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1808 Belmont Ave.
Hood River, OR. 97031
Grand Opening for Trinity Natural Medicine and the Cascadia Gongfu Club
Trinity Natural Medicine focuses on principles of health and wellness nascent in traditional Asian culture. Our areas of study include Daoist medical and martial arts, and the traditional medicine of India; Ayurveda. Our treatment modalities include diet and lifestyle counseling, herbal formulations, acupuncture and moxibustion therapy, medical massage and cupping. We treat a full range of acute and chronic illness and injuries, including the common cold, migraine headaches, motor vehicle accidents, work-related injuries, sports injuries and post-operative recovery.
Our martial arts studio is home to the Cascadia Gong Fu Club; a satellite organization of the North American Tang Shou Tao Association. Dave Martin teaches classes in the studio in Xing Yi, Ba Gua, and Kajukenbo. Joanne Matson teaches classes in Raja yoga with an emphasis on Hatha movement.
Dave Martin, MSOM, LAc. And Joanne Matson, Ayurveda Wellness Counselor invite you to come celebrate the grand opening of Trinity Natural Medicine's new location on the Heights in Hood River. Trinity Natural Medicine has moved from White Salmon, WA. to a new larger location at 1808 Belmont Ave. on the Heights. Come and join us January 31, 2014 from 4pm until 8pm for the Chamber of Commerce Ribbon Cutting Ceremony, short presentations, food and refreshments and enjoy music by Amber Nelson, Rick Hulett, and Ryan Kolberg.
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One pendant arrived with broken glass - exchanging it seems to be a simple process - only half way through it. Fixtures are awesome in my new kitchen
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Date: Jun 20, 2013
This is a bit pricey, but worth it. This shirt is so cute. My son loved it and wore it all the time after the party.
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Title: Cute TShirt
Date: Feb 21, 2013
This shirt is good quality and true to size. Super cute. Bought the sock monkey hat to go with it and it is super cuteas well!
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Date: Jun 21, 2012
I was so excited for my youngest to wear his shirt at his 1st bday party. I washed it once before and the seem came out down the side.
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Date: Jun 06, 2012
I ordered the sock monkey tshirt to go with my grandson's 1st birthday theme. It's a really nice, quality tshirt and looked so cute on him for his party
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I am not sure if my twin boys are just bigger or the shirts run smaller. I read other reviews that made me think they were pretty true to size but I am not happy that my kids will get to wear it once and then it wont fit anymore.
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Date: Mar 30, 2012
This is an adorable T shirt and it is of good quality. I do think it runs small, though. I ordered the 2T for my son's 2nd birthday party. He is a little guy for his age- 24.5 lbs and this shirt just fit. After being washed it will be too small for him. I wish I had ordered the 3T.
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I bought size 2T - True to size. I have a little girl and I've decided to bedazzle it and add a tule tutu to the sock monkey. :-) I couldn't find anything better for this price online anywhere! If it's cold outside I will just put a long sleeve shirt on underneath. It's perfect no matter the season. On the invite I told the other guests/kids to "wear red or white so the pictures are fun and bright!" I also purchased several other sock monkey items and this party will be "CLASSIC" AND adorable.
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Date: Mar 17, 2012
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The meeting would have taken place last week. The Mineola Village Board set Aug. 8 as the date of hearing the changes of MP's plan. The building is located on the north side of Old Country Road, directly across from the Nassau Legislature and Executive Building on West Street.
In a letter obtained by the Mineola American, MP legal counsel representative Kevin Walsh noted changes developers and architects have made from the previous hearing on May 23. The changes were made June 12, according to the letter.
Walsh did not return calls for comment. Developer Kevin Lalezarian declined to comment on the project.
Lalezarian was put on the spot during the May hearing when asked if he would sell developing rights to the property, much like Polimeni International LLC did with the Winston Manor Residential Complex to be built on Willis Avenue. He hesitated at first, but indicated that he would not sell the rights to an unbuilt project.
"We have the latest proposal and we're going to review it," Mineola Mayor Scott Strauss said. "We have to go over it and see if it fits in for Mineola."
Walsh, Markus, McDougal & DeBellis LLP, along with Stephen B. Jacobs Group P.C., presented artist renderings and updated conceptual drawings of the revised building in a packet to the Mineola Village Board.
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"They have their elevation drawings and site plans and also their comparison chart between what was originally proposed several years ago, what was recently proposed and what the proposal is right now," Spellman stated.
The building would stand at 10-stories. However, the building is approximately 5-feet shorter to the top of the penthouse. Along Old Country Road, the building height would be 84-feet-9 inches tall, while on Third Street the building would reach 94-feet-2 inches in height.
The plan saw a 108 parking space decrease from the presentation in May. The new allotment calls for 410 parking spaces.
On July 15, 2009, the board of trustees at the time said the building did not have enough on-site parking, resulting in spillover into local parking. In May, Walsh cited major architectural and occupancy changes to the project, indicating the building would hold 686 residents, an increase of 198 from its previous proposal in 2009 for a "townhouse-like" development. The board was unsatisfied with those changes and asked for additional adjustments, hence the additional go-around at Village Hall in August.
The village would receive $2.5 million in amenities if the application were approved. The developers need to pay for the improvements to the streetscape.
Project architects decided to reorient the building, having it face and siphon traffic onto Third Street, rather than Old Country Road, according to lead architect Stephen Jacobs. At the May hearing, Jacobs said additional units that would be required under a rental configuration would call for 1.5 parking spaces per unit. The building would also incorporate solar panels.
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Dewey won by four strokes but said he was "coming off an awful two week stretch."
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24 CHAPTER FOUR CATHODIC PROTECTION USE: POLICIES AND PRACTICES To obtain a more complete understanding of the use and the The perception of the magnitude of the corrosion prob- application of cathodic protection technology, the corrosiv- lem correlates reasonably well with their deicing salt use. ity of the environment, the decision-making process, and the From the four agencies that indicated that corrosion was a application and use of cathodic protection systems need to minor problem, two have salt use in the range of 0 to 5 tons be analyzed. As cathodic protection technology is relatively and two in the range of 6 to 10 tons per lane-mile per year. more expensive than the other alternatives, with the excep- Eight of the respondents that indicated that corrosion is a tion of electrochemical chloride extraction, the perception of moderate problem use 0 to 5 tons per lane-mile per year. Of corrosivity of the environment is very important in justifying the remaining, 4 agencies use 6 to 10, 4 agencies use 11 to its use. Similarly, if the decision-making processes for repair 15, and 2 agencies use 16 to 20 tons per lane-mile per year and rehabilitation either are not sophisticated enough or do of deicing salts. Four respondents did not provide their not include cathodic protection as an alternative, then the use deicing salt usage and one only has marine exposure. Three of the technology would be limited. The design, installation of the eight respondents that consider corrosion to be a and quality control, and monitoring and maintenance prac- major problem, Connecticut, Oklahoma, and Oregon, have tices have a significant impact on the experience of use of this salt use in the range of 0 to 5 tons per lane-mile per year. technology. The survey conducted in this effort focused sev- Oregon's primary exposure condition is the marine envi- eral questions in these areas. A summary of the responses is ronment along the Pacific Coast. Of the agencies that indi- presented here. cated it was a major problem, the state of Virginia uses 6 to 10, Utah and Vermont use 11 to 15, and New York and MAGNITUDE OF THE PROBLEM Pennsylvania use more than 20 tons per lane-mile per year of deicing salt. A summary of responses to the question regarding the mag- nitude of the corrosion problem faced by the agency is pre- A summary of salt usage agencies is presented in Table 5. sented in Table 4. Mississippi is the only state among the The majority of the respondents, 17 of the 32 agencies that respondents that does not have a corrosion problem on its provided salt usage information, have average salt usage in reinforced concrete bridge structures. Four respondents (Ari- excess of 5 tons per lane-mile. The manner in which the zona, Indiana, New Jersey, and Wyoming) indicated that it SHRP Methods Application Manual (47) categorizes salt was a minor problem. A majority of respondents consider it use implies that salt use of more than 5 tons per lane-mile is to be a moderate problem. Eight respondents, Connecticut, the highest category of use. Based on the SHRP Manual, a New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah, Vermont, majority of the respondents are in the high usage category. and Virginia, consider it to be a major problem. The relationship between deicing salt use and the mag- Table 4 indicates that corrosion is at least a moderate nitude of the problem can be a simple one. However, the problem for 30 of 36 respondents. Considering that many analysis is difficult to perform because (1) deicing salt data states and several Canadian provinces that experience severe available from various sources are often incomplete; (2) data winters did not respond to this survey, the actual corrosion are often not compiled in a uniform manner; (3) deicing salt problem must be much more severe than that suggested by the use varies from one part of the state to another; (4) the num- responses received in this effort. ber of bridges vary from one part of the state to another; (5) the exposure is a combination of deicing salts and marine Interestingly, the top five users of the cathodic protection environment; and (6) some of the states or portions of the technology, Missouri, New Brunswick, Florida, Ontario, and states may be using non-chloride-bearing deicing salts. The Alberta have classified their corrosion problem as moderate. climatic conditions can also have a significant impact on Thus, it is reasonable to conclude that cathodic protection the rate of corrosion and the diffusion of chloride ions into could be an applicable tool for a majority of the agencies, the concrete and thereby influence the relationship between based on the magnitude of their corrosion problem. How- deicing salts and magnitude of the problem. For example, in ever, many agencies now use epoxy-coated rebar and at least every cold environment, although salt usage is much higher, one state has questioned the applicability of cathodic protec- the colder temperatures maintain corrosion at much lower tion on the rebars. levels.


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It's shameful Clay Bennett can only use this day to continue his liberal leaning agenda, rather than use this space to be thankful to our troops, he's just too busy gloating with his usual hack ways of showing he's a mindless follower of the new gestapo we've been tricked into dealing with for the next four years. GET A CONSCIENCE, BENNETT. You're useless
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The bunker at the end of the world - in Essex
Disguised as a bungalow...
As previous posters have touched on, this was probably down to a token, "we might as well - we ought to do something," effort to fool the USSR, plus a more concrete desire to fool Joe Public. Ideally, we weren't supposed to notice all those lumps, bumps, concrete structures and masts that were scattered around the country, let alone worry about what they might be for.
Star Trek: The original computer game
C+VG Magazine published a version of that...
...back when they still did listings and hadn't abbreviated their title. Issue 5, March 1982, to be exact. This version was credited to one Lance Micklus, ran on a TRS-80 in 24kB (or 16kB if you left out the REM lines and disk I/O routines), and featured not only Klingon-killing but also exploration and planet surveying. 494 lines of BASIC. In fact, since the whole issue (and many more besides) is available on archive.org, here is the URL: http://archive.org/details/cvg-magazine-005
Attention, CIOs: Stop outsourcing or YOU will never retire
Re: Nothing new under the oak ceiling, I'm afraid.
Laurence J Peter expounded on all of this in The Peter Principle back in 1968. The famous quote summing this up is the one about "every employee rising to his level of incompetence" - basically, an employee in a post they are competent in will be "rewarded" with promotion into another, "better" post, until eventually they find themselves in a post they are not competent in, whereupon promotion will be withheld from them as punishment for their incompetence. He also describes some of the steps he had to take to avoid such a fate himself: in one case, while a bunch of senior managers were trying to persuade him to accept a promotion, he paused, took out a cigarette and a magnifying glass, stood in the sunlight streaming through the office window, carefully focused the rays to light the cigarette... and then gave another polite but firm refusal, which the bemused bigwigs finally accepted.
On International Woman's Day we remember Grace Hopper
Caption for that last picture: -)
The Buck Stops Here. President Ronald Wilson Reagan, oldest man ever to be elected president, tries to maintain a winning smile as he confronts a woman five years his senior. With his Commander-In-Chief hat firmly on his head, and a bone-crunching pain shooting through his fingers, he orders Rear Admiral Grace Hopper to stand down and accept retirement.
Twenty classic arcade games
Re: Ahh, thems were the days
Yup, it was Berzerk. I think the opening phrase was "Get the humanoid, get the intruder!" It would also interject with "Attack it!", "Charge the humanoid! and similar during gameplay. It also featured hurry-up enemy Evil Otto, the most deadly and indestructible smiley face ever (Alan Moore's Comedian can eat his heart out. :-) Look, there he is now, at the top left of the post! Time to go!! :-)
Experts troll 'biggest security mag in the world' with DICKish submission
The funniest line IMO:
"I hope that you will enjoy reading this issue as much as the authors enjoyed writing their articles."
Reg hack uncovers perfect antidote to internet
Re: Barrier tape?
As I recall, all mains electrical products must be designed and proven to handle voltages in excess of 415V without posing any risk to anyone attempting to operate them. Devices are allowed to fail safely (i.e. burn out, blow fuses, trip cutouts etc.), but they may also carry on normal operation. These gold-plated safety standards, eh?
China's patent EXPLOSION could leave West behind
Difficult in practice.
Apparently, one of the top ten lies told to venture capitalists by startups (though the lie is sometimes told out of ignorance) is: "We have applied for patents on our main inventions, which will protect our intellectual property." Startups pitching for venture capital are advised to mention their patent situation, just so the VCs know that they are aware of it, but not dwell on it, or appear naive or deceptive by making out that it will actually protect their intellectual property. Because chances are that they will have neither the time nor resources to pursue anyone with deep enough pockets to make it worthwhile.
How to go from the IT dept to being a rogue trader
It's like on that office grafitto...
If you can do a job right, then it's done. If you can do the same job wrong umpteen times, you'll have job security.
Enraged wives hand Pakistani polygamist vicious shoeing
One answer...
I was informed once by a Muslim activist that there is a conspiracy by the UN and so forth to misreport the ratio of the sexes in order to discredit Islamic law. He claimed that the real ratio was around 3:1 in favour of women.
I kid you not.
Boney M frontman checks out at 61
From a future edition of Hellboy...
Rasputin: Robert Farrell... You use *my* name, make it - make *me* - the subject of a facile, cretinous ballad. You make of me a straw puppet in your shambolic culture, and paint my name across the lips of carousing fools. Then you presume to journey to Russia's sacred soil - to stand in the locale where I departed from this world, if only briefly, and, on the day of that death, repeat your insult? Do you wonder that I am come to deal with you and your effrontery? I will see you choke your last here, little entertainer, and give your bones to Baba Yaga to play on!
'Blitzer' railgun already 'tactically relevant', boasts maker
And in English...
,,, the word for wooden shoe was clog. Hence "clogging up the works."
Hadron Collider switches to heavy ions, tinfoilers wet pants again
Ah, yes. The big red button.
The best way to safeguard your lab.
Startup promises money for fanbois
The legal position...
A shop is private property, and the owners can permit or forbid photography as they wish. Anyone photographing without permission can be told to stop and/or have their admission withdrawn and can be removed using reasonable force if they do not leave when asked. The usual, in other words.
Now, as to *why* they forbid photography, it''s rather less clear. Some give the justification that such photos can be useful to shoplifters. Since most shoppers memorise shop layouts without even trying, this justification doesn't really count.
Boffins mount campaign against France's official kilogramme
Celestially inspired.
Heh. The Mesopotamians and Babylonians also started western astrology. Most people are familiar with the 12 signs of the Zodiac. However, each sign (or house) was divided into three decans (because there are three signs ruled by each of the four elements, natch) and each decan was graduated into 10 degrees (for accurate recording of the positions of the planets - do keep up). 12 houses make 36 decans make 360 degrees. Simples! So much nicer than those dreary new grads, too.
If it's ease of use (and factorization) that you want, I'd say go for a binesimal system: divide the circle in half, then keep halving the divisions until they come out small enough, like with a compass rose. How does a 512-degree circle (and a 128-degree right angle) sound? 'Cause, as any physicist will tell you, the only measure of angle that's scientifically meaningful is the radian, and I can't really see Joe Public getting to grips with that.
Hackers plant Firefox 0day on Nobel Peace Prize website
Kissinger got one too...
...as did Teddy Roosevelt, Sadat and Begin, Arafat, Rabin and Peres. It reminds me of the redemption of Darth Vader at the end of Return of the Jedi - after whole careers spent using conflict as a tool, they managed a little peacemaking and got a Nobel for it.
The Chinese reaction isn't surprising: they weren't at all happy about the Dalai Lama getting his Peace Prize in 1989, nor was the Soviet Bloc about Lech Walesa '83, South Africa about Archbishop Tutu in '84, or the country formerly known as Burma about Aung San Suu Kyi in '91. To paraphrase Ogden Nash, you can't work against oppression unless you're prepared to piss off the oppressor.
Christian group declares jct 9 on M25 cursed
Python got there first.
Anyone remember Terry Gilliam's animation :"There's a five-frog curse on the motorway!"
As for unspooled tapes, those had been appearing, an all classes of roads, for donkey's years. You'd see them in gutters and strewn across the tarmac all over the place. I think lads in passenger seats would loop a tape around something before the car drove off, or let it stream out behind when the car was moving at speed. I've only ever seen it happening once: I was cycling along Cross Deep towards Twickenham when I suddenly got the weird impression that the whole road to the right of me had been cordoned off suddenly. Then I was able to get a proper look at the thing that was hanging in the air beside me, and saw that it was a cassette tape, and was already dropping towards the ground.
Heh. It would be funny if the god squad actually caught someone in the act. "Hello, police? I'd like to report an incident of littering and abomination in the eyes of God."
Ranting Ohio Republican scares interwebs
Republican on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
It will be interesting to see if any other examples of his public speaking surface, but it looked like inexperience, stage fright or possibly prescription drugs. He came over more shrill than scary, and sounded like he was on the verge of tears. His perambulations around the stage suggested a full bladder or, more likely, adrenaline jitters. I'm trying to think of a less-polished public delivery that I have witnessed, and am having difficulty: student union candidates, nutters at Speakers Corner, market vendors and people ejected from licenced premises can all usually put themselves across in a more convincing manner than Mr. Davison did here.
Two-lane BRIDGE FOUND ON FAR SIDE OF THE MOON!
Vorsprung durch Realtechnik.
The Nazis *did* have a working flying saucer. It was a ducted fan VTOL craft, though, and never made it beyond the (top secret) prototype stage. The invading Allies (the US, to be precise) took this work in progress back home and commissioned Avro to continue research and development - again, under top secrecy.
Of course, while they did try to keep the test flights top secret as well, people did witness and report them. And one of the first pieces of disinformation that the government deployed in order to misdirect attention was - you guessed it - extraterrestrial origin. They also began creating more secluded centres where they could test such aircraft - such as Area 51.
North Korea mobilizes Red Star Linux rollout
I thought it was a classic, though I don't know how old...
I've seen a few English versions, and they all started off with the example from history:
Feudalism: you have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
The "Lehman Brothers" example started off as "Hong Kong Capitalism", and was pretty much the same thing except that it ended: "Meanwhile, you have the two cows ritually slaughtered because the feng shui is bad." Later on it was amended to "Enron Capitalism", and ended "You sell one of your cows and buy the president. The US government buys your bull."
Other examples off the top of my head:
Anarchism: You have two cows. You trade the milk with your community, choosing a low enough price so they won't just decide to rob you instead.
Surrealism: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take accordion lessons.
Magpies hold funerals for fallen feathered friends
Not just carrion meat.
Corvids do eat carrion, but are quite capable of taking live prey if the opportunity arises. They're not quite as efficient in the killing and tearing up stakes as specialist birds of prey, but I've seen them grab, kill and peck apart goslings and songbirds. If they did want to make a meal of a fallen magpie, they would not need to wait for the corpse to "mature" before tucking in.
Flying car & roboplane-worthy air traffic digi-net go for 2025
Ye cannae change the laws of aerodynamics
I thought the cast iron limiting factor on takeoff and landing intervals was aircraft-generated turbulence. The vortices generated by an airliner in flight can take over a minute to dissipate, and would make final approach a rather hairy experience for all concerned.
IBM tries to patent teleconference sound effects
I thought that this had been around for decades
...in the form of automatic level/gain. It's a simple analogue feedback circuit that starts ramping up the gain of the microphone amplifier if the output stops peaking above a certain level. As a result, if there is a pause in the proceedings being recorded, the amplifier noise, background hiss, 50hz pickup and aircon etc swiftly fade up to audible levels and become obtrusive.
Still, with the new digital system in place, you could substitute the opening to Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother and get a similar, but more interesting effect. And if nobody has said anything by the time the choral section starts, it should be permissible to slip away and do something more useful and interesting with your time.
Is Gordon Brown safe to work with vulnerable people?
Seems uncomfortably apposite
From the film "Downfall - Hitler and the End of the Third Reich":
Registrar of Marriages: (awkwardly) My Führer, I… The Race Laws require me to ask you this: My Führer, are you of pure Aryan descent?
Adolf Hitler: Yes.
Registrar: May I see your ID?
Hitler pauses.
Josef Goebbels: You're talking to the Führer.
Registrar: Yes, sir… And are you, Fraulein Braun, of pure Aryan descent?
Eva Braun: Yes.
Registrar: Then the matter is… there are no obstacles… I ask you: do you my Führer Adolf Hitler, take Eva Braun to be your lawful wedded wife?
BTW, this is not a "Brown is a Nazi" post (though the actor who played Hans Krebs was a dead ringer for him :-\ ).
On the subject of clubs, what sort of club will the vetting database be? The Freemasons? The Conservative Club? The golf club? The local church or kirk, back in the days when non-churchgoers could be prosecuted for godlessness?
Crap. Didn't the Nazionale Socialisten Partei regard themselves as something that all decent menschen should want to be part of, and regard refusal to join, send children to the Hitler Youth, or display a swastika flag as suspicious? Sigh. Welcome to the United Kingdom of Great Suspicion and Nasty Innuendo; join in the fun - or else.
Blighty's oldest working telly discovered
Reminds me of that urban legend.
This young couple are going round all the electrical retailers in town looking for a TV for their new home. They're not that bothered about size or price, but they have one vital requirement: it must have doors and a stand. Of course, none of the shops they visit have anything like that, and they get a lot of funny looks, and salesmen trying to sell them other things. Finally, they try the town's old department store. The electrical department there is a bit small and a bit dated, and the old departmental manager, who the floor assistant passes their request on to, is very old school – shirt, tie, waistcoat and pocket watch on a chain. But he does know his stuff.
"Ah yes," he replies, "we used to sell a lot of sets like that, back in the day, but nothing like that exists now. There were specialist models, for schools and the like, that had doors and stands, up until a few years ago I believe, but the new flat screen models have rendered even those obsolete. Of course, the idea was that the domestic television was supposed to stand as a piece of furniture on its own, and one could close the doors and pretend it wasn't there. There was a lot of snobbery against ownership of televisions back then. That has all changed of course, and, in my opinion, not entirely for the worse. To my certain knowledge, though, no set like that has been available at retail for over thirty years."
"Are you sure?"
"Quite positive. Why would you want such a device, if I might ask?"
The couple look embarrassed, and then, with a resigned look, the man admits, "Because if it's got doors and a stand, it counts as furniture, and we can get Social Security to pay for it."
Japanese airport trials 'personal mobility vehicles'
It's like...
a Segway for people who can't handle Segways.
Microsoft's Bing in travel trouble
They look the same...
...as every other travel planner type web page. There are umpteen other companies that Kayak could have gone after, but, I suppose, few with the "give us a six figure sum and we'll let you market your new toy in peace" potential that Microsoft has here.
US city demands FaceSpaceGooHoo log-ins from job seekers
Bozeman makes a U-turn
The policy was rescinded at noon on Friday.
Couldn't help thinking how "Bösemann" would mean "evil man" in German. :-)
Minority Report
command sales system pushes Euro UAV
The name has been used, and used many times. The list in Wikipedia probably isn't a complete one, but will give you some idea.
The question is, will the GE killbot share any parts of its design with the Avro Avenger? Or even the Hillman Avenger?
Welsh mum amazed by Marmite Messiah
It looks more like one of the BeeGees.
Or Lemmy out of Motorhead. Or Eric Clapton during his hairy phase. Or Mike Ratledge out of Soft Machine. Or, basically, anyone with long, dark, wavy hair who has ever sported a beard and dark glasses.
Ocarina makes waves with lossless image compression
Are they mixing up "patented" and "secret"?
If the process is patented, it can't be kept secret - you have to declare all the details in the patent. Well, that was the idea, anyway. I suppose if the US patent office allows patents that are so general that they could apply to anything, there would be room to declare enough basic details to enable them to sue anyone who began developing along the same lines, but still keep the vital details secret.
I thought that the JPEG2000 project had already come up with much more efficient compression algorithms for images, taking advantage of the big advances in processor power etc since JPEG compression first appeared. However, the creators of the technologies, quite understandably, wanted to be paid for their work. And since, as has been said, storage capacity has also made big advances in that time, few if any system or application developers felt a need to buy in.
'Thieving' sperm whale caught on CCTV
Thieving marine predators.
To one extent or other, fishermen tend to regard all top predators in this light: taking the fish that are rightfully theirs. For instance, the Canadian seal cull is intended to reduce the number of hungry mouths competing with the fishing industry - the profits from the cull itself are tiny considering the amount of input required.
Overall, the fishing industry finds itself in something of a Prisoner's Dilemma. If they all worked to their full ability, they could fish the oceans empty in a very few years. Even if some crews could be relied on to fish responsibly, there would be plenty of others who wouldn't. This is why we need to find quotas that work, and enforce them.
Gov 'smart meter' plans: Sky box in charge of your house
We had a similar thing...
...in the form of our United Artist/Telewest/Virgin set top cable boxes. Roughly two times every year, one or both of our boxes would stop receiving any channels. We would make a service call, and, once we'd worked our way through the system, someone would confirm our boxes' serial numbers and reactivate all our allotted channels remotely down the cable line, while we waited. I would be highly wary of the same sort of thing happening with the smart meters: random termination signals going out in error, shutting people off. Possibly in the middle of the night. Possibly in midwinter.
Ireland bucks trend with anti-blasphemy law
The original point of having blasphemy laws...
...was so that once the religious authorities had decided that someone had been blasphemous, they had the option to hand them over to the civil authorities for punishment.
NASA gets cold feet on Moon base plan
NASA can take over the old Nazi moon base that was constructed during the legendary 1940s. Most of the creaky old Nazi scientists will have died and gone on to Walhalla by now, leaving just a few twitching mechanical arms, a load of dusty swastika banners, the odd doomsday device, and maybe Hitler's brain in a jar. I suppose, though, they ought to send Hellboy up there to check it out first, just to be on the safe side.
Euro space 'scopes go for 14 May launch
For Science!
I know I shouldn't have, but I immediately thought of Agatha Heterodyne: http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/
They should have got Phil Foglio to design the emblem for them.
The scientist, because it's the nearest thing they have to a Spark.
Revealed: Mega City One's top e-car - according to Peugeot
It looks nothing like a Lawmaster.
They're more square and blocky. If anything, it looks more like one of the lightcycles from Tron. Or perhaps one of the bikes that Steve Bisley drew when he was artist on ABC Warriors.
Google splits with Mozilla on 3D interwebs
Can't you just do this in Shockwave/Flash?
Which is already present on most systems?
(This is a rhetorical question, BTW. Of course you can.)
Of course, Google can't buy out Macromedia and acquire SWF, because Adobe got there first...
HP ScanJet 3C takes lead on Bohemian Rhapsody
Back in the last century...
...they would have had this on "That's Life". Music performed on strange instruments was a regular feature on that programme.
There was an impact dot matrix printer (9 pin, I think) in the Faculty of Science computer room at Kingston Poly that I'm sure could have been made to play "Uranus - the Magician" from Holst's "Planets" suite if I'd composed a suitable print job. Fortunately for the faculty computing office, I never tried. Not only would it have been a waste of paper, but "That's Life" was still being broadcast back then...
US Navy unveils superconductor 'cloaking device' destroyer
The Philadelphia Experiment
One explanation that I heard is that the ship sailed into a fog bank at night, and an inexperienced observer saw this and thought it had vanished. All the rumours started there.
The conspiracy theory is that they were testing out a way to make ships invisible, but instead it caused the ship and its crew to be transported through space and time and so on.
A middle ground explanation is that there was a top secret (naturally) project to make ships invisible *to radar*. And it worked. Unfortunately, the intense electromagnetic fields interfered with the brains of some of the sailors, causing hallucinations and psychedelic episodes. Since it turned out to be impossible to screen off the sailors from the effects so as to keep them fit for combat, the project was quietly shelved. But by this time, a number of sailors had hallucinated a lot of stuff, and were no longer competent to keep silent about it.
Universal Music chief renews commitment to P2P battle
The risk record labels take by backing new artists...
...is borne, to the greatest extent possible, by the artist. The record company will front the recording fees for the first album, but they will expect to be paid back. Promotion fees and so forth can be lumped on as well if that was in the contract that the band had to sign. And the record company actually owns the music that the band create under contract. If the band are sufficiently successful, they will be able to pay back the record company out of their (small) percentage. If not, and the record company drops them, they still owe them the money. Yes, this is just business, and yes, the band members can declare themselves bankrupt like anyone else, or fail to pay off the debt in good time. Actually, this is quite common. There are plenty of unsuccessful former bandsmen from the 80s and 90s who are still paying off their record companies.
Why do you think so many of the bigger bands demonstrated their appreciation of the value-added service that their record company provided by abandoning them and starting their own companies as soon as they could?
It used to be that if you wanted to make a successful career in rock/pop music, you had to get signed by a record label and record in a professional studio. Now you can mix a record on a commodity pc with cheap software and peripherals. You can sell music and promote the band on the internet, post live videos on YouTube, take your time and build a following on your own schedule, and never have to see the inside of a record company or surrender most of your sale proceeds to them. In other words, the record companies can see a future where their business model no longer works because they are no longer necessary. No wonder they don't want to move forward.
Conspiracy theories aplenty as Amazon delists gay books
I do see your point, all the more clearly for being calmly put. You're right in what you say, but miss out a few important factors.
Yes, identity politics can cause unnecessary divides in the greater community. At its worst extremes, you can get people falling out over ridiculously arbitrary things, like which football team they support, which postcode they live in, or what anime they watch. I wouldn't deny that some gay activists would like to separate themselves off from the straight world, and that this is not the way to go.
However, there is also the matter of specialization. The amateur astronomy community aren't trying to divide society, but they do have their own magazines, websites, discussion boards, meets and conventions. This is because not everybody shares their interests. If you built a home-grown five telescope array up in the highlands of Scotland and spotted and plotted a 50-metre wide asteroid that wasn't on any of the official databases, the mainstream press would be seriously underwhelmed, and would be unlikely to cover you and your boring bit of rock. By contrast, Astronomy magazine would probably give you a two-page spread at least, along with an effusive write-up on "the advanced amateur matching the big, funded agencies at their own game".
While the situation has improved over the years, there is still a lot of hostility towards homosexuals. It's been driven out of the mainstream a bit, and underground a bit, but it's still there. Hence a desire to create places where they don't have to worry about this, and support networks with supporting voices. Sometimes these don't need to be created - at our workplace we have had two parties for gay colleagues who were getting hitched to their partners. I don't know if there were any homophobes among our colleagues, but if there were, they kept quiet about it. There are plenty of places where homosexuals will get a hostile reaction, and there are also plenty of places where homophobes will get a hostile reaction. You can't really blame homosexuals for wanting to create more of the latter.
It's not as if this applies to homosexuals alone. There are other people who have to watch where they hang out or reveal themselves. Cross-dressers, train-spotters, morris dancers, BDSMers, furries, philatelists (USA only) - they all have places where they would be subject to ridicule or hatred, and other places where any haters would find themselves outnumbered.
Maybe, one day, Martin Luther King's dream will come true, and there will be no need for different groups to band together like this. Maybe the gay media and blogosphere will be able to shrink down and just cover the few items that are of interest to homosexuals only. Maybe the BDSMers will be able to go about their business in full bondage gear, and football hooliganism will stop through lack of interest. Maybe, one day, but it's a long way off. We still have people getting kicked to death by idiots because they look different, and people like Anonymous C***** Tuesday 14th April 2009 11:52 GMT calling for book burnings just because he/she/it doesn't like the material. While that goes on, there will be a gay blogosphere, and it will resist all attempts to make it go away.
By the way, it's not a problem if you just don't like homosexuality - or Marmite, for that matter. You're not expect to partake of Marmite just because you're in a Marmite-loving crowd, or even look at Marmite if you don't want to. But verbally abusing or attacking someone because they have Marmite in their shopping trolley is right out. Not even if your church tells you that Marmite is the Devil's soil. (Although you are allowed to use reasonable force against anyone who smears Marmite on you without your consent.) Your friends ought to respect your preferences, and yes, they should choose whether to keep their preference in sandwich spread a private matter. However, as a rational adult in the modern world, you ought to be able to handle the knowledge that they have Marmite in their cupboard, provided they keep the door shut when you visit.
Where the hell did that thumbs up icon come from?
I didn't select it. If I had picked an icon, it would have been the unhappy or the !pling.
Yes, there are blogs on gay issues. There are blogs on every sort of minority issue and on every political viewpoint. There are blogs on Christianity, Islam, Judaism and every other religion. In fact, I would imagine that every subject and interest out there has at least one blog or website dedicated to it, if not a whole community of them. Some of these communities perceive themselves as a target of attacks by others. In some cases, their perceptions are accurate. Some of these communities are constantly attacking each other. Some of this has been going on for a long time; pre-dating the internet, even. It's too bad that you don't like it - I don't think it's going away.
Could be unofficial policy.
There is often a generous gap in businesspeople's scales of principle, between the point at which they start objecting to something, and the point at which they refuse to have anything to do with it, even if it will make them money. A fair few newsagents are neither proud nor happy about the publications that they keep on their top shelves, but they carry on selling them nonetheless.
On a similar note, there was a complaint in some Native American blogs a few years back, that people commenting on Native American titles on amazon.com were allowed to flame away, but people attempting to make pro-Native American criticism of anti-Native American titles had their comments deleted. We'll have to see whether Native American authors get the delisting treatment as well. And keep an eye on Richard Dawkins and Michael Moore as well.
NASA probes seek remnants of lost 'Theia' planet
There is no tenth planet.
...or ninth now that Pluto has been demoted. Yes, Uranus was discovered from the perturbations it caused in Saturn's orbit, and Neptune was discovered from the perturbations it caused in Uranus's orbit. Then Pluto was discovered, apparently, from the perturbations in Neptune's orbit. But Pluto appeared to be too small, and so the hunt for a tenth planet commenced. All sorts of possible theories and configurations were proposed to explain the existing data. The expanding branch of chaos theory added to the mess: relatively small changes or inaccuracies in initial values could change the behaviour of the model completely, and they only had estimates for the masses of the planets, based on observational data. When the Voyager missions concluded, it gave them, among many other things, accurate mass data for the outer planets. They plugged in the new data and ran the simulation again. Result: no anomalies - all the observed perturbations were accounted for. Unfortunately, "Tenth Planet Ruled Out" did not make a good headline outside the scientific press, and so it isn't common knowledge. The only major worry from a scientific viewpoint was that it might then make the discovery of Pluto, in the location predicted by the erroneous model, a wild fluke. However, observational data from the new Hubble Telescope showed that Gerard Kuiper's theoretical belt of planetoids and cometary nuclei was actually there beyond the orbit of Neptune, and some of the bodies were actually planet-sized. Pluto just happened to be the one in the place where they were looking.
Google throws secret auto-updater to open sorcerers
I don't have it either...
...and I have Google Earth, and I haven't disabled or fiddled with the the task scheduler (that reminds me...). Perhaps I disabled something else vital to its existence - I did have a major process prune many years ago... (again, that reminds me....)
Yes, the number of applications that poop update schedulers and other services onto your computer is annoying. Realplayer got replaced by Real Alternative and QuickTime by QTLite for that very reason. Also annoying are the tortuous, interlinked dependencies between Windows services, making it impossible to disable some bits of useless cruft without losing some components that you need. We also have Ubuntu here, and its update system is far more satisfactory, not to mention trustworthy - you never know what Redmond is going to spring on you next. Of course, Windows Update does encompass some third party drivers and stuff, but it looks like you need to be both pretty big and friendly/non-competitive with Microsoft before you can get on that particular train.
In the absence of a unified update system, the way to go about it is to (offer to) check for updates when the application is launched. Lots of apps do it this way. I think Acrobat Reader did *both*, until I went at it with HijackThis (and replaced it with Foxit Reader when it became available).
Look, here's another example: the (unused) LightScribe function of my DVD burner has its own service, running all the time. *clickety* Not any more, though. And time, I think, for another look at the rest of that services list.
Google streams data center pods to world+dog
Narration in monotone.
Maybe they should have got an appropriate professional voice actor to narrate. Like, perhaps, Ellen McLain, who did the voice of Overwatch in Half Life 2 and GLaDOS in Portal. :-)
Just as well there wasn't any Google-provided *cake* promised...
Sadville besieged by bitey 'spampires'
What took them so long?
My friends were bumming around on vampire MUCKs back before the Web appeared. And progression/advancement systems like that have been used by cults, religions and get-rich-quick schemes since the birth of capitalism.
Report: Legalising drugs would save UK plc huge packet
@how did this happen? By Rob
It was combination of tradition and the relative lobbying powers of the manufacturers and their opponents.
In the case of cannabis, it was banned because it had been used for making paper and rope since historical times. William Randolph Hearst, the print baron, wanted to protect his investments in wood pulp paper manufacture. Du Pont Chemicals, who had developed the wood pulp process that he used, also wanted to sell their new-fangled nylon rope, a competitor to the traditional hemp rope. Hearst's main financial backer was Andrew J Mellon, bank owner and Treasury Secretary. Together, they were able to get cannabis outlawed, and appoint the first anti-drugs commissioner. The drug aspect was just an excuse. If cannabis had the THC but not the rope and paper making fibre, the political will to get it banned might never have come about.
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Intel's record fine will lead to civil suits, says expert
The European Commission has issued its biggest ever competition law fine to computer chip maker Intel. One competition law expert said that the billion euro fine will "open the floodgates" for civil actions that could cost the company further. Intel has been fined €1.06bn over secret payments and rebates to retailers who agreed …
Takes two to tango
I think those companies that bent over for Intel and took the backhanders should also be punished.
And where does the 1.06 billion Euro fine end up? I would guess it doesn't end up in the hands of those who suffered as a result of this anti-competitive behaviour.
I hope AMD sues the pants off of Intel
(IMHO) Shady practices such as this are at least partially responsible for the situation the world economy is in today.
Well said
"For any dominant company this case illustrates the special responsibility that they have to competitors that you don't have if you are not dominant. You cannot have unfair loyalty or fidelity rebates, you can't pay distributors to sell at the exclusion of competitors,"
And they all know it, but much because the US DoJ gave in to Microsoft, they keep thinking they can get away with it. Or the advantage (bye behaving in a criminal way) is much bigger anyway.
Well done EU.
There is no reason to let companies behave in a criminal, mafia, manner.
I can't wait for Google ....
to be pardoned by Uhhhbama.
Now I hope AMD will sue Intel for damage... after all, how much of AMD's current weaknesses are due to Intel bribing them out of business?
I would consider a class action lawsuit (from a consumer point of view), but during the period considered here I managed to stick with the superior yet cheaper AMD chips... :-)
Alternative approach...
Why not study their accounts and choose some point in time where their revenues were 1B and then not allow them to sell any products in Europe for that same length of time. That would also have the knock-on effect of punishing those who colluded with them. Only shipments of parts allowed would be to honour warranties. Might take a while but the people who needed to feel it would feel it and the bastards who needed to suffer would suffer. It would also give companies like AMD a bit of time to recover lost ground they might have not given up were it not for Intel's shady practices.
europe must be desperate for money...
I don't get it. If they don;t like microsoft and they don't like intel they should stop whining and come up with their own processors and operating system... oh wait they can't . because all the smart people leave europe ...
It could have all been avoided
If Intel had behaved ethically instead of doing whatever it thought it could get away with.
Paying people not to sell a competitors goods? Phrase it how you want, what made them think that was ok?
And I have to agree with the first poster. Those who are modifying their behaviour on account of a bribe that ought to be fined too.
How about a new rule, saying that those companies assessed to have significant monopoly power has to publish prices per given quantity and stick to those? Anyone who shops them to the authorities gets to keep the difference which is taken from a fine.
@adnim: where the fine ends up
The fine is paid into the same fund that national governments pay into to run the EU - unless Intel appeal, in which case Intel still have to pay within three months, but the money is held in trust. If the appeal fails, decide for yourself if this means lower taxes or a higher EU budget.
@ europe must be desperate for money
First, "Europe" is not a company, let alone a single nation. It is entirely reasonable for them to offer minimal, albeit slow, action against Intel's practices.
Did you consider that if companies like Intel are doing this, that's a large part of why someone else can't compete, that they have deprofitized competitive actions to the point where a competitive startup would be quite difficult. Look at nVidia, their foot is in the door and even they can't keep a straight face and vie for 4th place after Via.
The notion that all the smart people leave Europe is absurd, except to the extent that those most talented, given the will to do so, will go to where the work is which brings us back to square one - Intel's behavior making competition difficult for a startup to succeed at all, even AMD's bottom line shows as much despite having a close enough price:performance parody, sometimes even an advantage, in the high volume lower end market segment.
I must be stupid
But doesn't Microsoft, to this very day, do exactly the same things that intel have been found guilty of?
I mean they offer rebates and marketing dollars to OEMs in exchange for them refusing to ship competitors products don't they? Don't MS also get a cut of the sale from every PC sold whether it has windows on it or not? (The MS tax) Not even intel managed to get away with that!
Even when an oem does offer a competing OS it is usually restricted to a single model with lower specs which often costs the same as or more than other better spec'ed models with 'doze on them.
So where is the suit against Microsoft?
Oh, and also, where the hell is the Evil Fester icon?
Apart from the obvious riposte (t*@t), not all the smart people leave. There are a considerable number of very talented people working both in the UK and Europe. However, they do tend to be working for American companies, with European divisions. (often started in Europe by Europeans and then taken over)
Why? Because the American companies are generally in better shape that the UK ones, having much more cash etc. And how did they get to this position? Well, better ask Intel. They are the experts.
Anon - I work for one of the above....with some very talented individuals indeed, making world class products that are way above what anyone else can make. Designed by Europeans, marketed by Europeans, supported (mostly) by Europeans, manufactured in Far East and used worldwide.
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Nice Assets...
My income tax professor, a former IRS man, was lecturing on the famous tax case, United States v. Harris.
I won't bore you with the details, but basically in this case, two beautiful twins had become the mistresses of some old rich guy. They received all kinds of money and jewelry from him in exchange for their, um, company. They don't claim any of it on their income tax filing, and get prosecuted for criminal tax fraud.
As an aside, he had this to say:
"Once, while using the bathroom at the law school, I looked down and noticed a Playboy on the floor. I flipped through it, and noticed an article about these two twins. In the article they were talking about how they like to receive cash, diamonds, furs, etc. from their elderly paramour."
He continued:
"And do you know what I noticed? I mean, aside from their nice assets? I thought to myself "there is going to be a tax issue here." And you know what? I was right."
Two questions here: First, if you find a Playboy in a public men's room, would you pick it up and leaf through it? Aren't there certain things you just assume if you find a discarded nudey magazine on the floor of a public bathroom?
Second, what guy ponders the tax issues raised in a Playboy? A true tax man - that's who.
Nice Assets...
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Questions? Not so much. However, my fave blogging friend, utklawgirl, asked me:
When are you going to have a little baby of your own???
When? Try IF...See, I have 3 siblings. They are all younger than me. Before law, I was a professional babysitter - full-time nanny. I babysat all through college for numerous families with tons of wild little slobby beautiful brats. I have had experience with kids. And, well, I'm just not so sure they are for me.
People that know me know that I love being SuSy Homemaker - I love to cook and decorate and have parties. So, you would think that I would also want little ones to complete the whole "white picket fence/ so perfect it makes you sick" image...but...I just don't. And Stu doesn't either. Which is part of the reason we go so well together (Well that and our insatiable desire for Cheetos). Who knows, maybe one day we'll change our tune, but the way I see it right now - I have too much do to with him and with my life than to have kids come and just mess everything up! But good question friend! And for all you other readers out there (all like 2.567 of you) ask away - the question light is on and I am ready to answer!
On other things to write about - Nascar, GA, being a bowling genius.
First, NASCAR: i LoVe Tony Stewart. He is so controversial and hot. And he always is stirring up trouble. How could you not love him? Just to let ya'll know - Stu and I joined a fantasy NASCAR team last year. At first, I must admit, I was quite skeptical. My exerience with NASCAR before last year was limited to looking at the black t-shirts containing mysterious numbers, checkered flags, and people named Dale and Jeff at the local gas station - or seeing those same t-shirts on people who regularly associate the words "mullet" and "rat-tail" with "hairstyle." Suffice it to say, my opinion of NASCAR...not that high.
But now? Oh, now, it is a completely different story. I truly believe that NASCAR is the sport for non-sport watchers. Think about it - if you want to follow a football team - or even harder - play a fantasy football game - you have to know so much. There are all these teams, with different names and colors, and different players for each teams. And that's not even taking into consideration all of the plays and techniques and fouls and all other footballish related things you have to learn (like off-sides and punting and conversions and what in the world is a special team - do they ride the short-bus to practice?).
See, NASCAR- none of that! There is this oval track. And the racers go around it a lot of times. And they have all of their pertinent information loudly displayed on the outside of their cars - so its easy to see. There are, like, only 42 guys that race in the Nextel Cup - and they compete against each other each week. So after a while - you really get to know them. Sometimes, they have fights - just like a family. And - the names are cool - Travis Kvapil, Bobby Labonte - it just rollllls off the tongue. Kasey Kahne - that is the kind of name movie stars hope for!
Plus, a lot of the guys are HOT. In fact, sometimes that is how I decided my team for my fantasy game - based on looks alone. Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Scott Wimmer, and Kasey Kahne - whoooo! Finally, I know this is bad, but the crashes are the best part. Its just so amazing how these cars can go 224 mph, then crash, and flip, and smoke, and possibly even burst into flames, and then....out of the smoke, the driver emerges looking all hot and Nascar-ly.
(P.S. - all of you Nascar fans may laugh at my small, pitiful amount of knowledge - but guess what? I am in first place in my fantasy team right now (I know, we've only had Daytona so far, but still, its true - I am first), and I placed second last year (I would have placed higher but Stu sabotoged my efforts right before the last race).)
Grey's Anatomy:
Two words - Doctor McSteamy. Enough said.
On being a bowling genius: Last week I bowled a turkey in the 10th frame, thus winning a very close game for my team. I can't help but gleefully announce this - normally I bowl around a 72, so a turkey is a big deal. This past week, I didn't have any great moments of bowling geniusdom, but I did learn how to do the amputee dance move - so that's practically the same thing.
Okay - I have to go to class - but I posted. Yippppeeee! I finally posted!
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Okay guys... (not to sound like my former torts teacher or anything)
My friend, lawlover, has a new blog. And she has already had 3 comments! Ya'll - that is a lot! I am so very proud of her - you have to check her out. She is very deep. And hot. Men often die just to get her to look at them. Royal heirs, dump truck entreprenuers, and drag queens alike all melt in the presence of lawlover's beauty.
Anyway, she is a blogging prodigy. She suggested that I have an "open mic" night per se, and volunteer myself to answer any questions people want to ask me.
I don't know why people would do this, but Miss Doxie did it last week, so why not? Granted, Miss Doxie is way funnier than me, but who knows? Maybe I can aswer some of your burning questions!
And just b/c all of ya'll are so gorgeous and fabulous - here is a pic of my new baby niece. Her name is Madeline Claire, and well, she is just about the most cutest thing I have ever seen!
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Okay - so I'm obsessed with this word cloud thing. Here are some from my favorite blogs (Can you guess who they are - I've tried to make it tricky...):
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word CLOUD!
(this is mine - whatcha think?)
If you want to make your own, go here: http://www.snapshirts.com/index.php
My initial thoughts when I saw it? I need to expand my word power, at least I got both ends of the superlatives, and why do I like BOYS so much?
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
Do ya'll like that? I have discovered how to BOLD and to color my font! No more boring little font for me. Nope. Nope. Nope.
Okay, so I have been bad. I have not posted in a long time. But I am back! See - my backiness is evident by this post! And - I think it may have been worth the wait. Because, see, I had a funny weekend and a bowling victory last night. Plus - It's Valentine's Day. Lots of good reasons to write.
So, I will start off by telling ya'll about my weekend. Some of you may know that my hubby, we'll call him STU, in in air traffic control school. In another town. 2.5 hours away from me. Needless to say, he does not commute. Rather, he lives with his parents during this year and drives to school (would I have ever guessed that after 1.5 years of marriage I wouldn't be living with my husband and he would be living with his parents? No - but it sounds much worse than it really is).
Anyway, we takes turns driving to and from where the other lives, and this weekend I went to see him (plus his parents were out of town and we had the big 'ole house all to ourselves). So, we decided to celebrate V-Day this weekend.
We decided to go to this delightful little restaurant called the Foglight Foodhouse. Do not be deceived by that name - it is fabulous (and not easy on the pocketbook either). Anyway, it is this adorable little place where you can bring your own wine, look over the lake, and stuff yourself.
Mind you, this place is not exactly located on Main Street. You have to do some serious driving to get there, but it is worth it. Plus, if you take the scenic route, you can see all kinds of naturey things and feel very in touch with Mother Earth. So, we get all dressed up, hop in the Jeep and drive through the dark woods towards the Foglight.
Now, Stu has recently bought XM radio and he loves it. He was singing its praises all the way to dinner and showing me his handy dandy menu with all of the stations. "See babe - they have a NASCAR channel!"
You have to remember it is very dark in the dark woods, and the Jeep doesn't really give off a ton of dashboard light. So I am crouching by the CD player, trying to read the dang menu and I just gave up (why turning on the interior light never crossed my mind - I don't know). After hearing all about XM, carefully surveying the station menu, and trying to find a romantic jazz station to get the mood back on V-day and off XM radio - I blindly searched for a place to put the menu. Blindly is the operative word here. I couldn't see anything in the dashboard, and I was shoving this menu here, and there, and everywhere!
Guess what... I found a spot to put the menu! In the cd player. I mean - one second its between my fingers, and the next thing I know the CD player is smoothly sucking it away from me. I was frozen - I couldn't stop it - It just took it. Oh - Oh - Oh! I took the face plate thingie off to see if maybe a little corner had escaped the CD player's voracious appetite, but no, the menu was gone. I tried to eject, but the mean CD player refused to give it back - evidently he was hungry since XM had been getting all the action lately.
Not really a great way to start the date, ya think? Stu was very cool about the whole thing, and we still managed to have a good date, lots of scrumptious food and wine - but the CD player had the best dinner of all. Yum. Happy V-day!
I'll post more later about my bowling geniusness!
Until then... "I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist."
- Tammy Faye Bakker
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On my way to being a LOYyER...
My cousin, Yosh, whose poetic skills include rhyming the letter b. with the word "be," has challenged me to a pronunciation duel. See, Yosh has joined the school of thought which thinks that just because something is spelled a certain way, it is pronounced in the way it is spelled. If we gave into subpar way of thinking, pnemonia, thought, and countless other words wouldn't be what they are today.
Now, I like to say that I am going to practice law, but I want to be a LOYyEr. I will use a saw on the wood, but I am going to read Tom SOYyer. So maybe some people pronounce them Lawyer and Sawyer, but my way is perfectly acceptable and makes me, well, me. And if that ain't enough for ya, go look it up in the dictionary - Webster's seems to agree . . . with both of us.
Yosh, while I tend to agree with you on other things, I just don't see eye to eye with you on how you pronounce words and really about the entire title of your blog - I mean is it really the place to be? You didn't seem to be singing its praises the last time I saw you - just wondering...
Cecil C. is the Place to Be
On a lighter note, ask your wifey if she agrees with me on this one:
I'm thinking balls are to men what purses are to women. It's just a little bag, but we feel naked in public without it.
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So - the law school Learned Hand Bowling Tournament is in fool, I mean full swing. 22 teams of law students rolling, guttering, striking, and drinking. Copious amounts. Of beer. For those of you who know me, you know that I don't like beer. I have tried for many years to get to like it (mainly b/c its much cheaplyler; see I can do cost-benefit analyses thingies). However, I just don't like it - nope, don't like it at all. Soooo, b/c of my aversion to beer and beer-related things, I got to watch some of my fellow bowlers get very, very involved in the game (perhaps partly due to the copious. amounts. of beer.). Granted, I mainly only saw my team, the team we were competing against, and the teams on either side of us - but, in list fashion, these are a few of my favorite things...
(after a girl bowls a strike) "You're so money, and you don't even know it!"
(when it is very intense boy's turn) "Alright guys, it's GO TIME"
(after a good bowler bowls in another teammates place b/c we couldn't find the teammate - other side's queen bee) "Um, so I need to go up there and just let them know to take off that score, right? (seriously, it's just bowling...let it gooooo)
Other funny things I saw that evening - a guy leaning so far over in his chair to watch his fellow teammate, that he actually fell out of the chair;
2 brand pairs of bowling shoes - purchased by fellow bowlers (i don't know why, i just thought it was funny...);
and people actually throwing their visors down in anger after a mediocre frame;
and myself spilling half of the contents of my diet coke in my bra b/c I was shamelessly staring at boys doing a bowling celebration dance (seriously, its bowling...).
As much as I found the actual evening entertaining, even more impressive were some of the teams' names. Law school kids are witty! Here are some of my faves:
Bowl Movement
Pre-emptive Strikers
Split Happens
No F in Strikes and my personal favorite...
Lickety Splits
Well, guys - that's all for now.
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Contact: Leigh MacMillan
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Caption: Preston Campbell, left, and Florent Elefteriou, Ph.D., in the Vanderbilt Center for Bone Biology. The researchers report in PLoS Biology that stress fuels breast cancer cell metastasis to bone, and they show that it's possible to prevent cancer metastasis to bone in mice.
Credit: John Russell/Vanderbilt University
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Related news release: Stress fuels breast cancer metastasis to bone