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TNB: Gun Control
I'll never forget my first real gun, a seven-shot Ithaca .410 pump shotgun. It was a surprise Christmas present from Mack, my alcoholic grandfather who, in the 1950s, had murdered a black musician with a ball peen hammer when the guy rolled into Mack's Paris, Texas gas station asking for a battery charge after hours. Apparently, the man had been rude.
I'll never forget my first real gun, a seven-shot Ithaca .410 pump shotgun. It was a surprise Christmas present from Mack, my alcoholic grandfather who, in the 1950s, had murdered a black
musician with a ball peen hammer when the guy rolled into Mack's Paris, Texas gas station asking for a battery charge after hours. Apparently, the
man had been rude.
Growing up in rural Texas I was constantly surrounded by firearms. My dad frequently took us bird hunting, and shortly before Mack gifted me the rough-looking
shotgun with the chipped Bakelite stock and smudged bluing, my father had shown me and my brother where the keys to his gun cabinet were kept and,
after a brief lesson, told us that we were free to take out the guns (a single shot Remington .410, two Browning .20 gauge shotguns—side by side
and over and under, a 16-gauge duck gun, an 8mm Mauser deer rifle, a .22 and various pistols) and go plinking—which amounted to blowing the stuffing
out of horse apples, beer bottles and snakes, not to mention meadowlarks, opossum, raccoons, rabbits and any other small game unlucky enough to show
itself and hold still while we were on the warpath. I was 13, my brother was 10, and for a while we unleashed a veritable apocalypse of fire and brimstone
on our deserted little corner of Collin County. By some miracle, I only shot my brother once … but that's another story.
The closest I myself ever came to dying by gun violence, however, was four years later when I joined my best friends on our first real climbing road trip.
We were an odd set of misfits at Plano Senior High School, united in alienation. At that time, 1981, Plano was the biggest high school in the nation. Our class alone had 2,000 students. Because of the class size and the stew of hormones that inevitably congeals around that number of teenagers, scurrilous cliques formed like fat globules at the top of cooling chicken broth, and poor kids, ugly kids, klutzy kids, kids that were too smart, and parochial country kids like me found ourselves lost and lonely in the midst of an affluent and urbane crowd. During the 1980s Plano High School was famous for hazing, teen drug abuse and suicide, prompting a 60 Minutes special about the "epidemic." I gravitated to sports, but found my closest friends not among the jocks, who seemed to be a group notable for their gratuitous allegiance to intoxication and sex, two mysteries that I pretended to dismiss while wishing I had the courage to explore them. The truth is, I was naive, bookish and immature and I found my tribe among the nerds, the guys who volunteered to read from the Scarlet Letter, who tried out for the "Whiz Quiz" TV show, who did well in the science fair and shrunk under the abuse of more popular classmates.
In fact, both of my best friends—the guys who would become my climbing partners—had first attracted my attention by getting their asses kicked. Pete, a medium-sized, pimply white kid had been the subject of a severe and public beating when he insulted the girlfriend of a big, popular jock just because he was jealous and had a masochist's desire to be noticed. The guy had slammed Pete into the lockers and Pete had fallen to the floor, assuming a defensive, leg-kicking posture. I joined the crowd and watched as the big guy literally stomped Pete's face and called him a faggot. Later, Pete gave a report in civics class on an extensive limestone cave system under the city that he had supposedly discovered and mapped. Everyone knew that the cave system was an invention, but I was drawn in by the pure audacity of the lie, and soon after that we became friends and learned to climb together on a railroad trestle near Pete's house by practicing techniques gleaned from Robbin's Basic Rockcraft.
I met Ryan when he moved from somewhere up north and joined the track team. As a Yankee, he was immediately suspect, called a faggot, and hazed relentlessly. For example, he once had his hands taped to his head and was placed with a load of wet jockstraps in a running industrial drier. That's when I knew he was destined to be my friend, and sure enough he was soon joining us at the trestle, learning to climb by trial and error with a nylon tow rope and a swami made out of seat belt webbing.
As soon as Pete, the oldest by a few months, secured his driver's license, we took our very sketchy knowledge of rock climbing to the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma and narrowly avoided death on a weekly basis as we tried to climb the slabs and cracks and set up belays with the single set of Hexes, eight oval biners and five tied slings. I'm sure that anyone who is reading this can recall a few climbing close calls, but the fact that Pete, Ryan and I survived our first few trips to the Wichitas is evidence of a benevolent supreme being who deploys a posse of custodial seraphs charged with protecting gumbies.
It was the summer of our 17th year when we decided to make our first road trip to a "destination" area. Raised on a steady diet of John Long Stonemaster stories, we elected to drive all the way to California. Being Texans and therefore inured to heat like tempered steel (or, possibly, just completely addled) we chose Joshua Tree in August. I have a clear memory of arriving at Ryan's father's apartment early in the morning, wiping the sweat of humidity off Pete's 1977 LTD's front windshield and watching as Ryan hobbled outside, bent under a huge pack, dragging a duffel. We threw his gear into the trunk, a space that encompassed the square footage of a small flat in New York City, and loaded up, but just before we pulled out Ryan said, "Wait a minute, I forgot the gun."
"What gun?" I asked.
"My dad's .44."
"Why do we need a gun?" Pete asked.
"You know," Ryan said. "It's the desert. There could be snakes. Plus, people are crazy in California."
Pete and I met eyes and nodded. Ryan had a point. So we waited while he ran back inside and got the short-barreled Smith and Wesson. He shoved it under the front seat, and thus armed we set off into the urine-colored sunrise and onto the highway that stretched out to Joshua Trees and tawny rock 30 hours away.
The temperature hovered near 100 degrees but we were surprised that there were no other climbers. The dry desert nights seemed cool to us and we climbed a bunch of the classics in Hidden Valley and caroused late into the night talking about climbing and girls. On the night of the "incident" we had scored a six pack from some weathered dudes in a Westfalia, the only other climbers we saw on our trip. We were, as usual, talking about sex when Ryan said, "You know what Cindy likes?"
Cindy was Ryan's girlfriend. Pete and I burst out laughing and started making of fun of Ryan, saying things like, "Tell me what Cindy likes."
But Ryan wasn't laughing. He was beet red, staring at the table, tight lines around his mouth.
"What does Cindy like?" I asked.
"Shut up, man."
"No," Pete said. "Tell us."
Ryan stood up and jutted his head forward. He tried to say something but choked on emotion. His eyes watered and he turned away and started walking toward the LTD.
"He's getting the gun," Pete said.
For some reason I never thought about running. At that point it was almost like a Chekhov short story. The gun had to reappear. Everybody knows that guns are magnetic. Human beings are evolutionarily drawn to power, from fire to firearms, and that gun was pulling us like north pulls a compass needle.
I think you probably see where this story is heading. A part of me admired Ryan for going after the gun. There is only so much disrespect a person can take after all, and he had clearly reached his limit. There was a hallucinatory few moments where it could have gone either way, where Ryan seemed capable of exorcising his memories of spinning driers and jockstraps, all those moments where he was humiliated and powerless, by blowing away his friends. But that white heat dissipated rather quickly and turned to angry words and threats and urgent apologies and finally a wide-eyed compromise where the gun was locked in the trunk.
We were all a little chastened on the long, sun burnt and bruised drive home. Something was broken. We could feel it—our friendship would never be the same. It hurt me to know that my best friend nearly shot me, but later I discovered that those sensations of disruption and sadness are partly the feeling of wisdom accruing like tree rings.
The gun violence breaking out across North America has sparked a debate on gun control, but I know first hand that people like my grandfather will kill whether he has a gun or a hammer, and people like Ryan will never kill no matter how much power he holds in his hand. Gun control comes down to self control.
But I also know that human nature is fallible. Climbers mess up knots and die, and good kids get guns and wind up killing each other.
Thoughts or opinions about gun control? Please comment below.


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Records: Army allowed Santa Cruz police killer to resign
Records show the Army commander of a former soldier who ambushed and gunned down two Santa Cruz police detectives had allowed him to resign from the military instead of face a court-martial when he was twice accused of rape.
The findings are contained in Jeremy Goulet's criminal records, obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday. Goulet gunned down two Santa Cruz police detectives before being killed in a shootout on Feb. 26.
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The records, obtained with a Freedom of Information Act request, show investigators from Wheeler Army Air Field in Hawaii - where Goulet was a helicopter pilot - found probable cause to prosecute him in 2006.
However, his commander allowed him to resign "for the good of the service" under other-than-honorable conditions instead of facing a general court-martial.
Under military law, commanding officers have the discretion to decide how to handle rape charges. On Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, D-San Mateo, introduced legislation that would change that by creating a separate office to respond directly to rape and sexual assault charges.
Speier, along with former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and other members of Congress, demanded investigations into Goulet's Army discharge in the days following the attack on the detectives.
"This makes the case once again why commanders shouldn't be making the decision that a judge or jury should be making about whether or not there is probable cause for prosecution," Speier said.
The 48 pages released by the Army Criminal Investigation Command detail some of its investigation, although the names of law enforcement personnel and the commander's remarks were blanked out by the military as a condition of releasing them.
In the first rape charge, the victim told investigators that on the night of the attack in April 2006, she woke up on her couch with a man forcing himself on her. She said she couldn't identify him because it was too dark but recognized his shirt. Goulet told investigators he had been at a party with the victim but denied the rape.
The investigator concluded that while there was probable cause to believe Goulet committed the offense, there was insufficient evidence to prosecute him. Goulet's commander said his intent was to take disciplinary action against Goulet, but not go so far as a court-martial.
Fewer than six months after the first alleged attack, another woman reported Goulet raped her. In that case, investigators said there was probable cause that Goulet raped the woman. Goulet refused to answer questions, and the investigation was dropped after DNA taken from a swab of his mouth did not match evidence from the scene.


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Happy homecoming: Base salutes returning heroes
There were plenty of flags and fanfare at Hanscom Air Force Base Friday afternoon as the base community celebrated the safe return of 90 deployed airmen from points across the globe.
Base leaders and members of the greater Hanscom community paid tribute to returning personnel, presenting 56 men and women, and one dog, with medals of honor at the semiannual Heroes' Homecoming ceremony. But the greatest prize of all for most returning from deployment was the opportunity to hoist their children in the air, hug their husbands and wives, and be a family once again after months apart.
Col. Tom Schluckebier, commander of the 66th Air Base Wing, said the time away from family is the biggest hardship for men and women serving in the military.
"They may do different jobs in different places, but the separation from family is the one thing they all have in common. A lot of them have had to do multiple deployments at a young age - it takes a special kind of person to do that, but they are very special people," Schluckebier said. "It's very meaningful for us to have them back safe."
The first Heroes' Homecoming celebration was held on Jan. 19 as a way to recognize airmen who had returned from deployments within the previous six months. At the second ceremony, as in the first, radio host Michael Graham of 96.9 WTKK-FM served as master of ceremonies.
After the airmen had been escorted to the stage area by proud spouses and children waving miniature American flags, Graham called each airman by name to receive a medal and congratulations from a receiving line of base officials and visiting dignitaries. As they exited the stage to raucous applause, the airmen eagerly rejoined their families.
Senior Master Sgt. Woody Carter held his 4-year-old son Dreysean to his chest, while his wife, Lisa, put an arm around their 7-year-old daughter Cyerra. Carter recently returned from a seven-month deployment to Iraq, where he served as part of a police transition team charged with training the local Iraqi police forces. Carter said his units dealt with constant threats from roadside bombs and sniper attacks.
"It wasn't quite as bad as Baghdad, but it wasn't too far from it. Working with the Iraqi police was an experience. They want to do good and help their country, but they don't have any policing skills," Carter said.
Between the deployment and two months of training, Carter was away from his wife and four kids for a total of nine months. Carter said he was able to stay in touch with his family through e-mail and weekly phone calls, but it was still a difficult situation, especially for the children.
"It was tough. We have four kids and I work a full-time job. The younger ones know he's gone, but they don't really understand why," Lisa Carter said. "It's wonderful to have him back and to have the family together again."
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"It was in the 90s when we first got there and by the time we left, I was wearing thermals because it was so cold. We went through like a 70-degree temperature swing in the few months we were there," Stowe said. "But the hardest part is being away from family, hands down."
Despite the severe weather and the family separation, Stowe said she was glad for the experience and enjoyed her job. She said she didn't feel she needed to be thanked for doing a job that she loves, but that it still feels good to know her efforts are appreciated.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration will keep open for now the 149 control towers at small airports that were slated to close as the result of governmentwide automatic spending cuts imposed by Congress, the Transportation Department said Friday.
The towers, which are operated by contractors for the FAA at low-traffic airports, had been scheduled to close June 15. They will now remain open at least through Sept. 30, the end of the federal budget year, the department said in a statement.
A bill hastily passed by Congress last month to end air traffic controller furloughs also makes enough money available to keep the towers open, the statement said. The bill gave the FAA authority to shift $253 million from accounts with unspent funds to keep controllers on the job. The furloughs at all FAA-operated airport towers and air traffic control facilities caused widespread flight delays across the country for nearly a week before Congress stepped in.
FAA officials have previously said they needed at least $200 million to eliminate the need for furloughs. The bill didn't require the FAA to spend the remaining funds on keeping towers at small airports open, but lawmakers said they anticipated the agency would use the money that way.
The FAA will also put $10 million toward reducing cuts and delays in its program to move from a radar-based air traffic control system to one based on satellite navigation, the statement said.
Another $11 million will go to "partially restore the support of infrastructure in the national airspace system," the statement said.
While the decision gives the small airports a temporary reprieve, FAA officials will still be under pressure to find ways to further cut spending in next year's budget.
The FAA's initial decision to close the airport towers set off an intense lobbying campaign to keep them open by airport operators, the communities where the airports are located and members of Congress with an airport in their district or state. Several lawmakers and the trade association that represents contractors who operate the towers claimed victory after Friday's announcement.
"The broad coalition of communities, airports, air traffic controllers, aviation system users and members of Congress that has emerged in recent months united in the fight to keep contract towers open is a testament to the important role these facilities play in enhancing the safety and efficiency of the nation's aviation system," J. Spencer Dickerson, executive director of the U.S. Contract Tower Association, said.
"It's been a long fight since our original amendment to prevent the towers from closing and preserve aviation safety was blocked from a vote, but in the end common sense prevailed over politics," Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., said in a statement.
The association and airport operators in several states, including Florida, Illinois and Washington, had filed lawsuits with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit seeking to halt the closures. The suits contend that the closures violated a federal law meant to ensure major changes at airports do not erode safety. The suits also said the closures unfairly targeted the program for an outsized share of the more than $600 million the agency is required to trim from its budget by the end of September.
FAA officials pointed out that eliminating federal funding to pay for air traffic controllers would not have forced the airports to close. Of the nation's 5,000 public airports, only about 10 percent have control towers. Those without towers generally have relatively few flights, and pilots coordinate takeoffs and landings among themselves.
Airport towers are prized by local communities as economic boosts, particularly in rural areas. Airlines are sometimes reluctant to schedule flights to airports where there are no on-site air traffic controllers. Likewise, businesses may hesitate to locate in communities where there is no scheduled air service or where the local airport isn't staffed by controllers.
The FAA began paying contractors to staff and operate towers at a handful of small airports after President Ronald Reagan fired striking air traffic controllers in 1981. Today, there are 251 towers operated by private contractors at airports across the country at an average annual cost of more than $500,000 each.
Critics have questioned whether the program is still needed. The FAA has acknowledged using 30-year-old data on aircraft collisions to justify the cost of operating many of the control towers, even though accident rates have improved significantly over that time.
In addition to keeping the contractor-operated towers open, the FAA said earlier this week that it intends to continue to staff control towers at 72 busier airports overnight. The agency had initially planned to eliminate midnight shifts of controllers at those airports to save money.
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What's Changing, What's Not, In A Shutdown
WASHINGTON (CBS/AP) — Campers in national parks pulled up stakes and left, some veterans waiting to have disability benefits approved will have to cool their heels even longer, many routine food inspections are suspended and panda-cams are dark at the shuttered National Zoo.
Those are among the immediate effects when parts of the government shut down Tuesday because of the budget impasse in Congress.
In this time of argument and political gridlock, a blueprint to manage federal dysfunction is one function that appears to have gone smoothly. Throughout government, plans are ready to roll out to keep essential services running and numb the impact for the public. The longer a shutdown goes on, the more it will be felt in day-to-day lives and in the economy as a whole.
A look at what is happening, and what probably won't:
NOT THIS: The self-funded Postal Service will continue to operate.
THIS: Washington's paralysis will be felt early on in distant lands as well as in the capital; namely, at national parks. All park services will close. Campers have 48 hours to leave their sites. Many parks, such as Yellowstone, will close to traffic, and some will become completely inaccessible. Smithsonian museums in Washington will close and so will the zoo, where panda cams record every twitch and cuddle of the panda cub born Aug. 23 but are to be turned off in the first day of a shutdown.
The Statue of Liberty in New York, the loop road at Acadia National Park in Maine, Skyline Drive in Virginia, and Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park, home of Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell, will be off limits (see related story). At Grand Canyon National Park, people will be turned back from entrance gates and overlooks will be cordoned off along a state road inside the park that will remain open.
"People who waited a year to get a reservation to go to the bottom of the Grand Canyon all of a sudden will find themselves without an opportunity to take that trip," said Mike Litterst, a spokesman for the National Park Service.
BUT NOT THIS: At some parks, where access is not controlled by gates or entrance stations, people can continue to drive, bike and hike. People won't be shooed off the Appalachian Trail, for example, and parks with highways running through them, like the Great Smokies, also are likely to be accessible. Officials won't scour the entire 1.2 million-acre Grand Canyon park looking for people; those already hiking or camping in the backcountry and on rafting trips on the Colorado River will be able to complete their trips. The care and feeding of the National Zoo's animals will all go on as usual.
The shutdown won't affect Ellis Island or the Washington Monument because they are already closed for repairs.
THIS: The Board of Veterans Appeals will stop issuing rulings, meaning decisions about some disability claims by veterans will wait even longer than usual. Interments at national cemeteries will slow. If a shutdown drags on for weeks, disability and pension payments may be interrupted.
BUT NOT THIS: Most Department of Veterans Affairs services will continue; 95 percent of staff are either exempted from a shutdown or have the budget to keep paying them already in place. The department's health programs get their money a year in advance, so veterans can still see their doctor, get prescriptions filled and visit fully operational VA hospitals and outpatient clinics. Claims workers can process benefit payments until late in October, when that money starts to run out.
THIS: New patients won't be accepted into clinical research at the National Institutes of Health, including 255 trials for cancer patients; care will continue for current patients. Federal medical research will be curtailed and the government's ability to detect and investigate disease outbreaks will be harmed. Grant applications will be accepted but not dealt with.
BUT NOT THIS: The show goes on for President Barack Obama's health care law. Tuesday heralds the debut of health insurance markets across the country, which begin accepting customers for coverage that begins in January. Core elements of the law are an entitlement, like Social Security, so their flow of money does not depend on congressional appropriations. That's why Republicans have been trying explicitly to starve the law of money. An impasse in approving a federal budget has little effect on Obamacare. As for NIH operations, reduced hospital staff at the NIH Clinical Center will care for current patients, and research animals will get their usual care.
THIS: Most routine food inspections by the Food and Drug Administration will be suspended.
BUT NOT THIS: Meat inspection, done by the Agriculture Department, continues. The FDA will still handle high-risk recalls.
THIS: Complaints from airline passengers to the government will fall on deaf ears. The government won't be able to do new car safety testing and ratings or handle automobile recall information. Internal Transportation Department investigations of waste and fraud will be put on ice, and progress will be slowed on replacing the country's radar-based air traffic system with GPS-based navigation. Most accident investigators who respond to air crashes, train collisions, pipeline explosions and other accidents will be furloughed but could be called back if needed.
Kristie Greco, speaking for the Federal Aviation Administration, said nearly 2,500 safety office personnel will be furloughed but may be called back incrementally over the next two weeks. The union representing aviation safety inspectors said it was told by FAA Administrator Michael Huerta that nearly 3,000 inspectors will be off work. Greco did not confirm that.
BUT NOT THIS: Air traffic controllers and many of the technicians who keep air traffic equipment working will remain on the job. Amtrak says it can continue normal operations for a while, relying on ticket revenue, but will suffer without federal subsidies over the longer term. FAA employees who make grants to airports, most Federal Highway Administration workers and federal bus and truck safety inspectors will also stay on the job because they are paid with user fees. Railroad and pipeline safety inspectors will also remain at work.
THIS: About half the Defense Department's civilian employees will be furloughed.
BUT NOT THIS: The 1.4 million active-duty military personnel stay on duty and under a last-minute bill, they should keep getting paychecks on time. Most Homeland Security agents and border officers, as well as other law enforcement agents and officers, keep working.
THIS: The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, known as WIC, could shut down. It provides supplemental food, health care referrals and nutrition education for pregnant women, mothers and their children.
BUT NOT THIS: School lunches and breakfasts will continue to be served, and food stamps, known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, will still be distributed.
THIS: A shutdown that lasts two weeks or more would probably start to slow an already sluggish economy, analysts say. Closures of national parks would hurt hotels, restaurants and other tourism-related businesses. And federal workers who lost pay would spend less, thereby curbing economic growth. A three-week shutdown would slow the economy's annual growth rate in the October-December quarter by up to 0.9 of a percentage point, Goldman Sachs has estimated. If so, that could mean a growth rate of 1.6 percent, compared with the 2.5 percent that many economists now forecast.
BUT NOT THIS: Little impact on the economy if the shutdown only lasts a few days.
THIS: Economic data will be interrupted as the Bureau of Labor Statistics ceases almost all operations. This will leave the stock market without some of the benchmark economic indicators that drive the market up or down. The key September jobs report, due Friday, could still be released on time if the White House authorizes that, but that's not been determined. Statistical gathering also is being interrupted at the Commerce Department and Census Bureau. This means the government won't come out on time with its monthly report on construction spending Tuesday or a factory orders report Thursday.
BUT NOT THIS: The weekly report on applications for unemployment benefits is still expected Thursday. The Treasury Department's daily report on government finances will be released normally and government debt auctions are to proceed as scheduled. And at Commerce, these functions continue, among others: weather and climate observation, fisheries law enforcement and patent and trademark application processing.
THIS: Some passport services located in federal buildings might be disrupted — only if those buildings are forced to close because of a disruption in building support services.
BUT NOT THIS: Except in those instances, passport and visas will be handled as usual, both at home and abroad. These activities of the Bureau of Consular Affairs are fully supported by user fees instead of appropriated money, so are not affected. As well, the government will keep handling green card applications.
THIS: The Federal Housing Administration, which insures about 15 percent of new loans for home purchases, will approve fewer loans for its client base — borrowers with low to moderate income — because of reduced staff. Only 67 of 349 employees will keep working. The agency will focus on single-family homes during a shutdown, setting aside loan applications for multi-family dwellings. The Housing and Urban Development Department won't make additional payments to the nation's 3,300 public housing authorities, but the agency estimates that most of them have enough money to keep giving people rental assistance until the end of October.
BUT NOT THIS: It will be business as usual for borrowers seeking loans guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which together own or guarantee nearly half of all U.S. mortgages and 90 percent of new ones.
THIS: Possible delays in processing new disability applications.
BUT NOT THIS: Social Security and Medicare benefits still keep coming.
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Even when you have decided you would go with free formats and applications, you can end up owning a device that only plays restricted multimedia formats (and do not wish to spend more money until its time to get a another one reading free and open-source formats), want to watch a DVD you've rented or bought, some videos on the intatubes, use some Microsoft fonts to share work documents with colleagues etc. The world is not perfect :)
For legal reasons, Ubuntu is not shipped with the packages that will allow you to use the restricted formats. In most parts of the world, you are however entitled to play and watch CDs or DVDs you own (you have paid for using the license, right?) on your Ubuntu system. It is illegal to use the packages to crack the protections and redistribute the files.
This package and the kubuntu or xubuntu flavors (kubuntu-restricted-extras, xubuntu-restricted-extras) is located in the
multiverse repositories. It will install the following:
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly, gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse, msttcorefonts, flashplugin-nonfree, sun-java6-plugin, unrar, gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad, gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse, gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg, liblame0, libdvdread3 Installing this package will pull in support for MP3 playback and decoding, support for various other audio formats (gstreamer plugins), Microsoft fonts, Java runtime environment, Flash plugin, LAME (to create compressed audio files), and DVD playback. Please note that packages from multiverse are restricted by copyright or legal issues in some countries. See http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/licensing for more information.
Enable the multiverse repositories. Here is a GUI tutorial, below is a complete
/etc/apt/sources.list file for Gutsy:
# Base. deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted universe multiverse deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted universe multiverse ## Bug fix updates. deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted universe multiverse deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted universe multiverse # Security. deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted universe multiverse deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted universe multiverse
Reload the
/etc/apt/sources.list file and install the package with your favorite package manager. The procedure I give here is with aptitude, please use
apt-get or
Synaptic if you prefer.
sudo aptitude update sudo aptitude install ubuntu-restricted-extras
You'll be pretty much set up with these.
You'll have to accept some licenses along the install process. Use the
Tab key to get to the
OK button ;)
Other codecs
These are not within the Ubuntu repositories. You have to go for third party repos. Be aware that you should disable all third party repos to perform a version upgrade.
libdvdcss2 and the xxxcodecs (w32codecs, w64codecs and ppccodecs) are provided by the medibuntu project. Please look here for a tutorial.
Unfortunately, seveas repos do not have Gutsy packages yet.. Looking forward to it :)


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When God laughs
When God laughs
A Poem by Coyote Poetry
I read Jack London book today "When God laughs." It is a amazing book.
Harry Cowell
I say?-drenched through with holiness as your own air here is with the perfume of flowers.
Well. they married. They played a hand with the gods-"
Jack London"
Their love for each other was a great love. Their granaries were overflowing with plenitude: yet they wanted to keep the sharp famine-edge of their love undulled.
Jack London
to stay at Love's topmost peak."
Jack London
When God laugh
Man believes he had power over all.
Can control the sun, the river and the wind.
I like the trickery of the Gods.
Allow men to stand and shout how powerful and strong he is.
I believe the Gods are laughing.
Poor foolish man control nothing.
We are blinded by our greed and hate.
Old wisdom need to be held true.
We must pray and seek peace with the Gods.
The Gods do not lose.
Just observers of man's mishaps and steady fall to foolishness.


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Today's News: Our Take - 7 Ways How The Good Wife Got Its Groove Back This Season
Nick who? That's what fans of The Good Wife are - thankfully - asking after a recent string of strong episodes have erased the unpleasant first half of Season 4 from memory. In September, the legal drama (airing Sundays at 9/8c) suffered a rare critical misfire when it introduced Kalinda's (Archie Panjabi) cold and abrasive estranged husband Nick (Marc Warren), who was not popular with the fans. No irreparable damage was done, but for a show that was regularly in critics' top 10 lists during its first three seasons, the negative attention was surprising. Producers caught on and quickly expunged Nick. Less than four months later, the show is stronger than ever. So how'd they do it? Here's seven ways:
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1. New pairings! After four seasons, it's usually hard to imagine any fresh combos coming out of the show's nine-piece ensemble. But then along came Diane (Christine Baranski) and Peter (Chris Noth). Sure, they've only done two scenes together, but both packed a punch and the most recent may also hold major consequences for Will, Alicia (Julianna Margulies) and the entire Lockhart/Gardner firm. As much as we don't want work-wife Diane and work-husband Will (Josh Charles) to break up, Diane would look so good in judges' robes! And then she would have a lot more free time to hang with her Marlboro Man (Gary Cole, who returns this week).
2. Cutthroat Cary! Cary (Matt Czuchry) was welcomed back to Lockhart/Gardner with open arms at the end of Season 3 after almost two years of playing for the opposite team as a prosecutor in the State's Attorney's Office. But other than his endearing bromance with the firm's court-appointed trustee Clark Hayden (Nathan Lane), Cary seemed to be little more than some extra window dressing in Alicia's crowded office. Thankfully, making Alicia an equity partner lit a new fire under a very bitter Cary and watching him plot and scheme his way to success both in the firm and as a possible solo act has been captivating. Add to that his evolving (and possibly, maybe newly sexual) relationship with Kalinda, and Cary is finally the man we always wanted him to be.
CBS renews The Good Wife and 13 other shows - but which are missing?
3. Returning favorites! It's painful to admit, but a legal drama this serialized and this far into its run is not going to attract a wealth of new viewers no matter who the big name guest star of the week is (we're looking at you, Michael J. Fox). So instead of trying to focus on polarizing new additions like Nick and Maddie (Maura Tierney), the show is at its best when it finds ways to utilize fan-favorite recurring characters like the scattered-but-stealth Elsbeth Tascioni (Carrie Preston) and the mysterious but captivating wife killer Colin Sweeney (Dylan Baker, who also returns this week). These characters have not only established delicious backstories over time, but they are also big rewards to the show's very loyal following.
4. Stockard Channing! Apologies to Amanda Peet and Kyle MacLachlan, but of all the impressive recurring thesps added to the show this year, Channing takes the prize. It only took the introduction of one parent - sadly, we also learned this season that Alicia's father passed away years earlier - to fill in the blanks on a lot of questions about Alicia, and also bring out surprising new sides of the good wife. The best part about Alicia's free-spirited, uncensored mama? She is hilarious. Finally! We know where Owen (Dallas Roberts) gets it from. Please don't ever leave Chicago again, Veronica.
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5. Mixing up the court case locales! The Good Wife usually doesn't disappoint when it comes to crafting suspenseful, thought-provoking court cases. But the show really thrives when the Lockhart/Gardner's associates are taken out of the traditional courtroom. The second half of Season 4 has done so several times, including the entertaining mock trial case that pitted Alicia and Cary against Will and Diane, the "Invitation to Inquest" episode that made Will and Alicia argue their entire case from the morgue, and last Sunday's episode, which put Alicia's own investigative skills to the test at a police station on St. Patty's Day with obnoxious, drunken cops just feet away.
6. Kalinda is back to being Kalinda! For all of the problems that Nick's character introduced, it was nice to get a glimpse at a more unhinged, emotionally vulnerable Kalinda who knew how to let her hair down, literally. Thankfully, that glimpse was very brief and now Kalinda has returned to being mysterious, fiercely independent, untrusting and flirtatious with pretty much everyone - just how we like her. Although we're on board with her new dynamic with Cary, it's nice to see an annoying and overly eager thorn in her side emerge in Robyn (Jess Weixler), who is faintly reminiscent of Season 1 Cary.
7. The campaign is heating up! Remember Eli's happy face in Sunday's episode when he and Alicia reveled in Peter's punch to Kresteva (Matthew Perry)? That unabashed ear-to-ear grin only comes out during full moons - and in the weeks leading up to an election. The end of Season 2 may have brought down the show's single best dynamic (RIP Kalicia) but those final weeks before Peter won back the State's Attorney's office saw the show firing on all cylinders and skillfully bring all the characters together in surprising ways, much like the Diane and Peter dynamic this season. Considering the stakes are so much higher this time around, things are only bound to get more juicy as the show's fictional voting day nears.
(Full disclosure: TVGuide.com is owned by a joint venture between CBS, which produces and distributes The Good Wife, and Lionsgate.)
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Editorial: Johnny Pesky's spirit
It's been a terrible year for the Red Sox.
A house-cleaning after last September's epic collapse cleaned out the wrong people, leaving beer-and-chicken malcontents Josh Beckett and Jon Lester to drag down the starting rotation.
Injuries hobbled the outfield and the pitching staff. As soon as Jacoby Ellsbury and Carl Crawford returned to the lineup, David Ortiz came up lame. Outfielder Ryan Sweeney went out for the season after losing a fistfight with a wall.
Management sent an unhappy Kevin Youkilis to Chicago – where he went on a tear – because sparkling rookie Will Middlebrooks was ready for primetime. When a fastball broke Middlebrooks' wrist last week, ending his season, it was proof that this team isn't just mediocre, it's snakebit.
At no point has either the team or its fans seemed united on anything this season, especially on the subject of the new manager, Bobby Valentine.
But now they are united in grief: Johnny Pesky, the man who has been the heart and soul of the Red Sox for 70 years, is dead.
Pesky came to the Sox as a sharp young infielder in 1942 and, save for three years serving his country in World War II, he never left. His friendship with teammates Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr and Dom DiMaggio – their one trip to the World Series, in 1946, ended in heartbreak – is memorialized in a statue outside Fenway Park.
Pesky stopped playing, but he never left Fenway. He served as manager, coach and broadcaster. For decades, he was a fixture at spring training and in the home team dugout. He was a source of tips, insights and stories of the good old days for generations of players and fans.
He shared his all his team's ups and downs. Who can forget the old man's tears shed without shame when the Sox finally claimed the championship in 2004?
Pesky, 92, lived long enough to put on the Red Sox home whites one last time for the 100th birthday of Fenway Park. His life reminds us that the Red Sox is more than a transient collection of millionaire ballplayers, more than a business and more than a box score or a spot in the standings.
The Red Sox, to a true fan like Johnny Pesky, is a second family. You have no choice but to accept its lesser lights as well as its superstars, its defeats as well as its victories. In this dispiriting season, the best thing the Sox and their fans can do is celebrate the life and spirit of Johnny Pesky.
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¾ cup (3 ounces) finely shredded fontina cheese, at room temperature
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½ cup (1 ounce) finely shredded Romano cheese, at room temperature
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1 clove garlic, halved
½ cup dry white wine
1 tablespoon Kirsch
2 tablespoons prepared basil pesto
Bite-size chunks of French bread or breadsticks and vegetables, such as blanched broccoli florets, blanched cauliflower florets, and cherry tomatoes for dipping
Toss together the three cheeses and the flour in a medium bowl.
Rub the garlic on the bottom and sides of a 1 ½-quart nonstick saucepan. Add the wine; warm over medium heat just until small bubbles rise to the surface. Reduce the heat to low; add the cheese about ½ cup at a time, stirring constantly; make certain each addition melts before adding more. Stir in the Kirsch.
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ERIE — Gov. John Hickenlooper should visit Magpul Industries Corp. and see for himself the impact that passage of gun-control measures would have on the families of about 200 people working for a manufacturer here, U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner said Thursday.
Gardner, R-Yuma, and state Sen. Vicki Marble, R-Fort Collins, toured the company's Erie plant Thursday morning, watching as Magpul employees prepared and assembled high-capacity magazines, firearms accessories and other products ranging from military dog leashes to smartphone cases.
Magpul has threatened to leave Colorado if the Legislature passes, and Hickenlooper signs, gun bills that limit the capacity of ammunition magazines that can be sold and possessed in Colorado.
An amendment to a recently passed House bill would allow high-capacity magazine manufacturers to make them in Colorado and sell them elsewhere.
But Magpul officials told Gardner, Marble and state Rep. Lori Saine — a Dacono Republican who joined the others after the plant tour — that the amendment wouldn't be enough to prompt the company to stay if the bill becomes law.
"We want to continue to be a Colorado company," said Duane Liptak Jr., Magpul's director of product management and marketing.
Magpul's chief operating officer, Doug Smith, said, however, that "our company was founded based on a set of values that resonate with our customer base." If Magpul continued to manufacture its ammunition magazines in a state whose own residents couldn't own them, "our customer base would feel betrayed."
Introduction of the magazine-capacity bill also prompted the company to put on hold its expansion plans, which include a new 200,000-square-foot facility that was to be built on a site near Interstate Highway 25 on Baseline Road, Magpul officials said.
A Magpul pullout could jeopardize the livelihoods of many of the 200 Coloradans who work directly for the company, as well as about 400 people who work for Magpul's Colorado-based suppliers, Gardner said after the tour.
The congressman also raised a question about whether the proposed Colorado law might violate the Interstate Commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution and related federal laws — something Magpul officials indicated their lawyers are looking into.
"The bottom line," Gardner said, is that the magazine-capacity-limits bill and other gun-control measures that have received House approval won't prevent gun violence. He said they'd wind up "making criminals out of innocent people."
The Legislature and Congress should instead work in areas where "there is common ground," Gardner said, such as efforts to provide people with mental illnesses the treatment they need and intervening, when necessary, to try to keep firearms out of the hands of people whose mental health conditions could lead to violence.
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One of the delights of the Chanuka holiday is that it's not complicated by Shabbat like restrictions, making travel and friendly get-togethers all the more versatile, recreational and enjoyable. Since I miss most of the regular Rosh Chodesh gatherings with friends, I especially welcome this warm chilled time of year to visit with friends and family.
Towards the end of Chanuka, CS and I had brunch at Orchideä (4815 12th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11219 — Telephone: 718-686-7500) with our dear intimate friend, gourmet extraordinaire, Lévana. The tables were packed with clients; a confluence of Amit women, tables filled with young families, friends and business associates. Lévana and I had been to an Orchideä brunch a while back, when she made several suggestions to Mazal, an Orchideä partner with Ofer Cohen, which were happily implemented.
We enjoyed an expanded salad bar and sushi assortment.
Hot main dishes included veggie and cheese stuffed manicotti (perfectly, deliciously, done!!), teriyaki salmon, herbed fish-balls, sautéed vegetables and ziti with vegetables.
Lévana commented: "The yardstick of a good restaurant is good soup, good coffee and good salad". On this particular visit, the soup was not up where we expected it to be and the coffee started out a bit weak, everything else – however – looked and tasted fresh and delighfully flavorsome. After voicing our concerns, Mazal, most generously served us a round of cappuccinos that were far improved.
Then we partook of an incredible delicacy… a lovely delicious dish of skewered striped bass teriyaki on a bed of shredded beets and carrots accented with baked garlic; a most chromatic artistic presentation. Like a welcoming crackling fireside hearth kinking out winter's chill, our conversations were dear, cozy and hard to leave. But, with its beautiful decor, its aromas, its great food, its good service and attentiveness to customer's suggestions Orchideä is always hard to leave!


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Since 1992 more than a half million people have bought The Baby Book, the influential infant-care manual by pediatrician William Sears and nurse Martha Sears. The Searses recommend carrying an infant in a sling — ideally, for "many hours" a day — as part of an approach to child-rearing that they call "attachment parenting" or "high-touch parenting."
That approach comes under blistering fire in The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women (Free Press, 2004) www.simonsays.com, a witty and irreverent critique of the unrealistic and guilt-inducing demands made on contemporary mothers, by scholars Susan J. Douglas and Meredith W. Michaels of the University of Michigan and Smith College. Douglas and Michaels write of the Searses:
"When it comes to properly nurturing your child, these two make the likes of T. Berry Brazelton or Penelope Leach look like Conan the Barbarian and Nurse Ratched. The Sears philosophy is as simple as it is impossible: Reattach your baby to your body the moment she is born and keep her there pretty much until she goes to college. If you do not do this, your child will fail to bond properly to you and you to her, and the rest is a straight road to the juvenile detention center for her and the Betty Ford Clinic for you."
Douglas and Michaels add:
"While Dr. Bill and Martha do acknowledge that working mothers are real and do refrain from saying anything explicitly condemnatory about them, the massive edifice of attachment parenting that they construct is one that no working mother can fully scale and conquer….
"Especially if you are accustomed to high achievement and to cutthroat competition, attachment parenting opens the door to standards of excellence that would put any law partner wannabe to shame."
Read an interview with the authors of The Mommy Myth on Salon at dir.salon.com/story/mwt/feature/2004/02/19/mommy_myth/index.html. Read an excerpt from their book at www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4163361/.
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Scott Walker opponents dispute details in upcoming book
Madison — Two of Gov. Scott Walker's opponents are disputing accounts Walker gives of talks he had with them in his forthcoming book.
According to Walker, Sen. Tim Cullen (D-Janesville) said he would have persuaded his fellow Democrats not to head to Illinois to try to block Walker's labor legislation if Cullen had been at the meeting where Democrats decided to leave the state. But in an interview, Cullen denied he said that.
The former head of a Milwaukee County union also contended Walker got it wrong in his book when he describes a meeting between the two. Walker writes that he said he would lay off hundreds of workers if the union didn't make concessions and the union official responded, "Go ahead and do it!"
"That is frankly just a lie. He has no proof and no witnesses (of that)," said Rich Abelson, who was executive director of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees District Council 48.
Walker told Madison's WKOW-TV on Monday he could not comment on his book until it is published Nov. 19, but that the book relies on extensive research and notes taken by him, his staff and lawmakers.
"I think when people see all the research we did for the book, not just my own recollection, but talking to other individuals, they'll see by far this is the most comprehensive overview of what's happened over the last 21/2 years," Walker said.
"Unintimidated: A Governor's Story and a Nation's Challenge" is co-written by Walker and former presidential speechwriter Marc Thiessen and is being published by Sentinel, an imprint of the Penguin Group. The Journal Sentinel recently independently obtained a copy of the book.
Most of the book focuses on Walker's plan to tightly restrict collective bargaining for most public workers, the protests that erupted and the unsuccessful attempt to recall Walker a year and a half later.
A week after Walker revealed his plan, all 14 Democrats in the state Senate at the time left Wisconsin in an effort to block the measure. They stayed away for three weeks, returning only after Republicans found a way to pass the bill without the Democrats present.
The Democrats hastily made the decision to leave just before the Senate was to vote on Walker's bill. Cullen was the only Democrat who wasn't at that meeting and he later met up with them across the state line in Rockford.
"When I called Senator Cullen a few days later, he told me that he thought he could have convinced them not to leave if he had been at that meeting. ... (He) told me that if he had been there, he thought he could have persuaded them not to leave because it was a stupid idea," Walker writes.
Later, Cullen told Walker in frustration that he was coming back on his own, Walker writes. Walker said he told him he would arrange for security for him because of how angrily the protesters would react.
In an interview, Cullen said he never told Walker he would have been able to persuade his fellow Democrats not to leave the state. Cullen said he supported the decision to leave but thought Democrats needed a plan for returning to Wisconsin.
"Had I been at the original caucus, I wouldn't have argued against leaving," Cullen said. "I would have been asking the question, 'what is our strategy for returning?'"
Senate Minority Leader Chris Larson (D-Milwaukee) said he never heard Cullen say he would have tried to persuade the Democrats not to leave the state. Cullen and Larson often disagreed on tactics while they were in Illinois.
Former Sen. Jim Holperin (D-Conover), who sided with Cullen on strategy while in Illinois, said he thinks Cullen would have made the Democrats think about an exit plan before they left if he had been at the initial meeting.
"A lot of stuff was said and Tim was always in favor of first trying to negotiate something and thinking it wasn't a good idea to stay out without some kind of endgame," Holperin said.
Also in his book, Walker discusses how his years serving as Milwaukee County executive led him to conclude collective bargaining for public workers was deeply flawed. He writes that shortly after he was elected to that job in 2002, he proposed making county workers pay more for their pensions and health care and having shorter work weeks to avoid layoffs.
When he met with Abelson of AFSCME to say he would have to lay off workers if there weren't concessions, Abelson looked him in the eye and said, "Go ahead and do it!" according to Walker. The governor uses the phrase as a chapter title.
"I was stunned," Walker writes. "I explained again how many jobs would be lost if he stood in the way of our reform. He told me he didn't care how many workers I laid off, he wasn't giving up any benefits."
Abelson denied he said that and said he wanted details from Walker about when the meeting occurred. He said he did not normally meet with Walker on his own, so Walker aides and other union representatives would have heard any exchange between them.
"I have no recollection of that," Abelson said. "I would never have told him to go ahead and do it."
He acknowledged the two often clashed, but said Walker was the one who took unreasonable positions.
"There is no question we at times took a hard line with Walker and his sense of brinkmanship," Abelson said. "We were willing to compromise. He was just never willing to negotiate. ... It was always my way or the highway."
Other topics Walker covers in the book include:
■Recall night comments. The book includes Walker's decision on what to say the night he won his recall election in June 2012. His wife Tonette suggests he tell the crowd, "This is what democracy looks like," repeating a phrase his opponents chanted throughout the protests.
Walker calls it a "great line" that would have been "enormously satisfying to deliver," but said he decided not to do it because of the importance of humility and because he wanted to "end the acrimony and unite our state once again."
What he doesn't mention in the book is that his lieutenant governor, Rebecca Kleefisch, used that very phrase when she took the stage at their victory party — "Now, this is what democracy looks like," she told the crowd.
Kleefisch spokesman Casey Himebauch declined to comment and referred questions to Walker's office. Walker's office and campaign officials did not respond to questions Monday.
■Lobbyist. In one new detail in Walker's book, he writes that AFSCME tried to hire Steve Foti — a Republican lobbyist who formerly served as Assembly majority leader — in an effort to stop the labor law from passing.
"The union leaders told (Foti) they didn't need them to cut a deal; they just wanted him to buy them two more weeks of time," Walker writes.
In an interview, Foti acknowledged the discussion with the union. He said the decision not to work for them was mutual because "they didn't seem to like the direction I wanted to go."
Marty Beil, executive director of AFSCME Council 24, said union officials reached out to every Republican they could in an effort to meet with Walker and tell him they were willing to make concessions if they could retain the ability to collectively bargain. But he said they didn't try to hire Foti as a stalling tactic.
"This is again typical of Walker lying," Beil said. "Now it's in print."
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Review: Making Facebook a warmer, smaller space
(AP)—A woman I haven't spoken to in six years is pregnant with her second son. Another college acquaintance reads the Bible a lot. A high school classmate likes to rant about politics. A college dormmate thinks he works too much.
On Facebook, I'm connected to a lot of people who are not my friends. Over the years, as my Facebook friend list grows, it's made me increasingly uncomfortable that I seem to know so much about people that I don't actually know.
So as the new year approached, I decided to review my Facebook life. I took a four-week break—a "Facebook Fast"—from the world's biggest online social network. The break this fall spanned the presidential campaign and election, Superstorm Sandy, fighting in the Middle East and my college's homecoming weekend—all events I cared about. These were all reasons for me to crave Facebook as a way to check the zeitgeist.
What did I learn? Sure, there are sleazy and annoying aspects to Facebook. It connects us to each other like tabloids connect readers to celebrities, and it compels us to gossip. It often makes us voyeurs accidentally immersed in the intimate lives of people we barely know.
But after eight years on the network, I rely on it for pictures and news of faraway friends and relatives. I can't quit. Like it or not, Facebook is an important part of my life.
Facebook Inc. is in the midst of trying to make its privacy policies more intuitive for users. It has added a little padlock icon at the top right of the website. When you click on it, Facebook walks you through how to change who sees what you post, who can contact you and how to review what others are writing about you.
But if you're trying to curate your Facebook life, there are more steps you need to take. Here are some tips for remaking the network so it's less a tabloid feed of unwanted updates and more a warmer, personal space that better reflects your real-life social circle.
I used to keep Facebook open on my work computer, checking in periodically throughout the day. I relied on the Facebook app on my phone to entertain me whenever I was waiting in line or riding in a taxi. I would also log in at home.
It was overkill. I check Facebook less often now. The goal: Read less and write more.
First, I disabled the app on my phone.
I also enabled email notifications for whenever someone sends me a message, tags me in a photo, or posts on my profile or in one of my groups. If someone's trying to get in touch with me, I still want to know and be able to respond. Because I get the notifications, I don't need to keep Facebook open at work or check on it constantly at home.
Here's how to get those notifications: Click on the wheel icon at the top right corner of Facebook and choose "privacy settings" on the menu that pops up. Then click on "notifications" on the left. Then, you can edit what Facebook sends you over email—as well as via texts and phone alerts.
I hate it when people send me personal messages by broadcasting it on my profile page, or timeline, for everyone to see. I'd rather that person send me an email or a private Facebook message that I alone could see. But many people still insist on posting such messages on my timeline anyway.
To address that, I effectively turned off my timeline. Someone can still post on it, but I've adjusted the settings so that person and I are the only ones who can see that note. I can still publicly share things that I want seen broadly, like a post I wrote promoting my sister's new yoga business. To make these adjustments, choose "privacy settings" under the wheel again. Then click on "timeline and tagging" on the left.
Facebook alerts me when somebody else has attached my name to a post or picture, and I need to approve it before others can see it. The settings for this are found under the same "timeline and tagging" page. Turn on reviews for posts you've been tagged in.
My news feed—the stream of friends' links, photos and life comments—was too cluttered with information about people I didn't know anymore. De-friending people seems rude and aggressive to me (although it may be a good idea down the road as decades of friends pile up).
Without severely paring down your friend list, here's how to get Facebook to show you only what you want to see:
— Determine who shows up more on your news feed. When you're on your timeline page, click on "friends" at the top, near your profile picture, to see a list of all of your friends. Each person has a "friends" button next to his or her picture. To see more of that person's posts, choose "close friends." To see less, click "acquaintances." Friends won't know that you've sorted them this way. You can also do this by hovering over the name of the person posting on your timeline. A box will pop up with the person's profile picture and the same "friends" button.
— To tweak what kind of updates you get from each friend, click "settings" under the same "friends" button. You can choose to see only updates on major life events and pictures, for example, while ignoring updates about their comments and likes on other people's posts.
— If specific posts in your news feed annoy you, you can hide them. Hover over the top right corner of the post, click on the box that pops up, and choose "hide..." That will remove the post from your news feed, although you will still get future updates from that person.
— You can also cut off all updates from a friend. After hiding a specific post in your timeline by that person, click "change what updates you get from..." Under the drop-down menu that comes up, click "unsubscribe." You can also ignore a person's Facebook activity by unchecking "show in news feed," under the same menu that lets you sort friends into "close friends" and "acquaintances."
Curating your news feed in this manner is burdensome if you have hundreds of connections. But the result is less tabloid magazine, more personal messages and cute pictures from people who are actually your friends.
One of the great benefits of Facebook is that it helps you keep in touch with a handful of people who have a shared interest. Hundreds of Facebook friends don't need to see the intimate interactions I have with a few closer friends. So I created private spheres for smaller circles—smaller than the lists Facebook automatically generates based on your school information, hometown and employer.
I created such a group with three friends—one from England, one from France and one from Los Angeles—I had spent several days with in a small town in Colombia while on vacation. The four of us use that to post silly photos of ourselves from the trip and write each other personal updates. That spares everyone else from having to hear about the next time we're going to see each other.
To set up a group, go to your news feed by clicking on "home" up top. Then click "create group," which is on the left of the page, in the "groups" section. I typed in the three friends to add and chose to make the group "secret," which means only members of the group can see that it even exists. I also get notifications from Facebook whenever anyone posts to the group. You can turn those on from the "notifications" page under the wheel icon.
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The Kawasaki ZX-12R is a sport bike that was made from 2000 to 2006 by Kawasaki. In those years the ZX-12R at 178 hp (133 kW) at low speed to 190 hp (140 kW) at high speed with ram-air intake. Made it the most powerful production motorcycle up to 2006 and the release of the ZX-14. It was known as a contender to be the fastest production motorcycle, and for its role in bringing to a truce the escalating competition to build a faster motorcycle. Its top speed of 187 made it the fastest production motorcycle for sale from 2000 to 2005.
At its introduction the ZX-12R was Kawasaki's flagship sport bike and a competitor to the Suzuki Hayabusa. It was fuel injected with four Mikuni 46 mm throttle bodies and was Kawasaki's first fuel-injected sport bike since the 1981–1985 Kawasaki GPZ1100. The 1,199 cc (73.2 cu in) displacement engine generated 161.2 hp (120.2 kW) at the rear wheel. Handling and braking matched the power of the engine resulting in a motorcycle that was docile at low speeds and very easy to handle in heavy traffic, but had strong acceleration.
From the first production ZX-12R, in the 2000 model year, its top speed was restricted by a motorcycle manufacturer gentlemen's agreement. This was due to a voluntary gentlemen's agreement that included BMW Motorrad and the Japanese manufacturers, amid fears of government regulation of motorcycle speeds mainly in Europe. Prior to the agreement, Kawasaki had planned a world press event to launch their answer to Suzuki's Hayabusa, but the event was abruptly cancelled, and instead the ZX-12R with a revised engine control unit that limited speed to about 300 km/h was released with no fanfare or comment by Kawasaki.
Cycle World tested the ZX-12R's 0 to 60 mph (0 to 97 km/h) acceleration at 2.7 seconds, and 1/4 mile at 10.04 seconds at 143.78 mph (231.39 km/h). They found an electronically-limited top speed of 187 mph (301 km/h), a 60 to 0 mph (97 to 0 km/h) braking distance of 118 ft (36 m), and fuel economy of 32.1 mpg-US (7.3 L/100 km; 38.6 mpg-imp). Sport Rider tested it at 1/4 mile time of 9.95 seconds at 144.40 mph (232.39 km/h).Motorcyclist tested a 1/4 mile time of 9.87 seconds at 146.29 mph (235.43 km/h).
While most sport bikes use an aluminum perimeter frame, the ZX-12R uses an aluminum monocoque frame. This design surpasses the level of chassis strength and stiffness associated with conventional aluminum perimeter frames. Its intention was to make the bike narrower, and there by more aerodynamic. The design saves space by incorporating an efficient airbox and a cartridge-type air filter that easily slides into the frame and it also houses the battery. A massive ram-air intake scoop protrudes from the fairing to take advantage of the higher air pressure. The 2002 model was updated with 140 changes. While some of those changes made the bike easier to launch. With a heavier crank and a reshaped flywheel and fuel mapping tweaks. It also lost 1.3 horsepower because of this vs. the 2000 and 2001 model. Revised suspension composed of stiffer springs in the forks and a softer spring on the shock. Cosmetic changes include sportier front fender. Panels added to the inner fairing below the instruments and bars make a more refined look. And a revised wider ram-air intake is made to be even more efficient. Because of this improvement it got back the 1.3 horsepower loss to keep its 190 hp (140 kW) at high speed with ram-air intake. Kawasaki have always been the master of ram-air as stated by MCNews.com.au. Integrated into a wider and shorter front cowling witch causes less aerodynamic drag. lowering the drag coefficient by one point from 33 to 32. The 2004 model got the addition of radial brakes and fuel injection tweaks. The ZX-12R was discontinued in 2006 and followed by the ZX-14 (ZZR1400) the same year, which incorporated a similar frame.
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Perhaps no book has had more uncredited influence on the best accounts of 9/11 than Hiroshima. In this great book John Hersey tells the true stories of six people who escaped death when the atomic bomb fell on their city. One line deals with the confusion that arose, right after the blast, about what to call people who lived through the events of August 6, 1945: "In referring to those who went through the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, the Japanese tended to shy away from the term 'survivors,' because in its focus on being alive it might suggest some slight to the sacred dead."
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How to Determine the Pricing of Floor Stripping and Waxing Services
A lot of customers and service providers ask what are the average prices for stripping and waxing the floor. Nationally prices average between 30 to 60 cents per sq.ft.
But in order to estimate the price you always need to consider many additional factors:
1) What is the size of the job (the bigger the job, the smaller the price per sq ft). If you need a cleaning company so strip/wax the floor in your large building, you can expect lower prices per sq. ft. However if you are looking to strip and wax relatively small area, the prices can get higher. Also cleaning companies have minimum prices which are in the range of $ 150 – $ 200. So even if you need to have a floor cleaned only in one small restroom, you may be charged $ 150 – $ 200 for that. Make sure to find out what is the minimum charge before hiring commercial cleaning company.
2) Preparation time. When estimating the price cleaning companies consider how much time they need in order to prepare for the job. If the area is on the first floor it takes less time to bring the equipment there than bringing the equipment to the 10th floor. Also if the cleaners have to strip/wax the hallway that has carpet on the sides, they need to tape off the carpeted area to make sure no solution ends up on the carpet. This requires additional time and brings the price of floor cleaning services up.
3) Travel distance. It's preferred to hire local companies if you want to save on stripping/waxing services. The companies that are further may count the travel time and fuel expenses into the final price.
3) Wax buildup. When there is a lot of old wax on the floor cleaners may have to strip it a few times, therefore additional products and labor have to be used.
4) Moving furniture. If the cleaning company has to move the furniture (tables, chairs, mats etc) before/after the job, the price is usually higher up to 20 %.
5) Stripping and waxing baseboards. When you want a cleaning company to strip and wax baseboards it's also reflected in the price which becomes higher.
6) Edge work. The more edges in the room, the more time the cleaning company has to spend using doodlebugs and scrapers in order to remove wax edges and corners and prices go up.
7) Number of finish coats. The more coats are put on the floor, the higher the price.
8) Type of floor (new/old). It's usually easy to strip the new floor therefore the prices are lower for stripping new floor. Older floor may have been neglected or may have a lot of wax buildup on it and stripping it will require additional time. The price for stripping older floor may be higher.
9) Staining of the floor. If there are a lot of stains on the floor like rust or if there are a lot of deep scratches additional time is needed to scrape them off with scrapers. Additional detail cleaning will bring the price up.
10) Fixtures to work around. If there are a lot of fixtures that are staying in the room (refrigerators, furniture, equipment) during stripping/waxing, cleaning company will have to spend additional time working around them or moving them and the price may be higher.
11) Type of products used during stripping/waxing. Some cleaning companies may charge you less for floor stripping/waxing services, but it may be only because they use cheap products. But cheap products have a lot of downsides, cheap floor finishes tend to become yellow and wear off much faster. Another company may charge you a little more, but they may be using better products that maintain the appearance of your floor and last longer. So for example, you can pay one company $ 500 for the job, but because of their cheap products you will have to re-wax in 4 months. Another company may charge you $ 550, but because of good products you may not have to re-wax for 6 month instead of 4. Using the second company will be more cost efficient for you in the long run. Always find out what floor finishes are used for the job. Hillyard and Johnson floor finishes are the best floor finishes on the market these days.
12) Location of janitor closet. During the stripping/waxing job cleaning companies need to travel from their working area to the janitor closet very often in order to get water, empty wet vacuum etc. Where is the janitor closet located? If it's far from the working area cleaners will spend a lot of time just moving back and forth and the prices may be higher.
13) Number of electric outlets in the floor. If there are a lot of electric outlets in the floor cleaners will need to tape them so the stripping solution/water doesn't get there. It requires additional time and brings the prices up.
14) One time cleaning or service contract. If you are using the cleaning company for just a one-time cleaning, you may expect higher prices. However, if you have a maintenance contract (like buffing the floor once per month of scrubbing/recoating services once a quarter) you can ask for a discount. Also you can expect a discount if you are using a company that already provides commercial cleaning services to your building (example – regular janitorial services 3/5 days per week).
I hope that this article will help business owners to get an idea about the pricing of floor stripping and waxing services. Also I hope that new cleaning service companies will learn about what to look for when estimating a floor cleaning job.
This article is written by Terry Klymkiv, Account manager of Alpha Cleaning Company of Palatine, IL.
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