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WHITESBURG, Ga. Newlyweds Jordy and Lindsey Wilson, whose leisure pursuits embrace outdoor activities such as canoeing, hiking, camping and fishing, came to the woods of west Georgia on Saturday for a day of zip lining.
"I'm a little scared, but I'm really excited," says Lindsey Wilson, 24, minutes before she goes soaring through and above the forest canopy. "It's excitement and a little adrenaline," says Jordy, 23, who gave her the zip-line tour for her birthday.
Another couple, Phil Danford, 22, and Meliah Whipple, 20, have been to Disney World, on cruises, canoeing trips and outings to Tennessee. They went skydiving earlier this year. Today, like the Wilsons, they're here seeking an adventure out of the ordinary — something new and different.
About 58% of Americans under 50 are satisfied with the amount of leisure time they have, compared with 67% for those 50-64 and 81% of those 65 and older.
For some twentysomethings, that sense of having less leisure time than they would like means squeezing every thrill possible out of leisure activities and trying to make every event memorable.
Zip lining, a fast-growing outdoor activity that began in Costa Rica, involves stepping into a harness, climbing to a platform and getting hooked to a cable up to 300 feet off the ground. Those daring enough then go "zipping" along from one treetop station to the next at up to 65-70 mph. Canopy tours, which include trekking across a 600-foot-long "sky bridge" suspended 170 feet above a gorge, cover more than 51/2 miles here at Historic Banning Mills, which says it has the world's largest continuous zip line eco-canopy tour.
On this day, most of the dozen or so people zipping through the trees are twentysomethings. But this place has hosted zip liners from age 9 to 91, says Donna Holder, who founded and owns Historic Banning Mills with her husband, Mike. "It's very, very popular right now," she says. "Six or seven years ago, there were just three (sites) in the U.S."
Now, about 150 zip-line courses in the USA are members of the Association for Challenge Course Technology, which sets standards for zip-line courses; at least that many more aren't members, says Sonny Oztas, general manager of the association. "It allows people to enjoy nature without disturbing nature," he says. "It's a booming industry."
The growth in zip lining bucks a trend in Americans' leisure activities: Experts say that many outdoor recreational activities — hunting, fishing, camping, visits to state and national parks — are declining. The reasons why are elusive:
The decline in some outdoor activities might reflect the nation's aging demographic: "Outdoor recreation is generally associated with younger people, people with higher education and higher incomes," says Geoffrey Godbey, professor emeritus in the Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Management at Pennsylvania State University.
"We can hypothesize," says Anna Harris, an economist at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, referring to the decline in hunting. "People don't have enough time, or they're not exposed to it as more people live in urban areas."
The only form of the sport that's growing in the USA is turkey hunting, which is also seeing more female hunters, Harris says. The biggest hunting declines have been in small game, which includes rabbit and squirrel: a 58% drop since 1975. Yet revenue from fishing and hunting, which funds conservation programs, remains consistent.
That means hunters pay more for licenses, sporting arms and ammunition, which carry federal excise taxes that fund state wildlife programs.
Those higher costs, and the fact that hunting is not being passed down from father to son, are key reasons for the hunting decline, says Greg Jones, 59, an avid hunter for 35 years who has stalked deer through the woods near here.
"It's a total involvement," Jones, a Georgia State University employee, says as he puts away two venison roasts he's trimming. "It's an outdoor adventure. It's a challenge of man against nature, and it's food gathering."
A challenge of another sort draws many to try zip lining.
"They're looking for a unique experience, something different that's going to take them out of their box a little bit and challenge them just a little bit," Holder says. "We help people know they can do more than they thought they could do. When they complete a tour, they feel they've accomplished something."
When the Wilsons return, Lindsey says: "It more than met my expectations. It was just a whole new experience."
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I will be in the area next summer. Looking for some good restaurants to visit with family. Not looking for anything fancy OR pricey. Just good food at good prices. Who has the best burger, pizza, etc??
I was reading about the Purple Cow on some other review websites..since there aren't any on TA yet. Was just wondering if it is good OR if there are any other great places I should consider visiting.
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013
A professional organizer sounds off about family portraits
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I come from a family that would get a family portrait just about every year by a professional photographer. A few of them were in matching outfits and some of them were in very nice natural settings. I give a lot of credit to that photographer and his wife for their skill in wrangling smiles out of all seven of us kids all at once.
My dad would order a large 2' x 2' photo print of our family each year to put on the wall in the hall leading down to the master bedroom. (Okay, I don't know the actual dimensions, but I know they were large.) The older we got, the more fun it was to meander down the hall and look at all the family pictures to see how we had changed over time. When we brought dates home, they were similarly enthralled with the picture wall.
Cut to one year ago when I'm helping my mom go through all her parents' belongings at her parents' house to try to decide what to keep. Her mother (Barbara) is still alive, but now staying with my mom, across the country from Barbara's house. Gma Barbara can't care for her house anymore and will likely never return to it. In the process of looking for letters, important documents, home movies, photo albums, journals, and so on, my mother finds a large framed black-and-white portrait photograph of her grandfather (my great-grandfather McKnight). It's 2' x 1.5'. She decides to keep it.
So my professional organizer mind started thinking about this picture of my GGpa McKnight and I realized what a hassle large family portraits can become over time. Is GGpa McKnight's portrait something my mom wants to hang on the wall, or is his picture going to go in a box somewhere? And if on the wall, why such a large portrait for only one man? Where is the rest of the family? From a family history perspective, you want a portrait in a small form so you can copy and share it. Large portraits in frames make it hard to do that if they are larger than a normal-sized flatbed scanner.
Then I started thinking about all the large family portraits on the picture wall. What happens to them when my parents die? They will probably be split among my siblings and I. But let's face it; it's going to be hard for us to choose our favorite picture. And do I imagine that we'll settle perfectly on our own choice without some squabbling? No, it will be a difficult negotiation process. Looking through the sequence makes them all the more interesting, so I imagine that deep down we'd all like a copy of all the pictures, but none of us will have room at home for them all. In this kind of situation, family portraits become much more useful if they can be shrunk down to 8'' x 10" size and put in page protectors in a family history binder or photo album.
This is when I realized that if family portraits had been printed that size (or smaller) in the first place, we would not have this issue to begin with.
I have clients who store a stack of large framed family portraits of older generations or divorced family because there is no room to hang them on the wall or they are from too long ago, but they can't get rid of them because it is family history and they can't find any smaller way to store them.
So here's my opinion of large framed family portraits:
· They're a waste of space
· They make it hard to pass family pictures on to the next generation because of the difficulty of storing them and sharing them.
· They're too big to scan in a normal scanner
In contrast, 8" x 10" family pictures are ideal.
· They are big enough to frame and put on a wall.
· They are small enough for the next generation to remove from the frame and put in a scrapbook.
· They are small enough to put in a flatbed scanner, digitize, and share widely.
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Thursday, May 30, 2013
Do you really need to seasonally change your décor?
One of the ways that our consumer culture tries to get us to buy more is to attempt to convince us in trendy magazine articles that we must redecorate every time the season changes. The rationale is that the change gives the house a fresh look.
As a professional organizer, I take exception to this because it multiplies clutter.
- If you are into the seasonal décor thing, that means each season you have 3X more out-of-season décor you have to store someplace!
- If you feel the need to change your décor every three months, that's an indication that your décor isn't meaningful enough or doesn't have enough of a visual impact for you to want to display it all the time.
I recently saw an article that suggested changing out sofa throw pillows, flowers, table center pieces, wreaths, books, family pictures, and chalkboard quotes. Here's my response:
Change out sofa throw pillows—To speak frankly, your couch must be boring if you have to buy throw pillows to make it interesting. A couch is such a big part of the room and stays there for so long that it really is worth shopping around (or ordering something custom) in order to find a couch that will remain visually fresh to you all the time. (And if you're wondering, yes, I did take my own advice on this. My couch is hyper-actively rainbow-colored.)
Flowers—I'm not complaining here if you use fresh flowers. But if you rotate through arrangements of fake flowers, it is possible the flowers arrangements aren't giving you all the visual impact that you need.
Change out wreaths—Once upon a time, people used to make their own wreaths out of plants they gathered themselves. Once the wreath decayed, it went into the trash or the compost heap, so there was nothing to clutter storage spaces. Multiple fake wreaths are just more to store.
Chalkboard quotes—If you do this, don't do it just because it is the fashion. Do it because the changing quotes help you stay inspired. Chalkboards are messy and not inherently attractive.
Change out the books on display—I'm sorry, but rotating books on display just because of the different covers seems so shallow to me. Books are an ingenious device for transmitting one person's ideas across time and space to another person, a repository of thought and knowledge. Aren't you interested in reading them?
Changing out family pictures from frames—If you're changing out the large family pictures, you probably have too many pictures. If you're changing out the small pictures, your pictures probably aren't nice enough to stay up all the time. If your small pictures are nice enough to stay out all the time, you probably should blow them up larger (but not too large) and frame them so they will have more visual impact. (8" x 10" is just right.) (I'll say more about family pictures soon.)
Changing out table centerpieces—If you're changing out centerpieces, your centerpiece collection is taking up valuable storage space.
DO NOT BUY INTO THE ADVICE TO ROTATE YOUR DÉCOR! It is just a ploy to get you to buy more and it will just fill up your storage with low priority stuff you don't really need.
Instead, acquire pieces with maximum impact that you will enjoy looking at for years and years.
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Monday, May 6, 2013
Let them go for something better
4 Let them repent of all their sins, and of all their covetous desires, before me, saith the Lord; for what is property unto me? saith the Lord.
5 Let the properties of Kirtland be turned out for debts, saith the Lord. Let them go, saith the Lord, and whatsoever remaineth, let it remain in your hands, saith the Lord.
6 For have I not the fowls of heaven, and also the fish of the sea, and the beasts of the mountains? Have I not made the earth? Do I not hold the destinies of all the armies of the nations of the earth?
7 Therefore, will I not make solitary places to bud and to blossom, and to bring forth in abundance? saith the Lord.
8 Is there not room enough on the mountains of Adam-ondi-Ahman, and on the plains of Olaha Shinehah, or the land where Adam dwelt, that you should covet that which is but the drop, and neglect the more weighty matters?
9 Therefore, come up hither unto the land of my people, even Zion. (D&C 117:4-9)
It is interesting to read this block of verses from the perspective of decluttering and organizing because they point out an important principle that can help us deal with feelings of loss.
Some people are hesitant to let go of what they don't need because they argue, "They don't make things like that anymore." The implication is that craftsmanship has degenerated since the making of that object, and its like will never been seen again. Therefore, the reasoning goes, I must hang on to this last vestige of excellence even though I have no real use for it.
I saw this attitude for the first time in an older woman who was determined to keep a broken plastic serving platter—she pledged to glue it back together—because, as she said, "They don't make them like that any more." To my eye, the platter deserved to be discontinued, but I did not say so; after all, she was allowed to have her opinion as well as I, and she owned it, not I. But I tried to tell her that there are so many platters that have been made in this world and surely there would be something out there she'd like as well if not better. She was not convinced. I suppose she never frequented eBay and the variety of styles, ages, colors, and designs that are represented for sale there.
In the above block of verses, the Lord was trying to get the Saints to let go of their lands in Kirtland in 1838 and move to Zion. No doubt the Saints were convinced it would be impossible to find a situation of property so advantageous as the place they lived. The Lord's words in verse 6 and 8 are a reminder that the earth is a very big place with plenty of space, far bigger than they realize, so the chances of finding other advantageous places to settle is high. And, in verse 7, He even offers the comfort of miraculous transformations—even if the place they end up is solitary and desolate, the Lord can make it blossom, bloom, and bring forth in abundance so that it becomes advantageous.
These same reasons can help us today let go of what we don't need. What does it matter if we decide we need it again in the future? The Lord can bring something just as good if not better into our lives. Or, if we can't find what we need, He can help us make something that is just what we need. The principle the Lord wants us to learn is letting go with the faith that there is something just as good if not better that will come to us.
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Labels: decluttering, Doctrine and Covenants, sacrifice
Monday, April 29, 2013
Avoid clutter by avoiding covetousness
"Thou shalt not covet…" (Exodus 20:17)
The opposite of covetousness is contentment.
In the age of Moses, societies that coveted would go on conquests and try to take what they wanted with violence. People who envied the Jones family wouldn't work to have what the Jones family had; they would attack and loot the Jones family instead. (I'm really glad I don't live back then..)
In modern times, covetousness traps us in acquisitiveness and prevents us from enjoying what we have. It traps us in a hostile envious state of mind that gets in the way of us realizing the work we need to put in to be blessed the same way.
Covetousness sees any reduction in the amount of goods one has as a threat, rather than a blessing, no matter the reason, no matter the goods. Covetousness sees more as better, no matter what. Covetousness has no conception of priorities or stewardship, no idea of consecration, no way to tell how much is enough, and no enjoyment of security. Security is always just out of reach.
Now, let's look at the full verse.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. (Exodus 20:17)
If you notice, these are all tangible things listed. What about spiritual things? Is it okay to covet our neighbor's spiritual gifts? Perhaps, if it provokes us to pray and seek for obtain those gifts ourselves in order to bless others as our neighbor does. And the cool thing about spiritual gifts is that they can't be taken away and they don't clutter the house! J
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Product Analysis for ADD: The hanging toiletry bag
Good points
- The pockets are see-through. AD/HD people are very visual, so we need to be able to see what we have.
- It takes more effort to put toiletries back into its bag than it does to just leave toiletries on the bathroom counter.
- You have to remember which pocket each toiletry goes in once you take it out.
- No matter where you hang this in the bathroom, some part of it will be awkward to get to. Hanging it from the shower bar (up high) will make it awkward to reach into the top compartments. Hanging it from the towel bar (chest level) will require you to stoop to reach the bottom compartments. This ensures putting toiletries back every day will hassle an AD/HD person.
The only time this might actually be a good idea is if you travel a lot and change hotels every night. Another situation in which it might be helpful is if you share a bathroom with a lot of people and there's not room for everyone to store their toiletries there. (But in that situation a caddy would probably work better than this.)
Thinking about what you will have to do to use an organizing product is an important part of shopping for organizing supplies. A product can look like the coolest thing in the world, but if it doesn't make life easier for you and doesn't fit into the way you do things, it's just a waste of money.
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
This is your kitchen speaking.
Ahem. This is your kitchen speaking.
I am the place of safe food preparation and storage. You may have forgotten this, so I will explain it very carefully to you.
I am not your entertainment center, so you can remove the TV. And the videos. And the iPad (except if you're following a recipe on it.) And the laptop.
I am not your filing cabinet, so you can remove the stacks of papers.
I am not your child's toy chest, so you can remove the blocks, the little cars, and suchlike.
I am not a greenhouse, so you can remove all but one or two very small potted plants that you keep off the counter.
I am not a disco or a dance club, so you can remove the stereo system and all the CDS and tapes off the counter. If you must have music, place the stereo outside so it doesn't clutter the counters.
I am not a candy store. I want to you keep a healthy diet, so hide those jars of candy in the cupboard instead of leaving them out on the counter. Better yet, toss them in the trash.
I am not the garbage can, so you can remove all the empty wrappers and put them in the trash.
I am not the refrigerator, so put all the partially eaten food in there instead of leaving it on the counter.
I am not your mailbox, so the mail can be moved elsewhere.
I am pretty darn good at being a kitchen, but when you ask me to do all that other stuff too I can't do my job as well. So don't ask me to be what I'm not. I'm a kitchen.
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
How priorities can help us get de-cluttered
Sometimes it is hard to make a decision to de-clutter because we forget about how things fit into the big picture. For instance, when you have a box of Christmas cards that you are agonizing over, it is hard to imagine letting go of any of them.
This is when it is helpful to look at a list of priorities and see where that stuff fits into the big picture of your possessions.
This is when it is helpful to look at a list of priorities and see where that stuff fits into the big picture of your possessions.
Things that are physically necessary
Transportation—cars, kids' bikes (if bike to school)
Coats, hats, gloves, boots, and other outerwear (put in front hall closet)
Laundry supplies
Toiletries (put in or near the bathroom)
Cleaning supplies (commonly under kitchen sink or on a shelf over washer and dryer)
Things that are emotionally necessary
Photo albums
Things needed to accomplish common living tasks and for learning important skills
Cooking equipment
Office supplies (put in or near desk)
Car tools (in garage)
Home tools
Gardening tools
Craft supplies
Electronic and computer supplies (put near computer)
Musical instruments and music
Things that are more for fun
Makeup supplies
Books, videos, and recorded music, video games
Outdoor play equipment
Toys (Kids may see these as necessary)
Board games
Camping equipment
Decorations—knickknacks, pictures, sculpture
Holiday and seasonal decorations
Additional memorabilia
Perhaps you noticed that the three lists above are grouped according to
1. things that are pretty necessary
2. things that are needed to accomplish common living tasks and for learning important skills
3. things that are more for fun.
Perhaps your priority lists would have certain things on them that mine don't. Maybe you would consider musical instruments and music to be more fun than part of learning an important skill. That's okay. But it is important for you to know what belongs on YOUR lists based upon your skills and interests.
Things on the fourth list (the fun stuff) are the things that tend to cause the most clutter in our lives. You have to keep an eye on these things because they can and will easily grow beyond the limits of your space. Whenever you need to de-clutter, it never hurts to start by examining the things on that list first. (You can also de-clutter things on the third list if you look for where you have a surplus that you can't use up easily or that you aren't interested in using. For instance, I might de-clutter music for my musical instruments by looking through to find music that I like least of all or that I never play.)
This post started with the question of saving Christmas cards. Christmas cards would fall into the category of extra memorabilia and memorabilia is not absolutely necessary. It's nice, but not as important as, say, our journals and photo albums.
Looking at where Christmas cards might fall on a priority list helps us remember how important those cards are with respect to everything else we own and reminds us that we have to be picky about what memory items we keep, otherwise it can take over.
Extra Credit Exercise:
In the following list, where would you place these items in the priority lists above?
- A pair of earplugs
- A set of scriptures
- A frizbee
- Cake-decorating equipment
- A hoodie with your favorite sports team logo on it (it still fits you)
- A book from your childhood
- Five Precious Moments figurines
- A screwdriver
- Your graduation cap from your high school graduation
- A package of ramen
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I know he knows where they are. What am I supposed to do? I have no way of warning them. But he's not going himself. He must be sending something out. Monsters, maybe? No, there are no such thing as monsters, Scarlett, I tell myself. But even as I say it, I know it's not true.
I mean, if there are no such thing as monsters, then who the heck is the guy who captured me? A really weird human, who doesn't look, act, or sound like one?
I'm driving myself crazy and I know it.
And suddenly it dawns on me that this is a maze. A maze would make sense. He took my down a passageway when there were three choices of passageways, knowing that Ro would think to take the one that seemed least likely. He planned it all out. He's going to capture them, and hurt them in some way. Or whatever he sent will capture them. Will they be hurt? And if he brings them back here with me, who knows what he'll do then?
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Is Capital Fleeing China?by
Money is leaking out of China. For the first time since the Asian financial crisis in 1998, China recorded a drop in its foreign exchange reserves—down from $3.2 trillion, to $3.18 trillion, in the fourth quarter of last year. The sorry state of world trade accounts for much of this, as does the lower value of reserves held in currencies other than the dollar. But something else is at work.
Lu Ting, an economist at Bank of America in Hong Kong, said in a recent report that $34 billion may have left China just in the third quarter, driven by worries about a hard landing for China's economy, as well as the ripple effects of Europe's crisis. The global downturn may spur capital withdrawals "of a large magnitude," China central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan warned in January.
Money leaving China? For most of the last three decades, rapid capital inflows have been the norm, helping China build up the world's largest war chest of foreign reserves. Inflows of foreign capital improved early this year.
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Yet there are many reasons to move money out of China. Chinese investors fear unrest at home, especially in a year of great political transition as the Politburo prepares to elevate Vice President Xi Jinping to the presidency. And what looks like a tough year ahead for global trade will hurt China's export factories and could lower expectations of further yuan appreciation, also driving money out. During a lunch meeting in Washington on Feb. 14, Xi said the international economic and financial situation "remains grim."
Meanwhile, worries about a downturn in China's property market—home prices fell in January for the fifth consecutive month, according to Soufun, China's largest real estate website—are encouraging investors, both foreign and local, to look beyond China's borders for new opportunities. "A number of factors would trigger 'hot' money FX outflows. Some are healthy, while some may be symptomatic of more worrying trends," wrote Standard Chartered's regional head of research for Greater China Stephen Green on Dec. 16.
How is the money getting out? There are legitimate channels, such as the common practice of international firms moving profits to another unit of the company in a country whose currency is appreciating. Chinese citizens, too, can legally carry up to 20,000 yuan when leaving China and can exchange the equivalent of up to $50,000 in yuan annually.
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But there is also what Green refers to as "tropical" or "ultra-heat-treated" money, by which illegal means are used to circumvent China's still-tight controls on currency convertibility. Those include measures that range from falsifying trade invoices or exaggerating how much investment will go into a new project in order to facilitate cash flow in or out of China. It also includes utilizing Macau, through which as much as $185 billion of mainland money flowed last year, estimates Green. So-called junket companies that operate VIP rooms in casinos of the former Portuguese colony allow their primarily mainland customers to gamble on credit, with winnings convertible into one's currency of choice, according to Green.
Northwestern University political scientist Victor Shih estimates that China's richest one percent, or 2 million households, have from $2 trillion to $5 trillion in liquid and real estate assets. While there is no indication that this very large sum will soon be moved offshore (China still provides higher returns for many businesses than other countries do), a future conversion of even part of it could significantly reduce China's still-massive reserves and damage confidence in the economy. That could happen fast if China's wealthy were to decide their fortunes were at risk on the mainland. Macau and Hong Kong are both ready conduits for any future capital flight, says Shih. "And the fact that China conducts so much trade—with trillions of dollars going through China in exports and imports—to the extent you can fake invoices, you can get a huge amount out quickly and easily," he says.


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It was quite a good speech, if you like that sort of thing – by which I mean exciting but vague ideas, devoid of any firm commitments, budget or timescale, interspersed with the requisite references to the north's proud industrial heritage and delivered against the hoary old backdrop of a decommissioned steam engine. He didn't reference Elizabeth Gaskell or LS Lowry but he did use the term "northern powerhouse", which made me think of a new musical genre Vice magazine might claim is popular in the old mill towns.
But Osborne was not trying to be down with the kids. He was making what seems to be an eminently sensible observation, that the cities of the north are individually strong, but collectively not mighty enough. And that rather than fight about who has the best football team, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds and the rest need to come together in what Evan Davis described in his BBC2 series Mind the Gap as a "Los Angeles-style megacity" across the M62 corridor. Osborne, MP for Tatton in Cheshire, said he wanted to "start thinking about whether to build a new high-speed rail connection east-west from Manchester to Leeds".
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According to the Passenger Transport Executive Group, which represents six transport bodies in the north and West Midlands, £545 of public money is spent annually on transport for every Londoner, more than twice the spending per head on transport in the north-west (£265), the north-east (£213), or Yorkshire and Humber (£246). Although London accounts for just 16% of the population in England, the city received 32% of transport spending in 2012/13.
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I'd like to see your products/evidence for disclaiming Guinevere's statements, Gareth? Some are bound to be contentious, and really revolving around what we define mass market adoption/sales as.
I'd like to see Guinevere's evidence first. I'm not willing to put the effort in to citing the whole list if the person I'm discussing with won't do the same. (Also, see above for at least one example from memory.)
As you say, though, some are arguable: is a device mass-market if it's available in shops, or only if it's available internationally? Does it have to sell above a certain number of units, and if so what number?
Ah, screw it, why pretend I have a life. Right, from the top ladies and gentlebeings:
1) I have no evidence to the contrary, as previously stated.
2) iPhone was released on the 29th of June 2007; the LG 'Prada' KE850 was announced on the 12th of December 2006 and went on sale in May 2007, selling a million handsets in its first 18 months. A large capacitive touch-screen dominates the front of the device.
3) Motorola's Razr family, announced July 2003 and launched 2004, used glass and aluminium heavily in its construction.
4) Plenty of prior art for this one, although I'm not sure what is meant by 'gesture.' I'll put Palm OS as my evidence here, though, 'cos I was a huge Palm fanboy back in the day. 1996.
5) Again, not really sure what is meant here, so I'll refrain from providing guesswork evidence.
6) FrontPath ProGear, 2001, as mentioned upthread.
7) I can't speak for any other operating system, but most Linux desktop environments (including Gnome and KDE) have perfect support for high-resolution displays, and have had well before Apple brought out any retina-class products.
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Alex Karasulu wrote: > Hi Ole, > > On 4/19/07, *Ole Ersoy* <firstname.lastname@example.com > <mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>> wrote: > > Hey Alex, > > You do have auto complete you know :-) > > > Yeah but sometimes we edit files with vi too. I'm not a proponent > IDE dependence. I think IDE's dumb down developer skills and sometimes > auto completion causes errors too because people are less careful. Well - I could debate that - But I'll let you have it :-) > > The original idea here was to minimize the > learning curve for future contributors and > code reviewers. > > > I understand that but if you cannot figure out that _AT, and _OC in a > XyzSchemaConstants file is shorthand for ATTRIBUTE_TYPE and > OBJECT_CLASS then you should not be editing these files. This one I'll debate. But I'm basically just repeating stuff though. Having stuff spelled out just makes it simpler to get rolling. I know for a fact that I would be much more productive if they had been spelled out initially. > Futhermore > they are simple suffix qualifiers that hint to users of these constants > about the nature of the constant. Let me explain this exactly. > > In these schema files you have the String constants for schema elements > like the ou attribute and the inetOrgPerson objectClass. Besides > attributeTypes > and objectClasses there will be other schema entity constants for things > like > matchingRules, dITStructureRules, syntaxes, etc. These will have a suffix > abbreviation as well with the present schema like _MR instead of > _MATCHING_RULE. AHA! So MR means matching rule. I was wondering what that was. This underlines my point I think. When I start looking at some new code, the more abbreviations just mean more cognitive load. The brain naturally wonders, what's that...using precious processing cycles that could be used to get something done. I know about this because I've been doing this for years > (5 on ADS to be exact) and can foresee the explosion in the size of > constant identifiers. > > In that spirit I personally prefer to eliminate > all abbreviations, with exceptions for > special cases like where common terminology > is used like DIT, or OU. > > > This is a valid suggestion and please even though I disagree with this > which is mostly a matter of opinion with subtle yet inconsequential > impacts. I think the impact of having the code be easier to read is that more people will want to work with it. It's very well done in general, but abbreviations like MR, AT, etc. does take more time to get used to than if they are written out. > > I just see the need for the convention because (respectfully) I have a > far greater understanding of this code and can foresee the problems that > will result. Respectfully, are you saying that there will be a problem if MATCHING_RULE is in the string constant, instead of MR? > > Also, the purpose of using constants is to > ensure that the constant can be changed > in one place only, and then be automatically > updated in all other places. > > > Do you really doubt that I understand this fundamental concept which is > learned in your first intro to C/Java/whatever class? Man I could not > get this far without applying simple engineering principals even though > I admittedly have failed to do so in certain cases. No doubt. I definitely think you know that. Just wanted to make sure the rationale is clear for everyone else reading the thread. > > SNIP ... > > > There are so many abbreviations in LDAP, like > ou, cn, sn....that when more get added the cognitive > load is pretty significant for beginners. > > > Right this is certainly true. But you should grok some of these > fundamental concepts before you decide to lecture us what conventions to > use for our constant > names. Alex - We did grok. Emmanuel Grokked and agreed initially. Also this was just a quick suggestion. I think the word "Lecture" comes from the fact that I pointed out some simple things. I do that when I think something is not clear. I think people understand it, but I'd rather be as clear as possible, when I think there is an opportunity for more clarity :-) > This is really a bike shed argument. I really think we should just avoid trivializing and characterizing arguments. > However you might want to > stop and listen to the reasons of a seasoned member of the team. You > did not even consider my reasons based on the need for this convention > to support even longer names for things like _DIT_CONTENT_RULES etc. > You just cite that you do not know what these are. I'm sorry - which reasons did I not consider? > > I can only say for myself, and my nut is pretty small, > but I had to go back and look up what each constant was > a lot, because of the abbreviations. > > > Well that's because you lack the LDAP background and that's OK. Just > ask us why and by all means challenge the norm but please respect us by > listening and trying to understanding our responses to you. > > Several times we have said the same thing over and over again to you > about other topics while you ask your questions. However I got the > distinct feeling that you're more focused on formulating your next > response rather than absorbing the information we are trying to impart > to you in response to your question. Alex, all I can tell you is that I do read very closely, and try to take things apart and understand them carefully. That's one of the reasons I like email so much, is because it lets me read and analyze, before commenting. Plus everything is there for the record. > > Man there are only so many thoughts you can have in a day. Ones mental > wattage exerted over the course of the day is finite. I don't want to > waste it recapitulating things or arguing rather than sharing via a > discourse to exchange ideas to find the best outcome. I agree - I like to focus on facts, concepts, and understanding. > > I think ApacheDS will be more popular for contributors > when the code base is as simple as possible to work with. > > > That's a never ending battle. > Writing and LDAP/Kerberos server is not a > simple task and part of the art is in reducing this complexity I agree. > However this constant naming issues or convention is not that difficult > to grok especially if you gain some cursory understanding about the > fundamentals of LDAP. Respectfully Alex, here you are saying that a somewhat abstract thing. Lets just keep it simple. All this is about is whether OC, MR, etc. are simpler to understand for beginners than their corresponding abbreviations. Yes, someone can learn them, just like we learn vi commands, but it takes time. So lets keep the focus around the pros and cons of doing something like this. > It will become second nature to anyone after that. > > So I'm not sure what STRUCTURE_RULE and MATCHING_RULE are > right now, but I like STRUCTURE_RULE and MATCHING_RULE. > > > Right exactly so don't push the point on the convention until you do > gain this understand then we can discuss it. Wait a minute. Are you saying that it's necessary to understand and abbreviation before it possible to discuss whether the abbreviation is necessary? Some of the abbreviations, are really LDAP abbreviations, like DIT and OU, etc. Those I think are fine to keep as abbreviations, and I said so. We're talking about about "Our" abbreviations here, and I'm saying that some of these things would make the code base simpler to work with if they were spelled out. I agree that we should leave DIT, OU, etc. where it's common LDAP terminology the way it is. > Further get to a point > where you use these constants heavily so you can see the amount of space > they consume when completely spelled out. I have lots of constants like that all over my code. I'm the one who suggested the use of the constants. It's very easy to understand that longer constant names increase the the amount of space consumed. And maybe there is a real cost to that? > > It's very easy to understand. Simplicity is free :-) > > > Nothing is free :-) OK - I'm going to debate that!! :-) Cheers, Ole
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor imprisoned and eventually executed by the Nazis, was more restrained than Cardinal Martino in handing out emotional indulgences. In his famous work, "The Cost of Discipleship," Bonhoeffer warned against the dangers of "cheap grace."
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From the reports I've heard, Saddam's spirit is not broken. Nor is his heart contrite. Instead, it reflects the all-consuming destructiveness exhibited by Hitler in the closing days of the Third Reich -- an unrepentant tyrant who issued orders designed to annihilate a Volk unworthy of him.
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