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Eric Jaffe
Eric Jaffe is the former New York bureau chief for CityLab. He is the author of A Curious Madness and The King's Best Highway.
Of the many pains a city bus can inflict—from the stop-and-go ride to the eye-to-armpit interaction—the harshest is the wait. Unsympathetic as they often seem, transit agencies don't enjoy this situation any more than riders do. A long enough wait might drive some people to drive, which not only creates more traffic for buses to wade through but reduces revenue that might go toward better service.
Unless an agency has enough money to invest in more frequent service, their options for reducing those frustrating waits are limited. Fortunately, one of the newest tools at their disposal is proving to be an extremely effective one. Real-time transit data—and the mobile applications that use it to tell riders where a bus is at any given moment—is changing the waiting game in ways that experts are only starting to measure in hard numbers.
"While this strategy does not actually improve the reliability of service, it helps riders to adjust their behavior in the event that a vehicle is running behind schedule," said transit scholar Candace Brakewood of the City College of New York during a recent webcast for the Center for Urban Transportation Research. "It helps improve the perception of reliability."
Working with Kari Watkins of Georgia Tech, who helped develop the OneBusAway app, Brakewood recently studied the effects real-time information had on rider behavior in Tampa (where the app was deployed in summer 2013) and Atlanta (where the full launch came in February 2014). In both places, riders using real-time services experienced shorter wait times and greater trip satisfaction; there were also signs the apps might increase ridership (fitting with previous evidence from Chicago).
Let's take a closer look at the Tampa study. The researchers recruited about 200 regular HART bus riders and asked them questions about their transit habits. Then roughly half of the participants received access to an early version of OneBusAway, while the rest continued riding without real-time information. At the study's conclusion, the riders once again answered questions about their transit habits so the researchers could see what had changed.
The "perception of reliability" definitely shifted. Compared with the start of the study, riders without the app felt less satisfied with both their wait times and with bus arrival times by the end of it. But real-time users felt significantly more satisfied on both counts. They felt less frustrated, too. The share of app users who reported being "frequently" or "always" frustrated with the wait fell from 25 percent to 18 percent during the study; for non-app users, frustration levels slightly increased.
More significant was that the actual wait times improved, too. HART riders in the OneBusAway group went from waiting an average of more than 11 minutes at the start of the study to an average of 9.5 minutes once they used the app. Wait times for the other group of riders remained fairly steady—no surprise, since they had no updates to inform their actions. All told, the OneBusAway riders waited on average about a minute and a half less than non-app riders by the study's end.
Now for Atlanta. Using slightly different methods—a before-and-after analysis that also tracked individual riders via smart-card data—Brakewood found similar trends for riders on MARTA trains and buses. In this case, 71 percent of the riders using real-time apps perceived a decrease in wait times for MARTA trains. (The actual wait times weren't available in this case.) About 60 percent of real-time riders felt more satisfied with the train service.
There was a hint of evidence that MARTA ridership rose as a result of real-time apps, too. People who used real-time apps took nearly 12 more trips a month after the release of the real-time services than they did before. Those who didn't use real-time services took only 5 more trips, on average.
Now, the statistical significance of transit use disappeared when Brakewood added some controls to the data—removing any MARTA smart cards that might have been shared with other riders, among others. While that might mean real-time data had no impact on ridership, it's also possible the controls made the sample too small to detect a change. The study also focused on existing riders; a better test of ridership change would also consider drivers who might be open to switching modes on account of real-time benefits.
None of the findings are terribly surprising, but that's far from a bad thing. Cash-strapped city agencies can now point to more evidence that releasing real-time data will improve the transit experience even in the absence of massive service investments. As any bus rider knows, sometimes the best outcome is the most predictable one.
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Lining up pre-scripted 'zingers'
The good thing about debates, at least in theory, is that they're unscripted. Campaigns may go to great lengths to keep events "highly polished and hyper-scripted," but debates are intended to have some spontaneity – the candidates don't know what they'll be asked, so they'll be required to think on their feet.
That said, the effort to drain the debates of their spontaneity is well underway.
Mr. Romney's team has concluded that debates are about creating moments and has equipped him with a series of zingers that he has memorized and has been practicing on aides since August. […]
Mr. Obama is not particularly fluid in sound bites, so his team is aiming for a workmanlike performance like his speech at the Democratic convention.
As a tactical matter, I have no idea why Team Romney would consider it worthwhile to tell reporters in advance that the candidate has memorized "zingers" written by his staff.
Regardless, the strategy itself strikes me as a mistake. There was an episode of "Community" in the first season in which Pierce Hawthorne was going to watch a movie with some friends. He desperately wanted to impress them, so he rented the movie, hired some writers, and memorized a bunch of "zingers" in the hopes of dazzling the room with his wit.
If you saw the show, you know the result – the "zingers" came across as obviously forced. Pierce hoped to prove how clever he is by memorizing lines written by others and then mechanically repeating them, but he ended up doing the opposite.
Romney is inviting the exact same problem. By announcing the plan in advance – "Romney = Zingers!" – the campaign is only inviting eye-rolling when the candidate forces the lines into the debate. No one will be impressed with Romney's quick wit because we've already been told (a) the zingers were written by others; (b) Romney's been forced to memorize them; and (c) he's been "practicing" his spontaneous delivery for over a month.
I'm sure the little quips will be delightfully clever, but I can't help but wonder how many viewers will be left laughing at, not with, the candidate.

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Los Angeles stunt driver, Driver (Ryan Gosling: Crazy, Stupid, Love.), isn't above moonlighting to make a little extra cash. He offers his services as a wheelman to robbers in the greater L.A. area.
He lives a monk-like existence, moving from one Spartan apartment to another and speaking with no one but his manager/boss/agent Shannon (Bryan Cranston: Contagion). Driver is content with that existence until he meets shy waitress Irene (Carey Mulligan: Never Let Me Go) and her son Benicio (Kaden Leos in his screen debut), who make the man behind the wheel long for more from life.
It's too bad then, when Irene's husband Standard (Oscar Isaac: Sucker Punch) gets back from jail, putting the breaks on Driver's budding romance. It's also too bad that Standard's jail pals threaten to harm his family if he doesn't rob one last pawnshop with them.
Being the best wheelman in town and probably feeling a bit guilty about lusting after Standard's family, Driver volunteers his speedy services. When the robbery goes spectacularly wrong, Driver finds himself surrounded by dead bodies and in the crosshairs of mobsters Bernie (Albert Brooks: The Simpsons) and Nino (Ron Perlman: Conan the Barbarian). Now Driver will have to find out if all his fancy behind-the-wheel tricks can keep him out of the hands of mobsters with a grudge.
Drive is a European thriller trapped in an American action movie. While most American films are concerned with who their characters are, European thrillers care more about what their characters represent.
Driver doesn't get a name because he is what he does and nothing else. We don't see him reading books or hanging out with chums chugging beer. And we certainly don't see him spending six hours a day in the gym to get his toned physique. He drives. He works on cars. He stands next to cars. He talks about cars.
When Driver branches out into bigger things, forming a relationship with neighbor Irene and her adorable moppet Benicio, his world tips out of control.
Director Nicholas Winding Refn (Valhalla Rising) made a name for himself crafting European action thrillers in his native Denmark, where he wrote and directed for the screen. In his first film he didn't write, Refn proves he's an excellent craftsman in any language. His action sequences are bloody, intense and beautiful to look at. Quieter moments are shot with artful lighting and unique angles. It's a study in craft.
It isn't, however, a study in character. While Gosling has lively eyes that betray his impassive face, costar Mulligan is just blank. It's understandable that Driver would be charmed by little Benicio, but it's hard to believe he'd give Irene a glance in the rearview mirror. Her presence is a void, injuring an otherwise fascinating film. It would have been better to engineer a romance between Cranston and Gosling; they, at least, have chemistry.
The real standout character of Drive, however, is Brooks' Bernie, who is viscerally frightening, a terrifying threat, springing to violence without mussing his suit or raising his voice.
Though Drive isn't a perfect film from a storytelling perspective, it illustrates the craft of filmmaking.


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When it comes to Ireland and aviation, there's one airline that's stood the test of time… it's time to celebrate Aer Lingus!
A dream of flight
Have you ever flown into Ireland? Did you look out of the aeroplane window and see the Cliffs of Moher or the Giant's Causeway? Maybe you spotted the yellow talons of the cranes at Harland and Wolff and Titanic Belfast or Strangford Lough?
Then again, maybe your only view was of the wing. Did that wing happen to sport a bright green shamrock? If it did, then you flew on Ireland's first airline: Aer Lingus.
But as we all know you don't just start out as a nation's go-to airline. First, you've got to make a name for yourself.
The Beginning
For centuries, man had gazed on the birds of the sky with sheer envy. Sure, we built various contraptions that took us into the air, ramshackle hot air balloons and other winged monstrosities (if you need to brush up on your aviation history, may we suggest a trip to Foynes in County Limerick).
But it wasn't until 1903, when brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright built the world's first functioning airplane, that man truly mastered the skies.
Not long after, flagship airlines began springing up around the world, bravely taking passengers into new worlds like never before.
For Ireland, that airline bringing the world to Ireland and the Irish to the world was Aer Lingus.
Ireland's first airline
For over 77 years, Aer Lingus has flown people to and from the island of Ireland. To many people Aer Lingus remains the Irish airline. In fact, its company logo (a three-leafed shamrock) is derived from an ancient story told of Ireland's patron saint, Saint Patrick.
It was during an Irish summer – May 22, 1936 to be exact – when Aer Lingus Teoranta was founded and that shamrock calling sign first entered the skies. Just five days later, on May 27, captain Eric Armstrong made Aer Lingus' first flight from Dublin to Bristol. The aircraft that made the crossing was the first the company ever purchased – a DH 84 Dragon christened 'Iolar' ('Eagle' in Gaelic).
Irish aviation history was made.
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Trans-Atlantic Aspirations
The significance of Aer Lingus' foundation cannot be understated. Being able to facilitate aircraft and having an airline of its own was a major plus for Ireland, both politically and economically. Sitting pretty on the extreme west of the continent, Ireland was the first stop between Europe and America.
This made Ireland the perfect launch pad for something that had never been done before: a full non-stop trans-Atlantic flight. It may not seem like a big deal today, but back in the early 20th century, the very idea of flying such a distance was mind-boggling.
On June 14-15, 1919, British aviators Alcock and Brown made the first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight, taking off from Newfoundland in the US and landing on a beach near the town of Clifden in Galway's Connemara. History had been made and a new and exciting flight route seemed a little more possible.
Fast-forward to 1958 and Aer Lingus (now a thriving commercial airline) made its first trans-Atlantic flight with style. The aircraft chosen was a Super-Constellation aptly named 'St Patrick'.
It's journey? Why Shannon in County Clare to New York City, USA, of course.
Onwards and upwards
Since the turn of the 21st century Aer Lingus has been ever expanding, creating new routes throughout Europe and the entire world. Few airlines have become such an important part of their nation's national and cultural identity as Aer Lingus.
No matter where you are in the world, the sight of the proud green shamrock on an Aer Lingus plane is a reminder that Ireland is only a flight away.
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As the UK government began a consultation on marriage law yesterday, several religious groups expressed support for same-sex marriage. Some emphasised that church leaders who oppose marriage equality do not speak for all Christians.
The UK government is committed to introducing same-sex civil marriage in England and Wales by 2015. They have ruled out giving legal recognition to same-sex marriages carried out by religious groups.
A separate process is underway in Scotland.
Three faith groups that support same-sex marriage – Quakers, Unitarians and Liberal Jews – issued a joint statement yesterday to welcome the consultation. They said they are committed to same-sex marriage because of "deeply held beliefs in equality and justice".
Reform Jews last week became the biggest faith group in Britain to back same-sex marriage. The Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement, the beliefs and values thinktank Ekklesia and the Catholic group Quest are among the Christian groups that support marriage equality.
Vincent Nicholls, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, last week wrote to Catholic Congregations to ask them to speak out against same-sex marriage. He said that marriage is based on "the complementarity of male and female".
His letter followed less measured comments from Cardinal Keith O'Brien, who compared the legalisation of same-sex marriage to the reintroduction of slavery. The Anglican Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, accused David Cameron of acting "like a dictator" by seeking to "redefine" marriage.
On the other side of the fence, the former Bishop of Oxford, Richard Harries, and the newly appointed Dean of St Paul's, David Ison, are among the senior Church of England clergy to have endorsed same-sex marriage.
"Our stance refutes the simplistic argument that people of faith and rights for LGBT people are necessarily in conflict," said Derek McAuley of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.
Paul Parker, on behalf of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) said that "marriage is a celebration of the committed union of two people who have found love for each other".
Several religious groups are disappointed that the government is not considering allowing religious groups to carry out legally recognised same-sex marriages. This point of view was backed by the human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell and the Shadow Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper.
The government also proposes allowing a couple to stay married if one of them transitions gender. At present, a transition automatically triggers dissolution of the marriage. Transgender activists have welcomed the proposal.
But ministers have disappointed the Equal Love campaign by saying that they do not want to allow mixed-sex couples to enter civil partnerships.
Symon Hill, associate director of the Christian thinktank Ekklesia, welcomed the government's commitment to same-sex marriage.
"Same-sex civil marriage would a significant step forward," he said, "But religious same-sex couples will continue to face discrimination. Meanwhile, different religious groups have different rights with regard to performing marriages."
He added, "We need a thorough overhaul of marriage law to reflect the diversity of beliefs and relationships in a plural society. This would allow people to enjoy a personal, social and – if important to them – religious ceremony, with legal registration being a separate process."


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If you have been reading blog posts, hacker news threads, your favorite developers tweets or listening to podcasts, at this point you've probably heard about the Elixir programming language. The language was created by José Valim, a well known developer in the open-source world. You may know him from the Ruby on Rails MVC framework or from devise and simple_form ruby gems him and his co-workers from the Plataformatec have been working on in the last few years.
According the José Valim, Elixir was born in 2011. He had the idea to build the new language due the lack of good tools to solve the concurrency problems in the ruby world. At that time, after spending time studying concurrency and distributed focused languages, he found two languages that he liked, Erlang and Clojure which run in the JVM. He liked everything he saw in the Erlang language (Erlang VM) and he hated the things he didn't see, like polymorphism, metaprogramming and language extendability attributes which Clojure was good at. So, Elixir was born with that in mind, to have an alternative for Clojure and a dynamic language which runs in the Erlang Virtual Machine with good extendability support.
Elixir describes itself as a dynamic, functional language with immutable state and an actor based approach to concurrency designed for building scalable and maintainable applications with a simple, modern and tidy syntax. The language runs in the Erlang Virtual Machine, a battle proof, high-performance and distributed virtual machine known for its low latency and fault tolerance characteristics.
Before we see some code, it's worth saying that Elixir has been accepted by the community which is growing. If you want to learn Elixir today you will easily find books, libraries, conferences, meetups, podcasts, blog posts, newsletters and all sorts of learning sources out there as well as it was accepted by the Erlang creators.
Let's see some code!
Install Elixir:
Installing Elixir is super easy in all major platforms and is an one-liner in most of them.
Arch Linux
Elixir is available on Arch Linux through the official repositories:
1 pacman -S elixir
Installing Elixir in Ubuntu is a bit tidious. But it is easy enough nonetheless.
wget https://packages.erlang-solutions.com/erlang-solutions_1.0_all.deb && sudo dpkg -i erlang-solutions_1.0_all.deb
apt-get update
apt-get install esl-erlang
apt-get install elixir
Install Elixir in OS X using Homebrew.
1 brew install elixir
Meet IEx
After the installation is completed, it's time to open your shell. You will spend a lot of time in your shell if you want to develop in Elixir.
Elixir's interactive shell or IEx is a REPL – (Read Evaluate Print Loop) where you can explore Elixir. You can input expressions there and they will be evaluated giving you immediate feedback. Keep in mind that your code is truly evaluated and not compiled, so make sure not to run profiling nor benchmarks in the shell.
The Break Command
There's an important thing you need to know before you start the IEx RELP – how to exit it.
You're probably used to hitting
to close the programs running in the terminal. If you hit
in the IEx RELP, you will open up the Break Menu. Once in the break menu, you can hit
again to quit the shell as well as pressing
I'm not going to dive into the break menu functions. But, let's see a few IEx helpers!
IEx provides a bunch of helpers, in order to list all of them type:
And this is what you should see:
Those are some of my favorites, I think they will be yours as well.
as we just saw, this function will print the helper message.
which is the same function, but now it expects one argument.
For instance, whenever you want to see the documentation of the
method you can easily do:
Probably the second most useful IEx helper you're going to use while programming in Elixir is the
, which compiles a given elixir file (or a list) and expects as a second parameter a path to write the compiled files to.
Let's say you are working in one of the http://exercism.io/ Elixir exersices, the Anagram exercise.
So you have implemented the
module, which has the method
in the anagram.exs file. As the good developer you are, you have written a few specs to make sure everything works as expected as well.
This is how your current directory looks:
Now, in order to run your tests against the Anagram module you need to run/compile the tests.
As you just saw, in order to compile a file, simply invoke the
executable passing as argument path to the file you want to compile.
Now let's say you want to run the IEx REPL with the Anagram module accessible in the session context. There are two commonly used options. The first is you can require the file by using the options
, something like
iex -r anagram.exs
. The second one, you can compile right from the IEx session.
Simple, just like that!
Ok, what about if you want to recompile a module? Should you exit the IEx, run it again and compile the file again? Nope! If you have a good memory, you will remember that when we listed all the helpers available in the IEx RELP, we saw something about a recompile command. Let's see how it works.
Notice that this time, you passed as an argument the module itself and not the file path.
As we saw, IEx has a bunch of other useful helpers that will help you learn and understand better how an Elixir program works.
Basics of Elixir Types
There are two types of numbers. Arbitrary sized integers and floating points numbers.
Integers can be written in the decimal base, hexadecimal, octal and binary.
As in Ruby, you can use underscore to separate groups of three digits when writing large numbers. For instance you could right a hundred million like this:
1 100_000_000
1 0o444
1 0xabc
1 0b1011
Floare are IEEE 754 double precision. They have 16 digits of accuracy and a maximum exponent of around 10308.
Floats are written using a decimal point. There must be at least one digit before and after the point. You can also append a trailing exponent. For instance 1.0, 0.3141589e1, and 314159.0-e.
Atoms are constants that represent names. They are immutable values. You write an atom with a leading colon
and a sequence of letters, digits, underscores, and at signs
. You can also write them with a leading colon
and an arbitrary sequence of characters enclosed by quotes.
Atoms are a very powerful tool, they are used to reference erlang functions as well as keys and Elixir methods.
Here are a few valid atoms.
1 :name, :first_name, :"last name", :===, :is_it_@_question?
Of course, booleans are true and false values. But the nice thing about them is at the end of the day, they're just atoms.
By default, strings in Elixir are UTF-8 compliant. To use them you can have an arbitrary number of characters enclosed by
. You can also have interpolated expressions inside the string as well as escaped characters.
Be aware that single quoted strings are actually a list of binaries.
Anonymous Functions
As a functional language, Elixir has anonymous functions as a basic type. A simple way to write a function is
fn (argument_list) -> body end
. But a function can have multiple bodies with multiple argument lists, guard clauses, and so on.
Dave Thomas, in the Programming Elixir book, suggests we think of fn…end as being the quotes that surround a string literal, where instead of returning a string value we are returning a function.
Tuple is an immutable indexed array. They are fast to return its size and slow to append new values due its immutable nature. When updating a tuple, you are actually creating a whole new copy of the tuple self.
Tuples are very often used as the return value of an array. While coding in Elixir you will very often see this,
{:ok, something_else_here}
Here's how we write a tuple:
Pattern Matching
I won't be able to explain everything you need to know about Pattern Matching, however what you are about to read covers a lot of what you need to know to get started.
Elixir uses
as a match operator. To understand this, we kind of need to unlearn what we know about
in other traditional languages. In traditional languages the equals operator is for assignment. In Elixir, the equals operators is for pattern matching.
So, that's the way it works values in the left hand side. If they are variables they are bound to the right hand side, if they are not variables elixir tries to match them with the right hand side.
Pin Operator
Elixir provides a way to always force pattern matching against the variable in the left hand side, the pin operator.
In Elixir, Lists look like arrays as we know it from other languages but they are not. Lists are linked structures which consist of a head and a tail.
Keyword Lists
Keyword Lists are a list of Tuple pairs.
You simply write them as lists. For instance: [{:one, 1}, 2, {:three, 3}]. There's a shortcut for defining lists, here's how it looks: [one: 1, three: 3].
In order to retrieve an item from a keyword list you can either use:
1 Keyword.get([{:one, 1}, 2, {:three, 3}], :one)
Or use the shortcut:
1 [{:one, 1}, 2, {:three, 3}][:one]
Because keyword lists are slow when retrieving a value, in it is an expensive operation, so if you are storing data that needs fast access you should use a Map.
Maps are an efficient collection of key/value pairs. The key can have any value you want as a key, but usually should be the same type. Different from keyword lists, Maps allow only one entry for a given key. They are efficient as they grow and they can be used in the Elixir pattern matching in general use maps when you need an associative array.
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A young Fayette man was hospitalized July 17 after he crashed the stolen vehicle he was driving.
Jobe Gonzales-Reynolds, 20, of Fayette was pursued by a Fulton County Sheriff's Deputy after the deputy passed the stolen car on his way to investigating the incident. The 2002 Pontiac was reported stolen from the trailer park on the east side of Fayette at 8:44 p.m.
The deputy turned to pursue Gonzales-Reynolds and soon other deputies and the Archbold police were involved in the chase.
Gonzales-Reynolds hit several tire deflation stop sticks placed by police before crashing into Hit Trophy north of Archbold.
Gonzales-Reynolds was transported to the Fulton County Health Center for treatment before charges were issued by the Sheriff's Department.
He was initially charged with stealing his neighbor's vehicle, but other charges are expected following the 33-mile chase.


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I know this may seem like a bit of an odd question but I've been wondering about it for the past few days and for some reason I can't escape the feeling that it (atheism) would be a rather 'conservative' point of view (that is, at least in title), and yet I'm constantly being called a liberal because of my social and political leanings. I'm just wondering what your views are on this.
PS: I'll be gone for a few days but I will catch up with this thread when I return.
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I'd be of the double opinion that 1. there are atheists of both sort and neither can lay claim to be the "right" type of atheist, and 2. most atheists I know are bright enough to be of the liberal variety. Sorry to insult any of the conservatives out there (not really), but it does seem as if there is quite a bit of contradiction in being an atheist and yet still wanting to defend the rich white Christians on the right.
What could make you feel that atheism "would be a rather 'conservative' point of view"?
I'm only saying that definition wise the word "conservative" would seem rather apt as in a reference to having a very sparse, minimalistic or non-existent spiritual point of view. I'm not using the word Conservative in regards to political ideology. Although at the time I initially thought of the question I did wonder if Atheism was embraced by one political ideology or another.
Well John, I certainly wasn't trying to start a fight, although I guess I should have known better that throwing around anything remotely similar to the "P" word (politics) lately is just as bad as throwing around the "A" word in Bible Belt America. :D
1. John D, you say "if someone tells you they are an atheist you will not automatically know how they stand on political issues." Oops! Almost missed the "not" qualifier. True enough then!
2. Humanists are generally on the left, and you are right that there is also a branch of libertarian atheists on the right. These are usually of the Ayn Rand type. They are fierce individualists who either don't want to see themselves as part of a larger group of people or are not able to see the difficulties with prescribing individualism to people who have been marginalized by society and thus rely on others to help them achieve what would otherwise be accessible to only the rich segment of society. The first type are probably asocial because they reject religious society (which is a false generalization), and the second type are simply miseducated.
3. Capitalism may be efficient to a high degree, but there are many problems therein. It may for one be too efficient, in that it dehumanizes people and cares only for the exploitation of resources (human or not), largely for the benefit of the rich. But even on this most generous understanding, capitalism without government interference may be poorly suited for achieving truly human ends, which should be more inclusive and supportive of those that a purer, Ayn Randish, laissez-faire brand of capitalism systematically leaves behind.
I think that would put me, by Wanderer's judgement, in the mis-educated group of capitalists.
Sorry to say so, yes. I could go in about a hundred different directions at this point, but this really isn't what the question is about and anyway I don't much like arguing with people. But I will say one or two things. The thing about capitalism is that it isn't the talented or intelligent that rise to the top, its the people who were rich before (or whose parents were rich) who continue to get richer. There are exceptions of course, but you should learn about how how much harder things are getting not just for the poor but really for everyone excepting the super-rich. Did you know that the top one percent of earners make more than the bottom 50%? Does this sound like a fair distribution of wealth to you, earned on the basis of talent, where over half the population is clearly less talented than a select few? Another term you might be interested in investigating is "institutionalized poverty".
There is a great deal of philosophy involved in modern politics, even though the politicians themselves (particularly the ones on the right) may not be too aware of the philosophical nature of their positions. Morality is concerned with both the individual and the group, and political philosophy very quickly becomes very sophisticated and intricate. Reducing it to "growing the poor and lower classes at the expense of the rich" or "blaming the rich for the poor's difficulty" is a fantastic simplification. And so is reducing it to the simple dichotomy of individuals vs. the group, or little government intervention vs. "extensive". There is a whole range of middle ground where some redistribution of wealth is absolutely essential, as is some government intervention, unless you like the idea of private police forces, private fire departments, elimination of public schools and libraries, and on and on.
Libertarianism is a fringe philosophy. Its as near as the right come to anarchy, just as communism is as near as the left come to anarchy. I would love to see a libertarian society try to make a go of it. I say, let there be two cities, one run by libertarians and one by non-radical leftists, and see which one succeeds over the long term. But I guess that's just not gonna happen anytime soon.
I don't consider differences in salary or birth parents valid criteria for fairness. Is it fair that some people are smarter or harder working than others? Why is it my responsibility to make other people's lives better? I understand why I might want to help those in need, but to force someone to help is immoral. It is slavery to demand the products of labor against one's will for someone else. Welfare institutionalizes poverty, not corporations or successful individuals. I make no false dichotomies. Brains and decision making are singular in nature and therefore what is moral pertains to the individual. If one is to be happy they must do x, y and z and avoid j,k and l. Groups don't think. The individuals within them do. The only proper function of government is the monopolization of retaliatory force for protection of freedom. Not freedom from having to make your own way in the world, but freedom from other people taking your shit, even if they try and take it by mob rule (democracy). Democracy should only involve the vote for who will protect us, by running the police military and law courts, not who will take from us and give to others we do not wish to give to. Government, or the entity of monopolized force, has no business in the classroom, hospital or economy.
We are growing the poor and lower classes at the expense of the rich and many people blame the rich for the poor's difficulty.
-Simple? I agree. True, yes. Normatively disgusting, irrational and immoral, also, yes.
I agree. As Lincoln said, "when I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad - that is my religion". The simple idea held by some that the rich deserve what they have because they worked hard for it and the poor are poor because they are lazy and undeserving have never worked a day doing stoop labor in a bean field.
My cousin and I worked one day chopping weeds (actually we only made 6 hours out the 10 the regular workers put in) and it was the most miserable day I've ever worked – I would have rather been beat with a 2 by 4.
The only political conservative Atheist I've ever met was a next door neighbor that made Karl Rove look like a commie. Every other Atheist I know is either a liberal or politically apathetic.
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Hit Series Scores Double-Digit Growth Over Last Year's Series Launch
truTV's hidden-camera prank series Impractical Jokers returned for its second season last night, garnering 1.8 million viewers with back-to-back episodes. The 10 p.m. premiere averaged 1.7 million viewers and outperformed last year's series launch by +11%. The 10:30 p.m. episode grew even more, drawing 1.9 million viewers, a +11% boost over the 10 p.m. episode. Last night's episodes also drew a remarkably young median age of only 32.
Impractical Jokers Season 2 Premiere Night
10 p.m. Episode
Total Viewers: 1.7 million (+11% compared to Dec. 15, 2011, series launch)
Adults 18-34: 584,000 (+18%)
Adults 18-49: 1.1 million (+24%)
Men 18-34: 294,000 (+3%)
Men 18-49: 591,000 (+15%)
10:30 p.m. Episode
Total Viewers: 1.9 million (+11)% compared to last night's 10 p.m. season premiere)
Adults 18-34: 709,000 (+21%)
Adults 18-49: 1.2 million (+14%)
Men 18-34: 419,000 (+43%)
Men 18-49: 729,000 (+23%)
10 & 10:30 p.m. Episodes
Total Viewers: 1.8 million
Adults 18-34: 647,000
Adults 18-49: 1.2 million
Men 18-34: 357,000
Men 18-49: 660,000
Median Age: 32
About Impractical Jokers
truTV's Impractical Jokers premiered to critical acclaim in December 2011 and quickly became one of the network's biggest hits, especially among young adults. The series follows four friends - Joe, Sal, Murr and Q - as they dare one another to complete over-the-top challenges in public. Their antics are captured on hidden camera, complete with the unsuspecting public's amused, confused, or flabbergasted reactions. After each new dare, the guys are graded to determine who succeeded under pressure and who collapsed in defeat. The joker with the lowest score at the end of that week's episode must then face a mortifying challenge with truly humiliating consequences.
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Mary Lamb
Tales from Shakespear
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Volume XII. The Romantic Revival.
§ 3. Charles Lloyd.
In 1796 began the association between Coleridge and Charles Lloyd, a sensitive young Birmingham quaker; and, in January, 1797, Lloyd unexpectedly sought Lamb out in London. Lamb, still suffering from a sense of loneliness and neglect, conceived a strong attachment for his friends disciple. To the second edition of Coleridges
(October, 1797) were added poems by Lamb and Lloyd; and in 1798 appeared a small volume of
Blank Verse, by Charles Lloyd and Charles Lamb,
to which Lamb contributed seven poems, including
The Old Familiar Faces,
one of the most perfect expressions in English of infinite regret tempered by resignation. Friendship with Lloyd meant much pleasant literary intercourse, and from one particular branch of literature to which Lloyd introduced him Lamb learned a sympathy with quakerism and its staid reliance upon the inward light as the source of intellectual peace, a sympathy which never left him. Lloyd, however, was not the best companion for a man in need of bracing society. Lamb early discovered in him an exquisiteness of feeling which must border on derangement, and, a year after his first visit, found himself on the brink of a quarrel, for which, however, he blamed his own impatience at Lloyds well-meant devotion. Coleridge, meanwhile, had somewhat tired of Lloyd, and a growing coolness developed into open rupture. In
Edmund Oliver,
a novel published in 1798, Lloyd vented some of his feeling against Coleridge, and by this time his wounded vanity had effected a breach between Coleridge and Lamb. He told Lambinexcusably, even if it were truethat Coleridge had said, Poor Lamb! if he wants any
he may apply to me. Lambs retort to this was
Theses quaedam theologicae,
enclosed in a letter written in June, 1798. For once in their friendship, Lamb showed himself the weaker man of the two. His
clever as they are, might have led to the permanent sundering of a friendship as salutary to Coleridge as it was inspiring to Lamb, had not Coleridge magnanimously overlooked the affront. Within little more than a year, they were again friends. In the interval, Lamb had probably seen more than enough of Charles Lloyd. In January, 1799, a younger brother, Robert, who had rebelled against the quaker traditions of his family, sought refuge with Lamb from his fathers supposed persecution. To this amiable youth, whose chief fault was a readiness to manufacture his own troubles, Lamb addressed a number of letters, one or two of them among the best that he wrote. Lamb recognised him as the flower of his family, and his early death was a source of deep grief to a household which, in spite of disagreements, was united by close bonds of affection. In later years, Lamb sent criticisms to the father of the Lloyds upon his verse translations of classical authors; but the friendship with Charles Lloyd gradually ceased. Lloyds sensitiveness grew upon him with years: he became a prey to nervous melancholy and died near Versailles in 1839, with his reason hopelessly overclouded.
Lambs first independent work in prose,
A Tale of Rosamund Gray and Old Blind Margaret,
was published in the summer of 1798. Already, as we have seen, he had had some share in Whites
Original Letters, etc., of Sir John Falstaff
in July, 1796.
Rosamund Gray,
told in simple prose interwoven with literary phrase, remembered and appropriated from his reading, is a sombre and tragic narrative. In its theme of undeserved misfortune overtaking the young and innocent, Lamb had his own experiences in mind. The resignation of Allan Clare, the survivor of his elder sister and his dead love, is uttered by Lamb himself.
I gave my heart to the Purifier, and my will to the Sovereign Will of the Universe. The irresistible wheels of destiny passed on in their everlasting rotation,and I suffered myself to be carried along with them without complaining.
The scene of the story is Widford; Blakesware, the home of Allan and Elinor Clare, is visited in memory by the narrator; and in the ill-fated Rosamund is bodied forth the Alice of
In Elinor, whose relation to Allan resembles that of Mary Lamb to Charles, there is a reminiscence of high-born Helen; and it is at her grave, not at that of Rosamund, that Allan and his friend meet again. Thus, Lamb showed his capacity of transmuting his pleasures and sorrows into forms of imagination and of treading the border-line between truth and fiction with an unmatched delicacy. Even in his melancholy, he could not fail to reproduce something of the double aspect of life; and occasional gentle touches of amused observation prove his power of balancing and reconciling the comic and tragic elements in human nature.
To Southey, Lambs principal correspondent at this period, he wrote, on 29 October, 1798, in a letter which throws some light upon the composition of
Rosamund Gray,
that he was at work upon something, which, if I were to cut away and garble, perhaps I might send you an extract or two that might not displease you. This was the tragedy first called
Prides Cure,
but, in its revised form,
John Woodvil.
Although without great original merit or dramatic interest, it bears witness to Lambs faithful study of the early Elizabethan drama, in its phraseology, in the varying length and broken rhythm of its lines and in the alternation of verse with prose. Lamb showed two fragments, one of which was afterwards published separately, to George Dyer, whose classical taste could not comprehend how
could be poetry which did not go upon ten feet. I go, he wrote again to Southey (20 May, 1799), upon the model of Shakespeare in my Play, and endeavour after a colloquial ease and spirit, something like him. The style, while frequently recalling that of Shakespeares historical plays, is closely akin to that of such dramas as
Arden of Feversham,
founded on English subjects and preserving, with occasional exaltation of phrase, a general homeliness of diction.
In these pursuits, Lamb gradually shook off his melancholy. To his life with Mary in Pentonville belong those reminiscences afterwards recorded in
Old China
the little luxuries permitted by a scanty income, the holiday walks to Potters bar, Waltham and Enfield, the folio Beaumont and Fletcher carried home one Saturday night from Covent garden, the purchase of the print from Leonardo which Lamb called Lady Blanch, the visits to the shilling gallery of the theatre. The play, pictures and old English literature above all, became the three objects of Lambs enthusiasm, relieving his mind after his daily routine and alleviating the anxiety inseparable from his affection for Mary. In December, 1799, he made a new and valuable friend. On a visit to Charles Lloyd at Cambridge, he met Thomas Manning, a mathematician of Caius, versatile and laughter-loving. Their correspondence produced a series of letters full of Lambs peculiar humour. Cambridge also held George Dyer of Emmanuel, whose oddity and touching simplicity were a microcosm of the eternal contradictions of life in which Lamb delighted. Into
Oxford in the Vacation,
with its disclosure of his attraction towards the universities whose privileges he had been unable to share, Lamb interwove memories of Cambridge and introduced the portrait of Dyer in the library of his college. His first visit to Oxford took place in the summer of 1800, when he passed two days with the family of Matthew Gutch, a law-stationer in London. Gutch had offered him a lodging at 34 Southampton buildings, Chancery lane, and here he settled with Mary in the late summer of 1800.
His literary work during the next few years was desultory. In March, 1800, Coleridge had spent some weeks with him in Pentonville and suggested to him to contribute to a newspaper an imitation of Burtons
which bore fruit in the three
Curious Fragments
printed with
John Woodvil
in 1802. In the same volume were also printed the lines called
composed about this time, which show an appreciation of Burtons melancholy not less remarkable than the prose fragments in reproduction of his style. These first attempts at writing for newspapers were not accepted, which is hardly surprising. Lamb, meanwhile, was increasing his acquaintance. His lodgings in Southampton buildings were so crowded by visitors that they resembled a ministers levee, and, at Lady day 1801, he found it convenient to seek new quarters in the attic story of 16 Mitre court buildings, in the Temple. He obtained a footing on
The Albion,
which ended in August, 1801, and then, after a short connection with
The Morning Chronicle,
worked for
The Morning Post
from 1802 to 1804. His contributions to these journals were, for the most part, ephemeral; his most remarkable feat was an epigram upon the apostasy of Sir James Mackintosh from radicalism, which proved the deathblow of
The Albion. Newspapers Thirty-five years ago
contains a record, with some confusion of facts and dates, of this period, and an amusing specimen of the consciously laboured humour with which Lamb sought to enliven
The Morning Post.
His journalistic life brought him into contact with a somewhat different order of friends, men of boisterous spirits, sitters up a-nights, disputants, drunken, who yet seemed to have something noble about them. One of them, John Fenwick, the editor of
The Albion,
lives in
as Ralph Bigod, the representative of the
race of men who borrow. In their society, figuring as a profest joker, Lamb certainly confirmed a taste for tipple and tobacco, and a habit of sitting up into the small hours, which were a disadvantage to his nervous temperament; but he also widened his views of human nature and learned to forget his troubles, or, at any rate, to see them in their true proportions.
John Woodvil
was published early in 1802 with the complement of
Curious Fragments
from Burton, Mary Lambs High-born Helen and a few other pieces. In the summer of the same year, the Lambs visited Coleridge at Greta hall. The sunset as they drove from Penrith and the view from Skiddaw, with other pleasant experiences, satisfied Lamb that there is such a thing as that which tourists call
which I very much suspected before; but he came to the sensible conclusion that Fleet Street and the Strand are better places to live in for good and all than amidst Skiddaw. The landmarks of the next few years are scantya visit to the isle of Wight in 1803, an attack of depression early in 1805 and a return of Marys illness in the following summer. With her recovery, Lambs spirits rose, and, early in 1806, he submitted his farce
Mr. H
for production on the stage. In May, 1806, he suffered a serious loss in the departure of Manning for China. But, new work and interests helped to atone for the withdrawal of Mannings steadiness and quiet, which used to infuse something like itself into our nervous minds. The friendship of Wordsworth and his sister afforded that calm sympathy of which the Lambs stood much in need; the society of John Rickman, whose accomplishments, as a pleasant hand, Lamb had discovered in 1800, of Martin Burney and others, was near at hand; and Hazlitt, the future husband of Mary Lambs friend, Sarah Stoddart, quickened his love of art. In a farewell letter to Manning (10 May, 1806), he described the beginning of
Tales from Shakespear,
undertaken at the recommendation of William Godwin, whom Lamb liked as cordially as he detested Godwins second wife. Mary charged herself with the adaptation of twenty plays of Shakespeare for the Use of Young Persons: Lamb himself had finished
when he wrote to Manning, and contributed four more tales to the ultimate collection, of which the remaining fourteen were by Mary.
Before the appearance of this classic in January, 1807, Lambs venture in farce was tried publicly and failed. It was accepted in June, 1806, at Drury lane, and was produced on 10 December, with Elliston in the title
Its point is the preservation by Mr. H of his anonymity, in order to secure a bride whom his real name Hogsflesh will disgust. By a slip of the tongue, he discloses his name prematurely; but, the danger to his happiness is removed by the timely arrival of a licence empowering him to change his name to Bacon. The thinness of the subject is ill disguised by Lambs gift of punning, to which it gave some opportunity. The author, a just critic of his own work, joined in hissing it and bore his mortification stoically. Although he now and then returned to dramatic writing, he never produced another play on the boards.
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Here is another 'hero of the line'. This is a series of researched officers and men who were killed during the First World War and whose gravestone we photographed during our 'cycling the line' trip in 2009.
Today's hero is Lt. Col. Randle Barnett Barker, DSO & Bar. Royal Fusiliers.
Record of Service:
- Born London, 19/6/1891
- A career soldier, he gained his first commission to 2/Lt on 17/1/1891
- Served in India from 11/11/1892 until 10/8/1895
- Promoted to Lt on 22/7/1893
- Returned to India on 2/12/1896 and stayed until 30/12/1896
- Married Elinor Gertrude on 2/6/1897
- Appointed Adjutant, 1st Royal Fusiliers on 1/10/1898
- Promoted to Captain on 19/7/1899
- After 15 years service, Barnett Barker retired from the Royal Welsh Fusiliers on 5/5/1906
- Appointed Captain in the Reserve of Officers 21/8/1915
- Embarked for the Western Front 11/12/1915
Barnett Barker was appointed as a Captain in the Reserve of Officers on 21/8/1915 and had a prodigious war, being Mentioned in Dispatches 5 times and being awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) and Bar. He gained the DSO during fighting at Delville Wood in late July/early August 1916, and the Bar to the DSO for leadership and bravery at Arras in 1917.
During the War, he was present during the following actions: Vimy Ridge (1916), Delville Wood (1916), Beaumont Hamel (1916), The Ancre advance and Miramont Battle (1917) and Arras (1917). As well as the second Battle of the Somme (1918).
- Assumed command of 99th Infantry Brigade on 24/1/1918
Lt. Col. Barnett Barker fell in action at Guendecourt during the second Battle of the Somme on 24/3/1918, when he was commanding 99th Infantry Brigade. The Brigade HQ diary records the day as such:
Shells began to fall in and around Guendecourt at 5.45pm. Brigadier General R. Barnett Barker, DSO and Captain E. I. Bell, MC (staff Captain) were killed by a shell.
This shell fire was part of a German offensive that started on 21st March 1918. The diary summarises:
The German offensive began at 4.45am and the events of the following days are summarised in the Narrative of Operations (Appendix VI). Special record must however be made of the serious losses sustained by the Brigade during the fighting. Foremost amongst these were Brigadier General R. Barnett Barker. General Barker had served in the Brigade continuously since it came out to France, except for 3 months when he commanded the 3rd Infantry Brigade in Flanders. As Commanding Officer if the 22nd Royal Fusiliers he had won the respect and affection of everyone in the Brigade and when he succeeded Brigade General R .O Kellett in Command of the Brigade it was with the happiest auguries for the future. (WO95/1370).
He is buried in Albert Communal Cemetery Extension.
WW1 Medal Entitlement:
- Distinguish Service Order (LG: 20/10/1916)
- Bar to the Distinguished Service Order (LG: 14/7/1917)
- Mentioned in Dispatches: 22/5/1917, 4/1/1917, 15/5/1917, 11/12/1917, 20/5/1918.
- 1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
DSO Citation – 20th October 1916
Capt. (temp. Lt-Col.) Randle Barnett Barker, R. Fus.
For conspicuous gallantry during operations. He took over and organised the defences of a wood with great skill, after making a personal reconnaissance of the whole wood under shell and machine gun fire. He has done other fine work and has displayed great personal bravery.
During the fighting that raged in and around Delville Wood during 24th July and 6th August, 1916 Barnett Barker's regiment (22nd Royal Fusiliers) suffered 267 casualties, killed and wounded.
Bar Citation – 24th July 1917
Capt. And Bt. Maj. (Temp. Lt. Col.) Randle Barnett Barker, DSO., R. Fus.
For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. During an assault his battalion was compelled to withdraw from its objective owing to heavy casualties and to its flank being unsupported. At this most critical moment he reorganised and rallied all the men of his brigade who were within reach, and by his promptitude and fine leadership won back most of the objective, and maintained it until relieved.


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Dear Vanessa,
I've heard that unplugging things like phone chargers and appliances saves electricity, but a friend told me recently that it doesn't save enough to be significant. Is that true?
— Muddled in Madison, Wis.
Dear Muddled,
You're hearing conflicting arguments about whether unplugging electrical gadgets saves electricity because "significant" is relative.
Two things are certain:
1) Unplugging electrical appliances — TVs, chargers, wireless phones, cable and game boxes — saves electricity.
2) We all have our own opinions about what constitutes a significant amount of electricity, and how much savings we consider worth our effort.
All things plugged in will bleed some energy. Called "standby" electricity loss because it's so often associated with electronics in standby or idle mode, it's also known as "phantom" or "vampire" electricity (for obvious reasons). Even turned off, many appliances keep drawing power. Same goes for all those chargers — whether or not a device is charging! That means the charger continues to use power even if your cell phone/portable vacuum/toothbrush/wireless drill isn't attached, let alone charging. Power supplies don't just convert energy; they consume it. Anything with a transformer — those black boxes on power cords — draws power as long as it's plugged in. And because of poor design, these boxes waste up to three-fourths of the electricity that passes through them.
Significant? Unplug 10 of those black box transformers and you save, depending on how much you pay for electricity, $20 a year. But add up the energy used when we are not using our TVs, stereos, cable boxes (all turned "off" but really in standby mode), computers, modems, routers, printers (these networks tend to be left on all the time), rechargeable devices (cell phones, computers, MP3s, cameras, wireless tools and vacuums, toys, cordless phones) and their transformers, and you get the equivalent of a year's output of 17 power plants. The oft-cited research by Alan Meier of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory finds that vampire energy accounts for about 5 percent of all residential electricity use, which means we may be spending as much as $7 billion a year on residential standby power alone.
The Department of Energy sets the loss at 5 percent to 8 percent of a single family home's annual usage, which is an entire month's energy bill. That's a national average; take a walk through your home and count the number of devices you have plugged in (don't forget the washing machine) and you may find that you're spending 25 percent of your energy bill to feed vampires.
Hmm. I think I'd rather use that money to feed my own vampires, I mean, kids.
Keep it green,
Good to know:
- Use power strips: Instead of unplugging things one at a time, make the job easier with power strips. You can then switch off or unplug the strip to turn all the devices off at once — really, truly, actually off. There are all kinds of "smart" power strips on the market that make the task ever easier: strips with motion sensors (leave the house/office and it'll shut off all devices automatically); strips that have a few "always on" sockets, with the rest turned off as you please; and power strips that allow a master device to control the power use of its paraphernalia (turn on/off your computer or TV or stereo, and the peripherals are turned on/off too). In the meantime, I'm going to put my surge protectors on timers because, well, I don't always remember to switch them off. OK, that's almost never remember, and at least this way they'll be off when I'm most likely to be sleeping.
- Your screen will be fine; save energy instead: Screen savers don't save energy. If you won't be using your computer and don't want to shut it down (but why?), turn off your monitor. I've read that we spend as much as $100 a year running screen savers. Along the same lines, you can reduce the energy consumption of your TVs and computers by dimming the screen: reduce the brightness by half, and you can cut energy use by 30 percent.
- Check yourself: Measure the electricity usage of all your appliances — on or off — and see for yourself which ones are the big suckers. The most popular of these power monitors seems to be the Kill A Watt. They range from around $15 to $60, so you may want to chip in with friends or neighbors.
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If you've sniffed around blogs or articles about mobile phones, you've probably seen mention of "custom ROMs" or "mods." What do they do for a phone? As with rooting, a ton of information is out there; it's far from cohesive, however, and it's spread out all over the Internet. But look no further: We'll walk you through everything you need to know about custom ROMs. Tomorrow, we'll run Part II, which covers kernals, choosing the right ROM, and custom themes.
What Is a Custom ROM/Mod?
Let's start with a quick definition: For the purposes of this article, "custom ROM" and "mod" are interchangeable. Both refer to an already-existing piece of software that a third party has customized, or modified. In this case, you could install a modified version of Android on your phone in place of the stock version of the mobile OS.
Rooting and Custom Recovery
To install and use custom ROMs, you must root your phone (the Android equivalent of iOS jailbreaking) and have Superuser installed on it. For more, see "Rooting Your Android Phone: FAQ," and look for how-tos on your specific model and its current software version, as rooting methods vary greatly from device to device.
You will also need a custom recovery installed and working. A custom recovery is like the launching pad for the phone's OS. It's also where you can make a full backup of the phone (similar to Time Machine in OSX). If something messes up and you can't even get the phone to boot, usually you can still get back to the custom recovery and revert to one of your backups (more on that later). You likely installed a custom recovery when you rooted your phone, especially if you followed a how-to on a site for custom ROMs (such as Cyanogen); make sure that you have one, though, because this is a step you cannot skip.
Your New Best Friend: ROM Manager
Although you can find several ways to install custom ROMs on a phone, ROM Manager is my method of choice. ROM Manager will install Clockwork Recovery (a custom recovery that works quite well). More than that, though, the app has an extremely intuitive interface for downloading and installing ROMs, creating backups or restoring from them, and even installing themes and alternate kernels. It's an easy way to try out a bunch of different mods to see which one works best for your phone.
ROM Manager is free in the Android Market, but the creators also offer a premium version that has more options and lets you download more ROMs (such as Cyanogen's experimental Nightlies, or Liquid ROMs). You can do everything over the air, which is much more convenient than the manual methods mentioned below. Before you install a mod with ROM Manager, it will ask if you want to use Clockwork to make a full backup. Do so. Each backup will be dated, so you can always go back to older backups if you want. You can--and should--delete older backups if you start running low on space on your SD Card.
Again, it's not entirely cut-and-dried from device to device. To use ROM Manager, folks with the Droid X, Droid 2, or Droid Pro must first use the bootstrap utility (made by the same genius that made ROM Manager). Samsung users must first flash a kernel that is compatible with Clockwork, and so on (a search on the XDA Developers forum will get you headed in the right direction). Since every device is different, do your research on the exact steps for your handset.
Fix Permissions
In my opinion, one of the most helpful tools out there is the Fix Permissions utility in ROM Manager. Whenever you install a new ROM or update, it's always a good idea to use Fix Permissions. Wait until your apps are all downloaded again (if you've performed a larger upgrade and have wiped) and you're done syncing; then open ROM Manager, scroll down to Utilities, and click Fix Permissions. This procedure can help iron out a lot of force-close issues. It will take around 5 minutes to run, and then it will ask you to reboot the phone, which virtually all custom ROMs allow you to do simply by long-pressing the power button and then selecting Reboot. (No more battery pulls!)
Other Install Methods
You can also download custom ROMs to your computer via the Web, and then use a USB cable to transfer them to the root directory of your phone's SD Card. Afterward, you can boot the phone into recovery--that is, whatever custom recovery you have installed, be it Clockwork, SPRecovery (which was likely installed on your phone when you rooted it), or any other custom recovery. From there you can make a Nandroid backup (a full system/data backup, explained below), and install whatever .zip file you would like (which is how ROMs are packaged).
Note that different recoveries function differently. For example, in SPRecovery the file you are flashing must be named update.zip, which can create some confusion if you want to flash multiple files, whereas Clockwork is a little more flexible. Different phones also boot into recovery differently. For instance, on the Motorola Droid you power on the handset while holding the "x" key. For other devices, you may need to hold the volume-up key. Search forums for your specific device to learn how to put it into recovery before you start installing anything else (try checking the CyanogenMod Wiki's brief partial list, but be sure to dig deeper). You can switch between different recoveries in ROM Manager (by choosing Flash Alternate Recovery), but note that any backups you made in Clockwork won't be compatible with SPRecovery, and vice versa; it's best to pick one and stick with it (and Clockwork works best with ROM Manager).
ROM Manager also has an option labeled Install ROM from SD Card. Using it is very simple: Click that option, and it will take you to the root directory of the SD Card, where you can choose the file to install. It will give you the chance to make a backup and wipe your data and cache, and then it will boot into recovery and install the ROM.


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Even those of us who only tangentially know about MotoGP have heard the name of Australian two-time world champion Casey Stoner. Today he confirmed that 2012 will be his last season of racing. This is a surprising move for the current points leader.
In a press conference, Stoner talked about losing interest in racing and wanting to spend more time with his family.
"After a long time thinking, a lot of time talking with my family and my wife, this has been coming for a couple of years now but at the end of this 2012 season I will be not racing in the 2013 championship," stated Stoner. He is 26 years old and he has a three-month-old daughter at home.
"After so many years of doing this sport which I love, and which myself and my family made so many sacrifices for, after so many years of trying to get to where we have gotten to at this point, this sport has changed a lot and it has changed to the point where I am not enjoying it. I don't have the passion for it and so at this time it's better if I retire now."
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After eight seasons of drama, lust, betrayal, and friendship, Desperate Housewives is finally coming to its end — that is, unless the gals of Wisteria Lane opt to do a post-series movie, a la Sex and the City. Of course it would be hard to do a movie if Bree is in prison for life. A possibility, which, by the looks of these finale photos, might be a reality for the redhead. As we know, she's vowed to take the heat for the murder earlier this season, relieving her friends of guilt, but probably landing herself in a maximum-security area with no baking tools for a very, very long time. At least the ladies get to play one last round of poker!


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Egg Beaters Three Cheese - Any product that makes it easier and faster to whip up a no-guilt breakfast is OK with us! This new option from our pals over at Egg Beaters features a trio of cheeses: cheddar, Swiss, and provolone! Each 3-tbsp. serving contains 25 calories, 0.5g fat, 135mg sodium, <1g carbs, 0g fiber, 0g sugars, and 4g protein (PointsPlus® value 1*). We can't wait to make a one-ingredient egg mug with this!
Harmless Harvest 100% Raw Coconut Water - The coconut water craze continues, and we're LOVING this new find! The naturally sweet raw coconut water (from some uncompromising and extremely conscientious folks) contains no additives and is served up in perfectly portioned petite bottles. It tastes SO fresh, you'll think you just hacked open a juicy coconut. Each 8-oz. bottle has 56 calories, 0g fat, 4mg sodium, 14g carbs, 1g fiber, 12g sugars, and 0g protein (PointsPlus® value 1*). In select stores nationwide.
Healthy Choice Baked Entrées - HELLO, convenient guilt-free comfort food! Choose from Fettuccini Alfredo Bake, Lasagna with Meat Sauce, Italian Sausage Pasta Bake, Four Cheese Ziti Marinara, Roasted Chicken and Potatoes, and Chicken & Rice Cheddar Bake. WOWZERS. Each freezer-aisle microwaveable meal has 180 - 310 calories, 3.5 - 6g fat, 380 - 600mg sodium, 21 - 46g carbs, 2 - 6g fiber, 1 - 9g sugars, and 11 - 18g protein (PointsPlus® value 4 - 7*). We're feeling comfy already...
If you're clawing the walls in eager anticipation of the brand-new book, HUNGRY GIRL TO THE MAX!, prepare to have your mind blown -- Lisa Lillien (Hungry Girl herself) is touring the country and bringing CRAZY-FUN book-signing events wherever she goes! There will be TONS of free snacks and giveaways (and we'll provide cute HG bags to carry 'em all!): Popchips, Mini VitaCakes, Bai5 drinks, The Laughing Cow Light cheeses, Flatout Flatbreads, and more! There will also be LOTS of great prizes, like HG swag, cases of Tofu Shirataki noodles, and free VitaTops for a year! Plus, cool Q&A, fun surprises, and so much more. Ready for the rundown? Princeton, NJ! New York City! Huntington, NY! (Yay, Long Island!) Los Angeles! San Diego! Phoenix! Chicago! St. Louis! Pittsburgh! Atlanta! Houston! It all kicks off on October 16th, a.k.a. the official date of the book launch! Start making plans, and share your local event page with all your pals on Facebook and by email! And remember, HUNGRY GIRL TO THE MAX! is now available -- click around our sale page for amazing deals. Now quit clawing those walls before you have to repaint them...
There's no shortage of chocolate research taking place, and the latest discoveries have got us CHOC-full of excitement! First up, chemists in the UK have been working on a new technique that replaces some of the cocoa butter and milk fats in chocolate with droplets of fruit juice. The method reportedly preserves the chocolate's texture while cutting the fat content by HALF. We want to see this stuff on shelves soon! But according to this next bit of info, chocolate makers might wanna be careful how they market the stuff. A recent study found that labeling chocolate as "reduced-fat" tends to significantly turn off consumers. Subjects had much lower expectations of chocolates labeled reduced-fat than they had of identical, unlabeled varieties. You're missing out, skeptics -- Hershey's Simple Pleasures reduced-fat chocolates ROCK! And last but not least, new research suggests that chocolate bears a chemical similarity to a common mood-stabilizing medication. One prescription for M&M's, coming up. (Ha! We wish...)
GOOD NEWS! Calorie counts for ALL MENU ITEMS are coming to McDonald's menu boards, both in stores and at the drive-thru! Thank you, Ronald and co., for allowing us to make informed decisions more easily than ever... ***But wait -- there's more! California Pizza Kitchen now provides FULL STATS on its website, including total fat, which was previously (and irritatingly) left out. Click here to download the nutritional PDF! ***Pet owners love to pamper their furry friends, but animal obesity is something to look out for -- studies suggest up to 60 percent of dogs and cats are overweight or obese. Well here's the start to a new trend we can get behind: Tufts' Veterinary Obesity Clinic is now open to address the weight-related needs of your animals. The clinic is overseen by a board-certified veterinary nutritionist to get those pet patients eating right. We RUV it! ***Cilantro is one divisive herb, and there may be a scientific reason for its love it/hate it characteristic. Emerging studies show that your loving or loathing feelings toward the flavorful leaves could be a matter of genetics! We KNEW there had to be a reason that little herb is so polarizing. Click to read more. ***Did you catch Lisa (HG!) on the Dr. Oz Show this past Friday? Click here for the recipes seen on the show! Bulked-up mac 'n cheese, crunchy tacos, and more... HG-style, of course. And that's all we've got. HG out!
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And now for a food holiday that sounds like one heck of a party -- National Cherries Jubilee Day, September 24th. Let your cherries get their jubilee on in this Cha-Cha-Cherry BBQ Chicken Pack!
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Amazon's new in-store payments system may be part of a new campaign trying to sell shoppers more items from neighborhood stores, according to reports
It was "one of Jeff Bezos' most deliberate acts to date to grab a slice of the 85 to 90 percent of total purchases that still happen in the physical world," according to the Re/Code.
Several former employees and other experts in the industry have come up with some ideas about what Amazon is planning -- essentially a bigger, broader shopping experience that would include the brick-and-mortar stores in your neighborhood. Your grocery store, your mall, your corner store could all sell their merchandise and shoppers could get their booty delivered on the same day.
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Sound familiar? Yes, Google and others have seen what's on the horizon and have already started their rivals, but can they compete with Amazon? Amazon is aiming at small businesses who previously haven't used Amazon because they didn't "have the time or resources to ship orders," the Re/Code reported.


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Renteria calm, wants Cubs to reach for the stars
PITTSBURGH -- On the morning of his first game as a big league manager, Rick Renteria wasn't wide awake at 3 a.m. like a kid waiting for Christmas Day. Instead, he woke up when one of his coaches, Juan Castro, called to say it was time to go to the ballpark for Opening Day.
"I feel calm -- I don't know why, but I do," Renteria said. "For me, it's another baseball game."
It's Renteria's first of the regular season as the Cubs' 53rd manager, and he will lead a ballclub that isn't expected to contend in the National League Central. Don't tell Renteria that. His message to the players Monday was that he believes in them. His goal? To reach for the stars.
"For any team to reach for the stars is to win the World Series," Renteria said. "I don't think you can attain that unless you talk about it and are working through what you need to do to get there. I'm not afraid to talk about it. That's what we want to do -- the Cubs want to win a World Series. Everybody talks about how we haven't, and that's fine, but I want to win a World Series, and [the players] want to win a World Series.
"There's no team that comes out in April that doesn't think it has a chance to come out and get to the World Series and possibly win it," he said. "If you don't feel that and don't think that, then you shouldn't be playing. We're here to win and we're going to give it our best shot."
Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein is just as optimistic.
"I think our goal is to surprise some people," Epstein said. "I don't think expectations are that high externally, and we have a tough schedule early so we can certainly turn the narrative on its head by going out and having a good first month of the season."
Playing the Pirates is appropriate for Renteria. He started his career as a player with the team in 1986.
"It's kind of surreal, I guess," Renteria said. "All in all, it's just baseball."


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NickEvans necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 198 diseños de 42 diseñadores freelance.
For the last two years I've been using basically the same design for a food blog I run called Macheesmo. I'm ready to upgrade it to something a bit cleaner and more professional looking.
The focus of my blog, http://www.macheesmo.com, is on the food, recipes, and photos. Any design should start with that in mind. I also encourage people to try new things in the kitchen and not be scared of failing... The tagline I try to incorporate into things is "Cook Something". Depending on the design I might change this, but it works for now.
I'd also be interested in an ongoing relationship hopefully with the winning designer. I'm planning on redoing the entire layout of the site based around the winning logo design.
If you have specific questions, please ask! I plan to be very active adminning this contest over the next 10 days or so.
My audience is a pretty wide range of individuals. I think I have a slightly higher female readership probably just due to the subject. In general though, my readers like the food and recipes and like that I try to keep cooking light-hearted and fun.
The only real requirement is a clean, simple text logo with the word Macheesmo and bonus points if you can integrate the tagline "Cook Something". A simple, clean text logo with a few fun elements or small touches would be awesome.
I would like the logo to be very brandable meaning that it has a distinct look and could be copied over on many other sites. For example, it would be cool to have a "Macheesmo" logo, but then be able to make a smaller M square logo that I could use for Twitter/favicon/etc.
I'm sick of the white/black layout on Macheesmo now. The site could use some colors and the logo is a good place to start on that I think.
I really like deep, rich colors. Nothing pastel. I'm really open to ideas on color schemes.
The design should be light-hearted. I'm trying to have fun with cooking and encourage people to do the same. I don't need anything elegant. That said, I don't want cartoons or anything too childish.
I like the idea of having some portion of the logo be changeable depending on the month. This isn't essential but it'd be cool. It could be something small...
Some sites I like just for their logos:
http://smittenkitchen.com (would like a bit more color than this, but nice and clean look)
http://www.foodloveswriting.com (like the kind of graffiti/chalk look)
For deliverables, I'd like .AI, .PSD, and a .JPG.
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Gwendolyn Sue Crook 1947 - 2010 Kansas City, Kan.
Services for Gwendolyn Sue Myrick Herdman Crook, 63, of the Piper area in Kansas City, Kan., were Tuesday, Aug. 17, at Alden-Harrington Funeral Home, Bonner Springs. Burial was at Mt. Muncie Cemetery, Lansing.
Mrs. Crook died Friday, Aug. 13, 2010, at her home while surrounded by her family. She had metastatic breast cancer.
She was born July 5, 1947, the daughter of Luther and Mary Myrick.
Mrs. Crook had worked at Earp Meat Co. in Kansas City, Kan.
A stepdaughter Debbie Hopkins, died earlier.
Survivors include her husband, Chuck; parents, Luther and Mary Myrick; four daughters, Michelle (Mickey) Renee Garcia, Sherry Lee Herdman, Laura Ann Vest, and Erica Sue Jasper; seven grandchildren; eight stepgrandchildren; a stepson Russ Crook; six siblings, Charles Myrick, Wichita, Beverly Eastwood, Atchison, James Myrick, Lansing, Edna Walters, Wheatland, Mo., and Carol Myrick and Jackie Robison, both of Basehor.
The family suggests memorials to the Kansas City Cancer Center, sent in care of the funeral home, 214 Oak St., Bonner Springs, KS 66012.


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Roy Halladay says he wasn't throwing at Tyler Moore after Stephen Strasburg hit Chase Utley with a pitch. Then again, the Phillies ace didn't dismiss the idea of throwing a payback pitch against their new NL East rivals.
Halladay threw behind Moore's back an inning after Strasburg hit Utley in a marquee matchup that Philadelphia won over the Washington National 6-3 Wednesday.
"It slipped," Halladay said of the alleged retaliatory pitch. "I mean, really, I think that's not necessarily the case but we do need to protect our guys to an extent. I'm not saying that's what happened. . I don't think you want to do it but, you know, it wouldn't have been the worst thing had it got him after getting one of our good guys."
Strasburg, the Nationals' 24-year-old star, said he had trouble gripping the ball on a cold, windy day, which affected his off-speed pitches. The pitch he hit Utley with, however, was a fastball.
"I don't have any reason to throw at him, do I?" Strasburg said. "I mean, I don't understand why they would think I was throwing at him. . It's spring training. If you're going to throw at someone or send a message in spring training, go ahead."
The two teams have a bit of beanball history: Philadelphia All-Star left-hander Cole Hamels hit Washington rookie Bryce Harper with a pitch last May, and then was suspended for five games after admitting the pitch was intentional.
The Nationals went on to win their first East title last season, ending the Philadelphia's five-year run atop the division.
Halladay and the Phillies were on top Wednesday, though. The two-time Cy Young Award winner, trying to bounce back from an injury-plagued 2012 season, retired the first six batters he faced.
In his third start of the spring, Halladay threw four shutout innings. He gave up two hits while walking one and striking out two.
After Michael Young's run-scoring single in the third, Strasburg hit Utley. Ryan Howard then drove in a run with a groundball to first.
Strasburg was charged with two runs on five hits in 3 2-3 innings. He struck out six and walked one.
"I felt pretty good," Strasburg said. "I had a tough time getting on top of my curveball at the end. But it was tough conditions - I don't think I'll pitch in something like that any other time unless we're playing in Florida."
NOTES: Philadelphia catching prospect Tommy Joseph went 3 for 4 with a double. Joseph, acquired from San Francisco for Hunter Pence in July, is hitting .462 (6 for 13) with a home run and two doubles this spring. . Outfielder Delmon Young returned to camp after having his surgically repaired right ankle examined by a Lose Angles doctor on Tuesday. Young was cleared to begin light baseball activities, including taking pregame batting practice with his teammates and running on a treadmill. He is expected to begin the season on the disabled list and return sometime in mid to late April. . Left-hander Cliff Lee will take the mound when the Phillies play host to the Minnesota Twins on Thursday in Clearwater. ... Washington center fielder Denard Span, the only regular in Washington's lineup in a game in Clearwater, a 2 hour, 45 minute drive from Viera, went 0 for 3. He is hitting .154 this spring. . Left-hander Gio Gonzalez will take the mound on Thursday when Washington travels to Kissimmee to take on the Houston Astros.