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I believe it was Bat Masterson of the late fifties TV series by the same name; that put the bug in my ear. I was seven at the time. I couldn't wait for Bat to pull that hidden derringer and bring one of those no good sidewinders to justice. I made a promise to myself that I just had to get one of those some day.
Well, it was a long time coming, but last year I spotted a Bond Arms Snake Slayer IV in a local gun shop. What a beauty! That boyhood dream was rekindled and I kept that promise I made so long ago.
The Bond Arms Snake Slayer is a fine handgun and I am proud to own it. I'll pass it on to my son one day and he to his daughter (she will be a Bond Arms Girl I'm sure).
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Here is another of the orchid images I've been working on. Moth Orchid is a popular name for the Phalaenopsis Orchid – Yesterday's White Orchid was also a Phalaenopsis. This is a small flower, much smaller than yesterday's large and majestic white orchid. Comparing the raw image, the final jpg, and the actual flower suggests that this image is an accurate rendition of the flower. The petals and sepals have this almost crystalline appearance.

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Not sure if anyone saw it or not, but there was a program on NFL Network called "Hey Rookie, Welcome to the NFL" or something like that, and it followed 6-8 rookies in the pre-draft process, including Upshaw, and leading up to the Alabama Pro Day, Upshaw was talking about really wanting to come in lighter than he'd been at the Combine (272 lbs), that he wanted to be closer to 265, then upon weigh-in, he was actually seven pounds HEAVIER...coming in at 279 lbs.
When you're working out like mad with trainers, in one of the most high-profile football programs in the country, and are aiming for a goal weight 7 pounds under, but come in 7 pounds over, that's nutrition.
A year in the Ravens program, surrounded by guys like Suggs (who know first-hand the problems that can result from a less-than-ideal diet), I expect him to be in the 260-265 range when Training Camp ends this season.
I am happy that they'll at least consider cross-training Upshaw to the ILB spot...but I think it is all but certain that we'll have a drafted player at that position from the first three rounds (my widely stated preference being Arthur Brown Jr. from Kansas State).


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I am gluten-intolerant. Every time I eat a bowl of pasta, my stomach swells up to twice its normal size, and I feel exhausted the next day. But when I go to restaurants, I hate questioning the server about what is in the different dishes. I feel like I sound neurotic, am boring my fellow diners, and am holding up the server if he is busy. If I am on a date, then it is downright embarrassing. Is there a polite and graceful way to ensure my order is gluten-free?
What about when people invite me to dinner? I have to tell them about my condition, but it's not as simple as saying "No bread or pasta" because gluten hides in so many foods. Must I give them a primer on gluten avoidance (tedious and demanding) or resign myself to an upset stomach?
—Pasta-Lover Trapped in Gluten-Intolerant Body
Dear Pasta-Lover,
Let's be honest, some "gluten-sensitive" types actually need a course of psychotherapy, not a dietary overhaul. So it's natural for you to be worried that you'll be mistaken for a neurotic. Kelly Courson, cofounder of Celiac Chicks, says, "When I refuse the pasta, people sometimes assume I'm anorexic." And you're right to worry about boring your fellow diners when you cross-examine the server about whether the french fries are cooked in the same oil as breaded foods or whether the restaurant has wheat-free soy sauce. I feel bored just writing about it.
Unfortunately for you, it's pretty hard to be both low-maintenance and gluten-free, since gluten lurks in so many foods. That's why some people who suffer from celiac disease, or gluten intolerance, carry preprinted cards explaining their condition.
It doesn't help matters that while food allergies have received a lot of media attention, some servers have still never heard of celiac disease or gluten intolerance (though this is changing). You may describe your condition as an "intolerance" or a "sensitivity," but that makes it sound a lot like a neurosis. For that reason, I suggest you use the term "allergy." Yes, this is an inaccurate description, but servers will take you more seriously. As Courson says, "Food 'allergies' are respected by restaurants for fear of anaphylactic shock."
As for grilling the server in the midst of the dinner rush, there's a simple way to avoid it: advance research. Shauna James Ahearn, coauthor of Gluten-Free Girl and the Chef, advises sending an email. "You never know who you're going to get on the phone; it may be the hostess's first day." But if you're contacting a restaurant where you'll be dining that night, you'll get quicker results by phone. Courson suggests calling "right after 2 when things are winding down [from lunch] or even better, around 3."
At the restaurant, instead of interrogating the server about a particular dish, just ask, "What would be the easiest thing for you to make gluten-free?" Max Seaman, floor manager of Comme Ça in LA, agrees: "Take the chef's advice, rather than [you] trying to modify a dish."
As with any extreme dietary regime, when you're invited to dinner, you should let your host know well in advance and give him the option of bowing out. Tell him you're happy to have drinks instead of dinner, or to bring your own dish.
Inevitably, if you explain your gluten-free needs in full, you're going to come across as a little demanding—like when you ask your host not to use his wooden cutting board because gluten can linger in the fissures. It helps to also provide some suggestions for stuff you can eat. "If you say, 'Here's what I can't eat, plan a menu around that,' people panic," says Ahearn.
At dinner, be consistent. I have a friend who is in slight denial about her gluten intolerance. At a recent party, she ate three canelés. They were homemade, in special tins the cook had bought in Paris, so I understood her slip. But to any guest who didn't know her, it did rather undermine the seriousness of her condition.


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27. A Child's Playthings
I was too much overwhelmed by all these events to close my eyes that night. The
revelation of Mr. Steele's further duplicity, coming so immediately upon the first,
roused fresh surmises and awakened thoughts which soon set my wits working
in a direction as new as it was unexpected. I had believed my work over in this
house, but as I recalled all the occurrences of the evening and turned the
situation, as it now confronted me, over and over in my mind, I felt that it had just
begun. There must be something in this latest development to help us in the
struggle which lay before us. The rage which sprang up in him as he confronted
his old aunt at this moment of his triumphant revenge argued a weakness in his
armor which it might yet be my part to discover and reveal. I knew Mrs. Packard
well enough to realize that the serenity into which she had fallen was a fictitious
serenity, and must remain so as long as any doubt remained of the legality of the
tie uniting her to this handsome fiend. Were the means suggested by the mayor
of promising enough character to accomplish the looked-for end?
I remembered the man's eyes as the mayor let fall his word of powerful threat,
and doubted it. Once, recovered from the indisposition which now weakened him,
he would find means to thwart any attempts made by Mayor Packard to
undermine the position he had taken as the legal husband of Olympia--
sufficiently so, at least, to hinder happiness between the pair whose wedded life
he not only envied but was determined to break up, unless some flaw in his past
could be discovered through Miss Quinlan--the aunt whose goodness he had
slighted and who now seemed to be in a frame of mind to help our cause if its
pitiful aspects were once presented to her. I resolved to present the case without
delay. Morning came at last, and I refreshed myself as well as I could, and, after
a short visit to Mrs. Packard's bedside during which my purpose grew with every
moment I gazed down on her brave but pitiful face, put on my hat and jacket and
went next door.
I found the two old ladies seated in their state apartment making calculations. At
sight of my, face they both rose and the "O my dear" from Miss Charity and the
"God bless you, child," from Miss Thankful showed that both hearts were yet
warm. Gradually I introduced the topic of their nephew; gradually I approached
the vital question of the disgrace.
The result upset all my growing hopes. He had never told them just what the
disgrace was. They, really knew nothing about his life after his early boyhood. He
had come home that one time when fortune so suddenly smiled upon them and
they thought then that he would tell them something; but the disappointment
which had followed effectually closed his lips, and he went away after a few days
of fruitless search, not to approach them again till just before he took up the
position of secretary to their great neighbor. Then he paid them one short and
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Author, Illustrator. He is best remembered for his children's picture books that illustrated his character "Spot the Dog," which have sold more than 60 million copies and have been translated into 60 languages. Born Eric Gordon Hill, he left school at the age of 16 and became an errand boy at an art studio where he began drawing cartoons and comic strips in his spare time and it eventually led to a weekly strip in Illustrated and sketches for Lilliput magazines. A year later, he joined an advertising agency, where he helped to present ideas to clients through the use of a storyboard. He then went on to work for the graphic designer Henri Kay Henrion at Erwin Wasey, a London-based agency. After a short stint with an American advertising agency, he returned to England and began freelancing as a graphic designer and illustrator. In 1978, when his son Christopher was 2 years old, he would tell him stories about the adventures of a small puppy named "Spot" and it evolved into a picture book featuring featured the simply-drawn, mischievous yellow puppy with brown spots and a brown-tipped tail with little flaps which could be lifted by small children. After a friend introduced him to a literary agent, his debut book, "Where's Spot" was published in 1980 and was the first publication to use the lift-the-flap concept. It was an immediate success and was soon followed by "Spot's First Walk" (1981), "Spot Tells the Time" (1983), "Sweet Dreams, Spot!" (1984), "Spot's Friends" (1984), "Spot Goes on Holiday" (1985), "The Adventures of Spot" (1986) which became a series of 13 television adaptations of the "Spot" stories, and many other "Spot" books. In 1983 he moved to Tucson, Arizona and later to Templeton California, where he owned a ranch. In 2008 he was awarded the Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his work in children's literature. He died at his home following a short illness at the age of 86.
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**Updated with article highlights** Prince William and Kate Middleton made the cover of the current issue of Hello! Magazine. Here are page scans of their exclusive on William & Kate's ski holiday in Courchevel, France. Article highlights below.
There's nothing significantly new in this exclusive. They used ski instructor's Meret Visser's quote along with loved-up stories from previous articles. It was written by Judy Wade with additional reporting form Thomas Whitaker.
Article highlights:
- Their group hired a luxury 5-bedroom chalet which can be rented between 11,000-17,000 euros/week. It comes complete with a resident chef, steam room, roaring log fire, and plasma TV room.
- "They both clearly love their skiing and hit the slopes everyday"
- "The Prince is a very competent skier, but Kate is even better than he is." He did very well to keep up with her
- They rented their ski gear
- A trusted member of their circle said there has been no talk of an engagement this year – which is not surprising
- William is cramming an 8-month course into 6 months. He's allowed this holiday week off before starting the final stage of training
- Kate is still with Party Pieces. "Kate is not hiding away, she goes out in London a lot, leading a normal life, using public transport often, but she just hasn't been spotted. While it's true she doesn't like the paparazzi, she hasn't been trying to avoid them. She is simply going about her business like a normal 28-year-old." She and William have remained low key, meeting regularly.


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|October 30th, 2012, 04:45 PM
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Mitt Romney
So I know there is a lot of you here that support him. So tell me if he happens to win what good do you all believe he will do for this country? Personally I believe he wasn't good enough for the republican party in 2008 and he was the only option for this election. So educate me on what I may not know about him. After talking to my grandfather ( who is a republican ) said his father was not good for our state. I wasn't around then to know. Ready GO!
|October 30th, 2012, 04:50 PM
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I think he will manage our issues like the successful businessman he is. He will focus less on blaming "the other guy" and more on identifying and implementing specific solutions across party lines within defined timelines. I think he will be like the federal equivalent of Rick Snyder.
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He's not Obama
(mr.green)So you are calling CC a liar?? Not a nice way to treat your bitch.
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Avoid 4 more years of this socialist leaning agenda. Start taking advantage of our natural resources in the ground, natural gas/coal. Rid us of a president that wants $8 a gallon gas. Repeal Obamacare. Run this country like a business, with a budget. Make me feel proud about being a Christian, feeling like you have to hide it, and not that I'm a racist for being white. How much more you want? A president that doesn't care about the next Jay-Z/Beyonce concert and focuses on the economy.
This country didn't prosper because of taxes and regulations. We will be prosporous again because we are working, using our resources.
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|October 30th, 2012, 05:14 PM
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Now for the guy that compared him to Snyder. I voted for Snyder and he is ok but I don't like how he is messing with the retiree's. They put in their time and deserve their retirement. Other than that I don't mind him. I'd like to see his bridge get built to screw up maddy's monopoly he has going on.
|October 30th, 2012, 05:21 PM
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If you still have not decided who to vote for you need to take a good look at your self and figure out your values and morals, ask yourself about integrity. Do you like baseball and apple pie? If you still don't know what to do maybe you should not vote at all.
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The real question you need to ask yourself is... Do you really support the man who left our people to die (and watched it on a Predator feed) knowing he could stop it at any time and then lies about what happened over and over again to not just Congress but also You, Me, Our Families and the rest of America even though more than enough facts have come out proving what he keeps saying is a lie?
This is the greatest scandal/cover up of our generation. Nixon was impeached for Watergate... no one died. Clinton's mess... no one died.
Why in God's name would you support that knowing what you know now?
At the very least give someone else a shot at fixing our problems.
|October 30th, 2012, 05:50 PM
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Post #'s 2,3,4,8 & 10 pretty much sum it up.
Do you want more gun control or less?
Do you want more government control or less?
Do you want more taxes or less?
Do you want more people on welfare or less?
Obama = more.
Romney = less.
Do you want a weaker military or a stronger one?
Obama wants to reduce our military.
Do you want more liberals or conservatives in the Supreme court?
The next president is likely to appoint at least 2 justices to the Supreme Court. Obama's track record is to appoint VERY liberal justices.
Do you want your president going around the world apologizing for us?
Do you want a president who is pro international treaty that allows foreign countries to monitor our gun ownership? Obama and Hillary were both very pro during these discussions last summer.
|October 30th, 2012, 06:15 PM
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This candidates ideological ideas of what America is and should be could not contrast each other any further. No way is this race about just a couipla policies, this race is about the future of this nation as we know it.
|October 30th, 2012, 06:17 PM
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Statistics Even Brewman can not defend.
#1 The percentage of Americans that own homes is dropping rapidly. According to Gallup, the current level of home ownership in the United States is the lowest that Gallup has ever measured.
#2 Home prices in the U.S. continue to fall like a rock as well. They have declined for six months in a row and are now down a total of 35 percent from the peak of the housing bubble. The last time that home prices in the United States were this low was back in 2002.
#3 Last year, an astounding 53 percent of all U.S. college graduates under the age of 25 were either unemployed or underemployed.
#4 Back in 2007, about 10 percent of all unemployed Americans had been out of work for 52 weeks or longer. Today, that number is above 30 percent.
#5 When Barack Obama first became president, the number of long-term unemployed workers in the United States was 2.6 million. Today, it is 5.3 million.
#6 The average duration of unemployment in the United States is about three times as long as it was back in the year 2000.
#7 Despite what the mainstream media would have us to believe, the truth is that the percentage of working age Americans that are employed is not increasing. Back in March 2010, 58.5 percent of all working age Americans were employed. In March 2011, 58.5 percent of all working age Americans were employed. In March 2012, 58.5 percent of all working age Americans were employed. So how can Barack Obama and the mainstream media claim that the employment situation in the United States is getting better? The employment rate is still essentially exactly where it was when the last recession supposedly ended.
#8 Back in 1950, more than 80 percent of all men in the United States had jobs. Today, less than 65 percent of all men in the United States have jobs.
#9 In 1962, 28 percent of all jobs in America were manufacturing jobs. In 2011, only 9 percent of all jobs in America were manufacturing jobs.
#10 In some areas of Detroit, Michigan you can buy a three bedroom home for just $500.
#11 According to one recent survey, approximately one-third of all Americans are not paying their bills on time at this point.
#12 Since Barack Obama entered the White House, the price of gasoline has risen by more than 100 percent.
#13 The student loan debt bubble continues to expand at a very frightening pace. Recently it was announced that total student loan debt in the United States has passed the one trillion dollar mark.
#14 Incredibly, one out of every four jobs in the United States pays $10 an hour or less at this point.
#15 Household incomes all over the United States continue to fall. After adjusting for inflation, median household income in America has declined by 7.8 percent since December 2007.
#16 Over the past several decades, government dependence has risen to unprecedented heights in the United States. The following is how I described the explosive growth of social welfare benefitsin one recent article .
Back in 1960, social welfare benefits made up approximately 10 percent of all salaries and wages. In the year 2000, social welfare benefits made up approximately21 percent of all salaries and wages. Today, social welfare benefits make up approximately 35 percent of all salaries and wages.
#17 In November 2008, 30.8 million Americans were on food stamps. Today, more than 46 million Americans are on food stamps.
#18 Right now, more than 25 percent of all American children are on food stamps.
#19 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, today 49 percent of all Americans live in a home that receives some form of benefits from the federal government.
#20 Over the next 75 years, Medicare is facing unfunded liabilities of more than 38 trillion dollars. That comes to $328,404 for each and every household in the United States.
#21 During the first quarter of 2012, U.S. public debt rose by 359.1 billion dollars. U.S. GDP only rose by 142.4 billion dollars.
#22 At this point, the U.S. national debt is rising by more than 2 million dollars every single minute.
#23 The U.S. national debt has risen by more than 5 trillion dollars since the day that Barack Obama first took office. In a little more than 3 years Obama has added more to the national debt than the first 41 presidents combined.
#24 The Federal Reserve bought up approximately 61 percent of all government debt issued by the U.S. Treasury Department during 2011.
#25 The Federal Reserve continues to systematically destroy the value of the U.S. dollar. Since 1970, the U.S. dollar has lost more than 83 percent of its value.
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Get the movie Obama 2016. Watch it and compare it to what he has done so far and that will give you an idea of what our future as America the free will look like.
The man does not know what it is like to be an American, if he did he would be doing more to preserve this nation and not flush it down the toilet.
The above quote says it all.
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|October 30th, 2012, 07:57 PM
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Obie is a hard-core Chicago-style partisan - Romney has a track record of bipartisanship
Libya. There are no excuses.
Our economy is a wreck; while Obie didn't cause it, he's done little to nothing to help it, and with the half-baked "stimulus" (i.e. pay back my loyal campaign supporters) he made it worse. Romney is a very successful businessman. We've had enough lawyers and social workers - it's time for a businessman.
Obie used the GM bailout to pay off the UAW for services rendered. It is a clear case of political cronyism to a degree that Dubya/Cheney couldn't conceive.
Paul Ryan > 1000 * Biden.
This is the Pub. Leave common sense at the door.
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I Call Fishy
When this post first came out, I posted the first comment (because I follow RSS I can detect almost immediately when a post comes out) - you can see it above. A little bit later Engineer-Poet replied directly to mine. When I last looked at this post, that's all the comments there were.
I come back today, and a comment has magically appeared before mine - interestingly, exactly one minute before. Another comment has been inserted in between mine and the engineer's.
The narrative has as a consequence been completely changed. When I say "you'd also be the first to complain" I am referring specifically to Joanne Jacobs, who is a chronic complainer and dumper-on of all things public education.
But now it looks as though I am responding directly to the previous comment. The vaguely named 'sunana' talks about bureaucrats, and I'm talking about bureaucrats!
Then bill eccleston makes explicit the point of the post, "the students should adopt a 'shove it' attitude toward the authorities," and then two posts down expands on Engineer-Poet's point: "It is unlikely that five people would ever die in Thoreau's cabin."
The net result is that, instead of my making a point that directly addressed the core weakness of the Jacob column, I appear to be engaged in trivial disputes with the other commenters.
Now the times of the comments are set by the server, and therefore cannot be blamed on time zone variance. Moreover, I checked the comments myself well after the time had passed in other time zones.
So I conclude that this is fishy. At the very least, it demands an explanation. How are comments that are being posted later appearing at the top of the list?
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Nothing new about comment approval queues - comments being hidden until approval. Neither your comment, nor the previous one, was visible until approved.ReplyDelete
Also: I don't believe that any of the subsequent commenters assumed your response was solely directed at the comment preceding yours. And even if they did, the preceding comment agreed with the overall sentiment of the Jacobs post, while yours posted an argument against both.
Final conclusion? Posting about the order in which comments appear and complaining it could make one seem trivial, is ironically, in this case, trivial. :p
> Neither your comment, nor the previous one, was visible until approved.ReplyDelete
No, that's not true, comments appear right away on that blog; there is no approval queue.
OK, I went back and checked the original post, and Joanne Jacobs says new commenters are queued for approval. That make sense and is a good explanation.ReplyDelete
The blog owner would disagree with you:ReplyDelete
Joanne says:
November 7, 2010 at 2:07 pm
"Engineer-Poet is correct. Comments by newcomers go into a pending queue until I get a chance to read and approve them. At that time, the comment is posted by when it was received originally."
Oops - please delete that last comment, it is quite redundant. :-)ReplyDelete
Still, comments should be time stamped as of the moment of submission, not the time of approval. The sequence of commentary is of paramount importance.ReplyDelete


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The Double Life of Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan had sent just a handful of tweets in her life when she decided to do something bold: to publish an entire short story on Twitter. People had tweeted fiction before, but not anybody who had just won the Pulitzer Prize (which she won for her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad). "Black Box," which was published 140 characters at a time through The New Yorker's Twitter feed, is a sci-fi thriller about a rookie spy who has been dropped into a dangerous situation she doesn't understand at all.
Egan feels like she can relate to the double life of a spy; she's a writer. "I'm living a fairly conventional life in my real life, but I feel like I have this alternate world that I'm visiting all the time," she tells Kurt Andersen. "It's the feeling of being lifted out of my life into another world that is the thrill of writing fiction."
Egan might never have entered that other world if not for a series of panic attacks she had at the age of 18. While backpacking alone around Europe, she began to have bouts of terror she couldn't predict. "I didn't know what was wrong with me," she says. "I really thought I was losing my mind." Those panic attacks helped her decide to become a writer. "Writing couldn't solve the terror, but somehow narrating it made it feel like I was somehow ultimately in control of it rather than the other way around."
"I always feel very afraid as I work on books," Egan tells Kurt. Having a Pulitzer under her belt didn't make it easier. "It's just so hard to write a decent book! Even if you feel like maybe you came close to doing it once or twice," Egan says. But the fear is useful: it lets her know she's on the right track. "If I'm doing something I know I can pull off, then that's not the book I should be writing."
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I saw the commercial below for Target's "Everyday Collection" yesterday morning as I finished getting ready to come in to the station. I had to pause, re-wind, and watch again. I thought it was the most bizarre commercial I'd ever seen.The ripping open of food packaging and fruit in slow-mo, the unusual music, and then the ending voice over: "Baby gets what baby wants."
Upon watching the commercial a second time in preparation for this post, I realized the model/actress in the commercial is pregnant. Okay, "baby gets, etc." makes a little more sense. But I still think it's just plain weird. And not good weird, either, like a Geico commercial. Which is why I again paraphrase Jerry Seinfeld: "Who were the ad wizards who came up with this one?!"
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Re: st: adjusted Mann-Whitney/Wilcoxon test
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Re: st: adjusted Mann-Whitney/Wilcoxon test
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To me, stratified generally means controlling for a non-continuous covariate.
On Apr 9, 2009, at 10:45 AM, Constantine Daskalakis wrote:
I have the same question as Ricardo.
By stratified, we mean controlling for another covariate:
Wilcoxon of Y by X, controlling for Z
StatXact does this stratified Wilcoxon.
David, the parallel is Mantel-Haenszel for dichotomous outcome.
So, the command would look something like this:
ranksum y x, by(z)
ranksum y, by(x) strata(z)
On 4/9/2009 10:44 AM, David Airey wrote:
If ttest generalizes to regress, then ranksum generalizes to what?
There is a lot of literature on ranksum tests with clustered data
if that's what you mean. Maybe you can define your data more
On Apr 9, 2009, at 8:44 AM, Ricardo Ovaldia wrote:
Dear all,
Is there a way to adjust the -ranksum- test for covariates? Or is
there another way to do an adjusted Mann-Whitney U test? Something
similar to relationsip between ttest and regress.
Thank you,
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Oklahoma City, OK
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This is a discussion on This is pretty much how I park now within the Everyday Impreza Talk forums, part of the Community - Meet other Enthusiasts category; This was halfway between the mall entrance and my car. In my row of cars was an Evo, Miata, Audi ...
I just park in van accessible handicap spots instead of the normal ones. Less worry about dings that way.
I have to say I laughed at this. Because it was a joke right? lol
Yuuup. I park far out, because I'm still getting comfortable with the car. It works out, because it's maybe three spots out from where I normally would park.
Then a minivan full of children and an SUV full of large people park on either side of me... when I'm the only car out in Guam.
I've helped wear a lot of shoes over the years by parking far far away. It works.
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Just be careful being that far away from your car. Especially at night.
I do that too, and this week when I washed my car and got all the yellow pollen off I noticed a nice big dent in my passenger door...pretty sure it was from a rogue shopping cart on a windy day, definitely isn't from another car door. Just know you can never escape things, well you may be able to but I have some of the worst luck ever.
Oh, and to add to the fun for me, it can't be repaired by PDR because it's right where the side crash beam is...yep, that means it's going to be 400-600 bucks to have the door taken apart, dent beat out and door repainted. Good times!
I've been told I have manly handwriting, so it probably doesn't have the same effect... oh well.
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Something to do with Margaret Thatcher's eye operation then? Don't be so narrow-sighted. Cataract also means rapids, which was how the Nile used to be where this hotel was built by Thomas Cook in 1899. The Baroness stayed here in the 80s.
Aswan's 500 miles up river from Cairo and 81 miles south of Luxor - is it worth the trip? The hotel is on a granite outcrop that bubbles over into the green Nile, overlooking 3,000-year-old garrison ruins on Elephantine Island. For location, style and comfort it is unmatchable. Agatha Christie wrote many whodunnits in her suite.
The perfect place to plot a murder or a novel then? You're more likely to plot it than execute it, so soporific is the mix of marble flagstones, intricate carpets, mashrabia wooden screens, hot desert days and nights, good food and drink. Its cleanliness would have delighted the hypochondriac Poirot.
So, mon ami, give me the low down on the rooms. Desirably frigid air conditioning, fresh fruit every day and karate style robes. Save the 1902 Dining Room, with its vaulted ceilings, Moorish arches and golden dinner service, for breakfasts. Even though it's fed Tsar Nicolas II, Tutankhamen tomb discoverer Howard Carter and Churchill, the dinner I had was expensive at half the price.
So what to do while there? As little as possible. Lounge by the swimming pool. Take felucca rides to Botanical Island and the Tombs of the Nobles on the desert side. Visit the Temple of Isis at Philae and the temples and statuary at Abu Simbel.
· Sofitel Old Cataract Hotel, Aswan, Egypt (00 20 97 316000) Double rooms cost from $263 (£170) per night, to book contact Sofitel (0870 609 0964).


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Children who watch two or more hours of television each day are much more likely to grow into overweight smokers with high cholesterol, New Zealand researchers have found.
In a long-term study of 1000 children, the scientists proved a clear link between more than two hours a day of television and increased weight, raised cholesterol and cigarette addiction by the time the children reached their mid-20s.
The link remained strong regardless of socio-economic status, the child's weight at age five, or whether the child's parents were overweight or smokers, said study leader Bob Hancox, a developmental health expert from New Zealand's Otago University.
The amount of physical activity the child undertook during their teen years also made no difference.
"Among all 26-year-olds, 17 per cent of overweight, 15 per cent of raised blood cholesterol, 17 per cent of smoking and 15 per cent of poor fitness can be attributed to watching television for more than two hours a day during childhood and adolescence," Dr Hancox said.
"These health indicators... are well-established risk factors for cardiovascular illness and (early) death. Our results suggest that excessive television viewing in young people is likely to have far-reaching consequences for adult health." Parents should limit children's viewing to less than one hour a day, Dr Hancox said in today's issue of in the international medical journal, The Lancet.
"We believe that reducing TV viewing should become a population health priority," Dr Hancox said.
US obesity specialist David Ludwig said the study strengthened the case for a ban on food advertising aimed at children. "In an era when childhood obesity has reached crisis proportions, the commercial food industry has no business telling toddlers to consume fast food, soft drinks and high-calorie low-quality snacks - all products linked to excessive weight gain," he said.


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outlet in bathroom cabinet OK?
I would like to install a GFCI outlet on the side of my bathroom vanity cabinet. Is this permitted by NEC? Any extra rules relating to running the wire? Thanks
What would it be used for?
I don't know of anything in the NEC prohibiting this.
How do you plan on running the wire?
Any chance of a picture? :)
There is nothing against this, but any exposed wires in the cabinet must be encased in conduit, either flexible or ridgid. We install outlets in the sides of cabinets all the time for kitchen islands.
Thanks for your comments. It will be used for a hair dryer, mostly. There is a tall linen cabinet next to the counter. I will run the wire up from the basement (using conduit :) ). The outlet will be recessed in the cabinet itself, just above the counter level. I think it's a go. Any other thoughts?
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Ron grew up in a Christian family (General Conference Baptist) in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. He trusted Jesus Christ as Savior when he was nine years old, during Vacation Bible School. Ron first felt God calling him into Christian ministry while in high school, and committed his life to God fully while a junior at Princeton University. God then led Ron to Faith Theological Seminary and Biblical Theological Seminary in the Philadelphia area.
Like Ron, Jeannie grew up in a biblical Christian home. After her father died, when she was four years old, Jeannie asked Jesus to be her Savior and Lord.
While Ron was at Princeton, Jeannie was studying at Moore College of Art, with a passion to share Christ through creative artistic efforts. It was at this time that they met and married. The couple set their hearts on serving the Lord as creative artists, and essentially doing missional work using their skills and training.
While Ron was in seminary, people they met through their drama ministry and Jeannie's teaching position at Wissahickon High School started coming to their apartment for Bible study. Those were the "Jesus people" days and God's Spirit was moving. The group became so large that a local pastor asked Ron if he would begin a youth ministry at Church of the Open Door in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. Jeannie and Ron thoroughly enjoyed this flourishing work for four years, from 1971 to 1975, and in 1974 Ron was ordained at Church of the Open Door.
A series of clearly providential works of God led Ron to take the pastorate at Fellowship Baptist Chapel (now called Fellowship Chapel) in Sterling Heights, Michigan, in 1975. On July 1, 2011, Ron completed forty years of pastoral ministry, serving several churches during that time.
For the last eighteen years of his ministry, while pastor of a North American Baptist Conference church, Ron did mission work in Central Europe. Now he and Jeannie are devoting the balance of their career service to Hungary. They spent three months in Hungary during the latter part of 2011 to set up this work.
Ron and Jeannie are confident that God has called them to expand and continue their passion for His glory in Central Europe with their ministry to the Roma people. Using their gifts of faith, leadership, preaching, teaching, administration, and hospitality, they plan to develop at least five pilot Roma communities in Hungary, Croatia, and Serbia in the next five years. In these communities they will train Roma workers in evangelism and holistic ministry to meet the great need for holistic help. Their goals are to plant and build up Roma Baptist churches, and especially for Jesus to change lives.
On December 9, 2011, Rev. Ronald and Jeannie Seck were approved by the NAB, and accepted their appointment as NAB missionaries to Hungary. On February 2, 2012, they plan to leave to begin their full-time work in Hungary.
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The Smithsonian's National Collection of Fishes is the largest and most diverse collection of its kind, with an estimated four million individual fish specimens representing more than 70 percent of the world's fish species. Encompassing males, females, juveniles, larvae, and even eggs, these specimens serve as a historical record of fish biodiversity and a working reference library for scientists around the world.
The care, maintenance, and loan of these collections are the responsibility of a handful of museum specialists, like Sandra Raredon, who has been at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History for 25 years. For most of that time, radiology has also been part of her job responsibilities. Her striking black-and-white radiographs, or x-rays, of fish, stingrays, eels, and seahorses—"anything with a backbone," she notes—reveal the complex bone structure in a level of detail reminiscent of fine engraving.
At the same time, the images (99 percent of which are digital rather than film) provide a wealth of valuable information. "Radiographs allow the study of the skeleton of a fish without dissecting or in any other way altering the specimen," says Lynne Parenti, curator of the exciting new SITES exhibition X-ray Vision: Fish Inside Out. Many of the images are also now available via the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History Flickr photostream.
Forty dramatic digital prints are paired with illustrated labels that explore the scientific, environmental, and photographic relevance of each specimen. Interpretive panels describe how the study of fish skeletons, fin spines, and teeth helps scientists differentiate one species from another and examine fish anatomy and evolutionary development. Other panels document the process of scientific digital image preparation and explore the critical role of such collection data in understanding the long-term effects of climate and planetary change on diverse species.
The exhibition is accompanied by a stunning book titled Ichthyo: The Architecture of Fish (Chronicle Books, 2008), which combines more than 100 photographs with essays on scientific imagery, ichthyology and biodiversity, evolution and beauty, and the significance of the Smithsonian's collections.
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Ichthyo: The Architecture of Fish (Chronicle Books, 2008).
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Introduction by Stephanie Comer,and Deborah Klochko; Essays by Dr. Daniel Pauly,and Jean-Michel Cousteau,and Dr. Lynne R. Parenti
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Striking X-rays of Fish Dazzle in Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition
Fish are vertebrates—animals with backbones—and have bodies supported by a bony skeleton. Variations in the skeleton, such as the number of vertebrae or the position of fins, are documented with X-rays. The Smithsonian's National Collection of these Fish X-rays represent more than 70 percent of the world's fish specimen and is the largest and most diverse collection of its kind in the world. Although the X-rays featured in the national collection were made for research purposes, the strikingly elegant images demonstrate the natural union of science and art and are a visual retelling of the evolution of fish. "X-ray Vision: Fish Inside Out," an exhibition from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), will showcase these dramatic prints exposing the inner workings of the fish.
"X-ray Vision" will premiere at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History in New Haven, Conn., July 2, and will be on view until Jan. 8, 2012. The exhibition will then travel around the country on a 10-city national tour through 2015.
The exhibition features 40 black-and-white digital prints of several different specimen of fish. Arranged in evolutionary sequence, these X-rays give a tour through the long stream of fish evolution. The X-rays have allowed Smithsonian and other scientists to study the skeleton of a fish without altering the sampling making it easier for scientists to build a comprehensive picture of fish diversity.
Curators of the exhibition, Lynne Parenti and Sandra Raredon, have worked in the Division of Fishes at the National Museum of Natural History collecting thousands of X-rays of fish specimens to help ichthyologists understand and document the diversity of fishes. Rare or unique specimens make particularly interesting and informative images. X-rays may also reveal other details of natural history: undigested food or prey in the gut might reveal to an ichthyologist what a fish had for its last meal. To make comparisons easier, radiographers X-ray one fish per frame—with each one facing left—but they will prepare shots of several fish if a scientist wants to compare a group.
"X-ray Vision: Fish Inside and Out" is inspired by the book Icthyo: The Architecture of Fish: X-Rays from the Smithsonian Institution (Chronicle Books, 2008) by Daniel Pauly, Lynne Parenti and Jean-Michel Cousteau.
The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, located at 10th Street and Constitution Avenue N.W. in Washington, D.C., welcomed more than 6 million visitors annually. The museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. every day during the summer from March 25 through Sept. 4. Visit www.mnh.si.edu for early closure on select days throughout the summer. Admission is free. For further information, call (202) 633-1000, TTY (202) 357-1729 or visit the museum's website at www.mnh.si.edu.
SITES has been sharing the wealth of Smithsonian collections and research programs with millions of people outside Washington, D.C., for almost 60 years. SITES connects Americans to their shared cultural heritage through a wide range of exhibitions about art, science and history, which are shown wherever people live, work and play. Exhibition descriptions and tour schedules are available at www.sites.si.edu.
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Up to 10 per cent of high school students are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transsexual, and vulnerable to homophobic bullying, says the Post Primary Teachers' Association.
PPTA president Robin Duff said yesterday that recent research showed New Zealanders who "came out" in their teens were more likely to opt out of higher education because of bullying.
The Lavender Islands study called for teachers and principals to be supportive of the needs of gay and lesbian teens. Duff said: "Many schools are addressing violence and bullying but a major aspect of it - a person's gender and sexuality - is often overlooked."
He added that research showed that students who were bullied often resorted to self-harm.
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Rihanna had a huge night at the 2013 American Music Awards. She gave a stunning performance of her hit "Diamonds" after winning the first ever Icon Award.
Rihanna wore a long, black, low-cut dress with a pearl choker and pearl bobby pins in her short hair.
After her performance, a video played of Jay-Z presenting the award to her. Then, Rihanna's mother came onstage to present her with the actual award and deliver a heartfelt speech to her daughter.
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Rihanna also took home honors as the nation's favorite soul/R&B female artist.
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(Moscow). Calling them emissaries of compassion, dedication and hope, The Idaho State Board of Education unanimously voted to recognize and commend Idaho's vocational rehabilitation counselors.
"These are people who working so very hard and with little to no acknowledgement of their efforts and dedication," said Board Secretary Don Soltman of Twin Lakes. "Their work is imperative to the future success of those they serve."
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 was declared by the United States Senate as National Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor Appreciation Day. The declaration is intended to commend the hard work and dedication that rehab counselors provide to individuals in need.
In Idaho, the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation is an agency of the Idaho State Board of Education due to the nature of their mission in helping to educate and assist individuals with disabilities to find employment, live more independently through education, training and other individualized services.


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Arrogant, aggressive, amoral and a bit of a dick. If you're trying to sum up Marvel's kamikaze anti-hero Deadpool, that'll pretty much do it.
They're all traits that make Deadpool - a foul-mouthed hot-head who debuted in comic book form in 1991 and has gone on to become a cult favourite - a prime candidate for a bloodthirsty video game adaptation.
On that front, High Moon Studios has not disappointed.
Deadpool - last portrayed by Ryan Reynolds in that middling first Wolverine movie - combines arcade-style action with the character's trademark brand of sadistic humour, vicious violence and some timely in-jokes about video game cliches.
The result is a game that's light on intellectual stimulation, but heavy on relentlessly bloodthirsty aggression and sick LOLs.
Rest assured, the game's R18 rating is warranted. Deadpool's upgradable arsenal includes knives, machetes, guns and flash grenades and they can be used to dispatch enemies in increasingly inventive ways, thanks to some easily-learned combos.
Blood, guts and body parts are left splattered around sewer drains as the game progresses.
Combined with Deadpool's love of the F-word, this is not a game that you should play in front of your mum.
But it's Deadpool's sick sense of humour that really impresses: with a plot that involves a kind of self-referential commentary on the video game industry, Deadpool gets to throw in regular wisecracks about lame script twists and predictable narrative devices.
At one point Deadpool deliberately turns into an 8-bit top view game that he says was the result of budget cuts.
It's a storytelling method called "breaking the fourth wall"; in Deadpool it feels fresh and genuinely funny.
And fanboys will be pleased to note that fellow Marvel characters like Wolverine, Psylocke and Mister Sinister all make regular appearances.
Okay, so the arcade-style action can get repetitive, button-mashing becomes essential in places, end-of-level boss baddies soon become predictable and are easily taken down; some of the cut scenes seem a little rushed, and occasionally there are issues with camera lag.
But if you're into old-school arcade action and Kick-Ass style humour, Deadpool will give you at least a weekend's worth of solid entertainment.
Just make sure you check your political correctness in at the door.
Stars: 3.5/5
Platform: PS3
Rated: R18
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Let them eat pork! Hogs are wonderful and highly intelligent animals…it's a pity they taste so good. But not only are they a symbol for good health around most of the world, they have been and could be again, extremely helpful in the war on terror. For instance, in 1911 U.S. General John J. ("Blackjack") Pershing stopped Islamic Terrorist attacks in the Philippines by using pigs as counter-terrorists. Huh?
When a number of terrorists were captured, general Pershing arranged for their execution but did so in a manner to persuade them that they would go to hell. He did this by having all of the terrorists except one dig their own graves, be shot with bullets that were drenched in pig blood and fat, have pig intestines and blood poured over their bodies in their graves, and by making sure that the one terrorist, whose life was spared, be set loose so he could inform his terrorist friends what happened…Muslims were being doomed to hell by being killed and buried with unclean pigs.
Can anything be learned from this piece of history? Perhaps!
It is politically incorrect to do something that is offensive to another's religion, probably more incorrect than killing someone that is trying to kill you…but pork has worked in the past and therefore probably should be tried again. Pigs are smart animals and make great pets…it really is a shame that bacon, ham and barbecue ribs taste so good. But even if many Americans eventually decide to avoid eating swine, the tasty hog can still play a large role in fighting radical Islamic terrorism…remember general Pershing.


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