ways to make up for rising costs the city can't control.
"But from an education point of view it will be on the margin and not the kind of discussion that took place last year. School budgets will remain flat but again as the mayor indicated purchasing power may go down a little bit because on increased pension costs."
City school principals are set to receive their budget allotments from the Department of Education at the beginning of June. The City Council and Mayor Bloomberg have until the end of June to reach a budget deal. The City Council does have the prerogative to restore proposed cuts as part of its negotiation process with the Bloomberg Administration.
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