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RE[4]: Comment
by pandronic on Sat 5th May 2012 12:29 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Comment"
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If the free tool does everything you want, the way you want, but doesn't look the way you want, you'd spend non trivial money on something that did?

Again it's not just about the looks, it's about the interface as a whole.

You could do some of the things you do in Photoshop using Imagemagick from the command line, which is also free. You could also use a flat rock to drive a nail through a plank. Finally you'd probably get the work done, but not before losing some time or maybe even making some compromises (I don't need to drive the nail all the way, it will hold even if it's half way out). Time=money, Quality of your work=money, so by getting the superior tool, in the long run you actually save money.

As for helping the devs, it's not my hobby to contribute to open source projects. If one of them stumbles by and reads my posts, then great, otherwise I don't care that much. If they want my help, raise the money and hire me to rework the UI. I don't want to sound cold hearted, I appreciate the amount of work they put into the project, but coding or designing for free is something that I do only for close friends.

The bottom line is that since they offer their software for the public to use, I think I'm allowed to rant all I want, especially when I feel that people are spreading wrong opinions (like GIMP's UI is any good or that it even remotely competes with Photoshop for professional work).

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Apple Were Apple to once again start licensing its operating system to third-party 'Mac clone' hardware makers, it could reignite the OS wars. Yet whether Apple will go this route - and whether doing so would be smart - remains to be seen.
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RE: What the ?
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Who modded you down?

Scientologists, is who. Taking over these forums.

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General Development "What makes programming languages are suitable or unsuitable as introductory languages? Which languages are better learnt first and at which order? And why what the masses think is the most suitable introductory programming language is not in fact that. This paper examines several approaches to which programming language is the best, and afterwards gives several useful relations for which languages should come first. Finally it gives a final verdict, defends it and then gives some other good food for thought."
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RE: Hypercard and derivatives?
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For what platforms is Hypercard available?

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HyperCard is not available anymore but it's sucessors live on.

SuperCard is available for Mac OS X (
Runtime Revolution is available for Mac OS X, Linux, Windows (

Runtime Revolution also has older versions for FreeBSD, Solaris, HP-UX and Mac Classic.

By the way, RunRev has many strong points for being the best introductory language:

* English Like syntax.
* Built-in support for GUI, Networks and Databases allowing the newbie to do advanced experiements as he advances his learning.
* True cross-platform, a stack created on one platform will run unmodified on all others. Depending on your license you can create standalone applications for all platforms from a single one.

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BeOS & Derivatives According to a news post on the Haiku project website, a new port team is being formed to bring Java technologies to the Haiku platform. The goal of the Haiku Java Team is to port OpenJDK to Haiku, and they would like to see the port included within the structure of Sun's OpenJDK project. The Haiku developers have already been in contact with members of the OpenJDK Porters Group to pursue their objective, and a formal proposal has also been submitted for consideration by the OpenJDK project. The Haiku Java Team is an initiative lead by Bryan Varner, who together with Andrew Bachmann worked on the port of Java to BeOS in the past (demo video).
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> At first Be tries to port Java to BeOS. They wanted it with Be together.

I meant "They wanted it with Sun together".

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The point is that the barrier for entry is being kept artificially high to avoid an explosion of crap apps, not to avoid the idea of crap apps altogether. It's a very interesting point!

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Exactly. In total agreement. That's basically the point I wanted to make put more concisely. It's nothing to do with the conjecture that forms the main argument of the related article about Apple releasing a Photoshop competitor and wanting Adobe to leave the Mac platform.

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As much as I love the iDevices and tablets, why can't Apple give the option of buying one without a camera? I'd rather have no camera compared to the weak ones they have.

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Cameras will get better as time goes by. The ones used on the iPad 2 are the same as on the iPod 4, which are indeed pretty bad (especially the back camera). But they will get better with time, so it makes more sense to have them, than not. Some other tablets that were released without cameras got bad reviews because of it, so there's no chance Apple releasing a version of the iPad without cameras.

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RE[5]: I've Switched
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Its an eeepc 1000HE, and when testing on a fedora live usb, its either 1) does work and I get a black screen 2) Boots into fallback mode 3) boots into gnome shell but its buggy and pretty much unusable. The uncertainty alone is enough to keep me from using it.

damn it, I have been making so many typos today I should be banned from the internet. I meant to say 1) Does notwork and I get a black screen.

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Compiled JS bytecode is just as fast as compiled Java bytecode. Only ObjC has the slight edge for native speed.

I don't know much of it, but I hear that there's efforts to make JS front-end to Clang/LLVM, which would mean the ability to compile JavaScript to native code on par with any other source language.

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Hmm stick to the truth, that might be true for AOT (ahead of time) compiled JS, but you'd have to modify your JS code slightly to make that happen. Highly dynamic languages like JS don't compile very well. FirefoxOS will not run anything like that. It will run Mozillas JS engine and it nowhere near as fast as compiled C or just in time compiled Java. Cold hard truth.

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Compiled JS bytecode is just as fast as compiled Java bytecode

[Citation needed].

Java is statically typed and the bytecode takes advantage of that. Also, Android uses Dalvik, which has a completely different bytecode, designed for faster interpretation. E.g. it's register-based rather than stack-based.
Not that bytecode interpretation speed matters much, as both Dalvik and Gecko have JITs. But it's a lot easier to make Java code go fast than it's for JS code.

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I don't think I've characterised your position, I was asking you to clarify it since there does *seem* to be a discrepancy. Like why you bashed all web developers for choosing to use JS/HTML to write web apps to reach the most people. Then in this thread you dismiss the ability to install one's own apps on a device on account of the wide availability of web apps. It wouldn't seem like the same person would make those seemingly opposing claims.

Anyways, unless an apology is forthcoming, I don't see any reason for me to stick around and continue to pollute osnews with this bickering of ours.

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Again, for what possibly is the forth time, you misstate my position and who I bashed. I bashed a specific subset of people using a specific technology in a specific way. The fact is, you're intentionally misleading by broadening the scope of my remarks.

Maybe you're right, it is best you stop responding.

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I kinda get what alfman is saying dude. On one hand in that last thread you were basically saying you should never use html5 apps when you can write a native app. Yet here you are endorsing using a web app for something as critical as managing your files.

Packaging an html5 application in something like phonegap allows a web app to have much better integration with the native system. So allows one to write an html5 application that will allow easy manipulation of cloud based storage that integrates with the native os and can run on multiple platforms. Which apparently you are now apparently a proponent of even though in the last thread you clearly stated a complete and total disdain for any html5 based app because native development is better.

Am I missing something here. How do you explain these seemingly opposing views?

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Annie Lennox, Kristin Davis and Scarlett Johansson launch Big Inequality Debate for International Women’s Day

“The centenary of International Women's Day is an opportunity to step up the call for a more equal world and galvanize a new generation of men and women to work together to make gender equality a reality.”
Annie Lennox
Oxfam Global Ambassador
Published: 8 March 2011

Oxfam Ambassadors, Annie Lennox, Kristin Davis, Angelique Kidjo and Scarlett Johansson and invite you to celebrate the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, on 8 March 2011 and make it a catalyst for positive change.

Annie Lennox says: "A lot has changed since 1911, but there is still a long way to go. Gender inequality continues to permeate all sectors of society, from health and education to politics, employment and culture. The centenary of International Women's Day is an opportunity to step up the call for a more equal world and galvanize a new generation of men and women to work together to make gender equality a reality."

While much has been achieved over the last 100 years inequality and discrimination is still a daily fact of life for many women – particularly in the developing world where the denial of women's basic rights is a major cause of poverty.

  • Women produce the majority of the world’s food but rarely own the land they farm. In Sub Saharan African women produce 80 per cent of the household food but they only own one per cent of the land.
  • Every minute a woman with no medical care dies in pregnancy or childbirth. The amount of money spent in the erectile dysfunction market is four times greater than the amount spent on maternal and newborn health in poor countries.
  • Women make up 80 per cent  of climate refugees - 20 million of the 26 million people estimated to have been displaced by climate change are women.
  • Two-thirds of the children denied school are girls and 64 percent of the world’s illiterate adults are women.

Oxfam Ambassador and actor, Kristin Davis, said: "In my travels as an Oxfam Ambassador, I have been amazed by the women farmers I have met in African countries. Women farmers grow most of the food in the poor countries around the world, often without having equal rights to the land. They are greatly affected by Global warming. These women hold the keys to solving global hunger if they are given a voice and equality in their communities."

Oxfam Ambassador and singer-songwriter, Angelique Kidjo said: “There’s a long way to go before every woman can join this celebration - of the 1.3 billion people living in extreme poverty worldwide more than two-thirds are women and girls. But women are catalysts for change! Empowering women can help them to lift themselves, their families and their communities out of poverty.”

Oxfam Honorary President, Mary Robinson, said: “There has been real progress on women’s rights in the 100 years since the first international women’s day. Yet millions of women around the world are still facing discrimination and inequality. Women and girls are on the move - they can’t wait another 100 years to win the fight for equality.”

Around the world, millions of people celebrate International Women’s Day every year. In China women have the day off work, in Bosnia and Italy women are given gifts of flowers and in Cameroon women dance in the streets in celebration.

Oxfam and hundreds of organizations around the globe are prompting a big debate about what inequality looks like 100 years after the first International Women’s Day was celebrated in 1911. We are inviting men and women to reflect on the progress that has been made in women’s rights, to discuss the inequalities that still exist, share experiences and ideas with people around the globe, and take action to transform the lives of those women and girls who remain excluded and violated.

Oxfam will be prompting the public to discuss inequality at home, at work, at school, in community centers, universities and bars. We will be running a series of flash-mob dance-offs around the globe and encouraging communities everywhere to host their own parties in houses, streets and workplaces.

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How Oxfam is celebrating the 100th Anniversary of International Women's Day

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Notes to Editors

Oxfam is a founding member of the EQUALS coalition, with ActionAid, Amnesty International, Care International UK, The Fawcett Society, Plan International, Save the Children, The White Ribbon Alliance For Safe Motherhood, Women’s Aid and Women for Women International.

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Anna Mitchell (Oxfam) : +44 1865 339157 / +44 7796 993288 /


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Definition of megastar in English:

Syllabification: meg·a·star
Pronunciation: /ˈmegəˌstär

A very famous person, especially in the world of entertainment.
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  • All this, while turning stars into superstars and megastars, while making the good look great and the average look good, has also created a mass of sports fans craving for intimate details of sports stars/idols.
  • The audience listened to what the superstar and the megastar had to say in rapt attention, though it was a much-seen ‘you scratch my back, I scratch yours’.
  • We did not pick a megastar, a great sports figure or anyone with a lot of flash.

Pronunciation: /ˌmegəˈstärdəm/
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  • Since every viewer knows that 8 Mile is based on the life of the man who plays its hero, megastar rapper Eminem, we duly assume that Rabbit is also headed for megastardom.
  • He was tipped for megastardom but, unlike his two legendary disciples, he all but disappeared, sidetracked by drink and drugs, botched love affairs and a lusty appetite for violence.
  • Fortunately, Crowe's ascent to megastardom has brought at least one of these forgotten films out on DVD for us to enjoy belatedly.

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Definition of lipoid in English:

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Pronunciation: /ˈlɪpɔɪd

Relating to or resembling fat.
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  • It was only after 1929 that scientists could assess the identity of sex hormones with chemical methods, thanks to developments in organic chemistry in the area of steroid and lipoid compounds.
  • But a potential problem from inhaling fat-based substances, such as petroleum jelly or mineral oil, for prolonged periods is lipoid pneumonia.
  • Carotenoids are taken up from blood circulation by rhamphothecal keratinocytes in the bill, accumulated in lipoid droplets, and distributed diffusely through the horny, keratinized beak tissue.

late 19th century: from Greek lipos 'fat' + -oid.

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Definition of overtrousers in English:

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Pronunciation: /ˈəʊvətraʊzəs

Waterproof trousers, typically worn over other trousers.
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  • It rains in the city, as it does on an island, but people do not wear plastic waterproof overtrousers here.
  • We are ferried from the fishing boat by a small orange dinghy flooded knee - deep with freezing water, with only the Sprayway waterproof overtrousers combined with my ludicrously expensive Drys waterproof socks to keep my toes dry.
  • It was the only wet day, but on that day I was really grateful for my gumboots, overtrousers and parka.

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Definition of windigo in English:

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Pronunciation: /ˈwɪndɪgəʊ
(also wendigo)

noun (plural windigos or windigoes)

(In the folklore of the northern Algonquian Indians) a cannibalistic giant; a person who has been transformed into a monster by the consumption of human flesh.
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  • In the depths of the winter, the windigo seeks to feast on human flesh.
  • Manjimanidoo or evil spirits existed; windigos were especially terrifying spirits who dwelled within lakes and practiced cannibalism.
  • I must see a traveling paper, then you may come stay the night with us so as you will be safe from the wendigos.

from Ojibwa wintiko.

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Hay 2 definiciones de save en inglés:

Silabificación: save

[with object]
1Keep safe or rescue (someone or something) from harm or danger: she saved a boy from drowning
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  • The children's flick will feature Jackie as a pirate ghost who hobnobs with a little boy and his friends to save their town from danger.
  • Finally, we were saved by a rescue team and they were nice enough to give us a new motor.
  • My husband assures me that my moves will probably save me from any danger, so intimidating, he says, is the sight of me doing the African dance.
preserve, keep safe, keep, protect, safeguard; salvage, retrieve, reclaim, rescue
1.1Prevent (someone) from dying: the doctors did everything they could to save him
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  • Jay meets Peaches when she saves a dying man involved in a traffic accident.
  • To save a dying person is his life's work, his obsession.
  • But why aren't they able to save every dying person?
1.2(In Christian use) preserve (a person’s soul) from damnation.
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  • Whoever converts a sinner from error saves his soul from damnation.
  • The state of knowledge was not a priority when there were fundamental issues of church doctrine to be discussed and souls to be saved from the pernicious influence of Protestantism.
  • My favourite reactions I received were of the religious type, attempting to open my eyes to a Godly world and save my soul from damnation.
1.3Keep (someone) in health (used in exclamations and formulaic expressions): God save the Queen
2Keep and store up (something, especially money) for future use: she had never been able to save much from her salary [no object]: you can save up for retirement in a number of ways
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  • By September 1889, debt-free and resolved to save money for the future, Boyle proposed marriage for the first time in his life.
  • If we had rented during those first five years of marriage, we would never have been able to save enough money to make that purchase.
  • It'd be cool to be able to save up for something nice, like a nice ride - something I could be proud of.
put aside, set aside, put by, put to one side, save up, keep, retain, reserve, conserve, stockpile, store, hoard, save for a rainy day
informal salt away, squirrel away, stash away, hang on to
2.1 Computing Keep (data) by moving a copy to a storage location, especially from memory: save it to a new file
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  • Client data would normally be saved onto corporate servers rather than desktops but the company is refusing to take any chances.
  • If you are trying to download some file, it will be automatically saved to your desktop.
  • Choose between bitmap or JPEG file formats when saving screenshots to the hard drive.
2.2Preserve (something) by not expending or using it: save your strength till later
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  • He saves his arm strength and uses his horse's speed and power to inflict the deep wounds and deathblows.
  • I must agree in order to save the rest of my strength.
  • To save one's own strength, to defend oneself by sleight of body while drawing from one's opponent all his strength: this is the art of Ju-jitsu.
2.3 [in imperative] (save it) North American informal Used to tell someone to stop talking: save it, Joey—I’m in big trouble now
3Avoid the need to use up or spend (money, time, or other resources): save $20 on a new camcorder [with two objects]: an efficient dishwasher would save them one year and three months at the sink
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  • A spokesperson said that the policy would have little adverse financial effect, as it would save money otherwise spent on recruiting new staff.
  • But we could easily save money, diverting resources to more innovative management practices.
  • Not only it will save their time, it will also save money spent on hiring the bag-checkers.
3.1Avoid, lessen, or guard against: this approach saves wear and tear on the books [with two objects]: the statement was made to save the government some embarrassment
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  • Thousands of families would have been saved their tears, their sorrow and the grief they are experiencing this very moment.
  • It also saved her family the daily washing machine wear and tear, increased water use and the chore of washing and drying nappies regularly.
  • Little white lies could save someone's feelings and prevent them from having to face bitter truths.
prevent, obviate, forestall, spare; stop; avoid, avert
4Prevent an opponent from scoring (a goal or point) in a game or from winning (the game): the powerful German saved three match points
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  • The story is told of a goalkeeper who kept waving to his girlfriend in the grandstand every time he saved a goal.
  • You'd be surprised how many points are saved and thrown away in the latter stage of the game.
  • The return of the rejuvenated opening bowlers quickly put paid to any lingering hopes the Cambridge side had of saving the game, removing two further batsmen.
4.1 Baseball (Of a relief pitcher in certain game situations) finish (a game) while preserving a winning position gained by another pitcher.
4.2 Soccer & Hockey (Of a goalkeeper) stop (a shot) from entering the goal.
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  • The keeper dives, and the shot gets saved, or it drops into the back of the net, the fans sigh or groan on cue, and the game goes on.
  • But his shot was saved by the keeper.
  • McDonald did have a chance for Villa but his shot was well saved by keeper Hardy.

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1 Baseball An instance of a relief pitcher saving a game.
1.1chiefly Soccer & Hockey An act of preventing an opponent’s scoring: the keeper made a great save
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  • The Brookes keeper performs an acrobatic save to keep Oxford off the score sheet in what was a disappointing game for the home team
  • Within 14 minutes third choice goalkeeper Mark Salter had not only made three tough saves but had also watched a near own goal by Anthony Doeh.
  • Goalkeeper Michele Gademans also played an important role, making four solid saves to shutout the other team and ensure the Clan a spot at the National Championships.
1.2 Bridge another term for sacrifice.
2 Computing An act of saving data to a storage location, usually the hard drive: the recovery feature enables you to retrieve most of the edits you made since the last save
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  • Repeated saves and reloads in your editing package will produce the same image each time.
  • Game saves are saved to memory stick, and a 32MB stick is included with the console.
  • Librarians are pestered every day to explain why the student's saves to disc ‘do not work.’

Middle English: from Old French sauver, from late Latin salvare, from Latin salvus 'safe'. The noun dates from the late 19th century.

save one's breath

[often in imperative] Not bother to say something because it is pointless.
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  • After months of writing to my elected officials I feel a whole lot better supporting this project and saving my breath.
  • You're better saving your breath for the wedding speech because right now I'm not listening to any of your words!
  • These worthy protesters could have saved their breath.

save the day

Find or provide a solution to a difficulty or disaster.
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  • Foreign students did indeed save the situation; they provided 15 per cent of university revenues.
  • And if someday your organization is in the midst of an expensive dispute, and you provide the piece of electronic evidence that saves the day - well, that's priceless.
  • A strong president, a good president, would put his country before his pride and throw himself into saving the situation even if it meant admitting previous mistakes and ditching past policies and advisors.

save (someone's) face

see face.

save someone's life

Prevent someone’s dying by taking specific action.
(cannot do something to save one's life) Be completely incompetent at doing something: Adrian couldn’t draw to save his life
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  • I can't swim to save my life, but I'm really good at floating
  • There's no question he is a looker, but he can't sing to save his life.

save someone's skin (or neck or hide or bacon)

Rescue someone from danger or difficulty.
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  • Frankie quickly saved his bacon by delivering a fierce roundhouse kick to the creature's chin, taking it out for good.
  • Lying may rarely be justifiable, but saving your bacon and sparing others the embarrassment of having to deal with your mistakes may just make it worthwhile.
  • They used every trick in the manual to portray him as a corporate fat cat who cared only about saving his skin.

save someone the trouble (or bother)

Avoid involving someone in useless or pointless effort: write it down and save yourself the trouble of remembering
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  • Other hotels (just a few though) are equipped with cinema rooms, saving you the trouble of getting out if you are too tired or if the unpredictable English weather is not at its best!
  • He took down the dossier, saving me the trouble of initiating a court action.
  • Letting it do the record-keeping saves you the trouble of entering information over and over again.

(also saveable) adjetivo
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  • Firefighters have to triage homes in a burning neighborhood to decide which homes are savable and which ones aren't.
  • The store has closed for good with the loss of nine jobs - despite staff having been reassured the chain was saveable.
  • "We can't give false hopes and promises but, of course the club is saveable."

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Pronunciación: ˈwʌɪzeɪkə
a know-all…

Hay 2 definiciones de save en inglés:

Silabificación: save

preposición & conjunción

formal or literary
Except; other than: no one needed to know save herself the kitchen was empty save for Boris
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  • The audience is seated in a theatre pitch black save the glow of six individual light boxes, each containing a fluoro rod, sitting on the floor of the stage.
  • But otherwise, what we say is subject to no regulation save our own sensibilities.
  • Raw materials and processes are simply drained of all value save monetary value.
except, apart from, but, other than, besides, aside from, bar, barring, excluding, leaving out, saving
informal outside of

Middle English: from Old French sauf, sauve, from Latin salvo, salva (ablative singular of salvus 'safe'), used in phrases such as salvo jure, salva innocentia 'with no violation of right or innocence'.

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Definition of minor in English:

Syllabification: mi·nor
Pronunciation: /ˈmīnər

1Lesser in importance, seriousness, or significance: minor alterations
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  • It was not easy to find people to mend your shoes, repair your broken zipper or anything else that might be of minor importance but that is necessary for daily life.
  • Several minor incidents of little significance are included.
  • Against this kind of background, the Northern Ireland situation is of much more minor importance.
2 Music (Of a scale) having intervals of a semitone between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth, and the seventh and eighth. Contrasted with major.
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  • Yet by bar 3, where the two basic scale-motifs are concatenated to form five notes of an A minor scale, the tonality is in doubt.
  • The fingering chart provided on page 111 fails to identify the minor scale form being illustrated.
2.1(Of an interval) characteristic of a minor scale and less by a semitone than the equivalent major interval. Compare with diminished.
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  • If a major interval is made a half step smaller without changing its numerical name, it becomes a minor interval.
  • Diminished intervals are created when a perfect or minor interval is made one half step smaller and the interval number is not changed.
2.2 [usually postpositive] (Of a key or mode) based on a minor scale, tending to produce a sad or pensive effect: Concerto in A minor
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  • I think it's just that I like to compose in minor keys.
  • The touching ‘Don't Let Her Know She's An Angel’ combines Wilson's epic sentimentality with soft minor keys.
  • All three movements use fairly melodic material, all in minor keys.
3 Logic (Of a term) occurring as the subject of the conclusion of a categorical syllogism.
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  • where P, S, and M are the major, minor, and middle terms of the syllogism.
3.1(Of a premise) containing the minor term in a categorical syllogism.
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  • Notice that the minor premise of the syllogism above is only marginally contingent upon historical analysis.
  • In most cases, it identifies the conclusion that is to be accepted and then goes on to identify what it to be argued for (the minor premise).
  • You have to make out a major premise in this case and there is also a question as to even if you make out your major premise whether or not the minor premise is made out, given the various facts to which I referred you.

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1A person under the age of full legal responsibility.
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  • It may be now legal for minors to donate to campaigns, but I believe there is a requirement that the donors' names over a minimum amount be reported, is there not?
  • Yet, four centuries on, we are told that smoking among minors, especially young girls, is on the increase.
  • The committee was concerned about removing existing legal protections for minors if they enter into a de facto relationship.
child, infant, youth, adolescent, teenager, boy, girl
informal kid, kiddie
2 Music A minor key, interval, or scale.
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  • Yet he will conjure a few bars in the minor where possible and darken textures by shunting to the subdominant.
  • Themes initially stated in the major mode recur more strongly in the minor.
  • Each major key is followed by its parallel minor.
2.1 (Minor) Bell-ringing A system of change-ringing using six bells.
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  • Other terms for even numbers of bells include Minor (6 bells), Major (8 bells), Royal (10 bells) and Maximus (12 bells).
  • We ring whatever people ask for including Stedman Doubles, Crayford Minor and Norwich Surprise Minor.
3 (the minors) North American The minor leagues in a particular professional sport, especially baseball: he’s been pitching in the minors for six years
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  • You'll never find perfect baseball in the minors, but stories from Miguel Cabrera to Bucky Jacobsen are enough for me.
  • From 1988 through 1991, Schilling had split time between the minors and the major leagues in each of those seasons.
  • Bragan's managerial ingenuity in confronting umpires was almost unlimited, both in the major leagues and the minors.
4North American A college student’s subsidiary subject or area of concentration: a minor in American Indian studies
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  • He chose a philosophy minor, and several courses in classics as electives.
  • I have a bachelor's degree in education with an art minor from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
  • The theme school concept could easily develop into a collegiate minor.
5 Logic A minor term or premise.
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  • I prove the minor, because your father is known by you and your father is the one approaching; hence, the one approaching is known by you.
  • This is called the fallacy of the illicit minor.
6 Bridge short for minor suit.
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  • If you don't have a 5-card major, open your longest minor.
  • After a transfer into a minor, the opener bids the shown minor if he has at least high-honor-third in the suit.

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Study or qualify in as a subsidiary subject at college or university.
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  • As a young brother, I majored in biology and minored in religious studies at St. Mary's College, Moraga, California.
  • I too, am Native American of the Cherokee tribe and I minored in Native American studies in college.
  • Koehler has provided outstanding leadership in presenting graduate courses to students majoring and minoring in statistics.

Middle English: from Latin, 'smaller, less'; related to minuere 'lessen'. The term originally denoted a Franciscan friar, suggested by the Latin name Fratres Minores ( 'Lesser Brethren'), chosen by St. Francis for the order.

in a minor key

(Especially of a literary work) understated.
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  • It is a minor film in a minor key, but it is helped immeasurably by one thing - the role of Mina is played by Carole Bouquet.
  • The real trouble is a plot line from Middle Earth via the New Age that features our questing hero Tommy Matisse (the artist, get it?), well played in a minor key by Dan Spielman as a star composer at the Royal Academy of Music.
  • If ever a film was composed in a minor key, it is this beautiful and sad movie from the Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, which simply floats like a helium balloon above the middling mainstreamers that have rolled up this week.

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Definition of phenomenon in English:

Syllabification: phe·nom·e·non
Pronunciation: /fəˈnäməˌnän, -nən

noun (plural phenomena /-nə/)

1A fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen, especially one whose cause or explanation is in question: glaciers are unique and interesting natural phenomena
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  • I might add that sometimes explanations of physical phenomena involve mathematical facts.
  • It was left to Newton to provide the mathematical explanation of the phenomena that they observed.
  • They want science to be redefined to include non-natural or supernatural explanations for natural phenomena.
1.1A remarkable person, thing, or event.
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  • Perhaps the remarkable phenomenon is that anything like the old nationalism echoed at all.
  • Hip-hop has long been one of the most fashion-conscious cultural phenomena in America.
  • As he nears the end of his remarkable career, Warne is a phenomenon waiting to be cast in gold for posterity.
marvel, sensation, wonder, prodigy, miracle, rarity, nonpareil
informal humdinger, phenom, stunner, doozy, ripsnorter
2 Philosophy The object of a person’s perception; what the senses or the mind notice.
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  • No empirical phenomena seem to demand a notion of backward causation for our understanding of them.
  • Kant also says that the categories can be applied to phenomena, but not to noumena.
  • According to Bohr, the only real properties of natural phenomena are observed phenomena.

late 16th century: via late Latin from Greek phainomenon 'thing appearing to view', based on phainein 'to show'.

The word phenomenon comes from Greek, and its plural form is phenomena, as in these phenomena are not fully understood. It is a mistake to treat phenomena as if it were a singular form, as in this is a strange phenomena.

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Hi, I have a problem.

I'm generating a menu dynamically in a custom made scroolbar with a mask.
A movie clip holds my mc effect that is supposed to happen on roll over, a text field and a button. I’m creating instances of that movie clip with action script dynamically inside two other movie clips (two depths). I have a problem with the onRollOver method of the button that is inside.

I’m assigning like this:

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for(var i=0; i < num; i++){
    this.scroll_content.item_holder.attachMovie("meni", i+"_meni_mc", i, {_x:0, _y:(24*i) });
    this.scroll_content.item_holder[i+"_meni_mc"].Tekst_txt.text = "SomeName";
  1. for(var i=0; i < num; i++){
  2.     this.scroll_content.item_holder.attachMovie("meni", i+"_meni_mc", i, {_x:0, _y:(24*i) });
  3.     this.scroll_content.item_holder[i+"_meni_mc"].Tekst_txt.text = "SomeName";
  4. }

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_root._level0.scroll_content.item_holder.0_meni_mc.button_btn.onRollOver = function () {
  1. _root._level0.scroll_content.item_holder.0_meni_mc.button_btn.onRollOver = function () {
  2.  _root._level0.scroll_content.item_holder.0_meni_mc.efekt_mc.gotoAndPlay("k1");
  3. };

I get an error like this when testing:

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Script, frame=1:Line 7: Syntax error.
_root._level0.scroll_content.item_holder.0_meni_mc.button_btn.onRollOver = function () {

The path is true.
I think maybe I need to change the name of the button instance...
But how do I do that dynamically with AS?

The parent movie clips don’t have rollover methods assigned to them.

does anyone know a solution?
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i'll take more time with it in a bit, but the first thing that pops out is:

_root is the same thing as _level0, so it's a contradiction to tell it to look for _level0 within _root. take out the reference to _level0 and see if it works.

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My site is and my major concurrent is
I've been looking on google and noticed that for "Celebs Fun", is ranked first ( , I'm sure he wasn't, before, because I remember checking those keywords on Google before. Obviously, there's something wrong. Is it my fault or did that site do that expressly? In my meta tags I've got 'rubberfaces', could this be the reason? Or is it the concurrent that is aware of my new site and somehow managed to rank first for 'Celebs Fun'?

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01-15-2010, 07:43 PM
Pacers trade Troy Murphy

Thunder trade Nenad Krstic, Matt Harpring, Phoenix's 2010 1st round pick

The Thunder could use Murphy at center to help them reach the playoffs. He'll be an upgrade rebounding the ball, and can space the floor for Westbrook and Durant. Really don't have a better center option on the team. Plus Murphy would only have a year left if things don't work out

Krstic will give the Pacers another serviceable big while allowing Hibbert and Hansbrough to grow. Krstic does have a player option next year, but it's a reasonable 5 mil giving you're shedding Murphy's 11 mil

Harpring is a 6 mil or so insurance expiring due to injury and would come off the books.

The Suns first would be late in the first round most likely, but it is unprotected. Right now it's around #22, but it's still possible Phoenix could falter some as well and that draft pick could improve.

The Thunder of course still have their own 1st round pick as well

I guess Maynor could be an option instead of a 1st rounder, but I don't believe he can be traded for awhile?

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Lifetime Pacer fan, but I live in Oklahoma now. I actually was about to post this trade, as it was proposed on "Daily Thunder." Anyway, the trade is as you stated, but there's no way the Thunder would include Maynor. Maynor is the solidified backup in OKC, and it would take quite a bit to pry him from OKC. He has really impressed the fans and ownership in his short time here.

Murphy would be a great fit in OKC for the fact he takes care of two problems, a shooter and a someone who can pull down double digit boards nightly. We would insert Murphy at the 5, but he's a true 4. Here's the issue, Jeff Green is a true 3, but Durant is too. We tried Durant at the 2 last year, and the experiment went really bad. Murphy is a much better 4 then Green, but he would never be able to start over him because of his status with the team. Jeff is the heart of OKC.

Overall the trade works out well for both teams. Krstic, like you said, has a player option for next season. Harpring's contract is payed almost entirely by insurance, so no lost revenue there. Murphy is probably the best player the Thunder could get out of all the free agents this Summer, and if we were to trade for him, that would take OKC out of the Summer sweepstakes. I'm personally okay with that, but I may be a bit bias.

Like to hear some other opinions on this trade. I think it's good for both sides.

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I sure the heck would do this. I have always liked Kristic, but haven't seen too much of him since his injury a few years back. Getting the pick is a big piece IMHO. If we could somehow shed one more contract for another 1st rounder we could have an interesting draft.


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by: TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO: JAIME VALDEZ - After a late-September 1-0 home win over the Los Angeles Galaxy, goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts celebrated with Portland Timbers owner Merritt Paulson.Donovan Ricketts of the Portland Timbers has been named MLS goalkeeper of the year, and teammate Diego Valeri has been voted MLS newcomer of the year.

The awards are determined by vote of media, MLS players and club management and are based on regular-season performance.

Valeri, 27, led the league with 13 assists in 2013 and was Portland's top scorer with 33 points (10 goals). He came from Argentine club Atletico Lanus in January and is the third consecutive Argentine to receive the newcomer honor (Seattle midfielder Mauro Rosales won it in 2011 and Columbus forward Federico Higuain won it in 2012).

Ricketts was the goalie on the MLS Best XI all-star team announced Tuesday, and Valeri made the team in midfield.

Ricketts ranked among the league leaders in wins (13), goals-against average (0.97) and save percentage (73 percent).

The Jamaican international, who has spent five years in MLS, set career highs in 2013 in MLS shutouts (14), saves (92) and minutes played (2,880).

Ricketts, Valeri and Portland posted the best regular-season record in the MLS Western Conference. The Timbers reached the conference finals before falling to Real Salt Lake.

Ricketts, 36, also was MLS goalkeeper of the year in 2010 as a member of the Los Angeles Galaxy.

Ricketts, who had the MLS save of the week 10 times last season, beat three other finalists: Nick Rimando of Real Salt Lake, Jimmy Nielsen of Sporting Kansas City and Luis Robles of New York.

The voting breakdown:

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Ricketts 51.02

Rimando 22.45

Nielsen 6.12

Robles 4.08

Percentage of media votes

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Ricketts 22.08

Nielsen 14.29

Robles 9.09

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Ricketts 28.24

Rimando 21.96

Robles 8.82

Nielsen 3.52

Weighted total

Ricketts 101.34

Rimando 84.67

Nielsen 23.93

Robles 21.99

Valeri had three other finalists to beat, and he won convincingly over Jose Goncalves of New England, Nigel Reo-Coker of Vancouver and Clint Irwin of Colorado.

The voting breakdown:

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Valeri 72.34

Goncalves 6.38

Reo-Coker 6.38

Irwin 2.13

Percentage of media votes

Valeri 79.22

Goncalves 2.6

Reo-Coker 1.3

Irwin 3.9

Percentage of player votes

Valeri 36.38

Goncalves 13.21

Reo-Coker 8.54

irwin 5.89

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Goncalves 22.19

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Most babies should be off the bottle around the time they turn 1. The longer you wait to wean, the more attached your baby will get to his bottle -- and the harder it will be for him to give up. In addition, bottle-feeding past this age can lead to tooth decay. (Children tend to take longer to finish drinks in a bottle, exposing their teeth to the sugar in formula and milk for longer periods.)

It's a good idea to get your baby used to a sippy cup around 9 months (or earlier, if he's showing interest), so he has time to get used to it. Pick a plastic spill-proof cup with a spout, which looks most like a bottle. Finding the right cup for your child may require some trial and error. Some children go through several styles before finding one they love (some children like handles, while others can't stand them, for example). It's not a good idea to take the bottle away cold turkey, since this might cause your baby to see the cup as a punishment, rather than as a big-kid milestone.

At first, you should just offer water or diluted juice in the sippy cup during meals or snacks. Then as your child gets more comfortable, start filling the cup with breast milk or formula so he gets used to the idea that all his beverages can come from a cup. (Just don't make the cup available 24/7 or your child may graze from it all day long and disrupt his normal eating schedule.) The first few times your baby drinks from the cup, it can be a bit messy (expect lots of drooling and dripping). Hold the cup to his mouth and let a few drops trickle out. Don't force him to take more than he wants, since you don't want to turn this into a power struggle. If he tries to grab the cup to drink on his own, by all means, let him.

After your baby's comfortable with the sippy cup (about a month or so), you can begin the weaning process. Start by phasing out one midday bottle feeding (since babies usually eat the least at this time) and replacing it with a meal of solid foods and/or a sippy cup of milk or formula. Wait a week (or two if your baby is struggling with the transition) before eliminating another bottle feeding. Continue phasing out one bottle feeding per week until your child is off the bottle completely. If you start the process at around 11 months your child should be done with bottles between 12 and 13 months. By one year, many toddlers are willing to give up their bottle and relish the opportunity to sit at the table like big boys and girls.

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  • On May 1, opened a 5-acre African exhibit landscaped to replicate the plains of the continent (complete with simulated termite mounds) and featuring numerous free-roaming African animals such as Masai giraffes, Grant's zebras, greater kudu, Nile lechwe, impalas, and wildebeests
  • Offers a newly renovated aviary with a walk-through exhibit of desert birds and a keyboard kids can use to play bird songs
  • Ensures that all exhibits are stroller-accessible and offers rentals of wagons and strollers at low cost

With one of the highest ratio of staff to visitors in our survey, the Toledo Zoo provides personalized attention for even the smallest guests. Its children's zoo has a minimum of four zookeepers at all times. "We want to make sure that every child has a great experience," says Bill Dennler, the zoo's executive director. "For example, some kids get scared when a goat comes up to them. If that happens, a zookeeper sits with the child on a bench where he can still pet the farm animals, but they're inside the enclosure."

The extra staffing also fuels another goal of the zoo: interactivity. In the "Arctic Encounter" exhibit, children can turn a wheel to see how Arctic animals change their coat in the winter from brown to white to blend in with their surroundings and go up to six stations that ask them questions. One, for instance, tells visitors they've been stranded in the Arctic with a big storm coming and prompts guests to figure a way out. The zoo's new "Africa!" exhibit also features a Passport Program. Kids receive a passport with pictures and facts about animals at the gate and get it stamped at five locations in the exhibit.

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Ten years ago, at 8 a.m., the world was a different place. My students were different people. I was different too.

Prior to 9/11 I'd been through some things that had left post-traumatic scars, so 9/11 wasn't unfamiliar psychological territory to me. But it was unfamiliar to so, so many others who were also far too close to those buildings.

I wasn't far away, but I also wasn't in the buildings, themselves, skittering down the stairs while the firemen went up, up, up.

I was at a small, unimposing, city high school—The High School for Leadership and Public Service—about a half city block south of the South Tower. The only school closer to the Towers was our next-door neighbor, The School for Economics and Finance. You probably never heard of either of our schools. That's because our schools were home to "city kids" (that's secret code for "mostly Black and Hispanic kids"). But you should have heard of our school. It was amazing. Amazing administrators. Amazing staff. Amazing kids.

We were there.

I wrote about our 9/11 experience on a blog long before there were blogs. I also wrote about it irregularly, on or around 9/11 anniversaries, and again after being interviewed by USA Today about moving away from New York after 9/11.

I also have a bunch of posts I started but never published. It's hard to write about 9/11. Actually, that's not true. It's hard to write meaningfully about the day.

I was asked by a fellow blogger, Julie at Happy Catholic, if I'd want to add a 9/11 post to the Catholic portal at Patheos and I said yes. Then she said, "maybe something about forgiveness" and that stopped me.

For 9/11?

You're kidding, right?

It's not that I don't want to—it's just that I don't really feel like that's part of my purview. I didn't lose anyone close to me. The Towers didn't fall on me (nearby, sure, but I was in Battery Park when they came down; other teachers were still in our school building). I have no influence on others' abilities to forgive nor was I a target that needs to dole out forgiveness. At least, not directly.

But then I thought, no. I actually do have something to say about forgiveness. It relates to my post after the USA Today article came out. I was peeved, really ticked, at the way people flame on blogs and make casually cruel comments on otherwise serious writing—or at least good writing about a serious topic. I was mostly, however, seething at the "oh, get over it" crowd. These are the people who say things like: "Aren't you past this yet?" after someone miscarries; or "It's already been a year" after your father's death; or "How long are you going to do this to yourself?" when you're in the middle of PTSD.

As if it's a choice. As if any emotional reaction is a choice.

There's a forgiveness gene or maybe an empathy gene that seems to have been switched off somewhere around the time when Gordon Gekko first reared his ugly head. That's when I first noticed it, anyway. I can't guarantee anyone felt more civil before that, but they sure as heck acted more civilly before that. Me? I'd like to be surrounded by a little more acting every once in awhile. I don't much care how folks feel—and you can't really change that anyway—but we can expect certain behaviors from civil society.


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The Best Books in American Religious History That I Read This Year

In the wake of Thomas Kidd’s post on his five most compelling religious biographies, I thought I would offer an end-of-the year reading list of my own.  Here are some of the best books (in no particular order) I read this year in the field of American religious history:

John Smolenski, Friends and Strangers: The Making of a Creole Culture in Colonial Pennsylvania. This is now the definitive work on the Quaker founding of Pennsylvania.  It is a fine piece of scholarship that rewards the persistent reader.

Amanda Porterfield, Conceived in Doubt: Religion and Politics in the New American Nation Read it and teach it alongside Nathan Hatch’s The Democratization of American Christianity.  Porterfield offers an alternative narrative to Hatch that focuses on unbelief and doubt.

Susan Matt, Homesickness: An American HistoryThis book does not fall comfortably within the “American Religious History” genre, but it does have some good things to say about religious belief as an antidote to nostalgia.

Ned Landsman, Crossroads of Empire: The Middle Colonies in British North-America. An overview of the middle colonies that takes religion seriously.

Alfred F. Young, Gary B. Nash, and Ray Raphael, ed., Revolutionary Founders; Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation I found the Jon Butler’s essay on Virginia Baptists, Richard Newman’s essay on Richard Allen, and Wythe Holt’s essay on Herman Husband to be especially good.

Jacques Berlinerblau, How to Be Secular: A Call to Arms for Religious Freedom. This book is must reading for evangelicals, even though some will chafe at Berlinerblau’s conclusions.  Not your (fundamentalist) grandfather’s “secularism.”

T.H. Breen, American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the PeopleBreen is not immune to the role evangelical Christianity played in ushering in the “revolution of the people.”

  • Jonathan DH

    In a review of Porterfield I made the same recommendation you did–read Porterfield and Hatch side by side and let their arguments generate debate.

  • John Fea

    I am reviewing Porterfield for the Journal of Southern History, if I ever get around to writing the review!!

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The Alluring Annie Clark

The former member of Polyphonic Spree and back up singer to Sufjan Stevens, Annie Clark goes by “St. Vincent” for her own albums and is pretty unconventionally awesome.  Here she is live—both St. Vincent – “Now Now” from scheduletwo on Vimeo. and then St. Vincent “The Strangers” from Lake Fever Sessions on Vimeo. St. Vincent [Read More...]