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tv   CBS Evening News With Katie Couric  CBS  December 31, 2010 6:30pm-7:00pm PDT

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year's eve celebrations from around the world. good night. caption colorado, l.l.c. >> smith: tonight, blown away. >> our whole house started shaking, the windows started busting out and then it was gone. >> smith: tornadoes tear through arkansas, oklahoma, missouri and illinois leaving a deadly trail of destruction. i'm harry smith. also tonight, all eyes are on times square. checkpoints, hazmat teams, and thousands of officers are on hand to make sure the party goes off without a hitch. and 2010 in focus. the tragedies. >> why? >> smith: and the triumphs. >> chi chi chi! >> le le le! captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news world headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric.
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>> smith: good evening, katie is off tonight. tornadoes are about the last thing you'd expect on new year's eve, but the conditions were right. a fast-moving cold front came up against unseasonably warm air from the gulf of mexico early today. that set off a giant wave of violent storms throughout the south and midwest. the twisters hit four states, including missouri. in a matter of minutes, dozens of homes were torn apart. utility poles were ripped out of the ground and three people were killed. there were also three deaths in cincinnati, arkansas, a small town near the oklahoma border. a tornado hit before dawn, tearing roofs off houses and leaving a trail of destruction. don teague is there tonight. don, what's the situation? >> reporter: good evening, harry. we now know about 24 homes were destroyed here in cincinnati. i'm standing in what was the living room of one of those homes, a two-story house. you can see it's gone. in fact, most of this house
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ended up a couple hundred yards away. if you can see that tree behind me, there is furniture from this house in that tree. but even more amazing, there was a man who was in the bedroom where i'm standing. he was picked up by the storm, thrown something like a quarter of a mile away, landed and was injured but is going to be okay. an amazing story of survival. still, there is just devastation in this tiny town of just 100 people. flattened trees and snapped power poles marked the tornado's path. debris is scattered over two counties and at least 14 homes and businesses are damaged or destroyed. >> my whole house started shaking, the windows started busting out and then it was gone. >> reporter: an elderly couple was killed when their home collapsed, as was a 78-year-old neighbor who was in his barn milking cows. there were numerous injuries, some critical, but everyone is accounted for as neighbors rescued neighbors. >> i heard him yelling, you know and walked over, he had his hand
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sticking out, he had blocks all over him, his head was bleeding, and we dug him out. >> reporter: this small town woke up to warning sirens at 6:00 a.m., just nine minutes later the tornado hit, demolishing the volunteer fire station and trapping emergency equipment inside. homes were shredded, but this tree is still standing. two of these six chicken houses are gone, leaving hundreds of dead carcasses. and families examined what was left of their homes, combing through the rubble looking for anything recognizable. >> it will hit this house and then there's one right next door you know, just across the way that's still standing and, you this is the worst i've ever seen. >> reporter: winter tornadoes are rare, but unusually warm weather here collided with a cold front, propelling this storm system through northwest arkansas and into missouri, causing extensive damage to housing at the fort leonard wood military base. nearby, three women died when their homes were leveled. the tornadoes then moved from
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the countryside into the suburbs of st. louis county. population, nearly one million. >> the power went off and i told everybody to start taking cover. >> reporter: at about midday, a twister ripped through sunset hills, damaging properties within a hundred-yard radius. >> we panicked. i had to get off the table with my therapist and be underneath the table and we prayed. in sparta, missouri, jessica barnes is counting her blessings. she had just seconds to grab her three-year-old son and jump into the bathtub for safety. >> i placed him in the tub first and then laid on top of him and when we came to he actually was on top of me, and first thing he said was "my house is broken." >> reporter: well, there are many broken homes here in cincinnati, arkansas. again, about 24 homes destroyed here. right in the middle of what was the main area of this town, just complete devastation. the red cross is here, they say they've been helping people today and beginning tomorrow morning, they will help them
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sort out where they go from here. harry? >> smith: don, what a scene there tonight. these storms seem to have come out of nowhere. is the storm system finished for the night? >> reporter: it's not. it's still moving across the country, harry. toward the east there have been reports of tornadoes today in illinois this evening, and there are concerns about severe weather and tornadoes from chicago all the way down to louisiana tonight. >> smith: don teague in cincinnati, arkansas, this evening. good job. thank you very much. sunset hills, missouri, was also devastated by a tornado and cynthia bowers is there. cynthia, what does it look like? >> reporter: well, it's dark here. the power is out, but what we're told is that, much like don just reported, folks here say the tornado system came through so quickly that it just touched down about 400 yards behind me over this shoulder and came across where i'm standing and then it was gone. but in the meantime, while it was down, it leveled about 20 homes and businesses. it toppled power lines and
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trucks, and they say cars actually were pushed down the street as if they were still on and rolling. a lot of people feel really lucky tonight because they took refuge in a bar/restaurant called o'leary's. it was right at lunchtime, 20 or so folks were gathered inside when the storm came through. windows were shattered and the building was shaking and they feel they are all lucky to be alive tonight. fema will be in here tomorrow morning to start assessing the damage. meanwhile, power crews are out and rescue teams are combing through the rubble making sure that there's nobody there and trying to get the power back on so they can continue working on this, harry. but, again, it's a fast-moving storm system that caught everybody off guard. >> smith: cynthia bowers in sunset hills, missouri. amazing, no fatalities. thank you so much. that same cold front that caused the tornadoes also brought frigid weather across the western half of the nation. from the dakotas down to arizona the mercury took a nosedive and
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that, along with some of the heaviest snow of the season, has made for dangerous driving in colorado. in iowa, it was ice that sent trucks and cars skidding off the roads. on the other side of the world, they've already celebrated the arrival of 2011. in hong kong, the new year kicked off with a synchronized fireworks display. in dubai, pyrotechnics lit up the world's tallest building. and in moscow, the crowd in snowy red square cheered fireworks over the domes of st. basil's. here in new york, the big moment is still a few hours away, but the crowd is gathering in times square and michelle miller is there. michelle, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, harry. it's been a wonderfully mild day here in new york city, high, 44 degrees, and officials say that means larger crowds. it's estimated that more than a million people will be here in times square when the ball drops. >> we're just getting married when the ball drops wherever we are. >> reporter: as revelers stake out their positions in times square, new york police and federal agents are focused on making sure they're safe.
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>> we'll be following tips and leads that may be coming in. >> reporter: assistant f.b.i. director jan vedarchek oversees new york's operation center. she says agents have seen more internet chatter recently. >> we've been monitoring all of the intelligence, but we are reasonably comfort that there is no specific and credible threat out there for this evening. >> reporter: even so, radiation detectors are being deployed, hazmat teams are standing by and thousands of n.y.p.d. officers are on patrol. >> a lot of cops and, you know, there's undercover and they're everywhere. >> reporter: those entering must clear 18 checkpoints before packing into 65 standing-room- only pens that stretch a mile around times square. police say many in the crowd could be screened three times. >> the cops are, like, they frisk us, they check us all out. i'm... i feel better. >> no backpacks. >> reporter: backpacks and alcohol are not allowed. >> when you get this number of people together, obviously we're
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concerned about a possible terrorist event. >> reporter: they want no repeats of the car bomb found in times square last may. >> the trick for u.s. law enforcement and intelligence officials is to pick the needles out of the haystack and to determine who going to actually act out. >> reporter: law enforcement officials are asking the public to have a great time but be aware of your surroundings. they say certainly if you see something suspicious, say something. it could make all the difference, harry. >> smith: michelle miller in times square tonight. thanks. still ahead on the "cbs evening news," 2010 in focus. a year that brought big changes to washington. and we found spies next door. up next, key parts of the health care law take effect at midnight. seniors will save money, but will there be enough doctors to go around? we'll take a look. go around? we'll take a look.
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tell your doctor all medicines you take, including aspirin, especially if you've had a stroke. if fever, unexplained weakness or confusion develops, tell your doctor promptly. these may be signs of ttp, a rare but potentially life-threatening condition, reported sometimes less than 2 weeks after starting plavix. other rare but serious side effects may occur. constipated? phillips' caplets use magnesium, an ingredient that works more naturally with your colon than stimulant laxatives, for effective relief of constipation without cramps. thanks. [ professor ] good morning students. today, we're gonna... >> smith: the battle over health care reform will continue to be a huge story in 2011. a lot of americans are worried about what the changes might mean for them. millions are about to find out. as sharyl attkisson reports, some key provisions take effect when the clock strikes 12:00 tonight. >> reporter: millions of seniors are about to get their first
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taste of health care reform, and a lot of them will probably like it. for the first time, the 45 million seniors on medicare can get free annual physicals-- no more co-payments. they'll get free screenings for diabetes and cancer. that includes mammograms and colonoscopies. >> we think it will make the lives and wellness of seniors much better, and in the end it will help drive down costs as diseases are caught sooner before they become more costly to treat. >> reporter: another plus? shrinking the so-called doughnut hole. medicare patients used to have to pay the entire cost of their prescriptions after they spent about $2,800, until expenses reached about $6,400. now they'll get a 50% discount on certain brand-name drugs, 7% on generics. there are also less popular provisions. medicare patients will pay higher premiums for prescription drugs if they make over $85,000- - $170,000 for couples.
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non-prescription drugs like cold and allergy medicines can't be reimbursed through tax-free flexible spending or health savings accounts. and perhaps the biggest worry? >> i think there's a very real concern about having adequate numbers of medicare doctors. >> reporter: that could mean long waits to see the doctor. >> i think they will see delays in the timing of their appointments. i think a number of doctors who have been frustrated because of the medicare fee level will actually stop taking medicare. so that's a real worry for all of us. >> reporter: republicans have promised to do what they can to stop or roll back health care reform, but advocates say most of these first provisions taking effect are quite popular and will be hard for anyone to take away. harry? >> smith: sharyl attkisson in washington tonight. thanks. we'll be back with more news after this. after this. the heat. 'til it turns into heartburn, you've got what it takes: zantac. it's strong, fast lasting relief. so let them turn up the heat.
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>> smith: floods are making things miserable for people in northeastern australia. the floodwaters are spread over an area larger than france and germany combined. days of heavy rain left whole towns underwater, affecting an estimated 200,000 people. helicopters are rescuing isolated families, but animals stranded in the flooded farmland cannot be helped. here at home, five years after katrina more than 200 families in new orleans are still leaving in fema trailers. they're dingy and cramped and we've reported extensively on health problems linked to them. but they're finally going away. new orleans mayor mitch landrieu
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calls them a blight and has ordered the last families to leave them by midnight tonight or face steep fines. in a popularity contest, it helps to have a lot of friends and facebook certainly does. it's now the most visited web site. in fact, about 9% of all internet visits are to facebook. that beats out google, the former number one, which now accounts for about 7%. he's the best-known gunslinger of the wild west, and tonight billy the kid remains unforgiven. he killed at least nine people in his short life, including a new mexico sheriff. new mexico's governor bill richardson considered a request that the pardon... that he pardon billy the kid for the sheriff's murder, but today he said no. next, what a year. oil in the gulf. and an economy struggling to recover. for pain? oh, bayer aspirin? i'm not having a heart attack. it's my back. it works great for pain.
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>> they could refudiate it. >> prince william and kate middleton announced their engagement today. >> are you ready to restore sanity? >> ♪ shall we start again? >> the world is coming to an end! ♪ i need a sign, let me know you're here ♪ >> news of this devastating earthquake really came in waves. the most horrifying sight to see endless rows of dead bodies. haiti was in a state of shock. ♪ i'm calling on angels... (screaming) >> why? why?
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>> there was one little boy, he was screaming and yelling. >> breathe, breathe, breathe. and this one boy, this was the agony of an entire country. a gold and copper mine collapsed in chile, trapping 33 miners for 17 excruciating days their families waited for word, hoping and praying as crews dug through the rock to get to the miners. suddenly came word. >> ( translated ): the 33 of us are fine in the shelter. >> the first miner has just made it to the surface! ♪ the more they change, the more they stay the same... ♪ >> for the next two years, every american family will keep their tax cuts. >> unemployment. it's getting worse and becoming chronically high.
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>> a frightening freefall in the market. the dow at one point was down 998 points. ♪ i guess it's time to roll up my sleeves... ♪ >> the coast guard called off the search for 11 workers. >> 11 families don't have someone with them because of this explosion. >> b.p. is responsible for this horrific disaster. >> the greatest oil spill in american history covers 29,000 square miles. >> this is so heavy i can barely lift it. >> it looked like chocolate pudding. >> no one wants this thing over more than i do. i'd like my life back. >> he wants to get back to his way of life. i'm sure that brown pelican wants to get back to her way of life. >> i think the expectations were so high i don't think there's any way that anyone could have met them. >> this scares the hell out of me! >> democrats spent a year debating and working on health care when americans were saying "what we care about is jobs." >> hell no you can't!
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(cheers and applause) ♪ don't let me fall... >> how's that hope-y change-y stuff working out for ya? >> the united states senator from massachusetts, scott brown! >> we are tired of them spending our money and not listening to our views. >> is this my new reality? >> i'm not recommending for every future president that they take a shellacking like i did last night. >> the concerns of combat troops do not present an insurmountable barrier to successful repeal of "don't ask, don't tell". >> i do not know what an illegal immigrant looks like. >> we are being criminalized based on the color of our skin. >> if you don't like the bill then secure the border. >> 3,240. the number of days the war here has gone on. >> i'm pleased to nominate general david petraeus to take command in afghanistan. >> is this july 2011 timeline undermining your effort?
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>> it's not an exodus of u.s. or coalition forces. >> we are moving toward a new phase that will conclude in 2014. >> this facility that is being debated is universally known as the ground zero mosque. what do you call it? a hub of culture. a hub of bringing people together. >> our burning of the koran is to call the attention that something's wrong. >> i am heartened by the condemnation of this disgraceful act. >> this is the corner where an s.u.v. was parked full of explosives. faisal shahzad, the prime suspect, was attempting to flee the country. >> only because he was a poor bomb builder were we saved from a real calamity. >> tens of thousands of classified documents leaked and posted on the web. >> the real story is that it's war. it's one damn thing after another.
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>> ten people here in the united states pled guilty to acting as agents of russia. >> do we have any spies that hot? >> it wasn't my idea to send her back! (laughter) >> look at your man, now back to me. ♪ hide your kids, hide your wife... ♪ >> i'm not a witch. >> i've got a good feeling about this! >> that's right! >> if you touch my junk, i'm going to have you arrested. >> the rent is too damn high. ♪ you can go... >> instead of good-bye, how about so long? ♪ you can start all over again... ♪ >> i'm deeply sorry. ♪ you can try to find a way to make another day go by... ♪ >> i'm going to take my talents to south beach.
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>> for every celebrity out there setting a bad example, there were also heroes to look up to. ♪ you can shine a little light on everything around you, man it's good to be someone ♪ and maybe someday we'll figure all this out ♪ try to put an end to all our doubt ♪ >> and we really don't know the epilogue of some stories that have receded from the headlines. ♪ maybe someday we'll live our lives out loud ♪ we'll be better off somehow, someday... ♪ >> smith: that's the "cbs evening news." thanks for watching. i'm harry smith. katie is back on monday. from all of us here at cbs news, have a great new year.
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captioning sponsored by cbs your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. caption colorado, l.l.c. he said that he was awoken to some large pounding or banging in his backyard. >> then shots were fired. the question now: was a home owner justified in pulling the trigger? it's a late christmas present but it's a big one. the potential 8-figure payoff as san francisco sets sail for the america's cup. >> but first things first. last-minute preparations for new year's here in the bay area and the step police will take for the first time ever. good evening, i'm grace lee. >> i'm robert lyles. the world's biggest yacht race will feature a backdrop of the golden gate bridge, alcatraz and coit tower. late this afternoon, san francisco beat out newport, rhode island, in the bid

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Seismic Coloured Inversion

A superior fast track method for the inversion of seismic data

Product overview

  • Implementation of Fast-track ‘colored’ inversion1
  • Enables the rapid inversion of 2D/3D seismic data
  • Use of Seismic Coloured Inversion frequently (>80%) avoids the need to generate full AI volumes
  • Fast, robust and inexpensive
  • Available as standalone with connections to SEGY, OpenWorks®, SeisWorks®, and GeoFrame*
  • Available as a plug-in for Petrel* software and as a plug-in to OpendTect
  • Inversion viewed in real-time with our Graphic Viewer

Product description

Inversion of seismic data to Acoustic Impedance (AI) is usually seen as a specialist activity. In spite of publicised benefits, inverted data are only used in a minority of cases. To help overcome this obstacle, this new algorithm, which is quick and easy to use, can increase the use of inversion technology. Seismic Coloured Inversion (SCI) performs significantly better than traditional fast-track methods such as recursive inversion, and benchmarks well against unconstrained sparse-spike inversion.

With the inclusion of de-trend and normalisation functionality within Seismic Coloured Inversion, geophysical meaning can now be assigned to the observed amplitude changes in the derived impedance volumes. This can be very powerful, particularly with 4D projects. Once the SCI operator has been derived, it can be simply applied using the 3D processing tool included within the SCI software. In this way, inversion can be achieved in a small fraction of time when comparing with unconstrained sparse-spike, and moreover, the volume data do not have to be exported to another package. Existing fast-track methods for band-limited inversion to relative AI are prone to error because no account is taken of the seismic wavelet or calibration to the Earth. Although more sophisticated techniques such as sparse-spike inversion take account of these factors, specialist skills are required. SCI takes into account the seismic wavelet and is consistent with log data. With this technique, it is now possible to routinely invert any dataset within hours and establish a base case against which more sophisticated techniques must be judged.

SCI enables the rapid inversion of 2D/3D data. A single convolution inversion operator is derived that optimally inverts the data and honours available well data in a global sense. In this way, the process is intrinsically stable and broadly consistent with known AI behaviour in the area. Construction of the operator is a simple process and implementation can be readily performed within the processing module included in SCI. As an explicit wavelet is not required, other than testing for a residual constant phase rotation as the last step, this removes an inherently weak link that more sophisticated processes rely on.

Benefits of SCI

Generally, traditional inversion methods (e.g.sparse-spike) are time consuming, expensive, require specialists and are not performed routinely by the Interpretation Geophysicist, whereas SCI is rapid, easy to use, inexpensive, robust and does not require expert users. SCI and unconstrained sparse-spike appear to give broadly equivalent results. Seismic Coloured Inversion seamlessly connects with third party seismic and well data repositories (including SeisWorks, OpenWorks and GeoFrame) using our client/server technology. SCI is now available as an OpendTect plugin and can be downloaded from the OpendTect downloads center. This allows SCI analysis, operator design and processing to be performed without separately importing or exporting data.

Application support and maintenance

With a support and maintenance contract from ARK CLS, clients can download software updates in the form of new releases and patches.

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1 BP paper presented at the Calgary SEG in 2000 entitled “Fast-track ‘colored’ inversion” by Steve Lancaster and David Whitcombe/p>
OpenWorks® and SeisWorks® are registered trademarks of Landmark Graphics Inc
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Habakkuk’s Lament: How to Keep From Drowning in the Deep End of Life

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Lifeguard Training

My kids have been in swimming lessons for quite a while. I took them when I was a child, as most people do, but I’m nowhere near as good at swimming as my kids are. Even my littlest, Eowyn, knows more strokes and techniques than I do. To be totally honest, I only ever made it to the third level – which they called “RED” at the time – because I failed it over and over and over. Eventually my mother got tired of paying for me to fail and said, “Well, you won’t die if you fall out of the canoe, so I guess that’s enough.”

Our intention, right now anyway, is to have all of our kids take enough lessons that they will be certified lifeguards and instructors. Ethan has already completed Bronze Cross and has First Aid and CPR, training – which is good, because that allows me to eat as much poutine as I want, with total impunity, knowing if I choke on a cheese curd or keel over with a heart attack, Ethan will be there to save me. Eventually, I will be surrounded with children that will not only be able to save me, but also teach others how to save their poutine loving fathers.

As I’ve watched my children develop in their swimming abilities, I’ve seen them take on bigger and bigger challenges. At the beginning of their training, the instructors have them jump into the shallow end of the pool, always within arms reach, and then hold them up by their tummies to practice their strokes, whispering nice, encouraging words in their ears the whole time. They tread and splash for a few moments and then sit on the side and watch others do the same. It’s very sweet.

However, as the lessons continue, it gets a lot less sweet. My boys, who have been doing this for a while, come home from swimming lessons with some very interesting stories. I’ll ask, “What did you do today, son?” and they will relate quite a grueling regimen of exercises. Long gone are the days of tummy holding and whispered encouragement.

“Well dad, during my three hour class, we started with an hour of book work, memorizing acronym after acronym after acronym, and then moved on to oral and practical quizzes. Then we were told to get in the water and swim 24 laps in under 12 minutes. After that, they told us to tread water in the deep end for five minutes – but THIS time, they dropped a 10 pound weight to the bottom of the deep end and had us retrieve it and then tread water while passing it around to each other. Then it was time to practice some rescues, which means dragging my classmate’s limp bodies out of the pool over and over – and if I didn’t do it perfectly I would have to do it again. And when we finally got them out, it was time for ‘land rescues’ where we practice saving people from choking, bleeding, passing out, having a stroke, and more – sometimes as they attack me! Oh, and by the way, the test is next week and if I make one mistake –their head goes under water, I misdiagnose, or I take my eyes off of them – I fail immediately and have to take the class all over again.”

Drowning in The Deep End

To their credit, my kids rarely complain about the work they are required to do during their classes. They know that what they are learning is important and that it takes dedication and skill to do it right. And of course, my response as a Dad is never to say, “Oh, that’s too bad! I wish they would take it easier on you.” No way, It’s “Good! I hope next week is even harder! That’s building some character! Now drop and give me 20!” (It’s a tough life at my house…)

Now, would any of us here criticize the instructors for being too hard on the students? Sure, we can’t take the toddlers and drop them in the deep end, tied to 10 pound weights, right? That’s not only inappropriate, but probably illegal.

But if we are going to give people the title of “LIFEGUARD” and give them a little piece of paper that says they are “LIFESAVERS”, then I think it’s right that they be rigorously trained and tested!

It’s no different in the Christian faith. I don’t say this lightly, but most Christians do not have a very strong faith. There are a lot of folks in our churches that are content to spend their lives paddling around the shallow end of the pool. They’re like me when it comes to swimming lessons: they think they know enough not to drown, but that’s it.

The problem is that this world isn’t a good place right now for people who don’t know how to swim in the deep end. The issues that are pressing against us are incredibly complex and go far beyond our human ability to contemplate, let alone, attempt to address. We are living in the deep end right now and there are a lot of people who call themselves believers that are struggling to stay afloat. They don’t know what to do when the waves of change crash against them and they are pulled down into the riptide of popular culture. As they sputter and flounder, they do foolish things like trust their emotions and seek wisdom from pagans. They don’t know how to pray or read God’s word and are leaving the church in droves.

It is my deepest desire that we don’t make that mistake. Even our little church out here in the middle of nowhere feels the crash of the waves of change and the pull of popular culture. We can’t avoid it – so we’d best be prepared. Not just for ourselves, but so we can help save others.

When we or someone else at our church gets nailed by crisis – whether that’s crisis of health, finance, or faith – don’t we want to be a group of well trained lifeguards that know our stuff and can jump in and save them? Rather than being like the untrained and useless masses of people that simply stand on the sidelines muttering how they wish they could do something, but not knowing how – or worse, throwing stones at the one that is hurting, hoping it might help.

It is my belief that the issues that strike the deepest part of our hearts are addressed by God in His Word. God may not answer every question that interests us, but He has certainly answered all the ones that we need to know. That’s why we need to know God and His Word. Because we and everyone around us – our children, friends, coworkers, strangers, and enemies – have big questions, and most of us are ill equipped to give any answers.

Don’t get me wrong; I’m not talking about having a bunch of pat answers under our belt so we can be the smartest person in the room or win debates with unbelievers. No, far more important is that we need to know these things so we can know God.

The problems of this world, those that happen inside and outside us, make so much more sense when we know in our heart, soul and mind that God is always good and always just. As long as we wonder if God cares about us, wonder if He even sees the problem, wonder if He’s punishing us, wonder if He’s being unfair, unjust or unkind, then we will forever live in fear and doubt. Uncertainty about God creates a life filled with anxiety.

That’s the normal life of the pagan, the atheist, and the immature believer. They live in anxious fear. They always feel insecure. Below their feet is shifting sand. They try to find security in all sorts of places: politics, money, healthcare, military power, personal relationships, new technologies, scientific progress, counsellors, teachers, entertainment, religion… but the problem is that every foundation they try keeps changing! Almost nothing the same as it was 10 years, 100 years, 1000 years ago. So they live in fear. It’s only a matter of time before the next wave hits, their foundation fails again, and they are set adrift on seas that they can neither navigate nor swim.

Have you felt this? All hell breaks loose around you, and you realize that your foundation is uncertain. Life gets very unfair and you realize that the things you thought were going to get you through, simply let you down. That’s life in the deep end. We all feel it, but I don’t want any of you to drown. No believer should live in constant fear that God has forgotten them or is going to abandon them. No believer should be crushed under the weight of this world. No believer should feel like they will drown in their sorrows.

Yes, we will feel the fear. Yes, we will feel the burden. Yes, we will feel the pain of loss. Yes, we will feel the frustration. But when those feelings come, believers have access to something greater, an off switch to the emotional roller coaster. We know that our lives are built on the unchanging Word of our immutable God, who always keeps His promises, and will always see us through.

Habakkuk’s Follow Up Question

Last week we talked about Habakkuk’s first question, “Why does God let bad things happen?” and this week we are going to look back at the conversation to see that Habakkuk isn’t done with his big questions yet. God just dropped a bomb on him saying that his plan to take care of the sin of the nation is to have the people and the cities utterly wiped out by the Babylonian army, and so now we get to the follow up question:

“Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, you have ordained them as a judgment, and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof. You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?

You make mankind like the fish of the sea, like crawling things that have no ruler. He brings all of them up with a hook; he drags them out with his net; he gathers them in his dragnet; so he rejoices and is glad. Therefore he sacrifices to his net and makes offerings to his dragnet; for by them he lives in luxury, and his food is rich. Is he then to keep on emptying his net and mercilessly killing nations forever?” (Hab. 1:12-17)

Start Humbly

There’s a lot of emotion in this section. As I said, these are HUGE questions. They get to the deepest part of humanity’s problem with evil, and seek to understand the most complicated details of God’s plan of salvation.

But I want you to notice something first. I want you to see something critically important. If there’s one thing you get out of this sermon, let this be it: Habakkuk begins his prayer with humility and faith. There is no doubt that Habakkuk believes God is greater and more righteous than he is. He may have no idea what’s happening or why, but his prayer starts in the right place. This is where we must start as well. We must not start our prayers thinking we are equal with God, that we get to argue with His Word, or that can come up with a better plan. We are not there to debate or negotiate. Whenever we come to prayer or study, we must come humbly, or we will have wasted it.

“God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” (James 4:6)

Certainly, Habakkuk is BOLD in his prayer, asking huge questions of God, but he does it in a way that is humble and trusting. Look how many titles he uses for God! He uses God’s names, “YAHWEH” and “ELOHIM”, or “LORD” and “God”. He knows He’s addressing the Creator and Sustainer of the Universe! He’s not talking to “the big guy in the sky” or “his buddy Jesus”. He’s not coming to the conversation as an equal. He knows what he’s doing is audacious. He’s asking GOD to explain himself! That’s ridiculous on its face, but such is the God we love and serve to allow us to approach His throne of grace! He is the Father and He wants to talk to his children, but He’s also GOD.

Next he calls God, “My Holy One”, intimating a personal relationship with Someone who is not only unique, but special to Habakkuk’s heart. He calls God his “Rock”, which is a term from Deuteronomy 32:4, which calls God “The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.” He sees the Lord as the highest Judge in the highest court, who is perfect in His decisions.

That’s where Habakkuk starts his prayer – on His face before God – and it’s where we must start our prayers. Yes, we can be angry, confused, broken hearted, weeping, pacing, broken, on our knees our shouting aloud. All of those feelings are represented in the prayers of scripture – even the prayers of Jesus. But while we pray, our hearts must be humble.

I believe that if we want answers to big questions, if we want comfort from God in the midst of our trials, then we must come to prayer with the right heart. We start with the belief that God is our unmoveable rock, the worker of our perfection, the upholder of our justice, and the keeper of our faith. It’s personal, and it’s humble.

If we start our prayers thinking that God is weak, out of control, or unfair, then our whole prayer life and relationship with Him will be skewed. Instead of finding comfort, we will be hardening our hearts to Him! But if we come in humbly, knowing who God really is, then even if we have deep hurts, doubts and questions, we’ll at least be in the right place to ask and start to find answers. During these tough times, when questions abound, check your heart before you start to pray.

If you believe in God, then I know you’ve shared these thoughts with Habakkuk. Everyone has. We look at ISIS running around harming more and more people and we say, “God, who is going to stop them?” We look at abortionists and think the same thing. Or pornographers: “They drag their hook through campuses and catch young women and men, gut their souls, and walk away smiling. How long will that last, God?” We look at the global church and see it grow more dysfunctional as it fractures and falls away from the faith of our fathers – and then watch as atheist churches take their place – and wonder how much worse it can get.

We look to our own lives and our own problems with sickness, death, trial, temptation, work, finances, relationships, and everything else – and when we finally hit our knees, our prayers sound very much like these words from over 2500 years go. Nothing is new under the sun.

The Bible word used to describe this type of prayer is “Lament”. We would use the term mourn or grieve, and it’s something we’re not very good at as a culture. We tend to run from our problems or pretend they don’t exist, rather than face them and let them break us down. We’ve lost the ability to lament, and it shows in our culture. Jesus lamented, as did many of the faithful in the Bible, and faithful people that have come since. They faced the difficult things in their life and let their hearts break, so they could bring the pieces to the One who could put them back together.

Today, instead, we usually pretend our heart isn’t broken, make excuses for it, pretend to be healthy, or medicate our feelings away. It’s terribly unhealthy. We need to lament things.

Now, lamenting isn’t just feeling sad. “Lamenting” has a more formal meaning and goes beyond emotion. What it means is that we take our heartache TO Someone who will listen, and, hopefully, do something about it. The Bible is full of laments, most often songs – which means they’ve been given some thought and inspiration. A lament isn’t merely raw emotion, but are the well-considered, meditated upon, thoughts of a believer, brought before God.

It’s not that raw, emotional prayers are bad. David’s psalms sometimes seem very raw and emotional, as though they were written in the middle of a battle – and perhaps some of them were – but Habakkuk’s writing here (like many other laments in the Bible) is of incredibly high quality, with well chosen, deeply poetic words.

That doesn’t take away from the heartache. Perhaps it even adds to it. He may have chewed on these thoughts, this prayer, this lament, these questions, for a long time. He prayed these thoughts over and over, finding new, better and and different ways to express his grief to God. And since this is inspired scripture (listen carefully), God HIMSELF was working with Habakkuk on this prayer poem. These are words written by Habakkuk and God given to believers to help us express the intense feelings that we sometimes don’t have words for.

Habakkuk’s Questions

Let’s go through Habakkuk’s prayer verse by verse and take it apart a bit so we can see how much it often reflects the prayers of our own hearts

In verse 13 we see Habakkuk’s follow up question of “Why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?” The rest of this section expands on this question. God, how can you use an evil nation like the Babylonians, who are doing more evil than we are to discipline your people? That seems unfair. They get blessed with more land and victory – even though they are worse than us! How can You, the perfect Judge, stand there and allow a greater evil to swallow up a lesser one?

In verse 14-15 Habakkuk uses an illustration that we understand today. He says to God that it almost feels like there’s no accountability in this world. Like we’re all just evolved animals doing whatever we want – that the real rule of life is simply survival of the fittest. The biggest fish rules the pond. Is that how Your world is supposed to work? That doesn’t make sense at all! Aren’t you the God that defends the widow and orphan, helps the helpless, frees the captive? Then why are we living by the law of the jungle right now? The Babylonians are clearly the more evolved and stronger than we are! They are going to chase us, catch us, gut us, eat us and then smile. And are you there… just watching?

In verse 16 Habakkuk keeps arguing his case for why this doesn’t make sense. He points out to God that to make it worse, this wicked nation then turns to give the credit to demons and false gods! Actually, it’s even worse than that. The picture here is of a fisherman catching a fish and then giving worship offerings to HIS NET! He’s giving all the credit for his great victory to his fishing rod. How ridiculous! God, that’s how stupid Nebuchadnezzar and Babylon are! They don’t even know who to thank for their victory! They put their faith in demons and horses and spears rather than the One who Created the Universe! God, you don’t even get the glory! And to make it even WORSE… after they’ve slaughtered us little fish… they will be richer and more comfortable. God, this nation will NEVER turn to you because all the evil plans they come up with are doing so well!

And then verse 17 really strikes home: “Is he then to keep on emptying his net and mercilessly killing nations forever?” I can imagine that there are a lot of people living in in the world right now who have prayed this prayer – and it has echoed through ages past. The persecution and genocide of Christians around the world now, the Jews during World War 2, the African slave trade, the Acadians… and it goes on throughout history.

God how long, exactly, are you going to let this go on? This can’t last forever. It just can’t! Can it? This seems totally backwards. This seems so wrong. Evil is winning and good is losing. The victory is going to demons and fools. You get no glory, no praise, and the faithful are punished. This is so confusing. This is heartbreaking. The pain is excruciating and I don’t know how much longer I can take it. How can you stand it?

In some ways, though we’ve never been through the extreme persecution of some, we’ve all asked that question, right? Do you realize how much differently this prayer would have gone if he wouldn’t have started out humble? These are not accusations. These are big questions, but they are not accusations against God. This is a person with deep hurts and confusion, pouring his heart out to God. I know many of you have been in this situation.

Sitting in the Watchtower

Habakkuk ends his prayer in 2:1 by saying, “I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower, and look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.”

“Ok, God. I’ll be quiet now and listen. I’m going to watch for your answer.” We could learn a lot from that. How often do we pray and then forget to listen?!

He trusts that God, His ROCK, won’t let him down, but will make His will known. Habakkuk’s plan is to go to the watchpost, sit in the tower, and wait for what God will do. He knows Babylon is coming and will see them from the tower. He will witness firsthand the fulfilment of prophecy, the justice of God. But, as he watches for what God is doing… he’s also waiting to see what God will do.

Remember last week’s helicopter view of life that God gave him. Now we see Habakkuk choosing to find a higher vantage point where he can watch not only what God is doing, but what He will do. God has given him a bigger perspective of life, and now that’s the lens he’s using to see the world.

God does that sometimes for us too. We come to him in prayer, we lament before him, and He raises us up higher, shows us some scripture or gives us a special message from a friend or a sermon, that allow us to see more of what is happening. And then He gives us a chance to chew on that knowledge for a while.

We are left to meditate on what God has said, and it requires discipline for us not to slide back down to the ground and forget all that God has shown us from higher up. What we must do is choose to climb the tower and wait for God – again – but now from a different perspective. We climb the tower and look out for what God is going to do. How will He work this out for my good and His glory? In what ways will He use this? How can this make me or others more Christ-like? This is God’s plan, and though it hurts, I’m going to watch and wait.

Remember the back story. King Zedekiah sends for Jeremiah to get some advice. Jeremiah says he should surrender to Babylon so that they don’t get slaughtered. That’s God’s GRACE in action! That message was God saying that He would be merciful even as He was punishing them, if they would only accept what He is doing. Yes, they would still go into captivity, but He would do it more gently. All Zedekiah had to do was relent to God.

If Zedekiah were up on the tower with Habakkuk, perhaps he would have made a better decision. Instead, like a fool, he chose to fight against God’s plan. He didn’t have the helicopter view. He wasn’t in the tower. He wasn’t listening to God. He didn’t see God as sovereign. He didn’t believe God was his rock. He didn’t trust God’s plan. Instead, he fought God’s plan and that choice brought terrible pain and misery to everyone around him.

Concluding Reminders

That’s as far as we’re going to get this week. We’ll pick up God’s answer next week, but I want to just remind you of a few things that we’ve learned today.

First, remember that Christians have a responsibility to take their spiritual training seriously. This world is a terribly deep and treacherous pool and we will drown if we don’t make the decision to learn how to swim well and help others. Get into God’s word, stay in prayer, and do the works of a Christian. Yes it’s hard. But as Paul said to Timothy, “Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.” (1 Tim 4:16)

Second, it is good for us to bring our heartaches to God, but we must make sure that our hearts are in the right place. Don’t start your prayer with a laundry list of requests. Start as Jesus taught you to start your prayers, “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.” (Mat. 6:9) God is your Father, God is in Heaven, God and his name is to be hallowed (or made high and worshipped exclusively). Start your prayers there.

Third, don’t be afraid of Lamenting. Lamentations are important – it is one of the ways that we show that we are relenting to God’s plan. It is good to bring our grief to God. It is good for us to wait for him because He will come. Isaiah 30:31 says, “They that wait upon the Lord will renew their strength.” And when He does come, trust that He will raise you up to a heavenly perspective of what is happening. And then, when God has shown up, climb the watchtower and wait to see what He will do next.

That’s where I’m going to leave it today.

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Why I Won’t Catch a Wave

Now Playing: “Waiting Around to Die,” by the great Townes Van Zandt

“Sometimes I don’t know where this dirty road is taking me; Sometimes I can’t even see the reason why; I guess I keep on gamblin’, lots of booze and lots of ramblin’; It’s easier than just a-waitin’ ’round to die.”

On that depressing note (and trust me, that song gets even darker), I’ll start today’s rant. Which is likely to be short, I’ve got to get back to several projects …
I hate microwave ovens. OK, I’m a Luddite. Yes, they’re good for popcorn, soup, even lasagna, but for nearly everything else, MOs are less.
Don’t give me a hot dog cooked in the oven. Or a “baked” potato. Don’t warm my leftover steak or roast in one. And pizza? I’d rather eat it cold than flimsify it in a MO.
The key factor here, as it is in many things in life, is that faster isn’t always better.

So here’s to slow cooking, slow eating, slow kisses, slow dancing, Slow Rides (Take It Easy), sloe gin … you get the idea.

And here’s to slow, long weekends.

“Slow Train,” by Bob Dylan
“All that foreign oil controlling American soil
Look around you, it’s just bound to make you embarrassed
Sheiks walking around like kings, wearing fancy jewels and nose rings
Deciding America’s future from Amsterdam and to Paris
And there’s slow, slow train coming up around the bend.”

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  1. aswj
    January 27, 2013 at 18:15

    Hardly anyone knows what wahdatul wujood is, If you think it is deviance why are you promoting it by holding a lecture specially for it? Just to cause fitnah as usual.

  2. February 14, 2013 at 19:06

    Brother Mumtaz-ul-Haq knows what it is and thanks to him, many more now do since he promoted this belief and defended it as if it is normal. Hence you can not blame someone for replying. Maybe you should ask him why he gave a lecture trying to belittle the beliefs of others in contrast to his belief in wahdah-al-wujood – just to cause fitnah as usual?

  3. shehzadsattar
    February 18, 2013 at 23:52

    Wahdatul Wujood is a horrofic innovation unleashed upon the Ummah. Please brothers and sister. Study Aqeedah and save yourself from the wrath of Allah The Mighty and Majestic.

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Hey All!

So its been a long week and I have decided to end this week off with one of my outfits. I realized as I was leaving the house that I looked like I could be going to a funeral :S Nope just went to work 😛

Black FridaySorry If I look grumpy im a little sleepy 😀 (also I promise my photography skills will get better)

Today I am wearing a 1950’s black circle dress, an 80’s vintage gold belt, a cute little cardigan from Forever 21, Chocolate shoes, and some cute nylons.

I did arrive home to a lovely surprise on my doorstep! MY NEW SHOES! YAY

New Shoes Happy Friday Everyone!

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  1. Where’s the watch from? Ps Cute outfit!

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A landmark on MG road, existing since loong time and a casual interaction with one of the staff members indicate that he is serving here since a few decades.
Earlier the operations were from the grond floor now moved upstairs.
As you climb up the staircase in to lobby the looks will remind you old British times. With tightly packed tables in the lobby as well as two small hall on both sides of service counter, the place is always hustling- bustling with young student crowd, families with young as well as old kids. Menu on the board above counter (also kept on right window besides FF enrty door) has long list
Sandwiches both white and brown
Burgers both white and brown
Thick shakes
Ice cream scoops
Shakes with ice cream
hot and cold beverages
Bakery items… biscuits
Pasta ++

Self service.
Typical taste (always towards sweeter side)

I will suggest Bean Burger, cheese Burger, chicken roll, chutney sandwich, thick shake, cold coffee.
Some preparations are sugar free (ask)

Plus… value for money
Minus… sweetness in everything
Finally… must visit


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OSX hacks, tweaks and cleaners.
October 25, 2012 4:14 PM   Subscribe

Lay on me your OS X hacks, tweaks and cleaners.

I am the guy who has been editing config.sys and autoexec.bat since he was 12. In Windows, I'm used to msconfig, Process Monitor, and a number of tweaking utilities that made sure everything looked the way I wanted and acted the way I wanted. Nothing loads on boot without my explicit permission, I can see everything that's running and just in general I have a really good hang on what's going on with the computer. I also run CCleaner, et. al., regularly to maintain good hygiene.

Now I want to do the same with my MacBook. Except with this OS, I no longer have an inherent feel for what is a useful trick and what is system-breaking crapware. Help me out here. I'm using Lion right now because they seem to think I'm ineligible for the Mountain Lion update, but I figure I will eventually break through that nonsense and update.

Now I know that OS X is Unix-based, but I'd like more GUI-based programs (am I supposed to call them "apps" now?) and less command line wizardry. Although I am completely capable of using the command line, so if there's anything particularly cool, let me know.

If it matters, I'm using an SSD, so a) stuff specifically for SSDs would be useful and b) stuff that does a lot of reading/writing to disk would not.

Oh and something to let me snap windows to half-screen like Window Key+Left or +Right in Windows 7 would be awesome. I miss that feature.
posted by griphus to Computers & Internet (28 answers total) 78 users marked this as a favorite
I'm not sure how to answer your question since I'm not sure which sorts of hacks or tweaks would interest you. But right now I'm using Quicksilver to launch programs with a simple keyboard shortcut+type a few letters to search, and it's pretty damn awesome.
posted by The Biggest Dreamer at 4:30 PM on October 25, 2012 [2 favorites]

• If you put your own SSD in, consider looking at Trim Enabler.

• There's Quicksilver, but for quickly launching apps, click Command-Space to open up the Spotlight menu, type in the first few letters of the app's name, and press Return.

• Take a look at OS X Secrets. Just don't tell anyone about them.

• I love the window-snapping in Windows 7, so kudos to Microsoft for that. If you want it in OS X, take a look at Cinch or Flexiglass. I use Flexiglass and it works well.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 4:31 PM on October 25, 2012

Moom will do your window trick for $10, plus let you set up a bunch of custom window configurations. Great program or app or whatever.
posted by griseus at 4:32 PM on October 25, 2012 [1 favorite]

You can find CCleaner in the Mac App Store. For window management, there is Divvy.
posted by arhammer at 4:33 PM on October 25, 2012

DiskWarrior is great for disk directory health or recovery .

SuperDuper is good for bootable backups.

Sequel Pro is very cool for mySQL management.

Edge is a fun Mac game.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 4:37 PM on October 25, 2012 [1 favorite]

For window moving/resizing, if you're keyboard-oriented, and it sounds like you might be, look at SizeUp. $13. I think Moom might have leapfrogged it, but I'm pretty happy with it.
posted by fermata at 4:38 PM on October 25, 2012 [1 favorite]

• If you want to view process logs, open up the Console utility.

• To view a graphical display of running processes, open up the Activity Monitor utility. This is similar to a Ctrl-Alt-Delete to view the Windows task manager.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 4:42 PM on October 25, 2012

TinkerTool and its paid companion, TinkerTool System are absolutely indispensable to my OS X tweaking desires.

Lion Tweaks is also a good little app for enabling/disabling all the annoying UI "features" that Apple put in to Lion.

SideEffects is a godsend for restoring the colored Finder sidebar icons that went away in Lion. The monochrome sidebar icons is quite possibly the worst UI "enhancement" Apple has ever done to OS X, and SideEffects automates the process of undo'ing it.
posted by melorama at 4:44 PM on October 25, 2012

Mac OSX Hints
posted by Podkayne of Pasadena at 4:51 PM on October 25, 2012 [1 favorite]

Secrets App

I use Divvy for my window manipulation.

I imagine this 60 tips book would still be useful for Lion.

Here's 20 Awesome Reader Submitted Tips & Tricks at Mac.Tutsplus
posted by backwards guitar at 5:11 PM on October 25, 2012

How do people feel about MacKeeper? I downloaded the demo but am not sure if I want to spend the money to activate the full version.
posted by starvingartist at 5:39 PM on October 25, 2012

• I replaced the OS X clock menu extra with Day-O, a free clock menu extra that shows a month-at-a-glance calendar.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 5:39 PM on October 25, 2012 [2 favorites]

Keyboard Maestro is a fantastic macro program.

I use TextExpander snippets every time I am at my Macs for quickly expanding text that I type repeatedly. In fact, I copied all of the links in this post using it.

For window management, Moom is extremely useful. If you want something more simple, try BetterSnapTool.

I love Alfred App, especially with the Power Pack. Quicksilver is okay, but I switched to Alfred when QS had some development issues. I have never looked back.

Geektool allows you to customize your desktop.

1Password is one of the most useful pieces of software I own. I don't know how I managed usernames and passwords before it. Even my non-geeky wife loves it. Really, spend the money on this.

If you want to play around with alternative finders, Path Finder has many additional features. TotalFinder does a few small things, if you don't want all of PathFinder's features.

Hazel is a tool for sorting files automatically. That really only scratches the surface.

Caffeine is a small little app that prevents your Mac from going to sleep or the screensaver kicking in. I use it for temporarily disabling sleep mode when I am watching movies.

The built in Apple Automator can do some neat things.

Depending on how much you want to dive in, Applescript is built in.

Little Snitch is an extremely popular network monitoring tool.

CheatSheet is a great little app for learning keyboard shortcuts.

The previously mentioned 60 Tips book is quite good. The authors Brett Terpstra and David Sparks are worth following if you are interested in this type of thing. Sparks does a good podcast that reviews a lot of what I have recommended so far and a whole lot more.

MacHeist is about finished. You can get a lot of apps for not much money.
posted by Silvertree at 5:41 PM on October 25, 2012 [4 favorites]

Oh yeah, I love Fantastical for quickly creating appointments.

Bartender keeps your Menu Bar looking clean.

I pipe Growl through the Mountain Lion Notification center.
posted by Silvertree at 5:44 PM on October 25, 2012

Transmit is a great FTP/SFTP/SCP/S3 app — if you do any file sharing, it can be used as a straight-up client for those services, or you can add volumes to the Finder, so that you can drag and drop directly within your Finder session.

Perian is a package of codecs for OS X that provide "Swiss Army knife"-like access to video and audio formats more often encountered in Windows environments (AVIs, etc.). It isn't in development any longer, but it still seems to work okay — even in Mountain Lion.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 5:48 PM on October 25, 2012

Zooom2 lets you move the window under the mouse (even if it's not in front) by holding down the "fn" key, and resize it by holding down "fn" + "control" (or whatever you configure). Sounds trivial, but it totally changes the way you use the Mac OS UI.
posted by nicwolff at 6:21 PM on October 25, 2012 [1 favorite]

Oh, good Apple Mail trick: if you ⌘-click multiple mailboxes and turn on "View > Organize by Conversation", then all their messages will be threaded together. Very handy to select both "Inbox" and "Sent" to see both sides of your correspondences.
posted by nicwolff at 6:24 PM on October 25, 2012

BetterTouchTool (free) allows custom trackpad or mouse gestures, programmable keyboard shortcuts, and Windows 7 style snapping. It is awesome in general.
posted by JMOZ at 6:59 PM on October 25, 2012

I like this simple floating clock. I think something like it used to be standard and is no longer.
posted by fantabulous timewaster at 8:29 PM on October 25, 2012

Mondo Mouse is a $14.95 shareware program that implements "focus-follows mouse," which causes windows to come to the front by simply hovering the mouse over them. Unix users may appreciate this feature; others may find it counter-intuitive and irritating. You can take advantage of a 30-day trial to find out which category you fall into.
posted by Gordion Knott at 4:10 AM on October 26, 2012

I use better touch tool with two really really handy shortcuts. One is to move around the window in focus without clicking by holding down control, the second is to resize the window in focus without clicking by holding down alt-control. Once you set that up, you'll be shocked by how much time you aren't spending resizing and moving windows. Also, your hands will totally love you for it.

I got the idea from Ubuntu, where a similar shortcut exists, but unfortunately requires clicking.
posted by oceanjesse at 6:58 AM on October 26, 2012

- I know you prefer GUI stuff, but check out this script, which includes everything the author customizes when they set up a new Mac. Reading through will at least give you a bunch of ideas. If you like the sound of something, many of the settings can be found somewhere in the GUI, or you can just cut and paste the command line version.

- I can't get by anymore without a clipboard manager like ClipMenu (link to MacUpdate; the developer's site seems to be down at the moment). If you use a computer to manipulate text (rather than only using the mouse, I guess?) it's insanely useful. As a random example, I didn't have to flip back and forth between tabs while drafting this comment, because I had both URLs stored in my clipboard.
posted by jhc at 7:43 AM on October 26, 2012 [1 favorite]

iStat Menus is one of the first things I install on a new Mac. Being able to see realtime CPU load, memory usage, and network throughput is super helpful in terms of getting, as you say, "a really good hang on what's going on with the computer."

Also, if you're using a laptop with a discrete graphics card, gfxCardStatus can help you to maximize battery life.
posted by caaaaaam at 10:47 AM on October 26, 2012

Seconding the above mentioned perian/sequel pro/istat (try the widget)/handbrake recommendations. Also, use bash/automator/applescript to automate things!

Not yet mentioned is Plex. I've got a mini hooked up to a 32" 1080p TV which feeds from my 8 TB linux box. I can watch any show or movie either on the TV or on any laptop or iOS device in the apartment with a super slick interface and the basic Apple remote. It keeps notes what I've watched, what I haven't, what's new and how far into something I am so I can seamlessly move from one to another.

As for things that cost money ... 1Password is absolutely fantastic, 450+ passwords in sync between my macbook, ipad and iphone. Transmit is used several times a day. iBank has every financial transaction of the past four years of my life. DevonThink Pro Office basically contains my life.
posted by Brian Puccio at 11:48 AM on October 26, 2012

PathFinder blows away the native Finder app and saves me at least 15 minutes a day. It's proprietary, but totally worth it (and one of only two non-free applications I ever endorse).
posted by solipsophistocracy at 1:48 PM on October 26, 2012

The Hackintosh community provides expertise and specialized utility programs for making OS X do stuff it might not normally want to do.

posted by conrad53 at 4:03 PM on October 26, 2012

Oh and something to let me snap windows to half-screen like Window Key+Left or +Right in Windows 7 would be awesome. I miss that feature.
I really like Spectacle for this. It's invisible (if you want), does the job perfectly well and it's free.
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Day 120 – A Tree is Nice

In honor of Arbor Day on April 29, we read “A Tree is Nice” by Janice May Udry and illustrated by Marc Simont. A lovely cover illustration, and an atypically tall and narrow layout drew us to this book immediately. Inside, the simple but delightful prose from Ms. Udry shares multiple ways in which a tree can be special. The Caldecott Medal-winning illustrations from Mr. Simont picture in enchantingly abstract detail all the wonderfully fun activities described in the text. It’s a combination that makes for a great read-aloud, and it’s an attractive book for inspiring beginning readers.tree is nice

As Ms. Udry reminds us, trees are wonderful for so many reasons: leaves whispering in the breeze or providing soft piles for play in the fall; limbs for climbing and playing pirate ship or for hanging a swing; trunks against which to sit in the shade and rest…even (in some cases) apples for snacking! Perhaps best of all for Arbor Day, if you plant a tree and you tell people about it, they will wish they had one and will plant a tree too!

Mr. Simont’s drawings, alternating vibrant color (especially in fall) with black and white, look sort of like rough sketches – which adds to the charm. In fact, as a veteran doodler, the drawings looked to me like exactly the sort of simple but compelling work that might inspire a budding artist to pull out their own sketch book and go to work. We loved all the life and activity taking place around the trees, and I was particularly fond of the tree growing from the rocks by the sea; it made me wish I were inside the book myself.

All in all, this is a beautiful little book about subjects we love – trees and playing outside. I believe now I will step out and have a go on the swing hanging from the live oak in our own front yard!


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In the earlier episodes Snowy is shown to speak … but later on this part of his character is absent although the reader can see him thinking in human words (Herge used the bubble speech technique founded in America).

Herge was attempting to make Snowy more “dog-like”. This obstacle doesn’t however stop Snowy from being able to communicate with Tintin. Snowy character is written in such a way as to interest the reader. Snowy is the only one for instance in Flight 714 to remember being abducted by aliens. Snowy the wire terrier is seen to save Tintin a numerous times over the years (often by gnawing through restraints or seeking help) or has managed to get them out of convoluted conditions by biting or distracting a villain.

Snowy does have his weaknesses that only serve to make him loved by Tintin fans. Snowy like the irrepressible Captain Haddock has a taste for Loch Lomond brand Scotch whisky and also aversion to spiders as the dog suffers from arachnophobia.

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Market Monitor - Focus on steel and metals - Mexico

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10th September 2015

Higher domestic steel consumption, but exchange rate volatility is expected to cause more payment delays.

  • Steel consumption picked up again due to demand from the automotive sector
  • Payments take between 90-120 days on average
  • Exchange rate volatility expected to cause payment delays

Mexico´s domestic production of crude steel increased 4.1% year-on-year in 2014, to 18.99 million tonnes, while apparent steel use increased 12.2%. Steel imports grew 19.5%, reaching 12.4 million tonnes, mainly in Japan, South Korea and China. In contrast, steel exports decreased 3.6%, to 5.8 million tonnes, causing a steel trade deficit.

In 2014 and in H1 of 2015 domestic steel demand has been driven by strong growth in the automotive industry (both car makers and car part manufacturers) as well as by a robust performance in the pipeline installation segment. This has offset weaker performance of the construction sector, which has recorded a modest recovery since Q2 of 2015; especially in the infrastructure segment (due to higher government spending). This upturn is encouraging but still not entirely satisfactory, since construction performance was subdued for a long period.

On average, payments in the Mexican steel and metals industry take 90 to 120 days. The record of payment delays and insolvencies in this sector has been stable over the last six months. However, non-payment notifications are expected to increase in the coming months, due to deprecation of the peso against the dollar, making imports more expensive.

External risk factors for the Mexican steel industry are the volatility of international metals prices, rising uncertainty concerning Chinese economic performance and oil price developments. Domestically, government investment plans in projects resulting from the recent energy reform to infrastructure remain susceptible to change.

As in 2014 our underwriting stance remains cautious, given potential exchange rate and steel price volatility that could adversely affect production costs, and the growth in imports that could harm domestic production.

To accurately assess a credit limit application in this sector, we currently ask for audited financial statements for the year 2014. If those are not yet available, we could consider year-end 2014 management accounts signed by a company director, together with the most current financial information. Some underwriting cases can be supported by trading experience and/or guarantees or promissory notes (pagarés).

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Bannon And Trump – Two Men On A Mission Of Hate

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Two types of assaults are underway. One, instigated mostly by Congress, is painful. Last week, for instance, they managed in one morning to both end rules which sought to prevent coal companies from polluting streams and regulations which made it harder for oil companies to bribe foreign governments.

There are dozens of these changes, all of them with hideous consequences: people will suffer and die as we roll back environmental laws and prune budgets for housing and medical care. But these are, more or less, the changes we were going to see if, say, Marco Rubio or Jeb Bush had gotten elected with a pliant Congress: they are straight from the Koch Brothers/Heritage Foundation wishlist (and some of them are not that far from what Bill Clinton, say, did by “ending welfare as we know it.”)

All are noxious, all need vigorous opposition, and for the moment most of them we’re going to lose, because we simply don’t have the votes: these are precisely the changes the nation’s billionaires hired Congress to make.

But the Bannon/Trump administration is attacking us in a second way as well. It has audaciously targeted the main pillars of a civilized nation in a way we’ve rarely seen before, a way that would not have occurred to Lindsey Graham or Carly Fiorina. And these are the battles we dare not lose.

The rest of the article is pretty frightening. It is apparent that Trump and Bannon really are evil incarnate. I must say that it fills me with despair that these assholes are trying to destroy not only the US but also the world. Their incompetence makes it doubly frightening.

Reports are now circulating  that

Military officials got Donald Trump to agree to the botched Yemen raid by suggesting Barack Obama would never have had the courage to do it, it has been reported…

…Mr Obama had reportedly been told about the plan to kill al Rimi, who took over control of the Yemeni affiliate of the terror organisation in 2015, but held off approving it because his advisors had wanted to wait until a moonless night which would not have happened again till after he left office, the New York Times reported.

But Defence Secretary, General James “Mad Dog” Mattis, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph Dunford, reportedly convinced Mr Trump to go ahead with the raid by suggesting Mr Obama would never have been so bold as to actually go through with it.

And it is not even the end of week three yet.

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  1. CC ... says:

    A mission of hate indeed….and destruction. They are flaunting all of this and the fecking traitors look away.

  2. lindak1961 says:

    Yeah, the guy who got Bin Laden wouldn’t have the guts to get another terrorist. Only a birther like nmp would believe that. He’s a nincompoop!

  3. irishgirl999 says:

    Just wow.

  4. Scarsdale says:

    President Bannon (I call him that because it drives tRump even more nuts!) tried to get $arah PayMe into the WH, He made a movie that tanked titled “Undefeated”. He wanted a puppet that he could manipulate. With Vlad Putin’s help, we got tRump. People HAVE to wake up, vote democratic and get the Groping Old Pervert party out of power before it is too late.

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First Look: HTC Desire Z (G2). [Video]

If you remember the T-Mobile G1 and think the G2 (or Desire Z in Europe) is not going to be anything to talk about, than well you are dead wrong. The Desire Z takes a step away from the usual Android phone design, the Desire Z is almost 100% metal, this phone looks amazing. Perhaps one of the most awesome things on this phone that will keep us talking for some time is the QWERTY. This phone has very responsive keys that are far more spacious than the image portrays them to be. This phone also has one of the most accessible top rows in the land of QWERTY. In terms of software we are looking at Android 2.2 with HTC Sense UI (newest version with layered over, making this one of the nicest looking phones and easiest to use. If you are worried about the hinge that this phone uses to release the keyboard don’t be. This hinge will not slide open in your pocket and break off, this “Z” hinge (hence the name Desire Z) is very sturdy and requires quite a bit but not too much pressure to slide out the keyboard, and once you do you will notice the satisfying spring action, pop open. pop close, it is that simple. The Desire Z also has one of if not the fastest start-up times, it is unbelievably fast.

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We’ve released a couple of great improvements to further enhance the management experience for DocumentDB, the fully managed NoSQL document database service on Azure. We just released the following capabilities in the new Azure portal at
  • Bulk add Documents – Upload multiple existing JSON documents via Document Explorer
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Document Explorer allows you to easily create, edit, and delete JSON documents stored in DocumentDB and is available from any of the DocumentDB account, database or collection blades: DocumentExplorerPart With this release, Document Explorer now supports upload of multiple existing JSON documents. Simply open Document Explorer from any of the aforementioned blades and click the “Add Document” command: AddDocumentCommand A new blade will open. Click the browse button to open a file explorer window and select 1 or more JSON documents to upload. Note that Document Explorer currently supports up to 50 JSON documents per upload operation: AddDocuments   Once you’re satisfied with your selection, click the upload button. The documents will automatically be added to the Document Explorer grid and results will be displayed as the upload operation progresses: AddDocuments-Results Once the operation has completed, you can select up to another 50 documents to upload.

Query Explorer- Syntax Highlighting

Query Explorer allows you to author, edit, and run DocumentDB SQL queries against any of your DocumentDB collections. Similar to Document Explorer, Query Explorer is available from any of the DocumentDB account, database, and collection blades: QueryExplorerParts In this release, we’ve enabled basic keyword and value highlighting within Query Explorer to improve the query authoring experience: QueryExplorer

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Finally, we’ve modified the Query Explorer blade so that you can run, edit and re-run queries without having to close the results blade: QueryExplorer-ReRun Query As always, we’d love to hear from you about the DocumentDB features and experiences you would find most valuable within the Azure portal. Please submit your suggestions on the Microsoft Azure DocumentDB feedback forum. If you haven’t tried DocumentDB yet, then get started here. Enjoy!


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From the husband:

Thank you for all your lovely and supportive comments for my wife. I really appreciate that so many of you are following her journey and supporting her.

Some of you have, quite rightly, suggested that she might need some sort of support. Those of you who have been following her story for a while will probably know that she’s very aware of her own wellbeing needs and has made arrangements for counselling throughout the IVF process and pregnancy so she has someone to talk to – at least at critical points.

It is somewhat ironic that being admitted to hospital has both placed her under greater stress, and deprived her of her usual counselling arrangements.

Of course, both my wife and I are trying to make sure she gets the support she needs – we make a good team I think, and she is very brave about asking for what she needs. In fact, we’ve been asking for counselling for more than two weeks now.

The midwives are kind and supportive, but the specific team they have called in to help (we’re still not clear what their official title is!) has not been very helpful. They have suggested that my wife get out of her room more, and makes positive plans for her day. Usually these would be great recommendations for someone who is depressed, but they rather ignore the practicalities of her situation. She is too exhausted to get out much, and any plans she makes tend to fall by the wayside either due to the need to sleep or the constant medical stuff that drives her routine at the moment – monitoring, scans, blood pressure checks etc. Their other suggestion – using the online tool – is something she has tried before and does not find helpful (and having looked at it myself, doesn’t really have answers for someone stuck in hospital with little control over their environment or schedule).

She has always found counselling highly effective in the past, but the hospital seems to have NO capability to provide this even when pressed.

Fortunately we have (FINALLY – after two weeks) been able to make our own arrangements – after we created a bit of a fuss. The hospital has decided that she can be allowed out once a week to see the counsellor she was seeing before she was admitted. I think it’s pretty poor that the hospital can’t provide the service, but at least she will be seeing someone she knows and getting some continuity. Hopefully that will help her deal with everything she’s going through a bit more easily. I have my fingers crossed.

She is having a really, really difficult time. Sometimes it gets on top of her, but every time I see her we manage to enjoy a good chat and a game of Yahtzee (or three!). She really is magnificent – I don’t know how she is coping as well as she is. I would have been reduced to a gibbering wreck by now…