Twelve years after the U.S. invaded Afghanistan to topple the Taliban and a decade after the misguided invasion of Iraq — both designed to consolidate and expand America's regional clout by removing adversaries — Washington's actual standing in country after country, including its chief allies in the region, has never been weaker. Though President Obama can order raids virtually anywhere using Special Operations forces, and though he can strike willy-nilly in targeted killing actions by calling in the Predator and Reaper drones, he has become the Rodney Dangerfield of the Middle East. Not only does no one there respect the United States, but no one really fears it, either — and increasingly, no one pays it any mind at all.
There are plenty of reasons why America's previously unchallenged hegemony in the Middle East is in free fall. The disastrous invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq generated anti-American fervor in the streets and in the elites. America's economic crisis since 2008 has convinced many that the United States no longer has the wherewithal to sustain an imperial presence. The Arab Spring, for all its ups and downs, has challenged the status quo everywhere, leading to enormous uncertainty while empowering political forces unwilling to march in lockstep with Washington. In addition, oil-consuming nations like China and India have become more engaged with their suppliers, including Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Iraq. The result: throughout the region, things are fast becoming unglued for the United States.
Its two closest allies, Israel and Saudi Arabia, are sullenly hostile, routinely ignore Obama's advice, and openly oppose American policies. Iraq and Afghanistan, one formerly occupied and one about to be evacuated, are led, respectively, by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, an inflexible sectarian Shiite closely tied to Iran, and President Hamid Karzai, a corrupt, mercurial leader who periodically threatens to join the Taliban. In Egypt, three successive regimes — those of President Hosni Mubarak, Mohammad Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the chieftains of the July 2013 military coup — have insouciantly flouted U.S. wishes.
Turkey, ostensibly a NATO ally but led by a quirky Islamist, is miffed over Obama's back-and-forth policy in Syria and has shocked the U.S. by deciding to buy a non-NATO-compatible missile defense system from China. Libya, Somalia, and Yemen have little or no government at all. They have essentially devolved into a mosaic of armed gangs, many implacably opposed to the United States.
In an editorial on October 29th, the New York Times ruefully concluded: "It is not every day that America finds itself facing open rebellion from its allies, yet that is what is happening with Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Israel." And in a front-page story on the administration's internal deliberations, the Times's Mark Landler reported that, over the summer, the White House had decided to scale back its role in the Middle East because many objectives "lie outside [its] reach," and henceforth would adopt a "more modest strategy" in the region.
Perhaps the most profound irony embedded in Washington's current predicament is this: Iran, for decades the supposed epicenter of anti-Americanism in the region, is the country where the United States has perhaps its last opportunity to salvage its position. If Washington and Tehran can negotiate a détente — and it's a big if, given the domestic political power of hawks in both countries — that accord might go a long way toward stabilizing Washington's regional credibility.
Let's begin our survey of America's Greater Middle Eastern fecklessness with Exhibit A: Syria. It is there, where a movement to oust President Bashar al-Assad devolved into a civil war, that the United States has demonstrated its utter inability to guide events. Back in the summer of 2011 — at the very dawn of the conflict — Obama demanded that Assad step down. There was only one problem: short of an Iraq-style invasion of Syria, he had no power to make that happen. Assad promptly called his bluff, escalated the conflict, and rallied support from Russia and Iran. Obama's clarion call for his resignation only made things worse by convincing Syrian rebels that the United States would come to their aid.
A year later, Obama drew a "red line" in the sand, suggesting that any use of chemical weapons by Syrian forces would precipitate a U.S. military response. Again Assad ignored him, and many hundreds of civilians were gassed to death in multiple uses of the dreaded weapons.
The crowning catastrophe of Obama's Syria policy came when he threatened a devastating strike on Assad's military facilities using Tomahawk cruise missiles and other weaponry. Instead of finding himself leading a George W. Bush-style "coalition of the willing" with domestic support, Obama watched as allies scattered, including the usually reliable British and the Arab League. At home, political support was nearly nil and evaporated from there. Polls showed Americans overwhelmingly opposed to a war with or attack on Syria.
When, in desperation, the president appealed to Congress for a resolution to authorize the use of military force against that country, the White House found (to its surprise) that Congress, which normally rubber-stamps such proposals, would have none of it. Paralyzed, reluctant to choose between backing down and striking Syria by presidential fiat, Obama was rescued in humiliating fashion by a proposal from Syria's chief ally, Russia, to dismantle and destroy that country's chemical weapons arsenal.
Adding insult to injury, as Secretary of State John Kerry scrambles to organize a long-postponed peace conference in Geneva aimed at reaching a political settlement of the civil war, he is faced with a sad paradox: while the Syrian government has agreed to attend the Geneva meeting, also sponsored by Russia, America's allies, the anti-Assad rebels, have flatly refused to go.
Next door, in a country whose government was installed by the United States after the 2003 invasion, the Obama administration notoriously failed to convince the Iraqis to allow even a small contingent of American troops to remain there past 2011. Since then, that country has moved ever more firmly into Iran's orbit and has virtually broken with Washington over Syria.
Meanwhile, Washington is also flailing in its policy toward Egypt, where the Obama administration has been singularly hapless. In a rare feat, it has managed to anger and alienate every conceivable faction in that politically divided country. In July, when Egypt's military ousted President Mohammad Morsi and violently clamped down on the Muslim Brotherhood, the Obama administration made itself look ridiculous to Egyptians (and to the rest of the Middle East) by refusing to call what happened a coup d'état, since under U.S. law that would have meant suspending aid to the Egyptian military.
As it happened, however, American aid figured little in the calculations of Egypt's new military leaders. The reason was simple enough: Saudi Arabia and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, bitter opponents of the Morsi government, applauded the coup and poured at least $12 billion in cash into the country's near-empty coffers. In the end, making no one happy, the administration tried to split the difference: Obama declared that he would suspend the delivery of some big-ticket military items like Apache attack helicopters, Harpoon missiles, M1-A1 tank parts, and F-16 fighter planes, but let other aid to the military continue, including counterterrorism assistance and the sale of border security items. Such a split decision only served to underscore the administration's lack of leverage in Cairo. Meanwhile, there are reports that Egypt's new rulers may turn to Russia for arms in open defiance of a horrified Washington's wishes.
The most surprising defection from the pro-American coalition in the Middle East is, however, Saudi Arabia. In part, that kingdom's erratic behavior may result from a growing awareness among its ultraconservative, kleptocratic princelings that they face an increasingly uncertain future. Christopher Davidson's new book, After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies, outlines the many pressures building on the country.
One significant cause of instability, claims Davidson, is the "existence of substantial Western military bases on the Arabian Peninsula, [which are considered] an affront to Islam and to national sovereignty." For decades, such an American military presence in the region provided a security blanket for the Saudi royals, making the country a virtual U.S. protectorate. Now, amid the turmoil that has followed the war in Iraq, the Arab Spring, and the rise of an assertive Iran, Saudi Arabia isn't sure which way to turn, or whether the United States is friend or foe.
Since 2003, the Saudi rulers have found themselves increasingly unhappy with American policy. Riyadh, the area's chief Sunni power, was apoplectic when the United States toppled Iraq's Sunni leader Saddam Hussein and allowed Iran to vastly increase its influence in Baghdad. In 2011, the Saudi royal family blamed Washington for not doing more to prevent the collapse of the conservative and pro-Saudi Mubarak government in Egypt.
Now, the Saudis are on the verge of a complete break over Washington's policies toward Syria and Iran. As the chief backers of the rebels in Syria, they were dismayed when Obama chose not to bomb military sites around Damascus. Because it views Iran through the lens of a regional Sunni-Shiite struggle for dominance, it is no less dismayed by the possible emergence of a U.S.-Iran accord from renewed negotiations over that country's nuclear program.
This is shocking stuff from America's second most reliable ally in the region. As for reliable ally number one, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has visibly decided to be anything but a cooperative partner in the region, making Obama's job more difficult at every turn. Since 2009, he has gleefully defied the American president, starting with his refusal to impose a freeze on illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank when specifically asked to do so by the president at the start of his first term. Meanwhile, most of the world has spent the past half-decade on tenterhooks over the possibility that his country might actually launch a much-threatened military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
Since Hassan Rouhani was elected president of Iran and indicated his interest in reorienting policy to make a deal with the Western powers over its nuclear program, Israeli statements have become ever more shrill. In a September speechto the U.N. General Assembly, for instance, Netanyahu rolled out extreme rhetoric, claiming that Israel is "challenged by a nuclear-armed Iran that seeks our destruction." This despite the fact that Iran possesses no nuclear weapons, has enriched not an ounce of uranium to weapons-grade level, and has probably not mastered the technology to manufacture a bomb. According to American intelligence reports, it has not yet even militarized its nuclear research.
Both Israel and Saudi Arabia are fearful that the Middle Eastern balance of power could be tipped against them if the United States and Iran are able to strike a deal. Seeking to throw the proverbial monkey wrench into the talks between Iran, the U.S., and the P5+1 powers (the permanent members of the U.N. security Council plus Germany), Israel has put forward a series of demands that go far beyond anything Iran would accept, or that the other countries would go along with. Before supporting the removal of international economic sanctions against Iran, Israelwants that country to suspend all enrichment of uranium, shut down its nuclear facilities, not be allowed any centrifuges to enrich uranium, abandon the heavy-water plant it is constructing to produce plutonium, permanently close its fortified underground installation at Fordo, and ship its stockpile of enriched uranium out of the country.
In contrast, it's widely believed that the United States is ready to allow Iran to continue to enrich uranium, maintain some of its existing facilities, and retain a partial stockpile of enriched uranium for fuel under stricter and more intrusive inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Ironically, a U.S.-Iran détente is the one thing that could slow down or reverse the death spiral of American influence in the region. Iran, for instance, could be helpful in convincing President Assad of Syria to leave office in 2014, in advance of elections there, if radical Sunni Islamic organizations, including allies of al-Qaeda, are suppressed. Enormously influential in Afghanistan, Iran could also help stabilize that country after the departure of U.S. combat forces in 2014. And it could be enlisted to work alongside the United States and regional powers to stabilize Iraq.
More broadly, a U.S.-Iran entente might lead to a gradual de-escalation of the U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf, including its huge naval forces, bases, and other facilities in Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait. It's even conceivable that Iran could be persuaded to join other regional and global powers in seeking a just and lasting negotiated deal between Israel and the Palestinians. The United States and Iran have a number of common interests, including opposing al-Qaeda-style terrorism and cracking down on drug smuggling.
Of course, such a deal will be exceedingly difficult to nail down, if for no other reason than that the hardliners in both countries are determined to prevent it.
Right now, imagine the Obama administration as one of those vaudeville acts that keep a dozen plates spinning atop vibrating poles. At just this moment in the Middle East, those "plates" are tipping in every direction. There's still time to prevent them all from crashing to the ground, but it would take a masterful effort from the White House — and it's far from clear that anyone there is up to the task.
Bob Dreyfuss is an independent investigative journalist based in Cape May, New Jersey, specializing in politics and national security. He is a contributing editor at the Nation, and his blog appears daily at TheNation.com. In the past, he has written extensively for Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, the American Prospect, the New Republic, and many other magazines. He is the author ofDevil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam.
I understand the metaphor but think that a lack of respect is the least of our problems in that region, or , for that matter , everywhere both foreign and domestic. Barack Obama was never ready to assume the mantle of the Presidency, having as he did no experience in foreign affairs and darn little in national affairs as well.
The "perfect storm" of a nation sick at heart over the eight years of Bush/Cheney coupled with Obama's one true talent, a remarkable ability to make stirring speeches, and the dearth of a real opponent combined to give us an administration just about as bad as the one it succeeded.


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MASSAPEQUA - FORT MASSAPEAG, the only Indian fort ever found on western Long Island and a National Historic Landmark since 1993, does not appear on most maps of Massapequa.
And many archaeologists say that is just as well.
The National Park Service bestows the historic-landmark designation only on what it deems the most important links to the nation's past. In Fort Massapeag's case, the listing commemorates a 100-foot-square log stockade, now long vanished.
Archaeologists are not sure who built it -- whether the Massapeag Indians, the Dutch, the two together or perhaps even the English -- but they believe it was used intensively in the mid-1600's during the turbulent period when the native Indians first encountered Europeans.
The site of the fort, a lightly contoured grassy swale on an unprotected three-eighths of an acre in the Harbor Green neighborhood on Fort Neck, is almost entirely unknown to the public and is hard to find. And it is unclear what artifacts may remain buried there.
"Most people are totally unaware it is a national historic site," said Kathryne Natale, the curator and supervisor of the Nassau County Garvies Point Museum and Preserve in Glen Cove. "People think everything national is out west."
In Massapequa, residents living only blocks from the landmark stared blankly when asked how to get to the fort. At the local public library, the reference librarian had never heard of the place.
The National Park Service intentionally withholds directions. "Because of its archaeological sensitivity, it is 'location protected,"' said Beth Savage, a historian for the National Register of Historic Places.
Some archaeologists said this was for good reason. "It's nice to educate people about the past, but once they find out where the past is, they want to go out and dig it up," said Jo-Ann McLean, an archaeologist for the Garvies Point Museum. Its collection includes a wooden mortar and other artifacts from the fort and surrounding area.
Donors included amateur archaeologists who had been drawn to the fort, beginning in the early 1930's by newspaper reports that excavation for the Harbor Green subdivision was turning up skeletons and troves of Indian artifacts. Many of the artifacts were lost to pillagers. More than 20 skeletons, buried in the fetal position and facing east, disappeared, too.
"They did excavate a lot of skeletons, but nobody knows what happened to them," said Gaynell Stone of Wading River, an archaeologist and anthropologist.
In just days, the archaeologists said, the Harbor Green development destroyed not just burial grounds but also evidence of habitation by native people predating the arrival of Europeans by at least 6,000 years. Efforts led by a local historian persuaded the developers to spare the fort area, although whatever remains of its north wall are now be beneath a road.
The Town of Oyster Bay, which acquired the fort site in 1958 and maintains it as a park, makes less of a secret of the location but rarely receives inquiries for directions. "There is nothing secret about it at all," said John Hammond, the town historian.
He said that Nassau County considered an archaeological dig on the site about 10 years ago but concluded that almost nothing of significance remained. Mr. Hammond shares the view that nearly all of the artifacts were removed in the 1930's.
In an article in The Journal of the New York State Archaeological Association, Ralph S. Solecki and Robert S. Grumet said that the landmark designation was based in large measure on limited archaeological digs in the late 1930's. But they said that the fort site may still yield information of major scientific importance and remained largely intact underground.
Dr. Solecki, a retired professor of anthropology at Columbia who first visited the site in the 1930's and sponsored the landmark listing nearly six decades later, has called the site "a historic gem of the first magnitude" that was all the more remarkable for having survived the housing development.
It is one of two Indian forts on Long Island that are national landmarks. The other, Fort Corchaug in Cutchogue, was designated in 1999.
Fort Massapeag was surrounded by a protective ditch and perched on the edge of a broad salt marsh. It was near a creek leading to Great South Bay, the Long Island Expressway of its time and an abundant source of food and shells. The marsh was filled beginning in the 1930's and is now covered by streets and houses.
Archaeologists say the fort was probably used as a refuge in time of attack, as a trading post and possibly as a place to store or make wampum, the small shell beads that were used for money. A shell dump heap along its southern wall yielded Indian and European artifacts, including white clay smoking pipes made in Amsterdam.
The site now gives little visual evidence of its past. A slight rise on the southern perimeter suggests where a stockade wall ran.
A sign posted by Oyster Bay identifies the property as a Massapequa Indian fort, circa 1640, but does not mention that it is a National Historic Landmark. It says that Sachem Tackapausha sold the site to townsmen in 1658 or 1659 and that around 1697, it was owned by Thomas and Freelove Jones, the first resident colonists.
Most archaeologists and historians discount legends that Capt. John Underhill, an Englishman working for the Dutch, massacred Massapeags at or near the fort in 1643 or 1653, depending on the account. The Jones family apparently left the site undisturbed for some 230 years, until they sold it to developers in the 1930's.
On a recent weekend, boys with shovels dug up dirt just beyond the site's southern boundary to make a bicycle jump. A father coaching his son at batting, said he did not know this was National Historic Landmark.
"You're telling me we shouldn't play here?" he asked.


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Now that you have decided to enter the medical field as a certified nursing assistant, it's time to start the process of searching for CNA training programs near Saraland AL. After you have attained your certification, you will be starting a fulfilling career in one of the fastest growing occupations in health care within the USA. Though it may well seem like a daunting undertaking, it's imperative that you select the best school to receive the proper training and education. A number of prospective students begin with the two most fundamental qualifications, which are the location of the school and the cost of tuition. You might also be contemplating whether to attend CNA classes on campus, or enroll in an online CNA program and attend them from home. More on that option later. But performing your due diligence before choosing a program entails far more than comparing the price or location. Such things as accreditation and the reputation of the school must similarly be considered. We will be addressing those subjects together with several other questions that you should be asking before you enroll in a CNA school. But first, let's talk a little bit about what a nursing assistant does and the type of instruction and credentials that are offered.
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Certified Nursing Assistants perform many functions in the Saraland AL hospitals, practices and other health organizations where they work. Per their title, CNAs are not licensed by the state but instead are certified. Given that they are not licensed, they function under the guidance and oversight of either a licensed LPN or RN. And as nursing assistants, their primary job function is to aid the licensed nurses that they work under. Their responsibilities are numerous and varied, and in a hospital environment can include:
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CNAs may also practice in Saraland AL nursing homes or long term care facilities. In those settings, nursing assistants are more engaged in aiding patients with their Activities of Daily Living (ADL). ADLs are identified as routine activities that the majority of people accomplish daily without assistance, for example eating, dressing, or using the restroom. Nursing assistants usually develop more of a bond with these patients since they usually reside in the facilities for prolonged time periods. Frequently, they can become the conduit between the patient and the rest of the medical staff thanks to their familiarity with their charges. Consequently, the CNA's expertise can be a valuable resource for planning the appropriate care and treatment of long term care patients.
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In contrast to other licensed nurses, certified nursing assistants do not need to obtain a college degree. CNA training can be received at community colleges or at Saraland AL vocational or trade schools. The length of the training can take anywhere from 1 to 3 months, leading to either a certificate or a diploma. Under the 1987 Nursing Home Reform Act, students are mandated to receive at least 75 hours of instruction, 16 of which need to be clinical or "hands-on" training hours. Bear in mind that this is the minimal period of instruction mandated and that each state has its own prerequisites. So it's essential to make certain that the course you enroll in not only complies with the federal requirements, but additionally those for the state where you will be practicing. One suggestion is to get in touch with the health or nursing board for your state to make certain that the training is state approved. In addition to the training, each state requires a passing score on a competency test for certification. Depending on the state, there might be other requirements as well.
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Enrolling in CNA schools online is emerging as a more popular way to receive instruction and attain a certificate or diploma in Saraland AL. Some schools will require attending on campus for a component of the training, and almost all programs call for a specified amount of clinical rotation hours carried out in a local healthcare center. But since the balance of the training may be accessed online, this alternative may be a more practical approach to finding the time to attend college for some students. Regarding tuition, many online CNA programs are cheaper than other on campus alternatives. Even other expenses such as for commuting and study materials may be lessened, helping to make education more easily affordable. And numerous online programs are accredited by organizations such as the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). Therefore if your work and family obligations have left you with little time to pursue your academic goals, maybe an online CNA school will make it more convenient to fit earning a certificate into your hectic schedule.
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Now that you have determined which nursing program to enroll in, and whether to attend your classes on campus or online, you can utilize the following guidelines to begin narrowing down your options. As you probably realize, there are many CNA schools and colleges within Alabama and the United States. So it is important to decrease the number of schools to select from to ensure that you will have a manageable list. As we already pointed out, the site of the school as well as the cost of tuition are most likely going to be the primary two things that you will take into consideration. But as we also emphasized, they should not be your only qualifiers. So before making your ultimate selection, use the following questions to evaluate how your pick compares to the other schools.
Accreditation. It's a good idea to make sure that the certificate program in addition to the school is accredited by a U.S. Department of Education acknowledged accrediting organization. Aside from helping ensure that you get an excellent education and employment in the Saraland AL area, it may assist in acquiring financial aid or student loans, which are often not available for non-accredited schools.
Certification Preparation. Certification prerequisites for CNAs are different from state to state. For CNA certification, passing a state specific exam is required. Some states require a certain number of clinical hours be performed, as well. It's imperative that the school you are enrolled in not only provides an excellent education, but also preps you to comply with the minimum certification requirements for Alabama or the state where you will be working.
Reputation. Look at internet rating companies to see what the reviews are for all of the schools you are looking into. Ask the accrediting organizations for their reviews also. In addition, get in touch with the Alabama school certification or licensing authority to find out if there are any complaints or compliance issues. Finally, you can call some Saraland AL healthcare organizations you're interested in working for after graduation and ask what their opinions are of the schools as well.
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Internship Programs. The most effective way to acquire experience as a certified nursing assistant is to work in a clinical setting. Essentially all nursing degree programs require a specific number of clinical hours be completed. A number of states have minimum clinical hour mandates for certification also. Check if the schools have a working relationship with local Saraland AL hospitals, clinics or labs and help with the placement of students in internships.
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Saraland is a city in Mobile County, Alabama, United States, and a suburb of Mobile. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city is 13,405. It is a part of the Mobile metropolitan area. Saraland is the third largest city in Mobile County.
The land area that was to become the present-day Saraland, was included in a Spanish land grant to Don Diego Alvarez. Hence, descendants of Alvarez were the ones to give the community its first name: Alvarez Station. Later land squatters moved into the area and were able, legally, in 1800 to begin purchasing property. In 1807, a land office was opened in St. Stephens to handle all land transactions. Some of the pioneer families who seized the opportunity to buy up sections were named Alvarez, Rice, Hartley, Moore, LaCoste, Williams, Tool and Cleveland. Ultimately, Alvarez Station was called Cleveland Station. The present name of the city is reported to have been given by C.J. DeWitt, a retired minister editor who moved south in 1890 for health reasons. He opened the first post office on the Southern Railroad in 1895. The community is purported to be the namesake of his beloved wife, Sara.
Saraland was sparsely populated during the first part of the 20th century, until an industrial and population boom occurred in neighboring Mobile. Northward expansion of Mobile in the 1940s and 50s brought about the incorporation of Saraland in 1957. At the time of incorporation, the city reported only 125 residents. By the 1960 U.S. Census, annexations had swelled the population to 4,595. In 1980, census figures cited 9,844 Saraland residents. Current census records report that as of 2017, Saraland's population is estimated to have grown to 14,576.
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I said yes to a little green house with a big garden and two rows of fruit trees. It's like a mansion if your standard were teeny tiny houses. There's a clothesline here, and the breeze beneath my shade trees is a gentle one. We've been waiting for a gentle time. We've been waiting for our own space and for silence. We just didn't know how to find it until I learned how many no's it takes to make a yes.
I said yes to quiet. The drive into town is longer than I'm used to. I drive in silence. I come home and tell the boys to read. I sit beneath the ceiling fan or on the patio. I reach for my cell phone and jerk my hand back quickly. I sit and watch. Doves blow up from the harvested corn. The pears are beginning to fall.
These are little things that remind me that I am small: the silence and then the burst of insanely loud laughter and wrestling, a dish-stacked kitchen with no dishwasher, a hydrangea with heavy laid-down heads, four hall drawers to fit what used to go in an entire room. This one yes has taken at least a thousand no's. Only half my clothes fit in the closet. Half is all I needed. When half was all I had, it was all I wanted.
When we said yes to scaling, slowing, and quieting down, it wasn't really saying yes to less work. We said yes to better work. I said yes to picking squash and researching how to harvest hazelnuts. These are things I love. I said yes to the work of closeness, the children always within the reach of a whisper.
These are little things we'll look back and remember. I said yes to living small. I said yes to what I call a beautiful life, and it surprises me. Work boots and scrub-gloves on, I can hear God in this place.
Time for a little math. How many good no's will it take to make one great yes? Start with one. Perhaps say no to answering emails after 5:00, or to TV past 11:00 on a weekday.
This message was written by Amber C. Haines and appears in A Moment to Breathe, a 365-day devotional from the (in)courage community now available where books are sold.
This is some wise and redemptive math! No comes slowly to my brain and to my lips, but I want to do better at this. Thanks for this beautiful picture of how the equation has worked for you.
Yes, yes, YES! (Now just to figure out which "no's" are appropriate. Wise words.
I read this. I feel the desire growing inside myself s the tears well up. I NEED to do better at it.
Oh Andrea, I really hope no one leaves this post telling themselves to do better. Maybe all we need to do is learn to rest in the abundance of Christ. Maybe that abundance will make our yeses and nos clear. I keep having to face how telling myself to do better actually only makes me feel defeated and like the power rests in me. Does that make sense?
I have spent years saying yes when it should have been no. Ooh, we get into trouble, and I am reaping! But yesterday I said NO! So this comes right on time, even though we have all heard it, but this time is on time! I came home from work around noontime with a plan to do some things for myself that are long overdue. I started and yes, the phone call came vying for my attention. I hemmed and hawed, but then it came out of my mouth. NO, I don't think I can do that today. She even tried to change my mind, but I didn't back down. And I got a lot (not all) done! And today I feel no guilt! Only peace.
Saying no doesn't always come easy. People & things are always vying for our time & attention. As i get older I yearn for the smallness & quiet you talk about. The simplicity of enjoying what God has given us. Sure I enjoy helping people & doing God's work-but even Jesus took time to be alone. We as a nation need to learn to say NO. No to the next big project, no to helping out in school plays, at church, etc. It can be hard to tell someone no, but in the end we will be thankful for the Yes we got in return. Yes to rest, cleaning house, spending time with family.
Thank you for these words. I spend so much of my time saying" Yes" to everyone else and neglecting myself.
I tell myself I'm doing it for the glory of God , serving others to show them Jesus, but many times my heart is just not right about it.
So…I'm learning to say" No" or "Not at this time/ Not right now" because there are more pressing issues….knowing that I cannot give to others what I myself do not yet have.
Even Jesus got away from the crowd to pray and rest.
Thank you for sharing your new found wisdom in such a forthcoming manner.
Be Blessed with continual Wisdom from above.
Beautiful Amber. Thank you for sharing. I mentor many young adult women and the one topic we frequently discuss are the small things in life that bring us the most pleasure. It's the simple things, and our love for Jesus!
Amber, THIS! "We just didn't know how to find it until I learned how many no's it takes to make a yes." Will be pondering this for awhile. Profound. Thank you!!!
Oh, Amber, You are speaking my life. I chose to do just this for 2017.
Your words are mine: "When we said yes to scaling, slowing, and quieting down, it wasn't really saying yes to less work. We said yes to better work." And yes, for me to be closer to God and be a better, healthier person!
Yes does mean yes and no means no! Always, nothing more, and nothing less.
This is exactly where I find God is talking to me. This is what He wants. My focus needs to be on him. I need the quiet with Him to be able to function outside of the quiet. This is what I want. Lord lead me to this place.


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Ту-160 (заводско обозначение: "Изделие 70"; условно наименование в НАТО: Blackjack) е съветски свръхзвуков стратегически бомбардировач-ракетоносец с крило с изменяема стреловидност, разработен от Конструкторско бюро Туполев. Той е най-големият и най-мощен сръхзвуков самолет и самолет с изменяема геометрия на крилото в историята на военната авиация. Наричан от своите пилоти "Белия лебед".

История на създаването
През 60-те години на 20 век в СССР, политиката провеждана от Никита Хрушчов довежда до това че, през 70 години СССР разполага с мощни ракетно-ядрени сили за нападение, но стратегическата авиация има на разположение само дозвуковите бомбардирачи Ту-95 и М-4, неспособни да преодолеят ПВО на страните от NATO по това време. Първият полет на Ту-160 е извършен на 18 декември 1981 г.

Въоръжение
В двата вътрешно фюзелажни отсека може да се побере до 40 тона въоръжение, включително няколко вида управляеми ракети, управляеми и свободно падащи бомби и други средства на нападение в това число и ядрени. Разполага със стратегически крилати ракети Х-55(12 единици на две многопозиционни ПУ барабанен тип). Те са предназначени за поразяване на стационарни цели с предварително зададени координати, които се програмират в ракетата преди излитане. Противокорабният вариант на ракетата има радиолокационна глава за насочване.

За поразяване на цели на малка далечина се използва аеродинамичната свръхзвукова ракета Х-15 до 24 броя в четири пускови установки.

Бомбеното въоръжение на Ту-160 се разглежда като вторично ударно въоръжение, предназначено за поразяване на цели, които не са поразени при ракетния удар на бомбадировача. В отсека за въоръжение са разположени бомби с различни насочващи глави, в това число и най-голямата руска лазерна бомба КАБ-1500 с тегло 1500 кг.

Самолетът може да носи на борда си до 40 000 кг свободно падащи бомби с различен калибър, в това число ядрени, различни касетъчни бомби, морски мини и друго въоръжение.

В перспектива се планира да се интегрира ново въоръжение, което се състои от високоточните крилати ракети Х-555 и Х-101, имащи по-голяма дължина на полета, и са предназначени за поразяване на стратегически цели, а също така и тактически наземни и морски цели.

Характеристики (Ту-160)

 Екипаж: 4 (пилот, втори пилот, бомбардировач, оператор на защитните системи)
 Дължина:54.1 м
 Крило:
 Височина:13.10 м
 Площ на крилото:
 Разтегнато:400 м² (4,310 фут²)
 Прибрано:360 м² (3,875 фут²)
 Тегло празен:110т
 Натоварен тегло:268т
 Максимално излетно тегло:275т
 Двигатели 4 х Кузнецов НК-32

Експлотационни характеристики
 Максимална скорост:2220 км/ч 2.05Мах
 Далечина на полета:17400 км
 Боен радиус:10500 км
 Скороподемност:70 м/с
 Натоварване на крилото:743 кг/м2
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На 10 май 2014 г. на руския вицепремиер Дмитрий Рогозин е отказано преминаването през въздушното пространство на Румъния. Това е по повод на въведените санкции от ЕС към Русия . В резултат руският вицепремиер пише в популярна, социална медия, че следващият път ще долети с Ту-160 . МВнР на Румъния поиска обяснение . Дмитрий Рогозин е известен със своя остър език и нетърпящ възражение нрав .

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 Ту-95
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Information Technology Policy
An International History
Edited by Richard Coopey
Sets the history of computing in its broader economic and social context
Recounts and evaluates governmental IT policies
Assumes a comparative approach, examining IT policies in a number of countries including Japan, the US, and Europe.
Critically examines the relationship between military and civil technological systems
This book brings together a series of country-based studies to examine, in depth, the nature and extent of IT policies as they have evolved from a complex historical interaction of politics, technology, institutions, and social and cultural factors. In doing so many key questions are critically examined. Where can we find successful examples of IT policy? Who has shaped policy? Who did governments turn to for advice in framing policy?
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Richard Coopey is Senior Research Fellow at the Business History Unit, London School of Economics, where he has been working since 1996 on the Warwick/LSE ESRC-funded project on IT policy history in postwar Britain. He is the co-author of 3i: Fifty Years Investing in Industry (OUP, 1995).
William Aspray, Professor, School of Informatics, Indiana University
Dimitris Assimakopoulos, Professor of Information Systems and Director of the Doctoral Programme, Grenoble Ecole de Management
Martin Campbell-Kelly, Reader, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick
Richard Coopey, Lecturer in History, University of Wales
Mihaiela Grundey, Founder, Romanian Youth Support Trust
Ross Hamilton, Freelance Software Developer
Richard Heeks, Senior Lecturer in Development Informatics, Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester
Eda Kranakis, Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department, University of Ottawa
Stuart Macdonald, Professor of Information and Organization, Management School, University of Sheffield
Boris Malinovsky, Academician of the International Academy of Sciences on Informatics
Lev Malinovsky, Chief of the Scientific Research Laboratory, Institute of Cybernetics, Kiev
Rebecca Marschan-Piekkari, Research Fellow, Swedish School of Economics, Helsinki
Albert Meijer, Assistant Professor, Utrecht School of Governance
Arthur Norberg, ERA Land-Grant Chair in the History of Technology, and Professor in the Program in the History of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota
Knut Sogner, Professor of Economic and Business History, Norwegian School of Management
Steven W. Usselman, Associate Professor of History, School of History, Technology, and Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan Van Den Ende, Associate Professor, Department of the Management of Information and Technology, Rotterdam School of Management
Nachoem Wijnberg, Professor of Industrial Economics and Organization, Department of Organization and Management, University of Groningen
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import com.thinkaurelius.titan.core.attribute.Geoshape;
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Actually, nobody cares, because once you say the word "barbeque" the mind abandons frilly thoughts of etymology and ontology, and moves on to halibut and kebabs and corn and tri-tip and sausage and short ribs and salmon and burgers and leg of lamb and turducken and scampi and kangaroo and scrod and fennel root and game hen and all the good things that have accreted in our collective unconscious since the discovery of fire by some axe-wielding Persian king back at the wee dawn of time.
Barbecue. What shall we grill? How shall we grill it? With what shall we eat it? What are our beverage options? A floral yet crisp rosé from the south of France? Those assorted bottles of weissebier idling in the basement from last years trip to Bavaria? A fine, slender-bodied Pinot Noir from Oregon's Willamette Valley? Your intrepid neighbor's latest experiment with home-made root beer?
Once these questions have had an opportunity to percolate, the mind drifts inexorably toward that fateful consideration: what to do about salt? Hickory smoked Maine sea salt, fleur de sel de Guérande, Halen Mon Silver Welsh sea salt, Pangasinan Star Philippine sea salt, Iburi-Jio cherry smoked salt from Japan—all glittering like gemstones in the treasure chest in the shadowy motes of your minds eye.
The morning mind's idle delectations.
Waking up with "barbecue" bobulating off the tongue is admittedly not an indication of some rich inner life. Rather, it is the redeeming effervescence of the beaming boy or bouncing girl at the core of you. Barbecue. The utterance contains something of the thing itself, the germ from which fine blades of grass sprout and a gentle breeze lifts us. The word "barbecue" springs us loose to net butterflies in the quite meadow before good and evil.
Generally speaking, whatever we do in the course of our food preparation indoors, we finish with salt. This strategy of finishing with salt bears implicit within it the supreme importance having respect for your food—no, more, having trust in it. If you trust deeply that your food is worthy of you, and you of it, then do not corrupt its very nature by shellacking it in salt before it even makes it to your plate. When you trust that the food you eat is not just calories and minerals, but rather the fresh and crispy ephemera reflecting your earthly existence today, you are unafraid, you are respectful, you wait, and then with a lover's touch, join salt to the occasion.
That said, we embrace the urge to barbecue as a rogue moment in modern life. With our primitive faculties at play, can see ourselves as we really are, absurd under the glowering incandescent light of our antiseptic indoor kitchens, decked like Victorian monkeys in frills and corsets and codpieces, starched with propriety and unexamined conventions. At the barbecue grill we stand immutable, burning and licking our fingers, grunting and humming, flicking a leaf from our hair, listening to the chirp of sparrows we will never catch. If the ancient Greeks were correct that society needs Dionysian abandon to balance Apollonian order, the barbecue is more than just fun in the sun, it is the spit in the handshake of our contract with society.
The sun is lapping at the windowsill by the nightstand. Your darling rolls, over mumbling something unintelligible, and tries to gather a few moments more of sleep. The cats have begun to fight, thumping the door and yowling at each other's disconcerting knack for remorselessness. You have pondered long enough; it is time to get up, brew coffee, and decide what you are going to grill today.
I am fully aware that every single person on our small planet feels in the marrow of their bones that they are the world's leading expert at barbecuing. So it is with deep humility and a scalpel fear that I offer up three foods that may serve both as general illustrations of how to use salt at the grill and as actual recipes for the basics: salmon, beef, and chicken–surf, turf, and sun. Today, we will cover chicken, which I am the world's leading expert at barbecuing.
Chihuahua Chopped Tehachapi Chicken. This recipe was adapted at our remote mountain house in Tehachapi California from a game hen dish we often prepared while living in Paris (life is long, and strange). For all its uncanny simplicity, it never ceases to regale family and guests alike. Perhaps it is the exceedingly toothsome flesh that results from the special manner of chopping and salting the bird, perhaps it the herbs that combine to a special and inescapable tonic. Whatever the reason, this recipe gives satisfaction to rugged and delicate palates alike. The key to this recipe is how you cut the chicken. The goal is crispy, gold colored skin infused with herbaceous fragrance, and super tender juicy flesh that practically falls off the bone.
Ingredients: one 4 to 7 pound chicken, whole; ¼ cup coarse gray salt (more on that below); 2 tablespoons finely chopped thyme; 2 tablespoons finely chopped sage; 1 tablespoon finely chopped rosemary; 2 teaspoons freshly ground vine ripened black pepper such as Parameswaran's, 2 tablespoons coarse Brittany sel gris such as Sel Gris de l'Ile de Re (aka gros sel, gray salt, or Celtic salt).
Fat and bone are the key flavor enhancers of meat, and cutting chicken in the fashion described below (which I learned watching Mexican street in Chihuahua) guarantees you will get the most out of both.
First, light your briquettes–unless you are one of those politically correct but culinarily adrift owners of a gas grill (I have barbecued on every imaginable surface, and like everyone else who believes they know it all, I know it all: coal is king, perhaps with a wedge of apple wood or a twig of mesquite tossed in to boot).
Next, remove and discard any neck and gizzards from the cavity of the chicken. Place the whole chicken breast side down on a cutting board. With a large knife, cut through the skin vertically along the spine. It sounds gruesome, but if you don't have a massive cleaver and good aim to just hack longitudinally through the spine, you will need to take the pointy end of the knife and stab, sewing machine style, several times down the middle of the length the spine. After that, you can press the length of the knife blade through, cutting the spine in two (aka cleaving in twain, rendering asunder, etc.), leaving you with two symmetrical chicken halves–each with portions of the difficult-to-eat but very flavorsome back bones and meat.
Next, wash the halves in cold water, and pat dry with paper towels. Combine the salt, pepper, and herbs in a bowl. Taking up the salt-herb mixture in the palm of your hand, press firmly onto all sides of the chicken pieces.
When coals are hot, put the chicken halves skin side down and cover grill. After about five minutes (before the skin starts to burn), flip over with spatula, careful not to scuff or tear skin. Thereafter, flip the pieces every three to five minutes until cooked, about thirty to forty minutes. The skin should change from cornflower yellow to gold to rich hazelnut brown, becoming increasingly crackly crisp, and the bone bits on the flip side should become lightly burnt. Remove, place on platter skin side up, and let sit for five minutes. Save the juices that collect in the platter.
To serve, cut leg from back portion, and cut drumstick from thigh, careful leave intact skin on each piece. With your trust heavy knife (washed after prepping the chicken), give a Chihuahua chop to free the breast portion free from the back, and then Chihuahua chop the breast in two. Arrange on a serving platter, and pour juices over top. Serve. No finishing salt required.


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Protecting Waikiki From Future Flash-Flood Destruction
STATE AND LOCAL ROUNDUP | San Diego's new Airbnb rules … a bizarre resignation in Oklahoma … and Denver's big renewable energy pledge.
Good morning, it's Wednesday, July 17, 2018. Flooding and flood management leads Route Fifty's state and local government news roundup, which also includes stories from San Diego, California; Hartford, Connecticut; and Dallas, Texas, among other places. Scroll down for more ...
FLOOD MANAGEMENT | It's only a matter of time until a major flash flood hits the Ala Wai watershed in the Honolulu area, a disaster that will likely inundate highly populated areas and "basically could put Waikiki completely underwater." With $345 million in federal appropriations, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning to construct new flood defenses to reduce the risk from flash flooding in parts of the watershed, including the Ala Wai Canal which drains through an area adjacent to the famous beach. [Honolulu Civil Beat]
Officials in Nashville are strengthening rules that prohibits new development within 50 feet of the Cumberland River in hopes to limit future flood damage. "It's considered a no-disturb zone for a reason," Nashville Councilman Jeff Syracuse said at a council meeting this month. "We don't need to be putting density in an area that is designated a no-disturb zone." [Nashville Public Radio]
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— Gothamist (@Gothamist) July 17, 2018
New York City subway commuters faced major headaches on Tuesday when torrential rainfall flooded some stations and created massive delays throughout the nation's busiest transit system. [Gothamist]
PUBLIC HEALTH | There's been a spike of deaths from sickle-cell disease in Minnesota, but just how many people in the state have died is not known since the often-fatal blood disorder is not formally tracked. "I feel we've reached an emergency status," said Dr. Stephen Nelson, a pediatric hematologist at Children's Minnesota Hospital in Minneapolis. [Minnesota Public Radio]
ELSEWHERE …
San Diego, California: Newly approved city rules for short-term rentals in San Diego are going to have a significant impact in the Mission Beach area, where 44 percent of the local housing stock is used for Aibnb and similar short-term rental services, where some owners are predicting an economic bloodbath. [San Diego Union Tribune]
Denver, Colorado: In his State of the City address on Monday, Mayor Michael Hancock committed the city to transition to 100 percent renewable electricity sources by 2030, including the adoption of a net-zero building code for new construction and more electric vehicles. [KCNC / CBS4]
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: The Oklahoma State Department of Health's general counsel resigned abruptly and now "faces criminal charges of falsely reporting a crime and creating a fictitious email to send herself threats over the agency's work on the state's new medical marijuana program." [Tulsa World]
Hartford, Connecticut: Despite numerous attempts by leaders to embrace expanded tolling on Connecticut highways, Gov. Dannel Malloy is pushing for a $10 million study for electronic tolling in the state. [Hartford Courant]
Everett, Washington: The last fire pole used by firefighters in a station house in Everett, Washington will be retired from service. Stairs are safer. [Everett Herald]
Dallas, Texas: A study by commercial real estate firm JLL found that the Dallas-area is one of the top five U.S. markets for reverse commuting, along with New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago. More than half of Dallas' "highly educated population commutes to the suburbs," according to the report. [Dallas Morning News]
Wilmington, Delaware: Residents in Delaware's largest city are among the most stressed in the nation. [News Journal / DelawareOnline]
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Q: Python algorithm for finding max path in binary tree not working as desired I was trying to write a Python algorithm that would find the maximum sum for a path of integers in a binary tree. I thought that the easiest way to do this would be a recursive function, but this doesn't seem to work the way I intended. How could I revise this function so that it would find the absolute maximum path? I can confirm that building the tree is working fine so far because the height function I wrote for it worked as intended.
class Node:
    def __init__(self, data):
        self.right = self.left = None
        self.data = data

class Solution:
    def insert(self, root, data):
        if not root:
            return Node(data)
        else:
            if data<=root.data:
                cur=self.insert(root.left, data)
                root.left=cur
            else:
                cur=self.insert(root.right, data)
                root.right=cur
        return root

def get_height(self, root):
    if not root or root.left == root.right == None:
        return 0
    return 1 + max(self.get_height(root.left), self.get_height(root.right))

def get_max_sum(self, root):
    if not root:
        return 0
    return root.data + max(self.get_max_sum(root.left), self.get_max_sum(root.right))

IO code:
 nums = '''75
    95 64
    17 47 82
    18 35 87 10
    20 04 82 47 65
    19 01 23 75 03 34
    88 02 77 73 07 63 67
    99 65 04 28 06 16 70 92
    41 41 26 56 83 40 80 70 33
    41 48 72 33 47 32 37 16 94 29
    53 71 44 65 25 43 91 52 97 51 14
    70 11 33 28 77 73 17 78 39 68 17 57
    91 71 52 38 17 14 91 43 58 50 27 29 48
    63 66 04 68 89 53 67 30 73 16 69 87 40 31
    04 62 98 27 23 09 70 98 73 93 38 53 60 04 23'''.replace('\n', ' ')
    nums = tuple(map(int, nums.split(' ')))

    tree = Solution()
    root = None
    for i in nums:
        data = i
        root = tree.insert(root, data)

    height = tree.get_height(root)
    msum = tree.get_max_sum(root)
    print(height, msum)

A: This code makes a couple faulty assumptions about the problem which explain why it isn't working as you expect.

*

*The input is a graph, not a tree. Looking at this sample input where we're asked to find the maximum root-to-leaf path,
   3
  7 4
 2 4 6
8 5 9 3

We can observe the following relationships between nodes:
      3
     / \
    ↓   ↓
    7   4
   / \ / \
  ↓   ↓   ↓
  2   4   6
 / \ / \ / \
↓   ↓   ↓   ↓
8   5   9   3

Because each interior node has two children, you must have (understandably) arrived at the conclusion that it's a tree. But the definition of a tree is that each child have no more than one parent, so we have a contradiction. This is actually a directed acyclic graph.

*Even if it were a tree, making it a BST fundamentally changes its structure. Consider the above input once again. Running your insert algorithm on it produces the following binary search tree structure:
         3
        / \
       /   \
      /     \
     2       7
      \     / \
       3   4   8
          / \   \
         4   6   9
            /
           5

Clearly, this structure has little to do with the original input, and running a max path sum algorithm on this structure would yield 3 + 7 + 8 + 9 = 27, when the correct answer is 3 + 7 + 4 + 9 = 23.
I recommend re-formulating the problem as a graph problem and proceeding from there.

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It's back-to-school season again, and whether you've started classes recently or are awaiting (dreading?) that first 8AM lecture, there may be a few bits of techno-shopping that need to be taken care of before you can be on your way to that straight-A report card.
Whether you're about to begin the fall semester of college or your senior year in high school (or something else entirely), you'll probably need the right hardware to get you through. In the pages to come, we're taking a look at today's latest and greatest when it comes to systems, hardware and peripherals that could prove useful for any dutiful student. Handling 21 hours of classes while still maintaining some sort of social life (which can mean posting daily on Twitter or Facebook) is hard work, and it's even harder if you're still relying on that old Pentium-based notebook and a Moto RAZR. Check it out at HotHardware.


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Want to Simplify Life? Dare to Think Tiny
Patrick J. Kiger
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
Those of us who grew up in the 1970s may remember economist E.F. Schumacher's seminal treatise Small Is Beautiful, which warned that taking up a lot of space and resources might not lead to happiness, but only frustration and discontent. Schumacher tried to persuade Americans instead to buy into the notion of "enoughness," and strive to obtain the maximum amount of well-being while consuming only what they needed.
Now, a former college professor turned home-builder and designer named Jay Shafer (above) is trying to bring us back to thinking small. Shafer, founder of the California-based Tumbleweed Tiny House Co., is an evangelist for the Tiny House movement, in which architects and builders are moving away from the McMansions of the 1990s and early 2000s. Instead, they're creating more compact and manageable homes, designed for a simpler, less stressful lifestyle. (Here's a recent Wall Street Journal article on the Tiny House movement.)
Shafer designs and builds entire houses that are smaller than some McMansions' kitchens, with a super-efficient living space crammed into as little as 150 square feet.
"I see myself as freeing people," Shafer says. "McMansions are like debtors' prisons for the 21st century. Why pay for all that space that you're not using, for the heating and maintenance, if it doesn't make your life better?"
Indeed, researchers have discovered that many people bought big houses without any idea of what they'll actually do with the room, and ended up living in just a small portion of their costly domiciles. In the quest to fill up the spaces with big-screen TVs and sectional sofas and bric-a-brac, many ended up succumbing to what one market researcher has termed a "claustrophobia of abundance."
Shafer has a better idea. Sell the Xanadu, get rid of a lot of your stuff, and invest $50,000 or so from the proceeds in an elfin dwelling mounted on wheels, so that it technically qualifies as a vehicle and thus gets around the minimum-size constraints of zoning laws. Put it on a tiny parcel, ideally in some picturesque location on the outskirts of suburban sprawl, perhaps in a location where you can appreciate a little bit of nature.
"The first step is the hardest," Shafer says. "You basically have to do a self-inventory and identify what you really need to be happy. And then you get rid of everything else past that. Then, when you move into a smaller space, it's not confining. It's liberating. You're not tied down by a big mortgage. It's easier to take care of your house and your things. And maybe you don't have to work as long and hard to pay the bills, so you have more time to enjoy life."
As a boy, Shafer grew up in his parents' 4,000-square-foot home, where he was in charge of the vacuuming and helped with other housekeeping chores that ate up a fair share of his time. When he got to college, he found himself temporarily crammed into a suite with a dozen other students who all slept in bunkbeds. He discovered that he was just as happy in that comparatively cramped environment, and that life actually was simpler and less stressful. He went on to a succession of other, even tinier living spaces. "I've even lived in the cab of a pickup truck," he admits.
In the decade he spent as a professor at the University of Iowa's School of Art and Art History, Shafer graduated to a 350-square-foot efficiency apartment but found that he didn't need that much room. He then switched for a couple of years to an Airstream trailer, but after shivering through a couple of winters with no insulation and reading architect Lester Walker's 1980s book Tiny Houses, he had an epiphany. What he really needed to do was design and build a small house that was properly equipped for minimalist living. It also occurred to him that other people might like to own one, too. In 1997, Tumbleweed Tiny Houses was born.
The idea of living small actually goes back centuries, as anyone who's seen the tiny 18th century colonial houses in older American cities will recall. Mid-19th century American transcendentalist philosopher Henry David Thoreau famously lived in a 150-square-foot cottage. Between 1915 and 1920, the Sears catalog sold tiny house such as this one for just $191 (or $268 if the company pre-assembled it and shipped it to you on a trailer).
Today's tiny house designers have the advantage of lighter, more resilient materials that provide more insulation. Also, they can design with the notion of inhabitants taking advantage of miniaturized electronics and appliances. "If I could put a roof on my iPhone, I'd probably live under it," Shafer says, perhaps only half-joking.
If you're interested in exploring the idea of downsizing your domicile, check out Shafer's The Small House Book, or Lloyd Kahn's Tiny Homes, Simple Shelter: Scaling Back in the 21st Century. Also, you may want to check out this photo essay from the Rowdy Kittens blog on the experience of moving into a tiny house.
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package io.opensec.oval.model.windows;

import io.opensec.oval.model.ComponentType;
import io.opensec.oval.model.Family;
import io.opensec.oval.model.common.CheckEnumeration;
import io.opensec.oval.model.definitions.StateRefType;
import io.opensec.oval.model.definitions.SystemObjectRefType;
import io.opensec.oval.model.definitions.TestType;

/**
 * The port test is used to check information about the available ports
 * on a Windows system.
 *
 * @author  Akihito Nakamura, AIST
 * @see OVAL Language
 */
public class PortTest
    extends TestType
{

    /**
     * Constructor.
     */
    public PortTest()
    {
        this( null, 0 );
    }

    public PortTest(
                    final String id,
                    final int version
                    )
    {
        this( id, version, null, null );
    }

    public PortTest(
                    final String id,
                    final int version,
                    final String comment,
                    final CheckEnumeration check
                    )
    {
        this( id, version, comment, check, null, null );
    }

    public PortTest(
                    final String id,
                    final int version,
                    final String comment,
                    final CheckEnumeration check,
                    final SystemObjectRefType object,
                    final StateRefType[] stateList
                    )
    {
        super( id, version, comment, check, object, stateList );

//        _oval_platform_type = OvalPlatformType.windows;
//        _oval_component_type = OvalComponentType.port;
        _oval_family = Family.WINDOWS;
        _oval_component = ComponentType.PORT;
    }

    //**************************************************************
    //  java.lang.Object
    //**************************************************************

    @Override
    public int hashCode()
    {
        return super.hashCode();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(
                    final Object obj
                    )
    {
        if (!(obj instanceof PortTest)) {
            return false;
        }

        return super.equals( obj );
    }

    @Override
    public String toString()
    {
        return "port_test[" + super.toString() + "]";
    }

}
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Chatterbox
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Graphical UI for wsc.


We'll be reviewing this restaurant soon. Please do tell us about your experiences!
Casey's hotdogs are the best. Plus you enjoy your meal indoors or outdoors, but I definitely prefer outdoors. If you get a chance to go while the piano guys are there...they are great. Jim's been playing there for years. I even have his autograph from my first visit to WDW about 30 years ago.
— If you really gotta have a hot dog!
First off, I LOVE Walt Disney World! Honeymooned there, took my kids there, 25 th Anniversary there and last year took my oldest grandson there. That said, Casey's has a good dog, but unless its empty inside, I won't go there again. Not worth the wait in line, limited seating inside. and if it's raining, you don't want to be outside either.
I will say the food is pretty good, just the basic food on the go. I do love that you can have all the nacho cheese you want. However, it's always very crowded and the service is so so slow. I waited in line for about 15 minutes for nachos, and just as I was at the front of the line...a grown man cut right in front of me. They served him, instead of asking him to wait his turn like everyone else. I actually walked out of there empty handed! I think its because the staff have hardly any room themselves to move around behind the counter! I think an expansion is in need!
I LOVE it here! It is a good place to relax after walking around all day or while waiting for the parade to start!!
Great food, the atmostphere is great. You can watch old Disney cartoons in the theater. ( which is the best place to sit). If you want a good view for the shows in front of the castle the. Head to the outside tables, great place to enjoy the show while you eat.
— Great dogs - great fries!
We enjoy the dogs and fries - we wish there was a little more seating indoors in the cool AC. We usually snag some spots in front of the big screen and enjoy old B/W Disney cartoons with our daughter. We crave these all year long!!
Oh, and make sure to give a tip of your hat to Casey when you pass him.
CASEY HIT A HOMER WITH ME!


We had a fun tonight. Stacy suprised me and picked up Nathan after school while I was helping clean the church. He got to spend some time with his Aunt Stacy, Uncle Chris, and Reese. He had a great time! Uncle Chris left for a game, so Stacy and Reese came over to play. We played hard, and ate cookies!
They have a great time together!
Thanks Reese for coming to play with us!
Later, we had some more visitors, Mrs. Judy and Payton. Nathan was happy to see them as well. We love having company! He was putting his lovie on Payton's head and then pulling it off and laughing so hard. It was too cute!
He then decided to give everyone "eskimo kisses"
Payton thought it was funny!
We had a great Friday night!
We had so much fun! I was so glad to steal him or a little while, he made my week...it had not gone so great ya know. As Reese said when we got home, "Mom, Nathan is just the best and his is so cute." I second that! I can't wait to keep him again tomorrow...it's going to be so much fun.


Tis the season that many desire that tan, so let's talk about self-tanning. We have been told that the sun's rays are dangerous and aging and that tanning beds are even worse. So, hence the huge market of self-tanning products and spray tanning options that are offered. We think that this is the safe route because it is color that is not obtained by way of the sun's harmful rays. Well… not necessarily.
The issue is that most sunless tanners contain a long list of chemical agents that have not been studied by the FDA. Since testing is done voluntarily by the manufacturers, many ingredients in cosmetic products are not safety tested at all. The ingredient that is most concerning is DHA. (Dihydroxyacetone), a color additive that is in the vast majority of sunless tanners, which darkens the skin by reacting with its surface layer amino acids. Have you ever noticed after a spray tan that any sunspots that you may have, become even darker? It's not pretty… that is because DHA can alter the DNA of the pigment of your skin. In addition, it can inhibit your skin's ability to produce Vitamin D, one of the most important vitamins that the body needs. So what's a girl to do?
If you chose to spray tan, find one that does not contain DHA. You have to ask! I have only had 2 spray tans in my life… and the one that I can endorse is the organic, DHA- free tan at @parlour3beauty … It is a beautiful color and did not enhance any hyperpigmentation that I had. There are are also DHA- free products on the market. You just have to read the ingredients!
Enjoy the sunny months to come, safely!