I was incredibly lucky to have the opportunity to represent the arachnologists gathered in Christchurch in an interview segment on The Project NZ. The Project is a popular nightly news panel here in NZ. Along with Mike Kasumovic from UNSW, I was interviewed by the panel during which I dispelled some common myths around arachnids and attempted to convince the audience that spiders are important biological control agents, an important aspect of a healthy ecosystem, and should be regarded rather than feared. This clip is available in New Zealand but not for overseas viewers.
So here's a silly screencap instead! I believe the mark that looks like a sharpie pen was actually the editors drawing "webs" and spiders across the screen.
I also interviewed with TV1 whilst out on the mid-week congress excursion and appeared in a short segment.
The Project interview was my first formal appearance on television and it was an awesome experience. Having Mike Kasumovic there as my "co-star" especially helped to lessen the anxiety and make it fun! It felt like a meaningful way to reach many people that might not otherwise interact with spider biologists. Turning fear and disgust into curiosity are important not only to change minds about important, yet less-charismatic taxa (such as spiders), but also for the public to think twice about broader issues facing our natural world.
I've been to several conferences now, but never have I been anywhere that I did not have to justify, sell, or explain arachnids as a model system. It was surreal being surrounded by other eight-legged enthusiasts. The community among arachnologists was clearly tightly-knit yet so welcoming. I was impressed at the continuity, with many members making every effort to attend each international meeting, rekindling connections decade after decade and making new ones. I was sold, I certainly intend on making it to the next arachnology meeting! The mid-week excursion took place at Hinewai Reserve on the Banks Peninsula. I was particularly surprised at the amount of Diaea sp. crab spiders I came across. It was a touch dry, but I still managed to find two harvestmen by flipping rocks around the small waterfall and stream during the daytime.
Left: A teeny male Diaea sp. crab spider collected in a sweep net. Right: A Diaea sp. crab spider that I captured mid-molt. It appears that the spider has a "second head" when in fact, it is the shed exoskeleton carapace still attached to the abdomen. You can also see the "dragline" or safety line of silk that the spider hangs from as it completes the delicate molting process.
The drive between Christchurch and Hinewai Reserve was especially scenic.
In my natural habitat hunting for and photographing arthropods!
More conferences! I have been so lucky during my PhD to have the funding and opportunity to build professional relationships and communicate my research via domestic and international meetings. To start off 2019, I attended both the Entomological Society of New Zealand (ESNZ) meeting in Hanmer Springs and the International Congress of Arachnology (ICA) in Christchurch.
At ESNZ, I won 1st prize for best student talk! Here I am with my main supervisor, Greg Holwell.
Morgane and I both rocked our finest entomologically-themed attire. I've got a beetle dress, mushroom earrings, and a jumping spider tattoo. Morgane has a dragonfly dress and a sphinx moth necklace.
Group photos! Left is Greg Holwell's lab group and right is Chrissie Painting's lab group.
Hanmer Springs Resort was a wonderful conference venue. Amazing views and lovely cottages.
Most of my field work for my personal project has been conducted in Waitomo, New Zealand. I've talked about Waitomo before in previous blog posts. It's an incredible place and I am always thrilled to act as tour guide to introduce visitors (or even kiwis who have never ventured there) to the magic that is karst landscape, glowworm covered walls, diverse harvestmen, and a variety of other endemic invertebrates (such as velvet worms and sheetweb spiders). I took several trips to Waitomo this summer from Dec 2018 to March 2019.
The first two weeks of January, I hosted an Irish undergraduate student who came over for summer research experience, my undergraduate summer student from University of Auckland, and a MSc student working on giraffe weevils at my field site. We added to the sample size of autotomy experiments for one of my data chapters, tried some last ditch efforts to stimulate more natural male-male competition between the harvestmen, and the summer students also got to help with the giraffe weevil project (which included a lot of patience for behavioral observations and the use of a fancy thermal camera).
In February, I also hosted a professional photographer in Waitomo, took a visiting collaborator down for a quick field trip, and guided our new post-doc in the lab around the field site.
Can a sheep farm be any more picturesque?
The closest beach to Waitomo is Marokopa beach. It hosts beautiful, glittery black sand, a rough surf, and seemingly good fishing. The beach is one of my dog's favorite things about field work, though he is also a huge fan of caves, streams, and forest tracks.
Here's an assortment of some of the amazing things I've photographed in Waitomo this summer!
Female and male Uliodon sp. brown vagrant spiders with prey. The female is eating a centipede (left) while the male is eating some Hemiptera I believe.
Close-up of a glowworm! Not to spoil the magic, but Arachnocampa luminosa is actually the maggot of a fungus gnat, the larvae are predatory and produce bioluminescence (light) and sticky strings of silk to attract and capture prey.
A native bush roach molting, a male tree weta (Hemideina thoracica) molting to adulthood, and a stick insect doing an excellent job of being a stick!
Now for the good stuff! Sure New Zealand scenery is stunning, but we're clearly here for the bugs.
Here's a selection of the arthropods we found across our December 2018 Stewart Island/Southland trip.
First up, here's an assortment of male Pantopsalis phocator. Most NZ harvestmen (well…all NZ harvestmen) have no common name. This one I've been affectionately calling "sunset harvestmen" because of the incredible colors that occur. The gradient of silver, orange, red, and yellows reminds me of a sunset or sunrise. These guys were found on Stewart Island as well as on the mainland in the Otago area.
We also found a Forsteropsalis species on Stewart Island, that appears to be Forsteropsalis chiltoni (note that this family of harvestmen is currently under taxonomic revision using molecular sequencing with collaborators). This species is a stunning red color and I was impressed to find this large specimen eating an equally-large freshly-killed crane fly (Tipulidae).
To Morgane's delight, we also found stick insects on Stewart Island. These were Acanthoxyla sp. Stick insects will sometimes regurgitate to avoid predators. This female almost looks as though she is blowing a bubble of chewing gum. Her food source must make this regurgitation a pink color as most regurgitate brown or green.
Here's a variety of other arthropods we encountered during the day and night on Stewart Island.
After departing Stewart Island, we remained on the mainland in the very south of the South Island (aptly called 'Southland') for a few more days of collecting different harvestmen species. I had previously collected harvestmen in the Catlins Forest and in several sites around Dunedin/Otago 2016 and 2017. We needed to boost our sample sizes for these species, so we returned to these sites again this year. We also collected kelp flies along the beaches in these areas.
There are so many rural beach gems in New Zealand. So much of the country retains its natural beauty that there is seemingly endless farmland and forest along kilometers of cliff side beaches.
Before our flight back to Auckland out of Dunedin, we visited the steepest residential street in the world, Baldwin Street!
After the United States trip, my next big adventure of 2018 was a field-collecting trip to Stewart Island. After the North and South islands, Stewart Island is the third largest island (by land-mass) of New Zealand. Getting to Stewart Island can be done by plane or by ferry. The locals say it's "20 minutes of terror or an hour of Hell". This of course refers to the means of transportation. The plane option is a small Britten-Norman islander that seats 8-10 people while apparently the ferry is quite rough. We opted to take the small plane, which I thoroughly enjoyed after an initial uncertainty. On the return flight I wanted to sit as close to the passenger seat as possible! We had breathtaking views as we departed Invercargill and headed towards Stewart Island.
The trip included myself and my labmates, Neil, Morgane, and Bex. Our main focus of the trip was to collect harvestmen for the comparative aspect of our Marsden-funded project. This aspect of the project, using 2-D and 3-D modelling via CT scanning and comparative methods to explore weapon shape evolution across the New Zealand Neopilionidae (long-legged harvestmen), is led by my supervisor Chrissie Painting. Because of maternity leave and welcoming a beautiful baby boy to her whānau, I had the privilege of leading several field trips across the country to collect the specimens needed for this part of the project across my PhD.
We began on Stewart Island, where we collected for three nights. Stewart Island is largely undeveloped, so we were able to access the tracks and forest by foot from our hotel. During the daytime, we collected kelp flies (in the family Coelopidae) along the different bays and beaches for my labmate Bex's PhD project. And when night finally fell (it takes until 10pm to get dark on the south island at peak summertime!) we headed out into the bush for harvestmen. We were quite excited to find what we were looking for: harvestmen and kelp flies, as well as stick insects and a variety of other spider, fly, and wasp fauna. However, eager tourists tramping through the bush at night were disappointed to hear that our headlights/torches were turned onto mere arthropods rather than a prized kiwi. We did hear kiwi calling and it would have been a pleasure to see one, but we did not. We did however see heaps of kaka (a large, red-grey parrot), kererū (wood pigeons), tui, and some red-crowned kākāriki (parakeet). The island is largely predator-free with extensive pest control, which allows these birds to thrive off of the mainland. Native flax was in bloom, which attracted the tui and kaka, sparking competition between the two species. Surprisingly, the tui dominated over the larger kaka.


Derby County are getting ready for their next match in the Sky Bet Championship when they face Cardiff City at Pride Park Stadium this evening.
The Rams go into the game after three consecutive defeats to Wolves, Burton Albion and Middlesbrough.
This run has seen Derby fall out of the play-offs into seventh place, but a win against the Bluebirds would see Gary Rowett's side climb back into the top-six.
Ahead of tonight's key fixture, we got the inside track on Cardiff from Wales Online sports writer Ian Mitchelmore.
How will Cardiff approach the game?
Cardiff need to win just two more matches to clinch runner-up spot, and given that they have another away trip to come at the weekend (against Hull City) you feel that they will go for it against the Rams to take the pressure off their final two games.
They haven't been the same swashbuckling side that we saw in the opening weeks of the campaign of late, but they have a brilliant knack of grinding out results, as seen against Norwich City and Nottingham Forest.
It probably won't be pretty, but results are all that matter for Cardiff right now.
Who are the players Derby fans should watch out for?
He was off the boil against Nottingham Forest, but Nathaniel Mendez-Laing can cause all sorts of problems with his pace and trickery while Junior Hoilett is one of a select few in the Cardiff City squad than can create something out of nothing.
Captain Sean Morrison is also a real threat in the opposition's box, and it's no surprise that he was back on the scoresheet against Forest given how direct the Bluebirds had to be.
What do you make of Derby's promotion credentials and how the season has gone under Gary Rowett?
It's been a very strange one given that earlier on in the campaign, Derby looked like being one of the sides who would be locked in battle with Cardiff for a top two spot.
But while the Bluebirds have kept themselves firmly in the mix, even after a disastrous run over the festive period, Derby have lost touch with the automatic promotion spots after a pretty miserable run of results.
That said, Derby are still a side packed with talent who would certainly fancy their chances in the play-offs.
And with Gary Rowett at the helm, you feel that the players know exactly what's expected of them which will stand them in good stead in the final weeks of the campaign.
(4-3-3) - Etheridge; Peltier, Morrison, Bamba, Bennett; Paterson, Gunnarsson, Ralls; Mendez-Laing, Hoilett, Zohore.


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The devastation across our country from natural disasters has been unimaginable. Right now, we at Inkblot are particularly concerned for our 3.4 million US brothers and sisters in Puerto Rico, where the destruction is nearly absolute. They are without food, potable water, power, or the ability to communicate with the rest of the world.
Fortunately there are organizations on the ground in Puerto Rico ready to help. One of those is GlobalGiving, which connects donors with local nonprofits to provide relief. They have a nearly perfect score on Charity Navigator and a vetted fund for Puerto Rico and Caribbean Hurricane Relief, meaning all donations to this fund exclusively support relief and recovery efforts.
When we started Inkblot, one goal was to give back to our amazing community. Each quarter, we usually donate to a local organization, but this quarter, we haven't been able to get the devastation in Puerto Rico out of our heads. Thus, we are donating to GlobalGiving. They do such important work, and we're honored to be able to help their cause.
If you find yourself in the position to give, consider GlobalGiving or the many other worthy organizations helping with disaster relief across the United States.
Punctuation is important, clearly. As the Chicago Manual of Style puts it, the purpose of punctuation is "to promote ease of reading by clarifying relationships within and between sentences." The tiny marks between words or letters sets up an author's cadence, voice, and style. You can say a lot by sparsely or heavily punctuating your writing.
Some writers, like Cormac McCarthy—following the lead of James Joyce—are as minimal as possible with punctuation. As McCarthy says, "There's no reason to blot the page up with weird little marks. I mean, if you write properly you shouldn't have to punctuate." McCarthy and Joyce don't even use quotation marks. In The Road, McCarthy's lack of punctuation lends itself to a feeling of wasteland, echoing the content itself.
Other writers, like E. E. Cummings, use punctuation as an extension of the alphabet, playing with the shapes and spaces caused by the punctuation. Marcel Proust also used punctuation with abandon. Using strings of comma-separated phrases, Proust built an 847-word run-on sentence.
What happens if you take out everything but the punctuation? Chicago-based designer Nicholas Rougeux's project titled "Between the Words" features classic books stripped down to their punctuation. The spiral design of these posters is mesmerizing.
What is your punctuation style?
Strip all punctuation out and, as you re-read it, only put back in what is absolutely necessary.
Put all punctuation back in, and see if you can add more to break up or connect sentences, changing the flow.
Which feels more natural—more or less? What punctuation are you most drawn to—dashes, semicolons, commas? Next time you write, think about style and purpose as you choose how to punctuate.
Once you start sending out your work to prospective journals and magazines, it is very important to keep your submissions organized. It would not look good to send the same essay to the same journal a month apart. But fear not! Inkblot Editing has your back! We've created a submissions tracker just for you. Download it here!
Happy Friday! We can't wait to start getting your book selfies. They're going to be awesome.
Today, I thought we'd take a look at just how detailed the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) is. (CMS is our editorial bible, if you will.) This style guide is much more involved than most style guides, which helps us make quick decisions and keep our texts consistent. In fact, even when I'm working on a project that uses APA or MLA, I fall back to CMS for topics those style guides don't cover.
How many of the following CMS rules did you already know?
When an ampersand is used instead of the word and (as in company names), the serial comma is omitted.
Winken, Blinken & Nod is a purveyor of nightwear.
If space or context in the text or in a note requires that two or more lines be run in, the lines are separated by a slash, with one space on either side (in printed works, a thin space to an en space).
Andrew Marvell's praise of John Milton, "Thou has not missed one thought that could be fit, / And all that was improper does omit" ("On Paradise Lost"), might well serve as our motto.
For running in more than one stanza (to be avoided if at all possible), see 13.32.
We all have our author crushes. (That is a thing, right?) My latest is Mo Willems, not least because he is instilling in my daughter a love of reading. You see, I was terrified that I would be the only editor and writer with an illiterate child. Yes, yes, she's only in kindergarten, but the fear was real. And then Mo Willems rode Pigeon into our lives.
Did you know that the ampersand was once considered the 27th letter of the alphabet? (You're googling this right now, aren't you?) I'm telling the truth — insofar as history has told me, anyway.
This character itself was used way before it came to have the name ampersand. In Latin, the word et means "and," and as the Roman scribes wrote this word, they connected the e and t, thus creating a symbol that eventually came to represent "and" in English.
The evolution of the ampersand.
Sources: What Character Was Removed from the Alphabet? and Ampersand.
Lesley grew up in a log cabin in the woods that her father built. She is going home this weekend to spend time with the family–mom, dad, two younger sisters, daughter, and a bazillion animals.
Rachel is off celebrating her one-year anniversary this weekend! What a year it's been—travels to Mexico, house buying, Inkblot; it's definitely one for the record books.


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Jenelle Evans & Nathan Griffith ARE Back Together!
It's been confirmed guys! Jenelle and Nathan of 'Teen Mom 2' are currently working out their relationship.
While Jenelle has been spotted wearing her engagement ring again she claims the two aren't ready to plan a wedding yet. "We haven't discussed it… We're slowly going back into our relationship. We don't want to jump back into it. Nathan was like, 'Oh maybe we can start planning our wedding soon!' But I think after everything that happened, we need to take a steady pace." Jenelle also joked that she and Nathan have to last for at least an entire year before she will marry him.
Do you think jenelle and Nathan will make it? Despite the multiple incidents of domestic violence between them?
Jenelle has always driven me nuts with her anger issues and selfish behavior…but then her mom is the same way. Nathan has issues as well that has had me concerned. But all in all, I have actually rooted for these two. People can change and I have seen Jenelle really trying this time. I am glad they are not jumping into marriage and working the relationship day at a time. It will be best for everyone in the long run.
She is bipolar , remember when she was in rehab , she was diagnosed with it .


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I posed nude at Olivia Wilde's baby shower in 2014
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dseg30249 karma 2019-12-15 22:32:15 UTC
Why? Like - do you get these orders a lot?
mrgirl219 karma 2019-12-15 22:32:47 UTC
Glory, money.
chadcf124 karma 2019-12-15 22:33:52 UTC
Yeah but why would olivia wilde want a nude stranger at a baby shower?
Because she's a weirdo.
It's not like I was walking around the whole time or anything, they just drew me for an hour.
NewAccount971156 karma 2019-12-15 22:34:01 UTC
Why would somebody want someone nude at a fucking baby shower? Is this normal for out of touch rich people?
Lol I don't think she's out of touch, she just has the money to have whatever she wants on a whim. It was probably more for her friends.
waz6752 karma 2019-12-15 22:38:03 UTC
I guess you should be happy you weren't asked to wear a diaper and suck on a soother.
I would have done it though.
DabneyEatsIt15 karma 2019-12-15 22:43:56 UTC
Careful, you'll give off the impression that you'll do anything for a buck.
mrgirl20 karma 2019-12-15 22:52:39 UTC
It's more like I'll get naked for any reason.
NewAccount97110 karma 2019-12-15 22:38:09 UTC
Fair enough. I went to a nude drink-and-draw in Chicago, but that was like...an event. I don't think I'd want dong or titties when trying to welcome my baby into the world lol
I think she was trying to tell people she was still going to be cool.
My first time modeling was a drink-and-draw in Brooklyn.
WinterText76 karma 2019-12-15 22:30:42 UTC
how did you get into this line of work?
I have been modeling for art classes for 10 years. I'm also an exhibitionist. I found a company that rents out male models and art instructors to bachelorette parties and emailed them with a picture. They hired me a few months later and I did that every week or two until we had a falling out over money.
However I still pose for art classes every couple months.
Bamres91 karma 2019-12-15 22:49:08 UTC
But why male models?
Because perverted straight ladies.
Did the women every get a little too "hands on" at the bachelorette parties? I can imagine that being an issue, especially if alcohol is involved.
No one ever touched my penis, but they grabbed/slapped my butt occasionally. I was sort of supposed to taunt them though--between poses my boss told me to walk around amongst the women and comment on their drawings. But there was also an instructor and an assistant there, so I always felt safe.
240to18050 karma 2019-12-15 22:42:42 UTC
mrgirl-2 karma 2019-12-15 22:51:44 UTC
That picture is from a different party. They actually did allow the company to take photos, but only from behind her, and she seemed uncomfortable with it.
squiko43 karma 2019-12-15 22:41:07 UTC
Why did you think reddit would be intrested ?
Perverted nerds.
beingginger35 karma 2019-12-15 22:41:28 UTC
What's the going rate for standing still, while naked, for an hour? Or do you lay down?
You can choose your own poses. In an art class, $25-30/hour is standard in LA. For a party like this, they paid me $60 for the hour, plus tips. But I demanded a raise to $100 and they fired me.
TinyBusyBee22 karma 2019-12-15 22:39:08 UTC
Do you ever feel self-conscious about being viewed? How do you get over it? Is there a time where a booking made you uncomfortable? What happened?
I was terrified the first couple times, not about people seeing me naked, but because I didn't know what to do with my body or how to pose. You just get over it with practice. You can only be terrified for so long, and in a three hour session, you just get used to it.
Also I'm a pervert who likes showing people my naked body so that helps.
Yes, lots of people have made me uncomfortable.
Once I was posing for a group of high school kids and the attractive female teacher started flirting with me. She draped pearls over me (you're not supposed to touch the model) and made up reasons to keep touching me.
Then she walked over my head while I was reclining on the floor so I could see up her skirt.
Instant boner. Nothing I could do to stop it. So awkward.
However, being a model is so passive, you can kind of just be like, "well, this is involuntary and it's her class, so whatever." But it was horribly uncomfortable.
NotUrRealDad35 karma 2019-12-15 22:47:56 UTC
high school kids? what kind of high school is this?
An art prep school so they can get into art schools. I pose for kids 15-18 pretty regularly.
BattleRifle71116 karma 2019-12-15 22:48:42 UTC
You got a boner in front of the whole class?
Yes. I got a boner in front of the whole class.
townhouserondo11 karma 2019-12-15 22:50:05 UTC
So what happened when you popped your boner? Did they draw it? Have you ever gotten a boner at any other time? What's protocol?
mrgirl5 karma 2019-12-15 23:02:53 UTC
Protocol is just pretend it's not happening. People understand it's involuntary. It's when you say, "Hey guys... look what I got..." that you get in trouble. Because that is voluntary.
I have only had one girl draw my boner and then show it to me, and as I said, I got her number.
Alastor39 karma 2019-12-15 22:49:15 UTC
What the fuck, how did the kids reacted to that?
They quietly observed my erection and then kept drawing.
Stevenab873 karma 2019-12-15 22:49:25 UTC
There's nothing you can do because you can't move lol. You just have to let it ride or think about something disgusting.
I get a boner in one out of every twenty modeling sessions probably.
SchlomoHarambe6416 karma 2019-12-15 22:38:27 UTC
Do you think circumcision should be legal?
No. You should have to be 18 and get it done yourself. I hate that I'm circumcised.
barristonsmellme13 karma 2019-12-15 22:45:05 UTC
You're being downvoted because we wanna cut baby dick
Lol that's okay, to each their own.
Babsmitty12 karma 2019-12-15 22:39:32 UTC
Have you had any other strange assignments? Or stranger ones? Can you tell us about them?
I was going to model at Jennifer Aniston's birthday party but she canceled the night before.
Once I did a bachelorette party for a girl who looked and acted exactly like Miley Cirus. Like she was obsessed with her. She took a selfie doing the tongue thing right by my crotch, and she was drunk.
I don't drink and don't like alcohol so those situations were always weird.
misterlegato10 karma 2019-12-15 22:43:15 UTC
How do we know that the screenshot of the organiser is legit? Seems like something that would be remarkably easy to fake
It would be easy to fake. You can see their website at drawingparty.com if you want.
fennecdore10 karma 2019-12-15 22:41:41 UTC
What was the most surreal part ?
Watching her chat with her friends like a normal person, and seeing that her fame kind of hung over every interaction, even though they seemed like good friends. Like you could see that she just wanted to have a normal party, but kind of can't anymore.
Also she drew a huge picture of my ass which was surreal.
bananaman158 karma 2019-12-15 22:48:12 UTC
you ever pop a hard on?
Yes, but not at this event. That only happens if someone is kind of egging me on or flirting with me.
Once a girl stared at me at a party until I got hard, and then drew a picture of it (only it) and showed it to me afterward. I got her number.
BerserkCalibur4 karma 2019-12-15 22:42:42 UTC
How it feel begin naked in baby shower?
Haha it felt normal, I'm used to situations where I'm the only naked person.
mon_dieu3 karma 2019-12-15 22:45:16 UTC
How good were their drawings? Whose was the best?
I don't remember, but I do remember her saying "I'm going to put this on the baby's wall and say 'this is your daddy!'"
math-yoo3 karma 2019-12-15 22:41:33 UTC
How was the eye contact with Suds?
Brief and sweet. In LA people are kind of used to shit like this I think. He was quite unfazed and just seemed amused. I think we shook hands (after I was dressed).
Froak3 karma 2019-12-15 22:50:19 UTC
Did Jason Sudeikis like what he saw?
Oh he likey.
freddythepole192 karma 2019-12-15 22:49:01 UTC
Is it boring just standing there doing nothing for as long as you're contracted for? I feel like once I got past the terror, it'd just be boring not being able to move or do anything for hours on end.
Yes, it can get boring. The best is when you have an instructor or artists who can talk and draw at the same time. Then you can have interesting conversations. Or if they play good music you can just think your thoughts. The worst is a boring crowd and a radio with commercials on it. Oh god it's horrible.
Chayden1532 karma 2019-12-15 22:46:57 UTC
What was the craziest experience you had at the baby shower?
Honestly it was very laid-back and not crazy. I guess when Olivia Wilde said, "It looks like he's jerking off in this drawing."
I said: "Oh, this is how I jerk off. I just lay here like this."
Crickets.
applepaimei1 karma 2019-12-15 22:49:34 UTC
How much did you make from this?
$100. No tip. I was... pretty pissed off. I think she just overlooked tipping me, she seemed like a generous person. There was no graceful way to be like, HEY OLIVIA, WHAT THE FUCK.
I'm hoping she'll see this and send me $10-$15 though.
ShadyLogic1 karma 2019-12-15 22:48:02 UTC
Did you have to sign an NDA for this specifically or did you sign one through whatever agency you go through?
No. If I had I would not be doing this.
[deleted]1 karma 2019-12-15 22:48:02 UTC
He smiled and nodded as if I were a waiter or some other professional. Lol it was friendly.
wilsonhammer1 karma 2019-12-15 22:48:29 UTC
How much did you interact with OW/her friends outside of being drawn?
We were talking the whole time, but we left afterward (when hundreds of people started to show up).
cjeam1 karma 2019-12-15 22:49:24 UTC
When you pose nude, since you're an exhibitionist do you ever get aroused? How do people/venues deal differently with this?
Yes, once in a while I do. No one comments on it or gives you shit about it unless they think you're doing it on purpose or trying to draw attention to it.
Since all my erections are passive, no one has said anything.
vanilla_user-4 karma 2019-12-15 22:46:34 UTC
Who are you and why this should be interesting?
I'm Max Karson. I posed nude at Olivia Wilde's baby shower in 2014. I thought we already established who I was...
Lol I don't know if it's interesting to you, maybe it isn't. It's the most interesting thing about me and I'm sorry.

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While shooting the video in Los Angeles, the singer was photographed in a skin-tight, low-cut leather bodysuit that certainly looks like it could fit in perfectly at some post-apocalyptic dance party, if that's what the video ends up being about. Her hair is very blond and very straight, and she's finished off the look with army boots.
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K-Dollar dropped "Die Young" earlier this week, but no word yet on when the video might get released. The song is the lead single off her upcoming album, Warrior. The track reunited the singer with Dr. Luke and had them teaming up with Fun.'s Nate Ruess.
"I'm really anxious to see what the song does," Luke told MTV News. "We definitely put our heart and souls into it, so hopefully it works. This song was kind of one of the songs we were working with as we were doing the whole record. It wasn't like, 'OK, let's set out to do this.' We first had a different chorus on it, and it was pretty good. Then we did another one with Nate, and we liked the vibe of it better. I felt like what he brought to it, his world mixed in with production was an interesting sound, all the guitars and stuff. Ke$ha hadn't really done guitars before really in songs. On her last record it was a strict no-guitar rule."
In addition to Ruess, the December 4 release includes a number of other cameos from rockers like Iggy Pop, Patrick Carney from the Black Keys, the Strokes members Fabrizio Moretti and Julian Casablancas, as well as Wayne Coyne from the Flaming Lips.
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GIG REVIEW: Wolfmother
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Wolfmother perform their Gypsy Caravan Tour at Rock City Nottingham on Thursday 14th April 2016
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Wolfmother are back. Truth is they never went anywhere, but amidst the turmoil of many line-up changes they may have lost some of their steam in the public eye, but looking at this packed Rock City crowd last night, that is not the case.
The trio launched onto the stage with their lead single Victorious from their latest album. New songs are always nervy affairs but the crowd were more than a match for Stockdale's powerful vocals, indicating to the band that they had got this song bang on.
New Moon Rising was followed by arguably their most recognisable song Woman which sent the atmosphere to another level. Mosh pits, crowd surfing, you name it, this gig had it. Looking as though they were three mates who had just left the pub, they rattled through their heavy classics Apple Tree, White Union and Dimension from their self-named debut album.
The band were extremely tight. Drummer Carapetis and guitarist Peres were in sync which allowed Stockdale to do what he does best, rock the hell out of songs like White Feather and California Queen. New song Gypsy Caravan was one of the stand out songs of the night; not as fast paced, but just as heavy as the previous songs.
There was some respite from the mayhem with ballad Pretty Peggy, another from the new album. But the crowd went wild as they finished the main set with old favourites Pyramid and Colossal and demanded an encore. Not ones to disappoint they were back on for Vagabond and finisher, Joker & The Thief which sparked a monumental response from the audience.
Wolfmother are not your ordinary rock band. Their music carries an essence of Led Zeppelin meets Black Sabbath with a heavy dose of Deep Purple. In other words they were brilliant.
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July 2, 2012 by That Film Guy Leave a Comment
It's quite hard to overstate how influential A Fistful of Dollars has been to the Western genre. In 1964, the Western was beginning to show its age, as was its most recognisable star, John Wayne; Sergio Leone's ironic, subversive film helped breathe new life into the Western, created the spaghetti Western subgenre, and began a serious of revisionist Westerns which would be the dominant force in the genre for the next 30 years, until Unforgiven more or less heralded its death knell. Indeed, Clint Eastwood was to be the man who would define the Western after John Wayne, and without A Fistful of Dollars, he may well have never become the icon that he is today.
Eastwood plays the Man With No Name (who, amusingly, is referred to as Joe in the film), a drifter who arrives in the Mexican town of San Miguel and, after an encounter with a local gang, learns that the town is controlled and being oppressed by two rival gangs, the Rojos and the Baxters. He decides to play the gangs off against each other, helping the villagers and making quite a bit of money for himself in the process.
The title itself (A Fistful of Dollars) is the audience's first clue that this is not going to be a clear-cut, white hats vs. black hats Western; the Man With No Name may have some vaguely altruistic motivation for doing as he does, but he is a drifter all the same, acting principally on the opportunity to make money, and leaves town as soon as he's done. As Clint's first major film, he has yet to develop the acting ability which he would later show off in films like Million Dollar Baby (Leone once said he had two expressions: hat on, and hat off), but he cuts an indelible presence in the film all the same; it isn't difficult to appreciate how this film was the beginning of the Clint Eastwood legend. And he's still the only person to make a poncho look good.
All of the Leone trademarks which would become so famous and refined in later films are display in A Fistful of Dollars: the extreme (for the time) violence; the wide shots of towns and landscapes juxtaposed by extreme close ups, often just of a character's eyes; and breathtaking visual style balancing out the relative minimalism of plot and dialogue. It's a Western taken to the extreme, a bleak and cynical vision of the frontier undercut by a stream of black humour, a concept which would come to its full fruition in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: the violence is bloody and graphic, and instead of black and white, the morality here is very much black and grey; some of the characters are worse than others, but few of them can honestly be described as good.
And it would be remiss of me not to mention the score by Ennio Morricone, a man whose music would become as iconic as the films it featured in. He does a brilliant job of gradually raising the tension during the gunfights, and when Clint marches back into town for the final showdown, accompanied by the soaring main theme, a legend was born.
A Fistful of Dollars is one of the most important and influential Westerns ever made. Without it there would be no Django, and certainly no Unforgiven, and the genre may have come to an end in 1964 instead of 1992. It's influenced just about every Western since, from the final duel with Mad Dog Tannen in Back to the Future Part III to pretty much everything that happens in Mexico in the videogame Red Dead Redemption. Just don't laugh at Clint's mule. He doesn't like that.
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"In conclusion, there is a marvellous anecdote from the occasion of Russell's ninetieth birthday that best serves to summarize his attitude toward God and religion. A London lady sat next to him at this party, and over the soup she suggested to him that he was not only the world's most famous atheist but, by this time, very probably the world's oldest atheist. "What will you do, Bertie, if it turns out you're wrong?" she asked. "I mean, what if -- uh -- when the time comes, you should meet Him? What will you say?" Russell was delighted with the question. His bright, birdlike eyes grew even brighter as he contemplated this possible future dialogue, and then he pointed a finger upward and cried, "Why, I should say, 'God, you gave us insufficient evidence.'"
"I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother"
"Like my parents, I have never been a regular church member or churchgoer. It doesn't seem plausible to me that there is the kind of God who watches over human affairs, listens to prayers, and tries to guide people to follow His precepts -- there is just too much misery and cruelty for that. On the other hand, I respect and envy the people who get inspiration from their religions."
"Religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few."
"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been devised by Providence as an evil to mankind."
"There may be Gods, but they care not what men do."
"Whatever the natural cause, sin is the true cause of all earthquakes."
"A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen."
"When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it."
"Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth."
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Over the past week, much ink has been spilled over Chipotle's "Scarecrow" video, a well-aimed piece of viral marketing that has already amassed 5.7 million views on YouTube. In a narrative set to a goosebump-inducing Fiona Apple cover of "Pure Imagination," a scarecrow discovers the nightmarish world of factory farming and resolves to do his small part to encourage sustainable farming. The ad's production has been universally well-received; The Week's own Peter Weber calls it "the most beautiful, haunting infomercial you'll ever see."
But quality aside, not everyone is convinced of the intent behind the massive company's sudden detour into activism, which ends with a promotion for a Scarecrow-themed iPad app. And Funny or Die has produced a video parody, titled "Honest Scarecrow," that's sure to galvanize any viewers who doubt that Chipotle's motives are really as pure as the video implies.
"Come with us, and you'll be in a world of pure imagination / with an ad made for you by a giant corporation," croons a Fiona Apple sound-alike in the just-released parody video. "We'll begin; drop you in to a great high-budget animation / what you'll see will be pure manipulation."
Though the parody successfully skewers Chipotle's "Scarecrow" video, it's also a sign that the company's marketing campaign has penetrated the mainstream. Whichever side you're on, you're thinking and talking about Chipotle — so it's safe to say the company has hit its target.


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The Closing Problem: This needs to be reconsidered [duplicate]
Should we encourage more closing? [closed] (8 answers)
TLDR version: Too many people can vote to close. People are overzealous when it comes to voting to close. Questions that get closed will very likely remain so because they attract little attention. This needs to be fixed.
As of last month, there are 6,279 users who can cast close votes, and the number will grow. Unfortunately, the chances of questions getting wrongfully (or not) closed will increase proportionally, since there is currently no way to counteract close votes besides voting to reopen after a question has been closed.
I think this goes against the community-driven model that SO follows. It's no longer the "Community" that can close the question; but a tiny minority of it - 5 (five) users, is all it takes. We now have the "tyranny of the minority." It is also impossible for someone to rescind their close vote even if they feel the question should no longer be closed. In the current setup, there is no way to go but down.
I know this has been suggested before, and has been ignored for unknown reasons, but it's starting to bother me. We should be able to either:
Rescind a close vote. Example: User posts a vague question. Close votes are cast. User adds sufficient detail to the question, but I can no longer rescind my vote and there are 4 close votes already. One more person comes along and votes to close. Question is closed. User gets demotivated. If it's a new user, might never come back.
Vote not to close: I disagree with the close votes being cast. I cast a vote not to close and this decreases the close vote count by some amount.
Or do both. The system as it is is broken IMHO. It was a year ago two years ago, it's even more so today, with more users having this ability. It's apparent that a good deal of stackers support these two suggestions. But for some reason Jeff doesn't like them. Perhaps you could explain the rationale on why they shouldn't be implemented?
feature-request vote-to-close closed-questions community
NullUserException อ_อNullUserException อ_อ
Pick your poison. It may take 5 people to close, but it also takes only 5 people to reopen a question. And this can include the very people who voted to close. Once it gets reopened, those 5 users also can no longer vote to close that question again. Doesn't sound nearly as tyrannous to me. – Grace Note♦ Aug 9 '10 at 21:02
I voted to reopen the R question. Although, if you Google R, the first match explains it. – user102937 Aug 9 '10 at 21:02
@Robert: Maybe surprisingly googling for "R" works perfectly. – sth Aug 9 '10 at 21:05
@Grace I've seen those before. That's why I said this needs to be "reconsidered." It already din't work a year ago; it's even more broken now with more users gaining the ability to closevote. I know they can be reopoened. Unfortunately closed questions don't get a lot of attention. – NullUserException อ_อ Aug 9 '10 at 21:05
"Questions that receive close votes are doomed." That's absolutely false. There are many examples of questions that probably should stay closed that don't. I would even go out on a limb and say that of those 3,149 users who can vote to close, the majority are probably more likely inclusionists who vote to reopen things more so than they vote to close. – gnostradamus Aug 9 '10 at 21:11
Saying "there are 49,467 users who can cast close votes" is extremely misleading. Being able to cast close votes on your own questions isn't much of a power. There are only 4 × 9 × 185 - 1 = 6659 users who have close votes "for real." (Although I admit sometimes it feels like there are 50,000!) EDIT: I have decided that this is alarming enough to edit your question. Let me know if you disagree. – Pops Sep 28 '11 at 20:07
@PopularDemand I looked at the wrong row – NullUserException อ_อ Sep 28 '11 at 20:13
Understandable; I had to look twice, myself. @NullUserExceptionஇ_இ – Pops Sep 28 '11 at 20:15
I like the "rescind" reccomendation, but there are many Python questions that are "too localized" that don't get closed, and many that are duplicates but no one spends the time to find the duplicate. I've only felt the need to cast a re-open vote on a few occasions, but there are times I've wanted to rescind a close vote because of an edit, because I misunderstood the question, or because I later thought of the search terms to find a duplicate. There are a lot of people who can vote to close, but there are also more questions every day, and at least for Python, many of them should be closed. – agf Sep 28 '11 at 20:21
@gnostradamus: Contrary to popular believe, "too many questions stay open that should be closed" is not a counterargument to "too many questions are closed that need to be open." This is just another manifestation of a broken system, leading to errors in both ways. – sbi Sep 28 '11 at 20:55
@Arjan Nope.  – NullUserException อ_อ Oct 2 '11 at 9:13
@Arjan I didn't get any warning. – kiamlaluno Oct 2 '11 at 9:13
@kiamlaluno, and it seems you only added the ;, which probably did not take you 4 minutes? (Hence, I'd guess you started editing long after NullUserException saved, but already loaded the page before that save...) – Arjan Oct 2 '11 at 9:15
Or: did any of you edit again within the 5 minute grace period, @kiamlaluno et al? – Arjan Oct 2 '11 at 9:17
(I added a comment for waffles here, @kiamlaluno and NullUserException. Please add details if you have any. I will clean my above comments soon.) – Arjan Oct 2 '11 at 9:23
This has been discussed quite a few times. What I think needs to happen is that we need a second dimension of true voting. For instance right now there is "Interesting and Uninteresting(or right/wrong for answers)" for up and down votes respectively. What needs to happen is a second dimension for "Belongs here and Doesn't belong here".
The number of close votes each person has per day should stay the same but they should be able to cast a "keep open" vote. It would still come out of their close vote count but it'd be the equivalent of a reopen vote. In this way you wouldn't have the mayhem of popular yet subjective questions where the question closes and reopens 10 times in an hour.
So basically whenever the open score reaches -5 then it should be closed, and if it's closed then the open score should have to reach +5 to reopen. In this way forcing a question to flip flop between open and closed is much more difficult and requires many more votes. Also, we need a way to undo our close/reopen votes.
Which is exactly what I am suggesting. – NullUserException อ_อ Aug 9 '10 at 21:15
I agree with none of this except for that last sentence. It would be nice to retract a close vote if the author or someone else edits it into shape (originally, this was possible... because there was no voting). As for the rest, this just makes closing even less effective, by effectively holding questions "open" until everyone who thinks they're appropriate has gotten their shots in. If you can't shut down an off-topic question right away, you're gonna have a much harder time later on. – Shog9 Aug 9 '10 at 21:27
I've been making do with "I disown my close vote" comments and casting re-opens when appropriate. But it is a poor substitute for the real thing. – dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten Aug 9 '10 at 21:43
@Shog I'm in the boat that some of us are too trigger happy when it comes to closing. And reopening is usually much harder than closing a question. (due to lack of activity etc etc) – Earlz Aug 9 '10 at 22:50
keep in mind, the yo-yo close/open/close questions are on the fringe - they're generally borderline or blatantly off-topic questions that are popular enough to gain support in spite of that. There are many questions that don't get enough attention to close or re-open: for instance, I often waste votes on duplicates that never get enough eyeballs to get shut down. Attention for closed/open questions is a separate issue (there have been proposals to open up the 10K page listing these). – Shog9 Aug 9 '10 at 23:15
"Also, we need a way to undo our close/reopen votes." So true! – sbi Sep 28 '11 at 20:53
@Earlz The problem with this is that voting then becomes this weird complicated thing. Voting has one specific purpose right now, and we should keep it that way. Not to mention, It's really hard to get things closed right now. Since posts default to open, it takes people who actually care about pruning the cruft from the site to close. Given the number of questions under review at any given time, there are far more questions that need closing than there are people who want to close questions. – George Stocker Nov 16 '11 at 0:38
I noted that you voted to re-open, but you didn't edit the question.
What is the R? was the original title. If I saw that I would say, "What the heck is that? Are they even talking about programming?"
You could have edited the question and made it better for others, so that someone else who may come along could vote to re-open, or an original closer could see the actual question and vote to re-open.
You have the power to close, and that means you have the power to edit. Use them in tandem. Before you vote to close under those grounds, see if you can clean up the question first.
George StockerGeorge Stocker
This is the problem. I'm not sure how easy it is to write a SEDE query to list active closers versus active editors, but I'm positive the former vastly outweighs the latter. Even people that vote to reopen and comment with "this question is so obvious, he's asking X" don't even think to edit the question to actually say "X", and I'm not sure why/if there's a way to help fix that – Michael Mrozek Aug 9 '10 at 21:30
This is a bit of a derailment. The question about R was meant to be an example, that's about it. I am not basing my argument on that question. – NullUserException อ_อ Aug 9 '10 at 21:33
@Michael: Not everyone is interested in editing. I used to be a very heavy editor -- editing way more than closing. It was, for quite some time, my #1 contribution to SO. Now, though, I've grown so tired of bad questions and broken English that I've completely lost the motivation to do it ... Even with the new Copy Editor gold badge. – John Rudy Aug 9 '10 at 21:33
@Michael: If I put my mind to it, I have no trouble burning all my close votes on questions which don't need rewriting, but simply need closing. My other observation is that "they obviously mean X" simply isn't always true: often then might well mean X, but possibly Y, so I usually comment that a clarification is in order. Then I return later to see if closing/re-opening is in order. If the OP doesn't respond in some way, I assume they weren't really interested after all. – dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten Aug 9 '10 at 21:35
@Null: Hehe. I helps to have circa 3 example when you open this kind of discussion. Besides, it shows that you've been thinking about it long enough to accumulate a little list... – dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten Aug 9 '10 at 21:37
@I That's fine, but they should leave the question for someone else to edit then, not close it because they don't feel like fixing it. I can't see ever closing a confusing question as NaRQ if I actually do understand it and can tell that there's a real question in there – Michael Mrozek Aug 9 '10 at 21:37
@Michael: Broken windows. – John Rudy Aug 9 '10 at 21:51
@George - How is "What is the R" unclear? Anyone familiar with R will understand it. Sure there's a gratuitous "the", but that's only there because the OP doesn't know what (the) R is. – Peter Ajtai Aug 9 '10 at 22:36
@Peter: which brings us to John Rudy's comment below: if he didn't know what R was, why was he asking about it on a programming website? Presumably he knew R was a language or tool of some sort, and really just wanted to know what sort of language/tool, what problems it's intended to solve, etc. - the sort of specificity that makes all the difference between an overly-broad question and one that can be effectively answered. – Shog9 Aug 9 '10 at 22:45
Compare and contrast: Should we encourage more closing?
Needless to say, I disagree with your feeling that too many questions are being closed. We need some quality control (with crowd sourcing that is always an issue), but we also need more questions closed and faster with fewer inappropriate re-openings if possible.
dmckee --- ex-moderator kittendmckee --- ex-moderator kitten
Let me see if I can dissect this. The original question, as closed, read thusly:
What is the R ?
There are a lot of questions about R.
What is R?
That's a direct copy-and-paste. That's what got closed. While I'd agree that the accepted answer was rude, the original question was poorly-worded, vague and open-ended. I would have voted to close it, too. About the only actually decent content on that entire page is Shane's answer. Yes, it's a copy-and-paste from the FAQ, but at least it contributes something more than a link to the site.
It's been argued in the past, by myself and others, that there are frankly not enough questions getting closed. Even as rewritten by George Stocker (which happened after the reopening), I'd still vote to close it as NaRQ. And have. (And reopening was irrelevant anyway; the OP got his needed answer and more.)
I would not say that closed questions are doomed -- the community has a long history of reopening incorrectly-closed questions. (And also reopening correctly-closed questions; pobody's nerfect.)
In short, correct closure, and if there's any adjustment to the system that I think ought to be made, it'd be bumping up the rep requirement to vote for reopening, while leaving the ability to close at 3,000. (Except on one's own posts, of course.)
John RudyJohn Rudy
Discrepancy in the responsibilities you receive is a bad idea. As you acknowledge, people do wrongly close things. You shouldn't need additional reputation to fix a mistaken closing that you were a part of. – Grace Note♦ Aug 9 '10 at 21:19
Perhaps you're right. I just see too much of the inclusionist streak these days. "Why did you close an 11-word question?" Gah. – John Rudy Aug 9 '10 at 21:20
This particular question might've not been the best example, but it is just that. An example. – NullUserException อ_อ Aug 9 '10 at 21:22
What's wrong with being succint ? If she asked "What is R?" that's a 3 word question and still a valid question IMO. – NullUserException อ_อ Aug 9 '10 at 21:23
How is it poorly-worded, vague, or open-ended? It seems like it should be very straightforward, unambiguous, and easily understood by anyone with the knowledge of what R is (which is who should be answering the question). People are using "not a real question" criteria as if they mean "this is not a good question" (or, perhaps more accurately, "I don't like this question being on SO"). That is not at all their meaning. – Nicholas Knight Aug 9 '10 at 21:23
@NullUser: What is the "correct" answer to, "What is R?" A well-formulated question will be specific and have one answer. I can answer it right now: "A programming language." (Snarkily) "The letter before S." @Nicholas: It is absolutely vague and open-ended. "There are a lot of questions about R. What is R?" How about asking some of those "lot of questions" about it? And NaRQ has always meant "this is not a good question." – John Rudy Aug 9 '10 at 21:29
WTF? Programming questions rarely have one answer. And "Not a Real Question"'s criteria are spelled out rather clearly and are not a blanket "not a good question". – Nicholas Knight Aug 9 '10 at 21:45
"It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form." (Emphasis mine.) – John Rudy Aug 9 '10 at 21:48
None of which makes it a blanket "not a good question", and certainly the question being used as an example here is not vague or incomplete. Just because you might not know what a question is about does not mean the question is vague or incomplete. It may just mean it's not something you know about and thus you probably shouldn't be answering it or voting on it. If you do want to express your view that something is not a good question, that is what downvotes and comments are for. – Nicholas Knight Aug 9 '10 at 21:50
@Nicholas: It meets two of four requirements for NaRQ. And NaRQ (unlike S&A) is an or condition. Can I figure out that the question is about the R programming language? Sure. But does that make the question less vague and ambiguous? NO. It's a broken window. – John Rudy Aug 9 '10 at 21:54
WHAT is vague or ambiguous about it? I don't think you understand what those words mean. The question is very clear. He sees talk of something called "R". He asks what it is. If you know what R is, the answer is clear. At a minimum, "A programming language" is absolutely a valid and complete answer. A better answer would include a link to more information about it. A great answer might include a description of its target audience and problem domain. How is any of this vague or ambiguous? – Nicholas Knight Aug 9 '10 at 21:58
"I've heard about the R programming language" would only make sense if he knew it was a programming language. Why do you assume he already knew that? – Nicholas Knight Aug 9 '10 at 21:59
This is getting ridiculous. If you can't see what's vague about the question, "what is R?," then I can't really argue with you. Any question which is best answered with nothing more than a link and a snarky comment hasn't provided content of value to the site. It's about the quality of the content on the site -- and apparently some users are content to have bad questions with equally bad answers, and enough of them that eventually we look like the geek equivalent of Yahoo! Answers. – John Rudy Aug 9 '10 at 22:03
"Why do you assume he already knew that?" Because he asked it on a programming question and answer site? – John Rudy Aug 9 '10 at 22:04
Nothing is best answered with a link and snarky comment. If you think snark is ever the right answer to a question on SO, you need to back away from the question and not get involved. And not all nouns on SO are programming languages. .NET isn't a programming language, XML isn't a programming language, SOAP isn't a programming language, jquery, iphone, linux, django, silverlight, WCF, android, ... – Nicholas Knight Aug 9 '10 at 22:08
Questions that receive close votes are doomed.
Absolutely not! They can be reopened just as easily.
It's no longer the "Community" that can close the question; but a tiny minority of it - 5 (five) users, it's all it takes
I think you should be able to cast a re-open vote before a question is closed (or an "unvote" to close). That way we could avoid the question bouncing between closed/open while we sort it out.
That's what my 2nd suggestion is. – NullUserException อ_อ Aug 9 '10 at 21:11
Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged feature-request vote-to-close closed-questions community .
Should we encourage more closing?
Can we have the ability to retract a close vote before it closes?
Ban LMGTFY (let me google that for you) links
How about a "Vote not to close" option to counter the "Vote to close"?
Aren't questions being closed too quickly?
Why was /review/close taken away for under 10k users? Can it be put back?
Fixed number of close votes + growing community = more questions being closed. Is this desirable?
Lots of closes (as subjective) on good questions, recently
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This is a command line tool for archiving github content.

It currently supports archiving the master branch of a user or organization's
repositories, as they currently are without git history. This tool was created
to quickly create an archive of all of our code for software escrow purposes.

## Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

```ruby
gem 'github_archive'
```

And then execute:

    $ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

    $ gem install github_archive

## CLI Usage

```
$ ./exe/github-archive
Commands:
  github-archive help [COMMAND]          # Describe available commands or one specific command
  github-archive org-repos ORGANIZATION  # Archive an organization's repos
  github-archive user-repos USER         # Archive a user's repos

Options:
  -f, [--filename=FILENAME]        # output filename
                                   # Default: ./github-archive.tar
  -t, [--token=TOKEN]              # github token for authentication
  -v, [--verbose], [--no-verbose]  # Use verbose output
```

## Development

After checking out the repo, run `bin/setup` to install dependencies. Then, run `rake spec` to run the tests. You can also run `bin/console` for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run `bundle exec rake install`. To release a new version, update the version number in `version.rb`, and then run `bundle exec rake release`, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the `.gem` file to [rubygems.org](https://rubygems.org).

## Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/maxwellhealth/github_archive. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the [Contributor Covenant](http://contributor-covenant.org) code of conduct.

## License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the [MIT License](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).

## Code of Conduct

Everyone interacting in the GithubArchive project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the [code of conduct](https://github.com/[USERNAME]/github_archive/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).

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Bauer Hockey — компанія з виробництва обладнання для хокею з шайбою. Незважаючи на те, що компанія відома як виробник спорядження для воротарів, вона також виробляє одяг для гравців. Основний конкурент — компанія CCM.

Історія
У 1927 році сім'я Бауер, власники Western Shoe Company, заснували Bauer Skate company.

Bauer була першою хокейною компанією, що почала виробляти хокейні ковзани, в яких лезо постійно було закріплено до черевика. Черевик і лезо були зроблені Бауером .Це нововведення змінило галузь. У наступні роки верхня лінія Bauer Skate спочатку продавалася під торговою назвою «Bauer Supreme». Компанія була ще більш популяризована популярністю Боббі Бауера, члена сім'ї та представника Зали хокейної Слави, який грав за Бостон Брюїнз в 30-х і 40-х роках.

У 1960-х роках компанія заплатила суперзірці Боббі Галлу, щоб схвалити їх ковзани. Цей крок ознаменував початок нової ери для компанії.

Потім на початку 1970-х Джим Робертс, також з Канадієнс, почав носити тепер відоме лезо TUUK. Незабаром пішли гучні товариші по команді Гай Лафлер, Стів Шатт і Жак Лемер. Успіх цього леза був таким що до 1995 року, різні тавра ковзана Canstar (Micron, Bauer та ін) мав 70 % частку ринку НХЛ, в той час як їх власники TUUK і ICM об'єдналися на 95 %.

У 1994 року Bauer почав виробляти перфороване лезо. Це зробило революцію в хокейному спорті, оскільки дозволило зробити ковзани більш легкими, а також більш міцними.

У 1994 році компанія Canstar, головна компанія Bauer, стала дочірньою компанією Nike. У 2006 році, починаючи з випуску Nike Bauer Supreme One90, продукція компанії була перейменована як Nike Bauer. Це був перший випадок, коли компанія Nike коли-небудь використовувала назву партнера для продукту. Компанія Nike 21 лютого 2008 року продала компанію інвесторам Roustan, Inc. та Kohlberg & Co., а компанія знову отримала назву Bauer.

25 вересня 2008 року Bauer оголосив про покупку конкурентів Mission-Itech.

Примітки

Посилання
 Bauer.com

Підприємства за алфавітом
Виробники спортивних товарів


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Updates on the layout itself will continue here.
As of last week, the ballasting and timbering of the plain track was complete, with tracklaying on Board 2 ongoing (Board 1 is done as far as track is concerned, and also all the droppers and bus wires beneath are connected).
P&C sections are being completed away from the layout for installation and ballasting later.
And a couple of shots showing the board-end "track strengthening" process - PCB with brass bar onto which sleepers are threaded (if we remember ) and rail is soldered to. The sleepers are currently loose but will be bedded into the ballast and cosmetic half-chairs added in due course.
At the ends of the boards I have used cast chairs available from C&L or Exactoscale - see attached picture.
Solder paste is used on top of a sleeper wide strip of PCB - although I bed this into Araldite rather than screw it to the board.
I have temporarily fibre brused thes to make them a little clearer on what is a cruel camera.
b) attach the track paln to the foam.
As far as I can recall it was glued to the board surface with PVA, as was the track plan to the underlay - although the latter could also have been done with spraymount provided you were in a very well ventilated room!
Thanks for the information. I have some Carrs 5mm foam from Brian Lewis's emporium to use on Barrow Road. I have just completed 6 of the 15 turnouts for the layout and am at the stage of deciding which material to use as a track base.
I now need to decide whether to use the foam, traditional cork or even foam/feather board. My current choice is likely to be the foam, but could you tell me how good the sound damping quality is as my current layout Sheep Pasture - which uses foamboard - gives rather noisy running in the house.
Can't really answer about sound-dampening as we haven't got as far as running trains seriously! We used it mainly for providing a reasonable basis for a ballast shoulder that was a more even and reliable surface than cork. It may well have some soundproofing properties, but Eridge is not a home layout so the benefits might never be noticed!
Here's another photo of when we first stuck it down and before trimming to fit the track layout.
After numerous experiments with different forms of underlay, including cork, foamboard over thin expanded polystyrene (Middlepeak Wharf), camping mat (Middlepeak Top) and Anita Decor foam attached with their 'flexi-glue' (the latest P87 offering), I've reached the conclusion that it's actually the construction of the baseboards that is more important. We've both tended to use a lightweight box-type construction for our C&HP efforts and the effect is to create something akin to a sounding box, in which any noise from the train is inevitably magnified.
Having taken my locos to a friend's layout, where the baseboard construction is by the old-fashioned heavier 2x1 and chipboard method, the resulting noise is considerably less. The down side of course is the weight - there has to be a compromise somewhere!
I get the impression that the best solution might be to use a good grade of birch ply - at least 9mm for the sides and ends and maybe 12mm for the trackbed. I recall Ray Hammond using this for Thursford and the result was a very stable base that reduced the noise.
These layouts go on exhibitions....so just how much noise are they generating? More than a hall full of happy, chatty modellers...doubtful. Have the boards ever been thinly insulated (foam type insulation) from the underside, where it is practical to do so. Its' the resonance across the board you need to kill. On Belle Vue we had some noise issues, but decided the noise was insufficient to cause a problem in a room full of people. You can't hear a noisy gearbox and motor on show, so its doubtful that you'll hear the echoes of wheels.
Something that I will definitely be looking at when I get around to building boards will be using extruded polystyrene, as underpins Pempoul and explained at length in (IIRC) MRJ 156. The use of extruded polystyrene, within a thin timber frame to protect the edges, should be physically unable to be noisy as there will not be a structural mechanism to transmit the vibration, and to resonate from it.
As very much a second-best, but worth contemplating for a permanent home layout is the use of sound-deadening panels. I have these under my kitchen sink to reduce the noise from the waste disposal unit. They are a sort of sticky-backed, plastic-coated flexible lead flashing. Heavy, and absorbing of vibration. I expect that you can find it at Wickes, or a good builders' merchant.
A bit more progress - one track almost complete end-to-end.
The legs will also be supporting lightweight scenic sections which will just plug in from the side in jigsaw fashion - probably based on foamboard or thin ply carcasses.
Is that an estimate or a confession?
I just counted the gauges in the picture, I don't have anywhere near as many as that!
The J class loco runs very nicely Rod.
It looks as though a real treat is being prepared...loved the diesel effects!
Just a bit of fun, Mike - Eridge won't be DCC (not for now anyway) or a blue diesel layout except when we're mucking around!
In this election week, let me rephrase that - Eridge will be DCC very soon, in fact as soon as the trackwork is wired to the busbars underneath and the power units connected. Mark's demo convinced us that it would be the way to go, and many of us will soon be getting hold of our own NCE Powercabs to play with.
We don't plan to do sound yet though (or will I have to rephrase that as well ...).
How big a fiddle yard is being built for this? And what is the fiddle yard being built from - design etc...?
When we get to see the layout we will be looking out for a dog on the platform.


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Beowulf (c. 700 C.E.) is a heroic epic poem, written in Old English, and easily the most important work of literature written in that language. At over 3,000 lines, the poem makes up 10 percent of the entire corpus of extant Old English literature. Beowulf is also one of the earliest surviving documents written in any vernacular language—one of the most valuable glimpses into the culture and history of the medieval ages afforded to historians.
Although neglected for centuries, Beowulf, with the aid of a number of compelling modern translations, has entered into its own as one of the most popular and enduring epic poems ever written. Since the nineteenth century, the poem has continued to receive praise as a great work of literature comparable to the classical epics of Homer and Virgil. With its distinct style, written in booming Anglo-Saxon meter, and telling a tale with the spareness and forthrightness one would expect of medieval warriors, Beowulf is a moving depiction of heroism and virtue in a medieval age plagued by violence and rivalry.
Beowulf presents a rare, primary-source view of medieval society, culture, and literature. It displays concern with honor and vassalage, as well as with lineage, which has largely disappeared as a sustaining social construct from Western society since the Enlightenment. Family loyalty was the predominant feature of the culture depicted in the epic poem, but that loyalty cuts two ways. Honor means concern for lineage, but it also easily spirals into a cycle of violence and, particularly, the need for revenge.
Beowulf has exerted its influence on a number of modern poets and fiction-writers. Gerard Manley Hopkins adapted his "sprung rhythm" from the harsh rhythms of Beowulf; Ezra Pound was influenced deeply by the poem, and attempted a translation along with several other Anglo-Saxon poems; and, perhaps most notably, J.R.R. Tolkein was deeply influenced by the poem, drawing much of the material for his fantasy world from the world of Beowulf, where magic was still potent and heroes commanded loyalty through the force of character.
Beowulf is one of the oldest surviving epic poems in what is identifiable as an early form of the English language. In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Germanic tribe of Geatland, from southern Sweden, travels to Denmark to help defeat a monster named Grendel. This poem, about Danish and Swedish kings and heroes, was preserved in England because the English people are descendants of Germanic tribes: the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes. Jutes and northern Saxon tribes came from what is now southern Denmark and northern Germany. Beowulf tells a story about the old days of the Anglo-Saxon people in their native land. At the proposed time of the poem's composition (roughly 700 C.E.) the Anglo-Saxons had only migrated to England a few hundred years before; the connection between the Anglo-Saxons, the Danes, and the Geats was still quite strong, and the poem is in some sense an attempt to reconcile the cultures of these different Germanic peoples.
The poem is a work of fiction, but it mentions an historic event, the raid by King Hygelac into Frisia, ca 516. Several of the personalities of Beowulf (e.g., Hrothgar, Hrothulf, and Ohthere) and some of the events also appear in early Scandinavian sources, such as the Prose Edda, Gesta Danorum, and the fornaldarsagas, among others. These sources, especially the Hrólf Kraki tales, refer to the same set of characters in Denmark and Sweden.
Consequently, some scholars believe that many of the people and events depicted in the epic were probably real, dating from between 450 and 600 in Denmark and southern Sweden (Geats and Swedes). In Sweden, this dating has been confirmed by archaeological excavations of the barrows indicated by Snorri Sturluson and also by Swedish oral tradition as the graves of Eadgils and Ohthere, minor characters who figure in the poem. Like several other shorter surviving poems, Beowulf has consequently been used as a source of information about Scandinavian and Germanic history.
The traditions behind the poem probably arrived in England at a time when the Anglo-Saxons were still in close dynastic and personal contacts with their Germanic kinsmen in Scandinavia and northern Germany. While it could be said that Beowulf is the only substantial extant Old English poem that addresses pagan rather than Christian matters, there are nonetheless Christian viewpoints expressed within the poem, although the overall judgment on both Christian and heroic society is ambiguous.
A turning point in Beowulf scholarship came in 1936 with J.R.R. Tolkien's article Beowulf: The Monsters and The Critics when, for the first time, the poem was seriously examined for its literary merits, and not just scholarship about the origins of the English language, as was popular in the nineteenth century. Perhaps no other single academic article has been so instrumental in converting a medieval piece of literature from obscurity to prominence, and now Beowulf is acknowledged as one of the finest pieces of Old English literature—and medieval literature in general.
The precise date of the manuscript is debated, but most estimates place it close to the year 1000. Traditionally the poem's date of composition has been estimated, on linguistic and other grounds, as approximately 650–800. More recently, doubt has been raised about the linguistic criteria for dating, with some scholars suggesting a date as late as the eleventh century, near the time of the manuscript's copying. The poem appears in what is today called the Beowulf manuscript or Nowell Codex (British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A.xv), along with other works. The manuscript is the product of two different scribes, the second and more accurate scribe taking over at line 1939 of Beowulf.
The poem is known only from a single manuscript. The spellings in the surviving copy of the poem mix the West Saxon and Anglian dialects of Old English, though they are predominantly West Saxon, as are other Old English poems copied at the time. The earliest known owner is the sixteenth century scholar Laurence Nowell, after whom the manuscript is known, though its official designation is Cotton Vitellius A.XV due to its inclusion in the catalog of Robert Bruce Cotton's holdings in the middle of the seventeenth century. It suffered irreparable damage in the Cotton Library fire at the ominously-named Ashburnham House in 1731.
Icelandic scholar Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin made the first transcription of the manuscript in 1786 and published it in 1815, working under a historical research commission of the Danish government. Since that time, the manuscript has suffered additional decay, and the Thorkelin transcripts remain a prized secondary source for Beowulf scholars. Their accuracy has been called into question, however (e.g., by Chauncey Brewster Tinker in The Translations of Beowulf, a comprehensive survey of nineteenth century translations and editions of Beowulf), and the extent to which the manuscript was actually more readable in Thorkelin's time is unclear.
The poem as it is now known is a retelling of folktales from the pagan, Anglo-Saxon Oral tradition directed at a Christian audience. It is often assumed that the work was written by a Christian monk, on the grounds that they were the only members of Anglo-Saxon society with access to writing materials.
In historical terms the poem's characters would have been pagans. The poem's narrator, however, places events into a Biblical context, casting Grendel and Grendel's Mother as the kin of Cain and placing monotheistic sentiments into the mouths of his characters. Although there are no direct references to Jesus in the text of the work, the Old Testament serves as an important touchstone, and poem's tone and style are indeed quite similar to the straightforwardness and violent nature of many Old Testament stories. Scholars disagree as to whether Beowulf is a pagan or Christian poem in nature. The poem most certainly valorizes a pagan people and their ruthless, un-Christian customs of vengeance and warfare. It is often suggested that, since the poem was almost certainly transcribed by a Christian monk, the poem's scribe attempted to adapt a pagan poem to Christian viewpoints by making minor changes to the text.
Beowulf depicts a Germanic warrior society, where relationship between the king and his thanes, or warriors is of paramount importance. In Beowulf, this relationship was defined in terms of provision and service; the thanes defend the interest of their king in return for material provisions: Weapons, armor, gold, silver, and supplies.
Beowulf begins with the story of King Hroðgar (also written Hrothgar), a great king of the Danes, who has built the great hall of Heorot to house and protect his people. Safe in the walls of Heorot, Hrothgar, his wife Wealhþeow, and his warriors spend their time singing and celebrating until Grendel, a hideous monster, attacks the hall and kills and devours many of Hrothgar's warriors. Hrothgar and his people, helpless against Grendel's attacks, abandon Heorot in shame.
Beowulf, a young warrior from Geatland, a region of southern Sweden, hears of Hrothgar's troubles. Beowulf recalls Hrothgar's kindness to his father, Ecgtheow, many years before; he gathers a band of warriors and, with his own king's permission, leaves for Denmark to aid Hrothgar in his time of need. He receives a warm reception at Heorot, including a feast, music, and banter. Many of the Danes, although impressed by Beowulf's strength and stature, insist that Grendel is invincible, and that he and his men could not possibly do any better than the Danes themselves against the beast. Beowulf ignores these comments, and his men spend the night in Heorot while Hrothgar and his people leave, knowing that the monster will return at nightfall. After Beowulf's men fall asleep, Grendel enters and attacks, devouring one of Beowulf's men. Beowulf, feigning sleep, leaps up and grabs Grendel's arm in a wrestling hold, and the two battle until it seems as though the hall itself might fall down from the force of their battle. Beowulf's men draw their swords and rush to his help, but Grendel is a magical creature and cannot be harmed by mere swords; only Beowulf's pure strength can possibly defeat him. Finally, Beowulf tears Grendel's arm from his body and Grendel flees home, bleeding to death.
The next night, after celebrating Grendel's death and lauding Beowulf with gifts and praise, Hrothgar and his men sleep in Heorot for the first time since Grendel's appearance. Grendel's mother appears and attacks the hall. She kills Hrothgar's most trusted warrior in revenge for Grendel's death and promises to menace Heorot just as her son once did.
Hrothgar, Beowulf, and their men track Grendel's mother to her lair under an eerie lake. Beowulf prepares himself for battle; he is presented with a sword, Hrunting, by a warrior called Unferth, one of the Danes who had most vocally doubted Beowulf's prowess. After stipulating to Hrothgar what should be done in the event of his death, Beowulf then dives into the lake to do battle with Grendel's mother. There, he is swiftly detected and attacked by the monster. Unable to harm Beowulf through his armor, Grendel's mother drags him to the bottom of the lake. There, in a cavern containing her son's body and the remains of many men that the two have killed, Grendel's mother and Beowulf wage a ferocious battle.
Grendel's mother at first gains the upper hand. Hrunting, the sword given to Beowulf by Unferth, proves to be useless against the creature. Grendel's mother moves in for the kill, but again Beowulf is saved by his mighty armor. Beowulf spies a mighty sword lying in a heap in the monster's lair (a sword so heavy, the poem tells us, no other warrior could have lifted it) and, grasping it quickly, Beowulf beheads Grendel's mother. Traveling further into the lair, Beowulf discovers Grendel's corpse; he severs the head, and with the heads of the two creatures he returns to Heorot (the warriors who had been waiting at the surface of the lake having given up, presuming that Beowulf had been killed). He is given many gifts by an even more grateful Hrothgar, and at last peace returns to Denmark and Heorot.
die than live a life of shame.
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon."
how the noble ones did deeds of valor."
Old English poetry does not have meter in the traditional sense. Most other poetry, including the poetry of the medieval ages as well as most of the classical Latin and Greek poems, follow strict forms where the number of accented and unaccented syllables is always the same. In Anglo-Saxon poetry, however, the syllables are not counted at all; some of the lines in Beowulf run quite long while others are short. The meter of the poem is defined by its accented syllables only: Each line contains four accented syllables, three of which alliterate and one of which does not. In addition to this, each line includes a pause, called a caesura (the term is Latin, not Germanic); although other forms of poetry, particularly Latin, also include such a pause, the caesura in Beowulf and in Anglo-Saxon poetry in general is irregular; it does not always fall at the middle of the line. All these technical aspects make Beowulf and other Anglo-Saxon poetry rather difficult to translate, with some authors taking more liberties than others with the form. The rhythm of Anglo-Saxon poetry, when read aloud properly, is altogether different from the more regular rhythms of most other poetry. Due to the focus on alliteration rather than rhyme and the rather harsh consonants of Old English in general, Beowulf reads quite forcefully in the original, sounding almost more like a battle-chant than a poem. This, of course, is consistent with the rather war-like tone of the poem, and of the culture of the Anglo-Saxons in general.
Beowulf also makes liberal use of kennings, an Old English technique of metaphor, where simple things are referred to by complicated names. For example, a poet might call the sea the "whale-road"; a king might be called a "ring-giver"; and a battle might be a "blade-dance." There are many kennings in Beowulf, and the device is typical of most poetry in Old English,. The name Beowulf itself may be a kenning for "bee-hunter," that is, for "bear." Scholars suspect that kennings relate very closely to the oral nature of Old English poetry; a poet could use kennings of common words so as to complete the meaning of a given line while still preserving the alliterative meter. The style is quite similar to other ancient poetry, most notably Homer, whose Homeric formulas (repeated words and phrases used to describe certain characters and objects that vary based on the length of the line) are remarkably similar to Old English kennings.
ac for higeþrymmum Hroðgar sohton." But for greatness of heart, you have sought Hrothgar."
beodgeneatas; Beowulf is min nama. Table-companions. Beowulf is my name.
þæt we hine swa godne gretan moton." that we might be allowed to address him, he who is so good."
 ðe me se goda agifan þenceð." That the great one sees fit to give me."
The first translation, by Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin, was done in Latin, in connection with the first publication of his transcription. Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig, greatly unsatisfied with this translation, made the first translation into a modern language—Danish—which was published in 1820. After Grundtvig's travels to England came the first English translation, by J. M. Kemble in 1837.
Since then there have been numerous translations of the poem in English. Irish poet Seamus Heaney and E. Talbot Donaldson have both published translations with W.W. Norton of New York. Other popular translations of the poem include those by Howell D. Chickering and Frederick Rebsamen. Among the most widely used translations—sometimes in conjunction with one another—are E.T. Donaldson's very literal prose version, and Burton Raffel's verse rendering.
Grendel: The Beowulf story is retold from Grendel's point of view in this (1971) novel by John Gardner.
Beowulf exercised an important influence on J.R.R. Tolkien, who wrote the landmark essay Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics while a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University. Tolkien also made a translation of the poem, which the Tolkien Society has recently decided to publish. Significantly, the word orc-neas is used to describe Grendel's race. Many parallels can also be drawn between Beowulf and Tolkien's The Hobbit.
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Modern English translation by John Lesslie Hall.
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Scyld Shef'sson and the epic poem, Beowulf.
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The Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders last night adopted the 2017 Middlesex County Operating Budget. The $458.4 million gross operating budget reflects the Freeholder Board's focus on enhancing quality programs and services that are affordable to our taxpayers and on increasing operational efficiencies.
The 2017 budget represents a less than 1 cent increase in the tax rate to taxpayers. That amounts to an increase of about $20 per household per year.
"The budget illustrates this Board's commitment to its residents, as it continues to provide quality programs and services despite federal and state funding cuts and keeps our expenses in check," said Freeholder Leslie Koppel, chair of the County's Finance Committee.
He said State grant funding for MCAT transportation services was cut for the ninth consecutive year, bringing the total funding reduction for this critical service to more than $1.5 million over that time.
Rios also said the State's Bail Reform and a Speedy Trial initiative is costing Middlesex County more than $1.9 million this year alone.
To offset the cuts, Rios said the County continues to increase its portfolio of Shared Services agreements with neighboring counties to be more efficient in Middlesex County and to expand these efficiencies and cost savings to the surrounding region.
Rios said the County also is expanding its Shared Service programs for fire inspection services to all municipalities within the County.
The County continues to maintain its Triple A bond rating, which it has held for 16 years. This is crucial to its Capital Improvement Master Plan, through which more than $50 million will be invested in 2017 for critical projects, such as road reconstruction, bridge repairs and facilities and technology upgrades, to ensure the safety and wellbeing of the residents.
"Our excellent bond rating enables us to complete these projects at lower costs," Rios said.
Koppel said Middlesex County is the first County in the State to adopt its budget for 2017.
"That's good news for our residents, as we will be able to offer our full complement of quality services at the earliest possible time," she said.