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While my interactions with the President and Mrs. Bush were not as exciting or intimate as Timothy's were, they were great in their own [less glamorous] way. 🙂
I was not able to spend very much time at the clinic. Throughout the renovation process, there were moments when I really wished that I could be on-site, enjoying the work and excitement of helping the community (with the President!!!) However, with three little ones at home this is just not "my time". Fortunately, there were many small ways that I could be involved.
When Timothy left early Saturday morning to prepare for the President's arrival, I stayed home with a little boy who, for lack of a dignified way of describing it, perpetually LEAKED out his backside (and howled all.day.long). Suffice it to say it was one of the longer days in my life! By the afternoon, I decided that although Frederick seemed much better, it would probably be best for me to stay home from church with him. As I told Tim, he gave me a wide-eyed stare, willing me to understand him, and said, "Tomorrow is not the day to miss church." Stare. Stare. Stare. OH. Um… ok… Well, I prayed pretty hard that night for a healthy boy in the morning! Obviously I wasn't going to be able to go if Freddy was still sick. Even though I was pretty sure it was food poisoning, not anything contagious, visions of him dripping you know what all over Mrs Bush danced through my dreams. Thankfully, the next morning saw a healthy, happy little boy!
We arrived at church to see Secret Service agents all over the street. Because Tim had clearance and was friends with many of the security guys, we were able to park near the building. As we entered the church I was shocked to hear the SS guys tell Tim that they had saved seats for us… next to President and Mrs Bush! Now I was really praying! Never have I watched so diligently over a juice cup than I did during that church service!! (Don't spill it down their backs. Don't spill it down their backs. Don't spill it down their backs!!!!!!) It was really pinch-me, unbelievable to sit and chat before church with them. I was also glad the kids got to meet them. Monica, upon being introduced, responded quite calmly, "Hi." and returned to her book. 😛
You can see us in church from 1:20-1:35
Sunday afternoon I sent a huge box of homemade cookies to the site for all the volunteers and Secret Service agents. I figured that President and Mrs Bush were probably not allowed to eat random, home cooked food, so it was fun to hear that they not only ate them, but the President personally carried them around to everyone. 😀 THAT batch of cookies was definitely worth the effort!
Monday morning we and about a dozen other missionaries from around Zambia were invited to have breakfast with President and Mrs Bush. President Bush explained why they had come to Kabwe and what they hoped to do for HIV/AIDS communities in the future. I really admired their down-to-earth approach and their commitment to leadership from the top down. That was a breakfast I will never forget!!
Later that afternoon I received the phone-call highlight of my week. During lunch President Bush asked Tim, "Where are my cookies??" Timothy called me and said, "I hope you have more cookies… because Someone is asking for more!" Fortunately, I DID have more (that's what moms are for, right??) The kids and I navigated our way through the township, found the clinic, and brought the President his cookies. We were allowed to have a look around and meet many of the great people who were working on the site. Hearing, "Here comes Mama with the cookies!" from Mr President really made my day. 🙂
At the end of the project we were invited to an Independence Day party at the Ambassador's house in Lusaka. It was slightly unreal to interact with real "celebrities" in such a casual environment! Monica made several determined attempts to get to them during the anthem. I was grateful for our friends, the Hamelryks, and all the extra hands that were available to keep track of Monica and Frederick!!! That evening brought the realization of what Tim had been doing for the last week. While I knew that he had the opportunity to spend "real" time with the President, I was still surprised to see the casual way they spoke to each other. I was gratified to see that all of Tim's hard work was appreciated. Most of all I was happy to meet the many volunteers who worked with Tim and have become good friends.
I'm very grateful that we had this opportunity. I think I'm most grateful for the new friends we made. We were able to have several of the aids and Secret Service agents with us at the weekly neighborhood braai. It was nice to have a bit of AMERICA right there with us. They were all incredible people who it's a pleasure to call friends.
and now, for those of you who've asked for the Presidential cookie recipe… I made quite a few different kinds, but from what I understand, he's a peanut butter guy 😀
President Bush Peanut Butter cookies… with adjustments for Africa….
1 cup butter
1 cup peanut butter (I used sort-of chunky… because that's as smooth as the local brand gets!)
1 cup sugar + 1 tbs molasses (because the brown sugar out here is flavored with artificial syrup and oil!!)
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla (mine is the homemade, vodka variety)
2 1/2 cups flour (I divided cake & bread flour to make an All Purpose substitute)
1 1/4 tsp baking soda
no salt! Because the local peanut butter is SUUUUUUUUUUUPER salty 😛
Method: Preheat oven to 375. Beat butter and sugars until fluffy, beat in peanut butter, beat in eggs, stir in vanilla, fold in flour. Place 1 tsp balls on a cookie sheet and mash in a light criss-cross pattern with a fork. Bake 10-12 minutes. Remove from oven when they still look slightly unfinished. Cool 5 minutes then move to cooling rack.
So when President Bush comes to visit, you'll be prepared with his favorite cookies!
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I'm having BA done in a few days, but what makes me freak out is lots of people gain weight about 5 to 10lb after the surgery.
Is this true? and also does it go away quickly since it probably is a water weight?
Did you guys experience this??
I really appreciate it if you guys comment on this.
Since the site does not let me submit it because of the short message, I might as well introduce a little bit about myself.
I am 39yrs old, 5'2", 118lb, size 34 small A.
I am getting 375cc moderate saline, submuscular, inframmamary incision.
My dr told me this will make me a small C, which I regret now a little I should have gone full C... Oh, well. From small A to small C, I should be OK!
I'm not nervous about the surgery, but I am worried about having possible complications, like hematoma, capsular contracture, etc.
I guess everybody gets nervous about something, right?
I am really glad I have found this site. It has been a tremendous help!
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I'm having BA done in a few days, but what makes...
I'm having BA done in a few days, but what makes me freak out is lots of people gain weight about 5 to 10lb after the surgery.
I was going to post a before pic, but my PC is...
I can't wait for the 6th! I am counting down so many times in a day as if that will make the days go by faster. lol
I think I got pretty much everything I will need for the recovery... front zip up shirts, bending straws, frozen peas!, lots of yogurt (for regularity), priscriptions, (I'm going to buy a surgical bra at the clinic). I think this is about it. Am I forgetting something that are really useful???
My PC is still down... It's been down for 2 weeks....
I am so excited about tomorrow! Finally, having a surgery after waiting for a month. It really went by fast. I still can't believe that I am having a BA done! I really hope the recovery will be smooth.
I went to shopping yesterday and grabbed a couple of more things; Saltine crackers, Biore make up remover cloths (since it will be difficult to wash my face) and Starbucks Via (I'm a heavy coffee drinker plus I just have to add water!).
I think I'm ready for tomorrow now!
PO#3 - I'm feeling better each day. Today, I feel...
I had an OK from Dr to take a shower! What a nice feeling!
I have to write about the day of the surgery.
I went in to the room with nurse and she took my blood pressure and urine sample.
Then, the anesthesiologist came in and explained to me what she is going to do in the OP room. The nurse and I walked into the OP room, and Dr was waiting. He took a before picture and draw me on the breasts.
Next, I got up on the OP table, then everybody was getting busy. The nurse put the heart monitor on me, she put a leg compression thing while the anesthesiologist gave me lidocaine through the IV and anesthesia and at the same time I was breathing through the mask deeply a couple of times. That was it!
Next time I opened my eyes, I was in the recovery room. The first thing I did after I woke up was touching my boobies and said in my head, "Wow! There are boobies! I'm done!" lol
The OP took about an hour and I did great, the dr said.
I moved from the bed to the chair and sat for a while. They only let me rinse my mouth instead of giving me ice cubes because of possible nausea and vomiting.
Then there is my husband came to pick me up!
On the way home I was still groggy, but didn't get nauseated. I was sipping a ginger ale I asked my hubby to get for me beforehand.
That day I was OK sleeping even though I had to keep my chest elevated at an angle.
Here they came! All the pressure and pain everybody was talking about!
I was in so much pain. I was in bed all day except I had to go to the clinic for follow-up. Every single bump on the road hurt so bad!
After Dr examined my breast, he said there is no problem and the amount of swelling is normal and made sure it is going to be worth it! The next follow-up will be the 12th.
I came home and struggled with pain even more.
My boobies still hurt, but nowhere near yesterday. It especially hurts when I go to the bathroom... I was able to give treats to puppies, so that made me happy.
Sorry guys! Still no Internet connection at home... meaning no uploading pictures! I really hope I could do it from a cell phone...
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I made the main part background a little darker. does that fixes it?
I think you're sacrificng Browser cross-compatibility for dumb features and Jquery rape that doesn't even look good. Too much of everything is never good.
This ; http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17570140/chr...folio/Home.htm
I'm a tool with websites, so I'm pretty proud of this :p
I just finished working on a consolidated stream using PHP with serverside caching (to static JSON pages), that provides stripped-down output of my Twitter, Last.FM and Steam status in JSON format. Caches Twitter and Steam for five minutes, Last.FM for two, and adding a new service is as easy as writing a new callback for it. Though the code is still messy as hell.
I must say that after working with XML in PHP a little (using only base XML libraries and whatnot) the simplicity of working with JSON in it is a breath of fresh air. About the hardest thing I found in the whole thing was parsing some odd attribute names the Last.FM API spits out (@attr and #text, for whatever reason) but that's as simple as some braces. Just json_decode() and you're good to go, so long as you remember it returns stdClass objects and not string-keyed arrays (took me a minute to realize that)
Also, with the colossal amount of spare time I had at work the other day, I built a simple calendar widget to record my thoughts (currently into static JSON documents).
This is the fourth iteration of it (aka '3:00PM', the first iteration is codenamed '12:45'). Working as a receptionist then getting two phone calls in a seven hour shift sounds fantastic, but in reality is very very boring when you've only got intranet. If it happens again next week, I'll probably just play Minesweeper.
found yet another terrible php bug
<?php function f() { call_user_func("f"); } f();
^ that segfaults
that segfault was a real productivity killer too, i spent about 30 minutes tracking it down.
btw this segfaults too:
<?php function f() { array_map("f", array(1)); } f();
<?php class c { static function f(){ forward_static_call(array('c', 'f')); } } c::f();
Every conversation I have with you makes me hate PHP more and more.
i have no idea why people continue to start new projects in it
I'm not saying PHP should be used, I just think it's not that hard to see why people do use it.
Done with the HTML version of my new homepage
~~~Developed on Linux!!!11!~~~
Also do not trust Chromium on Ubuntu because the layout engine fucks up and overlaps elements it shouldn't overlap. Test with Firefox instead or on Windows.
With the amount of routine PHP bashing that happens in these threads I honestly don't even know if you're sarcastic, but I'm converting to Christianity so I can pray that you are
He suggests C# ASP.NET, of course. To be honest, I find developing web apps in C# rather boring. It feels as if everything is done for you and don't need to think at all when creating new websites.
Maybe it does, however, for now PHP seems much more challenging, because you can always create better code in 100 different ways, which, I believe, adds to the interestingness of coding websites.
i don't get about when people say "hard" about coding. It feels like either you know it or you don't you can make or can't.
So for me "hard" is taking a LOOOOONNNGGGG time to make.
Say I want to show a post.
I put this in config/routes.rb:
This in app/controllers/posts_controller.rbCode:resources :posts
and then I can just write my HTML in app/views/posts/show.html.erb.Code:def show @post = Post.find params[:id] end
I can avoid writing the same SQL shit over and over, I can avoid all kinds of stuff that you have to write yourself when you don't use a framework. And the less code you write, the better.
There are PHP frameworks that let you just focus on the parts that matter, but then you still have to use PHP (which is a terrible language) anyway.
Updated my World of Warcraft Map. Trying out some new interface features and improved the map's quality.
Does anyone that worked with the Google Maps API this heavily before have some tips on how I could enhance certain things before I start adding more features?


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Alright, so a couple of days ago I was talking to a friend of mine in class. And we began to talk about religion. Now I'm far from the kind of person that likes to showcase my views on things, But I told him I was an Atheist. He Actually didn't believe me at first, and said that people have to take a oath to become an atheist. We literally argued about this for 5 whole minutes before I finally said lets go to an computer and get google the definition. after I showed him what atheism actually is, He still retained doubt. I just said forget it, and ended the conversation on it there.
What I'm asking is how long will people remain that ignorant on atheism. It's not like he's dumb when it comes to other topics. He says He's a christian and he never even read the bible. And when I told him and another friend I read it They Laughed. Oh yeah and I forgot to mention one of the guys laughing has a tattoo that says "blessed" on his chest. And he never read the bible. That's just stupid to me, But I kinda want to know what other people think about this.
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"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived." -Isaac Asimov
Nuff said?
I've read none of Asimov's work. Did he say what "properly read" or "improperly read" mean?
I ask that because the cruelties of WW2 and many events since then demonstrate that we humans are capable of the cruelties the OT describes.
Perhaps Asimov was saying that instead of reasoning his way from belief to disbelief, as many of us do, the OT shocked him to disbelief.
Tom, You are right. I served in WW2, as a deck ape in the Pacific. I had two older brothers & two brothers in law. They're all long gone, but they too would agree with you. War is fucking INSANE.
Thanks, William. In the Korean War I was a snipe aboard DD748, which in 1945 was at Okinawa shooting down Japanese suicide pilots.
War is insane for most; it's profitable for a few.
To folks who want to do away with nuclear weapons, I point out that for the first time in human history, the few who profit from war will also be destroyed.
As long as people are being indoctrinated into their religions, there will be ignorance of other beliefs. I believe that as long as people are being raised blindly in any faith, they will have little understanding of any other faith. They may even have little understanding of their own faith. As you mentioned, your "Christian" friends have never read the bible, but that's the book they are meant to live their lives by. Not only are they ignorant about atheism, but they're ignorant about their own faith as well. They've been raised in Christianity in a nation where Christianity is the norm, and is the most socially acceptable form of faith. They have little need to read the bible and truly understand their faith when all around them are people interpreting it for them and leading them by the hand. I believe that as long as any faith continues to be the norm, there will be ignorance about atheism.
I had this happen just last month in training for my new job. "My views" had come to topic, I stated "but, I don't let it get to me cuz I'm an atheist." My new friend playfully slapped my shoulder and laughed it off saying "oh whatever Natalie no you're not" I look dead serious and insulted back and her. "uh yeah, I am." she look surprised and since then I've become the center of curiosity for my co workers. Questions like "So what do you do on Christmas?" or "Why do you go to church?" pop up all the time. (My uncle runs is a pastor and he knows I'm not religious but I still go every now and then for his benefit). Just because I'm not religious doesn't mean I have to be disrespectful.
Petty much the world feels you HAVE to have a religion. You HAVE to believe in god even if you don't understand or care. Atheism is still the new kid on the block of the modern world. It's for the modern person with a modern mindset. But our modern world is crowded with old world views. And the new kid usually gets picked on. Even Christianity went through that.
Natalie, two men made very clear their belief that I should have a religion.
I first came out publicly at a Toastmasters meeting. During a break for coffee, one man who wears an always-cheerful mask came to me, chuckled, and with his usual confidence told me I would come back. His manner told me that talking with him would be useless, so I didn't try.
Another man, seeming frightened, warned me that after I die I will be on my knees to Jesus. Too surprised too reply, I said nothing and began ignoring him when we passed by. Weeks later I saw his wife without him and asked her if he believed what he'd said. She told me he became that way after a stroke. Knowing a stroke can wreck part of a brain, I started nodding when we passed each other. I don't try to engage him in conversation.
A few sincere-seeming people express puzzlement. I reply that if I hadn't gone to Catholic schools I might still believe a god exists. Most of them respond calmly and we talk of other things. One man responded as if he expects evil of Catholicism. So do I.
Most people, especially those many years younger than my eighty, take the news calmly; a few even chuckle. Atheism has a future
science leads to a supreme being:
Einstein observed that "the man who is thoroughly convinced of the universal
operation of the law of causation cannot for a moment entertain the idea of
a being who interferes in the course of events. . . . He has no use for the religion
of fear."
'nuf said?
back to the main topic..a simple answer is probably never but if we dare to be optimistic, perhaps in couple more centuries..I dunno
I come from Egypt-not exactly a great place to be for free thinkers-especially nowadays if you're folllowing the news..anyways, my journey to atheism was a long one, perhaps 6 years ago..I was born a 'muslim'(reluctantly), always had my doubts since my teens I guess.. I studied the quran,old and new testaments,Confucious..books, lots of books, science etc but mainly was focused on the 'abrahamic' religions, their roots and the cosmic Saddam Hussein. In a country like mine it's never easy to be a free critical thinker and a decision to finally be honest with oneself and reject all those mythical bullshit is not to be taken lightly-especially tat I know i'll probably keep it to myself. I became an atheist(or how i was born) about 2 months ago. It's a very hard decision, especially psychologically..I believe people -well, most people need some form or religion and belief system, replacing a religion wih a somewhat questionmark is not for everybody and especially hard without a support system. I needed to talk to someone- not to convince them- just to share my new 'findings'. Today, I confined to my best friend.. known him for most of my life.. he's open minded i guessed, not exactly 'religious'.. we sometimes go out for the occasional beer and discuss religion, so I though he will be understanding, he wasn't and he wasn't very nice..raised his voice, started accusing me f disrespect of his beliefs etc went home and later he called me, thought he'd be apologetic and realise what a jerk he was, first he was trying to be nice- persuading and then he realised I was a 'lost cause; he uttered something about burning in hell and hang up.
Think I lost my bestfriend..it's not my fault but I'm getting depressed..
Put yourself where you will find people who think more like you do. You will enjoy their company and be happier with them than you were.
About Einstein, his brilliance in science did not lead to brilliance in religion. Unable to give up his belief in a supreme being, he refused to accept a universe without purpose.
Well in my country (Denmark). We are reasonably understood by Catholics and Protestants. They have realized that not all, that a part of the population do not believe in a god, and seems to understand the term, but they don not understander why one is atheist.
But there are all so a lot of Muslims heir and in my experience.I had a couple of muslim friends, but then they found out that I was atheist and well now we ain't friends any longer, they simply dump me do to my point of view and from what I have learn that it was because they thought I was WICCA believer :D
I think a lot of the understanding is depending on which part of the world you are living in. In general I think in Scandinavia there is a pretty good understanding of atheists, perhaps because our lives ain't so tightly knot with the church
Lars, please tell me your view on the following.
I've read a lot of European history and concluded that that the centuries of religious war there led to a separation of church and state that's more complete than the separation we here in the USofA have.
Is that my delusion, or is there something to it?
I tell people that some religious war here will help Americans separate the two.
BTW, before I retired from the computer business, what we called "Danish modern" furniture was real popular here. My unit manager for a while went to Denmark several times each each year to order Danish furniture for his wife's store. I haven't kept up and don't know if it's still popular.


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Getters and Setters Are Not Evil
Every now and then some OOP purist comes and tells us that getters and setters are evil, because they break encapsulation. And you should never, ever use getters and setters because this is a sign of a bad design and leads to maintainability nightmares.
Well, don't worry, because those people are wrong. Not completely wrong of course, because getters and setters can break encapsulation, but in the usual scenario for regular business projects they don't. What is the purpose of encapsulation? First, to hide how exactly an object performs its job. And to protect the internal data of an object, so that no external object can violate its state space. In other words, only the object knows which combination of field values is valid and which isn't. Exposing fields to the outside world can leave the object in inconsistent state. For example what if you could change the backing array in an ArrayList, without setting the size field? The ArrayList instance will be inconsistent and will be violating its contract. So no getter and setter for the array list internal array.
But the majority of objects for which people generate getters and setters are simple data holders. They don't have any rules to enforce on their state, the state space consists of all possible combinations of values, and furthermore – there is nothing they can do with that data. And before you call me "anemic", it doesn't matter if you are doing "real OOP" with domain-driven design, where you have business logic & state in the same object, or you are doing fat service layer + anemic objects. Why it doesn't matter? Because even in domain-driven projects you have DTOs. And DTOs are simply data holders, which need getters and setters.
Another thing is that in many cases your object state is public anyway. Tools use reflection to make use of objects – view technologies use EL to access objects, ORMs use reflection to persist your entities, jackson uses reflection to serialize your objects to JSON, jasper reports uses reflection to get details from its model, etc. Virtually anything you do in the regular project out there requires data being passed outside of the application: to the user, to the database, to the printer, as a result of an API call. And you have to know what that data is. In EL you have ${foo.bar} – with, or without a getter, you consume that field. In an ORM you need to know what database types to use. In the documentation of your JSON API you should specify the structure (another topic here is whether rest-like services need documentation). The overall point here is that you win nothing by not having getters and setters on your data holder objects. Their internal state is public anyway, and it has to be. And any change in those fields means a change has to be made in other places. Change is something people fear – "you will have to change it everywhere in your project" .. well, yeah, you have, because it has changed. If you change the structure of an address from String to an Address class, it's likely that you should revisit all places it is used and split it there as well. If you change a double to BigDecimal you'd better go and fix all your calculations.
Another point – the above examples emphasized on reading the data. However, you must set that data somehow. You have roughly 3 options – constructor, builder, setters. A constructor with 15 arguments is obviously not an option. A builder for every object is just too verbose. So we use setters, because it is more practical and more readable.
And that's the main point here – setters and getters are practical when used on data holder objects. I have supported quite big projects that had a lot of setters and getters, and I had absolutely no problem with that. In fact, tracing "who sets that data" is the same as "where did this object (that encapsulates its data) came from". And yes, in an ideal OO world you wouldn't need data holders / DTOs, and there will be no flow of data in the system. But in the real world there is.
To conclude – be careful with setters and getters on non-data-only objects. Encapsulation is a real thing. When designing a library, a component or some base frameworks in your project – don't simply generate getters and setters. But for the regular data object – don't worry, there's no evil in that.
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Well, it's obvious that DTO's need getters and setters because they are pure data holding structures (without behavior).
But one must be very careful, because when you start with getters and setters everywhere it is very easy to create a system where you have only DTO's + some classes with static methods that operate on those DTO's – in this case you fall back into procedural paradigm.
You should augment your rants with a language tag. This might hold true for Java (and other compiled languages). But as already concluded, not even there all the time.
Those who do not understand the misapplication of setters/getters, since Beans, are doomed to repeat it. The original "is evil" conclusion was very clear about the low-levelness and when it's okay.
Well, I've only seen blunt conclusions like "never". In none of the articles it was mentioned that getters and setters are ok sometimes.
If one says getters and setters are bad *always*, one is an idiot.
However, getters and setters are too verbose, while in 90% of the time they do nothing more but to set/get a value.
There are frameworks that provide annotations for automatic getters/setters where no additional code is required. Unfortunately they all have major drawbacks, because they are not inside the language but something on top of it.
I'm thinking that this paradigm can be taken a bit further with virtual getters/setters: if some field is public – use it directly. if there is a getter, call the getter even though the caller called the field directly.
class Human {
public String name;
class HumanWithGetter {
public String name;
public String getName() {
return name;
They both are used like this:
Human human = new Human();
HumanWithGetter human2 = new HumanWithGetter();
human.name = "john nogetter";
human2.name = "steve getter";
This is a simplification of the .NET approach (which is superior and not as verbose as the current javabean spec).
What do you think?
On one of the sites that published my posting, I also said that – having something like the .NET properties would be beneficial. It's syntactic sugar, yes, but it adds to the "practical" side of things.
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While I agree to some of your statements, Getters and Setters (G&S) are still pointless by definition. I for one don't care how an object does a thing, but I do care for *what* it does.
Since any added logic to that encapsulation would result in bad naming, G&S must, by definition, *only* either return or set a value. As I said, everything else would break naming. In the case of Getters and Setters correct naming results in useless functionality.
Hiding extra functionality behind innocent functions like "get" and "set" is the true evil.
What considers containers G&S become the most higher-level functions available. Hence, their usage here may be justified, but again we're drifting away from that concept by using a higher-level abstraction: Iterators.
* Does getDate() consider the current timezone or not? Who knows? Maybe someone like you hid some complex logic behind it? Time to investigate how the object does its task…
* What happens when performing a "c.set(Calendar.MONTH, 13)"? Well, Java's "Calendar" doesn't throw an error but raises the year and adds the remaining months. This may come unexpected.
* Assume I need to access data very, very fast or I want to be flexible in the way I do validation, your validating G&S would probably drive me nuts.
Also, performing 13 consecutive function calls in order to set some variables is error-prone and time-consuming (in both counts: human and machine).
DTO's doesn't need to have setters getters. DTO's are data holder so create builder for immutable DTO's. They all need is getters. So your arguments against OOP purism is wrong.
I came the same conclusion as yourself. Getters and Setters are not evil, just misunderstood or misused or overused depending on what you prefer 🙂
I've blogged about my thoughts on Getters and Setters spread over the course of several years of practical experience.
"A constructor with 15 arguments is obviously not an option." Why isn't it an option? Or, rather, if your constructor have 15 arguments, isn't there already a code smell that hints that this class is doing "too much"?
If the class won't be in an operable state upon initialization, then what is the point of having a constructor at all? The constructor, by definition, is the method that "prepares" (initializes) the class for usage. If the constructor is not able to initialize the class to a state of proper usage, that means that the constructor is not doing its job properly and that the constructor should be fixed.


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Headquarters: On the Road AgainPosted by on September 12, 2008
Well, no sooner did we return with dogs rescued from Hurricane Gustav, and then we're on the road again.
Our mobile rescue unit is traveling to Texas to answer a call from our shelter partner, the Humane Society SPCA of Bexar County. Four shelters in the area where Ike is expected to make landfall; Houston SPCA, Gulf Coast Humane Society, Corpus Christi Animal Control and Galveston Island Humane Society, brought their animals to San Antonio to get them out of harm's way.
The storm is incredibly devastating and we anticipate that shelters near the coast may suffer serious damage, giving these animals nowhere else to go. We will stay in the area to help as needed, then take many of these displaced animals back to the Animal League in NY and find them permanent homes.
We have a second rescue vehicle that's prepared to go, should added rescue efforts be needed.
The Animal League has been so incredibly busy over the past three weeks with puppy mill and Hurricane Gustav rescues. While most of the 120+ puppy mill dogs have been adopted, many animals rescued from Gustav are still in our shelter. Now, because of Ike, we'll have even more animals to care for in addition to our on-going rescue efforts.
I encourage everyone in the Tri-state area to come into our shelter and adopt your new best friend. It will enrich your life in so many ways and will help us continue to save more animals. If you are unable to adopt a pet yourself, perhaps you know of a family member or friend who can open their heart and home to a wonderful pet.
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I talked to my seamstress today and we both came to a question, does the crop top go over her nipple line or underneath? We believe it goes over due to these reasonings, if you don't think so, please help us figure this out.
First pic:This is the left armpit area, and notice how the edge is cut going up at an / angle rather than down at an \ angle.
Second pic: This is the dress form, notice where the upper line is, indicating that the edge of the crop top could line up over the nip line rather than underneath bust line.
Third pic: This is a drawing I gave to my seamstress as to how I think the the whole 2 piece suit might look.
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4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; [1] 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. (ESV)
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If you're thinking of visiting Napa or Sonoma to sip some the valleys' celebrated Cabernet, Pinot Noir, and Syrah, odds are you're already a wine lover. But when the tasting is done, do you prefer to relax in a country-style cottage in the woods or mix and mingle in a LEED-certified downtown hotel? Is your dream bed covered in posh French brocade or pure New Zealand wool? Choosing a suite that matches your style will enhance your enjoyment of California wine country, so here are a dozen distinct options to consider.
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Rangers manager Walter Smith had thought Beasley would sidelined for up to three weeks.
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England wasn't always the smoothest with women; usually he said something unnecessary or boring and the girl simply walked off. He was always trying his luck by being himself, but he just couldn't seem to get the women to notice him, even the girl he really wanted to get noticed by, _____. She was like an angel in his eyes, always polite and respectful towards him, unlike most people. And she always had a gorgeous smile on her soft lips, a smile that could warm any heart; his heart had already experienced the sensation.
A deep sigh passed his lips as he pressed his palms to his forehead in thought and anger, elbows resting against his office desk. "Why can't I have that attractiveness like frog face?" he groaned, slumping in his chair as he moped. "He always gets the ladies, no matter where he goes or what he does," he began to rant again.
When he realized that, once again, he was jealous of the French's ways; he simply sat back in his chair and took a deep breath in attempt to calm his fidgeting nerves. Suddenly, an idea struck him. Why not just ask the amphibian-eating man himself?
"I wouldn't even tell you what my favorite color is!" the French argued heatedly against the phone in his hand.
From the other end came a sigh. "Please, France, you have to help me! I want to talk to _____, but I don't know what to say to her. You brag about how romantic you are, so why not give me some pointers?" England tried his luck again. At the mention of your name, France seemed to feel a bit bad for the Englishman; you were pretty far out of his league in France's eyes. But why not give the limey a chance?
"Alright, I can help you. But only because it's _____! Now, all you have to do is-"
*Knock knock knock*
England pulled on the collar of his nice jacket, trying to let some air in to cool his perspiring neck. He was so nervous, and so awkward with the directions he was given, but he was going to give it his best attempt. But if he was so confident, why were his palms growing moist and his legs trembling? Usually he was very confident about things like this, but for some reason, he was terrified.
Perhaps he was terrified that you would reject him, just like all the other women he had talked to. It could be that you weren't interested in him, or that you were already involved in a relationship with somebody else. No, if that were the case, he would have seen you with someone already. Having that in mind, it helped him steady himself a bit as he regained his posture.
He looked down at the small notecard in his hand, giving a quick reminder of what he was supposed to do and how to do it. Hopefully frog-breath didn't set him up to something.
His thoughts were torn from him as he heard your front door open slowly to reveal your soft face, though it was in a slightly confused face.
"England?" you asked to make sure you weren't seeing things. When he nodded his head quickly, you couldn't help but smile. "It's good to see you! Please, come inside," you opened the door completely to allow him room as you stepped away from the door.
"Thank you," he spoke again, walking into the house and taking his shoes off. When he did, he looked up to meet your eyes with a soft smile. You returned the simple gesture and walked into the living room, him following, to sit down on the soft couch. He did the same, stuffing the note in his pocket as he cleared his throat.
You looked up at him at the sudden noise. "Would you like me to get some water for you?" you offered, getting a nod and a "yes, please" in return. Quickly you got up and made your way into the kitchen, getting two glasses. You filled them with ice and then followed up with the water. As you made your way back, you found England breathing unsteadily as he seemed to be talking quietly to himself.
"Here you go," you sat down, holding his water out to him. He generously took it, taking a sip. You put your lips to the rim of the cup and tilted your head back, letting the cool water cascade into your mouth. When you had enough water, you let the cup fall back to its previous position, and then set it on the table. England followed after a large gulp of water.
"So, England, why are you here?" you asked curiously to the man. Instantly he seemed to freeze up, his cheeks turning pink. You couldn't help but smile at how adorable he was at the moment.
"_____, y-you make me melt like hot fudge on a sundae." Your face scrunched in confusion, a single eyebrow rising. You could only think of one response.
"Can I read your shirt in braille?" he continued, you giving the same weird look. "A-are you a computer whiz? Because you know how to turn my software into hardware," he spoke somewhat awkwardly. Instantly your face flushed. "_____, I want to strap you on like a feedbag. One leg over each ear."
Your face grew bright red, your cheeks feeling like they were on fire. With your eyes staring at him widely, you couldn't help but stare at him in amazement. Then you noticed how red his cheeks were as well.
"E-England?" you asked him. He suddenly sighed, his head dropping.
"I'm sorry, _____," he started, "I was just trying to make this work. I didn't want to be the boring man everyone thinks I am," he tried to explain but you were still a bit confused.
"But where did you find the idea to use pickup lines?" you asked him. He looked down again.
"I asked frog-face for help, and that's what he told me to do," he admitted. "I just didn't want to bore you, or scare you away for something I said."
You gave him a soft smile, your cheeks starting to cool down. You gently reached a hand out, cupping his cheek. His eyes instantly snapped up as he looked at you in surprise. "You don't need those silly tips from France to talk to me," you spoke sincerely, "I like you for who you were. And just for the record, I didn't think you were boring. If anything, you were very funny," you finished with a big smile. Instantly you saw England's emerald green eyes soften greatly as he looked into your eyes longingly.
"_____, I have one last offer. There are 206 bones in the body
Do you want one more of mine?"
You deadpanned at his question. "I'll take you up on that offer another time, but for now
No more pickup lines, please
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That last line totally got me XDD
Hahahahaha!! ~ZoetheICONiac
Oh goodness...
*Pets England's fluffy hair in pity* You're so friggin' adorkable. I'll take you up on that last offer.
*Pets England's fluffy hair in pity* You're so friggin' adorkable. I'll take you up on that last offer.
this... i don't even know what to say to this...
One I was expecting from Iggy: "Are you from Camelot? Because when I saw you I "Came-a-lot"~" But the pickup lines were really amusing~
Omg this line...SHALL BE USED ONE DAY. IT'S GENIUS.
Dude when I read that pickup line you said I almost died laughing
Interesting pickup lines...
Interesting pickup lines. Definitly ones France would use. xD
Oh Iggy...
~le facepalm
~le facepalm
never listen to france he doesn't know what he's talking about England, I like you because you're a gentleman and you treat woman right
CRIPES IS FRANCE A PERVERT!!!Did England really not understand what he was saying???
And that kids, is why you NEVER take advice from France.
oh god XD
Giod lord I cannot stop laughing!
anytime a guy uses pickup lines against me.....i face palm and rofl, then they walk away lol
oh my god the pick up lines are so...... OTL lol
.....-died laughing- Can you note me some pickup lines? I need some for one of my OCs.....
What kind of pickup lines? o.o Like just simple ones, or
cough dirty cough bad ones?
Pick-up lines always make me laugh!
Gott, this is so funny!
Pick-up lines always make me laugh!
Gott, this is so funny!
Hmm... Iggy, saying things like those... are you ready for the consequences? ohonhonhonhon.....
yay! ^^ But you don't have to rush yourself xD I've been pretty busy too, so no need to get overworked ^^
.... I read that with his voice narrating in my head... Those pick up lines are bloody awful, however, if he had said them to me I definitely would..... *sigh*
This was cute and funny~
I died at the pick up lines xD
Good job~ :3
I died at the pick up lines xD
Good job~ :3


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Hello everyone, I just thought Id give everyone a little update on our V8 Convertible VW Beetle project. Last year I didnt have much money to work on the project so progress really slowed down, but over winter I collected a bunch of parts and tore down the front end of the S-10 chassis to rebuild it. Now that I have parts and a little spare money I havent had much time to work on the bug. There hasnt been much time left for the bug between working 60-70hrs a week, helping my uncle with building a log cabin, working on putting new flooring in our house, going to put a picket fence up around our house .. etc etc. etc. Hopefully in the next few weeks things will slow down a little and Ill be able to get the front end put back together and move forward a bit with the project.
Over winter Ive collected lots of parts: coil springs, coil spring isolators, tubular upper control arms, lower control arm bushings, ball joints, wheel bearings & seals, tie rod ends & adjustors, idler arm, center (drag) link, rotors, calipers, brake pads, spindles nuts, dust caps, brake lines, all new front end bolts, front and rear ZQ8 (s10 extreme) sway bars, etc, etc, etc. Ive got some of the stuff prime with master series silver rust proofing primer.
Below are a few pictures of what little Ive gotten done lately, if youd like to see more I also updated my V8 Beetle Resource website. I have 18 new pictures in the chassis section and I also updated the cost section. My website is www.zbcreations.com/index3.html
Next I wanted to work on rebuilding the front end of the chassis. I wanted to do this because I'm dropping the front end 2" with drop spindles. I wanted to get the chassis sitting where is should be so I could get the engine level, make a transmission cross member, and also get the drive line angle figured out, etc. Here is the front end of the s-10 chassis torn down to the frame, boy is it sure easier to work on suspension and steering when there isn't a body in the way..... LOL
If I remember right the chassis had around 220,000 miles on it, and its actually in pretty good shape considering. I was expecting to find a lot more bad parts than I did. One shock was bad, the ball joints (factory) on the drivers side were about shot, and the tie rod ends, idler arm, and drag link (center link) all had a bit of slop in them which is probably why the steering was a bit loose when I drove the truck home. But again considering all these were factory parts not to bad. Luckily the steering box still seemed to be tight, because I didn't have the money to replace it now.
Next I pulled the engine off of the chassis so I could clean it up and eventually sand blast it.
Here is the front end after I pressure washed it. I used some ZEP degreaser I got at the Grainger MRO show in Flordia back in Jan. It worked real well and hey it was free
Next I cleaned up all of the front end parts I had and got them primed with some Master Series Silver rust proofing primer. The plan is to prime pretty much all of the chassis and chassis part with the Master Series and then Bedliner. That way they'll be less likely to get chipped up and rusty. I've hurd lots of people that have had good luck with both master series and bed liner for the under side of cars and trucks.
The upper control arms on the s10 were very very rusty, they probably would have been ok to use, but these weren't much more expensive than just replacing the stock bushings, and I figured that they would look nicer. They are Chrome Moly tubular control arms from speedway motors, there are a few other places that sell them, but at the time I had a coupon for speedway and that made them the cheapest. They are actually sold for dirt track racing, but a lot of S-10 people have used them with good luck. You just have to order two of the same side because for dirt track racing they add a 1/2" to one side since they are only going round and round. Off the top of my head I can't remember which side it is you have to order, but a quick google search and you can find out. A couple of the welds were a little rusty, so I cleaned up the welds and primed them all.
Here are my 2" drop spindles. I was going to put some DJM drop spindles on it, but got chassis tech's instead. From my research they are the same quality, and both made in the USA. I just recommending to NEVER ORDER FROM GRANDFATHER CUSTOMS!!!!!! That's where I ordered DJM drop spindles but received these chassis tech's instead. The chassis tech's were on sale for like $20 cheaper and I had to fight and fight to get refunded the difference, everyone I talked to had a different story, nobody returned phone calls, they argued with me that they weren't actually cheaper (even though the website clearly stated both prices), etc, etc, etc. End the end I finally got refunded my money like a month or two afterwards!!!!
Here are the stock lower control arms, I couldn't afford to go tubular on these guys. I ended up taking them to work and throwing them in one of our steel shot blasters and they came out looking like new, then I just gave them a couple coats of the master series.
Once again I'm sticking with the old steering box, it didn't seem to be sloppy and I didn't really have the money to replace it so I cleaned it up with some dawn, wire brushed it, sanded it and primed it with some more master series.
Here are some more of the front end parts that I have collected and some that have been primed. I ended up buying the rotors, calipers, and brake pads at a local Orilies, they were a tad more expensive, but if they wear out/have problems, I can just return them to the store and get new with the lifetime warranty. I also picked up the spindle nuts, and dust caps at Orilies because after shipping it was cheaper to buy them locally.
The tie rod ends center link and idler arm came from either amazon or rockauto, just be sure you inspect tie rods carefully, amazon send one wrong part number, and rock auto sent one that was the wrong part in the correctly labeled box.
The lower control arm bushings are stock rubber mounts, that way I won't get as much vibration transferred into the car. The sway bar bushings will be urethane to help with handling. I also got all new bolts for the front end from bolts depot. All of the old rusty bolts went right to the garbage!
I've also collected a few other parts over the winter: Napa gold ball joints, wheel bearings and seals off of ebay all for about the price of one ball joint. ZQ8 (s10 extreme) front and rear sway bars, moog coil springs, brake lines, coil spring isolators, etc........
Thats it for now, hopefully Ill have more update soon.
Looking goooooooooood, very, you are really doing a nice detailed job there.
Thanks Brian, I'm trying to do as nice of a job as I can afford to.... LOL
Have a good night!
VW Bug.......
Hi,youre doing some exceptional work,when can we expect to see some photos of the finished product? keep up the good work !!!!
Thanks, Before I can get back to working on the car again I have to finish laying the flooring in our house and then put up a fence........... Too Many project LOL
Originally I thought I'd have it done this summer, but with everything that went on last year I didn't have any extra money for the project so it was at a standstill for a while.
Hopefully I'll be finished with it at around this time next year, but I'm not setting any deadlines............ No need to get in a hurry, I rather get it done correctly..........
Thanks again!
Have a good night!
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How to Get Financing for Your Business
Destination Angels Camp, Angels Camp Business Association, Calaveras County, Central Sierra Economic Development District, NEC Small Business Development Center - San Joaquin Delta College
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New Workshop! How to Get Financing for Your Business
Learn about different funding sources, including U.S. Small Business Administration loan guarantee programs, local loan programs, micro loans, lines of credit, factoring, angel investors and more. Understand the criteria that will determine which sources of funding might be more likely for your business and your situation. Receive instruction on what information you will need to provide to ask for financing. Get prepared before you go ask for money!
If you are registering more than one attendee, please enter each person's name and contact information. Thank you!
Please note: Workshop schedules are subject to change. We do not provide refunds but can offer credit for a similar workshop.
For more information about this workshop or othr programs and services, please call the SBDC office at 209.954.5089.
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How to decide between the Mini Micro and the Maxi Micro by David Stebbins, Head of Customer Service, Micro Kickboard How to choose between the Mini Micro for ages 3 to5 and and the Maxi Micro for ages 5 to 12 is a question that we get from parents all the time: should I buy the Mini Micro, for my pre-school-age child OR should I buy the Maxi Micro for school-...
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Join faculty, staff, alumni and friends of Santiago Canyon College for a day of golf and camaraderie on a world-class course. Sponsored by the SCC Foundation, the annual Hawks Golf Tournament provides much-needed supplemental dollars for academic and enrichment programs that are necessary to maintain the high-quality educational experience that our students both deserve and need to succeed.
Your registration includes 18 holes of golf, golf cart rental, goodie bag, lunch, tickets for great raffle prizes, chances to bid on great auction items, a tasty barbecue dinner and, above all, the opportunity to feel good about yourself knowing your helping SCC students achieve their academic and professional goals.
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Gov. John Hickenlooper signed an Executive Order today that creates a task force to help clarify and better coordinate the regulatory jurisdiction between the state and local governments over oil and gas operations.
The task force is expected to report its recommendations and findings to the Governor, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate no later than April 18, unless the group is either terminated or extended beyond that date by another Executive Order.
"This is an important step to better define state and local jurisdiction regulatory structures as Colorado's oil and gas industry continues to grow," Hickenlooper said. "We want to protect public health, the environment and wildlife and to avoid duplication and conflict between different regulations of oil and gas activities. We expect these efforts to also help foster a climate that encourages responsible development and enhances existing cooperation and coordination between state and local government."
The issues that the Task Force will address include:
* Setbacks of oil and gas facilities or roads necessary for oil and gas operations from any building, public road, above-ground utility line, railroad, or water body, or other restrictions on the location of an oil or gas well and its related production facilities.
* Floodplain restrictions.
* Protection of wildlife and livestock.
* Noise abatement.
* Operational methods employed by oil and gas activities.
* Air quality and dust management.
* Traffic management and impacts.
* Fees, financial assurance and inspection.
"In establishing this task force, we have worked with a variety of stakeholders, including local government, industry, the environmental community, Speaker McNulty, President Shaffer and Majority Leader Morse," Hickenlooper said.
The Task Force will be chaired by Mike King, the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources. The task force members will include: the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Local Affairs, or his or her designee; two members of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission as determined by said Commission; the President of the Board of Directors of Colorado Counties Inc., or his or her designee who must also be a member of said organization; the President of the Board of Directors of the Colorado Municipal League, or his or her designee who must also be a member of said organization; the Chief Executive of the Colorado Petroleum Association, or his or her designee; the Chief Executive Officer of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, or his or her designee; the Executive Director of Colorado Conservation Voters, or his or her designee; one member appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives; one member appointed by the President of the Senate; and the Colorado Attorney General or the Attorney General's designee.
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Hi!!Is it okay if my 8-month old shih tzu eats chicken liver?
I am just wondering if it is safe for my dog to eat boiled chicken liver. Thank you.. ^^
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Yes of course. Liver is very healthy for dogs. But I wouldn't give more than one liver per day to such a small dog, might give her tummy trouble.
Bruno CGC answered on 8/9/10. Helpful? / 1
sure, but even in that state it is rich. So, I wouldn't feed him lots of them, he might get the poops. :)
Dieta answered on 8/9/10. Helpful? / 1
Sure. I feed my dogs raw chicken liver a lot.
It is rich, though, so if she's not used to it I'd definitely watch out for possible watery stool afterwards.
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By Adam Lucas
GREENVILLE—They're not like us.
The players and coaches, I mean. They're not like us.
This is how we are: with Carolina down three to Arkansas with five minutes to play, I received the following text from a friend:
"Oh no."
There might have been one additional colorful word in there, but you understand the meaning. You probably sent one or received one yourself. Not now, not this team, not like this.
Down five with 3:30 left, I received the following text from my wife:
"This sucks."
I had done everything I could do. I had switched pen colors and used different paper. Maybe you had changed seats or turned off the television. Nothing was working. It was torture. Pure torture.
Carolina somehow came back and held a 66-65 lead with one minute remaining. On the air on the Tar Heel Sports Network, Eric Montross was giddy. Not at the lead, but at the competition. "You want some excitement?" he asked as Joel Berry went to the free throw line.
No. I do not want any excitement at all. I do not want close games, I do not want meaningful possessions, I do not want capable opponents. I would be completely fine if everyone else in the field in Memphis decided to drop basketball between now and Friday and had to forfeit.
Carolina basketball is taking years off my life, and I can't possibly live without it.
Exactly one week ago, Roy Williams was sitting in his den while the end of the NCAA Tournament selection show played quietly behind him. This is someone who has seen virtually every big sporting event in the world, some multiple times. The NCAA Tournament is better than any of them precisely because of that tension you felt on Sunday evening.
But here's the difference: the players and coaches don't feel it.
"Each step of the way, as a coach, I don't feel more stress," Williams said. "I feel more excitement. If I was a spectator and wasn't coaching, if I just had one team I was rooting for, I hope I would feel the same way. It wouldn't be more stress, it would be more excitement, and each week the excitement goes up and up."
The blood pressure definitely goes up and up. Not sure you can call that "excitement." But that's why they're different.
Isaiah Hicks is a senior who could have been playing his very last game for the Tar Heels. The best four years of his life—even if he doesn't know it yet—could have ended on Sunday. And there he went to the free throw line, 1:44 on the clock, and the Razorbacks holding a 65-64 advantage.
That was around the moment I realized I was gripping the pen so hard it was making an indentation on my finger. There was no other way to cope.
Hicks felt none of it.
"I really didn't feel nervous at all," Hicks said after the game, with fresh blood still on his left cheek, because that's how the NCAA Tournament looks. "I felt like, as many free throws as I've shot, I was just doing the same routine. There were no moments when I felt like I was rushing myself. At the free throw line, I'm not thinking about making or missing. I'm thinking about the process."
Sounds good, Isaiah. You keep thinking about the process. We'll keep thinking about trying to keep our heart moving. In the final minutes, Roy Williams' high school coach, Buddy Baldwin, wasn't in his usual seat behind the Carolina bench. He'd left to pace the concourse of the Bon Secours Wellness Arena. This is a man with a lifetime in the game, who has been on the bench in every imaginable situation, and he can no longer sit and watch what is supposed to be a fun game of basketball. Isn't the NCAA Tournament just the complete greatest and/or worst? Yes, it is.
With Coach Baldwin on the concourse, Hicks made them both, of course.
Sometimes, not by choice, these players who give us these games that we never, ever forget get a tiny little glimpse of how we live. Kenny Williams was on the sideline in a suit, the product of late-season knee surgery. If he was healthy, he would have been subbing in and out, playing defense, scoring points, maybe shooting a couple free throws.
In the suit, though, he could only watch. When Hicks said he wasn't nervous, only two Tar Heels admitted to feeling a few nerves: senior manager Maria Vanderford and Kenny Williams.
When the game was over, I received the following text from a friend: "We went on that 12-0 run as soon as I started watching via phone while sitting on the bathroom floor with the lights out. You're welcome."
I think, perhaps, even though he might think it's just a little crazy, Kenny Williams understands that feeling now. You know that turning out the lights helped and I know it helped and somewhere—even though he is more rational than us and realizes it also had something to do with those seven defensive stops in a row—Kenny Williams maybe thinks turning out the lights helped.
"I got a little taste of what it's like to have to watch," Williams said. "When you're in uniform, you can go out and play and try to make something happen. When you're a spectator, it's up to someone else. You can't do anything at all about it. You're just watching."
Welcome to our world. It's pretty terrible, Kenny. When can we please do it again?
Across the locker room, Hicks had washed the blood off his face and was about to take off his jersey, which he'll be able to wear again solely because Carolina somehow closed on a 12-0 run over the final three minutes of the game.
He turned to a teammate.
"Man," Hicks said, "I was not going out like that."
Afterwards, in the stands, Phil Ford was still trying to catch his breath. He was two seats down from Shammond Williams and directly behind Al Wood, all Tar Heel greats, and all of them looked like they'd just been awake for 48 straight hours.
Ford was perhaps the coolest Tar Heel ever under pressure. He made burning clock an art form.
"Out there," he said, gesturing at the court, "I never got nervous."
Then he reclined in his seat in row E. "But up here?" he said. "Up here, I'm a nervous wreck."


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Jennifer Hudson brought home three awards, including Outstanding New Artist, while will.i.am walked away with two prizes, including Outstanding Song, at this year's NAACP Image Awards.
Winners of this year's NAACP Image Awards in music category have been announced during a live ceremony at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium on February 12. Jennifer Hudson was the one who won big at the annual event, collecting three trophies.
Jennifer claimed her first victory as Outstanding New Artist, beating down Anthony Davis, Jazmine Sullivan, Leona Lewis and Estelle. "This is where we come from," she said when taking the stage to pick up the trophy. "So it's always an honor to come home and feel welcome and to feel the love. I really cherish this and appreciate it."
Jennifer received her two other awards; Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration for her duet track "I'm His Only Woman" with Fantasia Barrino, and Outstanding Album for her self-titled debut effort. For those titles, she has successfully put aside Jordin Sparks, Ne-Yo and Kanye West among other big contenders.
Following Jennifer's domination was will.i.am, who bagged two prizes at the event. He got Outstanding Music Video for his "Yes We Can" video, which features fellow celebrities such as Kerry Washington, Olivia Wilde and Jonathan Schaech. The Black Eyed Peas' member also added another prize in Outstanding Song for the same single, which was recorded to celebrate Barack Obama's presidential victory.
Aside from Jennifer Hudson and will.i.am, Beyonce Knowles and Jamie Foxx have also been announced as the musicians scooping awards at the annual event honoring the best in television, movie, and literature. Beyonce got Outstanding Female Artist, while Jamie was named Outstanding Male Artist.
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- Outstanding Jazz Artist: Natalie Cole - "Still Unforgettable"
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Opinion: Obama - Rev. Wright SuperPAC Ad 'Leaked' to Perfection
Before last week, GOP strategist Fred Davis was sitting on an elaborate storyboard for a very expensive proposed SuperPAC ad campaign to be funded by billionaire and Republican conservative Joe Ricketts. The proposed campaign would feature the close relationship of President Obama and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and remind voters what a scary radical Obama really is and why voters should flee from him.
The New York Times obtained the complete proposal from a leak, ran the story, and then all hell broke loose. Ricketts said he would not fund a political ad campaign like that. Davis said it was just a proposal, Obama's campaign immediately launched a fundraising effort around this threatened, "racist" attack.
Mitt Romney, the ostensible beneficiary of the ad, distanced himself from and repudiated the proposed campaign.
Washington Post Columnist Kathleen Parker said poor Mitt didn't know about it and was caught blindsided when the story broke in the Times, echoing what many political analysts have also concluded - that this was an idea gone off track by the leak to the Times.
How about this scenario? The whole thing was a carefully orchestrated drama that rolled out and ended just as it was intended to do. Everyone hit their marks in the studio state and played their role to perfection.
The story of Obama's long-standing and intimate relationship with Wright got more play with this "leak" and "denial" sequence than it would have as a nasty political attack ad with racial overtones. Consider that Ricketts never had to pay a dime for the ad to run in every medium in the U.S. for free.
Consider that Fred Davis will be producing many more millions of dollars worth of attack ads for Rickett and other GOP campaign operatives as a result of these brilliant theatrics. I mean, Democrats and others may be outraged - I SAY OUTRAGED! - by this idea but most of the Republicans with whom I've spoken liked it and think Obama got off to easy the last time the Rev. Wright came up in the news.
Most people had forgotten about the phosphorous Rev. Wright, who believes that the U.S. government created AIDS as a means of genocide and as a way to keep down African and African-Americans. Wright also believes the 9/11 attacks against the United States were justifiable and merely "the chickens coming home to roost."
These facts, long forgotten or maybe even unknown to most Americans were effectively communicated by radio, TV, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, newspapers, and magazines and repeated in restaurant, coffee shop and bar conversations.
Most Americans probably forgot that the Obama's had a very close relationship to Wright. He presided over their wedding ceremony. He baptized their kids. He inspired the title of Obama's book "The Audacity of Hope." And finally he led the family in prayer the day Obama declared that he was running for president.
So, the story of the SuperPAC ad campaign gone wrong may very well be baloney. These days politics is rarely about colossal mistakes. It's often about diabolically clever schemes that are misread by the news media and by naïf analysts. Someday the truth about this story will be written in a history blog or book, if they still exist.


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The duo previously had posted an 8-3 triumph over Northwood's Julia Goncalves and Desiree Roset, who were seeded seventh, in the semifinal round. Overall, they compiled a 5-0 mark at the regional tournament, which was held Friday through Sunday (Sept. 15-17).
The ITA regional event, which was hosted by Northwood University, included both singles and doubles competition. Participants from all schools in the Great Lakes Region were included in the field with the individual singles and doubles champions earning automatic berths into the national championship field. Last season, Muchow and former Bulldog player Leila Salek teamed up to win the regional doubles crown and went on to place fifth in the Division II field at the National Small College Championships.
Basha also reached the semifinal round in the regional singles draw where she dropped a 7-5, 7-6 (3) decision Sunday morning to Drury's Sabri, who eventually claimed the region's singles title.
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The Warsaw stock exchange celebrates its 20th anniversary next week after a year of rapid expansion that saw it ranked second only to London in terms of the number and value of flotations.
The stock market, one of eastern Europe's success stories, has grown rapidly, benefiting from Poland's privatisation programme. Hundreds of state-owned businesses have been auctioned off or floated on the stock market with hundreds more earmarked for sale, including state airline Lot.
It is in the middle of privatising its energy companies and aims to raise some 15bn zloty (£3.25bn) from sell-offs of state assets this year.
"We feel a sort of satisfaction," says the exchange's president, Ludwik Sobolewski. "Twenty years ago there was nothing in Poland with regards to a financial market or financial structure. It was even hard to meet or to talk with companies issuing shares. Everything was built from scratch. Now the Warsaw stock exchange is by far the largest and the most developed market in this region."
The exchange has a market value of €142bn (£125bn) – far bigger than the much older Viennese exchange (€94bn) as well as fledgling stock markets in Prague, Budapest and Bucharest.
Sobolewski, who has been at the helm since 2006, feels the exchange is close to achieving its ambition of becoming a leading financial hub in eastern Europe. "We want to be a regional hub, not a national stock exchange – an exchange that is very international. We're very satisfied to have a high share of foreign investors trading in Warsaw." He ruled out mergers with other exchanges to gain scale, even though they're flavour of the day in western Europe and the US.
It started with five companies two decades ago and has grown rapidly, with more than 400 now listed on the main market, including Italian bank UniCredit, which has a secondary listing in Warsaw. Another 220 smaller firms are listed on New Connect, Warsaw's equivalent of London's Alternative Investment Market. It has also added a market where corporate and municipal bonds are traded, as well as an energy market.
What are the advantages of being listed in Warsaw? "Very often companies have better visibility if they are not listed among thousands of others on the LSE or in Frankfurt," said Sobolewski.
Based in the heart of Warsaw, the exchange is a five-minute walk from the Treasury, source of the privatisation spree that has led to a steady flow of new share issues, and close to big investment banks such as Goldman Sachs, which helped it to go public last November. Along with Credit Suisse and UBS, the US bank is ramping up its presence in Warsaw. The stock exchange's market debut attracted 320,000 private investors.
Sobolewski shrugged off concerns the flow of floats could dry up and investment banks leave once the privatisations are over. He sees healthy demand from neighbours such as Ukraine and even Sweden. "The majority of state owned companies that can be on the public market have already been sold," he said. "Now the main problem is to sell the very small companies, there are hundreds of them. Maybe we'll co-operate with the ministry of treasury."


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This thread is hilarious!
1. I agree that it is a sad day when Paris Hilton is dressed conservatively in comparison to you!
2. I think everyone should be allowed some free time-even after they have children. Maybe not dressed liek that, but still...
3. I don't think it is a big deal not to wear panties. It isn't a fashion thing. Some people just find it more comfortable, and FREE feeling!
i sleep naked- that isn't for fashion purposes! My doc. says it is good for your tootie to be free sometimes and reccommends goign commando! I do wash my clothes everytime if I am pantyless adn always wear panties if I am going shopping or something and may need to try something on.
4. I'm not overly-juicy now that I am pregnant. I am the same amount -juicy as always.... When does the excess juice happen? Should "juice" be the word of the day next or "cash and prizes"?????
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Mass. voters to face contested US Senate primaries
BOSTON — Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Gabriel Gomez is proposing a lifetime ban on lobbying by former members of Congress and term limits for both senators and representatives.
In parts of a speech released by his campaign late Wednesday, Gomez doesn't say how many terms should be allowed, but said limits would phase out what he called "career politicians."
The comments are the first policy statements from Gomez, who is planning to kick off his campaign with a tour of the state Thursday. In the excerpts, Gomez describes himself as a "new kind of Republican."
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