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Like many of my fellow twenty-something females, I'm guilty of having a pop culture obsession. As inundated as we are with social media and real-time updates on the web, it's near-impossible to avoid.
"Keeping up with the Jones'" is now "Keeping Up With the Kardashians."
Staying abreast of Taylor Swift's love life can easily be a part-time job.
Thanks to the watchful eyes of the paparazzi, we can see what groceries celebs load up on from Whole Foods (kale is the new black, in case you were wondering).
And OHMYGOD did you see who Gwyneth Paltrow was spotted having lunch with five minutes ago?
While doing some educational reading in CVS earlier, I saw a photo spread in Us Weekly featuring some pictures of Oscar winners running errands, fashion designers eating ice cream and an award-winning TV anchor pushing her two-year-old on a swing, all under the headline: "Celebs: They're Just like Us!"
Um, what? I can't really agree with you, Us Weekly.
I don't wear Manolos to the park. I don't own Manolos [yet].
I don't wear my sunglasses into the store to shield my pupils from flashing cameras following me around.
I'm also not certa-freaking-fiably insane.
Hear me out: is it just me, or have celebrities recently been a particularly special breed of cray-cray?
Exhibit A: Paula Deen. Go figure the woman whose Southern twang necessitates subtitles, whose main ingredient to life is butter and who openly flirts with her son on television is a raging racist. But seriously: are you insane, woman? Do you not know people are listening to you and to apply a filter if you don't want to offend the masses and not lose the majority of your multi-million dollar endorsements. Normal people don't do this.
Exhibit B: Kanye West. This guy's kind of a regular on these sorts of "WTF, bro" lists. I mean, he performed in a leather skirt for the Hurricane Sandy fundraiser for crying out loud. But despite the fact he recently entered fatherhood and is supposedly "humbled by his new role as dad," Kanye compared himself in an "artist and activist" class with Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, Henry Ford and Howard Hughes. Some lyrics off his new album, Yeezus, actually draw comparisons between Kanye and God. So I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that most men don't sport leather womenswear and most humans aren't comparing themselves to Higher Powers terribly often.
Exhibit C: Amanda Bynes. Right, OK. Again, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say most of us haven't tossed a bong out our apartment windows, racked up three DUIs in one year, pierced our cheeks, gone on Twitter rants threatening to sue the media for "mind reading" and planned to launch a rap career recently. I could be wrong, but going to go ahead and say this celeb is not scaling high on the spectrum of normalcy. Also, the whole pouring bleach in hair, vomiting in public places and planning to launch a rap career? Not sure us normals are picking up what this celeb's throwing down.
Exhibit D: Miley Cyrus. So yeah; watch that "We Can't Stop" video on YouTube (viewer discretion advised. Don't say I didn't warn you.). Closest to pornography these baby blues have seen and I'm sure Billy Ray's proud of his little girl. So I guess sister gets herself this fancy, new P!nk-inspired haircut, has a new lease on life, is getting down with her badass-self (throw in some taxidermy for good-measure) and spends 3:34 twerking in front of a camera and calls it a day. She says it "reinvention." Others call it "art." Color me prude, but I'm calling it "%^&*&." Miley regularly complains of being "stereotyped by the media" and claims to be a "normal woman figuring herself out." Yeah, you're right Miley. At 19 I was totally shaving my head, tattooing myself, grinding all over the Internet, wearing see-through apparel to events and "shaking it like we at a strip club." Normal…definitely normal.
Exhibit E: Alec Baldwin. I'm fairly certain that anyone with a normal level of common sense knows better than to Tweet homophobic comments to a news reporter and expect to just…let it slide and go UNREPORTED. Then you can factor in the whole "tens of thousands of followers," a high-profile and regular Tweet-ranter, and commentary along the lines of…oh something like "I'm gonna find you George Stark, you toxic little queen, and I'm gonna f**k you… up," and you're going to come off as a loon. Not really normal reasoning there, Baldwin.
I rest my case. There is "normal," and then there is vomiting in public, a new and slightly offensive level of "discovering womanhood," flaming bigotry and comparing oneself Christ.
In the words of The Holiness himself, "that sh*t cray."


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Anybody? Bueller?
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Anyone seen or handled one if these pistols? They look like a CZ clone. Just a few reviews online but all were positive.
Anybody? Bueller?
You could try searching the CZ Forum in the Clone Club section:
Alrighty Paul, I told you I would let you know something as soon as I fired it. Only shot about 30 rounds so this isn't entirely a full report, however, I loved the hell out of it. As I am just getting into firing handguns I wouldn't have personally thought I could even group well. I was wrong. After a little bit of sight adjustment and figuring out exactly where the sight picture needed to be, I was pretty easily able to achieve a silver dollar sized grouping. The only time I have previously fired a handgun was a Sig 229 and that was just getting the feel of a 9mm. There were no feed issues and I felt that (as I am a rather inexperienced shooter) it was rather accurate. Take it as you will coming from someone with little to no handgun experience, but it is -in my opinion- a pretty damn good handgun (especially considering the low price point). Hope that was at least somewhat helpful and if you have any questions that I didn't touch on feel free to ask.
10-4 Chris thanks for the report! I think that made up my mind for me. Were you able to buy extra mags when you purchased the pistol?
Negative, Carolina Gunrunners can't even get them from their supplier, the mags have to be ordered from the manufacturer. Btw if you didn't see it is a 17+1 mag, but only one.
Hopefully I can find mags at the gun show. I am not counting on it, just hopeful...
The magazines are available directly from EAA in Rockledge, FL. It's on their website under part #170818. Unfortunately, they're pretty steep at $36 each and $10 shipping. I bought an extra from them, since I wanted to make sure I had a replacement in case of the magazine ban going through. Note that it won't seat in the gun with the 17th round inserted, even though it appears identical to the original. I have to contact them tomorrow to work it out. We'll see how it goes.
Like the other fellow on here, I had to adjust the sights out of the box. Other than that, I has fired flawlessly. The grip is very comfortable. Does anyone who has one of these also have a Tanfoglio Witness P? I'm curious if the slides are interchangeable. The upper portion of the frames look identical.
@ Ashley..
Did you get the magazine issue straightened with EAA? I just ordered a K2P from Buds and wanted to purchase a few more 17 round mags but the website only lists the 16 round mags... part #170818.
There's some reviews on Bud's now, and a couple mention a 16 round capacity, even in their stock magazine. One of the guys says it handles all his CZ magazines, so I may have to give that a try at the local shop. CZ magazines are much cheaper.
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Ashley, thanks for getting back to me. Wow. Sounds like a hassle. Mine was shipped from Bud's with one 15 round mag. After reading your post I decided to go with a couple CZ Mec-gar 19 round mags. I found em for $32 at Greg Cote, LLC- they usually sell for $40-50. I'll let ya know know how they run when I get out to the range.
Last edited by sawm249; 04-28-2013 at 07:18 PM.
Let me first say. I love this pistol. Best bargain I've got in years. No jams on initial tests- put 200 rounds of standard ball thru it. When I get my reloading press set up- I'll test different bullets types.
Definitely buy the Mec-gar magazines. They are cheaper and better made than the OEM Sarsilmaz mags. Make sure they are the CZ 75b SP-01 mags.
If you're looking for a good holster- you can buy Mold Your Own Kydex kits from Old Faithful Holsters. You only have to be a little handy to assemble them and there are step by step tutorial videos you can follow.
I would like to add my 2 cents to this. This is my first post here and this is also my first pistol. I absolutely love it so far. I have not had one FTF or FTE, not one problem out of the gun at all. I have put about 5-600 rounds so far including some TULammo steel cased. My sights were a little off out of the box, I had to go 1 click up and 2 clicks left. I have no gripes about the gun, but finding a decent holster is hard. Once I get my CCW permit I think i will go with the mold your own kydex as stated above. I got mine from a pawn shop that sells a lot of new guns for $379 which I think was a decent price.
I've been looking into these after I saw GSRswapped and some others talking about the EAA pistols. I'm thinking about making one my next purchase.
I too am considering one of these. Went to my LGS today. They had both the K2p and the full size B6P. I went there to buy the bigger B6P, but actually liked the feel of the smaller K2. It also had the better adjustable sights.
I went prepared to see how the magazines would work as I already have a CZ75B SA. Here is what I found in the K6P:
MecGar CZ75 all metal mags: Seem to fit, but would not quite lock in
Witness TZ75 mag: Fit and locked OK. Very small gap at the mag base.
In looking at the mag release slots in the TZ75 mag I see that they are slightly larger, so the additional "play" allowed them to fit. Side by side with the SAR mags, everything else looked the same. Cant comment yet on how they feed however.
Now I have to go back and buy the K2P .....
I was wondering if there is a way to switch out the front sights on the K2p? It looks as if there is a set screw in the sight but I can't really tell if comes out. Anyways I wanted to also say that I am loving the site and I've just been lurking and reading a lot of threads.
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Just read all these posts. Notice most are a year old or more. I love my K2P! Have put 2-300 rounds through it with no FTF or FTE. Only comment I have, being left handed...I had a bit of a problem with using the CZ75B Mecgar mags with it..seems they don't lock in quite as snug as the factory mag...recoil caused my trigger finger to brush the mag release couple of times, partial ejecting these mags, but not the factory mag....so, I have had the release switched over to the right side of the gun to see if that will solve that little glitch...just got it back from gun smith this afternoon and will try it out as soon as I can get to the range. Also, wondering if Flipapotimus or anyone else ever found out any further information on switching out the sights on this. I would like to try some fiber optic sights, if any are available for it.
Never figured out anything else about the sights, I have however put at least 1000 rounds through my k2p and have still not had any type of failure. For those mec gar mags there is another thread on here about them ; I had to sand the top of the base plate down a little for a easy lock in. I also just started reloading and have put 20 of my own reloads through the be k2p.
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On Jan. 31, 2014, One Direction's music video for "Midnight Memories" premiered. The video, which was filmed in London, features the group carousing around the city, including taking over a fast-food place, riding scooters, "borrowing" a police boat, and going to the top of Tower Bridge.
"Midnight Memories" is the third single from the album of the same title. The song has already hit the Top 10 in several countries.
Meanwhile, on Jan. 27, 2014, One Direction announced more concerts for One Direction's first stadium tour of North America. As previously reported, the tour will take place from August to October 2014. The first batch of tickets went on sale at Live Nation's website on Dec. 7, 2013. After they sold out, more concerts were added in Toronto; East Rutherford, N.J.; Foxboro, Mass.; Chicago; Pasadena, Calif.; and Charlotte, N.C.
The most recent batch of tour dates have been added in Philadelphia, Detroit and Pasadena. (See the added tour dates below.)
Tickets for the most recently added concerts go on sale on Feb. 8, 2014, at 10 a.m. local time. Tickets are available at Ticketmaster and Live Nation. People can also buy tickets early by signing up for a Facebook RSVP, from Feb. 4 to Feb. 7, 2014.
One Direction's 2014 "Where We Are" world tour has already announced stadium concerts in Europe and South America, with the concerts taking place from April to July 2014. One Direction's tours sell out quickly, with many of the concerts selling out a year in advance.
One Direction is the world's biggest-selling act to emerge from "The X Factor." One Direction previously headlined arenas (with capacities of 10,000 to 25,000 people per venue), but the group has now become one of the few music acts that can headline stadiums (with capacities of 40,000 to 60,000 people per venue) around the world.
The group's third album, "Midnight Memories," was released worldwide on Nov. 25, 2013. All of One Direction's first three albums — "Up All Night," "Take Me Home" and "Midnight Memories" — debuted at No. 1 in several countries.
Here are the tour dates for the North American leg of One Direction's 2014 tour:
* = added concert date
Aug. 1, 2014: Toronto — Rogers Centre
Aug. 2, 2014: Toronto — Rogers Centre
Aug. 4, 2014: East Rutherford, N.J. — MetLife Stadium
Aug. 5, 2014: East Rutherford, N.J. — MetLife Stadium
Aug. 7, 2014: Foxboro, Mass. — Gillette Stadium
Aug. 8, 2014: Foxboro, Mass. — Gillette Stadium
Aug. 11, 2014: Washington, D.C. — Nationals Park
Aug. 13, 2014: Philadelphia — Lincoln Financial Field
Aug. 14, 2014: Philadelphia — Lincoln Financial Field*
Aug. 16, 2014: Detroit — Ford Field
Aug. 17, 2014: Detroit — Ford Field*
Aug. 19, 2014: Nashville — LP Field
Aug. 22, 2014: Houston — Reliant Stadium
Aug. 24, 2014: Arlington, Texas — AT&T Stadium
Aug. 27, 2014: St. Louis — Edward Jones Dome
Aug. 29, 2014: Chicago — Soldier Field
Aug. 30, 2014: Chicago — Soldier Field
Sept. 11, 2014: Pasadena, Calif. — Rose Bowl*
Sept. 12, 2014: Pasadena, Calif. — Rose Bowl
Sept. 13, 2014: Pasadena, Calif. — Rose Bowl
Sept. 16, 2014: Phoenix — University of Phoenix Stadium
Sept. 19, 2014: El Paso, Texas — Sun Bowl Stadium
Sept. 21, 2014: San Antonio — Alamodome
Sept. 23, 2014: Tulsa, Okla. — Bok Center
Sept. 25, 2014: New Orleans — Mercedes-Benz Superdome
Sept. 27, 2014: Charlotte, N.C. — Pavilion
Sept. 28, 2014: Charlotte, N.C. — Pavilion
Oct. 1, 2014: Atlanta — Georgia Dome
Oct. 3, 2014: Tampa, Fla. — Raymond James Stadium
Oct. 5, 2014: Miami — Sun Life Stadium
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Have you hit your 7-wood lately?
I speak to a lot of customers on a daily basis, most of which are looking on advice on what clubs they should use. If you fit customers, you should follow my example by listening carefully to what your customer needs because each golfer has certain preferences or like or dislikes based on hitting certain clubs in the past. Therefore I don't every like to generalize when it comes to fitting and why it is so important that each golfer select the correct set make up based on their strengths.
One of the most common complaints I hear from customers is, "I can't hit my longer irons (like a 3 and/or 4-iron)." Hey, join the crowd! The first thing you think to ask is whether or not that had tried any of the new hybrids on the market and follow up by asking which ones as well. When they tell me they have tried these new-fangled hybrids and they do hit them better than the iron, then I revert to an option of the past.
Ask them this next question, "Do you hit your 5-wood well?" If they say yes, which is often the case, now is the time to revisit the 7-wood. Oh, the lowly #7-wood. Remember what that was? You must not, because based on sales over the past several years the #7-wood has gradually sold less and less as manufactures and the media have tempted you with the hybrid as an answer to your problems.
Long before there were hybrids, there were high lofted fairway woods. The #7-wood became a good replacement for a 3-iron. The large head and higher loft made this an easy club to hit high and straight. The length is not unlike many #3 hybrids on the market which is manageable to provide solidness of contact and confidence at address.
For many men out there, don't let your ego get in the way of putting a club in your bag that can increase your chances of improving your score. No matter how much ribbing you may get from your playing partners, the #7-wood is perfectly legal and a viable alternative to a #3-irons and /or hybrid. At Hireko, we have a wide range to choose from. The #9-wood (yes, they make those too) like the Acer XK and the Synchron II make a good alternative to a #4-iron and/or hybrid.
I had foregone the #3-iron many years ago and like many fellow golfers have dabbled with various hybrids to ensure I had a club in my bag for a specific distance. But over all these years I can say that the 7-wood has been a staple in my arsenal and usually that one "go-to" club I could rely on regardless of which model I have used. That is why I have said many times over that I haven't met a 7-wood I didn't like.
Acer XK Fairway Woods Component Clubhead $19.95 each
Acer XK Fairway Woods Custom Assembled $49.95 each
Synchron II Fairway Woods Component Clubhead $14.95 each
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11 Comments on I Never Met a 7-Wood I Didn't Like
I have built lots of hybrids for clients. I have built and tried every hybrid in the Hireko Cataloge for myself and can't hit any of them. I have both Mantara and Synchron II woods 3, 5, and 7. Hit em all well! Love that 7 wood. Tiger said recently he would add a 7 when he got to be over 40.
Jeff, isn't it time to identify clubs (especially woods) by their loft rather than their number? When you talk about a 7-wood, do you mean 22* or 27* loft? That's a big difference, and I have both in my basement.
Ive been looking all over for 7 and 9 woods. Very hard to find anymore.
I just bought a used Synchron 9 wood. Very happy to see that I could find others on the main website.
I just ordered the 7, 11, 13 and 15 woods to go with my 9.
I love my irons and hit them well, but I always love the old 7 wood I had. It was really hard to hit a bad shot with it.
Im not a great golfer and never intend to be so these woods dont make me feel in the least embarrassed.
We played a game yesterday and off the tee I hit the Synchron 9 wood about 180 yards out dead middle of the fair way. I can live with that seeing that Ive only been really playing for about 7 weeks at this point.
"I can live with that seeing that Ive only been really playing for about 7 weeks at this point."
Let me add that what I mean is that when I played 15 years ago I was being taught by a guy who had NO clue how to swing a golf club. I dont even count that period now because Im having to deprogram from all the bad habits he 'taught' me.
My buddy lost is seven wood in some really tall grass over at the old Fairfax National Golf Club several years ago. He went searching for it in the golf cart and all we saw was the top of his head. Can you recommend a replacement which goes a long way but not when you throw it.
I was there when Kroll's "buddy" lost his seven wood at Fairfax National. He then proceeded to use one from the 8th grade picnic the following week!
Remember, if you hit, it'll go a long way!
Yes, I threw the 7-wood ( I liked it ) and have missed it ever since since. What do you think is a good 7 wood to replace the $12 raw-lings 7-wood
Fire your old coach and I'll coach you up! Then, avoid all two-stroke penaties!
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Why specialization?
Specialization can have dramatic benefits for the development of new document architectures.
Among the benefits:
No need to reinvent the base vocabulary - Create a module in 1/2 day with 10 lines vs. 6 months with 100s of lines; automatically pick up changes to the base
No impact from other designs that customize for different purposes - Avoid enormous, kitchen-sink vocabularies; Plug in the modules for your requirements
Interoperability at the base type - Guaranteed reversion from special to base
Reusable type hierarchies - Share understanding of information across groups, saving time and presenting a consistent picture to customers
Output tailored to customers and information - More specific search, filtering, and reuse that is designed for your customers and information not just the common denominator
Consistency - Both with base standards and within your information set
Learning support for new writers - Instead of learning standard markup plus specific ways to apply the markup, writers get specific markup with guidelines built in
Explicit support of different product architectural requirements - Requirements of different products and architectures can be supported and enforced, rather than suggested and monitored by editorial staff
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'Time Traveler's Wife' Subverts Potential
Kathleen Murphy, Special to MSN Movies
Looking for some romantic treacle to take the edge off summer's testosterone-loaded action flicks? That'd be "The Time Traveler's Wife," a lame love story that tries to manufacture emotional magic by means of a venerable sci-fi hook. The film's hunky hero, Henry (Eric Bana), a rather stolid fellow, falls way short of a passionate Heathcliff type, but he does have one trick up his sleeve: He's given to spontaneously disappearing without warning into other time zones.
Tripping naked around in the past, Henry encounters a pretty little girl in a summery meadow, and the stage is set for a love that spans decades. Talk about meeting cute. When Clare (Rachel McAdams), that little girl all grown up, runs into her beau in "current" time, the ripe, young woman is eager for the embrace she's been anticipating for years. Trouble is, the object of her affection hasn't a clue who this starry-eyed girl is, since he hasn't yet time-traveled to that sunny meadow.
Beginning to grasp the intrinsic loopiness of this occasionally charming narrative gimmick? Adapted from Audrey Niffenegger's 2003 best-seller, the movie was scripted by Bruce Joel Rubin, who took home a 1990 Academy Award for "Ghost," another tear-jerking love story featuring a physically absent hubby. Don't expect "Wuthering Heights" profundity or passion in "Time"; the film's basically about a couple of attractive yuppies whose lives of happy affluence are disrupted by a genetic disorder that sends Henry packing on his wedding night, at Christmas, when his wife miscarries, even the night of his own demise.
Underneath the fantasy folderol, "The Time Traveler's Wife" falls flat as romance because Henry and Clare are barely more than character cutouts, too thin in personality and emotion to make us care deeply about their weird predicament. They're just pretty snapshots in a haphazard continuum. Absent sexual or spiritual chemistry, no matter how often McAdams turns her rapt face up to her elusive mate, no matter how earnestly Bana furrows his brow over his marriage interruptus, their expressions don't add up to full-bodied feelings. These star-crossed lovers have no everyday lives, only a string of peak moments that fail to season their souls or psyches.
The movie moves fast, as though to distract you from these shortcomings and the nearly total absence of logic. Every scene is fraught, but without fruition. One moment Clare couldn't be happier to get hitched, despite Henry's incurable disappearing act. Three or four vignettes later, wifey's at the end of her tether, beating up on her long-suffering spouse: "Who would choose this life?" Granted, Henry's just told her he's had a vasectomy, to forestall any more miscarriages, the result of his offspring involuntarily time-traveling while still in the womb. (This doesn't bear thinking about.) Clare's question is legitimate, one we've been wondering about from the get-go. But things break fast among time travelers. Several movie-moments later, Clare's deliberately getting busy with (and knocked up by) an earlier version of Henry, which would seem to indicate the making of a life-choice, no?
With similar abruptness, Henry buttonholes a fellow (Ron Livingston), glimpsed now and again on the fringes of the central drama, to thank him for his wonderful, lifelong friendship. When did they bond? Did the scenes showing their deep connection get cut? Though the dramatic introduction of a sympathetic genetic scientist promises great things (especially since he's played by Stephen Tobolowsky), the guy almost immediately fades into the background, just another McGuffin.
The film skirts some of the creepier aspects of Henry's time-tripping, but they're hard to suppress in these suspicious times. It's all hearts and flowers when the naked guy in his 30s and 40s haunts a little girl in that Edenic meadow, but what keeps a teacher from screaming bloody murder when she spies a perfect stranger (Henry) hugging a child (his daughter) in her charge? And isn't it some kind of infidelity to flee an angry wife to kiss her 18-year-old, innocent self somewhere else in time?
In this movie the intractable paradox of time travel is Janus-faced. On the one hand, Henry can visit his beloved dead mother, an older version of daughter Alba can drop in to comfort her younger self, and even after death in one time zone, the traveler may live on in other times. But there's also something a little scary about being trapped forever in endless temporal loops, evoking the Escher-like "recursive occlusions" that nearly did in that limey Time Lord, Dr. Who.
What most disappoints about "The Time Traveler's Wife" are hints of rich, unmined possibilities the movie never really tackles. In reality, we all live with people we love who might disappear at any time. We make do with our mortality, visiting and revisiting touchstone memories to sustain ourselves through passing seasons. There's genuine magic in the way our imaginations time-travel: in memory; in fictions; through a powerful, long-lived connection with another person. In "Time," both Henry's iconic handprint fading from glass and that enchanted meadow, a lovely landscape seen in summer, fall, winter and spring, are metaphors for us, mayflies who can dream of eternity.
Kathleen Murphy currently reviews films for Seattle's Queen Anne News and writes essays on film for Steadycam magazine. A frequent speaker on film, Murphy has contributed numerous essays to magazines (Film Comment, the Village Voice, Film West, Newsweek-Japan), books ("Best American Movie Writing of 1998," "Women and Cinema," "The Myth of the West") and Web sites (Amazon.com, Cinemania.com, Reel.com). Once upon a time, in another life, she wrote speeches for Bill Clinton, Jack Lemmon, Harrison Ford, Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro, Art Garfunkel and Diana Ross.


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I installed GitHub for Windows on a university desktop computer, which is on a university's hard-wired Internet/LAN. In many cases, including mine, that means there is a proxy server between my computer and the real Internet. (Download GitHub for Windows, free.)
That turned out to be the cause of my problem: When I tried to clone a repo using GitHub for Windows, or using the GitHub website, it would not work. When trying to clone with GitHub for Windows, the process always stopped at 9% of download and eventually gave me this message:
Failed to clone the repository …
Please check your internet connection.
What's needed: You tell Git the address of the proxy server, and your username and password in the university system.
Here's how:
First, find the URL (address) and port number of the proxy server.
How to find information about your proxy address (on Windows)
Using your own login (username) and password (passw) for that network or computer, fill in the following
Then open PowerShell (Windows) and paste in the following (with your own info) ALL ON ONE LINE:
git config --global http.proxy http://username:firstname.lastname@example.com:8080
NOTE 1: Make sure you have:
config [space] [hyphen] [hyphen] global
There is NO space between the hyphens and global.
NOTE 2: The stuff after the @ is the two items you copied from LAN settings in Internet Options (above).
NOTE 3: After I had installed GitHub for Windows on this Windows computer, I also installed the Git SCM. Get it here:
Just download the installer .exe file and run it!
I have to use a Windows 7 computer for a couple of months (I know, pity me, right?). I wanted to start using Python on it, and sure enough, Zed's sweet instructions worked just fine.
The hard part was Zed's step 5: "Run your Terminal program. It won't look like much." You are ALREADY IN THE TERMINAL PROGRAM when you open the PowerShell, which he already told you to do. Geez.
Next, I got a big fat error message after I typed
python and pressed Enter. That is because Python is not installed. Zed has a link for that (in step 6.1). While installing, I carefully accepted all the defaults, changing NOTHING, because I know Windows is like that.
After installing Python 2.7 (oh yes — I had to check whether my Windows computer was 64-bit or not. Open the Control Panel, click System, and look for "System type" there), I had to copy and paste the line Zed supplies in step 6.4. This sets the environment variable so the PowerShell can find Python.
Next, I had to exit and restart PowerShell.
And then — voilà! I typed
python at the command prompt, and I was in Python!
Thanks, Zed!
Chapters 10 and 11 in Learning Python, 5th edition are the first in section 3, "Statements and Syntax."
"[Y]ou can make a single statement span across multiple lines. To make this work, you simply have to enclose part of your statement in a bracketed pair—parentheses (()), square brackets ([]), or curly braces ({}). Any code enclosed in these constructs can cross multiple lines … Parentheses are the catchall device …" p. 32
"An older rule also allows for continuation lines when the prior line ends in a backslash … This alternative technique is dated, though, and is frowned on today because it's difficult to notice and maintain the backslashes." (my bold)
Introducing the try statement:
while True: reply = raw_input('Enter text: ') if reply == 'stop': break try: num = int(reply) except: print 'Bad! ' * 8 else: print num ** 2 print 'Bye'
Chapter 10 is quite short! Just if, while, and try statements.
Assignments, expressions, and print are covered in chapter 11.
"Tuple assignment leads to a common coding trick in Python":
>>> nudge = 'NUDGE' >>> wink = 'WINK' >>> nudge, wink = wink, nudge >>> nudge 'WINK' >>> wink 'NUDGE'
"[W]e must generally have the same number of items on the right as we have variables on the left" — not surprising, but this is an example of how clearly this book explains most things.
This is funky — I had to think it out (p. 344):
>>> L = [1, 2, 3, 4] >>> while L: ... front, L = L[0], L[1:] ... print(front, L) ... 1 [2, 3, 4] 2 [3, 4] 3 [4] 4 []
Reserved words:
"because module names in import statements become variables in your scripts, variable name constraints extend to your module filenames too."
Names that begin with a single underscore (_X) are NOT imported by a "from module import xyz" statement.
(Python filenames may begin with an underscore.)
Expression statements:
Expressions are commonly used as statements in two situations:
"[A]lthough expressions can appear as statements in Python, statements cannot be used as expressions."
The rest of chapter 11 is about the print statement, with thorough coverage for both Python 3.x and 2.x (yay!). This is a simple thing:
print x, y # adds space between print x + y # no space
"[W]hereas file write methods write strings to arbitrary files, print writes objects to the stdout stream by default, with some automatic formatting added." p. 358
Taking a break from Python to work on jQuery:
Here is the GitHub repo: jQuery Exercises. Enjoy!
Chapter 9 in Learning Python, 5th edition has this rather unintuitive title, but it's the end of the section about "Object Types and Operations," so it's a kind of catch-all. (Seems to me the tuples could have gone in the previous chapter with lists and dictionaries.)
Tuples: "They work exactly like lists, except that tuples can't be changed in place (they're immutable) and are usually written as a series of items in parentheses, not square brackets." (p. 276)
You CAN reassign the variable name of a tuple, however — like with everything in Python. So you could have T = (1, 2, 3) and then later change it, with T = (4, 5, 6).
You can change a tuple to a list: L = list(T)
Or even T = list(T)
"Tuples can also be used in places that lists cannot — for example, as dictionary keys …", which seems useful.
Files: Zed gave me a lot of practice with files (writing, reading) in LPTHW. Not much new on that score.
"Python also includes advanced standard library tools for handling generic object storage (the pickle module), for dealing with packed binary data in files (the struct module), and for processing special types of content such as JSON, XML, and CSV text." (p. 284)
JSON - Python standard library module
Python XML and CSV modules:
Then there's a set of review questions (pp. 313-315). Good review. I keep forgetting how index works:
L.index(4) means "get the index number of the number 4 in the list L."
>>> L = ['apple', 'peach', 'pear', 'strawberry'] >>> L.index('pear') 2 >>> L[2] 'pear'
New files added to my python_notes repo:
I didn't write a new file for demonstrating pickle, because I already did that in useful_modules.py (3 weeks ago).
Newly updated with brand-new exercises to help beginners:
This is the PowerPoint I use in my journalism "advanced online" course after students have completed the first three units in this free Code School course.
Chapter 8 in Learning Python, 5th edition covers these useful objects. I think every programming language I've ever looked at has lists, but the dictionaries in Python are new to me. And they are so flexible!
Both lists and dictionaries can contain a mix of strings, numbers, tuples, lists, and dictionaries. Yes, lists can contain lists and dictionaries, and dictionaries can contain lists and dictionaries. Here's a list that contains three lists:
>>> matrix = [['x', 'o', 'x'], ... ['x', 'x', 'o'], ... ['o', 'x', 'x']] >>> matrix[2][2] = 'M' >>> matrix [['x', 'o', 'x'], ['x', 'x', 'o'], ['o', 'x', 'M']]
Both lists and dictionaries are mutable and can be expanded or shortened. You can stuff almost anything into them and extract anything that they contain.
Indexing and slicing both work on lists because a list is a sequence.
A dictionary is not a sequence, so you can't index or slice. Generally you access the contents of a dictionary via keys:
>>> mydict = {'rumah': 'house', 'duabelas': 12, 'kucing': 'cat'} >>> mydict['kucing'] 'cat'
Any immutable object can be used as a key. Numbers. Tuples!!
We can use four different syntactic structures to add data to a dictionary:
{'name': 'Bob', 'age': 40} D = {} D['name'] = 'Bob' D['age'] = 40 dict(name='Bob', age=40) # requires all keys to be strings dict([('name', 'Bob'), ('age', 40)])
I thought that was pretty cool. This is VERY cool:
>>> list1 = ['a', 'b', 'c'] >>> list2 = ['apple', 'banana', 'cherry'] >>> dict1 = dict(zip(list1, list2)) >>> dict1 {'a': 'apple', 'c': 'cherry', 'b': 'banana'}
Finally, there are list comprehensions and dictionary comprehensions. Here's an example of a list comprehension:
>>> mylist = ['east','west','north','south'] >>> compass = [s.upper() for s in mylist] >>> compass ['EAST', 'WEST', 'NORTH', 'SOUTH']
And here is a dictionary comprehension:
>>> dict2 = {c: 'my'+ c.upper() for c in list2} >>> dict2 {'cherry': 'myCHERRY', 'apple': 'myAPPLE', 'banana': 'myBANANA'}
This was a long chapter.
Some more skimming was possible, as chapter 5 covers numbers and chapter 7 covers strings, and I have been working with them for a while now. Of course, I also discovered new things in Lutz's very thorough chapters — even though he admits he is not going over everything we can do with numbers or strings in Python.
>>> math.floor(-2.5) -3 >>> math.trunc(-2.5) -2
I also learned more about sets than I had ever known before. They can be useful for comparisons and for getting rid of duplicate items in a list.
Chapter 6 sings the praises of dynamic typing in Python, which gives us lots of flexibility — the type of a variable is not fixed or set or even declared. The variable name points to an object, and the object has a type — NOT the variable. Many Python texts refer to this property, and yet I have never before seen such a sensible and clear explanation of what it really is, how it really works.
You can't CHANGE a string (it is immutable). To achieve a similar effect, you create a new string — "by concatenating, slicing, running formatting expressions, or using a method call like replace — and then assigning the result back to the original variable name." (The difference is not really detectable in most cases!)
Immutables: numbers, strings, tuples, frozensets
Mutables: lists, dictionaries, sets, bytearray
Lutz spends an amazingly LONG time talking about format expressions and format method calls and the difference between them. Thanks to Zed Shaw (LPTHW), I am very comfy with format strings (expressions). I was able to follow Lutz's explication, but it was LONG! (Did I say that already?)
If you are familiar with the format strings (%s, %d, %r, etc.), suffice to say there is a rather different way to do essentially all the same stuff, and it involves use of curly braces — {} — instead.
>>> s = "beam" >>> s.replace('ea', 'oo') 'boom' >>> s = s + " crash " >>> s 'beam crash ' >>> s.rstrip() 'beam crash' >>> s[5:] # slice 'crash ' >>> s.upper() 'BEAM CRASH ' >>> s.endswith('ash ') True >>> s = "0123456789" >>> s[::2] # two-step slice '02468' >>> s = "bumblebee" >>> s[::-1] # reverse order slice 'eebelbmub'
So … these are not surprising things, but I do love Python!
Oh, and: object.method(arguments) … s.find()
>>> breakfast = "We love to eat green eggs and ham." >>> result = breakfast.find('eggs') >>> result 21 # position of 'eggs' in breakfast
Love, love Python.
A little #NICAR14 goodness from me to you — I sat in this session and did as complete a writeup as I could. This is an important issue; as data journalism becomes a bigger thing, how do we edit it? This was a FAAAABULOUS session.
This chapter (pp. 93-132) gives a really good overview of what Python can do, and how it does it. I think if you are familiar with some other programming language(s), like C or C++, you would pretty much think Python is amazing after you read this, and you would want to learn more. On the other hand, if you are a relative newcomer to programming, you would probably be very confused and starting to think this is not a good book for you. (Note: The author says up front that this is not a "how to learn programming" book.)
I fall in the middle of those two types, although decidedly more toward the beginner. Yet I have been working on learning Python for more than a year, so I was not daunted by chapter 4. Also, I learned some new things that made me feel even more excited about Python.
In particular, nesting within both lists and dictionaries. OMG! You can really travel all over a table format, go in and out of JSON or other tabular data formats, change or find anything.
I learned that these two are the same, which I thought was pretty cool:
squares = [x ** 2 for x in [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]]
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A day to remember
Winnipeg's annual wedding show features more than 300 vendors offering everything a bride and groom could possibly need
While some people are still paying off their Christmas credit card debt, there are those who are about to enter another shopping season -- one where boughs of holly will be woefully inadequate when it comes to decking the hall.
Try decorative trees and "culturally inspired tablescapes."
Wedding bells ring, are you listening?
Weddings are a $4 billion per year industry in Canada. There were about 157,000 blessed events in 2012, with an average guest list of 140 names and a price tag of $31,110 (including honeymoon), according to the annual Weddingbells reader survey.
The expected cost of a wedding is reportedly up 20 per cent since 2008. (There was a recession, you say?)
And since most couples get engaged in December, 'tis the season for a fresh batch of betrotheds to descend on the Winnipeg Convention Centre, which has been transformed into a virtual bridalpalooza, occupying 100,000 square feet of space on two floors.
The 23rd annual Wonderful Wedding Show, which takes place this Saturday and Sunday (Jan. 19 and 20) from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., is expected to attract its usual 10,000 visitors.
"Only so many people get married in Winnipeg every year, but I think we get every single one of them," says Sherri Rheubottom, show manager since 1996. "They'll come early and they all line up, like a rock concert. They're on a mission, they have a plan of attack."
Waiting for them will be more than 300 vendors -- wedding planners, photographers, caterers, etc. -- hawking everything from candy buffets and cummerbunds to dance lessons, diamonds, fireworks and floral arrangements.
Not only are newly engaged couples eager to get "looking and booking," Rheubottom says, they want to make sure their special day makes a statement and ends up being a memorable and entertaining event for their family and friends.
That might be why the average length of engagement, according to Weddingbells.ca, is 18 months and 24 days, up more than a month from 2008.
Planning a wedding is a major undertaking, and 51 per cent of engaged women say they're opting for a traditional one, with engagement parties, stags and stagettees and rehearsal dinners to boot.
It can get overwhelming, but having all of Winnipeg's top wedding professionals under one roof can help ease the stress, says Rheubottom. (Many vendors will book their entire year's business over the course of the weekend.)
"Getting married is such a huge experience for the bride and groom," she says. "It's an exciting time and we want to really make the show a fun, easy experience for them.
The show is set up, she says, so that brides -- a.k.a. VIBs (Very Important Brides) -- and their guests can make a day of it. In between browsing and booking dates, they can chill in the inspirational ambiance of the Brides Lounge, which will feature comfy seating, music, mood lighting and wine and bubbly. (Grooms-to-be are also welcome, although they do have their own lounge, complete with televisions.)
Would-be brides will get some extra pampering this year at the Bride Beauty Bar, with mini manicures and massages and makeup and hair demos provided by Soul Beauty Boutique. The Winnipeg company specializes in mobile makeup services to take the pressure off busy brides on their big day.
This year, brides and their bridesmaids will also be able to purchase special team T-shirts. They're $20 each and available in two styles: Glam Bride, black with script lettering that says Bride and Bride's Entourage, and Sporty Bride, with varsity lettering spelling Bride and Team Bride for the attendants. Everyone who purchases a shirt receives a free souvenir photo, with proceeds going to breast cancer charities.
Of course, before brides ever say "I do," they'll usually end up saying "yes to the dress" to the tune of $1,847, on average.
Two full-scale fashion shows, at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, will spotlight 2013 bridal fashion trends from the world's foremost designers and Winnipeg's leading retailers. Brides will have the chance to view gowns that have never been seen before.
Turns out bridal fashion is no longer such a black-and-white issue. Apparently, blushing brides are attracting attention.
"The most popular colour for wedding gowns right now is blush pink. It's like a really toned down, almost nude pink," says Hannah Los, bridal consultant at L.A. Collection. "I've had a lot of people ask for it."
There will also be a lot of ivory and cream among the rosy hues, says Lore Lionetti, owner of Bliss Bridal. As for styles, the peplum skirt will be popular in 2013, she says, especially with a lot of texture, like sheer overlays and raw edges.
"Really soft fabrics are in," Lionetti says, "such as chiffons mixed with tulle, and beautiful, soft laces."
The Wonderful Wedding Show runs Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. (VIB entrance 10 a.m. but VIBs must pre-register) to 6 p.m. with fashion shows at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. daily. Tickets are $13, plus fees, and available through Ticketmaster or at the door.
Different, delightful
-- Reception guests may nibble on decadent doughnuts instead of wedding cake.
-- Another alternative to cake, or even cupcakes, is a cookie bar featuring a mix of homemade family recipes, as well as store-bought staples like Oreos, served with shot glasses of milk. Or try a candy buffet, where you can co-ordinate the candy colours to match your decor.
-- Some couples are having food trucks -- maybe a favourite lunch or date spot -- pull up to the venue to serve late-night snacks.
-- Designers suggest large-scale decorative trees as an alternative or accompaniment to tabletop floral arrangements.
-- If a venue can't accommodate a slideshow, try going with a low-tech, personalized approach to presenting photos by displaying them in spray-painted frames placed throughout the venue.
-- Instead of renting a photo booth, which can be costly, couples can make their own booth and either provide cameras or let guests use their own. Tiaras, feather boas or mini-moustaches and lips attached to sticks make fun accessories.
-- Make take-home favours either edible or practical, like pencils personalized with the wedding date.
-- Canadian Press
By the numbers
157,866 -- Estimated number of weddings in Canada during 2012
$31,110 -- Average actual cost of a wedding in Canada, including the honeymoon
140 -- Average number of wedding guests
291Ñ2-- Average age of an engaged woman in Canada
51 -- Percentage of engaged women planning a traditional wedding
51 -- Percentage of weddings that will occur between July and September
83 -- Percentage of brides who will have a bridal shower
30 -- Percentage of brides who find planning a wedding more stressful than enjoyable
-- Weddingbells' Annual Reader Survey
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition January 15, 2013 D1
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November 29th and 30th (Friday and Saturday) – Rory is thrilled to be heading back to Saskatoon with his incredible 12-piece band for the Saskatoon Festival of Trees fundraiser. This is definitely the most "beautiful" event we do each year! You will get to take it all in, as a private viewing of all the exquisite Christmas displays is included with your ticket purchase, truly making it a holiday feast for the eyes and ears!
And by treating yourself to an amazing evening out, you are also supporting the beneficiary of the 2013 Festival of Trees - the Saskatchewan MS Clinical Research Chair Campaign through Saskatoon City Hospital Foundation!
Doors: 6:00pm
Visit the Saskatoon Festival of Trees website to find out more information on this fantastic event: http://www.festival-of-trees.com/rory-allens-tribute-to-elvis.html.
December 3rd (Tuesday) – Rory and his fabulous 12-piece band will be presenting a wonderful "If Every Day Was Like Christmas" show at the Mae Wilson Theatre in Moose Jaw, SK, for Casino Moose Jaw!
December 14th and 15th (Saturday evening and Sunday matinee) – Rory and his incredible 12-piece band will be bringing a "Rockin' Elvis Christmas" to McPhillips Station Casino in Winnipeg, MB!
December 19th, 20th, 21st (Thursday, Friday and Saturday) - Rory and his fabulous 12-piece band will be presenting a wonderful "If Every Day Was Like Christmas" show at Casino Regina!
|January 11th (Saturday) – Dakota Dunes Casino, Saskatoon. SOLD OUT!
January 26th (Sunday) – Regina Humane Society Telethon, 6:00pm to 10:00pm. Tune in to Access 7 and be a part of this wonderful annual fundraiser. For more details, please visit:http://www.reginahumanesociety.ca
February 6th (Thursday) – Kisses for Kritters, Moose Jaw Humane Society fundraiser. This is a terrific event for an excellent cause – get your tickets now! See event poster for more information: Kisses for Kritters poster.
|March 22nd (Saturday) – Grenfell and District Lions present Rory Allen in concert. See event poster for ticket information.
July 15 (Tuesday) - Rory Allen's "Rock 'N' Roll is Here to Stay!" performance is coming to The Mae Wilson Theatre for Casino Moose Jaw this summer!
July 19 (Saturday) - Rory Allen's "Rock 'N' Roll is Here to Stay!" performance is coming to Casino Regina Show Lounge this summer!
July 20 (Sunday) - Rory Allen's "Solid Gold Elvis Gospel & Inspirational Favourites" performance is coming to Casino Regina Show Lounge this summer!
July 29th (Tuesday): Rory will be performing again near the Frederick W Hill Mall in downtown Regina on City Square Plaza, for the Annual Strawberry Social Fundraiser for Special Olympics. The event runs from 11:30am to 1:00pm – see you there!
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Dental Drill in Woman's Lung Is Exactly Why We Should All Be Terrified of the Dentist
Hey, you're not afraid of the dentist or anything silly like that, are ya? Nah, who gets nervous about going to the dentist? Besides, y'know, EVERYBODY. Cause yowza!! As anyone who's spent a significant amount of time in the dentist's char can attest, dental work = PAIN. Oh lord, the unholy terror! If not for the heavenly prescription meds accompanying major procedures, there'd simply be no point at all to the to tooth-y torture.
Okay, so maybe I've had a few bad experiences. If you're one of the rare souls who hasn't silently wished for death while under the drill, I'm super happy for you. Really, I am. So happy for you that I would never burst your bubble by telling you about the terrifying thing that happened recently to a poor, innocent woman having dental implant surgery.
Yeah ... I lied. I resent your happy dental memories! Anyway, this poor, innocent, 60-year-old woman was having regular old routine, commonplace dental implant surgery. In Sweden, ironically known as the home to the world's best dentists. (Not really, but it makes the story better.) This next part, unfortunately, is true: During the surgery, the drill head (called a burr) came loose from its grip and fell into her mouth. She was "pulled into a sitting position" but by then it was "too late," according to the hospital's medical chief, Per Weitz: "She tried to spit it out, and was made to cough, but she'd already swallowed."
Oh yes. And it gets better. Because when the doctors took her to be X-rayed (immediately, of course), it was discovered that the drill bit was not, as one might expect, lodged in her throat or her stomach. Nope, the 3 cm long drill head was "lodged in her right lung!"
No worries, though -- that's what a bronchoscopy is for, apparently, or as Weintz explained it: "A pinky-sized tube was sent into her lung with a small camera and pliers to grab hold of the drill."
So it took her a month to recover but now the woman is fine and all's well that ends well and this kind of thing doesn't happen very often and blah blah blah, but really, the only appropriate way to wind up this terrible tale is as follows:
And that's why everyone should be scared of going to the dentist. THE END.
What's the worst thing that ever happened to you at the dentist?
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ashleyhomenkoDecember 29, 2012 at 4:49 PMIt really bothers me when writers write slang like "y'know".
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DR2011December 29, 2012 at 5:09 PMBad things happen from time to time - they always will. Especially in medicine/dentistry because all practitioners are human and therefore err from time to time.
The original article states she had X-rays taken and then was bronched to retrieve the foreign object immediately. This would bother me if they hasn't handled it immediately. Is it scary? Sure. But sometimes things happen. It says more about the practitioners character that the situation was handled immediately and appropriately. Besides the equipment itself could have broken which is something nobody can predict with any certainty.
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kisses5050December 29, 2012 at 5:17 PM
That doesn't bother me as badly as using "Causeyowza!! As anyone who's" The word is "because". I don't correct posters because most of the time they are rushing or ,to be honest, why shut someone down from expressing her opinion because she is afraid of the grammar police. However, the 'professional' writers should get it correct.
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Mom2fourloveDecember 29, 2012 at 6:28 PMWhen I was 4-5 my dentist at the time slapped me and pulled my hair when I was having a tooth pulled. I never told my mother until years later but I have extreme anxiety even going for a cleaning to this day
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cmjazDecember 29, 2012 at 6:52 PMI always wondered why people become dentists. They are good people for the most part, but they know that they are feared.
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VenaeDecember 29, 2012 at 10:03 PM
26 cavities (allegedly) filled over two visits while age 12 - really? How many teeth do you even have at age 12 - just googled it - 28. But all of mine (again, allegedly) were between my teeth - and due to not flossing. Uh huh. I think this guy was full of shit. Cost my parents a fortune and I got to stare at red, white and blue striped wallpaper w/clown pictures - yes, clown pictures - w/one of those unGodly things clamped to my mouth, stretched open for hours at a time - I can't even look at that picture w/this article. 30 years later and I'm still traumatized.
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dixiechick2December 29, 2012 at 10:12 PMMom2fourlove, I had the same experience with a dentist. I think I was 5 or 6 years old, I was getting a tooth pulled and I was scared and cried, my Dentist slapped me. I told my mom we never went to him again! To this day I can't go to the dentist without sedation.
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ruby_jewel_04December 29, 2012 at 11:41 PMDear blogger, way to go. You are going to terrify people. It was an accident. I have worked as a dental assistant for years, and have never seen anything like this happen. It was a freak accident. She was taken care of, and is fine. Chill the hell out and stop being judgmental. Dentists are not bad people.
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KarinJuneDecember 30, 2012 at 4:04 AM
When I was about 8yrs old I had 2 teeth pulled, I don't know why. I tried to tell the dentist that the novacaine wasn't working, but he went ahead and tried to pull the teeth anyway. Reflexes took over and I shut my mouth. Hard. Apparently I bit his thumb to the bone. He got the teeth out, then told my mom never to bring me in again, on his way to the er. Needless to say, I am terrified of dentists to this day, 40 yrs later. It does make me smile to think that he probably has a scar to remind him to listen...lol
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Mom2fourloveDecember 30, 2012 at 9:11 AMDixiechick2. I have to get sedated as well. And I've had 4 children!


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Common sense is not so common. Why?
How come some people get it and others don't? Based on my experience you can't learn it at school.
Topics: Cognitive philosophy
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Jul 18 2012: Common sense examples:
- if you see someone walking in a building with their hands full of grocery, hold the door pen for them.
- if it is raining outside let pedestrians cross the road. You are in a car and will not get wet.
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By HealthMeUp | February 7, 2013, 5:00 pm IST Health & Fitness
Keep it a secret. Don't disclose it for the first few months - Dr. Sadhana says "It is a common myth is that you should keep the news of pregnancy a secret during the first couple of months. There have been no scientific reasons behind it. It is just because of some elders in the family who advise to keep the news of pregnancy a secret for the first few months, because they fear some evil eye or so may lead to miscarriage. This is completely baseless as miscarriages have their own reasons."


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You eat what you dumpPosted by Marc van Gurp | 2-07-2014 21:45 | Category: Environment
Three gorgeous ads from the Surfrider Foundation about the fact that when we pollute the ocean we pollute ourselves.
Illustrator: Pieter van Eenoge.
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Hard-hitting Animation About Killing Aid WorkersPosted by Marc van Gurp | 25-03-2014 22:00 | Category: Developing World, Peace & Conflicts
On August 4th 2006 in Sri Lanka, seventeen ACF (Action Contra La Faim) International humanitarian aid workers were assassinated, in the midst of the violent outbreaks in the city of Muttur.
Following this attack, ACF International had to bring an end to its work in Sri Lanka. We wrote about it before in 2012 and January this year.
TBWA\PARIS now made a third campaign about the same killing as known as the Muttur crime. The film illustrates the dramatic consequences of a crime against humanitarian aid workers.
It is released this week because the 25ème United Nations Human Rights Council meets in Geneva to examine and deliver a resolution on the Sri Lanka.
More at the campaign website Protect Aid Workers.
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The moment your daughter tells you that she is HIV positivePosted by Marc van Gurp | 12-03-2014 15:00 | Category: Fundraising, Health
- Dad is me.
- How are you honey?
- I am HIV positive.
This is the message that no parent wants to hear. It is the basis of the new campaign of Sidaction. Because Parents can't always be there for their kids.
Sidaction is a major French public event that started in 1994 for raising awareness and collecting charitable funds for AIDS.
In contrast to 1994, the organization can bring a positive message. As the times have changed. Because medical science is a step further as it was then.
Parents are the target group this year.
"Cette fois, on a tous le pouvoir d'agir. Donnons
"This time, we all have the power to act. Give."
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Metro Travelers in Paris follow a bullet to sign a petitionPosted by Marc van Gurp | 2-01-2014 22:20 | Category: Peace & Conflicts
These big ads were shown at the Paris subway last month. It was from Action Against Hunger made for Human Rights Day.
Commuters could follow a bullet through a series of prints with symbols of the essential help humanitarians bring to those in need.
Ending with: "Killing a humanitarian is like killing those he helped".
Metro Travelers are also invited to support the protection of humanitarian help by signing directly on the last print.
The campaign is a follow up from Justice for Muttur, the campaign aims to get war criminals behind bars.
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Justice for Muttur: Put war criminals behind barsPosted by Marc van Gurp | 8-10-2012 21:35 | Category: Human rights, Peace & Conflicts
On the 4th August 2006, in the midst of civil war, many civilians, including 17 aid workers of Action against Hunger (ACF), were killed in the town of Muttur, in Sri Lanka. The aid workers were executed in their office, brought to their knees and shot a bullet in the head. That is a war crime.
None of the three national investigations launched in Sri Lanka since 2006 came to an answer. The investigations were plagued with obstruction, interference of politics in the judiciary, lack of transparency and independence, and procedural irregularities.
ACF is asking for justice for this case of war crime by opening an international and independent UN investigation. They ask you to sign their petition. It will be handed over to the President of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations on 22nd of October.
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FortunatelyPosted by Armando Alves | 17-06-2009 10:16 | Category: Elder Issues, Health
Impressive film for France's Alzheimer Association.
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No maimingPosted by Marc van Gurp | 6-07-2006 15:14 | Category: Ableism, Human rights, Politics, Developing World
Two print ads from the French department of Handicap International. Handicap International exists to support the needs of disabled people in countries affected by poverty and conflict. They provide both emergency relief and long term development support.
The first one sent in by Mike (thanks!) is about landmines. Although you can discuss about the visual, the mine salesman will blow himself up :-), the message is clear. Landmines can make a mess of people's lives. Nice detail: the flags of countries which have a big landmine problem at the left side of the shoebox.
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The two coolest watches Zenith has made in the last 53 years. Which would you choose, and why?
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The Zenith Espada. The first three-handed "El Primero," ever.
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The New Pilot Watch From Zenith.
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The Zenith El Primero Striking 10th. From Behind.
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Randy Pedersen
Randy Pedersen (born 1962) is a professional bowler and color analyst for ESPN's coverage of the PBA Tour. He works alongside play-by-play commentator Lon McEachern. Pedersen grew up in Southern California, but relocated to Clermont, Florida in the early 1990s, where he has resided ever since. He and his wife Becky have two children: a son, Chad and a daughter, Savannah.
Bowling career[edit]
As a bowler, Pedersen has won 13 PBA titles, with his last coming at age 40 in the 2002 Pepsi Open. That title pushed him over the $1 million career earnings mark, making him the 24th millionaire in PBA history at the time. Most dominant from the mid-1980s to early 1990s, Pedersen captured the prestigious PBA National Championship crown in 1987.
At the same time, he is also known for two of the worst breaks in PBA history. He lost both his tour exemption and a PBA Tournament of Champions match due to leaving one pin standing in the last frame on each of those occasions. He was ranked #35 on the PBA's 2008 list of 50 Greatest Players of the last 50 years.
Pedersen was elected to the PBA Hall of Fame in October, 2010, and was inducted with the 2011 class on January 22, 2011.[1]
Randy joined the PBA50 Tour (formerly PBA Senior Tour) in 2013, and on May 16 of that year he won the very first tournament he entered: the PBA50 Dayton Classic.[2]
Television and Film[edit]
Off the lanes, Pedersen has had great success behind the microphone as a TV analyst since joining ESPN in 2001; Pedersen earned the position after getting his start in broadcasting as a lane-level reporter on ABC's Pro Bowlers Tour. He also worked for Fox Sports Net for a brief time in 2000.
Pedersen has been lauded for his extensive knowledge of the game, associated bowling lingo and catch phrases (see below) as well as his sense of humor. He also had a small part in the 1996 comedy movie Kingpin along with several other professional bowlers.
- "Dead flush perfect!":
- "He absolutely pured it."
(above two describing a perfectly-rolled strike, with all 10 pins going into the pit)
- "Bartender, make it a double!!"
(sometimes shouted when a player throws back-to-back strikes)
- "Bad mammal!"
(Pedersen uses this term either to describe a bowler on a hot streak, or serious pin carry when a less-than-perfect shot takes out all ten pins)
- "Nothin' left but pin shrapnel!"
- "Shreds the rack!"
(above two sometimes used to describe a powerful strike)
- "Winner winner, Chicken dinner!"
(referring to the winner of a match)
- "Give me some coffee to go with that sweet roll"
(referring to a nicely rolled strike shot)
Pedersen once commented on his role as PBA Analyst on ESPN telecasts. He said, "I want to convey to the viewing public that they are watching the best bowlers in the world. It's my job to explain what makes them that good, as well as provide other information that 'Johnny 150 average' doesn't already know. One thing I learned is if you can bring enthusiasm to the table, sometimes it doesn't really matter what is coming out of your mouth. The viewing audience senses the enthusiasm." [3]
- ^ Schneider, Jerry. "Randy Pedersen, Dale Eagle and Len Nicholson Elected to PBA Hall of Fame." Article at www.pba.com on October 20, 2010.
- ^ Randy Pedersen is Unlikely Winner in PBA50 Dayton Classic Schneider, Jerry at pba.com, May 16, 2013.
- ^ Zikes, Lyle. "Sizing up the lanes: Randy Pedersen has brought color to the PBA as an analyst." Article in Bowling Digest, June, 2002.


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annual Florida Cup Day was Tampa Bay Downs' annual celebration of Florida-bred horses, but the event took on an international flair when Wild About Chrome – owned by Edmonton, Alberta residents Nannette and James McCullough – kept his perfect record intact at 5-for-5 by winning the $75,000 Hilton Garden Inn/Hampton Inn & Suites Sprint.
The McCulloughs, who live in Dunedin when competing at Tampa Bay Downs, are natives of Scotland who grew up 19 miles apart. They have been married 52 years and have three children, nine grandchildren and a new stable star in Wild About Chrome, claimed by them for $16,000 from his third start.
The victory was one of two Florida Cup Day triumphs for jockey Ronnie Allen, Jr., Daniel Centeno also rode two Cup winners. Owner Luis Ortiz, a south Florida resident originally from Venezuela, sent out a pair of winners.
Across the board, Saturday's results in front of a festive crowd of 6,188 proved that while Florida breeds as good a horse as any state or country, the international appeal of Thoroughbred racing knows no bounds.
Here is a recap of the day's Cup races.
Credit the Venezuela connection, and a gutsy effort through the stretch, for Boy of Summer's thrilling neck victory from China Holiday in the mile-and-a-sixteenth contest for 3-year-olds on a good turf course.
Boy of Summer, a son of Exclusive Quality-Melancholy Baby, out of Maudlin, is owned by Venezuelan Luis Ortiz's Lone Stable LLC and trained by Venezuelan Rodolfo Garcia. The winner was ridden by Tampa Bay Downs leading jockey Daniel Centeno, who is from Caracas.
"Great emotion. Great emotion," Ortiz said when asked his reaction of Boy of Summer's come-from-behind performance. He purchased the winner as a 2-year-old last April at the Ocala Breeders' Sales auction for $32,000. Ortiz's 16-year-old daughter Crisol was also present for the winner's-circle ceremony.
Assistant trainer Jesus Prada said there were no special instructions for Centeno. "I just told him to win the race," he said.
Boy of Summer gave Centeno a record sixth Florida Cup day victory.
Brent and Crystal Fernung, the owners of Journeyman Stud, were almost as excited as the winning connections afterward. The Fernungs stand winning sire Exclusive Quality for $2,500. "If you can guarantee we sponsor the race and get a win for one of our sires, we'll sponsor two or three of them," Brent Fernung said.
Boy of Summer improved his record to three victories from nine starts, while the $45,000 winner's share of the purse more than doubled his career earnings to $89,010. He paid $8.60 to win as the third betting choice in the seven-horse field.
China Holiday just missed getting up for the victory, but was ¾-length ahead of pace setter Balino.
Boy of Summer's time was 1:43.67.
"I watched replays of the horse's last races, so I was confident he would close," Centeno said. "There was speed up ahead of us and I had a good spot inside and I was able to wait with him. Entering the stretch, he fired when I asked. They weren't stopping ahead of us, but we got a lane and he was best."
When owner-trainer William Kaplan is in need of a superior performance in the saddle, he often turns to Juan Leyva. The two clicked in the 2011 Sentient Jet Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Churchill Downs with Florida-bred filly Musical Romance, owned by Kaplan in partnership with Adam Lazarus' Pinnacle Racing Stable.
For the Stonehedge Farm South Sophomore Filles, Kaplan summoned Leyva to ride Putitinmypocket, who had won only one of 11 career starts. Looking for an extra edge, he outfitted the 3-year-old filly in a pair of blinkers that belonged to Musical Romance.
The extra attention to detail paid off in a driving two-length victory from Cindys Casino in the seven-furlong stakes. The longest shot in the seven-horse field, Putitinmypocket paid a whopping $55.60 to win while completing the distance in 1:25.39 on a fast main surface.
"(Breaking poorly) has been her problem all along, so I got my rider up here for this race and he did a sterling job," Kaplan said. "She broke well, he kept her up close and found a spot between horses and she gave a terrific effort. She has a heck of a finishing kick. She has been real competitive in all of her races, and today she was placed forwardly. I thought she would win (on the backstretch). She's got a lot of talent; she can go long, too."
Leyva said his familiarity with the daughter of Put It Back-Irish Drop, by Way West, paid off down the stretch, when she overtook Cindys Casino and third-place finisher Cotton Pickin. "I had ridden her before and been up on her in the mornings, so I knew what I had," Leyva said. "She broke really well, but I wanted to wait with her so I let the leaders get away.
"I asked her for run in the turn and when we hit the stretch, she was really rolling. I was sure we would win it before we got to the sixteenth pole."
Kaplan and Pinnacle Racing (managed by Lazarus) are the co-owners of Putitinmypocket, purchased for $35,000 at last year's April Ocala Breeders' Sales auction. Her sire, Put It Back, stands at Bridlewood Farm in Ocala for $6,000.
Trainer Kathy Mongeon knows her job would be a lot easier if all her horses were as honest as Hobbs, the 4-year-old gelding who powered to victory from the Todd Pletcher-trained Star Channel by a half-length in the mile-and-an-eighth Besilu Stables Turf Classic.
"He is just an awesome horse, and the farther he goes the better he is," Mongeon said after Hobbs won his second stakes for her and owner and New Jersey resident Peter D. Kelly since he was claimed last summer at Saratoga for $50,000. "He is such an honest horse, he is really something special."
Daniel Centeno rode Hobbs, his second Florida Cup victory on the day and a record seventh all-time. Hobbs paid $9.40 to win after completing the distance in 1:49.22 on a good turf course.
Mongeon noted Hobbs was sweating and worked up before the race, but when the gates opened he was all business. "He got fired up like that when he won (the Montserrat Stakes) at Aqueduct last year, too," she said. "We just wanted him to relax wherever he was, and Daniel took a nice long hold and was patient with him before he made his move."
It was the fifth victory in 13 starts for Hobbs, a son of Put It Back-Minster Abbey, by Dehere, bred by Minerva Stable. The $45,000 first-place check raised his career earnings to $254,725.
"I was a little worried warming him up," Centeno said. "He was edgy and sweating, but he settled down as soon as the gate opened. I was able to find a spot for him in behind the leaders, and I got the lane I wanted entering the stretch. I had to ride him hard for a few strides, but he picked it up in deep stretch and was going really well at the finish."
Star Channel held on for second by a nose from Bad Debt.
A driving three-horse finish in the seven-furlong contest left all those involved – horsemen, jockeys and fans – limp and yet thirsting for more.
After the photo-finish camera determined City of Weston had defeated Ruler of Love by a nose, with Risk Factor another head back in third, the winning connections had to sweat out a stewards' inquiry and objections from both the second and third-place jockeys.
Cloud Nine Lumoni owner Luis Ortiz, who purchased City of Weston privately from breeder Haras Gran Derby, said the wait was worth it. The Venezuela native (also the owner of Journeyman Stud Sophomore Turf winner Boy of Summer, under another stable name) echoed his comments after City of Weston's victory was upheld. The winner's time was 1:23.48; he paid $5 as the betting favorite.
"Much emotion, again," said Ortiz, who named the gorgeous gray/roan son of Holy Bull-How About Dattt, by Souvenir Copy, after his current hometown in south Florida. "Our plans now are to win a lot of stakes with him."
City of Weston finished second in the $100,000 Spectacular Bid Stakes at Gulfstream on Jan. 1 to Merit Man and won his most recent start, a six-furlong allowance/$75,000 optional claiming event, on Feb. 24 at Gulfstream. The winner is trained by Antonio Sano and was ridden by Paco Lopez. Sano's 15-year-old son Alessandro and Ortiz's 16-year-old daughter Crisol joined the celebration.
After Ruler of Love and Risk Factor duked it out on the front end, Lopez moved City of Weston figuring to pick up the pieces, but the other two were resolute. In deep stretch, Risk Factor drifted out into Ruler of Love, who then bumped the winner. The stewards ruled Risk Factor initiated the contact and did not change the order of finish.
"The race set up nicely for us," Lopez said. "I was able to get between horses behind the leaders going into the turn, but the lane I was looking for closed and I waited to make our run entering the stretch. There was some bumping getting to the wire, but he kept trying and we were good enough."
Sire Holy Bull, the 1994 Horse of the Year who sired 2005 Kentucky Derby winner Giacomo, was retired from stud duty last year.
More than 11 months had gone by since Hooh Why's previous victory, but the now-7-year-old mare still earned 2-1 favoritism entering her defense of her 2012 Distaff Turf victory. She had finished second in a pair of Grade III stakes since and had placed in four more stakes, including a close second to Regalo Mia in the Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Turf at Gulfstream in January.
More recently, she competed in the Grade III Endeavour and the Grade III Hillsborough at Tampa Bay Downs, finishing fourth and fifth, respectively, to the Todd Pletcher-trained superstar Old Tune.
So majority owner Mark Hoffman felt confident in Hooh Why's chances against nine others who couldn't match her credentials. Still, Hoffman was almost a basket case inside the eighth pole, as Hooh Why appeared to have little chance to catch a surging Inaugurate, trained by Chad Brown.
"I told (jockey) Ronnie (Allen, Jr.) 'Do not push the button until you turn for home,' "
Hoffman said, "and then she'll give you everything she has. Ronnie rode her great and did not cut her loose until she turned for home, but she was getting in trouble and I didn't know if she could get there in time."
Once unleashed, Hooh Why showed her class to defeat second-choice Inaugurate and jockey Paco Lopez by a head. Sweet Little Lion was another ¾-length back in third, followed by Awesome Belle.
Hooh Why's time was 1:42.56 on a good turf course. She paid $6 to win. The victory was her 12
in 51 starts, and the first-place prize of $45,000 raised her earnings to $1,210,103.
Allen was on Hooh Why May 4 at Tampa Bay Downs when she broke the $1-million barrier in career earnings and has ridden her several times since. "This mare has been in against some tough runners this year, always trying hard and making a bid," Allen said. "Today we got in a good spot in the middle of a field we thought she could handle and I was able to wait to make her run.
"The leaders fanned out pretty wide in the turn, and I waited some more. Our lane opened up entering the stretch and we were suddenly running past horses. This was her day and she deserved to win."
The Grade I winner, a daughter of Cloud Hopping-Magic Merger, by Corporate Report, was bred by the late Gail Gee. Hoffman owns Hooh Why in partnership with Earl Trostrud, Jr.; Rick Slomkowski was the winning trainer.
Hooh Why is two months in foal to Leroidesanimaux, the sire of Animal Kingdom. "She is as sound as she was when she was 2, which is why I keep running her," said Hoffman, who will point Hooh Why to next month's Grade III Arlington Matron – a race in which she finished second last year. "She'll be turned out for two weeks; she was just out 14 days and breezed once coming into today."
After watching Wild About Chrome win his second career start in a $16,000 claiming race for non-winners of two races here Jan. 16, trainer James McCullough told his wife of 52 years, Nannette, what a nice horse the 4-year-old gelding was.
"I never thought they would run him for $16,000 again, but they did (in a non-winners of three event on March 8)," McCullough said. "I told my wife, 'We have to take this guy.' "
Wild About Chrome won that day going six-and-a-half furlongs by more than five lengths, and in his first start for the McCulloughs on March 24, he won a seven-furlong conditional allowance in 1:22.45, only .42 seconds off the track record.
James McCullough at first was hesitant about entering Wild About Chrome in the Hilton Garden Inn/Hampton Inn & Suites Sprint against the likes of seven-furlong track-record holder Good Lord and the past two winners of the race, 2011 champ Sneaking Uponyou and the mare It's Me Mom, who set the six-furlong track record of 1:08.67 in last year's renewal.
"Then we decided he was good enough to take a chance with," McCullough said.
Is he ever.
After racing in fourth early, Wild About Chrome and jockey Ronnie Allen, Jr., began to roll on the outside and didn't stop until posting a 1-length victory from Sneaking Uponyou in 1:10.91. Soaring Stocks was a half-length back in third, followed by Grande Shores.
"This guy (Wild About Chrome) has settled in for Mr. McCullough; he can wait to make his run now," said Allen, who was aboard for the first time. "With all that speed up front today, I thought we would have a serious chance. I know how this track plays and being outside entering the stretch was where I wanted to be.
"There is no quit in this guy. He just kept running."
Now 5-for-5 in his career, Wild About Chrome paid $16.80 to win. The son of Indian Ocean-Keri's Snowman, by Frosty the Snowman, was bred by Bridlewood Farm. Indian Ocean now stands at Briar Hill Farm in Massachusetts for $2,000.
"This is our biggest victory," said a delighted James McCullough, who has been a trainer for 36 years, the past six at Tampa Bay Downs. "We spent a lot of years running at bush tracks in Canada, but we'll bring him to Northlands Park (in their hometown of Edmonton, Alberta) and find some nice stakes races for him."
The winner's share of $45,000 raised Wild About Chrome's earnings to $83,790.
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