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Visitors can walk inside the two-story silo and turn the crank
of a silage machine, watching "corn plants" delivered to the top of
the silo. Plus, learn about the history of silos and silage, build
miniature silos with building blocks simulating wood, brick and
metal and much more.
The exhibit features the illustrations of W. W. Denslow, a
Chicago resident whose famous illustrations helped to inspire the
design of the classic 1939 MGM film starring Judy Garland. The
bright and colorful exhibit provides a variety of learning
opportunities and hands-on activities within a three-dimensional
representation of Denslow's distinctive illustrations.
Discover how sounds make music, and how music makes you feel,
with activities like making melodies on bolt- and wrench-a-phones,
using soft sculpture pegs to make a music box, blowing air over a
reed, moving musical notes on a staff, beating percussion
instruments, and creating an artistic masterpiece that reflects how
music makes you feel
Join Cinderella, her Fairy Godmother, a handsome Prince,
and two selfish stepsisters in Rodgers and Hammerstein's most
beloved tale. Performances run Nov. 17-Dec. 31.


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This is the time of year when a Salt Lake company that has been in business since 1966 goes nuts.
Though open throughout the year, Western Nut hires more employees and becomes busier and busier as corporations and private citizens come to its factory retail store, visit its kiosks at nine local malls or buy gifts at its 36 holiday grocery store displays to prepare for the Christmas holiday gift season.
Giving a nicely wrapped box of mixed nuts, a basket filled with nuts, candy and Utah products or a small package of cashews from Western Nut is a tradition many enjoy each year.
Workers roast cashews, pack gift boxes, make fudge, English toffee and peanut brittle and keep shelves stocked with candy, Utah products such as honey and chocolate and holiday decorations.
"People think we are sort of a Christmas store and we are a destination," said Cyndy Whitehead, retail services manager for Western Nut. "But we are here year-round."
CEO Loren Mercer said Wellington McDonald began Western Nut in 1966 and sold it to current owners Michael Place and David Gillette in 1983.
"We don't grow any of the nuts," he said. "We buy every type of nut raw, except for macadamias and pistachios. We are known for our oil roast, especially our cashews, which are a light golden brown. We only keep a shelf life of 12 weeks, and then we pull them."
Mercer is obviously a nut about nuts. He can tell and show you how they are roasted, where they are from and which aren't technically a nut.
Peanuts, for example, are not a true nut, because they grow in the ground like a bean and are not harvested off a tree.
Cashews come from India, Africa and Vietnam. Peanuts are grown in the southeastern United States. Western Nut gets its walnuts, pistachios and almonds from California, its macadamias from Australia, its pecans from New Mexico and Texas and black walnuts that grow wild from Missouri.
In addition to being sold in the retail area, some of the nuts might go into a salad package for a grocery store chain, be sent to a local restaurant to be part of a meal or used by candy or ice-cream makers.
The factory behind the retail store at 434 S. 300 West is a busy place most times of the year but especially during Christmas. There is popcorn to be popped, peanut brittle, fudge and English toffee to be made, nuts to be roasted and dozens of gifts to be assembled, wrapped and shipped. The company's work force will grow to almost 200 this month.
What many don't realize, though, is the retail portion of the shop not only includes nuts, trail mixes, and products put together at Western Nut, but also is a shop with gifts, many available for the next holiday.
Whitehead, who is in charge of finding the collectables, spends almost an entire year planning for Christmas. She attends a collectables market in January to buy for that year's holiday season.
"It's a crapshoot," she said. "You have to guess what people are going to want. The people at the markets set the trends."
That said, customers force Whitehead and her staff to be creative. Some companies bring in their own pens or containers. One young man asked her if she could put an engagement ring inside a bag of nuts.
Prices can range from a few dollars for a small bag of nuts wrapped in a cellophane and tied with a ribbon to huge baskets filled with all sorts of goodies, many of which come from Utah companies.
For many holiday shoppers, no Christmas season is complete without a trip to Western Nut, a Utah company that keeps innovating the way it packages its many products, all the while keeping up traditions. The biggest problem is not going nuts when purchasing gifts or stocking stuffers.
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Developing an ear for car problems
If you want to be a real car doctor, you've got to use the right tools. An automotive stethoscope can be the most effective diagnostic tool in your toolbox. It works just like the ones doctors use, allowing you to "hear inside" a mechanical component. The stethoscope we chose comes with two attachments—a metal probe and a sound amplifier (first photo). Use the amplifier to narrow down the source of the noise. Then switch to the metal probe (second photo) to locate the exact source of the problem.
Connect the amplifier attachment to the hose and move it around the engine compartment. That will narrow your search to a smaller area.


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Fleetwood Mac confirms reunion with Christine McVie
Listen to Fleetwood Mac on iHeartRadio
Looks like Christine McVie has her invitation.
Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks tells BBC Radio 4's "Woman's Hour" that her former bandmate will be returning to the fold to play one song at two shows on the group's upcoming European tour.
Nicks admits she's not sure which song they'll perform with Christine, but says it'll "probably be 'Don't Stop.'" She adds that McVie is "coming to Ireland to rehearse" with the band.
Fleetwood Mac will launch their overseas trek in Dublin on Friday.
McVie recently told another BBC show that she was open to rejoining her former group during their UK tour "if they ask." Her willing indicated a softening on her position over the course of the year. Back in January Christine - who left Fleetwood Mac in 1998 - had said she had no interest in returning to the group.
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By John Boyle Herald Columnist
Heading into the NFL draft, Robert Griffin III and Russell Wilson both had an inkling of where they would end up.
There was little doubt that Griffin, the No. 2 overall pick, would end up in Washington. The Redskins had, after all, traded two future first-round picks and a second-round pick to move up in the draft, and with the Colts making no secret of their plans to take Andrew Luck with the first pick, Griffin to Washington was all but etched in stone well before April's draft.
But how could Wilson, who ended up being the 75th pick in draft, possibly have known he was headed for Seattle? Well, he isn't sure if it was divine intervention, or a sign from his late father, Harrison, but Wilson did get a clue about where he was headed prior to the draft.
"I threw all the teams in a hat and I told my wife, 'I'm not normally like this,' but I put all the teams in a hat and the one team I pulled out was the Seattle Seahawks," Wilson said. "I'm not sure if God or my Dad or somebody had something to do with that, but just to be here is a great opportunity."
And the rest is now well-documented history in Seattle and Washington, D.C. Griffin, as expected, was named the starter from Day One, and spent his rookie season winning over teammates, coaches and a fan base dying to support a winner, all the while making Washington look smart for essentially betting its future on him.
In Seattle, meanwhile, Wilson quickly impressed his coaches at the team's first rookie minicamp — to the point that a two-man quarterback competition became a three-man race. And he played so well and showed such a tremendous work ethic that Pete Carroll eventually had no choice but to name a rookie who was a third-round pick, and who most people said was too short, as his starting quarterback.
While the Redskins hit the ground running with Griffin leading the way, the Seahawks offense started slowly, in part because they didn't name a starter until late in the preseason. Seattle's offense eventually blossomed under Wilson. Now this afternoon at FedEx Field, these two quarterbacks whose rookie seasons took different paths end up in the same spot — leading playoff teams after remarkably successful, and statistically similar, rookie campaigns.
"They were committed to Robert right from the beginning, they knew what they were doing; we weren't," Carroll said. "We didn't know. We were in the midst of a competition. We were struggling with dividing it in threes, so we didn't have the same commitment to our guy like they did. … So, it's just a different way it came about, but their numbers came out similar during the season."
That commitment Carroll mentions has certainly paid off for Washington, which ended its season on a seven-game winning streak to win the NFC East. Griffin, who was named a team captain during the season, has been spectacular, doing more than enough to justify the steep price the Redskins paid to draft him.
"There's always risk no matter what direction you go, and there's going to be mistakes made, there's always mistakes made," Washington coach Mike Shanahan said. "But one of the reasons we did it is we felt at the time we made the trade that there were two guys out there that we thought had a skill set that a lot of people don't have. We knew about his arm strength, we knew about what he accomplished in college — his percentages, touchdowns/interception ratio — but when you spend time with him, you could see that he really had the tangibles that we were looking for as a person, as well as an athlete."
The Seahawks, like every team with a need at quarterback, would have loved to have landed Griffin, but according to Carroll they weren't willing to give up what it would have taken to move up that far in the draft. Instead, Carroll and general manager John Schneider waited until the third round to pick who Carroll called, "Our ace in the hole."
Yet as excited as the Seahawks were to land Wilson, they couldn't know for sure if he would be ready this year or ever to be an NFL starter. Wilson didn't take long, however, to force the decision with his first-to-arrive, last-to-leave work ethic, his leadership ability and his many physical talents that easily trumped his one, oft-discussed limitation: "My height doesn't define my skill set," Wilson has said on numerous occasions this season.
"When I came here, I didn't come here to be a backup quarterback or a third string quarterback," Wilson said. "I came to be a starter for a long time, and that's my mindset. That's always been my mindset, that competitive edge that I try to bring to the table."
There was risk for both of these teams when it comes to Wilson and Griffin. Washington's bigger risk came in giving up so much to acquire him, while Seattle's came in naming him the starter over big-money free agent Matt Flynn. Both gambles are paying off in a big way, and in Seattle's case, the benefit isn't just in finding a quarterback, but being able to do it after taking two impact defenders in the same draft.
"It was an amazing pick for us," Carroll said. "If our young team grows together and we can really make a push to be consistent and win, that draft pick and this past draft are going to be a really significant part of why we were successful. Obviously when you get the quarterback and he happened to be in the third round …"
Carroll, as he often does, trailed off without really finishing that thought, but he didn't need to. Finding a franchise quarterback anywhere is huge in the NFL; finding him in the third round is almost unheard of.
And as Wilson developed, he quickly joined the "who is the best rookie QB" conversation that had previously been a Luck vs. Griffin debate.
Each led their team to double-digit wins while putting up impressive numbers. Griffin set a rookie record with his 102.4 passer rating, Wilson was just behind that while tying the rookie record for touchdown passes and Luck set a rookie record for passing yards while helping Indianapolis go from a two-win season to the playoffs.
The three rookies' performances have a lot of people wondering if we're seeing a new trend in football. No longer, the thinking goes, do quarterbacks need time to develop. And while to an extent that is true — more and more rookie quarterbacks have had success in recent years — let's not just assume every year will be like this.
"You don't have to wait years and years for those guys to show up and be a big factor obviously," Carroll said. 'We'll see how that goes. Maybe this is just the class of classes, too. Maybe this isn't as much of a trend, but it looks like it's kind of turning."
The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle. We'll see more and more rookies playing in the future as teams get impatient, but it will be rare to see three play as well as this trio has.
And along those lines, let's hold off on using today's game as a way to settle the "who's better" argument.
That's looking at it all wrong. First of all, one season doesn't define a career. Just because Griffin or Wilson might have had a slightly better season, or just because one may out-play the other today, that won't come close to deciding who is the best player in the long run.
Instead, after a week of comparing the two, let's spend today to simply appreciating them. Yes, we may just being seeing the beginning of a quarterback youth movement, but more likely we're seeing two special quarterbacks who came out of a unique draft class. Two quarterbacks who knew all along that this is where they would end up.
Herald Writer John Boyle: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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While the most watched election race this year in Los Angeles County may be the battle between two sitting members of Congress, Long Beach area residents will have many candidates to choose from in several other hotly contested races.
That marquee race is between two Democrats - Rep. Janice Hahn and longtime Long Beach Rep. Laura Richardson, a former City Council member, for the newly formed 44th Congressional District, which encompasses North Long Beach, San Pedro, Wilmington, the Port of Los Angeles, Carson, South Gate, Lynwood and Compton.
As Richardson's old district disappeared under last year's redistricting process and she chose to shift her political territory west, that has opened up what may become a tooth-and-nail fight for the new Long Beach-centered 47th Congressional District.
The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder posted the final candidate filings for all state and congressional elections late Friday. The candidates still must be certified by the secretary of state later this month.
All candidates running for congressional and legislative offices will appear on a single ballot June 5, under the terms of Proposition 14. The top two candidates, regardless of party, will advance to the general election in November.
That means Long Beach's 47th could end up with two Democrats on the ballot in the November election. That fight began long before Friday's filing deadline.
According to the Registrar-Recorder, as expected, state Sen. Alan Lowenthal, D-Long Beach, will vie for the seat with two well-known Republicans in June. Long Beach Councilman Gary DeLong and former Congressman Steve Kuykendall both filed as candidates.
Democrat Peter Mathews, a college professor and Long Beach resident who has run for Richardson's seat three times, is a candidate as well.
Also running are lesser known candidates Sanford Kahn, a small business owner and Republican from Long Beach, and Democrats Usha Shah, a community volunteer, and Jay Shah, a retired physician who ran against County Supervisor Don Knabe in 2004 and 2008 and against Rep. Dana Rohrabacher in 2010. Strangely, the Shahs of Long Beach are husband and wife, according to Jay Shah's campaign website.
Candidates in other area races:-- 38th Congressional District (from Lakewood north through Norwalk and past Pico Rivera) - Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Lakewood, and Republicans Benjamin Campos, a Lakewood certified public accountant, and Jorge Robles, a Montebello law enforcement officer.
-- 40th Congressional District (parts of Paramount, Bellflower and Downey and stretching to East Los Angeles and Huntington Park) - Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-Downey, and Democrat David Sanchez, a Los Angeles college instructor.
-- 33rd state Senate District (Most of Long Beach and Signal Hill, stretching through Lakewood, Paramount and as far north as Vernon) - Assemblyman Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, is unchallenged.
-- 70th Assembly District (most of Long Beach, Signal Hill and San Pedro) - Republican Martha Flores-Gibson, a Long Beach teacher and business owner, and Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal, D-Long Beach. Flores-Gibson also challenged Lowenthal in 2010.
-- 63rd Assembly District (Hawaiian Gardens, Lakewood, Paramount, Lynwood) - Democrats Diane Martinez, a Paramount City Council member and teacher, and Anthony Rendon, a Lakewood educator and non-profit group director.
-- 58th Assembly District (parts of Cerritos, Artesia, Bellflower, Norwalk, Downey and north to Montebello) - Democrats Sultan "Sam" Ahmad, Artesia businessman and financial consultant; Tom Calderon, Montebello businessman and healthcare advocate; Daniel Crespo, Bell Gardens City Council member and probation officer; Cristina Garcia, Bell Gardens educator; Luis H. Marquez, Downey City Council member and businessman.
-- 4th County Supervisor District - Supervisor Don Knabe of Cerritos is unchallenged.


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When I first accepted atheism as my own personal philosophy, I could feel the excitement of rebellion as well as a comforting relief "knowing" that God wasn't real, and neither was Hell. I've found some wonderful people with very diverse views and comprehensive, intelligent understanding of the universe and our place in it. It's been a grand, exciting time for me.
And yet I can't shake that one unending, horrifying sensation that's been at the back of my mind the whole time: abject terror of death.
I suppose it's one thing to say that spiritually that our bodies pass on and some part of us lingers to do something else. Maybe have grand adventures within the greatness of our galaxy or develop into something grander than just entities in hollow human shells. But as an atheist, I cannot accept this. I'm forced, by virtue of scientific progress and personal comprehension, that once I kick the bucket, I'm gone. All I'll be is wormfood and happy memories to a mournful group of friends and family.
I have a very dear friend who is losing someone very close and dear to him to cancer. He's told me (and I'm sharing his feelings) that the biggest reason he can't accept atheism is because he doesn't want to imagine his sister as wormfood. He wants to imagine that he can see his sister again happily on the "other side". And in grief, he's demanded that I keep myself open for that possibility, and I've agreed. How could I not, when I feel the same fear he's going through?
In all the beauty, grandeur, and glory of the natural universe and the fantastic amazement one can have for its processes, there's one undying fact that won't be ignored: we are all tiny and meaningless to this universe in which we live. We exist for not even the tiniest fraction of existence and pass on without a single thought. Now, instead of saying, "What's the point of doing anything now when there's something in the afterlife?" I'm saying, "What's the point of doing anything now when there's no point except to get up, live, then die?"
I've heard the argument that it's a cold, frustrated, bitter imagination that refuses to accept this world for what it is and demand that something must be behind it or must have created it. But it feels even more inhumane to say that we are tiny, insignificant dots in the grandeur of the universe.
And some atheists wonder why the religious hold onto their "bullshit dogma". Sometimes it seems like there's greater peace in ignorance than coming to terms with your own meaninglessness.
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I'm inclined to use the word death reluctantly, because it's such an abstract concept philosophically.
Your concept of death seems even weirder
Not sure what you mean by mind body duality.
That mind or the soul can exist independent of the body
My argument is that if death doesn't actually exist for us because we haven't experienced it, then there can be no 'after'.
I don't really know where you're heading with this. People die - i.e their entire body stops functioning & starts decomposing. That is death. We all will eventually experience it. It is a reality. What after that?
I would say I sometimes toy with the idea that consciousness is not wholly located in our own bodies, that our own consciousness may partly reside in the minds of people we know, so when our own bodies cease to function, while that part of our consciousness that depends on our own body disappears, it's as well to consider the extent to which residual consciousness continues in others.
Oh, wow. This is one of the most absurd things I've ever read. Can't wait for you to clarify it. As it stands I think you believe that every time you meet someone new, a consciousness transfer takes place. And that after you die, the people who you've met who are still alive keep your consciousness alive inside them! Are you kidding me?
How would this work? Is your consciousness infinite? It would have to be or the more people you meet, the less your consciousness remains inside of you. Or maybe there is inside consciousness & outside consciousness - that keeps getting distributed among the people you meet. Like when you meet a person, a part of your consciousness residing inside others gets taken out in equal parts & goes into the new person. How would that even work? What if the people you know are spread all over the world. Does this consciousness transfer takes place only for personal meetings or phone conversations & internet meetings, like the ones we have here, in other social networking sites, online games, chat rooms etc trigger this consciousness transfer too. Is there a fixed level of consciousness transfer between two people. Like when you first meet, and then thats it, no more transfer. Or is it a continuous process? That is, the more you interact, the more consciousness you transfer between yourself? So conversely, would not interacting with someone over a long period of time diminish the consciousness that you have of them in your head? Does it completely go away?
How do we store that much consciousness in our heads? The more people you meet the more consciousness you take in.
If there is infinite consciousness and/or spending more time with someone increases consciousness transfer, then are some people more alive than others? Maybe some are more alive when they are dead than many people when they are alive.
Seriously, can't wait for you to clarify here.
Though, there is a slight chance you mean that people live on in the memories of people who they met, but the way you worded your comment, it seems unlikely.
Incidentally if death is permanent cessation of vital bodily functions then these clinical deaths you mention from which people have been resuscitated can't be death, not really, can they?
No, they experience & come back from clinical death :P
After the word 'absurd' the rest of your thinking about 'infinite' consciousness is entirely yours, nothing to do with me.
I was merely asking what did you mean by your statement that -
I would say I sometimes toy with the idea that consciousness is not wholly located in our own bodies, that our own consciousness may partly reside in the minds of people we know, so when our own bodies cease to function, while that part of our consciousness that depends on our own body disappears, it's as well to consider the extent to which residual consciousness continues in others.
I was just trying to show how absurd this statement was. You still haven't explained what you meant by it. Another argument you're running away from?
I mean, you can call my ideas weird if you like but I'm not the one claiming that we're all going to experience our bodies decomposing!
Man you really need to start using your head, but I should've expected this from you, so I'll rephrase
Death is a reality. We all will die. We all will experience it. After out body stops functioning, that is after we die, it will start decomposing. What do you think after the body stops functioning & starts decomposing?
Sam Harris said in a debate(I'm paraphrasing here)
When someone makes a statement like that, he immediately pays a price. That price is ill-concealed laughter, and that is a good thing.
If you don't want to be ridiculed, then it would be wise not to say/post ridiculous statements.
And how eloquent of you to quote Sam Harris, out of context, talking about a separate subject from this one!
The subject might have been different, but the quote applies here.
Currently, the only way to achieve immortality of any kind would be to do something huge. Doesn't matter if it was good or bad. People will always remember both Hitler & Gandhi. And so will Newton, Galileo, Einstein and many more such people.
But who knows, maybe sometime in the future they might find ways to keep people alive, in some form or another, indefinitely. But until then, death is a reality. Only your work, your ideas & your memory will live on through the people who knew you or were influenced by your work or ideas. For how long you will be remembered depends on how great were your ideas & work.
I don't call that immortality.
Its the immortality of your ideas, your work, your memories etc, not of the person. Not a huge fan of it, but hey, it'd be great if I could achieve it.
Like the rest of us, he is incapable of experiencing his own death, so for him it never really happened.
But it did happen.
Before he pulled the trigger he knew he was gonna die. And his body felt the shock of dying, of the bullet going through his body, even if it was for a split second. That he didn't get to consciously process it doesn't matter. He did feel it.
No matter how much he achieved, or how many children he left, he is no longer around to appreciate it.
Thats why death is such a huge bummer.
In the absence of an afterlife in any spiritual dimension, I postulated that the only way a person's consciousness could continue would be in the physical dimension, reliant on other people's physical presence and their memory.
The way you stated it, you postulated a spiritual dimension of your own. But if you meant living on in the memory of people who knew you or knew of you, then how is it any different from what I said?
But if you want to Mr Dismissive by quoting Sam Harris talking about something completely different that has no relevance here
Pfft! You aren't gonna let that go are you? That quote applies very well in that situation. It doesn't matter if it was originally used in some other discussion. Thats the beauty of quotes. They can be used again & again, in different discussions.
It is rather dogmatic to suggest that because certain words or concepts have been appropriated by a particular group whose precepts you disagree with, that all such ideas must by default be incompatible with your own world view. I personally find nothing wrong with the sentiments, just the religion - the institutions that think they know more about the world and the cosmos and how humanity should be than our greatest scientists by virtue of books written thousands of years ago by people who were either delusional, on drugs, or liars.
My atheism is simply a rejection of the supernatural. It is not a fear or aversion to theism to the extent that I must dogmatically police my own thoughts and reject concepts and words just because they border too closely with ideas that historically have been conscripted by religion. Just because theism has latched, like a parasite, onto the poetic aspects of the human psyche and attempted to claim them for itself, doesn't mean we must cede that ground and believe that all appreciation of beauty and yearning for the transcendant is inseparable from the supernatural.
It is the difference between saying "humans should change our nature and stop wanting those things because religion offers them", and saying "we have historically seemed to always want and fear certain things, but we should stop looking to religion for the answers, because religion doesn't really have those answers".
As to your logical dissection of the experience of death, fear of death exists in people, whether those fears are logically sound or not. We can argue the semantics and debate whether or not it is fear of the actual state of 'death', or fear of the loss of those we love, or simply an inaccurate extension of certain experiences (such as loss, and darkness, and loneliness).
That we cannot experience a state of death does not mean the best way or only way to overcome our hangups is to rationalise it away. All living things have a survival instint that goes beyond an anticipatory fear of what we may experience at the cessation of life. Thus the idea that we cannot experience anything when we're dead therefore there is nothing to fear, doesn't really address the actual source of that fear. What supernatural beliefs offer people is the false consolation that when you die the story doesn't end.. or rather that it ends in an eternal 'happily ever after'.
It is certainly useful to acknowledge that there is no monster on the other side, but I think what people truly want is to be able to look beyond the veil of shadows and think that they can see something there (or be told that someone else can do the looking for them). When we've lost someone we care about we want to imagine that they await just beyond that corner.
I think the question is whether we should spend our time forever peering into the shadows, living our lives throwing coins around that corner in the vain hope that it will ease the unseen path of someone we've lost, or whether we spend it exploring the world that we do see, and appreciating those we love to the fullest while they are here with us, and remembering those who are not.
That death cannot be 'experienced' as we experience other aspects of our existence does not mean death does not exist as at least a metaphorical concept, and being able to rationalise away the experiential aspect of death does not destroy it as a concept.
The 'fear' cannot simply be confined into an illogical anticipatory instinct about what we will find and experience after we cease to exist (ie it is not simply a fear of hell or suffering or the emptiness that we will experience for eternity that underpins the fear of death, though those ideas have managed to aggregate around our idea of death over time).
Beneath all that, I do believe there is a deeper fear unrelated to an unjustified anticipation of an unsavory experience. It doesn't have to be anticipatory, it doesn't have to be fear of an actual object or experience. It doen't have a logical or reasonable or factual basis, it exists most likely as an extension of the survival instinct of most species that have managed to not go extinct.
And I think the only way we can truly confront our fear of death is to understand why we have those hangups and addressing them. Or at the least acknowledging them and denying those fears the ability to have power over us. What you perceive as people trying to rationalise death into existence seems to me to be nothing more than an acknowledgement of fact, that it exists as a real concept in the human psyche and that people do fear it, even if there is no basis for it in the individual after life actually ends.
And I don't see that saying death is simply non-existence actually confronts death, wholeheartedly or otherwise. It seems to be more of a denial of its existence by stubbornly redefining what death means.
Answering someone's statement "I'm afraid of dying" with "no you're not" doesn't actually stop them holding that fear and doesn't make the fear any less real.
And finally, I don't think what you're saying is radical, just short-sighted and dogmatic. Those 'old patterns of thinking' do not by necessity lead to religion. Religion has simply insinuated itself into those aspects of the human psyche and marketed itself to people by appealing to those aspects, probably because of the power our emotions, our desires and our fears hold over us.
The solution is not to pretend a part of humanity does not exist, but to confront theism and weed it out, leaving the rest intact and functional without the dogma and superstition to poison it.
The way to counter dogma isn't with more dogma :P.
What you call revolutionary seems to be nothing more than reactionary. The creation of a new dogmatic structure that, instead of purely rejecting religion, seeks to specify various ill-defined aspects of the human psyche and irrationally label them 'theistic' (without concrete evidence or particularly good or well thought out reasons). Once you start expanding your criteria for what you essentially consider 'anti-atheism' or perhaps an 'enemy of atheism' or maybe 'theistic collaborator', you begin to create essentially a new (and rather irrational) dogmatic system, which frankly could nolonger be defined as atheism.
Like I said, I think all aspects of human society to be human in origin. Theism may have infiltrated into it, but to say that everything which has been touched by theism is owned by theism is giving religion more credit and more power than it deserves.
Death has historical, cultural and probably psychological depths of meaning that encompasses both the irrational fear of emptiness which comes after (which appears to be your definition and what you're citing as the reason why there is nothing of death to fear). But it is also one's instinctive aversion to the cessation of one's existence that is present in most non-suicidal lifeforms. Death involves the idea of the loss of our worldly accomplishments - our relationships as well as in the more material sense -, and a sense of lost or unfulfilled opportunties. Also inseparable from the concept is our grief at the loss of loved ones who predecease us - children, lover, family, friends.
I think our idea of death encompasses all these things, as well as the more theistic aspects such as fear of what one finds in the afterlife and what we personally experience as individuals. Even excluding those aspects however there is much more depth to the concept and I don't think anyone can simply state their personal definition and insist the rest of the world adopt that as the only valid dimension to the concept.
What I mean when i say that you refuse to 'confront' death is that rather than acknowledge that people may be describing a whole range different and interconnected things its experiential aspect of the individual, you can therefore rationalise the entirity of the fear away. This fails to recognise that death encompasses many other aspects beyond the experiential, which are all very much intergral to human psychology and emotion.
OK so you've called me dogmatic a few times. Repetition makes truth I suppose.It's that you are in fact dogmatic that makes it true.
I agree. That's why I didn't say it. You said it, then you rebutted it. There's a word for this... oh what is it now?You agree that you are giving theism more power than it deserves? When you say that we must avoid words and thoughts because they are theistic and that when you look, all you see is theistic muscle and heart and brain, and conclude it must be completely 'cured', you are in fact saying you think everything theism touches belongs to religion and must be shunned. If you agree with that, then you admit you're being unreasonable and reactionary.
It's not the death that matters, it's the loss, and the absence.You cannot separate the fears surrounding death from the ideas and emotions relating to loss and absence.
If you then rationalise the physical death you still are not addressing the issues being expressed in the first place. And similarly, when people speak of the fear of death and dying, it doesn't necessarily mean they speak only of the experience of being dead.
The meaning of life is the pursuit of immortality. Immortality by dual definitions: 1) the continuation of your species and 2) the continuation of your legacy (memory.)
Our being here is a product of chance, yes. Is fate real? No. Are we special in the grand scheme of things? Not really. However small the reactions are that follow our actions, the effects that follow our causes, there is nobility in that which we do. To experience love, to teach a child new things, to behold the majesty of nature, to master a new skill -- it all does seem pointless when you look at how brief our lives are, but take heart in knowing that life does exist and you have been a part of it.
Fearing death is silly. No one of a level mind actually fears death. The only thing we fear is leaving the party while it's still going on, missing out on the new things that generations after yours will see and experience. Lucretius said it best -- "We will suffer just as much throughout the eternity after we die, as we did throughout the eternity before we were ever born."
Sam Harris once pointed out the absurdity of fearing death. He explained that we sort of lose our consciousness every night as we go to sleep, and we don't fear the fact that we are leaving our bodies behind to embark into these dreams, it's just a natural cycle that's always been with us. Death is as natural as sleeping, and should be embraced as great boon .... not a curse. True immortality is a road wrought with disaster, heartache, and boredom. What reward in this life or any life after it could ever be appreciated, when you know that it is eternal?


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Raising to make a specific tama?
Posted 12 November 2004 - 12:59 PM ( #1 )
I NEVER let them call for attention, i kept ALL their hearts full. i praised them/timed out them when the need came, and only one of the tamagotchis did i feed a snack. When an hour passed, both changed.... into MARUCHI?!?!
They are 2nd generation, and were treated perfectly, and both got 30 on the Running Game more than twice, but NOOO, i didnt get a Kinakomotchi!!!
What do i have to do to get specific tamagotchis?? i treat my tamagotchis like gods, training them and feeding them, and not missing a single praise/timeout, but never had i got a Mimitchi.... how do you go about getting the Tama that you got?? i would like to know, just to make sure i'm not doing something wrong... thanks.
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Posted 12 November 2004 - 01:09 PM ( #2 )
There are countless other topics about how to get specific characters, so I suggest you do a search.
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Posted 13 November 2004 - 12:47 AM ( #6 )
Also, i am a little confused still, but i suppose i shouldnt be... i will just have to live with the Tama that is given to me.
Posted 13 November 2004 - 02:09 AM ( #7 )
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Tama-Sama Posted on Nov 13 2004, 12:47 AM
alright, just to add some, Mrs. Busybody came to me when my tama turned 5.
Also, i am a little confused still, but i suppose i shouldnt be... i will just have to live with the Tama that is given to me.
when your tama was 5?! ive been waiting since...since... forever and no matchmaker! lilly is now 12 and no babies.
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Posted 24 November 2004 - 01:30 AM ( #10 )
huh? Why do you say this?
You have to get a girl in order to get a kinakomotchi.


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we have booked a studio apartment but then got upgraded to a one bedroom apartment. The apartment was very dirty; the teasmade was old and rusty; the bathroom shower, toilet and sink where not cleaned at all; the fugues in bathroom old and mouldy; so not very luxury at all. The personal for cleaning was a men who really did not know his job. I highly recommend you to take your own cleaning rag because there is no one in the appartment. Also the frig was dirty and in some of the pots there were water in it but the pots where in the drawer. How is that possible? We were there in Sept. 2013. Maybe they've renovated the bathroom fugues and took a new cleaning personal. If not, I don't recommend this appartment. Let me see if I can upload some of the photos for this appartment.
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Großes Zimmer, riesengroße Terrasse mit Blick auf die Skyline von Tel Aviv. Schade, dass es in der gut ausgestatteten Küchenzeile noch nicht mal Salz zur Verfügung stand. So mussten wir immer Essen gehen.
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0100 Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Date: March 10, 2013 2:37:17 PM EDT
Subject: Much Ado About Nothing Trailer
[Editor's Note: Thanks to Mike Jensen for calling my attention to this article and trailer. –Hardy]
From The Week <http://theweek.com>
The first trailer for Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing
By Scott Meslow
The Avengers director gathers some of his favorite actors for a decidedly small-scale adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy
The trailer: After the bluster and bombast of 2012's superhero mashup The Avengers — it was the highest-grossing movie of the year, and is the third-highest grossing movie of all time — director Joss Whedon took a break from blockbusters by directing a film that couldn't possibly be more different: A small-scale, black-and-white adaptation of Shakespeare's classic comedy Much Ado About Nothing. The movie, which debuts in the U.S. on June 7, was filmed in just 12 days at Whedon's personal residence in Santa Monica, Calif. Much Ado About Nothing boasts a cast almost entirely comprised of fan-favorite actors from Whedon's past projects, including Alex Denisof as Benedick and Amy Acker as Beatrice — both alums of the TV show Angel — Nathan Fillion, of Fox's shortlived series Firefly, as Dogberry, and Clark Gregg (The Avengers) as Leonato. Has Whedon done the Bard justice with Much Ado About Nothing, or will the film be put to death by the wagging tongues of critics?
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A LANDMARK pub is to be transformed into an Italian restaurant, lounge and bar, it has been revealed.
Ignazio Pillitteri, who owns Nino's in Bacup Road, Rawtenstall, has bought the former Fighting Cocks pub in Red Lees Road, Cliviger, from Enterprise Inns.
Providing renovation work is completed on schedule, the new restaurant, set to be called Nino's Cliviger, should open for business by the end of October.
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Most recently the building housed the Ridoy Indian restaurant and bar, but it has been empty since February last year when the tenants left unexpectedly.
Mr Pillitteri, who has owned Nino's in Rawtenstall for more than 25 years, said his son and business partner Carmelo, 27, spotted the building while out cycling.
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Juror B37. Holy Smokes.
Did you see or hear that interview with her on CNN? Seems very clear that she makes no effort to be informed about the world at all, and that she carries around a set of racial assumptions, let us say, and is utterly and totally unconscious about them. She thinks Zimmerman's--get this--"heart was in the right place." She thinks this would have gone down the same way no matter what color anybody was. Including, as she put it, "Spanish." Spanish?
What's more incredible than her proud ignorance is that the prosecution didn't strike her in the first place, as Dahlia Lithwick wrote in Slate. She kept bragging--bragging--that she doesn't pay any attention to the world. That she worries about her life and that's it. That she doesn't trust the media, which no one does, but she doesn't even read a thing, not one thing. That "you never get all the information." That last point should have been the clincher. Lithwick:
Gail Brashers-Krug, a former federal prosecutor and law professor, is currently a criminal defense attorney in Iowa. She also jumped back when B37 said, "You never get all the information." "That's exactly what a defense attorney loves to hear," says Brashers-Krug. "That's reasonable doubt, right there. If I were a prosecutor, that would make me extremely nervous about her." She adds that B37's devotion to animals might raise flags for her as well. "The animal thing is weird. She doesn't know how many animals she has, and she mentions her animals far, far more than her two daughters. She strikes me as eccentric and unpredictable. I never, ever want eccentric, unpredictable people on a jury."
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Ok you said laptop so I'm guessing its using wireless right??
Its also possible that someone was war driving around your house and maybe cracked your wifi password and got direct IP level access to your ubuntu laptop over your network (this would be an easier exploit then over then internet) and from there found an unpatched application and exploited it?
Was your ubuntu laptop all up to data??
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(Yahoo!) - As the world mourns the passing of phenomenal human rights leader Nelson Mandela today, one of Mandela's most high-profile advocates, Bono, gave his own words about his longtime friend.
Posting a brief, but touching statement on ONE.org, a charity organization co-founded by the U2 frontman that fights extreme poverty, corruption and preventable disease with a focus on Africa:
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In the end, Nelson Mandela showed us how to love rather than hate, not because he had never surrendered to rage or violence, but because he learnt that love would do a better job. Mandela played with the highest stakes. He put his family, his country, his time, his life on the line, and he won most of these contests. Stubborn til the end for all the right reasons, it felt like he very nearly outstared his maker.
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"He told me once how Margaret Thatcher had personally donated £20,000 to his foundation. 'How did you do that?' I gasped. The Iron Lady, who was famously frugal, kept a tight grip on her purse. 'I asked,' he said with a laugh. 'You'll never get what you want if you don't ask.' Then he lowered his voice conspiratorially and said her donation had nauseated some of his cohorts. 'Didn't she try to squash our movement?' they complained. His response: 'Didn't De Klerk crush our people like flies? And I'm having tea with him next week … He'll be getting the bill.'"
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-Sigh- Ok i'm going to explain EVOLUTION (not envolvolution or whatever you said)
1. We did not evolve from monkeys.
2. We shared a common ancestor many years millions of years ago. We could call them Old Kingdom Monkeys.
3. From these Old Kingdom Monkeys derived many species of monkeys i.e. Orangutan and Gorillas.
4. Eventually we get apes, which is closer to us in the evolution chart.
5. We then are closer when we shared a common ancestor with Neanderthals, however they died off because of Natural Selection.
This leads me onto my next point.
Natural Selection. THIS IS A THEORY OF EVOLUTION. The genius who came up with this was called Charles Darwin.
In short, natural selection means survival of the fittest. So, say for instance, a beetle baby was born with a random mutation.
This random mutation helped this baby beetle to survive more easily (high survival chance against environment/predators/etc), so we could say maybe this random mutation was a harder shell. This beetle with a harder shell reproduces with another beetle, and some of its offspring will have inherited this, more children will be born with this 'mutation' the father or mother had depending if it is a recessive or dominant allele.
Right, so there are more beetles with hard shells. Suddenly the cat population increases, and they get sharper claws (by their own natural selection). The beetles with softer shells get hurt a lot more easily, as these sharper claws can kill them. They will all eventually die off. The beetles with hard shells survive. Thus Natural Selection has taken place and the beetle has evolved.
Get it? We have stopped evolving almost because we are keeping the unfit/sick/disabled/unintelligent alive, which is not survival of the fittest. The random mutation causing our brain to have a conscience and morality was a gift or a curse? ( I think gift..)


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Ticket to Ride Pocket
*** Winner of Pocket Gamer 2012 Reader's Choice Award - iPhone/iPod Touch ****** Ticket to Ride just won the 2012 Pocket Gamer Awards for Best Strategy/Simulation Game!! ****** Apple Game of the Week (iPhone) in Europe, November 17-23, 2011- #1 in Board Games, #1 in Strategy Games in 32 countries, including UK, France, Germany, Canada and USA! PUT THE BEST-SELLING TICKET TO RIDE BOARD GAME IN YOUR POCKET! A UNIQUELY FUN TRAIN ADVENTURE THAT TAKES A MINUTE TO LEARN BUT A LIFETIME TO MASTER! OVER 2 MILLION PLAYERS HAVE ALREADY HOPPED ON BOARD! Kotaku Gaming, App of the Day: "If you've never played the board game Ticket to Ride, boy, are you missing out... I've only played the iPhone version, but can't put it down."Cult of Mac: "Like its bigger iPad-dwelling brother, the iPhone version is very well designed and produced... It's set to take the mobile gaming world by storm again." Epinions.com: "It's the most enjoyable game I've played all year. Call it heresy but Angry Birds just didn't do it for me like placing colored trains across a map of the United States. " Gamezebo: "An excellent portable adaptation of one of the best board games of the last 10 years (and) a great point of entry for gamers not familiar with the series." TapCentral: "A phenomenal game at a phenomenal price." ** What is it? A digital adaptation of the best-selling Ticket to Ride board game, designed from the ground up specifically for the iPhone and iPod Touch. ** What's in it? • A SOLO and PASS-and-PLAY version of the US map that made the original Ticket to Ride board game so compelling and popular (2 million copies and counting...).• LOCAL play support over a same Wi-Fi or Bluetooth network, making it perfect for a game-on-the-go between friends.• A new MULTI mode for playing asynchronously with one or more online friends, using Game Center under iOS 5. You can even play multiple games simultaneously.• 30 uniquely fun Game Achievements you can win while playing SOLO! • Distinct leader boards showing your highest scores in 2-3 and 4-5 player modes and on Game Center.• Four distinct AI personalities to compete against.• A new under 2 minute Tutorial video, custom-shot for the iPhone & iPod Touch.** What else? We care deeply about your ideas, comments and suggestions. Please feel free to contact us on our forums at www.daysofwonder.com


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Contact: Brendan Wynne, Media Officer, London
+ 44 (0) 207 304 6902
Equality Now, Eaves, Object and the End Violence Against Women Coalition welcome the decision by the UK government to implement at least the majority of Lord Justice Leveson's recommendations – particularly in relation to permitting third-party complaints. However, we consider the currently proposed plan of implementation to be a missed opportunity.
Jacqui Hunt of Equality Now suggested: "Transparency and inclusion in recent negotiations with the press could have laid the foundation for a full and reasoned discussion on ways to address the demeaning images of women in some elements of the press. It is deeply troubling that women's equality as a fundamental principle of our democracy is being ignored in this debate."
Despite an increased awareness of issues surrounding the representation of women in the media – and a better public understanding of how this affects women in everyday life – "the much-compromised plan does not provide any guidance about women's equality in the new code; it does not propose that any representative of the equality sector might be part of the new body, and it has made no attempt to bring consistency between the broadcast watershed and print media in terms of sexually explicit material", according to Holly Dustin of the End Violence Against Women Coalition.
In his recommendations last November, Lord Justice Leveson suggested that there is evidence to show that the tabloid press often fails to show "respect for the dignity and equality of women". However, the government continues to illustrate its lack of commitment to representing half of the UK population. Furthermore, it has also ignored several key domestic and international obligations regarding the treatment and portrayal of women in the media: As recently as last week, at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, the UK agreed with other governments "to develop and strengthen self-regulatory mechanisms [of the media] to promote balanced and non-stereotypical portrayals of women with a view to eliminating discrimination against and the exploitation of women and girls".
"We urge the UK government to seriously consider what steps it is taking to ensure respect for the dignity and equality of women in the press and call for decisive action to tackle endemic prejudicial reporting of women and violence against women and girls. Reducing women to sex objects and perpetuating rape myths and victim blaming attitudes has a very real impact on women's participation in the public sphere and implications for male attitudes about inequality and violence against women." said Sophie Bennett of Object.
"Poor representation of women in the media has caused barriers to women obtaining justice against violence, to hold political office, to play a public role and to develop healthy body images. Promoting a more comprehensive portrayal of women would be a significant contribution that the government could – and is obliged to make," according to Heather Harvey of Eaves.


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Summer Camp 2014: Photo Time Travelers (K-2)
07.28.2014 9:00 am
July 28 - August 1, 2014
9am - 12pm
Grades K-2
$200 / Members
$250 / General
With cameras around their necks and their very own time- travelling passports in hand, campers embark on a journey photographing everything from dinosaurs roaming prehistoric jungles, to famous people frozen in time and strange creatures of the future. On Friday families are invited to a special exhibition of the traveling photographers' best work.
Contact: 619.238.7559 x235 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Summer Camp 2014: From Darkroom to Digital (9-12) *2 WEEK CAMP
07.28.2014 1:00 pm
July 28 - August 8, 2014 TWO-WEEK CAMP**
1pm - 4pm
Grades 9-12
$425 / Members
$475 / General
includes darkroom materials
Why are so many photographers reverting to analog, while others continue to experiment with digital processes? See for yourself in this unique camp that explores both film and digital photography through inspired activities and shooting assignments. The first week will include 3 days of darkroom work as Dave Eichinger, Photography Department Head and Lead Professor at City College, walks students through the process of developing a roll of film and making their own prints under the red lights. The second week, led by professional photographer Bernadette Unis-Johnston, students will dive into the artistic side of digital photography and mixed media processes.
*Students are encouraged to bring both a digital camera with manual settings and a film camera, but are not required to do so to participate in the camp. Students who do not have their own cameras will be able to borrow digital cameras and film Holgas/Dianas from MOPA.
**Campers will be making a 20 minute walk down to the City College darkroom and back on T, W, and Th of Week 1.
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L'Wren Scott Fall 2013
Sunday lunch with L'Wren Scott and Sir Mick in a grand hall off Parliament Square, with shepherd's pie on the menu and lashings of Viennese gold on the runway. That's not exactly the kind of invitation London showgoers are used to receiving, so, to put it mildly, there was a certain amount of suppressed boggle in the room that such an event had come to pass on the London schedule. It makes sense, though, that L'Wren transferred her show across the Atlantic from New York for the first time—her design studio has actually always been here, hidden away at an address in Chelsea. So, this was an introductory L'Wren experience for many Europeans: both her slick hospitality (a seated lunch, served at specially built tables by a precision formation of waiters) and the sight of her sexy-classy clothes in action as they ate.
"I'm having a gold moment," L'Wren declared at a fitting a couple of weeks ago. She'd been researching the relationship between the Austrian Secessionist artist Gustav Klimt and Adele Bloch-Bauer, whose portrait he painted. "He kept applying more and more gold because he didn't want to finish the painting. She was married. I think people figured out what was going on in the end!"
It's typical of L'Wren that there's something about the relationship between women and men sewn into her clothes—transgressive or not. She designs for girls in good shape, and who want to show it to their advantage—but without actually putting it on a plate. They come back to her time and again for her "headmistress dress"—a strict yet curvaceous long-sleeved pencil-skirted affair (which this season comes in emerald green with gold embroidery at the neck)—and the deceptively prim silhouettes she will typically outline with contrasting piping which can't help but draw an observer's eye up and down and around a woman's body. L'Wren knows this business—not to mention the flirty attractions of a small-waisted coatdress with a swishy skirt and a slinky evening column—inside out. They all fit to perfection—she's obsessive about that: no lumps or wrinkles are permitted in L'Wren's world.
The gilding of the L'Wren lily worked out stunningly in her more special pieces. There was a sensational pailletted shimmy dress in three shades of gold, scalloped edging in black, suspended on nude tulle. And the long structured cape, covered in padded gold leather embroidery in a rich baroque pattern of curlicues—never mind Gustav Klimt and his romantic troubles, that one had all the grandeur of old Hollywood about it. Oscar-bound, maybe?


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Local law enforcers warn of drinking and boating/driving
(Cleveland) - Fourth of July is all about cookouts, fireworks, family and friends.
Cuyahoga County DUI Task Force wants to remind Greater Clevelanders that fun and festivities on water or land can turn deadly if people mix drinking and boating or drinking and driving.
Drunk driving fatalities spike around Independence Day - 44% of fatal crashes over the July 4th weekend in 2012 involved alcohol.
Fourth of July is also the busiest time of the boating season in Northeast Ohio and those who spend the day drinking on a boat and return to their vehicles, pose a serious threat on the roadways.
"On holiday weekends like Fourth of July, when many people combine alcohol with family activities, we want to make everyone aware of the risks they're taking," said Chief Daniel Veloski of the Cleveland Metroparks Ranger Department, on behalf of the Cuyahoga County DUI Task Force.
(Photo by Ken Robinson / WTAM)
Metroparks Rangers Chief Daniel Veloski
"Fourth of July activities are often spread out over a longer period of time-a day out on a boat, or an afternoon at a family gathering-where people might not really think about how much alcohol they have consumed over the course of the day and how the effects of alcohol can be compounded by heat and dehydration."
The Cleveland Metroparks Rangers are just one of the many agencies who will have an increased presence on the roadways throughout the holiday weekend.
In fact, all Cleveland Metroparks Rangers will be on duty on July 4th to handle the increased crowds at the parks. "Many people tune out the 'don't drink and drive' message because they know they aren't offenders. However, the truth is that impaired drivers are a risk to all families," says Veloski.
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If you want to send a malicious .pdf with a payload incorporated in it. Gmail/Yahoo/Msn woun't work, because they have their own scanners when you attach something to an email or download an attachment.
Either you try to encode it really good, either you find another way.


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Photo Gallery: Family of victims deals with aftermath
SAN BERNARDINO - Sandy Gable and her brother feared their elderly parents were not safe in their north San Bernardino home.
They tried to convince them to move to Northern California with them, especially after thieves broke into their home three times in the past two months.
"We told them, `It's going to go down this way - someone's going to break in, beat the crap out of you and take everything you have,"' Gable said.
Their worst fears became reality Jan. 19.
Gable's 84-year-old stepmother, Lorna Gable, was struck so many times with a Maglite by a home-invasion robber that she suffered several broken bones in her face and severe head trauma.
"What kind of person beats an 84-year-old woman almost to death with a flashlight?" questioned Gable as she stood in her parents' home, blood splatter from that morning browning on light-colored carpet.
Relatives suspect she may have permanent brain damage.
"She thinks that she fell," Gable said. "She doesn't remember anything else."
The break-in in the 900 block of West 40th Street is one of three that occurred on the north end of San Bernardino and the fourth in the entire city between Jan. 18 and Friday. Elderly residents were targeted in at least two of the incidents, but no one was injured in the other robberies.
San Bernardino County Sheriff's Detective Gerald Leininger said about 20 deputies fanned out across the area Thursday to check on people on probation and parole. Deputies asked around to see if anyone knew who committed the 40th Street robbery.
No leads came from the sweep, but deputies are hopeful they were eventually receive tips because robbers often brag about their crimes.
"Hopefully the person will end up talking," Leininger said.
Deputies and San Bernardino police met this week to compare information on a series of break-ins, all involving elderly residents.
While the crimes have similarities, including robber's description, authorities have not been able to determine if the same people committed each crime.
Gable, 55, has taken her father, William Gable, from the home he and his wife had lived in for nearly 40 years and moved him in with her brother in Northern California.
It was what she had been trying to do the last few years, but her parents valued their home, their independence and were set in their ways.
"I was just here visiting on Jan. 6," Gable said. During that last visit before the attack, Gable remembers becoming very angry with her stepmother because of the woman's need to keep and feed so many cats. "I called animal control and she told me, `I'll never talk to you again.' Never did I think that (13) days later something like this would've happened."
Sandy's brother, Gary Gable, said he got them to agree to move a couple times, but they always backed out at the last minute.
"They imagine that moving means they give up all their independence, and their say-so or that the circumstances will somehow be more oppressive," Gary Gable said.
Sandy Gables recalled growing up in Highland more than four decades ago but said she has watched the area and the neighborhood where her father and stepmother live change, and not for the better.
"There's so much poverty," Sandy Gable said. "There's just lots of despair and desperate people."
William Gable, through an e-mail, said he kept holding on to hope that San Bernardino would eventually improve, despite seeing headlines of rising crime in the city.
"Nothing opened my eyes to it like what happened to us, nothing," he said. "So yes, it's changed how I feel about the town. San Bernardino is like two towns to me now: The one of 60-plus years ago and the one of today."
Sandy Gable and her parents' neighbors fortified the residence, putting 6-foot chainlink fences topped with barbed wire around the perimeter of the property.
But that didn't stop a man from scaling the fence and crawling under the garage door that Lorna Gable kept cracked open for her cats.
Sandy Gable said the robber pried open the locked door leading from the garage to the house. Her father, a wheelchair-bound World War II veteran who is deaf, didn't hear the intruder.
But her mother did, according to sheriff's officials, and called 911.
At one point during the robbery, the robber noticed Lorna Gable and began striking the woman with the flashlight, officials said.
"That was her flashlight," commented Sandy Gable.
The robber then reportedly drug Lorna Gable into William Gable's room and attacked him, Sandy Gable said, all the while threatening to continue to hurt Lorna Gable if William Gable didn't produce some money.
The 95-year-old got out of bed, grabbed an envelope containing cash and handed it to the robber. He also grabbed a pistol, and initially planned to shoot the attacker, but the assailant grabbed the firearm out of his hand, Sandy Gable said.
"My dad said he managed to pull out the clip and he threw it away," Sandy Gable said. "We just found it under the bed."
The robber reportedly pulled the trigger several times while the gun was pointed at Lorna Gable, but it didn't fire, Sandy Gable said.
The robber fled with the cash and gun before deputies arrived.
William Gable suffered minor injuries in the attack and has since been treated and released from an area hospital. His wife remains hospitalized with severe injuries.
William Gable says he has given up on living in the city and had words to say to other elderly residents.
"Get out if you can and while you can," he said. "If it happened to us it can happen to you. From what I've read, we're lucky. People get killed for a lot less than what we lost."
Authorities offer the following suggestions to residents:
Reach Melissa via email or call her at 909-386-3878.
Get the latest crime and public safety news on Twitter @IECrime.


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A number of Georgian era paste earrings have been converted to earrings from clothing buttons. Now, no disrespect to those fabulous earbobs…yet these most desirable and very scarce cluster earrings are the "real thing". The earrings are set with that amazing black dot paste with that exceptional glow, shimmer and luster we have come to love.
Larger pastes form a six "petal" flower around a central paste core with eighteen (18) to nineteen (19) smaller pastes create a scalloped surround. All of the pastes are wonderfully hand-cut, foiled and set in the typical closed back mount of silver. Prodigious in size without going beyond, the earring have retained their original back to front ear wires.
Date: Circa 1780.


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Ajax on Struts 2: How a Second Generation Web Application Framework Meets the Demands of RIA
- Chad Michael Davis
- Tue, 24 March 2009 14:30
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Why should I attend this Training?
Listen to FeatherCast interview with Chad Davis
Struts 2 is a brand new, second generation web application framework. Two criteria by which all new frameworks should be judged are ease of development and compatibility with RIA techniques. If a new framework is worth it's hype, it should ease your carpal tunnel syndrome ( less typing! ) while simultaneously making Ajax, and other RIA techniques, as natural and convenient as traditional models of web application development. This training will try to provide two things. First, we'll give everyone a hands-on introduction to Struts 2 development by coding a "Hello World on steroids". In addition to demonstrating the Struts 2 development flow, this pumped-up Hello World will also demonstrate how to do Ajax on Struts 2. You'll get a peak at a day in the life of a Struts 2 developer, and you'll also see how the framework facilitates clean Ajax development. It's part intro, part best practices. Bring your laptop and be ready to code. Ideally, have a Java IDE and a servlet container ready to go. Team programming will be encouraged ; teams of two should work best -- one typist and one "listener". We're going to move fast, but it should work.


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October 10, 2011
Video Documents Three-Year Trek on Mars by NASA Rover
Approaching Endeavour Crater, Sol 2,680
This image from the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the view ahead on the day before the rover reached the rim of Endeavour crater.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Image, Caption and Related Videos
While NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity was traveling from Victoria crater to Endeavour crater, between September 2008 and August 2011, the rover team took an end-of-drive image on each Martian day that included a drive. A new video compiles these 309 images, providing an historic record of the three-year trek that totaled about 13 miles (21 kilometers) across a Martian plain pocked with smaller craters.
The video featuring the end-of-drive images is now available online, at
. It shows the rim of Endeavour becoming visible on the horizon partway through the journey and growing larger as Opportunity neared that goal. The drive included detours, as Opportunity went around large expanses of treacherous terrain along the way.
The rover team also produced a sound track for the video, using each drive day's data from Opportunity's accelerometers. The low-frequency data has been sped up 1,000 times to yield audible frequencies.
"The sound represents the vibrations of the rover while moving on the surface of Mars," said Paolo Bellutta, a rover planner at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., who has plotted many of Opportunity's drives and coordinated production of the video. "When the sound is louder, the rover was moving on bedrock. When the sound is softer, the rover was moving on sand."
Opportunity and its rover twin, Spirit, completed their three-month prime missions on Mars in April 2004. Both rovers continued for years of bonus, extended missions. Both have made important discoveries about wet environments on ancient Mars that may have been favorable for supporting microbial life. Spirit stopped communicating in 2010. Opportunity continues its work at Endeavour. NASA will launch the next-generation Mars rover, car-size Curiosity, this autumn, for arrival at Mars' Gale crater in August 2012.
JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Exploration Rover Project for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington. More information about the rovers is online at:
. You can also follow the mission on Facebook at
and on Twitter at
Guy Webster 818-354-6278
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.


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This time of year, Gammy (my totally awesome grandma) always brings out this tiered serving dish with old-timey Christmas trees painted on it. Each of the tiers display an assortment Christmas-colored candies like M&Ms (plain M&M's in Christmas colors taste infinitely better than regular, amiright?), those spearmint gummy trees coated in sugar, and always always fun-sized, silver foil-wrapped York Peppermint Patties.
I've wanted to make homemade peppermint patties since I first realized that was a thing about 2 Christmases ago. Honestly, I don't know what's taken me so dang long. Besides the dough being a bit sticky, these little morsels were the easiest and most fun treats I've made this holiday season so far.
There are some recipes that call for butter or shortening or coconut oil but this one just uses egg whites…and a generous helping of powdered sugar.
As a life-long fan of the original York Peppermint Patty, I can attest to the fact that these are oh so close to the real thing. The snap of the dark chocolate and the slight crunch of the whipped peppermint filling (which is pretty much the edible equivalent to stepping into freshly fallen snow) – gaahhh. I can't deal. I'm on a chocolate peppermint high.


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BERKELEY, CA — Cantaloupe Systems and Crane Streamware announced that both companies have completed the integration of Cantaloupe's Seed remote monitoring platform and Streamware's VendMax software solution, and the combination is now benefiting vending operators.
Cantaloupe's Seed platform offers wireless monitoring of, and alert notification from, a vendor's remote assets. Streamware's VendMax software provides front- and back-office operational management solutions. Working in concert, the two systems boost vendors' operating efficiencies, leading to substantially increased return on investment. The systems, working in tandem through VendMax Remote, also become a major selling advantage because they enhance the purchasing experience for the patron.
Steve Foley of Foley Food & Vending Service (Norwood, MA) runs his operation with VendMax software. By using its advanced forecasting system, Foley can pre-pack the orders for all his machines at his warehouse.
"VendMax has always worked great for us," noted Foley, "but integrating it with the Seed wireless platform has taken us to the next level. The DEX sales data transmitted by Seed feeds into VendMax several times a day, and makes my warehouse pre-picking dead-on accurate. It's perfect for colleges and other unpredictable public locations.
"I'm now experimenting with dynamic scheduling and have found that having access to real-time sales data has saved me from making unnecessary trips to far-away locations," Foley added.
He always has used technology to gain a competitive advantage, and is finding that remote monitoring has helped in closing new accounts. "Cantaloupe's Seed has been a phenomenal sales tool, often allowing us to land new accounts without having to offer the highest commission. It's a real differentiator. My existing customers can log in and see sales information from a special Seed website and be confident that the data is legitimate, since it is electronically transmitted in real time," he said.
Erich Markee, operations manager for A&B Vending Co. (Wakefield, MA) uses Streamware data to facilitate warehouse pre-packing ("pre-kitting") of orders for his snack and frozen machines. "I purchased Cantaloupe's Seed platform as an enhancement to Streamware's pre-kitting program," said Markee, "but I was pleasantly surprised to find that, in addition to optimizing my pre-kitting data, the 'Seed' system contains an extremely beneficial alert feature. Several times the Seed alerts feature saved me from serious inventory meltdowns when my frozen machines had compressor or power failures. When one of my frozen machines loses power, the backup battery of the 'Seed' device enables it to notify me and my service manager via text message. The first time this situation happens at a frozen machine, the system is paid for!"
Cantaloupe currently is working with machine manufacturers to support specific alerts that appear in the DEX data relayed from a machine's controller. These alerts can include any internal malfunction such as a broken motor or a jammed or full bill validator.
For more information call Streamware Corp. at 800-4-STREAM. The system is described online at streamware.com and cranems.com.


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Updated via Cydia today, a couple of hours ago. My iPhone 4 Bootup time is still 60 seconds.
PS-Had re-jailbroken day before with v1.4. same same for time plus my Backlight dim on Home screen is 45 seconds & on Lock screen 25 seconds for fade to black. Not good.
It fixes that and got nothing to do with your iPhone boot up time. 😝
Jailbroken phones are naturally slow in booting up. Cuz they gotta load up tweaks/settings/themes and what ever u got on there that gotta do with jailbreak etc. Therefore the more jailbreak stuff the more slower it is.
Ugh!! I mean I'm really Glad for this fix. But I've restored no less than twice now trying to get rid of that double boot Apple logo thinking it was some kind of conflict or weirdness. Why haven't we heard more about this? I follow all the news threads here and the Twitter feeds of all the major devs and this is the first time I'm hearing about this being a bug in the evasi0n untether itself. How could it be possible that we only hear about it being the untether's fault the day of the fix?
And Anthony's right. iPhone 4 boot up times, even stock, are much slower than a 4S or 5 stock. No-brainer.
The difference in boot up time is due to Mobile Substrate. If you remove all of your tweaks and mobile substrate, your boot up time will be just like before jailbreaking
I'm much faster on reboot now. Updated through Cydia on my super picky iOS 6.1.1 iPhone 4S.
*edit* After a crash from Auxo I have once again gotten into a problem with Reboots. It is still faster than before the fix but slower than it was when I first updated.


text: It has been several years, but somewhere way back in the archives of the site is a blind about Rachael Ray's husband enjoying the company of others. Now, The Enquirer has gone public with a story that Rachael's husband, John Cusimano has been going to swingers clubs for years even while married and that he usually takes another woman with him who is not his wife and they engage in activities one would engage in at a swingers club. At first Rachael's people said they don't respond to stories from The Enquirer. Now they are denying it, but also just threatening legal action to make themselves look all serious. Let me know when they file the suit. They won't.