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Paul Graham Fortune Cookies
Paul Graham is a software developer and essayist who maintains a web site with essays. This is a collection of memorable quotes from there.
Table of Contents
- Paul Graham: People who do Great Work
- Paul Graham about Great Men in their Youth
- Paul Graham about Java - #1
- Paul Graham - Java Hype
- Paul Graham - about Computer Science Mathematicians
- Paul Graham - figure a Program Completely on Paper
- Paul Graham on Business Oscillations
- Paul Graham: "What those who teach, cannot do"
- Paul Graham: Meaning of Hacker/Hack
- Paul Graham: Hacking Predates Computers
- Paul Graham: Founding Fathers Saying Things Like Hackers
- Paul Graham: MBAs in the Fortune 400
- Paul Graham: Judging a Book by its Cover
- Paul Graham: Java Aims Low
- Paul Graham: The Wrong People Like Java
- Paul Graham: Popularity and Being a Scripting Language
- Paul Graham: Brevity of Programming Languages
- Paul Graham: "Evolutionary Dead Ends"
- Paul Graham: Wasteful Things
- Paul Graham: Succinctness is Power
- Paul Graham: Mathematicians and Vogue
- Paul Graham: about Technology Parks
- Paul Graham about Hackers and Discipline
- Paul Graham: "Kids behaving like Adults"
- Paul Graham: Physicists and Professors of French Literature
- Paul Graham: the Great American Novel
- Paul Graham - Democracy and the Wikipedia
- Paul Graham - Newspapers vs. Blogs
- Paul Graham - News that are not News
- Paul Graham - "How can you dismiss socialism so casually"
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Paul Graham: People who do Great Work
The people I've met who do great work… generally feel that they're stupid and lazy, that their brain only works properly one day out of ten, and that it's only a matter of time until they're found out.
Paul Graham
"Great Hackers" (later edited out)
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|"Great Hackers" (old Version)
Paul Graham about Great Men in their Youth
What they really mean is, don't get demoralized. Don't think that you can't do what other people can. And I agree you shouldn't underestimate your potential. People who've done great things tend to seem as if they were a race apart. And most biographies only exaggerate this illusion, partly due to the worshipful attitude biographers inevitably sink into, and partly because, knowing how the story ends, they can't help streamlining the plot till it seems like the subject's life was a matter of destiny, the mere unfolding of some innate genius. In fact I suspect if you had the sixteen year old Shakespeare or Einstein in school with you, they'd seem impressive, but not totally unlike your other friends.
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|What You'll Wish You'd Known
Paul Graham about Java - #1
It could be that in Java's case I'm mistaken. It could be that a language promoted by one big company to undermine another, designed by a committee for a "mainstream" audience, hyped to the skies, and beloved of the DoD [= "Department of Defense"], happens nonetheless to be a clean, beautiful, powerful language that I would love programming in. It could be, but it seems very unlikely.
|Paul Graham
|Java's Cover
Paul Graham - Java Hype
But for what it's worth, as a sort of time capsule, here's why I don't like the look of Java:
1. It has been so energetically hyped. Real standards don't have to be promoted. No one had to promote C, or Unix, or HTML. A real standard tends to be already established by the time most people hear about it. On the hacker radar screen, Perl is as big as Java, or bigger, just on the strength of its own merits.
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|Java's Cover
Paul Graham - about Computer Science Mathematicians
Bundling all these different types of work together in one department may be convenient administratively, but it's confusing intellectually. That's the other reason I don't like the name "computer science." Arguably the people in the middle are doing something like an experimental science. But the people at either end, the hackers and the mathematicians, are not actually doing science.
The mathematicians don't seem bothered by this. They happily set to work proving theorems like the other mathematicians over in the math department, and probably soon stop noticing that the building they work in says "computer science" on the outside. But for the hackers this label is a problem. If what they're doing is called science, it makes them feel they ought to be acting scientific. So instead of doing what they really want to do, which is to design beautiful software, hackers in universities and research labs feel they ought to be writing research papers.
|Paul Graham
|"Hackers and Painters" (the Essay)
Paul Graham - figure a Program Completely on Paper
For example, I was taught in college that one ought to figure out a program completely on paper before even going near a computer. I found that I did not program this way. I found that I liked to program sitting in front of a computer, not a piece of paper. Worse still, instead of patiently writing out a complete program and assuring myself it was correct, I tended to just spew out code that was hopelessly broken, and gradually beat it into shape. Debugging, I was taught, was a kind of final pass where you caught typos and oversights. The way I worked, it seemed like programming consisted of debugging.
For a long time I felt bad about this, just as I once felt bad that I didn't hold my pencil the way they taught me to in elementary school. If I had only looked over at the other makers, the painters or the architects, I would have realized that there was a name for what I was doing: sketching. As far as I can tell, the way they taught me to program in college was all wrong. You should figure out programs as you're writing them, just as writers and painters and architects do.
|Paul Graham
|Hackers and Painters
Paul Graham on Business Oscillations
I only discovered this myself quite recently. When Yahoo bought Viaweb, they asked me what I wanted to do. I had never liked the business side very much, and said that I just wanted to hack. When I got to Yahoo, I found that what hacking meant to them was implementing software, not designing it. Programmers were seen as technicians who translated the visions (if that is the word) of product managers into code.
This seems to be the default plan in big companies. They do it because it decreases the standard deviation of the outcome. Only a small percentage of hackers can actually design software, and it's hard for the people running a company to pick these out. So instead of entrusting the future of the software to one brilliant hacker, most companies set things up so that it is designed by committee, and the hackers merely implement the design.
If you want to make money at some point, remember this, because this is one of the reasons startups win. Big companies want to decrease the standard deviation of design outcomes because they want to avoid disasters. But when you damp oscillations, you lose the high points as well as the low. This is not a problem for big companies, because they don't win by making great products. Big companies win by sucking less than other big companies.
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|Hackers and Painters
Paul Graham: "What those who teach, cannot do"
It's not true that those who can't do, teach (some of the best hackers I know are professors), but it is true that there are a lot of things that those who teach can't do. Research imposes constraining caste restrictions. In any academic field there are topics that are ok to work on and others that aren't. Unfortunately the distinction between acceptable and forbidden topics is usually based on how intellectual the work sounds when described in research papers, rather than how important it is for getting good results. The extreme case is probably literature; people studying literature rarely say anything that would be of the slightest use to those producing it.
Though the situation is better in the sciences, the overlap between the kind of work you're allowed to do and the kind of work that yields good languages is distressingly small. (Olin Shivers has grumbled eloquently about this.) For example, types seem to be an inexhaustible source of research papers, despite the fact that static typing seems to preclude true macros-- without which, in my opinion, no language is worth using.
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|The Hundred-Year Language
Paul Graham: Meaning of Hacker/Hack
To the popular press, "hacker" means someone who breaks into computers. Among programmers it means a good programmer. But the two meanings are connected. To programmers, "hacker" connotes mastery in the most literal sense: someone who can make a computer do what he wants-- whether the computer wants to or not.
To add to the confusion, the noun "hack" also has two senses. It can be either a compliment or an insult. It's called a hack when you do something in an ugly way. But when you do something so clever that you somehow beat the system, that's also called a hack. The word is used more often in the former than the latter sense, probably because ugly solutions are more common than brilliant ones.
Believe it or not, the two senses of "hack" are also connected. Ugly and imaginative solutions have something in common: they both break the rules. And there is a gradual continuum between rule breaking that's merely ugly (using duct tape to attach something to your bike) and rule breaking that is brilliantly imaginative (discarding Euclidean space).
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|The Word "Hacker"
Paul Graham: Hacking Predates Computers
Hacking predates computers. When he was working on the Manhattan Project, Richard Feynman used to amuse himself by breaking into safes containing secret documents. This tradition continues today. When we were in grad school, a hacker friend of mine who spent too much time around MIT had his own lock picking kit. (He now runs a hedge fund, a not unrelated enterprise.)
It is sometimes hard to explain to authorities why one would want to do such things. Another friend of mine once got in trouble with the government for breaking into computers. This had only recently been declared a crime, and the FBI found that their usual investigative technique didn't work. Police investigation apparently begins with a motive. The usual motives are few: drugs, money, sex, revenge. Intellectual curiosity was not one of the motives on the FBI's list. Indeed, the whole concept seemed foreign to them.
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|The Word "Hacker"
Paul Graham: Founding Fathers Saying Things Like Hackers
When you read what the founding fathers had to say for themselves, they sound more like hackers. "The spirit of resistance to government," Jefferson wrote, "is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive."
Imagine an American president saying that today. Like the remarks of an outspoken old grandmother, the sayings of the founding fathers have embarrassed generations of their less confident successors. They remind us where we come from. They remind us that it is the people who break rules that are the source of America's wealth and power.
Those in a position to impose rules naturally want them to be obeyed. But be careful what you ask for. You might get it.
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|The Word "Hacker"
Paul Graham: MBAs in the Fortune 400
If you work your way down the Forbes 400 making an x next to the name of each person with an MBA, you'll learn something important about business school. You don't even hit an MBA till number 22, Phil Knight, the CEO of Nike. There are only four MBAs in the top 50. What you notice in the Forbes 400 are a lot of people with technical backgrounds. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Michael Dell, Jeff Bezos, Gordon Moore. The rulers of the technology business tend to come from technology, not business. So if you want to invest two years in something that will help you succeed in business, the evidence suggests you'd do better to learn how to hack than get an MBA.
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|How to Start a Startup
Paul Graham: Judging a Book by its Cover
The aphorism "you can't tell a book by its cover" originated in the times when books were sold in plain cardboard covers, to be bound by each purchaser according to his own taste. In those days, you couldn't tell a book by its cover. But publishing has advanced since then: present-day publishers work hard to make the cover something you can tell a book by.
I spend a lot of time in bookshops and I feel as if I have by now learned to understand everything publishers mean to tell me about a book, and perhaps a bit more. The time I haven't spent in bookshops I've spent mostly in front of computers, and I feel as if I've learned, to some degree, to judge technology by its cover as well. It may be just luck, but I've saved myself from a few technologies that turned out to be real stinkers.
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|Java's Cover
Paul Graham: Java Aims Low
2. It's aimed low. In the original Java white paper, Gosling explicitly says Java was designed not to be too difficult for programmers used to C. It was designed to be another C++: C plus a few ideas taken from more advanced languages. Like the creators of sitcoms or junk food or package tours, Java's designers were consciously designing a product for people not as smart as them. Historically, languages designed for other people to use have been bad: Cobol, PL/I, Pascal, Ada, C++. The good languages have been those that were designed for their own creators: C, Perl, Smalltalk, Lisp.
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|Java's Cover
Paul Graham: The Wrong People Like Java
The wrong people like it. The programmers I admire most are not, on the whole, captivated by Java. Who does like Java? Suits, who don't know one language from another, but know that they keep hearing about Java in the press; programmers at big companies, who are amazed to find that there is something even better than C++; and plug-and-chug undergrads, who are ready to like anything that might get them a job (will this be on the test?). These people's opinions change with every wind.
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|Java's Cover
Paul Graham: Popularity and Being a Scripting Language
Lisp is not a massively popular language because it is not the scripting language of a massively popular system. What popularity it retains dates back to the 1960s and 1970s, when it was the scripting language of MIT. A lot of the great programmers of the day were associated with MIT at some point. And in the early 1970s, before C, MIT's dialect of Lisp, called MacLisp, was one of the only programming languages a serious hacker would want to use.
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|Being Popular
Paul Graham: Brevity of Programming Languages
One thing hackers like is brevity. Hackers are lazy, in the same way that mathematicians and modernist architects are lazy: they hate anything extraneous. It would not be far from the truth to say that a hacker about to write a program decides what language to use, at least subconsciously, based on the total number of characters he'll have to type. If this isn't precisely how hackers think, a language designer would do well to act as if it were.
It is a mistake to try to baby the user with long-winded expressions that are meant to resemble English. Cobol is notorious for this flaw. A hacker would consider being asked to write
add x to y giving z
instead of
z = x+y
as something between an insult to his intelligence and a sin against God.
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|Being Popular
Paul Graham: "Evolutionary Dead Ends"
I think that, like species, languages will form evolutionary trees, with dead-ends branching off all over. We can see this happening already. Cobol, for all its sometime popularity, does not seem to have any intellectual descendants. It is an evolutionary dead-end-- a Neanderthal language.
I predict a similar fate for Java. People sometimes send me mail saying, "How can you say that Java won't turn out to be a successful language? It's already a successful language." And I admit that it is, if you measure success by shelf space taken up by books on it (particularly individual books on it), or by the number of undergrads who believe they have to learn it to get a job. When I say Java won't turn out to be a successful language, I mean something more specific: that Java will turn out to be an evolutionary dead-end, like Cobol.
This is just a guess. I may be wrong. My point here is not to dis Java, but to raise the issue of evolutionary trees and get people asking, where on the tree is language X? The reason to ask this question isn't just so that our ghosts can say, in a hundred years, I told you so. It's because staying close to the main branches is a useful heuristic for finding languages that will be good to program in now.
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|The Hundred-Year Language
Paul Graham: Wasteful Things
This isn't just something that happens with programming languages. It's a general historical trend. As technologies improve, each generation can do things that the previous generation would have considered wasteful. People thirty years ago would be astonished at how casually we make long distance phone calls. People a hundred years ago would be even more astonished that a package would one day travel from Boston to New York via Memphis.
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|The Hundred-Year Language
Paul Graham: Succinctness is Power
In the discussion about issues raised by Revenge of the Nerds on the LL1 mailing list, Paul Prescod wrote something that stuck in my mind.
Python's goal is regularity and readability, not succinctness
On the face of it, this seems a rather damning thing to claim about a programming language. As far as I can tell, succinctness = power. If so, then substituting, we get
Python's goal is regularity and readability, not power.
and this doesn't seem a tradeoff (if it is a tradeoff) that you'd want to make. It's not far from saying that Python's goal is not to be effective as a programming language.
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|Succinctness is Power
Paul Graham: Mathematicians and Vogue
Bureaucrats by their nature are the exact opposite sort of people from startup investors. The idea of them making startup investments is comic. It would be like mathematicians running Vogue-- or perhaps more accurately, Vogue editors running a math journal.
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|How to Be Silicon Valley
Paul Graham: about Technology Parks
If you go to see Silicon Valley, what you'll see are buildings. But it's the people that make it Silicon Valley, not the buildings. I read occasionally about attempts to set up "technology parks" in other places, as if the active ingredient of Silicon Valley were the office space. An article about Sophia Antipolis bragged that companies there included Cisco, Compaq, IBM, NCR, and Nortel. Don't the French realize these aren't startups?
Building office buildings for technology companies won't get you a silicon valley, because the key stage in the life of a startup happens before they want that kind of space. The key stage is when they're three guys operating out of an apartment. Wherever the startup is when it gets funded, it will stay. The defining quality of Silicon Valley is not that Intel or Apple or Google have offices there, but that they were started there.
So if you want to reproduce Silicon Valley, what you need to reproduce is those two or three founders sitting around a kitchen table deciding to start a company. And to reproduce that you need those people.
|Paul Graham
|How to Be Silicon Valley
Paul Graham about Hackers and Discipline
One of the most dangerous illusions you get from school is the idea that doing great things requires a lot of discipline. Most subjects are taught in such a boring way that it's only by discipline that you can flog yourself through them. So I was surprised when, early in college, I read a quote by Wittgenstein saying that he had no self-discipline and had never been able to deny himself anything, not even a cup of coffee.
Now I know a number of people who do great work, and it's the same with all of them. They have little discipline. They're all terrible procrastinators and find it almost impossible to make themselves do anything they're not interested in. One still hasn't sent out his half of the thank-you notes from his wedding, four years ago. Another has 26,000 emails in her inbox.
I'm not saying you can get away with zero self-discipline. You probably need about the amount you need to go running. I'm often reluctant to go running, but once I do, I enjoy it. And if I don't run for several days, I feel ill. It's the same with people who do great things. They know they'll feel bad if they don't work, and they have enough discipline to get themselves to their desks to start working. But once they get started, interest takes over, and discipline is no longer necessary.
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|What You'll Wish You'd Known
Paul Graham: "Kids behaving like Adults"
Your teachers are always telling you to behave like adults. I wonder if they'd like it if you did. You may be loud and disorganized, but you're very docile compared to adults. If you actually started acting like adults, it would be just as if a bunch of adults had been transposed into your bodies. Imagine the reaction of an FBI agent or taxi driver or reporter to being told they had to ask permission to go the bathroom, and only one person could go at a time. To say nothing of the things you're taught. If a bunch of actual adults suddenly found themselves trapped in high school, the first thing they'd do is form a union and renegotiate all the rules with the administration.
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|What You'll Wish You'd Known
Paul Graham: Physicists and Professors of French Literature
I disagree with your generalization that physicists are smarter than professors of French Literature.
Try this thought experiment. A dictator takes over the US and sends all the professors to re-education camps. The physicists are told they have to learn how to write academic articles about French literature, and the French literature professors are told they have to learn how to write original physics papers. If they fail, they'll be shot. Which group is more worried?
We have some evidence here: the famous parody that physicist Alan Sokal got published in Social Text. How long did it take him to master the art of writing deep-sounding nonsense well enough to fool the editors? A couple weeks?
What do you suppose would be the odds of a literary theorist getting a parody of a physics paper published in a physics journal?
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|Re: What You Can't Say
Paul Graham: the Great American Novel
Imagine, for example, what would happen if the government decided to commission someone to write an official Great American Novel. First there'd be a huge ideological squabble over who to choose. Most of the best writers would be excluded for having offended one side or the other. Of the remainder, the smart ones would refuse such a job, leaving only a few with the wrong sort of ambition. The committee would choose one at the height of his career—that is, someone whose best work was behind him—and hand over the project with copious free advice about how the book should show in positive terms the strength and diversity of the American people, etc, etc.
The unfortunate writer would then sit down to work with a huge weight of expectation on his shoulders. Not wanting to blow such a public commission, he'd play it safe. This book had better command respect, and the way to ensure that would be to make it a tragedy. Audiences have to be enticed to laugh, but if you kill people they feel obliged to take you seriously. As everyone knows, America plus tragedy equals the Civil War, so that's what it would have to be about. Better stick to the standard cartoon version that the Civil War was about slavery; people would be confused otherwise; plus you can show a lot of strength and diversity. When finally completed twelve years later, the book would be a 900-page pastiche of existing popular novels—roughly Gone with the Wind plus Roots. But its bulk and celebrity would make it a bestseller for a few months, until blown out of the water by a talk-show host's autobiography. The book would be made into a movie and thereupon forgotten, except by the more waspish sort of reviewers, among whom it would be a byword for bogusness like Milli Vanilli or Battlefield Earth.
Maybe I got a little carried away with this example. And yet is this not at each point the way such a project would play out? The government knows better than to get into the novel business, but in other fields where they have a natural monopoly, like nuclear waste dumps, aircraft carriers, and regime change, you'd find plenty of projects isomorphic to this one—and indeed, plenty that were less successful.
|Paul Graham
|The Power of the Marginal
Paul Graham - Democracy and the Wikipedia
The second big element of Web 2.0 is democracy. We now have several examples to prove that amateurs can surpass professionals, when they have the right kind of system to channel their efforts. Wikipedia may be the most famous. Experts have given Wikipedia middling reviews, but they miss the critical point: it's good enough. And it's free, which means people actually read it. On the web, articles you have to pay for might as well not exist. Even if you were willing to pay to read them yourself, you can't link to them. They're not part of the conversation.
|Paul Graham
|Web 2.0
Paul Graham - Newspapers vs. Blogs
One measure of the incompetence of newspapers is that so many still make you register to read stories. I have yet to find a blog that tried that.
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|"What Business Can Learn from Open Source" (Footnote)
Paul Graham - News that are not News
And when I read, say, New York Times stories, I never reach them through the Times front page. Most I find through aggregators like Google News or Slashdot or Delicious. Aggregators show how much better you can do than the channel. The New York Times front page is a list of articles written by people who work for the New York Times. Delicious is a list of articles that are interesting. And it's only now that you can see the two side by side that you notice how little overlap there is.
Most articles in the print media are boring. For example, the president notices that a majority of voters now think invading Iraq was a mistake, so he makes an address to the nation to drum up support. Where is the man bites dog in that? I didn't hear the speech, but I could probably tell you exactly what he said. A speech like that is, in the most literal sense, not news: there is nothing new in it.
Nor is there anything new, except the names and places, in most "news" about things going wrong. A child is abducted; there's a tornado; a ferry sinks; someone gets bitten by a shark; a small plane crashes. And what do you learn about the world from these stories? Absolutely nothing. They're outlying data points; what makes them gripping also makes them irrelevant.
As in software, when professionals produce such crap, it's not surprising if amateurs can do better. Live by the channel, die by the channel: if you depend on an oligopoly, you sink into bad habits that are hard to overcome when you suddenly get competition.
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|"What Business Can Learn from Open Source" (Footnote)
Paul Graham - "How can you dismiss socialism so casually"
I've thought a lot about this, actually; it was not a casual remark. I think the fundamental question is not whether the government pays for schools or medicine, but whether you allow people to get rich.
In England in the 1970s, the top income tax rate was 98%. That's what the Beatles' song "Tax Man" is referring to when they say "one for you, nineteen for me."
Any country that makes this choice ends up losing net, because new technology tends to be developed by people trying to make their fortunes. It's too much work for anyone to do for ordinary wages. Smart people might work on sexy projects like fighter planes and space rockets for ordinary wages, but semiconductors or light bulbs or the plumbing of e-commerce probably have to be developed by entrepreneurs. Life in the Soviet Union would have been even poorer if they hadn't had American technologies to copy.
Finland is sometimes given as an example of a prosperous socialist country, but apparently the combined top tax rate is 55%, only 5% higher than in California. So if they seem that much more socialist than the US, it is probably simply because they don't spend so much on their military.
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Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., was recognized during the farm bill debate in a "colloquy," or a "high-level serious discussion" according to one online definition.
So Hastings didn't exactly address the farm bill. In his off-topic colloquy (I had erroneously referred to this as a soliloquy in an earlier version of this blog: ouch!), he talked about food safety and rising concerns from tree fruit growers about FDA food safety regulations.
Hastings – and his tree fruit industry supporters in Washington state – hope the Food and Drug Administration will hear his pleas, delivered on the House floor on June 18.
He started by saying that lettuce and apples are grown in completely different ways.
"For one thing, lettuce is grown in the grown and apples in the trees; that's obvious," he said. "It only makes sense that these produce items are evaluated on how susceptible they may be to food safety risks and subjected to regulations that reflect both the risk and the way they are grown."
Hastings continued:
"I'm concerned that the current regulations would subject all growers of fresh produce to the same requirements and restrictions that are nearly impossible to meet for tree fruit growers in my district. There has never been a known food safety problem with fresh apples and yet if implemented these regulations risk putting our growers out of business and pushing apple production overseas."
"Would the chairman (Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Okla.) agree that the FDA should evaluate the risk of individual agricultural commodities based on the best available science and consider the growing methods and conditions of these products when developing regulations under the Food Safety Modernization Act for the safe production, harvesting, handling and packing of our fresh fruits and vegetables? I yield back to the chair." Hastings said.
Lucas responded that he recognized Hastings' concerns about the "one size fits all" approach of the FDA. "I share his belief that if FDA is going to be given the task of telling farmers how to farm, it should do so after a thorough examination of the risk of different types of fruits and vegetables and then based on the best available science.. …..
"I encourage FDA to reevaluate the proposed regulations and make the necessary revisions," Lucas concluded.
It will be hard enough to pass a farm bill. Getting exactly the preferred food safety regulations out of the FDA for the tree fruit industry will even be a tougher task.
For Hastings and his tree fruit industry supporters, the colloquy was eerily similar to the "to be or not to be" verse by Shakespeare for Hamlet. Can apple growers exist after the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune from the FDA?
A little dramatic, true. But Hastings has made his point. Time will tell if the FDA is listening .

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WHAT started off as a promising weekend for Halesowen racer Bradley Hughes turned into a disaster.
He crashed heavily and although uninjured the same could not be said for the Kawasaki, which suffered major damage in round two of the British Supersport Evo championship at Oulton Park on Sunday.
Bradley was looking good in first free practice and completed the session in a strong fifth place.
However, when he went out on track for the second free practice he encountered a problem on cornering. He was suffering with a searing pain in his right leg which prevented him from turning the bike and was forced to pull in so he could receive some treatment from the physiotherapist who suggested his riding style was perhaps to blame.
He explained: "After riding a 125cc machine all those years and having to tuck myself in, my body has to get used to stretching out a bit on the bigger bike. It is very painful but once I adjust everything should be okay."
Qualifying on Sunday was to set the grid for the start of Monday's race but after just seven laps Bradley crashed heavily at Cascades and although uninjured he was unable to take any further part in the weekend's proceedings.
He said: "Cascades is a fast part of the track and I was doing well over 100mph when I crashed. I went flying, and after doing a Superman impression landed without injury. But the bike wasn't so lucky. After going end over end and also on both sides the damage was tremendous and far too great to repair in time for the race. It will take a while to get her up and running again.
"We have five weeks before the next outing and will be working flat out in order to be on the grid."
The next round is at Snetterton in Norfolk on June 15.


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Wed, February 6, 7pm W.M. Keck Lecture Hall Andrew Zago has over 25 years of professional experience in architecture and education. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University. In addition to teaching at SCI-Arc, where he is coordinator of Visual Studies, Zago is currently a Clinical Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a frequent visiting critic and lecturer at schools in the US and Europe. His firm, Zago Architecture, is a recipient of a Progressive Architecture Award, an Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Fellowship Grant from the United States Artists organization. Zago is also a fellow of the American Academy in Rome and a member of the National Register of Peer Professionals of the General Services Administration in Washington. Zago Architecture brings open-ended, creative inquiry to disciplinary concerns in architecture. Noted for its prescient articulation of emerging sensibilities, the practice weds aesthetic studies to the practical art of making buildings and cities. In doing so, Zago Architecture reaffirms the substantial and productive link amongst art, architecture and urbanism. SCI-Arc
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No problem at all with doing gluten free. The broccoli soup is really good! As far as the salad, I felt like they were super skimpy on toppings. I kept having to tell them more, more, more. . . and in the end my salad was still mostly lettuce! I guess I like going to Jason's Deli better where I can get twice as much for my money.
I'm not normally a salad person, but the food here is delicious. There are plenty of wonderful, gluten free toppings, and great salad dressing options. It beats a fast food burger without a bun any day.
I agree with all other comments but one. They do have a wonderful grilled salmon that is GF, although the other seafood items aren't. I wasn't aware that the soups are all GF. That's great news! Love this place!
Great salad! Take gluten-free serious. The workers change gloves before making your salad. Felt confident that I wasn't going to be glutened and I wasn't. Lots of choices. Will go back!
This is an excellent soup and salad restaurant. They make the salad for you and selection of greens, veggies, fruit and meat is wonderful. They carry three different soups, all of which are gluten free. The only thing that isn't gluten free is their optional bread and the seafood items for the salad. I am a huge fan of this place.
9595 Six Pines Drive, Spring, TX 77380
I eat here all the time and haven't got sick!
9595 Six Pines Drive, Spring, TX 77380
My wife was diagnosed with Celiac disease years ago and has multiple food allergies. We went to Salata for the first time, and as I was paying for the food, I saw tears welling up in her eyes. She said she couldn't remember the last time she'd been treated so kindly at a restaurant. Fresh gloves, separate containers for ingredients, and a knowledgeable server made her feel safe, but it was the feeling of being welcome that made her day. Her server, Dina, and the manager, Olga, were amazing, and as we left they said, "Next time you come back, just let us know, and we'll take good care of you." They should add compassion as a menu item, because it was there in abundance.
9595 Six Pines Drive, Spring, TX 77380
After telling them first my daughter had Celiac, they quickly changed their gloves and what ever she desired on her salad, they had a separate container. It was fantastic!! The food was delish!!!
4930 Belt Line Road, Addison, TX 75254
Great options! You choose what you want to eat. Love this place.. only downside is trying to find a table, and everyone always seems to be in a hurry.
4930 Belt Line Road, Addison, TX 75254
Very friendly for my dietary restrictions (gluten, soy, diary, nuts). Everything is clearly labeled and they have detailed allergen info available. They also offer oil and vinegar for dressing. No gluten free croutons or bread, however.
9595 Six Pines Drive, Spring, TX 77380
Great knowledgeable staff!
9595 Six Pines Drive, Spring, TX 77380
When I said I was Celiac, the lady immediately changed her gloves and called another person out. She got all fresh items from under the bar that hadn't been touched yet. Followed me all the way down the line. Very safe and I had no ill effects!
1600 Louetta Rd, Spring, TX 77388
Staff does not always change gloves after handling the bread and crouton items. I said something and the server offered to change gloves, but I declined to let my son eat there because I had concerns over how many other times gloves contaminated with gluten had been used previously in all of the salad items.
11075 Huebner Oaks #310, San Antonio, Texas
I have to uodate my review. Place used to be safe, but now there are so many people eating there, and so many bread crumbs where they toss the salads. My poor daughter was glutened a few months ago. Too afraid to go back. Shame. I wouldn't trust the soup. It's right next to the bread, and there are crumbs everywhere.
11075 Huebner Oaks #310, San Antonio, Texas
I have eaten here twice and walked away sick both times! Even though they clearly label gluten free I don't trust this place
520 Commerce Street, Fort Worth, TX 76102
They have gluten free items clearly marked and when I told them I needed to be gluten free, they changed their gloves to help prevent contamination.
11075 Huebner Oaks #310, San Antonio, Texas
Extremely sensitive to gluten. I have ate there for almost about a month. I didn't have any reactions till one day it got me. I was sick for about a week. There is so much cross contamination if you really pay attention as how food is prepared. Will not be going there ever again.
1600 Louetta Rd, Spring, TX 77388
The lady serving me washed her hands then served me through the whole line.
140 E Golf Rd, Schaumburg, IL 60173
Great concept but poorly executed. The staff was very accommodating to change their gloves as the bowl got passed through the line. However, part way through the meal I look over and the workers who were at the beginning of the line (the lettuce) had made their way down to the end of the line (the bread) and went directly back to dishing out the lettuce. All well and good, except that there was no change of gloves. This could easily be fixed by getting scoops for ingredients, changing gloves, or just having each employee stay at one section of the line. Beyond that food was good and decent portions but too much so on the cross contamination!!!
7317 Parkwood Blvd, Plano, TX 75024
Negative 2 stars is more accurate. This place advertises assistance with selecting a gluten free meal and 2 employees had no idea what I was even saying when I stated the phrase "gluten-free". Thankfully, there were labels on the counter to assist me better than the employees. The salad is good and so far, there hasn't been a reaction to their GF/vegan tomato basil soup. The employees need better training for those with diet preferences. Needless to say, I will not be returning.
505 S Flower St, Los Angeles, CA 90070
I love this place! I have celiac disease, a sunflower allergy and am a vegetarian. Even in Southern California this can make it challenging to eat out as I am very, very sensitive to gluten cross contamination. There is a sign on the wall that says to let them know if you have a gluten allergy and they will take precautions. So I did. I can not speak highly enough of the service at the City National location. Not only did the server change her gloves with a smile, when I explained that I have a severe allergy, she took all of my food items from the covered containers underneath the counter without rolling her eyes, or saying, or being some other way that made me feel like my allergies were a burden to her. I have been eating there once or twice a week for the past few months and have never, ever gotten sick from cross contamination. The staff there is just wonderful. I can't speak highly enough about the service I've received there. They always take the allergy precautions with a smile and have never once served me contaminated food. They are so consistently wonderful I can even place an order online and trust that not only will my order be correct (it always is) but that the staff will have taken the allergy precautions. This place is a life saver!
1600 Louetta Rd, Spring, TX 77388
Everything is labeled and noted if it's GF!
8307 Westchester Drive, Dallas, TX 75225
They have a GF menu which is helpful. But you will have to ask the servers to change their gloves. Otherwise there's a risk of cross contamination.
3651 Weslayan Street, Houston, TX 77027
Yummy! If get avocado they put them on at end of line & they put them on wraps. So I make them get fresh one & clean knife & fresh gloves. Other wise everything else on beginning of line gluten free.
7317 Parkwood Blvd, Plano, TX 75024
If I could give this a negative star I would. I brought in a friend who had never been there before because I'd found this place clise to work that seemed super awesome AND they were so great about gluten issues. Sadly, the staff really weren't that well versed and I had to keep saying gluten allergy. Then towards the end when I was paying one of the guys came along and plunked a big slice of bread on my bowl!!! So the manager did my bowl himself, not very well, but that was fine. THEN he didn't believe me when I said there was avacado in the glutened bowl and actually DUG through it to check. He absolutely made me feel like a thief. The worst part? I had to tell his people in line not to put new veggies on top of old veggies in the bin. That they needed to rotate it. Yeah. They didn't understand that very well either. Needless to say .. food poisoning later and I will not be back. Food allergies? Sensitive to contamination? Yeah. I wouldn't risk it.
9595 Six Pines Drive, Spring, TX 77380
Excellent salad bar! So many options and you can pile on as many as you want. I've eaten here several times and have never had an issue.
10898 Westheimer Road, Houston, TX 77042
Pretty good. $10 for a salad with grilled chicken breast.
8307 Westchester Drive, Dallas, TX 75225
Contamination is a serious risk here. I love this place, but I wouldn't take my celiac family here during lunch. The first part of the line is gloriously GF. Then they run everything under a toaster with crumbs flying. Everyone behind the counter handles bread. Just not set up for celiac.
1700 Pacific Avenue, Dallas, TX 75201
Well, there is gluten free food here, but you don't have a lot of options and a lot of the workers don't know what they are doing. No gluten free soups, just salad, which you can find anywhere and you just have to hope someone is on duty who knows what they are doing. Not all that impressed.
8307 Westchester Drive, Dallas, TX 75225
Great options. Very good!
505 S Flower St, Los Angeles, CA 90070
This salad shop offers all of their salad dressings, fixings and soups gluten free. Their web site has a breakdown of allergens, in case you are worried about soy or dairy. I order from them frequently throughout the week, and I have never had symptoms after. The staff is very friendly, and if you are clear that you have an allergy, they are very careful.
11075 Huebner Oaks #310, San Antonio, Texas
All soups and salad dressings are gf. Get a salad wit any toppings except seafood.
1700 Pacific Avenue, Dallas, TX 75201
I'm celiac, ate here once, and will be back. Very tasty options and I didn't get sick!
7317 Parkwood Blvd, Plano, TX 75024
It is my biggest pet peeve for somewhere to advertise a "certified gluten free menu" then their staff have no idea what you are talking about. Let's hope I don't get sick.
7317 Parkwood Blvd, Plano, TX 75024
FOR CELIACS I had hoped to eat here without getting sick. I've tried it on a few occaisions and I get sick. It's either got to be the salad dressing, which they claim is gluten-free, the chicken, which they claim is gluten free, or the cross contamination at the end of the line - which is the bread station. I can't communicate effectively with the staff using English, so I've been unable to ask for any special care or to drill-down a little on how truly gluten-free their ingredients are. Sadly, this place will have to go off my list. Apart from getting sick. You know, the salads are decent, the dressings are tasty and the staff is a bit unfriendly. Pretty much what the other reviews say.
3000 Blackburn Street #150, Dallas, TX 75204
They have everything labeled if it is gluten free! Best place for a quick salad
14515 Katy Freeway #100, Houston, TX 77079
Im sorry but this restaurant is not VEGAN ,it has shrimp ,chicken ,pork.the only gluten fre is the tortilla soup .brocoli souo has milk(caseine).food is delicious has a great variety of salad.bread is not gluten free either
2170 Town Square Place, Sugar Land, TX 77479
Great selection, big salad that gives you your money's worth, very easy to eat gluten free and much less prone to cross-contamination than self-serve salad bars. Will eat here again.
303 Memorial City Way #728, Houston, Texas
Gluten free items are clearly marked as you walk through the bar. All soups and dressings are GF. Finally an easy and healthy option in the food court.
11075 Huebner Oaks #310, San Antonio, Texas
EXCELLENT uderstading of GF lifestyle. When you arrive, tell them you are GF and one person will follow your food to avoid cross contamination. I have eaten there several times and had zero issues. It is definitely in the rotation!
7601 North MacArthur Boulevard #180, Irving, TX 75063
They have put GF stickers on everything, so you know. Also, have no problem changing gloves on request. Great choices for salad, I go often.
11075 Huebner Oaks #310, San Antonio, Texas
Recently started this diet, and have struggled eating out, happy I found this app! I tried this place and I have to say it is awesome! Everything is very clean, uniforms are well kept, bathrooms were clean... You can tell they have good management. Everyone was very friendly, went out of their way to come and greet all the customers. When it came to gluten, the girl that waited on me was very knowledgable, told me what I could and vouldn't have. The organization of the toppings was perfect too. These salads are huge (even the small), and they had such a variety of toppings. The soups were pretty good too. 2 thumbs up!
2170 Town Square Place, Sugar Land, TX 77479
Awesome! Gluten products are separate from gluten free items on the line. Separate bowls & tongs.
3651 Weslayan Street, Houston, TX 77027
gluten free salads dressings and meats listed on website
7317 Parkwood Blvd, Plano, TX 75024
I've only had indigestion or had a migraine a couple times since going gluten free and this was one of them. I knew I shouldn't have eaten there because I noticed they use their hands (with gloves) to put everything you want on your salad. I had her change her gloves, but I guess that didn't make up for the fact that they move their hands from bin to bin all day cross contaminating the food. Great idea, not so well thought out. Would be okay for those not very sensitive I guess.
7317 Parkwood Blvd, Plano, TX 75024
Order by-ingredient salads. Pricey but filling and custom
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I had a hint of this already, but the official word is out that gay singer-songwriter Jay Brannan will make his return to Dallas this summer. Upon release of his latest album Rob Me Blind this week, the folkster will hit the road in July, making his way to town August 13. He'll play at the Sons of Hermann Hall (yes!) in Deep Ellum and is another notch in Tactics Productions' increasingly impressive roster of concert bookings with some LGBT-friendly approach on the side. Props to those guys.
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St Teilo's Church - the book
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We're getting really stuck in now. We've had a complete set of pages, which is our chance to move or replace any images, or perhaps move pages around. Once we've done that the layout is set in stone and we start proofreading. While we proofread the English, the designer will work on the Welsh pages - that's why it's important that nothing moves around after we've agreed on the layout!
We had some new external shots of the church done, so that we'd have a wider choice to try out for the cover. I think we're pretty close to deciding on the image. And I think the title is decided too:
Saving St Teilo's: bringing a medieval church to life.
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Beginning this fall, video games won't just be something AU students use to unwind after a day of classes: for many, they will be class. Michael Treanor, computer science professor and a self-described "child of the Nintendo Entertainment System era," will be teaching some of those video game classes.
"I didn't have a ton of games growing up, but the ones I did have I played to death," Treanor says. He's been on a mission to make video games about more than sitting in front of a television ever since he learned there were no game versions of English classes. "Literally, from that point on," he says, "I've been on a quest to make games as art and to pursue the scholarly study of games."
Treanor comes to the College's Department of Computer Science from the University of California–Santa Cruz, where he received his master of fine arts in digital arts and new media.
"Building off of AU's strengths and [those] of the incoming faculty, I think AU is well poised to be a top school in this field," he says.
Students in Treanor's classes can expect to have a lot of hands-on creative projects. They can also expect to have a say in shaping their assignments.
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So if you read my blogs on this fabulous website you know I predominately do a Raw Hits and Misses blog every week and a Be the Booker blog for every PPV. I am going to start to incorporate a new blog now. After every PPV I will make the next card for the upcoming one. I'm not going to make any dream matches or anything but instead I will put matches that are rumored to take place and matches that have storylines going. Enjoy.
WWE Divas Championship Triple Threat Match: AJ Lee (C) (With Big E. Langston) vs. Kaitlyn vs. Layla
There are rumors that the reason Layla has been placed in this feud with AJ and Kaitlyn is for her to turn heel. So since the AJ-Kaitlyn feud seems like it will still go on for a little while longer I think they should add Layla to the mix. Just to give it a fresh feel and so we don't see another singles match. The only reason this is on the pre-show is because my main card is star studded. I see AJ winning this and retaining the title after Kaitlyn spears Layla and AJ just dumps Kaitlyn out of the ring.
Winner: AJ Lee to retain the Divas Championship
Main Card
1. Cody Rhodes vs. Damien Sandow
So if you watched, followed live results, or just looked up the results to Money in the Bank you would know that Sandow turned on Rhodes to win the Money in the Bank briefcase for himself. I thought that that would happen, not Sandow winning but turning on Rhodes, to turn Rhodes face and feud with Sandow over the summer. I think this could be a pretty good feud if it gets enough hype time. I see Sandow beating his former tag partner just to gain momentum until he cashes in his World Title chance.
Winner: Damien Sandow by pinfall
2. The Shield (C) vs. Christian and The Usos for the WWE Tag Team Titles and United States Title
I wanted to make this two different matches but I thought having 9 matches on the main card would be a little too much. Since Christian came back he has had a mini feud with Dean Ambrose and this match was rumored for a singles match at Summerslam. The Shield were rumored to face Kane and The Undertaker here but Undertaker seems like he won't go because of injury. The Usos and The Shield had a very good match at Money in the Bank and even stopped them from interfering in the World Title Money in the Bank match which makes me think they will get one more title shot. I don't see The Shield dropping their titles anytime soon so I believe Dean Ambrose will get the pinfall victory over Christian after his diving DDT.
Winners: The Shield to retain the United States and Tag Team Titles
3. Rob Van Dam vs. Sheamus
I followed the live results of Money in the Bank over on PWTorch.com and their PPV column specialist said how RVD and Sheamus were fighting each other a lot and could start a feud. I said, "Why the hell not? I'd watch that match." So I added it to the card. I also added it because I believe RVD should be on the next PPV after just returning. I think RVD will most likely win with a Five Star Frog Splash in this contest.
Winner: RVD by pinfall
4. Kane vs. Bray Wyatt (With Luke Harper and Erick Rowan)
When the Wyatts made their debut last week on Raw everybody wondered who they would target. They eventually beat on Kane to take him out of Money in the Bank. I believe the only reason they did this was to make this match at Summerslam. If it won't take place then why have Kane pulled from the match at Money in the Bank? Hopefully when Kane comes back from his "injury" he reverts back to the Big Red Monster and not a comedy character. This will probably be Bray Wyatt's debut match in my eyes and I don't see him losing it. I predict Bray Wyatt will win after interference by Harper and Rowan.
Winner: Bray Wyatt by pinfall
5. Dolph Ziggler vs. Big E. Langston (With AJ Lee)
Again, if you know what happened at Money in the Bank you know AJ cost Dolph the World Title against Alberto Del Rio. I knew that would happen just to make Dolph turn 100% face by dumping AJ. I see him going off on AJ and Big E. being AJ's bodyguard deliver the Big Ending to Dolph thus setting up this match. Oh by the way, this match is rumored for Summerslam. I see Ziggler winning this match after delivering a Zig Zag too Big E. so he can gain momentum when he returns to the World Title scene.
Winner: Dolph Ziggler by pinfall
6. Alberto Del Rio (C) vs. Rey Mysterio for the World Heavyweight Title
Now this match is just off the top of my head. With me putting Dolph vs. Big E. I had to come up with a challanger for Del Rio. Rey Mysterio is set to return by Summerslam so I thought why not him? These two have history together and put on decent enough matches. Basically I see Mysterio being the transitional opponent for Del Rio so he can drop the belt back to Dolph at Night of Champions. So I predict that Del Rio will win with the Cross Arm Breaker.
Winner: Alberto Del Rio to retain the World Title
7. CM Punk vs. Brock Lesnar (With Paul Heyman)
Everybody knows this match is happening. Thank god it is too. Now my belief was that Brock Lesnar would cost CM Punk the Money in the Bank briefcase, not Paul Heyman. What a twist though. It's like Dolph Ziggler how he is a face and will be breaking off of AJ, now CM Punk as the face will be breaking off from the heel Paul Heyman for good. I thought about putting this match on last but I believe the WWE Title match is better. Now for this one, I see CM Punk winning. Not that I don't think Lesnar shouldn't be built up as a monster and continue to win matches, it's just that Punk seems like he will win and stick it too Paul Heyman. Punk will win after not one, but two GTS's.
Winner: CM Punk by pinfall
8. John Cena (C) vs. Daniel Bryan for the WWE Title
Time to make Cena look like a million bucks Bryan. This match is heavily rumored for Summerslam and will probably be confirmed in the upcoming weeks. It's also rumored that a lot of writers and creative staff are pulling for Daniel Bryan to win the title. And that is exactly my prediction. Daniel Bryan will win the WWE Championship with the No!/Yes! Lock. The reason I predict this is because of one reason: Randy Orton. With Randy Orton winning the WWE Title Money in the Bank briefcase my belief is that he will turn heel when he cashes in. Now which do you think would get him the biggest heel reaction? Cashing in on Cena or Bryan? In my opinion I think the crowd would love to see Orton take the title of Cena and cheer him for it. But if he takes it off Bryan, they will hate him. I don't think they should jump the gun and have him cash in right after this match, but maybe after Cena-Bryan II at Night of Champions.
Winner: Daniel Bryan by submission to become the new WWE Champion.
Thanks for reading. I hope you enjoyed this prediction card and the outcomes I made for it. Comment below where you think I messed up, succeded, or what you think will happen.


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HOUSTON - The fiscal cliff may seem like a problem for Washington, but experts said lawmakers' failure to make a deal will affect the average person as well.
Spending cuts and tax hikes will take effect Jan. 1, unless President Barack Obama and Congress can come to an agreement.
Richard Rosso with Clarity Financial said he's bracing his clients for the reality that some 30 million Americans may be paying more taxes in 2013.
"Everybody's going to have more of an impact to their paycheck -- more money coming out," said Rosso.
The delay in a decision could also have an impact your tax return. Lawmakers are late in approving tax exemptions that families count on every year. Until they take action, the Internal Revenue Service can't print the tax forms needed to file taxes.
"It could take six to eight weeks for them to get up and running," said Rosso. "Which means you're going to be postponed regarding your filing."
Experts predict most taxpayers may not be able to file their 2012 tax returns until late March.
Rosso said Democrats and Republicans have agreed to raise payroll taxes by 2 percent on Jan.1. That means if you make $50,000 a year, you'll take home about $1,000 less in 2013 than you did in 2012.
Lawmakers have been late in approving these exemptions every year, but officials said they've never been this late.
Senators and Obama cut short their holiday vacations and returned to Washington in hopes of edging closer to a compromise to avoid the fiscal cliff.
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Clearing the way for No. 1 pick Blake Griffin, the Clippers have agreed to trade power forward Zach Randolph to Memphis for former Clipper Quentin Richardson, The Times learned today.
Because of salary-cap rules, the deal can't be completed until next week.
On paper.....ZBo is a solid scoring and rebounding Forward...but he's not the smartest players in the league. But I guess playing next to Thabeet.....his defensive liabilities won't look so bad.
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Randomized Clinical Trial of Adipose-Derived Stem Cells in the Treatment of Pts With ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction
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The purpose of this study is to establish safety and feasibility of utilizing Adipose-Derived Stem and Regenerative Cells (ADRC's) in patients who have suffered a ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction.
|Myocardial Infarction Coronary Arteriosclerosis Cardiovascular Disease Coronary Disease
|Drug: Injection of ADRC's Other: Injection of Placebo
|Phase 1
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|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|A Randomized Clinical Trial of AdiPOse-derived Stem ceLLs in the Treatment of Patients With ST-elevation myOcardial Infarction - The APOLLO Trial
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Safety - Determined by Major Adverse Cardiac and Cerebral Events (MACCE) [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
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Subjects who have coronary artery disease and have suffered a ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction will be evaluated for eligibility in this study. Eligible subjects will undergo standard treatment after admission to the hospital and will then undergo liposuction under local anesthesia, after which ADRC's will be isolated from the lipoaspirate. According to randomization subjects will receive either ADRC's or placebo.
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- Acute myocardial infarction (AMI)
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June 1798: Cavendish weighs the world
Henry Cavendish
Elements of this odd personality undoubtedly made him a great scientist, capable of dedicating himself to making extremely precise measurements where others would lose patience. He liked to build and rebuild scientific instruments, always trying to improve them. He was extremely methodical, systematically ruling out various sources of error, never satisfied that the work was complete.
Like many scientists at the time, Henry Cavendish was an aristocrat, and had inherited enough money to finance his chemistry and physics experiments. He turned much of his house into a laboratory, dedicating only a small portion of the house to living space.
Among his many experiments, he is most famous for what is now called the Cavendish experiment, which he used to determine the density of Earth.
Newton had published his law of gravitation in 1687, but he hadn't made any attempt to determine the constant G or the mass of Earth. By the 1700s, astronomers wanted to know the density of Earth, as it would make it possible to determine density of the other planets. In addition, as the New World was being explored and territory being claimed, surveyors needed to know the density of Earth. In 1763 Mason and Dixon set out to settle a boundary dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania. Cavendish wondered how precise their measurements could be. He realized that the Allegheny Mountains would exert a slight pull on their surveying equipment, possibly affecting their measurement, but he didn't know how large the effect would be. This led him and others to wonder about the averaged density of Earth itself.
In 1772 the Royal Society set up a "Committee of Attraction" to determine the density of Earth. Some people had proposed measuring this by finding a very uniformly shaped mountain and measuring how much it deflected a plumb bob. Since gravity is so weak, this would be a tiny effect, but the committee, including Cavendish, nonetheless tried it, using a large mountain in Scotland. They came up with a value for the density of Earth of about 4.5 times the density of water. But they had made assumptions that Cavendish thought unfounded.
He considered the problem for years, until in 1797, at age 67, he began his own experiments. He started with a torsion balance apparatus given to him by his friend, the geologist Reverend John Michell, who had been interested in doing the experiment himself but wasn't able to carry it out before he died. Realizing that Michell's equipment was inadequate to measure the tiny gravitational force between two small metal spheres, Cavendish set about tinkering until he had a more precise setup.
He built a large dumbbell, with two-inch lead spheres stuck to the ends of a six-foot long wooden rod. The rod was suspended from a wire held at the center, and was free to rotate. A second dumbbell with two twelve-inch lead spheres weighing 350 pounds each was then brought near the first so that the large spheres would attract the smaller ones, exerting a slight torque on the suspended rod. Cavendish would then painstakingly watch for hours to observe the rod's oscillations.
This would provide a measure of the gravitational force of the larger spheres on the smaller ones. And since the density of the spheres was known and the gravitational attraction between Earth and the spheres could be measured by weighing the spheres, the ratio the two forces could be used to determine Earth's density.
Since the gravitational force between the spheres is so weak, the tiniest air current could ruin the delicate experiment. Cavendish placed the apparatus in a closed room to keep out extraneous air currents. He used a telescope to observe the experiments through a window, and set up a pulley system that made it possible to move the weights from outside. The room was kept dark to avoid temperature differences in different parts of the room affecting the experiment.
Cavendish relentlessly tracked down potential sources of error. He rotated the spheres in case they had picked up some magnetization. He observed the attraction of the rods without the spheres on the ends. He tried different types of wire to support the apparatus.
After agonizing over every possible complicating factor, Cavendish finally reported his results in June 1798 in a 57-page paper in the Transactions of the Royal Society entitled "Experiments to Determine the Density of the Earth." He reported that the density of Earth was 5.48 times the density of water. (The currently accepted value is 5.52).
Others later repeated the experiment, using similar apparatus, and for almost a century no one achieved any improvement over Cavendish's original measurement.
Today Cavendish's experiment is viewed as a way to measure the universal gravitational constant G, rather than as a measurement of the density of Earth. Using updated measuring apparatus but the same basic setup, physics students and scientists today often perform Cavendish's experiment, which is still recognized as one of the most elegant physics experiments of all time.
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It almost looked like junk mail. If I hadn't already been writing for months about a stealthy little health care reform perk known as the medical loss ratio rebate, I might have disposed of it unopened.
Instead, I ripped into it. Yes! A check for $803, no strings attached, courtesy of my now-former health insurance company.
I was one of approximately 12.8 million Americans who can expect to receive a whopping $1.1 billion in rebates from insurers who spent more on things like administrative costs and executive bonuses than the Affordable Care Act allows.
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