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HP Announces New Mobile and Cloud-based Large-format Printing Solutions
HP today announced new mobile and cloud-based printing solutions for its HP Designjet systems, including an HP ePrint & Share application for Android. On display at the American Institute of Architects 2012 National Convention, the new solutions and features make it easier for architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) professionals and firms to print large-format documents from virtually anywhere.
They include:
· An HP ePrint & Share mobile application for Android smartphones and tablets, allowing more users to access, view and print drawings on the go.(1)
· New features for HP ePrint & Share, including the ability to print PDF files directly from e-mail and optimization for Apple iPad®.
· HP-enabled cloud printing, now available directly from Autodesk AutoCAD WS, only available with HP Designjet web-connected printers.
"Today's AEC professionals demand easy-to-use mobile solutions that fit an on-the-go lifestyle and make viewing, archiving and printing large-format documents available at their fingertips," said Santiago Morera, vice president and general manager, Large-format Printing Business, HP. "HP continues to address these needs by providing the first large-format printer portfolio that lets customers access and print their designs where the job takes them."
New HP ePrint & Share features streamline design and build process
HP's award-winning ePrint & Share is a free web service that allows AEC customers to access and print drawings from their conference room, home or job site using smartphones, tablets, laptops or the touchscreen of an HP Designjet ePrinter. HP ePrint & Share is designed for freelance architects, small- and medium-sized architecture and engineering firms and medium and large construction companies.
"With partners around the world, we needed a solution that would alleviate communication issues associated with working across great distances," said Brian Swanner, senior architect, Waggonner & Ball Architects. "The new features built into HP ePrint & Share helped us find ways to share designs with a variety of partners and, with the mobile application, we can print where the job takes us, speeding up the design-and-build process."
The HP ePrint & Share mobile application, now available from Android(1) and iOS devices,(2) provides fast, easy access to files and print jobs, allowing users to:
· Print to any HP Designjet web-connected printer, whether at the home office or a partner's site, to save time, travel lighter and improve collaboration.
· Print PDF files directly from e-mail by selecting the HP ePrint & Share application via the "Open in" button in iOS devices(2) or "Share" button in Android(1) devices.
"As a virtual firm, we rely on technology like HP ePrint & Share to help us find better ways to work together remotely, rather than having the overhead associated with a brick and mortar location," said Jason Prichard, principal consultant, Theatre Consultants Collaborative. "The HP ePrint & Share mobile application for Android is easy to install, streamlined and simple to use for mobile printing."
The HP ePrint & Share mobile application enables remote printing to any HP Designjet web-connected printer, including the HP Designjet T2300 eMFP and the HP Designjet T1300 and T790 ePrinters. HP ePrint & Share is available at no additional cost as a download for HP Designjet customers. The mobile application is initially available for free through Google Play(3) and Apple's App Store.
HP and Autodesk offer mobile printing to AutoCAD WS users
At AIA, HP and Autodesk are demonstrating the new HP ePrint & Share-enabled Plot to Print cloud printing functionality for AutoCAD WS, a web and mobile application that enables customers to view, edit and share DWG files from virtually anywhere through a web browser or mobile device.
By registering for HP ePrint & Share, users can easily access and print their designs on any HP Designjet ePrinter directly from AutoCAD WS with full control over plot styles, paper sizes, layouts and more.(4) When printing from AutoCAD WS using HP ePrint & Share, a high-resolution copy of the file is saved to the user's HP ePrint & Share cloud library, making it simple to retrieve, share and reprint designs.
"Our primary objective with AutoCAD WS is to foster a collaborative design experience for our users no matter where they do their work," said Amy Bunszel, vice president, AutoCAD Products at Autodesk. "To that end, working together with HP to offer mobile printing through the new Plot to Print functionality with HP ePrint & Share was a natural next step."
More information about the latest additions to the HP Designjet portfolio is available at www.hp.com/go/simplify. More information on HP ePrint & Share is available at www.hp.com/go/eprintandshare. Videos and updates on HP Designjet are available on Facebook at www.facebook.com/HPdesigners, on Twitter at twitter.com/hpgraphicarts and on YouTube at www.youtube.com/hpgraphicarts.
About HP
HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world's largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.


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We got two snazzy gadgets that seem like good bets for holiday gifts. One is a new TomTom GPS device and the other a TomTom-powered sports watch.
We still prefer a dedicated GPS device to a smartphone app. A GPS device has a larger screen and, unlike a phone, doesn�t distract us with calls and messages. The latest TomTom Via 1605 has a larger, sharper screen than earlier models; it�s 6 inches diagonally, no squinting required.
There are traffic updates throughout the day. When you tap the road speed sign, a Google style map shows up. A flashing red arrow could save your neck on the California freeways and maybe a few other places. It highlights the correct lane for changing over to a new road or another freeway. In some places, if you take the wrong exit lane it�s many miles before you can correct your mistake.
The new TomTom comes with the usual suction cup to affix it to the dashboard. But best of all is it comes with a lifetime supply of maps, which are updated quarterly. The battery life is two hours, and it comes with a charger that plugs into the car�s cigarette lighter (they used to be called cigar lighters). You tap on the screen to plan a route; there�s no Bluetooth, so spoken commands are out.
The Via 1605 is $230. But if you don�t care about the 6-inch screen and extra features, you can get a TomTom with a 4.3-inch screen for $60 from TigerDirect.com. Those are the ones we gave out last year at Christmas.
Now, to the wrist:
The other new Tom Tom-powered device is the Nike Plus SportWatch GPS. Joy�s been walking and jogging up a storm with it. The watch comes with a tiny sensor you put in or near your shoe. Nike even makes shoes with a small pocket in the heel to hold the sensor.
Not having the fancy Nikes, Joy dropped the sensor into her sock and got on the treadmill. That was to see if the distance tallied by the device matched the treadmill count. It did. The watch has large numbers you can easily read without bending close. It tells you the distance travelled, calories burned, walking or running pace, and laps if you�re going round a track.
You can do all this without a sports watch if you download the Nike running app to your smartphone or iPod. (Joy has an armband from Marware that holds her iPod.) Since the app is free, compared with $149 for the sports watch, there�s a significant savings. On the other hand you would lose the coolness factor of wearing the sports watch, and people who are hip, fast-moving and aware may not speak to you.
OK, now the most fun of all with the sports watch, and it requires no exertion: When you upload your information to the Nike website, a map comes up on the screen and a moving line retraces your steps, just like in old movies. (Gets the ultra-cool rating.)
Our favorite device so far this year is the Chromebook, a laptop that is neither Windows nor Mac but uses the Google Chrome operating system. It�s light, it�s fast, it�s half the price of an iPad and people will know you are on the cutting edge. We mean, if they ask. Samsung just came out with a new version.
Nearly everything you do on the Chromebook takes place somewhere in the wild blue yonder online and is synced with all your other devices. It�s great for Web surfing, email, Web apps and word processing using Google Docs. There�s no way to install any software, but this turns out to be the big reason for no problems. In fact, we couldn�t see any. That�s because every time you turn it on and connect with the great Google in the sky, they update it automatically and repair any quirks.
Other pluses: It boots up in seconds and doesn�t get bogged down with malware. The whole family can use the same Chromebook. When they each sign in, it feels as though they�re using their own computer. Each user logs into their own Gmail account and sees only their own apps and bookmarks. This is probably the way the future will work.
We�ve now owned a Chromebook for six months, and it�s as fast as it was just out of the box. That�s because it never gets junked up with extraneous software or spyware. Chromebooks are made by either Acer or Samsung. We have the Acer model, but if we got another we would get the Samsung.
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- Release Date: May 1, 2013 (PC)
- MSRP: 400 Microsoft points (Xbox 360), Steam price not available
It's been almost a year since the initial release of Fez, the lovely retro-themed 2D platformer with a 3D twist. The game's development process was almost as complex as the game that eventually emerged, with developer Phil Fish famously polishing the game far past shininess and well into ludicrous territory. The love and time spent on Fez certainly shows: five minutes into the game, when the little blobby protagonist acquires the eponymous hat and gains the power to rotate his 2D world in a third dimension, it's such a momentous event that it reboots the entire world. The game is a layer-cake of puzzles piled on top of meta-puzzles, and it showcases the utter brilliance—and no small amount of manic intensity—of the developer.
However, the 3D fun has so far only been available to XBox 360 players on XBox Live Arcade. Phil Fish famously tweeted before the game's release that Fez is "a console game. for consoles. PCs are for spreadsheets." Fortunately, Fish had a change of heart (or is fed up with XBox Live's patching policy) and delivered some good news this morning for PC gamers who want to get in on the action: Fez is coming to Steam on 1 May, 2013.
The initial release will be for the Windows version of Steam, but Phil Fish revealed in his Reddit AMA today that there will also be an OS X version at some point (though whether that will also be available on Steam or standalone was not mentioned).
The game's slick but blocky graphics ooze retro charm, and the chiptune music manages to be appropriately period but also haunting at times. (My NES never really produced video or sound like this, as much as my memory insists that it did.) You guide your behatted protagonist through a series of increasingly complex puzzles which require the use of the fez's magical extradimensional world-rotating puzzles to solve. It's a deceptively simple gameplay mechanic with complex level design consequences.
Gaming Editor Kyle Orland noted in our original review that "...there are the many puzzles that I felt I could solve only if I was a mind reader with a direct connection to Phil Fish."
In fact, Fez's weakness is that it might be a little too polished. "Fez is not the kind of game that holds your hand and lays out the exact steps to finish its most frustrating puzzles," Orland continued. "Instead, it frequently throws you into rooms festooned with obscure symbology and cryptic pixel-art wall drawings, challenging you to figure out what exactly it wants from you."
Scattered through the game's levels are clues and messages, giving the obsessive or completionist-minded player an entire separate meta-game to wade through on top of the platform. It culminates in a final puzzle whose solution still remains somewhat of a mystery—it was "solved" more than a year ago via brute force, but the reasoning behind why the solution works is still unclear. One could easily envision Phil Fish, his fingers worn down to bloody nubbins after years of unending work on the game, laughing maniacally in front of his development computer as the endgame puzzle folds up on his screen like Lemarchand's box.
Whatever awaits, we look forward eagerly to playing the game on PC when it comes out in May.
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Be sure to check out the profile of the first true paparazzo, Ron Galella, from the Guardian. And don't forget the slideshow, which includes a snap of a young, pillow-lipped Angelina Jolie. Emily Nussbaum writes: "These days, Galella feels vindicated as an artist, a pioneer in a 'magic medium'. His prints are in MoMA, his books praised in the New York Times. He is a 'bandit of images', he says, quoting Fellini with the cheerful braggadocio he traces to his heritage." And you've gotta love the following great quote about voyeurism from Galella: "For me, it's the mystery. What's behind her clothes? What excites me is panty lines — and yet the women [today], they don't want no panty lines. To me, it's the sexiest thing." (This is a reprint of a New York Magazine piece; the original is more graphic! [Guardian, Guardian]
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Sunday afternoon, 5:51 p.m.
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I'm assuming she'll have an appointment this morning!
- December 27, 2010 at 6:50 AM
- Grumpy, M.D. said...
I sent her to ER and called to doc there. She needs a head CT, and I don't have one at my office.
Calls like this are frighteningly common the day after Christmas and Thanksgiving.
- December 27, 2010 at 6:53 AM
Frighteningly common and frightening as well.
- December 27, 2010 at 7:30 AM
We have this running, flaming head smilie on my message board-I so want to use that right here.
- December 27, 2010 at 8:24 AM
Patients are sure ONE extreme of the OTHER in YOUR business, huh? Either, OMG, see me now, no I don't have an appointment, I am 28 minutes late please see me anyway to I am sorry I was having fun, it was kinda funny how I was talking AND I DIDN'T WANT TO BOTHER you on the HOLIDAY! I certainly hope whatever this is can be fixed and she will be okay.
- December 27, 2010 at 8:40 AM
- Grumpy, M.D. said...
Most patients are intelligent and reasonable, but certainly not blogworthy. Who wants to read about normal?
So if you read ANY medical blog, you get a skewered view.
I recommend this post, by ER's Mom.
- December 27, 2010 at 8:47 AM
Just creased me Tonto.
- December 27, 2010 at 9:01 AM
- RehabNurse said...
Yes, I love it that people think the docs can just diagnose, give a pill, and away they go.
As a nurse, I tell everyone who asks me, "I am not an x-ray machine. Go see someone (ER) who has one and make sure you don't have anything serious."
If they ask me what I'd do, I'd say I'd go, too.
Besides, my safety manager (Dahey) at home would never let me have an x-ray machine.
- December 27, 2010 at 9:04 AM
The most awful part of this is that the patient's son allowed him (her) to drive him to the airport! Your parent is talking funny and dragging a leg, you call an ambulance. Yeah, it will spoil Christmas, but remembering the Christmas when grandpa(ma) was having a stroke and you did nothing isn't a cheery memory either!
- December 27, 2010 at 10:16 AM
- Unknown said...
No it's all good, she is still in the window for TpA right.
- December 27, 2010 at 10:24 AM
- Jacob said...
It's ironic that the people that need to call don't and the people that don't need to call do. As a family doc, we'll get 15 calls from the Mom wanting ADHD meds for her kid in the morning for every 1 call from someone legitimately sick who delays because they don't want to bother you.
- December 27, 2010 at 10:32 AM
- SuFu PhD said...
kind of like a story i read about a met. prostate cancer patient who went into DIC during Christmas dinner because he didn't want to interrupt the holidays.
- December 27, 2010 at 10:41 AM
- Not House said...
Ugh. I've never understood the whole "well, I don't want to ruin Xmas/Thanksgiving/Easter/4th of July/Arbor Day for the family" mentality.
Is getting a stroke somehow better than inconveniencing them to go to the hospital?
- December 27, 2010 at 10:44 AM
*look of total abject horror* <-- my face.
Hope everything turns out as best as possible.
- December 27, 2010 at 10:50 AM
- pharmacy chick said...
2 years ago our pastor's wife had a sub arachnoid hematoma on Thanksgiving day...she was in ICU for 21 days. I guess THIS patient was lucky enough to have survived thru monday to call you...wow
- December 27, 2010 at 12:06 PM
- Kat's Kats said...
I am so glad that I have an intelligent family who would call 911 if anyone in the family began exhibiting these symptoms!
- December 27, 2010 at 1:29 PM
- merinz said...
Almost the same thing has happened in our family two days before Christmas when I was staying with two elderly Aunts. One of them woke up with a numb and 'dropped' face although no arm or leg numbness.
The big difference - I took her immediately to ER where she received the appropriate treatment, scans etc and was admitted overnight to hospital.
However - if I hadn't been there I suspect she would have 'toughed it out' as the older generation often do.
- December 27, 2010 at 2:32 PM
I grew up in a family where my mother had been physically and sexually abused repeatedly through her childhood. She has a high pain threshold, and sufficeth to say, that she was NEVER sympathetic, or caring when any of me or my siblings were sick growing up. Her motto was always "Suck it up." Anyway, two siblings had ruptured appendixes on her watch as "Mom." Those are just two things of MANY things.
I now fall into that category of not wanting to "bother" the Dr. for something I am experiencing, but have no problems getting my kids in if there is a serious issue.
Hope this lady turned out alright. I am surprised that her kids didn't at least bring her in. That part is bizarre.
- December 27, 2010 at 5:02 PM
Awww - sweet lady - horrific family. If she is already your patient she has already needed you for something else,yes? So wouldn't the family (and her) be on a higher sense of alert of anything neuro related??? (Unless she is in a state of denial herself; "...if I don't think about that leg thats dragging then it's not really a problem and it might go away..." I guess some people assume if it doesn't hurt then it can't be bad. Hope she's ok. Crikey you must have a Forest Gump box of chocolates moment when you listen to your voice mail...you never know what gooey centres you're gonna get! And yes, they do make the best blog fodder!!
- December 27, 2010 at 7:39 PM
- The Mother said...
Very few stroke patients take it with such a sense of humor. Ten points for style.
- December 27, 2010 at 9:10 PM
- terri c said...
I sure hope she'll be OK--and hope we won't being seeing an appalling head CT for her on ERP's blog.
- December 28, 2010 at 2:32 AM
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- December 28, 2010 at 8:14 AM
- Miss Waxie said...
Ha! I mean.. that in the totally frightening funny kind of way. Not that I haven't probably been guilty of it myself once or twice over the years, but STILL. Driving? The whole family not noticing grandma's face and leg are two rooms behind? Yikes!
Actually it reminds me a little of the first page of my most recent comic. You might want to check it out for a laugh:
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- December 28, 2010 at 10:22 AM
Not to uncommon for someone who is older. My Mom just had a stroke at home and was walking, speaking with difficulty, and a little disoriented. She just thought she was sick. Only way she received help was due to my persistence in phoning family nearby (I'm 3,500 miles away) and her not picking up or returning calls. She was dressed and had put on makeup when my family and the ambulance arrived. She also subsequently spent 10 days in the ICU, Neuro. and rehab floors of her local hospital. My Mom is fiercely independent, I bet this lady is also.
- December 28, 2010 at 6:40 PM
- Olivia said...
My grandma was like this- believed that seeking medical help was "letting the devil win." This strategy pretty much worked impeccably until she was about 94, when she had a massive stroke, broke her arm badly enough to have the bone poke through, and still didn't go to the doctor. (though she may have been confused). At the hospital (being treated for stroke and massive infection due to untreated wound) fought like crazy to be released.
Even though the rest of us don't have her religious reasoning, there's still a lingering attitude that acknowledging illness is making it "real".
For myself, I did this myself once...didn't want to go to the ER (since it was 11pm on New Year's Eve) and waited until the 2nd to go to urgent care. Got antibiotics for massive infection. Got a call later for a second test, as they'd feared leukemia, based on my white cell count. I was fine, but I do remember them saying, "normally you don't see people with that kind of white count outside of hospitals." Guess I'd better brave the ER if there's a next time.
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Since becoming aware of this game, I've seen various versions floating around the internet. As part of my probability unit with my 8th graders after the OCCT, my cooperating teacher suggested that I spend one day playing this.
The goal of the game is to score the most points possible. Points are scored by rolling a single die. Each time the die is rolled, you must add the number on the die to the sum of your previous rolls. (This game provides students an awesome opportunity to practice their mental math skills.) A player can roll the die as many times as they wish. However, if a 1 is rolled, the player's score goes to zero. If this happens, you become known as a "greedy pig." Whenever you are happy with your score, you may choose to stop.
We had students play in groups of four with one student both playing and serving as the scorekeeper. Students were competing to earn both the highest score per round and the highest score of the class period. A round consisted of each player in the group taking one turn.
This game taught me to appreciate the existence of foam dice. They are silent. They are much less likely to go flying off the desks at every turn. My students enjoyed playing the game with the larger foam dice.
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I know some of you thought I was being a tease by showing you only the binding on my latest finished quilt earlier this week, but to be honest, I had just finished it and I was pretty excited to have it done. Making a queen sized quilt is quite a feat! They're also pretty large, so I had to wait until I could find myself some volunteers to hold it up for photos.
You may remember that this is the quilt I've been working on for Erich, who was the one to make me the absolutely gorgeous sewing table. We worked out a little trade, and I'm so happy about it, since I don't know that I could otherwise afford his woodworking prices! Plus, trading is fun – I love having something he's made in my home and I certainly hope that he and my sister enjoy having a handmade quilt on their bed!
Whitney selected Denyse's Hope Valley line which we paired with Kona Coal (her solid of choice, and a good one for a more masculine quilt!). I adjusted the measurements of my Unfurnished quilt to work for a queen sized quilt, adding a column and increasing the width of each column. I love that it works out so that there are three columns along the mattress and 1 column on each side.
For the backing I used a lot of Kona Coal, with an offset pieced section to mimic the pattern from the front. I think it will also make for a fun change should they tire of the pattern on the front!
I'm really happy to have this one done, and I'm even happier that I managed to get it to Erich before the nights really started to get cold!
As much as I love large quilts, I think I'll be taking a little break before I attempt another!
(oh, kind of unrelated, but I forgot to mention it previously – I now have threaded comments, so if you've asked a question, check back for an answer.)
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The challenges of astronaut training
ESA astronaut training is one of the most challenging programmes to follow and it is also very challenging to organise. This is because the decentralised training given by all the international partners participating in the ISS programme demands a high degree of coordination.
Not only the content of the different international training sessions has to be harmonised, but also the teaching approach and training concepts, as well as the multicultural backgrounds of trainees as well as instructors.
Integrated training schedule
All this has to fit into one overall integrated training schedule, which is a challenge of its own – remember that all astronauts and cosmonauts have individually tailored training plans, which means that no two astronauts get exactly the same training at the same time.
If you consider that 30 to 40 astronauts and cosmonauts undergo training in one year at five different sites, you realise that all this calls for a tremendous organisational effort. The ISS partner space agencies have successfully managed the harmonisation of this training for over a decade.
So what do the astronauts have to go through to qualify for a flight to the International Space Station (ISS)?
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January 16, 2013 -- New Providence, NJ. – A series of new features will be added to Bowker Syndetic Solutions, the popular OPAC and discovery layer enrichment tool, significantly enhancing the utility of library OPACs. The new features include enhanced content elements for video games, music, movies, TV shows and journals, as well as a new Syndetics app for patron usage within Facebook.
"OPACs and discovery layers are the primary gateway for patrons in to the library collection. Syndetic Solutions has a mission to continually improve discovery, connecting users with the information they need in their borrowing or purchasing decisions," said Sharon Lubrano, Vice-President and General Manager of Bowker, a ProQuest affiliate.
In early 2013, Syndetic Solutions will make its Facebook application available at no additional cost for all subscribers. The app will enable libraries to provide catalog access within Facebook, connecting the library to the social networks of its users. Library patrons will be able to search for titles, review cover art, summaries, reviews and share or comment on titles they find with their Facebook friends.
New enriched content will also become available in the first quarter of 2013. In the U.S. and U.K., video game covers, title, rating number, Maturity Standard Rating (think "Everyone" or "Teen") will deepen the information available to patrons through the OPAC. Syndetic Solutions' cover image options will expand to include premier Serial Cover Image content from Ulrich's, the acclaimed global serials directory. Further, new U.K. audio/video content will be available through Syndetics A/V elements. Through Syndetic Solutions, patrons will be able to find reviews and descriptive information about entertainment content for more than 4 million TV shows and movies. Further, music titles will be enriched with reviews, annotations, profiles and covers.
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Hereby my reply, as requested, for why I am an atheist. My name is Maarten-Jan and I'm from the Netherlands.
Since I was a child, I was always interested in learning new things. I loved reading. Fiction was a big part in it, but I also had several science for kids books, about astronomy, insects, history and more. My upbringing was more or less catholic light, I went through all the steps of becoming a catholic, but me and my parents rarely attended church. I believed in god back then.
My first 'rebellion' against the church was when I was 11. I had to go through the process of confirmation: I hated every step of the way. From what I remember, this was not because of a crisis of faith or something, but mostly because the whole process was freaking boring. I never liked going to church, and in this confirmation period, I had to attend church-like meetings every week.
I remember fighting with my parents about it, and I believe in one of those fights I proclaimed disbelief in god. My parents only pressed the matter of my confirmation because of their view that if you start something, you have to finish it. They did not put my little sister later on through this terribly boring process. I can't remember if my claimed disbelief was real, or just to upset my parents. I do remember it was not the big issue.
When I went to high school, religion faded into the background. I attended church once a year, with christmas, and that was mostly it. I never really thought about it, I just hated going to church because it was boring. Because I went to the Gymnasium, I got in contact with the old Greek and Latin language and mythology. I loved these old stories of gods and heroes.
In the second part of high school, literature became a huge part of the curriculum, with regards to the Dutch, English and German classes. I remember that my Dutch teacher discussed the relation of literature to the views of the people of the time, and the use of old themes in mythology is prevalent in literature. He labeled the Christian faith, with the side note that not everyone agreed with him on this, as a mythology as well. I immediately recognized this to be true. From this point onward, I consciously rejected christianity as a whole and the belief in a god.
Because I went to a secular school and my very mildly religious parents, I believed for a long time that the whole world believed more or less like I did. When I finished high school, I went on to the university. I educated myself on evolution (I dropped biology in the second year of high school, evolution was in it, but not a big part of it), and I got to read the God Delusion of Dawkins.
Through youtube, I got into contact with Thunderf00t (and the WDPLAC) and AronRa videos and eventually the atheist experience. I realized there were a whole lot of people that disagreed with me (and held really idiotic beliefs). Furthermore, I got the words to define my belief as a secular humanist, atheist, antitheist, rationalist and free thinker.
Ironically, I only learned of the dogmas of catholicism when I was already an atheist. I was surprised and frankly horrified that so many people actually believed that stuff, and that no-one ever told me about this when I was in the church (although that may not be too surprising, considering their goal of keeping people in the church). The only thing I got back then was the happy story about Jesus, forgiveness, et cetera.
From that point forward, I became an active atheist, I argued a lot with my parents and online, I read several books on the subject, watch hundreds of youtube videos, and got to read Pharyngula. I am continuing to argue, test my beliefs, and learn new things until this day. My search for the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth will hopefully continue throughout my life.
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Man killed teen robber with own gun, police say
'No ill feelings' toward shooter, teen's aunt says
A 60-year-old man shot and killed an armed robber with the robber's own gun Friday night, Milwaukee police said.
Investigators said 17-year-old Rico Blackmer was attempting to rob the man near 23rd Street and Keefe Avenue just before midnight Friday.
The man said he was helping someone move into a nearby home when he was approached by the teen who pointed a gun and tried to rob him.
Police said the man fought off the robber and shot him in self defense.
The teen's aunt, Cormill Bonds, said she understood the man's actions in shooting her nephew.
"We have no ill feelings towards that person. That person was defending himself," she said.
Bonds said Blackmer was not perfect but he was still a loving and loved member of the family.
"I know people do bad things, but for it to end like this, it's even more horrible not knowing why he did it. We provided everything he needed, we just don't know why he would do something like this," she said.
Friends and family put together a memorial to remember him where he was killed.
Blackmer's friend, Angel, said his death could still serve a purpose.
"What happened to him, I hope all these young people out here who try to rob people will wake up and just understand it's not good to be out here robbing nobody because just like how he end up," Angel said.
The man who shot the teen was not expected to face criminal charges in the incident.


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Tricks to Becoming an Airline Elite
Reaching elite status levels can seem like an unattainable goal for "regular" customers who don't live on the road. ButScott McCartney joins The News Hub. with the tricks and cheap ways to become airline elite. Photo: Reuters.
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Teen sisters have a new family thanks to Farmington Hills couple
In the United States, there are about 100,000 children in foster case waiting to be adopted into a permanent, loving home.
Among the children in foster care were teenage sisters Stephanie, 15, and Miranda, 17, who had been in the system for five years.
The sisters have had a rough past and are cognitively impaired. They actually have a third sister, but she was separated from the pair.
That's when Wendy's Wonderful Kids, a program designed to find adoptive families for children that have been in the system for a number of years, came in.
Wendy's Wonderful Kids recruiters are given smaller caseloads in order to effectively place them with a family by getting to know the children. The program is part of Spaulding for Children, funded by the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption.
The sisters and their recruiter at Wendy's Wonderful Kids enjoyed having "girl's nights" together. It was at one of those evenings that Miranda was raving about a teacher she had.
Mara Goodman, recruitment specialist for Wendy's Wonderful Kids, said she saw how Miranda spoke about him, and she knew she had to get in touch with this teacher.
"Miranda and Stephanie and I were at an adoption day event last year ... she was talking about her teacher and I asked who this teacher was and I knew he was invested in her because he was buying her ... movies," Goodman said.
The movies were the Saddle Club Girls series, and the teacher was buying them to show in class because Miranda enjoyed them. Miranda asked the teacher if she could take the movies home to her sister, and the teacher gave them to her.
Goodman said it is typically very difficult to place siblings together.
"When they're older, it can be quite the challenge ... we knew the girls really wanted to be adopted. We were actually looking at separating the girls (before they met their family) ... they were 14 and 16 when they met them (the family)."
This gave the recruiter an idea, and she searched and made contact with the teacher.
The man was Robert, a special education teacher at Harrison High School in Farmington.
After much time and consideration, Robert and his wife Miriam made the decision to become the girls' forever family. The family also has three children, the youngest being 19-years-old.
"I've been a teacher for all my life ... I'm kind of winding down my career here and I met one of the girls ... I've worked with a lot of kids in foster care ... in no time we decided we were going to adopt," Robert said. "I think we worked hard to convince our girls that we love them."
In the past 10 months, the girls have spent time bonding with their new family. The boys love having new siblings.
The girls also get to see their other sister, and their families get together often.
The adoption was finalized Tuesday during the National Adoption Day ceremony in Pontiac.
"Our girls were in the foster care system for about five years ... they've weathered it well ... I think they're very happy," Robert said.
National Adoption Day estimates 4,500 foster care children were to be adopted on Adoption Day.
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The Chinese Pangolin (Manis pentadactyla), one of eight extant pangolins or scaly anteaters as they are also known, was once abundant in China. However, as a result of overexploitation for consumption of its meat and scales, this species is now moving closer to extinction, which is having a devastating impact on the world's remaining pangolins.
This was one of the findings from the first-ever global conference on the conservation of pangolins held by the International Union for Conservation of Nature - Species Survival Commission (IUCN SSC) Pangolin Specialist Group and co-organized and hosted by Wildlife Reserves Singapore.
"Following huge declines in populations of the Chinese Pangolin, trade has mainly involved the Sunda pangolin in recent years, which occurs across Southeast Asia, but pangolins are now being sourced from South Asia and as far as Africa to meet demand in East Asia" said Dan Challender, Co-Chair of the IUCN SSC Pangolin Specialist Group and doctoral candidate studying the trade in pangolins in Asia at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent. "They are more than likely the most traded wild mammals globally".
Over 40 conservationists from 14 countries convened for the conference to map out solutions for the global decline of pangolins and a multi-faceted approach is urgently needed given their declining conservation status worldwide. "Not only do we need to reduce demand for pangolin parts in East Asia, we also need to ensure there are pangolin strongholds where we can ensure the viability of populations in the wild," said Professor Jonathan Baillie, Conservation Programmes Director at the Zoological Society of London and Co-Chair of the IUCN SSC Pangolin Specialist Group.
Themed 'Scaling up Pangolin Conservation', the conference saw the presentation of recent research into understanding demand for pangolins, ecological monitoring and the latest development in captive care, followed by workshops conducted to formulate a conservation strategy for the next decade. This will involve a number of major initiatives including: research into behaviour change to measurably reduce demand for pangolins through social marketing campaigns, assessment of populations in identified strongholds, the strengthening of legislation in East Asian markets and the stepping up of current enforcement efforts in pangolin trade hotspots. However, it will also demand raising awareness about these shy and nocturnal creatures for example, by engaging celebrity support and through publications celebrating the species.
This conference also saw the status of the world's pangolins re-assessed for The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. It was confirmed that populations of each species are in steep decline.
Dr Cheng Wen-Haur, Chief Life Sciences Officer at Wildlife Reserves Singapore said, "At WRS we were proud to work with the IUCN SSC Pangolin Specialist Group to devise these strategic actions, all of which are crucial to ensuring the conservation of pangolins in Africa as well as Asia."
The conference was made possible by the generous support of Wildlife Reserves Singapore, Wildlife Reserves Singapore Conservation Fund, the Zoological Society of London, San Antonio Zoo, the Houston Zoo, TRAFFIC, Ocean Park Conservation Foundation, Hong Kong. It is part of Wildlife Reserves Conservation Fund's (WRSCF) efforts to conserve endangered native wildlife. Since its inception in 2009, the Fund has supported various projects and conferences.
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Learn about owls
Dec. 10, 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Soldiers Delight Natural Environmental Area in Patapsco Valley State Park, 5100 Deer Park Road, Owings Mills. Participants will follow a naturalist on a one-mile hike and listen for and try to call out owls. There will be a discussion of biology, habitat, diet and conservation. For families and individual adult patrons. Meet at visitor center. Ages 16 and up unless joined by an adult. Call 410-461-5005 to sign up. Cost: $5 per person.
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Dec. 15, Patapsco Valley State Park, Hilton Area. Children 4 and older may join their parents and other hikers on an easy three-miler through the woods, along the river and across a swinging bridge to Cascade Falls and the Hilton Tire Park. Small hills and stream crossings. Wear layered clothes and sturdy shoes. Bring water, snacks and lunch. $2 guest fee for non-Mountain Club of Maryland members. Call leader Gerry Hemming at 301-807-4783 to reserve a spot and find out when the hike begins.
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Dec. 22, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Gunpowder Falls State Park, 10500 Belair Road, Perry Hall. Celebrate the shortest day of the year with an evening hike guided by a park ranger. This three-mile rugged hike covers rough and varied terrain. Bring your own headlamp or flashlight and water. Dress appropriately. Pre-registration is required. Call: 410-592-2897. Donations welcome.
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Md. Half Marathon
Registration is open for the fifth annual Maryland Half Marathon to benefit the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center. The race will be May 11 in the Maple Lawn community of Howard County. Registration costs $75 until Jan. 31, $85 in February and $90 from March 1 to May 11. The Dozer's Kids Fun Run is $15. Register at mdhalfmarathon.com.
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Wisconsin's veterans visit their memorials and reflect on the moments no one there will soon forget.
Ironically, it was a trip that almost wasn't, as parts of this weekend's Badger Honor Flight were threatened by the just-ended federal government shutdown.
Maybe that's why the welcoming committee seemed a little bigger and their cheers a little louder as Wisconsin's veterans left Madison Saturday for Washington, D.C.
Badger Honor Flight, a regional affiliate of the national Honor Flight Network, ensures that veterans have the opportunity to see the memorials that have been erected in their honor.
The Honor Flight Network provides all amenities to the veterans, including all transportation, meals, and lodging.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then many moments this weekend were priceless.
88 of the veterans that left Saturday soaked in tradition and wrapped in well-wishes were from Wisconsin.
The two-hour Honor Flight and trip that followed was the organization's 13th trip of World War II, Korean, and Vietnam War veterans.
"I know three people on this plane and I'm looking forward to meeting a lot more of them," said Don Schneider of Neilsville.
But little did Schneider know about the people waiting to meet him.
The group enjoyed an overwhelming welcome to the nation's capital that would soon turn solemn after the group arrived at their first stop, Arlington National Cemetery, were more than 300,000 men and women are buried.
That's not far from the Marine Corps Memorial, where the group had their picture taken, and where Spring Green native Francis Feiner made a confession.
"I guess I have to, not lie, but I have to admit it really wasn't my idea," Feiner said, admitting that it was his daughter who encouraged him to take the trip.
The World War II Memorial was also a stop at which to reflect and remember, and for others, to reconnect at a corner of the world where they all have a little something in common.
"My favorite part today was meeting American people that have compassion for a generation that fought for our country and is still in their hearts, their minds, that they appreciate it and loved us for it and they'll never, never forget it," said Wilson Krohn of Cottage Grove.
There were other monuments the group gathered at as well, then came some dancing at another ceremony before they headed home.
It was a memorable day, capped off by a final celebration that only Wisconsin could pull off.
Nearly 6,000 people packed the airport, perhaps the largest local gathering to ever have come out to say thank you to the greatest generation.
"It's an incredible thing, it's just heartfelt and you could just tell they all appreciated we came out here," said one admirer at the airport.
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The cover is woven with Owens-Corning Fiberglass yarn and is guaranteed never to burn. It is a weave used for fire fighters, racecar drivers and astronaut's protective clothing. It reflects approximately 95% of the heat placed on it, making it possible to with a MEDIUM heat setting (either steam or dry) to iron all fabric-linen, cotton, silk, wool and synthetics. Place buttons, snaps, zippers, needlework, and fabric with nap right side down and iron on the backside. The nap, hardware or needlework sinks into the super cushion allowing the iron to glide easily, and perfectly iron both sides at once.
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Chris Rieger, an EE student at the University of Queensland, built this light that both levitates and gets its power wirelessly.
This is a project I've been working on for about 6 months now next to my regular studies. It is a levitating light bulb. This project came to life when i saw Jeff Lieberman's implementation of it a few months before starting. I was fascinated and started research on building my own, reading many academic papers and spending long nights reading up on pretty much every project which included wireless power transfer or magnetic leviation. What I found is that there are many many existing projects of both, but only a few have combined both these technologies. Once you have both working it's really just a matter of overlaying them. The high frequency magnetic field generated from the wireless power transfer circuit does not effect the leviation aspect of the build.
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Type annotations for boto3.CloudHSMV2 1.12.33 service, generated by mypy-boto3-buider 1.0.6
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Type annotations for boto3.CloudHSMV2 1.12.33 service compatible with mypy, VSCode, PyCharm and other tools.
Generated by mypy-boto3-buider 1.0.6.
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UNESCO's Commitment to Action for the cultural recovery of Jacmel (Haiti) has been accepted by the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The project was seeking USD 500,000 matching funds to an initiative of USD 1,000,000 to support the culture sector in Jacmel, which was badly affected by the earthquake of January 2010.
In a project building on various assets of the culture sector, UNESCO committed to help rebuild and safeguard the cultural heritage of the town of Jacmel and its annual carnival, as well as to improve economic development in the region through tourism and cultural industries. As result, sustainable jobs in tourism and cultural industries will be created, especially for the young people of the Jacmel area. The project accepted by the CGI is building on earlier efforts financed by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development (AECID). Integrated, these action will allow for a substantial support to Jamel, as also identified in UNESCO's strategy: Haiti - Making Culture a Motor for Reconstruction.
Established in 2005 by President Bill Clinton, the CGI convenes global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges. Since 2005, CGI Annual Meetings have brought together nearly 150 current and former heads of state, 18 Nobel Prize laureates, hundreds of leading CEOs, heads of foundations, major philanthropists, directors of the most effective nongovernmental organizations, and prominent members of the media. The 2011 Annual Meeting will take place in New York City from 20 to 22 September 2011.


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more, More, MORE. STOP! Rather than cram more features into Bump 3.0, the team behind the 75 million-installs mobile app combed the data and brushed off all the features no one used. Now, instead of letting you wirelessly share apps, music, and calendar events with nearby devices, it only allows contacts and photo sharing. That's a better user experience, and an example other developers should follow.
Bump launched a minimum viable product 3 years ago to allow mobile users to exchange contact info by physically bumping their devices into each other. It got lots of downloads, raised almost $20 million, and promptly shot itself in the foot by adding a bunch of extraneous features to version 2.0 of it iPhone and Android apps.
Soon the team realized, "If [someone] didn't try contacts or photos, we had a low chance of them becoming a repeat user." After today's streamlining, "you're nearly guaranteed to have a great experience", co-founder Jake Mintz told me. Let that be a lesson: developers should nail one or two use cases rather than succumb to bloat.
The decision of what to cut was easy. Bump's 12 million monthly active users were sharing roughly 2 million photos every day, but only 7,000 calendar events. Dropping calendar and other unnecessary features was for the greater good. "The people who were using it will be upset, Mintz admits, "but there's relatively few of them."
There is one thing new about Bump 3.0. When you Bump with someone, you'll see which Facebook friends you have in common, giving it some of the functionality of new passive serendipity location app Highlight.
If you're trying to challenge Bump in the mobile-to-mobile sharing space, think twice. Products which require both users to have the app must be magical and revolutionary to overcome the added friction of getting people to download them on the spot. Bump already has the network effect locked in. Bump co-founder Dave Lieb warns competitors "It might be easier to go after new problems."
Bump 3.0 is available now for Android and should hit the iOS App Store later today.


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Day four: An unwitting accomplice?
On a day when colleagues of slain kindergarten teacher Justine Abshire took the stand to describe a talented, highly respected professional who appeared distraught on the last day of her life, it was another witness who shocked the courtroom, as he testified that, unwittingly, on the night of Justine's death he may have helped her widower, former dump truck driver and Greene County resident Eric Abshire, stage a hit and run.
"I got lost," said Cecil Roebuck, whose Charlottesville-based parade float-manufacturing business allegedly took him to the side roads of Greene County late on the night of November 2, 2006, in search of a school bus whose chassis he hoped to use for a float base.
Confused in the dark on the unfamiliar roads, Roebuck testified, he pulled his car into a driveway to turn around when a man approached. Roebuck sought directions back to U.S. 29, he testified, and the man responded with a request of his own.
"My wife's car is almost out of gas," the man allegedly said, asking Roebuck to follow him to a gas station. Roebuck testified that he followed the car along winding roads that Roebuck didn't recognize. But before they reached any fuel, the man allegedly pulled the car onto a shoulder, told Roebuck it had run out of gas, and asked for a ride– not to a gas station, but back to his house.
As extensively reported in the Hook, Abshire has long contended that his wife left their Fredericksburg Road house some time after midnight on the morning of November 3 following an argument, only to call him just after 1am to say that her car had broken down and she needed him to retrieve her.
Roebuck's testimony– that Abshire drove his wife's car there that night– pokes another hole in a story that prosecutors say is full of them. But the defense attempted to poke holes in Roebuck's story, suggesting that the man who could be the prosecution's star witness has motivation to lie.
Roebuck testified he didn't connect his experience that November night with Justine's death until more than two years later, in December 2008, when he read several articles on her death and watched an hour-long ABC Primetime Crime episode that originally aired in July 2008.
"It looked like him," Roebuck said, pointing to Abshire.
He reported his recollection to the Virginia State Police tip line, who, according to law enforcement testimony today, found Roebuck's story credible after verifying the path Roebuck claimed to have taken, the date of his trek, and the location of an old school bus on Fredericksburg Road close to the house that Eric and Justine shared.
The defense, however, suggested that Roebuck was actually after the $50,000 reward offered in the case and was hoping to receive some favorable treatment from prosecutors in two felony fraud charges he was then facing in Albemarle County stemming from a $10,000 debt. (While he eventually entered an Alford plea to reduced misdemeanor counts, Roebuck and his attorney, JIm Summers, both testified that no special treatment was sought or offered in exchange for his tip.)
Also testifying on day three of the prosecution's case was Justine's father, Steve Swartz, who detailed the dire financial straits his daughter faced at the time of her death, with $85,000 in debt, much of it on credit cards, and just a $34,000 salary.
Emotion ran high as several of Justine's colleagues testified about seeing her distraught at Emerald Hill Elementary on November 2, 2006, what turned out to be the last day of her life.
"She looked awful," said reading specialist Jennifer Bryant. "Her eyes were swollen shut, her face was flushed. It looked as if she'd been crying severely."
Bryant was one of four colleagues who testified that sympathetic questioning of their friend's condition led to the same reply: "I have allergies," Justine reportedly told them.
According to both Bryant and to Justine's self-described "best friend," Kathleen Whitley, Justine's odd behavior actually began around the time of her May 28, 2006, wedding to Eric Abshire when Justine distanced herself from the women with whom she'd frequently socialized outside work.
"We didn't talk as much, she didn't return phone calls," recalled Whitley, a fellow Emerald Hill kindergarten teacher.
In addition to reporting that Justine appeared to be upset throughout the day, Whitley testified to stopping by Justine's classroom with a question that morning. The classroom door was locked, she testified, and when she peered through the glass portion of the door, she could see Justine "sitting with her back to the door, talking on her cellphone."
Justine did not respond to Whitley "jiggling" the handle, and later that day, she declined to drive in tandem with Whitley to the UVA graduate class the two women attended at Orange County Elementary School. Instead, Whitley testified, Justine arrived 30 minutes late to class and wore sunglasses inside. After class ended at 7pm, Whitley said, Justine left immediately.
Within hours, she'd be dead.
One detail the jury didn't hear: Bryant's recollection of several shopping trips she and Justine took to Fredericksburg in late 2004 or early 2005, where they visited the Best Buy store where Eric Abshire was working. Abshire, Brantley told the court, seemed less than loving toward his wife.
"He called her stupid and dumb, multiple times," said Brantley, whose testimony on this detail was excluded by Orange County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Bouton because the events occurred nearly two years before her death.
Virginia State Police Special Agent Mike Jones also returned to the stand today, where under cross examination, Abshire's attorney Charles Weber asked about a car that mysteriously burned on Taylorsville Road sometime in the weeks after Justine's death. Through his questioning, Weber was accusing Jones of failing to follow up on tips that might lead to someone other than Abshire.
In his final ruling of the day, Judge Bouton denied the prosecution's request to introduce evidence about an SUV that was reported stolen five days before Justine's death and was discovered in an unlocked storage unit just a mile and a half from her body. Abshire had looked at the SUV on two occasions in October 2006, and during one of his visits, the key went missing. Commonwealth's Attorney Diana Wheeler revealed that when it was recovered on November 11, 2006, just over a week after Justine's death, the SUV had been stripped of its floor mats, running boards, and rear seat. No physical evidence, however, tied it to Eric or Justine.
The trial resumes Tuesday, October 18.Read more on: eric abshire
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What was the $85k in debt about? They had been married only 5 months. Was it all run up in 5 months? I guess that puts an end to the story of the car breaking down.
Even if it hadn't ended up in her death, it is really sad that she was so distraught yet was unable to communicate this to anyone.
Ladies - never marry a man who verbally abuses you. And never stay with a man who verbally abuses you. Verbal abuse isn't guaranteed to lead to physical abuse, or even death, but it certainly increases your chances, and the statistics show that physical abuse *always* starts with verbal. Supposedly Justine was being called stupid and dumb by this guy two years before he allegedy had responsibility in her death. That's verbal abuse, and some major disrespect. He clearly did not love her. Women should not tolerate this. There are so many good guys out there who don't abuse women in any way, so there's no need to hang onto an abuser. As Dan Savage would say - DTMFA. Seriously. It's hard for many women to do though, unfortunately. They stay with a guy for all the wrong reasons. "I've invested X amount of years into this relationship...I can't walk away now." "What would everybody think?" "Maybe if I change and try harder to appease him he'll stop abusing me and things will go back to the way they were." You can ALWAYS walk away no matter HOW long you've been married. Who cares what other people think - your own safety is all that matters (and especially if children are involved). And he will never change, no matter what you do to appease him. In fact, the harder you try the worse it'll get, because abusers are predators and they get off on the weakness and the idea that you're groveling to them. It just fuels their fire.
Even if a verbal abuser never takes it to outright physical abuse it's still some major disrespect, and we can all do much better than that. Even if one has to be alone for a period of time, it's better to be alone for the right reasons and safe then to be with some abusive clown. And trust me, any guy that resorts to verbal abuse and name calling and physical harm is a total clown. It's all about self respect. No clown is worth that kind of treatment.


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Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846) was the leading opponent of the slave trade and slavery in England in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His opposition was was based on religious (he was an evangelical Anglican), moral, political, and economic grounds and he had an enormous impact in Europe and the United States.