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With the royal wedding just hours away, princess-to-be Kate Middleton has got to be seriously stressed out right now. In fact, some have suggested that the stress of planning the wedding of the century has led to her significant and potentially unhealthy weight loss.
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Paying attention to your posture will help you feel more powerful. An open (versus constricted) stance makes it easier to see the big picture and take charge, a study from Northwestern University suggests. Why? That posture seems to trigger the release of testosterone and lower stress levels. Keep your chin up!
Swedish massage therapy lowers stress hormones and buoys immunity, a study in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine notes. "White blood cells increase, which can help the body fight disease," explains study author Mark Rapaport, M.D.
Even if your schedule is scary-full, you may get benefits from meditating for as little as five minutes. If even that's a stretch, you can reduce stress simply by doing daily chores more mindfully. "Staying steadily, attentively present with everyday tasks such as doing the dishes or brushing your teeth can be a calming, informal kind of meditation," says Rick Hanson, Ph.D., a neuropsychologist in San Rafael, California, and author of Buddha's Brain.
Get thee to a window: Sunshine raises your levels of serotonin (the neurotransmitter of happy feelings), and studies show most fluorescent lights increase cortisol and irritability.
Lie on a mat of plastic spikes? Our first reaction: Hell to the no! But the tiny discs on this at-home mat target pressure points to release stress. Find your AcuMat here.
Indulge! In a study published in the Journal of Proteome Research, people who ate 1 1/2 oz dark chocolate daily had lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol than those who didn't eat the sweet. Researchers suggest that polyphenols in chocolate may alter metabolism in ways that affect production of the hormone. Be choosy: Sugary chocolate could spike blood sugar and lead to a crash. Look for a bar containing 60 to 74 percent cocoa solids and enjoy a square with a handful of strawberries, which might help protect your brain against the ravages of stress.
Singing and listening to music can reduce activity in certain brain regions, which in turn instruct the pituitary and endocrine glands to secrete fewer stress hormones, says Joke Bradt, Ph.D., assistant director of the Arts and Quality of Life Research Center at Temple University in Philadelphia.
While we do suggest sticking to one or two drinks, having a drink with friends is linked to lower rates of stroke and cardiovascular disease, a study from Osaka University in Japan shows. A lack of social support can cause heart-harmful mental stress in solo sippers, countering any of alcohol's perks. Toast to your ticker together.
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Today we're gonna' be talkin' about SAD SHIT.
SAD SHIT as in The Top 5 Traumatic Deaths in Movies kinda' SAD.
Please take note that everything contained in this list is a product of the Azn Badger's childhood; so don't expect any movies on here to be made anytime past the mid-90's.
Anyway, let's get thing's rollin', shall we?:
#5. The NeverEnding Story – Artax Eats Some Mud. Check That, A Lot of Mud…
The NeverEnding Story was a tough movie for me to watch as a kid.
It was long, I didn't really get it, there was a lot of unintentionally scary imagery, and oh yeah, it was long.
So long in fact, that I never really finished it as a kid, resulting in me thinking the whole thing ended with the end of the world at the hands of The Nothing.
Pretty fuckin' sad, am I right?
Thankfully, I went ahead and saw the rest of the movie a few years ago, thusly patching up a few childhood scars in the process.
That being said, while this death doesn't really count as a death; 'cause if memory serves, Artax is still alive and well at the end of the movie, to the young Azn Badger the fuckin' horse died in the mud hole.
Anyway, this death marks probably the first and only time the Azn Badger ever felt any sort of emotion in reference to a horse.
It was the fuckin' kid that got to me, that girlie-boy Atreyu.
They're both standing in them mud, and the fuckin' kid is blowin' his lungs out screaming at his fuckin' horse to "not give in to the sadness of the swamps" n'shit.
Meanwhile, the music is swelling and gettin' all sad and crestfallen n'shit.
The whole thing was just too much for me as a kid, and for the life of me; I bought into it.
While I didn't really "get" the Neverending Story back then, little episodes like Artax bitin' the big one stuck with me on a visceral level; in this case, making me very sad.
Fun Fact – The only reason I remember that damn horse's name is because of his death scene when Atreyu yells it about 50 times.
Repetition: It works.
#4. The Lion King – Mufasa Gets 50,000 Wildebeasts Rammed Up His Ass
Mufasa was a pimp.
You take the raw power of James Earl Jones' voice, and transplant it into the body of the biggest, baddest, most pimp-as-fuck lion in all of existence; and you've got Mufasa.
Needless to say, in my youth; Mufasa's death hit me pretty hard.
As I hope we all know, Mufasa met his fate at the hands of the combined force of a stampeding herd of wildebeast, and the nasty claws of Jeremy Irons.
Any less, and I'm sure his pimp-ass self would've survived somehow.
Anyway, Mufasa; pimp that he is, rushes headlong into the stampede to save his pussy-ass son, Simba.
While he is successful in rescuing the boy, Mufasa takes some serious shots from the fuckin' wildebeasts, the kinda' hits that would fold a lesser lion in half.
All the while, Hans Zimmer's music was goin' crazy, and all the kids in the audience were either pickin' their boogers, or hoping against hope that 'ole Mufasa was gonna' pull through and not fall prey to "Bambi's Mother Syndrome."
That's right Disney, don't pretend that us kids don't know about "Bambi's Mother Syndrome."
Just as Mufasa's managed to escape the stampede for just a few seconds, out strolls his brother; Jeremy Irons.
Slimey prick that he is, Jeremy Irons busts out his freshly manicured nails; and digs them puppies into Mufasa's paws; but not before saying something creepy and vaguely savage like:
How ironic that the pimpest of all lions would be felled by a bunch of wildebeast AKA the butt of every Discovery Channel predator/prey joke…
To make matters worse, Mufasa's death has the added impact of having a 40 minute guilt trip attached to it.
Jeremy Irons tells Simba, straight to his face; that the whole thing was his fault.
This of course results in Simba running off into the wild for the next 10 years to eat bugs and talk to clouds.
Oh well, guess we all have to cope somehow…
#3. The Land Before Time – Littlefoot's Mom Gets Sharptooth-ed
The Land Before Time was a special movie for me back in the day.
Come to think of it, while I'm sure how it all worked out, Don Bluth movies were all some of my favorites as a kid.
While the Secret of NIMH was definitely the cream of the crop, even back in the day, (sword fight!) The Land Before Time had dinosaurs and Spielberg-ian funding, making it a close second.
Although it wasn't a Disney production, rest assured Mr. Bluth saw fit to work some "Bambi's Mother Syndrome" into the mix in the form of Littlefoot's Mom.
Much like the Lion King after it, Littlefoot's Mother meets her fate partially due to the actions of her son.
In short, Littlefoot and Cera are dickin' around in the wild, they piss off Sharptooth, Littlefoot's Mom shows up to save the kids, does so, but is mortally wounded in the process.
Cue lengthy and heartbreaking death scene wherein parent reminds child that "they'll always be with them."
While the actual battle with Sharptooth was awesome to the young Azn Badger, instead of horrifying as it may have been intended to be perceived, the death sequence afterwards was just plain tough to sit through.
Even now, I bet I'd have a tough time getting through it without biting my lip or taking a deep breath or 2.
#2. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea – Captain Nemo Succumbs To His ACTING TALENT
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, along with The Adventures of Robin Hood, was one of those terrific "old movies" that as a kid; I never knew was "old."
I watched the both of them about a million times, and I don't think I ever got close to getting tired of them.
While Robin Hood had swashbuckling and and ungodly amount of merry laughter, Leagues had Kirk Douglas and a GIANT FUCKING SQUID.
The epic-ness of these 2 factors made for one of the single most spectacular and enchanting films of my childhood.
That being said, despite Kirk Douglas' Ned Land being my favorite character, James Mason's Captain Nemo was a pretty close second.
Even as a kid, I loved his pimp-ass beard, and the curious way in which he spoke.
His voice was awesome and all, but I loved the pace of his speech, how it was just a half beat slower than everyone else.
Appropriately, it made him seem enigmatic, like you'd never be able to figure out what he was thinking in a million years if you tried.
Anyway, while 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea was yet another movie that I didn't quite "get" when I watched it as a kid, Captain Nemo's death was something that I understood all too well.
As with seemingly all deaths on this list, the music made all the difference.
Captain Nemo is running atop the Nautilus, dodging incoming gunfire from the dudes that want his technological secrets.
He jukes left, he jukes right, and all the while the strings in the orchestra are goin' fuckin' nuts.
Suddenly, just as he's within feet of the entrance to the lower deck of the submarine, his body spasms and the music crashes to a halt with a horrifying *DOOOOMMM!*
No squib, no blood spurt, just James Mason's ACTING TALENT and the power of a music cue.
From there, the rest of the movie has Nemo, resigned to the fate of his eventual death; lurch and stumble his way through the submarine to a couch next to an undersea viewing window.
Nemo's last moments are spent gazing into the deep blue that he loved so much.
While the death was pretty epic, it was the initial gunshot that hit me as a kid.
As soon as that music cue hit, my tiny heart sunk down to my toes.
*Sniff!* I honestly thought he was going to make it…
#1. Transformers: The Movie – Optimus Prime Becomes One With The Matrix
This may seem like a cop-out to some.
A predictable, bandwagon-y ploy to get the nerds to read the blog; however if any of you genuinely think that, then you obviously don't know the Azn Badger.
As mentioned several times on this blog, I watched Transformers: The Movie, quite literally nearly every day of my early childhood.
My older brother did the same.
Transformers: The Movie was one of those magical films that just did it for me as a kid.
I loved Godzilla movies as kid, but that was because I loved Godzilla as a character.
Transformers: The Movie was a case of me simply loving an individual movie more than any human child should.
While I was a little bit too young to have enjoyed the Transformers TV show while it was first airing, The Movie served as my ambassador to the series; giving me a crash-course on the Gen-1 stuff before I even started watching the re-runs.
That being said, the opening battle on Cybertron, that takes the vast majority of the original cast of the show and kills them off in favor of new toys, I mean characters; was truly a thing of beauty.
The battle on Cybertron worked because it had actual stakes.
Lives were lost on both sides of the conflict, such that you truly got the sense that everyone was fair game.
Hell, Ironhide was one of my favorites from the TV show, and he got his head blown off in the first 10 minutes.
Not only that, Prowl died a few seconds earlier via some hot chili; and Wheeljack, fuckin' Wheeljack wouldn't even get the respect of having an on-screen death.
These were big name guys, characters that were at the forefront of the action in every episode of the TV show, and here they were gettin' their clocks cleaned in the first 20 minutes of The Movie!
Then they went and killed Optimus Prime.
If the battle between Optimus Prime and Megatron at the beginning of Transformers: The Movie is one of the best fights in cinema history, then the death of Optimus Prime is surely one of the most dramatic deaths.
I love the subtlety of the death sequence.
Everyone is gathered around Prime, their facial expressions communicating far more than words could hope to.
Perceptor, the closest thing the group has to a doctor, presents his diagnosis with a simple:
"I'm afraid the wounds are, fatal…"
With the silence broken, Daniel; the child of the group, is the first to speak his mind:
From there, the whole thing just gets more and more epic.
We have the passing of the Matrix to Ultra Magnus, the not-so subtle symbolism of Hot Rod catching the Matrix, and Optimus Prime just plain being awesome, even as he's moments from death.
At the end of it all, the hammer of childhood trauma drops as Optimus Prime's entire form turns black, a decidedly fatalistic percussive music cue hits; and Prime commits his final act as his head limply turns to the side.
That, my friends; is how you kill an icon.
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Barcelona to host world's first sports theme park
By Barry Neild, CNN • Published 4th August 2014
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Fitness isn't usually a requirement for theme parks -- standing in lines, climbing into rides and screaming in abject terror require only basic levels of stamina.
Not so at the world's first-ever sports amusement park planned for the Olympic Stadium and other Olympic venues in Barcelona, which promises to give visitors the chance to experience what it's like to race against Usain Bolt.
Open Camp will offer more than 50 "virtual experiences with links to every sport" when it opens in 2015, according to officials in the Spanish city.
Details of how they'll be able to strut their stuff against the world's fastest and strongest are so far thin on the ground, but a promotional video offers some clues.
One image shows people strapped to horizontal machines that supposedly mimic swimming as a screen in front of them shows an Olympic-sized pool.
Another shows a visitor in ski gear hoisted aloft in a wind tunnel apparently designed to recreate the experience of ski jumping.
It's not just about taking part though -- it's also about winning.
The park will also stage daily awards ceremonies to dole out bronze, silver and gold.
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A statement said "the best technology on the planet" would be used in creating the "sportainment" experience.
"Visitors will be able to feel what it is like to be professional football players, run a smooth 100 meters against Usain Bolt, take part in any Olympic Games race recreated exactly as it was in reality and experience a medals ceremony," it said.
It said the park is intended to breathe new life into the "neglected" venues that hosted Barcelona's Olympics in 1992. Since then the venues have continued to host sports events as well as music concerts.
"The park will bring more life to the stadium than it has today and encourage more of the public to use it, while allowing it to continue holding big events," says Maite Fandos, one of the city's deputy mayors.
More than €20 million ($26 million) of private funding has been stumped up for the project, which is expected to create at least 240 jobs and bring in up to €53 million in annual revenues.
Tickets ranging from €20-30 are likely to be priced according to the sports that visitors want to take part in, the statement says.
While it sounds exhausting, Open Camp promoter Francesc Medina
reportedly insists
it'll be an experience for everyone, "even people with a beer gut."
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This first picture is a canvas I made for our school's annual dinner auction. The dinner/auction is to help raise money for our school; of course a good cause! Since the school our children go to is a Christian school I wanted the piece to reflect that. So I decided I wanted to do a picture with all the children's and staff's fingerprints, but then you run into making a piece that is fun and looks more then just a canvas with finger prints stuck on it. Since I loved the "UP" movie I kept thinking of the bunch of balloons that lifted the house up and thought "ummm.... a bunch of balloons would be nice. I originally drew a simple drawing of the front of the church and was going to attach the balloons to that, but I didn't want the canvas too big and it was already 20x24, not real big, but not too small, but adding the building I would have had to go up to a 24x30 canvas, so I decided to leave off the house and in place of that I did the verse "Once Jesus touches your heart, the fingerprints last forever." So, after I figured out the design I ventured out to get the prints at school this past week and then placed their first name on top of their print. I color coded each class and the key is on the back of the canvas. (so first grade was blue, second was red and so on..) I actually placed each finger where I wanted it, mainly because I wanted the colors to be spread out and the overall shape in a heart. Hope that makes sense. After having all the prints I came home and drew a balloon around each print and then strings to each print and "tied" them to the word Jesus. I just loved how it turned out and I think the children really thought it was cool. I did a big cross for church many years ago with the children and had them each paint a tile and then my dad made a cross for me to place all the tiles in. The cross hangs in the main room which is part of our church/school and the children still still love to go and find their tile (and they have grown quite a bit since then). So I know the children will continue to love finding their prints as well.
This is the finished canvas. It looks a little weird, because I forgot to take a picture of it before I place the plastic wrap over it. So you can see the wrinkles of that and it was a harder to photograph because of that. Oh well, you get the idea. This would make a great project for any school or class or even a family tree type project. I used my cat eye chalk inks for most of the prints and then sprayed the canvas with Deft to seal it. I also place a cute ribbon all away around the side edges which gave it a nice finished look.
These next pictures are a canvas I did for the lady that does my hair. She has her own salon outside her house and I painted the salon walls a few years back and made two custom painting for her on canvas in black and white and added a touch color that I painted her walls with; back then. She also does nails, but I never get my nails done, but every time I go I see a dead spot that I felt needed a piece of art, which was above where she did her nails. So, as a Christmas gift I made this canvas for her. Not sure why I have such trouble photographing artwork on canvas, but I seem to! I also put ribbon on the outside edge of the canvas and it was black with white polka-dots like in the lettering and nails. I think it turned out cute and she seemed to love it. That orange/red and pinkish colors are the colors of her walls.
This is a quick card I made my girl friend for a recent birthday and just now getting around to posting it. The image is a new release at Paper Cupcakes-Stamps called Frilly Cupcake.
These are my daughter's fingernails that I painted a few weeks back. We seen this somewhere on the internet and so I gave it a try. They looked really cute with the orange and they were fun fun fun!
This is a cake I made back in December for a church function "Advent by Candlelight". I hosted a table and we were all asked to bring a special desert to share. This is what I made. It was a Raspberry Torte and it was YUMMY! Although it got a little "cockeyed" and slid a little on the way to church. It was a lot of fun to make and so so yummy too. The chocolate sticks were way fun to make and stick in the cake. Easy too. It made a lovely presentation, but a little harder to cut with all that stuff on top, but we managed to eat all of it.
Thanks for stopping by to lurk and if you read half of this I have to give you a big thanks! Now off to pick up from school!! Make it a great day!


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11 comments:
- Jay's Shadow said...
Great photo.
Someday I'll find one of those. Someday........
- February 17, 2014 at 7:27 AM
- Adam said...
Totally unrelated, but if you havent started watching True Detective on HBO, START. Dark, creepy, not what you think. Really Really good. Full of foreboding doom and darkness. I think you'll dig it. Only 5 episodes in and trust me, it gets weirder with each one. I cant give to much away, but take my word for it
- February 17, 2014 at 10:39 AM
- Rot said...
never heard of it.
will absolutely check it out.
I pay for HBO and rarely watch it.
- February 17, 2014 at 11:48 AM
- Autumnleaf said...
I love this even in the snow! Could totally sit around it with a fire underneath and watch the snow melt in a circle around it. Btw, what a TOTALLY cool blog header!
- February 17, 2014 at 1:34 PM
- Rot said...
Thanks a TON, Adam.
We just watched 1-4 and I think this is the best thing I've ever watched.
Like ever.
And I don't say that lightly.
- February 17, 2014 at 7:47 PM
- Adam said...
Holy crap, really?! Im glad i hit a home run with this recommendation. Now enjoy googling EVERYTHING about The Yellow King. And watch episode 5. Trust me.
- February 17, 2014 at 10:47 PM
- bean said...
Adam...Matt Mc's character is my favorite...EVER.
He spouts poetry.
- February 18, 2014 at 6:28 AM
- Adam said...
Bean, glad you guys love it. The acting is sooooo good
- February 18, 2014 at 1:58 PM
- Adam said...
And his whole rant on religion during the tent evangelist scene, best ever!
- February 18, 2014 at 1:59 PM
- Rot said...
That was an incredible scene.
- February 18, 2014 at 2:39 PM
- bean said...
I loved the one about bringing kids into the world... I mean.... DAMN.
- February 18, 2014 at 3:22 PM


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NEA launches national bullying prevention campaign
Van Roekel: 'One caring adult can make all the difference to a student'
WASHINGTON - March 03, 2011 -
The days when bullying was seen merely as a rite of passage or thought of as "kids being kids" are long gone. As recent high-profile tragedies make clear, bullying is an issue that must be taken seriously and addressed head on. Recognizing the enormous physical, emotional, and academic toll that bullying can take on students, the National Education Association (NEA) today announced a new initiative, "NEA's Bully Free: It Starts With Me," a national campaign to engage adults in stopping bullying whenever or wherever it occurs.
"Bullying is serious, it can come in many forms, and it always hurts," said NEA President Dennis Van Roekel. "We know that one caring adult can make a world of difference to a bullied child. One caring adult, who takes the time to listen, who steps in when they see or hear bullying, can change a child's life. Teachers, counselors and school employees are united in tackling this problem. Our students are counting on us."
Information on NEA's "Bully Free: It Starts With Me" campaign, as well as resources and training information, can be found at www.nea.org/bullyfree. Adults who pledge to help bullied students will make themselves known as individuals who will listen carefully to the student who comes to them with a concern about bullying. They will also agree to take action to stop the bullying. NEA, for its part, promises to provide those caring adults with the tools and resources they need to provide solace and support for the bullied student, to ask the right questions, and to take the appropriate actions to stop the bullying.
"Before technology such as e-mail, cell phones and social networking sites, students might be able to leave bullies behind when they went home from school each day," said Van Roekel. "But now, bullies can send messages to their victims through text messages and on computers at any time of the day or night—and it's critical that responsible and caring adults feel they have the resources they need to address all of the kinds of bullying behaviors that students face.
"We have a team of people who work with students every day, everyone from the classroom teacher and the bus driver to the cafeteria worker and the administrative staff," said Van Roekel. "We are encouraging them to take 'NEA's Bully Free: It Starts With Me' pledge by publicly announcing that they will take whatever steps necessary to make sure that all of our students are safe and ready and able to learn."
Van Roekel encourages parents to take notice of their children's behavior, appearance and mood, both for signs of a child being bullied or one who may be engaging in bullying behavior. "We need to continue to foster the active involvement of teachers, administrators, education support professionals, parents and the larger community in a whole school initiative to eliminate bullying and harassment. It is our shared responsibility to make sure that every child feels safe at school. Working together, we can make our nation's public schools bully free."
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By MOTOKO RICH
Published: December 3, 2010
In a jolting surprise to the economic recovery and market expectations, the United States economy added just 39,000 jobs in November, and the unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent, according to the Department of Labor.
November's number was nowhere near enough to help the large ranks of the unemployed, and was far below analysts' consensus forecast of close to 150,000 jobs and an unchanged jobless rate of 9.6 percent. More than 15 million people remain out of work, and 6.3 million of them have been unemployed for six months or longer.
The monthly snapshot of the job market could lend more support to the suggestion by the Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, that the government continue to stimulate the economy, as well as the Obama administration's call for an extension of unemployment benefits. The apparent loss of hiring momentum may also fuel the debate over whether the government should take aggressive steps to reduce the deficit in the near term or wait until the economy returns to better health.
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. called the weak November jobs report is "disappointing" and urged Congress to extend unemployment benefits and tax cuts for the middle class.
Included in the latest report were revisions from previous months. The agency now says that the economy added 172,000 jobs in October, instead of the 151,000 jobs previously reported. The number of people who were unemployed because they were laid off or because a temporary assignment ended increased by 390,000, while the number of people re-entering the labor force — after a period of not looking for work — was actually down by 61,000.
Private companies, which have been hiring since the beginning of the year, added 50,000 jobs in November. Most of those increases came from the temporary help and health care sectors. Manufacturing companies, which had showed some strength earlier in the year, lost 13,000 jobs. Temporary workers accounted for 40,000 of the net increase in private sector jobs. Staffing firms said that companies were continuing to use contract workers to fill gaps.
Employers are "still in the position of saying 'hey, we need help, but only when we absolutely have to do we commit to permanent hiring,' " said Tig Gilliam, chief executive of Adecco North America, a temporary staffing company. "That uncertainty takes time to overcome."
The anemic growth in jobs came as economists had been gradually showing more optimism. Weekly initial unemployment claims have recently been trending lower, pending home sales in October topped forecasts and November retail sales jumped by one of their highest increases in years.
"Obviously this is a disappointing report, to say the least," said James O'Sullivan, chief economist at MF Global. But he said he did not believe the recovery was actually derailed. "Certainly the weight of evidence is that the economy is improving, and labor data can be unreliable."
Many risks remain for the economy. The latest numbers included 14,000 local government job losses, which could accelerate if mayors and city councils are forced to prune further to deal with shrinking budgets and larger deficits.
With President Obama's deficit commission examining long-term spending cuts, unemployment benefits expiring and a Congressional fight over taxes looming, consumer spending, which has recently shown signs of life, could come under pressure. That, in turn, could cause businesses to reconsider hiring plans.
Advocates for the unemployed were shocked by the jobs data.
"I'm still trying to get my jaw off the floor," said Andrew Stettner, deputy director of the National Employment Law Project. "What it does is it kills the story that maybe I thought we could start telling, which was steady improvement. If we had four months in a row of improving jobs numbers, we would still need a lot of work to get back to full employment, but now it's not even moving in the right direction."
The lack of strong hiring has puzzled some because companies are enjoying strong profits and building large cash reserves. But economists said that employers are still holding back on adding new workers.
"What may be behind that is that a lot of this profit increase has come about from cost cutting," said Kevin Logan, chief United States economist at HSBC Global Banking and Markets. "And I think a lot of businesses are saying they don't have the pricing power they'd like, and they're cautious about growth in final demand, and that may be reflected back to decisions about investment and job creation."
Analysts generally estimate that the economy needs to add at least 100,000 to 125,000 jobs a month simply to keep up with new entrants to the labor force. So if employers keep hiring at the current pace, it will not help reduce the unemployment rate for some time, and at November's pace, the unemployment rate will continue to rise.
There was little good news on wages or the expansion of the workweek, with the average workweek holding steady at 34.3 hours. Average hourly earnings increased by just 1 cent to $22.75. Usually, growth in the number of hours worked and wages earned presage more hiring as companies max out existing workers.
The median length of time that the unemployed had been out of work rose to 21.6 weeks, the third month in a row that the duration has increased.
For those who have been searching for work for more than six months, this is a discouraging prospect.
"I have looked high and low," said Melissa Barone, who was laid off from a job in technical support 14 months ago. "I have a college degree and a ton of technical skills, but I can't find a job." Ms. Barone, 42, lives in St. Clair Shores, Mich., near Detroit, a particularly hard hit area. She has applied for hundreds of jobs but has yet to receive an offer.
If the economy is improving, that is news to Ms. Barone. "It doesn't seem that way here," she said.


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"We believe that the divine presence is everywhere and that "the eyes of the Lord are looking on the good and evil in every place". St Benedict goes on to say that we should believe this even more strongly when we are at prayer so that we may be wholehearted in that essential activity of the human person – with mind and voice in harmony.
God has the 'right' to look at everything going on in creation but it is exercised for our good, to assist us in coming to that state of integration in which we can become one with God. For our part we should imitate God but not try to compete. This is where people overstepped the mark at Babel and not only brought down their great observation tower but became incomprehensible to each other. Like Babel like Prism. The American surveillance system, whose unlimited applications have been recently exposed by a young conscience-driven operative, seeks to be able to see everything that is going on – not only the evil that men do in plotting terrorist crimes but the good they do in chatting with family and friends – because, who knows?, the evil might be hiding behind the good.
While security is a good in that it protects the innocent it is also a necessary evil. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? No better example exists today of the need for the custodians to be accountable and to be controlled. Security, however, claims to be the new infallibility and just as the rich part of ourselves always wants more so the power-full part is never satisfied. Any law can be broken in the name of security.
The rich young man in the gospel who was asking Jesus for the way of eternal life imagined that it was something else he could add to his portfolio. When Jesus pointed out that it was only to be found by dispossession, the vulnerability of letting go, he left confused and sad. And also, perhaps, angry at the 'good master' – just as those who expand their unfettered intrusion into the lives of others are enraged by suggestions that their efforts to achieve peace by denying freedom are counter-productive – apart from simply being wrong.
In medieval theology there was a part of the inmost heart that the devil could never pry into. He had limited powers of observation and had to do the best he could to devise his stratagems for undermining the individuals. But in the "cave of the heart' there was no eye to observe except the benevolent and caring mind of God. Solitude is an integral element of human dignity – even more significant to our well-being than the "political right to privacy". What is at stake here is nothing less than the soul.
After a great national sporting victory (as for the Scots and their fellow Brits at Wimbledon this week) the media chatter is all about the soul of the nation – soul often being mistaken for moods, good or bad. Certainly we respond with a strong collective instinct at times – the mourning over Princess Diana or the Twin Towers – but the soul is something more subtle than even the strongest or noblest feeling. There are moments – that can now be broadcast and magnified by the media that communicate a message, globally and instantly, that awaken an unprecedented sense of communion among those receiving it. The first two minutes of Pope Francis on the balcony after his election must rank as a historical milestone in such events. But the soul is still more than that.
We don't know how to describe the soul but we know what it is. It is anyway about being a subject – a free person with the strange human blend of autonomy and interdependence – not an object. Prism, like the medieval Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, or the Stasi, polluted the soul of their people by a blasphemous attempt to replace the eye of God with human omniscience.
In fact as St Benedict, whose Feast is another cause to celebrate this week, well knew it's not just about God watching us from a great height. His eye is not a cold roving camera but a gaze of heart-opening affection. Immersed in this gaze and becoming more conscious under its influence we learn trustingly to return it – and so move into the heart of all reality which is the reciprocal love of the community we call the Trinity. There is no need for secrecy in the solitude of the heart because there we discover that universal friendship already exists. Once the mystery of love has been seen at work there is no more need for secrecy and paranoia. We discover that while suspicion may make us feel safer, trust makes us feel much better.
Laurence Freeman OSB
Laurence Freeman is a Benedictine and the Director of The World Community for Christian Mediation. His daily readings for Lent are available online: www.wccm.org


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One week removed from the latest installment of their prospects-driven event series, Strikeforce officials are busy finalizing details for the next Strikeforce Challengers card.
MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) has confirmed that undefeated Lyle Beerbohm (15-0 MMA, 3-0 SF) faces Pat Healy (25-17 MMA, 1-1 SF) and Ryan Couture (1-0 MMA, 1-0 SF) meets an opponent to be named at Strikeforce Challengers 14.
The fight card, which was first reported by ESPN.com, takes place Feb. 18, at the Cedar Park Center in Cedar Park, Texas, a major suburb of the state's capitol, Austin.
Beerbohm brings his perfect record to the Strikeforce cage for the fourth time. Head of Washington's Fancy Pants Fight Team, Beerbohm fought most recently under the Strikeforce banner at this past May's "Strikeforce: Heavy Artillery" event, where he earned a split-decision win over the highly touted Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro. Not one to sit around, Beerbohm has since earned another two wins for the Washington-based Rumble on the Ridge promotion.
Meanwhile, Healy looks to bounce back from a hard-fought loss in a high-profile matchup with Josh Thomson at this past June's "Strikeforce and M-1 Global: Fedor vs. Werdum" event. A near 10-year veteran of the sport, "Bam Bam" is also a UFC, WEC and IFL veteran.
Couture fights for the second time as a professional. An Xtreme Couture product and son of UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture, Ryan made his pro debut at this past August's Strikeforce Challengers 10 event and needed just 75 seconds to earn a submission win.
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Built on Honda's foundation of dependability, quality and reliability, the Fit includes a 109 horsepower, 1.5-liter, 4-cylinder, VTEC engine with a 5-speed manual transmission (an automatic transmission is also available, bringing the suggested retail price to $14,650). The Fit's standard safety features include dual-stage, dual-threshold front airbags, dual front side airbags, side-curtain airbags and an anti-lock braking system (ABS). Big on space, the Fit incorporates more than 111 cubic feet of interior volume and a Magic Seat that provides four distinct seating and cargo carrying configurations.
"The 2007 Honda Fit demonstrates how an affordable and fun small car can have similar safety features and refinement as larger, more expensive vehicles," said John Mendel, senior vice president of American Honda. "For consumers considering an attractive, affordable, and versatile car, the Fit provides a new entry point into Honda's vehicle lineup."
Priced at $15,170, the Fit Sport model with manual transmission adds a rear roofline spoiler, aero body kit, fog lights, security system with keyless remote entry, cruise control, a 200-watt, six-speaker audio system and 15-inch aluminum-alloy wheels with P195/55R15 tires. Fit Sport models with the available automatic transmission come standard with steering wheel-mounted paddle shifters and will be available at the suggested retail price of $15,970.
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Starting in the month of October, the Common Knowledge Scholarship Foundation will be offering the High School Biology Challenge! Like all Common Knowledge scholarships, The National Biology Challenge is free to all schools and students in the United States. The individual top scorer will be awarded a $250 scholarship which may be used at the college of his or her choice.
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A former Ukip MEP has been charged with money laundering and misconduct in public office after an inquiry into her expense claims.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Nikki Sinclaire, who lost her seat in the European Parliament earlier this year, had been charged with the offences by West Midlands Police.
A CPS spokesman said the offences were alleged to have been committed while the 45-year-old was a serving MEP for the West Midlands between October 2009 and July 2010.
Sinclaire lost her seat at May's European elections after leaving Ukip and standing for the We Demand A Referendum Now party.
Confirming details of the charges, a police spokesman said: "West Midlands Police's Economic Crime Unit has today formally charged former MEP Nicole Sinclaire with misconduct in public office and money laundering.
"Ms Sinclaire is due to appear at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on 17 September, where she will hear claims that she made false and dishonest submissions for travelling expenses and transferred the proceeds of fraud through a bank account in her name.
"The offences are alleged to have taken place between 1 October 2009 and 31 July 2010 when Ms Sinclaire was a serving Member of the European Parliament.
"Throughout the investigation West Midlands Police has been working jointly with officers from the European Anti-Fraud Office."
Sinclaire, who lives in Shirley, near Solihull, was originally arrested in February 2012 and has since been on police bail.
Three other members of the public were also arrested as part of the inquiry but will face no further action.
In a separate statement, Simon Orme, a specialist lawyer with the CPS Special Crime Division, said: "It is alleged that, between October 2009 and July 2010, whilst serving as an MEP, Ms Sinclaire used funds paid into her bank account by the European Parliament in respect of false travelling expenses claims.
"Ms Sinclaire has also been charged with misconduct in a public office with regard to her actions.
"The decision to prosecute was taken in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors. We have determined that there is a realistic prospect of conviction and that a prosecution is in the public interest.
"Criminal proceedings have now commenced and Ms Sinclaire has the right to a fair trial. It is extremely important that there should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice these proceedings."
In a statement, Ms Sinclaire said: "The charges relate to my time as a Ukip MEP when I was under the guidance and oversight by the party in the Parliament.
"This will prove pivotal in resolving the matter.
"During my time as an MEP I put in more than £120,000 of my salary into the cost of my work activities.
"It was also me who in 2010 drew the attention of the West Midlands Police to irregularities I discovered had taken place, without my knowledge, in my Ukip office.
"I strongly refute these charges and will be firmly defending myself. I am certain I shall be found innocent of these ludicrous and unfounded accusations."


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The bloody fingers of the lineman, the clouds of breath on the cold, clear day, the chewed-up turf.... It was all there, crystallized, perfected. If Steve showed it to kids on a Friday, they'd be in their yards early the next morning, the narrator's voice running through their heads as the receiver ran the hook-and-ladder: "His range carries him into heavy traffic, or through the shifting dangers of a broken field … Men on the run, measuring their survival by the twist of a shoulder."
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I was driving home the other day when a horrific accident played out at an intersection in front of the stoplight where I was stopped. I didn't see the initial collision, but I heard the crash and turned my head to see an SUV go rolling down the street, breaking apart like it was Talladega Nights. The SUV came to a rest upside down, and I couldn't see if the person inside was moving or not. I whipped out my phone to call 911, but people were already getting out of their cars, rushing to the scene and calling the police. I'm not an EMT, so there wasn't much for me to do, even though I felt like should have done something, like in The Apostle when Robert Duvall runs to a car accident and has the guy find Jesus just before he stops breathing. That was a nice thing for Robert Duvall to do.
So I made the turn onto the highway and went home. I checked this post to see if I did the right thing, and apparently going home and not blocking traffic was the correct move, especially since I didn't literally witness the collision. But I did notice other drivers driving straight THROUGH the accident site, like over the debris, because they couldn't stand the idea of waiting to go straight ahead or making a detour. Please don't do this. Don't drive over a body because you need to get to flute practice. That seems wrong.
By the way, my kid screamed out COOL! when she saw the wreckage. Kids just do NOT get it.
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Reportedly, Tim Duncan is looking to sign a two-year contract with the Spurs, meaning he has two years left. If he wins a championship each of the next two seasons (3-PEAT!), will he be without a doubt the greatest player in NBA history? Would the world explode with such a modest presence supplanting the likes of Jordan and being the clear-cut G.O.A.T.?
I think some people would make that argument (and could make that same argument right now!), only to be ignored by people like me who loved watching Jordan play and can't get it up for Tim Duncan in the same way. I can admire Tim Duncan's achievements as I would some well-made, Oscar-winning movie that I would never want to see a second time. But Jordan was fucking Jordan, man. Jordan was a goddamn teleportation device in sneakers.
I probably don't appreciate Duncan the way some dipshit basketblogger says I ought to, but I don't care. (Maybe if there was some kind of World Cup of Tim Duncan, I could manage to tune in.) If Duncan wins seven titles, I'm still pining for Jordan like millions of other assholes. It's hard for any center or power forward to win your love, because those guys are always taken for granted. OH HEY THE TALL GUY DUNKED AGAIN WHAT A FUCKING SURPRISE.
Say the United States were to win the World Cup. Where would we put the trophy?
U.S. Soccer has an office in Chicago and a training facility in California, so they'd probably stick the trophy in a glass case at one of those two places after it made the rounds from bar to bar, with players affectionately rubbing their balls on it. But really, we should fuse the trophy to the top of the Statue of Liberty, to say to the world: THAT'S RIGHT. WE OWN SOCCER NOW. We've co-opted all of your food and all of your music. And now we're taking soccer, the one thing of yours that you never thought we could have or even want. SUCK IT. We shouldn't even give it back for the next Cup (like the Stanley Cup, there's only one trophy, and it gets passed from champ to champ). Just keep it and dare them to come take it.
I would also fuel the world's ire further by having the trophy sell out and do ads for Wonderful Pistachios, Bud Light Apple-AHHH-Rita, and Dr. Pepper. Really degrade the trophy… smelt it down and fashion into a Lombardi Trophy and etch USA CHAMPIONS OF KICKY FOOTBALL on it.
What's with dresses with an empire waist? Women all think it looks great on them, when in reality an empire waist makes literally 100 percent of women, fat or skinny, look 4-6 months pregnant.
It makes your tits look bigger, so you sacrifice enhanced ass-ness for the sake of your giant heaving breasts. That's a sacrifice you don't really need to make, since jeans and a tank will enhance both assets nicely. But women have a knack for talking each other into fashion trends that have nothing to do with sex appeal. Women are just as keen to impress one another as they are your sorry ass, if not more so. Men will want to have sex with women even if they're wearing a potato sack and orthopedic clogs. We're easily turned on and notice nothing. But it takes 16 hours of hard shopping and a $5,000 tab at Saks to make your best friend Tina feel inadequate and hopelessly depressed when she sees you rocking that empire-waist sundress.
How long could you last in a World Cup game before dying of exhaustion? I go four minutes.
Couldn't you last the entire game if you half-assed it? It's hotter than death out there, and I don't like running of any sort, but what if I just tried to blend in all game long, and never ventured more than 10 yards from midfield? I could also flop every 10 minutes to get a well-earned rest. Surely I could do that for an hour and a half, then trot off the field with my head high.
But if you're talking about actual trying? Ten minutes. Ten minutes and then death. It's like swimming. Ever swim one lap at age 37? It's horrific. I tried to show my kid the butterfly last week and did two arm flaps before pulling everything.
I know there's a 0 percent chance it will happen, but what do you think would happen if LeBron signed with the Spurs in the offseason? How many games would they win? Would old men embrace GLORY BOY LeBron playing with the TEAM FIRST Spurs? Would ESPN open a permanent office in San Antonio for the season to cover every meal LeBron ate?
I think some people would carp about LeBron front-running and glomming onto the team that just beat his team's ass, but all of those scorching-hot takes would be drowned out by casual fans tuning in to see if the LeBron Spurs could win 57 titles in a row. It's the same as if he joined the Thunder, which is also seen as an impossibility, although I don't know why that is. Now that LeBron has opted to become a free agent, any team willing to go over the luxury tax can sign him. And given that the NBA has a salary ceiling, LeBron is still worth the money even if you have to pay the tax on top of his contract. You'd sell enough LeBron Spurs jerseys to get back in the black in the first month.
And I don't know why LeBron would limit himself and say, "Let me sign with a team that's kinda good but still shitty enough to need me." He may as well consider every option, and every team should have a max contract sitting on a fancy desk somewhere for him to sign. Even if there's no shot, every GM should be like, "Let's offer LeBron James $120 million just in case he has a road beef here that he really likes visiting." It's only reasonable. I'd buy him theater tickets and everything.
I've always wondered what would happen if a fly fell from a tall height and landed on the ground without using its wings. Would being so light mean it can't fall with enough force to kill it, because of low terminal velocity relative to air resistance? I just knocked a fly gently with a magazine as it flew by me and it seemed dead on impact. I didn't think the force of the magazine hit was strong enough to kill it, could it have been from the fall?
I figured lightness had no impact on terminal velocity—like the old "Does a pound of pennies weigh more than a pound of feathers?" joke—but it turns out that weight does factor into how fast you fall from the sky. I just can't calculate it for a common house fly because the math looks really fucking hard. Suffice it to say: If you clipped a fly's wings and dropped the fly from a mountain top (and that fly deserved it), it probably wouldn't survive the fall. But falling from your windowsill? With that superstrong fly exoskeleton that acts as a kind of body armor that humans must and will one day replicate for future alien warfare? I think the fly survives it.
Flies are strange insects, and not just because they have to throw up food many times before sucking it down (yuck), but because you never know what kind of opponent you will have in a house fly. Some house flies are impossible to defeat, as in any old-timey Bugs Bunny cartoon. But then you get some flies that barely move at all. I killed one the other day, and it couldn't have given less of a shit. It stayed put the whole time. Was it dying of cancer? Bored? Was it lacking in good condition and/or motivation? Or did someone else nail the fly beforehand, and now it comes limping to my house? I want a fair fight. I want the best that fly can give me. I take no joy from beating him shorthanded.
Sometimes you'll swat a fly and he'll fall to the floor, and you think he's dead, but he's just kind of lying there, and then you have to decide if you should kill him or put him outside or just leave him to suffer. I usually wad him up in a paper towel, crunch him good, and then toilet him. That's the dignified end he would have wanted.
My entire life, when the (big) bag of Doritos gets down to the end, I have taken scissors or a knife and cut the top half of the bag off. This ensures that I am literally pouring all the orange-powdered chip remainders from the bag into my fat maw. LEAVE NO CHIP UNEATEN. People who don't do this are insane, right? You've already come this far with the bag of Doritos that likely didn't last more than an hour from start to finish. Why worry about your pride now?
My wife will sometimes throw the bag of Doritos or chips away without saving the dust, and I will then confront her angrily about this, because the reason I ate all the chips in the first place was to get to that part. Are you INSANE, lady? You threw out a sodium orgasm without telling me? Shame on you. They should sell big bags of crumbled Doritos at the store, and the bag should come with a fucking straw that's an inch wide.
Until a few years ago, I was too lazy to cut off the top half of the chip bag as it ran out of chips to eat. I would just fold it up and then, when dust-sucking time came, shake the bag to get all the dust down the little slalom course formed from folding the top over 60 times. This is not efficient. Sometimes you get cheese in your eyes, which hurts. And sometimes, pockets of chip dust get trapped, and you can spend months trying to extricate that dust, or worrying that you didn't get it all in your tummy. Cutting off the top gets rid of that angst and leaves you with a cute little chip-dust purse for gluttony on the go.
If the U.S. win the World Cup, how long would the riots last, and which city would riot the best (cause the most damage)?
My vote would be for Portland and/or Seattle, because they like soccer up there, and Portland soccer fanboys strike me as the kind of fanboys who would stage a riot specifically to show the rest of the world that we care enough about soccer to riot over it. Watch us burn this car, England! We're legit now! And we burned it with all-natural grapeseed oil! I think it would be a relatively mild riot compared to, say, any other winning nation, but a riot nonetheless.
I'll throw in Morgantown, West FUCKING Virginia, as a dark horse. They don't need a good reason to burn a couch.
Am I the only one that watches the World Cup and wonders how people from some of these countries afford to go there? I live in Texas and make good money (ooh look at me!), and there is no way that I could run myself into World Cup-type debt. It's either the country paying for some people to come over via a lottery or drug money, right?
It's the same as anyone who ponies up for Super Bowl tickets or some other grand, sports-related expense. They're either wealthy to begin with, or they have wealthy parents, or they're showing their true American colors by going into debt and not giving a shit, or they've prioritized their soccer fetish over more important expenses like school tuition and medical care, or they sell drugs. Probably drugs. Just so many drugs! Think of the drug market you could run for a month with emissaries from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America all flying into town. It's a World Cup of cocaine trafficking. I would be cutting deals for kilos and empty shipping barges left and right.
Some people, to their credit, aren't as tight-fisted when it comes to dropping thousands of dollars to fly to Brazil for a tournament that their favorite country probably won't win. I don't like spending money and rarely do so, and am flabbergasted when I see people drop loot on this sort of thing. Or when I go to a blackjack table in Vegas and some random fucker comes by and drops $100 chips all over the place. How could you treat money so casually? WE NEED TO GET YOU HELP, YOUNG MAN.
Canadian reader here with a question about America: Why do you fuckers get to call yourselves "Americans" and not United Staters/Uni's/USAers/something else more palatable. You people realize that America is a continent, right? You shouldn't get to appropriate a whole goddamn continent as your namesake. United States OF America. You are OF America, it says so right there in your country's name. I fully realize that this will never change as long as the country exists, but what if any rationale is there for it? When I see news footage of Middle Eastern people chanting "Death to America," I know they mean you guys, but Jesus, there's us, Mexico, and all of South America to consider. Explain yourself, Yankee!
Well, look, there's a New York, New York, right? Within the greater New York state, there is New York City, which has essentially usurped the New York name for itself. That's what we've done with America. You Canadians are also part of the larger America in the way that Utica is part of New York. And just as interesting!
We're the only country on the American continent that uses "America" in its name, so it was destined to get shortened to America, because we Americans are lazy and don't care for added syllables. If you wanted to co-opt the term "American" for yourselves, you should have thought about that before naming your country Canada. You could have been the Canadian Provinces of America, but you fucked up. We used our name as a clever way of indirectly annexing the entire hemisphere. It's like the Carolina Panthers blanketing the whole of two states. It's just smart business. So suck our AMERICAN balls. We're the real deal, amigo. The America name is ours, which is only fair, because Columbus found it for us way back when*.
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The other day I took up four out of the eight washing machines in our building with my laundry. My roommates objected to this, saying I was being a greedy douche. What would you say is the most acceptable percentage of machines to use in any given laundry room?
I think using two during peak hours is all right. Doing laundry means you're probably in for the night anyway. Waiting one more dryer cycle isn't gonna kill you. It's worth not getting dirty looks from the old lady in apartment 12J to use half the machines. That's more laundry than I could handle in one sittin,g anyway. Underwear would be lost for certain.
By the way, I was folding laundry the other night and I've come to the conclusion that folding is the worst part of the laundry process. Carrying shit and sorting it is better. Pouring the soap in the washer is better (and kinda fun!). Only transferring heavy wet clothes to the dryer can compete with the existentially boring process of folding up five thousand kiddie t-shirts. I hate it. It makes me genuinely angry and despairing now. I've already offered to do all laundry chores in the house to my wife if she folds everything in exchange. She ain't taking the bait.
What are you supposed to do with your kid's teeth after the "Tooth Fairy" takes them? I can't throw them away, because it's from my child, and it seems rather disrespectful to throw a part of him in the trash. But, I can't keep the teeth, because that's seems pretty creepy in a serial killer sort of way. My current plan is to keep the teeth, but ignore the problem and hope they get lost or something. What do you recommend?
My wife does the switch at night with the tooth and the money, because if I were to do it, I would accidentally puncture my kid's eardrum with my big clumsy man-hands. After she successfully makes the switch, she usually puts the teeth in a little box for safekeeping. And then, after a few weeks or months have passed, the teeth usually get thrown away. It's amazing how much smaller they seem once they've been extracted from the child's mouth. They seem to shrink by 75 percent. They're tiny. If you drop one during the nighttime money transfer, you never find it again.
So if you throw the tooth away, it's fine. It's like keeping a child's art project on the wall. It won't stay there forever. At a certain point, you're confident enough in your memories to get rid of the clutter.
One time, my kid found one of her teeth on the floor after she had gotten the Tooth Fairy money. And she was such a sucker that she never made the connection. She was like, "Hey, the Tooth Fairy left this!" And I was like, "Oh, well, she gets a little clumsy sometimes! I'll FedEx that right to her." And the kid bought it. They're so easy to lie to!
Whilst walking across campus last week, I was unfortunate enough to find myself in the presence of this big guy singing at the top of his lungs. He was wearing Beats and just belting it out. And, honestly, he wasn't bad. But still. He was singing along with music no one else could hear, and it was annoying. I'm on a big campus, and he was going the same way as me, and I swear he was doing his best to keep up with me because he knew I hated it. So is this brand of noise pollution acceptable? What do I do about it in the future?
People do this at my gym a lot. They walk into the locker room with their cans on, singing out loud as if this is some kind of private recording studio. And they're always bigger and more muscular than me, so I never say anything. I just get the fuck out of there as quickly as possible. I don't know why people do this when they must know everyone will stare at them like they're a fucking subway hobo. No one is like, "That man is singing with such joy that now I want to buy the world a Coke!" This is strictly a matter of some dickhead bringing attention to himself, like a dude on the street talking loud on a cell phone. It's musical assault, is what it is.
So citizens of the world, I beg you: Stop doing this. No more singing along to your headphones in public. Your music is terrible, and I hate you.
I'm a 26-year-old working for a buttoned-up corporate America company. Most mornings, I purchase (and toast) strawberry frosted Pop Tarts purchased from the vending machine in the kitchen. This happens while every other adult is brewing their coffee (which I don't drink). This decision to have Pop Tarts is usually met with laughs and scorn and comments like, "Wow, Pop Tarts, really?" and as I walk back to my desk, I feel the need to hide them as if I'm smuggling contraband back to my desk. Who is in the right here? Are adults allowed to eat Pop Tarts? At what age do I have to stop eating Pop Tarts? Or, is this my one way to say fuck the man and maintain my individuality before I go full sellout?
Why are people mocking you for eating Pop Tarts? Pop Tarts are fucking great! If health weren't any consideration, I would eat enough Pop Tarts to fill an industrial sheet hamper. It KILLS me that I can't go to town on a box of brown sugar Pop Tarts without remembering what it will do to my body. So if you're bold enough to disregard the threat of diabetes, no one should be ripping you at the office for that. Secretly, they wish they could have a bite. They lust for your frosted strawberry goodness. Their snide comments are a symptom of personal repression, I tell you. They WISH they had the balls to throw that box of plain Cheerios out the window and smother their faces in replica strawberry-jam goodness. Stand tall, amigo. You have chosen to live.
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When I first moved to D.C., I got a job working for one of those "young leaders" organizations... you know, the ones that import hundreds of high school kids each week and unleash them on the city in ill-fitting suits and large white name badges. One day, our group was on Capitol Hill, and the students had about four hours to get lunch and explore. The only rule was: Don't leave the Hill... remain within the boundaries of the map you've been given. If students needed anything, the map showed where staff members are posted.
My fellow co-workers and I are in the Supreme Court cafeteria, enjoying the few precious hours we had that week to sit down, relax, and enjoy a meal. A young man—let's call him Steven—approaches our table and shyly asks for help. He's about 17, baby-faced, but a big kid. I was at the end of the table, so I slid out and walked him just out of earshot of the other staffers to discuss his issue in relative privacy. He says he's "just not feeling well" and he'd like to return to the hotel. Normally, when a student is that vague, it just means they don't want to participate in whatever they're supposed to be doing. Which is why their options are actually quite elegant. A student can either (1) go to the pharmacy, (2) go to the ER and wait hours to be seen by someone, or (3) rejoin the group. Neither of the first two options ever sound very enticing to a student who's faking it, so the third option is there as an escape hatch—a way for them to bail out of the ruse gracefully.
I remind the kid of his options and he says none of those work for him. He just "doesn't feel right" and wants to go back to the hotel. I'm sympathetic, because I'm suffering from a cold myself and I'm having to work through it on very little sleep. I'm all stopped up. I can't taste or smell anything. But I tell him no, returning to the hotel just isn't possible. He's visibly frustrated, but he says he'll suck it up and take Option 3. "Sounds good," I tell him. "Let me know if you change your mind." He walks away.
A few minutes later, he returns, now obviously distressed, his brow covered in sweat. Which isn't throwing any alarms for me, since it's the middle of July. We're all in coats and ties and we're all sweating. I tell him again, "No, sorry. Not gonna happen." Out of the corner of my eye, I notice my coworkers shifting in their seats. One of them is trying to get my attention. On the verge of tears, Steven sighs and walks off. My coworker grabs me by the arm, pulls me close, and whisper-yells in my ear, "LOOK AT HIS PANTS." I spin around just as he's leaving the room and see brown stains all over the back of his khakis. I look back at the table, where everyone is holding their hands over their mouths and audibly gagging from the smell, from which my cold has spared me.
I catch him just outside the cafeteria. "Steven...um...sorry...do you, umm...need to go back to the hotel and change?" "Yessir, I really do." "Okay, no worries man. We'll take care of this. Come with me." I tell him to tie his blazer around his waist. I call up the girl who's on medical duty—let's call her Pamela—and tell her she's going to need to transport a student back to the hotel. She says she's headed there anyway. I can see the relief in his eyes. But neither really know what's in store for them. I haven't told Pamela why she's taking him back to the hotel, and I haven't told Steven there will be another student along for the ride who left behind her meds that morning.
The extremely compact four-door pulls up. Steven sees the pretty blond girl in the front passenger seat. His head drops and his jaw clinches. He opens the back door as I crouch down to talk to Pamela. I calmly and discretely whisper to her what she's about to endure, with a delicacy matched only by the high-wire act behind her: Steven is lowering himself onto the backseat ever-so-gently, in a futile attempt to minimize displacement. Without taking her glare off of me, she lowers all the windows and kills the A/C. Just as she shifts into drive and pulls away, Pretty Blond Girl begins to squint, then wince. And the three of them drive off down Constitution Ave, for the 40-minute trip to Maryland.
We couldn't get the smell out of the car and had to take it back to the rental place for a swap. The manager nearly wept. Oh, and Pamela and I were dating at the time. I slept alone for the remainder of the conference.
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User:Tim Bird
Tim Bird is a Linux developer working for Sony Mobile Communications - a part of Sony Corporation.
Tim is Chair of the Architecture Group of the CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation (formerly the CE Linux Forum). In the past, Tim worked at Lineo, Caldera, and Novell.
Current contact information
You can contact Tim at the following address, which has been made spam-resistant:
- e-mail: tim (dot) bird (at) sonymobile (dot) com.
Bookmarks for things I'm working on in this wiki
This list is roughly in chronological order (most recent at top)
- Kernel 3.4 to 3.10 porting guide - tips for porting items from version 3.4 to 3.10 of the Linux kernel
- System Size Auto-Reduction - presentation for LCJ 2013 - wrapping up my auto-reduce work
- [[Crash handler] - A crash handler implementation for ARM embedded Linux
- Tim's Tips and Tricks - Miscelaneous development tips gleaned over the years
- Android Boot-time Readahead - Some research on using the Linux read-ahead system call to decrease Android cold boot time
- Ftrace - with my knowledge of ftrace, this page really needs a fixup
- Embedded linux status - list of things for embedded linux status reports (which I do frequently)
- elinux issues - list of things that need fixing
- Embedded Wiki wanted features
- Kernel Timer Systems - needs a major overhaul to bring it up to date
- Reasons to participate in open source - my own thoughts on open source contributions
- Beginning Programming - some links to resources for beginning programmers
Pages needing LOTS of HELP!!
Here are some high priority candidates for work...
Samples and help
- See Table Examples
Areas of interest
Here are some things Tim is interested in on this site:
- Other wikis - a list of other wikis to examine the design of
- Good article on US case law related to closed-source kernel modules
Things I want to add to the wiki
- diffinfo, qdiff, reisolate - see Diff And Patch Tricks, Source Management Tools, and
- review each portal page and try to hook up material I know is orphaned
Free software encircles embedded design Warren Web, EDN 8/7/2008
Videos, Articles, Presentations of, by or about me
- http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1654 - JLS 2009 - Status of Embedded Linux presentation
- http://www.vimeo.com/8042326 - Measuring Function Duration with Ftrace