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Global Climate Change Talk Heats Up
New SEMI Working Group Forming
In 1997, the Kyoto Protocol meeting set binding targets for 37 industrialized countries and the European community for reducing Green House Gas (GHG) emissions. As the December 2009 Copenhagen follow-up meeting approaches, the issue of global climate change heats up. Tough questions about the role of GHGs in global climate change resurface, especially related to how the issue will affect our industry.
GHGs are substances that trap energy in the atmosphere. In theory, increasing atmospheric GHG concentration could lead to a gradual build-up of energy and a subsequent temperature rise in the atmosphere. The overall effect of increased GHG concentrations in the atmospheric and concomitant atmospheric and surface temperature changes is called global climate change. The most profound implication of climate warming is widespread melting of snow and ice, leading to rising sea levels. Other effects include changes to agriculture, food supply, ecosystems, biodiversity, water resources, and human health.
Based on substantial evidence, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an international consortium of scientists researching the role of GHGs in climate change, recently concluded that the Earth is getting warmer and that GHGs are the culprit. The IPCC concluded that, "Taken as a whole, the range of published evidence indicates that the net damage costs of climate change are likely to be significant and to increase over time." (http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg2/ar4-wg2-spm.pdf)
The Role of Human Activities in Green House Gases
Some GHGs are naturally occurring and are emitted to the atmosphere through natural processes and human activities. Other greenhouse gases are created and emitted only through human activities. The IPCC recently concluded that, "Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic [man-made] greenhouse gas concentrations" (http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-spm.pdf).
In other words, human activities are the likely cause of climate change. The principal GHGs that enter the atmosphere due to human activities are:
- Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
- Methane (CH4)
- Nitrous Oxide (N2O)
- Fluorinated Gases
To mitigate any substantial damages caused by climate change, future emissions of GHGs should be limited.
Global, National, and Regional Climate Change Regulations
On December 11, 1997, under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), a number of countries agreed to reduce their emissions of GHGs. The agreement, called the Kyoto Protocol, sets binding targets for reducing GHG emissions. Shortly after signing the Kyoto Protocol, many countries enacted domestic laws necessary for meeting the GHG emissions targets.
As the Kyoto Protocol is set to expire in 2012, countries from around the world are scheduled to meet in Copenhagen, Denmark in December 2009 to discuss future international climate change regulations. Members of the UNFCCC will likely agree to new targets for reducing GHG emissions, as well as new mechanisms for achieving these targets. UNFCCC members would likely enact domestic legislation that is consistent with these new GHG emission reduction targets. Otherwise, these countries would have to revise existing regulatory mechanisms.
Some countries are not waiting for results from the Copenhagen meeting to address climate change. The United States, for example, has been pushing for new regulations and revising existing regulations to address climate change. This push comes from the Obama administration and the U.S. Congress. This past summer, the U.S. House of Representatives approved HR 2454, drafted by Henry Waxman and Edward Markey. The bill, titled "American Clean Energy and Security Act," includes a cap-and-trade plan designed to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions 17% by the year 2020. Last month, Senators Barbara Boxer and John Kerry drafted a similar U.S. Senate version of the Waxman/Markey bill. However, the Boxer/Kerry bill, titled "Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act," sets a more aggressive goal of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by 20% for the year 2020 and an 80% reduction by the year 2050. Last month, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, Lisa Jackson, announced a significant new proposal to regulate GHG emissions under the existing Clean Air Act (CAA). The proposal would allow the EPA to control or limit GHG emissions from certain facilities.
Other countries have also expressed interest in promoting climate change regulations, independent of global targets from the UNFCCC.
Impacts of these Regulations to Industry
In the next two years, the world should see a profound number of regulatory mechanisms designed to mitigate climate change at the global, national, and regional level. This regulatory push could significantly impact companies in the microelectronic, photovoltaic (solar), display, and related high technology industries. It is unclear whether these impacts will be negative or positive to these industries.
Most regulations designed to mitigate climate change focus on one or more of the following:
- GHG Emission: Includes reducing emissions of GHGs, which include CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, SF6, and PFCs (fluorinated compounds)
- Energy Efficiency: Includes increasing efficiencies in new and existing energy-consuming systems (transportation, buildings, agriculture, manufacturing, etc.)
- Fossil Fuel Substitution: Includes reducing use of fossil fuels through use of lower or zero carbon energy sources (including use of photovoltaics)
The negative impacts to high technology industries that utilize fluorinated compounds could be significant.
On the other hand, the push for energy efficiency could represent powerful market opportunities for high technologies industries, especially those in microelectronics. The same can be said for the photovoltaic industry, as this renewable energy could reduce global reliance on the fossil fuels that constitute the majority of CO2 emissions.
It's likely these climate change regulations will directly impact all aspects of the supply chain and manufacturing of semiconductor, microelectronic, photovoltaic (solar), display, solid state lighting, and related high technology industries. The impact will extend to the following:
- Chemicals Suppliers, Manufacturers, Distributors, Importers and Exporters
- Equipment Suppliers (and Components Suppliers)
- Product Manufacturers (and Distributors)
Announcing the SEMI Climate Change Regulation Working Group
Some SEMI members and industry partners have expressed deep concern about the positive and negative impacts of climate change regulations on our industry. To address these concerns, SEMI is launching a new Working Group, entitled the "SEMI Climate Change Regulation Working Group." The Working Group (WG) will address SEMI member concerns about possible climate change regulations— including impacts to the semiconductor, microelectronic, photovoltaic (solar), display, solid state lighting, and related high technology industries.
For now, the WG will limit itself to regulatory compliance issues. To date, two different task forces have been formed:
- The Regulatory and Legislative Task Force will monitor specific legislative and regulatory mechanisms, provide feedback and industry responses to regulations, and cooperate with other industry groups.
- The Technological Solution Task Force will produce technical knowledge about climate change solutions for greening industry and greening of society by industry, and suggest best practices for emissions reductions, energy efficiency, and low carbon operations.
At a later date, the SEMI Climate Change Regulation Working Group may choose to focus on broader climate protection topics.
To get involved in the group, please access the WG Membership Form and input your contact information.
For More Information
For more information, please contact Sanjay Baliga (SEMI EHS Senior Manager in San Jose).
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If only because we like to see how predictions actually pan out... we must point out that Nouriel Roubini said in August that Q3 GDP would come in close to 0%.
Turns out, he was about 2% off. The actual number was 2.0%. (before forthcoming revisions, which may make him more right).
Here was the tweet where he made the prediction.


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Wanting to buy a HKN6155(B) Motorola programming cable for a Astro Spectra PLUS. I have an APX / MotoTRBO programming cable (Motorola P/N PMKN4012B) thats practically new if anyone would be interested in working out some kind of trade, but if not, just name your price.
Correction, I no longer have the APX cable. However, still needing a HKN6155. Thanks!
Hi, I have one of these laying around that I bought last year for $125 + shipping from WisComm. I could part with it for $100


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Laurent Koudou Gbagbo (French pronunciation: ; born 31 May 1945) served as the fourth President of Côte d'Ivoire from 2000 until his arrest in April 2011. A history teacher by profession, he is also an amateur chemist and physicist.
Gbagbo was imprisoned in the early 1970s and again in the early 1990s, and he lived in exile in France during much of the 1980s as a result of his union activism. Gbagbo founded the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) in 1982 and ran unsuccessfully for President against Félix Houphouët-Boigny at the start of multi-party politics in 1990. Eventually he won a seat in the National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire.
Gbagbo became president after Robert Guéï, head of a military junta, barred other leading politicians from running against Gbagbo in the October 2000 presidential election. Gbagbo claimed victory after the election and his supporters took to the streets toppling Guéï. Gbagbo was then installed as President.


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Whether you are a new student, a transfer student or coming to LeTourneau from overseas, orientation events help provide you with the very best introduction to life at LeTourneau and the resources and information you need to succeed here on campus.
Included below are schedules and information about upcoming orientation events.
All event dates are final. Full event schedules will be made available as close to the event date as possible.
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Phone: 903-233-4400
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Guanciale: A New Staple for Your Pantry (or Freezer)
I wish I could say that my first introduction to guanciale was in Rome, perhaps at one of those little family restaurants in a tiny alley just off the Campo dei Fiori…
The Pasta alla Carbonara was so amazing I just had to ask what
was in it. They explained to me that the secret ingredient
that makes carbonara better in Italy was guanciale.
Alas… no.
Even after years of culinary school and more years of working in restaurants, I didn't know what guanciale was until I saw it in the meat case during my first week at Formaggio Kitchen South End. Our guanciale was a lovely little slab of cured meat that looked a little like bacon, but smaller, flatter and not so square. Although it is cured like bacon or pancetta, guanciale is made from the jowl or cheek of the pig, rather than the pork belly — hence its odd shape.
Guancia is the Italian word for cheek, no surprise there. Like pancetta, guanciale is not usually smoked, making smoked bacon an inappropriate substitute. Pancetta is not an ideal substitute either, however. Though salty and fatty like pancetta, guanciale is stronger in flavor and somewhat sweeter. It also seems to have a more buttery texture and is beautifully translucent after cooking, thanks to the high fat to meat ratio. (Our Formaggio Kitchen charcutière, Julie, regularly makes guanciale, bacon and pancetta at our Cambridge store, and we recommend trying all three.)
The two most famous recipes using guanciale in Italian cooking are Pasta alla Carbonara and Pasta al'Amatriciana. (I use the word "pasta" because although spaghetti is traditionally used for Carbonara, and bucatini is the typical choice for Amatriciana, the pastas are interchangable and, in a pinch, other cuts can be substituted.)
Pasta alla Carbonara is one of the simplest but easiest-to-ruin recipes I've ever made. A classic Carbonara is made by beating super-fresh eggs with grated Pecorino Romano, some cooked guanciale and lots of ground black pepper in a bowl, and then tossing in hot cooked pasta fresh from the boiling water (with just a splash of that pasta water to make it saucy). The hot pasta cooks the eggs as you toss and if all goes according to plan, the eggs cook quickly but smoothly, melding with the melting grated cheese and creating a gorgeous sauce. If all does not go according to plan, you end up with pasta with little bits of scrambled eggs stuck all over it. Then you eat it anyway with an air of humiliation and disappointment, because you can't throw away perfectly good pasta and eggs.
Amatriciana sauce, on the other hand, is nice and easy. Italians didn't start using tomatoes until the 18th century when they were brought from the Americas, so originally Amatriciana was thought to have been a simple sauce of guanciale, grated cheese and pepper. Nowadays, it also contains ripe tomatoes and a bit of hot pepper, which makes it a great summer pasta.
We often use guanciale in place of pancetta to give food a flavor boost. Little bits of cooked guanciale are great with peas, beans, green beans, or greens; or use as a fat to sauté onions for a soup base. (I also like to put bits of it into mac and cheese – decadent!) I keep a small hunk in my freezer at all times in case of flavor emergencies, because a little slice, even when hacked off a frozen chunk, goes a long way in adding complexity and flavor to any dish.
Julie Cappellano is the general manager and wine buyer at Formaggio Kitchen South End, Boston.


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Excellent conditioin. Frame 52 x 50 in.
Signature: Signed, dated 86 and drawing numbered 564
About Nigel Hall
Known for abstract steel and aluminum sculptures, ranging from small to monumental in scale, Nigel Hall is cited as one of the most celebrated sculptors in Britain. By layering solid and hollow geometric forms within sinuous compositions, Hall engages the dynamic interplay of negative and positive space. Many of his sculptures are site specific and respond to the varied geometries of their environments. Wide Passage (2007), a massive hollow cone affixed to a long curved bar in Cass Sculpture Park, England, recalls the minimalist steel forms of Richard Serra and provides a new, circular lens through which to view the lush surroundings of the park. His smaller-scale, more delicate aluminum objects and his graceful, free-form drawings are inspired by the atmosphere of natural spaces, which profoundly affect Hall. In the artist's words, "None of them attempts to describe the landscape, but they do share certain characteristics: a stillness; a reference to verticality and its relationship to a place and to the viewer; and a quiet, meditative quality which requires time."
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< Ambassadors | NA
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Part One: Getting it together
- 3 Part Two: What to report
- 4 Part Three: Getting your news out
- 5 Part Four: Cultivating your media contacts
- 6 Part Five: You're on the air . . .
As representatives of Fedora, ambassadors have many opportunities to promote Fedora on a one-to-one basis, or to promote Fedora to small groups.
Ambassadors also have the unique opportunity to promote Fedora on a local level through their local news media. This would include, but would not be limited to, press releases and press contacts regarding Fedora-based activities and events in an ambassador's area.
The aim of this wiki is to help ambassadors get the most from their opportunities in promoting Fedora in their local news media. It is not a substitute for Fedora policy -- past, present or future -- regarding contacting and/or releasing news to the media.
[More to follow]
Part One: Getting it together
Compile media list of local outlets
Community based
Part Two: What to report
Reporting events
Fedora releases
local speakers on Fedora, etc.
Part Three: Getting your news out
Press releases -- How to
Content and length
Contact information
Supporting materials
Delivery of release
Follow-up with reporter/editor
Part Four: Cultivating your media contacts
Cultivating media contacts
What to do
What NOT to do
Part Five: You're on the air . . .
Finding yourself on television/radio
What to do
What NOT to do
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - Terry and Adam RAW - FULL CONTACT
Latest Sets at WilliamHiggins.com
Adam Rupert gets together with our hot newcomer Terry Torson. We find Terry asleep with Adam next to him, ready to play. He pulls the covers off Terry, revealing his big hard cock. Adam begins kissing all over Terry's body, and takes hold of his hard cock. Moving onto his knees Adam kisses, and then starts to suck, that cock. His mouth closes over the engorged head and suck real good. Terry wakes to that warm feeling and enjoys that cock sucking. Adam moves up to kiss Terry again, wanking on his cock at the same time. Then Adam goes back down on that throbbing cock and sucks it some more, before moving up and presenting his own dick for Terry to suck. With his cock in Terry's mouth he fucks in and out. Terry sucks on that big dick and wanks himself too. Adam is ready for more and sits his hot ass down on Terry's cock. He rides that cock a while and then Terry takes over and fucks his dick nice and deep into that eager ass. Adam turns around and sits back down, really taking that cock well. He moves up and down that thick shaft, with his own cocking rock hard too. Then the guys change, with Terry on his knees and Adam sliding his huge cock deep into his ass. He fucks Terry nice and deep, really stretching his ass. Then they move into missionary position, with Adam on his back and Terry's cock deep inside him again. Adam wanks himself hard and fast as Terry fucks him. Soon Adam shoots a nice creamy load all over himself. Terry pulls out and shoots his own load, over Adam's cock to end a beautiful scene.
Borek Sokol is such handsome guy. He did a wonderful solo shoot and a helping hand that we just had to invite him back in for a massage. He strips, down to his underwear, showing off a great body, and lays down on the bed. Adam Rupert, also is just his underwear arrives and gets right to work on his subject. With oil in use Adam straddles Borek and begins to massage his back. His hands work all over the back and then he pulls the underwear down, off Borek's ass, and massages that too. He pulls the cheeks apart, showing a nice, hairy crack. Borek's beautifully rounded ass looks great as the hands work on it. Then Adam moves to the side so that he can massage Borek's legs, moving up and down each one before doing the feet as well. Having finished the feet Adam them removes Borek's underwear completely and gets to work on the tops of those thighs again. He also works on the ass, pulling the cheeks apart and showing that hot hole. He uses a thumb to push against the hole and then has Borek move up onto his knees. Adam reaches between Borek's legs, and begins to stroke his cock. That cock responds very quickly, becoming rock hard under Adam's expert hands. As he wanks the cock Adam also rubs Borek's ass crack. With the cock rock hard a vibrator appears and slips into Borek's ass. Adam works it in and out of the ass whilst playing with Borek's cock some more. That cock stays nice and hard as the vibrator fills Borek's hole. Then the vibrator is replaced by a thicker one, and it too goes in nice and easily. Adam removes the toy and uses his finger in that hot hole for a while before turning Borek over and wanking on his throbbing cock. He wanks on that cock, with the balls nice and tight, until Borek cums all over his belly. Adam smears that creamy cum all over Borek's body and then leaves him to rest. What a lovely massage with a really great model.
Nikola Garaz is aged 21 and lives in Prague. He is a student who enjoys going to fitness. After a very nice interview Nikola stands and starts to feel his oiled body, and grope his crotch. He flexes his bicepts as he feels himself and dips a hand inside his pants. With that hot body glistening Nikola opens the pants and shows off his cock. Taking hold of it he strokes a few times, pushing the pants down and lets us see that hard cock. It stands proud as he runs his hands over his hot chest. He wanks on his thick cock and then wiggles it from side to side before sitting to remove his boots and pants. Taking hold of his cock again Nikola starts some more wanking. He leans back on the bed and strokes that cock nice and slowly keeping it thick and hard. He stands again as he wanks, then he turns around and shows of his hot ass. His hands pull at those ass cheeks, exposing a nice, tight hole. Kneeling on the edge of the bed, with his cock trapped between his legs that hole is shown off very well indeed. Nikola is then ready to cum and he stands up, turns around and wanks himself to a big, creamy climax. Then it is off to the shower to clean up after a very good shoot.
Ivo Kerk is aged 18 and lives in Bilina. He is a student who enjoys his sports, bodybuilding and fitness. Ivo is a very sexy guy. He looks great fully clothed, arms folded, as he poses for the camera. But we just know that he will look even better as he gets naked. Lifting his tight sweater Ivo shows off his beautiful abs. Then, removing the sweater we see a wonderful chest. With an almost constant smile Ivo really looks great as he poses, flexing his muscles. Turning and lowering his jeans he then shows off a gorgeous ass. Turning back around he teases us, pushing his underwear down a little. Then he reclines on the bed giving us time to fully appreciate his body. Standing again Ivo lowers, and then removes, the underwear showing off a nice, flaccid cock. Fully naked he gives us a series of flexing poses, so we can enjoy that body. Moving back to the bed he then pulls his legs up to expose his hot hairy ass. Spreading those cheeks lets us see his tight hole before getting his cock nice and hard. He looks beautiful as he poses with his hard dick and finishing off with some more great shots of his beautiful ass and throbbing cock.


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Hey guys! Not every convention I go to as a Crunchyroll Ambassador is an Anime Convention! Last week I got back from Zest Fest 2013, a convention dedicated to all kinds of pepper-based foods (including things you wouldn't expect like desserts!)
With that in mind, today's question is simple: What's the hottest thing you've ever eaten?
If you didn't know, there's actually a scale for how spicy things are! It's determined by dissolving the active ingredient in peppers with alcohol and determining how much "capsaicin" there is by volume! Think about the spiciest dish you've ever eaten, and try to find how many "Heat Units" it has on the "Scoville" scale!
(If you don't like peppers, don't worry: the pain is the pepper's way of telling us not to eat the seeds since mammals, unlike birds, digest the pepper seeds when we eat them.)
Pure capsaicin crystals.
Some law enforcement grade pepper spray and tear gas. (Usually caps at 5 Million) Pepper extracts. (Most at 6 Million, but "The Source" is 7.1 Million)
Most law enforcement grade pepper spray, Trinidad Moruga Scorpion
Naga Viper pepper, Infinity Chilli, Bhut Jolokia chili pepper, Trinidad Scorpion Butch T pepper, Bedfordshire Super Naga
Red Savina habanero
Habanero chili, Scotch bonnet pepper, Datil pepper, Rocoto, Madame Jeanette, Peruvian White Habanero, Jamaican hot pepper, Guyana Wiri Wiri
Byadgi chilli, Bird's eye chili (aka. Thai Chili Pepper), Malagueta pepper, Chiltepin pepper, Piri piri (African bird's eye), Pequin pepper
Guntur chilli, Cayenne pepper, Ají pepper, Tabasco pepper, Cumari pepper (Capsicum Chinese), Katara (spicy)
Serrano pepper, Peter pepper, Aleppo pepper
Espelette pepper, Jalapeño pepper, Chipotle, Guajillo pepper, New Mexican varieties of Anaheim pepper, Hungarian wax pepper, Tabasco sauce
Anaheim pepper, Poblano pepper, Rocotillo pepper, Peppadew
Pimento, Peperoncini, Banana pepper
No significant heat
Bell pepper, Cubanelle, Aji dulce
Personally, I've gone well into 6,000,000 territory! You can only do that with an extract, so don't think of yourself as any less of a hot-head if you've only reached the 2,000,000 mark!
You can check out my Hot Sauce Adventures at Zest Fest 2013 here:
Excited to make new friends on Crunchyroll!
Had some spicy curry's a vindaloo. I've had some spicy sushi that had me melting in my chair.. Love wasabi and use a whack of scotch bonnets in the home made curry.
A royal gun salute to mark the king's birth!
I ate this Thai curry once and it was so hot I couldn't finish it. Had to drink water every second afterwards. It was delicious too, but my tongue and throat couldn't handle it.
My rating would be betwee 100,000–350,000.
The way I hold you and the night just seems to fly
In before 'Your mother'
Maths is hard
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Had some spicy curry's a vindaloo. I've had some spicy sushi that had me melting in my chair.. Love wasabi and use a whack of scotch bonnets in the home made curry.
Those Scotch Bonnets put you well into the 100,000–350,000 column! Wasabi's active ingredient isn't capsaicin, but it still packs a punch!
Excited to make new friends on Crunchyroll!
I tried a Blazing wing from my bros plate at buffalo wild wings...they're hot.
Has that long-term fire effect.
I also ate a habanero because my friends bet I couldn't do it.
I did it.
This hot as eff curry that melted my fork because it was so spicy.
you've just made me watch like 15 mins of video's of people swallowing those crystals lol
I've only eaten this wasabi from a restaurant, I used the sachet over a small amount of rice not knowing how hot it would be, it was really weird, It wasn't hot like chilli hot it just felt like a reaction to something... it went in a few seconds.
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I tried a Blazing wing from my bros plate at buffalo wild wings...they're hot.
Has that long-term fire effect.
I also ate a habanero because my friends bet I couldn't do it.
I did it.
I eat the Blazing wings like it is candy but the habanero peppers hurt...
I will look for you, I will find you, and I will raid your fridge.
Vindaloo! (Hot Indian dish)
Around 30,000 on the Scoville scale.
I wish I had a .38 to end this shit
I don't know, anything spicy makes my face turn red and my eyes water.
I'm so fragile
I used to be a waiter in a restaurant and the chef there once gave me a Ghost Chili (AKA Bhut Jolokia chili pepper) and I ate the whole thing. It was a rather painful experience. That being said, he was also good with mixing peppers into desserts and I'd highly recommend anything chocolate + cayenne pepper. He made me a chocolate budino cake (like chocolate lava cake) with some cayenne pepper and it was delicious
I love spicy food but the only stuff that gives me a little pause is anything with a ghost chili in it. I've eaten and finished the meal but man is it hot.
Scotch Bonnets are just the right amount of heat so I can still taste the actual food. Ghost Chili's are just too much for me.
and I walk around like I got a 36" chain.
I'm not sure, if this can count. But, it is the hottest thing I did put in my mouth.
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In July 2010, Hilde Hoogenboom, a professor of Russian literature at Arizona State University, sent an impassioned missive to Paul LeClerc, president of the New York Public Library, to protest the closure of the NYPL's Slavic and Baltic division. It "was one of the best places to work in the world," she wrote. Indeed, in the universe of Russian studies, the Slavic division was legendary. "I recall [it] as an agreeably dim sort of place, with a faintly reverential, almost cathedral-like ambience," George Kennan said in 1987. Among its 750,000 items are the first book printed in Moscow, the "Anonymous" Gospels; a first edition of Tolstoy's War and Peace; and John Reed's collection of broadsides and posters from the Russian Revolution. Trotsky and Nabokov toiled in the division's reading room. Václav Havel and Mikhail Gorbachev made visits of tribute.
Eleven weeks later, a senior NYPL official replied on LeClerc's behalf: "If I may put this matter into its sadly grim financial context, in the last two fiscal years our budget has been reduced by $20 million and our workforce by 300 positions. While we recognized and prized the special cultural and scholarly resource that was the Slavic Reading Room, we simply could no longer afford to operate it."
The New York Public Library, which comprises four research libraries and eighty-seven branch libraries, has seen other cutbacks as well. Since 2008 its workforce has been reduced by 27 percent. In a recent newsletter to library supporters, the institution reported that its acquisitions budget for books, CDs and DVDs had been slashed by 26 percent.
Despite these austerity measures, NYPL executives are pushing ahead with a gargantuan renovation of the Forty-second Street library, the crown jewel of the system. The details of the Central Library Plan (CLP) are closely guarded, but it has already sparked criticism among staff members, who worry that the makeover would not only weaken one of the world's great libraries but mar the architectural integrity of the landmark building on Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, renamed the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building in 2008, following the Wall Street billionaire's gift of $100 million. (Every staff member I spoke with demanded anonymity; a number of them talked openly about their fear of retribution from management.)
These are arduous times for public library systems. More people are using libraries during the economic downturn, but state and local legislators are steadily cutting their budgets. The American Library Association notes that since 2008, "more than half the states have reported a decrease in funding, with cumulative cuts averaging greater than ten percent." Library systems of all sizes are under pressure. The Los Angeles County public library system, which serves 3.7 million citizens, faces a structural deficit of $22 million a year for the next decade. Budget cuts have forced the Seattle Public Library, one of the nation's finest, to shut down for a week in late summer. Thomas Galante, CEO of the bustling Queens Library, which serves hundreds of thousands of immigrants in New York City, spoke reverently about one healthy and outstanding public library—in Toronto.
The man who must contend with the NYPL's budget difficulties is its new president, a tall, amiable, casually dressed political scientist named Anthony Marx, who started at the library on July 1. Marx had been the president of Amherst College, where during his eight-year tenure he raised great sums of money and did much to diversify the student body. But obtaining the financial resources to sustain the NYPL in these lean and mean times is a task that's sure to keep Marx tossing in his bed at night. (Personal reasons may also keep Marx from sleeping soundly: on the afternoon of November 6 he was arrested in Upper Manhattan for driving while intoxicated; his blood alcohol level was 0.19. He is scheduled to appear in court on December 9.) He faces an additional challenge with the CLP, devised by his predecessor and scheduled to be completed in 2015.


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It's never easy to be the fan of a TV show that isn't in the Top 10 and gets shoved around more than a nerd in a locker room. But it's been a particularly bumpy ride for fans of NBC's "Community" over the past four years.
The zany sitcom about a study group of nontraditional students at fictional Greendale Community College is well-loved, but not by many. Low ratings have left it in the grip of possible cancellation since its first season. It suffered another indignity in October, when NBC pulled the Season 4 premiere at the last minute and shelved the 13-episode season (7 p.m. Feb. 7, NBC; 3.5 stars out of 4).
And that was only after last year's awkward firing of "Community" creator and showrunner Dan Harmon, which gave fans cause to fret that that his ouster meant the show would lower its freak flag to half-mast.
No worries, folks, the quirky campus comedy is as clever and edgy as ever. As the season begins, the study group engages in a "Hunger Games"-style competition to determine who gets a spot in Greendale's coveted history class. Apparently "History of Ice Cream" is overbooked, which prompts Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) to conduct "The Hunger Deans." The absurd competition gives the dean a few costume changes and a couple of buff, shirtless guys for backup, just in case he swoons too low when Jeff (Joel McHale) takes to the dance floor. (Yes, there will be dancing.)
Abed (Danny Pudi) can't even enjoy the contest, however, because he's nervous that this could be the gang's final year together. That prompts Britta (Gillian Jacobs) to suggest he go to his "happy place," which gives "Community" fans another awesomely trippy meta fantasy scene. This one involved a sitcom called "The Abed Show," complete with a laugh track, the Greendale gang as animated babies and a special guest star stepping in as Pierce. (Chevy Chase, who plays Pierce, isn't in the fantasy scene.)
So much happens in the episode--I haven't even mentioned Annie (Alison Brie) and Shirley's (Yvette Nicole Brown) prank-playing--it's worth a second watch to catch everything. The second episode sent for review, which revolves around Troy (Donald Glover), Abed and Britta (who still is dating Troy) attending a fan convention for "Inspector Spacetime"--the show's nod to "Doctor Who"--was even sharper.
The Greendale gang is back. Speaking for geeks everywhere, I hope it's not for the last time.
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We don't like our children killing aliens on video games. Some of us don't even like our children fighting those mean spiky-shelled turtles in Super Mario Brothers.
We don't like it when our kids hit each other. We don't let our kids watch the local news—too many murders and natural disasters. We have an especially hard time stomaching what happened to Trayvon Martin and Caylee Anthony. We get antsy and annoyed when our kids point toy guns at us. We're okay with zombies and ax murderers only on Halloween. In short, parents don't like violence and death. Not that anyone is okay with it, but for moms and dads—life factories that we are—death is our antithesis.
Which makes the sad story out of Shiner, TX, even more disconcerting. Following the sound of his 5-year-old daughter's cries, a 23-year-old dad finds her behind a barn, being sexually assaulted by a man named Jesus Flores. The dad pulls Flores off her, and begins pounding Flores' face, head and neck. The dad composes himself long enough to call 911 ("Come on, this guy is going to die on me!" he yelled to the 911 operator). When the emergency crew arrived, Flores was behind the barn, dead, his pants and underwear down around his legs.
The dad was never arrested. And last Tuesday, less than two weeks after the incident, the Lavaca County grand jury found the dad innocent. He was within his rights to use deadly force to protect his family.
This was a scenario that dads have considered since time immemorial. It's something that lingers in the back of our minds. At some point in a father's life, he has said to himself or to someone else, "If anyone were to hurt my child, I would kill them." No father says, "If anyone were to hurt my child, I would beat them up." No father says, "If anyone were to hurt my child, I would report them to the authorities." The sentence is, has been, and always will be, death. Just like the dad in Shiner, TX, we would kill, maim, or injure first, and everything else second.
But there is a strange stillness to the aftermath of this incident. When we all heard the Lavaca County grand jury's decision, we all looked at each other and said, "Fine by me." Then we went back to work, back to folding laundry, back to Facebook. Save for Osama bin Laden, I can't think of another death in recent memory that we've all been more at peace with.
Wait a second. We're the people who don't like Modern Warfare 3. We don't let our kids say, "shut up." We get nervous when they're skateboarding or kicking each other at karate school. But this kind of violence we're okay with. At least I'm okay with it. I'm almost too okay with it.
For everyone who felt the justice system did the right thing, keep this in mind: Be glad it happened in the small town of Shiner, in rural Southeast Texas. Had this father been in Stamford, CT, or Detroit, MI, or New York, NY, or Los Angeles, CA, or Seattle, WA, or Chicago, IL, or any other metropolitan area, this would have become a long, arduous journey through the legal system. Press conferences. An endless rotation of talking heads on cable news. ACLU attorneys. A media encampment along the two-lane country road leading to the family's farm. I'm thankful the Lavaca County grand jury shut this down in less than two weeks.
Who knew: That place in the back of a father's mind, that place where he considers what he'd do to someone who hurt his family, looks a lot like Shiner, TX.


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If you are new to XML sitemaps or need more information about Google XML sitemap generation, you should read this tutorial before going any further.
This tutorial helps you develop your own PHP-based Google XML Sitemap generator. This is a customized approach, which means that you can feed the application your canonical URLs (sorted by highest to lowest in terms of importance and priority) and it will output the XML syntax for your sitemap.xml.
The XML syntax can then be copy to a blank text file (for example, in notepad) and uploaded to your website.
This offers a lot of advantages compared to other XML sitemap solutions available online, for two reasons. First, Google advises webmasters to submit XML sitemaps that contain ONLY canonical URLs. If you use third party sitemap generator software that you can find online, you will need to do a lot of work filtering the sitemap's XML code for canonical URLs.
Second, other sitemap generators impose a limit. For example, they may only process 500 URLs. This can strongly affect you if your website has more than 500 canonical URLs.
Web Application Design of Customized Sitemap Generator
Any PHP web application starts with a design. The canonical URLs are put into a web form. Since there is more than one line of input (the typical number of canonical URLs for a large website can exceed 100), you are going to use a text area instead of a single text box, so that all URLs can be accommodated.
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The actual PHP script will then be used to perform four tasks:
1. Parse the URL from the web form.
2. Compute the priorities of the URL, which is used for the sitemap.
3. Generate the XML syntax.
4. Output the generated syntax with computed priorities back to the user's web browser.
The XML syntax should conform to the Google XML sitemap standard. An example of a conforming XML syntax is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<loc>http://www.php-developer.org/ </loc>
<loc>http://www.php-developer.org/how-long-does-it-take-for-dns-to-propagate-in-godaddy-hosting/ </loc>
<loc>http://www.php-developer.org/solution-for-blogger-you-are-about-to-redirected-message-problem/ </loc>
To easily troubleshoot XML syntax, it is best to use standard colors for the XML syntax. You can easily distinguish the URLs from the XML tags:
Of course, since you are accepting user inputs, you might as well filter bots from using the web form with a security code or a captcha system.
{mospagebreak title=The Web Form's HTML Code}
Let's create the easy coding for the web form, which will be used to get URL inputs from the users.
Note: the blue font color is for the code discussion or description.
//Start session for captcha or security code
<!–Start the head tag as well as display the page title–>
<title>PHP XML sitemap code generator</title>
//Check if the form is submitted
if (!$_POST['submit'])
//If the web form is not submitted, display the web form
<!–This is the actual web form–>

<!–This form will submit the data to itself using PHP SELF–>
<form action="<?php echo $SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>"

<!-Below is the form content, instructions on how to use–>
<!–You can enter any content here for your own web application, a sample content is shown in the screenshot below–>
<!–The Text area HTML code which will accepts user inputs in terms of URL–>
<!–It also includes the captcha or the security code–>
<textarea name="url" rows="18" cols="120"></textarea>

Type the anti-bot code above:

<input type="text" name="captcha" size="10">

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Generate Sitemap XML code">
Click here to reset or clear this form
The above is the complete web form code. An example of the completed form should look like this:
{mospagebreak title=The PHP Server Side Script}
As discussed in the "Web Application Design" section of this tutorial, the PHP script should accomplish four unique functions aside from the normal functions of retrieving data from the POST array and doing a minor validation task.
//The web form has been submitted, grab the data from POST as well as remove the white space using trim command
$url =trim($_POST['url']);
//Check if the form submitted contains any data.
//Also check if the security code is correct.
//More information about captcha design here http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Designing-a-Captcha-System-with-PHP-and-MySQL/
if ((empty($url)) || (!(trim($_POST['captcha'])==$_SESSION['answer'])))
//Feedback to the user that the form does not contain any data
die ('ERROR: Enter figures or correct captcha. Click here to proceed with the analysis');
//The data from the $url comes from an array (POST),
//You need to explode the data from the array using PHP explode function
//And then assigned the data to a $data variable
//This will do the job of actually parsing the URL from the web form
$data = explode("n", $url);
//Display to the web browser the heading sections of the XML syntax using Google XML sitemap standard
echo '';
echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>';
echo '
';
echo '<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/
echo '

';
//The code below computes the priority of the URLs in sitemap.
//The most important URL (the one entered first by the user in the web form has a priority of 1.)
//The minimum or lowest assigned priority is 0.5 regardless of how many URLs are being processed.
//To compute the decrement value or how much is the priority differences between the highest priority of 1 to the lowest assigned priority of 0.5 are to use the formula:
// (0.5)/ ((Number of URLs)-1)
//In PHP, it needs to use the sizeof function to count the number of URLs in the data variable.
$difference = (-0.5)/((sizeof($data))-1);
//The following below is a WHILE Loop which will do the actual tasks of generating the XML syntax for all the URLs
while (($priority>=0.4) && (list($key,$value) = each($data))) {
echo "<url>";
echo "
";
echo " <loc>$value</loc>";
echo "
";
echo " <priority>$roundpriority</priority>";
echo "
";
echo "</url>";
echo "

";
//after each loop, the priority is decreased by a difference value computed earlier, the $difference variable is a negative number.
echo "</urlset>";
<!–Clears out the session variable–>
$_SESSION = array ();
session_destroy ();
{mospagebreak title=Implementation Guide}
The SEO Chat article Create a Customized Google XML Sitemap discusses the details for how to implement this web application.
Since this is a customized XML sitemap generator, careful attention must be given to ensure three things. First, you need to make sure that the URLs entered in the web form are arranged from the most important (e.g home page) to least important (e.g privacy policy).
See the screen shot below for a clear illustration.
Second, you need to use entity escape codes for the characters discussed on this page. You need to apply escape codes before pasting those entire URL list into the form.
Third, you need to simply copy and paste the result on the web application output to a blank text file and save it as sitemap.xml
Finally, using your FTP to upload it to the root directory, you can then submit that sitemap to Google webmaster tools.
Note: You can download the entire sample web application as a zip file.
A complete working web application can also be found.


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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A proposal to make killing or torturing a police dog a second-degree felony, a bill prompted by the stabbing death in January of Pittsburgh police dog Rocco, was unanimously approved Tuesday by the Pennsylvania state House.
Police said Rocco was killed by a fugitive suspect during an arrest, and the dog's funeral was attended by about 1,200 people.
Rep. John Maher, R-Allegheny, said he was motivated to move quickly after learning current law allows for the same penalties for killing a police dog as for merely taunting one.
"The penalties for violence, purposeful violence against police animals should bear greater consequences than merely making faces at a police animal," Maher said after the vote.
The bill would impose up to 10 years in prison and a $25,000 fine.
A Senate Republican spokesman said the measure was likely to pass that chamber as well.


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Set of diagnosis specimen tubes, England, 1930-1960
The Clinical Research Association issued these collecting sets, for gathering samples to be sent for analysis. Each addressed envelope contains a small metal tube, inside of which is a tiny glass vial and scalpel for collecting blood for analysis. These were then dispatched by post to the Clinical Research Association laboratories in London. They were used to diagnose diseases such as typhoid or malaria. The envelope is part of a larger kit owned by respiratory physician Dr Philip Ellman (1901-1960).
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Sometimes Death isn't really the end.
In the early '70s, Detroit brothers David, Bobby and Dannis Hackney picked up some instruments and started bashing out scrappy, high-octane rock tunes under the name Death, recording a handful of tracks before breaking up unceremoniously in 1977. When David, who functioned as the band's primary songwriter, died of lung cancer in 2000, it appeared to put a final period on things.
Then, beginning in 2008, something interesting happened. "Politicians in My Eyes," a single the band self-released in 1974, started to make the rounds amongst influential tastemakers like Questlove, and Bobby's sons, Julian, Urian and Bobby Jr., launched a Death cover band called Rough Francis. A New York Times profile followed as well as a record deal with Drag City. In 2013 the brothers' story was beautifully told in the documentary "A Band Called Death," which screens free at 7 p.m. Dec. 20 at Reggie's Music Joint.
In some ways, 2014 is shaping up to be an even bigger year for the trio (family friend Bobbie Duncan stepped in for the late David Hackney). The group just put the finishing touches on a new album, which is expected out on Drag City next year, and it recently hit the road for a tour that stops at Reggie's Rock Club on New Year's Eve.
Reached at home in Vermont, the musicians discussed the events that fueled Death's earliest songs, the difficulty of watching their lives unfold onscreen and David's eerie premonition of success.
You first picked up instruments after watching the Beatles on "The Ed Sullivan Show," but you said you didn't get serious about the band until the late '60s. What changed?
Bobby Hackney: 1968 was the real year we turned into music, and maybe it was just the healing we needed at the time. We had the Vietnam War and leaders getting assassinated, like Bobby Kennedy and President Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. We saw music as an escape, and like everybody else we wanted to escape from all the turmoil that was going on in America
People have described your music as punk before punk existed. Did you realize at the time you were on to something different?
Dannis Hackney: We just thought we were playing good music. We didn't think of it as punk music because those were the early days, and if you went around calling people punks you got a bloody nose, man. Punk hadn't been coined yet.
Bobby Hackney: We always called it hard-driving rock 'n' roll.
Dannis Hackney: The one thing we all knew unequivocally was there was no other black band in Detroit playing that kind of music [laughs].
In the film you talk about Detroit being this thriving metropolis when you were children. What was your reaction when the city filed for bankruptcy?
Dannis Hackney: It makes us sad, man. It was a whole different Detroit when we grew up. It was Detroit Rock City. It was Motown. It was a fast-moving, fast-paced city. To see it now … is really hard for us. It's not the Detroit we grew up with.
What was going through your head as you watched the documentary the first time?
Dannis Hackney: We always get emotional with the documentary. There's a lot of personal stuff in there, and we can hardly watch it without crying.
Bobby Hackney: It brings us back down memory lane. They really got into the heart, soul and mind of our brother David, and that was what opened the gateway to our whole family.
What's it been like experiencing this Death renaissance without David?
Dannis Hackney: I have been able to take it in because of the conversations me and David had before he left. He used to tell us things like, "This music is not going to make it 'til I'm gone," and, "You guys are going to realize this dream, but I won't be there because I don't really want to go through the money trip," which is what he used to call it. I remember [talking to] David [at my wedding] in [September] 2000 and ... he looked at me and said, "Man, I'm going to make sure Bob has the [Death] master tapes and everything, because after this you won't see me anymore." Then one month after I got married, David died.
Why do you think the music has endured?
Dannis Hackney: People are saying it was ahead of its time, and we always knew David was ahead of his time. David was always telling us we were doing something no one else was doing. On the east side of Detroit in the black community no one tuned into rock 'n' roll, so we just thought we were an abnormal thing in our own neighborhood. We never thought we were an abnormal thing in all of music.
Bobby Hackney: We used to be the activity in the neighborhood, like, "Let's go check out those crazy Hackneys!"
Death, 8:30 p.m. Dec. 31 at Reggie's Rock Club. $20-$25.


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The Los Alamos Animal Shelter, 226 East Road, 662-8179, has a great selection of onsite adoptable pets waiting for their forever home.
Come find a companion that will give you unconditional love. Be sure to visit lafos.org, where you can get more information about volunteering, adopting and donating.
All adoptable pets are spayed or neutered, have their shots and are micro chipped. Visitor guides: Between 4-6 p.m. Friday, volunteers will be at the shelter to give potential adopters personal introductions to the adoptable animals.
Thank you, Los Alamos. The past couple weeks have seen numerous adoptions — hopefully this trend will continue and all the shelter pets will find homes for the holidays.
Axle — Don't let those sad-looking eyes fool you. Axle is a playful and affectionate neutered male. The shelter temperament testers describe this Pit-mix as a "total sweetheart." He would love a family that appreciates big, sloppy dog kisses.
Bagel — Very busy female Border Collie found on the Rim Trail, near Rover. She will need an active family to keep her happy.
Ciera — Spayed female Shepherd-cross who likes to get to know her human associates before she shares her story with them.
Chico —Friendly little three-year-old Chihuahua-mix. Good with kids and dogs. May need a little encouragement with the housebreaking.
Coqueta — Six-year-old spayed female Retriever/Chow-mix surrendered. Good with adults and gentle children. Has been an outdoor dog.
Joey — Darling puppy, mixed-breed, has some markings that might be Heeler. Friendly little guy.
Three Border Collie puppies (Reggie, Fly and Romper) — Border Collie puppy siblings, six-months-old. Neutered/spayed and up-to-date on shots. Responding very well to socialization by shelter volunteers and guidance from other shelter dogs.
Rosie — This spayed female is a Lab/Greyhound-mix. She enjoys toys and obedience training.
Shyloh — Having a hard time understanding why he's still at the shelter. This mixed-breed black dog is confident, affectionate, friendly and housebroken. Pretty much the perfect dog. He enjoys the company of children and other dogs. Stop by and take him to the dog park and you won't be able to resist taking him home. You will need a secure fence.
All cats are still two-for-one, so if you can't make up your mind, take them both home. Most cats love having a playmate.
Lizzie —Long-haired Blue Russian declawed female. Good with dogs, other cats and gentle children.
Ralphie — Three-year-old, lovely, soft, domestic short-hair spayed female Tabby/Tortie, given for adoption with her friend Mo. Ralphie was shy at first, but now comes out for shelter volunteers to pet and admire her. She is reported to not care for dogs.
Ripples — Large, friendly male gray Tabby found on Kayenta. Neutered, has all his shots and ready for a new home.
County ordinance requires that a roaming animal be kept for 10 days waiting for owners to claim it. Keep those tags on your pets so they can come home to you quickly.
•Lovely gray Tabby with white legs. Ask for Chuckles.
• Tiny four-week-old kitten found on Trinity. Ask for Smitten.
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Where there is love, there is life.
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I write this blog after the devastating news that Janet, a six- year old little girl, from Manila has passed away. My friend had done some occupational therapy sessions with Janet, and the family treated Janet like she was a precious gem – and that she was. Janet lived in a slum area in Metro Manila. I find myself thinking the same thought process over and over and over. This is so unfair, unjust…NOT RIGHT! WHY?!?! Janet suffered from serious health issues. If she were in the UK would have had access to full-time care. I can't get my head around how lucky I am to be in UK yet somewhere along the line I feel the unluckiest of all. Sometimes I forget what is important in life and get caught up in western culture worrying about silly things that really are nothing. I think we are all guilty of doing that and we just need to take a step back and honour warriors like Janet by being so grateful for what we have and cherish every second of our health and family.
Janet was surrounded by trash, sewage and toxic waste yet SMOTHERED BY LOVE. You see poverty can eat away at everything, wealth, health you name it, but one thing it cannot even touch is – LOVE . I for one have never felt a stronger sense of love or community than when in the slum area that was Janet's home. A family member reminded me that where there is love there is LIFE. This is why I wish to post this blog. To spread the love of Janet's family, the love of Kalayaan Community Ministries, the love of my friend Seonad and the love of myself – all for Janet. Our love will keep her alive.


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Get Rid Of Telemarketers, Debt Collectors, And Other Vermin With Phone Tones
Chris recorded a little sound file onto his answering machine that stopped a debt collector robot that kept calling him, seeking people who didn't live there. This .WAV is the U.S. Special Information Tone signal for "vacant circuit", which signifies and out-of-service or nonexistant number. You know it better as "boo-boo-BOOP!" Chris recorded a new message on his answering machine with the tones at the beginning and the next time the robot called, it thought it was getting a dead line and dutifully erased the number from its system. Voila, automatons be gone. Some places have autodialers that don't (or have been tweaked) to respond to SIT tones, but if you've got a persistent unwanted robot caller, it's worth a shot.
SIT-VC.WAV [Art Of Hacking]
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YAKIMA, Wash. — A lot of people might envy Virgil McDonald's job. He is the brewer in the research brewery at the new Haas Innovations Center in Yakima.
His goal is to brew and taste beer from 100 new hop varieties this year. The hops are from the breeding program of John I. Haas Inc. and Select Botanicals Group. He's looking for new varieties that might produce the next best brew.
The multi-million-dollar, 23,500-square-foot center opened in June for research into developing new hop products and varieties and with the research brewery to test the company's own hop varieties and contract testing for breweries.
The center is the first private LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold certified building in Yakima, built to use 30 percent less energy and 40 percent less water than codes require.
John I. Haas Inc., founded in 1914, is a member of the Barth-Haas Group of Nuremberg, Germany. John I. Haas claims to be the leader in research and development of processed hop products for the brewing industry and other industries in the U.S.
Barth-Haas Group is the world's largest provider of hop-related products and services with companies in Germany, Great Britain, the United States, Australia and China.
"The hop products we are developing are for brewing and non-brewing applications," said Pete Mahony, director of supply chain management and purchasing at John I. Haas.
Hops contain natural anti-microbial compounds that can be used as a natural product to control bacterial growth in other products like sugar and fuel ethanol, Mahony said.
"We have a fairly new hop product to control varroa mites in bees. It's working. The challenge is how to apply it to bee hives," he said.
There are other projects for non-brewing applications underway, he said.
But the heart of the center, Mahony said, is the research brewery.
It's a small but highly sophisticated and automated German brewery used for the company's internal testing and for others.
"A lot of breweries and many in the craft industry don't have a lot of pilot equipment to do their own research," Mahony explained. "They can contract for us to do that."
Niche, high-end craft brewers are highly creative and constantly experimenting and launching new beers and flavors, he said.
Small craft brewers make up only 7 to 8 percent of the entire brewing industry but have a 15 percent annual growth rate, Mahony said. Large breweries make up the bulk of the industry but have relatively flat growth of 1 to 2 percent a year, he said.
Barth-Hass has a similar small research brewery in Germany, McDonald said. Hops have to pass production criteria for consistency, reliability, disease resistance and other factors before being accepted in the research breweries, McDonald said.
Major companies are busy fine-tuning their flagship brands and it's not cost effective for them to interrupt large production lines for small-scale testing, Mahony said. This facility, he said, gives them an option.


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Ash's Noctowl is Ash's first and currently the only Shiny Pokémon.
Noctowl glitters as it comes out of its Poké Ball. Due to its psychic abilities, it has been used many times to find and battle Ghost Pokémon as well as for the usual flying requirements that Ash utilizes. Ash used it in a battle aganist Morty. Noctowl learned Confusion halfway through the battle and used it to defeat Morty's Gengar. Ash left it at Oak's possession, when he decided to make a fresh start when he left for Hoenn. He later recalled it to his team to take on Conway in the Sinnoh league where Noctowl managed to beat Conway's Lickilicky but lost to Conway's Dusknoir when it was hit by ThunderPunch due to the fact that Bird-type Pokemon are extremely vulnerable to Thunder-type moves.
It is set to reappear along with all of Ash's Pokemon in an upcoming episode of Best Wishes Season 2.
- Noctowl is the only Pokemon in Ash's team that is capable of using damaging Psychic-type attacks.
- Yuji Ueda who plays Brock in the Japanese version of the anime voices Ash's Noctowl in both versions of the anime.
- Noctowl is 1 of 2 of Ash's Flying-type Pokemon, the other being Ash's Gliscor, that hasn't learned Aerial Ace.
Known movesEditEdit
|Fowl Play
|Fowl Play
|Delibird's Dilemma
|A Ghost of a Chance
|From Ghost to Ghost
|Sky Attack +
|Working on a Right Move!
|Air Slash +
|Working on a Right Move!
|Extrasensory +
|Working on a Right Move!
|+ indicates this Pokémon used this move recently.*
- indicates this Pokémon normally can't use this move.


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===Mono Issues===
===Mono Issues===
Maybe you want hear some MP3 files in stereo format and you'll noted
Maybe you want hear some MP3 files in stereo format and you'll noted voices or instruments. The solution is change some settings to play all sounds in mono format. So only using the [[Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture|Alsa]] you have to create a file called ''.asoundrc'' (if you have this file, so make a backup for safety) and put this content below:
Revision as of 02:37, 8 January 2014
You have to use an i686 boot ISO even though the Intel ARK says that the computer's CPU supports Intel 64. If you're using the dual-architecture ISO (which is downloaded by default), then the ISO will auto-detect it as i686.
The BIOS doesn't seem to support EFI boot on an ArchISO USB stick, even though it detects it as a UEFI bootable medium. Install with a BIOS bootloader unless you know what you're doing. If you are able to boot in UEFI mode, then please add a tutorial.
Mono Issues
Maybe you want hear some MP3 files in stereo format and you'll noted missed voices or instruments. The solution is change some settings to play all sounds in mono format. So only using the Alsa you have to create a file called .asoundrc (if you have this file, so make a backup for safety) and put this content below:
pcm.card0 { type hw card 0 } ctl.card0 { type hw card 0 } pcm.monocard { slave.pcm card0 slave.channels 2 # type plug type route ttable { # Copy both input channels to output channel 0 (Left). 0.0 1 1.0 1 # Send nothing to output channel 1 (Right). 0.1 0 1.1 0 } } ctl.monocard { type hw card 0 } pcm.!default monocard
Save on your home directory and restart Alsa.
Mono on PulseAudio
To set mono in a PulseAudio system. Run on terminal:
$ pacmd list-sinks | grep name | head -n1
To get the master device name. The output of command will look like this:
name: <alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo>
Put device name (in my case alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo) in field 'master' of the command below:
$ pacmd load-module module-remap-sink sink_name=mono master=alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo channels=2 channel_map=front-right,mono
So this command just will work if PulseAudio is already started.
To make this permanent, (as root) put the argument of pacmd command on last line of file /etc/pulse/default.pa:
# echo "load-module module-remap-sink sink_name=mono master=alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo channels=2 channel_map=front-right,mono" >> /etc/pulse/default.pa
Warning: Be sure, of don't run an audio application with this configuration above (Maybe mpg123 to start a sound theme in a session of Xfce) before PulseAudio starts, in a session. It's probably the PulseAudio will not working.
And after, reboot your machine and every session startup, this will work.
You have to change the video driver. If the HDMI cable is plugged in on boot it is enabled automatically. If it is plugged in after boot you can use xrandr to enable the second monitor:
# xrandr --output DVI-0 --auto
You need to know the number of your sound card and the the number of HDMI device:
aplay -l
**** Liste der Hardware-Geräte (PLAYBACK) **** Karte 0: Intel [HDA Intel], Gerät 0: ALC269VB Analog [ALC269VB Analog] Sub-Geräte: 1/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0 Karte 0: Intel [HDA Intel], Gerät 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Sub-Geräte: 1/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0
In /usr/shared/alsa/alsa.conf search the lines
default.pcm.card 0 default.pcm.device 0
If you change the numbers to your card and device (in my case card is 0 and device is 3) and reboot the audio output switches to HDMI.
User specific
do this and reboot
The audio device can also be configured with /etc/asound.conf So you can create a script that links asound.conf to a configuration depending on the hdmi cable plugged in or not: (for some reason my HDMI device is listed as DVI)
#! /bin/bash hdmi_status="$(cat /sys/class/drm/card0-DVI-D-1/status)" ln -f "/etc/alsa/hdmi_$hdmi_status" /etc/alsa/asound.conf alsactl restore
Configuration files:
pcm.!default { type hw card 0 device 3 }
pcm.!default { type hw card 0 device 0 }
Create a symbolic link to /etc/asound.conf
ln -s /etc/alsa/asound.conf /etc/asound.conf
If the user is allowed to run the hdmi_switch.sh script and is also allowed to change files in /etc/alsa folder you can bind that script to a key :D If you also want to change to monitor read this.
Screen Brightness
Setting brightness in /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/ with the scripts for acpid change the values of the files brightness and actual_brightness but do not have any effect on current screen brightness.
Set the following as kernel parameters in your bootloader
acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor
To make this permant see here
FN Keys
Now there is a folder eeepc-wmi in /sys/class/backlight and the scripts need to be updated
#!/bin/sh bl_device=/sys/class/backlight/eeepc-wmi/brightness echo $(($(cat $bl_device)+1)) >$bl_device
#!/bin/sh bl_device=/sys/class/backlight/eeepc-wmi/brightness echo $(($(cat $bl_device)-1)) >$bl_device
The scripts change the screen brightness everytime I run them. Unfortunately the acpi events for brightnessup and brightnessdown are not available anymore although the brightnessup key sets brightness to maximum and the brightnessdown key sets the brightness to max_brightness-1 :( (do not now where this happens) --> this may help
When using the Enlightenment 17 window manager, the brightness keys will work without any additional configuration and the backlight can be adjusted using the built-in backlight widget.
AC plug / unplug
.. ac_adapter) case "$2" in ACPI0003:00) case "$4" in 00000000) logger 'AC unpluged' echo $(($(cat /sys/class/backlight/eeepc-wmi/max_brightness)/2)) > /sys/class/backlight/eeepc-wmi/brightness ;; 00000001) logger 'AC pluged' echo $(($(cat /sys/class/backlight/eeepc-wmi/max_brightness)-1)) > /sys/class/backlight/eeepc-wmi/brightness ;; esac ;; *) logger "AC Adapter ACPI action undefined: $2" ;; esac ;; ..


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Father of missing Conway teen says he wants custody of his daughterBy DAN SEUFERT
Union Leader Correspondent
April 22. 2014 8:51PM
CONWAY — In an Easter Day message, Ruben Hernandez wrote that he wants custody of daughter Abigail Hernandez, 15, when she returns home and said he fears she has run away.
Abigail was last seen leaving Kennett High School on Oct. 9. Since her disappearance, a large-scale search has been conducted by the FBI and state law enforcement agencies.
Ruben and Zenya Hernandez, who are divorced, continue to send their missing daughter messages on Facebook and through a volunteer website, www.bringabbyhome.com. About a month after Abigail's disappearance, Zenya Hernandez, who lives in North Conway, received a letter from her daughter, but there has been no subsequent contact. Police have not revealed the contents of the letter.
On Sunday, Ruben Hernandez, who lives in Bartlett, wrote on his Facebook page: "My Dearest Abby: I would like to wish you a Happy Resurrection Day.
"It's almost been seven months that you've been gone, and we all continue to worry about you. Once we hit the six month mark that you went missing I decided to take a leap of faith by writing a letter to your mother requesting full custody of you," he wrote.
"Abby I would also like to have your input, and the only way that I can think of to get it is to write this letter and hope that you will be able to read it and respond. It seems that your mother could be leaving this decision up to you, so for now I'll just wait and hope for a positive answer from her."
The FBI's Kieran Ramsey would not comment on Hernandez's letter.
"We are well aware of it, and I'm not going to characterize what he said one way or the other. These are the pleas of a parent whose child is missing and may be in danger," he said.
Zenya Hernandez could not be reached for comment.


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Maine Sen. King sets capitol constituent time
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) � U.S. Sen. Angus King says he will hold a session for his Maine constituents to meet with him at the U.S. Capitol in Washington.
The independent's "Capitol Coffee with Angus" will be held this Wednesday and every Wednesday when the Senate is in session.
The event offers the opportunity for visiting constituents to meet and speak with the senator. King says he looks forward to meeting and speaking with constituents as Congress heads back into session.


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Govt won't sack Pawan Bansal, Ashwani Kumar, for now at least
The Congress on Sunday decided to stand by railway and law ministers Pawan Kumar Bansal and Ashwani Kumar, at the centre of scams that have rocked the UPA, and ruled out their immediate resignations under Opposition pressure. HT reports. CBI probe fails to establish Bansal role in cash-for-job scam | 'Bansals, Singla have common business interest'delhi Updated: May 06, 2013 11:39 IST
The Congress on Sunday decided to stand by railway and law ministers Pawan Kumar Bansal and Ashwani Kumar, at the centre of scams that have rocked the UPA, and ruled out their immediate resignations under Opposition pressure.
The unanimous decision to wait for the outcome of the CBI probe into the railway bribery case involving Bansal's nephew and the Supreme Court hearing on Wednesday in the coal scam involving Kumar was taken at a two-hour meeting of the Congress core committee, attended among others by party chief Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Mamohan Singh.
"As far as the rail minister is concerned, a probe is underway. He has welcomed it. We can't pre-judge till the investigation is over," information and broadcasting minister Manish Tewari said.
At the core committee meeting, the second in 24 hours, the top leadership is understood to have discussed political implications and Bansal's clarification before deciding to wait for the CBI probe to be over.
Parliamentary affairs minister Kamal Nath and minister of state for personnel V Narayanasamy were asked for their views on how various parties would react on Railgate and whether allegations against Bansal were serious.
The view that emerged at the meeting was that even if Bansal resigned, the Opposition would not let up and insist on the resignations of the PM and law minister. It was also thought best to let the investigation unfold and act only if Bansal is proven guilty — thereby avoiding a repeat of the Ashok Chavan case, where the Maharashtra CM was asked to step down over the Adarsh housing scam but a probe panel later exonerated him.
The CBI had on Friday booked Bansal's nephew Vijay Singla for having allegedly accepted a R90-lakh bribe on behalf of senior railway official Mahesh Kumar, in exchange for a promise to get him a lucrative post in the department.
The agency made another arrest in the case on Sunday, taking the number of accused to 10. A Delhi court also remanded three more arrested accused in CBI custody till May 7.
Bansal has maintained ignorance of Singla's dealings.
On Ashwani Kumar, facing allegations of alleged interference in the CBI probe into the coal blocks allocation scam, Tewari said: "The matter is sub judice (pending in court). It will come up on May 8."
Ashwani Kumar has maintained that as law minister, it is his duty to advise all departments and it is up to them to accept or ignore his advice.
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi made the most of another opportunity to attack the UPA government, accusing it of being concerned only about "nephews and uncles".
He also tweeted: "After 17 years, Congress gets the railway ministry and what results is a scam. Does anyone still have any doubts that the Congress is the problem."
His BJP colleague Ravi Shankar Prasad said, "When a minister from an ally of the UPA is found involved in corruption, he is immediately sacked, but when a Congress minister indulges in corruption, no action is taken."
The day also saw BJP students' wing activists demonstrate outside Bansal's residences both in the Capital and Chandigarh. There was heavy police deployment at both places and in Chandigarh, police rounded up two of the protesters and used mild force to disperse the crowd, officials said.
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is characterized by symptoms that include: trouble organizing tasks, being easily distracted, avoiding things that take effort, an inability to sustain attention on a task, and problems with follow-through. Hyperactivity (fidgeting, excessive talking, restlessness) and impulsivity (difficulty waiting one's turn or with patience, interrupting others) may also be symptoms of ADHD.
The primary symptom of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning or a child's development.
Attention deficit disorder begins in childhood (although it may not be diagnosed until later in life). The symptoms of inattention and hyperactivity need to show themselves in a manner and degree which is inconsistent with the child's current developmental level. That is, the child's behavior is significantly more inattentive or hyperactive than that of his or her peers of a similar age.
Several symptoms must be present before age 12 (which is why ADHD is classified as a neurodevelopmental disorder, even if not diagnosed until adulthood). In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV), symptoms were required before age 7. Now the age of 12 is seen as an acceptable criterion because it is often difficult for adults to look retrospectively and establish a precise age of onset for a child. Indeed, adult recall of childhood symptoms tends to be unreliable. Thus, the DSM-5 has added some leeway to the age cut-off.
A person can present with symptoms that are predominantly characterized by inattention, predominantly hyperactivity-impulsivity, or a combination of the two. To meet for each of these ADHD specifiers, a person must exhibit at least 6 symptoms from the appropriate categories below.
Symptoms of Inattention
- Often fails to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes in schoolwork, work, or other activities
- Often has difficulty sustaining attention in tasks or play activities
- Often does not seem to listen when spoken to directly
- Often does not follow through on instructions and fails to finish schoolwork, chores, or duties in the workplace (not due to oppositional behavior or failure to understand instructions)
- Often has difficulty organizing tasks and activities
- Often avoids, dislikes, or is reluctant to engage in tasks that require sustained mental effort (such as schoolwork or homework)
- Often loses things necessary for tasks or activities (e.g., toys, school assignments, pencils, books, or tools)
- Is often easily distracted by extraneous stimuli
- Is often forgetful in daily activities–even those the person performs regularly (e.g., a routine appointment)
Symptoms of Hyperactivity/Impulsivity
- Often fidgets with hands or feet or squirms in seat
- Often leaves seat in classroom or in other situations in which remaining seated is expected
- Often runs about or climbs excessively in situations in which it is inappropriate (in adolescents or adults, may be limited to subjective feelings of restlessness)
- Often has difficulty playing or engaging in leisure activities quietly
- Is often "on the go" or often acts as if "driven by a motor"
- Often talks excessively
- Often blurts out answers before questions have been completed
- Often has difficulty awaiting turn
- Often interrupts or intrudes on others (e.g., butts into conversations or games)
In order for a diagnosis of ADHD to be made, symptoms must have persisted for at least 6 months. Some of these symptoms need to have been present as a child, at 12 years old or younger. The symptoms also must exist in at least two separate settings (for example, at school and at home). The symptoms should be creating significant impairment in social, academic, or occupational functioning or relationships.
This criteria has been updated for DSM-5. See next page for diagnostic codes and related resources for ADHD.
Diagnostic Codes for ADHD (consider past 6 months of symptoms)
- 314.01 for both combined presentation (i.e., inattention with hyperactivity/impulsivity) and for predominantly hyperactive/impulsive presentation (i.e., inattention criteria is not met).
- 314.00 for Predominantly inattentive presentation (hyperactivity-impulsivity criteria is not met).
Related Resources:
American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
Millichap, J.G. (2011). Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Handbook: A Physician's Guide to ADHD (2nd ed.). New York: Springer.
National Institute of Mental Health. (2018). Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Retrieved from https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-adhd/index.shtml on February 27, 2018.


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Another death on the human side of the aisle: Elsie Hughes (Shannon Woodward). The would-be dentist confronts Charlotte about Delos' digital immortality project, threatening to go public with the story. The threat backfires, literally, as Charlotte shoots and kills Elsie right on the spot. Elsie's murder helps push Bernard into action against Charlotte, directly leading to her death at the hands of "Halores." At the very least, there's some justice where Elsie's concerned.
Finally, while he was already dead before the season even began, the ghost of Robert Ford appears to be well and fully gone. Having purged Ford from his system in "Vanishing Point," Bernard desperately tries to conjure the man's spirit again in an effort to take down Charlotte and the others. At first, it seems that Bernard successfully finds Ford again, but it's later revealed that this version of Ford is nothing more than a memory — and in order to protect his plan, Bernard needs to damage his own memories, which means he needs to say goodbye to Ford one last time. It leads to Ford's final scene of the episode, and quite possibly his final scene of the series, as he and Bernard both stare out at the sunset in the distant horizon.
"I've always loved this view," says a wistful Ford. "Every city, every monument, man's greatest achievements will be chased by it … the impossible line where the waves conspire. Where they return. A place maybe you and I will meet again."
And with that, Ford is gone, at least for now — but who knows what the future holds? The answers reside somewhere off in the horizon, as the sun sets on Westworld and the long wait for season three begins.
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The video game cutscene has undergone a lot of transformations over the past couple of decades, and many games these days present elaborate, dazzling CGI sequences that are often billed as "Hollywood-caliber."
But the truth of the matter is that most cutscenes wouldn't rate a straight-to-DVD release. In fact, according to Wired's Jason Schreier, many cutscene directors can't even follow the most basic rules of filmmaking.
In a great collection of analyses, Schreier (whom readers might remember for having the funniest of all the East Coast Earthquake tweets), lays into a number of hackneyed cutscene indulgences.
Infinite Undiscovery, Mass Effect 2, and even Super Paper Mario aren't safe — problems highlighted include "Enter Late; Leave Early" (A director should begin a scene as late as possible, and get out as soon as the scene is done without lingering) and "Avoid Endless Exposition." One guess as to which game director gets called out for that one.


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The result of our activities on the reservation; Lakota people are now employed in teaching, nursing, human services, business, computer, and vocational positions providing services and support to the people and families of Pine Ridge reservation.
Oglala Lakota College was one of the first tribally controlled colleges in the United States. The concept of a tribally controlled college is that it be sanctioned by an Indian tribe, governed by a Board of Trustees made up of tribal members; and meets the needs of reservation people in their pursuit of higher education. In 2011, OLC was recognized as a Beating the Odds institution by a report of the HCM Strategist, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This recognition was given for being a Tribal college that produces a high number of Bachelor and Master Degree graduates.
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Dutch referee Serdar Gozubuyuk has called for the introduction of in-game video replays after missing a number of crucial incidents in the 1-1 Eredivisie draw between Ajax and Heerenveen on Friday evening.
The Amsterdam giants felt they should have been awarded a spot kick after Ramon Zomer handled the ball early in the first half, while they also called for a penalty after a foul on Christian Eriksen just inside the area.
Gozubuyuk failed to spot Zomer's handball, while he awarded Ajax a free kick for the foul on Eriksen rather than a penalty, and he believes video technology could have prevented the errors on the night.
"This seems pretty clear. I cannot see the incident properly because I'm looking at [Lasse] Schone's back," Gozubuyuk told Eredivisie Live after reviewing Zomer's handball.
"If it's up to me we would introduce video technology as soon as possible. That will prevent this kind of situation where I have to explain decisions that I could not see properly.
"We are all ready for the introduction of video technology. It's starting to become annoying to be criticised for decisions we have to take in a split second. Everybody else gets the chance to see an incident five or six times before judging."
Fifa will be using goal-line technology at this summer's Confederations Cup while the Premier League have signed a deal to implement Hawk-Eye systems, but the use of video replays during matches is unlikely to be introduced in the near future.


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You know you're "addicted" to tea when ....
When you are restricted on caffeine intake so you scour the net to find what teas fall within your doctor's orders on allowable amounts, in desperation for something other than water to drink and then go on a shopping spree you can't really afford to get a bunch.
When the tea-drinking day comes to an end and you feel guilty for not having drunk enough cups of tea (or enough different teas) and you promise yourself that you will do better tomorrow.
Hah, I do this!
Yes! This happens to me quite often!
When you have more tea stained area on your counter top than the color it once was and yet you wipe it down and clean it regularly somehow the stain is still there!
When your doctor asks what you do for fun and you say "tea." And you expect him to just understand what you mean without any other information.
After I left I was like, wow Amanda, you could have at least said you like tasting and talking about the flavors and things instead of just "tea."
What was your doctor's reaction?
He asked me "tea?" in quite a skeptical manner and I just said "Yes." I have no idea why I just thought that was enough information, it's still cracking me up a day later.
Yep. Literally LOL'd. :D (Doesn't hurt that I'm reading the thread from the beginning and sorta making mental ticks (yep, yep, ooooh guilty…) as I go.
LOL. I'm going to say that to the next person who asks me that question.
The ongoing High Park Fire in Colorado is behind my Condo Complex.
My daughter and I discussed what to do should I have to evacuate when the fire was 2 miles from me.
She told me later that she knew I would save my laptop, family photos and all my tea! (so sad…what a reputation!)
When you drop & crack the bottom off your travel mug, almost cry because you did & on this morning it housed your favourite iced tea. And you head directly to buy a new one even if it means you might be late for work.
I actually took it quite calmly on the outside. Inside I was screaming.
On the upside the new one I bought is prettier than the original.
Or you buy several mugs until you find JUST the right one for your tea habit- and then never use the not-quite-right ones you wasted your money on.
When you go downstairs to make some tea because reading these posts made you want to drink some tea.
You peruse the tea aisle in the grocery store to scoff and mock all the bagged teas-yet you sometimes buy one anyway.
So guilty. I sometimes avoid eye-contact with the teas so my roommate (who I shop with) doesn't think my tea love is out of hand. I just like to look. A lot.
Uh you start advising the people buying bagged tea in the tea isle of the grocery store…and try to get them to buy loose leaf tea…and sometimes they look like a deer in the headlights. (Other times they want to follow you…but maybe that doesn't mean on Steepster :(
I do this too—no matter how much tea I have, there's always something I want, usually just out of curiosity. Both the bf and my dad give me this "oh god, please don't peruse the tea aisle" look when we go grocery shopping XD
Hahaha Careful Bonnie! I know the deer in headlights look very well. I have a lot of friends who don't understand my tea love, and whenever they ask about why I have so much tea (as they think it's all the same)… my response to them is immediately accompanied by their glazed over expression.
I'm the same Alphakitty! I wish there was just samples of every tea in the world so I could stop being so curious and just try them all already!
When the tea leaves to veggie/fruit scraps compost ratio is almost 1:1.
More like 2:1, and there's 3 people in my family.
Granted, that's also counting their tea bags.
When you no longer have to pay for tea at your local tea shop because you always bring "samples" for the servers!


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Click here to visit the official Woody Guthrie website or view this cool video.