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I'm constantly doubting myself. Always second guessing and regretting what I did or didn't say or do. Below is a journal entry I wrote frantically after making a mistake. A mistake by the way, which resolved itself quickly and wonderfully. But as I read back over my frazzled scribbles I wonder again and how easily I get worked up over stuff!I feel like a total idiot today. I made a mistake. I actually have a chance to fix it but I'm not sure how. I want to turn the clock back. I want it to be this time yesterday. But I spend too much time wanting that. I make stupid mistakes. Usually when I'm happy and confident. When I'm like this I'm a bit paralysed. I've written half a response (which is already twice as long as it needs to be) and I can't send it and I can't delete it. Why am I such an idiot? Why can't I just stop when I'm supposed to stop. Instead of going too far and saying too much? Stupid Stupid Stupid woman! And now I can't write. Can't write anything cos I have a stupidity cloud sitting on my head. I've a lump in my throat and I want to cry, I'm so bloody annoyed with myself. What do I do now? I can't turn the clock back, I can ask the other person to, but no matter what happens it'll always be there. And asking to turn the clock back will draw more attention to it than if I just reply to the email casually. But I can't. I can't casually blow it off. I want not to have received the email. Not for the person to feel they had to send it at all.
And quick as a flash it was sorted. Thank you Lord. The other person got in touch and actually felt like I did. "Lets' turn the clock back 24 hrs" and we did. And it worked.
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I know its been a while and it might seem kinda ungrateful to come here asking for help... But its worth a shot.
I'm having some FPS issue on my jump map. Not big but FPS wobble between 115 and 125, sometimes it even reaches 105 and such. The jump map only has 3 jumps do far, 3 big jumps but only 3, it's smaller than a regular jump map.
I've everything detailed except for the caulked brushes I made around each jump...
How it looks like in Radiant (no filter activated):
When filtering detail brushes:
When in-game I use r_showtris I can see though that the entire map is being rendered (with the exception of the start room because it is divided by a portal)
Shouldn't it be only rendering the structural surrounding brushes?
How can I fix this FPS issue?
I was trying to avoid manual hinting as I don't quite know how to make it properly yet.
Besides, a jump map shouldn't need hinting as long as you have z-shaped corridors between jumps to block visibility (which I do).
How can I solve this?

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Only 4 mins from central Queenstown Arthur's Point is an amazing area to stay in and the perfect base for the ultimate Queenstown experience.
On my last visit to Queenstown I was luckily enough to rent a luxury holiday home in Arthur's Point, and I have to pat myself on the back for doing so!
Arthur's point is really a little hidden gem that connects so quickly to down town Queenstown.
Only a 4 min drive away (or just jump in a taxi or bus) which is closer than many other accommodations in Queenstown, the significant difference being the magnificent views and the quite spaciousness that gives a distinctive rural feel.
The house we booked was called "Gucci house" and it certainly lived up to its name without the price tag! It really was high quality, very cool and excellent value for money.
We booked for a week and were worried about how to get to town if we were drinking but a bus stop is located only 50 metres away from the front door, so we took the bus and then taxied home for a mere $3 per person.
The real surprise about Arthurs Point was that we had some great, fun activities right at our doorstep - so of course we did them and they were all great fun for everyone.
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- The famous Shotover jet boat ride,
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An online dating site was recently launched by the Muslim Brotherhood to help its male members find appropriately veiled woman with advanced skills in general obedience.
Men and women set up profiles on the social network where, much like Facebook, if a man finds a specimen of interest he may send her a "poke", which on IkhwanDating signifies a marriage proposal.
The woman can then check out the pokers profile, and if her father agrees he can click on "Accept marriage proposal" on her behalf.
Members like Mahmoud El-Balboos have already been able to snatch up three obedient wives via IkhwanDating, and it's no surprise given his spot-on profile:
Name: El-Balboos, Mahmoud
Age: 52
Education: PhD in reciting Koran while doing handstand.
Beard length: 83 centimeters.
Penis length: Istaghfar allah!!
Hobbies: Reading and re-reading article 2 of the constitution.
Interested in: Low IQ women with good set of ovaries.
Interestingly, IkhwanDating has two different entrances to the site, one for women and one for men. "In a proper Islamic society men and women must use different doors to avoid accidental touching, even if it is only virtual," explained the site administrator, adding, "That's why women have to add /horma to ikhwandating.com to be able to enter"
Meanwhile Salafi groups have criticized the site as too liberal, warning that personal pictures of fully veiled women can be too easily misconstrued as pornographic material.
Absolutely love it :DD Brilliant hehehehe
Dear makarona, your Article is so disgusting. Mocking Muslims because of their clothes and their appearance is poor. If you want to make a funny article than try to write something about yourself. Your idea of making jokes is really lame. (and no, I don't wear a face veil or something like this, It just sucks to mock ppl).
European woman, it doesn't look like you get this article. This isn't about Muslims, it's about the Muslim Brotherhood, a political group that, to the opinion of many people, is backward, hypocritical and altogether dangerous.
I agree with European Woman ... this is very distasteful.
I have absolutely no issues whatsoever with criticising and making fun of the brotherhood - in fact, I fully endorse and support it.
But the brotherhood and Islam are NOT one and the same, and this supposedly "funny" article crosses the boundary in my opinion.
I don't accept making fun of Qur'an recital or any other Islamic practises. If you want to make fun at the brotherhood, then perhaps address their hypocrisy / lack of democracy .. or how they were directly involved in killing Sadat and now they're acting all democratic ... or the fact that article 2 wasn't EVEN included in the referendum yet the brotherhood instigated armies of people to go out and vote YES (blindly) ... or the fact that their official website ordered people to go out and vote YES because other it would be 7aram, but then came on TV afterwards and said "oops - that got posted on our website by mistake"
Please please please do not confuse the brotherhood with Islam ... please do not make fun of Islam .. please remove / modify this article
Brotherhood ≠ Islam!!
Dude you don't comment on articles you don't understand... the article is criticizing misconceptions of Islam by the Muslim brotherhood... not Islam itself
Oh and if you are going to start whining about people criticizing other cultures, you REALLY should start considering something called "FREEDOM OF SPEECH"
Other than that, great article i had a good laugh !
I actually believe this is a perfect discription to how people see the Muslim Brotherhood. Over the past few days people in Egypt have expressed great fear, mocking around that if the MB rule Egypt they will all wear veil and Niqqab, do nothing but all become Islamists like Iran..
I actually believe the writer is brilliant in setting fears this way.. the article actually shows that people think the MB do nothing in the world but recite Quran ( which is definitely awesome. I wish I hold a phd in reciting Quran). However people almost forgot that the MB hold huge part of the country's business..
P.S. MB were not involved directly or indirectly in Sadat's killings.
Kudos on the satire.
I don't see why people are complaining. Satire and free speech are healthy for society. It's about time Egyptian society knocked down some taboo barriers and encouraged more free thinking.
It is also clear as day that this is attack on religious zealotry and not religion itself. It's commentary on how life might be like if the Muslim Brotherhood ever get in power.
Kudos to the Koshary!
lol at people thinking insulting the Muslim Brotherhood means insulting Islam
The Brotherhood may have you believe that they are the"guards of Islam" but that's not the case.
@Anon I can't find anything in the article that insults Islam.
Viewing women as nothing more than breeding machines is what the MB belives not Islam.
Doing nothing more than reciting Quran and worshiping in the mosque all the days of your life is not what Islam promotes as we all know.That's not what the MB or Saflaists would have you believe.
We need to focus on what is really wrong with this article "The woman can then check out the pokers profile, and if her father agrees he can click on "Accept marriage proposal" on her behalf". This is unacceptable. A woman MUST NOT check the poker's profile, her father does that for her. Her opinion is of no value and being exposed to a male's profile might lead to promiscous thoughts.
Now i don't know how criticizing MB got any thing to do with mocking veiled women or people reciting qura'n .
These people that you are mocking are not necessarily muslim brotherhood there is a large section of the society follows islamic traditions and not from MB and vice versa .
If you want to criticize MB or mock them then talk about their political views ..etc
This a very ill-thought, ill-considered topic for the article.
I tried to get access to the subject Dating Site, but the Internet sensors blocked it. Darn! I want to see what you are all talking so heatedly about. I'm really just curious--I already have three dumb wives with productive ovaries, and if you saw them, you'd agree that they should keep their veils on. BTW, how can I join this Muslim Brotherhood? They sound so cool!
Hey :)
I totally disagree with the penis length category because seriously they would not write that... but the whole text is just so much fun to read.
I also want to call them something else other than brothers because simply there is no blood relationship between us what so ever and if by any means I would have a brother it would not be them ...
Keep making fun of them, no problem what so ever :)
Anyone notice that the guy dating is Bush? :)
Dear European Woman and anonymous #1: I think you need to get laid. It's always sad to be reminded that there are still many people like you who have no sense of humor. Life is so much simpler if you can take a joke...
So Funny! for all those who are whining about whatever just grow up and welcome to freedom of speech corner stone of the democracy you are claiming you are seeking.
I lol'd hard.
Mahmoud El-Balboos looks like G. W. Bush dressed up as an Arab.
If so, I love the secondary layer you built in.
It's pitiful that so many ppl missed the point of the article. . . it isn't about mocking islam but islam extremism, which are two very different things. In a hypothetical world, if it were Jewish extremism, Christian extremism or even Buddihst that's dominant, I'd still think it's fine to mock it.
Anyways, an extremely hilarious article as usual.
It's pitiful that so many ppl missed the point of the article. . . it isn't about mocking islam but islam extremism, which are two very different things. In a hypothetical world, if it were Jewish extremism, Christian extremism or even Buddihst that's dominant, I'd still think it's fine to mock it.
Anyways, an extremely hilarious article as usual.
European Woman: You suck because you have no sense of humour. Keep up the excellent work, Koshary!
LOOOOL that was great .. i do agree that mocking the extremes (doesn't mean) mocking islam itself. Nobody would ever mock Islam .. but as a part of fun.. i enjoyed it
Hey guys, you need to chill
This is funny. very funny perspective.
Why is it that Islamist are easily offended.
Lighten up, you need to learn how to appreciate intelligent humor.
well done makarona. very insightful.
i dont agree that we mix some of our islamic values and the ikhwan. i dnt appreciate mocking other people's values just because u dnt agree with them
@ Miss D
I was about to write the same thing, people you are missing the point....
If you want to find a reason to argue for the sake of arguing then let it be away from here.
I don't see it as offending to any muslim at all, if you are so insecure that you can't take self criticism then you might want to get that so called faith of yours checked and perhaps re-checked.
I am muslim and I think that this article is so funny it made up for a long bad day at work....
@ Makarona, Can you please hook me up or am I not qualified???
Please Help me....
Age: 23
Education: Doing handstand, no recitals.
Beard length: 0 centimeters.
Penis length: ;-)
Hobbies: Erasing article 2 of the constitution.
Interested in: Smart women I can have a decent life with...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA this is absolutely amazing :D perfect mockery of the ikhwan, they deserve nothing more :)
Very Funny and nicely conceived, but don't you think that the MB and Salafis find the use of modern technology such as the internet to be 'harram', instead they advocate the use of messenger stool pigeons to select brides.
"Hobbies: Reading and re-reading article 2 of the constitution."
The article pulled some nice giggles out of me.
And, online debates are as futile as the seriousness of this article.
I'm just soooo happy somebody's got such a great sense of humour around here :)
Makarona, you make my day every time! Thanks!


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"Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid." -Oscar Wilde
I've found this to be quite true; people are so overworked that they make stupid decisions about their careers. It's not that people are stupid, but the pressure and the stress make them ACT stupid. Big difference, same result.
"A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night." -Marilyn Monroe
Amen, Marilyn. I spent a lot of years working like a maniac at my career and amazingly, those TPS reports don't curl up with me on a cold night. On the other hand, they don't steal my covers.
"Don't confuse having a career with having a life" -Hillary Clinton
Yes, that Hillary Clinton. I'm sure she enjoys a lot of free time outside of her political career (there is no sarcastic font), but hey, politicians are free to dispense all sorts of advice that they themselves don't take. She makes a great point, though. Don't assume that being the hotshot assistant manager for the Northeast III region is "a life." It's a great accomplishment… but it's not "a life" if it doesn't fulfill your goals.
"Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire." -Bobby Unser, 3-time Indianapolis 500 winner
Wish I had thought about this a little before completing 7 years of school for two degrees. Eh, actually I'm happy with my education but Bubelah and I have this conversation all the time, with the same result (I will be annoying and put it in all caps for emphasis' sake): AMERICANS CONFUSE EDUCATION WITH ACHIEVEMENT. Just because you have degrees out the wazoo doesn't mean you'll be successful. My suspicion is that successful people would be successful regardless of where they went to school or whether they went at all. Some of the least successful people I know are very educated.
"No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like." -Napoleon Hill
If you read brip blap, you know I really (really, really) admire Napoleon Hill and his work. This is a straightforward statement that sums it up. I have never been successful in my line of work – accounting and finance – to the level I could've been because, quite frankly, I am bored by it. I don't hate it. I'm actually pretty good at what I do, and I can hammer away at exceptionally complex accounting and finance problems with the best of them. But I get very, very bored with it very quickly. Because of that I've been moderately successful instead of extremely successful.
"I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it. " – Lou Holtz
I remember when I experienced defeat. Strictly speaking, it wasn't in my career, but when I was attending mathematics PhD school I woke up one morning and said "this is NOT for me." I had never seriously considered a career path other than "college professor in some type of math/computer science/linguistics/other technical type of study." I sat down with a piece of paper and started writing down what I wanted, how I could do it, and how quickly I could do it. I came up with going back to school, getting a BA in accounting and an MBA in accounting… in two years. Doing that, though, achieved one of my dearest dreams: years of traveling the world at somebody else's expense. My "defeat" in not completing PhD school led to some great things in my life. So Lou, the absolutely awful analyst and overrated coach, got this one right.
" I've reached the pinnacle of my career. I just feel that I don't have anything else to prove." – Michael Jordan
I have little to say to this except this: can you even begin to imagine what it feels like to say that? I can't.
"Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America." -Arnold Schwarzenegger
I'm not exactly an America-firster; I have some big problems with what my country has demonstrated about itself by making some poor electoral choices in 2000 and 2004. At the same time, I've traveled around the world enough to know that it's a humbling thing to realize that people all over the world dream of achieving something that we got through the dumb accident of birth: being an American (and this applies to Canada, too). I also doubly appreciate the privilege considering my wife and her family, who lost everything in the collapse of the Soviet Union but have rebuilt a middle class lifestyle in a little more than a decade despite coming to this country with nothing more – literally – than the clothes on their backs. America still has a lot going for it.
"My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing." – Jeff Foxworthy
I don't remember all of it, but I read an interesting interview with Foxworthy a while back. He was some cubicle dweller for IBM, I think, and was prodded by friends to give comedy a shot. A few redneck jokes later and he's done alright. He said he had no idea of the odds against succeeding in comedy, and if he had he would have clung to his crap job for dear life.
"I don't want to get into the habit of thinking about my career because when it comes down to it, it's not that important. I could die tomorrow and the world would go on. I don't want to separate myself from the rest of the world. If the world is not going too good, I'm part of that. I'll be happy to take the blame. I'm along for the ride." -River Phoenix
Er, I'm including this in the "how's that working out for you" category. Don't be along for the ride – the river can get bumpy and there are a few hard turns there. You need to keep a hand on the rudder (or whatever the boat-thingy that steers is called).
"I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics." -Richard M. Nixon
I am including this quote because, well, read it! Really? What I would give to see Tricky Dick representin'! Gas face! "I am not a criminal – I am the O.G.!" His new moniker? Janky Forty Sippa. Please visit this site to put a smile on your face on the way out of the workplace!
According to that site, brip blap should be redubbed "Rotten Tree Hugga." Good idea?
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Today got off to an awful start – I was denied entrance upon the gates opening. I had arrived at 4:15, waiting in line for 45 minutes, and when it came time for my ticket to be scanned, I heard that heart stopping sound, "beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep."
After attempting to scan the ticket thrice more, the employee told me that I couldn't enter the park, and had to walk halfway around the park to Customer Service. I was unbelievably irritated.
On Monday, I had traded in several tickets that I won't be able to use for a future game. Of my three season tickets, I traded in two from today's game. The man who made the exchange hastily canceled the tickets in the computer system, and canceled the wrong seat numbers.
By the time I got a ticket reprinted and got back into the ballpark, the Diamondbacks were already hitting. I had missed the Pirates batting practice – and I wasn't happy.
To show my displeasure, I flung my backpack about eight feet, hoping it would slam off the bleacher, as to let the world know that I was ****** off. Of course, the strap from the bag caught on the back support of the bleacher and caught the bag. I couldn't even slam my backpack down in disgust right today.
Once I entered the bleachers, I immediately spotted a ball on the warning track. After flinging my glove out onto the field several times to nudge the ball closer, I reeled in ball #1 of the day.
Ball #2 came from (I think) Conor Jackson. He came over to the warning track after I had used the glove trick. I kept my glove out of view and on the bleacher, to look helpless. I also got an assist from my Diamondbacks gear, as he happily tossed me ball #2.
After wasting some time in foul ground at 5:30, I headed over to the right field wall.
The wall, dubbed the Clemente Wall, is dubiously steep, and tough to catch balls because of it.
I did manage to get ball #3 off the bat of a D'backs lefty. It was hit a section to my left, and I walked over to get it. Keep in mind, I am still suffering from bad back spasms, so I can't move quickly. Another ballhawk, Harold, was going for the same ball. He pulled up and let me get this one, possibly aware of the fragility of my back.
Harold is widely known by the PNC Park faithful as having caught 830 some balls over the past 30+ years at PNC Park and Three Rivers Stadium. He attends nearly every game and can be seen roaming the top of the Clemente Wall throughout BP.
Near the end of batting practice, I snagged ball #4 on the ricochet. It bounced several rows back and shot up in the air, sailing back towards the field. I braced myself against the railing seen in the picture below, and gingerly leaned out, snagging the ball barehanded.
Game: 4 balls (2 hit, 1 thrown, 1 device)
Season: 244 balls (127 hit, 81 thrown, 36 device)
Games: 51 games (5 of which didn't have BP)
Average: 4.78 balls per game
Career: 410 balls
Attendance: 11,294


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The pureblood Porsche isn't in the top rung of supercars anymore, but do you still dream about the Carrera GT? This morning, would you drive one?
Welcome to Morning Would, where we present you with some of the most desirable, controversial cars ever built and ask if you yourself would drive one.
When the Carrera GT debuted in 2004, it got a rough reception. For a supercar, the styling was too understated, the carbon clutch was too difficult, and it was too slow to break any speed records. The 605-horsepower V10 plucked from an aborted racing project has aged well, however, and the Carrera GT remains the serious enthusiast's supercar of choice.
Or does it? Would you rather find yourself behind the wheel of a Noble M600 or even an Ariel Atom for a dedicated driver's car, or is the Carrera GT your perfect automobile?


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The landscape of high school sports has changed dramatically over the past 50 years in the United States. Long ago, it was simple. You played for the school in the town you lived in. It was a matter of school pride.
These days, however, with college scholarships and even multimillion-dollar contracts with professional teams in the balance, any local loyalty is pretty much out the window.
Now a student athlete or, more so, his or her parents, have to determine where there is the best chance to play under big-budget programs, be trained by successful coaches and ultimately be recruited by scouts. Families often make the somewhat insane decision to relocate to a different city, or even state, to increase a kid's small chance of success in the sports. Private schools' increased popularity has just as much to do with their emphasis on sports as it once did on their focus on education or religion, for that matter.
To put it in Hollywood-speak, the innocent days of Hoosiers are long gone. Welcome to Friday Night Lights.
Locally, of course, high school sports are wildly popular, as last weekend's Buena vs. Ventura alumni football game can attest. Police even had to set up electronic trailer signs encouraging rowdy fans and players to "Cheer Without Beer," basically reminding them that even though they are now older than 21, it's still illegal to drink on school grounds. The event, proving high school sports mania doesn't necessarily end when one leaves high school, saw battered adults in high school jerseys limping off the field, into trucks and straight over to Cronies to ice down beer mugs not bodies.
With that said, there's a new school in town that will be entering the wild and often wacky world of high school athletics, Ventura's Foothill Technology High School.
It's surprising, especially since tech schools, in many ways, grew in popularity by appealing to students who tended to have more on their minds than sports. Nonetheless, Principal Joe Bova estimates that more than 300 students at Foothill participate in athletic programs at neighboring Buena and Ventura High Schools, and the school will now be starting its very own CI- registered sports teams.
To Foothill's credit, it is going big out of the gate with a multitude of different sports for boys and girls. While there are no plans for the holy grail of high school sports, a football team, there's virtually every other sport you can think of, including, baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball and water polo.
What's also great for current Foothill students participating on Buena or Ventura High School sports teams, is that they will be allowed to choose where to play. They can potentially help establish and most likely star on one of their school's new teams or stay with their current and more high-profile teams at Buena or Ventura.
What Bova and company are already turning heads for are the coaches they are hiring. Already on board to helm the cross country programs is two-time national high school coach of the year Ken Reeves, who boasts 11 state championships in his career. Former Ventura College coach Brad McCain will head the tennis programs, and that's just the start of what promises to be an impressive roster of professional coaches and assistants.
Foothill has also started an advisory board of community leaders and organizations to help with the search for coaches and to help guide and grow the program long term.
Foothill may be new to the game, no pun intended, but it clearly means business; and when it comes to enrollment, support and often survival for a school, these days sports play a big role, if not the biggest.
For more information on Foothill's next athletic programs, visit www.foothilltechnology.org/faq-foothill-athletics


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Succession Planning: Cultivating the Next CIOBy EricChabrow | Posted 2007-04-07 Print
Rather than recruit from outside the company, Chubb Corp. lured IT veteran June Drewry out of retirement to train the firm's next top tech executive. Here's why.
Chubb Corp. CEO John D. Finnegan didn't need a report such as the one from the Society for Information Management to realize the $14 billion insurer should be grooming its next top tech leader from within its own ranks. Two years ago, when the post of global CIO became vacant, none of Chubb's internal prospects was ready for the job. So Finnegan convinced June Drewry, a former SIM International president with more than 20 years of experience as a CIO, to come out of retirement expressly to groom a successor. Drewry spoke with executive editor Eric Chabrow about cultivating CIO talent.
CIO INSIGHT: Why do companies need to groom their own CIOs?
DREWERY: If you look at the SIM report, the characteristics of tomorrow's CIO are different from the characteristics of the past. Leadership, business acumen and relationship management are the real skills that make a difference at the top now, not a lot around technical expertise; they have staffs to handle that. Your communication skills have to be up there; your relationship skills have to be up there; you have to be astute about the politics within an organization; and you have to be able to deal with those things appropriately, while making sure you're doing the right thing for the enterprise.
Nowadays, IT is so critical, so strategic, that you can't afford to have someone who's not at the top of their game partnering with the head of a business. CIOs have a seat at the table; there isn't time to go backward to the kids' table while learning how to operate at that senior level. It's important today to do your own in-house grooming, to give people opportunities to get ready before the job opens up, to try their sea legs, so they can be accepted as a trusted partner from day one.
You see so many companies going outside and bringing someone new in. They're just not willing to take the time to train internally, and that's a huge mistake, because there's going to be a lot of baby boomers out of the game soon, and there's going to be a real CIO shortage. Companies are going to have to be bringing people from below them into that position.
You're not just talking about the IT department as the only source for these potential candidates?
IT can be pretty snobby at times, and not have a lot of respect for people who didn't come up through its ranks. Because of the integration of IT and business and operations, there is more of a willingness to open up to someone from within the business operations side. But largely, IT has put a lot of energy in the last several years into making its business-unit CIOs very business oriented and very good at relationship management, so they are well-primed for the job of enterprise CIO. That next step, dealing with the board and the senior executives, is something they've got to take before they jump into the job.
You're grooming several senior IT executives, including unit CIOs, as candidates for Chubb's global CIO job. What happens to those executives who don't get the top tech job?
It is of great concern to us. The business-unit folks they work for think they're terrific. I've asked their bosses, "Are you okay if they leave and take a CIO job someplace else?" The bosses say, "Well, no, we're not okay with that. We want to keep them." I've asked if they would give these IT executives a bigger piece of the business-unit operation, besides IT. They'll be ready for it eventually, because these people are driven, not by status, but by challenge, and by continually developing and moving within the organization, moving up. We also need to take a good look at the organization itself. We need to ask, "How could we reorganize and make an office of the CIO where, even for those who don't get the global CIO job, they could get larger pieces of the IT organization to run?"
You're describing the evolution of an organization where IT is everywhere. Do you think there will come a time when IT will just be integrated into the business as a whole?
Yeah. I've actually heard that said, that at times it's hard to see operations and IT as two separate pieces. There will come a day in financial services where you just can't separate them anymore.
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Post-game breakdown, video: Temple
Temple coach Fran Dunphy pretty much summed up Tuesday's game.
"They played well and we did not," Dunphy said.
UConn easily rolled to a 90-66 win in American Athletic Conference action at the XL Center in Hartford.
The Huskies (15-4, 3-3) were clearly the superior team despite playing without starting guard Ryan Boatright who was home in Aurora,Ill., attending his cousin's funeral.
Junior DeAndre Daniels scored a career-high 31 points and senior Shabazz Napier had 27 points, seven rebounds and six assists.
Here's a post-game breakdown and video:
-- Check out the attached video of coach Kevin Ollie's press conference.
-- Temple showed little interest in playing defense. The Owls were slow to find UConn's open shooters.
The Huskies cashed in, reaching the 90-point mark for the third time this season and first time since beating Maine, 95-68, on Dec. 6. They shot 53.4 percent from the field and 52.2 percent (12-for-23) from 3-point range.
-- The Owls also are a poor rebounding team. And the Huskies took charge, tying the largest advantage in the rebounding department (45-25) in Ollie's two seasons as head coach.
Anthony Lee, the league's leading rebounder at 9.9 per game, had zero rebounds in 29 minutes.
Daniels had a game-high 12 rebounds and graduate student Lasan Kromah added a season-high eight.
"It was a team effort," Daniels said. "Everybody was going in and rebounding and I felt that was what got us going. When we rebound and just play our game, we get easy buckets, fast breaks, and get into the offense more easily."
The Huskies improved to 9-0 when out-rebounding an opponent.
-- Napier was in a scoring mood on Tuesday. He would have had more points if not for sitting out the last seven minutes, 52 seconds of the first half with two fouls.
"I felt like if he didn't get those two fouls early he would have gone for 50 points," Daniels said.
Napier tied a season high with five 3-pointers.
In the last three games, he's averaged 24.7 points. He also moved into fourth place on the all-time assist list at UConn with 564, passing Doron Sheffer.
"He had a great game," Ollie said. "He set the tone. … Bazz ran the show."
-- Senior Niels Giffey started in place of Boatright and finished with 11 points, five rebounds, three steals and two assists. It was his first double figure scoring game since finishing with 13 against Eastern Washington on Dec. 28.
-- With Boatright out, freshman Terrence Samuel played double digit minutes for just the third time this season. He had two points, two rebounds, two assists and two turnovers in 15 minutes. Kromah also saw some action at point guard.
Boatright will be back in time for Saturday night's game at Rutgers(8-11, 2-4).
-- Ollie on bouncing back from Saturday's loss to Louisville: "I did want to make sure that we defended our house. I don't think we did that against Louisville. Louisville knocked us out and we didn't really give ourselves a chance in the ring.
"Tonight, we were in the middle of the ring and we were fighting."
-- Dunphy on Daniels: "We didn't do a very good job on Daniels. I thought he hurt us greatly. … We missed a couple of switches on him and he made us pay for that."
-- Temple had just nine players in uniform. Junior Will Cummings returned to action after sitting out the last two games recovering from an injury. He finished with a team-high 20 points.
-- The Huskies had 15 assists after tying a season low with just seven against Louisville Saturday. Their ball movement vastly improved.
-- Considering the miserable weather outside, there was a decent turnout for the game. The crowd was announced at 4,741.
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Life's early traces
New finds help push microbe origins beyond 3.5 billion years ago
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Western Australia's Pilbara region isn't known for its hospitality to life. Dry creek beds carve paths through dusty red earth, and razor-sharp grasses cover the area's low hills. In this place with record-setting heat and months of minimal rainfall, hardy plants and animals eke out an existence.
But the Pilbara may have been prime real estate for the planet's earliest complex life-forms. In the region's 3.5-billion-year-old rocks, geobiologist Nora Noffke has found tiny, subtle patterns that may reflect communities of microorganisms. The patterns look just like those made by moist mats of microbes found along today's shorelines. The markings Noffke spotted in Australia may be the earliest evidence of complex life on Earth.
Other scientists aren't so sure. Early signs of life are hard to interpret, and are famous for stirring up controversy. Taken one at a time, every odd


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A little tea-party in a lovely sunny spot on a summer day….a little nibble of cheese…perhaps a little stroller ride…
What could possibly go wrong?
Well, I'll tell you what – the little Party won't seem so "Happy" once Little Girlie decides one of her party guests (guess who?) is under-dressed for teh occassion. Then, before you can dash into the bushes – it's into Dolly's dress you go. Then well, gee, that's so KEE-YUTE, maybe Kitteh would like a ride on teh swings – maybe a little stroller action – maybe Kitteh will do a little dance! Wheee! Then, just as you are at your wit's end and about to resort to sinking your teefs into her chubby forearm, all teh big humans circle round, oohing and aahing and juggling cameras in your face.
You, my friend, are trapped. If you are in this predicament, my only council is to growl and bear it. You can NOT scratch Little Girlie. You can NOT bite Little Girlie. Not in the presence of Big Humans. Not if you want a can of tuna opened for you ever again.
Our only defense is avoidance. Little Girlie is a Ruthless Predator and as such, should be approached with extreme caution. Little Boy, for some reason, is less of a menance, prol'ly because you can see him coming a mile away, waving sticks and action heros and bellowing something about finding "the Bad Guy." Since that is so obviously you, there is plenty of time to climb a tree or bookshelf. But Little Girlie is patient and cunning, armed wif comfy strollers and warm doll blankets and a sweet and tiny voice that she uses to convince you that this will be "fun."
For this reason, I begin a new series: Cautionary Tails of Dangerous Little Darlings. Yet another of my many helpful and cat-saving Public Service Announcements. In my first installment, we take an indepth look at the mind of Little Girlie. Don't worry – no Kittens were Harmed in the making of this video. But, oh! the squealing. The horrible, horrible squealling. I'm just warning you.
Stay Strong, my Kitteh Friends. And Stay. Away.
FANKS! to our friend Neato1 for use of her great photos. Her collection of vintage photos can be found on her Goodsir Flickr page . Also, to Noobdude for posting the Kittens video on youtube.


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While working on bringing a new TED down here to the South East, I was able to get in contact with TED HQs in New York. I had a good conversation with them about what I wanted to do and they gave me the requirements that were needed to be met when I hosted a TED down here in the South East. The problem with these requirements, I cannot explain as of yet, but there were two big problems I had with them. TED will be coming out with a innovative way to spread TED around the world, but in doing so they want to protect the name of course. They will be unveiling this new idea in January or February of 2009, but as of now I will not use TED as the name because of the requirements. Maybe later down the road when things get ironed out, we could move the name around TED. I don't wish to speak about it more than that, until they make their final decisions on how they are going to go about it. With these two problems taken into account, I will have to create my own TED like event down here in Central Florida with a different name.
So where do I start, as stated last I was pursuing a name that would work best. I want to do an acronym with some words I have drawn up that could best express the goal in mind.
I found a decent and pretty intelligent acronym creator at http://ac.epfl.ch/cgi-bin/ac.cgi. Any help on creating an acronym out of two or all those words would be amazing. Have fun at it. I will definitely be back next time with a name.
Now, TED does have an amazing slogan/mission statement. Its one of those statements that cannot be topped at least I think. The Statement is "Ideas Worth Spreading". I also thought of another statement that was inspired by one of the people that left a comment on my blog. The statement is "Ideas Worth Spreading is an Ideal that must Grow" These two phrases, I think brings everything together. The fact is I think this slogan can be used over and over since it isn't copyrighted. I personally think that TED and the idea of TED is worth spreading, so why can't another partner of TED also use the same slogan? I will most likely be using this slogan and making the final decision on it by the time I blog next about TED.
Again, any help on the name would be amazing! Also, if anyone wants to give their opinion about the mission statement, I would appreciate it.
The video below is a decently long one, but I think it could have the most impact on the Human Race in the next century or two. It is pretty drawn out and only after a few minutes do you realize what he is talking about.
Craig Venter on creating Synthetic life.
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Poll: Obama partisan split grows
So far in October, Americans' feelings on President Barack Obama are more polarized than they have been for any recent incumbent president, according to polling released Friday.
Nine-in-ten Democrats approve of President Barack Obama's job performance, compared to 8 percent of Republicans who give the president a thumbs-up. The 82-point gap compares to an 80-point gap throughout all of October 2004 on George W. Bush's approval rating. Presidents Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan all had much smaller gaps — between 56 and 68 percentage points, according to Gallup.
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If you consider the entirety of a president's fourth year in office, Obama is slightly less polarizing than Bush. There is a 75-point gap between Obama's approval ratings among Democrats and Republicans, compared to 76 percent for the younger Bush. Clinton has the third biggest gap, at 61 points.
"… Obama's ratings throughout his first three years in office have been among the most polarized Gallup has measured for any president," Gallup said. "Obama's already highly polarized ratings are becoming even more so in his fourth year in office."
The results on Obama's approval rating are based on a survey of 4,558 adults conducted from Oct. 1 to Oct. 9. The margin of error is plus or minus 1 percentage point.


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Where there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet.
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Share it all with #BeanOutsider and be a part of the most inclusive club in the world. The outside is better together. So let's do this.
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Even though this isn't Android related, it is something that could potentially impact Android in the future. Could the phone in the pic above actually give Android some serious competition in the future? Supposedly, the pic is of the new "Firefox" Smartphone developed by Mozilla. We even have some specs to go with it, although they are a bit lackluster:
- 1GHz Snapdragon processor
- 512MB of RAM
- 3 megapixel camera
- 4GB of internal storage
Of course, higher-end hardware specs do not necessarily make a product better. Perhaps the Mozilla Firefox Mobile OS can do more with less... Regardless, it would take some impressive features and functionality to draw people away from the big dogs of the industry like iOS and Android. It might be interesting to see what develops from this, especially considering that Mozilla has a very open mindset about development, just like Google. Also, more competition in the market is likely a good thing.
Still, it's hard to see this device as much of a threat when other bigger name players like Microsoft and RIM can't seem to get a decent foothold. Share your thoughts.
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Why be snowbored? Discover winter in Queenstown!
Get more out of your ski holiday in Queenstown by exploring the wide range of mountain resorts on offer!
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There are many different mountain resorts on offer around Queenstown and all are located within 90 minutes' drive. Whether you're a beginner, pro, hunting for pow or hitting the halfpipe, there is a resort to suit you!
Located 75 minutes away, Cardrona is a fun, family-friendly ski resort. A good balance of beginner, intermediate and advanced runs spread over 345 hectares of terrain means Cardrona is ideal for all abilities. Natural features in addition to a large selection of terrain park features make Cardrona one big playground. Earthworks are currently underway in Cardrona Parks developing a new intermediate freestyle ski and snowboard terrain park for the upcoming 2014 winter season. Quiet learners slopes make it the perfect place to learn to ski or board. Wind down after hitting the slopes in one of five cafés and restaurants, including a noodle bar and pizza café.
Treble Cone
Treble Cone is the South Island's largest ski resort with 550 hectares of terrain. It's best suited for intermediate and advanced skiers and boarders due to naturally longer, steeper runs and more challenging features. This being said Treble Cone is currently undertaking earthworks to extend the High Street trail to provide a longer, wider and gentler gradient increasing the appeal for beginners. Situated on the edge of Lake Wanaka, the views from the top are breathtaking. Backcountry enthusiasts have ample room to explore some of the best off-piste snow conditions in NZ.
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New Zealand's premier cross country ski resort is nestled in the Cardrona Valley just one hour from Queenstown. 50kms of varied trails wind through the Pisa Range, connecting a series of backcountry huts. Cross country skiing is great for fitness and an excellent way to explore the backcountry, but dog sledding, snowmobiling and sledding make easy fun alternatives!
Info & Snow offer great value transport and packages to all of these mountain resorts, visit www.infosnow.co.nz or call (+64) 03 442 9708 for more information.
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Info & Snow is based in the heart of Queenstown, we offer convenient, great value mountain transport and all-inclusive packages to Remarkables and Coronet Peak. It really is "Snow much easier" with Info & Snow!


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I found Etymonline's entry on the word shark unusually inconclusive. Not only is the origin of the word uncertain, it is also not clear if shark was first applied to a dishonest person or to the sea creature.
It also had no mention of this positive connotation from NOAD:
2 an expert in a specified field : a pool shark.
Can any etymology sharks out there supply some of these missing links?


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To foster the impact of our social purpose, we channel a wide range of support – donations, pro bono work and assets – through the BearingPoint Foundation.
At BearingPoint, we are not only committed to supporting our clients and people but also to contributing to the communities we live and work in. As in all aspects of our firm, we want our social impact to be positive and lasting.
To maximize our social impact, we channel our contributions through the BearingPoint Foundation.
Our social purpose is our way of making a long-term difference to the wider world we all live and work in. A positive impact that will continue for generations to come.
As a firm of committed consultants with adaptive intelligence, we focus on improving health and mental well-being and on driving advances in IQ (Intelligence Quotient) and EQ (Emotional Quotient).
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We are innovative thought leaders. Bright, lively minds are at the heart of our firm.
We have a shared social purpose that builds on this core: to support the development and understanding of the human mind.
Specifically, we focus on improving mental health and well-being and driving advances in understanding and developing IQ (Intelligent Quotient) and EQ (Emotional Quotient) in society.
To improve mental health and well-being, we work on and support projects that tackle brain diseases or issues affecting the human brain, such as Alzheimer's and Dementia. We aim to help people live full and rewarding lives free from mental illness or incapacity, cope with the normal stresses of everyday life, work productively and fruitfully, and make a positive contribution to their communities.
To drive understanding and development of IQ, we work on projects and support research that enhances our reasoning capabilities.
To drive understanding and development of EQ, we work on projects and support research that enhances self-awareness, empathy and dealing sensitively with others.
As an employer we have a strong commitment to improve mental health and well-being and drive advancement in IQ and EQ amongst our people. We actively provide a variety of support and development to help our staff manage the pressures of working in a fast-paced and demanding environment. A recent survey reveals that, across the Firm, we run over 40 interventions closely aligned to our Purpose to promote of mental well-being in our people at work. There include programs as diverse as:
We invest 1% of the firm's annual profits through the BearingPoint Foundation – in both time and financial donations.
Working with partners aligned to our social purpose, we help by:
We channel and coordinate our global and regional social activities through the BearingPoint Foundation, our charitable wing incorporating the HyperCube Institute.
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Rebecca LeGrand and Rex Hulme are pleased to announce their engagement.
Rebecca is the daughter of Michael (Carolyn) LeGrand of Norway and Dawn (Doug) Muench of Clarence.
Rex Hulme is the son of Ronald "Fritz" Hulme and the late Patricia Hulme of Traer.
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The couple will exchange vows Sept. 10, 2011 at Blessed John 23 Catholic Church. They both work at Rockwell Collins in Coralville.


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Turntable.fm Showing How Sharing Music Is Communication
from the the-shared-experience-is-what-makes-culture deptWe've already talked about just how amazing Turntable.fm is for its users. The key point we made was how it totally makes music social in a way that's incredibly powerful.
It doesn't matter if you start a room with some nearby cubicle mates or with friends scattered across the globe: what you begin to realize — almost instantly — is that taking turns playing music with friends is a kind of communication. One song leads to another. Music, enjoyable in and of itself, becomes a sort of shorthand when played among people who have shared memories attached to it. Someone plays a song that was popular when you were college, then another friend plays another song from that same period and — just like that — you've traveled back in time. It's like you're all sharing in the same inside joke.Later, he notes: "When your old college roommate surprises you with that Deee-Lite song the two of you used to rock out to, you know it's more than just music: it's a message."
And this feeling is reflected not just in the choice of songs, but in the comments that friends post. Someone digs a lost hit out of the crates and the message board lights up with comments from friends (O.K., my friends) saying things like "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and "my head is exploding."
Using Turntable can even help you make friends with people you only know in passing. If you're D.J.-ing in a room with co-workers, you may never have realized that you and the guy across the floor both like Afropop. Now you have something new to talk about at the soda machine.
Indeed. After writing my original post on Turntable.fm and how it reminded me of hanging out and DJing with a group of others -- people who I was close friends with at the time, but have mostly lost contact with -- I reached out to many of my former co-DJs to talk about setting up a "reunion" via Turntable.fm. It's hard to use Turntable.fm and not recognize that sharing music is a very legitimate form of communication.
In many ways, it's a further manifestation of a point about culture that Julian Sanchez raised a couple years ago, about how culture is built off of shared cultural experiences. It's the sharing part of culture that makes the culture valuable. If only you experience it, it just doesn't have the same power. Turntable.fm's key reason for being so addictive is that it's one of the first operations, whether on purpose or not, that has effectively taken that key aspect of culture, and turned it into a service.
However, separate from just how Turntable.fm highlights this key point, I think it also helps explain why the legacy recording industry and many politicians have made so many wrong and counterproductive moves concerning dealing with music in the internet era. Rather than realizing that music is communication, they look at it solely as a unit of content. When you view music as a unit of content, even as the fans of music actually view it as a form of communication, you're going to clash. That's because many of the ways that people communicate via music break down the concept of music being a unit of content. And, in the end, that's what a lot of the legal and policy battles have been about over the past couple decades. A very large group of people are communicating with music... and some big legacy players are simply not set up to even comprehend that, let alone cater to it.
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These specialized Visit Days are a great time to visit Oklahoma Wesleyan University! See OKWU's beautiful campus, check out what's happening here, and meet some of our professors. This visit day starts with a 9am check in and then includes:
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The Daily Mail delivers the news of another inspirational example of government medicine in England, much of it packed into the headline: "Doris, 95, was left on a hospital trolley for 28 hours – and when her son asked where she was, doctors didn't have a clue…" The Daily Mail reporter raises the question whether Doris Miller's case represents an aberration, a preview of coming attractions or an example of official policy. He argues that it is an extension of official policy:
An appalling but isolated case? If only it were.
Earlier this month, the College of Emergency Medicine (CEM), which represents A&E [Accident and Emergency] doctors, told NHS managers that they should routinely leave patients on hospital trolleys to alleviate overcrowding in casualty units.
The Daily Mail reporter pursues this point:
A&E departments have become a bottleneck in a NHS that is struggling to cope with reductions in staff and services caused by Government demands for £20 billion in efficiency savings by 2014. All this at a time when A&E attendances at English hospitals have exploded from 12.9 million in 2001 to 20.7 million in 2010.
Some of this is caused by population growth, but much of it is due to GPs radically cutting surgery opening hours and out-of-hours visits, leaving patients with nowhere else to turn.
Casualty units are also severely affected by the continued rise of Britain's binge-drinking culture following the introduction in 2003 of licensing laws which permitted 24-hour drinking.
Around a third of all A&E attendance and ambulance costs are alcohol-related, according to a report on the impact of drink on the NHS, published in 2009 by the Institute of Alcohol Studies.
The CEM says the demands being placed on A&E units are so great that it has become an unfortunate necessity to 'board' patients on trolleys in corridors outside full wards, queuing for beds to become free.
The new guidelines state: 'Boarding patients in the corridors of the wards where they will be admitted is controversial but supported by the college.'
The college is also recommending that hospitals cancel routine surgery to help clear beds and take the pressure off casualty units.
It warns that casualty staff are now under such great stress that they are at much greater risk of making errors such as failing to prescribe life- saving drugs or spotting early symptoms of crises such as heart attacks.
It also warns of the dangers of patients being left lying in ambulances for hours before space in A&E can be freed to receive them.
The college says that leaving patients on trolleys should be a stop-gap measure only until the NHS modifies its procedures to cope with the ever-growing pressures. But patients such as Mrs Miller are already suffering.
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Jeffco LWV objects to commissioners' anti-gun-control resolution
As a student living on Chicago's south side in the early 1990s, I understood that the beginning of spring brought not only warmer days, but the sound of gunfire at night. Sometimes it would be the single shot from a handgun, and occasionally it would be the "pop-pop-pop" of a semi-automatic weapon.
During the first couple months of this year's legislative session, I supported a bill on which the opponents didn't feel at all constrained by either the truth or any kind of ethical behavior. And while my policy not to write about things I work on will spare you the details, it reminded me of a learning experience I had early in my career.
Everett has in fact become the 'no' representative at the Capitol
My 10-year-old recently asked me what exactly happened on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Rather than try to explain it, I searched YouTube and found a video of a newscast that relayed in real time the violence of that awful morning.
A month into the 2013 session of the Colorado General Assembly, majority Democrats announced their package of gun-control bills at a news conference at the state Capitol last week.
Everett needs to remain true to principles, do the right thing by voters
For those who voted for state Rep. Justin Everett, the Columbine Courier's Jan. 22 article "Everett hitting the ground running …" was a disturbing picture of what happens to elected representatives who can lose their way after they get into office.
School board member apologizes for not handling traffic ticket
As a member of the Jefferson County Board of Education, I believe in lessons — for our students and for myself. In the past week, I learned important lessons about taking care of my personal business.
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Today's 'Like, Want, Need' is kind of fun, because each item is under $20. So hey, if your heart so desires indulge in one of each!
How cute is this treasure map basket? I think it would be great for rounding up toys.
Angela Deane is a creative genius in my book, and I always love to see what she's creating. My all time favorite piece of clothing in my closet was designed by her, and while she no longer does fashion her creativity is incredibly inspiring, and always fun. This banner is perfect for any time, but Valentine's would be a good excuse to put it up.
I am DYING over these sconces at Ikea right now! The black and white cord, the white enamel shade, the gold/brass details. It is a slam dunk, and only rings up at $19.99!!! Now to find a spot we need a couple sconces...


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Could continue if new volunteer steps up
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For nearly 11 years, Shepherd's Shed has been providing free clothing to Marion County residents.
That will end July 1 unless founder Robin Dicks can find someone to take over for her.
With her children growing up, she feels as if it is time to do something else, although she doesn't have concrete plans of what that something else will be.
"It's been a blessing to me," Dicks said. "It's been great for the community, and I'd hate to see it end."
Dicks opened Shepherd's Shed in September 2002 after attending a church revival. At the revival, she said a prophet told her that she would open a shop to give away clothes and cars. She opened Shepherd's Shed two weeks later.
"I've never given away a car yet, but I've given away a lot of clothes," she said.
Shepherd's Shed moved twice before settling in its current location at Main and Cedar streets. A lot of the donated clothes are leftovers from garage sales, Dicks said.
She also has received financial donations from churches, businesses, and individuals to pay rent. Donations never have failed to cover the rent, and Martha Pracht and Debbie Weigart have volunteered alongside Dicks.
Shepherd's Shed is open 2 to 6 p.m. Wednesdays. Dicks works outside those hours only once each spring and once every fall to put out season-appropriate clothes and put away ones for the just-ended season. Those swaps take a couple of days, she said.
Dicks said she thought the shop would be a good project for a church or civic group. She has made friendships through her involvement and sees a need for the shop.
"I probably have 10 to 11 families in each week," she said.


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Thu, 19 May 2011
Web 2.0...Coleen Byrne gives contemporary job seeking advice...social networking based. A 350 lb "baby" you and I are paying for. Steve Malloy says we shouldn't neglect environmental issues while we screen the next round of candidates. Then, should candidates fight back when they are insulted? Newt gets glittered. Then, Nathan Tucker with the final word on the myth of the pro-life Democrat. The history of this session's pro-life struggles.
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The white shirt was born in a factory in some nondescript place. It traveled all the way down the supply chain till it reached one of the millions of MBA students around the world. In this case, the student was from Fisher, and had bought this shirt in India. The student was an extremely lazy guy, and contemplated the most efficient way to iron it…. and realized there were a couple of tricks that he could employ depending on the dress code of the event he planned to attend.
If the dress code was business casual, it would be a suit without a tie, white shirt underneath. Now this made the poor white shirt to only show up as a stripe on the front, the rest being covered by the coat. So all that needed to be ironed was the collar and the front strip.
If the dress code was business professional, it made the job even simpler. The front would be covered with a tie, so only the collar needed to be ironed.
The white shirt felt bad. It had made this journey all the way from the cotton fields of China or India, and had been proud of itself for being the whitest thing on earth. And now, it was being covered from head to toe by this presumptuous suit which was almost always dark, and had no identity of its own. It felt bad that it was now being relegated to such a small role in the life of an MBA student.
The student thought about it for a while, and ironed only the collar. He wore the wrinkled shirt, suited up, and tied a pretty knot with the corporate noose – a tie. And suddenly, the wrinkled shirt was no longer visible! It was like magic! And so off he went to event.
However, the event was in another city, and he needed to take a flight. He checked in, took the boarding pass, and stood in line for the security check…… and froze. HE JUST REALIZED THAT HE HAD TO TAKE HIS COAT OFF!!!
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Hey there, webcomic fans. I have some thoughts today.
The point is that a few months ago, there were a whole bunch of fairly shitty (by PBF standards) comics. For example, this one:
Still not sure on what the point is there - preacher tries to be cool, preacher is clearly lame, preacher gets hurt. O.....k. And up till this point, PBF only very, very rarely missed. It was simply a very high quality comic.
Anyway the point is that after 10 or so fairly lame comics, PBF just stopped. Nick Gurewitch just stopped drawing it. It was getting too hard, he didn't want to always have to be thinking of jokes (not to mention the huge time committment his drawing was) and so he stopped, rather than dilute the quality of his work.
I think of all this because he recenly posted a new comic, apparently the first in five months, and it's just kind of eh (except its third panel, which is terrifying).
I have a lot of respect for the decision to stop. This is what I think xkcd should do. It's tough, because it means admitting that you are out of ideas, but honestly, if we keep getting this "guys you should kiss people!" shit it's basically admitting it anyway.
Anyway I'll leave you with one of the first PBFs, a great commentary on fighting in general:


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WASHINGTON (AP) Nationals center fielder Bryce Harper has become the first teenager to hit a triple in a postseason game - and the second-youngest player to homer.
The 19-year-old Harper tripled to drive in a run in the first inning, then hit a solo shot leading off the third, both against St. Louis Cardinals starter Adam Wainwright in Game 5 of an NL division series Friday night.
The only player younger than Harper, who turns 20 on Tuesday, to hit a home run in the postseason is Andruw Jones, who was about 19 1/2 when he had two for the Atlanta Braves in 1996. The previous youngest with a triple was 20-year-old Justin Upton for Arizona in 2007, according to STATS LLC.
Harper entered Friday in a 1-for-18 slump in these playoffs.