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I've decided I'm ready for Tim Urban to hang around a couple more weeks. Not because I enjoy listening to him sing. (I don't.) Not because I think he's more talented than some of the other contestants on the show. (He's not, nor is he as good as many who have preceded him.) Not even because when he appears on the screen, my 8-year-old daughter whispers to my wife, "I love him" (which she does, and I know that she will cry the night he finally goes home).
No, I want to keep Tim on the show because he's the one contestant in this generally lackluster season -- maybe the one contestant in the history of the show -- who can neutralize the judges.
In a season when many of the show's hardcore faithful have decided that the judges need to be taken down a peg or two, Tim Urban, it turns out, is just the guy to do it.
Tuesday, after butchering Anita Bakers Sweet Love, Tim, bemused, watched as the first three judges grew visibly frustrated at not being able to humiliate him. "I just don't understand why you keep doing this," Kara moaned, practically throwing up her hands in futility.
And then Simon Cowell finally realized the truth: "I don't think it makes any difference whatsoever what we say," he said. "You're going to smile, the audience is going to vote for you, nobody cares, and you'll be here next week. So well done."
The judges, ostensibly, exist on the show to guide the contestants to better performances. But as Lil Rounds and, oh, just about anybody this season can attest, their advice is often confusing, even nonsensical. Sometimes, their comments are little more than displays of ego or thinly disguised bullying.
In the past, faced with the judges' withering assessments, contestants have tried explaining themselves. They've tried defending themselves. They've pleaded, they've cried, they've bristled. A few have even dared to talk back. None of it has helped, not with the judges and not with the audience.
Tim has their number. He just stands there, absorbing the worst punishment Simon and his gang can throw at him. Then, unbowed and unbloodied, he smiles, thanks them kindly and lets them know how very much he appreciates their input.
Wednesday, in a display of condescension that rivaled anything Simon has ever shown, Kara began talking about Tim in the third person, as though he were a small child with a severe learning disability: "I don't think he even understands, maybe, what we're saying."
But Tim understood her perfectly, he just wasn't going to let her get to him. "I get what you're saying," he responded with, naturally, a smile. (This roughly translates from the language of mama-raised-her-boy-right as "I'm not stupid, you arrogant twit.")
And then he laid the smackdown on her. In the kindest way possible, of course.
"The reason you guys see me smile is because every time I step on that stage I know it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," he continued. "And, so, when I get done performing on this stage for millions of people, if I get done singing and I let myself get depressed about what I just did, then I'm gonna walk off that stage and for the rest of my life, go, 'Man ... '"
It was the perfect answer, both in its substance (it showed that Tim has his head in exactly the right spot) and in its tone (it put Kara and the rest of the judges in their place while simultaneously earning Tim the respect of the parents who watch the show with their tween daughters that vote for him). I kept waiting for him to say, "Well, bless your heart," but I suspect Tim's too decent for even that euphemism.
It was, frankly, Tim's best performance of the season -- and it just might have been good enough to buy him another week or two on the show.
Tim, it turns out, is an almost perfectly engineered contestant for the American Idol process. He has just one flaw: He can't sing so good. He's like those incredible physical specimens that invariably get taken early in the NFL draft despite the fact that they clearly don't know how to catch a football.
But as long as he can continue to work the judges like he's doing, I'm in his corner. At least for three more weeks.
And, Tim, if you read this, should you make it as far as country week, might I suggest Jack Ingram's Love You? It would set up a great parting shot.
"Love you, Kara."
Nashville-based Brian Mansfield began writing about music for USA TODAY in 1997 and took over Idol Chatter just before the start of Season 8. He co-authored Make Me a Star: Industry Insiders Reveal How to Make It in Music, and while he has never auditioned for American Idol, he did sing Boot Scootin' Boogie at Disney World's American Idol Experience the day the attraction opened (he lost). More about Brian | E-mail Brian


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Hot off the announcement of a merger with Orange, T-Mobile has picked up another network to add to its stable. European mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) Vectone Mobile is partnering with T-Mob and launching in the UK with a prepay low-cost service, including for national and international calls.
T-Mobile's other famous MVNO is of course Virgin Media, and this latest partnership gives T-Mob more than 50% of the wholesale market. Vectone is already significant in the so-called 'ethnic calling market' - ie, international calls to other European countries - with a customer base of more than one million in countries such as Denmark, Norway, and Austria.
T-Mobile UK Managing Director Richard Moat said: "We are delighted to be supporting Vectone's ambitious expansion plans for the UK market. The deal with Vectone signals our intent to become a major player in the ethnic MVNO arena.
With international calling card minutes rapidly migrating to mobile, this is an excellent time to be forging new partnerships in a segment which is showing signs of bucking the recession with strong projected growth rates. Vectone builds on our eight existing MVNO partnerships and underlines our ambitions to target new growth areas in the wholesale market."

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aggrolounge replied to gflooser's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & MedicationsI've had Yogos with no reaction (other than disgust.. I don't like them! ), fruit snakes, and the shakes.. so I would probably trust the syrup enough to use it since I've had no other problems with their gluten free products.
aggrolounge replied to gflooser's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & MedicationsI'm usually the one reminding.. but I felt ill after kissing my bf after he had beer so now I'm particular about it. I feel bad having him mouthwash/brush teeth for this but it's worth the guilt, lol..
aggrolounge replied to raisin's topic in Celiac Disease - Post Diagnosis, Recovery/Treatment(s)Woah.. silent damage isn't better damage. I have no problem w/ weed for CC but that's just dumb, imo.
aggrolounge posted a topic in Other Food Intolerance and Leaky Gut IssuesSubject line says it all. I seem to get bloated and uncomfortable with occasional D if I eat much whole corn, but I could eat corn chips all day with no problems? I don't understand.
aggrolounge replied to aggrolounge's topic in Celiac Disease - Post Diagnosis, Recovery/Treatment(s)Useful info, thanks! Will look into L. Glutamine - haven't heard of it.
aggrolounge replied to bakingbarb's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & MedicationsThe concept is all based on a sulfate-free cleansing system. Google "conditioner washing" or "no poo." There are much cheaper ways to maintain this same effect without relying on a wheat-y, expensive, and somewhat limiting system like the Wen one. All you have to do is eliminate silicone products and you won't need shampoo, only to condition in a scrubbing motion to distribute your natural oils down the hair shaft. I only shampoo a couple times a month with occasional mild shampoo.. and trust me, I don't have greasy hippie hair - I am a cosmetologist, couldn't go around looking like that..
aggrolounge replied to mamabear's topic in Celiac Disease - Doctors2nd this one. I just had to go to the ER for my symptoms yesterday and was told by 4 different people in the hospital how skinny I was. NO SH** MY INTESTINES AREN'T WORKING. And then I explain what happens when I eat gluten and get eyerolls. Please..
aggrolounge posted a topic in Celiac Disease - Post Diagnosis, Recovery/Treatment(s)Still detoxing pretty hard at this point and the cramping is just so bad. I've had it worse before, where I felt like I couldn't get out of a fetal position and wanted to throw up. But right now it's about halfway there. Just wondering, what works to relieve the pain for you guys? Tylenol has mild relieving effects on it, but it is still often debilitating even with full Tylenol dose. Heat seems to help sometimes, sometimes not. What do you all use? Also, is it better to use Imodium/Pepto or should I just let it get out? I honestly always purposely back myself up (when glutened) because I can't stand D and I can't stand living in the bathroom, but I realize that's probably not good? Not sure.
aggrolounge replied to aggrolounge's topic in Gluten-Free Recipes - Baking & Cooking TipsWill look into that, thanks!
aggrolounge replied to BcG3987's topic in Celiac Disease - Coping WithYeah definitely avoid this! Just got done with cosmetology school and it took me half of the time there to realize why my scalp was freaking out - was using Aveda products only and almost all of them contain wheat, and some others contain barley. It took my scalp quite awhile to stop reacting after using to discontinue use immediately! Also you will find wheat in your makeup or skincare products so always read those labels too.. edit: actually, read those labels when you're sitting down.. lol, you'll find things scarier than wheat most of the time..
aggrolounge posted a topic in Gluten-Free Recipes - Baking & Cooking TipsIs there any gluten free crust I could buy or easily make that has that cracker-y consistency that would be good to eat cold? I would think it would be easier to make than a soft crust.. but I'm very new to this.
aggrolounge replied to aggrolounge's topic in Celiac Disease - Coping WithThank you. That's funny - I had noticed on my own that avocados seem to go over well anytime I am sick. I'm dealing with bronchitis and fever/nausea currently in addition so it's making it harder than it usually is for me. Have to admit, I haven't been consistent with my probiotics but I'm jumping back on that now. I just got a new one with a billion kinds of probiotics in it so I hope that helps.
aggrolounge replied to aggrolounge's topic in Celiac Disease - Coping WithYeah I may try a potato first. Or maybe rice? I'm not sure. I mean the last few times I've been sick I've peaked at day 3 so I'm hoping today will be better but idk. Thinking about maybe getting enzymes to help but I have no idea what to get.
aggrolounge posted a topic in Celiac Disease - Coping WithI tested negative for celiac (bloodwork and biopsies) but I don't know what you would call my problem. Gluten allergy, gluten intolerance, gluten sensitivity..? Anyway, I've been gluten free for 8 months now and have done really well. I'm almost NOT underweight for the first time in my life. It seems like I have a threshold for how much gluten I can handle.. for example I very rarely get CC'd enough to feel very ill. I'm pretty careful, but I do eat out quite a bit. My current problem is, I was so excited about trying these sweet potato fries at a local fast-foodish place that I didn't even notice they were battered (dumb, I know, spare me :[). I ate four of them before I noticed. I'm having symptoms like I did before the diet - constant diarrhea, fatigue, brain fog, aches, nausea, sensitive skin. My question is - what do you guys do to cope with the sickness? I've already been sick for 3 days and other times I've screwed up it's lasted as long as 2 weeks. I am trying to interview several places since I just moved here and I just can't deal with the D. I've just been loading up on pepto bismol, which I'm sure isn't nice to my body. I can't figure out what to eat. I eat rice, I get sick. I eat fruit, I get sick. I eat dairy, I get sick.. etc, etc. :[ I'm not even hungry right now but I can't afford to not eat with malnutrition and weight loss issues.. and all the anxiety/depression that brings along. Thanks for reading, sorry that was longwinded! - Heidi


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I tend to be shy, so it has been difficult to put myself out there. I'd like to meet a girl who can take me out of my comfort zone, but who also likes staying in watching movies and eating home-cooked meals.
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- I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin refugium, from refugere to escape, from re- + fugere to flee — more at fugitive Date: 14th century 1. shelter or protection from danger or distress 2. a place that provides shelter or protection 3. something to which one has recourse in difficulty II. verb (refuged; refuging) Date: 1594 transitive verb to give refuge to intransitive verb to seek or take refuge
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DirecTV, DCP Midstream contribute money to walk
DirecTV gave $522,539 and DCP Midstream contributed nearly $200,000 — both were presenting sponsors — as the 14th Annual Denver Start! Heart & Stroke 5K Walk raised a record of $1.385 million on June 4, drawing more than 13,000 participants. The American Heart Association produced the event. The money goes to heart disease and stroke research, as well as prevention programs. DirecTV's fundraising efforts included a golf tournament on June 6 at Inverness Golf Club.
SAFEWAY STEPS IN: Safeway's Denver Division and The Safeway Foundation raised $538,800 in April to support local chapters of Easter Seals, Special Olympics and other organizations that help those with disabilities. Overall, Safeway raised $10.4 million through its People With Disabilities program in nearly 1,700 stores in the United States and Canada.
PLANTING: Employees of Accenture and United Launch Alliance teamed up June 10 to plant about 40 trees at the Denver Housing Authority's Park Side complex at 37th and Columbine streets. This was part of The Park People's Mile High Tree Champions program.
CEC FUNDRAISER: The Colorado Environmental Coalition raised more than $130,000 and drew more than 500 people to its "Rebel with a Cause" gala held May 19 at the Seawell Ballroom. The money will go to work on wilderness, water, energy, climate change and smart growth. Major supporters included Karl & Barbara Friedman, Chad Kenney, Waste Management, Blair Johnson & Sandy Graham, Joe Breddan, Johns Manville, Tricia Nichols, John Bermingham, BlueChannel, Colorado Public Television, Gareth Martins & Osprey Packs, Stratton-Carpenter & Associates, Sue Thompson and Western Disposal Services.
SCHWAB VOLS SPREAD OUT: The Denver office of Charles Schwab participated in Schwab Volunteer Week, May 16-20, working on 18 projects in the Denver metro area. A total of 268 volunteers helped out at Hope Communities of Denver, Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain Inc., The Delores Project, Easter Seals Colorado, Denver Rescue Mission, Boys & Girls Club of Metro Denver, Project Night Night, Urban Peak and Family HomeStead. Schwab also gave $500 grants to each of the charities, plus an additional $10,000 to Project Night Night, which won an online vote.
A MONTH TO GIVE: More than 300 agents of Keller Williams DTC participated in fundraisers in April, raising more than $22,000, with the money being donated to area organizations, people in need, victims of natural disasters and sponsorship of a well in the Serengeti to provide clean drinking water. Sport ticket raffles, bakes sales, collecting pocket change and line-dance lessons were among the fundraising events held.
TORNADO VICTIMS: Go Fast Sports & Beverage Co. has donated almost $14,000 worth of Go Fast Energy Drinks to Joplin, Mo., to help the tornado-struck city in its recovery.
TERRACE PLANS: The Colorado Garden Show Inc. made a grant of $7,652 to Rocky Mountain MS Center of Westminster. The money will be used for development of the North Terrace Therapy Gardens.
RUNNING FOR DOLLARS: Dean Evans & Associates, a software company in Greenwood Village, raised $4,500 through its participation in the Kaiser Permanente Colfax Marathon Corporate Cup Relay. The company entered five five-person teams in the marathon; its chosen charities are American Cancer Society, Hospice of Saint John and The Children's Hospital Foundation.
KEYBANK PITCHES IN: More than 600 KeyCorp employees participated in the company's 21st annual day of volunteer service on May 24. Among their projects on "Neighbors Make the Difference Day" were Center for Work Education and Employment (reviewing résumés and cover letters, and participating in mock interviews), Boys and Girls Club of Metro Denver (yard work, ball field prep and more), ARC Thrift Stores (sorting and hanging clothing), Town of Superior (cleaning and preparing the bike route for the Superior Morgul Classic) and Ronald McDonald House (cleaning, household organization and making family meals).
FOR WARREN VILLAGE: JHL Constructors, along with subcontractors and suppliers such as Westar Framing, Landtech, and Commercial Fence & Ironworks, completed a community-service project for Warren Village. The project included a new cedar shade structure, split-rail fencing and gates, an elevated playhouse, swings, slide, sandbox and new landscaping. Warren Village provides transitional housing for single parents who seek to change their lives.
Compiled by Bruce Goldberg, Good Works reports on charitable giving and volunteer work by businesses and foundations. Email items to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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This week, PBS Frontline aired "Climate of Doubt," an investigation of the effect climate change skeptics have had on public opinion. In the broadcast, PBS Frontline describes the Cooler Heads Coalition as "a team of skilled policy advocates driving a remarkable turnaround that has already changed the U.S. political landscape." Click here to watch.
In the News
Overrated: Nicholas Stern
Myron Ebell, Standpoint, 26 October 2012
Carbon Tax: Will Tweedle Dum Snatch Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
Marlo Lewis, Forbes, 25 October 2012
Problems for Next President Piling up at EPA
Mark Tapscott, Washington Examiner, 25 October 2012
GOP: Obama's 'War on Wind' Strategy Is Fizzling
Darren Goode, Politico, 25 October 2012
Politically Connected Company Wins Offshore Wind Lease Despite Setbacks
Lachlan Markay, Scribe, 25 October 2012
20 Reasons To Be Wary of Wind Power
John Droz, Jr., Master Resource, 24 October 2012
Energy Is Everywhere
Kenneth Green, The American, 24 October 2012
Layoffs, Failures Test Colorado's "New Energy Economy"
Steve Raabe, Denver Post, 22 October 2012
News You Can Use
U.S. Oil Production Booms, Despite President Obama's Policies
The AP this week reported that "U.S. production of crude and other liquid hydrocarbons is on track to rise 7 percent this year to an average of 10.9 million barrels per day. This will be the fourth straight year of crude increases and the biggest single-year gain since 1951." On the campaign trail, President Obama takes credit for the oil surge, but this is disingenuous. According to the Congressional Research Service, 96 percent of the increase in oil and gas production since 2007 has been on private and state lands. On federal lands, bureaucratic red tape resulted in a 14-percent decrease in oil production in 2011.
Inside the Beltway
Myron Ebell
Michael Mann Sues CEI
Penn State Professor Michael E. Mann, Ph. D., chief creator of the notorious "hockey stick," filed suit in District of Columbia Superior Court on October 22 against the Competitive Enterprise Institute, National Review magazine, Rand Simberg, and Mark Steyn. The suit claims five counts of libel and one of "intentional inflection of emotional distress." Professor Mann's Facebook page ("Michael E. Mann, Public Figure") contains a lot of posts about his view of the suit and clips of news articles and columns that report on it.
Professor Mann's suit claims that he was defamed by a blog written by Rand Simberg, a CEI adjunct scholar in space policy, and posted on CEI's OpenMarket.org on July 13. The more colorful parts of Simberg's blog were then quoted in a blog by Mark Steyn that appeared on National Review Online.
Simberg's blog, "The Other Scandal in Happy Valley," observes that the cover-up by Penn State University of the Jerry Sandusky scandal is not Penn State's only cover-up. He calls the university investigation that exonerated Professor Mann from charges of academic malfeasance a whitewash.
The defendants have not yet filed their formal response with the court. Rich Lowry, editor of National Review, in August had this to say about the letter from Professor Mann's lawyer that threatened to sue unless National Review apologized and removed Steyn's blog: "Get Lost." CEI received a similar letter from Professor Mann's lawyer at about the same time that National Review responded. Here is our initial response.
My CEI colleague Chris Horner discusses whether any of the multiple investigations that Professor Mann claims have exonerated him actually do exonerate him here. And Mark Steyn discusses this sentence that appears in the ninth line of Professor Mann's court filing: "As a result of this research, Dr. Mann and his colleagues were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize" here and here.
McKibben Launches Fossil-Fuel Divestment Campaign
Bill McKibben and his pressure group, 350.org, announced on October 19 a 21-city tour to promote their new campaign to convince universities to disinvest (or divest) their stock holdings in companies that produce coal, oil, and natural gas. The tour begins in Seattle on November 7, but had a trial run in Burlington, Vermont, on October 13.
McKibben's roadshow is mainly playing in West and East coast cities, but is also making stops in Chicago, Madison, Columbus, Minneapolis, Omaha, Boulder, Salt Lake City, Atlanta, and Durham. Tickets are available at the campaign's website, but some cities have already sold out.
It's being co-sponsored by a long list of other groups. The initial impetus for the divestment campaign appears to come from a Massachusetts-based group called Students for a Just and Stable Future. Their effort has already persuaded Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachussetts, to divest its holdings in fossil-fuel companies.
This has symbolic importance because McKibben's campaign is inspired by the anti-apartheid campaign in the late 1970s and early 1980s that convinced many major American universities to divest in corporations that did business with South Africa. Hampshire College was the first institution of higher learning to do so.
The Cooler Heads Digest is the weekly e-mail publication of the Cooler Heads Coalition. For the latest news and commentary, check out the Coalition's website, www.GlobalWarming.org.


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Alternative Titles: S. I. Newhouse, Solomon Neuhaus
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discussed in Newhouse family biography
The family's fortunes began with Samuel Irving Newhouse (b. May 24, 1895, New York, N.Y., U.S.—d. Aug. 29, 1979, New York City), who was born Solomon Neuhaus and was later known as S.I. Newhouse. He was working as a clerk for Judge Herman Lazarus in Bayonne, N.J., when Lazarus took over a failing newspaper, the Bayonne Times. Lazarus asked Newhouse, then 17, to take care of the...


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Volume 2
Forced Migration
Understanding Impoverishment
The Consequences of Development-Induced Displacement
Edited by Christopher McDowell
272 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-57181-916-1 $120.00/£85.00 Hb Published (September 1996)
ISBN 978-1-57181-927-7 $34.95/£24.00 Pb Published (September 1996)
Infrastructure development projects are set to continue into the next century as developing country governments seek to manage population growth, urbanization and industrialization. The contributions in this volume raise many questions about 'development' and 'progress' in the late twentieth century. What is revealed are the enormous problems and disastrous affects which continue to accompany displacement operations in many countries, which raise the ever more urgent question of whether the benefits of infrastructure development justify or outweigh the pain of the radical disruption of peoples lives, exacerbated by the fact that, with some notable exceptions, there has been a lack of official recognition on the part of governments and international agencies that development-induced displacement is a problem at all. This important volume addresses the issues and shows just how serious the situation is.
Christopher McDowell is Research Officer, Refugee Studies Programme, International Development Centre, University of Oxford.
Subject: Refugee & Migration Studies Development Studies Theory & Methodology in Anthropology
BL: YC.2000.a.1366
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NEVADA: A 19-year-old man identified as Michael Sandford has been arrested at a Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas on Saturday after attempting to disarm a police officer while pretending to get an autograph, officials say.
Michael Sandford reportedly walked up to a police officer and claimed he was trying to get an autograph, police said. Sandford then allegedly tried to take the officer's gun without warning.
Officers quickly detained the man without incident. He is now in the custody of the Secret Service and will face criminal charges, KVVU-TV reported.
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Brainerd, Minn. - With the way that the NTB/Service Central Funny Car has been performing this season, nitro pilot Johnny Gray felt he had a very good chance of defending the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals title he scored last season at Brainerd Int'l Raceway. Don Schumacher racing teammate - and eventual event winner - Ron Capps, though, had other plans, and their quarterfinals match ended with Gray on the wrong side of good fortune.
Gray had every reason to be confident: so far this year, he has collected two wins in three final rounds, and twice he has been the No. 1 qualifier - the driver and car have become a fearsome duo with crew chief Rob Wendland, assistant crew chief Rip Reynolds, and a very well-jelled team behind them.
During qualifying in Brainerd, the team rose to their potential and Gray raced to an exceptional 4.055 at 316.75 mph to reset the track record for speed and earn the No. 4 position heading into raceday.
In the first round of eliminations, things got tricky as Gray had his hands full and muscled through tire shake to beat Jim Head, who had his own share of traction troubles in the opposite lane. Gray's 4.65 bested his opponent's 4.91, and he advanced to the round-two meeting with Capps.
"That was a calamity of errors from the word go," said Gray. "I typically roll the car in just a little bit, and I rolled the car in just a hair too far and turned both [pre-stage] lights on. That kind of set the events in motion; I didn't drive the car real well, and then it dropped a hole."
With a cylinder out, Gray clocked a 4.199 at 297.55 to Capps' winning 4.112, 307.79.
"We just didn't make a very good run," he continued. "When we got back, we couldn't find any reason for it to have done that - but then we started checking the spark plug wires, and we think we found the reason: A bad plug wire.
"It is what it is, but we'll go on. When we get to Indy, hopefully I'll do a little better job driving and we'll have a little better luck in regard to all the things that can go wrong in a nitro car. We'll get back on the board here and back to going rounds and winning races. We didn't really show it this weekend, but the NTB/Service Central Dodge is a very good racecar."
The highlight of the weekend for Gray and his Service Central team could arguably have been the fact that they clinched their position in NHRA's Countdown to the Championship playoffs; last season, Gray was locked out of the competition but had a stunning car during the final part of the season. He finished 11th but would have had a true shot at the series title had he made the cutoff for the 2011 Countdown.
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The final race of the regular season - and Gray's last opportunity to gain position before the playoffs begin - will be the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis in less than two weeks time, Aug. 29-Sept. 3, 2011.
Johnny Gray NTB/Service Central Racing Dodge Charger R/T
Qualifying position: No. 4
Round one: Johnny Gray (4.653-second at 224.58 mph) def. Jim Head (4.913, 214.69)
Round two: Ron Capps (4.112, 307.79) def. Gray (4.199, 297.55)
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Disclaimer: Not mine. Jason Katims, UPN, etc, all not me.
Author's Note: I am in love with Sarah McLachlan's songs, and they're just perfect for the never-ending angst of Roswell's relationship, so I decided to do a piece on it. Thus 'The Romance Chronicles' were born. Each piece is standalone, but they all belong to this series, and are all based around a piece of SM music.
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Rating: PG
Summary: Right after she marries Jesse, Isabel writes a letter to her true love.
December 1, 2001
Dear Alex,
You've been gone almost nine months now.
There's not a day, or an hour, that goes by, that I don't think about what we were, what we could have been, and most of all, what I regret.
I wish I didn't believe in second chances, because it's only making it all this much harder. If I could just get it through my skull that you're gone, maybe I'd finally heal.
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Spend all your time waiting
For that second chance
For a break that would make it okay
There's always some reason
To feel not good enough
And it's hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction
Oh beautiful release
Memory seeps from my veins
Let me be empty and weightless and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight
At night, Jesse's arms close around me, and I try so hard not to think of him as you. Most nights, it works, and I take whatever little comfort I can get from the love of a man I don't love back.
Not the way I loved you.
I don't know why you've stopped visiting me. I miss you. I used to see you all the time, before the summer. Then you went away. Was it Jesse? I'm only trying to move on, like you told me to. I'll never be over you, if that's what you're worried about.
And I'll never be over you even if you do stay away forever, if that's what you're worried about. I know you, Alex, and I know that you could stay away til the day I die just to get me to try and be happy with someone else, and not remember you.
It won't work.
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I can tell the difference between a dream I thought up and a dream where you're really in it, Alex. You shouldn't underestimate me, you've known me long enough now.
In the arms of an angel
Fly away from here
From this dark cold hotel room
And the endlessness that you fear
You are pulled from the wreckage
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You're in the arms of an angel
May you find some comfort there
I haven't told anyone that I see you sometimes. Of course, Maria and Liz would be wildly jealous. Max would ask me if I was alright, and worry. Michael would probably tell everyone to get off my back, but he'd worry too. If I told another human, they would probably send me to a mental ward.
And I'm sure as hell not going to tell Jesse.
So your secret is safe with me. I'm not sure if you're allowed to come visit me, since it happens so infrequently. I mean, if the dead and the living were allowing to interact all the time the way you and I are, then there really wouldn't be any loss when the person died, would there? You could still talk to them and be with them forever.
I confuse myself sometimes.
So tired of the straight line
And everywhere you turn
There's vultures and thieves at your back
And the storm keeps on twisting
And keep on building the lies
That you make up for all that you lack
I sleep a lot, looking for you. I want to see you, Alex. I miss you. But there's more to it than that. I've never really, truly been in love before. Maybe this is just the way you feel after you lose someone you were in love with.
But I think there's something more. Something that makes this special. Something that keeps us tied together for a strange, unknown reason.
All I want is to keep living my life, for you, but I don't really want to, Alex. I promise I will, but I can't say I'm dreading the day I get to come and see you. I'm not hoping for it either, though. There are still people here on earth for me. People who I can't leave yet.
People whom I have tremendous obligations to. But not people who make me want to live, like you did.
But none who's heartstrings are attached quite so strongly to my own.
It don't make no difference
Escaping one last time
It's easier to believe
In this sweet madness
Oh, this glorious sadness
That brings me to my knees
I never believed in a god before. I'm an alien, how can I? I know things that can't be explained by any kind of religion. But if there's no god or heaven or hell, then why didn't you disappear after you died? Why do you still exist, even if it's not on my plane, with me, where I wish?
I guess I have some people, or rather, some gods, to thank.
In the arms of an angel
Fly away from here
From this dark cold hotel room
And the endlessness that you fear
You are pulled from the wreckage
Of your silent reverie,
May you find some comfort here
I hope you're happy, Alex. There's nothing I can do about you being gone, though I play that night over in my head again and again. I can't believe we didn't see it until it was too late.
But that was months ago, and even I, pessimist that I can sometimes be, can't hold onto the guilt forever. Now, it's more like there's just a big, aching hole in my chest. The place where the heartstrings that attached you to me tore out a part of my chest when you died.
I wish you well, Alex, and I wanted to tell you I'm trying. I'm trying to go on, for your sake. I'm trying to learn to love again, for you.
I'm trying to honor the memory of our love in the only way I know how. Please understand that.
You're in the arms of an angel
May you find
Some comfort here
Love, Isabel
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Be Happy:Maintain a Positive Philosophy
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Jul 28, 2010 at 2:45 UTC
Would be nice if we could meet during the week instead of on Saturday's (too much happening on the weekend).
Jul 29, 2010 at 8:46 UTC
Every 6 months or so we do an online survey asking people when is the best day to meet and so far, the majority has voted for Saturday. We meet from 10 am to Noon so we can meet early and it doesn't interrupt your entire day.
The main problem with meeting during the weekdays is either people can't get the time off from work every month or their weeknight schedule is busier than their weekend schedule.
Even so, we still manage to squeeze in a couple of weekday events during the year. We just had a weekday event a couple of months ago for Spiceworks' 1 Millionth User Celebration.
However, perhaps the next survey will turn out differently. I'm all for whatever is the best fit for everyone.
I do hope you get to join us sometime on the future!
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Best Practices When Developing Command Bars for the Microsoft Office System
Andy Chang
Frank C. Rice
Microsoft Corporation
December 2003
Applies to:
Microsoft® Office System
Summary: Command bars allow users to carry out actions in applications in the Microsoft Office System. Learn about some best practices that you can use when developing command bars. (6 printed pages)
Adding Controls to Command Bars
General Tips
Using the Visual Studio .NET Shared Add-in Wizard
Adding Command Bars and Menu Items
Event Handlers
Deprecated Application Programming Interfaces
Using Themes with Your Add-in
Command bars allow you to carry out actions in applications in the Microsoft® Office System. Command bars come in three forms — toolbars, menus, and pop-up menus. Pop-up menus are displayed in three ways: as menus that drop down from menu bars, as submenus that cascade off menu commands, and as shortcut menus. This article looks at some of the best practices that you should consider when developing command bars.
Adding Controls to Command Bars
You can use the following code to put controls at the beginning of each command bar in a document in Microsoft Office Word 2003. This example also includes code that resets the command bars to remove the controls. You can modify the code to use with other applications in the Microsoft Office System.
Sub Word_Command_Bars() On Error GoTo Errorhandler Dim myControl As CommandBarControl Dim cmdBar As CommandBar For Each cmdBar In Application.CommandBars Set myControl = cmdBar.Controls _ .Add(Type:=msoControlPopup, Before:=1, Temporary:=True) With myControl .Caption = cmdBar.Name End With Next Exit Sub Errorhandler: Debug.Print cmdBar.Name Resume Next End Sub Sub Word_Command_Bars_Reset() On Error GoTo Errorhandler Dim cmdBar As CommandBar For Each cmdBar In Application.CommandBars cmdBar.Reset Next Exit Sub Errorhandler: Debug.Print x.Name Resume Next End Sub
General Tips
The following is a list of tips to assist you when creating custom command bars.
- Only include essential code for connecting to the CommandBar objects in the Connect class. The Connect class implements methods of the IDTExtensibility2 interface that connect to the command bars. Create additional classes for your add-in, as appropriate. Putting all your code in the Connect class makes it difficult to maintain, and harder to reuse the code for other projects.
- Do not use try/catch blocks for program logic, but instead use them for catching runtime errors. Throwing exceptions is costly in terms of performance. In addition, catching exceptions when an If statement is sufficient can mask bugs in the code. As a rule, exceptions should not be thrown during the normal execution of code.
- When writing files to disk, use the following environment variables:
"$HOMEDRIVE:\$HOMEPATH\Application Data\Microsoft\Office"
"$APPDATA\Microsoft\Office", if APPDATA is available
- HOMEDRIVE — Returns the drive letter of the local workstation that is connected to the user's home directory. Set based on the value of the home directory. The user's home directory is specified in the Local Users and Groups node of the Computer Management console.
- HOMEPATH — Returns the full path of the user's home directory. Set based on the value of the home directory. The user's home directory is specified in the Local Users and Groups node of the Computer Management console.
- APPDATA — Returns the default data storage location for applications.
Using the user directories avoids the problem of hard-coding paths and directories for storing data, and puts data files in a logical place that users can understand, as opposed to using C:\TEMP.
Using the Visual Studio .NET Shared Add-in Wizard
The following tips apply to using the Shared Add-in Wizard in Visual Studio .NET to create command bars.
- The wizard implements the IDTExtensibility2 interface for you and registers your add-in, both of which save a lot of time and effort. For more information, see Developing with Visual Studio .NET.
- The wizard also creates Setup.msi and an MSI file for easy deployment.
- You should choose the programming language that is appropriate for your needs. For example, Microsoft Visual C# and Microsoft Visual Basic® are easier to use than C++, but you sacrifice performance and code size.
- You should also be sure your Setup project includes all the necessary references to run on the client computer, for example, references to the Microsoft .NET Framework, Common Language Runtime, and so forth.
Adding Command Bars and Menu Items
The following tips apply to adding command bars and menu items.
- Temporary parameter: When adding a custom command bar or menu item, consider whether or not to make it temporary, that is, it is deleted when the Office application is closed. The following table illustrates some of the differences between setting the Temporary parameter to True or False.
Table 1. Comparison showing whether to use the Temporary parameter.
Temporary parameter settings Advantages Disadvantages True Cleans itself up. User can't customize the add-ins position. False User can customize add-in position. Removing the add-in does not remove the custom user interface.
In addition, setting the parameter to True forces you to recreate the command bar or menu every time, but helps prevent the possibility of duplicate menu items or menu items that hang around even if the add-in has been uninstalled. Setting the Temporary parameter is usually preferable because it keeps your toolbars clean. The main disadvantage of a temporary toolbar is that its position is not customizable by default, but you can write code to save position and visibility more easily than you can clean up a non-temporary toolbar.
- When looking for a CommandBar object, use the Id or Name parameter; do not hard code the index as it can change from one version of Office to another. The Id and Name will not change. For example:
Set cb = Application.CommandBars.FindControl(Id:=1) is okay. Set cb = Application.CommandBars("Standard") is okay. Set cb = Application.CommandBars(1) is unreliable.
- When setting properties on a built-in Office CommandBar object, be prepared for it to fail. If this occurs, check the CommandBar.Protection property to verify whether the CommandBar object is protected from certain changes. The Protection property gets or sets the way the specified command bar is protected from user customization. In addition, disabled and non-visible CommandBars objects have many property restrictions.
Event Handlers
This section reviews tips for event handling.
- When using the .NET Framework, you need to keep a reference to any CommandBarButton, CommandBarComboBox, or CommandBarControl objects that have event handlers attached to them. Otherwise the item is removed by garbage collection and your event handler code does not run.
- Be sure to set the Tag property on your controls when adding event handlers or the event handlers do not work reliably as CommandBar sets are merged and copied. Office uses Tags to keep track of event handlers for a specific CommandBarControl. If the Tag property is left blank, the event handler does not copy over properly.
Deprecated Application Programming Interfaces
For the CopyFace and PasteFace methods, use Picture and Mask properties instead. To copy the image from a built-in Office CommandBarButton, use FaceId. The CopyFace and PasteFace methods modify the Microsoft Windows® clipboard which can be frustrating for users who don't understand why their clipboard data is corrupted or overwritten. Picture and Mask can also support gradients in Office 2003 running on Windows XP using themes.
Using Themes with Your Add-in
Some of the common user interface elements of Windows have a new look in Windows XP which you can apply to your add-ins. For more information, see Microsoft Knowledge Base Article — 307855 HOW TO: Configure Desktop Themes in Windows XP and Microsoft Knowledge Base Article — 830033 HOW TO: Enable Office COM Add-ins to Opt-in to Windows XP Themes.
This article presents best practices that can assist you when developing command bars and command bar controls. Using one or more of these tips can make your code more efficient and easy to develop.


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|26 Jul 2012
What is ideal way of moving data to larger SDD, clone or....?
Dear all,
I am wondering if someone on the board can guide me with my scenario. I am planning on upgrading to a larger SSD in order to create a multi-boot setup with Win 7 64 bit Professional and Win 8 Release preview. The system is a Lenovo Thinkpad T420 and the current disk setup is as follows (see attached image from Disk Management console, the disk numbering is what it is because my boot device is an mSATA drive and it is always listed as Disk2):
Disk 0: DATA D:\ on a Crucial m4 128GB SSD
Disk 1: BACKUP E:\ on Hitachic 320 GB spindle used for backups/system images only
Disk 2: Split into two partitions 1) SYSTEM_DRV 1.17GB & 2) WINDOW7_OS of 73.36GB on an Intel 310 series 80GB mSATA drive.
Disk 2 has the OS and all programs and is the boot device.
Disk 0 has all my user profile folders including docs, music, images etc + the browser cache + Thunderbird Email stores
Disk 1: is used for precisely what its label states. I store nightly backups of the full system images created by Windows 7 Backup and restore on it.
Here is what I would like to do.
1) Leave Disk 2 w/current OS alone and not touch it
2) Replace Disk 0 (drive letter is D/Label is DATA/128GB) with a new 256GB SSD. The new disk would be partitioned into two equal parts. One half would be used for the data files on the current D: and
3) The second half would be used Windows 8 RP
4) Both OSes would point to the same data files on the new on DATA D.
What would be the best way to migrate data from the 128GB Crucial to the first partition of the 256 GB SSD? Can I do the following:
1) Run a full system backup
2) Partitition and format the 256 GB by connecting it via USB
3)Do a restore from the most recent backup of DATA D: to the relevant partition of the 256GB
4) Power off and swap out the 128 GB for the 256 GB SSD
5) Check everything is ok and if so, run Win 8 setup
Or should I be cloning DATA D to the a fresh partition on the 256 GB using a program such as Macrium, then doing the swap and then setting up multiboot with Win 8 RP?
Any help would be much appreciated.
|My System Specs
|26 Jul 2012
Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit
I don't see any reason to use Macrium or any imaging application.
Your steps 1 through 5 look OK.
Install the 256 SSD, partition it, move your data from its current location to the new data partition on the new SSD, then install Win 8 to the other partition on the new SSD.
I'd probably disconnect all other drives when it came time to install Win 8 on the new SSD.
|My System Specs
|26 Jul 2012
Thank you. I was hoping that I did not have to resort to any cloning software. Like to keep things simple.
|My System Specs
|28 Jul 2012
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
I would not use any cloning software, for those things I generally prefer the more traditional methods. If possible, plug both HDs at the same time temporarily, format and partition the newer, and copy the whole drive directly.
By the way, I think it's not good to use SSDs for just data, it seems sort of a waste of the device. You'll get much more benefits from it if you put the OS files and programs and enjoy the faster boot time and load time of programs you use. The data itself is accessed much less and is generally smaller, so there is little point of putting it on an ultrafast drive. I would put instead both instances of Windows on each partition of the SSD, and the data on the normal one.
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|29 Jul 2012
Linux CENTOS 7 / various Windows OS'es and servers
Hi there
Agree absolutely -- SSD great for OS / applications etc -- also if you have Photoshop allocate scratch files to the SSD -- works brilliantly --lightning fast with a decent SSD.
Using an SSD for DATA is really a total waste of the device - especially if this is "Static" type data. By all means keep a few current documents on your SSD if you are working on them but use SSD as TEMPORARY data store for data files -- after you've finished your document etc move it back to a spinner.
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PhilMParticipantAugust 31, 2016 at 2:52 am #110030
So a few weeks ago I cheated on my girlfriend who I love dearly. I was not sure about how I was feeling about her because I felt so passionately about her and I never had that before. I told her that I had cheated and things got worse, we broke up, but we still continued to talk. I pleaded my case countless times and she tells me that shes going on a date with a guy this weekend and then asks me a question, "What will you do if we end up having sex?" Then she goes on about how she won't do it and that she just wanted to see what was out there for her and then work things out with me. I just am not sure what to feel about this situation.
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Wow, you have a problem she can say she wont but human nature rules, and shes pissed you cheated, this may not end well. You really dont want her to do this.
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The Fuhrer's Movie Maker
Published: September 26, 1993
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It turned out the Fuhrer was a fan of hers, admired her as an artist and flattered her as a person. She soon became aware of what she saw as the split in his personality: showy rouser of primitive public yearnings, modest private person and, either way, endowed with a charisma as undefinable as Greenland's.
Though he once or twice made the merest hint of a pass at Riefenstahl, Hitler respected her lack of response; mostly he needed someone to talk to. Actually, talk at; never during their friendship did he show the slightest interest in her personal life. If self-obsession was what they both excelled at, she again came in second. Riefenstahl was never seriously attracted to strong, famous men, i.e., father figures; the many crude attempts by the notorious womanizer Goebbels to seduce her especially repelled her. Several such scenes in the book combine low farce with Grand Guignol. Rebuffed, Goebbels became her dogged enemy, strewing her path not with roses but with monkey wrenches.
As Minister of Propaganda he could make life difficult for her, even though the movie she agreed to make -- reluctantly, as she tells it -- was ordered by Hitler, who gave her complete artistic freedom. The masterpiece that resulted was "Triumph of the Will" (first shown in 1935). Hitler himself "knew little or nothing about art." Albert Speer, the architect of the Nuremberg party rally that she was to film, built her an elevator on a flagpole. (When Goebbels threatened interference, she went right to Hitler.)
Riefenstahl's training as a dancer and painter served her well, as she turned a Nazi rally into a picturesque and balletic spectacle. Her sound cinematic instincts let her come up with a variety of shots never before used in documentaries, such as those made by cameramen on roller skates. Most ingenious were the stratagems by which she kept Goebbels's henchmen out of her hair, and the Minister's hands out of her pants.
Even more remarkable is the account of her next masterwork, "Olympia" (1938), a two-part film about the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics. The technical difficulties to be overcome, given the primitive state of film and the peskiness of both sports officials and Goebbels's bloodhounds, make for breathless reading. Commissioned by the German Olympic Committee, the film was intended as a documentary; but, once again, Riefenstahl was interested primarily in art. The main financing came from UFA -- which wanted to add a love story! -- and none of it from the Nazi Party. Otherwise, Goebbels would have exercised stifling control.
THERE were other projects, notably attempts to fulfill the recurring dream of making "Penthesilea," for which she became an expert horsewoman. This time the enterprise foundered for lack of money. Meanwhile Hitler and his favorite director continued their intermittent conversations, with God and the Messiah among their topics. Whenever she alluded to his racist policies, she says, he simply cut her off. Later, during the war, Hitler confided his wish to yield the reins to others after the victory; he himself wanted to make movies with Riefenstahl, a prospect too shuddery for her to contemplate.
Her concern apparently was less political, or even ethical, than professional: she feared Hitler would be a nuisance. Riefenstahl protests that throughout most of the Hitler period she was a political ignoramus. Despite her sophistication and exposure to the world, she does seem to have spent her life a bit out of touch. When Mick Jagger, at the height of his fame in the 1970's, wished her to take his picture, she had to ask, "Who is Mick Jagger?"
But arriving in the United States in November 1938 to front-page news of Kristallnacht, she must have found it hard to dismiss the reports as American propaganda, as she says she did. Whether she lied to herself then and whether she is still doing so, one can't know. Certainly her moral compass set her a peculiar course.
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Riefenstahl condemns herself for her failure to intervene to save her brother, who was assigned to a punishment battalion for making unflattering comments about the war. Fighting on the eastern front, he was blown to bits by a Russian grenade. Her remorse over his death is, in fact, more convincing than any expressed shame at submitting to the Fuhrer's demands.
To Hitler's delight, "Olympia" became a worldwide hit in 1938, winning (for once) first prize in Venice. Audiences in France, Belgium, Norway and the United States, among other countries, applauded not only the film but also Hitler's brief appearances in it. (She doesn't say if anyone booed.)


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