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When you're contemplating the vast expanse of glass covering any one of the current models of smartphones with supersized screens, you have to ask yourself: How big is too big? Is a 5-inch display that much better than a 4.5-incher? Does native 1080p capability actually matter on a smartphone? How big of an advantage does such a device earn?
HTC Droid DNA
The 1920 × 1080 display is the best on any phone, both on paper and in real life. Mostly flawless performance from the quad-core CPU, 2GB of RAM and Verizon's 4G LTE network. Looks kinda badass. Attention to ergonomic detail is evident in the curved glass and the curved, soft-touch back.
Crappy battery life. Display isn't significantly better than the screens found on top rivals. At 5 inches, the screen is too big — a pain to use with one hand. Little hangnail plastic USB port cover has got to go.
How We Rate
- 1/10A complete failure in every way
- 2/10Sad, really
- 3/10Serious flaws; proceed with caution
- 4/10Downsides outweigh upsides
- 5/10Recommended with reservations
- 6/10Solid with some issues
- 7/10Very good, but not quite great
- 8/10Excellent, with room to kvetch
- 9/10Nearly flawless
- 10/10Metaphysical perfection
Ladies and gentlemen, meet the HTC Droid DNA. Its massive 5-inch 1920 × 1080 display has the same resolution as the best HDTV sets lining the shelves at your local retailer. It sports a pixel density of 440 pixels per inch, which bests all the big-name competitors — the Google Nexus 4 (320ppi), the HTC One X (316ppi) and 8X (341ppi), and the Apple iPhone 5 (326ppi).
While a 1080p screen is mighty pretty, it's not a killer feature on a smartphone, and it does not make the device significantly better than the current crop of 720p-capable phones.
But while this looks great on paper, it doesn't matter much at all. Seriously. Don't get me wrong: The DNA's display is gorgeous, and arguably the best-looking smartphone display out there. But to the naked eye, and over a couple of weeks of daily use, it doesn't look significantly better than the phones mentioned above, and that's a good thing. The fact is, they all look great. On any one of them, pixels are indiscernible and text looks crisp and clean, rivaling a printed page. Colors are vivid and bright. Photos, video, apps, websites, magazines, every single thing displayed on screen is rendered beautifully.
The bottom line is that while a 1080p screen is mighty pretty, it's not a killer feature on a smartphone, and it does not make the device significantly better than the current crop of 720p-capable phones. And this is a wonderful thing for consumers. Smartphone displays are better than they have ever been. Today, we expect top-tier phones to come with Retina-quality screens, and anything less is deemed unacceptable.
While the DNA's display looks stunning, the size of the thing makes it difficult to use the phone with one hand. While it isn't as audaciously oversized as the 5.5-inch-display on the Samsung Galaxy Note II, the DNA's touchscreen can still be a bit of a hassle. The slightly smaller 4.7-inch displays on the Nexus 4 and One X are far more comfortable. Even the 4.8-inch display on the popular Samsung Galaxy S III is easier to use with a single hand — and 4.8 inches is about the largest smartphone display that I've been able to comfortably operate thus far. It's here that the DNA's display doesn't make it more useful, but counts against it.
Another sticking point is the paltry battery life. In over a week of testing the handset, I wasn't able to make it through an 8-hour workday without having to charge up the 2020 mAh Lithium-ion cell before I headed home. On the weekend, while running errands and using Google Maps, Yelp, Twitter and the camera throughout the day, battery life flew by and I found myself stopping to charge up by midday, and again in the evening. If you buy the DNA, you'll want to pick up a spare charger to go with it.
Each time I had to charge up, I was greeted by an annoying little plastic door covering the USB port on the bottom of the DNA. When this tiny door is closed, the DNA looks sleek and smooth. But opening the door reveals a flimsy piece of plastic that feels like it's hanging on for dear life. It feels like it's only a matter of time before that little door breaks off. While everything else on the DNA feels lovingly designed and well built, this door is a weak point. HTC should have just left the port exposed, as most phones do nowadays.
Aside from that quirk, HTC has done great design work. The Droid DNA is a unique and menacing-looking phone, draped in black with red highlights. It's about 5.55 inches tall and 2.78 inches wide. It has a curved back that's 0.38 inches at its thickest and 0.16 inches at the edges. The ergonomic shape is enhanced by a soft-touch coating on the rear. Along the left and right edges of the handset are red anodized metal grills. It looks like some speakers should be hiding in there, but the grills are just for looks — a pinhole speaker is on the back, just under a Beats Audio logo (at least the grills add a bit of personality). Above the display is a metallic red headset speaker, with a milled red power button up top. The power button is one of the lowest-rising power buttons I've seen, but it remains responsive. Next to that is a headphone jack.
If you buy the DNA, you'll want to pick up a spare charger to go with it.
Finishing off the red accents is an anodized ring around the DNA's 8-megapixel rear camera. Both the camera and its LED flash are inset, and nearly flush with the DNA's rear so they're not sticking out (as was the case on HTC's One X of and One S). The look is a familiar one, but it's still cool in an Eye of Sauron kind of way.
While running on Verizon's 4G LTE network (which is blazingly fast, and offered me great coverage in San Francisco) and powering a 5-inch 1080p display is taxing on the battery, it's thankfully not terribly taxing on the DNA's internals. Namely Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, clocked at 1.5GHz, an Ardeno 320 GPU and 2GB of RAM — basically the same guts as we saw in the Nexus 4, which offers better battery life and was easier to use with one hand, but isn't available on Verizon's network.
As expected, the DNA is fast, powerful and well-performing. Most everything ran smoothly and quickly — launching apps, switching between apps, navigating around HTC's Sense 4+ skin over the top of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Games ran smoothly and looked fantastic on the DNA's large display, as did videos from YouTube, Netflix, Google Play and Vimeo. However, I did notice a slight stutter every now and then when trying to scroll through webpages in Chrome. It wasn't a huge bother, but the DNA does fall slightly short of the reliably smooth performance seen on the Nexus 4 and HTC's One X (which is only available through AT&T).
Camera performance, on the other hand, was top-notch. The quality and detail of the DNA 8-megapixel/1080p rear camera is superior for both photos and video. Even the camera software felt faster here than on other HTC phones like the One X.
One of my favorite features on the DNA is the curved edges of the phone's display. Rather than laying flat and ending in hard right angles, as we saw on HTC's Sprint-exclusive Evo 4G LTE, the outtermost edges of the DNA's display roll into the sides of the phone, flowing into the rubberized back and red side-grills like. As you're sliding your fingers around the display (likely with two hands most of the time), the added smoothness along the edges is really nice. Such curved displays are becoming a design trademark of HTC phones, and I really hope the company sticks with it.
But, as wonderful and satisfying the curved Gorilla Glass 2 display on the DNA is, I can't use this phone without wishing the screen wasn't a little bit smaller. The massive, high-density display is the DNA's hallmark feature, but at the same time, it's the phone's biggest drawback.
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Everyone knows someone who can walk into a room full of people and within minutes give an accurate description about the relationships between those people and what they are feeling. The ability to read a person's attitudes and thoughts by their behavior was the original communication system used by humans before spoken language evolved.
Before radio was invented, most communication was done in writing through books, letters, and newspapers, which meant that ugly politicians and poor speakers such as Abraham Lincoln could be successful if they persisted long enough and wrote good print copy. The radio era gave openings to people who had a good command of the spoken word, like Winston Churchill, who spoke wonderfully but may have struggled to achieve as much in today's more visual era.
Today's politicians understand that politics is about image and appearance, and most high-profile politicians now have personal body-language consultants to help them come across as being sincere, caring, and honest, especially when they're not.
It seems almost incredible that, over the thousands of years of our evolution, body language has been actively studied on any scale only since the 1960's and that most of the public has become aware of its existence only since our book Body Language was published in 1978. Yet most people believe that speech is still our main form of communication. Speech has been part of our communication repertoire only in recent times in evolutionary terms, and is mainly used to convey facts and data. Speech probably first developed between two million and five hundred thousand years ago, during which time our brain tripled its size. Before then, body language and sounds made in the throat were the main forms of conveying emotions and feelings, and that is still the case today. But because we focus on the words people speak, most of us are largely uninformed about body language, let alone its importance in our lives.
Our spoken language, however, recognizes how important body language is to our communication. Here are just a few of the phrases we use:
Get it off your chest. Keep a stiff upper lip. Stay at arm's length. Keep your chin up. Shoulder a burden. Face up to it. Put your best foot forward. Kiss my butt.
Some of these phrases are hard to swallow, but you've got to give us a big hand because there are some real eye-openers here. As a rule of thumb, we can keep them coming hand over fist until you either buckle at the knees or turn your back on the whole idea. Hopefully, you'll be sufficiently touched by these phrases to lean toward the concept.
In the Beginning ...
Silent-movie actors like Charlie Chaplin were the pioneers of body-language skills, as this was the only means of communication available on the screen. Each actor's skill was classed as good or bad by the extent to which he could use gestures and body signals to communicate to the audience. When talking films became popular and less emphasis was placed on the nonverbal aspects of acting, many silent-movie actors faded into obscurity and only those with good verbal and nonverbal skills survived.
As far as the academic study of body language goes, perhaps the most influential pre-twentieth-century work was Charles Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, published in 1872, but this work tended to be read mainly by academics. However, it spawned the modern studies of facial expressions and body language, and many of Darwin's ideas and observations have since been validated by researchers around the world. Since that time, researchers have noted and recorded almost a million nonverbal cues and signals. Albert Mehrabian, a pioneer researcher of body language in the 1950's, found that the total impact of a message is about 7 percent verbal (words only) and 38 percent vocal (including tone of voice, inflection, and other sounds) and 55 percent nonverbal.
It's how you looked when you said it, not what you actually said.
Anthropologist Ray Birdwhistell pioneered the original study of nonverbal communication-what he called "kinesics." Birdwhistell made some similar estimates of the amount of nonverbal communication that takes place between humans. He estimated that the average person actually speaks words for a total of about ten or eleven minutes a day and that the average sentence takes only about 2.5 seconds. Birdwhistell also estimated we can make and recognize around 250,000 facial expressions.
Like Mehrabian, he found that the verbal component of a face-to-face conversation is less than 35 percent and that over 65 percent of communication is done nonverbally. Our analysis of thousands of recorded sales interviews and negotiations during the 1970's and 1980's showed that, in business encounters, body language accounts for between 60 and 80 percent of the impact made around a negotiating table and that people form 60 to 80 percent of their initial opinion about a new person in less than four minutes. Studies also show that when negotiating over the telephone, the person with the stronger argument usually wins, but this is not so true when negotiating face-to-face, because overall we make our final decisions more on what we see than what we hear.
Why It's Not What You Say
Despite what it may be politically correct to believe, when we meet people for the first time we quickly make judgments about their friendliness, dominance, and potential as a sexual partner-and their eyes are not the first place we look.
Most researchers now agree that words are used primarily for conveying information, while body language is used for negotiating interpersonal attitudes and, in some cases, is used as a substitute for verbal messages. For example, a woman can give a man a "look to kill" and will convey a very clear message to him without opening her mouth.
Regardless of culture, words and movements occur together with such predictability that Birdwhistell was the first to claim that a well-trained person should be able to tell what movement a person is making by listening to their voice. Birdwhistell even learned how to tell what language a person was speaking, simply by watching their gestures.
Many people find difficulty in accepting that humans are still biologically animals. We are a species of primate-Homo sapiens-a hairless ape that has learned to walk on two limbs and has a clever, advanced brain. But like any other species, we are still dominated by biological rules that control our actions, reactions, body language, and gestures. The fascinating thing is that the human animal is rarely aware that its postures, movements, and gestures can tell one story while its voice may be telling another.
How Body Language Reveals Emotions and Thoughts
Body language is an outward reflection of a person's emotional condition. Each gesture or movement can be a valuable key to an emotion a person may be feeling at the time. For example, a man who is self-conscious about gaining weight may tug at the fold of skin under his chin; the woman who is aware of extra pounds on her thighs may smooth her dress down; the person who is feeling fearful or defensive might fold their arms or cross their legs or both; and a man talking with a large-breasted woman may consciously avoid staring at her breasts while, at the same time, unconsciously use groping gestures with his hands.
The key to reading body language is being able to understand a person's emotional condition while listening to what they are saying and noting the circumstances under which they are saying it. This allows you to separate fact from fiction and reality from fantasy. In recent times, we humans have had an obsession with the spoken word and our ability to be conversationalists. Most people, however, are remarkably unaware of body- language signals and their impact, despite the fact that we now know that most of the messages in any face-to-face conversation are revealed through body signals. For example, France's President Chirac, U.S.A.'s President Ronald Reagan, and Australia's Prime Minister Bob Hawke all used their hands to reveal the relative sizes of issues in their mind. Bob Hawke once defended pay increases for politicians by comparing their salaries to corporate executive salaries. He claimed that executive salaries had risen by a huge amount and that proposed politicians' increases were relatively smaller. Each time he mentioned politicians' incomes, he held his hands a yard apart. When he mentioned executive salaries, however, he held them only a foot apart. His hand distances revealed that he felt politicians were getting a much better deal than he was prepared to admit.
Why Women Are More Perceptive
When we say someone is "perceptive" or "intuitive" about people, we are unknowingly referring to their ability to read another person's body language and to compare these cues with verbal signals. In other words, when we say that we have a "hunch" or "gut feeling" that someone has told us a lie, we usually mean that their body language and their spoken words don't agree. This is also what speakers call "audience awareness," or relating to a group. For example, if an audience were sitting back in their seats with their chins down and arms crossed on their chest, a "perceptive" speaker would get a hunch or feeling that his delivery was not going across well. He would realize that he needed to take a different approach to gain audience involvement. Likewise, a speaker who was not "perceptive" would blunder on regardless.
Being "perceptive" means being able to spot the contradictions between someone's words and their body language.
Overall, women are far more perceptive than men, and this has given rise to what is commonly referred to as "women's intuition." Women have an innate ability to pick up and decipher nonverbal signals, as well as having an accurate eye for small details. This is why few husbands can lie to their wives and get away with it and why, conversely, most women can pull the wool over a man's eyes without his realizing it.
Research by psychologists at Harvard University showed how women are far more alert to body language than men. They showed short films, with the sound turned off, of a man and woman communicating, and the participants were asked to decode what was happening by reading the couple's expressions. The research showed that women read the situation accurately 87 percent of the time, while the men scored only 42 percent accuracy. Men in "nurturing" occupations, such as artistic types, acting, and nursing, did nearly as well as the women; gay men also scored well. Female intuition is particularly evident in women who have raised children. For the first few years, the mother relies almost solely on the nonverbal channel to communicate with the child and this is why women are often more perceptive negotiators than men, because they practice reading signals early.
What Brain Scans Show
Most women have the brain organization to outcommunicate any man on the planet. Magnetic Resonance Imaging brain scans (MRI) clearly show why women have far greater capacity for communicating with and evaluating people than men do. Women have between fourteen and sixteen areas of the brain to evaluate others' behavior versus a man's four to six areas. This explains how a woman can attend a dinner party and rapidly work out the state of the relationships of other couples at the party-who's had an argument, who likes who, and so on. It also explains why, from a woman's standpoint, men don't seem to talk much and, from a man's standpoint, women never seem to shut up.
As we showed in Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps (Orion), the female brain is organized for multitracking-the average woman can juggle between two and four unrelated topics at the same time. She can watch a television program while talking on the telephone plus listen to a second conversation behind her, while drinking a cup of coffee. She can talk about several unrelated topics in the one conversation and use five vocal tones to change the subject or emphasize points. Unfortunately, most men can only identify three of these tones. As a result, men often lose the plot when women are trying to communicate with them.
Studies show that a person who relies on hard visual evidence face-to-face about the behavior of another person is more likely to make more accurate judgments about that person than someone who relies solely on their gut feeling. The evidence is in the person's body language and, while women can do it subconsciously, anyone can teach themselves consciously to read the signals. That's what this book is about.
How Fortune-Tellers Know So Much
If you've ever visited a fortune-teller you probably came away amazed at the things they knew about you-things no one else could possibly have known-so it must be ESP, right? Research into the fortune-telling business shows that operators use a technique known as "cold reading," which can produce an accuracy of around 80 percent when "reading" a person you've never met. While it can appear to be magical to naive and vulnerable people, it is simply a process based on the careful observation of body-language signals plus an understanding of human nature and a knowledge of probability statistics. It's a technique practiced by psychics, tarot-card readers, astrologists, and palm readers to gather information about a "client." Many "cold readers" are largely unaware of their abilities to read nonverbal signals and so also become convinced that they really must have "psychic" abilities. This all adds to a convincing performance, bolstered by the fact that people who regularly visit "psychics" go with positive expectations of the outcome. Throw in a set of tarot cards, a crystal ball or two, and a bit of theater, and the stage is perfectly set for a body-language-reading session that can convince even the most hardened skeptic that strange, magical forces must be at work. It all boils down to the reader's ability to decode a person's reactions to statements made and to questions asked, and by information gathered from simple observation about a person's appearance. Most "psychics" are female because, as women, as discussed previously, they have the extra brain wiring to allow them to read the body signals of babies and to read others' emotional condition.
The fortune-teller gazed into her crystal ball and then started laughing uncontrollably. So John punched her on the nose. It was the first time he'd ever struck a happy medium.
To demonstrate the point, here now is a psychic reading for you personally. Imagine you've come to a dimly lit, smoke-filled room where a jewel-encrusted psychic wearing a turban is seated at a low, moon-shaped table with a crystal ball:
I'm glad you've come to this session and I can see you have things that are troubling you because I am receiving strong signals from you. I sense that the things you really want out of life sometimes seem unrealistic and you often wonder whether you can achieve them. I also sense that at times you are friendly, social, and outgoing to others, but that at other times you are withdrawn, reserved, and cautious. You take pride in being an independent thinker, but also know not to accept what you see and hear from others without proof. You like change and variety, but become restless if controlled by restrictions and routine. You want to share your innermost feelings with those closest to you, but have found it unwise to be too open and revealing. A man in your life with the initial "S" is exerting a strong influence over you right now and a woman who is born in November will contact you in the next month with an exciting offer. While you appear disciplined and controlled on the outside, you tend to be concerned and worried on the inside, and at times you wonder whether or not you have made the right choice or decision. . . .
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I came to England in a plush first-class suite with a nurse for the children. I booked the best I could afford because I thought everybody lived like that in England. I thought people in England lived like they did in Jane Austens novels and that the typical Englishman was like Mr. Darcy, and the women like Mrs. Bennet and her daughters. So when, thirteen days later, the nurse came bubbling into my room and asked excitedly, Have you seen it? Have you seen Liverpool? Weve arrived in England, I could be forgiven for dashing out on deck in a cotton housecoat. It was a grey, wet March morning. England gave me a cold welcome. As I said in Second Class Citizen, If I had been Jesus, I would have passed England by and not dropped a single blessing. I felt like walking into the inside of a grave. I could see nothing but masses of grey, filth, and more grey, yet something was telling me that it was too late now. So I said quietly, Pa, England is not the Kingdom of God you thought it was.
[For a while Buchi Emecheta worked in a youth club for black British youth called the Seventies mostly staffed by white British staff, including a women called Amanda.]
Amanda was a very attractive and intelligent girl. A university girl who would do anything in the cause of black. We read of such middle-class female products becoming victims of the very people they originally set out to help. Amanda really meant well, got herself attacked many a time, but was able to accept it longer than I. Maybe because she held the old ideas of the missionaries who came to Africa in the early days, hoping to bring Christianity to the savages, when in fact the black natives were benign prepared to meet their doom either at the hands of the slaver or the colonial officer. . . . Most of these young people at the Seventies had been brainwashed into thinking that England was their mother country, that England belonged to them. At the time when the myth of the mother country was being perpetuated, it was beyond the imaginings of the white colonials that one day the blacks would turn around and say to them, Fulfil your promise. . . . The colonial masters had not calculated on the possibility of such a system bringing out a large number of educated blacks, large enough to man their own local administration and to spill into London in search of middle-class jobs. History proved them wrong, just as they were proved wrong in the case of the Ugandan Asians. Those groups of Asian traders were not only promised the myth of the mother country, they were given British passports. When it came to fulfilling those promises, the poor Asians found themselves countryless. British diplomats found themselves running helter-skelter in search of homes for those with British passports. Many went to Canada, some were admitted into England and others remained in Uganda. But they were on the whole better off than most of the blacks in that at least they had some kind of wealth to start with. The black immigrants into England had nothing but their dreams.


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Whether "anti-Semitism" is or ever was a meaningful concept is a matter with which we needn't concern ourselves. What we know is that it is commonly equated with anti-Jewish animus. The point I wish to make here is that not only is it illegitimate to view the word "neoconservatism" as the function of this sort of animus, but it is wrong to think that it is a pejorative term of any sort.
Neoconservatism is a distinctive political orientation. In fact, not only is it distinct from what I will call the classical conservative tradition, it is fundamentally different in kind from the latter.
We have a tendency to define political orientations in terms of the specific policy positions typically associated with them. For example, a "liberal" is someone who supports "abortion rights," "labor unions," expansive "welfare" entitlements, etc. while a "conservative" opposes abortion and favors "limited government" and a "strong national defense." But the identity of any political orientation really comes into focus once we look beyond the substance of the policy prescriptions to the formal philosophical suppositions that inform them.
Epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy are three branches of philosophy. The first is the study of knowledge. Those who specialize in epistemology concern themselves with such questions as: What is knowledge? Is it attainable and, if so, how do we attain it? Ethics is the study of morality. Ethicists analyze such basic moral concepts as obligation, right, good, evil, virtue, and a host of other topics constitutive of the moral life. Political philosophy, as the name suggests, is the exploration of politics. Characteristic political philosophical questions are: What kind of entity is the state? What is or should be the relationship between the government and the citizen?
Upon analyzing neoconservatism, what we discover is that epistemologically, ethically, and political philosophically, it is much more akin to what is commonly called "liberalism" than it is the classical conservatism of which Edmund Burke is said to be the "patron saint."
From the neoconservative's conception of America as a "propositional" or "creedal" nation — a nation erected upon an idea — we can derive his conception of reason. For the neoconservative, Reason stands over and above culture and tradition. It is owes nothing to contingency. There is one and the same Intellect for all rational beings, regardless of time and place. This, of course, doesn't mean that all people possess equal intellectual facility; what it means is that if there was such equality, then all rational minds would converge seamlessly upon the same ideas.
The neoconservative is, in other words, a Rationalist. As such, he is of a piece with leftist Rationalists of various sorts who for the last couple centuries or so have insisted upon the competence of unaided Reason to supply "solutions" to all of life's problems.
However, this Rationalism of which neoconservatism is the most recent expression is exactly that intellectual fashion against which classical conservatism originally emerged as the distinctive tradition that it is. It was the Rationalist's substitution of an omniscient, omnipotent Reason for an omniscient, omnipotent God that inspired Burke and the like to formulate what has since been known as conservatism.
The neoconservative's idea of Reason is inseparable from his ethics and his political philosophy. Let's look at the former first.
The abstract, universal, omnipotent Reason at the center of the neoconservative's epistemological scheme provides access to moral principles that are equally abstract and universal. That is, morality, for the neoconservative, is comprised first and foremost of principles, whether they are called "Human Rights," "Liberty," "Equality," "Freedom," or whatever. These are principles that, because they are held to be accessible to all rational beings, are self-evident.
Now, principles are indispensable to any morality; there is nothing distinctive, much less controversial, about a moral vision allotting room for principles. But the rationalist morality of the neoconservative both assigns principles a central position as well as regards them as timeless. Since that which is timeless by definition transcends time, what this implies is that the moral principles of the neoconservative transcend tradition, habit, and custom.
In short, these moral principles owe nothing to just those things that classical conservatives have regarded as the sources of moral inspiration and character formation. Principles, as I said, are important. Yet to concede this much is most certainly not endorse the neoconservative's understanding of principles. Rather, for the classical conservative, far from subsisting in advance of tradition, moral principles are abstracted from it. That is, moral principles stand in relation to traditions of conduct the way that grammatical principles stand in relation to living languages: Before there are principles there must first be a tradition to give them life.
Political Philosophy
The neoconservative views the state — or what is more customarily referred to as "the nation-state" — as a certain kind of association, what the conservative philosopher Michael Oakeshott called an "enterprise association." An association of this kind is determined by its end or goal, a substantive state of affairs toward the realization of which all of the associates are expected to contribute. In the case of the state, this goal has been variously defined: Equality, Freedom, Security, Piety, Prosperity, and Virtue are just some of the candidates that have been submitted.
When the neoconservative erroneously speaks of it in terms of a system of "free enterprise," he reveals his bias in favor of this reading of the state. If this is what the state is, then its end is Prosperity or Affluence. More telling, however, is the neoconservative's penchant for conceiving the state, or at least the American state, as a Democracy.
The neoconservative's assertion to the contrary notwithstanding, "democracy" refers to nothing more or less than the terms in which authority is constituted; it does not refer to the engagements that a state will or should pursue. "Democracy," in other words, is a certain kind of procedure. It has nothing to do with the results that a government will seek to produce. Democracy could give us Ron Paul or Barack Obama, the Muslim Brotherhood or Hamas. So, those who think that only a faux democratic system could catapult a terrorist into office are sorely mistaken as to what democracy is.
An enterprise association is incompatible with the freedom and liberty that our Constitution was designed to supply and secure, for the members of an enterprise association are not free to pursue their own ends but, rather, are required to part with some of their resources in order to pursue the end of the collective enterprise.
The classical conservative knows this. This is why he sees in the Constitution, at least as it was originally conceived, the terms, not of an enterprise association, but of a civil association.
Neoconservatism is a distinctive way of attending to politics, but it is eons apart from classical conservatism.


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I didn't have the semi sweet Chocolates and she offered to go to the grocery store to get some.So I made it. We did one mistake though. It said to cook for 40 min. at 300 degrees which we did but-- missed seeing to check for doneness with a straw. OOPS
.I am a sucker for sunsets and this was Sunday evening. It really was redder than the picture shows but the sky was so blue. This evening was even prettier but didn't take it. Today we had about 65 degrees outside and it was beautiful. Spring is here, maybe almost until the weather report for a few days from now. After all it is still February.
I even raked some leaves up in the front yard. Saw that the bulbs were starting to come up and raked the leaves off them. Don't want them 6 inches deep. I didn't get any leaves raked in the fall so there are a lot out there.
Then decided it was too nice to go in so got my book and went down in the yard to my rocker and read for about an hour. It was so peaceful and the sun was coming in just enough to keep it warm.
On the quilty side I have finished my Sweet Spot Schnibbles for the Mini this month. I thought I had kept the label of the charms but now can't find it. This was fun to make. I had all the blocks made and up on the board and my daughter arranged them for me. So this is it.


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when I do this same error message. So, I changed the boot sequence to boot off of the cdrom drive first to bypass the hard drive, same issue. I triple checked all the wiring unplugged the cables replugged them in. I tried hooking up another hard drive it detects it, but that hard drive has issues. Anyways, I am using a SATA hard drive with SATA cables, I just want this computer up and running so I actually can use it. All help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, CN22


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The first won a BAFTA, but how does its sequel, Batman Arkham CIty, compare to the first? We tracked down the game at this year's E3 in Los Angeles to find out what to expect and what it's like. Will the Joker return, what are the graphics like, and is the gameplay still as good? Oh and did we tell you that you get to play Catwoman?
Read on to find out how we got on.
Batman Arkham City
What platform is it on?
Xbox 360, PS3, PC
When's it due out?
- HP's new Omen gaming PCs explored: We tear down these gaming beasts to see what's under the hood (promo)
21 October 2011
What other game is it like?
Does it use any new tech like 3D, PlayStation Move, or Kinect for Xbox 360?
The pitch
Set inside the heavily fortified walls of a sprawling district in the heart of Gotham City, this highly anticipated sequel introduces a brand-new story that draws together a new, all-star cast of classic characters and murderous villains from the Batman universe, as well as a vast range of new and enhanced gameplay features to deliver the ultimate experience as the Dark Knight.
The storyline
Batman: Arkham City builds upon the intense, atmospheric foundation of Batman: Arkham Asylum, sending players soaring into Arkham City - five times larger than the game world in Batman: Arkham Asylum - and the new maximum security "home" for all of Gotham City's thugs, gangsters and insane criminal masterminds.
Trailers, demoes, and video
Our first impressions
You get to play Catwoman. That's the key point to take away from our quick play at E3 in Los Angeles. We didn't get to play with her for long however, before the game whisked us off in charge of Batman to learn how the new flight/glide mode worked, beating up two face's henchmen and embarking on some detective work.
That said we still got to play with the feline nemesis of Batman's and it's good news to report.
The controls of course are similar, it's still very much a fluid fighting style that has you pressing X to strike and Y to counter, but by Jove have you got to press those buttons at the right time to inflict the most damage and it's lovely to watch Catwoman and her rather revealing top decimate the bad guys on the screen, like she is performing Swan Lake at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.
The moves look effortless with RockSteady, the game developers, toying with you and no doubt the countless teenage boys playing Batman Arkham City. Will she kiss the henchmen before breaking his legs or just finish him off straight away. Yep, it's very much in keeping with the comic book universe that the game is based upon.
In the extract of the game we played Catwoman is quickly captured (it's a trap) and the action zooms out and spins over to Batman 24 hours later.
We're standing on a building looking over the city. Neon lights flicker, the rain tumbles down, it's all very atmospheric. A quick leap into the unknown, a quick swish of the Batman cape and we are gliding down to street level with ease. The control mechanism is all very responsive and very easy to command, allowing you to swoop your way through the air as if, well, as if you're a bat.
We land straight into a gaggle of bad guys not that pleased to see us, and we start pressing that X and Y button like it's going out of fashion. Compared to Catwoman it's heavy and clunking, but that's not to say that it's not enjoyable. Batman has a different approach as you can imagine, and it's still just as effective at getting the job done.
Bad guys dealt with we start roaming the city, messing around, and generally getting to learn the controls and that flight mechanic.
Some time later...
We're back in the courtyard to witness two face about to drop Catwoman into a large vat of toxic waste. Not happy to let that happen we drop in on the action, bashing our way into clearing the room of punks to save Catwoman.
Seconds later we're saving her again from a bullet through the window. The sniper? The Joker.
From here Catwoman buggers off and we get to play with the new detective mode that allows us to look and see elements of the game that you can't normally see. It's like a night-sights option, but for guns, or stuff that helps move the story along. In this case where the bullet came in through the window and where it was fired from. Using that knowledge then takes us onto the next challenge and sadly our time with Batman Arkham City is over. Big real-life henchmen come over and move us on so more can play.
What we've learnt is that you get to play Catwoman, that Batman is still great fun, there's still a very strong focus on the storyline, and that it's no walk in the park.
With the promise of Riddler, Pengiun, and others still to make an appearance, great storybook graphics and the killer combo offering from Arkham Asylum; Batman Arkham City is one sequel that is unlikely to disappoint when it comes out later this year.
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The E3 games convention is a fantastic chance to see the latest games due out over the coming year, as well as, letting us get a glimpse into what is going to be the big titles and the ones to avoid like the plague.
The big problem however is that for most of the titles that glimpse is, well, just that. At the show you'll get to play a level here or a multiplayer map there or even have a product manager walk you through a specific level.
So with that in mind we present you with our Quick Play.
What we've done is broken down the key facts you need to know and then given you our first impressions based on around 15 minutes of gaming. For us that 15 minutes isn't enough to do a First Look review or even a review. How can you rate a game that offers over 30 hours of gaming on just 15 minutes of play? However it should hopefully give you an idea, a feeling, a notion, of what to expect come launch day.


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NEH Start-Up Grant White Papers (Part V)
This is Part V of a series of posts highlighting recent white papers from completed Start Up Grants (Parts I, II, III, and IV also available).
All ODH programs (and some programs in other NEH divisions and offices) require the grantee to submit a "white paper" at the conclusion of the grant. In ODH, we publish these white papers in our Funded Project Query Form. In the white paper, the grantee provides a summary of the grant activities, what they learned, recommended best practices, and even what they might have done differently. By making these white papers freely available, members of the public -- including other prospective applicants -- can learn from what has already been done and build upon it.
Below are summaries of three recent white papers added to our library. Click on the title to access the download page if you'd like to read the full white paper.
The eCommentary Machine Project
University of Texas, Austin
Project Director: Samuel Baker
Abstract: The eCommentary Machine web application ("eComma") enables groups of students, scholars, or general readers to build collaborative commentaries on a text and to search, display, and share those commentaries online.
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants: Thai Digital Monastery Project
University of California, Riverside
Project Director: Justin McDaniel
Abstract: The Thai Digital Monastery Project seeks to begin creating a digital interactive virtual library for enthusiasts, students, and scholars interested in exploring a selection of the over 30,000 monasteries in Thailand. Working closely with the Thai royal family, monastic ecclesia, and Mahamakut University the PI, Justin McDaniel and his collaborators will explore the application of new open-source technologies to create an integrated digital research environment in which participants can walk through three dimensional and 360 degree immersive spaces. In order to build this digital environment that will serve a wide range of learning communities, a one year in depth feasibility initiative is needed which will test technology in the field, recruit a talented long-term staff, and design a electronic platform for a planned multi-year project.
Interface Development for Static Multimedia Documents
Duke University
Project Director: Matthew Cohen
Abstract: We propose to create a set of software technologies and encoding practices that will allow for the encoding, displaying, and searching of static documents that mix print, manuscript, and visual images--documents such as printed texts or images bearing handwritten annotations. The technologies we plan to build include standards for encoding coordinates in XML transcriptions so that search engines can visually display results of user searches for manuscript words and phrases; software for linking XML editing programs to an image display to allow encoders to relate bitmap images to XML text; and model stylesheets capable of displaying transcriptions of annotated documents together with digital images of those documents. The goal will be to create a software suite that is simple enough to be used by transcribers with little familiarity with information encoding and portable enough to work in multiple computing environments for widely different kinds of archival projects.


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America's workplaces are safer now compared to previous years, but some jobs are still more dangerous than others.
According to the most recent results published by the National Census of Fatal Occupation Injuries program conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the occupations that recorded the highest work-related deaths were fishermen, loggers and pilots.
In 2011, workers in the fishing industry recorded fatal work injuries of 121.2 per 100,000 full-time workers, loggers recorded 102.4 and pilots had 57 fatal work injuries per 100,000 full-time workers.
The national average is listed as 3.5 fatal work injuries per 100,000 full-time workers, a decrease from the previous year's recorded 3.6.
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I sold all most of my Euro comics because they were degenerate and I missed having cash to buy something for myself. I sold Jodorovsky's comics - Borgia series in December and now Incal, Castaka and Metabarons. I used to like them a lot but now I hate them for all the degeneracy and stupidity in them.
I bought myself Torment The Tides of Numentera in a collectors edition - it was discounted 60% because it was one of the last ones in a store - I also bought myself a CD album - Kiddo by Tove Styrke - managed to get it at 30% of the normal price new.
The items arrived next day, which was Friday.
Yesterday I sold Nikopol trilogy, Salambo and two volumes of Elric. Most of that stuff was degenerate.
I was wondering what to buy. I wondered through bookstores but nothing caught my attention enough. Eventually, I ended up
THERION wrote:For a long time I feel like my days don't have 24 hours. Then there's the thing where future has so many threats that I don't really want to be transported 8 hours into it.
Xisor wrote:Look here, you patriarchal elitist benevolent scumbag who I want to help me!
I eat better than I've done in years, I sleep well, I exercise vigourously and regularly, and have done for months, *but* my mood is still atrocious, and my attention span is there's a squirrel outside the window, and my motivation is near-zero.
What are we going to do about it?
Therion wrote:I'm reading about plans for WWIII lately, mainly because I got myself into beta-testing wargame set in that period. I find the subject extremely disturbing, disgusting, I would even say.
All these powermongerers planning to murder hundreds of millions of people, to destroy cities. Absolutely revolting.
It's interesting, how ghoulish our hobby is. Fascination with abominable inhuman evil, even to the point where we feel need to create and seek tales of evils and depravities that don't even exist.
When I play wargames lately, I find the act of creating a mission on terrain including human dwellings most offputting and disturbing.
Rob P wrote:Then again, I could be playing something like Warcraft and although I might literally kill a thousand things during a sessions, it's just a game, right? Do games need moral lessons or are they just time wasting things. In the context of games and films the killing is often just the medium of progress rather that something that makes you pause.
Rob P wrote:When I read certain books I'll read something really disturbing that puts me off it. I then have a moment where i'm like ít's just fiction'. And then sometime later i'll think ít might just be fiction, but someone had to think that into being and then someone else had to approve that'.
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A North Texas man who survived two lightning strikes Saturday night is still shaking and says he is lucky to have survived.
"I was sitting there thinking to myself, this is it, I'm dying," Casey Wagner said.
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"We had a blast Friday night. And then Saturday, when the rain came, is when everything broke lose," he said.
A lightning storm moved in, and Wagner learned suddenly it was too late for him to find shelter.
"The sparks came off the tree and then there was a flash by my foot," he said.
"I heard the bang and I clinched up and the flash was right there and it hit me in the leg," he said.
As Wagner fell to the ground, he felt another jolt.
"It was like, 'Bam, bam.' And when I was going down, another one came up in front of my face and flash bang, And that's when it just took me down."
He laid there, unable to move.
A nurse who happened to be there took care of him until an ambulance arrived and took him to a hospital in nearby Nocona.
Wagner said his muscles are still sore and his hands can't stop trembling.
"It's just shaking and numb feeling, like tingly," he said. "That's what the whole body feels like."
Now, he feels closer to God, he said.
"I'm going to start going to church more," he said. "I owe everything to him."
Wagner said it's also changed his life in another way.
"I'll make sure it's not raining out anytime I go outside now," he said.


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(SACRAMENTO, CA —January 23, 2013) Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) was awarded with the Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award for its sustainable fishing loan project, the California Fisheries Fund during a ceremony last night at the California Environmental Protection Agency headquarters. EDF was joined at the awards ceremony by fisherman Steve Fitz, a California Fisheries Fund loan recipient.
"Increasingly, Americans want locally-caught and environmentally-sustainable seafood," said Phoebe Higgins, Director of the California Fisheries Fund. "Fishermen need financing to transition to more sustainable fishing practices. With the California Fisheries Fund, we're supporting fishermen to improve the profitability and sustainability of their fishing operations."
At stake is California's highly-valued ocean economy—worth $43 billion and contributing more than 474,000 jobs to the state, according to a 2010 study by the National Ocean Economics Program. Commercial fishing landings statewide peaked at over 900 million pounds in 1981 and by 2005 had declined to 297 million pounds due to overfishing and misguided regulation. As catches plummeted and fishing costs rose, banks in California were increasingly unwilling to extend loans to fishermen. The California Fisheries Fund was started in 2008 to help West Coast fisheries transition to sustainable and profitable fishing.
In 2011 a new sustainable fishing management program went into effect for more than 60 species of West Coast "groundfish" – fish like sand dabs, sole, flounder and cod - that gives fishermen a secure quota share of the overall catch. The new system 'righted the fishing management ship,' giving fishermen the right to catch a certain amount of fish each year and the responsibility to not exceed it. Unlike the older management system, catch shares give fishermen a direct investment in the fish stock because as fish populations rebound, the value of their shares grows.
Environmental sustainability is improving under catch shares and with the help of the California Fisheries Fund, as a 2012 report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) cited a dramatic reduction in bycatch (unwanted fish or other marine life) and discards after catch shares implementation. Under the new catch share program, fishermen have time to fish more carefully and when weather and prices are best. As a result, they can bring in higher quality fish for a higher price. Statewide fisheries landings are improving in California, up to 438 million pounds in 2010, according to the latest numbers from the National Ocean Economics program.
Fishermen need financing to switch to fishing vessels and gear that minimize habitat and fish damage and to target the most abundant species of fish and to avoid threatened species. The CFF makes loans available to fishermen who are a part of the groundfish catch share management program, as it provides confidence that the fisheries are being managed sustainably. Fishermen's catch share quota can also be used as collateral for a California Fisheries Fund loan.
The California Fisheries Fund has awarded 14 loans totaling nearly $1.7 million to 11 borrowers, providing fishermen with promising business opportunities to market fresh, local and sustainable seafood. Loans have been given to fishermen like Bill Blue in Morro Bay who used the funds to replace his more than 100 year old boat to make safer, more efficient trips to support employing his sons and improving his bottom line. Wild Planet Foods in McKinleyville, CA was also the recipient of a loan which it used to help process and market fresh, sustainable seafood.
The most recent CFF loan was awarded a loan to Steve Fitz to catch groundfish in Half Moon Bay, California. With his California Fisheries Fund loan, Mr. Fitz was able to secure the extra financial assistance he needed to buy his uncle's boat, the "Mr. Morgan," and start his fishing business. The loan has not only helped Steve Fitz grow his business but also gave him the opportunity to continue his family tradition of having the only commercial fishing operation in the United States that uses Scottish Seine gear, an eco-friendly fishing technique that gently herds fish into the path of light-weight nets without dragging heavy and destructive gear on the ocean floor.
"My loan from the California Fisheries Fund has benefitted me in several ways and for that I am grateful," said Fitz. "It's allowed me to purchase my boat, start my business, preserve my strong family fishing heritage, upgrade my fishing equipment and bring a higher quality and sustainable product to the dock."
The Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award (GEELA) pays tribute to individuals, organizations and business that have successfully achieved measurable environmental and economic outcomes in preserving the state's natural resources through innovative partnerships. Award recipients are chosen in different categories based on their success in results, transferability/scalability, environmental conservation impact, economic progress, innovation and uniqueness, pollution prevention, public health and environmental justice.
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Suunto ambassador Jill Heinerth recently explored dive locations around the Azores islands in the Atlantic Ocean. The destination's wrecks, megalithic steps and lava caverns blew her mind, but swimming with devil rays was one of the greatest diving experiences of her life.
The devil ray or mobula is species of eagle ray that can grow up to five meters long. They are sometimes called flying rays because of their propensity to breach the ocean surface. They are endangered because of water pollution and bycatch capture.
Underwater explorer and photographer Jill Heinerth swam with about 30 devil rays in open ocean over a sea mount off Santa Maria Island in the Azores. Devil rays visit the area to feed. Jill recounts the experience below.
"As I patiently waited, they seemed to line up in formation and repeatedly moved closer and closer with graceful ease," she says. "Each followed along the same path arching towards me, sliding sideways for a look and then turning to come even closer.
"Hovering over top of me, they would pause while I held my breath as long as I could.
Finally I would exhale bubbles from the scuba regulator and the ray would slip away and allow the next one to move over top of me.
"It seemed as though they were interested in getting tickled by my stream of bubbles. The dance went on for almost 90 minutes.
"It was one of the most spectacular diving experiences of my life."
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A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect for parts of the D.C. region, with freezing rain and sleet expected.
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In these areas, ice could accumulate, from a trace to one-tenth inch, at elevations above 700 feet, the National Weather Service said.
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Scholarships for Children Under Age 13
None of the online scholarship databases includes information about college scholarships that are available only to children under age 13 because of federal privacy laws. The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), 15 USC 6501, and the Children's Privacy Protection Final Rule, require web sites to obtain "verifiable parental consent" before collecting, using or disclosing individually identifiable information from children under age 13. This effectively prevents online scholarship databases from matching students under age 13 with college scholarships. Because of the difficulties in obtaining consent, all of the scholarship databases avoid the problem by omitting scholarships for underage children from their databases and refusing to register users under age 13.
Because FinAid does not require registration and does not collect personally identifiable information from children under age 13, we are able to include a comprehensive list of awards available to students under age 13 and in grades 8 and below. This list is directed at parents of younger students, and is intended to emphasize that students of all ages can pursue scholarships. This list is devoted to college scholarships that can be won by elementary and middle school students.
Some of the scholarships listed below are also available to students over age 13. To find additional scholarships for students who are over age 13, see the FastWeb scholarship database.
Scholarships for Children Who Are Under Age 13
Action For Nature Eco-Hero Award
Angela Award
BattleBots IQ
The Do Something Awards
Christopher Columbus Community Service Awards
Davidson Fellows
Dick Blick Linoleum Block Print Contest
Doodle 4 Google
DuPont Challenge Science Essay Competition
Girls Going Places Entrepreneurship Award Program
Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes
Jif Most Creative Peanut Butter Sandwich Contest
Kohl's Kids Who Care Program
Letters About Literature
National Marbles Tournament Scholarships
National Geography Bee
National High School Oratorical Contest
National History Day Contest
National Spelling Bee
NewsCurrents Student Editorial Cartoon Contest
Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Haiku Competition
Nicholas Green Distinguished Student Awards
Patriot's Pen
Prudential Spirit of Community Awards
Red Vines Drawing Contest
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
Team America Rocketry Challenge
Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision Awards
West Point Bridge Design Contest
Young Naturalist Awards
Youth Service America
The National Education Association (NEA) sponsors Youth Leaders for Literacy in conjunction with Youth Service America. This program awards 20 $500 grants to student-led initiatives. The program is open to applicants aged 21 and younger. The application deadline is in mid November.
Scholarships for Children Who Are Age 13
Many scholarship search sites take a more restrictive approach than required by COPPA, requiring individuals to be at least age 14 in order to register. (This is probably due to errors in published summaries of the requirements of COPPA. The act and regulations define child as "an individual under the age of 13".) This may make it more difficult for students who are 13 years old to find out information about scholarships.
The following scholarships are open to students who are 13 years old.
American Morgan Horse Institute Graywood Youth Horsemanship Grant
San Antonio Parks and Recreation Department Miss Recreation Pageant
Sizzling Style & Scholarly Smarts Scholarship Sweepstakes
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5-24-11 PNC Park
My day began around 4:30 PM on the Riverwalk. I snagged my first ball of the day here:
I saw the ball, ran up to where I thought it was going to bounce out, and knocked it down to keep it in the grass. After a few seconds of searching, I saw it at my feet and grabbed it to get on theboard.
I had a chance at another ball that landed in the river, and tried my new water device, but the ball sank within 30 seconds, so I didn't snag it.
Amy was along with me and took some great pictures, like this one:
I didn't snag that ball.
Another great pic. This time, of Nick getting robbed by a random fan in the front row:
Nick, Ian and I rushing after a ball that landed under the rotunda:
After the Pirates hit, Herbie Andrade the bullpen catcher threw me a ball, for my second of the day:
I snagged my third ball of the day over by the bullpen. It was a ground rule double that bounced over the fence.
Wouldn't you know it? It was an Angels 50th anniversary commemorative baseball:
At 5:30, I ran over to center field,
and found my fourth ball of the day about six rows back.
I stayed in center field for awhile, but nothing much was happening there.
For the final group, I headed back over to left field, where I snagged a home run that took a crazy bounce off of a railing a section away and right to me.
My sixth and final ball of the day was snagged via the glove trick in center field.
We left immediately after batting practice and spent the evening looking for houses as we are looking for a nice house to our home.
A one bedroom apartment just won't cut it for our growing family. We're looking for a nice house where we can live for the next 20 or so years.
I've only attended five away games so far – last year it was 29. I've become more about spending money wisely recently, so my ballhawking trips won't be happening unless there is someone to split the costs with me.
Anyway, here are today's baseballs:
And the sweet spots:
Game: 6 balls (3 hit, 1 thrown, 1 device, 1 found)
Season: 162 balls (63 hit, 37 thrown, 38 device, 23 found)
Games: 26 games
Average: 6.23 balls per game
Career: 1,284 balls
Attendance: 16,873


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STOCKTON - A group of Weston Ranch High School students helped send children who live at French Camp's Haven of Peace women and children's shelter on a mission Saturday.
STOCKTON - A group of Weston Ranch High School students helped send children who live at French Camp's Haven of Peace women and children's shelter on a mission Saturday.
A mission to hunt Easter eggs.
The Weston Ranch M.E.Ch.A after school group, a club of 14 Latino students, has found ways to raise funds not for themselves but to help pay for games and prizes for children at the shelter so they can participate in an Easter tradition.
To challenge the children who live at Haven of Peace, there were no brightly colored eggs in plain sight on the green lawn.
"The age group is a little older, so we want to hide the eggs where they really have to find them," said Weston Ranch High senior Enrique Jimenez, 17. "I've been excited for this all week."
The students have planned the event since January, advisor and teacher Valente Aguilar said. The club, he said, has a mission to perform community service, help minority students become leaders and make them more aware of college and other post-high school opportunities.
Haven of Peace is a religion-based nonprofit shelter for women who are victims of domestic violence, have lived on the streets, or have been in jail. The nonprofit group was formed in 1957 by Carl and Ethel Ellison, according to the organization's website. Girls can live at the shelter until they are 18 years old and boys until age 8.
Jimenez said the goal for the Easter egg hunt is simple.
"We just wanted to help out and give them an Easter they will remember," he said.
For information on how to donate or volunteer at the shelter, visit havenofpeaceinc.org.
Contact reporter Keith Reid at (209) 546-8257 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/lodiblog.


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Sunday, September 12, 2010
Hydrogeology Dream: Paddling Upstream
MOH and I go up a road where one branch or side creek of a major local river comes down out of the northerly mountains, perhaps walking or driving at first. After a short while, we are going up the side branch in a boat, possibly a canoe. We paddle. This is uphill in real life and uphill in the dream, but we are not really paddling upstream. It's kind of a null current, or something undefined, the way things are in dreams sometimes. Possibly impossible in real life, our paddling is not at all impossible in the dream. The area is all golden colored., as though hydrothermally altered by nearby hot springs.
And so, after paddling uphill a ways, we come to the place where there is a little park or side creek in real life. In the dream, this area is covered with a large building. We go into the building, possibly still paddling our little boat. I'm not clear about paddling to go inside, but it is as though the river goes through the building (or under it?) and then contninues out on the other side.
Oh, did I forget to say that all this time we have been going almost due north? Well, not quite due north, just a hair east of north.
The building consists mostly of one large room with a high ceiling. Tables and chairs are set out like it's a large dining area. The place is brown; everything has a brown tone, although I suspect it's mostly that the walls are made of dark brown paneling, somewhat rough-cut wood, probably stained or painted dark brown. Dark brown like this: BROWN.
The woman there - possibly there is a man, also, but he is not as clear to me - is also kind of brown: brown hair, vaguely olive skin - and she reminds me of someone, someone friendly and helpful, possibly overly helpful. L! Well, not helpful IRL, but friendly, rather rough cut herself, and of Italian descent.
It seems that she wants us to stay, possibly she has set a meal out or has one ready to set out. But we are having none of that. We didn't come here to stay, we came becuase the river brought us here, we will now follow it onward.
So we move on, leaving out in our canoe through an opening like a broad door on the northeast side of the large room. The river goes downhill, and we go with it, still in a generally northerly direction, perhaps a bit more to the northeast than to begin with. The area is still golden colored, maybe even more so.
From the morning of 08Sep2010.
6 comments:
- Gaelyn said...
OK, what did you eat?
- Sunday, September 12, 2010 at 2:08:00 PM PDT
- Silver Fox said...
- Sunday, September 12, 2010 at 2:20:00 PM PDT
- GeologyJoe said...
just stoppin' in to read and say Hi. thanks for keeping me in your blogroll.
- Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 6:35:00 AM PDT
- Silver Fox said...
Hey, GeoJoe! Thanks for stopping in! I check in over at your place now and then, also. Have less time overall to comment than I used to. :(
- Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 6:07:00 PM PDT
I had a very similar dream to this one. The only thing that really differed is that the building was white and over top of the water and right before it there was a water fall that my passenger and I went up with ease. Oh yeah, there were quite a number of people there that I saw, both men and women and all around the same age. Only remember walking into the building, not what it looked like inside. Did you ever find out what it meant?
- Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 5:15:00 AM PST
- Silver Fox said...
I don't know other than it was easy, following the river is like following a path in life, and that someone wanted us to stay but we wanted to go on. I'd have to re-read my original notes to know more!
- Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 4:07:00 PM PST


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After the Sangakkara Pietersen debacle I thought would be interesting to compare Sanga to Chanderpaul, who is probably underrated more than Sanga.
This is a comparison which I feel is realistic and 50/50. Sanga does possess the better average, but Shiv started at a time when bowling attacks were better and pitches were harder to bat on, and he's had to suffer in a fragile batting lineup. He's performed against nearly all opposition in nearly all conditions except in Australia and Pakistan, but even there he has some impressive knocks against some all time great bowlers (Mcgrath, Warne, Wasim and Waqar).
Chanderpaul's abilility to play the ball as late as possible and use of his wrists mean that he is arguably a better player of spin than Sangakkara who is also wristy but does not seem to have as much give as Chanderpaul. I would also give Chanderpaul the edge in terms of playing swing as well, he is great at committing to the shot at the last second. Where I would give Sanga the advantage is playing the bouncing ball, Chanderpaul definitely doesn't play it as well as Sanga either defensively or offensively.
Utimately I can't choose between these 2; Sanga bats in the top 3 and is the slightly heavier runscorer, but I can't think of a batsman in world cricket that has bailed their side out of trouble more than Chanderpaul.


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5 Year Integrated MBA in Retail ManagementAliah University
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The play group is open to district children who will be age 3 by Aug. 31, 2011. Play group meets 11:50 a.m. to 1:50 p.m., two days a week. Play group tuition is $450 for the school year.
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Really scary exploit attack in wild, which affects all browsers under any desktop operating systems including MS IE, Linux, Apple safari, Opera, Firefox and Adobe flash. Any website that uses CSS, flash and IFRAME (used to serve ads) can be used to attack on end users. Attacker is able to take control of the links that your browser visits. From the article:
According to victims on several Web forums, the attack is coming from Adobe Flash-based advertising on legitimate sites — including Newsweek, Digg and MSNBC.com.
How do I stop Clickjacking under Firefox?
There are two solutions.
Option #1: Disable everything
Disable scripting and plugins such as flash and others for the time being under Firefox (except adblock plus or no-script plugin). I've no idea how to do this under IE or other browsers. Under Firefox clock on Tools > Add-ons > Select each plugin and disable it.
Shutdown browser. Next, remove Adobe flash from system using apt-get or from your directory. If firefox 3 installed at /opt/firefox/, change directory to /opt/firefox/plugins:
# cd /opt/firefox/plugins
Delete flash and other plugins files:
# rm *
This should work for other browsers too.
Option #2: Use Noscript To Stop Attack
Download latest version of NoScript firefox plugin. NoScript for Firefox pre-emptively blocks malicious scripts and allows JavaScript, Java and other potentially dangerous content only from sites you trust. Once installed restar firefox. Click on NoScript icon located on bottom right status bar > Select options > Click on Forbid [IFRAME] > Ok
Bonus option # 3: Use lynx
Lynx and other text based browsers are not affected by this exploit. Lynx is a free open-source, text-only Web browser. Recent version works under Mac OS X, All versions of Windows and UNIX like operating systems. You install lynx using apt-get or yum command:
# apt-get install lynx
# yum install lynx
Further readings:
- More info about clickjacking
- NoScript plugins
- Clickjacking demo / proof of concept demo (warning it will hijack your clipboard, to stop just close browser.)
- Clickjacking: Researchers raise alert for scary new cross-browser exploit


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BIOL 376 Evolutionary Biology (1)
Examination of the fundamental principles of modern evolutionary theory. Includes an overview of the development of Evolutionary Biology from the 18th century through today, in depth explorations of population genetic models describing evolutionary change, analysis of DNA sequence data to infer evolutionary processes, and the use of phylogenetic approaches to understand evolutionary theory. Applications of evolutionary theory to medicine and ecology, and human evolution will be discussed.


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The Bryant 500W PIR Vacancy Sensor Dimmer Switch with Nightlight uses advanced PIR technology to sense the movement of heat-emitting bodies. The Vacancy Sensor provides Manual-ON/Auto-OFF operation only (Title 24 2008 Compliant). The sensor automatically turns lights off after a space becomes vacant and a preset time delay elapses. Built-in dimmer provides preset full-range dimming of light load. This switch includes Bryant's patent pending "alert to off" feature which will dim the lights prior to turning them off, once motion is detected the lights will return to full brightness. This sensor switch is compatible with any decorator-style or decorator screwless wallplate.
The Bryant PIR Vacancy Sensor Wall Dimmer Switch with Nightlight is also available in Ivory and Light Almond, each sold separately
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Most of the people on this site are like myself highly opinionated and I'd like to see where you guys sit on the political scale. I know where I expect the majority of the scholars to be as I've found that generally most people who frequient forums are quite liberal.
Our Current table:
Anyway the test we're going to use is this one: http://www.politicalcompass.org/test as genrally I've found it to be quite a reliable guide.
EDIT (took the test again-more reliable a I was concentrating more):
So to start of with my results were:
Economic Left/Right: 4.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.72
Which on the 'compass' looks like this: