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Father Phillip Chavez believes masculine identity is under attack.
It's threatened by a number of factors, and it's leading to marital and family breakdown.
Based in Glen Rock, Pa., Father Chavez, a priest of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity, is setting up a men's institute to address key issues of men and their concerns, as well as producing resources for their character formation and integration. His mission is to give men confidence in their true identity.
He spoke recently in Rome with Register Correspondent Edward Pentin. Excerpts follow.
What prompted you to devote your energies to this ministry?
What I'm finding with men, especially with men in America whom I've long worked with (although I've seen this in Italy), is that many of them are suffering from a sense of inferiority, insecurity — basically the widespread sense of loss of masculine identity.
I'm trying to set up an institute to help men understand themselves again as leaders, protectors and providers of society, of their families, communities and of their Church.
Why is there this loss of confidence?
I think a man's identity is mostly gained from his mentors, and so what I find most of the time in men is that they've lacked a sense of guidance, they've lacked what I call mentorship, especially when a man comes to an age of 12 or 13, when that psycho-sexual drive is burgeoning.
He has many desires for which he wants to know things, to learn. He wants adventures, he wants conquests, he wants to learn many skills — to hunt, to camp, to fish. And what I'm finding is that at that age he needs a number of leaders, mentors, guides, coaches, to lead him to things he wants to know in order to forge his own identity.
He just naturally desires to learn these things, so it's really the duty of men to teach him these things, and also to teach what love is about, how to love, and teach him about women, about his sexuality — again, his own masculine identity.
What aspects of society are taking him away from his masculine identity?
That's a very involved question. It's many-faceted.
In the technological age, because he doesn't exercise more of his masculine strengths to chop wood or forge things with his hands, he's using his strength less, and to some extent his practical intellect that leads him into a world of imagination that isn't good for him because he's more a man of practical order, he likes to wrestle with things, build things, forge things on his own and with others.
So without that it's often very difficult for him to find his identity as a maker, as a creator.
But also I think there are many things that confuse him in society. He needs to band more together with his brothers. This is one of the things, aside from his mentors, which today he's lacking.
You'll find that boys participate in sports, probably in a tense way. But the difficulty is, certain men's or boy's organizations are lacking for him, so he isn't able to team-up together, to understand his masculine identity that he finds through wrestling with men, competing with them, challenging them and learning from them.
So because of that he's losing his place in society, as well. He needs more association with other men and boys so he can understand where he stands.
It's the desire I think of every man to be a man among men. If he's around women too much, or finds himself too much in co-educational situations, I think he finds it very difficult to gain that masculine identity.
What examples are there in Jesus' life, in the Gospels, which show men how to be true to their masculine identity?
That's another very involved question. I guess primarily through Jesus Christ we find what it is to be a man, a man who finally laid it all down.
In the qualities of Christ I find there's something incipient in every man which is Christlike, even on the natural level, for example. I think it's the case that every man by nature wants to be known as a man by his strength, and that he can lay his life down.
Every man has the desire to hear that from his mentors, that he has what it takes to lay everything down. This is what men are looking for in their own identity, and so this just disposes him to that Christian supernatural virtue, which is really to lay his life down for his friends.
But Jesus Christ is the model too when he speaks out in an unpopular way, when he goes against the opinion of others, when he stands up, when he defends a woman, when he's compassionate to her.
Men should be very understanding to women, to see them and their children perhaps in their weakness but be more understanding instead of judgmental. He was harsh on the Pharisees and Sadducees and the scribes, but when it came to women and children, he was always compassionate, deferential, always very understanding.
So there we see Christ who is … very kind and soft when he needs to be. Yet he's fierce when he has to be, even to defend his Father's honor in the Temple, he fashions cords into a whip and drives moneychangers out. He's ferocious when he needs to be. To stand up for what he needs to. So in Christ you see the real qualities of a man.
Some also criticize a lack of paternal figures in society, that the idea of fatherhood has been lost in society. How much do you think that plays a role in the weakening of masculine identity?
The lack of fatherhood, and the absence of that being lifted up as an ideal in society, has been a real detriment to a man's formation in a number of respects.
One of the things I see in terms of fatherhood — again I go back a lot to this idea of mentoring — is where to be a father means to watch over your children. It also means to train them and to form them. And for a boy, especially, he needs a father to lead him to think, to guide him, to direct him, to lead him to challenges, to help him to see himself as a man.
That's what a father does. He leads his son to competition, hardship, to challenge, and fathers are failing to do that. And I guess what's happening in that failure is that mothers try to overcompensate oftentimes.
That can often work to the detriment of a young boy trying to forge his masculine identity which, for a boy in adolescence, means, to a certain extent, as all cultures have really shown, that men have to in some way separate from their mothers so they can gain their own identity, so they can gain that kind of persona which eventually takes on a woman to their own side, for which they have to distance themselves from their mothers.
And their fathers are the ones that teach him that, teach the skills to do that. So without their fathers sometimes they find it very difficult to separate from their mother and her ways of doing things, and come into their own as a real man.
Would you also say that part of the problem is that the roles of men and women are no longer so clearly defined, that the differences between the sexes have become blurred?
That's right. You know it's unfortunate that when it comes to differentiation of the sexes, in common discussion what you find is the differences are mitigated and what is common is what is emphasized.
For women, I can understand why they would want to think that way, even naturally, but for men, the difficulty is that they want to know they're different, they want to know where their contribution is, they want to know about their otherness and their place, because there's something in a man that wants to separate himself from another so he can seek his own identity.
Women oftentimes find their identity when they're in common; men often in their individuation. And so they need to see their differences, and I think in leveling the playing field, as it were, between women and men, we mitigate these differences.
It harms a man's masculine identity very much. Again, it obstructs him in his understanding and his grasping of that ability to lead and also to protect and provide for all those in his care.
You've witnessed a large following in your ministry. Do you see a change in society, that people are coming round to the idea that masculine identity needs to be shored up?
What I find is people coming round to this idea of wanting a stronger man, a leader, a protector. I see it not so much in the academic forums, but in your average parish.
When I do parish missions and homilies on this, the women and men both come alive. The women want a stronger leader, especially those who are mothers.
Mothers know that when they have young boys, there's this little creature they don't understand. He's wily, he's wild, and women understand, especially mothers, that boys need a lot of guiding, a lot of learning by other men. But as I said, women want leaders. They want leaders in the home, they want to be led, not oppressed but led as Christ led.
So I find them very enthusiastic about a man who leads. What I've especially found is that a lot of single women, in their 20s, 30s or 40s even, are desperate and they'll ask me: "Why didn't I hear this long ago? Why aren't our men listening to this?"
And so when I have Sunday evening gatherings of men, usually they're very large gatherings, because men — even your common man, even the most sophisticated — are gravitating to this message, because they're searching for their identities.
They're searching for their purpose, and they're searching for something in their own life, a way they can contribute, as well. I find the message very much welcome in parishes.
There seems to be a fine line between what you're saying and what others would say was chauvinism. How do you deal with that, with people who say, "Oh, you're just being a chauvinist?"
That's difficult when people won't hear the argument. I can understand why many are defensive about this message. They think it's chauvinistic because it's very much the case that women have lost trust in men.
Most women, to a greater or lesser degree, distrust men because men haven't protected them or guarded them or stood up for them or laid it all down for them. Most women feel this, most women have experienced this — really good, pious, deferential women.
So for most women, there is a wound there of a man who hasn't protected them, who hasn't watched over them. So when I speak about men wanting, in their own aspirations, to lead, protect and guide them into their care, and to provide, women are very defensive because they have a difficulty trusting in that, to have confidence in that — to entrust themselves to man is a very difficult thing.
So for a woman to do that, to trust as Christ did, is very difficult, and for many women it takes a lot of courage and much prayer.
Edward Pentin is based in Rome.


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WEB EXTRA: 'Holding on Upside Down' a life of poet's poet Marianne Moore
Anyone who tries to enjoy American poetry of the last century has his or her hands full. These poets are a fractious bunch, fighting over the few scraps thrown at them by a culture whose patience for carefully crafted language has worn thin. The only thing they seem to agree on is the other group is totally wrong.
It's academics vs. non-academics, men vs. women, spontaneous vs. endless revisions, crystal clear (a.k.a. simple-minded) vs. murky.
But there's one poet everyone enjoys: Marianne Moore – even when they don't understand her. Her life and her poetry had a natural charm. Despite her many eccentricities, including sharing her bed and her meager wages as a librarian and a part-time editor with her strange, schoolmarmish mother, she was always in demand. Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens and almost every magazine editor who was anyone lined up to help her get her poems published. Yet she continued to let her mother revise her poems and continued to prefer baseball, museums and circuses to literature.
Literary biographies are by their nature more biography than criticism. Leavell seems to have access to all the available information about Moore and her family so she focuses on telling that story. She doesn't analyze Moore's poetry at any great depth. Rather she shows how they fit into her life. There are, however, instances when the author hints at how to understand Moore's poems better.
"For centuries European artists were taught to make their brushwork invisible in order not to interfere with the view of the painting's subject. But by the early 20th century, painters had begun to draw attention to their paints, canvases and methods as objects in their own right – thus creating a tension between the subject represented and the medium of representation. Moore created a similar tension between what she would later call the 'architecture' of her stanza and its 'tune.' "
The hardest passages to read in most literary biographies are the letters. It's remarkable how ordinary a genius can be when he or she lets his or her guard down. But the Moores, influenced by "The Wind in the Willows," invented a wonderful epistolary language. Her brother Warner is "Badger." Marianne is "Rat" and Mother Mary is "Mole." Marianne is always referred to as "he" even by herself.
Moore was like many women of her generation: eccentric, not very well off (her mother left her ne'er-do-well husband soon after Marianne's birth), clannish, tough-minded, and eager to enjoy the fruits of progressive political movements like woman's suffrage. But she always kept her progressiveness within bounds. Late in her life when Donald Hall arrived to interview her for The Paris Review (fascinating and available on the Internet) she began to put on a Nixon button but decided not to when it didn't match her dress.
She might have lived a remarkable but underappreciated life except for one thing: her cash-strapped mother was determined that she – like her older brother – would go to an excellent college. Leavell carefully explains what it was like for a woman to go to college then. It wasn't just male chauvinism that kept them out of higher education. It wasn't just an oversight. There was a lot of stuff and nonsense about what happened to a woman when she studied too much. They were made for one thing and one thing alone. If they abandoned that path and went to college it was only to be a teacher of young children –as a stern warning to young ladies not to get too much education. Luckily for poetry that view was beginning to be put aside just as Moore came of age.
Though she wasn't a very good student (she had real problems with dates and numbers) she was diligent and got into Bryn Mawr when it was on the vanguard – not only of female education – but also of education in general.
Bryn Mawr was conveniently located in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Moore's rather diffident nature was able to test the cultural waters of Philadelphia and New York City. Bryn Mawr allowed her to grow and stay eccentric. She met just enough people like the imagist poet H.D. who introduced her to a rich patron of the arts who called herself simply "Bryher" and "a certain Miss Haviland," who introduced her to Alfred Stieglitz and his studio, 291. How she went from there to living in a tiny apartment in a deteriorating section of Brooklyn for 47 years is a story that takes hundreds of pages to tell. And Leavell does a masterful job telling it.
Pound and the Imagists tried to claim her, but she demurred. Her language was like theirs she granted – filled with things and unsentimental – but unlike theirs she adhered to the rules of meter and rhyme though she often hid it well in her strangely structured stanzas.
Moore was not the first to use syllabic verse in English. (Counting syllables rather than feet is common in French and other Romance languages.) But she was the first to shape these syllabic lines symmetrically by using rhyme schemes, forced indentations and "a flowing continuity."
She invented found art, later made famous by Rauschenberg and others. She was forever finding objects for her poems in the strangest places: theaters, sports events, and circuses. But she often settled for these things third hand. She seldom went places, preferring to do her research in the libraries where she worked part time.
Then all at once there were rave reviews from the likes of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Eliot wrote about her "dance of the intelligence among words and ideas and … characters." Pound said she was one of the few writers who could be counted on to "write living English."
Everyone was trying to help her publish her first book but she resisted and she was right to do so. When that rich friend of H.D's secretly published a book without her approval, it got bad reviews. "Clumsy." "No style." "Lack of inspiration." Superficial unconventionality." Eliot was called on to save her with a good review but he had his famous nervous breakdown and wrote "The Waste Land" instead.
"Half poets" (a term from one of her poems) like Edith Sitwell, Louis Untermeyer, Harriet Monroe (an old friend whose nose was out of joint) went for her throat. Even her friend William Carlos Williams stayed on the fence. But Eliot recovered enough to defend her and Wallace Stevens understood exactly how she used syllable count, rhyme and typographical spacing to create brilliant poetry.
But she did take one criticism seriously, that her poetry came too much from the head and not enough from the heart. The passion might not have been worn on her poetry's sleeve. Readers needed to dig to find it, but it was always there from then on. She valued her mystery and often clothed it in the language of science, which really interested her more than literature.
"She frustrated the intellect by hurling at her readers a barrage of data," Leavell writes. Her poems are like collages before anyone else writing in English thought of doing that. "Moore's assemblages defy logic yet captivate the imagination by half revealing and half concealing the mind that put them together."
Moore was more careful with her second book, "Observations." She used T.S. Eliot's suggestion to put the most challenging poems first and thus weed out the weaker readers. She needed to find her real audience. It was a great success and "the clear and dazzling way" Moore wrote about things had an immediate impact on her admirers – among them the young Elizabeth Bishop.
Then Moore got tricked into editing Dial magazine. She lost several years of poetry because, though she was supposed to be working part time, she devoted all her energy to it. But her unrelenting search for "individuality and intensity" changed the course of American poetry.
After World War II American poetry become "more accessible, more personal, and more poetical." Moore fell out of favor and her influence waned. She had never been very healthy but she still managed to put on a good show when reading. (Her grandfather was famous for his speeches describing the Battle of Gettysburg that his family was unfortunate enough to witness close up and she drew on his spirit while reading.) "Despite her nervous laughter, androgynous figure and reputation for prudishness, her power seemed almost sexual to sexually alert admirers such as … (William Carlos) Williams. 'Everyone loved her,' recalled Williams."
Her famous three-corner hat and her modest residence in Brooklyn and her fondness for the Dodgers kept her in the limelight, though a few elite editors like Howard Moss at The New Yorker chose to reject her poems.
One of her last projects was translating the Fables of La Fontaine. The poet John Ashbery, a bit of a riddle-maker himself, said it did her poetry a world of good. "Forced to avoid digressions and to keep syntax and verbal texture uncluttered, Miss Moore created a style whose tense, electric clarity is unlike anything in poetry except perhaps La Fontaine."
Many think that after the dust settled and time cast its vote, her friend and protégé, Elizabeth Bishop, emerged as the best poet of the generation after Moore's. If that opinion holds, it is one more piece of evidence that Moore was at the center of poetry during her time, not on the periphery.
Holding On Upside Down:The Life and Work of Marianne Moore,
By Linda Leavell
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
480 pages, $28
William L. Morris is the co-inventor of the News poetry pages. He now lives and writes in Florida.


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North Tonawanda police arrest suspect in string of arsons
A North Tonawanda man has confessed to setting a series of seven fires in cars and homes starting late Monday night, city police announced Tuesday evening.
Christopher Syracuse, 26, was arrested at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and charged with 13 counts of arson and criminal mischief, North Tonawanda Police Chief William R. Hall said at a late-night press conference at City Hall.
City of Tonawanda Police Chief William Strassburg said he expects to charge Syracuse, who previously lived in that city, with arson for a fire that started in a car and then damaged two homes.
"Residents of the city can sleep a little better tonight," Hall said.
Hall said pictures of the suspect released to the media Tuesday afternoon played a "significant role" in the arrest, prompting a number of tips, including one that led authorities to Syracuse.
Hall said an SUV belonging to Syracuse was seized and will be tested for evidence tying him to the arsons.
Syracuse is being held in the North Tonawanda city jail pending arraignment in City Court this morning.
Hall said Syracuse was "more or less cooperative" with authorities but he did not reveal what might have motivated his actions.
Hall called the investigation a "total team effort," including police and fire departments plus the Niagara County Sheriff's Office and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The arrest capped a hectic night and day that put the residents of two cities on edge.
The first fire call came at 11:28 p.m. Monday – a Dumpster fire behind a Tops store.
Almost an hour later, a pickup truck parked between two homes on Zimmerman Street went up in flames, damaging both homes.
A garbage tote behind a nearby strip plaza was also targeted.
Thirty-seven minutes after that, another truck caught fire about half a mile away – this one between two Ransom Street homes, both of which were also damaged.
By then, North Tonawanda firefighters knew something was wrong. So began a night that frightened residents, exhausted firefighters and sent police looking for answers. By morning, investigators fanned out across the Tonawandas and retrieved a 10-second surveillance clip from a building company in a plaza near two of the fires. That video alerted authorities to a young male suspect.
The seven blazes over two hours stretched three miles from North Tonawanda's Meadow Drive to the City of Tonawanda.
No one suffered any serious injuries, but the fires destroyed one multi-family house and five vehicles and damaged the exteriors of seven other homes.
The fires also fanned fears among residents.
"I live in the city. I'm nervous," Hall said.
Investigators went to gas stations and other businesses Tuesday to watch their surveillance footage.
Based on the surveillance footage from the building company near the Zimmerman Street fires, police described the suspect as a white male of medium build, with short dark hair, and wearing glasses and a V-neck shirt.
Police do not know if the arsonist traveled by foot or vehicle during the string of fires.
North Tonawanda beefed up police patrols Tuesday night. They asked residents to call 911 to report any suspicious person near their homes.
Residents said they heard loud booms when the vehicles exploded. But police don't believe that necessarily means the arsonist threw bombs.
The chain of events was similar in each fire. The arsonist set a vehicle on fire, and the flames spread to the nearby homes.
Earlier this summer, North Tonawanda was terrorized by another series of fires. Michelle L. Johnston, 41, of North Tonawanda, has been accused of setting almost a dozen fires over a month in the city. She was recently arrested after she allegedly started a fire at her own home at 15 Fifth Ave.
Between 100 and 150 firefighters – both professionals and volunteers – from surrounding departments responded to the fires Monday night and early Tuesday morning or stood by at stations to assist North Tonawanda and the City of Tonawanda.
"I was very impressed with the operations of the North Tonawanda crews," said Fire Chief Charles Stuart of the City of Tonawanda Fire Department. "They don't have as much staff as they used to, but they were able to scramble very well."
No firefighters were hurt.
Damage estimates were not available.
On Zimmerman Street, where the first homes caught fire, cars drove by slowly Tuesday morning to take in the scene.
This is where the arsonist ignited a red Chevrolet Silverado and then the flames spread to a home on either side.
Terry Schultz, 64, and his wife, Donna, of 258 Zimmerman, got out of their home when they hear loud noises and the smoke detector.
"I was in bed," Terry Schultz said. "I heard some popping noises and thought it might even be gunshots."
"This is a sleepy, little community," he added. "This just doesn't happen here."
About half a mile away, in a Ransom Street driveway, sat another reminder of the tense, scary night: a black Dodge Ram, its interior blackened and melted from flames.
"I just woke up to a boom," said Patricia McGee of 92 Ransom, one of the burned homes. "It was as if they took a metal drum and threw it into the cab."
She and her husband, Timothy, have lived on the street for 33 years. She said they feel shocked and angry – but most of all relieved.
"Nobody was hurt," Patricia McGee said. "We're lucky."
Roger Schrecongost, 66, the owner of the truck, was asleep upstairs at the time when his wife, Betty, 63, heard a loud explosion while in the living room.
"I saw the flames from the kitchen window and started screaming, 'There's a fire! Get out, get out!' "
Before that, she had heard someone pounding on the house and shouting.
She first thought it was teenagers up to no good, but it turned out her neighbor, Nick Vossler, 18, was trying to alert them of the fire.
"I saw that their truck was just in a blaze, dialed 911, ran over there as fast as I could and started banging on their door to get them out," said Vossler, a SUNY Buffalo State student. "The one thing in my mind was 'get them out.' "
Said Betty Schrecongost, "We're very grateful to him. It could've been more disastrous than what it was.
"What kind of people would do this?" she asked.
Other fearful Ransom Street residents wondered the same thing.
"My daughter is afraid to sleep at home tonight," said Heather Long, 36.
She and another neighbor, Dianna O'Hanlon, 38, struggled to sleep following the fires.
"Every time I heard a car drive down the street, I was scared," Long said.
"I stayed out front just pacing until the birds started chirping, and I'll do it again tonight," O'Hanlon said.
The homeowner of 49 Ganson St. was sleeping in her first-floor bedroom – the window faces her driveway – when she heard an explosion around 1 a.m.
"I could see the flames in the reflection of the window," she said. "I look out and it's my car. I quickly put my shoes on. I pick up my phone. The phones were down. I ran through the back, came out the sliding back door to the driveway, screaming, 'Help me! Help me! Help me!'"
She ran right between her burning Chevrolet Malibu and her neighbor's house.
Her hand touched her neighbor's brick siding, which left a one-inch burn on her right palm.
The fire at the 208 Goundry St. apartment complex caused the worst damage.
Susan Blasko, 50, lives in an apartment complex at 309 Goundry St. She moved here last September from North Carolina.
"I'm a little shook up," said Blasko, on a sidewalk watching the firefighters douse the fire. "
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Monday, September 18, 2017 - 6:15 PM
As part of Mercy Week, the movie, Hidden Figures, will be shown (seating limited) on Monday, September 18. The movie's theme raises important issues-- science and faith; racism; concern for women--all key concerns in the Mercy World. Admission is free--please contact Student Affairs for a ticket (note: first come, first served). Priority will be given to students enrolled in Maria's Foundations in Social Justice (FSJ) class.
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Join us in 2017 for the Fall Flavours Festival for an authentic culinary journey that will take you across the Island to enjoy incredible food, delightful venues, entertaining hosts and one-of-a kind experiences. Some of the most fabulous and intimate food experiences you can imagine.
In 2016 Fall Flavours was pleased to announce 15 Signature Events hosted by popular Food Network personalities such PEI's own Chef Michael Smith, and visiting chefs Chef Lynn Crawford, Chef Corbin Tomaszeski, Chef Chuck Hughes, Chef Vikram Vij, Chef Anna Olson and Chef Mark McEwan. You will experience true Island flavour with events such as the Chef's Gala by the Sea, Mussels on the Hill, and the always incredible Lobster Party on the Beach. Delight your taste buds and discover Canada's Food Island.


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Apple made the bold step of removing their dependence on Google's software earlier in the year when they released their own bespoke version of Apple Maps with iOS 6.
However, it backfired because the software came in for huge criticism for being inaccurate and generally far inferior to the previous version using Google's back-end. Apple apologised for the software and even went as far as suggesting that users should download third-party software.
The good news is that Google have now released Google Maps for Apple devices , which can be downloaded free Apple's App Store right now. Google Maps has been re-built from the ground-up to take full advantage of Apple's range of devices including the iPhone 5, iPad Mini and iPad 4.
The new Google Maps application adds support for turn-by-turn voice navigation for the first time. This is a pretty significant new addition but now the only one because Google Maps also adds support for street-view, live traffic information and includes public transport information.
Google Maps has proven so popular with iOS users since it's release yesterday that its overload Apple's servers and has gone straight to the top of Apple's most-downloaded applications chart.
All of the other features you've come to expect are included in Google Maps and initial reviews of the software are incredibly positive. You can download Google Maps on your iOS device by clicking here.
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UPDATE (5:30pm CDT): In a formal statement released today, Leisha Hailey and Camila Grey denied suggestions that their behavior on the Southwest plane was in any way excessive though they admitted they got "verbally upset" afterwards (which is why Southwest now says they were removed from the plane). Here is part of the women's statement:
"In no way were our actions on Southwest Airlines excessive, inappropriate or vulgar. We want to make it clear we were not making out or creating any kind of spectacle of ourselves, it was one, modest kiss. We were simply being affectionate like any normal couple. We take full responsibility for getting verbally upset with the flight attendant after being told it was a 'family airline.' We were never told the reason the flight attendant approached us, we were only scolded that we 'needed to be aware that Southwest Airlines was a family oriented airline.' No matter how quietly homophobia is whispered, it doesn?t make it any less loud."
Southwest has updated its website, too. Here's part of the airline's new statement:
"Additional reports from our Employees and Customers onboard flight 2274 during a stop in El Paso on Sunday now confirm profane language was being used loudly by two passengers. At least one family who was offended by the loud profanity moved to another area of the cabin. Although we have reports of what Customers characterize as an excessive public display of affection, ultimately their aggressive reaction led to their removal from the aircraft.In this situation, their removal was directly and solely related to the escalated conversation that developed onboard the aircraft."
Southwest also says it "reached out to extend goodwill and a full refund for an experience that fell short of the passengers' expectation." No word on whether they took the refund.
EARLIER: Actress and musician Leisha Hailey took to Twitter last night, crying "discrimination" against Southwest Airlines after she was escorted off a flight after kissing an unidentified female friend on the plane. The 40 year old Hailey starred in Showtime's lesbian-themed drama, "The L-Word" from 2004-2009. Tweeted the actress, "Since when is showing affection to someone you love illegal?"
Listen as FareCompare CEO Rick Seaney and editor Anne McDermott talk about the incident in more depth (please note: this podcast was taped before the latest updates, above):
As FareCompare CEO Rick Seaney says, "I realize Southwest flies over 100 million folks each year, but even so, it is uncanny how they always seem to find a way to upset tweeting celebrities."
Read 7 Things That Can Get You Kicked Off a Plane
Discrimination or Bad Behavior?
Hailey characterized what occurred as "a small peck on the lips". Southwest suggested there was more than affection on display; here is the partial statement on the airline's website:
"Initial reports indicate that we received several passenger complaints characterizing the behavior as excessive. Our crew, responsible for the comfort of all Customers on board, approached the passengers based solely on behavior and not gender. The conversation escalated to a level that was better resolved on the ground, as opposed to in flight." -Southwest website, posted 9-26-11
We contacted Southwest, which declined to add to the statement but a spokesperson for the airline best known for its cheap flights did point us to a comment left on the TMZ entertainment site, purportedly from another passenger who witnessed the whole thing. Here's what that person had to say:
"I was on that flight! I already gave my statement to Southwest. It just wasn't a little kissing. There was major breast groping going on. There was a young boy in the section across. It doesn't matter who whether straight or gay, there is a time and a place for everything." -comment from Neko Nation, posted 9-26-11
Southwest: Family Friendly, Gay Friendly?
Hailey called for a boycott of Southwest by gay people saying, "They don't like us"; she noted that a flight attendant told her that Southwest is a "family" airline, a word some contend can have homophobic connotations. However, it should be pointed out that on its website, Southwest boasts of being "the official airline of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation" (and GLAAD has stated they're looking into this latest incident).
Southwest's Other Celebrity Incidents
Southwest has had its share of run-ins with celebrities; earlier this month, Green Day rocker Billie Joe Armstrong claimed he was booted from a flight for wearing his pants too low. And film director Kevin Smith went on a Twitter rampage early last year after Southwest booted him from another plane for essentially being "too fat to fly". Now the new anti-gay accusations. No matter where you stand on these issues, you have to admit: Hollywood is certainly keeping Southwest's PR team busy.
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Let's start with the facts: Love Thy Neighbor is yet another Tyler Perry offering coming to your screens. It was written and directed by the man who has brought us Madea films for the past decade.
The show is said to have the second-highest ratings on Oprah Winfrey's OWN. The top show is another Perry production, The Haves and the Have Nots, which I wrote about a few weeks back.
When she started her network, Winfrey and Perry had a deal that saw him contribute creative material from time to time. Perry took advantage of this; between penning and directing his Madea movies, he creates shows for OWN.
Love Thy Neighbor is a sitcom set in the Love Train Diner and we follow the owner, Hattie Mae Love, and her middle-class family with their middle-class problems and solutions.
The diner is situated on an old train that has been turned into an eatery which is famous for Hattie Mae's legendary recipes. It is where everyone hangs out so we are drawn into either liking or loathing certain characters who frequent the place.
While this sounds like an episode from Cheers, it is a good thing that Perry provides TV with an alternative voice. The only problem is that his friendship with Winfrey has reached a point where they do not know how to make business decisions. How can the guy write and direct a soapie (The Haves and the Have Nots) then go straight on to write and direct a sitcom (Love Thy Neighbor)? At some point something has to give and it shows in his work.
Instead of overloading him with work, Winfrey must make the call to reduce the number of shows he submits to the channel so that he spends more time on each project.
You don't have to be in Hollywood circles to know that as we speak there is another Perry film in the making. So the question is: where does the guy find the time?
Another thing, after the success of his older sitcom, The House of Payne, Perry has a lot to prove with Love Thy Neighbor. It remains to be seen if it will be just as successful.
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Eat SLOW for Healthier Skin
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We already know that eating more fruits and veggies (especially those with loads of color) is great for the health of our skin. These foods are loaded with vitamins, minerals water, fiber and antioxidants. However, many times produce is picked before it ripens and transported long distances before reaching the grocery store, let alone your table. Some of the books and articles I've been sifting through the past few weeks highlight the reasons we would be better off eating local and seasonal foods. Simply put, they are more nutrient dense. A fruit (or veggie) is at it's highest amount of nutrient density when fully ripe. Immediately after this, the enzymes in the fruit start a deterioration process which breaks down these nutrients. If this fruit is picked before it's ripe, nutrients are lost. If the fruit is then artificially "ripened" while being transported long distances, the fruit loses even more nutrients. The shorter the amount of time between ripening and eating, the better. Foods that are in season, local, organic and whole will provide the best nutrition for the body and the skin. Every apple (for example) is not equal – although they may look identical – their nutritional values can be very different depending on these SLOW factors:
S – Seasonal: When foods are not in season, they are usually being shipped in from other parts of the world where they are in season. Seasonal foods are easier to find locally, and less expensive.
L – Local: Foods that are grown closer to your home are harvested closer to the date you actually eat them, meaning that their nutrients are higher.
O – Organic: Pesticides and artificial fertilizers mess with mother nature and can be harmful when ingested – even if the produce is washed!
W – Whole: Boxed orange juice is not the nutritional equivalent of an actual orange, neither is orange flavored soda (even if it is "organic") Whenever possible, eat our produce in whole form (cooking is fine, just limit excess processing.)
Want to start eating SLOW? Here are some great ways to do it:
Look for organic produce that's in season at your local stores
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Was wondering if any of you pro's out there had any tricks for repairing deer capes that customers cut too high when cleaning. I recieved three deer that were cut past the brisket up to the throat patch. I have tried sewing, and the hair still bunches up and seems to be quite noticeable. Should I just mount and try to pin the area down until dry?
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You shouldn't even accept such deer,thats what most of us do, ..Sell a cape to the customer for a healthy profit, and make money, don't lose money! If you try fixing crap like this, the mount will look terrible (which reflects on you) and you will lose money in the long run. Be up front with the customer, tell him what he did wrong, offer a cape, But don.t tell him you can fix something that will look bad when finished! Oh well ,..you asked.
After fleshing, pin the cape to a board, cut turned inside out. Stretch it long ways, now cut any ragged edges, I normally use a razor blade, make the cuts straight from top to bottom. Now sew it up using a small 3 cornered needle and Fireline. A baseball stitch works well but you can do it with the normall stitch.
After you have it mounted take a rubber mallet and hit the seam to mash it flat, you will need to do this over the next few days several times. If you have a puckered area, use a claw hammer to tap it down. I always take these capes in, and charge $100.00 extra for the reprair.
I use a wrap stitch from the inside and it hides well.
Definitly charge them extra for any repairs, that way they will not likely do it again. I charge extra for any holes larger than a golf ball and if they cut past the brisket, then I bill them acordingly depending on how long the repair will take at $35 per hour. If it's a short-haired cape with a cut up the front, then I wouldn't use the cape and would force them to buy/provide another cape or take it somewhere else.
Easy once you know how. Take your time with the baseball stitch and don't pull the stitches to tight, as that will cause the hair to bunch. I charge $45.00 hr shop time for repairs like this.


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Knightsbridge's Berkeley hotel will embrace the English countryside this summer with a new rooftop garden and natural spa treatments.
The sun terrace will be transformed into a quintessential English garden by award-winning florist McQueens, where guests can lounge on deck chairs and enjoy a very British picnic with home-made lemon iced tea and wild strawberries and cream.
And the hotel has invited beauty brand Green & Spring of C.Side Spa at Cowley Manor fame to take over one its treatment rooms. Guests can indulge in signature treatments, mini facials and massages that use ingredients native to the British countryside, such as lavender, rosemary, dandelion, fennel and rose.
Green & Spring treatments start from £50. Access to pool,
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Release Notes: This is a bugfix release with a fix for a single, critical bug. The PhPassAuthenticationProvider class will report any given password as valid and therefore allow you to log in with any given password. Please note that this does not compromise existing or new passwords. It is strongly recommended to upgrade from 0.9.13 to this version.
Release Notes: Use of the sfymfony2 dependency injection container was extended. Framework code changes were made to streamline configuration and customization. The groundwork is now in place to tackle a proper checkout API.
Release Notes: This is the first release to provide the full power of a dependency injection container (based on symfon2). The previous system of compressing all core files in a single core.php file has been superseded by standard PHP .phar files. The UI for the user/group based access control system in the new admin app is finally complete. Logging and debugging options were improved. Support was added for environments with different configuration. Event handling and dispatching was improved.
Release Notes: This release has fully integrated zencart admin into the ZenMagick admin UI. It has email preview for all templates. It requires PHP 5.3. It has improved checkout, a new generic block system for templates, and support for theme variations to easily add, for example, seasonal changes to a theme.
Release Notes: An admin UI scratch rewrite, separate from the existing Zen Cart admin. Improved localization code with gettext style .po support. The new admin UI is also available as a stand-alone application. Improved caching, now also on the template file level. Huge performance improvements for large catalogs. Based on Zen Cart 1.3.9f. SwiftMailer integration to replace existing email functions.
Release Notes: Many bugs were fixed. The MVC code was vastly improved and much error checking was added. Much more fine grained control over error pages (ie. missing product/category, etc.) was provided. An Ajax-based shipping calculator has been added along withan improved EZPages admin UI. Some new plugins were included, most notably productGroupPricing, which allows group pricing per product. There is also a new plugin to allow tagging of products and querying them based on tags. This version has has been successfully tested with zen-cart 1.3.9a, however this release is still based on 1.3.8a (full version).
Release Notes: A major framework clean-up was undertaken, introducing Savant3, YAML, PHP 5.3 support, and more. ZenMagick now comes in two flavours: Zen Cart mod (ZenMagick code only) and Full install (including a patched and PHP 5.3-compatible Zen Cart 1.3.8a). Plugins have been refactored and simplified. ZenMagick admin pages now use the same MVC code, which allows you to run plugins in the admin UI as well. With this release, ZenMagick is now a fork of Zen Cart as it distributes its own version of Zen Cart.
Release Notes: This is a major release with a focus on plugins and restructuring all core code [part I]. There are a few new plugins with vBulleting integration, and a plugin to allow automatic re-ordering. There are also many smaller fixes and improvements.
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SAN DIEGO ---- The prognosis on Jeromey Clary's injured left ankle is not good.
The Chargers right tackle sprained a ligament in the fourth quarter of Sunday's 32-3 victory at Denver, a costly setback that could have a lasting impact. It might even end Clary's season.
"I think that would be premature," Chargers coach Norv Turner said. "But that is a concern of mine, yes."
Turner said Clary's immediate future would be determined later in the week after further tests and evaluation. Even if Clary can come back, it probably won't happen until near the end of the regular season or early in the playoffs. If that doesn't look like a realistic possibility, the Chargers could put him on injured reserve and add another player.
No matter how long Clary is out, his absence is a major setback for an offensive line that has played its best football in the last two weeks. Clary has struggled at times, but he improved his play recently despite suffering a sprained right ankle against Philadelphia on Nov. 15.
Brandyn Dombrowski practiced in Clary's place last week and was on track to start Sunday, but Clary proved himself healthy enough for action. He played well against the Broncos, but had to be carted off the field in the fourth quarter with an injury to his opposite ankle.
Now the Chargers must move forward with Dombrowski, who practiced at left tackle in the preseason and has two starts this season at right guard. Corey Clark, signed off the practice squad last week, will back up Dombrowski in Sunday's home game against Kansas City.
"Dombrowski took all the snaps last week, and we were prepared to play with Brandyn," Turner said. "Once Jeromey was able to go Friday, obviously we were going to go that route. It bought a week for Brandyn. He'll be a week better. He'll prepare again this week the same way and he'll be ready to play."
The San Diego State graduate must hit the ground running if the Chargers are to maintain their improvement in the running game and in pass protection.
"We really don't have time for an adjustment period, not at this point in the season," quarterback Philip Rivers said. "Any corrections will get made during the week. I'm confident that we'll be ready to go on Sunday."
Other injuries
Clary's injury was the worst suffered against Denver, but it wasn't the only one. Defensive end Luis Castillo was carted off the field in the first half with a calf strain and did not return. Turner said Castillo will be re-evaluated each day, and his playing status will be determined this weekend.
"I'm going to take it one day at a time, but I'm hopeful that I'll be able to play," Castillo said. "If I can't go or even practice, then I'm going to work on other facets of my game and try to learn something and improve my play. This time won't be wasted."
Running back LaDainian Tomlinson took a shot to the ribs against the Broncos, but he's expected to be fine later in the week. Outside linebacker Shawne Merriman aggravated his foot injury, but will play against the Chiefs.
Center Nick Hardwick will return to practice after last week's setback in the rehabilitation of his surgically repaired ankle. He'll test it this week, with the goal of playing soon.
Sellout streak in jeopardy
Sunday's home game against Kansas City appears likely to be blacked out on local television. The Chargers have nearly 6,000 general tickets remaining and must sell them by Thursday afternoon to avoid their first blackout since the 2004 season.
Extensions have been granted in the past, but the Chargers haven't had such a large number of tickets remaining this close to the deadline. If the Chargers are blacked out, the game won't be shown in the San Diego, Los Angeles and Palm Springs media markets.
Anything can happen
The Chiefs' improbable 27-24 overtime victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers put the Chargers on red alert. Although the Chargers are playing even better than when they beat Kansas City 37-7 a month ago, the Chiefs are riding high and proved they can beat any team.
"K.C.'s win was a big thing for us," left tackle Marcus McNeill said. "It was an eye-opener. Pittsburgh's a great team, and the Chiefs beat them. That just goes to show that it doesn't matter who you play or who's favored. You have to be ready or you're going to get upset. We're on a streak right now and we've got to keep it going."


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In 2009, Spencer Miles – frontman, bassist, and New Jersey native – quit his job, left the band he was in, and packed up to follow his girlfriend to London. Once he arrived, Miles fortuitously met drummer Billy Hawkes and guitarist Tom Welch. Space Fight, named in tribute to old school Atari and Intellivision games, was born shortly after.
Space Fight is currently recording their debut full length album, title TBD, and will be making their North American performance debut on September 12th at Pianos at 10pm with Best Friends, Leila Adu, and Sleep Shy.
Check out the band's energetic and psychedelic single "22" here.
Spencer, before starting Space Fight in the UK, you were in a band here. Was that band different than Space Fight?
Spencer: Yes, we were stylistically different, and I was just the bassist in that band. The turning point for me was the first time I saw Ra Ra Riot in 2006, my little brother is the lead singer. I thought they were amazing, and if he could sing in a rock band, maybe I could do that too. I started taking on a larger singing role in my old band for a few years, until I had the confidence to take on the "frontman" responsibilities. But by then, I was leaving that band and moving to London.
You guys met in London. What's the story behind that first meeting?
Billy: Tom and I have been friends since we were eight years old and played in bands together since we were fifteen. We were completely bored with our last band so we put an ad out for a bassist and proceeded to ignore everyone's replies, including Spencer's.
Spencer: Billy finally emailed me back a few days after I responded to his ad. We first met over a few pints before we played any music, and it was weird. Good weird though. These two guys who grew up 3500 miles away, in a different country, had strikingly similar tastes and experiences to me. We had all grown up in the 80s, and it seemed the cultural differences between the US and UK were minimal. I remember there was some confusion about what each other meant by "football." We lost track of time, and I missed the last tube home. And then they started talking about the chord changes in Steely Dan tunes, so I knew we were gonna click musically before we'd ever played a note.
I was surprised to find out that you guys have only been around for a few years. Based on "22" it sounds like you guys have a great chemistry together. When did you find out that you "fit" together?
Billy: I think '22' was the first original song we did together. Before Spen came to London he sent a load of weird demos, so me and Tom messed around with a lot of ideas before he even got here. When we met up in the rehearsal room for the first time it just clicked, or rather we said to Spen "we're gonna do this to your songs," and he said "that's great!" There's never been any awkward silences really, except when Spencer fails to understand one of our strange London slang type words. When we asked each other what stuff we were into, we came up with pretty much the same bands, though I still can't get my head around his fascination for U2.
Speaking of "22" – it's a great mix of psychedelic sounds with some manic drumming. Billy, your drumming in the chorus reminds me of some of Keith Moon's fills and cymbal crashes. Would you call him an influence?
Billy: As a drinker, definitely. Not so much as a drummer. John Bonham and Stewart Copeland are more my thing as far as drummers are concerned. All lunatics behind a kit anyway. I think you need to be a little bit of a nutcase to be a successful drummer. I like drummers that hit hard – your job in the band is to be the noisy one and completely piss off the rest of the band.
Are the songs more collaborative or is there one person in particular who writes the music and lyrics?
Spencer: I would give them a demo, and let them run wild with it. The chord changes and melodies stayed pretty much the same from my demos, but the final product has a distinctly different sound once they get through with it.
Billy: The lyrics are Spen's. The music is usually his to start with, then Tom and I tend to bastardise it completely. His demo's are usually all soft and sweet, then we come and smash seven bells out of it and it turns into Space Fight.
You're currently working on an album. What can we expect from a Space Fight full length?
Spencer: I think there will be a broader spectrum of sounds compared to the EP. On the EP we wanted to smack the listener over the head and say, "Hey, here we are!" On an album, some things can be more drawn out, and we're having fun with that idea. We've already come a long way in evolving our sound, and we're going to have some bangers like "22" on there, but we'll showcase some other sides to Space Fight on our debut LP.
Billy: We have about three or four more songs to finish and its done. I think it's gonna be great. There's nobody out there that sounds anything like us. I'm trying to stop myself coming up with more maniacal "22"-esque drum beats though, as its an absolute bastard to play live. There'll be a ten minute slap bass solo if Spen lets me do it. Slap bass is popular now isn't it?


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By JOSH LEDERMAN
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama made less in 2012 than in any other year since taking office, with about 40 percent of the nearly $609,000 in income that he and first lady Michelle Obama reported coming from book sales.
Obama, who renewed his call for higher taxes on the wealthy in the budget he released Wednesday, paid $112,214 in taxes last year, putting his effective federal tax rate at 18.4 percent. The Obamas donated almost one-quarter of their income to charity, helping to lower their overall tax bill, according to tax returns released by the White House.
Most of the $608,611 that the Obamas reported in adjusted gross income came from the president's salary, as he reported $394,840 in wages. An additional $258,772 came from royalties from his books, including his 1995 memoir "Dreams From My Father," his 2006 political book, "The Audacity of Hope," and a 2010 children's book, "Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters."
Income from Obama's books has fallen off since 2009, when his books sales surged after his inauguration. The Obamas made $5.5 million that year — his first year in office — but the figure dropped precipitously the next year to $1.73 million. In 2011, the Obamas reported about $790,000 in income.
The president and Mrs. Obama signed their tax returns on Monday — one week before the April 15 deadline for Americans to file their 2012 returns.
Itemized deductions of $258,385 brought the Obama's taxable income down to $335,026. The first family deducted $45,046 in interest on the mortgage for their home in Chicago, plus $36,554 in state and local taxes and $26,751 in real estate taxes.
Through withholding and estimated tax payments during the year, the Obamas paid $129,029 to the Internal Revenue Service — an overpayment of $16,815. The Obamas directed that, rather than receive a refund, the overpayment will be applied to their taxes for next year.
The Obamas also claimed $39,875 in income from outside the United States. A White House official said all of that income came from book royalties, but did not disclose details about which countries the income came from. The official was not authorized to comment publicly on Obama's taxes and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The president and first lady reported donating $150,034 — or 24.6 percent of their income — to 33 charities. That's a slight dip from the previous year, when the Obamas donated more than $172,000. The largest contribution last year was a $103,871 donation to Fisher House Foundation, which provides humanitarian services to military members, veterans and their families. Other charitable groups that received donations from the president for $5,000 or less include the American Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, Boys & Girls Clubs of America and the United Negro College Fund.
The president and the first lady also paid $29,450 in income taxes to Illinois, according to their state tax returns.
The White House also released tax returns for Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, who teaches at Northern Virginia Community College.
The Bidens paid $87,851 in federal income taxes on $385,072 in adjusted gross income. The vice president and his wife paid state income taxes in two states — $13,531 in Delaware and $3,593 in Virginia. The Bidens overpaid a bit last year in their withholdings, so they'll get a refund of $4,608 from the IRS.
They reported donating $7,190 to charity. The largest sum of $2,400 went to the Catholic Diocese in Wilmington, Del.
The president this week revived his push for wealthier Americans to pay higher taxes, arguing that higher earners like himself should bear a larger share of the burden for deficit reduction. The $3.8 trillion budget blueprint he unveiled Wednesday proposed that "wealthy millionaires pay no less than 30 percent of income, after charitable contribution, in taxes," to ensure that poorer Americans don't get stuck paying higher rates than the wealthy. Obama also proposed a change in the way inflation is calculated that, if proposed, would have the effect over time of pushing more Americans into higher tax brackets.
"The president believes we must reform our tax system, which is why he has proposed policies like the Buffett Rule that would ask the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share while protecting families making under $250,000 from seeing their taxes go up," White House spokesman Jay Carney said in a statement accompanying the release of Obama's tax returns.
During the negotiations with Congress over New Years, Obama won a tax increase on incomes over $400,000 for individuals and $450,000 for couples, although he had wanted those thresholds to be lower. The deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff preserved the lower Bush-era tax rates for the middle class.
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February 12, 2010 BY John Kim
If Lady Gaga was a shoe-head, this dazzling duo of Nike Blazers would definitely be in her arsenal. We previewed the X-Girl x Bearbrick x Nike WMNS Blazer with some great pictures before so here are some more actual photos of the shoes and the Bearbrick toy figurine. Whenever Nike and Bearbrick collaborate, the end product is without any flaws, and this upcoming Nike Blazer won't disappoint. These Nike WMNS Blazer QS are set to drop this Saturday, February 13th at Nike Harajuku in Japan, but we'll let you know if these have any chance at hitting the states. via Harajuku.
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Switch on a hinge and a 350 foot network cable - how to rig up your new office
Subject: General Tech | February 17, 2012 - 03:41 PM | Ryan Shrout
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Sometimes things don't work out the way you want them and you have to improvise. In our case this week, as we prepare to move into a new office space, we had a couple of dilemmas crop up.
- The "cabinet" the previous owner made for network was an actual cabinet and didn't have enough depth for a switch, let alone a server.
- Fiber internet is coming but not for another 6 weeks - what do we do until then?
The first issue of our networking cabinet was resolved by putting a 24-port Gigabit switch on a hinge inside the not-quite-deep-enough space we had for it. And sure, once you find out we used Gorilla glue, a block of wood and standard door hinges from Home Depot, it might sound a little bit on the ghetto side, but the fact is...it worked!
Our problem with an actual internet connection to apply to the switch in question was a bit harder. Since our fiber wasn't going to be installed until late March, and I didn't want to see the office space simply sit there and be wasted until then, we had to find another solution. We asked our neighbors about using their connections temporarily and while several were open to it, speed tests showed consistent 1.4 mbps downstream and 0.45 mbps upstream connections. Not good for the amount of video we do here.
So, another option presented itself: our current office that has 20 mbps down and 2 mbps up service (mediocre, but still better) was only a short 100-110 meters away. Could a Cat5e cable simply be run between them? Turns out it could and we were even able to run a length has long as 500 ft without a problem, connecting 10/100 rather than Gigabit speeds.
In total, our hinge modification cost us about $4.50 and the 500 ft spool of cable just around $50 but the hassle we saved has been worth thousands. The cable connection issue is obviously not permanent but barring any rogue squirrel retaliation in the next 4-6 weeks, it should more than serve our purposes.
Enjoy the weekend!
now you just have to hope that the landscape guys don't run over your cable.
Luckily, with it being February in Kentucky.. not a whole lot of landscaping is going on
Actually one of our new neighbors said he thought they started mowing in mid-March...so we might have an issue.
Hopefully we'll get a lot of cold weather and snow through March to keep them at bay. :)
Even if it were landscaping weather you can still lessen the chance of damage if you just buried it temporarily. This would also mitigate some of the quadrupedal damage and possible neighborhood random trolling. I'd wager the cable it's really rated for burial but for 4 - 6 months it should be fine.
*EDIT* ...cable ISN'T really...
Actually it's not 4-6 months -- just 4-6 weeks while the new internet is installed in the new office.
That is actually not a horrible idea...except to have to pull it out and clean it after the 6 weeks is up.
What the... The cat 5 cable my friend used to temporarily bridge their company's internet
connection from their old office to their new place just across the alley here in my
country was over 290 feet. Yours took 340 feet! That's one of the longest Cat 5 cable
installation i've seen. lol! :-)
The switch hinge is a nice install feature. They do make 3U 19" wall mounts, which might look a little more pro. However, I like the way the hinge makes all the connectors hang low relieving strain, allowing for better heat rise in that cabinet, and still making for easy connection access. Are there holes in the bottom of that cabinet and the top to allow heat to escape?
Not really but all we'll have in there is networking gear, no real computers. Switch, router. That's pretty much it.
And I added a right angle power cable today so the switch can actually go completely perpendicular to the back plane.
I worked in the Canadian army (insert joke here) and we ran 300-400 ft cat5e cables a lot. Cat5e cable is cheap which is nice when you get 30 minutes notice to move at 2am, and then you can just leave it in the ground instead of digging it up.
I love the PCPER "let's make it work" mentality
Is there any chance of lightning in your area in the next 4-6 weeks? You may want to consider installing some lightning protection for that cable run. Weigh the costs for the protectors against the replacement costs of the connected switches and NICs/motherboards connected to them.
Even better, for less than $500 you could get a 500ft pre-terminated fiber cable and two media converters and have no lightning worries.
I think I would have threaded the cable through a hose pipe or some of that plastic gas pipe, Just to offer some protection from the weather and lawn mowers. Also, people are less likely to feel inclined to mess with a hose.
Just wondering how well that switch will pivot once its all wired up.
If you do need a switch with SFP transceiver ports in the future, Trendnet makes a great 16-port managed switch with two mini-GBIC/SFP ports, it's usually around $160 online.
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International fans of Elvis impersonators gather tonight for "Tribute! A Tribute to Tributes!", a program of performers impersonating Elvis impersonators.
Thirty nine contestants are set to compete in the contest aimed at determining who does the best job of impersonating top Elvis impersonators.
"[Elvis impersonator] Pete Vallee is a god among men," said impersonator impersonator Dale Glade, a carpet installer from Yorkshire, England who won Belgium's Impersonator Impersonator contest in 2012. "I hope my performance captures a small piece of the work he does capturing a piece of Elvis."
"The real trick is to find a a song and sing it in Pete's voice," Glade added. "A lot of these impersonator impersonators try to impersonate Elvis. That's the easiest way to lose these things, isn't it? Sing in Pete's voice singing in Elvis' voice, but never, ever sing in Elvis' voice. It's easy, really."
Betty Wont, a mortgage banker from Toledo, Ohio, came in second place last year, but hopes to do better tonight. "The trick is finding a costume that Shawn [Klush] would wear. Authenticity is so important when pretending to be someone pretending to be someone," Wont said.
The contest begins tonight at 8 at an undisclosed Applebee's. Tickets can be purchased in advance, but, really, what's the point?
The REAL Shawn Klush. Not an impersonator.
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Where cam I find the serial number on my rns-e unit?please help
On the lid top
Which number though?
AUZ etc, logon with vagcom & measuring blocks, should show in there, lost your pin or new rns without pin?
Go into Engineering Mode and go to General Info, should be there...
Separate names with a comma.