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4.2-Inch Mortar M-30 FM 6-50 January 1956
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Título: 4.2-Inch Mortar M-30 FM 6-50 January 1956
Editorial: Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
Año de publicación: 1956
Encuadernación: Paperback
Ilustrador: 6 Illustrations
Condición del libro: Very Good
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Daytona Beach Pier, Sunglow Pier and Flagler Beach Pier are producing big numbers as fish try to figure out the weird weather pattern this winter.
Surf & Piers
Sometimes, when fishing isn't so great, it is easy to spot the leader, and that title this week goes to the Daytona Beach Pier.
According to Capt. Todd Wynn, from The Fishin' Hole in downtown Daytona Beach, the Daytona Beach Pier has been a fisherman's paradise, especially when it comes to trout.
Wynn, of limitlesscharters.com, said the trout bite has been really strong, reporting spots from 17 to 25 inches in length.
"And, they are thick and heavy," he added.
Anglers have also enjoyed some blues, a few reds and keeper pompano. There is one aggravating development on these planks. Giant sheepshead — 4 to 6 pounds — are swimming around the pilings but not taking the bait because they are more interested in spawning.
At the Sunglow Pier in Daytona Beach Shores, Rhonda Nelson said it's hot one day and not the next. She said the primary bite has been whiting and blues. The tote board at the Flagler Beach Pier shows black drum, whiting, blues, sheepshead and reds being pulled from the ocean this week.
Wynn said bottom fishing has been strong, but anglers are catching few species they may keep.
"It's been a little slow out there," he said. "The weather hasn't been good. Bottom fishing has been steady, but you can't keep much of anything you catch, unless maybe you hook a mermaid."
Trollers have snatched wahoo and dolphin, and there have been some keeper cobia and triggerfish mixed in the bottom-fishing catch.
Ponce Inlet & Halifax River
Capt. Scott Blanford, of badjujucharters.com, has been busy fish-hunting this week. He said sheepshead are still the species to target in the inlet area.
"High tide seems to be working," Blanford said. "If you plan accordingly, you should get slow-moving water for an hour before it switches and another hour after. Use fiddler crabs. Pinfish and small snapper make shrimp a frustrating bait to use."
Blanford offered this advice to fish the river this weekend.
"If the south wind subsides, expect the docks to be good during higher tides," he said. "Flounder are the best bite, but reds, black drum, trout, and sheepshead make appearances. If it's blowing hard down the river, the water churns and the fish never get active."
Tomoka Basin & Tomoka River
Wynn and Blanford agree this has been a productive area the last week.
"They're picking up some really good reds up there," Wynn said. "We're seeing a lot of smaller reds and trout and lots of mangrove snapper. That's kind of unusual. The fishing patterns have changed as a result of the way the temperatures changed this winter."
And there's this from Blanford about the weekend prospects in the Tomoka area.
"As the moon fades, the morning bite should pick up," he said. "Snapper are the most consistent bite. Keepers are finally here after a three-year hiatus. Live shrimp will catch all sizes, but if you just want the bigger snappers, fish small finger mullet or mud minnows."
Mosquito Lagoon & Indian River Lagoon
Greg Noel, of Lagoon Bait & Tackle in Oak Hill, said veteran anglers are showing off a nice black drum catch.
"Catching a ton of them," he said. "They are catching them somewhere in Haulover Canal."
Unlike the amorous sheepshead at the Daytona Pier, the striped fish in this area are more interested in fiddler crabs. Noel said he is having a hard time meeting the fiddler demand.
"Most of our captains are starting to fish in the evening and into the night," he said. "Fish are feeding at night."
Matanzas Inlet & Matanzas River
Karen Miles, at Devil's Elbow Fish Camp just north of the Flagler County border, said the water in this area is unusually clear.
"It looks like the Florida Keys up here," she said of the water quality. "You can see what you are going to catch."
Unfortunately, the catch is undersized trout and reds with some blues and sheepshead thrown into the mix.
"This is a perfect situation for impatient fishermen," Miles said. "People are losing bait and casting nonstop. This is a great time to take kids fishing."
St. Johns River
All good things must come to an end, or at least a slowdown.
That is the story at Highland Park Fish Camp in DeLand, which has seen a record fishing season to date.
"The speckled perch bite has slowed down just as we came out the full moon," Capt. Bryn Rawlins said. "They eat at night and that puts them out of sync. We're still having people come back with a dozen fish here and there."
Bass fishing is crazy good in the main St. Johns River. Largemouth are gobbling down wild shiners.


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Today we see a false understanding of love manifested most commonly in romantic relationships. Many people justify adultery by saying that they no longer love their spouse but love another person. People often justify homosexual relationships by saying, "As long ...Read More
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Paul's teaching on divine election throughout the rest of Romans 9 shows that he knew that it was impossible for God to reject him—an elect person—for the sake of the reprobate. However, Paul's love as displayed in his asking to ...Read More
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Many Christians will accept that nothing outside of ourselves can separate us from God's love, but they live with the constant fear that they might jump out of the Lord's saving hand. But we are a part of creation, and ...Read More
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In Romans 9, Paul applies the election of the people of Israel to individual believers, telling us that those who are saved have been chosen from the foundation of the world. Divine election assures us of God's love and that ...Read More
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Adherents of other religions may do many good deeds in the name of God. They may even think that they are praying to Him when they beseech the Creator. But in doing all these things, they are really committing idolatry. ...Read More
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In China, Apple will engrave iPads if the words aren't too political
Want to engrave a few words in Chinese on your new iPad? No problem - Apple offers consumers in mainland China free personalization. Just don't get too political.
Say you type in the Dalai Lama's name in Chinese characters into Apple's online store engraving service. You'll receive a yellow pop-up box saying, "The engraved text is not suitable." Other phrases that return the same error notice include "Tibet independence," "Xinjiang independence" and "Taiwan independence." ("America independence" is permitted.)
And if you happen to share your name with Liu Xiaobo, the jailed 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner, you're also out of luck if you want those three characters etched into your device.
Apple has long rejected a number of vulgarities on its U.S. engraving service. Asked about forbidden language in mainland China, Apple Inc. spokeswoman Carolyn Wu said, "We comply with local laws and requirements around the world."
Apple is hardly the only U.S. tech company that's had to contend with censorship issues in mainland China. In the past, Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. have all endured controversies related to doing business in China amid the country's curbs on speech.
Google for years engaged in a protracted battle with Chinese authorities over censored Web searches, and in 2010 it began redirecting searches to its Hong Kong site, which is not subject to such limitations.
Later, facing blocks and interruptions to its service, Google unveiled a feature for mainland users that would display a message when certain sensitive searches were attempted, such as "We've observed that searching for (possibly sensitive word) in mainland China may temporarily break your connection to Google. This interruption is outside of Google's control." Google dropped that feature more than a year ago, however.
In another case, Yahoo suffered a wave of negative publicity after it provided information to authorities that led to a 10-year jail sentence for Chinese journalist Shi Tao. The company argued that it had to abide by Chinese regulations, including responding to requests by authorities for information about Internet users, just as it must when served with subpoenas in the United States.
Compared with such cases, the restrictions on iPad engravings may be regarded as trivial. Yet the rejected messages illustrate how China's censorship efforts extend deep into the mundane nooks and crannies of everyday life and commerce.
Exactly what words are out of bounds for engraving by Apple remains unclear. But some experimenting on Apple's China website showed that many rejected words closely match those that are typically blocked online by the Chinese government.
For example, Falun Gong, a spiritual movement that was banned in 1999 as an evil cult, is off limits on the Apple site, as is the name of Falun Gong's leader, Li Hongzhi. Words such as "protest" or "human rights" cannot be used either. A phrase commonly used by Falun Gong practitioners, "God will crush the Chinese Communist Party," also seems to be barred. But the phrase "Communist Party" is allowed on its own.
Certain apps available outside of the mainland are not available in Apple's China app store. In December, a Free Weibo app that enables users to see what words are being blocked by Chinese censors on the Internet was removed from Apple's mainland app store. In October, an app known as Open Door, which can be used to leapfrog the country's so-called "Great Firewall," which blocks a number of sites the government does not want people in the mainland to see, was similarly removed.
One Chinese consumer posted an angry message on China's popular online forum Tianya.cn, complaining she was unable to engrave the sentence "The Diaoyu islands have historically been part of Chinese territory" on the new iPad she was buying - even though this is precisely the Chinese government's position on the uninhabited islets, which are also claimed by Japan.
The phrase "Diaoyu islands" alone in Chinese characters also brings up the error message.
Apple employees, however, appear willing to help satisfy their customers' needs when it comes to potentially sensitive engravings. Queried why "Diaoyu islands" was deemed an inappropriate engraving term in Chinese characters, one Apple rep reached through the company's online chat help service suggested entering the phrase in the Pinyin Romanization system.
Another online chat help representative, asked about banned terms, said, "A certain government department doesn't allow this, I'm sorry." The employee then suggested some possible work-arounds, noting that inserting a period between the two Chinese characters that make up the word "freedom" might result in an approved engraving.
Overall, the number of words being rejected by Apple appears to be much smaller than the number of the ones being deleted on China's Twitter-like service Weibo on a daily basis. And it's much easier to beat Apple's system with some simple variations in Chinese characters. For example, "1989 Tiananmen protest" results in an error, but "Tiananmen Massacre" and "Tiananmen Incident" did not.
Also, the same words or phrases, entered in English, do not result in error messages.
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"Site Delete Capture LE" from Microsoft IT… cool idea, tricky to implement. Here is the problem:
Attempts to delete a site result in "Access Denied" error messages in the site delete log files. No corresponding events found in the Security Event logs, nor are we able to detect any "ACCESS DENIED" messages using procmon.exe. What's up?
Well, in this thread:
one of the project authors suggests that the utility requires additional rights beyond the "least-priviledge" baseline, specifically, the account running your SharePoint WFE applicaiton pool needs to be a "Farm Administrator", and it needs "Full Control" over the web application.
Much as I did not like this suggestion, I decided to give it a try in the test environment, but it fails anyway. Further investigation reveals that the sharepoint WFE service account is not actaully capable of performing site backups. If you log in as the service account, you cannot run any "stsadm" commands at all… every command results in "ACCESS DENIED".
It turns out that stsadm.exe will not run without local administrator privs. It also would seem (although I cannot prove it) that the Site Delete Capture utility is using stsadm functions to generate its snapshots. Since I will not be giving our SharePoint WFE app pool local admin rights, I guess I cannot use this utility. On to testing the Site Lifecycle Manager instead…


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Andrew Macdonald necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 87 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
Red JEM Holdings Corp.
My name is Andrew Macdonald. I am a former management consultant of four years, with significant experience in finance, manufacturing and consumer goods, as well as private equity diligence. I launched my company in the past few weeks, as an investment and holding company conducting multiple businesses. The primary activities of the company are: seeking businesses for purchase, conducting due diligence, and ultimately assuming an operational role in the acquired co. Additionally, our company will engage in business consulting and advisory services. I am a young entrepreneur, excited about the prospects of my company. I need a corporate logo that reflects this youthful and vibrant culture.
The primary audience for this logo will be business brokers, accountants, commercial bankers, and business owners, who will be primary contacts used by Red JEM in our pursuit of acquisition activities. Additionally, the logo will be seen by perspective clients of the consulting and business advisory services. Given the highly professional nature of these stakeholders, it is very important that the logo balance excitement and vibrance with professionalism and prestige. Think bank logos with a little flare.
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I found this interesting because it's paleo cookbooks as recommended by a site called "Pills for weight loss". I thought that might be ironic - but NO, they're seriously dedicated to short cuts to weight loss. Catering to people that don't have time to have 'correct' or 'human-like' lifestyles. I chuckled. But them identifying and reaching out to their audience to think about eating the way humans were intended to eat - they get some respect. Link here
What Are The Best Paleo Diet Cookbooks And Recipe Books?
The Paleo diet seems to be really popular right now because not only is it said to improve your overall health, but it is also said to be good for weight loss as well.
The Paleolithic diet (to give it it's full name) is sometimes referred to as the caveman diet because the typical meals are similar to those enjoyed by cavemen during the paleolithic age. In essence it consists largely of plants and animals.
Nowadays followers of the Paleo diet incorporate some modern foods into this diet to include varieties of meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, roots and nuts. However things like grains, dairy products and legumes are out, as are foods containing salt or sugar and vegetable oils.
If you want to start going on the Paleo diet yourself in order to see if it will improve your general health or help you lose weight, you will probably want to buy some recipe books and cookbooks so that you have an idea of what kind of meals (and snacks) you should be eating.
With regards to the best Paleo diet cookbooks and recipe books, there are two in particular that I can strongly recommend.
The first is The Paleo Recipe Book, which is actually an ebook that you can buy online and download instantly after you have completed the payment process.
This book is far more comprehensive than those recipe books that you can buy in bookstores, for example, because it is nearly 400 pages long and contains a total of 370 Paleo diet recipes, each with full color photos and detailed instructions.
These recipes have been divided into 18 different categories including breakfast, main courses, sides, dips, snacks and desserts. So you will never be short of recipes.
You also get a whole host of bonuses as well that you don't get with the hardback and paperback recipe books. These include the Quick & Simple Paleo Meals Cookbook, an 8 Week Meal Plan, a Herb & Spice Guide and a Paleo Desserts Cookbook.
The second Paleo diet cookbook I recommend is actually a collection of 2 Paleo Cookbooksby Nikki Young. These are also available to buy online, and you can download them instantly because they are both pdf ebooks.
They are available to buy as one package and they are entitled 'Recipes For The 21st Century Hunter Gatherer' and 'Paleo Eating For Modern People'.
Each book contains well over 150 recipes and these are all divided into separate categories, namely snacks, meat, chicken, fish and seafood, soups, salads, omelettes and desserts.
Like the first cookbook I mentioned earlier, this collection of books also comes with several free bonuses. There is a 30 day meal plan, a cookbook that only includes recipes that require 4 simple ingredients and free access to the first editions of both of the cookbooks.
Click here to find out more about the 2 Paleo Cookbooks.
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This new 48 Convertible is a handsome addition to the world famous Viking product line up with exciting styling, an impressive three stateroom layout with Viking's legendary construction and attention to detail. Beginning with the same resin infused beamy hull as the new convertible, which carries its breadth farther aft for more interior volume, a wider cockpit, and more running surface, the Viking design group then turned to its pair of $1 million computer operated five-axis profiling milling machines and embarked on a prodigious course to create house and deck assemblies to produce the 48 Open, the 48 Sport Tower and the 48 Sport Coupe. In the process, Viking has once again rewritten the ground breaking rules of modern yacht design in creating fresh, contemporary models within a model.
The 48 Open with its sleek sheer line, raked stem and razor sharp entry melds perfectly with the one-piece wrap-around fiberglass windshield to produce the epitome of an athletic and racy express cruiser. Outfitted with a fiberglass hardtop and a custom tuna tower and outriggers from our subsidiary Palm Beach Towers the result is a masterful tournament contender bound for the Winner's Circle each time the lines go in the water.
The lush interior abounds with hand-finished teak joinery and spacious appointments throughout the salon including a flat screen television with surround sound. An L-shape lounge and dinette anchor the area for relaxing, dining and entertaining. To port, the galley is accented with Cambria treatments, under counter refrigeration, a microwave/convection oven and plenty of stowage. Inviting accommodations in two staterooms include a queen-size bed forward with private access to the head. A starboard stateroom has upper and lower berths.
Powered with MAN diesels the 48 Convertible will cruise at 30 knots with a top end in the mid 30 knot range depending upon engine selection, load, sea and other environmental factors. The raked entry and forward chine are designed to pierce through head seas and divert spray downward. Convex hull sections add curvature and form to the running surface, while molded running strakes accentuate lateral tracking and maneuverability.
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The week is over (or just beginning). I guess it depends on how you look at it. The busy week is over and a less busy week is starting. It was so great to spend time with family over the past few days, but it is good to get back to the routine. I am worn out. I did manage to get the tree & Christmas decorations up today.
My Mom, Hannah and I headed out shopping for some great deals on Friday. We shopped for close to 12 hours. We got some amazing deals, most I can't talk about due to peeping eyes! 😉 We stopped for lunch around noon at Marcella's. I am a sucker for risotto, so I ordered the Roasted Chicken & Broccolini Risotto. It was TDF! I thought I liked the Seafood Risotto – I think this Roasted Chicken one might be better! It was the perfect way to refuel. After lunch we hit up World Market & spent close to an hour in there. Not because we were in line, because we were having a blast! I love that place! The only bummer – they were out of their dark chocolate & sea salt bars that I have been dying to try! It was a super fun day! I love spending time with my Mom & Hannah. The only thing missing was my sister, Kelly. Here is a picture of us together last December.
This week Manda of Asparagus Thin is hosting the Gluten-Free Menu Swap with the theme of cranberries. Cranberries rock! I made my own cranberry sauce for the first time last Thanksgiving. This year I added a new twist to that recipe and I will be sharing it later this week. I am also interested in learning how to cook other things with cranberries. I have been adding the leftover cranberry sauce to my salads….what a great topper!
Sunday- Rotisserie chicken, green beans, sweet potatoes & salad
Monday ~BBQ chicken breast, brown rice, asparagus & salad
Tuesday ~Tacos, refried beans, corn & salad
Wednesday ~Burgers, sweet potato fries & salad
Thursday~ Filet, roasted veggies & salad
Friday~ Homemade pizza, veggies & salad
Baked Goods
Cookies (starting my Cookie a Day baking to get ready for December)
Don't forget to check out Orgjunkie for lots more menu plans & ideas.
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On paper, East Carolina is loaded on offense for the 2013 football season � and offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley believes the Pirates can surpass the gaudy numbers they put up a year ago.
On paper, East Carolina is loaded on offense for the 2013 football season � and offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley believes the Pirates can surpass the gaudy numbers they put up a year ago.
The Pirates passed for the second-highest total in school history a year ago (3,551 yards) while also having a 1,000-yard rusher (Vintavious Cooper) and averaging 31.5 points and 408.5 yards total offense en route to an 8-5 finish.
With eight starters back on offense, however, that may just be a prelude of things to come this fall.
�Oh, yeah, we can do a lot better. There�s no doubt,� Riley said during an interview Tuesday before the Pirate Club�s spring banquet for Onslow and Jones County at the Jacksonville Country Club. �We had some good games there at the end, but we weren�t very good at the beginning of the season.
�There�s been some good games and some good runs and good numbers, but it can get so much better. That�s the carrot we want to keep dangling out for these guys: Don�t be satisfied, it can be better, it can do so much more if we�ll keep our head down and keep working.�
The Pirates, who open the season Aug. 31 at home against Old Dominion, completed spring drills this past Saturday with their annual spring game that saw the offense run 91 plays (56 passes) and commit just one turnover.
Junior quarterback Shane Carden, who passed for 3,116 yards and 23 touchdowns while completing 66.1 percent of his passes last season, was 14 of 22 for 137 yards and one TD in the spring game.
Cory Hunter led the ground game with 61 yards on 15 carries and one touchdown.
Overall, Riley, who is in his fourth year at ECU, liked what he saw from his unit, although he insisted there�s plenty of room for improvement.
�We definitely made a lot of strides from beginning to end. I thought we really played well in the first two scrimmages. We�re excited about that. The spring game, we played pretty well early and I thought we had a little bit of a frontrunner mentality there at the end,� he said.
�So we�re going to have to fight that, that human nature that, �All right, well, we�re just going to be good because we return a guy or two.� We�re trying to beat that out of them and do the best we can there.
�Our guys have to understand it�s a good starting point. I�m glad that we do have some guys back. That�s great. But that doesn�t mean anything unless we do something with it. The goal for this group is to improve as much or more from this starting point as last year�s group did.�
The Pirates were without Cooper this spring after he was suspended indefinitely following an on-campus drug-related incident in March. But, if as expected, Cooper is cleared to play this fall, ECU�s offense will get a definite boost.
With Cooper not available, however, Riley was able to give Cooper�s understudies plenty of snaps during the spring.
�We had a couple guys that probably got more reps than they would ever dream of, and you know what, there may be a position next year where we need them and they�ll pay off,� Riley said.
That should also help ECU�s depth at running back, provided Cooper is reinstated. Riley said he feels good about his unit�s depth at most positions, although his �biggest question mark� is the backups at the two guard spots.
And while he returned all but three starters from last year, including four of five along the offensive line, Riley said he didn�t change his coaching approach this spring in part because that might send the wrong message to his players.
�I don�t want them to go back and think because we�ve got people back that makes us special, means we got to do things a different way. You�ve always guard that,� he said. �Spring is a great time to just back to the basics.
�Of course, you try to adapt it to each group and what their strengths are and what they need to work at. But I think that sends a little bit of the wrong message if we change it up too much.�
But there�s no doubt there�s excitement around the program, Riley said.
�Don�t get me wrong, the guys are really excited. But I want to make sure we � don�t assume that it (winning) will just happen. You�ve got to fight that. Everybody�s got to fight that because it just doesn�t happen,� he said.
�Sometimes after all that work we forget how hard it was to get there. When you feel like you�re on top and you feel like you�ve got it, and that�s a lot of times you�re kind of set up for a fall. So we�re going to fight it. We�re going to push them.
�We�re really excited about the starting point and the guys we have back, and then the guys we�re throwing in there. But we�ve certainly got a long ways to go. But there�s a ton of excitement around the program and we want to feed off of that. We want that to be the thing that spurs us on to improve as we did last year.�


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National Health Research Institute, Taiwan, also finds that 80 percent of pancreatic cancer patients, who do have an operation, die from relapse within five years
Singapore: Scientists at the National Health Research Institute of Taiwan have discovered genetic markers that can predict the likelihood of surviving pancreatic cancer.
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MALMO, Sweden – The 2014 world junior championship didn't end the way Team Canada wanted.
Leaving Malmo without gold – or any medal – will serve as a reminder for those that can return in 2015.
"For the guys coming back next year, it's good motivation, that's for sure," said 18-year-old forward Curtis Lazar. "You want to get back on top here.
"It's a tough tournament to win. That's the bottom line. You have to bring your A-game every time."
Lazar is one of 11 eligible returnees for the tournament that will be played in Toronto and Montreal.
Goaltender Zach Fucale, defencemen Chris Bigras, Aaron Ekblad and Josh Morrissey and forwards Jonathan Drouin, Frederik Gauthier, Bo Horvat, Connor McDavid, Nic Petan and Sam Reinhart are the others.
Canada sent its second-youngest team ever sent to Malmo, averaging 18 years, 10 months and 25 days. The youngest team was disqualified 1987 team.
Drouin, Griffin Reinhart and Jake Paterson were the only returnees from last year's team, which also finished in fourth place.
"It's just the way it set up," Canadian head coach Brent Sutter said. "It's where we're at with the development stage in our country and there's nothing you can do about it.
"If they learn from it they'll all be better for it and the program will be better for it."
Of course, not all of the players will be back next year.
Drouin, the third-overall pick in the 2013 NHL draft, could easily make the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Reinhart and Ekblad are expected to be top picks in June. Plus, injuries are always a wild card.
That's why Hockey Canada isn't putting too much stock into next year just yet.
"Different kids, different team," said Scott Salmond, senior director of hockey operations. "This is not a team that is built for next year or a team that carries through.
"These guys, a lot of them, don't have any impact on what happened last year, and some won't have an impact on what happens next year."
Fucale is bound to return as the starting goalie in 2015.
"We have a lot of work to do before we get there," he said.
The biggest lesson for the younger players is to avoid the same mistakes.
"Things need to be taken game by game," said Ekblad. "I think maybe a few of us were looking forward to the gold-medal game and not paying attention to that semi game as much. It's unfortunate, but it's a learning experience.
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010
A One-Sentence Post on..."Meaningful Games"
8 comments:
- Navin Vaswani (@eyebleaf) said...
Pardon my French, but: Fuck the Rays.
- June 1, 2010 at 10:17 AM
- Roy said...
Yeah, fuck them and their turf-laden dome.
Oh, wait...
- June 1, 2010 at 10:32 AM
As I saw that play develop (Go A-Gone! I mean REALLY!?)I was so hoping Molina would just drop his shoulder Scott Styevens style right into the jaw of Longoria and prevent him from even getting any where NEAR the plate...
But when I ralized he was out by a mile and the threat,like the game was over, I was okay with his leniency..
- June 1, 2010 at 12:24 PM
- Ty said...
I keep forgetting Molina has only been on this team for two months... I've had this weird feeling all year like he's been here for years. Not sure why, but he sure has been fun to watch.
- June 1, 2010 at 12:30 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
I have the opposite experience...I keep forgetting that he's on the team. People say "Molina did this or that" and I'm like "Who? Wha?"
I blame it on the fact that I miss Bengie.
- June 1, 2010 at 1:11 PM
You thought he was here last year because of that very Chavez-like throw down to first.
- June 1, 2010 at 1:12 PM
I like Longoria, but damn that was a fun play to watch. Take that, high quality third baseman with yer stinkin' triple!
- June 1, 2010 at 2:41 PM
- Leaker19 said...
Tonight felt like a meaningful game until Kevin Gregg couldn't find the plate and the manager didn't seem to notice. Very frustrating result.
No chance you pinch hit for Lind against Choate? It felt like a lamb to the slaughter. But Cito sticks with his boys so they don't get too down. Meanwhile Maddon mixes and matches and trots out with the victory. Guy gave up the DH and won the game. Gaston is still wondering what happened. I think tonight's game demonstrated the difference in the quality of the managers.
Enough venting, if Marcum doesn't come up big tomorrow tonight is gonna suck double.
- June 1, 2010 at 11:21 PM


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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A new study finds that the Rochester area has the lowest overall Medicare spending rate in the nation, a feat health officials attribute to aggressive regional planning that keeps a lid on unneeded hospital expansions and technology upgrades that insurers ultimately pay for.
The Institute of Medicine report found that Rochester's Medicare spending rate per beneficiary was $174 lower than the national monthly mean among 306 U.S. regions.
Rochester's success at holding down costs provides a model that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration wants to take statewide. Essentially, a standing regional advisory committee made up of various health care stakeholders reviews the need for new departments, new staffing and expensive pieces of equipment and recommends against those that aren't needed in the community.
For example, if an orthopedic practice wanted to buy its own MRI machine and the hospital two blocks away had one that could accommodate those patients, the committee would recommend against it. Insurers can use its recommendations to set reimbursement policies.
Experts say the approach tackles the two biggest drivers of rising medical expenses: new technology and salaries. The idea is that those expensive items have to be paid for somehow and they create a need for health care providers to order up more tests and treatments, the cost of which are ultimately passed on to patients and insurers.
"Supply-driven use of services is one of the major drivers of unwarranted, wasteful health care expenses," said Dr. Martin Lustick, chief corporate medical director for Rochester-based nonprofit insurer Excellus BlueCross BlueShield.
State Health Commissioner Dr. Nirav Shah called Rochester's "a phenomenal model."
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Institute researchers say U.S. health care cost $2.7 trillion in 2011, almost 18 percent of the gross domestic product and higher than other developed countries.
The institute, a nonprofit arm of the National Academy of Sciences, advocates payment reform to push competition toward value rather than toward volume of services, including the Medicare system that covers 39 million people age 65 and older and 8 million with disabilities.
"The chaotic free market health care system costs Americans a bundle," said Blair Horner, legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, adding there would probably be pushback from providers against regional committees limiting their expansion plans. "Rochester offers a way to do it better."
See also:
- New York judge: Kodak can end retiree health benefits
- Gallup: Some Towns Have More Health Insurance Than Others
- Excellus Bluecross Blueshield rebates $3.1 million to New Yorkers


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KDE on US TV's "Heroes"
Konversation developer Eike Hein noticed KDE appearing on new US drama Heroes. This follows previous outings on 24, Alias and the making of Lord of the Rings. Kopete is the star of the episode, but you don't have to be a hero to make use of KDE's multi-protocol instant messenger.
kopete a star?
funny those shots are after a user creates an account, but kopete is annoyingly complex... there's no quick logon, passwords. to start using kopete one has to struggle with "account creation!"
Yeah, it is a multiprotocol and do all the fancy stuff but it is no easy!
simply put, it should give 3 options:
1. username/account
the above is what i call simplicity and efficiency. But complex developers can't create simple interfaces, right? ;) (no offence)
observe the check boxes, they really help to quickly use and create an account.
till kopete get's a simpler and user-friendly interface like konversation, at least before creating an account, i'd assume konversation as the super-hero :)
By Asif Ali Rizwaan at Fri, 2006/09/29 - 5:00am
Re: kopete a star?
I don't know, I find it remarkably easy compared to any other client out there. gaim, miranda im, all of them - they just seem overly complicated. Usually because they tried to oversimplify.
And kudos to Eike Hein for catchin that one :)
By Joseph M. Gaffn... at Fri, 2006/09/29 - 5:00am
Re: kopete a star?
I also find it really easy to use. And I tend to skip applications that I feel is just a bit hard to configure. Life is to short for configuring.
By Jarl Gjessing at Fri, 2006/09/29 - 5:00am
Re: kopete a star?
Funny, I just try the account creation dialog (in 0.12.2), and it does exactly that. It's a two steps dialog, first the protocol, second the user name, and then depending on the protocol, there are extra options (in other tabs) that you can safely ignore (if you want) without preventing the use of your newly created account.
By Cyrille Berger at Fri, 2006/09/29 - 5:00am
Re: kopete a star?
I couldn't agree more.
Anyway, at this time I found it really hard to explain to someone that Kopete should include a mode in which it did a temporary connection, without keeping any data (contact list, history, etc.) from that connection after the user logged out.
Today Kopete is only useful living inside the primary machine of a user, out of that case it is completely useless. i.e. forget about deploying it in a big office or a cybercafe.
Let's hope someday they could be convinced about the problem.
By Gabriel Gazzán at Fri, 2006/09/29 - 5:00am
Re: kopete a star?
Well I think you should re-read that thread.
So what's the problem?
Plus with vista and its search function that reveals all your private emails/conversation etc... I think everyone will create a guest account in the future. So just be ahead of other and create a guest account :) (it takes 5 seconds on konsole and a minute with kusers).
By patcito at Sat, 2006/09/30 - 5:00am
Re: kopete a star?
> So what's the problem?
This kind of answer is THE problem.
I think many developers (certainly not all of them, but a lot actually) should try and put themselves in the shoes of "real" users more frequently and seriously than they currently do.
To the point of that answers I received a while back.
Having said this, please undestand that I really respect, care and applaud the hard work all coders put into OSS and I'm just trying to point out what I see is a serious problem that's currently affecting the ability of OSS --in this case Kopete and KDE-- to reach the masses.
(Sorry for the long post)
By Gabriel Gazzán at Sat, 2006/09/30 - 5:00am
Re: kopete a star?
I have noticed that Usability Experts, as they are called, will do a much better job of identifying a UI's weak points and developing a plan for improved user interaction. This is because they are experts in the field. Programmers aren't usability experts (in most cases, atleast), because of this, usability experts provide an important piece of the OSS world and KDE in particular.
Having developers put themselves in the shoes of "real" users more frequently and seriously than they currently do is a good thing, but usability experts are still needed for their knowledge and experience in the field.
Also, I think you would agree Gabriel, that usability experts are perfect for developing new/improved HIG's (like we are currently doing). Once most KDE developers follow the new KDE HIG, then they will already be putting "themselves in the shoes of "real" users". Notice how most Gnome apps have the same look-n-feel? That is the function of the HIG.
Hope that cleared a few points. Nonetheless, I think that you raise a number of important points.
Thank you to all the people helping & working towards an *even* better KDE! I am looking forward to the future of what is currently my favorite (and I think it is the best) environment to work in.
By Vlad at Sat, 2006/09/30 - 5:00am
Re: kopete a star?
Yeah, I know what you're talking about, and I agree.
I don't know exactly what makes a usability expert an expert, and if my history using and teaching how to use computers since the 80s is of any receipt, I must not be that far from being one of them. But, hey, it's really hard to be heard without the title hanging on my wall! ;)
By Gabriel Gazzán at Sat, 2006/09/30 - 5:00am
Re: kopete a star?
HCI is a field of computer science like many others. Very interesting one I might add.
It's possible to do a good job based only on experience, but if you had a technical background you'd be much better at it. At least that's usually the case.
By Reply at Sun, 2006/10/01 - 5:00am
Re: kopete a star?
No problem for your very long post. But you're not replying to any of my points, you're just talking about dev's inability to listen some time.
The point is that Kopete is really trying to integrate with KDE, that means linking with kaddressbook, kcalandar and kmail with kabc and stuff. I think that this is really a good thing, people keep criticizing FOSS desktop about its lack of integration and once we get there we get told that integration is not good. Just because windows doesn't do it this way doesn't mean it's the way to go.
That's where we heading, so if you think kopete's way to link with your addressbook sucks then just wait for what's coming next cause it'll be all over the place on mac/vista/kde4/gnome etc...
So the solution indeed is to create a guest account, maybe future distro will come with a default guest account that delete its .kde at every log out. Other than that I don't see other solutions for private use (cause of course you have kiosk in institutions).
By patcito at Sat, 2006/09/30 - 5:00am
Re: kopete a star?
jaja... I'm afraid I've set a standard. Your's has an equal extension than mine! ;)
With respect to application integration, I'm definitely in favor of it, even in Kopete.
Today Kopete is very competitive in the segment of integrated multiprotocol IMs, but it's totally out of the game with respect to mobile IM. Period.
I don't know if this feature is too difficult to implement, but the fact is that it isn't there today, and users needing to use mobile IM apps now will go to another application, not Kopete.
I hope someone's listening. :-/
By Gabriel Gazzán at Mon, 2006/10/02 - 5:00am
Re: kopete a star?
I think you are right. I don't see why you have problems convincing anyone about this. Back in the day, I used to run AOL AIM straight from AOL's webpage. I think it was a java applet. You just entered your username and password. When you were done, the java applet went away. The end.
Maybe hackers don't understand because they don't have real life 3 dimensional friends with whom to share their computers. Don't get mad, I'm just kidding! I'm a developer myself. But seriously, I could easily see a "Guest Login" option somewhere in the file menu.
By Henry Izurieta at Mon, 2006/10/02 - 5:00am
Re: kopete a star?
I can't believe nobody mentioned this, but insulting developers is an awful way to get them to do what you want and what they don't want to do.
By Rob at Tue, 2008/09/02 - 5:00am
Re: kopete a star?
Well, perhaps a good way to make somebody do something about it could be to support the entry in Kopete's bugzilla in which this functionality is suggested with as many votes as possible:
By Gabriel Gazzán at Mon, 2006/10/02 - 5:00am
Re: kopete a star?
It depends on which msn client your're most familiar with. I've used kopete since the very first time I made my msn passport, and it's much more user-friendly to me than msn messenger.
By Márcio at Wed, 2006/10/04 - 5:00am
world domination proceeding as planned ;-)
By cobalt at Fri, 2006/09/29 - 5:00am
Re: gratulation
What did you expect? We are unlike some other losers, who spend all their hard-earned money bribing everyone coming around the corner and are still not there. In fact, they are struggeling to even stay afloat and have to resort to more useless methods like lying and suing. Maybe I feel pitty for them. Maybe.
By Andreas Jensen at Fri, 2006/09/29 - 5:00am
Re: gratulation
wengophone 2.0 is a bit better than kopete and both are unstable and silly implementations.. one thing is to kno.. kubuntu is brokenware, suse bloatware and kubuntu is also premockupware
By kubuntu/kopete/ at Fri, 2006/09/29 - 5:00am
Re: gratulation
And you are idiotware.
By Patrick Starr at Fri, 2006/09/29 - 5:00am
The scene in question has a real good looking girl getting undressed in the background, and you people notice the computer UI!
http://www.eikehein.com.nyud.net:8090/kde/heroes/k de-on-heroes3-hd.png
By Charles Hill at Fri, 2006/09/29 - 5:00am
Re: Geeks
Every television show that premiered this year had a "real good looking girl getting undressed" in it at some point or other. Heck, NCIS has one doing so every week in the opening titles, and I'll bet it's not alone. This one had KDE.
By Evan "JabberWok... at Fri, 2006/09/29 - 5:00am
Re: Geeks
That's what I was thinking!
By Pootie Tang at Fri, 2006/09/29 - 5:00am
Re: Geeks
Keep this on the DL OK?
KDE is themable. You don't have to use the default theme (Kubuntu, Mandriva or otherwise) if you don't want. In fact, you can use a Mandriva Theme on Kubuntu if you so desire.
Now remember. Keep it on the down lowl.
By Scott at Sat, 2006/09/30 - 5:00am
Also on Criminal Minds!
KDE was also on Criminal Minds this week!
By Zot at Fri, 2006/09/29 - 5:00am
Finding Nemo
In the making of Finding Nemo (on the dvd of the film), you can see screenshots of KDE, while artists are working on developing the fish etc..
By AC at Sat, 2006/09/30 - 5:00am
old old old
looks like kde 2.x
They probably needed something that didn't look like mac or windows and looked cool and geeky.
Anyway, I really enjoy using KDE 3.x.. much better than 2.x, doesn't have the geeks-only feel to it, and is best environment to work in.... IN THE WORLD
love kde!
By Vlad at Sat, 2006/09/30 - 5:00am
Re: old old old
It is Mandriva. Probably 2005LE which came with HP laptops, judging from the Galaxy theme.
By Gabriel Gazzán at Sat, 2006/09/30 - 5:00am


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By Landmark Media International
THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP RETURNS to Royal St. George's Golf Club this week, the only venue in southern England for golf's most prestigious major championship. This is the 14th occasion the historic links at Sandwich has welcomed the Open—it was the first venue outside of Scotland to host an Open, in 1894—placing Kent, known as The Garden of England, in the world golfing spotlight.
(Photo: The 1st tee, with clubhouse in background, at Royal St. George's)
Previous winners of the Open Championship at Royal St. George's include Greg Norman (1993), Sandy Lyle (1985) and golfing legend Walter Hagen (1922 and 1928). American Ben Curtis was the winner of the most recent Open Championship at Sandwich, in 2003.
The club has made changes to the bunkering on its 18th hole to make it more demanding for the Open Championship, as well as adding five new tees and 100 yards of length to the course.
Royal St George's Golf Club forms part of Kent's "Regal Golf Coast," which includes Royal Cinque Ports (venue of the Open Championship in 1909 and 1920), Prince's (the Open venue in 1932), Littlestone (a Final Qualifying course for the 2011 Open) and North Foreland. Overall there are more than 100 golf courses in the county, which also features modern classics such as London Golf Club (a European Tour Destination and home of the 2009 European Open) and Chart Hills (designed by Sir Nick Faldo and ranked 82nd in Golf World magazine's Top 100 Courses in the UK and Ireland).
"In many ways, there is an argument to say the Open should come down this way slightly more often than elsewhere because we are the only one in the south," Royal St George's Secretary Christopher Gabbey told Kent Golf magazine. "It means a lot to the county. When the Open is in your neck of the woods, it's terrific."
More than 200,000 spectators are expected to descend on the Kent coast during Open week, with tens of thousands more from the UK and nearby European countries anticipated to take golf breaks in the county in the months before and after the event.
(Photo: Courtesy of Landmark Media International)
Tuesday, July 12
The Open Makes 14th Visit to Royal St. George's
3 comments:
- John said...
Fantastic course for the open. For me the real question is, what will the weather bring? There have been light showers over the past couple of days. You just never now what the wind will do over the 4 days. It can go from calm to horrendous in 24 hours.
- The Armchair Golfer said...
I'm really looking forward to it. It will be fun to see the field tackle an Open course they rarely play -- and one that is so challenging.
Why can't I get the golf on BBC HD????? It just has some BBC PREVIEW on at the moment. Can anyone shed some light on this for me???
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
You say, "Thank you". I say, "You're welcome".
It's pandemic: waiters, store clerks, gas station attendants, even the phone person who helped me with my recent airfare purchase. All of them responded to my "thank you" by saying something like "no problem" or "yep" or "sure". It may be my upbringing to be mannerly. It may be my Southern roots. It may be just some other voice in my head that translates what I hear, when I hear any of those responses. But whatever the reason, when I hear anything other than "you're welcome", it immediately seems rude to me. When I hear "no problem", I think, "it shouldn't be a problem since I'm paying you for your time and service". Or, when I hear "yep", I immediately picture a gum-smacking, sixteen year old rolling their eyes at me and breathing a long-suffering sigh in my direction as they trudge back to the kitchen to get the baked potato that was left off my order.
Somehow saying "you're welcome" at least gives me the impression that you are having a personal interaction with me and not just giving me your time/attention/service because you have to be there when you'd really rather be anywhere else. It just seems like the "nice" and polite thing to say.
I know it's likely that only I have an objection to such flip responses, but I admit it. I do.
So, if you happen to get a "thank you" from me, I'd really appreciate a "you're welcome".
Thank you for reading. ;)
20 comments:
- Gints Plivna said...
Sometimes reason might be non native english speakers, I bet. For example Latvians answer with phrase, which literally would be "please". So probably other nations answer with literally "no problem" :D
- January 16, 2009 at 6:44 AM
- Robyn said...
first things first .... you're welcome :)
and if I have answered 'no problem' in the past, a brief explanation. I grew up in Southern California and we mixed Spanish with our English. In Spanish, the common answer to 'gracias' is 'de nada' (of nothing). As it was used, it implied that the task done to earn the thank you was only a small thing, and that the receipt of the thank you felt unworthy of thanks. 'No problem' to me is 'de nada', and years of living in the Southeast haven't undone my training either.
I believe the French 'de rein' is similar.
- January 16, 2009 at 9:18 AM
- Don Ford said...
You're welcome. ;-)
- January 16, 2009 at 10:07 AM
- Karen said...
Gints and Robyn,
It's funny that you mention the non-native speakers and foreign language influences on American speech. I was thinking about that after I posted and it hit me that I don't get the same feeling that the response is rude if it's a non-native English speaker. I suppose that subconsciously I adjust what I expect to hear in that case...strange. But, I still get a rude or flippant vibe otherwise.
Actually, I think as much as anything how I react is based on voice tone and expression as it does what is said.
Well, at least now I have something else to ponder the next time I'm at Applebee's and the waiter says "No problem lady".
- January 16, 2009 at 12:41 PM
- Cheryl said...
Since this is a "non-technical" topic, I will add my two cents! I absolutely have my pet peeves (leaving your shopping cart in the middle of the parking lot is one of them), but I've been thinking about this one and wondering if perhaps some people who work with the public just get tired of saying the same thing. Maybe they try to vary their responses from "You're welcome" to an occasional "No problem" just so they don't have to say the same thing all day. I don't know for sure, but no response at all bothers me a lot more than some acknowledgment of my "Thank you." Oh, and by the way, "You're welcome for thanking me for reading, but I thank you for writing!"
- January 16, 2009 at 5:32 PM
- jan van mourik said...
In Dutch we'd also say "geen probleem" or "no problem", if I remember correctly :-)
I do hear "no problem" or "sure" a lot too, maybe I even use it on occasion. And I must say that "sure" is much shorter and faster than "you're welcome"...
- January 16, 2009 at 7:09 PM
- Unknown said...
Sometimes I answer 'It was my pleasure' instead of 'you're welcome' if I feel the thank you was too generous. Sometimes 'you're welcome' just feels like 'oh, I absolutely deserved that thanks so you're welcome'.
- January 18, 2009 at 1:39 PM
- Oyvind Isene said...
A person who hates to be a burden or interrupt others may out of empathy choose to say "no problem". That is a quicker way of saying "you are welcome again, this is what I do".
- January 22, 2009 at 2:29 AM
- robert said...
Disclaimer: no native speaker here.
Often there is no reply to a "thank you" and that's probably even more rude than a "no problem" or "sure".
I cannot remember that my English teacher taught me to reply to a "thank you" with "you're welcome" - I believe, I learned it from Usenet posts or so. So I am happy already when I don't forget the reply. :-)
Kind regards
- January 22, 2009 at 11:44 AM
- Joel Garry said...
Do your googling before you rant! :-)
word: redisms
- February 3, 2009 at 6:03 PM
- Karen said...
Good one Joel! That was almost word-for-word how the comments on my post played out.
OK everyone....I give up! I get it that the words aren't important. It's the acknowledgment that matters regardless of how it's worded.
I've been listening even more carefully lately and have noticed quite a mix of responses to my thank you's. And, the only time I really get annoyed is when the response "has an attitude". If it's a genuine acknowledgment and not a huffy response that sounds like the person is put out just to have to help me out, then I'm good to go.
So, bring on "no worries", "no problem", "my pleasure", "you betcha" and whatever other response you've got in you. I'll cheerfully accept. Just please don't huff at me when you give it (that I still can't get over). :)
- February 3, 2009 at 6:14 PM
- spinfisher said...
I think "you're welcome" is the nicest response to "thank you."
It is humble to say "you're welcome..."
It closes the gratitude loop. People are afraid to do that because when they have done something nice, they are one up in the spreadsheet of life. When you say "you're welcome" you even out the spreadsheet for the other person. When you say "thank you" back, you increase the spreadsheet in your favor...now that person has to say something and if they say nothing they still owe you. It is fear of humility that keeps "you're welcome" away. None of us wants to be beholden to the other... think of the joke about the unending feedback loop of "thank you," "no, thank you!", "no, really, thank you!", NO! Thank you!!!"
Saying you're welcome is simple, humble, and closes the loop entirely allowing both people dignity and graciousness. Saying thank you back keeps the loop open while saying things like "no problem" creates more questions like "dang, should I have thought it was a problem?"
Just be humble -- say "you're welcome" when someone thanks you. They will be astounded most of the time and feel even better about the whole affair.
- March 1, 2009 at 5:58 PM
- imadork8 said...
Definitely say "You're Welcome!" I Even send out "You're Welcome Cards" Check them out, they are great for laughs- www.yourewelcomecards.com
- May 29, 2009 at 6:46 PM
- Unknown said...
Actually I have your pet peeve in reverse. While on occasion you're welcome seems most appropriate and polite, I find that people who say it constantly are telling me that there they did what they did out of a sense of "proper-ness" (obligation), and likewise by saying you're welcome, it feels like it was an effort, rather than coming from the heart. This is particularly so when a compliment is given. To say you're welcome after being thanked makes me question the sincerity of it.
- June 13, 2009 at 10:50 PM
- Caralyn said...
Funny- I actually googled the question "is it rude to say no problem instead of you're welcome"
and found this post. For the life of me, when I'm at work I have such a hard time saying "you're welcome". I always say 'no problem', but I've been questioning as of late if that's appropriate.
Let me explain.
I'm a nurse, and my patients and their families thank me all day for bathing them, changing their sheets if they're incontinent, giving them medications, or just stopping by to check on them. They thank me for asking if they are okay or in pain. They thank me for doing the basics. I haven't saved a life, I've just given them what is expected, what they deserve, and basic courtesy. They thank me for simply caring enough to spend time to talk to them.
It's funny, because all day I thought about this while replying with my signature smile and 'no problem'. I do make a point to not be flippant about my response, however.
For me, to say 'you're welcome' feels like I'm taking credit for something that I don't really deserve. I'm doing my job. I'm simply making their stay on my floor as comfortable as possible, because not only is it my job, but they deserve it. And it Should be done. It shouldn't be something special, or noteworthy. It's just what it is.
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE my job, my patients, and their families. I love doing what I do, and I love that I get to help them get better, no matter if they are in a bad mood, messed the sheets, or need help standing so they can go to the restroom. I love it, and I get so much joy from doing it. But it feels selfish to me to say 'you're welcome'.
I'm from the south as well, so I'm raised with ma'am, sir, thank you and please as well... but when it comes to 'you're welcome' at my job, I just can't seem to spit it out.
- October 25, 2009 at 10:14 PM
- Karen said...
I think a genuine response is the best response...the words are secondary. It sounds like your patients "get it" that you care and that's what matters most.
- October 26, 2009 at 8:21 AM
- Mikersson said...
Hello, nice article.
In Spanish it's a good manner to say (both):
(you)- ¡Muchas Gracias!
(Me)- ¡De nada!
Quite funny that in swedish do not exist the word: "please" ("por favor" in spanish)the key word that can open many doors in life.
Thank you very much for that!
- February 17, 2010 at 4:02 PM
- Kakabeka said...
I don't hear that irritating
No Problem as much as I used to...
I've noticed that the talking heads on TV for quite a while respond to Thank You with the inane response Thank You indicating to me they are terrible communicators.
"Civility refers to behaviour between persons and groups that conforms to a social mode in accordance with the civil society, being a foundational principle of society and law. It carries the essence of politeness, courtesy, good manners, courteousness, respect, graciousness and consideration."
- May 30, 2011 at 2:42 PM
- Aceboympk said...
My wife thinks I'm nut because it bothers me when people respond "no problem."
So she sent this to me. When I responded that at least I'm not too crazy, or the only crazy person out there who feels this way, she said at least Karen has an excuse: she's a southern gal.
Oh snap!
- February 8, 2012 at 2:47 PM
- Janet Arnwine said...
I have always been taught when someone says, "Thank you" you reply with "You're welcome". I grew up in the south and manners were entrenched into the fabric of our everyday lives. Rude behavior has become abundant unfortunately. People are too focused on their technology driven devices that they don't even take a moment to remember the kindness and good manners we show everyone we interact with daily. I have several pet peeves, but rudeness rates at the top of my #1 pet peeve. Take the time and be kind, remember you get what you give. It only takes a moment to say "You're welcome", and there I said it more than once in this quick paragraph.
Have a wonderful day!
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We went to see THE WOMAN IN BLACK at Fiona's urging, because the book's a modern spook classic, the Nigel Kneale TV version has one of the greatest scares ever (even if it otherwise borrows a bit too freely from THE INNOCENTS), because it's from the revivified Hammer, and because advance word was good. Didn't know it was from James Watkins, director of the acclaimed EDEN LAKE (which I haven't seen because it sounded too nasty for my squeamish side) but that's good too.
The film, in which Daniel Radcliffe is terrorised by some other small children, as well as by the titular funereally clad lady, is proper scary. Admittedly it gets by on powerful BOO! gotchas rather than dragging the suspense out for as long as it might, but fans of Slow Creeping Terror will nevertheless find much to be freaked by here. One shock moment — "That's the sort of window faces appear at!" to quote Mr Withnail — made me scream like a woman, while another caused our friend Mr Brown to practically shoot vertically from his chair. I felt sorry for our dates, who were relying on us for manly protection.
The Victoriana is terribly vague — when is this supposed to be happening, exactly — but serves its atmospheric purpose in the best Hammer manner. Lots of vine-covered mansion, rattling carriages, puffing locomotives. Since this is a ghost story rather than an out-and-out horror, we're deprived of what Philip Larkin approvingly called "tit and fang", but I expect Hammer, still in the early days of new management, are limbering up for that.
Jane Goldman, the go-to girl for genre entertainment in the UK today (KICK ASS, STARDUST) pads out the slim plot with borrowings from Mario Bava's KILL BABY KILL, inventing a rule that each sighting of the dreaded Woman causes… well, I won't say exactly. In fact, spoilers are hard to come by here, since the plot is so slight and one-track. In a way it's refreshing that it avoids major twists and reversals of the "He's not who you think!" variety — it's more like J-horror, and indeed the vengeful ghost is pretty much out of THE GRUDGE — she's not open to negotiation.She takes a Hard Line.
Weakest element, as you may have guessed, is the man Radcliffe, who is never less than, well, physically present, and assumes a suitably worried expression throughout, but one can't help, afterwards, imaging what a more substantial actor might have brought to the role.
Those who have seen THE ARTIST will recall the BANG! intertitle which serves a neat double-purpose (the film's cleverest touch), seeming to mean one thing but instantly recontextualized by the following shot. Here, at the ending, of which I plan to give away NOTHING, there's a similar switcheroo, with an image rather than a word being the ambivalent junction between two Schrodinger's cat style possible outcomes to a single event. One solid, unambiguous image somehow serves as a signal-change shifting us from one reality to another… hard to describe, but I think you'll dig it when you see it.