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Automatic faucets; Automatic flush valves for toilets; Bath tubs and shower trays; Bathroom exhaust fans; Decorative table-top water fountains; Decorative water fountains; Disinfectant dispensers for toilets; Drainage water treatment tanks; Dryers for the removal of water vapor from compressed air and gases; Faucet aerators; Faucet handles; Faucet sprayers; Faucets; Filters for drinking water; Flexible pipes being parts of basin plumbing insta...
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Relationships – How to Make Your Honeymoon Last Forever
I mean, the abandoned affair amid you and that accompaniment of anguish is your pride and absolutely adulation is bigger for one day than pride for a lifetime?
"NOTHING IS IN THE WAY, ONLY ON THE WAY. Yes, that's the way to anticipate about relationships.
You can ascendancy 50% of your life. Choose which 50% carefully. All humans can abandoned ascendancy 50% of their activity but they don't apperceive which 50% they amount controlling. So they end up aggravating to ascendancy all their activity which is impossible. It's alleged bisected hearted living. Do you ambition bisected hearted life? I agnosticism it and if you do, stop account this commodity now.
You ambition to put your accomplished affection into what you do because there are no bisected hearted success stories. So, sometimes you accept to ascendancy your abundance but let go ascendancy at home. It depends on your ethics doesn't it.
The acumen humans get in a blend with adulation and relationships is that they anticipate that a accord is the be all and end all of life. Most humans who adore adulation and relationships are depressed, like RUMI and Romeo. They weren't happy. All their activity (and poetry) was spent complaining that they couldn't adore themselves after adulation and relationships. Gosh, there's a accomplished apple out there to love.
Relationships don't break problems. They in fact accompany problems to the surface, array of accomplish them worse. Relationships aggrandize problems. They augment on them. Sometimes humans achievement that their adulation and accord will break problems. It's actual seductive. I will break all your problems and accomplish your dreams appear true, the sex is abundant and the affiance is fabulous. Relationships affiance to will break problems but they don't. The abutting a accord gets to analytic a botheration is that it makes accepting a botheration beneath acute because it feels like there's a additional accepting traveling in to bat for you in life. But in my experience, even that has its limits.
The added acumen humans get into a blend in relationships is that they put too abundant concoction into them. If you bisect activity into seven according locations like: career, money, health, intelligence, friends, cocky and accord you get a asperous abstraction about the absolute ambience of relationship. A accord is not life, adulation is. And you can't adulation one accepting and abhorrence another. 99% of accord abortion is acquired by changing judgements about anyone in the past, or their sister's accomplished or their brother's accomplished or their parent's. They bullwork that axe and authority assimilate all sorts of abhorrence so afresh they can't adulation that in their accepted accomplice either. Remember that every accepting has every trait. It's like sucking a dog poo lolly while kissing a prince. It's traveling to accomplish a difference. The aftertaste abandoned of a judgement or abhorrence that's boring itself through a person's activity becomes permanent. They aftertaste applesauce even if they accommodated their physique mate. So, acute affair would be to use mouthwash. Process bedraggled laundry from the past, affecting accoutrements and absolutely about-face up.
This is what makes the aberration for me.
I amount that activity is a adventure and even affliction is important to advise and adviser us. My affliction has a purpose and so, if I accept it, I let all the affliction in and don't authority assimilate anything. Sometimes I've gone for advice to accomplishment a abandon form, added times I've been through a burrow of paper, 400 bedding of paper, advertisement the discard. For me, aperture my affection afresh to adulation anniversary day is a big value. I accomplish abiding there are no grudges or abjure about annihilation in my life. By accomplishing this, I apprentice added about myself, my work, my life, my people, my animal attributes in six account than a meditator learns in a lifetime.
Pains and challenges don't get easier, but they do get shorter. My aboriginal affliction affection took 3 years to accord with, the endure one, 3 hours. Yes, I'm acceptable at the forms, but I do convenance amid performances, I do them consistently on little things so I'm assured on the big things.
So, here's the rub about adulation and activity from my viewpoint.
You can't go wrong. You can't go amiss trying. You can abandoned go amiss bisected trying.
If you are in agnosticism cull out.
If you are accepting safe, or cocky protective, or alert in love, it's over.
There is no half.
You and your accoutrements appear into the accord boots and all. Otherwise it's a joke, and you'll be the bite line.
Give all and if it ends cop it sweet, appropriate in the heart.
Love your ex, unconditionally.
A few hints on accepting assured and putting 100% of your affection into a relationship.
Create a accepted that works for you as if you are individual or as if you were individual and do not change one atom of it if you are bifold except you ability bandy out traveling to the pub with accompany for a date night.
Compromise kills adulation and accordingly relationships. You get to apperceive yourself you accumulate accomplishing those things that accomplish you a acceptable you even if you are in a relationship.
Focus on adulation in the added six areas of activity as able-bodied as relationship. It's the overloading of accord with too abundant accountability to actualize beatitude that causes their failure.
Focus on fulfilment and be accomplished if you access a accord – don't accountability your accord with the job of authoritative you happy. The purpose of relationships is not happiness, and, beatitude is like an Ogre, consistently hungry, never satisfied. About-face up in your accord already accomplished – afresh your accord can endure a lifetime.
Don't focus on aggravating to amuse your accomplice all the time, you ability be authoritative a huge mistake.
Don't ambition for or alpha searching for anyone with the aforementioned ethics as you. Anyone who is admiring by the aforementioned things as you. That angle is so self-destructive. That's a absinthian pill. No mouthwash can annihilate the flavour of accepting a aghast lover. If you anticipate the aspect of a abundant accord is award anyone who wants what you ambition and thinks like you anticipate about plan and life, you will be affliction forever. No charge for that.
Be Accurate to Yourself
Remember that there's abandoned one accepting on apple who thinks like you, who wants what you ambition and who needs what you charge in the quantities that you need. And that accepting is you. If you anticipate you begin a like absent soul, this is accessible but if you anticipate that they will ambition what you ambition in the adjustment you ambition it in, anticipate again. Anyone who gives you the consequence that they ambition what you ambition in the adjustment you ambition it, is tricking, absorbing and manipulating you by authoritative things easy. They are just authoritative you blessed so you abandonment to them.
Trust nature, if two humans are the same, one of them isn't necessary. If you do acquisition an exact replica, a accepting who thinks like you, resonates with you, walks and talks like you and wants what you want, afresh abrasion a harder hat because they will anon ask you to change.
All relationships are based on differences.
If there are seven areas of life, and your priorities are spiritual, brainy and banking in that order, you can bet aggregate you own that their basal three priorities will be financial, brainy and airy in that order. This is how attributes works. It's not wrong. Deep down, the animal spirit is non complaint. Abandoned on the apparent can we could cause addition accepting to subjugate their values. Deep down, intrinsically, we are all actual powerful.
There are two abandon to everyone. So, apperceive the negatives and the positives of anybody and artlessly focus on the acceptable news. That's romantic. That's seduction. It agency "to please. " So we abduct anniversary added by focussing on what works, not criticising the 50% that doesn't work. If you anticipate you are after that 50/50 antithesis of absolute and negative, go account your ex partner, your kids or parents. They'll accord it to you with both barrels.
If your expectations of a accomplice are annihilation added than 50/50 absolute abrogating afresh you are fantasising and this is abundant abbreviate appellation but eventually it'll aching you and them. You do what you can to abduct your date, but really, it's an act. Deeply, you could if you chose, focus on the bad account or the acceptable news. If you ambition a acceptable home, be diligent, apperceive the balance, focus on the acceptable news.
People ambition their continued appellation needs met.
Seduce agency to accord others what they want, and it will be actual altered to what you'd ambition if you were them. And this is why relationships are so challenging. While you are accepting absorbed you dream that this getting, this achievement is traveling to endure forever. But your needs will aggrandize and their needs will aggrandize and you'll eventually feel that your needs are not accepting met in some area. And afresh there's a test.
Now what? Now that you acquisition you've affiliated anyone who wants things you don't want, what are you traveling to do? You apperceive this is assured so do you get individual while in a relationship, and just self-gratify, acquisitive to one day accommodated your absolute cocky in addition person, or do you realise that by giving to your lover what they ambition they accord to you what you want?
Are you one of the humans who get into relationships with activity and afresh absorb the blow of the time you are in it cerebration about whether you fabricated the appropriate choice? This is human, but you charge to shut that down by searching about at added humans going, "my goodness, my accomplice has that but in a altered form, my accomplice is accordingly better, they are perfect. "
Confusion or Clarity
Western credo agency we ambition what we haven't got, so, if you are with one accepting (relationship) you ambition to be with the abounding (single) and if you are with the abounding (single) you ambition one (relationship)… in added words if you are individual accepting bifold looks ablaze and if you are bifold accepting individual looks like nirvana.
That's the apotheosis of western ideology. We ambition what we haven't got. It's the active force of the customer society, our culture, our religions… artlessly we are conditioned to "want what we haven't got. " And this presents an bind for those who adulation the bartering apple of business. If business success comes from absent what you haven't got, afresh are you bedevilled to around-the-clock annoyance in relationship?
The accomplished business and banking archetypal of the apple runs on "wanting what we haven't got – consumerism" even in Maoist countries it's what feeds people. But at home, in adulation and accord maybe the adverse works better.
In adulation "I charge nothing, I ambition annihilation and accordingly I accept everything" the Eastern archetypal of ambition what you've got, is best.
I advise audience who accept been in continued appellation relationships a abundant game. Would you like to apprehend about that? If so apprehend on:
So, here's the rub about Eastern cerebration in a Western relationship. Lets say you are a woman, 29 and feel actual admirable in your clothes and physique and plan and activity and you are dating a abbreviate fat man who has no money, evil-smelling armpits, a bearded chest and eats like a pig on heat. So, you attending up from your meal and there he is with aliment down his shirt, spaghetti on his baldheaded arch and snot decrepit from his nose. He is authoritative a grunting complete and his knife and angle haven't larboard the napkin. His easily are up to their elbows in amazon booze and he is on the buzz talking to his ex. You attending just accomplished him and there is Brad Pitt. You accelerate off the armchair in bliss. Your apperception drifts and you are no best at the table with short, fat, baldheaded man you accept larboard your physique at the table and are sitting on Brad's knee and he's blessed to see you if you apperceive what I mean. So, now you ambition what you haven't got right?
And in Western life, that's unhappiness, dissatisfaction, absent interest, doubt, unromantic, affection closed, altercation coming, gee I ambition I wasn't ashore in this abhorrent accord thinking. Yes?
Here's the ability for ambidextrous with absent what you haven't got in a accord (sabotage)
Imagine that there's a antagonism and your adolescent is in a race. Your kid is not the greatest runner, so they consistently lose. At the end they appear up to you arrant because they absent the chase so what do you say to them? You acquisition something to bless like "well, you didn't appear aboriginal but you were the best starter, or you didn't win the active chase but you went faster than you've done afore or you looked abundant or approved hardest" Somehow you abstract a yield abroad from the accident that proves an amazing accepted truth. In every competition, anybody is a winner. That's a accepted law, not a platitude.
In nature, annihilation is missing. So, although you ability be searching beyond the table at Mr Piggy and searching accomplished him to Brad Pitt, in nature's eyes, they are equal. There is annihilation Brad Pitt has got that your accomplice hasn't. The abandoned catechism is "what form?" Now, afore we get into that I ambition to accomplish a point clear. To analyze your accomplice with added abeyant candidates is human. To accept questions and see added adorable humans is human. Even cutting one of those "Ned Kelly" helmets as some religions do to anticipate humans accepting admiring to them, is not traveling to anticipate it. We compare, activity is, attributes is, competitive.
Apply that to business or action and you are a winner. Administer it to accord and you will be a loser. Don't get messed up cerebration you charge to be Eastern in aggregate or you'll end up bisected affianced in plan and bisected affianced at home. You charge to be diverse, accessible and accept both. Administer the Western archetypal of "I ambition what I haven't got" to your plan and action and administer the Eastern archetypal of "I ambition what I've got" to your accord and health.

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Using ItJune 23, 2003
There should be a law. Well maybe not so much a law as a stipulation of employment. This law or stipulation should force designers to work with the systems, product, or sites that they build.
I've been doing some adjusting on this site recently, and the more I start using it myself (to refer back to old posts, to comment on fresh posts, and so forth) the more I see ways where things could be done better.
The comment sections have seen the most change recently. I've bumped up the font size in the comment boxes, and increased the height by a few lines. Why? Beause they were too hard to use for longer comments. I added a numbering system to the individual comments. Why? Because I was noticing it was too hard to scroll the list and keep track of where I was after so a few pages of comments.
(And I should digress here — there have been some excellent threads recently. I'm very impressed with the thoughtfulness I'm seeing, and I'm still thrilled every time I get another reply.)
My archives are pretty klunky right now. I spent some time a few months ago putting together the current calendar system, which is fine I suppose, but what I really need is a way to browse by subject. Dates aren't nearly as important as what the post was about. This I've discovered only by having to go back to find a reference, and actually being forced to use the system I've built.
I've been working on a few site managers and planning systems lately where interface and usability are crucial to the process. Unfortunately, the budget and time constraints are such that usability is planned in advance, but once the system is built there is no further refinement. This is a problem. The best possible usability feedback comes not from the designer looking at a database and figuring out how the tables and forms interact, but from the users who spend significant amounts of time interacting with the system and actually trying to get things done with it.
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but i've worked where i was given this huge bloated Photoshop "masterpiece" and told to create a webpage around it…. oh, and here's 4 paragraphs of text we need on there, too.
I think this happens a lot when you are dealing with someone (either the client or someone else in the idea formulation chain) who only has experience with print design. I still find myself falling prey to page-bloat when I get trapped in a print design mode. A sympathetic reeducation on what the web is about and how more accessible pages will benefit the customer would probably help. And if they convince even one other person in their network of associates, it's worth the time.
There are two types: the fine-arts-schooled or self-taught that really haven't studied design in the first place, and the high-end experience designers that create things of beauty who shouldn't be designing things people are expected to use.
Furthermore, when design for the web is taught, it is usually as a simple addendum to print design. Not to mention the fact that most schools, from what I have seen and heard, still teach table soup as the main method of coding, with a continuing strong emphasis on Flash. At some point there is going to have to be a shift in the paradigm of the educators (and not just the ones in schools) if the transition to proper markup is going to float. Of course this site and others like it go a long way towards furthering that goal. The CSS Zen Garden has to be the single best way to convince a designer of the power of style sheets. How do we translate that into something convincing for a school administrator, when the old way certainly seems "good enough" ?
Using 'the art comes first' as an excuse against usability is almost always to compensate for lack of talent.
Amen, sir. Amen to that. : )
Justin, you'll be happy to note that I've seen a lot of educational interest in the Zen Garden. It's great when a whole pool of sequential class C addresses (126.96.36.199 - 188.8.131.52 for example) hits it at roughly the same time. People are using it as an instructional tool. That's great news, and you wouldn't believe what it does to my ego!
i just wonder if this is more prevalent, or just local to a few companies?
More prevalent than you'd like to think. A lot of people do a lot of things wrong. I'm not blameless, I make mistakes too. It's easy to get wrapped up in your specialty and ignore those outside of it. That's what I see as a huge problem amongst those that work on the web - everyone wears blinders that allow them to see in one direction at a time.
The numbers on the comments are sexy.
That's all.
Numbers on the comm…? Oh, I see. :) They fade into the background a bit. How about make the font just a tad darker?
Yes, the numbers on the comments are incredibly sexy. Must reverse-engineer your CSS.
I'm actually quite pleased they fade so much — they are completely un-important except for reference's sake. I may make them a biiit darker, but the point is that they're there if you need 'em, they fade into the background when you don't.
Just in case anyone's wondering — I actually had to get messy with a bit of ASP to generate them… I hoped I might be able to get away with list items (like Mark) but it wasn't to be. I might be convinced to post a how-to here, if necessary.
At some point, adding some search functionality might be necessary for those ( including yourself ( ! ) ) who are looking for a particular subject.
Being a browser myself (as in 'one who browses', not a software application), I kind of like getting lost in a ton of information. I'll often find myself looking for one thing and discovering something else of interest… and following it 10 links away from original starting point.
One of the great things of the web for me.
What about some sort of Dewey decimal system? : )
Good point. Somewhere between 2.21 and 2.64, Ben added search functionality to MT itself. I'll have to look at integrating that somehow.
In the meantime, of course, there's always Google.
Funny, I was formulating a theory on the train this morning about how good developers with good usability instincts will always create a better experience than even the best "usability expert" could do, mainly because we "use" it. I've mentally queued it for my forthcoming site…
i dunno, i work with developers and seem to be constantly amazed by how "un-usabe" a feature is that they've added or coded in…. or how counter-intuitive it is, or how a link or item gets put in the strangest places where one needs to really hunt around and start clicking everywhere in order to do something trivial. then again, i know some gfx/designers that are just all about a graphic or flash animation, and honestly dont care about if it makes any sense in the scope of the project in question.
…but it's funny how often you write something (blog, for example) and find yourself complaining like an "end user" about yer own work… lol
i know some gfx/designers that are just all about a graphic or flash animation, and honestly dont care about if it makes any sense in the scope of the project in question
I abhor that mindset. There are two types: the fine-arts-schooled or self-taught that really haven't studied design in the first place, and the high-end experience designers that create things of beauty who shouldn't be designing things people are expected to use.
Using 'the art comes first' as an excuse against usability is almost always to compensate for lack of talent.
There, I've said it.
i'd have to agree with ya, man…. and i like art! but i've worked where i was given this huge bloated Photoshop "masterpiece" and told to create a webpage around it…. oh, and here's 4 paragraphs of text we need on there, too.
*ugh* sorry, i realize this is heard quite often - but it is annoying. on the flipside, there's developers/programmers that really have no sense of the overall purpose behind the web-application (which i find myself stressing all the time)…. personally, i find myself in-between these two "camps" and it sucks. and of course the boss/management has no effin clue.
i just wonder if this is more prevalent, or just local to a few companies?
Great work Dave, you've made a great site even better.
Going back there are always things to 'make better'. I haven't replied to your e-mail yet 'cause we launched our new home site over the weekend…
I'm still updating a few pages, but came to your site after realizing that a small chunk of CSS I'd been using for positioning purposes became irrelevant after making some changes, and I needed a breather!…
So my 'two day old' design already fell victim to 'go-back-and-clean-up'.
And it wasn't the typical rookie mistake, more an oversite of redundant CSS that should have been cleaned up… (I guess that *is* a rookie mistake, no? ;-] )
It's easy to get wrapped up in your specialty and ignore those outside of it.
amen to that! i know i fall into that category quite a bit and to be honest, am still try'n to come to grips with the whole "designing with standards" thing i've been reading up on alot lately…. but after being spoiled rotten with working on Intranets for 5 years in IE enviroments….. well, old habits die hard sometimes ;)
btw, the comment count/listing is pretty spiffy… thought they were images at first. lol
I have never met developers concerned with usability aspects. If they do create UIs, they are simply a reflection of the objects in the DB and the methods applicable to those objects. Those UIs contain no idea about how the system is going to be used. And when you ask those developers how to use the system, they simply can't answer this question. They do know how the system works, but have no clue on using it. Don't even try asking questions about "usage scenarios" or stuff like that :-)
Leonya, you are confusing developers with programmers. What you describe is the expected result of a programmer. A programmer sees everything (including the UI) as the end result of the program. The developer sees the program as the end result of everything else. Neither is better or worse in general, and you're best off if you have both on your project.
Also to clarify my initial point, I was talking about "good developers with good usability instincts", which I don't think is the norm (yet). Of course, my viewpoint could be tainted by the fact that in my years of dealing with "usability experts" and reading the work of those I haven't worked with, I honestly can't recall anything valuable ever being said that wouldn't be common sense to the aformentioned developer. I can, however, recall many many times where stupid and/or wrong things were said.
"Don't worry, most users don't know how to change the font size anyways"
"People don't like to type"
"I don't think color blind people represent a significant demographic"
I realize these are accessibility issues as well as usability (if for some reason you feel the need to draw a strong distinction), but the list goes on and on.
In short, Usability Engineering is simply the application of the "experts" personal biases and those biases they've read from other "experts". I leave you with an approximate transcript of an actual conversation:
UI: "Navigation lists should never be more than 5 items long"
Me: "Why?"
UI: "It's a usability thing"
Me: "OK, seems pretty general, where does this 'thing' come from, a study?"
UI: "Yeah, probably, let's not waste time debating this"
Me: "Fine with me"
UI: "So take these two items out"
Me: "Nope"
UI: "Why?"
Me: "I thought you didn't want to waste time debating this?"
The site launched with about 8 items.
Thank you, Jakob Neilsen. :)
Just teasing, of course. Great read!


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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
"Waiting On" Wednesday: The Train of Small Mercies
This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:
By David Rowell
Publication Date: October 13
From Amazon:
In haunting and crystalline prose, The Train of Small Mercies follows six characters' intrepid search for hope among the debris of an American tragedy.
In New York, a young black porter struggles through his first day on the job, a staggering assignment aboard Robert F. Kennedy's funeral train. In Pennsylvania, a woman creates a tangle of lies to sneak away from her disapproving husband and pay her respects to the slain senator, dragging her child with her. In Maryland, a wounded young soldier awaits a newspaper interview that his parents hope will restore his damaged self-esteem. And in Washington, an Irish nanny in town to interview with the Kennedy family must reconcile the lost opportunity and the chance to start her life anew.
In this stunning debut, David Rowell depicts disparate lives united by an extraordinary commemoration, irrevocably changed as Kennedy's funeral train makes its solemn journey from New York to Washington.
What's your "waiting on" pick this week?
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- Penelope Lolohea said...
Ooh, I love that title! :)
- August 24, 2011 at 12:02 AM
- Lea said...
WoW for this Week!! Arcadia Awakans by Kai Meyers!
PS: The cover is GORGEOUS ;)
PPS: Check out my 500 Follower Giveaway AND "Bright, Young & Luxe" Giveaway Hop-- sign ups going on now to celebrate Anna Godbersen's new book release for Beautiful Days :)
- August 24, 2011 at 12:03 AM
- SweetMarie83 said...
Sounds like an interesting book, Jill! Happy Wednesday!
- August 24, 2011 at 12:04 AM
- Scarlett said...
ooh, 'haunting and crystalline prose'?! Sounds great! Thanks so much for always hosting this!
- August 24, 2011 at 12:05 AM
- Melanie said...
*New Follower* I would love it if you would follow my blog - Christian Bookshelf Reviews
- August 24, 2011 at 12:11 AM
- Kristin Aragon said...
Sounds like a great book!
Here's my WoW
Kristin @ Better Read Than Dead
- August 24, 2011 at 12:34 AM
- Dani @ Refracted Light said...
Separate story lines centering around Bobby Kennedy's funeral train? Sounds like an interesting concept for a novel. :)
- August 24, 2011 at 1:05 AM
- TG said...
I like the sound of that book. Historical fiction set in an era that's not explored enough, IMO.
- August 24, 2011 at 2:50 AM
- Creations by Laurel-Rain Snow said...
Oh, I can't believe it, Jill! We're spotlighting the same book today. It does sound good, doesn't it?
- August 24, 2011 at 4:21 AM
- Tina's Blog said...
I love the cover and this book sounds like one that is right up my alley. I'm definitely looking for this one when it comes out.
- August 24, 2011 at 4:36 AM
- Mystica said...
Sounds interesting.
- August 24, 2011 at 5:38 AM
- (Diane) Bibliophile By the Sea said...
LOL..you and Laurel Rain have the same pick. Sounds like a good one as well.
- August 24, 2011 at 5:46 AM
- lsl_scrapper said...
Wow! The book sounds fascinating! It's going on my TBR!
- August 24, 2011 at 6:23 AM
- June G said...
Wow. This is a very different type of story. Very fresh and unique. A nice choice *nodding head*. Thanks for passing this along.
- August 24, 2011 at 6:27 AM
- Dawn said...
Your picks are always books I never see elsewhere.
- August 24, 2011 at 6:47 AM
- Taylor said...
I love the cover on that one! I may have to check it out!
My WOW post: http://thoughts-of-an-endless-dreamer.blogspot.com/2011/08/waiting-on-wednesday-19.html
- August 24, 2011 at 6:55 AM
- Hannah said...
Nice pick-- I hadn't heard of this one!
- August 24, 2011 at 6:58 AM
- Jennifer G. said...
This sounds really interesting. Great pick!
- August 24, 2011 at 7:23 AM
- leanne_luce : YA FOREVER said...
I did my link wrong :( Could it be deleted please? Number 135
- August 24, 2011 at 7:49 AM
- Jen @ A Book and a Latte said...
Interesting... not something I'd usually pick up but now on my radar :). Here's my WoW post! ~ Jen @ A Book and a Latte
- August 24, 2011 at 8:00 AM
- Danielle said...
Sounds like a good read!
- August 24, 2011 at 8:12 AM
- Amy said...
This is my first "Waiting On" Wednesday. Thanks for hosting!
- August 24, 2011 at 8:32 AM
- bermudaonion said...
I got this recently and it does look fabulous!
- August 24, 2011 at 9:05 AM
- RJ Gonzales said...
Sounds like a fascinating book! :D Wonderful choice!
RJ @ RJ Does Books
- August 24, 2011 at 9:12 AM
- Book Savvy Babe said...
Looks like a good book! I am going for a romance this week... Book Savvy Babe
- August 24, 2011 at 9:27 AM
- Melissa said...
This sounds like a great book:)
Here's my post: Melissa's Eclectic Bookshelf
- August 24, 2011 at 9:35 AM
- Ani Raye said...
Lovely pick this week :)
- August 24, 2011 at 9:47 AM
- Stephanie said...
This is my first Wow post!! I'm a new blogger over at http://ya-reader.blogspot.com/ Awesome page and thanks for hosting :)
- August 24, 2011 at 9:51 AM
- Molli @ Once Upon a Prologue said...
Gah, another GREAT looking choice. :)
- August 24, 2011 at 9:57 AM
- Traci @ The Reading Geek said...
This sounds like a great and interesting story. I also really like the cover for this as well.
- August 24, 2011 at 10:14 AM
- Mimi Valentine said...
You always pick the most interesting books that I've never heard of before, Jill -- I love it! :)
Here's my WOW! And there's still time to enter my 100 Followers Giveaway if you haven't already! :)
- August 24, 2011 at 10:23 AM
- Tia said...
Yeaa..Just did my first WoW! I need followers over on my blog! It's looking kinda sad right now (lol).
- August 24, 2011 at 10:35 AM
- K said...
I tend to have a little trouble with multiple-protagonist books, but that one looks intriguing...
Happy Wednesday!
- August 24, 2011 at 10:40 AM
- mrs_laura_koehler said...
Aww this sound like an emotional read, but a good one.
- August 24, 2011 at 10:48 AM
- Natalia Belikov (Wayland/Morgernstern/Herondale) said...
whoaaaaaaa! so many many WoW! I could spend the whole day looking at blogs! =)
- August 24, 2011 at 10:51 AM
- Sherre said...
This cover is great!
My WoW
- August 24, 2011 at 10:53 AM
- Shelby said...
Great meme!
- August 24, 2011 at 11:26 AM
- nomadreader said...
I just got a copy of this one in the mail and cannot wait to dig in. Enjoy1
- August 24, 2011 at 11:28 AM
- Rockee said...
Your WoW for this week seems interesting! I think I'm gonna add it to my piling up to-read list. Well, the more the merrier, right? Hehe.
By the way, I'm a new follower of your blog. And if you have time, come check out mine as well: http://rockeemusikreads.blogspot.com/
- August 24, 2011 at 11:30 AM
- ashelynn hetland said...
Love love love the title.
- August 24, 2011 at 11:57 AM
- The Nerds said...
That sounds really intriguing. I fiction set against the backdrop of real life events.
- August 24, 2011 at 12:43 PM
- Shadowrose96 said...
Sounds like a good book :)
- August 24, 2011 at 12:52 PM
- Amber Elise said...
That sounds very interesting! Following! My WoW is here
- August 24, 2011 at 12:58 PM
- EveinEden.com said...
Just found your terrific blog. Have added your link to my list of favorite blogs on my websites.
Began a book blog a few months back. I choose a topic and then select several books that illuminate that subject.
Thanks for the wonderful recommendations.
- August 24, 2011 at 1:30 PM
- Karis Jacobstein said...
This looks really excellent. I'll have to check it out.
- August 24, 2011 at 3:43 PM
- Andrea said...
Oh I've heard about this! It sounds really good :)
- August 24, 2011 at 4:53 PM
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- August 24, 2011 at 5:11 PM
- Jenna and Ashley said...
That sounds sad but like one of those books that sticks with you for a long time after you read the last page.
Great pick.
- August 24, 2011 at 5:13 PM
- Books4Juliet said...
I love the cover! =) And others seem to like it too!
Happy Wednesday!
~April @books4juliet
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- August 30, 2011 at 8:58 PM
- amandapearl2books said...
here's my post!
- August 30, 2011 at 11:55 PM


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MINNEAPOLIS - A Buffalo, Minn., metal services company violated federal law by demoting and then firing a production manager for refusing to discriminate against an African-American employee because of his race, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.
According to the EEOC's suit against Izza Bending Tube & Wire, Inc., in August 2011, Myrna Peltonen recommended to Scott Landgraf, Izza's manager, that the firm offer permanent employment to Randall Smith, a temporary employee who had worked for the company successfully for 500 hours. Landgraf allegedly instructed her not to hire Smith, using derogatory racist language, and directed her to get rid of him. When she refused to do so, she was demoted to an office position and her salary was cut. After she filed a discrimination charge with EEOC, she was laid off and then terminated.
Retaliation for opposing employment discrimination or for filing a charge with the EEOC violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Izza Bending Tube & Wire, Inc., Civil Action No. 0:13-cv-02570, after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
John Rowe, director of the EEOC's Chicago District, which includes Minnesota, said, "Federal law protects individuals who oppose on-the-job practices they reasonably believe are unlawful as well as those who file charges with EEOC. Challenging retaliatory discharges helps to make sure the system which the law provides for dealing with discrimination not only survives but actually works."
John Hendrickson, the EEOC regional attorney in Chicago, said, "Retaliation charges continue to be among the most common kind received by the EEOC. They pose a continuing challenge for us -- and one we are absolutely determined to meet."
In this case, the EEOC is seeking injunctive relief that will require Izza to adopt an effective anti-retaliation policy that complies with federal law and will seek back pay and compensatory and punitive damages for Peltonen.
The EEOC's legal team in Minneapolis Area Office will conduct the litigation under the management of the agency's Chicago District Office. That office is responsible for processing discrimination charges, administrative enforcement and the conduct of agency litigation in North Dakota, Minnesota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa, with Area Offices in Milwaukee and Minneapolis.
Izza specializes in metal manufacturing and fabrication services, including metal pipe bending and cutting.
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Electromach in Brazil
(by our Senior Field Engineer in Brazil, Jan Willem Gerdingh)
From his first 'field job' Electromach's new Field Service Engineer, Jan Willem Gerdingh, has kept a travelogue. This is his story:
It has been almost 5 weeks since Electromach colleague, René Mikkers, and I boarded the plane towards Brazil. My first trip in that direction and also my first field job for Electromach. René will support me how to act with ATEX installations, the specialization of Electromach, and I will support René with the PLC control and communication with various monitoring and control systems from other vendors.
Electromachs new Senior Field Service Engineer
A brief introduction of myself:
As a Senior Field Service Engineer I will mainly deal with the testing and commissioning of the systems which the System Solutions department designs and builds. Originally I am a mechanical engineer, but in the past years I have focused my activities on control systems and everything related to it. I have spent my professional career mainly in the field, nationally but more often internationally.
The project in Brazil
It is a big project at the Petrobras refinery (at the REPAR site). The company Thomassen Howden Compressors from Rheden has supplied 10 compressors for compressing hydrogen for desulfurization of diesel to several refineries.
Since hydrogen is a highly explosive substance, Electromach supplies the explosion protected junction boxes, local control panels and cabinets.
The REPAR site is just outside Curitiba. It concerns the construction of a new refinery and about 14,000 employees are assigned to the project. All this people are transported with many buses, every day. The main contractor has build a small village on site (Village do Conpar) with a huge canteen where thousands of employees enjoy a hot meal every day.
There are several office buildings on site for anyone who has anything to do with the project (we also get our own office space assigned). All these buildings are by definition temporary. If the project is completed, most buildings will be demolished.
The project, in terms of Howden Thomassen Compressors (HTC) and Electromach, consists of 4 compressors in two separate buildings, two HTC C35 and two C85.4 machines. The latter two are in the final stage of electrical installation and thus the operations of the contractors can be inspected. This is why Electromach is on site: cables, cable glands, junction boxes, etc. must comply with the ATEX regulations. Parallel all kinds of piping and utilities work is executed. All the systems have to meet the high demands. The final pressure of the compressor is about 143 bar, so leaks from welding or connectors can not be afforded.
An initial inspection shows that there is some additional work for the contractors when it comes to ATEX regulations. However, most of the cables are connected, so the control panel in the sub-room can be switched on. We focus particularly on the communication modules and redundant PLC.
Testing of the I/O (loop checks) can begin and the communication with the DCS (Distributed Control System), Bently Nevada (health monitoring system for the compressor), Hoerbiger (capacity control), MCC (Motor Control Centre) etc . can be tested.
The control panel of Electromach receives and transmits data and/or hard-wired signals from all systems and provides not only the basic control of the compressor. It also serves as "Data Hub" for various systems.
Due to the revised planning I'm not in Brazil any more when the machine will be started-up for the first time. For me, the first 5 weeks are coming to an end. In these first 5 weeks I have gained much experience with the systems Electromach designs, builds and eventually, in cooperation with various suppliers of systems for this sector, takes into operation. I'll probably be travelling again back to Brazil soon, as at least another five of these compressors have to be put into service.


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Although, those 4 drafts literally probably had reports on some 800 prospects, so it might take forever to repopulate those forums.
I found some scouting reports from 2010 draft
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The planned Texas Horse Park is ready to move forward after the City Council approved a $10.9 million construction contract Wednesday morning.
Work is scheduled to start in July and take nearly a year. The project includes an activity center, two indoor and two outdoor arenas, three horse barns, a trailhead pavilion, compost building, equipment and hay storage, administration building, landscaping, utilities and other infrastructure.
The Hillcrest Foundation is chipping in $200,000 toward funding the project.
The council also approved a contract with Curtis Patterson for the creation and installation of "site-specific" artwork at the entrance to the Texas Horse Park. That contract is worth up to $136,220.
Patterson created the sculpture at the entrance to Jesse Owens Plaza at Ohio State University and a Tribute to Andrew Young in Atlanta.
The horse park is a prominent piece of Mayor Mike Rawlings' GrowSouth initiative to bring more economic development to southern Dallas. The horse park site is located in Oak Cliff along Loop 12 near the Trinity River Audubon Center and the proposed Trinity Forest Golf Course.
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The focus of the horse park has changed, and now it's expected to reach out to the general public as well as children, senior citizens, veterans and those of more modest means.
The council approved contracts in December with a pair of nonprofits to operate the horse park. River Ranch Educational Charities of Plano will handle the public activities, from birthday parties to trail rides. Equest will expand its therapeutic horsemanship work into the park.
The construction contract went to a Fort Worth-based joint venture called Sedalco/MetalMan Design/Build Corporation, which was judged the best of seven proposals. Sedalco is a prominent Fort Worth construction firm that worked on the Trinity River Audubon Center and built schools for the Dallas ISD. MetalMan Design/Build Corporation, based in Athens, Texas, worked on the Dallas Zoo's Giants of the Savanna exhibit.


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Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Did the ACC's Raid of the Big East Pay Off?
It has been five years since the ACC began an expansion process that led Boston College, Miami and Virginia Tech to join the ACC and leave the Big East. The ACC's move put the Big East on the brink of extinction, but the superconference maneuver hasn't turned out as planned for the ACC.
Financially, the bold move has paid off for the ACC, but on the football field, the league's teams have floundered.
"I think the way you have to measure expansion is positioning for the long term," ACC Commissioner John Swofford (above left) said.
The Big East — despite questions about its long-term stability — has been a football success, with commissioner Mike Tranghese (middle) luring Louisville and South Florida to a league with emerging powers West Virginia and Rutgers.
The Big East's plundering of Conference USA also had an impact. Conference USA, which had a cumbersome 15-team league, became a streamlined 12-team all-sports conference that in "most respects," commissioner Britton Banowsky (right) said, is better than it once was.
But is a 16-team league better than eight, 12 or 14? With finances continuing to skyrocket, a 16-team league would appear to be the model of future conferences.
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Tim Stephens has no idea what he's talking about.
- Purdue Matt said...
"Financially, the bold move has paid off for the ACC"
Isn't that what matters? Wins don't keep conferences alive or businesses afloat....money does.
in any conference, theres going to be great teams and not so great teams.
the Big East is no different.
You know Rutgers success came on the heels of Tech, UM and BC leaving. they wouldnt have been this good if they hadnt.
WVa was better b/c of RRod's tricky offense. plain and simple. they'll come back to earth after another year.
Lousiville has already come back to earth.
SFla was blessed with a front loaded schedule of cakes and floundered down the stretch. you'll see that "success story" has run its course and they'll play even ball this year.
yes, the Big east has played better, but UNC/NCSU is getting better. Miami will be better. Wake is a team Rutgers only hopes it can be ... maintain their success. Clemson is Clemson ... lets just hope they dont lose that one game they always do. VT is loaded, again, on defense. we'll just have to see if a QB and RB step up. maybe GT, under Johnson, will become the new WVa?? i dunno cause you need more than a pulse to get into GT.
not to mention, didnt the ACC beat the Big Least head-to-head last season??? someone look that up!
ACC will and is getting better.
- About Five said...
The Big East still has the problem of being a basketball conference. The Big East remains a football question mark. There is no school with any history of a national profile.


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Taking a break from my illustrations for now and its been a while since i've brushed, so figured it was a good time to start a sketchbook and do some quick doodles
These are some doodles of characters born in pencil in my sketchbook. Really wanted to see what they would look like in 3d. I didnt spend anytime detailing any of these....just quick strokes with the clay tubes brush to loosen up the hand and mind


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Major Section: MISCELLANEOUS
Examples: (defun hd (x) (if (consp x) (car x) 0)) (local (defthm lemma23 ...)) (progn (defun fn1 ...) (local (defun fn2 ...)) ...)
General Form: An embedded event form is a term, x, such that:
An exception: an embedded event form may not set the
xis a call of an event function other than
DEFPKG(see events for a listing of the event functions);
xis of the form
x1is an embedded event form;
xis of the form
x1is an embedded event form;
xis of the form
&), where
&is any term whose expansion is an embedded event (see make-event);
xis of the form
... x1)where
x1is an embedded event form;
xis of the form
(VALUE-TRIPLE &), where
&is any term;
xis a call of
PROGN!, or
xmacroexpands to one of the forms above; or
[intended only for the implementation]
(RECORD-EXPANSION x1 x2), where
x2are embedded event forms.
acl2-defaults-table when in the context of
local. Thus for example,
the form
(local (table acl2-defaults-table :defun-mode :program))is not an embedded event form, nor is the form
(local (program)),
since the latter sets the
acl2-defaults-table implicitly. An
example at the end of the discussion below illustrates why there is
this restriction.
Only embedded event forms are allowed in a book after its initial
in-package form. See books. However, you may find that
make-event allows you to get the effect you want for a form that is not
an embedded event form. For example, you can put the following into a book,
which assigns the value 17 to
state global variable
(make-event (er-progn (assign x 17) (value '(value-triple nil))) :check-expansion t)
When an embedded event is executed while
ld-skip-proofsp is
include-book, those parts of it inside
local forms are ignored.
(progn (defun f1 () 1) (local (defun f2 () 2)) (defun f3 () 3))will define
f2, and
f3 when
ld-skip-proofsp is
nil but will
define only
f1 and
f3 when
ld-skip-proofsp is
progn, and
include-book place restrictions on
the kinds of forms that may be processed. These restrictions ensure that the
non-local events are indeed admissible provided that the sequence of
local and non-local events is admissible when proofs are done,
i.e., when
ld-skip-proofs is
nil. But
progn! places no such
restrictions, hence is potentially dangerous and should be avoided unless you
understand the ramifications; so it is illegal unless there is an active
trust tag (see defttag).
Local permits the hiding of an event or group of events in the
sense that
local events are processed when we are trying to
establish the admissibility of a sequence of events embedded in
encapsulate forms or in books, but are ignored when we are
constructing the world produced by assuming that sequence. Thus, for
example, a particularly ugly and inefficient
rewrite rule might be
local to an encapsulate that ``exports'' a desirable theorem
whose proof requires the ugly lemma.
To see why we can't allow just anything in as an embedded event, consider allowing the form
(if (ld-skip-proofsp state) (defun foo () 2) (defun foo () 1))followed by
(defthm foo-is-1 (equal (foo) 1)).When we process the events with
nil the second
defun is executed and the
defthm succeeds. But when we process the
events with
include-book, the second
defun is
executed, so that
foo no longer has the same definition it did when
we proved
foo-is-1. Thus, an invalid formula is assumed when we
process the
defthm while skipping proofs. Thus, the first form
above is not a legal embedded event form.
If you encounter a situation where these restrictions seem to prevent you
from doing what you want to do, then you may find
make-event to be
helpful. See make-event.
Defpkg is not allowed because it affects how things are read after
it is executed. But all the forms embedded in an event are read
before any are executed. That is,
(encapsulate nil (defpkg "MY-PKG" nil) (defun foo () 'my-pkg::bar))makes no sense since
my-pkg::bar must have been read before the
defpkg for
"MY-PKG" was executed.
Finally, let us elaborate on the restriction mentioned earlier
related to the
acl2-defaults-table. Consider the following form.
(encapsulate () (local (program)) (defun foo (x) (if (equal 0 x) 0 (1+ (foo (- x))))))See local-incompatibility for a discussion of how
processes event forms. Briefly, on the first pass through the
events the definition of
foo will be accepted in
defun mode
program, and hence accepted. But on the second pass the form
(local (program)) is skipped because it is marked as
local, and
foo is accepted in
defun mode
logic. Yet, no proof has been
performed in order to admit
foo, and in fact, it is not hard to
prove a contradiction from this definition!


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ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin likes to deny that he is taking Russia back to the USSR, but on Wednesday he dusted off another communist relic by restoring a labor medal introduced under Josef Stalin.
A week after telling the nation there was nothing in Russia that smacked of the late Soviet dictator, Putin pinned the Hero of Labour award on five recipients in St Petersburg, the cradle of the 1917 revolution that swept communists to power.
The name has changed slightly from Stalin's Hero of Socialist Labour, which rewarded outstanding work for the Soviet nation. But the award is clearly back, more than two decades after it seemed to have died with the Soviet Union.
Putin has made no secret of his attempt to appeal to the conservative values and patriotism of the working class, his main power base, and counter the threat of the mainly middle-class demonstrators who led protests against him last year.
"The Hero of Labour title is ... a step towards resuming the continuity of traditions, tighter ties between eras and generations," Putin told a ceremony on May Day, the traditional workers' holiday and an important date in the Soviet calendar.
"We need to cherish our historical memory, keep in our hearts our pride for the people that built a great country."
The medal, a golden five-pointed star bearing the Russian two-headed eagle, hanging from a white, blue and red ribbon, bears a striking resemblance to the Stalin-era award, except that this had a red ribbon and a hammer and sickle on the star.
The winners included a coal miner, a lathe operator, a brain surgeon, an agronomist and the star conductor Valery Gergiev.
The Hero of Socialist Labour award was won by more than 20,000 people and was a huge honor, intended to encourage industrialization and glorify Soviet achievements. Famous recipients included the composer Dmitry Shostakovich and the rifle maker Mikhail Kalashnikov.
Putin has already brought back the Soviet national anthem and Soviet-style military parades, and critics accuse him of using Soviet tactics to stifle dissent, although he denies this.
"Stalinism is linked to the cult of personality, massive legal violations, repressions and labour camps," he told his annual question-and-answer session, broadcast live last week across the country of about 142 million.
"There is nothing like that in Russia and I hope there never will be again," he said. "But this does not mean that we should not have order and discipline."
Putin has long spoken ambiguously about Stalin, admiring the strides the Soviet Union took to industrialize during his three-decade rule until his death in 1953, but condemning the methods he used, including repression that killed millions of people.
Six decades on, Stalin's legacy remains the subject of bitter debate and broad interpretation in Russia, where many still believe he did some good, not least in repelling and defeating Nazi aggression in World War Two.
Putin hopes to tap into this sort of nostalgia as he looks for ways to lift his popularity ratings.
The idea of bringing back the medal appears to have been raised last year by Igor Kholmanskikh, a former tank factory worker who said he would go to Moscow to back Putin against the protesters and later became a presidential envoy.
Although Putin's ratings are still high by Western standards at more than 60 percent, they are lower than they were during his first spell as president, from 2000 until 2008.
An opinion poll last year indicated that more than two-thirds of Russians agreed Stalin was "a cruel, inhuman tyrant, responsible for the deaths of millions of innocent people".
But at the same time, 47 percent agreed Stalin was "a wise leader who brought the Soviet Union to might and prosperity".
Reporting by Alexei Anishchuk; Writing by Timothy Heritage


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Drone wars hit the states
Drones could soon be entering the airspace above you — and privacy-minded state lawmakers, banding together in an unusual left-right political alliance, are in a dogfight with law enforcement groups across the country as they move to put protections in place for those on the ground.
Sen. Rand Paul, a leading critic of drones, recently helped drive them into the national debate with his 13-hour filibuster on the issue and a later comment that it would be OK if a drone were used by police in the U.S. to kill an armed robber at a liquor store. That comment infuriated some of Paul's libertarian followers and sent the Kentucky Republican and possible 2016 candidate into full damage control mode.
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While Paul brought the issue more mainstream attention, activity had already been under way in legislatures. In more than three-quarters of the states this year, legislators who fear the "surveillance state" are seeking to limit the use of the unmanned, unarmed aircraft in the name of privacy rights, clashing with police and industry organizations that argue the efforts unfairly stigmatize a still-developing, widely misunderstood and potentially useful technology that has an unfortunate link to the killing of terrorists in faraway deserts.
( PHOTOS: Pro, con: Best quotes about drones)
"We want to make sure we don't create a system where Big Brother is always up there watching us," Michigan state Rep. Tom McMillin, a Republican sponsoring a bill restricting drones, told POLITICO. "These can be used, but only in certain instances."
The ramped-up effort in the states has put law enforcement officials on the defensive. They dismiss the legislation as a "knee-jerk" attempt to rein in something that many lawmakers don't know the first thing about. "We need to slow down here, and let's have a conversation about what's going on," said Robert Stevenson, executive director of the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police.
Police say they could use drones to search for runaway fugitives, survey developing crime scenes and monitor hostage situations. The drone industry sees a broad array of other uses, such as fighting forest fires, searching for lost hikers, keeping a watch on erosion and tracking wildlife populations.
( Also on POLITICO: The game of drones begins)
Lawmakers have introduced 85 pieces of legislation in 39 states this year relating to drones, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Most aim to protect citizens from intrusive "spying" from the skies. Many would do that by requiring police agencies to get a warrant before deploying a drone, while allowing exceptions for life-endangering situations. Other legislation is more specific — a Minnesota measure would protect farmers from agricultural officials with an eye in the sky, while another would ban attaching weapons to drones.
The drone-regulating bills are often the result of an uncommon political alliance: conservative Republican legislators, including tea party-backed lawmakers and acolytes of former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), teaming up with groups on the left, like the American Civil Liberties Union, which is tracking state drone legislation and pushing bills to restrict their use in a number of states.
"They were the evil enemy for most of my life," McMillin said of the ACLU.


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