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Question of the Week
Thanks to all you berries who submitted QOW ideas last week—there are definitely some goodies that we will be using! (And a special nod of thanks to anniebee, who came up with several excellent ones.)
We'll begin with one inspired by longtime Nameberry loyalist Lola, about name themes:
Did you theme your kids names—by first letter, meaning, style?
If so, would you do it again or do you regret establishing a pattern?
If there's a theme with your first two kids, are you committed to following it with a third?
There are both blatantly obvious and more subtle motifs–what's your feeling about the practice in general?
One of our favorite baby name blogs is Nancy's Baby Names, written by Nancy C. Man, which is where we found this wonderful piece on baby name patterns and sibling names.
Humans love patterns. Just look last year's list of popular twin names:
|Jacob & Joshua
Daniel & David
Jayden & Jordan
Ethan & Evan
Taylor & Tyler
|Gabriella & Isabella
Isaac & Isaiah
Madison & Morgan
Elijah & Isaiah
Ella & Emma
Eight pairs start with the same letter. Seven have the same rhythm. Another seven end with the same letter (and many of these nearly rhyme).
For twins and other multiples, name patterns are easy. You know the number of children and their genders ahead of time. But what if you want a name pattern for an entire sibling set? That can make things tricky. You don't know how many children you'll have, or what their genders will be. You also don't know how your tastes may change over time.
If you're thinking about a name pattern to cover all of your kids, here are three pieces of advice to consider before you begin:
Don't lock yourself into something limiting.
Let's say you like flowers. You have a daughter and you name her Lily. You have another daughter and name her Rose. Then another, Jasmine. And then a fourth, but…you don't like any other flower names. Iris? Too old. Poppy? Too young. Zinnia? Too weird. Amaryllis will never be spelled correctly. And Daisy is the golden retriever down the street.
Or, let's say you have a son named Alexander. Then you have another boy, and you decide to name him Xavier so they both have that X in common. Then baby #3–a little girl–comes along. Well, you can't do Alexis–that's too close to Alexander. You won't go near Maxine because you fear maxi pad jokes. Roxanne reminds you too much of that song. Xena reminds you too much of that show. And Beatrix makes you think of rabbits.
When you play chess, you have to think ahead several moves. Look at sibling name patterns the same way. Think ahead as many kids as possible. If you can think of 10 or more usable names that fit the pattern, it's probably a safe pattern. If you can't, the pattern may be too limiting to be sustainable.
Consider the pros and cons of visibility.
Have you heard of the Duggars? They have nearly 20 kids, and all of those kids have a J-name. This type of name pattern is one of the easiest to spot. (Especially in large families.)


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MRI in Autosomal Dominant Partial Epilepsy With Auditory Features
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This study will examine the possible structural and functional abnormalities in patients with an inherited form of epilepsy. It will use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Uncontrolled epilepsy is a serious neurological problem with major harmful medical, social, and psychological effects, as well as greater mortality compared with the general population. The cost per year in the United States is at least $12.5 billion. There have been advances in diagnosing the disease, but the cause cannot be determined in many cases. Recently, several seizure syndromes found in families have been described. One syndrome of particular interest involves the lateral temporal lobe of the brain and often includes auditory features. Patients with that kind of syndrome may hear monotonous unformed sounds, but sometimes they may hear complex sounds, such as a song.
Patients are eligible for this study if they have a specific form of familial epilepsy that is being studied at Columbia University in New York. Family members without seizures are eligible as well. All the patients in the study will be evaluated at Columbia before participating. Healthy volunteers aged 18 to 55 also may be eligible for this study.
Participants will undergo a medical history and physical examination. During the study, they may have three or four sessions of MRI. During the MRI, patients will lie still on a table that can slide in and out of a metal cylinder surrounded by a strong magnetic field. Scanning time varies from 20 minutes to 3 hours, with most scans lasting between 45 and 90 minutes. Patients may be asked to lie still for up to 60 minutes at a time. As the scanner takes pictures, there will be loud knocking noises, and the patients will wear earplugs to muffle the sound. Patients will be able to communicate with the MRI staff at all times during the scan and may ask to be moved out of the machine at any time. Some scans may be done in a 3 Tesla scanner. It is the latest advance in MRI, with a stronger magnetic field than in the more common 1.5 Tesla scanner. Functional MRI (fMRI) is done while patients are performing tasks, such as moving a limb or speaking. Patients will have an opportunity to practice such tasks before entering the scanner. The fMRI will take about 1 hour.
|Epilepsies, Partial
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|Official Title:
|MRI in Autosomal Dominant Partial Epilepsy With Auditory Features
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|November 10, 2003
|Primary Completion Date:
|November 12, 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Objectives: to study potential structural and functional abnormalities in patients with an inherited form of epilepsy.
Study Population: Patients with autosomal dominant partial epilepsy with auditory features, a newly described syndrome, asymptomatic family members who are gene carriers, and unaffected family members, and normal volunteers.
Design: magnetic resonance imaging, electroencephalography, and magnetoencephalography.
Outcome measures: detection of structural lesions; regional activation patterns on fMRI.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|21 Years to 65 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Patients and family members in kindreds with ADPEAF evaluated by Dr. Ruth Ottman at CPMC:
14 patients with seizures and the LGl1 mutation.
14 family members with the mutation but no seizures.
14 Non-affected family members, who are not carriers of the LGl1 mutation.
30 normal controls selected at NIH, and screened in the CES outpatient clinic with a physical and neurological examination.
Subjects unable or unwilling to undergo MRI, EEG, and MEG.
Women who are pregnant.
Subjects under 18.
Subjects with medical conditions other than ADPEAF that may affect brain function.
Subjects taking medications or neuroactive substances that may affect brain function.
Healthy volunteers must be below the age of 55, to reduce the chance of vascular chnages that could affect MRI.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00072813
|United States, Maryland
|National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike
|Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892
|United States, New York
|Columbia University
|New York, New York, United States, 10032-3784
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00072813 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|November 10, 2003
|Last Updated:
|June 30, 2017
Keywords provided by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC):
Brain Imaging
Temporal Lobe
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Epilepsies, Partial
Sleep Wake Disorders
Epilepsy, Frontal Lobe
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Neurologic Manifestations
Signs and Symptoms
Mental Disorders
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Deerfield, Ill. Walgreens has announced that Putter Acquisition Sub, its wholly owned subsidiary, has successfully completed its tender offers for all of the outstanding shares of common stock and preferred stock of I-trax. In mid-March, Walgreens announced it would acquire I-trax, parent company of CHD Meridian Healthcare, LLC, a provider of integrated workplace health and productivity management solutions with clients and locations across the country.
"We are very pleased to have successfully completed the tender offer and to be moving forward to extend our 'Main and Main' strategy to include health and wellness services at the worksite," said Walgreens chairman and CEO Jeffrey Rein.


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This VAR's ability to overcome video surveillance price objections and implementation obstacles is leading to big wins in the hospitality and distribution spaces and 60% projected revenue growth.
Just about every VAR in the video surveillance space dreams of landing a major account with hundreds of IP video cameras, millions in revenue, and all the other accolades that go along with that success. But the reality is that even though IP video makes good business sense on paper, getting that information to the right decision makers within your target market and addressing their objections can be a whole other matter. Sales cycles that extend to nearly two years are often the norm for these kinds of projects, and the payoff can be delayed much longer.
Comvox Systems is a video surveillance and digital signage VAR that adapted its business and overcame these business challenges. How the company did so is a lesson many video surveillance resellers can learn from and readily apply to their practices.
Talk To The Right Decision Makers
Since Comvox made its foray into the IP video surveillance space nearly five years ago, it's been able to win over customers like IHG Hotels (parent company for Holiday Inn, StayBridge, and Candlewood brands), Peabody Hotel — Orlando, Miller-Coors Distribution, the Hampton Inn Daytona — Beachfront, and most recently the World Wrestling Entertainment Performance Center. One of the most important lessons that Henry Robertelli, CEO of Comvox Systems, has learned along the way is that you have to identify and speak with the key decision makers, or you're just going to waste everyone's time. "With most of the larger deals we've won, there have been multiple key stakeholders we had to win over before earning the customer's business," he says. "The best decision maker to start with is most often the CFO because that's who's in charge of the budget. Other important decision makers include IT director, CIO/CTO, the security director, engineering director, and the general manager." Robertelli says that it's rare that all the key stakeholders are gathered together in one location at the same time, so VARs need to prepare for multiple meetings and nurturing the sales process along for months — and in some cases years.
Identify, Understand Decision Makers' Goals
Because of the variables involved in an IP video surveillance installation, such as multiple locations, various cameras, and mounting options as well as various storage, bandwidth, and software considerations, Comvox has learned that it's important to get all the decision makers on the same page — literally. "Early in the sales process, we have prospects fill out a questionnaire that's threeand- a-half pages long," says Robertelli. "This process helps us catch potential areas of concern that we need to address." For example, if a hospitality prospect is considering installing a video surveillance system in its lobby, but not in its parking lot or swimming pool area, the VAR would address this risk to understand the decision. "This has become a pet peeve of mine, because installing cameras in parking lots and around swimming areas is a huge deterrent against insurance fraud and can even save companies on their insurance premiums," says Robertelli. Another red flag Comvox looks for in the answers to the questionnaire is a company that only wants to install cameras just to say it has them. "If they're just looking for a few low-cost cameras, we very quickly try to find out what they're trying to achieve, and if it turns out that it's not important to them to be able to capture distinguishing features such as eye and hair color on video, then we let them go to Costco and buy eight cameras for $400." If, on the other hand, the prospect does want the benefits of a commercial-grade IP video surveillance solution, Comvox is prepared to demonstrate the differences between the features and functions of a consumer-grade video camera and a commercial-grade camera.
Use Tangible Proofs To Overcome IP Video Objections
Even among prospects that are committed to buying commercial-grade video surveillance systems, there are often perceived objections to choosing IP systems over analog systems. Comvox knows that just quoting facts about the advantages of IP video over analog is likely to fall on deaf ears. Allowing customers to experience the quality and functionality differences among an array of different cameras is essential to selling this technology. "We outfitted an empty gun case with a photography stand and five leading surveillance cameras, which we use to demonstrate key differences in surveillance camera functionality and quality," says Robertelli. "For example, I like to demonstrate how a 1-megapixel commercial-grade camera can actually produce a better quality image than a 6-megapixel consumer-grade camera, plus it uses one-sixth of the storage space and bandwidth due to having lower resolution and using better codecs such as H.264+." While comparing image quality on a computer monitor is the first step in overcoming potential IP video surveillance price objections, Robertelli says it's the second step that really convinces clients of the merits of his IP camera solutions. "We show them how they can view our IP cameras from their Android and iOS smartphones and tablets," he says. "This is a huge value-add for many of our clients."
Don't Give Away Your Engineering Expertise
If there's one lesson Robertelli has learned the hard way, it's that you don't want to invest much of your engineers' time up front before the prospect has officially signed an agreement to use your company for its video surveillance project. He recalls a specific time when he sent two engineers to the home of the COO of a major hotel chain. "Our engineers spent two days with this guy, doing site surveys and specifying all the cameras, mounting locations, software, cabling, and other components he would need to outfit his multimillion-dollar estate with a video surveillance system," recalls Robertelli. "The COO took the engineers' detailed project design and quote and turned around and bought 90% of the system online." From then on, Comvox learned that when customers are ready to start talking about the network design of their video surveillance system, they should be ready to pay for Comvox's engineers to perform a site survey and create the design. "If a prospect balks at paying $1,000 to $2,000 for professional engineering design and consulting services, they're certainly not going to spend $90,000 on the project," says Robertelli. "In fact, the customers that were serious about working with us have been willing to pay a per diem on our project-related travel expenses."
Practical Ways To Protect Your Cash Flow
Aside from dealing with long sales cycles, agreeing on payment terms is one of the biggest challenges of working with large companies on video surveillance projects. For example, unlike small businesses that are comfortable with payment within 30 days of being invoiced, most large businesses take 90 to 120 days to pay for IT projects. "This problem is further compounded if you don't bill the client until a project is completed, and something out of your control causes the project to be put on hold midway through," says Robertelli. "We had this situation happen to us after we began a video surveillance installation project on a 23-story building for a customer, and the customer had to put the project on hold before we were able to complete it, which ended up delaying our projected income by eight months."
After having its cash flow delayed on a couple of occasions, Comvox changed its payment terms, so that now it either gets 75% of the project cost up front, or it breaks large projects into smaller phases and bills customers upon completion of each phase.
Distinguish Yourself From Video Surveillance Box Movers
If you're currently selling or considering selling IP video surveillance systems, one thing you can't ignore is the fact that one of your biggest competitors is the Internet. "Whether it's some guy working out of his living room who's willing to earn 5% margins or some other type of more formalized online video surveillance retailer, these types of competitors bring real challenges that you need to overcome," says Robertelli. Providing warranties on your products and services is one way you can distinguish yourself from Internet and low-margin competitors. Another way is to present customers with a bundled solution and highlight a few specific benefits they would likely be passing up had they opted to buy a surveillance system elsewhere. "We bundle Aimetis Symphony video analytics and network video management software with 85% of our surveillance solutions. To fully appreciate the advantages of those types of features requires hands-on training and consulting," says Robertelli. "For example, the software has the built-in intelligence to perform people-counting tasks and provide real-time information alerts. It also can be used for event-based search of archived video data as well as for on-demand reporting."
Helping customers future-proof their networks is another way Comvox differentiates itself from its competitors. The project it completed for a Miller-Coors distributor illustrates this point best. "Even though the customer didn't specify it up front, we knew that sometime down the road Miller- Coors was planning to outfit pallets and/or cases with RFID tags," says Robertelli. "We talked with their CEO and COO and let them know that we chose specific routers and switches and made specific network bandwidth and design decisions so that their network could accommodate RFID data traffic in the future with minimal disruptions — at no additional cost."
Even before some of its distribution customers get ready to adopt RFID, Comvox is already gaining RFID expertise, and it's even working with one hospitality customer to roll out a solution that uses a combination of IP video surveillance and RFID technology to help the customer keep a closer eye on valet services and vehicles parked in its parking garage. "Using RFID, the customer can more quickly and precisely track its clients' vehicles," says Robertelli. "This is useful in situations where a hotel guest returns four days after checking out of the hotel claiming the hotel's valet workers scratched their car. Within a few moments, the customer can view detailed footage of the guest's vehicle to confirm whether the scratch was on the car at any point during the guest's stay."
When customers are able to understand the capabilities and possibilities that are created by IP video surveillance solutions, many of the objections associated with selling this technology go away. What doesn't go away, however, is the need for solutions providers, like Comvox, that are able to bring together complementary IT solutions like IP video, real-time mobile viewing, and RFID and to provide customers with a customized solution they just can't find anywhere else.


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U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and Colorado Springs Mayor Steve Bach toured the Wolfe Ranch property, where a nonprofit organization and AmeriCorps volunteers were working to restore wildlife and minimize the danger of flooding in areas burned by the Waldo Canyon Fire last year.
Flooding is a major concern for the state's badly burnt watersheds because of the damage to the soil and to vegetation.
El Paso County, the site of the fire, stood to receive $20 million to aid in burn-area repairs, but Republicans in the House of Representatives stripped funds to repair wildfire damage from the Superstore Sandy relief package in January.
Speaking from Wolfe Ranch, Bennet criticized "political games in Washington," The Colorado Springs Gazette (http://bit.ly/VBSiuJ) reported.
Bennet, U.S. Sen. Mark Udall and U.S. Rep. Jared Polis have been urging the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to release money to replace the lost relief funds.
Bennet said that it's important for the nation not to forget the state of emergency in Colorado. His sentiments were echoed by several local politicians including El Paso County Commissioner Sallie Clark.
She said that if burn areas are not restored, the subsequent flooding "will be our hurricane."
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Executed in 2009, this work is from an edition of 18 unique multiples. Fusing imagery of illegal contraband (from busty naked ladies, to cannabis leaves and hand guns) and more traditional decoration (cockerels, wildebeest, and even a stray parrot), Eduardo Sarabia's hand painted vases refer to his Mexican heritage and parody the cultural clichés surrounding drug smuggling, illegal trade and machismo.
Extended from his first series, 'A Thin Line Between Love and Hate', each vase is unique within an edition of 18. Cast from molds, the vases are hand painted, fired and glazed and then packed as part of a contraband aesthetic, nestled in branded cardboard boxes suitable for shipping and suggesting something of the smuggled about them. The vases take on an ornamental and narrative purpose, melding traditional, rustic decoration with Mexican story telling and imagery. They are international and well travelled, referring to a humorous overturning of classical imagery where naked women bathe in public baths situated above a high rise city of tower blocks.
Sarabia's ceramic editions have crossed borders safely to Other Criteria – snap them up before they get deported.
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Born in Los Angeles in 1976, Eduardo Sarabia obtained a BFA from Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles and now lives and works in Los Angeles, Guadalajara and Berlin.
Sarabia is known for creating fake evidence for semi-fictional events, using performance, drawing, painting, ceramics, photographs and sculpture to document events and ideas. His Latino heritage is an influence in his work, with its cultural symbols appearing throughout.
The artist has published several exhibition catalogues and undertaken international projects including Salon Aleman, for the 21c Museum's 3rd Annual Pajama Party, June 2008, Louisville, Kentucky and Salon Aleman, organized by Eduardo Sarabia in collaboration with unitednationsplaza, Berlin, Germany, 2006-2007.
Recently Sarabia has partaken in numerous international group shows, including I Love New York, I-20 Gallery, New York, USA, 2001; OIL, Triangle Project Space, San Antonio, Texas, USA, 2004; Poles Apart Poles Together. (Curated by Juan Puntes and Doron Polak), 51st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 2005; Body and Geography, (curated by Jeanette Zwingenberger) Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France, 2006 and Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA, 2008. Recent solo exhibitions include Project Room: Eduardo Sarabia. (Curated by Ciara Ennis). Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California, USA, 2002; Eduardo Sarabia/Eric Wesley, Sutton Lane, London, UK, 2003; Art Nova, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, Florida, USA (I-20), 2005 and 2006; Museo Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2008 and History of the World-Eduardo Sarabia, LA Louver, Los Angeles, USA, 2008.


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A blog about random things and sometimes about my work translating and developing KDE and anything
Saturday, February 19, 2005
Mantainership is a heavy rock
First of them happened when i introduced the possibility of running external programs on a user click on a link if the pdf specified this, that was put down by kde-cvs list readers as they said it was a security problem even if we added a dialog asking the user if he wanted to execute the command or not. IMHO that can be an interesting feature in some cases like when doing a presentation, but i can understand the security implications
The second has happened today when Enrico and me have added the DRM handling to PDF, that means, if the pdf says you can not print it, we don't let you do it, and some similar things. That has caused some controversy on #kde-devel as people said that this removes freedom from the user side and that there is no need for us to implement it. IMHO there is a need for this, i mean we don't go on opening password protected files without asking for a password, if the author put a password on it it was because he had good reasons, so if the author decided he did not like his pdf to be printed we do the same as with the password protected the file. Maybe you want to print the file, but should not blame kpdf for not being able to print it, blame the author for being an asshole.
Well i suppose being the mantainer of a program means you have to be prepared for such discussions.
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- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò said...
Well.. DRM is a problem for quite everyone at the moment.
If you respect it, there's a lot of morons which will put DRMs where they aren't needed.
If you doesn't respect it, you are allowing copyright abuses.. which is not good, as if we want to have GPL respected we must respect other's copyrights too.
I think you had done the right thing. Anyway, I think that in a few weeks after KDE 3.4 is released, there will be some patches out there to disable the DRMs.
It's the life on F/OSS development :) You don't like it? Just disable it :P
Myself? I'm not going to apply such a patch.. but if it will be there, I'll prepare an optional no-drm ebuild for Gentoo... choises are good things.
- Sunday, February 20, 2005 12:29:00 AM
mja, DRM... I think you should simply ask the user about this. "this document is DRM protected, the author does not want you to print it". or something like that. Imho it's not good to deny users (what I considder) fundamental rights to do what they want... they can read it, make screenshots, why not print? the author should not have distributed the document in the first place, if he only wants people to be able to look at it..
- Sunday, February 20, 2005 1:02:00 AM
eek. DRM is definitely not good or ethical, imho. The question is, What the hell is wrong with printing something that it's okay to read on-screen? The only reason to disallow that is if you are a control freak or you want to tax everything people do.
But if you insist on doing this, I think the logical way would be to provide it as an additional (non-default) lock-down option in kiosk, rather than an always-on element of kpdf.
- Sunday, February 20, 2005 1:07:00 AM
The reason for being able to read but not print?
Extremely easy answer:
Copyrights !!!
In the company I work, we work with standards on paper and as pdf files. With standards I mean ISO's etc...
Now, most of those papers or pdf files are copyrighted.
In the past, it happened that some co-workers copied those papers or printed those pdf files and sent them to other companies (to order something for example).
That is of course illegal, as those papers or pdf files are copyrighted.
So, the solution to this is (in case of the pdf files):
Let the people who need to use them, read them, but don't allow them to pring the text.
So, yes, in a "commercial office" situation, it's perhaps required to have these kind of protections in.
And on the otherhand...
it's open source :)
It takes just a couple of seconds to rip out the DRM :)
- Sunday, February 20, 2005 1:48:00 AM
The problem people have with pdf security is that it isn't proper security. It relies on crippleware.
And crippleware is something that people came to Free software to avoid.
- Sunday, February 20, 2005 4:24:00 AM
- cloose said...
As the maintainer of Cervisia, I would say do what makes you feel better. You're doing such a great job with KPDF that I don't think anyone has the right to make you feel bad about this decision.
I mean, if you see legal problems to distribute an app that circumvents the rights set by the copyright holder, then it's okay. You're the maintainer. If someone doesn't like you decision...well it's open source. They can remove it and distribute it. But then it's their legal problem not yours.
So just ignore those people that "throw stones" because you mentioned the word DRM.
- Sunday, February 20, 2005 9:07:00 AM
Yes, this feels wrong. When we code our own tools, not relying on contracts and the business world, we don't want to put any limitations in the tools.
We kinda see the same thing with the cover-fetching-option in amaroK; An author mentioned part of the reason for the obfuscated/hashed names saved to disk, was to avoid legal troubles with Amazon (where the covers are fetched from). That, and automatic deleting of covers after a certain amount of time, just feels wrong, and so different from the basic philosophy behind OSS.
If a patch for kpdf starts circulating, I will use it. But most of all I hope you change your mind. Or add a compile-time option (--without-evil-drm) or something to deactivate it :}
- Sunday, February 20, 2005 10:09:00 AM
To correct some earlier posters; not being able to print has nothing to do with copyright. If you could copy or open the PDF you already broke the copyright the author put on it. Allowing you to also print it then kind of becomes irrelevant..
Like you stole that really nice car from the shops and are now having trouble if you want to drive it since that might be illegal...
To comment on the question itself; the only effect this action will have is that distros will have to keep shipping another pdf reader that can also print (like kghostview) or remove the code again prior to shipping.
IMO this is a situation you can't win.
- Sunday, February 20, 2005 10:58:00 AM
I do not agree with the example of the ISO standards which are copyrighted. Even when you cannot print it, still you can just transfer the file by e-mail to someone else. Better make sure that your employers are honest, if they are not, nothing will stop them to do what they want, even not DRM.
I'm afraid that's the big problem with DRM, you are punishing the honest and technical limited people. People who really have bad intentions, will always find a work-around...
- Sunday, February 20, 2005 12:07:00 PM
Copyright law cuts both ways; it also grants rights (copying for academic use, excerpts for reviews, etc.) to the end-user in the form of "fair use." The publisher/author explicitly DOES NOT have the right to prevent fair-use copying! As currently implemented, DRM allows publishers to violate copyright law by taking away rights that are not theirs to take away.
Ignoring DRM allows people to break copyright law, but implementing DRM allows other people to break copyright law. Make it optional. Let us decide.
Perhaps it makes sense to have DRM enabled in some situations (kiosks, corporate), but for the rest of us who work on our own boxes, a pop-up dialog that says "Warning: This document contains DRM, press OK to print/copy/etc. anyway," is more than enough (as commenter #2 suggested).
I'm an adult and I'm responsible for my own actions. If I say PRINT, then it should PRINT. My computer is a tool, not a babysitter, and not a policeman. It does what I tell it. It does not tell me what I'm allowed to do. Forced DRM is just the kind of thing I switched to open-source to avoid.
I can always rip out the DRM code and recompile, but that's a waste of my time. I'd much rather just uncheck a box or uncomment a line in a config file. Or switch to a different application.
- Sunday, February 20, 2005 1:19:00 PM
I think if you want to reasonably comply then you'd have to deny it if the document says no.
Since KPDF is open source that's about all you can really do as someone will just develop some patches to work around it.
Since YOU are the author it's YOUR choice - all these people saying "DRM sucks, just ignore it" do so from a position of minimal risk whereas you are at risk.
I think if you implement it and someone publishes a patch to remove it you have the best of both worlds - in that case the end user has to make the choice.
- Monday, February 28, 2005 5:57:00 AM
- Daniel O'Connor said...
I think if you want to reasonably comply then you'd have to deny it if the document says no.
Since KPDF is open source that's about all you can really do as someone will just develop some patches to work around it.
Since YOU are the author it's YOUR choice - all these people saying "DRM sucks, just ignore it" do so from a position of minimal risk whereas you are at risk.
I think if you implement it and someone publishes a patch to remove it you have the best of both worlds - in that case the end user has to make the choice.
- Monday, February 28, 2005 5:57:00 AM
Developers decide their software functionalities, so if you like your program better including DRM, do so. And do not let anyone blame you for it. What they get is what they can, not what they want.
Do they go to the marketplace and complain because the chicken looks not like what they thought? They may complain, but the answer is: go elsewhere for it, and *if you find it*, get it.
Congratulations for taking a tough decision and doing exactly what you wanted to.
- Friday, December 09, 2005 3:40:00 PM
I think you did right. Actually I can think of several cases where I would like my users not to be able to print certain documents (in-house restricted documents on controlled hard+soft).
Now, I can also think of several cases where I would like to be able to ignore some DRM without resorting to silly resources like screen captures, so I think some compile or configuration option would be fine, and wouldn't do much harm if enabled by default, now would it?
- Friday, December 09, 2005 9:09:00 PM


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GSA Uses Recovery Act Funds to Modernize One-time Munitions Factory
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Remarks by
Steven Leeds
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U.S. General Services Administration
Goodfellow Federal Center Dedication
St. Louis, MO
August 2, 2010
It's terrific to be back in St. Louis at the Goodfellow Federal Complex with so many great Missourians including Congressman Clay and Representative Whitehead. I'm delighted that GSA Regional Administrator Jason Klumb is here, and that Rachel McComb from Senator Bond's office was able to join us today. I would also like to recognize Commissioner Astrue of the Social Security Administration and John Oke-Thomas of Oke-Thomas and Associates. It has been a pleasure for GSA to partner with both the Social Security Administration and Oke-Thomas on this project.
I visited this building last February when construction was just getting started, and I am immensely proud to see that only five months later we have seen such remarkable progress in turning a vacant former ammunition factory into a light-drenched, energy efficient, workplace for our nation's public servants.
When President Obama came to office, he inherited an economy that was losing an average of 750,000 jobs each month, and the country faced the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression.
In response to this economic freefall, last year President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The mission of this landmark legislation was bold, and its purpose was clear: to mitigate the economic impact of the crisis and lay a new foundation for our future prosperity.
The results are clear. After 22 straight months of job loss, we have now seen our economy create private-sector jobs for six months in a row, including 83,000 in June and nearly 600,000 this year. Through a wide range of initiatives including $223 billion in tax breaks for millions of working families and smart, careful investments, the Recovery Act has helped to save or create between 2.5 and 3.5 million new jobs nationwide.
Since last summer, GSA has quadrupled our number of active Recovery Act construction projects, which has meant more jobs nationwide – jobs that are recovering from our past and reinvesting in our collective future by building the vital infrastructure of our nation.
The new Social Security Administration offices in Building 110 represent the best of the Recovery Act and the best of GSA's green building design program. Thanks to over $36 million in Recovery Act funding for the entire Goodfellow Federal Complex -- $16 million of which was invested in Building 110 – these new offices incorporate the latest in innovative design including seamless integration of daylight, highly efficient HVAC and lighting systems, solar-heated water, and advanced utility metering technology. These features will save taxpayer dollars and they have grown green jobs throughout local design, engineering, and construction firms.
Green jobs like these will be the foundation of our future economic success. We are wasting no time in moving aggressively forward on the green and environmental front: To date, GSA has invested $4.4 billion in building modernization and construction projects, and as of this month GSA has put 545 companies to work on green building projects, more than double the number of a year ago.
These jobs represent the kind of smart investments that will launch our country into the next decade and beyond.
Thanks to the Recovery Act, GSA is driving the construction, transportation, energy, and automotive industries toward green projects and technologies that invest in the jobs and the economy of the future.
Here in Missouri, the state has been awarded over $5.1 billion in total Recovery Act funding, and to date that money has helped save or create more than 59,000 jobs.
Yet as the national economic outlook improves, there is still a long way to go before our economy is back on its feet again, and although the numbers tell one story, there are still too many Americans who are feeling the terrible anxiety of unemployment.
But there are signs of hope. Here in the St. Louis area, nearly $1 billion has helped hundreds of workers including the nearly 500 workers hired to work on the Goodfellow Complex, and hundreds more will make Building 110 their workplace.
And we're not done. Not nearly. This summer is the most active Recovery Act season yet, and we are seeing a significant spike in the rolling out of transportation, housing, and energy projects nationwide. In the past year, the construction industry has seen its biggest increase in the last decade, but when it comes to Recovery Act projects, the best is yet to come.
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A PARISH council has expressed frustration at the length of time it is taking to put together plans to run a community centre in Redhouse.
Land has been purchased by Swindon Council and a lease is available but details on how the centre will operate need to be ironed out before any work can begin.
Blunsdon Parish Council has said it wants to run the centre but at the moment is unable to reach an agreement with ward councillors. The prolonged issue has already led to one member of the parish council resigning.
However, local councillor Vera Tomlinson said talks have been ongoing and people will get a community centre.
It is believed everything must be agreed by the start of the new financial year, which is April 1, or the offer by the council of the lease and to build the centre will expire.
The land, in the heart of Redhouse, has been purchased from developers Crest at a discounted rate following negotiations by Coun Vera Tomlinson (Con, St Andrews).
But despite this, progress has slowed and there are worries it may not happen.
Parish council chairman Ian Jankinson said: "We thank Coun Tomlinson for all the work she has put in with the community centre and we are pleased to have been nominated by the borough council to accept the lease and run the community centre with the residents and users.
"We look forward to working with and for the Redhouse community to create a facility that will enhance and improve this part of our parish.
"However, we are currently frustrated by the delay in getting together with the ward councillors to agree the best way forward to build and run a much-needed facility.
"We have made concessions to the ward councillors in their desire to be involved and welcome their involvement in the process."
Blunsdon Parish Council has budgeted for the coming year to include some of the set-up costs but needs to discuss the detail and find out exactly what the residents and users want from the centre.
Ian said: "I can't understand what is taking so long to agree – we need to set up a steering group with users, residents and advisers to ensure the project is set up in the best possible way.
"The talking and prevarication is over and we just need to get on with the planning."
Coun Tomlinson said work is being carried out behind the scenes and an announcement is expected soon as to the future of the centre.
She said: "A lot of work has been put into the community centre. I had a lot of meetings with Crest to get the land at half price.
"As a ward, we are very unlikely to get this amount of money again so we carried out a consultation and the overwhelming response was for a community centre.
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I was looking at http://www.gottagogottathrow.comat bags and noticed that they say the Innova Tour Bag is discontinued. Does anybody know whether the bag is being discontinued by Innova, or just by that web site or what? If it is being discontinued, is Innova coming out with a new tour bag?
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Dear Members,
This Uposatha Day I would like to introduce the beautiful Wat Nak Prok to you all.
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Wat Nak Prok was established around late Ayutthaya period in 1748. A hundred year afterward (approximately in the reign of King Rama III or IV), the temple was restored by Phra Boriboonthanakorn (Pook Tan), a wealthy Chinese merchant, who married to Thai lady and settled down in Siam. He had the great gratitude to Siam and a strong believe in Buddhism that inspired him to renovate this monastery.
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In the beginning Phra Boriboonthanakorn directed to construct the first building, Uposatha hall or chapter house. Inside this hall, there was an attractive Chinese style mural. Subsequently he managed to build a repository of Buddha images, Vihara or shrine-hall. Interior of this Vihara, there was a beautiful Thai style mural telling the story of the Buddha ("Return from Tavatimsa heaven" and "Victory over Mara or demon"). He also respectfully invited a principal Buddha statue from Sukhothai province to be enshrined here. The principal Buddha statue was cast from bronze in Mara Vichai style (Victory over demon style). This statue has a 7 heads great serpent over the head of the Buddha statue. The temple was named from this image. In Thai language, 'Wat' means temple, 'Nak' means the great serpent and 'Prok' means to cover. Wat Nak Prok is a private Theravada temple under Council of Elders (the Sangha Supreme Council) in Mahanikaya (the Great branch). It is located on 342 Toetthai49 Road, Pak Klong Pasicharoen sub-district, Pasicharoen district, Bangkok. Canals, school and another temple surround the temple. The north is adjacent to Wat Nak Prok canal. To the east of the temple is Wat Nang Chee. The south of the temple is Bang Wah canal, and to the west of the temple is Wat Nak Prok School. The total area of the temple is 4.884 acres.
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Marlins nemesis Diaz joins Miami bench mix
PHILADELPHIA -- For years, the Marlins couldn't get Matt Diaz out. So they did the next best thing: They added the 35-year-old in hopes he can do damage to other teams.
Miami selected Diaz's contract from Triple-A New Orleans on Thursday, and he will provide a right-handed bat off the bench.
"We can use him against lefties," manager Mike Redmond said. "If you look at his track record and overall record, he's hit really well off lefties. He gives us some options in the outfield, and he's been playing the last couple of games at first base. We can use him at first base, too, or pinch-hit."
Diaz is a career .324 hitter against lefties, compared to .259 vs. right-handers.
A product of Florida State University, Diaz broke in with Tampa Bay in 2003, but he made his mark against Miami while playing for Atlanta.
He is a career .360 hitter against the Marlins, with 10 homers and 29 RBIs.
Even workers at the Marlins' old home, Sun Life Stadium, were aware of Diaz's impact.
"My wife tried to park in the old stadium, and they said, 'No, we're not letting you in.' They let her in, eventually; they were just messing with her," Diaz said Thursday. "It was one of those things where you thought you were going to jinx it by talking about it. But it never got jinxed, I don't know why."
Diaz joked about why he contacted the Marlins when he was looking to hook up with a team.
"It was one of the first calls you made, because you know they think you're good because you have good numbers against them," he said.
Diaz likely could see action in left field against left-handers as a right-handed-hitting counterpart to lefty-swinging Juan Pierre. Redmond even talked about Austin Kearns playing some left field, with Diaz at first base, a position he has never played in the big leagues.
One reason Diaz feels he has had success against lefties is because of his upbringing. Growing up, his brother, Zach, was a left-handed pitcher.
"He used to strike me out with changeups all the time in the backyard," Diaz said. "It really made me mad."
Zach, two years older, also attended Florida State.
"My first college at-bat came off of him in the 'Garnet and Gold Game,'" Diaz said. "It was a fall ballgame. He was one of the starting pitchers at the moment. I hit him off the top of the wall in right-center field, and from that moment I became a starter, and he went to the bullpen. I felt terrible. He's my hero in life."
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The weekend after the Fourth of July went by without major crashes or injuries in Fort Bragg, according to the Fort Bragg Police Department, which on Monday released a summary of enforcement events.
At 11:19 a.m. July 6, police were summoned to the 100 block of South Franklin Street for a reported theft. The victim didn't want prosecution, and officers arrested the woman suspected in the burglary instead for public intoxication.
A 7:20 p.m. officers stopped a vehicle at the Chevron Station and arrested the driver for a local misdemeanor warrant, and cited and released him.
At 9:03 p.m., officers stopped a bicycle in the 300 block of North Main Street and arrested the rider for a local misdemeanor warrant and suspected marijuana possession, and cited and released him.
At 10:26 p.m., officers stopped an all-terrain vehicle in the 500 block of Cypress Street. The driver and a passenger appeared to be under the influence of a controlled substance, and police arrested driver Aaron Koski, no age or residence given, on suspicion of driving under the influence and violating this DUI probation terms. The passenger was arrested for being under the influence of a controlled substance and released after booking.
At 11:37 p.m., officers were summoned to the 300 block of North Franklin Street, where several witnesses reported that a man was vandalizing signs and vehicles in the area. Officers checked the area and found a man matching the description given. After a witness positively identified him, officers arrested the man for public intoxication and vandalism.
At 2 a.m. July 7, officers on foot patrol in the downtown business district found a man, no age given, in the 100 block of East Redwood Avenue, apparently too intoxicated to care for himself. A sober driver arrived to pick him up, and as officers helped him to the vehicle, he allegedly "became combative and attempted to assault the officers," according to the FBPD.
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The latest edition of this international bestseller gives parents an understanding of what makes boys tick from birth to late teens. Humorous and helpful, family psychologist Steve Biddulph gives parents practical advice on how to tap into the special boy-characteristics of each life stage.
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Growing Great Boys by parenting guru Ian Grant, is overflowing with practical advice, information and tips for raising great sons. Grant shows us that by understanding and appreciating the unique character of boys we can help them rise to their full potential and succeed in the game of life.
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Who killed Coty Beavers?
Harris County Sheriff's Office investigators are seeking the public's help in identifying and locating a person of interest wanted for questioning in the Nov. 12, 2012 shooting death of 28-year old Coty Beavers.
Working from information provided by an eyewitness, investigators say, an artist has sketched a likeness of the subject - a man with dark hair and thick dark eyebrows, wearing eyeglasses.
According to the sheriff's department, the man was seen asking about Beavers at the Legacy Park Apartments, 10801 Legacy Park Drive, a few days before Beavers was shot multiple times at the complex.
Beavers was the twin brother of Cory Beavers, who had been the boyfriend of Gelareh Bagherzadeh, 30.
Bagherzadeh was shot to death in January of 2012 while driving to her townhouse in the Galleria area of Houston, reportedly after visiting Cory Beavers.
Bagherzadeh was an outspoken critic of the government of Iran, where she was born.
The Bagherzadeh family has created a website soliciting tips that might crack the case - and trumpeting the largest reward in Crime Stoppers history: $200,000 for information leading to an arrest.
Her killing is being investigated by the Houston Police Department.
Investigators with HPD and HCSO have disclosed no evidence linking the killings of Coty Beavers and Bagherzadeh.
Anyone with information about the subject should call the Sheriff's Office Homicide Division at 713-967-5810 or Crime Stoppers of Houston at 713-222-TIPS.


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God's Sovereignty and Our Responsibility
from Derek Thomas Sep 20, 2017 Category: ArticlesGod is sovereign in creation, providence, redemption, and judgment. That is a central assertion of Christian belief and especially in Reformed theology. God is King and Lord of all. To put this another way: nothing happens without God's willing it to happen, willing it to happen before it happens... Keep Reading
Links We Liked (7/2/11)
from Tim Challies Jul 02, 2011 Category: ArticlesHere is a round-up of some of the notable blogs and articles our team read this week. Keep Reading
Columns from Tabletalk Magazine, July 2011
from Tim Challies Jul 01, 2011 Category: ArticlesThe July edition of Tabletalk is out. It examines the need for fostering fraternity and real friendship within the community and the church. We analyze the New Testament's clear call for men to experience solidarity with men and women to enjoy closeness with women. Contributors include R.C. Sproul, John Piper, Matt Chandler, Mike Pohlman, David Temples, and R.C. Sproul Jr. Keep Reading
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from Karisa Schlehr Jul 01, 2011 Category: Ligonier ResourcesFind $5 Friday resources this week covering suffering, the Puritans and reformers on prayer, sex, apologetics, family life, and the five solas. Taking Hold of God provided this week courtesy of Reformation Heritage Books. Sale starts today at 8 a.m. and ends Saturday at 8 a.m. EST. Keep Reading
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from Karisa Schlehr Jun 29, 2011 Category: Ligonier ResourcesWhat do you do when you lose your job? When your spouse betrays you? When the news of the world causes great anxiety? All of us deal with different difficult problems. The question is, how will we respond? In Dealing with Difficult Problems, Dr. Sproul offers wise biblical counsel to help us as we face life's difficulties, pointing us to the sovereignty of God and the sufficiency of Christ. This week you can get this CD series for a donation of any amount. Keep Reading
A Tale of Two Cities
from R.C. Sproul Jr. Jun 29, 2011 Category: ArticlesIt is good, important, nay vital that we never grow dim sighted with respect to our own sin. Gospel courage is that ability to look unflinchingly into the mirror of the Word that shows how hideous we are. We all still see only dimly, but in a grand irony, the more we grow in grace, the more we mature, the less spotted we become, the more clear the mirror becomes and the more of our ugliness we see. The more deeply we look into our sins, however, the more we understand and give thanks for His grace. Keep Reading
The Perils and Promise of Social Media
from Tim Challies Jun 28, 2011 Category: Tabletalk MagazineChurch leaders today find themselves caught between two equally valid but competing realities. Social media have become valuable, even necessary, tools for teaching and exercising leadership. Yet Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and blogs cannot substitute for the local church, which is a living testimony to Jesus Christ. Striking the right balance requires wisdom and discernment to prioritize the local church while learning the strengths and weaknesses of social media. Keep Reading
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Divine Sovereignty
from Steven Lawson Jun 24, 2011 Category: ArticlesThe sovereignty of God is not a secondary doctrine that is relegated to an obscure corner in the Bible. Rather, this truth is the very bedrock doctrine of all Scripture. This is the Mount Everest of biblical teaching, the towering truth that transcends all theology. From its opening verse, the Bible asserts in no uncertain terms that God is and that God reigns. In other words, He is God—not merely in name, but in full reality. God does as He pleases, when He pleases, where He pleases, how He pleases, and with whom He pleases in saving undeserving sinners. All other doctrines of the Christian faith must be brought into alignment with this keystone truth. Keep Reading


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This is the guess the points thread for the Pacer game at Denver on 10/24/2004
Game time is 8:00 PM
Full rules for the guess the score contest were last posted here, however here is the short version:
- The difference between your picks for each team and their real score is added together. That is your "off by". Lowest wins. You pick Pacers 90 Knicks 80. The real score is Knicks 95 Pacers 81. You are off by 24. (90-81) + (95-80).
- No contingency picks.
- The format of your post matters. See the full rules thread for details.
- Winner gets his name listed in the winners list.
This thread will be closed to guesses and all valid guesses posted at approximately 15 minutes before game time.
Good luck.
Winners to date:
Game Date Poster Offby
10/11/2004 Burt_Reincarnated 3
PacerFanInAZ 3
10/16/2004 Will Galen 9
10/19/2004 BostonConnection 3
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Wow, the Pats losing like they did, and then the Ravens losing like they did, and now they have to play each other in prime time next week? That's gonna be a black hole of anger over that game.
Which is understandable but the team doesn't have the personnel for what Arians wants on offense we aren't ground and pound.
I think this team would be much improved if we aired it out more on offense with Luck. Its one of his strengths. It might've not come down to the wire like it did.
But a W is still a W so its a moot point now.
hehe yeah that too.
I know the Colts aren't likely to be better than 4-12 or 5-11 at best this year, but it still feels good to win a meaningful game.
Agreed. Luck led a beautiful drive to set up that FG at the end of the game when he was able to play to his capabilities. Our play calling was overly conservative in the previous four possessions and it almost cost us the game. I hope that doesn't become a trend. Let Luck throw.
He made a 50 yarder against the Jets in that playoff game two years ago which should have won the game. Our special teams blew it on the kickoff coverage and let the Jets get great field position. Vinatieri was great that season.
Last edited by Sollozzo; 09-16-2012 at 07:12 PM.
Not trying to be a homer, but I really think we could win more games than that. Our schedule is littered with garbage teams. I don't think we are that good, but I honestly think we could win 7 or so games this year.
To be fair the Browns and Dolphins looked much better today, and Jags won't be a pushover. But I think we can take Green Bay, they suck.
Don't ask Marvin Harrison what he did during the bye week. "Batman never told where the Bat Cave is," he explained.
I'm not convinced either of those teams are good. Jags suck. I don't think the Titans are good.
I love Reggie Wayne. I'm so glad we wanted to keep him, and appreciate that he wanted to come back here. He is a special Colt.
How huge would it be if we beat Jacksonville next week and are 2-1 heading into the bye? Jacksonville is 0-2 and is not good at all. I think we have a very good chance at winning that game after today. But winning that game and being 2-1 heading into the bye week would be huge because the next two games are home against Green Bay and away at the Jets. Those will obviously be tough. Lets say we lose both of those and are 2-3. Then our next 3 games are home against Cleveland, away at Tenn, and home against Miami. I think we could go 2-1 against those three teams.
It's not unreasonable that this team starts the season at 4-4. I'm not going to say it's likely, but it's certainly possible after today.
I wish I could forget that game....
Classic Colts home playoff lost against a team we should have beat.
You're right how could I forget lol
Maybe I'm blocking out the subconscious pain or probably because it seemed like a lifetime ago with the Colts being a totally different team now it doesn't seem to register.
NFL changes quickly after all.
I remember the game but forgot that Adam made the FG that gave us the lead before the ill fated Special Teams gaffe.
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I have to be honest I much prefer having the QB calling the plays if he is capable, like Peyton is. I don't think Luck is there yet but he could be one day. There are few QBs in the league who are capable of calling the plays but I think it is such a huge advantage to have. If you have one of those QBs you should let him do that.
The Colts should aim to have more balance in this new era of Colts football but they should also recognize that any team who loses their future HOF QB is going to be screwed. If the Colts had started Dan Orlovsky all of last season I think they would have won 4-5 games or so.
Big win, imperfect as it may have been. Keeps people (read: non-diehards) engaged and tickets selling for the next few home games.
Agree on the uber conservative play calling front. I understand the concept of running simply to keep the D honest, but when your line is that inept at run blocking, you're just wasting downs.
Hey, the Vikes are trash, but the D was decent and IMO Luck excellent. Particularly when you consider how much he did on his OWN. I mean 90% of NFL QBs would have been sacked on about 8 occasions today where he escaped and MADE a play. That said, the O-line is a train wreck. Hopefully we'll get some of the guys back from injury next week and there can at least be incremental progress.
Oh yeah, sign me on for Ballard. Let Brown be the change of pace back.
I'd rather die standing up than live on my knees.
-Emiliano Zapata
Luck did enough to win it on his own. Certainly doesn't hurt to have Vinny on your team though. Brady has three rings because of Vinny so I'm willing to look the other way on one regular season game for Luck.
So on to the Jags. The same Jags who lost to Minnesota in Week 1.
I do recall Arians (or at least a reporter who interviewed him) say that he wanted to be a predominantly running offense in Pittsburgh when he started there, but they (the Steelers) started becoming more pass-happy as Roethlisberger developed into a good passing game.
While I don't have a source for that unfortunately (I was thinking of it off the top) here's an article of him talking about the running game.
Also if Pagano wants ground and pound, I'm not sure he would've brought in Arians if he thought Arians would contradict his coaching philosophy."We want to be able to run the football when we want to run the football. There aren't any numbers, every game dictates different numbers. But when we want to run it, we want to be able to run it, and be able to be physical."
Arians talked about taking an 'old school football' approach to running the football and he has multiple backs at his disposal this training camp.
I do agree with you though that his playcalling was too conservative for this game. At the very least we should've tried a HB sweep or two instead of running it up the gut for -2 yards every 1st down. I'm not even sure that would work, I'd just rather they tried something (a little) less predictable.
Colts deserved to lose this game because of the horrible play calling in the second half. Coaches got bailed out from Luck's heroics.
Being unable to close out a game in which you have a comfortable lead in the 4th Q = Pulling a Frank Vogel
I haven't read through the whole thread, so advance apologies if this has already been discussed. I noted a few things about Luck today.
1. He is excellent at sensing the pressure and moving in the pocket to avoid it. Excellent.
2. He was not especially accurate, despite the overall percentage. He underthrew Avery on that 1st qtr bomb, the TD to Allen was thrown late and at least 3 or 4 other inaccurate throws that were great catches. I was only judging him on throws where he had protection.
3. Dang that kids is ugly.


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Make a pretty doughnut garland
If your child prefers their craft on the sweet side, try making this pretty doughnut garland with whatever is in the craft drawer. This paper craft is perfect as decoration for a kids' party or as a fun party activity as each child can make one, then take it home.
Number of players:
1 +
What you need:
- paper plates (as many as you want for the garland)
- pink paper (same amount as paper plates)
- confetti
- glue stick
- scissors
- hole punch
- some yarn or string (the length you want your garland to be)
Step 1. Before the kids get involved, cut a hole out of the centre of each paper plate, then cut the pink paper into irregular-shaped rings to form your doughnut 'icing'.
Step 2. Let your child use the glue stick to cover underneath the paper plate. Focus on the raised part of the plate, since this is what will give it a 3D doughnut look.
Step 3. Time to ice your doughnuts. Press the pink paper 'icing' onto the glue on each plate.
Step 4. It's sprinkle time! Your child will have lots of fun gluing on the confetti sprinkles.
Step 5. When the glue is dry, punch two holes in each 'doughnut' and thread with yarn or string to form garland. Repeat the first five steps until you are happy with the number of doughnuts for your garland.
Step 6. String up your work and admire it!
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Santa Run Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley Leadership Group Foundation
Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 4:00 PM (PST)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
The Santa Run Silicon Valley is sold out.
We are sorry you were unable to register this year. We had planned for 2,000 participants and when we reached that last week, we scrambled and got more shirts and bibs made to accommodate another 500 runners. We appreciate your support and interest. We will be back next year with even more spots. Please note that bibs for runners are required for this event. We appreciate you adhering to this for the overall quality of the event and safety of others.
Don your Santa suits and join us for the Santa Run Silicon Valley on Sunday, December 16th at 4:00pm. The whole family will enjoy this fun and festive 5K, and it's a great way to start getting into the Holiday spirit!
Race Day Schedule
10:00am-3:30pm - The activities begin with Packet Pick-Up at Parkside Hall, 180 Park Ave, San Jose, CA 95113. (Packet Pick-Up is also available Saturday the 15th from noon-4pm)
2:00pm - The pre-race activities start with sponsor and activity booths at Christmas in the Park including the Earthquakes, Niners and Zipcar; you can enjoy music, participate in warm-up yoga stretches, and join in singing the National Anthem and holiday favorites.
4:00pm - The race begins.
5:00pm - Enjoy post-race activities, including live performances on the Christmas in the Park stage. Race awards will be given out at 5:15pm from the main stage at Christmas in the Park.
When & Where
Plaza de Cesar Chavez
Parkside Hall, 180 Park Ave next to the Tech Museum
San Jose,
Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 4:00 PM (PST)
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Hi, I'm trying to link to one section of a tabbed page from another page using the page.html#div_id technique but it's not working for me. Doesn't this technique work with tabs??? The site is at yourdemosite.in and I'm trying to link from the Therapies section on that page to a particular tab on the Therapies.html page (apart from many other such links), appreciate any suggestions...
It looks like it is working fine; you have #one and #two and it targets those.
When I test the links, all 3 (#one, #two and #three) land up on the first tab, instead of the second and third tabs respectively. That isn't how it's supposed to work, is it???
It works fine with JS off, but once you bring JS into the mix, it stops working the way you want, because those tabs have to be triggered by JS.
I surf without JS enabled so that would explain why it worked for me as those fragment identifiers were marked up correctly so it just goes to show pure markup rocks.
So, no workaround at all??? Other than turning off JS that is...
Possibly some fancy JS solution, I'm not sure. We could move this to the JS forum if you like.
Hmmm, i wanted to keep the site as simple as possible, ralph :(.. guess i should've chosen a simpler template then huh :)...anyways, should i post a new thread in the JS forum?
Probably best to do that, yes.
okey dokey, will do that...


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Since April, the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League has been trying to find a buyer the Oak Cliff Christian Church built in 1916. The building is owned by the Dallas Independent School District.
Over the summer, when no buyer could be found, DISD offered pieces of the building to anyone who would haul them off. The pillars would have been prime architectural material to preserve from the church. Michael Amonett, president of OOCCL, said an offer came from a salvage company but was a day late. DISD refused to wait until the company could dismantle and haul off what they wanted.
On Oct. 4, DISD began tearing down the landmark church. The property will be used as tennis courts for the replacement to historic Adamson High School. Neighborhood and alumni groups have protested tearing down that historic building as well.
While crews worked just behind him, Amonett snuck behind a construction gate to sit amid the rubble of the building he and his group tried to save.
The historic property figured in the Kennedy assassination story. As Lee Harvey Oswald walked from his boarding house a few blocks away to the Texas Theater on Jefferson Avenue, he shot officer J.D. Tippett on this block. Then he walked through the church property and threw his coat behind the building. Police found the coat here, putting him at the scene of the Tippett murder, if not JFK's.


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TORONTO—On Monday night, the NHL playoffs returned to the center of the hockey universe.
In Toronto's downtown core before puck drop, there was an electric energy, the result of some ethereal combination of hockey in May and a sunny day before the smothering humidity of June, July and August. That was muted somewhat by the result: A 5-2 Boston Bruins win over the Maple Leafs. Though the score wasn't close, and the result was only in doubt in the first period and again for a fleeting moment in the second, the fact remains—over the past two games of this series, the Leafs have proven that they can hang with the Bruins.
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It wasn't supposed to be this way (and didn't look like it would be) after Game 1, when Boston's battle-tested club outshot the Maple Leafs 2:1 and generally dusted the Torontonian side. But since Game 2, when Randy Carlyle inserted Jake Gardiner into the lineup in favor of Mike Kostka, and replaced Frazer McLaren with Matt Frattin, the Leafs have gone toe-to-toe with the Bruins, and look like they might yet make this series very interesting.
Carlyle's adjustments were the story of Game 2, as the oft-criticized and even more oft-baffling Leafs bench boss went to great lengths to disguise his lines, in an effort to get sniper Phil Kessel away from Bruins all-world defenseman Zdeno Chara. It worked, as the Leafs took advantage of a Bruins second pairing of Dennis Seidenberg and Johnny Boychuk, and came away with the victory despite getting shut out with Chara on the ice.
In Game 3, the adjustments that paid off were Claude Julien's, who executed his road game plan to perfection. The Bruins aren't known as a zone-matching club, but they were rigorous and disciplined on Monday night. Patrice Bergeron was glued to the defensive end like the puck on Jaromir Jagr's stick and was on the ice for fourteen of Boston's 24 defensive zone-starts. On nine of those, he was alongside Gregory Campbell, another center and quality face-off winner. On a handful more, Bergeron was alongside Chris Kelly—also a center.
It was a tactic that impressed Carlyle. "They put two centers out in most situations," he told reporters after the game. "You have to give them credit."
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For all of Julien's zone-matching, he wasn't as able to shadow Kessel with Chara as effectively as he managed in Game 1 (which isn't a surprise, considering Carlyle has last change at home). "We got away from (Chara vs. Kessel) a few times, but there are shifts where (Kessel) has to play against Chara."
"It's not as easy as you think," Carlyle said of looking to match Kessel against any other Bruins defensive pairing. "You know that Chara is going to be out there for every defensive zone faceoff, so you try to work around it but in some situations you have to play your offensive players."
Though Carlyle effectively freed up his best offensive player for six minutes in Game 3, Kessel wasn't able to capitalize at even strength. In fact, he didn't get a single quality look at even-strength in Game 3, though he did create a couple with his passing.
Which is on Kessel, frankly, and not Carlyle. Carlyle's matchup-defying tactics worked on the road in Game 2 at home in Game 3—at least at the top end of his lineup. It was, I'd suggest, a key reason the Leafs were able to hang around with the Bruins in terms of shot and scoring chance generation through the better part of 40 minutes on Monday.
Things get a bit more difficult for the Leafs as you get further down their lineup. The Bruins have a depth advantage and it showed up in a major way in Game 3. Boston's third line was particularly strong through the first half of the game; Jagr in particular pestered the Ryan O'Byrne-Gardiner pairing all night long.
"It's almost impossible," Gardiner said of trying to check Jagr when he's got the puck down low. "It's like the puck is glued to his stick."
This matchup proved costly for the Leafs, as O'Byrne was victimized on the Bruins' second goal when he turned the puck over to Jagr behind the net. The ageless Czech power forward casually flipped the puck to linemate Rich Peverley for a gimme. It was a goal that made Toronto's climb a steep one.
Elsewhere, the David Krejci-Nathan Horton-Milan Lucic combination had its best game of the series. Boston's second line received the "Sedin treatment" in terms of their deployment in Game 3, and managed to capitalize on it repeatedly. The big issue for Toronto here: all three of those players can beat defenseman Mark Fraser out-wide, and they didn't hesitate to do so repeatedly.
It was on such a sequence that Lucic protected the puck down the left wing and sent a lovely backhand saucer pass to Horton, who finished in phantom style and restored a two-goal lead just moments after Gardiner's power-play marker had brought the Leafs to within one…
For all of Carlyle's matchup brilliance in this series, and I'd argue that he's executed a very intelligent game plan for the most part, one is left to wonder whether or not the Leafs should lean more heavily on Dion Phaneuf. Toronto's only true "top-pairing" caliber defenseman was fourth among Leafs blue liners in even-strength ice-time on Monday night. Even though he didn't have the strongest game, he's Toronto's best bet defensively.
Thomas Drance is the Managing Editor of CanucksArmy.com. You can follow Thomas on Twitter@ThomasDrance.


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Andrus returns to defense
SAN ANTONIO -- Elvis Andrus was back at shortstop on Friday night, his first start on defense since March 17. Andrus has been dealing with soreness in his right elbow the past two weeks and also had some shoulder soreness in the first week of March.
Andrus attributed the problem to a lack of throwing during the offseason while not playing winter ball. His throwing was erratic from the beginning of Spring Training and the Rangers finally put him on a throwing program after his last appearance at shortstop on March 17. The goal was to get rid of all the soreness, rebuild arm strength and get him ready for Opening Day.
"Right now I'm feeling pretty good," Andrus said. "I've been doing the throwing program and everything feels fine. It's getting stronger every day. All of this is in the past. I don't have too much concern."
Josh Wilson is expected to start alongside Andrus at second base in place of Jurickson Profar, who is expected to be sidelined until June with a torn muscle in his right shouder. The other option would be Donnie Murphy, who was claimed on waivers from the Cubs on Wednesday.
Either way, Andrus hasn't had much game time with his next double-play partner.
T.R. Sullivan is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Postcards from Elysian Fields, and follow him on Twitter @Sullivan_Ranger. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.