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President Obama will propose a "Buffett Tax" on people earning more than $1 million a year as part of his deficit-cutting recommendations to a congressional supercommittee Monday.
White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said in a tweet Saturday the tax would act as "a kind of AMT" (Alternative Minimum Tax) for people in that earning bracket, aimed at ensuring they pay at least as much tax as middle-class families. The "Buffett Tax" refers to billionaire U.S. investor Warren Buffett.
Buffett, the founder of Berkshire Hathaway and one of the richest men in America, famously said he thinks that he, and other uber-wealthy Americans, don't pay enough in taxes. He said his tax rate is 17.4 percent — many Americans pay 30 percent or more in income tax.
"My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It's time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice," Buffett wrote in an opinion piece in the New York Times this summer.
In his weekly radio address Saturday, President Barack Obama said Americans need to be ready to "pay their fair share" to narrow the U.S. deficit, previewing his proposals to Congress.
Obama said his $447 billion jobs plan that features tax breaks for workers and small businesses, plus funds for public works projects and schools, "will not add to the deficit. It will be paid for."
"On Monday, I'll lay out my plan for how we'll do that — how we'll pay for this plan and pay down our debt by following some basic principles: making sure we live within our means and asking everyone to pay their fair share."
Obama has repeatedly argued for the wealthiest Americans to face higher taxes with fewer loopholes and exceptions as part of the effort to ensure the U.S. debtload remains in control.
In addition to floating the idea of more taxes on the rich, he is also expected to propose companies getting some tax breaks in his Monday suggestions to a congressional "super committee" tasked with finding at least $1.2 trillion in budget savings over 10 years.
Republicans, who have raised the volume on Washington's fiscal problems as the November 2012 presidential election nears, see higher taxes on the wealthy as a problem for jobs, given that entrepreneurs and companies would be strongly affected.
In his party's weekly address, Republican Congressman Peter Roskam said Obama's barnstorming about the jobs bill had masked other constraints on the economy that are keeping people from getting back to work.
"Washington has become a red tape factory, with more than 4,000 rules in the pipeline — hundreds of which would cost our economy more than $100 million each annually," Roskam said.
The White House has conducted a regulatory overhaul to eliminate old and overlapping rules across U.S. government agencies. It was broadly welcomed by the private sector including major groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Roskam said more regulations should be pared back as part of the effort to tackle unemployment. "I hope the president will consider our ideas as we take a look at his," he said.


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Estimation is one of the most important parts of a project, but also one that people often feel the most uncomfortable with.
If a project's costs are poorly estimated then as the project progresses, the whole business case can quickly become invalid as costs may exceed benefits.
Worse still, if costs are running completely out of control, then particularly for a small business, this could become a threat to its financial stability.
Leave Estimation to the Experts
Estimation and planning is a team job. The Project Manager has to co-ordinate this, but the teams who are going do the work need to estimate costs, otherwise they will feel no ownership or commitment to them.
You may have to help them if they're not used to producing estimates, but you shouldn't be imposing your estimates on them.
I have seen Project Managers produce all of the estimates and plans for a project and then hand these tablets of stone to the team. Don't do this, it doesn't carry much chance of success. You can and should challenge and question estimates, but you shouldn't estimate costs for work that other people are going to carry out.
How to help your team to produce estimates
To help the team to estimate costs, ask them to think through what they need to do, list this out and then break it down into small enough components that they feel comfortable to estimate.
You also need to think realistically about productivity. What other tasks are the people doing the work going to be involved in? Do they answer phones or support other work? They might think something will take five days to complete, but how much elapsed time will that translate into when you take account of all of their other responsibilities.
People are on the whole optimistic when they estimate costs, so have a tendency to underestimate, especially if they have little experience of estimation. This is why it is important for the Project Manager to challenge any estimates and push estimators to make sure that they have taken account of everything.
Track how good individuals and teams are at estimation
You need to track your spend as the project progresses, but try also to track how well the individual estimators do against actuals, so that the next time you ask them to estimate, you will know from experience if they are optimistic or realistic estimators and can add contingency accordingly.
Include what you need to purchase, not just staff effort
Don't miss what you might have to buy for your project. People's time will be one of your costs, but do you need to buy components, software, equipment, training, transport etc?
Don't rush estimation and planning
Put a lot of work into estimation and your outline plan. It's not unusual that everyone is in a big hurry to get the project underway and want to get this phase out of the way, but your project sponsor is unlikely to be impressed by changes in costs and timeframe once the project is underway.
Try as far as possible to resist any pressure to just get started – you need to do a good job on your estimates and initial planning. Time spent at the start of the project will always pay rewards later.
Estimates for Outsourced Work
If you need to estimate costs for outsourced work, then the best that you will be able to achieve initially is a budgetary estimate. This is unlikely to be accurate and in my experience is likely to be a lot lower than the final quote.
You won't be able to get a reliable quote from a supplier until you can provide them with detailed requirements. I would recommend adding a large amount of contingency – at least 20% to any estimate that you get from a supplier that isn't based on detailed requirements.
Carefully consider contingency, both for costs and timescales. An effective way of estimating contingency is a risk based approach. Work out your major risks and then work out how much contingency you need to mitigate these risks.
Beware of being pressured to remove the contingency, because the project isn't viable with it included. Giving way to this pressure usually spells regret and potentially disaster further down the line, so I would recommend resisting this. I've never run a project where everything went as expected, so I doubt you ever will. You need contingency, it's not an optional extra.
You may want to think about how you use contingency in the project. It can make sense to keep a slice of contingency for the Project Manager to control. The Project Manager can then push the estimators to hit their original estimates, knowing that they have contingency in their back pockets, if that doesn't happen. This counters the tendency for the work to expand to use all of the contingency, as well as the original estimates.
Audit Trail
Keep an audit trail of how you have arrived at your estimates, so that you can defend and explain them later, when challenged to do so. Cost data derived from previous projects can also be helpful in justifying your estimates.
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9 "Inappropriate" Questions Every Mom Wishes She Could Ask Her Partner
I'm so grateful to be married to the father of our kids, because I don't think I could handle the parenting thing without live-in support. Though my husband and I don't always agree on everything, at least there is someone who understands when I've reached my limit and need to put myself in a time-out before I explode. But for as much as we're on the same parenting journey, I do wonder what my husband is thinking sometimes. If only I could ask my partner some of the inappropriate questions that pop into my head without him feeling offended or worried about my lucidity.
When you live with someone for as long as my husband and I have been together (married for 12 years, and living together for an additional two), you think you know each other extremely well. In some ways, I totally do know my husband both inside and out. I am aware of every food he doesn't eat (all dairy and most vegetable products), what TV shows I should watch solo (anything without explosions or time travel), and that he sees no value in separating the dark from the light clothing when doing laundry. But there are things I wonder about myself — things I don't have the answers to on this parenthood journey — that I'd like to get his perspective on.
Some of it is weird, though, so I don't bring it up. And some of it is hella sarcastic, because even though he's my parenting partner, there are times when I feel like I could save myself the hassle if it was all just left up to me.
So with all that in mind, here are some of those inappropriate questions I, as a mom, wish I could ask my partner:
"Do You Want To Revisit The Circumcision Thing?"
This is a ridiculous question. I know. We can't undo our son's circumcision. But I do wonder if, seven years later, my husband still feels like we made the right choice. Because while I won't apologize for circumcising my son, I can't say I feel great about it.
"Am I As Good A Mom As Your Mom?"
My husband's mother was a saint, and now she's an angel, having passed away five years ago. When I seethe and blow up at our kids, I can't help but think that his mom would never exhibit that loss of control. So I guess I know the answer to this question already. Asking him might either cause him to lie to protect my feelings, or have me face the truth, which is that no one would ever be better than his own mother. Honestly, I can't blame him for thinking that.
"Do You Ever Wish We Had Stopped After The First Kid?"
I have found myself admitting that it's just so much damn easier when one kid is around while the other is at a sleepover or something. The ratio of two parents to one child stacks the deck in the parents' favor, and that is a good thing (for me, as a parent). While I love both my children equally, and could never choose one over the other, the notion of having just one child does seem attractive at times, and especially when the kids are screaming and legitimately trying to kill each other.
"Do My Boobs Look Saggier To You?"
This is the post-kids version of: "Do these jeans make my butt look big in a bad way?" The changes to my body have been so gradual over the years, with two pregnancies and over four years of breastfeeding. Plus, I'm getting older, which naturally makes everything more susceptible to the effects of gravity.
I want to know, and I don't want to know, if he notices.
"Would It Kill You To Memorize The Pediatrician's Number?"
While my husband and I do try to evenly divide the tasks of parenting, I can't help but think I do all the executive management of our family, which uses up a lot more brain space than, say, picking the kids up from soccer practice. I want my husband to have all the same contacts on speed dial as I do, including but not limited to: the doctor, the sitter, the school, the parents of their BFFs. He needs to be able to participate in the playdate scheduling sometimes, too.
I'm just annoyed that all the mundane scheduling tasks fall to me. I'd happily trade him some of that emotional labor for some of the manual labor he's in charge of, like tightening the kitchen cabinet handles.
"Can You Wear That Anti-Snoring Mask Please?"
What I really mean to ask is: "Could you please do something about that snoring before I lose my mind?" My husband tells me he actually likes hearing me snore, because it means I'm peacefully asleep and that comforts him.
Whatever, dude. I do not feel that way. Ever.
"Does It Annoy You That I'm Always Right?"
I'm the worst, because I'm the best.
Actually, it's a good thing I have a partner to keep my self-righteousness in check. Because I really do think I'm right, like, all of the time, and that's probably impossible.
"Do You Ever Hate Our Kids?"
I hate myself for even thinking I could think it.
But the truth is, I'm a human first and a parent second (or maybe third, depending on how long my workday is on any given day). I have feelings, and they get hurt — often — by little children who are self-centered and blunt and know no gentle way to convey their emotions. So when they tell me they hate me, I can get pretty riled up. I'm learning to deal with being on an emotional roller coaster in response to my kids' ever-evolving way they navigate the world as they develop their people skills. So while I love them fiercely, and will always, love them, I also have less kind feelings about how they are acting and I kind of want to know I'm not alone in that.
"Did You Really Find Me Beautiful When I Was Nine Months Pregnant?"
Honestly, I'm just digging for compliments. I did not feel beautiful when I was at my most pregnant. At least, I didn't feel I was the epitome of the "conventional" version of beauty, as I had absorbed my whole life through images of cellulite-free women in the media.
Maybe I will go ahead and ask this one.
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Betty Buckley Returns to Horror, Goes All Out in The Happening
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Thanks to a confidentiality agreement, Betty Buckley can't reveal too much about her contribution to M. Night Shyamalan's new shocker, The Happening. "I can tell you my character's name is Mrs. Jones, I'm in the last portion of the movie and that my character is one of the reasons we have an R rating," says the legendary singer and actress. "I've never played anything on film that is this scary."
Wait… Miss Collins, is that you? Her formidable career in film, stage, and song notwithstanding, we horror fans will always recall Buckley's big screen debut with a certain misty-eyed fondness. As the sympathetic gym teacher who takes Sissy Spacek under her wing in smackdown to our oppressors ? (And we're pretty sure we wouldn't have accidentally killed her with our telekinesis.)
Buckley has worked with some of the most famous directors in the biz — Brian De Palma, Woody Allen, and Roman Polanski, for starters — but insists she was still unprepared for the thrill of helping Shyamalan achieve his first R rating. He's a director that's been knocked about in recent years, but fans are still circling around The Happening, defending his style. Buckley falls in the fan camp: "I could just do a movie for him every year (and some concert work too) and I'd be a happy camper for the rest of my life," she says. "He's very childlike, a very enthusiastic human being, so you just want to do anything he asks you to do — which I did, in this movie!"
I am not the only one whose curiosity is at critical mass — the interest extends beyond traditional horror circles. New York drag performer Sherry Vine admitted she'd be seeing The Happening
a lot sooner now that she knew Buckley was on board. Vine has a unique
appreciation for Buckley's work, having starred in the hit off-Broadway
parody, Carrie: A Period Piece. "I'm so obsessed with anything Carrie
and always have been," says Vine. "It's an amazing revenge fantasy.
You don't mind so much when the other people die, but no, not Betty
Buckley! She's the only sweet, really good thing in the movie."
Vine has crossed paths with Buckley before. Once, during Vine's
weekly show, "Someone came up and said, 'Betty Buckley's in the
audience, and she wants to know if she can sing!'" recalls Vine, "She
came on stage and sang 'Memories' a capella, and it practically took
the roof off the building."
Buckley seemed both surprised and touched when I told her how nuts
people still are about Miss Collins (she's more inclined to recall how
much she hated the sight of those funny knee-high socks). But she
doesn't mind if we herald her mysterious new role as a return to
horror. In fact she'll keep scaring us if she gets the chance. "I'm at
the point in my life where, whatever, let's play!" she says. "It's very
freeing to play a character like this. It's harder to play someone
glamorous, because you have to watch yourself at every angle and make
sure that you're put together right. With stuff like this, you can go
all out — and the further out you go, the better they like it." And
Shyamalan did like it. At his urging, Buckley pulled out all
the stops, and is waiting to see the final results herself. "It's
always a shock to see yourself on the big screen," she confides. "I
kept going back to Night saying, 'Are you sure this is what you want?' and he'd say, 'Absolutely! Go further.' And I'm like, 'Go further??'
I just hope people know I'm playing a character!" she laughs. "I'm
interested to hear how people who follow my work feel about it — and
everyone else too."
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You can bet she'll be reading this column, and notes from her grateful
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Oil stabilizes near $106 after recent big gains
LONDON -- The price of oil stabilized Monday after enjoying big gains last week, when improved Chinese economic data suggested demand for crude might increase.
Benchmark oil for September delivery was up 1 cent to $105.98 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract had jumped $2.57, or 2.5 percent, on Friday, when Chinese industrial production implied the world's second-largest economy is not slowing as quickly as some had feared.
"I think we're seeing a bit of upward momentum from China," said Ric Spooner, chief market analyst at CMC Markets in Sydney.
Spooner also said traders were looking ahead to Thursday, when the U.S. government releases inflation figures for July.
The U.S. Federal Reserve has a target of 2 percent for inflation. The fact that inflation is falling below that target has prompted some Fed officials to be concerned about a potential bout of deflation, which could be harmful to economic growth.
Lower-than-anticipated inflation could cause the Fed to delay the scaling back of its stimulus program, which was launched more than four years ago to help the world's biggest economy weather the fallout from the global financial crisis.
In June, Bernanke said the Fed will likely slow its bond-buying this year and end it in 2014 because the economy is strengthening.
In other energy futures trading on Nymex:
-- Heating oil rose 0.3 cents to $2.9967 a gallon.
-- Natural gas rose 3.5 cents to $3.265 per 1,000 cubic feet.
-- Wholesale gasoline fell 0.5 cents to $2.9037 a gallon.


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April 18, 2015 by Drafts & Crafts
I wanted to give a quick recap of my second baby shower in Jacksonville. My girlfriend, Rebecca, was the PERFECT host at her beautiful new home. The menu featured some good southern cookin' so I had to share…
The hostess with the mostest, Rebecca
Ombre cake from Cinotti's Bakery in Jax Beach. This was extra special because Jason and I got our wedding cake from Cinotti's. Their family owned bakery is one of the best!
As I get a little older, I am starting to realize that great friends are hard to come by. When you do find those gems, you gotta hold on tight. I am lucky to have a handful of them, Rebecca is my dearest girlfriend from college. We met each other freshman year at UNF. I could not think of a better friend to host my baby shower in Jacksonville. Over the years, I have become very close to Becca's family as well. They treat me just like family, both her parents in Jacksonville and her Aunt and Uncle when Jason and I lived in Northern Virginia. My husband and I are beyond blessed to be close to her family. I feel spoiled because my mother hosted my first baby shower in Boca about 3 weeks ago, and this was my second shower! We have one lucky little baby boy!!
Rebecca and her mama, Chrissy, knocked the shower menu OUT OF THE PARK! Ya see, Rebecca knows me oh so well and she knows that I love me some food from the South. She created a menu that featured my 3 favorite Southern dishes: shrimp and grits, chicken and waffles with spicy syrup, and pulled pork sandwiches with cole slaw! Yuuummmm! I will say for those of you who do not know, most people consider Jacksonville apart of the South. The baby shower menu went on, fruit salad, green salad, mini quiches, and potatoes au gratin. Also, how cute are the homemade scrubs that Rebecca made?! They say "Sugar Scrub, from our shower to your shower!"
I would highly recommend recreating this menu for any party that you are hosting. From baby showers to birthday parties, you can not go wrong with Southern cookin' -in my opinion, of course! 🙂 It was such a lovely afternoon filled with celebrating our baby boy. There were 12 people, so the gathering was very intimate and relaxing. HUGE THANK YOU to Rebecca and Chrissy for planning the event! Have you been to any good parties lately? What was the menu like?
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On the other hand, you might simply be uninterested, which means that you are indifferent to or unconcerned with something. I am uninterested in most polka music, for example.
But the most interesting category is that of disinterest, which means that you are not influenced by considerations of personal advantage. I think that I picked this up in a thousand different places as, if you go back fifty years or so, this was the benchmark standard of any serious intellectual, scholar or scientist. When I read now that the proportion of Democrats to Republicans in the social sciences is somewhere between 8 to 1 and 44 to 1 I am astonished, not that there is a bias that severe, but that any of these so-called scientists bring their political opinions into their workplace.
One of the places I encountered a laudable disinterest was in a place you might expect to find the contrary: Frederick Copleston's History of Philosophy. Copleston is a Jesuit and the book was originally written for use in seminaries. So you would expect that he would be a strong advocate of, for example, the perennial philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, and a severe critic of Karl Marx, among others. But frankly, while he does present Aquinas in a favorable light, he does the same for every philosopher insofar as it is possible. His is the very model of a neutral approach. In this he very much takes after the example of Thomas Aquinas, of course, whose methodology in approaching any question was to present the arguments both for and against as clearly and strongly as possible for it is only in that way that you have a hope of arriving at something close to the truth.
I delight in the fact that our comment section here at the Music Salon sometimes approaches this kind of disinterested debate.
I think that any person who understands the value of disinterestedness welcomes any argument that adds to knowledge and understanding, particularly if it corrects a previously held error or sheds light where previously there was only ignorance.
This kind of view owes a great deal to the Socratic dialogues of Plato, where the pursuit of knowledge and the defeat of ignorance is always the priority.
Mind you, the disinterested stance does not mean you need to give equal weight to every feather-headed vagary and wild-eyed conspiracy theory. But you very much need a policy that when you encounter a point of view that differs widely from your own, that you test, in a neutral manner, the two views against one another. This may at times be difficult, in which case the best policy is to suspend judgement until the support for each view becomes clear.
As is so often the case, the greatest danger to our disinterestedness is pseudo-disinterestedness! That is rather a mouthful, isn't it? What I mean is the kind of moral equivalency that the news media purvey in, for example, all news dealing with the Middle East. Don't assume a moral equivalency where none exists! On the other hand, beware as well of the biased assumption that in an instance of a genuine dispute, such as that surrounding anthropogenic climate change, the truth is 99% on one side.
(Just to give a little background to this, we used to be told that "97% of climate scientists agree on the issue of global warming." Recently I have heard this changed to "99%" and just the other day it had climbed to "99.9%"! Let me refer you to Forbes magazine for a refreshing examination of this claim:
The original 97% figure came from a study by John Cook:Bottom line: What the 97% of climate scientists allegedly agree on is very mild and in no way justifies restricting the energy that billions need.But it gets even worse. Because it turns out that 97% didn't even say that.
Cook is able to demonstrate only that a relative handful endorse "the view that the Earth is warming up and human emissions of greenhouse gases are the main cause." Cook calls this "explicit endorsement with quantification" (quantification meaning 50 percent or more). The problem is, only a small percentage of the papers fall into this category; Cook does not say what percentage, but when the study was publicly challenged by economist David Friedman, one observer calculated that only 1.6 percent explicitly stated that man-made greenhouse gases caused at least 50 percent of global warming.In fact, quite a number of the scientists whose papers were included in the study protested that their view had been miscategorized. So that 97% statistic turns out to be a chimera.)
A great deal of other things we take for granted because we are told over and over that they are true are, simply, lies. And lies told for very "interested" reasons by people with a dog in the fight. You should always be on the lookout for what I call "special pleading", that is, argument with no pretensions to any objectivity whatsoever, but mere propaganda in favor of a particular point of view.
The trick is in being able to distinguish this from genuine advocacy of something without personal motives. I suspect that the key is in discerning the motives: are they clear and unambiguous? For example when I keep saying things like the symphonies of Joseph Haydn are wonderful and you should listen to them, it is because this is what I believe and not because I have partial ownership of a Haydn distributor.
On the other hand pretty much any argument with regards to tax policy, trade policy, government subsidies and so on, needs to be examined with extreme prejudice because it is rare that these sort of things are NOT governed entirely by hidden (or not so hidden) special interests.
Speaking of Joseph Haydn, let's listen to the Trio no. 44 in E major played by Robert Levin, Vera Beths & Anner Bylsma:


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"Tulips Chilly Dippers" dipped more than their toes at the Fly Inn!
Unanimous vote at the Fly Inn on the morning of 31st December 2016, was that the sea was much, much colder, but a lot calmer this year compared to last year, when ten hardy swimmers braved the cold waters, all with the aim of raising money for Tulips!
Once again, the annual end of year seasonal swim by the "Tulips Chilly Dippers" had tremendous support with friends and family shouting words of encouragement from the terraces, whilst they were all wrapped up against the cold, enjoying a cup of mulled wine, provided by Jenny Brown!
Raziye Kocaismail, chairperson and founder of the association with a swimmer Tig McKenzie
Raziye Kocaismail, chairperson and founder of Tulips/Help Those With Cancer Association
was there to lend words of both support and thanks as all the swimmers got out of the water feeling frozen to their bones, but all with a sense of achievement at having stayed in the water for a full TEN minutes.
The final figure raised will be announced on the 21st January 2017, at the Fly Inn, Lapta, where there will be a presentation of monies raised handed over to Tulips at 19.30. Following the presentation will be entertainment with music provided by the "Sound of Guitars" duo.
We would like to first thank Jackie Pennington,
who, once again, organised this event; to the swimmers who "willingly" swam in the cold Mediterranean for Tulips (Jackie Pennington, Kay Thomas, Susan Hargreaves, Steve Owen, David Foulke, Steve Foster, Un Bitlis, Roger Miles, Auriana Stevens, Tig MacKenzie);
Un Bitlis and the Fly Inn
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Jenny Brown
for providing the mulled wine
As a belated addition this photo was received on 2nd January 2017 – We would like to thank Roger!
Finally to all the supporters and sponsors who willingly parted with their money for this Tulips event!
Many thanks
Sue and Carole
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Saturday, December 31, 2016
Plumbing Update
Some reader is going to look at the blotchy black stuff in the floor and lecture me about black mold. Wrong. That's coal dust and maybe a little fuel-oil schmutz; smear a fingertip through it, sniff and you can smell it. This house had a coal-burning furnace for years and years. At some point, it was converted to oil. Both are long-gone but, for those of you who remember neither, they're dirty fuels, and every hard-to-get-to or neglected corner of the house has a hidden freight of the stuff, especially the basement. The plumbers were working right next to the main floor beam and a crawl space opening, and the longer they worked (as water dripped), the more black, oily dust drifted down and the worse that floor looked. I'll be mopping it later today.
* Or is that 1"? Inch and a quarter? Whichever; the kits aren't cheap and the experience to use one on ancient pipe about seven feet above floor level and crowded by a big beam and the gas line is even more costly. Better them than me, and better the learning takes somewhere other than in my basement. --Speaking of experience, I've got unscrew a couple of aerators and remove the calcium deposits they've collected in the wake of the plumbing work.
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- Countglockula said...
Glad the plumbing issue is finally resolved. I'm finally at the age where I prefer to have someone else do the repairs, though I do regret the financial damage that ensues.
My best to you and Roomie and wishes for a great 2017!
- December 31, 2016 at 12:24 PM
- Roberta X said...
Thank you, and the very same to you!
- December 31, 2016 at 12:49 PM
- The Neon Madman said...
Looks like 1" pipe, that would be about right for water service. I am surprised at galvanized iron, though. I didn't think that they used it much anymore. Over time the inside corrodes and chokes the flow down to nothing. That is one of the reasons that lead pipe was popular for service lines.
- December 31, 2016 at 3:45 PM
- Old NFO said...
Glad it is fixed, THAT is the important part! Best wishes for 2017 for you and yours, Roberta!
- December 31, 2016 at 5:12 PM
- Will said...
The house my father was born in ('25) was coal fired (suburb of Philly). Big grill in the dining room floor, that had a Persian rug to cover when not in use. I remember seeing coal in the crib/bin in the cellar in the 50's. Which seems typical, seeing as one of my grandfather's businesses was installing/maintaining thermostat controlled forced air heating systems. (Mechanics tend to have the worst running vehicles, autobodymen have the worst looking, etc)
I have a time tracking system he built to monitor when a heater turns off and on, to aid in troubleshooting. Power activates a solenoid that pushes a pencil stub against a platter with paper taped to it, with the platter mounted on a windup clock. Looks really old. Hmm, may have to look at the components for dates, perhaps.
At some point, it was converted to oil, still using that big vent in the floor. When we moved in in the mid 60's, it was changed to a hot water baseboard heater system, still oil fired.
- December 31, 2016 at 6:53 PM
- Will said...
Whoops! Forgot to wish you and household an improved coming year. Less drama and better health, at minimum.
- December 31, 2016 at 6:58 PM
- jdunmyer said...
Soaking those areators in vinegar will clean out calcium deposits, but they're likely to be plugged with debris. That happened to me just a couple of weeks ago when I had to replace the pressure tank on my shop system. I removed the plastic parts, and cleaned the holes in the little disk with a paperclip got 'er working like new again. It's easier if you remember to remove the things before turning the water back on and flushing the lines, but I nearly always forget.
- December 31, 2016 at 8:08 PM
- Fuzzy Curmudgeon said...
Years ago, we converted an old coal-burner to natural gas. Kicker was that the old fellow who owned the house wasn't burning coal; he was burning wood, and he'd gotten tired of having to get up and rake out and stoke the furnace every morning. He was in his 80's, I believe :-)
I subscribe wholeheartedly to the concept of "It's expensive, but I don't have to do it." Several years ago, we replaced our furnace and a/c to the tune of just south of $7K. This seemed out of line till I ran some CPI inflation comparisons and realized it was comparable to what we charged for the same thing in 1972. And I didn't have to do the work.
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The world has spent the past six months wondering how and with whom Silvio Berlusconi spends his Saturday nights. But the combative, scandal-plagued Prime Minister of Italy would prefer to talk about his mornings instead. "Do you know how I've been forced to spend my Saturday mornings since I entered politics?" Berlusconi once declared to business leaders in Rome. "With my lawyers."
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So, alas, Berlusconi is back to spending his downtime with a well-paid cadre of more than a dozen avvocati, who have been successful so far in keeping their biggest client clear of criminal convictions. Not that the lawyers have ever really gone away. Since the media baron first ran for office 15 years ago, his legal advisers have doubled as political consiglieri, key members of Parliament and even important Cabinet Ministers. Indeed, while some critics have spoken of Berlusconi's reign as a kind of sultanate of showgirls or government by gaffe, others have described it as a republic of attorneys.
His longtime lawyer Cesare Previti served as Italian Defense Minister during Berlusconi's first term in 1994 before being convicted of corruption himself (and losing twice on appeal). During Berlusconi's second term (2001-06), Gaetano Pecorella, a former leftist, served as president of Parliament's Justice Commission, where he was instrumental in shepherding through new laws that helped shield Berlusconi from investigating magistrates.
Giovanni Sartori, a Columbia University professor of constitutional law, says the role Berlusconi's personal lawyers have played in his legislative agenda is yet another gargantuan conflict of interest to add to those related to his ownership of Italy's main private television stations. But by now, Sartori says, Berlusconi's lawyers have perfected the art of exploiting Italy's painfully slow justice system: many cases conclude without a final verdict because the statute of limitations has been reached. "It is more a mania than a necessity," Sartori says of Berlusconi's near obsession in battling magistrates. "He feels persecuted, and fighting the judges is what makes him happy."
Berlusconi's current point man is Nicolo Ghedini, a somber-faced, lanky 49-year-old criminal-defense attorney from the northern city of Padua, who has served in both the Italian Senate and the lower house of Parliament. Ghedini has continued to mount a grinding defense in the criminal cases, arguing in the Mills case that Berlusconi cannot be present in the Milan courtroom for the next several months because of time conflicts with his duties as Prime Minister. Ghedini has also spearheaded an increasingly aggressive legal strategy that has included several libel suits against opposition newspapers. He declared in September that if necessary, Berlusconi would testify in a suit against a journalist who referred to rumors that the Prime Minister is impotent. Last week, Berlusconi vowed to launch additional suits against newspapers that printed unsubstantiated reports that a close adviser of his was involved in a 1993 bombing campaign by the Sicilian Mafia.
Despite these many legal headaches, Berlusconi is embroiled in one other particularly thorny case that even he can't blame on overzealous magistrates. Veronica Lario, Berlusconi's wife of more than 20 years, filed for divorce earlier this year, which sparked an avalanche of accusations that he frequented a prostitute from Bari and an underage model from Naples. The Milan daily Corriere della Sera reported last week that Lario has demanded 3.5 million euros ($5.2 million) in monthly payments, and Berlusconi countered with an offer of 300,000 euros ($450,000). No matter how this and the other cases shake out, there is little hope that Berlusconi can avoid a mountain of lawyers' fees and some grim Saturdays that he'd rather devote to other business and pleasures.


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It's true that crocheted fabrics can sometimes appear, well, homely. They're lovely, sure, but they can also remind you of an arts-and-crafts project that your grandmother worked on over the cold winter months. Well, hold on to your hooks, ladies — this shop owner may have figured out a way to make crochet cooler than you could ever have imagined.
Elenora, spotted on the streets of Milan, wears a knit dress we're positive Grams never attempted, along with bold-colored accessories, copper-ombre tresses, and a collection of ink that all work together to add an edge to the otherwise sweet look. Break out the yarn — we may have just found inspiration for this fall's ultimate DIY project.


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Caernarfon cyclist Rhodri Hughes-Jones, 69, has died after riding into a chain suspended between two bollards whilst returning home after watching Monday's Tour of Britain stage in Llandudno.
Hughes-Jones suffered serious head injuries as a result of the incident according to the Daily Post. He was cycling with fellow members of Clwb Beicio Menai, who attempted to resuscitate him at the scene after calling for an ambulance.
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Clwb Beicio Menai member Dylan Bee was at the scene, and told the Daily Post: "We came into Caernarfon and had gone over the red bridge in Victoria Dock and he hit the chain between two bollards. He's gone over the bollards and banged his head."
"There was blood coming from a cut in his head. He was unconscious and totally unresponsive. His fingers had turned blue. It sounded like his heart had stopped."
Paramedics resuscitated Hughes-Jones before he was taken to Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor. He was then transferred to Stoke Hospital, where he died on Tuesday.
North Wales Police is appealing for witnesses to the incident to contact it by telephoning 101 and quoting reference R142007.
"Inquiries into the incident are continuing, however at this time it is believed the 69-year-old cyclist was riding near the Galeri when he was involved in a collision and sustained head injuries. Nobody else or any other vehicles are believed to have been involved," said North Wales Police in a statement.


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Have you ever noticed your thoughts when a friend cancels dinner plans or doesn't reply to a text message? Or if a colleague seems impatient or looks at you in a funny way, or if an acquaintance is off with you? For me, these situations have the potential to trigger a stream of negative thoughts and assumptions. All of the following are examples from my own brain:
⁃ I told [insert name] too much about myself and they've probably gone off me but are too nice to say
⁃ I must have annoyed [insert name] because they didn't reciprocate when I smiled at them when we passed each other
⁃ [insert name] thinks I am weird/hard work/creepy/pathetic/childish
⁃ That person over there just looked at me than started talking and laughing with their friend. They are laughing at me because I'm ugly and look anxious
In CBT, these automatic, quick, sneaky (and often destructive or self-judging) thoughts are known as NATs (negative automatic thoughts) but I prefer to call them ANTs. Small and seemingly innocuous at first but if you don't pay attention or take action they can quickly multiply. What was a mildly irritating tickle becomes an overwhelming, painfully bite-y onslaught of self-hatred and shame. To be honest, at times they feel more like a herd of elephants stamping through my mind. It hurts and it sucks.
The good news is that we can begin to challenge these thoughts. For me, the struggle is remembering to do so on a regular basis and not ignoring my ANTs. There are different ways to do this but here is a CBT exercise that I have found useful. It's much more effective for me to use and pen and paper for this exercise and to take some time over it, rather than trying to do it in my head.
The first part of the exercise is to find out exactly what your thoughts and feelings were when you were triggered by something:
1. What was the situation that triggered negative thoughts? Example: [insert name] cancelled our lunch together with no explanation.
2. Identify one negative thought that you had about the situation. Example: they don't want to spend time with me any more but are too nice to tell me directly
3. What emotions did you feel when you were having this thought? Example: anxiety, rejection, shame, loneliness
4. What body sensations did you feel when you were having these emotions? Example: tension in the stomach and forehead, heaviness in chest
The second part of the exercise is to try to challenge your negative thought or assumption:
1. Is this (your thought) a hard fact or is it your opinion?
2. What would you say to a friend if they said they had had this thought?
3. Is there another way of looking at this situation?
4. What advice would you give to a friend in this situation?
5. Is your thought/reaction in proportion to the actual event?
6. Are there other possible explanations for the event?
I find these exercises hard to do. I have felt shifts in my perspective at times, but other times it doesn't seem to work and I feel worse and more enmeshed in my shame and self-judgement. When it does work, though, I feel like I have more insight into my thinking processes and can gain a little distance from the ANTs, which gives me traction and hope.
[My answers to the second part of the exercise are here:
1. Opinion
2. I would say to a friend that there's no reason why the person who cancelled lunch wouldn't want to spend time with them and that the person in question was probably just tired, or overwhelmed, or had double booked themselves.
3. Another way of looking at the situation could be to ask myself why I have cancelled plans in the past (because I was tired or had something important I needed to do, like a dentist appointment). I could also recognise that I am viewing the situation through the lens of my own insecurity and negative bias.
4. I would advise a friend to maybe ask the person in question if everything is okay, and explain that they were a little worried they'd upset the person.
5. No.
6. Yes – as above. It's unlikely that my friend cancelled lunch because of me and there are a million other reasons why they might have cancelled.]
I'm going to try and do four of these exercises over the next week and see what happens.


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Self Government but not Autonomy
The Dominion of Canada was created through an act of the British Parliament. The British North America Act, 1867 (BNA) created self government, a Canadian Parliament, and the position of prime minister, however it did not grant full autonomy to Canada as a nation. Certain powers were maintained by the British Parliament including the right to consent, repeal, and override laws passed through the Canadian Parliament. Meanwhile, acts of the British Parliament would be applicable to Canada.
For the negotiation of treaties, convention held that Britain would have a seat at the table, or at the very least, be a signatory to international treaties involving Canada. Section 132 of the British North American Act concerning treaties states: "The Parliament and Government of Canada shall have all Powers necessary or proper for performing the Obligations of Canada or of any Province thereof, as Part of the British Empire, towards Foreign Countries, arising under Treaties between the Empire and such Foreign Countries."
By the 20th century, Canada was struggling for greater autonomy from Britain. During the First World War, Prime Minister Robert Borden demanded that the Canadian Expeditionary Force fight as a single unit and not be broken up among British units. At the conclusion of the war in 1919, Borden successfully insisted that Canada have separate representation at the Paris Peace Conference, be a signatory on the Treaty of Versailles, and for Canada to have a its own seat at the League of Nations. Subsequent prime ministers continued the quest for autonomy.
Halibut Fishery
The Halibut Treaty came about as the result of depleting halibut stocks in the North Pacific, in fishing grounds shared by both Canada and the United States. Large scale commercial fishing of halibut began when the Northern Pacific Railway reached the west coast, making possible the overland transportation of fish east. Demand from Europe and the US had already decimated the Atlantic halibut fishery. By 1915, the Pacific catch was more than 69 million pounds, but soon thereafter stocks began to dwindle.
Negotiations on preserving fish stocks began between Canada and the US in 1918. The talks were a historic first, as they sought an international agreement in conservation. The final result was the Convention for the Preservation of Halibut Fishery of the Northern Pacific Ocean.
The treaty created a season closed to commercial fishing from 16 November to 15 February, with the penalty of seizure. The treaty was to last a minimum of five years. The agreement set in place the International Fisheries Commission (IFC), to "make a thorough investigation into the life history of the Pacific Halibut" and make recommendations for the regulation of the industry.
The treaty was signed by Ernest Lapointe, then Canada's minister of Marine and Fisheries, and Charles Evan Hughes, the US Secretary of State. It was modest from the American point of view, but was extremely important for Canada in symbolic terms.
It was Canada's preference not to negotiate the treaty with a British delegate at the table, nor to seek the ratification of the British Parliament. The custom until the Halibut Treaty had been that British officials would always participate in treaty negations involving Canada, and that Britain would give final consent.
British Reaction
The British wished to sign the treaty along with Canada, as they always had. But Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King argued that the matter was solely the concern of Canada and the US, and did not affect any British or imperial interest. Therefore Britain should not appear as a contracting party, either in the treaty's preamble, or as a signatory. (The treaty did, in fact, make reference to the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland" in the preamble.)
Afterwards, Mackenzie King threatened to send a separate Canadian diplomat to Washington, DC to represent Canada's interests there, apart from the British ambassador, and the British acquiesced. The Halibut Treaty precedent, confirmed by the Imperial Conference of 1923, was an important step towards the establishment of Canada's right to separate diplomatic action.
The treaty signaled a shift in Canadian politics, from one focussed on being a part of the British Empire, to one that was more pan-Canadian, sometimes described as separatist or isolationist under Mackenzie King. It also indicated Canada's shifting economic focus during the 1920s from Britain to the US. During this time, the US passed Britain as Canada's largest trading partner.
The Imperial Conference in 1926 brought forth the Balfour Report which recognized Canada and the other dominions of the British Empire as equal members of the new British Commonwealth of Nations. The report put in place resolutions for independent self-government which were included in the 1931 Statute of Westminster. The act cut all legal ties between Canada and the British Parliament except the power to amend the Canadian Constitution. Only in 1982 was the Constitution finally repatriated, and the power of amendment transferred to Canada.
Success of the Treaty
As the IFC studied the fisheries, stocks continued to decrease, reaching a low of 21 million pounds by 1930. The IFC had developed regulations, but the original treaty did not provide the commission with the power of implementation. A revised, more wide ranging treaty, replacing the original, was signed on 9 May 1930.
Further revisions were signed in 1937, 1953, and a protocol signed in 1979. The IFC was renamed the International Pacific Halibut Commission expanded to six members, and continues in its role today. The halibut fishery began to stabilize and then grow. In 1959, a catch of 71.5 million pounds finally surpassed the 1915 catch.


text: In the framework of real-time optimization, measurement-based schemes have been developed to deal with plant-model mismatch and process variations. These schemes differ in how the feedback information from the plant is used to adapt the inputs. A recent idea therein is to use the feedback information to adapt the constraints of the optimization problem instead of updating the model parameters. These methods are based on the observation that, for many problems, most of the optimization potential arises from activating the correct set of constraints. In this paper, we provide a theoretical justification of these methods based on a variational analysis. Then, various aspects of the constraint-adaptation algorithm are discussed, including the detection of active constraints and convergence issues. Finally, the applicability and suitability of the constraint-adaptation algorithm is demonstrated with the case study of an isothermal stirred-tank reactor.


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NASA's Glenn Research Center is already losing a strong supporter in Congress with the departure of Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who lost the Democratic primary for his redrawn district against another incumbent, Rep. Marcy Kaptur. Now it appears the center will lose another advocate: according to multiple reports, including the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Rep. Steven Latourette (R-OH) is expected to announce today that he will retire at the end of his term, ending what was expected to be a relatively easy reelection bid. His decision to retire "is related to displeasure with his role in Congress," the Plain Dealer reported.
LaTourette, while not active in general on space issues, has spoken out when it has affected NASA's Glenn Research Center, near his district, or elsewhere in the state. He opposed the NASA Authorization Act of 2010, along with a large number of other members of the Ohio delegation, concerned that it could lead to job cuts at Glenn. He sought a GAO review of NASA's shuttle site selection process in 2011 after the National Museum of the Air Force in Dayton failed in its bid to secure a shuttle orbiter. He also criticized some of his Alabama colleagues in 2010, including Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), for allegedly diverting funding from Glenn to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. "The biggest pigs were the guys down in Alabama," he said at the time. "They were always trying to take stuff away from NASA Glenn, and it was because of Sen. [Richard] Shelby."


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- Compendium is a sequel to my Burgues font from 2007. Actually it is more like a prequel to Burgues. Before Louis Madarasz awed the American Southeast with his disciplined corners and wild hairlines, Platt Rogers Spencer, up in Ohio, had laid down a style all his own, a style that would eventually become the groundwork for the veering calligraphic method that was later defined and developed by Madarasz. Even though the current trend of extending older popular typefaces can play tricks with a type designer's mind, and maybe even send him into strange directions of planning, my purpose is not the extension of something popular. My purpose is presenting a more comprehensive picture as I keep coming to terms with my obsession with 19th century American penmanship. Those who already know my work probably have an idea about how obsessive I can be about presenting a complete and detailed image of the past through today's eyes. So it is not hard to understand my need to expand on the Burgues concept in order to reach a fuller picture of how American calligraphy evolved in the 19th century. Burgues was really all about Madarasz, so much so that it bypasses the genius of those who came before him. Compendium seeks to put Madarasz's work in a better chronological perspective, to show the rounds that led to the sharps, so to speak. And it is nearly criminal to ignore Spencer's work, simply because it had a much wider influence on the scope of calligraphy in general. While Madarasz's work managed to survive only through a handful of his students, Spencer's work was disseminated throughout America by his children after he died in 1867. The Spencer sons were taught by their father and were great calligraphers themselves. They would pass the elegant Spencerian method on to thousands of American penmen and sign painters. Though Compendium has a naturally more normalized, Spencerian flow, its elegance, expressiveness, movement and precision are no less adventurous than Burgues. Nearing 700 glyphs, its character set contains plenty of variation in each letter, and many ornaments for letter beginnings, endings, and some that can even serve to envelope entire words with swashy calligraphic wonder. Those who love to explore typefaces in detail will be rewarded, thanks to OpenType. I am so in love with the technology now that it's becoming harder for me to let go of a typeface and call it finished.
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The Red Seraphs is a Codex Astartes-compliant Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown Founding and origin. Almost nothing is known about this Chapter in current Imperial records.
Chapter History
Notable Campaigns
- Dark Marches Crusade (610-759.M36) - In the wake of the Age of Apostasy, the Segmentum Tempestus saw a resurgence in power and renaissance of expansion, known to Imperial historians as the "Rising Storm." With the blessing of Terra, Segmentum Tempestus authorities launched a number of crusades and campaigns to destroy lingering threats within their domain, and push back and fortify the borders of the Imperium. The most successful of these was the Dark Marches Crusade, commanded by Lord Tempestus Hal Orpheus, lineal descendant of the Rogue Trader house that had first explored the Orpheus Region's sinister reaches millennia previously. The Red Seraphs sent three companies of Astartes to take part in the massive Imperial Crusade.
- The Batte of the Gorgon Deeps (160.M39) - When the Orpheus Sector was attacked by a great Ork invasion, the Red Seraphs and their brothers from the Space Marine Chapter of the Revilers reinforced Battlefleet Orpheus and confronted the Ork menace. In a nineteen-week running space battle, the Chapter eventually succeeded in destroying the Ork flagship Mega-Kroozer by boarding it and planting seismic charges. With the loss of their flagship the Orks scattered but would go on to be a thorn in the Sector's side for centuries to come.
- Magdellan Prime Civil War (143-151.M41) - When the followers of the Cult of Balthalamus plunged the world of Magdellan Prime into anarchy and bloodshed, the Battle-Sisters of the Order of the Ebon Chalice bore the brunt of the fighting. The Order's Preceptory Reclusium was repeatedly targeted by the maddened hordes, but held out against seemingly impossible odds until relief eventually arrived. By the time a relief force consisting of Space Marines of the Red Seraphs, Fire Angels and Sons of the Kraken Chapters arrived, the Battle-Sisters had begun a determined counter-attack and victory was ultimately won.
- The Orphean War (992.M41) - Eager to aid in the defence of a domain that they had helped to claim in the name of the Divine Emperor, the Red Seraphs sent out troops to the Orpheus Sector to participate in the Orphean War. Although they arrived too late to participate in the disastrous Battle of Amarah, the inbound Red Seraphs are expected to be drawn into the Orphean Salvation Campaign, striking out at the Maynarkh Dynasty of the dreaded Necrons whilst the Imperium fortifies the neighbouring Eurydice Sector.
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- Imperial Armour Volume Two (Second Edition) - War Machines of the Adeptus Astartes, pg. 20
- Imperial Armour Volume Twelve : The Fall of Orpheus, pp. 17-19, 21, 40
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For an Android site, we sure have been writing about Steve Wozniak a lot lately. First we got to take a look inside his travel backpack and see all of his gadgets, then we heard him saying that he didn't agree with the highly publicized Apple-Samsung verdict. Now, thanks to a new Q&A session at Slashdot, we're finding out a lot more about him in general. Woz answered a bunch of different questions during the Q&A session, but a few of his answers in particular stick out.
Specifically, there's his answer to a question about whether or not he likes the way his "baby" has grown over the years. Woz has always been a big supporter and member of the open source community, so it isn't surprise that his answer veered in that direction. "Apple's real rise from the small market-share Macintosh company to the iProducts of today began with iTunes and the iPod," he said. "This turned out to be a 2nd huge business which roughly doubled Apple's 'size'. If you remember, we ported iTunes to Windows. We now addressed 100% of the world's market with this integrated system (iPod/iTunes) and it began the era of Apple that we are now in. So why don't we port iTunes to Android? Did something get closed up? I love Apple products and iTunes and wish it were on my Android products too."
Apple, of course, doesn't like the idea of its software running on other phones, so that's why we don't get iTunes on Android. It isn't as if Android users are out of options when it comes to accessing their music libraries on their phone, however. Many Android users would point Woz toward Google Music, which is an excellent service and good alternative to iTunes.
Woz also took the opportunity to discuss Apple's recent courtroom brawls during the Q&A session, reiterating his stance that Apple shouldn't be suing other players in the industry as much as it has been. "I wish that instead of all these lawsuits Apple was sitting down and cross-licensing with the other players," he said. "They have come up some very good features without complicating the UI. Things like a palm swipe to take a screen snapshot. I would like my iPhone to be the best it could, even if someone else did some of the things first. And Apple could license iTunes perhaps, or help the other platforms develop it. The market shares would probably remain the same but we consumers would all win."
Once again, we have to admit that Woz paints an wonderful scene, but sadly, we're thinking it isn't all that realistic to hope that Apple and other tech companies will begin sharing their patents. We can't really blame those tech companies, since Apple was just awarded $1 billion dollars for others infringing on its patents, but still, it would be nice to see these companies begin to share technology and each make the best products they can. That's probably won't ever happen, but it's still nice to dream. If you have a few minutes to spare, be sure to check out the whole Q&A session with Woz – it makes for a very interesting read!


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I use custom category templates for a few of my categories. Ex: cat-12.php and so on. I use the Fv Simpler Seo and presently it doesnt seem to support an option to edit category templates.
Considering that I use custom category templates, is there a function or a way I include custom meta description and custom title (over riding the default category name that is picked up as the title) without having to use a plugin?


text: It's about time. Kerry, Durbin and Reid should be next. http://www.tribune-democrat.com/local/local_story_270000717.html Murtha sued over remarks BY MIKE FAHER The Tribune-Democrat In May 2006, six months after 24 people were killed in a small Iraqi town, U.S. Rep. John Murtha made a startling accusation. American soldiers, he contended, had killed innocent civilians "in cold blood." Now, less than six weeks before the longtime Johnstown Democrat is up for re-election, a Marine involved in the now-infamous Haditha incident is suing Murtha for slander. Justin Sharratt of Canonsburg, Washington County, left the Marine Corps last year. But he claims Murtha's statements have caused "permanent, irreversible damage to his reputation." "What Murtha did is outrageous, and I am seeking punitive damages," said Noah Geary, a Pittsburgh attorney representing Sharratt. The lawsuit was filed Thursday in federal court in Pittsburgh. It includes Murtha's statements from nationally televised interviews in 2006, including an exchange during a CNN interview with anchor Wolf Blitzer. "There was an (improvised explosive device) attack, it killed one Marine, and then they overreacted and killed a number of civilians without anybody firing at them," Murtha told Blitzer. "That's what you're going to find out." At this point, though, seven of the eight servicemen charged in the incident have been cleared. Geary said Sharratt was charged with three counts of unpremeditated murder but later was exonerated. Sharratt, 24, was honorably discharged from the Marines, Geary said. The lawsuit claims Murtha violated Sharratt's constitutional rights to presumption of innocence and due process of law. While Geary acknowledged that the congressman never mentioned his client by name, he said media reports did identify Sharratt. And the effects have been long-lasting, the attorney said. "People see that on TV," Geary said. "It becomes truth – it becomes a fact." He added that "Justin has had people approach him, giving him a hard time" in reference to Haditha. And the suit says Sharratt has lost "significant employment opportunities" and "significant associational opportunities." Murtha, through a spokesman, offered no comment Thursday. But when a different Haditha Marine filed a lawsuit against him in 2006, Murtha said he simply wanted to focus attention on troops who were "caught in the middle of a tragic dilemma" in war-torn Iraq. "When I spoke up about Haditha, my intention was to draw attention to the horrendous pressure put on our troops in Iraq and to the cover-up of the incident," Murtha said at the time. The 2006 lawsuit is ongoing. It was filed by Frank D. Wuterich, the only Marine not yet cleared in the Haditha incident. Wuterich has pleaded not guilty to voluntary manslaughter charges, The Associated Press reported. Haditha has become a political issue in western Pennsylvania. Diana Irey, a Republican Washington County commissioner, often spoke of the Haditha Marines during her unsuccessful 2006 campaign against Murtha. Republican William Russell, challenging Murtha this year, has resurrected the theme. In fact, Russell's campaign Web site features a "personal video message" from Justin Sharratt's father, Darryl. And Russell's only television ad has focused on Murtha's Haditha comments. Geary denied that Sharratt's lawsuit is connected in any way to the Russell campaign. Instead, he said, the legal action must be filed now because a statute of limitations for slander lawsuits is about to expire. "There's no political motivation whatsoever," Geary said. "This is purely a legal endeavor." Nevertheless, Russell issued a statement on Sharratt's lawsuit Thursday. "I sincerely hope that Congressman Murtha will use this opportunity to admit his mistake and take responsibility for the harm his false accusations have done to Justin Sharratt and his family," Russell said. "Justin's right to justice goes beyond politics." Murtha has 60 days to respond to the lawsuit.